St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 30, 1930

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| COMIC PAG ‘a WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1939, QUIS POST-DISPATCH The Only Evening Newspaper i in St. Louis With the ‘Associated Press News Service FINAL ES A VOL. 83. NO. 54. ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY, AY, OCTOBER 30, 1930.44 PAGES. PRICE 2 CENTS IARTHQUAK ROCKS ITALY: 17 ARE KILLED ON'S TRAIN TO VE A BIG BRASS Banp HIM TOO IF HE WASNT AID iT WOULD. Towns on Adriatic Coast Shaken; Virtually Every House in Ancona, With 50,000 Population, Dam- aged to Some Extent. PEOPLE IN PANIC REFUSE TO WORK Tremor, Extending for Miles, Preceded by Boom- ing Noise— Government Sends Relief Companies to Siricken Area. By the Assocla ted Preso. ANCONA, Italy, Oct. 30.— Twenty-seven persons are known e dead and more than 200 in- jured by an earthquake that shook the Adriatic Coast this morning. It thought that casualties in towns nh from at midday would greatly increase the totals. here are 20 dead and more ) injured in the town of on the coast, and five nd upwards of 50 injured in ‘rovince of Marche, which in- the city of Ancona. Villages in the Western part of the Province had not been heard from at noon. It was there that the authorities felt the list of dead might have been increased. Every House in City Damaged. ‘3 % Virtually every house in this city of more than 60,000 inhabitants was damaged to some extent. It was considered remarkable that had been so comparatively casualties, the big s it MS there fan sew The people of the city were*panie tT” fricken and refused to work in- doors today. The streets and pubic squares were thronged. Among the towns reporting in- juries and damage were Osimo, Castel Fiadro, Montesicuro, Candi ci Ancona, Falconara, Castel Fer- ret!, Filottrano, Orsania, Loreto, Ostra, Belvedere, Monsanvito, Mor- f’avaica, Fano, Mondolfo, Costanzo, Montelupone and Civitanova. Detachments of the Sixth In- 4niry were sent to each place. ine main railroad line between Ancona and the North was not interrupted, but trains were run- ting slowly between Senigallia and Marchiano, Wide Area Affected. The e irthquake area extends for any miles along the Adriatic ast and across the upper por- the bootleg, through the and Picenium hills, the » northern range of the Apennines and far to the north of the disaster of last July. cally the whole of the Peninsula felt the shocks. * Government before dawn had ned relief companies’ into ern. quake wags preceded by a booming noise, much like that of a In Ancona the marble front of the Provincial Headquarters Pal. fee fell into the Piazza Roma. The wer of the Church of the Holy Sacrament partly collapsed. The Mayor of Fano, in a phone conversation, said that tele- ; 10 rsons were injured there and the Chureh of the Madonna “! Ponte Netauroo had been dam- “el Ten persons also were in- ttred in the village of Mondalfo. NENATOR M’KELLAR INJURED IN AUTOMOBILE COLLISION Ternessecan Hurt on Way krom lawton to Waurika, Ok., on , Campaign Tour. by the Agsociated Press. _ LAWTON, Ok., Oct. 30.—U. &. ‘or Kenneth McKellar of Ten- was severely injured today ‘han automobile collision ashe was ; Lawton after a political for Waurika, Ok., where he speak tonight. is said at a Lawton hospital : condition was not grave. ‘tor McKellar suffered severe on the face and head. Knox “in of Duncan, Ok., who was “ine the car, was slightly in- B the McKellar car and the With which it collided were re? irned., EW YORKER GETS NOBEL PRIZE Dr. harl Landsteiner Receives a Award in Medicine. tena! As ssociated Press, CKHOLM. Ss Sweden, Oct. 30. My Nobel prize in medicine for >. ‘Ss awarded tonight to Dr. ~“" Loandsteiner of New York, con- with the Rockefeller Instl- Medical Research. nowspaper Dagblad says Dr. Forest, American radio is likely to be declared c's winner of the Nobel IND 200 HURT TRAFFIC SIGNALS TO GUIDE SALMON INSTALLED BY U. S. Electrically Charged Nets Keep Fish on Way to Sea From Straying Into Ditches. