St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 26, 1930

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THURSDA | This is edition of ion of the Post-Dis- eo Bes 18 - : contains a total of — ‘In Five © PAC eae Se care that scar tune te sumasde VOL. 83. NO. 20. Sr. “DUIS, TRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1930, : SPaem: TONIGHT, TOMORROW, THEN ISEEKS TO AN | REPORTED BARED| = | HIS MARE “ATMADSONBANK) 3-06. 2) GARGING FU Me behind forecast | : Xieaoelli in Accounts of | aul a : H. W. Thomasson, 73, As- ‘Cashier R. B. Studebaker, | continued cool to- |”. serts Bride, 29, Obtained Says President_ of Tri- Signature to License by a WALL L STREET , SMa Be tt 8 wee oats Se ah a eee ee a _ pellet ei let ABBR AKAN MOTE eI lat PER MER ee oth Pig A lg, APE aS ee ee es EO nn eRe te MGA: PG Sau nh WO RRC SN NA & ~ yee? oe oe i eee ee vrate at : ae - ~ —— ; mes ei A 5 ED. be 2 ere’ « steetnne a 6s » ail sa a aaRS Rial ah cated a a oe aT mee fl a as : Bien he. ’ - CE erg a a sprraneast CA EP Se SE Ti: Yee ag ains. Sor Be AE Tae is 7 n . ? M - ae “ eae Wt Oe tr « ‘ aR pil ~ Vera, Countess of Cathcart. Gia ae. A gr CEE ih Be aa , ‘ PQ eee - r ¢ ? > o 5 ’ . fas ‘ sti. = Le dente TER TN MOD eee Ri phi AE er et AN Sly AR 7. « “3 ham wep blag — y. aa Red been ltiaimadl T'Lt SIGN “CAUSE [I'M aFRaiD f° GoIn’ To BE "TAKEN FOR A RIDE” UNLESS 1 PAY MoRE | PROTECTION, warmer. Motor Shares and a Few east portion, pos- what warmer to- Sign $27,000 Separation Adopted, 733 to 258,. ° . ‘WEATHERBIRD EME LOSSES CUT Financial Group. EXTR P ~~ tled tonight, pos- er that an apparent shortage of ly fair; somewhat warmer in aft/ real estate, today filed suit at gotiations were under way for its ti + the Sieeenon » at One Period continued in the fo . Thomasson charges in his peti- ursion into low zround today, H uld: not be reached today. port of Independent Can- vopreggeaapee? 3 uniles f land Hodge Next Week; She oF hes 4 man. a trick, and that in mid-August he Hopes to Cure Edgewater (N. J.) $10,000 check and a _ separation DENIES ATLANTA EDGEWATER: MY. Ment 28 ' ; , N. J., Sept. 26.— cluding radio, since early in the today, will be married next week/ence by William Parker, C. N.jagain for the America’s cup, his- sum of $27,000 4 Republican State Convention in- Weakness of wheat and corn|c@?tt by whose death in London in/of State Bank Examiner Roden-/ V, was defeated four races to none eden -hastiok-in: that wianth. inte cian, testified he was certain prop-| District Attorney in New York corn lost l1y%ec to 1l%c. Bonds wary, littie or no effort was made to fol- ma2bove the previous close by early peared. Radio, which had’ recoy- \ost of the prominent shares lation of 158% it was off only 4 TOCKS LOSE! cama ae ee nightand tomor- | i row; outlook for : City Depository. Trick—Denies Ceremony Missouri: Gen- 7 erally fair tonight aor: i Fas | |STATE EXAMINER , and tomorrow:| HELD PRISONER FOR = Specialties, Including Ra- : pe aS : sibly light frost | .. Under Pressure by| ee : Te on tow .sreung.*s n % “Spee : oe . . . . \ e 7 dio, 4 q Institution Closed Sept. 3 west and north | ‘Taken to Chicago and Mil- is Element in Early) } Sa? This Ele y When It Was Said It | - morrow after- noon in west and north portions. oe : i | : Pact, Petition Avers. e: 4 i, 3 a '. || Urges Law Barring Sa- AS SHORTS COVER O. B. Schooley, president of the sibly rain in ane — ver : .. ap = ': és - 2. Al loon and Pledges U. + * oe | Tri-City State. Bank of Madison, tion; cooler tonight, much colder Hugh W.