St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 3, 1930

Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.

The text was read from the page scans by machine (OCR), so it has mistakes and its columns may run together. See the pages · About this title · At the Internet Archive

Page 1

Lee is is Say bts oe EA ee , = ae ‘an PRE oo RL hs a Sr Se & wale Bue : : _— ; ia ie : sg ai a DR: Sgt os erat ree % ear , mm an > Li / ae rm S , + he a i Mita ct: ae 4 , sf aes ria ‘ — iS PM ae “~ ‘ : ¥ 2 : 4 a ; pss dilid ess pg) 48, es Se 5 se SS p4 ‘ ; ¥ aeuaae 5 goa zh pi OFS SC a ye tae pe Wee aS Od A Ran é et ok ta nF ee ae * - ae Pewee tte Mantis ere tes - as Pek Reyer oe a ion de a ae “3 i ie ri : he. gS ese he ay eet 3% iS san Pie ; y ere mee Pet hi ORR eas 3 = ee, Qaarertias ee ag at > Ne TO Fy ie Boe v aS fe Pr. My ie a aa Bee aie (oe rear “8 Lage Fe Zee ee Mak say BE: VER RE ue 8 yi, Bee i ocr isp Bae Peta i eh ey a ae Hess IE Re Stl eee ie cate OS GS, =o 4% wad a, BW; Es Sed ape Tare. AE ASS ae aos * i ae : ce ae fs; es Aaa Sa Ei ; Sats os q es ae oF st ne hig ¢ ra | OT. Lo UIs POST-DISPATC H The Only Evening Newspaper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service Stock SPORT FINAL and Complete Sales. Market Closing Prices ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1930.—40 PAGES. PRICE 2 CENTS faa a =) Burt IN TE TRADE: BSALES SMALL at : '4e Assortment of Lead- ing Issues Close 2 to 4 : sints Lower With a Few wing Wider Losses— _§. Steel Among the ues Off. BER LOANS SHOW $315,299,447 DROP ctions Made at the Pa lest Pace in Nearly 2 | ears, With Lone Excep-. imion of Jan. 13 Last, Un- HicKS DOWN “oF Selling Gains Headway | “> Close. °o.—A feeble y's stock mar- last ‘ Sas invigorated’ in the s 1 O ef trading report from the GRAF ZEPPELIN SIGHTED BY SHIP 400 MILES EAST HALIFAX; WEATHER FINE Dr. Eckener Expects to Reach Seville, Spain, in 50 Hours, for Stop en Route to Friedrichshafen. PASSENGER " % x ANN NA wots we eee BENNETT, ACTRESS BRIDE of Sir siubert | Wilkins, the noted explorer, | who, with her husband, sailed on the | | Zeppelin last night for Spain. | mill operations | t ailed this | ae k. le assortment of lead- Dies 4 > - ; oe . |} 2 to 4 points low- re , . a8 cCMe yo ~~) : , - on A l i pri j ; on May $1, .* -_ ' ia | —_ : S the F 10 an estie ra “ i 4, } , airiy . : foured | any | night when 'The explosion ) 'from the 13, !first and second ; \By the RESTORATIVES GIVEN TO MAN WHILE BEING DUG FROM RUINS | Walls of Building Braced Before Effort Is Made; Victim Dies Later. Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 3.—Buried | to his neck in the wreckage of a) building demolished by a boiler ex- | By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 3.—A radio dis- patch to the Associated Press from the master of the steamship Amer- ica says: ‘Passed the Graf Zep- pelin at 1:30 p. m. (Greenwich meridian time), north 40.22, west 58.11. Flying about 2400 # feet high. Fine weather.” The point mentioned by the America is off the coast af Hali- rax, about 400 miles at sea in the northern trans-Atlantic steamship lane. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 3.—The Ham- burg-American Line received a ra- diogram from the Graf Zeppelin to- day, reporting its position at 9 a. m. as 40.18 north and 57.30 west, al- most 780 miles due east of New York. By the Associated Press. LAKEHURST, N. J., June 3.— The Graf Zeppelin is headed out over the Atlantic Ocean today for | the seventh time. The giant ship started its homeward journey at | 9:12 p. m., passing over New York City. At 1:10 a. m., it reported in Eee ee CENSUS INDICATES LITTLE INCREASE Total Population of These Contiguous Districts in St.. Louis Is 379,653— Thirteen Still Missing. 