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 30. —The United States Bureau of Fisheries is installing traffic sig- nals to guide young salmon down Pacific Coast streams to the ocean. Enticing but fatal byways—irri- gation ditches and shallow creeks —are being marked with signs even a fish will understand. The traffic signals are electrically charged nets across the entrance way to the dangerous: ‘ bypaths These nets have a forceful way of telling the young salmon he is get- ting into dangerous waters. THREE KILLED, THREE HURT IN PLANE CRASH IN FRANCE One of Dead Is Thought to Be an American; Accident Occurs in — By the Associatei Pre BOULOGNE, aie. Oct. 30.— Three persons, one of them thought to be an American, were killed, and three others injured in the crash of an Imperial Airways plane at Neufchatel today. The plane was bound from Paris to London. A man named Street, a passenger, died before an ambulance sent to the scene reached there. Two oth- ers, A. C. James and F. H. Mason, died when being taken to Bou- logne. The pilot, Flynn, was seriously injured. F. B. Tompkins of Man- chester, England, was taken to the Boulogne clinic. He said that, ow- ing to fog, the plane was flying very low. James lived in Bristol, England, and F. H. Mason, Croydon, England. The Imperial Airways Co.. an- nounced in Paris that Street. who is thought to be an American, ar- rived in Paris this morning from Athens. One report was that he was from Newark, N. J. By the Associate . Press. NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 30.—The G. W. Carnick Manufacturing Co. said today that its secretary, James Street, was abroad on business and might be the passenger killed in the crash of a transport plane in aeanee- EX-CONVICT SHOT TO DEATH BY KANSAS CITY DETECTIVE F. I. Parker Fired on When He Drives Stolen Auto Into Another in Trying to Escape. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 30.— Frank L. Parker, 45 years old, for- mer convict arrested for question- ing, was shot to death here today by Paul Desser, a city detective, after Parker drove a stolen auto- mobile into another machine, in- juring two women, in an attempt to escape. Police records show Parker was sentenced to 10 years’ imprison- ment here July 6, 1925, for auto- mobile theft and was paroled from the Missouri penitentiary about a year ago. He also had police rec- ords in San Francisco, his former home, and in Milwaukee, Wis. Parker was arrested as he start- ed to enter a coupe with Herbert McClellan, sought by detectives in connection with the transporta- tion of stolen automobiles. McClellan was taken to police headquarters in a police car, and ‘Parker was ordered to follow with Desser. Parker deliberately crashed into the car in which two women were riding. He jumped out and 'drew his pistol, but was unable to 'fire because he had not released the safety catch. Desser fired two shots, killing Parker. The automobile was stolen Oct. 24 from Dr. T. E, Graham of Al- bany, Mo. FAIR AND COLDER, ABOUT 30, TONIGHT; FAIR TOMORROW = @ Miide<cics ee BR Serre - i, ibasade 6s 39 #10. a m.. come Oe “te “Se apepege SR LiFe. mevcecce OO ES m. . B38 128 NOON ..ceoce B Micecesses 37 ay wa 3n YY SF top . se? So m. sic an 7 a. m soeeaeeee 40) 2 e &..s . - ee Ms Min Be oc as SS &@- PD ‘“Gicescese 3 Festerday' . high, 62 (3:45 =" m.); low, 40 (6 a. Official foreast Mon for St. Louis and SIEUR, vicinity: Fair to- MEET SIGNOR night and tomor- row; colder to- night; lowest temperature about 30. Missouri: Fair tonight; slightly colder in east portion, with kill- ing frost in south fortion; tomor- row fair: warmer in porthwesat and extreme north portions. Illinois: Partly cloudy tonight; slightly colder WEATHERGING except in south central portion, with heavy frost in extreme south portion; tomorrow fair. Sunset, 6:03: sunrise row), 6:28. Stage of the Mississippi, 2.0 fect, a fall of 0.4. Snow flurries, which began about 9:30 a. m., continued inter- mittently during the day. . In the morning the flakes melted as they (tomor- i struck the ground. IDENIES TAX RATE WOULD BE $4.34 UNDER MERGER Citizens’ Metropolitan Com- mittee Replies to Board of of Estimates’ Objections to Proposition Five. DECLARES RATE OF $2.81 IS INDICATED This Is “Only 10 Cents Assert Officials “Didn't Tell Whole Story.” The Citizens’ Metropolitan Com- mittee, sponsoring