St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 17, 1930

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4 Classified Advertising REAL ESTATE. ene .PART 8 HELPS, SERVICE. 2 ) HE Tahiti, with 317 persons > " ‘ polLiciaNns, ! a procession of public State's Attorney’s of- pyright, _ 1930.) niain their entries on the the Moran-Aiello gang. Criminal Court Building f photographers was busy | pies of more than $00 the ledger of Jack Zuta, manager who was shot Delafield (Wis.) r- plano, pages, been only have examined and iry evidence ever obtained in ago’s gang history of an af- tion, friendly or commercial, ween the underworld and pub- re officials. Hunt for Iwo Large Trunks, nwhil Investigator Pat had orgenized a hunt (for ree trunks containing addi- records of Zuta, the big busi- of gangland. information that these the sses of data existed, a race gangland and the State's s office developed. | ' was said that if the investi- pright, 1930.) ‘ame inte possession. of the the most detailed and dam- formation against every police official and public rotecting gangland’'s crim- merce would be had. co officilals—that part of niouched by the records possession of Roche—were r of anxiety. congested the Cook County Prose- while excited offi- to know if the data ed represented the incriminating infor- investigators ne calls | Lilie | the investigation ouncement that ~vanson had left on. So O00 2 Week to “6M, EK” : gat not yet iden- is “M. KK.” whe, Zuta records, sums, a8 high as These sums for any gangster's Ought that he was * ostensively a an who distribut- ne useful officials stuart to let their Cula's records, One owed M. K. drew ek, and $30,000 ‘Owing. The initials mes on the payroll, $30,000 each time. Critics can locate the of missing records ‘oO find some clew to 0 Grew the fattest pay- “eph Schulman of me! ‘url payee of checks and indorser of ‘cuting 33600, hastened ~“Outh Haven, Mich. te ‘ion of his dealings. "ey 10 build a home he said, he had required eum from ¢. ap atterpey, giving aPC, t the day making photo-| a few Of) and other ) CAPS ARE RULED A LOTTERY Opinion of Missouri Attorney-Gen- eral’'s Department Attacks Sales Promotion Scheme. ur men just two weeKS | Special to the Post-Dispatch. dance | he dropped nickels 1M | saies promotion JEFFERSON CITY, Aug. 16.—A plan, adopted by some manufacturers of soda water beverages, of placing numbers under caps of some of the public by the Investigators, | hotties which entitle the purchaser have given the first docu- | to refunds in cash or merchandise, was declared a lottery in an opin- ion issued today by the Attorney- General's department to Prosecut- ing Attorney N. B. Conrad of Hen- ry County. Conrad asked for a ruling at the request of a soft drink munufac- turer in Clinton, who proposed to place numbers under caps of some tling the purchaser to refunds up to $1. Assistant Attorney-General Henry Depping. who wrote the opinion, held the scheme was a lottery, under rulings of the Mis- souri Supreme Court. Depping said the Missouri courts in a number of decisions had held that a lottery included every scheme or device whereby anything of value is, for a consideration, al- lotted by chance. An officer of a large St. Louis bottling company which has been awarding prizes up to $25 for caps in which concealed ictters spel! out the name of the product said last night he did not know how the new ruling would affect the practice of his company. It will determine a course of action after studying the opinion, he said. BOY ON TRANSCONTINENTAL FLIGHT LANDS AT WICHITA Eddie Schneider Delayed by. Wind and Rain in Trip From St. Louis, Seeks Record. WICHITA, Kan., Aug. 16.—Ed- die Schneider, 18-year-old West- field (N. J.) youth, attempting to establish a new junior transconti- nental flight record, arrived here tonight at 7:45 o'clock. He had left St. Louis at 1:30 p. m. Schneider was delayed in his ar- rival by a severe wind and rain storm which visited this section late this afternoon. He said he was forced down dur- ing the storm at El Dorado, Kan., for 45 minutes, but did not leave the plane. He will 4deave here either tomorrow or Monday. A gasoline tank of &@ 100-galion capacity will be installed in the ship here, increasing the capacity to” 140 gallons. He was delayed in taking off from S8t. Louls by low visibility and threatening storms. The junior flyers: unofficial elapsed time from St. Lowis to Wichita was 7 hours and 40 minutes, bringing his total to 15 hours. 100 DOWN BY TRAIN by POREB Jugo-Siavia, Aug. 16. checks witth advanced ‘ashed later in settile- was attorney for ‘tached a signifi- on Page 3, Column 4. | —Aa freight train ran into a large crowd watching a fireworks dis- play from a railway bridge here | tonight. About 100 persons were ‘injured. Many leaped from the bridge into the Save River and ft | _. is feared that some were drowned. | |from the contro] room ‘ship's living quarters, | there along the forward passage to ithe nose of the ship, just forward of the first gas bag. He stopped ing hull, the throb of the engines, and the inevitable seasickness. On the R-100 we had the air. of the sea, and the air of the moun- tain in one. There was no motion of : the ship, no creaking and groaning of the hull, and the noise of the engines was only a distant purr. When the ship rose to a higher ele- vation or dipped lower there