St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 8, 1930

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NEW YORK, July 8.—Profes- — sional traders sold stocks short in the morning and bought them | —~ hack in the afternoon in today's | market, another dull, listless af- | rT fair, | : Covering was active enough to : turn prices uward and cancel most of the morning losses, but the rally | : lid not go far toward cancelling | vesterday’s decline. Total sales — re less than 1,600,000 shares, Rail shares generally worked | cher during the afternoon, in re- sponse to the Interstate Commerce Commission's announcement of the | granting of an increase in class ‘reight rates, but the advance | lacked energy. Also, a rebound in , the wheat inarket apparently | caused sympathetic firming up of the stock market. July wheat, aft- | r touching a new low at 86 cents, | | rallied to 89%, where it was up | © ij (4; cents net. Other positions | gained about a cent. Steel Operation Estimate. Dow Jones & Co. estimated that steel! mill operations for the coun- large had fallen to 48 per ent of capacity over the holiday Pay period, but that ther@ had been some moderate increase in opera- | tions so far this week. Steel exe c- | ilives are now inclined to the BY —e Opinion that operations will pick | — Qnt up gradu‘lly during the rest of the | ne summer, | Chain store June sales reports | niinued to show substantial re- cuclions from last year for some of Organizations. The drop per cent in Woolworth’s ‘rom June of last- year was ot so unfavorable as it appeared at first glance, however, for sales a year ago were abnormally large, reflecting its intensive anniversary sae he eS Campaign, WHY, (rT Vuring the morning selling, USED To BE i Manville was a weak fea- A BUTCHER %; Cc ‘ure, declining nearly five points "i fa 5G 3 | “ . hew low at 72, compared to 83) | — ‘ant years peak of 242%. North a me « ler Air Reduction, Safeway ind du Pont, all weak spots again recorded new pte ¥ Ingersoll Rand made an ex- eu veme decline of 15 points. yh ies ‘all oney renewed at 2% per tent. and was firm at that level. y it renewed at2 and: rose try at ¥ at "4 : 0 *} i ae ae 4.© iarger a of 1°? “4 4 oe SALIES ip keee ae . Stecl was a strong spot in tae 2 iy matt trading, closing at 165%, eo BR FASE ~ * During the morning it hea 153%, less than 2 points i year’s low, American 7 oa — up 1%, and such shares a» -_ mera: Electric, Radio, General Sears-Roebuck and West- Se Electric, closed a point Y ener, In the rails, Atchi- Ussouri-Kansas-Texas, Great Preferred, Erie and closed a point or more from the ho? sik NNMe6 Sma ler Cotton Acreage Cut. Fe ‘ os ‘gain concentrated on Air ———— boint, ’. Which sold off. six ToT A 081 2 ee, lowe and closed RLTUS wt ; ae rs. ey —* Johns Manville, which de-, 7 ; seth Aad ite . eerste, than four to a new XT and “FORTY }. al “t 72, and closed off three; | fa, . eee bets va ae merican declining two ap Oo another new low, and : inchanged. American To- = 3 closed off 2%. Ingersoll 4“ made an extreme loss of | - ‘he commodity markets, cot- i . tae os ‘Ued 10 rally much in sym- shat ' “ith wheat. The market was the start, and encounter- her selling on the Govern- “cre report, showing at re- of only 2.7 per cent, as the 10 per cent cut cam- i for. Thére was some re- } - “ in prices Idte, 2; ae re: .,. “ing foreigh exchanges were “ep. Lae Aas aay ly steady. » Sterling cables ae oe, _,. tt $4.8656, up 1-83, The Ca- Boe , —_ held at par. z: i ‘tock prices, with other ta- ‘ ee o stem market news, will be Pee Oune — on pages 9C, 10C and 11C. i TOM MOONEY. AILS SELF WHEN CORNERED BY POLIGE Ex-Convict, 28, Chased to Attic of Webster Groves Home He Had Broken Into. Herman Fischer, 24 years old, an ; ex-convict, sentences in the- penitentiary for burglary, shot and killed himself this afternoon when he was trapped by Webster Groves police after having entered a house at 433 Edgar road, Webster Groves. Summoned by neighbors, who re- perted that the man had entered the house, Patrolmen Whelan and Tice found a first-floor they open. Entering the house, saw Fischer avd pursued him to the attic. Shortly before they reached the attic they heard a shot and found Fischer dead, with a bul- let hole in his temple, An auto- matic pistol lay near by. The body was taken to the Par- ker undertaking establishment in Webster Grceves, to await the action of the Coroner. Mr. and Mrs, Clem Staetter, who live at the Edgar avenue address, were away from home and have not been found by the police. Fischer had been caught by the Webster Groves police twice before, the last time in August, 1928, after which he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to serve three years for burglary. Late in July, 1928, fresh from the pehitentiary, he walked into the cffice of Chief McDonnell in Webster Groves and announced that he had decided to “go straight” and wanted McDonnell to “give him a break.” McDonnell agreed, but when four burglaries of the char- acter of Fischer's previous work occurred within a month, he 4r- rested Fischer\who pleaded guilty. GEN. WENDELL C. NEVILLE, MARINE CORPS HEAD, DIES He Had Been Ill Some Time on Visit to Daughter at Edge- water Beach, Md. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, July 8.—Major- General Wendell C. Neville, com- mandant of the Marine Corps, died today. Gen. Neville, who had. been fll for some time, was visiting the summer home of his daughter, Mrs. John Vest, at Edgewater Beach, near Baltimore. | Gen. Neville reveived the Con- gressional Medal of Honor for “distinguished conduct” at Vera Cruz in. 1914. As a Colonel he led the Fifth Regiment of Marines through the fighting in the Verdun sector and:in Belleau Wood in ~ world war. He was 60 ye a and @ native of Virginia. breveted for! conspicuous wale in the battle of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in the Spanish-American war. He also saw service in the Boxer rebellion, the Philippine campaign, at Havana in 1906 and after Vera Cruz in the Haitian and Dominican campaigns. : California. Executive Re- = FOR MOONEY GOV. YOUNG “ANNOUNCES fuses Clemency for Con- victed Bomber After State Board Declines to Recommend It. SUPREME COURT ALSO VOTED AGAINST HIM Labor Leader, Serving Life Sentence With Warren K. Billings, Declares He Will Not Give Up Fight for Freedom. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 8.— Gov. C. C. Young today declined to pardon Thomas J. Mooney, who is serving a life sentence for the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness day bombing. “Until some further light, which I do not now possess, is shed upon the case,’’ the Governor said, “I manifestly must accept the conclu- sions of the Supreme Court and of the Advisory Pardon Board.” In a long statement the- Gover- nor said he considered the Warren | K. Billings and the Mooney cases parallel, and both men were inno- cent or both were guilty. “I would respectfully suggest to the members of the Supreme Court,” the Governor said, ‘‘should ' terial witness who has who had served two)! window | Billings was made by him; John McDona@, or any other ma- repudiated his former testimony, appear be- fore them for the purpose of prov- ing such repudiations as trustwor- thy, and that their former testi- mony was perjured, it may be only ROCKEFELLER, 91, “GIVES AWAY DIMES -” ON-HIS BIRTHDAY Invites a Few ‘Neighbors to Play Golf With Him on Pocantico Estate. By the Associated rress. TARRYTOWN, N. Y., July 8.— In the privacy of his Pocantico Hillis estate, John D. Rockefeller observed with the utmost simplicity today his ninety-first birthday. Aroun@ the estate, to. enlarge which Rockefeller a little more than a year ago bought the whole village of Eastview and paid the residents to move out, is a 156-foot stone wall. On his birthday. as on other days, nobody gets in who is Rot invited; and today very few were invited. The guests consisted of a few neighbors who were asked to play golf with him this morning, and members of his family..who were to be, his guests at dinner tonight. John D. Rockefeller Jr..was not present. He'is in the West. In New York, through the of- fices of Standard Oil, statement from Rockefeller was ued: It read: . “It gives me great pleasure to say that. I have had more kind- nesses shown me during the past year from every part of the coun- try than ever tefore in my life, and it is needless to state that I am' unégpeakably grateful, “I am in the best of health, sur- rounded by. dear friends, and have naught but good will toward all.” Today's program called for the bestowal of many bright, new dimes on servants, guests and members of the family. $690,000 JEWELRY THEFT FROM AMERICAN IN PRAGUE Mrs, Clara Hyman of Chicago Re- ~ t By the Associated Press. PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, July §8.—Jewels worth $690,000, accord- ing to the police, were stolen from the suite of Miss Clara Hy- man of Chicago, in the Imperial Hotel here. A $290,000 pear! neck- lace was among the articles taken. The stolen articles, the police reported, aside from the string of 190 large pearls, consisted of plat- inum and gold rings ae | with dia- monds. just and right to consider the pro- priety of giving hearing to such | witnesses in the case of Billings, just as I should desire to do in the case of Mooney.” Repudiation Must Be Proved. | “Until the truth of the repdia- | ting affidavits can be definitely es- tablished, no one can question the decision of the Supreme Court or the reasoning of the Advisory Par- don Board for there are certainly some portions of McDonald’s affi- davits which appear patently un- trustworthy. “For instance, in his affidavit McDonald says that no »positive identification of either Mooney or that Lieut. Goff took him to the door of Mooney’s cell and said: ‘This is your man, this is Mooney,’ and that he subsequently took him to Bil- lings’ cell and asked a turnkey to open the door and said: ‘Come out here, Billings.’ “Upon careful investigation I am convinced that nothing of this kind occurred, nor can anyone be- lieve that Billings and Mooney and their attorneys, knew of . stich a spurious identification .. without calling attention to the matter in either of the trials.’’ | The Governor said, eithéugh two predecessors had refused to par- don Mooney, he had nevertheless given theapplication thorough con- sideration. Saying the decision would be -disappointing to many he added “but in a matter like this I must. be. guided by conscientious regard for my oath of office, rath- er than a willingness’ to respond to popular appeal. “If he was innocent of this par- ticular crime, to keep’ him in pris- on would be an ineffaceable blot upon the good name of the state. On the other hand, if he was not innocent, he was. guilty of one of the most uncalled for and atro- cious crimes ever committed—the wanton murder of unsuspecting men, women and children gathered upon public streets to.witness a patriotic demonstration of San Francisco. citizens.” The State Pardon Board’s recom- mendation against a pardon for Mooney came quickly after the California Supreme Court had de- cided similarly against Warren K. Billings. Serving IAfe Terms. Mooney and Billings were con- victed of murder in connection with the bombing of the- paredness day parade in San Francisco. July 22, 1916, in which 10 persons were killed and 40 vounded. Mooney and Billings are serving life sen- tences. Agitation for cle...ency for Moo- ney reac a climax five years later When John McDonald, princi-. pat state’s witness, made an affida- | yit in Néew York saying his testi- mony had been false. Mooney re- fused: a parolé on the ground it woyld constitute an admission of gutit. He maintained he had been convicted because of his-labor ac tivities. ) Two Govetnors received Mooney’ 8 “Gontinved on Page 3, Coleman 4 - “woe ' aieaseditentte ‘reported to have been robbed of The robbers ree without leaving a clew, according to the police, and it was the theory of the | officers that they probably had | crossed the frontier. The foreign police have been notified. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 8.—Relatives of Miss Clara Hyman, 70 years old, $690,000 worth of jewelrv in Prague, said they thought it more probable that the victim was Mrs. Cora Hyman, 1%9 Lake Shore drive, a sister-in-law of Miss Hyman. They said the amount reported was excessive and likely was less than $100,000. Miss Hyman makes her home with her niece, Mrs. Melvil L. Straus, in Glencoe, a suburb. Straus is vice president of S. W.¢ Straus & Co. She is a sister of B. E. Bensifger, president of the Brunswick - Balke -Collender Co. Mrs, Hyman ig a widow. CHICAGO NEWS DEALER SHOT TO DEATH AT HIS STAND Extortionists Suspected When Vic- tim Is Found to Have $2350 in Bank. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 8&—James D. Phillipo, 45-year-old news dealer, was shot to death early today by two me.as he was arranging pa- pers on his stand at Madison and Troop streets, on the West Side. A waitress standing at a window in a restaurant across the ‘-street heard five shots and saw the men |four men devised a scheme to de- | could give clear title; that the tract | had been surveyed and platted, and | quired by law. / would deliver and care for poultry as they leaped into an automobile and drove away. She described them as young and well dressed. Three bullets struck Phillipo in the back and a fourth in the right, forearm. A stray bullet wounded a Mexican in the elbcw. . Extortionists were suspected when police found a bank book showing Phillipo had deposits: of | $2250. Connection with a liquor ring also was . suspected because Phillipo had been working extra in a freight. house, 30 PASSENGERS. HURT ~ IN MO-PAC COLLISION “Pioneer™ and An E An Express Train Crash Head-on at Greta, Texas. > Re ‘the Asscciated Press. CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex., July 8. Thirty passengers weré “injured, none seriously, ‘today when the Mis- | ; “Pioneer,” from | sour! Paeific’s Houston, and an express train from the Rio Grande Valley collided head-on at Greta, seven mallag or of Refugto. NEW YORK KEEPS 6-CENT FaRe| ALBANY OF N sins ‘July 8.—The} Court of ‘Appeals today: upheld tye action of the Transit ! in refusing ‘to grant an incre from 5 cents to 7 cents in the: te of passenger fare - wh, 8 nal |street railway, lines In New York City. SALE OF LOTS THEY DIDNT OWN Mail Fraud Accusation Made Known After Two Arrests — One Suspect Sought—One Dead. SUBDIVISION OPTION ‘ALLOWED TO EXPIRE Co-Operative Poultry Farm Projected, With Profits on Fowls Applied on Cost ot Land. A-scheme by which four men are alleged: to have obtained $15,000 through the sale of lots in a St. Louis County subdivision which they did not own but which pur- chasers thought would pay for it- self as a co-op@rative poultry farm is described in a mail fraud indict- ment returned se the Federal grand jury. The indicionent was withheld until today when Postoffice In- spectors announced the arrest in Louisville, Ky:., of George C. Starkey, one of the four men named, C. E. Gray, 6356 Theodosia avenue, was arrested last Friday and released under bond. Erwin C. Crecelius is being sought and the