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ST. LO I IT CODE DITION The Only Evening Newspaper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service VOL. 86. NO.

300. ST. LOUIS, MONDAY, JULY 2, 1934. 30 PAGES. PEICE 2 CENTS, POST PATCH PRESIDENT LEAVES ROBBED ON STREET TWO HELD IN $700 18 NAZI LEADERS KILLED, MANY SEIZED IN HITLER'S 'CLEAN-UP' OF HIS PARTY FIVE KILLED WHEN AUTOS CRASH NEAR UNION, MO.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Thost of De Soto, Their Daughter, Doris Jean, 5, and Son, Norman, Burned Death in Wreck. Germany's New "Iron Man" and Two Leaders 1 Killed HIHBURG PRAISES HIM FOR "SAVING" FATHERLAND Although Government Officials Announce Task Has Been Finished, Further Executions of Storm Troopers Are Expected. mm uuij) i I Vll; jjfZ film li Vsmm f-' lTllT) Jf TEXAS WOMAN DIES OF SKULL- INJURY Mrs.

Carl F. Kohler Occupant of Second Machine in Collision Near Intersection of Highways 66 and 50. Five persons were Killed, four oe- ing: burned to death, in an automobile collision at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon near the intersection of Highways 66 and 50, near Union, in Franklin County. Mr. and Mrs.

Fred Thost of De Soto, Wo, each 28 years old, and their 5-year-old daughter, Doris Jean, were burned to death, trapped in the front seat of their a burning' automobile. died of burns at 3 a. m. today in a hospital at Washington, Mo. An hour later, Mrs.

Carl F. Kohler, 41, of Corpus Crristi, an occupant of the other car, died at the hospital of a skull injury. Cha rles Crane, 24, and Van Crane, 22, brothers of Mrs. Thost, are in the Washington Hospital, Charles with burns of the head, legs and arms and a fracture of the nose and Van with burns of the legs and arms. Carl Kohler, driver of the other car, is in the hospital, suffering from cuts and bruises.

Circumstances of the accident were recounted by Van Crane, who ABOVE, HERMAN WILHELM GOERING, Premier of Prussia, who was assigned by Chancellor Hitler to deal ruthlessly with those said to be plotting against the Nazi Government. At right, KARL ERNST, commander of Nazi brown shirts in Berlin and Brandenburg, and full length) Count Wolf Heinrich Nazi police president of Potsdam, former Hitler supporter and leader, but later accused of treachery. was naing in me oacK seaioi tne II Thost machine with his brother II and Norman Thost II "We were riding east bound along ftfi a straight stretch of highway with I Surprise Appointment As Coordinator of Program Announced' After President's Departure. NRA COUNSEL TAKES F. C.

WALKER'S PLACE New York Lawyer "Re lieved at Own Request as Director of Emer gency Council. By PAUL Y. ANDERSON, A Staff Correspondent of the Post- Dispatch. WASHINGTON, July 2. President Roosevelt a surprise move made public today after his departure fro mthe White House, ap pointed Donald R.

Richberg as his personal representative in co-ordinating Federal agencies for industrial recovery, public works, emergency relief and the settlement of labor disputes. Insofar as these problems are involved, Richberg will virtually be Acting President during Roosevelt's absence from the capital. In his executive order the President directed Richberg to make recommendations to him directly. It is understood that President Roosevelt will approve or disapprove these recommendations by radio and cable. The Presidential order creates a new Federal agency, desiginated as the Industrial Emergency Committee, and makes Richberg its director.

Other members are Secretary of Interior Ickes, as head of the Public Works Administration; Secretary of Labor Perkins, National Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnscn and Relief Director Harry Hopkins. In addition, its names Richberg to succeed Frank C. Walker as executive director of the National Emergency Council and executive secretary of the executive council. The order states that Walker is "teemporarily relieved, at his own request" To Drop Work for NBA.

Richberg, who has been general counsel of the National Recovery Administration since its creation, is relieved of his duties there until Sept. 1. He will continue to receive his NRA salary of $14,000 a year, as compensation for his new duties. Since the President announced his vacation plans, he has repeatedly been asked who would take over the task of co-ordinating and unify ing the various recovery nd relief agcencies a task heretofore dis- chadged mainly by himseiy. me creation of the Emergency Commit tee and the selection of Richberg to head it appears to be the answer.