1920 COMPARATIVE TOTAL UNAVAILABLE Zone Includes Older Parts of Municipality, Where Homes Have Been Vacat- ed for Factories. Popniation of 15 # contiguous wards of the 28 in St. Louis, is 379,653. it is shown by supervisors’ reports to date. The wards of the same designations but somewhat Varying territory had 346,653 in the 1920 census. Direct comparisons are impossible because all ward | boundaries were changed in 1921. a radio message it was passing over | in 1920 shows that together they Nantucket lightship, off the Mas- Sachusetts coast, about 215 miles from New York. The Zeppelin, on Friedrichshafen, plans its a stop at ' contain However, analysis of the areas covered by these wards now and 317 approximately more city blocks now than at the time of trip to | the previous census. Nearly all of ‘the added blocks are in populous Seville, Spain, which Dr. Eekenes | expects to reach in 50 hours. It ‘stopped at Seville on its flight to ‘this country, via Brazil. A few minutes before the dirigi- ble started its commander indi- cated that the end of the Graf’s career is in sight. By a year from next fall, said Eckener, he hopes to have three big ships, each able to Carry 24 passengers and 20 téns of ' | | pelin mail and freight, sailing on sched- ule across the Atlantic. And by that me, he added, the Graf Zep- “ean be put in alcohol and | preserved.’ Four of Passen’ -rs Women. Of the 22 passengers aboard, four are women. One of/them, .Mrs. plosion, a stationary engineer was’ John H. Greaves of New York, has fed restoratives for more than two | hours today while police and fire emergency squads dug him out. John Terczyski, 65 years old, was on duty in the boiler room of a rendering plant shortly after mid- the boiler exploded. hurled the boiler through the floors and the basement ‘roof of the building. The engineer was caught beneath | ‘the wreckage with only his head visible when rescuers reached him. Before police and firemen ven- tured to remove the debris which | held him fast, maining portions building of the * for fear they would fall and crush | ‘ the imprisoned man. At Queens- boro Hospital Terezyski was found .to be suffering from a fracture of | | 6 ’ sce ~ - p (Copyright. 1950.¥ igh a sub-| j - ar peared | P 1 grown dis- | of to be for - ee | : » ‘: ? = Fa ’ Vieager. : Ble : ' - : - ' rea?) ' elop- ING iS IN portion TION, MISS... : eared YOU r traders iT2 ) nter- intion : fail- the rail circles se to that lon case na A aS - ? stationary, BS ar eee nt aes ) k°rTrs accept- eAaApet ate loans > being ter the : an? = * i Lower Stocks. Worthington Tobaccto B . while is- nts included a L. S. Steel, lille, Amer- eral Electric ers, Unit- i . rmon, Elec- : } ; - & Gamble Wright A. Locomotive m: rn Encaustic 4 vs for the rt bri | ) other tables = | will be found 3c. -' and en 0 aa ee et’s slug- | ‘Rear Admiral Richard E. the skull and a broken leg. died several hours later. REAR ADMIRAL BYRD SAILS. F , |man Ministry | Homeward Bound Zone on City of New York. By the Associated Press. COLON, Canal Zone, June 3.— Byrd started for home today in his bark Su- | the City cf New York, which sailed shortly before 3 p. m. they shored up re-) never been up in any kind of air- craft before. Two others, Mrs. Mary Pierce of New York and Mrs. Charles B. Parker of Cleveland, O.. set out to cross the Atlantic aboard the. Graf for the second time. Two other passengers are Sir Hubert Wilkins, the explorer, and Lady Wilkins. The passenger list also includes | John H. Greaves, Great Falls, N. ¥.; Lorenzo E. Baker, son of George B. Baker, banker: Stuyve- Burton Preston, importer of Mansfield. O., a 70-year-old avi- ation enthusiast: Adelardo Novo. director of Diario Espanol, ‘fore, that there has been little, ‘any, growth of population in It appears, there- if the decade in these 15 wards together. neighborhoods. All of the wards thus far report-., ed are in the older parts of town, which have been built up for many years. However, in some sections covered there has been a noticea- ble volume of home construction in the last 10 years. The largest block of contiguous wards included are the so-called “river wards,”,bordering the Mis- Sissippi from East Prairie avenue (5000 north) i» Maeder street (5000 south). The western extrem- ity of this group reaches as far as Grand boulevard at the north and South ends. These river