- Thomasson; 73 years 7 ae S 2 ‘ at oa : Aid to D St ° " aS, : : PY e Most of the Prominent : ; ernoon in west portion. Clayton for annulment of his mar- ' $19,983 had been found by State 0g “a Shares Touch New Lows Rank examiners in the accounts of | Sunset, 5:52; sunrise (tomor-| riage to “Carolyn Mahood, alias R. B. Studebaker, cashier. row), 5:53. Grace Caroline Thomasson,” 29. CO 17 | eet ee tion that th | 2, Va. he Ns Drys Defeated After Pleas Studebaker, who was village treas- LIPTON T0 CHALLENGE AGAIN aa ps ihe e a? which took : . | ; gene Mi | "a p : : urer of Madison until the bank - place in Waterloo, Ill., July 25, was Block Bros. Photo. Before Platform Commit- By the Associated Press. . j pinead aud he tendstel bik tealena- FOR THE AMERICA S CUP not intended or recognized by him MR. MES. HUGH W. THOMASSON. NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—The : . as a marriage ceremony, and that — Josing with net losses of 1 to 3 ; Schooley’s announcement WAS] gy tne Associated Press. : a dida points in a long list of issues. Was Once Barred From U. S, |made following a conference at| NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—sir| Was i#Ken, by her ane Ber. 50° te. Bears waited until the last hour .| Springfield yesterday. with State|Thomas Lipton, in a prepared | C@¥e@ Chautieur to wr, tak ees Youth H tech! to " " their attack, although they By the Associated Press ppdalgprape lng they a burger wa @ pe ppotinet ~ Sat ead —— siage ; , . a ~“ : nr - y ™. s i. ° ° — had been active in the motor| UONDON, Sept. 26.—Vera, Coun-| Examiner Nichoison.~ Schooley/call on Mayor Walker at City Hall sean. Siteectane eae ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 26.—By a In the h - gay, Volume again increased|t? Sir Rowland Hodge, millionaire | Smith and Dr. C. R. Kiser, direc-|teric yachting trophy. First Met W Suet. Jul sheng ont of hie Wess ioe, corporated in its party platform sharply on the downward move- | baronet. tors of the bank. Sir Thomas dig not set a eee milelaaai ag. me ‘Gsaeeps , old bad boy, the Board of Educa-|today a plank calling for the re- ment and sales totaled 3,700,000 The Countess, who visited; Beyond making the announce-/| nite date for his return, but said. in ta die beealte of tant July, itteb ; tion has votes, $50 worth of gland pa of ‘the eighteenth amend- ae treatment for him, men ‘ covering im the last dealings re-}j W!th her play, “‘Ashes of Love,” is| found Schooley declined to discuss;for another trial. and: eke anariuenwhire his 4c. The action was taken after Dr. Wet Named for Governor. seemed to be the only outside de- velopment that had a _ possible bearing on stock prices... ._Wheat strong and active. Early Market Lirregular. The break followed a period of low the’ rallies. United States el, American Can, General Elec- tric and some of the other favor- aflernoon, but support was with- drawn when heavy short selling of | the automobile and motor acces- ered moderately from an. outburst of selling just after the ‘opening, again slumped @nd the rest of the p touched new lows for the move- me! > Uni ited States Steel's . minimum het. Radio’: Joss was 2%. Allied Chemic al closed nearly 10. points lower and St. Louls Southwestern cooler tonight in AUDITS THE BOOKS 10 DAYS, HE SAYS portions; some- waukee and Forced to eat age a on Prohibition | a . , " 3 Part of Day. a Would Be Transferred to Illinois: Unset- today told a: Post-Dispatch report- in east portion; tomorrow general- | old, wealthy owner of downtown for the Movement Though | The bank has been closed since| Throughout last night there was/ The petition was prepared by Ste- d | - Sept. 8 when it was announced ne-|°® strong wind, varying from 20 to| phen C. Rogers as attorney for Some Showe Net Gain $ . pt. q 33 miles an hour in