Proposition No. 5, constitutional amendment per- mitting the consolidation of St. Louis and St. Louis County under certain stated conditions, issued another reply last night to ob- jections to the merger plan by the Board of Estimate and Apportion- ment, A statement opposing the pro- posed amendment, issued by the board two weeks ago, in which it was stated that the advantages to St. Louis taxpayers would be out- weighed by the burden placed on them, was attacked by the Metro- politan Committee as “veiled and nebulous.” -The Board, composed of Mayor Miller, Comptroller Nolte and President Neun of the Board of Aldermen, was charged with trying to protect its political influ- ence, Controversy Over Taxation. In a detailed rejoinder Tuesday, the board pointed out, among other objections, that the present tax of $2.71 on the $100 valuation against St. Louis property for municipal purposes, bonded indebtedness and school and state taxes, might be increased to $4.34 under provisions of Proposition No. 5, ‘The Metropolitan Committee’s new rejoinder declares ‘“‘the board should have told the whole story.” It says that estimates of the Bu- reau of Municipal Research indi- cate that only a tax of $2.81 against St. Louis property will be needed to carry on the city gov- ernment and that of the “Greater City of St. Louis,” a reduction of 45 cents being effected in the levy for municipal purposes of 58t. Louis, a tax of 51 cents being added for the greater city and a levy of 4 cents being necessary to cover the bonded indebtedness of St. Louis County assumed by the greater city. “Alarming on Their Face.” The amendment, it is added by the Metropolitan Committee, al- lows a maximum of $3.05 as a levy against St. Louis property without a vote of the people. A majority vote is required to raise the rate for the Greater City to a maximum of $1 and that of the present city to $1.35, and the ap- proval of two-thirds of the voters is required to increase the bonded indebtedness, “The figures as presented by the board are alarming on their face,” the statement asserts. “But they do not represent the true _§ situa- tion. They represent one would involve more than doubling the present indebtedness—and that can be done only by a two-thirds vote of the people—and a 70-cent increase in tax rates by vote of the pedple.”’ Text of Committee Statement. The text of the Metropolitan Committee’s statement follows: “The original statement of the Board of Estimate and Apportion- ment was sO vague as to call forth a general demand on the part of the press for more particulars. It 'was too vague to answer in detail. We now know what the board means by ‘increased financial bur- that any such burdens as they sug- gest will be inflicted on the tax- payer. “The figures presented by the board relate not to what increases may reasonably be expected, but to the utmost possible increase in taxation which might occur not in consequence of but merely after the passage of Proposition 5. The board says that under Proposition 5 taxation for municipal purposes, including the greater city tax. could be $2.35 instead of $1.35. As a matter of fact, the rate for the greater city is limited by Proposi- St. Louis to $1.05, a total of $1.65. “It is true that the amendment provides that the tax limit of the greater city may be raised to $1 and that of St. Louis to $1.35, but only upon a majority vote of the people, and nowhere in the United States has the public shown itself willing to grant such increases ex- cept for schools unless under cir- | Continued on Page 12, Col. 3, _ Above Present Figure—) i dens,’ and we emphatically deny) ' tion 5 to 60 cents, and the rate for || HAMILTON-BROWN COMPANY SOUND EXPERTS REPORT Gross Assets $7,000,000, Debts $2,500,000, Recei- ver Says in Transmitting Result of Survey to Court SOME CHANGES IN METHODS PROPOSED Continuance of Business as Going Concern Recom- mended and Way to Do It Pointed Out. Continuance of the Hamilton- Brown Shoe Co. as a going con- cern, and the abandonment of some unprofitable operations and trade territory, have been recom- menued to William R, Gentry, re- ceiver, by a New York firm of business engineers which began a survey of the business