St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 11, 1930

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s LOUIS POST-DISP The Only Evening Newspaper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service ' ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1930.—44 PAGES. CHINESE FIREON —|BOONVILLE SLAYER AMERICAN SHIPS | WAVES. HEARING IN THE YANGTZE’ BOND 1S DENIED Repeated Attacks With| Tony Vriski Who Killed C. Trench Mortars, Machine; E. Chrane Arraigned at Guns and Rifles — No| Fayette, Mo., Returned to Casualties Are Reported. | Penitentiary. Ai, Remains of Andree on White Island | ENEVA ASKS fy _ 4 FORNEWARMS fi PACT BY 1931. Foreign Secretary Hender- son in Speech Rejects French View That Secur- ity Must Be Precedent to Disarmament. CLOUDY TONIGHT, TOMORROW; TEMPERATURE ABOUT SAM THE TEMPERATURES. 2 2 & me... 76 ‘ ‘ a. ik. #26 cu 70 ‘3 = eer a nO 6R noon... 68 68 WALL STREET, CK TRADE SUMPS AND PRICES EAS FF SLIGHTL Profit Taking and, Weak- ness in Grain Cause Re- essions Though No a. ; Mi. Me cick Pe Oe Oi Diksentes Sestereay'e 8&2 (2 p. m.) low 66 Relative humidity at noon 63 per cent. Official forecast for. St. Louis and vicinity: Partly) cloudy tonight and tomorrow ; not much change | in temperature. Missouri: Part- ly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; little change in) NATIONALISTS OPEN | NOBODY TO BLAME temperature. filinele: Partly HONAN OFFENSIVE SAYS INVESTIGATOR cloudy tonight | and tomorrow in! . | } 400,000 Troops Advance to | F. B. Jones, Penal Institu- BW~IS Or Coton = or A ee ek ge yng 5 eae ee _ 7 nas PAR « * _—. * —_— . ’ : at that sas ae , ae yy ; Se OE EBL LY Stee —" ae ay. ee Py Br Oh ss Set B3 as pha 2 south portion; in- Heavy Selling Orders Are in Evidence. yOST OF CHANGES ARE RECORDED EARLY Sime of Smaller Steel Shares Are Bid Up Briskly and Specialties Show Gains—Oils Firm Late in ORK, Sept. | ‘ot stopped for breath to- | and arduous peak levels of July. | generally eased | iLs slo Vv While a few pools | ad | more | operations for the uber of the ues, Dulis were] : i i by the fact that | dull on declines. | eidediy wary. Total I\ about 1,730,000 | 750,000 under yes- | | day's price move- recorded during the trading, and dur- s f i1.—The |! ‘private automobiles. creasing ness tonight north portion, probably showers tomorrow; slight- ly warmer to- night in north portion. Sunset 6:16; sunrise (tomorrow) 5:40. Stage of the Mississippi. 4.2 feet, a fall of 0.2. PLAY WITH ST. LOUIS LOCALE RAIDED BY POLICE AS INDECENT Manager and Company Presenting It in Tryout at Jamaica, L. L., Put Under Bond. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—John M. Kirkland, husband of Nancy Car- roll, movie actress, and the eight members of the cast of his play, WEATHERBIRD “Frankie and Johnnie,’ are under j ’ $500 bail each today on charges of giving an indecent performance. At the close of the third per- formance at Jamaica, Long Island, last night, a squad of plain-clothes policemen led by Fifth Deputy Po- lice Commissioner Sinnott went backstage and arrested Kirk- land, the company and _ stage managers, the theater owner and manager and the five men and three women of the cast. They were taken to the police station in All entered bail. The play, which was being given a tryout prior to a Broadway cloudi- in | Chengchow, Base of Northern Forces. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—Re- peated attacks, accompanied by heavy firing from trench mortars, machine guns and rifles, against American naval and merchant ves- sels passing up the Yangtze River, were reported today to the State Department. Frank P. Lockhart, American Consul-General at Hankow, cabled fimilar heavy firing was taking Place on “practicaliy all vessels passing a point on the right bank on the Yangtze, 45 miles this side of Kiukiang.”’ He said no casualties had heen reported. Notwithstanding thet “foreign gunboats” have repeatedly returned the fire, attacks were still being made. He added that sitnilar attacks “have taken place at three different points on the river De- tween Chenglingki and Ichang.” By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, Sept. 400,000 troops against the North- ern war lords’ forces in Honan Province, the Nationalist Govern- ment yesterday began a great of- fénsive to end the rebellion which has menaced its existence since May. Point Within 100 Miles of | 11.