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POST PATC 52 PAGES 11 SPORT FINAL Stock Market Closing Prices and Complete Sales The OnJy Euenmf Newspaper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service fi ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY, xPRIL 22, 1932. 0L 84. NO.

229. PRICE 2 CENTS Brail SHORTS BURGLAR' TWO ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OE POSITION OF PUBLIC IN STOCK MARKET "PATHETIC" TRADER TELLS SENATORS ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE WILLING TO SUBMIT PROHIBITION TO REFERENDUM F. Scott McBride forSPlan if Constitution Is Changed to Permit Popular Initiative and Vote on All Amendments. Hands of the Law MATTHEW BRUSH ator, yesterday declared in favor of i 1 ml i 1 IT. Captured After 50 Policemen Are Called by Radio to Join in Hunt in the West End.

i AT FIRST INSISTS HE IS ONLY AN IMITATOR Breaks Down and Confesses, However, When He Is Shown Fingerprints From Earlier Job. A strapping young man in a greasy athletic shirt, soiled blue shorts and basketball shoes was hauled out from under an automobile in a Wrest End garage early today and tearfully admitted to the large squad of police which had surrounding him that he was a "shorts burglar." At first he denied being the only oung man in such abbreviated clothing who has been climbing into bedroom windows in more than 100 St. Louis later admitted numerous burglaries of that sort since last October. In addition he implicated another young man who, when arrested, is said to have admitted engaging with him in a series of holdups. The "shorts burglar" said he was Johru Eaves, 21 years old.

of 4108 Botanical avenue, a former athlete at McKinley High School and a basketball player with the team of Company, 13Sth In fantry, Missouri National Guard, in which he is a Sergeant. More than 50 policemen in radio cars congregated in the district ner 6173 Waterman avenue, shortly after 4 when Mrs. George K. Mathews telephoned that "the shorts burglar" had just leaped out of her bedroom window after her screams had frightened him away. Since last Saturday, when the burglar entered an apartment in the building at 3540 Wyoming street where Chief of Police Gerk lives, officers had doubled their ef forts to catch the offender.

Sirens screamed as scout cars from as far away as Grand boulevard and Mer- amec stret converged in the West End. Footprints Are Traced. The police had searched hardly 15 minutes when Miss Virginia Ir win, 6163 McPherson avenue, tele phoned that the man had been in her bedroom. Miss Irwin said she awoke to find the thinly clad intruder sitting on the side of her bed. Wrhen she screamed, she told he "climbed out the window ike a monkey," taking with him an empty purse and a bankbook.

She said he drove away in an au tomobile. The search grew into a man hunt. Detectives Charles Hallett and Joseph Cicotte saw wet foot prints of a man wearing basketball shoes on a sidewalk and traced them to a parked automobile in front of 6164 Kingsbury avenue. Seated In the automobile and puffing from recent exertion was an athletic young man with a shock of curly brown hair. He was preparing to put on clothing over a pair of blue shorts and a white athletic shirt.

Escapes from First Captors. The detectives dragged him out out of the machine but were unable to hold onto his perspiring arms. After they had knocked him down once, he broke away and dashed out of sight between nearby houses. About 10 minutes later, John Becherer, a former city detective, of 6164 Washington avenue, saw an undressed young man climb in a window of the locked garage in the rear of his home. He telephoned the police dispatcher.

Directed by radio, police squads swooped down on their quarry. From under Becherer's automobile came a tearful voice, "Please don't kill me. I've got a family to support. I've got four kids. I had to do this to make a living." Police pulled the culprit out from under the machine.

His scanty clothing was covered with water and grease, his knees skinned by a fall on the sidewalk. He wept whdn taken to Police Headquarters for questioning. There he told a different story, that he lived with his mother nd stepfather. Last employed at the Emerson Electric Co. a year ago, he said he had had occasional employment since then painting and cleaning wall paper.

