St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 4, 1930

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if j ; if i i ee ’ TODA Rec ws Pa 3 NO. 28. See “ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 4, 1930.18 PAGES: FS WRIT TOEND V VORK INQUIRY pe SHIP SALE ea I REE —_——- Futher- .in- ae val Former | Ewald Pre- Magistrate gnts Plea Too Late foe | Acion Today. TAMMANY MEN PUT -UMIT ON N IMMUNITY | Offer to Return to Grand | Jury and Testify, But; Only as to Their Official Acts and Conduct. 4.—-A legal jury inquiry | idicial office | * today because | father- | former Mag- ild, presented rit of pro- | ry too late | f Supreme fourt A whies By leased Wire From lork Bureau of the Dispatch. the New Post- ’ > 4 , ‘ s . Oct. 4.—On advice | i m ry ' s. . ; Se ee }1y GIStrict | | ere. Ve SS. ~~ ack to | pointment, J. REUBEN CLARK. J. REUBEN CLARK SUCCEEDS MORROW | bassy Is Made Ambassador by Hoover. | By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—— J. |Reuben Clark of Salt Lake City will succeed Dwight W. Morrow as Ambassador to Mexico. His ap- announced late yester- day at the White House, was im- mediately greeted as a happy one |both in Washington and in Mexico i . 2 | , | Some 4 |selor for the embassy. cessor | City. Clark has time as special adviser to Ambassador Morrow and as coun- His prede- is generally - |have cénsidered him as the logical -| Shared in Mexican Government cir- | cles. . in iry—the | f that | paid to ob- ents lo the iTg;es Messenger Delivers Letters, ' ir before the Mavor’s ulti- ger arrived at gE seven identical of the leaders af- “testify or They ineclosed etters sent to is, foreman of the} received the orig- at the same time. ‘e that I am ready “nee to respond to re your body at e and testify as to or conduct in the official duties and iver to you a Jnity with respect +t or’s e ~ re signed by Clar- r.. William L. Rav- Goldenkranz, ler, John J. Dietz, Keever and Michael mon = _ =. ‘ePly to Leaders. ide public the text At about the lJ was notified of the ers’ action by Mor- nsent of the grand Tedd then sent the to the leaders: of the special grand ring jour letter of ) hich you offer to i waiver of immunity only concerning your and conduct. . Your t be accepted unless it nderstood that your t be imited te your t shall be unlimited r any other acts of other person violation on the (fairs, particularly (oil and agrarian questions which ‘are at present r the laws relating | i! i Yesterday the Post-Dispatch .ranchise, whether appointment af i as a City Megis- tion to the appoint- nor election , of sons to public office. to execute an un- of immunity, please ptty and I will sug- ) cay and hour for: e before the grand H a copy of Todd's rh? Le Mr. Todd did not ‘ers of the district ive immunity and neir official acts and se, If there ts any- lam anxious to knosy inquiry is into their irs, that’s different.” rry, Tammany chief- ‘£ an official posi- . Mayor Walker © thi : will stand by his “: to waive tmmnuv- ‘Ov. Roosevelt broad- ® of the investigation ury has asked. At "Meany Hall regards the °. @8 @ “fishing expedi- — His knowledge of Mexican af- prime Mexican-American relations, factors in republic as fitting him to carry on Morrot’s work for friendship be- tween the two nations. Clark’s elevation to ambassadori- al rank in a post now considered one of the most importan: in the foreign service, came after 24 years of almost continuous service ‘in the State Department, of which |} he was for a time Under-Secretary. He became assistant solicitor of the Department in 1906 and after representing the United States on various international commissions was sel in 1921. Seven years later Sec- 'retary Kellogg appointed him Un- der-Secretary. During -recent months the State Department published a _ treatise prepared by Clark giving a dis- tinctly liberal interpretatfon to the Monroe Doctrine. This was re- ceived very favorably in the Latin- American nations. The new Ambarsador to Mexico is 59 years old. Before entering the State Department he _ taught law at George Washington Univer- sity. BOY, 16, SETS JUNIOR RECORD FOR TRANSCONTINENTAL FLIGHT Robert Buck, Elizabeth, N. J., Ar- rives in Alhambra, mae ‘From Newark, N. d. ALHAMBRA, Cal, Oct. 4.