St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 15, 1930

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THAT'S MY WIFE Fa” BALCONY WOU --e>) oeeee eere q Classified Advertising | 2 | REALESTATE .....PART 8 HELPS, SERVICE...PART 9 : reo eT IN Ae Se ee | First (News) Ree Pages coeees 4 ‘Seventh (Editorial) +... 4 : 3 Eighth (Real Estate). ».14/ “VOL. 82. No. 282. PART ONE. . ST. LOUIS, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 15, 1930. PAGES 1—14A ##+3% PRICE 10 CENTS HMMERGE BODY CKING CENSUS N PART OF CITY College Students’ Making House-to-House Canvass of Strip From River to Western Limits. ——_—_— ——" ee So far, names of 31,-' Continued on Page 3, Column 2. OWNER TOO POOR TO BET ON WINNER OF $50,000 DERBY One Horse but It Won at 55 to 1. CHICAGO, June 14.—Pride was if the step of “Old Johnny” Best, former owner of a corner grocery in Memphis, Tenn., as he pushed through the startled crowd at Washington Park race track to- ward the judges’ stand this after- noon at the conclusion of the American Dérby. rank outsider, had galloped past Gallant Knight, to win the $50,- 000 purse by four lengths. Reveille Boy is Best’s horse. His only horse. As he reached the stand, the mu- tuel price, $113.08 for a $2 ticket, was flashed on the board across the track. Best, wrinkled as to suit, vestless, his collar wilted and one suspender threatening to snap, looked at the figures and shook his head. . “Look at that price,” he said. “Me with $300 in my pockets and not a nickel on him.” Best came to Chicago less than a week ago, with just $800. He used $500 for a starting fee, and was left so nearly broke he did not dare risk even a $2 bet on Re- veille Boy. Gov, Emmerson of Illinois was in the stand to present a cup to the owner of the winner. “Old Johnny” received the trophy, some- one thrust a great bunch of roses into his arms, and he started away with Johnny Paul, trainer of Reveille Boy, to visit the stall of the horse that Best bred from Last Reveille and Little Ann, and to get Bill Fronk, the jockey who rode Reveille Boy from a bad start to victory. It was Fronk’s fourth wedding anniversary. Fronk, Paul and their wives helped “Old John- ny’’ celebrate, GIVES BUTTERMILK TO JUROR AND LOSES $11,000 VERDICT Woman Guilty of “Gross Miscon- duct,”’ Judge Holds in Setting Aside Award, By the Associatea Press, AKRON, O., June 14.—A quart of buttermilk cost its donor $11,000 in Common Pleas Court today, when Judge L. S. Pardee set aside the verdict of a jury which award- ed Mrs. J. Miksch of Copley. O., this amount from the city of Bar- berton, O., for alleged damages to her farm lands. Mrs. Miksch charged that water in the Barberton reservoir seeped onto her farm and destroyed its value. The tri®l of the suit lasted six weeks. During the trial Mrs. Miksch brought a quart of buttermilk to court and gave it to one of the jurors. Judge Pardee held this was “eross misconduct on the part of the plaintiff” and voided the $11,- 000 verdict. PRESIDENT PAYS TRIBUTE TO HARRIET BEECHER STOWE His Message Read at Memorial Service in Honor of Author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 14.—A mes- sage from President Hoover was read today at service at New York University in honor of the one hundred and nineteenth annivers- ary of the birth of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Several hundred Negroes attended the ceremonies. The President’s message said: “I send my cordial greetings to the colored citizens at their services in the Hall of Fame in honor of the one hundred and nineteenth birth- day of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her name will be ever memorable as humanitarian, ardent advocate of every cause of liberation of the spirit of man, and the friend of the colored race.” BANKER USES TEAR GAS PISTOL IN FIGHT OVER PARKING SPACE R. A. Cissell of Washington Is Charged With Assault Follow- ing Altercation. WASHINGTON, June 14.—Rob- ert. Ashton Cissell, Controller of the Commercial National Bank, is charged with shooting Lewiston Vv. Howell with a tear gas pistol in a fight over @ parking space. Ac- cording to Washington police offi- cers who investigated the trouble, Cissell fired the contents of the chemical weapon into Howell's face, burning his face and injuring his eyes. Cissell was arrested on a charge of assault. 94.000 BAGS OF CUBAN SUGAR Tene RUSHED TO GALVESTON GALVESTON, Tex., June 14.