St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 16, 1930

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sea Ue F DI The Only Evening Newspaper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service VOL. 82. NO. 344. ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY, AUGUST. 16, 1980. —18 PAGES. WALL STREET STOCKS HOLD OST OF THE se: | ‘ADVANCE OF YESTERDAY Market Is Erratic With Trading Light and Highly Professional — Day’s Transactions Below 1, 000,000 Shares. PRICES RANGE OFF IN LAST FEW MINUTES — — Bears Launch a New Attack in Early Trading, Concen- trating on Radio Follow- ing Its First Half Year Re- port—Rebounds Later. By the Assuciated Press. NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—Stocks naniged to retain most of their sharp advances of the previous ses- sion in an erratic market today. Trading was light and highly professional, the day’s transactions falling below 1,000,000 shares, but stocks fluctuated snarply. Changes in leading shares, however, were mostly limited to a point at the finis! Bears launched a new attack in the early trading, concentrating on Radio, with publication of its first half report showing preferred divi- dends only about 20 per cent earned, They were aided by profit- taking on yesterday's gains, and temporary losses of 1 to 5 points were numerous. Hangover short covering and re- newed bullish operations, however, soon caused a swift rally, more than canceling the early losses. The market again sold off, how- ever, in the last few minutes. Rail Group Firm. The rails were a firm group at the finish, particularly some of the coal rodds, for shorts were driven to cover in these issues, as the sea- son of increasing movement of fuel is approaching. Norfolk & West- ern, Delaware & Hudson and Read- ing closed 3 to 4 points higher. Canadian Pacific shot up nearly 6, on official denial of unsettling divi- dend rumors. Motor Products gained 9. News from the steei industry at the end of the week was less dis- couraging. Leading plants in the Youngstown area are expected to maintain operations at about the present rate during the next week. scrap at Chicago was a little , after earlier firmness noted at Pittsburg. On the whole, how- ever, sentiment in the steel indus- try lacked the optimism of a month ago. Outstanding in the news was Ra- dio Corporation's report for the first half, as the company had to make a report for the quarter, Wall Street was awaiting the report with great in- terest, and found it deeidedly less Satisfactory than the more optimis- he estimates in brokerage circles iad indicated. It had been expect- ed that the company might not only earn its preferred dividends, but show a balance of a few cents on the common. Preferred divi- dends were only about 20 per cent earned, necessitating a reduction of Surplus by about $2,000,000, was a distinct disappointment. Several professional operators “ppeared to have been encouraged % resume operations on the bull side, although speculative senti- remained highjy confused many bears remained confi- Since the sharp break on te, „ga. However. bears found „ maärtget completely sold out for tue moment. Steel firme r ment 4 nd aden 7 14 8d nere was no money market to- SUC bankers indicated that “vance of plentiful funds “ De expected, ‘clo, after dropping nearly 8 “osed off only 1. Cotton Is Weak. Was a weak feature of odity markets, tumbling 2 Showers Tonight And Tomorrow ; No Temperature Change SS „ 12 noon Note: Official temperatures after’ } oon will not be availabl et ga . _ until Weather Bureau y's high. 88 (2 p. m.)! low, 5 a, m.). Relative humidity at noon, 54 per cent. Offical forecast for St. Louis and vicinit;: Showers tonight and to- morrow; not much change in tem 6 Missouri: Prob- ably showers to- night and tomor- , row; not much change in tem- bderature. Illinois: Proba- bly showers to- night and tomor- row; not much change in tem- perature. : Sunset, 6255. TCH Sunrise (tomor- WEATHERBIRD row), 5:16. Stage of the Mississippi, 2.3 feet, a rise of 0.1. Néxt Week’s Weather Forecast. By the Associatec Press. WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.