wards have not shown large gains of population and some portions of them probably decreased as homes gave way to industry. The Second to the Eleventh wards, inclusive, are included in the foregoing group. Another large and adjoining block covered by the ; census reports consists of the | Twentieth. Twenty-first, Twenty- ,third and Twenty-sixth wards. There appears to have been a fair | ° :; compris Sant Leroy French, New York at- | prising them. _torney: » Ha- | vana; Fred M. Harpham, the Good- | year-Zeppelin Co.: | Alfonso of Madrid, Emilio Herrara, chief of the Spanish air forces: Gonzales Sanchiz. Seville: Dr. Jero- He | 'nimo Megias, physician to King Alfonso of Spain; Gonzales Herrero, Ae AO: nee / service, Dr. The Eleanor Bolling departetd at. the same time. WET PLEA FROM BALTIMORE Madrid: Dr. Herman Badt. Ger- of Transportation: Joachim Breithaup, Berlin: director of the Capt. Martin Wronsky. the Infante Don increase of inhabitants in the area They cover an irregular shaped portion of tion at the northeast to the corner of Clara avenue and Delmar boule- | vard at the southwest. One other ward, the Fifteenth. ‘is included in the reports to date. | This \Tower Grove Park. is a South Side district, ex- tending west from the river ward ‘block to Kingshighway. north of A comparison j}there is difficult but it is not like- | Lufthansa, Berlin: Fritz Zwicky of | Zurich and George C. White, New | York broker. ! In: discussing his hopes for an. and apartment construction in the Atlantic air mail and passenger Eckener said: “My idea every five days from each side, but, of course. we shall have to have three ships to hold to such a schedule.” City Council Votes Votes 13 to 4 for Re- | ~ « | — ww ta All- peal of Eighteenth Amendment. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, June $.—% he Bal- 'timore City Council went wet last night, approving by a vote of 13 to 4 a resolution requesting Con- ‘gress submit to the States amend- ‘(ment unNn- | t " week- ; ' Congress. repealing the eighteenth amendment. The resolution will be sent to the president of the Senate, Speak- | er of the House of Representatives | and to the Maryland delegation in POLO LE PAPA DADAD LID LD LD LD DA DDD § Bringing Fido Back Home Which is happier, Fido or Fred? After being “lost” for three days » the dog is coming home. ’ The lad who had fed and shel- tered Fred's dog saw the Lost Ad in the Post-Dispatch. It's the same happy story—ot many lost articles recovered through the Post-Dispatch Lost and Found Columns. Call MAin 1111 for an adtaker when vou discover a loss. >. - a a oe a a a a SLOP LPR PPP LOL LPL LO LOD RAV GE LO DAP AP OL el Le PP Lead had Pa PLL PL LL tenon ee Liquor Supply Replenished. Eckener said that the dirigible’s liquor supply had been replenished somewhat with the help of a Gov- ernment order. “It is medicinal] liquor, vou undertsand,.” he added with a wink. “I think there prob- ably will be an epidemic of stom- ach aches very shortly.” Eckener today radioed his thanks to the Navy Department and the ‘Lakehurst Naval Station for the ‘assistance given him. ~The mes- sage to the Navy Depurtment at | Was) ington read: “Leaving the shores of the Unit-) ‘ ' ‘ed States. I wish to extend my ap- ‘preciation of splendid service ren- dered by the Navy Department. is such efficient co- operation that has made our flight possible and which will tend to develop friend- ‘ly and speedy communication be- ‘tween the nations.” The message to Lakehurst read: | ; “Please accept my sincere thanks is to have a sailing | last decade. They include: The, whole southwest. the northwest. \the extreme north end (First Ward). a considerable part of the 'Seuth Side, Carondelet. the Twen- ity-fifth and Twenty-eighth Ward sections of the West End. a large midtown district and 2 small part ; It | } ‘of St. Louis and St. for your splendid co- operation in. expert handling of our airship. We. hope it will be possible to return sometime to. Lakehurst and renew our acquaintance.” Reports. Increase Over March: More Arrests Also Made. WASHINGTON, June 3.