was only a slight incline ascertainable by laying a pencil on the deck and watching ft roll. From St. Hubert to Cardington we kept on an even keel, the first British ship on which a game of billiards could be played envoyage. On Thursday at noon. Navigation Officer Johnson turned to me in_ | the control room and said: “Com- | ing? of the botties of his product, enti- | I'm going to shoot the sun.” I followed him up the ladder into the and from and clambered up a ladder of three-sixteenths-inch steel ‘wire with rungs of three-quarter-inch duralumin. I looked at the ladder, looked at the thin fabric below. That was all that lay between me and 2000 feet of atmosphere—and paused. “Coming?” called.a voice aloft. There was no help for tt, so I clung tightly to the rungs and slowly fol- lowed him, wondering who held the high-diving championship to date. That climb gave meall the thrilis that I had been missing as a com- fortable, well-cared-for passenger. That was not all. There was still another ladder, and up we went again, finally reaching a tiny plat- form three feet square. made of plywood. Johnson opened a cellu- loid flap Mike an automobile wind screen and I found myself on the top of the airship, with the most magnificent panorama, impossible to imagine. From a small box Johnson took out his sextant and made his observation. “Got to do it quickly, you know,” he said, “we'r® doing €0 milc#an hour. That's different to a surface craft.” George Furnishes a Thrill. The downward journey was not so bad, but’as I neared the passenger Oscar Parks, manager of Lambert- quarters the coxswain called to a rigger, “George, there's a bit of a hole up there. Wish you would fix it before it gets worse.” “All right,” said George, who tore off a six-inch square of spare fabric, grabbed the ‘dope’ can and clambered into the girder work. The hole lay on the under side of one of the gas bags In the center of a square made by four girders. “How on earth wii he reach that?” I asked a rigger. “Oh, bracing wire along which George was now bending as though were on @ horizontal bar in a gyni- nasium. Nothing below him. but thin fabric. When George put on the patch,and returned te the run-} ay sige er See eee ee ‘m. Wednesday. $23,000 in Contracis Sigged. Four contracts for appearamicé at state fairs, the first of these being the Iowa Fair, week after next, have been obtained by William Pickens, the flyers’ manager. lowa and Minnesota fairs will each pay them $7500 for three ap- : : : pearances, and the Ohio and In- | diana fairs $4000 for one ap- pearance, a total of $23,000. Other similar contracis are expected to follow, the fair season running through September and early Oc- tober. The matter of contracts and ad- vertising bonuses is one of Keen interest to the flyers, as shown in Jackson's note. Jackson upbraided the men on the ground for their reported turning down of 31000 for indorsement of a cigarette, a brand which the flyers do not use. — + At ee ED ee eee. ; | ’ ' ‘We can use it, for that much,” | he said. The bonus of $100 an hour for! 70 hours after passing the Hunter | Nevada, $1,598,987; brothers’ record ran until 7:52 a. m. today, the St. Louis flyers hav- ing set their new record at 9:52 a. The cessation of this $100 an hour, paid by the Ken- dal Refining Co., from which the, flyers purchased their oti, was one: of the topics of O’Brine’s note. He’ Tees rather scornfully to the ectation, expressed by some of | the ground staff before the filght. began, that a record flight would net the flyers $100,000 each. “Just Flying for Our Health.” Washing “Well, you guys,” O’Brine wrote, | “what do you think of the $200,000 by now: We are lucky to break even. The $100 per hour stops this | .ent favors the formation of local morning, and there we are. just fly- | ing for our health. Really, I am Surprised at St. Louis. It showed it last year some, but it all came out this year. I think we would jret as well land and give someone else a chance.: So don't be sur- prised any time after 9 this morn- ing. Things better start moving. “Pickens is disgusted, too, and I don’t blame him. He warned us before we started that we never would do anything here, and he was right. Think we will go and start one at 8St. Peter's next month.” Jackson addressed his note to | St. Louis Field, who is acting as flight manager. “What's ail this stuff about us turning down $1000 for cigarettes?” he wrote. “Have you guys gone crazy? Get that dough and never mind if we smokes them or mot. We can, for that much. Let us know what's going on, and don't turn down § the money. tracts come in, let us see them or know about it. ‘Never mind about’ sticking to flying—I don't intend /¢ to fly all my Hfe, so get some of If any stage or movie con. | ployment. The President instruct- ed Hyde to take necessary action | were in the meses hall and out in| The ‘convicts and that today followed. Aid Advanced Four Months. Ordinarily, the money would not They! have been allocated until Jan. 1, | 1931. This amount will be matched | ever, a taper or candie dollar for dollar by State funds. The apportionment follows: Alabama, $2.615,434: Arizona, $1.768,023; Arkansas, $2,174,786: California, $4,181,212; Colorado, $2,315,948: Connecticut, $792,359; Delaware, $609,375: Florida, $1,- 548.232; Georgia, $3,316,029: Ha- waii, $609,375: Idaho, $1,554,694. Tilfnois, $5,150,396; Indiana, $3,- 