Sept. 10. The results of the survey, which cost $16,000, were reported yester- day by the receiver to Federal Judge Davis. Gentry, in his summary of the business engineers’ long report, says that much of it must be re- garded as a confidential document, relating to business details. He makes it known, however, that the report recommends the sale or lease of the company’s properties at Twenty-first and Olive streets, Twenty-first and Locust streets, and Jefferson avenue and Ran- dolph street, and of a factory, now idle, in East St. Louis. It recommended also that sales operations be discontinued in some territory which has not been prof- itable. This policy may result in a smaller total volume or sales than last year’s $12,000,000, but it will also avoid much of the present loss. “The report further indicated,” Gentry says, “that the company’s net worth is approximately $4,500,- 000, and therefore there is no shadow of doubt that the creditors will be paid 100 cents on the dol- lar, the gross assets being about $7,000,000., while the debts are about $2,500,000, and while the continued operation of the corpo- ration’s business under the condi- tions that have existed during the last two years is inadvisable, nev- ertheless with competent manage- which iment and direction and the con- tinued support and tolerance’ of the stockholders and creditors, the company can be put upon a sound basis. “Tf the stockholders will co-op- erate and if the creditors will have a little patience, this old St. Louis institution, which has been a credit to the city for nearly 60 years, will be put back on a sound financial basis and continue to employ, as it has done for many years, large numbers of residents of this city and residents of various Missouri towns where factories are situated.” — = — } Yesterday The Post-Dispatch | Alone Carried 23 Columns More Retail Store Advertising and | 30 Columns More Total Advertising Than All Three Other Newspapers Combined —__—— @ Le NN el tata a — CONCENTRATION IN THE POST-DISPATCH PAYS THE ADVERTISER Geto a BY VOLLEY FIRED INTO STREET CAR Sergt. James McBride of Bellwood, Chicago Su- burb, Was to Have Been Witness at Murder Trial. THREE GUNMEN DRIVE ON AFTER FUSILLADE Officer Slated to Appear Against ‘‘Public Enemy” in Case Reinstated After 5 Years. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Oct. 30.—Three gun- men drove past a Maywood street car today and sent a volley of bul- lets through its windows, serlously wounding a policeman who was to be a witness at the murder trial of Jack White (Three-Fingered), notorious gunman and “public ene- my.” The wounded officer is Sergt. James McBride of the Bellwood po- lice. Five years ago he was wound- ed in a fight with White and his gang when the police encountered them in a Mannheim road tavern. A companion officer, Ed Pflaume, and James Johnstone, one of White's confederates, were killed. “White was captured weeks later and eventually sentenced to prison for life, but the Supreme Court reversed his conviction and the case was never brought to trial again. Two weeks ago White was arrest- ed in the vagrancy campaign of the police and Chief Justice John P. McGoorty reinstated the old murder charge and ordered White held without bail. McBride had returned only last night from a trip, supposedly to Wisconsin, to gather evidence against White for the new trial. The assassins followed the street ear for several blocks, then drew abreast of the window where the officer sat and fired a fusillade through the window. A score of passengers, in panic, dropped to the floor and ran toward exits as window glass crashed and bullets struck the walls of the car. Mc- Bride, wounded in the jaw, was hurried to a hospital. He was ex- pected to recover. . The automobile from which the shots were fired bore a Wisconsin license. McBride’s mother was sure that White's friends were trying to ‘get’ her son. “They have threatened Jim before, and tried to shoot him once,” she said. McBride has been on the Bell- wood force eight years. He was on his way to the Criminal Court building when the attack occurred. State’s Attorney John A. Swanson said the policeman had been gath- ering evidence against White for two weeks and had an appointment with him today. Stephen S. Tomaszewski, 64- year-old hardware dealer who was accused of selling “Three-Fingered Jack” and two other hoodlums the revolvers, was fined $1000 today and took a pledge in writing that he would never sell firearms again. Tomaszewski was charged with failing to report the sale of weapons and selling without a license. 