+—Prohi- bition Commissiorer Doran an- Doran ae De ae--00e nounced today that 2074 stills had been seized by Bureau agents in April as compared to 1948 in March. In addition 5912 arrests were made. 632 more than in March, and 770 automobiles, 114,852 gal- lons of distilled spirits and 376,021 galions of malt liquor were seized ae ne ane , the population by Jy that this region has had an un- usually large growth. Nature of Missing Wards. Areas remaining to be covered by census reports include the por. ‘tions of the city that huve shown ‘the greatest volume of house, flat of jower North St. Louis. the | . city from the Fairground Park sec- | ctaahae 0a ladies aed Oe radio | Be Run Tomorrow. IN TS CITY WARDS, | $12,500 FOR HALF INTEREST IN TICKET ON ENGLISH DERBY Scout II in Race to Copyright. 1930 bv the Press and Plltser Publishing Cos. (The New York and Post-Dispatch. } LONDON, June 3.—The secrecy surrounding the result of the draw for the Calcutta sweepstakes on the English Derpy to be run tomorrow, has .resulted in the names of only a few of those draw- ing horses becoming public as yet. It is known, however, that T. C. Lowndes, a Manchester tobaccon- ist, drew The Scout II and has sold a half interest in his ticket for $12,- 500.. Shaw Wallace of Calcutta drew Ballyferis and sold half his ticket for about $15,000. Three In- dian servants of a Calcutta bank drew Silver Flare and scld a halt chance for about $37,500. The Scout II will run in the col- ors of William Woodward of New York and is a half-brother of Gal- lant Fox, winner of the Kentucky Derby. Both were sired by Sir Galahad III. At the annual Derby lunch of the London Press Club today, at which famous owners, jockeys and train- ers were guests, Sir Hugo Hirst, head of the General Electric Co., Ltd. of Great Britain, tipped his horse, Diolite—the favorite—to win. “If the white leg of Diolite is at Tattenham Ccrner among the leading three or. four horses,” Sir Hugo said, “I know it will win.” The Earl of Harewood fancied Silver Flare for a bet each way (which in English betting means win, place or show) and Steve Don- ogue, the famous jockey, who will ride Sea Rover, said, “Whatever ‘beats Diolite will win.” naming Sil- ver Flare as a possibie winner. Lerd Derby's horse, Caerleon, was scratched today, having gone lame. FRONT PAGE OF NEWSPAPER TRANSMITTED BY PHOTO RADIO Ink Sprayed on Blank Sheet in Synchronization With Light at Sending Point. Special to the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, June 3.—The New York World transmitted the first page of its early edition by photo- radio last night to the annual ra- dio manufacturers’ convention in Atlantic City. A tiny photo cell, focused on a point of light traveled slowly across a cylinder on which was a sixth part of the World's front page. At Atlantic City a receiving device sprayed a tiny jet of ink against a white sheet, every break in the black print in New York synchro- nizing with a break in the jet of the air-spray at Atlantic City. Transmission continued the ex- periment earlier in the day. when part of a page of the Evening World had been sent. Because of the fineness of the printed figures, the process of transmission was the and about half as fast as the transmission of line drawings About half an hour was required to transmit each one-sixth of a news page. 40 DROWNED WHEN STEAMER SINKS AFTER EXPLOSION Bodies Recovered in Magdalena River, Colombia: 11 of Cerw Buried. By the Associated Press. — BOGOTA, Colombia, June 3.