St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 6, 1930

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’ TOD PEC uw Ss PAT OF 67 ee The Only Evening Newspaper i in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service wn 3, NO, 30. ST. LOUIS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 6 rr 3 —s 6, 1930. a PAGES. BAG ae ewe ESIENT FINDS I PLAY AIDS WARD EASING MPLOYMENT ack of industrial Disputes | During Business Depres- | son Helpful, He Tells Federation of Labor Con- yention. FERS ‘ONE KEY” TO SOFT COAL PROBLEM | irges American Legion in First of Two Speeches in | Boston to Promote Peace | Through Active Citizen- ship. ~ President s here today mn0tion of uneli- was conven- ' to reduce first speech national rican Legion, FACES REVOLUTION PORES I SLA AIS PIAA I OAS Keen . S § DR. JULIO PRESTES, Presirent-Elect of Brazil. eee om _- ‘TWO WORLD SERIES TICKETS BRAZIL PUT UNDER MARTIAL LAW AS REVOLT SPREADS | President’s Decree Effective Until Dec. 31 — Follows State of Seige Order in Two States. OUTBREAK IN PARA REPORTED TO U. S. — i | Washington Learns Federal Garrison Rebelled and Jailed Officers — Army Marching on Sao Paulo, me ee | By the Associated Press. | KIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 6.—OK- SOLD FOR $18.60 BY THIEF | is to the sravity of the situation 'Men Who Unknowingly Made Pur- peace | the | chases From Pickpocket Halted at Gate. A pickpocket who at noo Sat- urday robbed J. D, Nettleship, 7341 Amherst avenue, of $8, two tickets to Saturday’s world series game and two to Sundays game, sold the Sunday tickets yesterday morn- ing for $18.60. James M. Hoff of Kirksville, Mo., bought one for $12, and when he presented it at the gate, was immediately § ar- , ) . annual sessicn of | rested. ederation of Labor. | ivor delegates that ty had been in- ional co-operation ict between he busi- urged the their mis- ing the ard Othe nforce- it the has i than at “The real- (oO promote through active test guaranty “Burden of Cnemployment,” irudeh of unemploy- sts. Mr. Hoover said ‘ delegation the un- greed upon at the conferences last No- business, industrial lers had been carried izing degree, of course, excep- tinued, “but in the)! great manufactur- the railways, -s houses have beea (in the esiablished huve spread their ‘matically. For in more than a cen- recurring depressions Syst 7 n practically free of | rial conflict. thus had nation-wide and team play which amelorated the hard- depression. These served as a prac- of unemployment in- Wuminous Coal Industry, “ “He industry President as one industries affected by "es and Jlabor-saving “one key” to a sdlu- cuted reduction of | “destructive com- i+ industry. » its Other difficul- hued, “must be ct of the multitude indent mine owners ines, Which hus re- uctive competition down of wages.” is not the purpose © system,” he said, produce a competi- | ‘\roys stability in an | nous coal be = the rth é “ q | friends who, While detectives were question- ing him, Nat Meyers, 5721 Mc- Pherson avenue, presented the oth- er stolen ticket at the gate and also was taken into custody. - He bought it from a man on Dodier street, he said, paying $6.60. Police hurried out in search of ‘the ticket seller, but he had gone. as Hoff and Meyers were mourning the loss, not only of their money, but of a chance to see the game, William Dewitt, sec- retary of the Cardinals, arrived and was told of the situation. “They paid their good money to see this ball game,” he said. “Let them in.” Nettleship also saw the games. He had presented tickets to when they heaid of Then, his misfortune, returned the tickcts | By | demonstrate his } iuces to poverty all | Its purpose is | tain that degree of | ich induces progress consumer. be at fault, \. F. I. Leader. Mr. Hoover at the .eeting, William of the labor or- i'd he had always in- chief executive's favor of high wages rsement of the wage announced by = the convention of the teration of Labor.’ ‘ont demonstrated his confidence in the high wages when he rence of representa- and industry at the last November,” “at that eonference ‘hat peace be pre- istry and that wages curing the period through which The great in- exercised on that 'O maintain wage they inne. pre 'on Page 2, Column 8. If our | | 'many’s stimmettel system. he had given them. TO DEMONSTRATE TAKING ELECTRICITY FROM THE SEA Cuban Invites “Other Scientists to Attend His Experiment This Afternoon, the Associated Press. MATANZAS, Cuba, Oct. 6.— | Prof. George Claude today was to | let other men of science come into util- | him pro- and * watch method of energy from his laboratory curing electrical sea. Conditions were said to be ideal for the experiment scheduled to be held late this afternoon. The Cuban Society of Engineers, the Havana Academy of Science | and-a number of Government offi- cials were to be represented at the d»monstration. It was reported at the palace that President Ma- chado and Secretary of Public Works Carlos Miguel de Cespedes might also attend. VOTING BOCTH AT 8700 FEET Special t> the Post-Dispatch. GARMISCH, Germany, Oct. 6.