—Hurling | 'County officers, tion Head, Doubts Prison- Story of Making er’s Wine in Reformatory. By the Jefferson City Correspond- ent of the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Sept. 11.— Tony Vriski, 22 years old, of St. Louis, who killed C. E. Chrane, Superintendent of the Boonville Public Schools, Tuesday, in \escap- ing from the Boonville Reforma- tory, was turned over to Howard County officers early today by penitentiary officiais, for a prelim- inary hearing on a charge of first- degree murder. Vriska waived preliminary hear- ing at Fayette, Mo. He taken to and from _ court heavy guard. He was held without bond: on a first degree murder charge. Vriski was not represent- ed by a lawyer. tiary here after. his hearing. tiary here Tuesday night by Cooper who feared he would be lynched if left in the Cooper County jail at Boonville. While Chrane was kidnaped in Boonville by Vriski, at the point of a revolver, as he was parking his | automobile, and was compelled to He was returned to the peniten- | Vriski was taken to the peniten- | of his companion, Nils Strindberg. THs exclusive photograph, rushed from Tromsoe shows the skeleton of Salomon Au 0 REPORTED DEAD IN ITALIAN ISLAND =: VOLCANO ERUPTION Earthquake Accompanies Outburst of Stromboli — Stream of Lava Pours Down on Towns. By the Associated Press. MESSINA, Sicily, Sept. 11.— About 20 persons are reported TREASURY OFFICIALS IN CIRCULATION By the Associated Presse. WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. ORE money got into circu- ] ation during August than in July, the per capita al- lotment reaching 486.72 as com- | pared with $35.90 the previ- _ous month. The Treasury circulation statement shows $4,534,471,449 was in circulation Aug. 31, com- pared with $4,426,493,631 July 31. There was slightly more | eash going the rounds a year | ago, the total reaching $4,839,- , 858,913. The total amount of United States money on Aug. 31 was placed at $8,253,641,522, of which $4,007,099,747 was held in the Treasury. —Photo copyright by Associated Press. to London by plane, thence to New York by steamer, gust Andree as it had rested for 33 years on White Island, near the body COMMITTEE T0 DECIDE WHO OWNS ANDREE LOG Swedish and Norwegian Gov- ernments Name Legal Au- thorities to Settle Question. By the Associated Press. STOCKHOLM, Sept. 11.—A Swe- dish-Norwegian committee consist- ing of four legal authorities has been selected by the Governments of Sweden and Norway to investi- gate all questions of property rights in connection with the diary and other objects belonging to the Andree expedition. The Swedish press has shown in- dignation over the secrecy main- “LONDON PARLEY 7 ONLY A STEP” Insists European Economie Union Outlined by Briand Should Be Formed Only Under League’s Author- ity. GENEVA, Sept. 11.—Arthur HMene derson, British Foreign Secretary, urged the conclusion of a general disarmament treaty in 1931, tn a speech before the representatives of 50 countries in theAssembly of the League of Nations this after- noon. With great earnestness he de- clared that it was “vain to hope for security until a general scheme of disarmament is a_ reality.” He thus squarely rejected the French theory that disarmament must fol- low measures for security. Henderson said the British deile- gation, while in full sympathy with French Foreign Minister Briand’s proposals for a “United States of Europe,” believed that action for such a purpose must be taken with- re 8 pet tel aa aie __ ete _— —_— — ° = pe oe ‘ oo en wn — - - * - ‘a tia Poh rsaneene CULE PPB Oe OB EERE NAGS REAM TE LIE EN PERERA SS we roe S nae 4 > ae % ear fe: a Sah oe eI 8 Sl oh” ERED ONE RG Mee KBP EERE 3 a ~ ~ . : “3 R ws ine - de ie» ied ee igen eg in he ES Saha ah oe: i: i Se SO BE .s ve ha ean Jersey o r in the divi- | DEMONSTRATIONS IN BERLIN Communists Driven From Presi- dential Palace. By the Associated Presse. BERLIN, Sept. 11.—Communist demonstrations occurred in various parts of Berlin last night and in one of them, on the historic Wil- helmstrasse, the disturbers defied the »olice and were dispersed with revolver fire. . The demonstrators marched up to the Presidential palace, where they were met by the armed guards and ordered to disperse. When they refused to do so, the police fired shots into the air and the Communists left. Police used their clubs freely at other points and ar- rested nearly 50 demonstrators. MOSES TO DO SOME LISTENING Talks Politics With Hoover Before Leaving for West. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. — Be- fore leaving for the West to do what he described as “a lot of high-powered listening,” Senator Moses of New Hampshire, chair- man of the Republican Senate Campaign Committee, today called on President Hoover to discuss the political situation. Chairman Moses said he expect- ed to visit Illinois. Minnesota, Colo- rado, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and perhaps other West- ern states. . 13 KILLED IN RIOT IN IRAK Kurds at Sulaimani, Angered Over Treaty With Engiand. By the Associated Press. BAGDAD, Irak, Sept. 11.—Thir- teen persons were killed and 35 injured in a riot today outside the Government offices at Sulaimani. Officials said the disorder was caused b# Kurds who were dis- satisfied with the new Anglo-Irak we Thousands of other Government troops plunged westward toward Changchow along the Haichow- Tungkwan Railroad, crippled by weeks of floods. Splashing through mud and water, the troops made little progress west of Kweiteh. Having driven the rebels through Shantung Province to Southern Chihli, President Chiang Kai-shek drew heavily from his Shantung forces for the big drive in Honan. The troops moving to the new battle ground forced farmers into their ranks, compelled women to cook meals, and confiscated hun- dreds of work animals and carts. Entering villages, the soldiers drove out the peasants and occupied their houses. Freed of military restraint, ban- dit armies looted hundreds of vil- lages throughout Honan, killing those who dared oppose them. Their crops ruined by floods, their property taken by contending fac- tions in civil war, farmers turned robbers. WON'T COMMENT ON ALLEGED PAYMENT BY MRS. VANDERBILT $100,000 to Divorce Her Daughter. By the Associated Press. RENO, Nev... Sept. 11.—Winfield J. Nicholls, who filed a divorce ac- tion here Tuesday against Barbara Rutherfurd Hatch Nicholls, daugh- ter of Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt Sr., refused to deny or confirm today a report that he had received $100,000 from Mrs. Vanderbilt to divorce her daughter. Nicholls, an artist, requested his attorney to have the divorce com- plaint sealed when it was filed, but it is understood to contain no men- tion of a property settlement. The action will be tried next Saturday or Monday. Daughter of Labor Member of Par- liament Was Detained. By the Associated Prees. WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—An or- der to admit to the United States Miss Elsa Hewitt, daughter of a labor member of the British Par- liament, was issued today by the Labor Department. Miss Hewitt was detained at Ellis Island, New York, last Thura@fiay when she ar- rived to teach music at the Manu- mit school, a labor preparatory in- stitution at Pawling. N. Y. Immi- gration officials held she had the wrong kind of visa for admission as a teacher. POSSE KILLS BANK ROBBER Escaping Holdup Man in Tree Killed Near Kentwood, La. By the Associated Prees. ¢ KENTWOOD, La., Sept. 11.—One of the three’ bandits who held up the Bank of Kentwood today tak- ing about $10,000, was shot out of Blames Nobody. Frank B. Jones, director of Penal Institutions, said he had completed an investigation of the escape and killing, and did not think reformatory officials were at fault. Vriski, a house boy at the residence of Theodore Ziske, Artist Reported to Have Received | GETS RIGHT TO ENTER U. S, reformatory superintendent, drunk on wine he had been mak- ing from grapes in the basement of the superintendent's” residence. The revolver used in Chrane’s murder was stolen from Ziske’s residence. Jones said no evidence had been found that Vriski was making wine in the basement of the superin- tendent’s residence. He said that if Vriski had been making wine, the container must have been hid- den in a weed patch near the resi- dence. Vriski worked in the laun- dry in the basement of the house. Ziske said he suspected that Vris- ke obtained liquor from a St. Louis gangster friend, who visited the ' |reformatory Tuesday. Escapes But Is Made Trusty. Vriski was serving a five-year sentence in the reformatory for robbery of a filling station in St. Louis in 1928, in which He ex- changed shots with a watchman and the station attendant. He had been arrested three other times in | St. Louis, once on a charge of as- |sault. with intent/ to kill. He ,escaped in June, 1929, but volun- |tarily returned last March and later | Was made a trusty. Director Jones said reformatory officers aparently were not fa- miliar with Vriski’s previous police record and thought he was worthy |of trust, despite the previous es- | cape, because of his good behavior | after he returned. |Faneral Services at Boonville for Slain Educator. | By the Associated Press. BOONVILLE, Mo., Sept. 11.