— Forty bodies were recovered today after the sinking of the passenger steamer Goenaga in the Magdalena tiver yesterday after a boiler ex- plosion. The captain went down with the vessel. His body Was among those recovered. Thirty-five members of the crew were saved. Eleven of them were ‘seriously burned by fire which fol- ‘lowed the explosion. The vessel ‘sank before any aid could be Civic leaders pin their hopes for a considerable growth of city popu- lation on these regions. Populations of the Tenth and Eleventh wards were announced last night and of the Eighth and Ninth wards today. The figures for these units, with references to the population of the same designations but the sursmoned. The survivors arrived in Barranquilla this morning and injured were sent to a hos- | pital. wards of the | somewhat different area in 1920 follow: Eighth Ward—31,129 now, 20,- 652 in 1920. Ninth Ward—23.423 now, 21.615 in 192! Tenth Ward— 599 now, 20,416 ‘in 1920. | Eleventh Ward—28,i19 now, 28,- 270 tn 1920. Thousands of Names Missed. In the Chamber of Commerce campaign to see that all residents Louis County are counted in the -eensus, 1%,.000 names of persons believed to have been missed have been reported. | This tncludes about 6900 names re- | ‘ceived over the Decoration 2074 STILLS SFIZED IN APRIL ‘week-end. Among the 6000 were | pils of public and parochial schools, and many schools remain to day 4000 names obtained through pu- be heard from. Chamber officials have pointed out that the census here is nearing completion and reports of persons omitted must be received soon, be- fore the books are closed. It has been found that mapy persons were mistaken in the belief they had not been enumerated. but the campaign is expected to increase several thou- sand persons, reat CLOUDY TONIGHT, TOMORROW; NO CHANGE IN TEMPERATURE THE TEMPERATURES. 5 Oe. pace a 70 ee a les a ie eS «¢. ‘me. r= ie. — equ vs $a. m. oe Se OB. Bios belo c o Me) ‘ ££ oe | Sa sk wdlies &3 2 A. Mis + ae 6 0.4 633 ] p. mw. eee Ad CS -m& Misdes % 6" 7 Midd b claws gS 7 aA - 1. aw a 64 4 -. Mes tice * RA 8 a. ‘a ea ea ee 87 Yesterday's high. 85 (4 p. m.}; low, 6O (6 a. . Official fore- cast for St. Louts and vicinity - Partly cloudy to- night and tomor- row: not much change in tem- perature. Missouri: Part- ly cloudy, ssibly showers in north- west portion to- night or tomor- row; cooler in northwest portion tomorrow. Dilinois: In- creasing cloudi- nees tonight; to- morrow mostly cloudy. possibly showers and cool- er in northwest row), 4:36. Manchester Merchant Drew | HAWLEY TAR ADVOCATE VICTOR IN WA PRIMARY Congressman Dickinson Nominated for U. S. Sen- ator by Republicans Over | Gov. Hammill. | DAN W. TURNER AHEAD IN GOVERNOR RACE Ten Republican Congress- men Renominated — crats in Ninth District. By the Associated «ress. DES MOINES, Ia., June 3.— Congressman L. J. Dickinson, pledging support to President Hoover and the pending tariff bill, early today held nearly a two-to- one lead over Gov. ination. The terday. telegram to Dickinson, which read: your primary victory and to assure taee success.” Senator Daniel F. standard in He made no the Democratic November election. campaign. With returns from 2198 of lowa’'s 2434 precincts unofficial showed Dickinson had 175,787 votes, Hammill 99,935. Hammill | had campaigned against the t riff. measure, contending its agricul-| tural rates were not in proportion to the new industrial schedules. Frank J. Lund, Senator Smith | W. Brookhart’s former campaign manager, had a total of 37,296 and | W. O. Payne, veteran editor, trailed | with 12,342. Turner Leads for Governor. Dan W. Turner of Corning, State income tax advocate. was ahead of Ed Smith, Secretary o State, and Otto Lange, chain store opponent, for the Republican nom- ination for Governor. . Turner polled 209,708 votes with 106,256 for Smith and 20,988 for Lange. The returns on both Sen- ator and Governor races were vir- tually complete for the cities and included a large number of rural precincts, All State officers seeking renom- ination led in early returns. G. C. Greenwalt led a fleld of four can- didates for Smith's position as Sec- retary of Btate. He failed to reach | in early counts the 35 per cent of | the totaf vote required for nomina- tion. | Congressmen Renoninated. | Ten Republican Congressmen | also maintained good majorities. | State Senator Fred Gilchrist was’! leading in a three-cornered race for the post now held by Dickinson, who was the only Representative | er not seeking another term in the House. Representative W. F. Kopp. T. J. B. Robinson