Such a function originally was intended for the National Emergency Council, which Is composed of five cabinet members, the Director of the Budget and the heads of the recovery and relief agencies. Its failure to accomplish more has been attributed to Its large membership and the inactivity of the executive director. Walker, a New York lawyer and Democratic politician, was treasurer of the Roosevelt campaign fund. His appointment to serve as director of the Emergency Council was the cause of much puzzlement, and his subsequent course did little to clarify it Under his direction the council has exerted about as much influence oin national policies as has the Electoral College. Put Over Former Chief.

The action which put Richberg at the head of an agency which includes his former chief. Gen. Johnson immediately set political tongues to wagging. In some quarters it was interpreted as meaning that Richberg had gained influence with the administration at Johnson's expense. Among persons Intimate with bo'th, however, the President's action was accepted as a gesture approving NRA policies virtually all of which have been worked out by Johnson and Rich-beerg in concert Moreover, Gen.

Johnson has frequently been at odds with Secretary Perkins over questions of labor policy, and with Ickes over public works allotments. Richberg is a friend of all three, and is regarded as the one man, next to the President who is best able to reconcile them. At the White House and at Rich-berg's office today all mention of Richberg as "acting President" was discouraged by officials, who have not forgotten what happened when former Assistant Secretary of State Raymond Moley went to the Lon don economic conference early in the Roosevelt administration, advertised as "the President's voice." Prior to joining the NRA. Rich- Continued on Page 2, Column 2. WIN UG HANDS HOLDUP ON STREET Captured After Package, Is Snatched From Woman Taking Lynn Meat Co.

Receipts to Bank. WITNESSES FOLLOW, SEE MAN HIDE LOOT Point Him Out to Police man After He Changes to Butcher's Apron in Cooler in Basement. Miss Anna Holthaus, bookkeeper for the Lynn Meat Co, Sixth street and Delmar boulevard, was robbed of $700 this morning as she was walking to a bank to deposit the money. The package was snatched from her on Broadway, near the entrance to Union Market. Two men, who fled from the scene, were pursued by witnesses and caught by policemen.

The money was found in a garbage can along the route taken by one of them. Miss Holthaus left the Lynn store shortly after 9 o'clock this morning, carrying the money, and about $1300 in checks, in a paper-wrapped package under her left arm. She took ber usual course, through the Union Market from Sixth street to Broadway, and after leaving the building turned to go south to the United Bank Fourth street and Washington avenue. Story of Holdup. "Then I felt someone tugging at the package," Miss Holthaus told a reporter.

"I turned and saw this man trying to get it I screamed, and he put his hand over my mouth. I broke away from him, but fell, and dropped the package. He grabbed it and ran away." Two employes of the Docter Meat Co, in Union Market saw the man who had taken the; package "run. He went into the Market, and down to the basement They followed and saw him enter a cooling room. When he came out he was wearing the white coveralls of a butcher.

He walked calmly up the stairs. The meat company employes, Raymond Olive and Gus Petri fol lowed, and at the head of the stairs pointed the robber out to a police man, who arrested him. Olive and Petrie returned to the basement then and recovered the money, which they had seen the robber put in the garbage can. Follows Fleeing Man. Meantime, the second man who ran from the scene of the robbery, but was not observed to have taken any ective part in it had been followed west in Lucas avenue by Albert Hegel, 4235 Schiller place, who saw the robbery from his automobile, parked across the street A traffic policeman, seeing this purstiit joined in and arrested the fleeing man after a short chase.

Neither of the men arrested would make a statement Police said one of them, the man who took the money package, was an ex-convict MARIE DRESSLER STILL ALIVE BUT DOCTORS HOLD NO HOPE Actress Shows Vitality in Struggle Against Cancer and Uremic Poisoning. SANTA BARBARA, July 2. Or the verge of death three days ago, Marie Dressier today fought against complications of cancer and uremic poisoning. Doctors hold no hope for her recovery. Last Thursday night the 62-year-old actress sank so low that at-tendingg physicians thought she could not live until morning, but an amazing vitality restored consciousness and she has been able to take liberal of liquid nourishment Occasionally she speaks to attendants.

She slept with comfort on Friday and Saturday nights and dozed most of Sunday. Her pulse has been almost normal since Thursday night Her temperature has ranged about two degrees above normal. "DYNAMITE USED FOR FOOTBALL Boston Boys Are Found Playing With Package of Explosive. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, Mass, July 2.

A group of boys played football in a South Boston park yesterday with a bundle of dynamite. They were tn-aware what was in the package. Patrolman James White stopped the game when he noticed a substance leaking from the ndle which was wrapped in newspapers. He opened it and found a small quantity of dynamite. A shack near the park contained 50 pounds of the explosive.