Asked if he was "the shorts burglar." he said between sobs. "I'm not that fellow. I'm Just imi tating him. I read about him and I thought it was an easy way to make money. I've only been in four places." Police were not long in break- CAUGH i Willi I I MANY ROBBERIES ASKS P.

S. COL TO WITHDRAW ORDER 10 CUT PAYl 0 PGT. Sends Note Offering to Meet Company Officials "In Honest Effort' to Adjust This Controversy Amicably. SEEKS TO AVOID HALTING SERVICE points Out Fares Have Not Been Lowered Refers to Stanley Clarke's 'Chronic Demand for Reduction of Car Men's Union the Public Service withdraw its notice of a sec-: r- iuction of 10 per cent in It offeicd to meet i icir.pur.y officials further ft in f.n honest effort to i-ably adjast this controversy in order that there be no rcption in service caused by or disputes." rv M. Nelson, union presi- in his letter to President C'arke of the Public referred to Clarke'3 recent cf notification on wage as "your 'chronic demand termination of contract and reduction." union president writes that the union nor the public ders the company is "serious h--.

outrageous demand for a reduction in wages." union pointed out that the Motorbus Co. has made 0 fort to reduce wages, although "irployes receive a higher rate ray than street car men. union pointed out that the ear company had 85 per of the city's transportation and that the State Pub-. rviee Commission had grant-! a of fare sufficient to pay -employes their wage rates as 1, 1923. It mentions that 1 is asking for an addi-)-: wage reduction with no in the fare rate.

Virion Head's Letter. u'. letter to Clarke follows: "Your letter of April 19, 1932, xxwl. We note your 'chronic' i for terminal ion of alto a 10 per cent reduction i present wages of all employes, six months have elaxsed Fince v-r company under an aar 1 l-y a 1 of wage arbitrators a 10 per cent reduction in of all employes effective Oct. "A fuither reduction of 10 per would bring the wage of.

all oyes to a point lower than we 1 under a Federal receiver V.n the rates of fare were 6 and We believe that neither the rpiny-s nor the public consider rnni pany serious in the out-our demand for a further in wages. "TV People's Motor Bus efficient management of A. T. Perkins (former nana '-r the Federal receiver of the Kailwav has con- its contract with employes, i attempt to reduce wages; the employes of the Peo- Mo'or Bus Cc. are at present a higher rate of pay than of the Public Serv This has been made pos- 1 the management devoting to operating a trans- Ar' system that pleases their 1 I'dnand Is Without Merit." wage reductions already in amounting to almost 1 year, and with other reliefs.

r'- as a reduction in taxes and economic methodj in ef as less mileage and one- operation, and the (est of all material and with these savings we be-' fl intention of a wage re- on wholly without merit. i onipany is, according to report as of Dec. a privilege that r.o' -try in this city enjoys: n'f' that of doing So per cent business in their parttcu- try. company was granted a 'are by the Public Service s.on sufficient to pay the 'v their wag rates as of We received a reduc-t i'i per cent in our rat.2s of 16, 1931. and now you for an additional reduc- 'i of per cent with no change of fare granted by the service Commission, 'i onler that there be no mter- service caused by labor uucu on age Column 3.

INSURANCE PLOT Police Think They Have Broken Up Scheme to Kill Man Who Carried Policies for $48,000. BOOTLEGGER PAID PREMIUMS ON THEM He Engaged Virgil Martin for "Risky Job," Utter Says, and Was Beneficiary in Most of Them. With the arrest last night of, two men, one or them an insurance agent, police think they have broken up a plot to kill Virgil Mar tin, 5036 Minerva avenue, for whom several insurance companies have written accident and life policies in the last two months totaling $48,000. I Detectives Fabick and Hummert went to Martin's home last night and told him they had heard re ports that he was to be sent to Kansas City next week with a truckload of liquor and that ths truck was to be attacked on the way, and Martin killed. Martin told them that about two months ago, when looking for work, he was introduced to a bootlegger who offered him a job, but suggested that the work was risky and that he should have some insurance.