fourth, J. J. Kaiser, is described as deceased. The tract involved is on Hall's Ferry road, a short distance from the city limits, and is owned by the Bush-Burns Realty Co. According to postoffice inspectors, one of the members had an option to pur- chase the tract for $57,000 but per- mitted the option to expire. Details of Scheme. The indictment charges that the fraud by making representations to prospective purchasers that they held title to the tract, known as Hall’s Ferry Heights; that they 'that plats had been recorded as re- It is further charged that they agreed to construct streets in the so-called subdivision; that they for the purchasers of lots; that the income from the poultry would meet subsequent payments due from the. purchasers, and that the purchasers would be employed by them as salesmen for other lots HUSTON TOSTAY TLL HOOVER ASKS Some High G. O. P.. Offi- cials Say Chairman Will “Quit Soon, Others Deny He Will Resign. PRESIDENT WANTS TO FORCE RETIREMENT Committee Head Asserts He Is Going Ahead With Plans for the Fall Cam- > By PAUL Y. ANDERSON, A Staff Correspondent of the Post- Dispatch. WASHINGTON, July %8.—The question of whether Claudius H. Huston is to be ousted from the Republican National Chairmanship today than at any time since it arose. His unheralded conference with President Hoover Sunday night, instead of dissipating the confusion, only added new elements of mystery. As the situation stands today, certain high administration offi- cials, including some that are at- tached to the White House, are as- serting that Huston has promised the President to resign, ahd that he will be out before the end of the week, while other administra- tion officials, including some of the party leaders in Congress, declare that Huston has no intention of resigning. Meanwhile, with apparent seren- ity, the cause of all the trouble goes ahead with his preparations for the Congressional campaigns in the fall. Question of Whom to Believe. Newspaper correspondents were in the subdivision. The group operated, it is charged, | as the Halls Ferry Heights Sub- | division Co., Northwestern Land Co., Northwestern Investment Co., Gray, Thomure & -Marx Realty Co., and Hall’s Ferry Poultry Products Co. Two Mail Fraud Counts. The indictment contains two counts charging mail fraud, each Dased on a letter sent through the mails. One letter, signed by Starkey as manager of the Northwestern In- vestment Co., 469-61 Pau] Brown Building, was sent specia) delivery to Miss Kate Charleville, 3155 South Grand boulevard, apologizing for using the mails instead of mak- ing a personal call and inviting her to name a time when she could go to the subdivision to inspect property she had agreed to pur- chase, The.second letter, to Mrs. Emma McFall, 603 East Twelfth . street, Alton, said that a copy .of a. con- tract for the purchase of a lot was inclosed. . The estimate of $15,000 was made by. Postoffice inspectors. The indictment mentions no specific amount of money involved. as EAIR TONIGHT AND TOMORROW, NO CHANGE IN TEMPERATURE THE tena oer leks So a m. eee 1 * . ee7neve 2 a. m. sere it i Thisscaees 89 $m 22250 78 Ag Noon 22525: *S a. m. eer 76 “ Dm. eeneee 98 6 a. TH. seeve Pp. . ee . 8 ; = > at cs 4a hg bs ge % - ° : . fs * 36 per t. - venterday ia jew oS a p.m), lo iow. 9. TREAT Rss : 0 PETE. Lake Michigan. - Sunset:7;29, gun- (tomorrow) | confronted flatly with a question of whom to believe. Under ordi- nary circumstances, the informa- tion that came from the White House would be accepted as final and that would mean that, Huston is on his way out. Unfortunately, however, it has frequently been as- serted from thé same source at various periods during the last few months that the retirement of Hus- ton was only a matter of days, and the fact remains that he has not retired. By chegking and comparing the various reports today, it seemed al- together likely that President Hoo- ver did notiask for Huston’s résig- nation Sunday night and that Hus- ton does not intend to get out until the President does so. On the oth- ér hand, it is perfectly obvious that the White House is endeavoring to force him out by inspiring reports that he has promised to resign, or intends to resign. In_ short, the President wants Huston to go, but for scme' reason is unwilling to tell Him so directly. Threat to “Spill the Beans.” Friends of Huston have asserted on_ several occasions that, if he is forced out ,of the chairmanship against his will, he will fs an the beans." , —. Just what he could “ep ill” has not been disclosed, but it has gen- erally been assumed that the threat referred ,to the manner in which gg | the religicus issue was injected into the presidential campaign of 1928. Gossip of this character became sO widespread recently that Huston issued through thie publicity bureau of the Republican National Com- mit a statement denying that he had threatened to “spill” anything. Speculation revolves in some degree around the $172,800 which was contributed for the election cf Mr. Hoover by E. 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