— Weather outlook for the week, be- ginning Monday, for the region of the Great Lakes: Cloudy and rath- er cool, followed by showers: dur- ing first part of week; unsettled and somewhat warmer latter half. For the upper Mississippi and low- er Missouri valleys and the north- ern and central great plains: Oc- casional local showers first part of week; somewhat unsettled latter half; temperature near normal. JACKSON, OBRINE THREE DAYS PAST. HUNTERS’ RECORD Endurance Plane’s Motor Shows Power in Climb After Dropping of Note to Refueling Crew. Seventy-two hours, or three full days, beyond the Hunter brothers’ mark of 553 hours and 41 minutes at 8:52 a. m. today, Dale Jackson and Forest O’Brine, in the mono- plane, the Greater St. Louis, con- tinued to fly in a wide circle above Lambert-St. Louis Field, bent on setting a refueling endurance rec- ord that will discourage competi- tors for all time. The flyers completed 624 hours —26 days—in the air at 7:11 a. m., when they dropped a brief note requesting gas, oil and the eats.” The radio transmitter in the plane has not been working well, causing the flyers to resort to their earlier method of communication. The motor of the endurance ship gave a convincing demonstration of power in the climb upward fol- lowing the low swoop to drop the note, The transmitter was repaired shortly before noon and a broad- cast was received from Jackson, who stated the oil pressure of the ship’s engine was still satisfactory. “This is the life, although our bun- galow leaks some when it rains,” Jackson announced. $7000 From Oil Company. At 7:52 a. m. Jackson and O’Brine had earned $7000 at the rate of $100 an hour for 70 hours from the time they set a new rec- ord at 9:52 a. m. Wednesday. The award was made by the Kendall Refining Co., from which they purchased their oil. The only other monetary reward received by the flyers so far is $1800 for four contracts negotiated by William Pickens, their man- ager. One congract, for $500, was fultilied yesterday, when Norman Alley, representing a sound movie company, climbed down a rope ladder from the refueler and in- terviewed the flyers. Alley carried a microphone into which Jackson and O’Brine spoke, their remarks being recorded on apparatus in the refueler for news reel reproduc- tion. Funds for continuing the flight, exclusive of the $8800 the flyers have earned since breaking the record, amounted to $3884 today. Salaries of the refueling crew and observers, amounting to $440, will be deducted, but the weekly fuel bill, amounting to $500, will not be paid until later, it was stated. h-100 BACK HOME: MAKES 3287-MILE = FLIGHTIN57 HOURS Gale Reduces Speed but Causes No Discomfort — Officers Complain of De- layed Weather Data. THOUSANDS GREET RETURNING AIRSHIP Not a Drop Spills From Brimming Glass of Water Placed on Table at Start of Trip. (ues By the Associated Press. CARDINGTON, England, Aug. 16.—Through storms that tested its mettle and proved its air worthi- ness, the British dirigible R-100 to- day completed its voyage to Can- ada and back and was moored safe- ly.to the home mast at 12:02 p. m. (5:02 a. m. St. Louis time) without incident. The world's largest lighter than air craft twice crossed the Atlantic along the Great Circle route and added to the voyage the mileage from St. Hubert Field near Mon- treal, to Ottawa, Toronto and re- turn, Besides displaying speed capa- bilities, the airship conclusively demonstrated its strength by rid- ing out wind and storm in the lat- ter part of the home run, to the satisfaction of its designer and the officers and passengers on board. The dirigible left Montreal at 7:28 a. m. (St. Louis time) Wednes- day, following the Great Circle route almost without deviation. A speed up to 92 miles an hour was attained. When headwinds devel- oped, the R-100 slowed down to 12 or 15 miles an hour, but rode steadily on under perfect control. Crossing Time 57 Hours. The time of crosing was approx- imately 57 hours, according to an official announcement. The return trip of the R-100 and the record trip of the Graf Zeppe- lin in August, 1929, hardly admit of comparison. While the R-100 had to travel only about 3287 miles from Montreak to reach Carding- ton, the Graf Zeppelin completed in 65 hours and shorter time, a 4200-mile journey from Lakehurst, N. J., to Fried- richshafen, Germany. Cardington, despite the bad weather, turned out in force to greet the air voyagers. The R-100 dropped a mooring cable after cir- cling the airdrome and was fast- ened to her mast 32 minutes later. It took an hour and 22 minutes to bring in the airship from the time it was sighted over the field. Lord Thompson, Minister for Air, greeted the homecomers at the top of the landing tower, after they had been examined by the customs officers. Lord Thompson broad- cast a speech and British Broad- casting Co. announcers were on the air with a continuous description of the arrival and mooring. One incident marred the return of the voyagers. Edward Lill, a prominent member of the Chipping, Solbury District Council, fell dead while watching the R-100 as the crew tied her to the mast. Glass of Water Unspilled. Most of the spectators dispensed with all formality and lay flat on their backs on the ground, the better to see what was going on above them, Passengers and crew were unani- mous in their belief that the trip had proved beyond question the feasibility of trans-Atlantic com- mercial airship communication. That the giant ship rode smooth- ly through a 