172.253: lowa, $3,330,593; Kansas $3.397.874: Ketitucky. $2,356,367; Louisiana, $1,745,445: Maine, $1,- 121,860: Maryland, $1,051,714: Massachusetts.) $1,813,916; Michi- gan, $3,652,393: Minnesota, $3,- 497,306; Mississippi, $2,209,509. Missouri, $3,957,287; Montana, $2,680,405; Nebraska, $82,644,726; New Hamp- shire, $609,375: New Jersey; $1,- 565,749; New Mexico, $1,984,363. New York, $6,002,475; North Carolina, $2,871,722: North Dako- ta, $2,001,841: Ohio, $4,684,440; Oklahoma, $2,922,000; Oregon, $1,- 997,565; Pennsylvania, $5,617,738; Rhode Island, $609,375; South Car- olina, $1,769,848. South Dakota, $2,054,077; Ten- nessee, $2,687,123; Texas, $7,620,- 239: Utah, $1,416,493; Vermont, Virginia, $2,379,788; Washington, $1,940,922; West Vir- ginia, $1,324,680: Wisconsin, $%3,- 075.234; Wyoming, $1,568,607. Oredit System Favored. An indication that the Govern- credit corporations to operate through intermediate credit banks was seen in a statement by Hyde that such a plan would not only help the farmers but might prove profitable. With President Hoover away at his camp, Hyde is virtual- ly in charge of e drouth relief program. Rain and rain in prospect in many dry states and reports to the Agriculture that aie | f i the prison yard. planned a break for liberty during ithe confusion. For some unknown reason, how- lit and timed to set fire to the oil-soaked roof over blocks I and K at 4:30 p. m. failed to have effect until 6 time the convicts were locked those in the upper tiers of G and H perished before guards could open the cell doors. Marshal's chief investigator, | has been questioning prisoners at ‘the prison here and at Mansfield and London since the fire, bad two | convicts taken secretly to the Co- | lvmbus city prison Thursday night for further examination. What in- formation the questioners expect ultimately to obtain was not an- nounced. The prisoners are James K. Yeager and Bernard K. Camp- belli, Cleveland pickpockets. No charges were placed against them. At least half a dozen prisoners were involved in the fire pilot, one of whom died in the flames, ac- cording to Ray R. Gill, State Fire Marshal; Clear and F. Byrne Hues, the Marshal's Sega! adviser. The officials said that during the fire the convicts planned to seize the ladders from Columbus fire- men and scale the walis. The fire- men did not enter the yards until National Guardsmen and regular army troops had been thrown around the prison. The convicts did cut the hose lines, however. No evidence of explosives was found in the cells, Clear said. ZEIGLER (ILL.) AUTO RACER NEW HARMONY, Ind., Aug. 16. —Tony Pouladish Zeigier, IL, race driver, was ki instantly # H p. m., investigators found. At that | in | their cell blocks for the night, and Joseph D. Clear, the State Fire | who | cago packer, shot himself to death | WILLIAM SWIFT ENDS ~—LIFEIN SANITARIOM Youngest Son of Packer Shoots _.. Himself After Trying to Jump From \’/indow. By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-—-William | Swift, son of Louis F. ®wift, Chi- late tonight in a Park avenue sani- tarium where he was undergoing | treatment. Hospital ‘attendants said the man ithad tried earlier in the night to jump from the window of his fifth- story room. He was restrained by aman nurse, who put him to bed. Halt an hour later: the nurse heard a shot and ran to the room to find the patient lying on the floor with a bullet wound through his heart. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Aug. 16.—William FE. Swift, 33 years old, was the young- est son of Louis F. Swift, president of Swift & Co., meat packers. Friends here attributed his suicide to despongency over il! health. Swift is survived by his wife, who was Miss Helen Morton, and a son, William, 5 years old. His father is in Europe. Two brothers, Alden Swift of Chicago and Louis F. Swift Jr. of Denver, Cole, and a sister, Mrs. James Minotto, alse survive. Swift entered the private hos- pital at 691 Park avenue, New York, last October for treatment for a nervous breakdown. Recov- ery was slow and several weeks ago he became ill of pneumonia. He had been in poor health for two ' Her passengers were toe be trans- . ferred immediately to the Nor- | wegian steamer Penbryn, which ‘responded to the Tahiti's distress call. | The erew will be taken aboard the Penbryn just before dark and ithe rescue ship will stand by until tomorrow morning. WELLINGTOK, New Zealand (Sunday), Aug. 17.—The distressed British steamship Tahiti, in re- porting her position in the South | Seas about 1340 'miles northeast of Wellington at 5 a. m. today, said that the order to abandon ship had been canceled and all the passen- | gers were still on board, | The vessel is carrying 175 pas- _sengers and a crew of 142. | The Tahiti first reported Mseif in distress 460 miles off Raroton- ga, Cook Islands, in the South Pa- cific at 7 p. m. Saturday. At that time it was said all was well and the crew was working te close the tained, The No. 4 hold began to flood and early Sunday, New Zea- land time (8:30 a. m, St. Louis time Saturday), Capt. A. T. Toten, master of the: ahip, sent a radio message suying he had ordered ail | aboard to the life boats. It is pre- sumed that the countermanding of this order was decided on when it S. 0. 8. from the Tahiti. 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