—Rob- ert Buck, 16-year-old Elizabeth (N. J.) aviator, broke. the junior trans- continental flight record today, ar- riving at Western Air Express Field at 10:28 a. m. Buck reported his elapsed time from Newark, N. J., was 28 hours 33 minutes, which lowered by one hour and 8 minutes the record made by his friend, Eddie Schnei- der of Jersey City, N. J. Carried a Total of | |312 Columns) | of Paid Advertising This was 51 columns mote than appeared in ALL three other news- papers COMBINED. fd 227 GHlumsi Retail Advertis This was $4 columns more than ALL three others combirted. bit i I! | CONCENTRATION | IN THE POST-DISPATCH PAYS THE ADVERTISER been in Mexico for | yy even for medicinal purposes, as | _their permit had been understcod to | : ' ; ; | Counselor to Mexico City Em- | } ' ' FIVE DRUGGISTS HELD FOR ILLEGAL “tetrator’ Dillon Says His “Agents Purchased Liquor _ Several Times. -' CASES TO GO BEFORE U. S. GRAND JURY Additional Charges Filed Against One in Whose: Establishment a Quantity of Wine Was Seized. Five druggists, charged with il- | legal sales of intoxicants, were ar- rested last night by prohibition agents under Deputy Administrator Dillon. In each case, Dillon said, his agents had made at feast four purchases of whisky recently. Charges against the druggists will be considered by the Federal grand | jury. Those arrested are Berthram | Schnurmacher, manager of a drug store at 4401 West Pine boulevard; Aaron Wieselman, owner'of a store at 5641 South Kingshighway; Stuart S. Wykle, owner of a store at 3725 South Kingshighway, and Jerry Wilkerson and Paul Jones, owners of a store at 3301 North/ Kingshighway. Wilkerson and Jones, | said, were not entitled to sell whis- , | revoked. An additional charge of posses- sion of liquor was Wrkle, when agents reported find- ‘ing a quantity of wine and What 'man for the post and this view was | relating to the | was viewed by officials of the Eouthern | ' ; ' | ; elevated to the -ank of coun- | | town, | est his store. purported to be Scotch whisky in WOMAN FOR WHOM SEDALIA». WAS NAMED DIES AT 9 Mrs. Sarah Elvira Cotton was | Called Sed by Her Father, Who Founded City. y the Aesociated Press SEDALIA, Mo., Oct. 4.— Mrs, Sarah Elvira Cotton, for whom Se- dalia was named, died just before last midnight. She observed her ninety-ninth birthday- Wednesday. When Mrs. Cotton was a girl, her father, the late Gen. George R. Smith, who founded Sedalia, called her Sed. For years after Sedalia was founded, the town was called Sedville, the name iater changed to Sedalia. Mrs. Cotton, long a Sedalia benefactor, was bern at George- Ky., Oct. 1, 1831, the young- of three daughters of Geri. Smith. Among her gifts to Sedalia were a park for Negroes and the site for Smith-Cotton High School. In 1871, she married Henry F. Cot- ton, who died five years later. She never remarried. BABY KIDNAPED FROM CRIB, FOUND DEAD IN MILK HOUSE Father Also Discovers That Purse Containing $40 Was Taken by Intruders: No Clew. By the Associated Presse. WAYNESBURG, Pa., Oct. 4.—A 4-months-old child, who was re- ported kidnaped from her Crib last night near here was found drowned in a milk storage house near her home today. Paul Lewis, the father, told police he went to his daughter's crib dur- fing the night and found the bed empty. He aroused neighbors and the police were called. Th> child’s body was found within 50 yards of the home. Lewis later discovered his purse containing $40 also was stolen, he told the police. -No clew was left by the kidnaper and robber LONGWORTH PREDICTS GAINS BY DEMOCRATS IN HOUSE. eee CLEVELAND, O., Oct. 4.—Nich- olas Longworth, Speaker of the House of Representatives, said here last night the Democrats would make some gains in jis branch of Cengress but that the Republicans would retain control. Normai Democratic districts that! went Republican in the Hoover landslide of 1928 are likely to re- turn to the Democratic fold as a natural reaction, he said, but the outiook is not for sweeping Demo- cratic gains in normally Republi- can territory. Prohibition, he said. has become a major issue in many congression- ai vraces. Ohio was described by the Speaker, who is a Republican, as “safely Republican.” He said he had no reason to worry as to his own re-election. 71 Hurt in German Bus Upset. By the Aesociated Press KASSEL, Germany, Oct. 4.