— A steamer carrying 24,000 bags of Cuban raw sugar as racing to port here today in an effort to arrive before the new tariff law becomes effective. Under the bill as sent to the White House, the duty on Cuban raw sugar is increased from 1.76 cents a pound to 2 cents. Taking advantage of the lower rate, the Imperial Sugar Co. of Sugarland, Tex., today paid $870,328 on 14,- 132 bags of ‘‘uban raw in storage. The payment set a new record here for customs collections In a single day. Mays Cbs: BE eee Pest we TB oe Z ce “Old Johnny” Best Had Only: Reveille Boy, a} ANOTHER MARKET LOSER HELD FOR EMBEZZLEMENT Fred R. Bell, Cashier of Illi- _ana Bank at State Line, Ind., Said to’ Have Ad- mitted Taking $12,000. HIS SUCCESSOR PUTS SHORTAGE AT $60,000. Speculator Arraigned in Jus- tice Court and Sent to Jail in Default of $5000 Bond. By the Associated Press. DANVILLE, Ill, June 14.—Fred R. Bell, former cashier of the IIli- ana State Bank at State Line, Ind., is in jail here charged with embez- zling $25,000 of the bank’s funds. The bank was closed by the State immediately after his arrest. Bell, who is alleged to have con- amination when arraigned in jus- tice court today and was committed to jail in default of $5000 bond. Bell was discharged by the bank Girectors recently when discovery of a shortage was made. He is al- leged to have admitted a defalca- tion of $12,000 at the time. Samuel Adams, who succeeded him, discovered a'further shortage in his accounts, authorities say, and the warrant charging embez- ziement was issued. Bell had been speculating in stock, authorities said. LONGWORTH-GANN FEUD FLARES UP ANEW IN CAPITAL Wife of Speaker of House Declines to Attend Ambassador’s Din- ner for Dr. Prestes. Special to the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, June 14.—The Longworth-Gann feud, as the con- troversy over social pre-eminence between Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Long- worth, wife of Speaker Longworth, and Mrs. Dolly Gann,. sister and offcial hostess of Vice President Curtis, is called, broke: out again tonight when Mrs. Longworth de- clined to attend the dinner given by the Brazilian Ambassador to President Hoover and Dr. Julio Prestes, President-elect of Brazil, and the nation’s guest. Perhaps the reason was—and Washington society seemed unani- mous on that—that President Hoover had agreed to escort Mrs. Gann on his arm to the banquet table in the brilliantly decorated hall of the Americas of the Pan- American Union, This the Presi- dent did. President-elect Prestes escorted Senora de Tellez, wife of the Mexican Ambassador, who is the dean of the Washington diplo- matic corps. ee Ever since the time early in the Hoover administration that Vice President Curtis demanded for his sister as hostess a social rank sec- ond only to that held by Mrs. Hoover, “‘Princess Alice” has been on the warpath. She contends, and has not back-tracked once, that the Speaker's wife takes precedence over the Vice President’s\ official hostess, Mrs. Gann. AIMEE M’PHERSON FINED $138 FOR CUSTOMS ACT VIOLATION Improperly Declares Foreign Pur- chases on Arrival From Eu- ro Goods Held. By the Associated Press. States customs officials ordered Aimee McPherson, evangelist, to pay $276 for improperly declaring certain of her foreign purchases on her arrival from Europe today. Her declaration slip showed only $46 of European merchandise, but customs appraisers held the goods were worth $138. Under the rules, the evangelist must pay the Ameri- can valuation of her purchases, of $138, plus a 100 per cent fine, or another $138. Customs Officials said she agreed to pay the $276 without dispute on Tuesday, after which she may take her purchases now held at the cus- toms house. EDISONS SPLIT ON POLITICS Inventor for Fort, a Dry; Wife Him. . By the Associated Press. : WEST ORANGE, N. J., June 14. —Thomas A. Edison, arriving home from Florida yesterday, said he would vote for Representative ‘Franklin W. Fort in the Repub- lican primary because “Fort is a ad Edison is a member of ths women’s committee supporting Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow, a rival of Fort and an advocate of prohibition repeal. YOU'RE INVITED—Visit Lake to- Forest utiful residential subdivision at Sto oak Hanley roads.— Advertisement. a Ps wr fessed to the shortage, waived ex- NEW YORK, June 14.-—United |: MORROW VS DR “LAW REAL MSE INE JERSE One of Heaviest Votes in _ State’s History. FRANKLIN W. FORT PROHIBITION HOPE Anti-Saloon League Backs Him, Fearing Election of Wet Republican of Presi- dential Caliber. By PAUL Y. ANDERSON, A Staff Correspondent of the Post- Dispatch. TRENTON, N. J., June 14.