and Gilbert N. Hau-, gen were leading their opponents, while the other seven Congressmen | had no contests within their party. The Democratic ticket for State effices, led by Fred P. Hagemann of Waverly, was nominated without Woman Named by Demo- | | John Hammill | for the Republican senatorial nom- | primary was held yes- Hammill conceded defeat in a “Permit me to congratulate you on | you my good wishes for your fu- | Steck was chosen without opposition to bear | the | totals | far | | _ BISHOP JAMES CANNON oll ee rereee - re = mee CAMBRIOGE STUDENT KILLS TUTOR AND SELF , Victory Scholar Shoots Noted Explorer and Wounds Po- lice Officer. | e ty tin Asecetaw* Preas. CAMBRIDGE, England, June 3. | —Historic Cambridge University was the scene today of a murder and a suicide when Douglas New- ton Potts, a first-year undergrad- / uate, shot and killed Dr. A. F. R. | Wollaston, noted English explorer, , scientist, physician and tutor and then fatally wounded himself. | Young Potts also shot and severe- ly wounded Detective Sergeant Wil- | lis. Hospital officials say he will | recover. The shooting took place in Dr. | Wollaston’ s room in Old King Ccl- | ‘lege. Dean Milner White this aft- | ernoon said Potts, who was an un- ‘(usually bright student, suddenly | left the college 190 days ago. The | faculty was much peturbed by his absence and a search was started. Yesterday a message was fre- ceived from the London police say- ing and was returning to college. Dr. Wollaston, it wags understood, went to the station to meet the student and the two men returned to the tutor’s rooms where Detective Sergeant Willis was waiting. Potts was being interrogated on his unexplained absence when he drew a revolver and shot UDr. oe through the heart after | ! shooting tine policeman through (the shoulder and leg. He | shot himself in the head. | Potts was a “victory” rom Lancing, Sussex. then scholar Wollaston was a distinguished ex- He was a. 'plorer and mountaineer. member of the Mount Everest ex- | pedition of 1921, a member of the | British expedition to Ruwenzori, | Central Africa, in 1906-07 and of van expedition to Dutch New Guinea, 1909-11. He was the lea4- ‘er of another expedition to Dutch | New Guinea in 1912. He served as |a surgeon in the Royal Navy dur- | | ing the war and was medical offi- ‘eer and naturalist of the 1921) Mount Everest expedition. the author of several books travel and had opposition. A. M. Pryor of Leon | son for the Eighth District Demo- | cratic congressional nomination in | scattering returns. The contes: was the only important one within the party. Miss June Fickel is the | Democratic nominee for Congress in the Ninth District. DEWAR ESTATE, $25,000,000 Distilier Leaves £100,000 to Nephew, John Arthur Dewar. Sy the Associated Press. LONDON, June 3.—Lord Dewar, | the famous distiller, sportsman, | raconteur and wit, left an estate of more than £5,000,000 ‘about $23.- 000,000) when he died on Apri! 11. Of this amount the Government death duties will ~ for about £2,000,0098. Lord Dewar teft 1, 000,000 free of price duty, to bis nephew. Jobn Arthur Dewar, who, hie uncle said in bis will, “went to Canada when quite young and carried out suc- Stage of the Mississippi, 8.9 feet, | a fall of 0.4. cessfully all my puainenD -<pARERE- | was slightly ahead of James Pear- | medals for his work. BILL TO WAIVE JURY TRIAL IS PASSED BY THE HOUSE |Measure Amended to Make It | Necessary to Get Consent of Prosecutor. By the Avrsociated Press. ; WASHINGTON, June 3.