50,000 IN INDIA ABANDON HOMES IN GANDHI CAMPAIGN By the Associated Press. BOMBAY, Oct. 30.—Nonpayment of taxes, one of the planks of the civil disobedience campaign plat- form, appears to be gaining ground in some sections of India. The All-India National Congress reports 60,000 peasants of the Bar- doli region have left their homes resolved not to pay land taxes un- til home rule is established. Many left their household goods, chat- tela and crops behind, the Gov- ernment confiscating and selling these at auction. The peasants are said to have for their siogan. “No home rule, no revenue.” The leaders of the movement declare the peasants will not pay until Mahatma Gandhi fs them to pay. Promoter Brothers Who Admit Fraud EP TTT AIS INL 2K ae REO LY OPIOID ; Ly at EE A sata M Set OO AR iui FRED ©. (left) and WILLIAM H. YOUNG. NO SYMPATHY STRIKE After Conference They Decide to Sfay on Job; Musicians’ Compromise Fails, Union stage hands and operators will not walk ' out in sympathy with the union musicians now on strike in St. Louis motion picture theaters, it was announced today after a conference of officers of the international unions at New York yesterGay. Abe Jeffers, who represented the local musicians at the confer- ence, also said the effort to settle the differences between the imusi- cians and theater owners had: been unsuccessful, and that the strike, which began Sept. 1, will continue indefinitely. The stage hands and operators of the local theaters were to have gone out on a sympathetic strike tonight. Jeffers reported that the xInternational Association of Thea- trical Stage Employes does not think the situation here warrants the calling of a sympathetic strike. Joseph N. Weber, international president of the American Federa- tion of Musicians, who conferred with the officers of the stage em- ployes’ union, reported that those officers “are of the opinion that it is unfair for the theatrical em- ployes to be asked now to sacrifice their entire organization in the matter, as the managers of thea- ters had made considerable effort to meet the will of the local mu- sicians’ committee and that the differences between the musicians and the theater owners were not of such nature to preclude adjust- ment.” The musicians’ differences began with the reduction of the number of musicians in motion picture the- ater orchestras here and the re- fusal of the St. Louis Theater to increase the size of its orchestra from 12 to 20. MERCHANT KILLEO BY BOMB ATTACHED TO WIS AUTO SYRACUSE, N. Y., Oct. 30.—A bomb connected to the generator of his automobile by unidentified enemies ended the life of Angelo Albanese, 34 years old, today as he started the car that was to take him on a hunting trip. Albanese, proprietor of a shoe store, died within an hour after the explosion demolished the car. An inquiry by police into the buai- ness and private life of the man gave no clews, they said. Parrot Quarantine WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.— The quarantine against parrots, in ef- fect since Jan. 24, was lifted to- day by the Public Health Service. Under strict sanitary regulations which, it is thought, will seen pes Sh ee 00 UNEMPLOYED BY MOVIE OPERATORS , MST. CITY. HAL Mayot Tears Sleeve in Breaking Away From Them—Most of Crowd Negroes. _ About 200 mien and women, mostly Negroes, led by officers of the “Unemployed Council of St. Louis,” gathered at the City Hall this afternoon to presert dcrmands for relief to the first meeting of the St. Louis CHizens’ Committee on Public Relief. Gathered on the Market street steps of the City Hall, the crowd listened to speeches by Miss .Ethel Barron, their chairman; Joseph I. King, a’ Negro, an.t Roland Lloyd, all of whom: advoczated a “reli«f fund of $10,000,000 Instead of Mayor Miller’s proposal that $200,- 000 be appropriated