The door of the shsck was broken open. Band Concerts Today S-herman Park, 7:30 to 10 p. m. AT UN ON MARKET laua at tne wneei, ne reiaiea. Hitler, in Robespierre Role, Has Begun Killing and Germans Are Asking Where It Is Going to Stop Nazi Leader, in Combating Revolution in His Party, Is Following Tactics of French Fanatic Over Century Ago.

By a Post-Dispatch Staff Photographer. MISS ANNA HOLTHAUS LAWYER SHANK, SENTENCED TO DIE, DENIED REHEARING Arkansas Supreme Court Rejects Request in Poison Murders of Four. By the Associated Press. LITTLE ROCK, July 2. The Arkansas Supreme Court today denied a rehearing to Mark H.

Shank, Akron (O.) attorney, under sentence of death for four murders. The mandate will be delivered Friday to Gov. Futrell who will set a new date for Shank's execution. Shank was convicted last December of poisoning Alvin Colley, also of Akron, Colley's wife and two of the Colleys' three children while on a picnic in the woods near Benton, last August. Shank was sentenced to death last February, but an appeal automatically stayed execution.

He lost his appeal several weeks ago. His attorneys then filed a motion for a rehearing which was denied today. Shank confessed putting poison into grape juice served at the picnic. His attorneys offered an insanity defense. The prosecution charged that Shank killed Colley because he feared Colley, sought by Barberton authorities for the alleged theft of papers from the prosecutor's office there, would involve him in the theft.

The prosecution alleged Shank hired Golley to steal the papers. FORMER GOV. HORTON DIES, ACCUSED IN LUKE LEE CASE Attempt in Tennessee to Impeach Him Was Voted Down 58 to 41. By the Associated Press. CHAPEL HILL, July 2.

Former Gov. Henry H. Horton died at his farm home near here today. He was 68 years old. Horton was accused in 1931 of conspiring with Luke Lea, former Nashville publisher and influential politician, and with Rogers Caldwell, investment banker, to let Lea and Caldwell dominate certain departments In exchange for their political support.

Lea and his son, Luke Lea now are serving sentences in the North Carolina State penitentiary at Raleigh for defrauding an Asheville, N. bank. The House of Representatives June 5, 1931, voted, 58 to 41, against the article charging conspiracy and other articles were subsequently rejected by almost the same vote. Horton served as Speaker of the Senate and as such he succeeded to the governorship Oct. 3, 1927, on the death of Gov.

Austin Peay. He served until Jan. 17, 1933. U. S.

EMPLOYES GET BACK ANOTHER THIRD OF PAY CUT Experts. Estimate Yearly Cost at $125,000,000 More Than Buaget Flsrures. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, July 2. Anotner third of the Federal employes 15 per cent pay cut was restored yesterday.

Under the terms of the Independent Offices Bill, passed by Congress over President Roosevelt's veto, experts said it would cost about $125,000,000 more than budget estimates for the new fiscal year which began yesterday. The bill also restored veterans' compensation, cut by the Economy Act The total cost of both restorations was figured at more than budget estimates. Government workers received the first third last February. The President is empowered to give back the final third next Jan. 1 if he finds a rise in living costs warrants it.

Soldiers, sailors and other members of the military are included. RUSSIA'S SPRING SOWING DONE MOSCOW, Juiy 2. Spring sowing plan was completed earlier this year than in any preceding year, and there are prospects for a good crop, says the Central Committee of the Communist party. The harvest is expected to be as good as that of 1933 in spite of drouth in some sections. "As I recall it, we attempted to pass the Kohler machine, going in the same direction, and sideswiped it.

"The next I knew, we were careening down an embankment. No sooner had the car come to rest, badly wrecked, than tt burst into flames. I managed to open a door and get out. My brother and Norman scrambled out with my help. Mr.

and Mrs. Thost and their front seat." Authorities were unable to remove the bodies, charred beyond recognition, from the front seat until more than an hour after the accident. A large crowd of motorists was attracted to the scene. The Thost family and the Crane brothers were returning home after spending a week at Garfield, Kan. The Kohlers were on a pleasure trip.

DEVICE FOR HOLDING DRY ICE ON WRIST IN HOT WEATHER Invention of Container, Which Looks Like Watch, Announced at Purdue. 'he Associated Press. LAFAYETTE, July 2. Invention 4 ..1.1.1. 1J CABINET MEETS TO STUDY SITUATION President's Illness Is Disturbing Factor Reports Say He Wants Vice-Chancellor Von Papen to Be His Successor.