75-mile-an-hour gale with ho discomfort to those on board was cited by passengers as the best evidence of its stability. A brimming glass of water, placed on a table in the cabin of the R-190 before the departure from Mon- treal did not spill a drop all the way across the Atlantic. The ship averaged a speed ap- proximately three times greater than that of the fastest of ocean liners. It was aided by a south- west gale, when it attained the speed of 92 miles an hour. Service Likely. Officers expressed the belief that if more prompt meteorological data had been available the navi- 1913, Ocean in a span of 3287 miles 24 minutes, a WORLD POPULATION GAINS 35,000,000 WITHIN TWO YEARS Rate of Increase Highest in South America From 1926 to 1928. By the Associated Press. lation of the world grew by ap- proximately 35,000,000 between 1926 and 1928, an average increase of about 1 per cent per annum, a League of Nations memorandum on production and trade discloses. The rate of increase was high- est in South America. 6 N The world population in 1928 was about 10 per cent greater than in while world production of foodstuffs and raw materials in the same period increased about 25 per cent and world trade grew about 22 per cent. ; The league's experts found that in retent years the world produc- tion of foodstuffs had increased at a somewhat slower rate than that of industrial raw materials. The discrepancy was considerably re- duced in 1928 as a result of ex- ceptionally heavy food crops, but it was again accentuated in 1929. Such information as the league could obtain suggested that the manufacturing industry had pro- duction of raw materials. TRAFFIC JAM ON FREE BRIDGE, 40 MINUTES TO CROSS Motorists Requested to Use Other Routes If Possible During Pav- ing Repairs. Work of replacing defective wood blocks with asphalt in a strip of the roadway along the north side of the Municipal Bridge is causing se- rious delay to tyaffic over the bridge. During the rush hour last eyening there were long interrup- tions over a period of two hours or more, City Traffic Engineer Gon- ter started to drive across at 3:30 p. m. an dit took him 40 minutes. Gonter has issued a renewed re- quest to motorists to avoid the brdige if possible during the re- pairs. He fears there will be seri- ous jams of holiday traffic today and tomorrow. Last evening lines of waiting cars were stalled in Chouteau avenue and Seventh boulevard for blocks. This affect- ed movement of traffic on many other streets for some distance away. PASSING MOTORIST KILLS ROBBER AND DRIVES ON Name of Slayer Who Fired at Drug Store Holdup Men Is Not Learned. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug. 16.— A motorist who hurried from the scen3 without giving his name last night fatally shot one of two un- identified robbers as they. fled after obtaining $375 in a drug store holdup. A store employe accosted the motorist and asked him to stop the robbers, who were running for a parked car. The motorist fired and one rob- ber returned the fire and escaped. The other fell as he reached the car and was dead whén pursuers reached him. NEW PRESIDENT OF DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, 37, TAKES OFFICE By the Associated Press. SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, Aug. 16.—Gen. Rafael L. Trujillo, 37 years old, trained in the United States Marine Corps was in- ducted into office today as Presi- dent of the Dominican republic. Rafael E. Urena, Provisional Presi- dent since February, three years, Trujillo’s senior, became Vice Pres- ident. Thus the youngest Government officers probably in the country’s history came into control of the oldest nation in the New World in this city founded in 1496 by Chris- topher Columbus and his son, Di- ego. Yesterday the Post-Dispatch Carried a Total of 215 Columns of Paid Advertising This was 33 columns more than appeared in ALL three ot news papers COMBINED. GENEVA, Aug. 16.—The popu- gressed more rapidly than the pro- 252 ABANDON SINKI IN SOUTH PACIFIC; "THE Tahiti, formerly the Port Kingston, is 460 feet long and is o don. It is one of the largest vessels in the South Pacific service. Steamship Which Is Going Down in South Seas Z perated by the Union Steamship Co., Lon- S = . . % ERE ERIN, ee CER Rte oy EXPLOSION STARTS FIRE IN VACANT BUNGALOW Home in Pine Lawn Wrecked —Damage Estimated at $4000. An explosion at 1:30 a. m. today, followed by fire which burned for two hours, destroyed a vacant brick bungalow at 2158 Crescent avenue, Pine Lawn, causing damage esti- mated at $4000. Evidence indicated a bomb had been placed inside the house, as the outside walls were bulged by the explosion and holes were torn in the inside partitions. ‘Mrs. Walter Scott, who lives across the street, told officers she saw a man run from the place just before the explosive