- — Germans who had planned to vis- it the Zugspitze, the country’s high- est mountain, on election day, were able to cast their votes in the Schneefernerhaus, 8700 feet above sea level. This was made possible by Ger- Any elector who cannot be present in his own election district on elec- tien day can secure a stimmzettel, or voting certificate, which en- titles him to cast his vote wherever he may be in the country. SHOWERS TONIGHT, TOMORROW: NO CHANGE IN TEMPERATURE el - THE TEMPERATURES. ‘ perrre’ 63 4 Y raterday’s, high, 69 (a > m.): (630 a Relative humidity at noon, 657 per cent. ~ Official fore- Now FOR cast for St. Louis and vicinity: Showers tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature, Missouri: Show- ers tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature. Hilinois: Show- ers tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature. Sunset, 5:36; sunrise (tomor- row), 6:03, Stage of the Mts sissipp!, 1.3 feet, a fall of .1. “! go-1o Cm wi or POST-DISPATCH WEATHERBIRD | ; brought about by the revolt to the | south, President Washington Luis today decreed throughout Brazil until Dec. 31. Saturday the Government pro- claimed a state of siege in the states of Rio Grande do Sul and Minas Geraes, where the revolt originated. ‘ By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—Unoffi- cial but authoritative reports -re- ceived in Washington say a revolt has broken out in Para, Brazil, many hundred miles to the north of previously reported revolution- ary activity in Southern Brazil. The advices say the Federal gar- rison at Para had revolted late yes- terday and imprisoned the com- manding officers. The rebels were described as strongly entrenched in the barracks and in contro] of that section of the city. The reports add that state police have remained loyal to the Federal Government and fighting took place during the night, the extent of which was not determined. By the Associated Press. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Oct. 6. —News from Brazilian border points indicates that eight of the 21 states in Brazil are attempting to unseat the Federal Government of President Washington Luis and prevent the inauguration of the President-elect, Dr. Julio Prestes, on Nov. 135. Gen. Francisco Flores da Cunha, martial Jaw ‘the leader of the movement which | the | began in the southernmost State of Rio Grande do Sul, said today the States of Parana, Santa Catarina, Piauhy, Ceara, Rio Grande Norte, were also backing his campaign. forces. The Federal Government has de- |earlier figures of the number of clared a _ state of siege in Rio Grande do Sul and Minas Geraes, and has appropriated $10,000,000 to put down the rebellion. The Government also is said to have offered to make peace, with the in- Surrectionists refusing all over tures, Sao Paulo Attack Planned. Da Cunha is understood to be planning an attack on the great seaport of Sao Paulo. His Rio Grande do Sul army, reinforced wtth conscripts between 21 and 35 years old, is moving northward through Santa Catarina and intends to concentrate in the State of Pa- rana, which borders the State of Sau Paulo on the south. Then, it is said, with a railway line along its route, the army will move on the great coffee port. At the same time the revolution- aries are consolidating their gains in all the cities of Rio Grande do Sul. Juan Francisco Pereira, who commands one of the revolutionary brigades, has gone to Porto Alegre, which was taken by rebels last week, There he will confer with revolt leaders, among them Herco- lino Castro, a former naval Lieu- tenant in charge of insurgent troops there. Castro was dismissed from the navy after the failure of a revolt aboard the battleship Sao Paulo in 1924. He lived in Uruguay until the current movement began. ‘Regular officers are said to be swinging to the revolutionists grad- ually. Some of those in tharge of the Seventh Cavalry were held prisoners for a time, but now have returned to their organization and will lead it in the northward drive. Officers of the Sixth Calalry, who were captured at Alegrete, were condueted over the Uruguay- an frontier, but jhe rank and file of the regiment/’joinc the revolu- tionary army. Revolt Leader's Intention, Gen. da Cunha, in a statement said thdt if the revolt were suc- cessful a provisional Government would be established with elections to be called eventually. He added that the insurgent army would push northward to Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo 8 and predicted victory, saying the Rio Grande do Sul force alone num- bered 40,000 troops, with many of them drawing ne*. the Federal capital. 