velocity. It] Thomasson. tion, has consistently declined to 7 tee Plan to Unite in Sup- stock market went on another ex- Will B Brid f Sir’ R pdoniient en rutiers-of a shortage. Five Defeats Fail to Chill Ardor of | his signature to the marriage li- Nill Become Bride of Sir Row- $0-Year-Old British Sports- canay’ abotlcation. wae obsaned CENSIIS BUREAU Audi Nelson and Chief Bank ren out as he made a | mor Ne = statement give them 10, days, until he had signed a shares and a few specialties, in- tess of Cathcart, it was announced | was ‘accompanied to the confer-jtoday, said he would challénge depientinht -cuiiaatitins Mix in Stes vote of 733 to 258, the New York ' : » J . 2 special rule, which permitted the convention to adopt unanimously the rest of the platform before taking up the pro- hibition plank. The declaration cgme before the Platform Committee in a resolu- tion by Meier Steinbrink of Brook- lyn.- It calls for repeal with the understanding that the repealer be accompanied by adoption of a sub- stitute amendment, outlawing the saloon, forbidding private traffic in intoxicating beverages. for pri- vate profit, and guaranteeing Fed- eral . assistance to prohibition states. Committee Vote 38 to 12. The committee placed the plank in the platform by a vote of 39 to .12. The 991 delegates to the conven- tion were summoned to meet at 10 to hear the address of Speaker Jo- seph A. McGinnies of the State As- sembly as permanent chairman and adopt the platform and nominate a State ticket. Opposition to the declaration for" repeal came from two sources: Party leaders eager to avoid vari- ance between State and National Republican prohibition planks, and the organized reform groups. + The Anti-Saloon League, the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and the New York Civic League agreed.to unite in support of an. independent dry candidate tor Governor if the wet plank was adopted. An open hearing of the platform committee last night on the prohi- bition declaration was marked free quently by mingled hisses and ap- }plause,. Former Senator James W. Wads- worth Jr. led off for the advocates of repeal, and Congresaman Fio- rello H. La Guardia, W. a Macy of Long Island and oth Oa a RD eg on (reer ear iy. Juana oe ¥ a ei ale ang ee ee eee te. Rea” aT : é ry ee ‘ - - > OD chee " h acer ‘ Reitz as Detectives posted themselves at tifteate, signed by Fred: M. thie second spot, only to meet an-| Justice of the Peace, at Waterloo. EIGHT REPORTED DROWNED ig “But the plaintiff alleges that a Increased ‘Ne day's news from business Waving a newspaper to passen- Order, Measures to Stop the play) interrupts a concert to | _ of Nitle interest marketwise. > °rous August railroad state- Ments continued to show declines, | - Bear Raids. r" the asoveated Press. CHICAGO, Sept. 26.—Selling of grain futures on the Chicago Board gers aboard, the Steamer Cape Gir- ardeau, which was passing, an un- identified young woman wadedyinto the Mississippi River at Poplar | other group of officers, accompa- said a man had asked them to de- mand money from Nolan and that marriage contract was not intended See eT DE ee ee ee to be entered into, and that /no ceremony was performed, but that . WHEN LAKE BARGE SINKS Nine Men and Two Women on Craft That,.Goes Down in nner: ; Gale, . announce excitedly that the Ger- man Foreign Minister has just beén the game was schemed, planned, i In ¥ plotted and invented and previous- ‘ecaxmaoN, Michi, Sept. 26. se vod R léw of the . recent Sage ly arranged for by the defendant) 4+ jeast eight of the 11 members for the fraudulent. wrongful and| of the crew, including two women, | on, - Just in’ Ume to pean te