St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 17, 1930

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The Only Ev ening Newspaper in St. Louis With t _ * A ‘ q 2 * ee „ ie 1 4 . * 0 8 * NO VOL. 8 314. 8 he Associated Press News Service — — WALL STREET 1 1 1 LOANS RISE $40,000,000 BRUNK DOUBLED STATE DEPOSITS WITH BANKERS WHO BACKED CAMPAIGN Treasurer Allowed Aurora, Mo., Bank to Ex- ceed Quota of Missouri Funds by $83,000, Examiners Report. CHICAGO TABLOID FIRES REPORTER WITH BEST WISHES By a Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatc!. JEFFERSON CITY, July 17.— Officcrs of the defunct Bank of Aurora, who financed the cam- EX-CONVICT WHO TRIES TO DEPOSIT $1080 GOLD HELD Henry Bostelman’s Arrest Possible Clew in $900,- 000 Robbery of Grand National Bank. RELEASED UNDER Sr). LOUIS, THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1930.36 PAGES. GOVERNOR GRANTS COMMUTATION THOMAS MURPHY ENTERTAINS DOUBT ~ ESCAPES FROM KIDNAF STARVED, ROBBED, B BV MEN DEMANDING Kidnapers’ Victim After His Escape ST.LOUISEROGER + PETS AWAY AT | Sa se Reis — a oe r tet a 2 7 b A 3 a." OT) al OXY OPP CO. ree, TD. 1 * » Trading, However, Is Re- stricted to Moderate Vol- ume and Bulls Find Pub- lic Following Is Not Easily Attracted. paign of State Treasurer Larry Brunk, a native son and former Mayor of Aurora, obtained two yal- uable favors from Brunk after he took office in January, 1929. First, Brunk succeeded in having the bunk’s proportion of State de- posits, fixed by the Governor, At- torney-General and Treasurer, in- . n one + 5 4 0 * pe ee: r n . N * nnn 0 n ar N . * e 9 We 7 pe. 2 . 4 9 N 1 SS BOND OF $20,000 AS TO HIS GUILT ie) a a ue ee oo? Se n Sat Meg , * Jimmy Murphy, 28 Years on the Job, Slipped for the „Take.“ Special to the Post-Dispatch. CHICAGO, July 17.—Under the heading “Jimmy Murphy” the NGARTEN, MO. Sam Scorfina, Missing Since Saturday, Taken to * 9 & $2.50 Piece of Same Date as One Taken F rom Tel- lers Box—Asserts He Is Family of Victim Among Those Who Urged Clem- ency—Prisoner Disap- = ' Pettis PRY, ae * ae — * r re — (Copyright, 1930.) CLOSING PRICES NEAR DAY’S BEST —$—$—$ OLIVE STREET SHOE STORE HELD UP AND ROBBED OF $150 Intruder Compels Manager to Bind Own Feet With Tape, Then Loots Cash Register. The Edwin Clapp shoe store at 518 Olive street was robbed of $150 shortly after noon today by a man who held up Edward Pike, the manager, and compelled him to bind his own feet together with electrician'’s tape. The robber entered the store, drew a pstol and pressed the weapon against Pike's body, forc- ing him into a rear room. “I don’t want any foolishness,” the robber said. I just got out of the pen and I'm broke. I've done 13 years.” Handing Pike a spool of tape, he stood over the manager with his pistol while Pike sat on a chair and taped his feet. Then the rob- ber went to the front of the store, emptied the cash register and dis- appeared into the crowded street. FOR WORLD UNDERSTANDING - TO RATIONALIZE PRODUCTION Frenchman Declares Raising Tariff Is Illusory Remedy; Hope in Developing New Markets. PARIS, July 17.—An agreement between nations, particularly be- tween France and the United States, to rationalize production, was urged today by Paul Reynaud, French Minister of Finance, as the solution for present world economic difficulties. Reynaud, in an address before the American Club, maintained that the present crisis was due to over- production. Reynaud told his auditors, who included United States Ambassador Edge, that the raising ot tariffs struck by a west-bound Creve Coeur Lake line street car at Prou- stroyed by fire started by an ex- By the Associated Press. 