4 Gen. da Cunha has been wound- do | Parahyba and Minas Geraes | the craft was disclosed | with Federal troops and thousands| Commander John Holt, of civilians joining the revolting|ed the British Investigating Com- ONE STOWAWAY, POSSIBLY TWO, ON WRECKED AIRSHIP Member of British Board Investigating R-101 Dis- aster Discloses Fact — Woman's Shoe Found. POLICE ACCOUNT FOR 48 DEAD British Expert scribes Crash to Rupture of Metal Frame, Indicating Trou- ble Before Ship Fell. | By the Associated Press. BEAUVAIS, France, Oct. _6.— While investigations were under way today into the loss of 48 lives in the wrecking of the world’s largest dirigible airship, the British R-101, near here early yesterday, a warship was on its way to France to bear home to England the bodies of the victims. Despite the most searching ex- aminations by officials of Great Britain and France, it was an- nounced this evening that not a single body had been identified. Everything, even to the smallest trinkets found at the scene of the disaster, were enclosed with the charred bodies in coffins and pre- pared for removal to Boulogne, where at 11 o’clock tomorrow morning they will be embarked for London. French and _ British officials worked in closest co-operation in their efforts to solve the puzzle of how the R-101 met its fate in the darkness as it sailed over France, 50 miles north of Paris. Afire Before Crash. Engineer Church of the R-101 this afternoon talked briefly de- spite his painful burns. He indi- cated that the airship was afire when it nosed into the ground. “It was only at the last minute,” he said, “that we finally saw the ship was doomed. I was on the bridge forward and observed then that the ship, forced adrift by the wind and almost turned end for end, was pointing toward the earth. “TIT suddenly perceived that the craft was afire, and a violent ex- plosion which followed at once threw me to the ground.” Stowaway on Board. The presence of one stowaway and the possibility of two aboard by Air who head- mittee. Whether this would change dead and those aboard the craft was left to further official an- nouncements. Previous figures had placed the victims at 48, one of them possibly a woman, and the whole number of persons aboard the R-101 at 54. This announce- ment disagreed with reports of sur- vivars who insisted there were 568 persons aboard of whom only eight were saved, one of the rescued dy- ing at dawn today. Police said 47 bodies had been taken out of the ruins of the ship, to which list was added the name of W. G. Radcliffe, a rigger. Delving into the twisted wreck- age, the investigators this after- noon found a woman's shoe. . This gave rise to the belief that a wom- an stowaway was aboard. The finding of the shoe was followed by the admission by the British Afr Commander that the owner of the shoe may have been one of two stowaways aboatl the dirigible. Possible Mistake in Count. Holt, who was cescribed as - recting the British investigation into the disaster, said the British Air Ministry may. have made a mi As he was speaking’ we both noticed that the ship went over at a surprising an- “We crouched in the cabin away from the heat and flames. Thén seeing the water cutting a way for us through the body of the ship we dropped down and found that our part of the ship was some feet above the ground. So all we had to do was roll over and over in the wet grass with wet handkerchiefs over our faces to get away from the flames. “Bell thought first of helping others, but we saw that there was no chance for this, as the ship by this time was a mass of flame ii which they were imprisoned,” Binks and Bell tried to. visualize what had happened, but they knew from what they heard afterward that the ship had been maneuver- ing strangely as it passed over Beauvais. The: thought it was only being buffeted by a heavy wind, but advanced the surmise that it | might have dived into a wind pocket, and being at a height of which has an elevation of 700 feet, Ship Weighted by Rain Leach said: “The dirigible. had been going normally after the start from Cardington. It was weighed down by rain and it was difficult to inake altitude, but there seemed no cause for alarm. It was only when we were over Beauvais that I noticed that the ship seemed to be acquiring a plunging motion. gle, but quickly righted herself again. Engines Shut Off. "We were making 65 knéts at this moment when an order came through to slow down the engines. Immediately afterward the nose dipped and we got a second order ‘to shut off the engines. “We had hardly done so when we struck something. We could hardly believe it was the ground, as we had no idea we were sd near the earth. But there was no time to think of that, as the forward engine exploded as we crashed and waves of flame came rushing aft. “Water began pouring into the cabin. We thought at first the air- ship