— Seventy-one persons out of 76 aboard a motor’ bus were injured today when the big car skidded and overturned near WNiederzwehren. Thirty-one of the victims were se- | tiously hurt. They were mostly farmers’ wives taking butter and }eggs to market, being | Dillion | i ; 4 placed against | imile north of Greenwood, | POSSIBLY SHOWERS IN AF TERNOON OR NIGH T TOMORROW | at =a aye Dee a _ Sa teas he e3ep! rp} Zz lative numiaity, at o Votergay’s dich. 82. (2: 45 5@ (6:15 ‘Official forecast for St. Louis vicinity: Party Cloudy tonight; to- ing by” ‘Showers in afternoon or night; not much - Change in temper- ature. eo Missouri: Show- ers tonight or to- morrow, except partly, cloudy in extreme east por- tion tonight; not much ¢-change in temperatupe. ritfnois: Incréas- ing cloudiness, probably followed by showers in west and north portions tomorrow, and in extreme northwest portion tonight;* not much change in tem- perature. Next Week's Weather Ontlook. ' WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—Weath- er outlook for the’ weék beginning Monday: For the upper Mississippi and lower Missours valleys: Showes ers at beginning of week, mostly fair near middle, and probably showers again at close; tem pera- | tures mostly moderate. ATTEMPT 10 WRECK MO. PAC. TRAIN FAILS: Passenger, Engineer Sees Chain on Rail in Time to Avért Crash. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 4.— Attempt was made last night to wreck Missouri Pacific train No. “21, ghe “S ce ‘Limited,” bound from gt. Lo to Kansas City, one Mo., ' southeast of here. Ed Hodges, engineer, applied the brakes quickly. The pony trucks of the locomotive were derailed by a log chain secured around one rail. Many passengers were shaken from their seats. No one was reported injured. The train, due to arrive here at 9:20 p. m., was delayed more than an hour. Railroad detectives are investi- gating. WOMAN AND TWO MEN KILLED IN STORE BY GANGSTERS Victims Shot Down by Pair Who Enter Establishment at Brad- dock, Pa. Ey the Associated Prese .- PITTSBURG, Pa., Oct. 4.—A woman and two men were shot and killed and another man was wounded, probably fatally, today, when gangsters fired five times into a little fruit store in Brad- dock, a suburb. Two men shot and killed Joseph Lobianco, proprietor of the store, his 27-year-old wife, and Loui To- mano, 70, a customer. . Lobianco’s brother, Michael, 28, was wound- ed so seriously he is not expected to live. Residents of the neigh bocheod’ e2id three men drove up to the Store shortly after 9 a. m: and while one remained at the wheel of their automobile, the other two entered the store. Shots were heard, and the gunmen ran out, leaped into the au‘-mobile and sped away. TRAPPED ON VIADUCT, MAN IS HURT BY STREET CAR Louis Clark, 65, Was Watking On Ties Over River Des Peres’. Trapped by streef cars approach- ing from two directions on the nar- row viaduct between Maplewood and Webster Grovés, Louis Clark, 65, a telegraph operator of 751 Atalanta avenue, Webster Groves, was seriously injured this morning when struck by th northbound car, The long viaduct, over the River des Peres and the Missouri-Pacific railroad tracks, was désigned for exclusive use by street cars, but pedestrians occasionally cross it by stepping on the ties, Both cars stopped after ER was struck and he was taken in the southbound one to the home of a Webster Groves physician who had him taken to St. Mary's Hos- pital. die suffered a skull injury and possible y spinal fracture. SHAMROCK ¥ CREW IS. HOME SEYMOUTH, "Engiand, Oct. 4,— Capt. Ned Heard, who commanded | Sir Thomas Lipton’s yacht Sham- rock VY when it was defeated by Vanderbilt's Enterprise off Newport last month, and the crew of the Shamrock landed today from v4 loudiness, | , possibly followed |. : REFORM SCHOOL Body Is a I Floor of Her Bedroom in a Cottage of Pennsylvania Institu- tion for Boys. KEYS MISSING; LAMP actos graphed as Clew — Cor- oner Says Crime Was ‘Committed by Adult. By the Associated Press, « GLEN ~MILLS, Pa., Oct. ..