(Copyright, 1934, by the Associated Press BERLIN, July 2. Eighteen sub-leaders of the Nazi Storm Troops have" been summarily executed la Chancellor Hitler's "house-cleaning" of his Nazi party. Many others have been arrested, estimates of ti number ranging from 100 to several hundred, and there were reports that the executions exceeded the 18 officially admitted. A statement issued last night said the "cleaning has been but Herman Wilhelm Goering, Minister without portfolio and Premier of Prussia, said those "found to be traitors against the leader must be called, to account" A special Storm Troop law punishes treason, with the death penalty, so further executions are expected. President von Hindenburg from Neudeck sent his congratulations to Hitler for "saving the German people from serious dangers." He sent congratulations aTso to Goering for "the energetic and successful quelling of high treason." "From reports submitted to me," the President wired Hitler, "I see that by your resolute operation and courageous personal action all high treasonable machinations have been nipped in the bud.

You have saved the German people from serious dangers. I express to you my. deep thanks and gratitude. "With cordial "VON HINDENBURG, "Reichspresident To Publish Execution List The Propaganda Ministry announced that the full list of executions would be published. Capt.

Ernst Roehm, national leader of the Storm Troops and a Cabinet member without portfolio, was executed Saturday after refusing an opportunity to commit suicide. Reports Saturday said he had killed himself. An innkeeper and a lawyer at Munich were executed as "traitors." Hubert von Bose, Secretary to Vice-Chancellor Franz voa Papen, was reported to have killed himself, although it was suggested he may have been killed "resisting arrest," as was former Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher, Hitler's predecessor. Frau von Schleicher also was killed. Von Papen's adjutant Friedrich von Tschirsky, was reported to have committed suicide.

A Government press official admitted that Gregcr Strasser, Nazi leader, had been executed. Rumors that Gen. Baron Werner von Fritsch, chief of thevRelchS" wehr (regular army) had been arrested or shot were officially denied. Werner von Alvensleben, a close friend of Von Papen, was executed. Other dead wer- Erich Klausen-er, chief of the Catholic Action party; Karl Ernst commander of the Storm Troops in Berlin' and Brandenburg, and Count Wolf Hein rich Helldorf, Nazi police official in Potsdam was execated Saturday, it was learned today, because he was said to be slated for Minister of Transportation in a new Cabinet headed by Roehme and Von Schleicher.

Klausener, 48 years old, had a tremendous grip on the whole Catholic community, espe cially the Catholic youth. The Cath olic Action is a layman's movement Von Hindenburg BL Worry over the condition of Von Hindenburg intensified the crisis today. Physicians insisted he was in no immediate danger. A "major medical council" attended him at Continued on Page 2, Column 4. something very much like Bolshevism.

He wants it and he has Brown-Shirted Storm Troopers under his command. Hitler is commander-in-chief of the Storm Troops but Roehm is his chief, of staff and gives the orders. Hitler learns Roehm plans to force his hand and, failing that to arrest him. He knows Roehm has a large force of gunmen with him. Nevertheless at 4 o'clock Saturday morning Hitler dashes out of of dry ice, or solid carbon WARM, SHOWERS LIKELY TONIGHT; COOLER TOMORROW THE TEMPERATURES.

1 a. m. 2 a. m. 3 a.

m. 4 a. m. 82 8 a. m.

...86 81 80 79 9 a. m. 89 10 a. m. 92 11 a 93 12 noon 96 1 p.

96 5 a. m. 6 a. m. 7 a.

m. 78 .79 83 Yesterday's high, 95. (5 p. low, 75 (6 a. Relative humidity at noon 26 per cent.

Official fore Now WE 'know cast for St Louis and vicinity: Unsettled o-night and tomorrow, probably scattered showers or thunderstorms; continued warm tonight; somewhat (cooler tomorrow. Missouri: THEY ARE STORM TROOPS. Probably scat-H tered showers or nderstorms tonight and to morrow, except generally fair tomorrow 1 northwest portions; not so POST-OISPATCH WEATHERSIRD mma u. Mr. orr warm tomorrow in central and north portions.

Illinois: Local showers or thunderstorms tonight or tomorrow, except generally fair tomorrow in north portion; cooler in central and north portions tomorrow, and in extreme northwest portion tonight Sunset 7:30, sunrise (tomorrow) 4:40. Stage of the Mississippi at St. Louis, 1.7 feet no change; at Graf ton, 111., 1.4 feet, a fall of 0.2. KILLS EX-WIFE, HER MOTHER AND HER SON; THEN ENDS LIFE Hugh Davis, 60, of Dallas, Tex, Uses Shotgun in Triple Mur- der and Suicide. Special to the DALLAS, July 2.