— Once more New Jersey is holding the spotlight. Not since the spec- tacular rise of Woodrow Wilson to political eminence 20 years ago has an election in this State at- tracted such nation-wide attention as will center upon the result of the Republican senatorial primary next Tuesday. The reason is ample. If Dwight W. Morrow is nominated and elect- ed, as now seems probable, he will immediately and inevitably become the main hope of the millions of American citizens who desire the repeal of the eighteenth amend- ment. At once and automatically he will become the outstanding wet prospect for President of the United States. | The significance of the event is recognized by prohibitionists and antiprohibitionists alike. It ex- plains the desperate campaign be- ing waged by thé national dry or- ganization to defeat Morrow. It explains the anxiety in which Washington officialdom awaits the outcome. It is expected to bring out the heaviest vote ever cast in a New Jersey primary election. Prohibition the Real Issue. Other candidates are in the race, and efforts have been made to in- troduce other issues. but the real contest is that of Morrow versus the eighteenth amendment. Thus he defined it more than a month ago in his Newark speech advo- cating a return to state control over the liquor traffic, and thus it remains, Until he made that speech, his Only serious opponent was ex-Sen- ator Joseph S. Frelinghuysen, a re- tired millionaire vastly more con- cerned about getting back to Washington society than with the fate of great issues. “Curly Joe,” he was called, back in-the days when he was accustomed to play golf with President Harding and Senators Hale and Kellogg at the fashionable Chevy Chase Club. In those days he voted dry, but has since become converted to “modi- fication” in some undefined form. Morrow had been warned not to make the Newark speech. Regard- less of his known conviction against the principle of national prohibi- tion, he had been told the drys would accept him if he would avoid an open declaration. ‘It was char- acteristic of him that he proceeded at once to makeé it. MDiys Put Fort Into Race. The drys’ answer was the an- nouncement of the candidacy of Congressman Franklin W. Fort. ardently dry, and friendly; with President Hoover. There is no doubt that Fort entered the race with a promise of the full support of the Anti-Saloon League and other prohibition organizations.’ Officers of the dry organizations have kept faith with Fort. They have deluged the state with litera- ture stating that Morrow’s candi- dacy is the most dangerous attack ever made on prohibition, excepting the presidential candidacy of Gov. Alfred E, Smith. They have im- rted speakers to campaign for ort. They have purchased adver- tising space in the newspapers. Aside from them, Fort has virtual- ly no organization. The actual di- recting mind behind his campaign is that.of the Rev. James K. Shields» superintendent of the New Jersey Anti-Saloon League. The League office is the real Fort headquarters. The New Jersey drys have staked their hopes on Fort. If he is de- feated for the nomination, they will not have a candidate in the race, unless they should decide to get behind Miss Esther Elfreth, who is running on the old Prohibition party ticket, Democratic Nominee Is Wet. Alexander Simpson, who will be the Democratic nominee, is wetter than either Morrow or Frelinghuy- sen, and the date has passed when an independent dry could be en- tered in the race. One of the most amazing things about this campaign js the almost universal admission that Fort can- not be elected if he is nominated. Few concede him more than an - #e. Continued on Page 2, Cojumn 5. 4 FRANKLIN W. FORT. DIES OF WOUNDS IN FIGHT OVER ESTRANGED WIFE Ray Hughes, Shot in Venice by Clarence Scruggs Whom He Also Wounded, Succumbs. Ray Hughes, 25-year-old steel- worker, died last night at. St. Eliz- abeth’s Hospital, Granite City, of bullet wounds suffered early yester- day in a sidewalk fight in Venice, with Clarence Scruggs, an admirer of Hughes’ estranged wife. The two men, both employed in Granite City steel mills, shot each other with revolvers while. stand- ing a few feet apart in the pres- ence of Mrs. Hughes.’ Scruggs is in a serious condition with a wound in the abdomen. .Hughes was shot in the right lung, left thigh, right hand and both arms. Mrs. Hughes, who-has resided for the last year at her parents’ home, 1317 Robin street, Venice, under her maiden name, Miss Sun- shine McKinney, was at Hughes’ bedside with his family when he died. Earlier in the day she ‘had refused to visit him and had said Hughes “got what he was looking for.” Mrs. Hughes, who is 23 years old, and Scruggs, 24, were sitting in an automobile in front of her home shortly after mi inight, when an automobile circled the block three times passing their ma- chine. They thought nothing of it until her husband alighted from the. machine half a block away cond walked toward them. When her husband