~—A missing bunch of keys and a blood- stained handprint on the wall of the bedrooni where Mrs: Vida Ro- bare was slain, today wefe the only clews of the murder of the 38-year-old matron at the Glen Mills Schools, a reform institution for boys. Mrs. Robare’s body was found by her husbafid,.. Fred, an in- | structor‘in farming at the schodl. She tad suffered a fractured skull, two broken ribs and 38 stab wounds, apoarently with an ice- pick. Search is being made for the keys and the handprint has been photographed by State police. Mrs. Robare’s body was found on the floor of her room, partly undressed. On her bed was an open magazine and a partly eaten pear. An overturned* lamp y had been disturbed. Nothing was) missirg but the keys which Mrs.) Robare always carried with her. Mr. and Mrs. Robare lived } one of the group of cottages that form the schools. They had charge of 48 Negro boys of all ages, who | die in two large rooms on the second floor. The Robare apart- | ment is on the same floor. A kitchen, dining room and assembly hall are on the first floor. The Robares have a 10-year-old son. Mrs. Robare was known as the house mother. Coroned Frankenfield said that maniac or by a person in a rage. The body, unclad, but with a silk undergarment thrown across it, was found by the side of the bed. Inmates at the school, whose object is rehabilitation rather than punishment, are taught«by classes according to their age. “This is not the work of a boy.” said O. N. Smith, county detective. “The crime was committed by a man. Mrs. Robare was athletic and could have fought off a boy.” The Robares wer- married in Michigan 12 years ago. From Michigan they moved to Baltimore and then to Jamesburg, N. J. Mrs. Robare was appointed housekeep- ing officer at the State Home for Boys at Jamesburg in October, 1925, and remained six months. Prior to that sh¢ was employed at an institution at Lechradén, Md., near Baltimore. Thompson, Mich. The reformatory occupies a 100- the age of 21 who have been sen- tenced for minor crimes. The: tn- mates ate permitted freedom of the reservation during the day, working on the large farm dairy and doing | chores. GIANT DIRIGIBLE, R-101, STARTS | ON BOOO-MILE JOURNEY Alrship Leayes Cardington, Eng., for India and Return; May Pass Over Egypt. By the Associated Pres. CARDINGTON, Eng., Oct. 4— The British dirigible R-101, the world’s largest lighter-than-air craft, cast loose from the moor- ing mast here at 7:37 p. m., for an 8000-mile trip to India and return. The first stop of the big craft, sister ship of the R-100 which re- cently made a rettirn voyage to Canada, will be Ismailia, Egypt, where it is due oh Monday. The route to be followed depends much on weather conditions. The R-10 will refuel at the Egyptian Handprint on Wall Is Photo- + A8 the matron had been killed by 4. She was born at’ aere tract and houses youths below | they met in ‘Washington to discuss Kelley’s charges and lay the groundwork for an investigation of an alleged land grab in Colorado, | Kelley is said to have information coneerning shale oil land worth $40,- 000,000, which is said to a been illegally obtained by big oil companies. TO PRINT OIL LAND CHARGES; HE WON’T GIVE MITCHELL AID =n | Ralph S. Kelley, Former Official, Thinks Jus- tice Department Investigator Has Pre-. J won Case. the only object in the room that | ’ in | ron Kelley’s recommendations and. By the ‘Associated WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—a pd, partment of.Jastice investigation of, charges of oil land maladministra- tion proceeded today without the aid of their author, Ralph &, Kel- ley, former field executive of the Interior Department's land office at Denver, Colo., who chose instead to detail his allegations in news- paper articles. — “Itris my view that members of the President's cabinet are much too closely bound. together to per- mit impartial investigations of each other,” he wrote Seth W. Richard- son. Assistant to Attorney-General Mitchell «=signed to inquire into the charges. Also he expressed an opinion that Riciardson himself: had pre-judged the cage. In’ reply the Justice Department said it would continue to delve into the records concerning the,extensive oil shale lands of Colorado. Statement by Wilbur. Secretary of Interior Wilbur, who had been charged by Kelley with failure to end alleged favor- itism to large oil companies dis- played by Interior Secretaries dur- ing the past five years in the dis- posal of the Colorado lands, in a statement later