to provide temporary work for une nployed heads of families. Returning from lunch, Mayor Miller was approached by a grotp of the unemployed who laid hands on his arms while a spokesman demanded “immediate action.” The Mayor pulled away, ripping a sleeve seam, and went to his of- fice, where the conference began at 3 p. m. About 150 leaders of industrial, business, civic and charitable or- ganizations attended, as well as five members of the “Unemployed Council” headed by Miss Barron. Birch O. Mahaffy, president of the Silurian Oil Co., presided as direc- tor-general of the committee. Demands of the “Unemployed Council” included food, fuel and housing for the jobless, free lunches and cdrfare for school children of unemployed, fre use of street cars by job seekers, free medical service, housing of home- leas workers in vacant buildings, exemption from taxes and mivrt- gage payments, suspension of ¢ /ic- tions, abolition of the vagranc; laws and a minimum wage of $25 a week, The conference proceeded with the selection of an executiv: com- mittee after several speeches pledging co-operation in _ relief work had been delivered. As the meeting progressed, Miss Barron heckled the speakers with demands, until the suggestion was made that seh be ejected. Cries of “Put her out,” and “Let her stay,” were heard until Chairman Mahaf- fy made a plea for TWO OF YOUNG BROTHERS PLEAD GUILTY OF MAIL FRAUD; SENTENCE ON DEC. 1 POLICEMAN SHOT $7,90000 LOS BY INVESTORS N COLLAPSE OF FRM IN MARCH W. H. and F. C. Young, Promoters of Brokerage Company, Answer Charge in U. S. Court — Third Partner, Harold, Freed. DEFENDANTS ASK FOR NO CONCESSIONS |Maximum Penalty Is Five Years in Prison, or $1000 Fine or Both—16 Counts in Indictment Against the Men. William H. Young and Fred C. Young, high-pressure promoters whose investment firm, W. H, Young & Bros., Inc., collapsed last March with losses of more than $2,000,000 to investors, pleaded guilty before Federal Judge Faris today of using the mails to de- fraud. Because of the iliness of Mre. William H. Young, Judge Faris deferred sentence until Dec. 1 and continued the bonds under which the brothers have been at liberty. Similar charges against a younger brother, Harold A, Young, who has been described as the promoters’ “office boy,” were dis- missed by the Government. No Concession Asked For. The brothers, called for trial, pleaded guilty after a conference with their attorneys, and no prom- ises or concessions were asked of the prosecutors or the.court. In- asmuch as Judge Faris looks with disfavor on recommendations by the District Attorney as to sen- tences, such recommendations are seldom made. Before sentence is passed, the District Attorney will present a brief statement of the nature of the case, reviewing the complaints against the brothers and the extent of the losses. The maximum penalty for using the mails to defraud is five years in the penitentiary and $1000 fine, but as there are 16 counts in the indictment, each based on a =Iletter written to a customer or prospective customer, Judge Faris will be privileged to impose anything from a small fine to 80 years in the penitentiary. Speculating on the probable sen- tence, observers recalled the recent case of “Purity” Jones, washing machine manufacturer, who plead- ed guilty of mall frauds totaling $1,500,000. Sentencing Jones to three years in prison, Judge Faris remarked that the Federal statute was designed to punish the crime of using the mails to defraud, and not embezzlement, and that if the public desired to prosecute for em- bezzlement and fix proceed in the State courts. The Young brothers are charged with false pretenses in the State court at Chillicothe, Mo. Brothers Appear Together. The three brothers appeared at the Federal Building. neatly dress- ed in inconspicuous business guits, was ready to proceed, but Carruil asked for time for a confer-nce. An hour later, when the case was called again, Carroll asked for a few minutes more, and Judge Farig declared a 30-minute recess. A few minutes before noon, when the Judge returned to the bench, Carroll announced that his clients | Z ; 5 js eit - . . 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