reached the parked car, Mrs. Hughes said, he turned a flashlight into the window and Scruggs stepped out holding a revolver behind his back. Accord- ing to Mrs. Hughes, her husband raised a revolver and . fired two shots at Scruggs, who replied with five shots. Both men collapsed. At the hospital both men became questions about their fight. Hughes lived at 1031 Third street, Venice; Scruggs at 2205 East Nineteenth street, Granite Cify. Mr. and Mrs. Hughes were married two years ago and had one child, which died. FLIES 625 MILES NON-STOP IN PLANE WEIGHING 440 LBS. Arpad Lampich Thought to Have Established Record at Budapest for Ships of Class. By the Associated Press. BUDAPEST, June 14,—Arpad Lampich, an engineer, established what is thought to be a record non- \stop flight for small airplanes to- day when he covered 1000 kilo- meters (625 miles) in a midget plane weighing 200 kilograms (440 pounds), flying a circuit between Budapest and Maron. WOUNDS EX-MAYOR, KILLS SELF Roseville, Til, Resident, 74, and Vv -_ ‘ROSEVILLE, IIL, June 14.—Al Clore, 74 years old, shot John Con- lon, ex-Mayor, as he passed the himself. He died 20 minutes Conlon was removed to a Mon- mouth hospital. A dispute. over land deal is thought to caused the shooting. Scruggs fired in self-defense, and | delirious after refusing to answer | Clore home early tonight. Clore then went to his porch and. shot In Race for Senate in New Jersey ; St . DWIGHT. W. MORROW. TAX RECEIPTS EXPECTED ~ TO WIPE OUT U, $, DEFICIT Surplus of $100,000,000 Likely at End of Hoover's First Fiscal Year, By CaINGTOR 2 : WASHING , dune 14.—With a deficit of $2 40,652,630 in the United States Treasury on June 12, officials look to receiuts from the second installment of the tax on 1929 incomes to be received Mon- day to bring in enough, money to enable the. Treasury to- complete the first’ full fiscal year of Presi. dent Hoover's administration with a surplus, Secretary Mellon and his sub- ordinates express confidence. the Government will end the year with a surplus, possibly not as large as the $186,000,000 balance of last year. From present indications it will be more than $100,000,000 For the fiscal yenr which ends lected $3,457,920,019, while it has spent in the eleven months and twelve days $3,698,572,649. |Re- ceipts for the same period of the previous year were $3,352,145,093, while the expenditures were $3,- §21,011,774. The second installment of the 1929 tax is expected to amount to $500,000,000 or more, which will assure that the total income of the Government for the year will amount to approximately $4,000,- 000,000. CLOUDY TODAY, POSSIBLY SHOWERS TOMORROW THE TEMPERATURES. *Indicates street reading. Yesterday's high 89 re] p. m.), low 67 (5 a. m.) Official forecast TWAS DAVID HARUM] for St. Louts and MOVED) 10 be rsee fy ‘Partly WASHINGTON? | Scmaibiy” chowers possibly showers Mes tomorrow; not “much change in ture. Missouri: Partly cloudy, except scattered show- ers in west and north p’ tions .oday, and in east and south portions tomor- row: cooler in north ~-t por- tion. Illinois: Partly cloudy, with ‘lo- cal showers to- day and possibly tomorrow, except fair today in southeast portion; cooler in north portion. Sunset, 7/28; row), 4:34. Stage of the Mississippi, 10.2 feet, a fall Of 0.38. —_—_—_—_—— This Week's Wéather WEATMERBIRO sunrise (tomor- IMME. LUPESCU | June 30 the Government has col-}arme around his neck, sobbed her SZ MOG ¢cccce 86 S$. The. chs on 86 § B. Mai ereees 87 § P. 'm....... 34] Bucharest under an assumed . mol... = 10 P.M... +e a name. Jhe three with her were 4 DP. Bhs evecce «7 eit P. Maecenas 78 named as Maj. Paschavano, Col. BS. De Meceasegs 87 °12 midnight ...78} imit an a ees BF 8] 8. Mews eee. 78/ Precup and Georges Dimitescu. ‘not forthcoming before time for = “” ties JOSEPH 8. FRELINGHUYSEN. REPORTED GOING TO BUCHARES! King Carol of Rumania Said Woman He Left to Take Throne. LONDON, June 14.—A dispatch to the London Daily Mail from Berne, Switzerland, says Mme. Lupescu is on the way to Buchar- est in the charge of two trustwor- thy © Rumanian’ officers, both friends of King Carol. | ' Shortly. before Carol started for Bucharest to claim the crown worn by his father and son, the dispatch says, he went to Mme. Lupescu and informed her the interests of the Rumanian state made it im- perative that he return. Mme. Lupescu approached him timidly and, then throwing her resignation and a wish to be re- membered by him always. “I know you must go, but when you are back in Bucharest you'll forget me as you have forgotten the others.” Carol answered with a vow that he would never forget her and promised an arrangement whereby she would return