expressed the opinion that Kelley had fallen into, “designing hands of those whp could use him to their advantage.” | Wilbur added that three-fourths of his own official acts in regard to oil shale ciaims had been faken } that in only one case had the lat- td cain overruled, Kelley had been fom a to. Washingtog jthis summer, r continued, “to give him every opportunity to torrect the ills of which he complained.” A different view ,was taken by Chairman Nye of the Senate Lands Committed, who, aftér a conferepce with Kelley, announced he regard- ed the latter as thorousthly justi- fied in his charges. but that these did not lie. at Secretary Wilbur's door. “There is a door :o’ which his ob- jections lead, howeve:,” Senator Nye added, “and this* door should be opened.” He promised to Intro- duce a Senate resolution calling for an investigation unless the Depart- ment of Justice made a thorough inquiry. Kelley Explains Action. Writing to Richardson after his conference ‘with Nye, Kelley said he declined to lay the facts before * | .CULABLE’ GRIME ALLIANCE OF GANGS, POLIGE AND POLTICANS. Established Fact, Inquisi- torial Body Reports — - Declares Smashing of Combine Is of Utmost - Importance. CITY’S REPUTATION \BADLY DAMAGED Reputable Merchants Com- pelled to Resort to Under- world Tactics in Self-De- fense — Analysis of Sys- tem. E'y the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Oct. 4.—The Septem- ber grand jury, which concluded its work and went out of existence yesterday, ‘recommended to the Criminal Court tHat a special grand jury attack the “well estab- lished -alliance between the Chi- him because “the public interests. require an ‘nvestigaticn of these c by an impartial body.” Kelley added he had made ar- rangemetn' s under which the princi- pal facts rupporting his allegations would he placéd before the public. A New York newspaper is to begin publication of a series of Kelley's articles Monday. “Kelley would have helped him- self and us, too, if he had given us a statement,” Richardson com- mented on this letter, expressing as- tonishment at being regarded as prejudiced. + 11-YEAR-OLD BOY TO GET $20,000 A MONTH UNDER WILL father’s will a qQarter of an estate valued at $100,000,000 to $150,000,- s ‘Site ? POLICE FIRE ON NATIONALISTS ALLAHABAD, Inéian, Oct. 4.— Several persons were injured in a clash between police and National- jist volunteers at Roorke, according to a report received here today. a is : ; 7 cago police department, the cor- rupt politicians, and the erimina! elements.” “We are convinced,” said the re- port, sigtied by the foreman, G. F. forthright destruction of racketeer - ing is of the utmost importance to the people of Chicago and Cook County.” The “three-cornered alliance” was blamed for the murder of three business men and eight labor union officers and 86 bombings in the last three years. The grand jury held that the pressure from the cor- rupt alliance had become so great that otherwise resp ousible business men had adopted racketeering methods and hired hoodlums to meet competition. “The indirect cost to Cook Coun- ty,” the letter continued, “in dam- aged reputation, withdrawal of business from the city and county, refusal of business to locate in a able.”’ The grand jury also expressed “amazement” that the State’s At- torney should have dropped the sanitary district invevtigation, on which previous grand juries spent considerable time. Their report said: “Our investi- gation causes us to believe that racketeering manifests itself In two major roles—the collusive agree- ment and the individual racket. The first is a conspiracy involving: “1. Business men who seek to establish for themselves preferen- tial trade position or monopoly. “2. Leaders of organized labor who seek to bring into membership of their unions all employes en- gaged in the trade controlled py business men, conspiring with them to participate in excessive profits. “3. The gangsters whose services are indispensable to the mainten- 2 0 if g 3 2 3 il i ~*~ i i : : : g ; i | = s $ ; | 7 Slaughter, Mel executive, “thatthe - racket-infested area is incaicul- ° MS eee ° me - a Py mo ME 8 pe we 4 2 , = We : \ te ai . Ie ” “3 Seek : = : ng mesroienyrnet el emcees ot. tat: pate ee ee A ae ee ee : be soc ' , ¥ * ‘> <: