St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 15, 1930

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Sales in the our totaled only about 250,- res and for the day aggre- | about 1,560,000. prices were close to the t, although some stocks made all recoveries. Short covering, however, was negligiblé for the reason that the bulls, instead of attempting a squeeze, preferred to stand aside, Easiness of grains and sign of further Pagneio in copper were developments that tended to favor the cause of lower prices for shares. aftet an early interval. of - declined and the Septem- .. fu ture made a new low for the season at 79%. Closihg quo- tations on the grain were % to iower. Corn Hkewise de- lined. dipping 5S to 1%. Cotton osed Steady, 3 points lower to high today. last 5 i ri? ” { * { oe meal From Opening. The discouraging situation in copper metal was intensified some- What the action of one custom siuelter, who eut to 104% cents, a quarter cent below recent levels. Prominent prodycers were offering u reduction of the same heavy from the eased off gradually late trading, when scat- tering support appeared. Many of the leaders, however, finished at the bottom. There were few strong or firm spots. Auto Strop Safety Razor moved up 5 points, but lost part of its gain. General Refac- tories and Real Silk Hosiery ad- vanced a point or two. Shares off 2 to 3 points net in- cluded American Can, du Pont, U. Auburn Auto, American melting and Foster-Wheeler. Ra- ‘io, Kennecott, Houston Oil, Amer- Foreign Power, American e, Electric Power.& Light, “tional Harvester, American B" (new), Public Serv- New Jersey, Vanadium, Manville, North American lard Oil of New Jersey a point. Westinghouse a 4-point decline to dropped 5 and Allied in hearly &, | armner Brothers Pictures was a of the late trading, rally- than a point. / = Call Money 2 Per Cent. ‘Ne large turnover in the money Market incident Nancing and the income tax pay- Ments. as well as fairly large divi- isbursements, was accompa- an easing of the call loan ‘oO - per cent. W 1 street ecx- iO repetition of the situation ‘isted around Mareh 15 when failing to gauge the funda- easiness of funds, bought ‘rs’ bills rather than participa- ‘sin the overdraft and brought ' rates to the lowest levels in ‘ars The current overdraft is pect ed to be in the neighborhood * $250,000,000 and it was said hat the Federal Reserve Bank had ‘Yited substantial participations a ‘he leading banks so as to pre- (e the possibility of too great a list: ance, « Foreign exchanges were irregu- ‘". Sterling was again soft, cables Stocks ening and were until the \ an «& ing mors 4 y\ . a “lining 3-82 to $4.85 27-82.. — Investinent character of the ‘ Pe . . t security markets continued % high grade bonds and in the. ema nd for preferred stocks. |, Closing stock prices will be ne on pages 9C, 100 and i : emphasized in the firmness. GERMAN FASCISTS =— REDS MAKE: BIG GAINS AT POLLS; NEW CABINET HARD TO FORM Bruening Ministry to Be Ousted, With Middle Group in Control and Extremists as Second Party. HELEN KANE SAYS ‘DRESS MERCHANT THREATENED LIFE Boop-a-Doop Girl Avers Murray Posner Started to Choke Her When She Re- fused to Perjure Self. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—The question of who first owned the $50,000 which Helen Kane, boop- a-doop singer, received from Mur- ray Posner, bankrupt dress manu- facturer, grew complicated today when she accused Posner of hav- ing threatened to kill her if she did not testify ny concerning the money. Posner, who followed Miss Kane on the witness stand at a referee's hearing on the affairs of the Bond Dress Co., Posner’s firm, called her charges “ridiculous and ab- surd.”’ Miss Kane said Posner went to her hotel room in Chicago and de- manded that she testify that the money was for investment in. the dress business. When she refused, she said, he pushed her against the wall and tried to choke her. She was saved, she said, only by the arrival of her secretary, Sybil Stone, who called a house detec- tive. Posner declared the only unto- ward incident during his visit to her room early in August was when the actress threw at him newspa- pers containing stories of her con- nection with him, shouting hysteri- cally that he had ruined her. “At no time did I threaten to kill her or try to choke her, and I never asked her to change her testi- mony,” he said. Miss Kane was drawn.into the affairs of the bankrupt firm when investigators for the _ receivers learned that Posner had paid her $50,000 in cash, which she had immediately transferred to a bank in Chicago, then converted into Liberty bonds which she put in a safe deposit vault under an as- sumed name, just before the dress company: failed. Her explanation, at a previous hearing, was that she had given $46,000 to Posner two years earlier to invest in Liberty bonds for her and that Posner had used the money in his Rumneas instead. The extra $4000° was for interest, she said, Posner has testified that he ‘gave Miss Kane about $75,000 over two years, including jewelry valued at $20,000. The singer faces a suit by the trustee to recover the $50,000 and the jewelry. She said today she was unwilling to return the jew- elry voluntarily, even though she and Posner were “no longer friends.”’ HEARST PLEASED WITH OUSTER Publisher, Home, Says French Ac- ‘ tion Genuinely Gratifying. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—William Randolph Hearst returned from abroad today declaring that his ex- had given him more genuine gratification than anything else that had hap- pened to him in all his life. Hearst was taken from the liner Europa at quarantine onto a wel- coming steamer chartered by 400 disabled veterans of the World War. A formal statement he is- sued on his arrival follows: “I have said that I did not complain of my exclusion from France. I think I should say instead that there is no distinction in my 67 years which has given more genuine gratifica- tion. Moreover, I hope and believe that this distinction is one that I have actually deserved.” — 28-Pound Lobster Caught. | BOSTON, Sept. 15.—An aged lob- ster, weighing 28 pounds, wat brought to the fish pier here to- day by the schooner Nina B. It was swept up from the bottom by a trawl 85 miles southeast of Cape Cod. The mammoth crustacean is more than four feet long. Dr. D. l. Bowditch, marine biologist, stat- and in all probability was the largest ee Tegrity UY. ed that it was at least 50 years old| By the Associated Press. BERLIN, Sept. 15.—A parlia- mentary chaos, in which no gov- ernment will be able to survive, loomed in Germany today as a consequence of Reichstag electioris yesterday, in which 34,000,000 vot- ers named 576 members. Fifteen parties landed seats. So extensive may be the results of the polling, in which Fascists and Communists, themselves bit- terly antagonistic, received almost a landslide of votes, that the indi- cated fall of the present Bruening Government appeared the least serious, development. Bruening belongs to the Centrist party. The Socialists, one of two bases for the defunct government of Chancellor Mueller, remained the largest single group in the Reich- stag as a result of the polling, with probable 143 Deputies elected, a loss of 10 under their 1928 figure. The Fascists of Adolf Hitler, young Austrian responsible for the 1923 Munich Putsch, made as- tounding gains in virtually every section of the country, and jumped from 12 seats in the 1928 elections to 107, a figure which surpassed even the claims of their campaign managers. Communists Now Third. Communists, at the opposite end of the parliamentary arc from the Fascists, but with them opposed to the republic and to the peace treaties, gained 22 new seats in the Reichstag, Jumping from 54 to 76 to become the third largest party in the body. According to corrected official] figures, Reichstag seats will be distributed as follows: Socialists, 143; Fascists, 107; Communists, 76; Centrists, 68: German Nation- als, 41; Peoples’ party, 30: Eco- nomic party, 23; State party, 20: Bavarian parties, 19; Farmers’ League, 18; Christian Socialists, 14; Peasant party, 6: Hanoverians, 3; Landbund, 3; Conservatives, 5. In such a lineup the middle par- ties, upon which the Bruening Cabinet relied in the last Reichs- tag, are hopelessly in a minority. A Possible Combination. The likeliest solution, it is gen- erally conceded, would be a coali- tion of the middle parties and So- cialists, with a possible. majority of 321, against the 224 of the Fas- cists, Communists and WNational- ists. Such a coalition would insure that Germany’s foreign policy would be carried on substantially unchanged, but what. compromise might be made between the di- vergent views of the Socialist and middle parties on taxation, unem- ployment doles and other domestic issues is hard to predict. The attitude of the Fascists to- ward participation in the Govern- ment is indicated by the statement of one Fascist leader, Paul Roeb- bels, that they were willing to co- operate providing Fascists head the Reichswehr, ministry and the Berlin Polige Department and that new Diet elections are held in Prussia, .Chancellor Heinrich Bruening’s Centirst party is in the pivotal po- sition and upon Bruening and his party will largely depend which of the possibilities presenting them- selves shall be adopted. Bruening Seems determined to try to stay in office. - : The Boerse today reflected the general uneasiness over the situa- tion. The opening was-weak on selling’ orders, particularly from abroad. Some shares such as pot- ash, Siemens and Reichsbank, dropped 10 points and others slipped from three to five. Banks, however, were inclined to support the market and a Grpetio slump waa not expected. It was semi-officially stated to- day that Germany's foreign policy the late Dr. Gustav would continue. A relentless opposition to this policy haz 224 Reichstag sé€ats—- 76 communists. 