Martin agreed, and under several names he obtained policies from various companies, the bootlegger paying the premiums and being named as the beneficiary in all except two policies. These provided that $3000 was to be paid to Martin's wife in the event of hH death and $5000 to his estate. In all nine policies were wi it-ten, several of them providing tor double indemnity in case of accidental death. Martin's death by accident would have cost the insurance companies $72,000. The largest, a $20,000 accident policy, was obtained recently through the insurance agent who is under arrest.

It was understood, Martin said, that within two months this policy would be con verted into a life policy paying double indemnity in case of accidental death. No charges have been made against tho men arrested. They are held pending investigation by post-office inspectors and the Circuit Attorney. The insurance agent, police said, has admitted handling the final $20,000 accident policy for Martin and the bootlegger, but said he considered it a legitimate business transaction. The bootlegger would make no statement.

MAHARAJA OF JAIPUR LEADS HIS WEDDING PROCESSION Brilliant Ceremony Held in Moonlight; Bride Stays at Home. By the Associated Press. JAIPUR, Rajputana, India, April 22. Riding a gorgeously accoutred state elephant with gold trappings, tho 21-year-old Maharaja of Jaipur led his own wedding procession through the city last night. On April 24 he will be-married to the 16-year-old Princess Jodhpur.

At this stage of the festivities the bride remained in Purdah, ac cording to the old Hindu custom which forbids any man to look on her face. Last nights procession was a pageant of oriental splendor. The Maharaja's strings of pearls, price less diamonds and rubies glistened in the light of the full moon and as he passed under arches of multi colored lamps festooned across the streets. There were 50 huge cere monial elephants, 100 camels and 300 bullocks, all in splendid panoply. POLICEMAN'S SLAYER DIES OF WOUNDS IN HOSPITAL James Tucker, Who Killed Patml man Schrameer and AVonndod Three Others, Succumbs.

James Tucker, Negro slayer Patrolman George Wr. Schrameycr, died at City Hospital No. 2 at 3 m. today. He had been wounded five times Saturday afternoon when he resisted an attempt by police to arrest him in rear of 4030 Aldine place, after he had fired his pistol several times while drunk.

Patrolman Guybert Carter, Ne gro, wounded in the fight in which Schrameyer lost his life, is still a City Hospital No. 2, convalescent Dorothy Thomas, 12-year-old Ne gro, also wounded in the exchange of sh6ts, has been discharged from the hospital, as also has Police Sergt. Walter C. Archibald, who was taken to City Hospital fo treatment for a Icj" wound. "Shorts Burglar" in JOHN lie entered polics headquarters his arrest.

FOR ATTEMPT TO BRIBE Hi Summer Accused of Paying Policeman to Get News of Accidents. Hi Summer, a lawyer, was arrested today under an indictment charging attempted bribery which was voted yesterday. It alleges he gave $5 to a probationary patrolman for quick information of accidents in the North Market Street Police District which might lead to suits. Summer, who gave bond, is a member of the law firm of Gallant, Harrigan Summer in the International Office Building, Assistant Circuit Attorney Lennon said. He gave $2500 bail.

The indictment, Lennon related, charges that Summer gave the money to William Van Horn of S974 Edna avenue. Van Horn reported Summer's proposal to his superiors and the money was retained as The charge is punishable, upon conviction, by fine of $1000, a year in the jail or workhouse, or two to five years in the penitentiary. Summer could not be reached. E. T.

SCOTT, MANCHESTER GUARDIAN EDITOR, DROWNED fixx of lAte Director of English Newspaper Loses Life in Iiake Wndermere. By the Associated Press. WINDERMERE, England, April 22. E. T.

Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian, was drowned in Lake Windermere this afternoon. Scott, accompanied by his son, Richard, put out in a dinghy to board his yacht in the lake today. The dinghy capsized and the lad clung to the keel while his father, who was a strong swimmer, struck out for shore. After swimming about 50 yards he disappeared. Scott was the son of the famous C.

P. Scott, managing director of the Guardian, who died in his eighty-sixth year on Jan. 1 of this year. Edward Taylor Scott was 4 8 years old and a native of Manchester, and had been editor of the Guardian since 1929. After his graduation at Rugby and Oxford and the London School of Economics, he became private secretary and aide-de-camp to Sir Sydney Oliver, Governor of Jamaica, and retained that post from 1307 until 1903.

iff Hi i ATTORNEY INDICTED By the Associated Press. i WASHINGTON, April 22. F. Scott McBride, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, today proclaimed on behalf of the dry forces willingness to meet the wets in a prohibition referendum if the Constitution is first amended to permit all future changes to be made by popular vote in the states. In a statement issued following his return from a Western trip, McBride pronouftced "the one real referendum proposed down to date," a plan tinder which the Con stitution would be amended to per mit that in future by majority vote in two-thirds of the states, the people could initiate amendments making it mandatory on Congress to submit the proposals to popular vote in the states, ratification being by three-fourths of the states.

"We challenge the he said, "to meet this issue by referendum under this mathod, which would bj a proci ss under constitutional Government. The attitude? of the as to this proposition will determine their Former Chairman Iiullor for tJ. O. 1. Resubmission Plank.

By the Associated Press. BOSTON, April 22. William M. Butler, former United States Sen MARINE LIEUTENANT AND TWO MEN KILLED IN NICARAGUA They Were Serving: With Native National Guard at Apali. By the Associated I'rcs.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua. April 22. I Two United States Marines and one officer in the United States Navy, serving as officers in the Nicaraguan National Guard, were killed yesterday at Apali, 30 miles northeast of Ocotal, in a brush with insurgents. They were: Lieut. Lawrence C.

Brunton, U. S. M. San Diego, Corporal Laurie T. Covington, U.

S. M. C. Spartanburg, S. and Finis H.

Whitehead, pharmacist's mate. U. S. Crosse Tont, Mich. Light enlisted men in the guard patrol were killed and four were wounded.

Altogether there were thre patrols of about 50 men. The insurgents, numbering about 200, retired with their dead and wounded. The bodies of the three officers were brought here by airplane. TURNS PADLOCKED HOUSES OVER TO DESTITUTE FAMILIES By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, April 22.

A court order yesterday paved the way for destitute families to occupy, rent free, houses padlocked for liquor law violations. This unusual procedure was ratified by Judge Frank Smith in Com mon Pleas Court when he modified a padlock decree permitting a destitute family to have the use of a padlocked house for the remainder of the padlock period. With the consent of the owners, courts and the Attorney-General's office, this procedure would be possible in the case of all padlocked houses, it was said. HOBOKEN BARS BEER PARADE NEW YORK, April 22. Mayor Bernard McFeely of Hoboken, N.

has sent woiu that his city will hold no bring-back-becr demonstration, as suggested by Mayor Walker. There was a time, a member of Mayor committee commented when Hoboken could sound as stentorian a "Gesund-heit" as Milwaukee or St. Louis. It had been more or less taken for granted that Hoboken would join in the parade May 14. FAIR TONIGHT; TOMORROW CLOUDY, SHOWERS LIKELY THE TKMPEIIATURLS.

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Louis and vicinity: Fair tonight; tomor-r cloudy, probably showers by afternoon; not much change in temperature. Outlook for Sunday, showers, with mild temperature. Missouri: Increasing cloudiness; probably showers tomorrow and in west por Which corner ISTHEPLNHAHT AR0UrfI tion tonight; not much change in temperature. POST-DISPATCH WEATHERBIRO u- err Illinois: Increas ing cloudiness to night; tomorrow mostly cloudy, probably showers in south portion; not much change in temperature. a plank in the Republican national platform calling for a referendum on prohibition.

Butler is a former chairman of the National Republican Committee and he managed the campaign of Calvin Coolidge for the presidency. He is an unopposed candidate for delegate-at-large to the national convention, pledged to President Hoover. In his declaration, Butler said: "I see no harm, but a great deal of good, to come from resubmis sion. I do not see how it should embarrass tho President. The present discussion of prohibition.

I believe, is doing more to upset the country than anything else." Butler said that in the past he had stood for prohibition because he was a party man and would not embarrass the party or take part in splitting it by opposing prohibition. "However. I did say that I was not in' favor of the amendment when adoptei, and notwithstanding the excellent things which have come about by reason of national prohibition, I do not believe any more than I did originally that it is properly a subject for national control," he added. FOR R. HOE CO.

Press Manufacturers, 113 Years in Business, Consents to Action. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 22. R. Hoc manufacturer of news paper printing presses, was placed in receivership in the Federal Court today.

The officers of the company filed an answer in which they consented to the action. Although not incorporated until 1924, R. Hoe Co. has. been in business for 113 years.

The com pany was founded by Richard Hoe. The action was instituted by Kenneth A. Christian, a stockholder, on a clam of $3243. Federal Judge Coleman appointed the Irving Trust Co. and R.

Swartz equity receivers under a joint bond of $50,000. The petition set forth that, due to the widespread distribution of the product of the company and its uninterrupted operation for 113 years, "its good will is of exceed ing value." The corporation has a funded debt of $4,502,000, and the consolidated balance sheet as of Feb. 2D, last, showed gross assets of 926,134. The petition showed that current liabilities, in addition to the funded debt, amounted to S21.S62. DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING FORMER PREMIER OF JAPAN Young Member of "Love of Country Association" Fatally Wounded Y'uko Hamaguchi.

By the Associated Press. TOKIO, April 22. Tomeo Sa-goya, 24-year-old member of the "Love of Country Association," was sentenced to death by a Tokio District Court yesterday for killing Yuko Hamaguchi. former Premier of Japan, who died last Aug. 26.

The court ruled that a shot fired by Sagoya on Nov. 14, 1930, caused the Premier's death nine months later. One of his Yoshikatsu Maisuki, was sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment, while the other, Ainosuke Iwata, was sentenced to a prison term of four months. EDGAR WALLACE LEFT $67,680 IN ASSETS, $304,560 IN DEBTS London Paper Quotes Widow as Saying Author Lost Heavily on Races. By the Associated Press.

Aprii 22. The Daily Mail said that an affidavit of Edgar Wallace's estate, to be presented for probate today, showed debts of about $304,560 and assets of while the personal estate of the author, who died in California on Feb. 10, was nil. The affidavit, however, was subject to correction, the newspaper said, as it was incomplete regard ing his earnings in Hollywood. The Mail quoted his widow as having said the debts were due to heavy racing losses, extravagant living and excessive generosity.

British tax records put Wallace's earnings last year at $200,000. Sales of his books were estimated at the time of his death at 5,000,000 an nually, RECEIVER APPOINTED EXPLAINS HOW PRICES CAN BE MANIPULATED Witness Who Once Was Short 125,000 Shares Admits That Such Selling Has a Depressing Effect on the Exchange. PERCY ROCKEFELLER "LOST MILLIONS" Admits He Was Associated With Two Men Known as "Bear Raiders" "I Do Not Know," Frequent Answer. By CHARLES G. ROSS.

Chief Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON. April 22. Matthew C. Brush, who used to be a newspaper reporter and hotel clerk and is now the millionaire head of the American international Corporation, a New York investment trust, described his extensive stock market operations with remarkable candor today before the Senats Banking and Currency Committee.