and heard the motor of an automobile start near by. The bungalow, a five-room story- and-a-half structure, was vacated a week ago by a family which had lived there a month, according to Frank Berkel, a grocer of the neighhood. Prior to that it had been unoccupied for several months. The building was sold re- cently to Fischman-Harris, Inc., real estate dealers, 629 Chestnut street, by T. J. McLaughlin, 7232 St. Andrews lane, Normandy. Mc- Laughlin said the residence had been remodeled by nonunion labor after he sold it. It was one of the first homes in the neighborhood and was built several years ago. The Pine Lawn fire department reached the scene shortly after the explosion, but by that time the flames had spread throughout the interior. FRENCH ACTOR SILVAIN LOSES. SPEECH, DUE TO PARALYSIS Contemporary of Sarah Bernhardt; 19, But Doctors Think He Will Recover. By the Associated Press. SAINT CYR LES SECQUES, De- partment of Var, France, Aug. 16. ‘—Eugene Silvain, dean of the Comedie Francaise, known as one of the greatest of French actors in the last half century, has been stricken with partial paralysis in nis villa here and temporarily de- prived of specch. He is 79 years vid. In spite of his advanced age, nowever, his physicians hold hopes for recovery. Silvain, a contemporary of Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, made his debut more than 60 years ago as Theseus in “Phedra.” During his long ca- reer in the House of Moliere, as the Comedie Francaise is called, he, scored triumph after triumph in classic repertoire. Some years ago Silvain was forced out of the theater as being too old. He brought suit, won and was restored to full activity. only to retire of his own volition last year. He is an ardent chess player. At the Cafe de la Regence, where Na- poleon used to play, Silvain would become so interested in the game that he would forget his theater engagements. He would have to be called just before the curtain went up. He was a soldier in the War of 1870. CLOUDBURST AND HAIL MORE BRITISH TROOPS INGONNECTICUT VALLEY Tobacco Crop Damaged, Cities Flooded—Four Killed by Lightning. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, Aug. 16.—4 great cloudburst, accompanied by hail and lightning swept down on Con- necticut Valley cities and towns in Southwestern Massachusetts and Central Connecticut today, causing damage to property and crops es- timated at millions of dollars. In Worcester alone, which bore the brunt of the storm, preliminary es- timates set the damage at 31,000, 000. In Westfield, Mass., ripening to- bacco suffered the worst damage in 50 years. In some places in the Westfield district the crop was said to be a total loss. Thompsonville, Conn., reported a heavy loss to its tobacco crop. Three men working in a tobacco field in Windsor, Conn., were killed and a fourth inured by lightning. Mercantile establishments in Worcester were inundated, causing a tremendous loss to stocks. Auto- mobiles were upset and women and children were swept off their feet by the violence of the flood which roared down the streets. 4 Power and telephone lines were out of commission and street cars were at a standstill in several inches of water. The flood swept into manholes with such violence that their covers were forced off and water gushed from them four and five feet into the air. One and a half inches of rain fell in 40 minutes, and it was not for more than an hour after the rain had subsided that the city had resumed a normal appearance. Lightning struck several places in the center of the city, destroyed a barn in Auburn and caused a fire in the West Boylston substation or the New England Power Co. One of the heaviest losers in the Westfield tobacco area was the American Sumatra Tobacco Cor- poration whose plantation lies toward Southwick. The company’s 40 acres was reported totally ruined. ; Carpenter Eating Lunch Killed by Lightning. By the Associated Prete. FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Aug. 16. —Charies Bowse, 30 years old, a carpenter of West Concord, was killed by lightning today as he was seated with 20 fellow workers eating his lunch. All the men were stunned. Two other houses were struck by lightning in this district, but not seriously damaged. By the Associated Press. WINDSOR, Conn., Aug. 16.— Three men were killed and 4 fourth injured by lightning today. The dead: Fred Dibble, 51; George Nolan, 42; Alfred Seam, 50, all ot Pouqunock. Philip Wolf was in- jured. The men were employed on Harry C. Griswold's tobacco plan- tation and during the storm took refuge in a shed, which was struck by lightning. There were six other perzons in the shed who were over- RUSHED TO PESHAWAR Martial Law in Northwest Fron- tier Area — Situation Termed Grave. » G LINER | } AID NEAR © BRITISH STEAMER LOSES PROPELLER AND SPRINGS LEAK N COOK ISLANDS Vessel on Way From Syd- ney and Wellington to San Francisco — Director By the Associated Press. BOMBAY, India, Aug. 16.