wicked purpose of oo his | of the barge Salvar are thought to RENAMED TO TARIFF BOARD | property.” have lost their lives this afternoon showed a contraction Of | wheat by the Soviet Government | Stature. The body has not been re- Appointment by President Hoover | ~ Thomasson’s petition says that| when the vessel broke loose from |... tea Completes the Personnel of on Aug. 13, he was again persuad-|the tug Fitzgerald during = 40-/RA ‘he rate of the dectease in , treet and was drownéd at 6:15 arison 1 |of Trade by any: foreign Govern-/§ "2 P| they ‘had become suspicious and | pees ) * “ith the same month nent is objectionable and must be| m yesterday. notified police. ™ 3 emer i =o rs smaller than Were) ..geq, the directors of the board, 3 thcmeg Ellison and Charles . a” Se vity ratios eee ™ stated in a tesolution adopted to- | Jackson, Negroes, reported the case 3 THE COOK WAS et a. ‘é Keserve Credit Decreases. day after conaideration of the prob- to police. They described the LINCOLN DIXON OF INDIANA € CHEN ANT LOST) bea “ea : evkly Federal Reserve! ).., arising from short selling of| Woman as youthful and of small | ONE tac: ,. in the outatanding to~| --rne directors’ instructed’ the} covered. at ea _crve credit and @ $28,000,-) board's Business Conduct Commit- vigorous -measyres to HONDURAN crop in the amount of money tee to take * ‘iauion, The latter item had stop bear raids and price manipu- ha Commission. ed to enter an automobile, and/| mile gale on Lake Michigan. By the Associated Presa. ” was driven by the defendant and barge. WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—Lit-/}per “so-called. chauffeur” to Chi-+ 53 af it $3 F i , ‘ Over Labor day, but the cash ‘ation, and advised the committee All Members of Capital Municipal- coln Dixon of North Vernon, Ind., cago and ‘Milwaukee; that he was vended at that time quickly re- io the banks, which would rather see it put into service istry, a per cent call money reap: “one d in the outside market, al-. Hough the stock exchange rate} By , it 2. Time loans were steady. . °F ago this week demand _.’ Were bringing 8 to 10 per and time accommodations ‘nded 9 te 9%. _—— t _ wv) 1? : {} | — Chania stock prices will be mama on Pages 210, 220 and ‘celed her that. unduly large short sales, as distinguished from hedging, may be} regarded as evidence of improper —e Moinar Slaps Tardy Actress. br ne es Sept. t 26 A. trans-At- lantic radio company report from} Budapest says Franz Molnar, the | dramatist, created a sensa‘ion at’ | the comedy theater by slapping the face of the prima donna ‘| Gal, “because she came late to re- Dearsal. Franziska Gal returned ity BY SEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Sept. 26.—All members of the municipal- ity of the capital, including Mayor Lucas Concada, have been suspend- ed on charges of miilicioualy alter- ing the electoral rolls. The charges. have. been referred to the. courts. ‘The municipality ‘belongs to the Conservative Oppo- sition party. The. Libera: party uppealed to legal reeans to suapend the officers after alieging that al- terations in the ~ otagee a8 cermsus gave the & decided eee stn eel + \ Conservatives Advantage in the October electione. nee “dent Hoover, completing the per- today was reappointed @ member of the Tariff Commission by Preai- | sonnel of that agency. Dixon, a Democrat, has served as} a tariff commissioner since 1927. Tt was said the President had had more difficulty in selecting six members of the Tariff Commission than with any other appoifitments he hag-made, The co is bi-partisan under sha law. nuts he. ev provided | hig ema was said to have sought he should pay her $1000 a.