Hugh Davis, 50 years old. shot and killed three persons here today and then ended his life. Using a shotgun, Davis shot his former wife, Mrs. Sally Carson, 40; her mother, Mrs. Julian Patrick Moore, 70, and Sam Carson, 17, Mrs.

Carson's son. (Copyright. 1934.) BERLIN, July Chancellor Hitler has shot his best friend. He has shot the only man in the Nazi party who was intimate enough! to call him "thou." Hitler has shot eight of his closest one-time friends. He has shot, too, his most dangerous enemy.

Hitler, whom the world called a "softie," whom outsiders thought a "sissy," has become overnight the Robespierre of the Nazi revolution. Hitler, like Robespierre, "the incorruptible," has begun to kill. He has sent his bullets against men who, former friends Or not aroused his fanatic moral conscience. Nazis now have begun to kill each other. But Robespierre me the fate he dealt out to his enemies, and today Germany asks when and with whom will the killing stop.

No invention of a fiction writer could equal the widely improbable melodrama of the last 48 hours' events in Germany. Hitler on Thursday peacefully attends the wedding of a Nazi underling in Essen- On Friday night Hitler, in the ancient university town of Bonn, received the word which he at first refuses-to believe. But Premeir Goering's secret police pile damning evidence before him that his best friend, Capt Ernst Roehm, national head of all the 2,000,000 storm troops, together with some of Hitler's oldest collabora tors, was planning revolt At mid-i night Hitler takes an airplane from Bonn, arrives at Munich at 4 o'clock Saturday morning. There he learns the whereabouts of Roehm. Roehm is the only man in the party who exchanges with Hitler, that all important intimate "du," which means they have drunk "blood brother hood" together and regard them selves as brothers.

What Roehm Wanted. is in Wiesse Village out side of Munich. There Roehm has set up secret headquarters for his conspiracy to force Hitler to make the second, revolution. Roehm wants real socialism. He wants Munich in an automobile with only his two most trusted bodyguards and makes for Wiesse.

There just before 6 o'clock as dawn breaks they pull oip before the small cottage. Hitler enters it alone. In one roon he finds Roehm asleep. In another he finds the huge figure of Edmund Heines, Silesian Storm Troop leader. Sleepy, astounded.

wavering, shamefaced, Roehm and Heines watch apathetically as Hitler tears from their uniforms their insignia of rank. He declares them under arrest He orders them to dress and follow him. They obey like sheep. As they come out into the light of the rising sun, three truckloads of Roehm's bodyguards, all heavily-armed, pull up before the cottage. Amazed, they see Hitler.

He speaks to them. They listen. A shadow of hesitation, one eign of fear from Hitler could cost him his liberty or his life. When he finishes speaking Roehm's bodyguard cheers. Hitler has won the most significant victory of his career.

Back in Munich Hitler orders the immediate execution of Heines and of six other of the highest ranking officers of the Storm Troops involved in the conspiracy. But it takes Hitler 24 hours to bring himself to order Roehm to be shot The Change of 11 Years. The correspondent- saw Hitler and Roehm march shoulder to shoulder 11 years ago in their abortive revolution in Munich. Machine gun bullets drove them apart The republic's police brought them to- Continued on Page 2, Column 7. "i atoxide.

on the wrist is announced at Purdue University. The effect the same as dipping the wrist cold water, a common practice in hot weather. Although its temperature is 109 drrpfs below zero, dry ice burns te skin wherever it makes direct contact. The Purdue invention in-suhtPs- the ice, so that only a normally cooling stream of cold air ad cifj carbon dioxide flows over the spnsiHrA enrtf wrict here the radial artery is close to lI" surface. small pellet of dry ice lasts ahut hour in the container, which looks like a wrist watch.

The effect of cool eas flowinz out of tne container continues for about 20 minutes In addition. WILD PEER DIES IN HOSPITAL Rv Injured Do In Woods Near Weston, Mass. Associated Press. BOSTON, July 2. A wild doe a broke hip that was hy 15-year-old Richard in the woivis nrar Weston Sat- died at the Angell Memorial last night.

The deer uroo baa, naar several years. xne ooy, the aid of companions, his home, fed it clover nd -k, and then called the ambu- 1 M. i-i-i iiiai lana jul not live. ir.