—The | House Law Enforcement Commis- | sion’s proposals to relieve Federal . Court congestion todey when it ap- proved the eere bill to permit waiver of right of trial by jury in Federal Courts. The vote was 228 to 1067. The bill now goes to the Senate The measure was amended to make it unnecessary for a defendant to of obtain the consent of the District | new has failed Attorney to waive right of trial by | a jury. Without a record ryote. the House passed and sent to the Ben- ate the Christopherson bill to de- fine petty offenses and permit prosecution of such offenders on Potts had been found there He was | ties in the on | challenged the jurisdiction of the received several capitalist BISHOP CANNON ON STAND CHARGES LOBBY COMMITTEE WITH ‘PERSECUTING’ HIM CHALLENGES RIGHT T0 QUESTION HIM ON'28 CAMPAIGN So Phrases His Statement as Not to Risk Contempt and Probably Will Be Re- quired to Answer Tomor- row. ALWAYS ACTIVE IN POLITICS, HE SAYS Methodist Leader Is Asked About Wires to Mellon on Enforcement Appropria- tions — Correspondence With Hoover. By PAUL Y. ANDERSON, A Staff Correspondent of the Post- Dispatch. WASHINGTON, June 3.—Bishop James Cannon appeared today be- fore the Senate Lobby Committee and denied its authority to inquire into his political and financial] ac- tivities in connection with the pres- identia] campaign of 1928. He accused the committee of “persecuting” him and described its inquiry as a continuation of attacks ; which he said had been made on few for two years by “the wet Roman Catholic press.” The Bishop flirted with a pos¢- liek charge of contempt without actually risking it. Although he read a statement “declining” to an- swer questions about his anti-Smith crusade in 1928, he was careful to explain- afterward that he was merely submitting his objections, “for the committee to consider’ and he wanted it understood that he was not definitely refusing to answer. Under these indefinite and equiv- ocal circumtances the committee recessed until tomorrow, when it is | expected to direct the Bishop to anewer Or be responsible for the consequences. The concensus of opinion is that Bishop Cannon will bow to the committee's decision in preference to facing a citation for contempt of the Senate. Challenges Jurisdiction. In stating what he believed to be his legal right in declining to an- swer, Bishop Cannon chose tv quote from the opinion of the United States Supreme Court in the contempt case of Harry F. Sinclair. althought the result of the Court's decision in that case was to send ‘Sinclair to jail for three montha, | By a conincidence, the question which Cannon ‘“‘declined”’ to an- gwer was addresse¢ to him ~»by ‘Senator Walsh of Montana, who also propounded the questions ‘which Sinclair refused to answer. | The questicn which precipitated the Bishop's protest, was a request that he describe the famous “Ashe- ville conference” of 1928, at which Cannon organized and launched the drive to break the “#olid South” ‘by persuading dry Democrats to vote for Herbert Hoover for Pres- ident. At once he produced a prepared statement, in which he cbjected to | answering any question pertaining to his political or financial activi- 1928 campaign, and coemmittee to make such inquiries. “The attempt on the part of this _eommittee to go beyond its powers | and to investigate my .anti-8mith ' activities is clearly not only polit- ical, but peracnal.” he-said, “and because I believe it to be an effort to attack me and to thmpair my in- fluence. as the wet Roman Catho- lie press has been Coing for nearly two years. I must decline to admit the juriadiciion of this committee over either my personal or political activities.“ Jameson's Contribution. The committee was already in poesersion of evidence showing that E. CC. Jameson. New York contributed $65.300 through Cannon for the purpose electing Hoover. and that Can- to account aoe $48.300 of the sum. Although the committee had not mentioned the subject, Cannon ‘ad anticipated being questioned about it, and re- ferred to it in his prepared state- ment. “The intent and purpose of these 1 eS Se out grand jury indictment. | Comtinued on Page 2, Colume 4, i atin Se Bie a a ate sg 5 Ai neg oh de ag emer oa Ky 3 eel ‘ey’ ee. sae ere Doge ee Si | oe ae =e ses BE ler yamine ee Ng Sat og e f sa) | dw ie # ed fot ey ge ke go ly ehh, 1s : as COR biden: bi ee aS ion * ote FS er, y ¢ Oe pmb gts bar tae re RS RN eit ei iarn, See BoD. OA eRe A tne A & + igs Mee Mak ae Pee ROE SF Ey Sa te oy Yt et Prine ea ee PORES Wiltso's 0 ad ed att lat he etek! a Eee Te | pean RY is hE S