107 Fascists and 41 German Nationals—but against these stand the 351 votes of the moderate parties which, although differing on domestic issues, are regarded as certain to support the foreign policy’ of conciliation, dis- armament and friendly intercourse with all nations. Fascists Gain Everywhere. There was not a section of the country where the Fascists did not show sensational gains. over the 1928 elections. While the Commun- ists carried Berlin, with a gain of 50,000. votes and the social Demo- crats were second, the Facists were third with a jump from 16,605 to 158,165. Some disorders eticaded. the elec- tions, put in Berlin and in the Provinces they were of minor char- | acter. The chief weapons of an- tagoniste were beer steins and pieces of furniture, the Government having forbidden carrying knives, | ‘and gven walking sticks, to the" Stresemann, a In Berlin police made 403 ar- : | Continued on Page 2, Column 2. of conciliation, as inaugurated by + MEN A “APISS State Public Ser ic Service Com- ee I ] J TI Bills in Operating Cost $36,463 DONATIONS ALSO DISALLOWED Board, in Addition, Throws Out $75,451 Paid to Holding Company in Ar- riving at 11.2 Per Cent Return. By the Jefferson City Correspondent of the Post- JEFFERSON CITY, Sept. 15.— Country and town club expenses of three head officers of the Union Electric Light & ‘Power Co. of St. Louis, which were charged on the company’s books to operating ex- penses, were among the items dis- allowed in the State Public Service Commission’s recent audit of the company’s business. .As was told in Friday’s Post-Dispatch, the Commission’s audit showed that the Union Electric earned a re- turn of 11.2 per cent on its St. Louis operations for the year end- ing June 30, 1929. The club payments which the Commission found to have been improperly charged to the pany’s operating expenses were: For Louis H. Egan, president, $315 to the St. Louis Country Club, $129 to Sunset Hill Country Club, $40.70 to the University Club, $91.15 to the Noonday Club, $50 to the Industrial Club and $27 to the Engineers’ Club; for F. J. Boehm, vice president, $203 to Sunset Hill Club, $28.63 to Woodlawn Country Club and $162 to the Kirkwood Club; and for Herman Spoehrer, secretary, $93 to the Riverview Club and $29.50 to the City Club. Contributions Also Disallowed. The Commission’s accountants also disallowed several contribu- tions by the Union Electric to va- rious religious, charitable and pub- lic objects, holding that these items also were not properly chargeable to operating expenses, which are a factor in deternrining rates to be paid by consumers of electric cur- rent. The total of the contribution and club items disallowed was $36,463. | Among the larger donations dis- allowed as part of the operating expenses were the following: St. Louis. Chamber of Commerce, $2150; trustees of Cnarist Church, $560; Missouri road bond cam- paign, $250; Evangelical Deaconess Home and Hospital, $250; Indus- trial Club of St. Louis, $10,000; St. Louis Jewish - Federation, $1000; Missouri Committee on Public Utility Information, $4724; St. Louis Community Fund, $7500; St. Louis Electrical Board of Trade, $2000; League of Women Voters, $100; Veiled Prophet Pageant, $600; Palestine relief fund, $100,’ and United States Chamber of Commerce, $1000. Threw Out $342,000. In reaching its final figures the commission’s accountants. threw out $342,000 charged to operating expenses. This included the $36,¢ 423 for donations and club pay- ments. It included al§o $75,451 in payments by Union Electric to the North American Co., which con- trols Union Electric through an in- termediate holding company. The accountants also added $128,933 to operating revenues, which the company had charged to nonoperating revenues. This made a total increase of $470,940 in net operating expenses for St. Louig, over. what the company’s books showed. The showing of 11.2-per cent re- turn indicates thé possibility of a substantial reduction of the com- pany’s tates, to bring the income down to the 7 to 8 per cent allowed by the commission. The commis- sion is familiarizing itself with the details of the accountants’ work, before taking up the expected de- mand of the St. Louis city author- ities for consideration of a rate reduction. ident Hoover today a Mayor Harry A, Mackey of Philadelphia that he would attend the opening/| game of the world ‘apeton, to tig, city Oct, 1. | : ~~ ——e ee Lisbou Bakers Go On Strike. | "ISBON, Sept. 16.