4 cleaning company, and his brother- in-law, Carl A. Pfunder, 32 years said the automobile, proceeding TWO MEN KILLED INGRASH; TROLLEY ~AND AUTO BURN Lloyd R. Furlong and Brother-in-Law, Carl A. Pfunder, Struck at Prouhet Station. Two men were killed in front of their home at 7 o'clock this morning when an automobile in which they were riding was Het station, St. Louis County, Both the automobile and the trolley, an old-style wooden car, were de- ploding gasoline tank. The victims were Lloyd R. Fur- long, 24 years old, employed by a old, a real estate salesman. both of whom resided at the Pfunder home in Belcot drive, at Prouhet station. They had just emerged from thelr private driveway when struck. a 5 A brother of Pfunder, Fred J. Pfunder, at the home at the time, witnessed the accident from a dis- tance of a few hundred feet. He slowly, was driven into the path of the trolley, moving at the rate of Ste. Genevieve by Farm- ers—Brother Brings Him Back to City. 7 SUSPECTS HELD, THREE IDENTIFIED Two Others Also Named by Him . Sought — Victim Near Exhaustion, Badly Bruised, Teeth Knocked Out—Sent to Hospital. Suffering from physical and nervous exhaustion, Sam Scorfina, Carr street grocer, who disap- peared Saturday night after he had left home for the dog races, was found early today in the isolated and unfrequented hills near Wein- garten, Mo., 60 miles south of St. Louis. He told how he had elud- ed five men who Had robbed him of $400, held him prisoner and de- manded $10,000 ransom. Upon information from Scorfina police arrested seven men, three of whom he positively identified as members of the group which kid- naped him. All are well known to police, although flone has been con- victed. Those identified by Scorfina arc Sora Mantia, 28, 932 Bates street, arrested Sunday by detectives in- vestigating the case and released on $10,000 bond; Baptista Bomma.- rito, 22, 717 Carr street, and Mike Lombardo, 22, 1017 North Elev- enth street. Photographs of two other men also were identifeid and police are seeking them. Once Indicted for Murder, Mantia was indicted with six others for the murder of Alphonse Palazzolo, notorious Italian gun- man, shot down Sept. 9, 1927, but the case was nolle prossed, The prisoners, booked as fugitives, will be turned over to East St. Louis authorities for prosecution as kid- napers. They said they would re- sist extradition. Scorfina, scarcely able to walk, had been deprived of food and wa- ter and beaten and kicked by his captors. Three teeth had been knocked out and his body was bad- ly bruised. He was brought to St. Louis by his brother, Frank Scor- fina, after he had been taken to Ste. Genevieve by two farmers and placed under the care of City Mar- shal John Herter last night. During his captivity, Scorfina sali he was kept blindfclded, but peering from beneath the folds last night and finding his guards asleep, he slipped out of an old house in a thickly ‘wooded section in which he found himself. Drags Himself to Farmhouse. Running madly and blindly in the darkness, he fell frequently in the thick wndergrowth, and after about four hours, he said, dragged himself to a farmhouse. Richard Stoker and Bedford Perkins gave him food and took him to Ste. Genevieve, where he was placed in the hotel of Deputy Marshal James aad ahh 1 e * > — un 5 r on Bis OF te Ot tne. eee tee ‘ . S SEO Te eT Nr at Oe peer * e * — a. es 1 2 ws — - ; * = hy ; ees hu ne 9 7 : 3 75 : N — — — ‘ + - 1 i» ‘ee gar ee 4 a - Me re 9 „er ar ee ae CAs. 5 N . “A 1 = 8 ‘3 5 > ae * ‘ = 4 nts . 1 * b ee ee 8 * . 4 —— * — 8 ‘i CS ; 1 22 . * 1 * 4 — — * N eM „ , “4 ö ˖ 3 a, wry e waa Sere Nee a 2 hiss | 9 0 7 7 TF tae % of x" — n 4 “+ ult “a — Pe et 4 ie | a ch ie . * Mi fo „ “Pha & 1 * 2 1 1 8 * * 8 * aes . Wer * AT eter ey iene & q — Oy 4 P a ’ n Se er tea. One aay 1 5 - 1 . on * eee ae or 5 ee ee r * 2 * 1 Fa oni — 1 9 * 1 ‘ re * y 4 . 7 : „„ RN Ray ihn mE ee PER partir 3 * >» ma N 1 . * re * — — 1 „ r * poten ‘ 2 NN 8 et N > Me i sas 7 4 . 5 8 2 i eed . se : eae ＋ eee e n / vi 7 5 17 * 2 * ne * 7 * mint 3 4 * 3 oars n . ie n . . . 9 N RO W ie n e * ue % ‘ PAP HD se AAPG eet =o N by countries generally was illusory as a remedy for the situation. The only hope, he contended, lay in international solidarity and inter- national co-operation for the pre- vention of overproduction and for the development of new markets among the underconsuming mi- lions of Asia. ~ EX-MAYOR HEIR TO $7,000,000 S. M. Becker, Formerly of Milwau- fy ee Gets Father's Estate. 