to Rumania and would be always provided for Mme. Lupescu expressed fear at traveling alone, so Carol promised her an escort of two officers and the private. secretary who served him in his exile. To Use Assumed Name. The dispatch says Mme. Lupes- cu will take the Orient express to- morrow at Vienna and travel to She is said at present to be at Baden, near Vienna. Details of the Rumanian situa- tion at the time of Carol's coup d’etat were disclosed by Barbu Jonescu, wealthy * umanian, who was a friend of Carol in exile, in an interview with the Associated Press. Jonescu declared that at the tim: of Carol’s coup the Liberals in Rui-ania were offe..ng the throne to Prince Charles of Bel- gium, second son of King Albert. The offer Jonescu explained as deriving from the feeling of the Rumanian peasants that they must have a responsible King to whon they could take their troubles. Michael, the boy-king, failed to meet this need, and. the Liberals planned accordingly to bring in an entire new dynasty. A delegation was sent to meet Prince Charles, but before a reply could be re- ceived at Bucharest Carol flew to Rumania and ascended the Jonescu said Princess would write Carol of events in Rumania, sending the ietters through an intermediary since she | knew that if addressed directly te sored. He said Carol's first break with Héien occured in 1925 time of the funeral of the Queen mother, Alexandra. “Carol that he had been in- sulted by the Bra Government he had made in England. He demanded an apology, and said that if it was him to return to Romania he to Have Sent Escort for) TARIFF BILL PASSED BY — HOUSE WITH 69 MAJORITY — PRESIDENT SAD 10 HAVE BEGUN Measure Is Unsatisfactory to Him in Some Respects, He Hopes Flexible Plan Will Remedy Defects. ee ee FINAL BALLOT IS 222 TO 153 27 Republicans Vote Against Hawley-Smoot _Legisla- tion and 14 Democrats Give Revenue Proposal Their Sanction. Ss . . the Post- WASHINGTON, June 14.—Now it rests with President Hoover to say whether the Hawley-Smoot ‘high tariff bill of 1930, passed by a majority of two votes in the Sen- ate and of 69 in thé House, shail supersede the existing Fordney- McCumber act. The bill will reach the White House for the Presi- dent’s approval or rejection early next week, Acting under ai special rule, which required a single vote on two pending conference reports, and forbade any motion to recom- mit, the House this afternoon put the final touch of Congressional approval on the bill by a vote of 222 to 153. There never had been any doubt as to what the Housc, with its substantial regular Repub- lican majority, would do. President Hoover has not pub- licly said whether he will sign or veto the bill. The general belicf is that he will sign. He is under- stood to have begun already:the preparation of a message to Con- gress, in the nature of a message to the people, setting forth the reasons for his action. Relies on Fiexible Provisions. The President is expected by Republican leaders to say that, while the bill is unsatisfactory to him in some, perhaps many, re- spects, he feels that he will be able to cure its inequalities through the use of his powers under the flexible provisions. That it con- tains inequalities has not been dia- puted by even its most ardent champions, The end of the 18-month tariff struggle in Congress was greeted with a shout of mingled relief and triumph from the Republican side of the House chamber. ~~ Twenty - seven Republicans, among them Mrs. Ruth Pratt . of New York, stepped across party lines to oppose the bill through di- rect ballots or pairs, whilé 14 Dem- ocrats voted for it aid Mra. Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida, daughter of the late William Jennings Bryan, recorded her protectionist views through’ a pair. Mrs. Pratt voted against the bill because of its new high rates on sugar. Mrs. Owen, like the Sen- ators from her State, voted for it because of the protection given Florida fruits and vegetables. The House entered the last phase of the contest so weary that it used only part of the three hours al- lowed for debate in the special rule of procedure, — | : Most of the members who de. sired to get their views in the rec- him th Paris, they would be cen- | bill, Queen | when he went to England at the | rageous duced 50 per cent by the Presi- dent,” said Cri ue Crisp. Will he exercise his ? Time alone will tell. For the wel- Continued on Page 3, Column 4, gis’ ‘Spe MPSSAGEGIING IT HIS APPROVAL =| Expected to Say That While Br be ee toe o?- 2 4 wa RIES! EE egal’ a ee eee oF ate ee ee) oe ae ee eee SMR Se Sak ‘ : Sal SX thon wai tnaliietaes - ae a Sera Fey animal == ee ee ee . z * a * Pd : Thee BEY ee Oy phan y