—The bakers | y of Lisbon today went on a general | | strike as a protest against the Government decree, effective ‘to- day, limiting their production to one type of bread. x com- Fare, SOMEWHAT — ‘COOLER TONIGHT, FAIR TOMORROW fair tonight and tomorrow, pre- ‘ceded tonight by unsettled in ex- trerne southeast portion; some- what cooler to- night in east por- tion. Illinois: Gener- ally fair tonight and tomorrow, except unsettled tonight in ex- treme south por- tion; cooler to- night. Sunset.6:10; sunrise (tomorrow) 5:43. Stage of the -Srmse-pede 3.6 feet, a rise of 0.8. FEDERAL DRY AGENT CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED EXTORTION Wisconsin Man Attacked ahd Beat- en by Friends of Intended Vee Bypok, Arrested, By the Associ FOND DU EAC. *. Wis., Sept. 15. —William _M. Graves, a Federal prohibition agent, was named to- day in a warrant charging attempt- ed extortion. With his wife, Elsie, who tried to aid him with two pis- tols, he was placed in the county jail. Graves last night went to the house of Charles Prankus to col- lect $100 protection money from Prankus, on whose premises he had found two stills. As he entered the door, a group of Prankus’ friends pounced on him and beat him before Sheriff's deputies arrived. Mrs. Graves drew a revolver in an attempt to aid him. She threw it away when a farmer flourished a shotgun. She attempted to flee but was captured. Another §re- volver was found in her handbag. No charge has been filed against her. ’ Graves had been working out of Milwaukee for two years. [6TH DEATH FROM POISONING DUE TO RADIUM PAINT Woman Learns She Has Disease Five Years After Working in Watch Plant. Special to the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK; Sept. 15.—The sixteenth déath from poisoning, the result of pointing with the lips brushes used in painting watch dials with luminous radium paint, occurred Saturday in West Orange, N. J. An autopsy was performed yesterday on the body of Mrs. Anna Stasi, 27 years old, who died at the home of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Marie Stasi, West Orange. As in the other cases of the last five years, the poisoning did not become apparent until years after the employment and exposure in the plant of the United States ,Ra- dium Corporation. Mrs. Stasi, who was married in 1925 and is survived by a 33-year-old daughter, was em- ployed at the plant from 1918 to 1922, but she did not know until a few weeks ago that she had con- tracted the fatal disease. ILLINOIS M. E. CONFERENCE CRITICISES MRS. M’CORMICK WEATHERSIRD are kag oe shaw Hanna McCormick,. Republi- can candidate for U. 8. Senator, was criticised by the Illinois Meth- odist Conference here today in adopting of a resolution’ offered by the committee on public policy. ‘In the primary last April,” the resolution said; “Mra. Ruth Hanna McCormick received. the indorse- ment of the dry forces of the State, and, by announcing herself as a dry, secured the primary nomina- tion to the United States Senate, but she has seen fit, by what to us seems to be political chicanery, to put herself in a position where she has forfeited the confidence of the moral forces of our State.” TEN Tea Wi BEATS SHA CUP RACE DETECTIVE WHO TRAILED NYE FOR AIRS. MPCORMIGK | IS ARRESTED) Operative Ignores Subpena and Is Taken Into Cus- tody at Resumption of Senate Inquiry Into Illi- PROSECUTIONS ARE INDICATED Incidents of Shadowing of Investigators Include _ Sending of Mash Notes to Senator by Former Chica- go Chorus Girl. By PAUL Y. ANDERSON, A Staff Oorrespondent of the Post- tch. CHICAGO, Sept. 15.—It became apparent today that criminal prose- cutions are likely to follow the activities of private detectives, em- ployed by Mrs. Ruth Hanna Mc- Cormick to shadow members of the Senate committee investigating her senatorial campaign expenditures in Illinois. R. F. Bashford, an operative of the Dannenberg Agency, which the Republican senatorial nominee em- ployed for the shadowing work, was arrested near the agency’s of- fice today by Department of Jus- tice -operatives, who have been seeking him since he ignored the committee’s subpena in Fargo, N. D., Aug. 390. Bashford was taken to the Fed- eral building, and was released on $1000 bond, provided by W. C.' Dannenberg, head of the detective agency. He must answer to the United States District Court in Fargo on the charge of defying a subpena. Mrs. McCormick Is Present. Three members of the _ investi- gating committee, Senators Nye (Rep.), North Dakota, Patterson (Rep.), Missouri, and Dill (Dem.), Washington, met at the Federal building this afternoon for a ses- sion of the committee, but ad- journed almost immediately, after declining to hear Oscar Caristrom, Attorney-General of Illinois, and a supporter of Mrs. McCormick. Mrs. McCormick was present. The com- mittee will meet tomorrow, prob1l ably with Senators Wagner (Dem.), New York, and Dale (Rep.), Vér- mont, also in attendance. It will hear Caristrom then.. The committee today obtained 47 telegrams from the Western Un- ion Telegraph Co., the messages having passed between the Dan- nenberg agency and its operatives. In one of them, an operative was instructed to “run down the rec- ord of Nye in Wisconsin.”’ Senator Nye, now 37 years old; lived in Wisconsin until he was 20, and has not lived there since. Charles O, Dundall, attorney for the Dannenbergs, protested against the seizure of the telegrams as “an outrageous invasion’’ of the agency’s rights. He said the seiz- ure of telegrams was equivalent to breaking into an office. The mes- sages are being copied for the com- mittee. Sought Room Next to Nye’s. In Fargo last August, Senators Nye and Dale learned that a man known as “R. F. Bash” had at- tempted to obtain a hotel room next to the room of either of them. They caused a subpena to be issued for “Bash,” and another for C. C. Albers, another Dannen- FR A siege PR eG QT OM > - - NE AO OR 0 pe tare la Ne oS ~ me Ome Oe “7 an af - . rd : on ee ee GIRL, 17, MURDERED; TWO MEN QUESTIONED Victim’s Throat Cut With Razor as She Slept in South Bend, Ind. By the Associated Press. SOUTH BEND, Ind., Sept. 15.— Alice Woltman, 17 years old, was murdered in her bed early yester- day. Her throat was cut with a razor. Three other children asleep in the same room, one of them be- side her in the bed, were unaware of the murder. A few minates later the girl, dying, crawled to a stairway and awakened the house- hold. Two young men we had been paying her attention have been questioned by police without pro- viding any clew to the identity of the killer. Less than three weeks ago the body of 77-year-old Marberine Ap- pel was found fm an alley near har home. She had been attacked, then murdered. The two killings have prompted extra precautions for protection of South Bend school children. There was a noticeable absence of chil- dren from the streets last night. Alex Pietrzak, 18, who was twice questioned yesterday and who was to be requestioned today, told po- lice he and Alice were engaged to be married. Pietrzak had taken the girl to a dance Saturday night and had been with her and her mother in the kitchen at the Woltman; house up to a few hours before the. murder. . Barney Kluszezyusci, 23, who was Alice Woltman’s escort to sev- eral dances recently, was taken into custody in the belief that questioning might draw from him information of value in’ hunting the girl's slayer. No motive for the killing has been discovered. XILLS HEH SISTER TO ‘CURE HER OF BROKEN HEART’ California Woman Shoots Who Tried to End Life After Mrs. Ruth B. Weimer is under ar- rest for the killing of her sister, Mrs..Mabel Agnes Steele, 41 years old, whom. she admitted shooting, police said, to “cure her of a brok~- en heart.” Grieving over the kidnaping of her two children, alleged heme weeding hitherts for har cht} dren. A miedo .06 Tk Tee: Ne Dee é biti | i: | 7 MINU TES AMERICAN YACHT on MAINTAINS LEAD ALL Tht WAY ON distances Challenger, After Start. to Take Weather Berth. FOG SETTLES DOWN * TOWARD FINISH Piloted by Harold S. Van- Gets Away on the Dot in 10-Knot Breeze—Watch- ers Fewer. By the Associated Press. LU. 8. 8. KANE, The Enterprise today proved her superiority for the over Sir Thomas Lipton’s Sham- rock V, and won the second face for the American cup by @& mar-~ gin of almost 10 minutes. First away line, the American defender led at every marker, gradually increas- ing her margin until at the finish she was almost three miles in-the lead. Harold 8S. Vanderbilt, amateur skipper of the winning boat, out- maneuvered the veteran Ernest (ned) Heard, whos was at the helm of the British boat, every phase of sailing and his fast stepping professional crew made the work of the British tars seem clumsy in comparison. in the first 15 minutes enabled her and on the long beat to windward stayed in the strategic position to windward, meeting every tack of cleanly executed countering move. The chart of the race showed Enterprise leading by six minutes, nine minutes, 20-mile mark and by nine minutes, 49 seconds at the finish. Shamrock H Beaten. her own with the Enterprise, and both boats were merely out the race by then, the green- hulled challenger so far behind that its case was hopeless. ; Capt. Heard doused his spin- from the finish line, and just coast- ed in on his stay saile and balloon. er. fore the finish. The race started in a light mist and ended in a dense haze but for breeze blowing. 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