The forthright Brush, with his stock market slang and his rough-and-ready air, made a striking contrast with the previous witness the suave Richard Whitney, head of the Nqw York Stock Exchange, who had given the committee, in four days of testimony, a word pictur of impeccable manners and meth ods on exchange. Percy Rockefeller took the stand after the noon recess of the com mittee Questions put to him dealt particularly with his syndicate op erations in stocks. He said he had taken "terrific" losses since 19 and had engaged in short selling in an effort to re duce them. Brush so charmed the commit tee by his frankness that several of its members, including Senator Brookhart, the Iowa insurgent, crowded about him to offer thanks and congratulations. After Money in a Big Way.

Brush made no bones about be ing in the market to make money in a big way. During the boom market he was on the long side. and when his judgment told him. in the spring of 1930. that stocks were due for a decline, he had no hesitation in building up a larg short interest.

But the life of a bear, he said with an engaging chuckle, was not always a bed of roses: there wera times during market rallies when a bear had a "dog-goned" hard time sleeping at night. Records before the committer show that on April 8 Brush was short 1000 shares of Wool worth, 2000 du Pont. 1500 American Can, 1000 American Telephone Telegraph, 1000 Bethlehem Steel, 1000 Westinghouse Electric. 1000 United States Steel, 2000 General Motors and 500 International Harvester. Brush several times gave testimony at variance with that of Whitney, and once, in so doing, he suggested that the committee ought to "buy him a ticket down south" so that he wouldn't have to go back to New York and face his fellow bulls and bears.

Counsel for the committee had never been able to bring Whitney to the admission that short selling depressed the market Brush conceded quite frankly that there were times when it did have a depressing effect, at least temporarily, though in the run there were a "million other factors" that determined the trend. Average -Pathetic" Brush said, too. that it was possible for the market to be "rigged by the spreading of false information, and he said there as no distinction, in morals, between bears who sought to drive prices down and the bulls who tried to drawr in the suckers by bidding the market up. He said that the lack of information of the average man In buying stocks was "pathetic." He agreed with Whitney that the present rules of the forbidding a short sale at price 1 under the last previous recorded; Continued on 2, Column 1. By a Tost-Dispatch Staff EAVES in custody of a detective, following 16 BECAUSE OF FIGHT President Williams Approves Finding of Discipline Group Following Shooting.

By the Assooiatrd Press. COLUMBIA, April 22 oix- teen University of Missouri students were suspended indefinitely here today for their part in the kidnaping last month of the St. Pat's Queen and the subsequent fight between engineering and law students in which three were wounded. The findings of the Discipline Committee of the university have been approved by President Walter Williams. The name, of Burnis Frederick of Union Star, law student who has confessed shooting the three law students when they attempted to haze him for his part in the k'd- naping or miss JHary rsutierutia of Kansas City, the St.

Pat's Queen, was not included in the list inasmuch as he withdrew from university last week. The com mittee ruled, however, that he may not be readmitted without its consent. The students suspended are: Ralph Ambru8ter of St. Louis, K. Austin of Jefferson City, Jerry Cebe of St.

Louis, Richard C. Cun ningham of Pattonsburg, Russell W. Fitch of Ransomville, N. Stanley Ginn of Miller, James Har-atun of Joplin, Bertram Johnson of Pine Bluff, Ed Legg of Monroe City, Charles Love of ferson City, Raymond McGirl of Odessa, Arthur Nienhauser of Jefferson City, Max Patten of Colum bia, Gerrard Spencer of Terry Whitebread of Nevada, and Sam Wilson of Columbia. It is provided that the Btuditits may be readmitted on application at such time and on such terms as the committee prescribes.

Federal dry agents today arrest ed an alleged liquor salesman, known here as "Shorty of St. Charles," just outside the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. Liquor, the officers said, was sold to a member of the fraternity, which is having a formal dinner and dance tonight. Two cases of gin and a gallon "of corn whisky was confiscated. The dry agents did not go into the fraternity house, nor did they question any of the fraternity tem fcers.

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