'S quotations were close to ; National Cash more than 11 appeared to be ort covering. Such ise ohns-Manville, Auburn nicht. _ ‘radium closed 5 or more Missouri: Most- u higher, . bly fair tonight ae Can was a strong fea- and tomorrow, ex- ‘RE more than 4. Amer- cept possibly un- ‘phone regained yester- settled in extreme ' 312. Rails came to north portion; ; “cones late trading. U. 8. slightly warmer ‘ed up only a fraction. in southeast and FAMILY AT JEFFERSON Cry about 25 miles an hour. Vision of the approaching car to his brother, who was driving, was not ob- structed, he said. No injuries were suffered by the crew of the car or by the three passengers in it, all of whom es- caped when the car came to a stop 180 feet from the scene of the collision. The motorman of the car, E. E. Hayes, and the conductor, H. G. Emmenhofer, said the automobile vicinity: Mostly fair tonight and tomorrow: slicht- ly warmer to- ee. oo ; 5 * ® eee GPE 16 ee eee ee M yet woh toe . ae! 8 Minis 2 4 ew * FOR INTEREST. IN SINCLAIR By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 17.—The di- rectors of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation today approved sale to Standard Oil of Indiana of Sinclair’s half interest in Sinclair Pipe Line Co. and Sinclair Crude Oil- Purchase Co. for $72,500,000 in cash. e The other half interest is already owned by Standard of Indiana, whose board is expected to approve der that he was positive Murphy was not the robber and that he had always had that belief al- though he was not called to tes- tify at the trial. | Detective Sergt. Frank P. Demp- sey, who arrested Murphy and to {whom Murphy confessed, declared he did not believe Murphy was guilty. He said he began to doubt the confession when he sought to I verity it and was unable to find la eap, suit and two revolvers in movement, lasting four seconds, was reported from Bozeman, Lom- bard and Gateway. No damage was reported. SAN SALVADOR, Republic of Salvador, July 17.— Thirteen build- ings in the city of Ahuachapin, El Salvador, were demolished by an earthquake today. The quake was the latest of a series of tremors which have been felt in that region for the last few days. Dest, up Vat Sian be ot 1 an lly shares were inclined aps in response to the poWer consumption re- wan Aiti« 8 were irregular. 5 “Olid up more than a cent, cted and closed off frac- ‘ orn was also slightly off Mish, Cotton, however, 0 60 cents a bale higher. exchanges eased, with “Ol milrels breaking N Sto | * N Wa ay k prices, with other tables 0%) Mearket neus, will he found cs 90, 100 and 11¢, east central por- tions; not. 80 warm tomorrow in north and cen- tral portions, Illinois: Mostly fair in south, pos- sibly local showers or thunder- storms in north portion beginning tonight or tomorrow; slightly warmer tonight, except in extreme northwest portion; cooler tomor- row in north and central portions. Sunset 7:25. Sunrise (tomorrow) 4:50. yp Stage of the Mississippi 6.3 feet, POST-DISPATCH WEATHERBIRD | & fall of 0.3. the contract. The total investment of Sinclair Consolidated Oll in the two com- panies is $34,189,000. H. F. Sinclair, chairman of the company's board, said his corpora- tion had in view steps that would amply protect the concern with re- spect to crude oil supply and pipe une facilities to replace those being Sold. | Today's action by the directors is subject. to vote of the stockholders. Band Concert Tonight. Hyde Park, 8 te 10. Momeno’s Band. spinning wheel. jing well, but find that doing 375 GANDHI - TIRES OF SPINNING AHMADABAD, India, July 17.— Mahatma Gandhi, who has been interned at Yeroda jail during the present civil disobédience campaign in India, is keeping well but tires from constant application to his In a letter he says: I am keep- rounfis on the charkha (spinning wheel), or about 500 yards of yarn a day. is something of a strain nowadays.” With the view of eas- ing the strain, 4 licht spinning} places where Murphy had said he left them after the robbery, and was unable to confirm the atate- ment that Murphy had stolen a pair of spectacles before the rob- bery. 1 ö was prompt- of “dis- result- _ of nar- the opin- Murphy because eased mental condition ing from the use He expressed at te Attorney Paul A. Richards ar- gued i ed to confess ssociated Press. MILWAUKEE, Wis, July 17.— Sherburne M. Becker, New York, kee, will receive about $7,000,000 Hannon who will file the will for - No bequests to charity were | wheel is being sent him. | “Continued on Page 2, Column 8. | or publicity.” formerly “Boy Mayor” of Milwau- | | te soon. The estate totaled | 310,588,713, Hannon said. 2 made under the will, but the elder |. insthutiohs “with a # . — 1