was in watér; but a second later we saw that the water was coming: from the tank overhead, which had broken and was flood- That may have been due to a break in the. tail, but that js not sure and nothing of the kind occurred to me at the time. The tall may have been jbroken after the crash. “I was thrown to the floor’ of the cabin by the shock of the ex- plosion and pinned down by a bent girder, but I heaved it off, tore the outside of the cabin and got. my head through. Then-I pulled my body through the Hole, threw.my- self.to the ground and rolled away from the flaming envelope.” Assistant Wireless Operator Dis- ley, who is among the survivors in a hospital here, was not.as ‘strong as Teach. Trapped in his cabin. he could not tear bias way to..safety throught the fabric. After futile t..orig,. he fell . exha:.. floor of the cabin, only to . find that a hole had been burned through it. Through this hole he’ ing down.on us. rolled out to the wet beet’ field, WARRANT CHARGES ATTEMPT | TO BRIBE STATE WITNESS A warrant charging an attempt to bribe a witness was issued to- day against Floyd*R. Hunter of Roosevelt Hotel. Hunter was’ arrested yesterday after Garrett Washington, a witness for the State in a robbery case, complained to Assistant Circuit At- torney° Murphy that Hunter asked him to “go easy”. in testifying against Harry Graham, who is to he tried soon for the holdup of the German Cafe, 110 North Eighth street, Aug. 11, last year. The charge against Hunter is punishable by from a fine of $100 Siain in Holdup; Loot 40 Cents, CHICAGO, Oct. 6.—Edward Fitzgerald, 25 years old, an oiler employed by the Sanitary District, was shot and killed yesterday by The wrestler. exhibited a gash on Continued o. Page 2, Column 6, his arm, nae ae Lee = Pe ee ea ee ee eee = ie eecas itis! 5 Epa te Pa fae a ge eye a hs Digby tet $e . AM ni i 7a iy R A pes . ets ps ( a aah BB Nant res 3 Pager st aL a Bg ree a three robbers, thotgh he made no resistance. The killers got 40 cents. ': GERMAN REJUVENATON SURGEON ENDS LIFE AT DESK IN BERLIN BERLIN, Oct. 6.—Dr. Peter Schmidt, who had gained consid- erable reputation tn rejuvenation operations, shot and killed himself at his desk yesterday. Friends think the surgeon who was only 38 years old, had been worn by too much work. He was the author of a book, “The Con-| quest of Old Age.” and had done much toward developing the Stei- nach method of rejuvenation. Motor Ship Sinks in Collision. By the, Associated Press. ,. VANCOUVER, B. C., Oct. t.— The motor ship Bamfield, outbound | from Vancouver for Matzatlan, Mexico, sank in the Gulf of Georgia yesterday as the result of a collision with the Canadian Pacific steam- ship Princess Joan. The crew of the Bamfield was reseved by the} Princess Joan. The Bamfield car- ried a cargo of fuel ofl. The steam- er was not damaged. only 800 feet, hit the top of the hill. PLANE CRASH ‘AT DRESDEN By the Associated Press, BERLIN, Oct. 6.—Eight persons were killed when a Lufthansa passenger plane bound from Berlin for Vienna crashed on the moor- lands near Dresden today. The plane carried a pilot, a mechanic and six passengers. The plane was scheduled to land at Dresden at 9:50 a. m., Dut fell shortly before. The Lufthansa said the crash occurred just as the machine was preparing to make a gliding descent to the landing field. The cause of the accident was not ascertained immediately. The weather was perfect for flying. There were no clouds below 2000 feet and there was visibility for six miles. Seven of the eight ocgupants died instantly atid the eighth as he was being taken to a hospital. Two women perished. Their names were given as Fraulein Bluemel and Frau Graefe. Namer of the other four dead passengers are Blackwell, Foeldes, Knittel and Kuehnelt. The pilot was’ Erich Pust, with long service with the Lufthansa, Max Lange was the mechanic. The passenger, P. W. Blackwell, was a British business man of Shanghai, traveling from Hamburg to Prague. All others aboard were Germans or Austrians. Frau Graefe was the wife of the Luf- thansa representative at Sofia. The airplane was powered with one motor. Its capacity was 11 passengers and a crew of two men. It had been in service just two weeks. Other planes of the same type are used mainly as freight carriers. D-1930, which originally had been assigned to the DO-X but with- drawn when the Dornier command- er, Friedrich ‘Christiansen, refused ried a number whose digits totaled 13. The DO-X now carries the number D-1929. SILVER VALUED AT $50,000 STOLEN IN HOLDUP OF TRUCK Driver of Connecticat Vehicle Ticd to Bumper by Five Gunmen, Who Ex aped. By the Associated Presa, KILLINGLY, Conn., Oct. 6.—Five or six gunmen early today held up a truck driver, bound and gagged him and escaped with bulk silver valued by police at $50,000, The driver, Cornelius A. 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