— Funeral services were held this aft- ernoon for C. E. Chrane, for 18 years Superintendent «ft Schools, who was killed yesterday by Tony Vriski, an e caped trusty from the reformatory here. The services were conducted in Kemper Military School gymnasium by the Rev. H. J. Rand, pastor of the Methodist Church, where Chrane taught a Bible class. School was dismissed yesterday for one week out of re- spect fdr the slain educator. Mayor H. D. Quigg issued a proc. lamation calling upon all business to suspend during the funeral serv- ices. Restriction on “Ads.” LINCOLN, Neb, Sept. 11.—City Attorney Frank A. Peterson has informed the City Commission that the council has the power to pro- t in cigarette advertising. Peterson said court decisions have upheld the right of municipalities to pro- said | he made his escape after becoming | hibit the use of women’s pictures The eruption threw rocks high into the air. These fell upon the small villages which dot the countryside around the base of the volcano. A river of lava flowed down into the village of San Bartolo, destroying farms, and | setting many buildings on fire. Official reports said Stromboli’s activity returned to normal short- ly afterward. Four destroyers and _ torpedo boats, loaded with provisions, tents and medical supplies, as well as companies of city firemen, with officials, have been sent from Mes- sina to assist the victims. Stromboli is the northeastern- north coast of Sicily in the Medit- erranean Sea. The volcano, which bears the same name as the island, rises about 3000 feet above the sea. It has been active for the greater part of 2000 years. DROP IN U. S. FOREIGN TRADE SHOWN FOR JULY Canada Chief Customer of This Country: Japan Second in Imports. | By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Sept. ada led the world in foreign trade with the United States in July. The Commerce Department an- nounced today that United States exports to Canada for that month were $55,058,428, compared with $79,569,037 for July, 1929. Imports from Canada were $30,265,116, against $44,101,233. The United Kingdom was second in exports and third in imports, with Japan taking second place in imports. The following comparative fig- merce Department, showing July exports compared with the same the same period: United Kingdom, $40,627,631, $56,891,334, $13,901.424, $27,965,- $45; Germany, $14,150,506, $24,- 633,511, $12,724,012, $22,806,482; Japan, $7,488,683, $15,005,665, Exports and imports for grand divisions of the world were an- FRENCH OFFER HAY 10 U. 5. A Kansas City hay dealer has re- ceived a letter from R. Dalleas and R. Lespes. Bordeaux, France, say- ing word has reached them of the drouth and’ asking for the best bids on “hay de prairie, crushed in bales.” alfalfa, wheat and bar- most of the Lipari Islands off the burning | | 11.—Can- | month last year and imports for $17,146,738, $28,884,589. | nounced as follows: 4 Lord Melchett Says Business Lead- ers Do Not Bear Out Talk of Pessimism. By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, Sept. 11. — Lord Melchett, English coal and iron magnate and a former Cabinet member, said yesterday as he sailed for home. that he was amazed on his visit here at the amount of ‘talk in American print of a pessi- mistic strain.” “T have talked with your leading financiers and industrialists and they have not told me anything that would indicate that you are in a bad way. On the other hand, from what I have learned, I should say that you have every season to be optimistic. I'll bet that in an- other year or so you won't even remember that so many of your people were talking now about (hard times.” Lord Melchett has just made an inspection of his nickel mines in Northern Ontario. PHILADELPHIA INVITES HOOVER TO SEE WORLD SERIES GAME President Hopes to be Able to At- tend Opening Contest Oct. 1. By the Associated Prese. WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—Pres- ident Hoover was invited yesterday by Mayor Harry A. Mackey of Philadelphia, to attend one of the world series’ games which he ex- pects to be played there. The Chief Executive has been considering for some time attend- ing one game if it can be fitted into the itinerary under which he |will make four speeches between : Oct. ures were announced by the Com- 2 and Oct. 7. It was considered probable that if Mr. Hoover were able to at- tend, he would go to the opening game Oct. 1 at Philadeiphia, should the Athletics win the American League pennant. He could leave Washington the morning of Oct. 1, see the game and leave liater for Cleveland, where he is to ad- dress the American Bankers As- sociation Oct. 2. of the newspaper El] Minero, pub- lished in Cerro de Pasco Sept. 39, and received here today, say six persons were killed and more than 10 injured in a riot Sunday night. awaited documents. This morn- ing’s newspapers characterized the handling of the situation as “bu- reauracy in absurdum.” DRUGGIST, LYING FACE DOWN ON FLOOR KILLED BY HOLDUP MAN Robber Angered Because Chica7zo- an Had Only $45 and Shoots Him in Back. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Sept. 11.—Willis F‘d- delke, 40-year-old proprietor of a drug store, was shot dead by a holdup man as he lay face down on the floor, last night. “You've only got $45, and that ain’t enough,” was what the killer said, jabbing the muzzle of his pis- tol into the druggist’s back and pulling the trigger. Two customers, held at bay in another room by an accomplice of the gunman, heard him say: “I croaked him all right. Let's get out of here.” The robbers had compelled Fid- delke to go to a rear room and lie face down. They complained at only finding $44, but Fiddelke ex- plaineg it had been a poor day and that was all he had. So he wes killed. BOY REFUSES T0 RETURN Wiliam D. Irwin dr. Stopped by Policeman; Spent Summer With Mother. Disagreeing with the order of Circuit Judge Killoren that he re- turn to his father, William W. Ir- win Jr.; 14-year-old son of Mrs. Vera Sheehan, 4138 McPherson avenue, started to run from the courtroom today after a hearing on the question of hig custody had been neld, He was caught by a police officer stationed at the door and returned to face the Judge, who, after fail- ing to persuade the boy of the wis- dom of following the Court order. granted attorneys until next Mon- day to attempt a settlement in the case. Mrs. Sheehan was divorced from the bey’s father, William W. Irwin cf Belleville, here in December, 1922, and the custody of their son awarded to Irwin. The boy, how- ever, ran away from his father last spring and came to his mother’s home, and in June, Circuit Judge Fitzsimmons sustained her motion to modify the decree, to the extent of giving the boy's custody to her on holidays and from June 15° to Sept. 1. | With the failure of the boy to return to his father on Sept. 1, fur : He said the “world’s economic ilis’” could be healed only by in- ternational co-operation declaring Great Britain would support. all means to this end. He praised the progress of the movement toward arbitration for the settlement of international disputes during the last year and expressed the hope that the principle of compulsory arbitration might some day be ac- cepted by all nations. Security vs. Preparedness, Touching the subject of security the British statesman declared: “Security is impossible if cumula- tive military preparationg continue as they are going on today. Wecan never fulfill the purpose for which the league has been created unless we are prepared to carry through a scheme of general disarmament by international agreement.” Standing immediately in front of the German delegation, Henderson delivered a long eulogy of Dr. Stresemann, the late German Chan- cellor, whose death occurred since the last Assembly meeting. Dealing with antiwar measures, he asserted: “Great Britain desires above all to see the conclusion of a general disarmament treaty.” He expressed the hope that the partic- ipating nations would be able to accomplish this part of the VYer- sailles treaty in 1931. “The authors of the League cov- enant,” said the speaker, “never believed that international co-op- eration could succeed if national armaments should remain wnre- stricted and if armament competi- tion should revive. Because of this they inserted in the covenant the obligation to accept a general re- duction and limitation of national forces by international treaties. That obligation, he said, has not yet been honored, although it was in- curred 11 years ago. While welcoming all measures ¢ Be iat uh e 5 ied oP? a eal oF oe Lee eye 9 Po “ee . eS v y A ae ee RLS paces ¥ ¥. * + 9 OPES 7 : ee ae , meet (= tearm nid Ai ‘, x weal Di dy tities 2 . 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