—Brit- | ish troops were hurried northward today toward Peshawar, Northwest Frontier Provinte, to deal with a situation which is described offi- cially as “of considerable gravity and danger.” Martial law, invoked yesterday, is in full force in the city and surrounding territory. Although the number of hostile tribesmen afield at this time is not large, it is very difficult to engage them because of the nature of the terrain and the extreme mobility of the raiders. During the last few days the raiders have invested parts of Peshawar, forced their way into the supply depot and done consid- erable damage and fired on can- tonments in which the bungalows of Europeans are situated. At one time they tut oft all communica- tion with the city itself, A lull has developed just now while the tribesmen await re- inforcements, The Afridis on the Khajuri plain are expecting more men from the Kohat district and their Orakzai allies similarly are waiting in the Khanki valley. The Haji of Turangzai is trying to raise a military force in Bajor to help the Afridis,. while “red shirt” bands have been busy in the Charsaida district north of Pesha- war. London Observers. Expect Frontier War on Large Scale. LONDON, Aug. 16,—Consider- able uneasiness has been aroused here by admissions in offic an- nouncements at Simla tha seri- ous situation exists on the Indian northwest frontier. There is a fairly general expectation here that a frontier war on a large scale will develop as a result of efforts to crush the Afridi and other marauding tribesmen. Since parliament not in ses- sion the usual method of eliciting information, that is by questions to the ministers concerned, is un- available. The Government itself fs making no statements, so the public has become dependent for news on Indian official com- muniques and the censored dis- patches of Indian corespondents. The anti-Government papers take a gloomy view and infer from the Simla announcements that the position justifies anxiety. 42 48 25 of Royal College of Music on it. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 16.— The Matson Navigation Co. received a wireless message from its liner Ventura today saying the disabled steamer Tahiti had been aban- doned about 3 a. m., ship's time, and that the Norwegian vessel Penybryn expected to reach the Ta- hiti momentarily. Capt. W. R. Meyer of the Ventura reported he was making all possible speed to- ward the Tahiti, He wag thought to be aboyt 500 miles away. The Ventura reported receiving a mes- sage saying the Tahiti's afterholds and engine room had been flooded. Capt. A. T. Toten and 11 other officers were among those thought: to have taken to lifeboats when the Tahiti began filling with wa- ter. Capt. Toten, said by Union Steamship Co. officers to be mak- ing his first trip as master of the Tahiti, is a native of New Zealand. The other officers are Australians or New Zealanders. The officers aboard were: Chief Officer N. J. Siepen, Sec- ond Officer D. J. McKenzie, Third Officer J. W. Madden: Purser F. S. Ferguson; Surgeon C. E. Lester, Chief Engineer C. J. McPherson, Second Engineer A. Thompson, third Engineer E. M. Danby and Chief Steward M. McFadyn. F. N. Davidson was wireless op- erator. J. C. Greig, a Government mail agent from New. Zealand, was aboard. Ship, in First Call, Said There Was No Danger. By the Associated Press. SUVA, Fiji, Aug. 17 (Sunday).— The master of the disabled British steamer Tahiti wirelessed at 12:30 a. m. today that passengers and crew were abandoning ship at 26 degrees 27 minutes south latitude, 166 degrees 5 minutes west longi- tude. The message said the ship's bulk-* cific at 7 p. m. At that time it was said all was well and the crew was working to close the Tahiti and to be going to its as- sistance. 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Scott The latter declined with thanks. and other officers asserted that the A benefit performance will de R-100's success was an augury of “Continued on Page 2, Column 2. Continued on Page 2, Column 6. 5 * | : ) : 154 Columns of Retail Advertising gators of the R-100 might have avoided the storm which hit—the. airship early Friday. By shaping a more northerly course the craft could have circled the bad area and thus made the crossing in less time. Following the ship's arrival the suggestions was made also that there might have been more co-op- eration between maritime author- ities of Great Britain and Canada in mapping North Atlantic weath- er K i 771 it i re 7 f : i 12 if ; b prices, with other tables MX market news, will be found n pages 7A, 8A and 9A. Band Concert Tonight. us Place, 8 to 10. Mo- ; and, IN THE POST-DISPATCH PAYS THE ADVERTISER. :