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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH TAGE 3 ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Friday, mabcii 30, 1928 With Hogan vs. Brogan it IE' INDBERGH AT HI HOPE ABANDONED MRS. D. FOCH SEEKING LEE NIEDR1NGHAUS DIVORCED BY WIFE WiUBe a Lively Primary mM mm FOR SIX ON YACH mm SHOWS NOTES 1IN EXPLORER 5H0OTSESTRANGED LAWYER-HUSBAND I FARMER SEEKS $500 FOR THREE TREES DAMAGED BY AIRPLANE Craft With Two Young Men Crashes ia Orchard at Atigltim; Neither Seriously Hurt.

After an airplane with two young men had crashed Into an apple orchard on a farm near Angluni, Sunday. Albert von Hoffman, pro 'Jellyroll," Reputed Head RIVAL CANDIDATES Kdward J. Hogan. Disappearance of Mr. and Mrs.

Power at Sea Ties Up Three Estates. Jackson Johnsons Daughter Obtains Decree 15 Minutes After Filing Petition. Hj Is Going to San Diego to Get His New Plane, but Won't Say When. Says Musician Wrote Her Love Missives After He Had Married Mrs. Simonds.

of Hogan Gang, Hopes to Oust State Senator Who Has Held Seat for 20 Years. Esther Wilson, Big prietor of the aircraft company of that name which owns the plane, received an estimate of $2600 for repairs to the ship. Work of reconstructing it was begun at once and Von Hoffmann dismissed the matter from his mind. Tuesday, however, be received a bill from the owner of CHARLOTTE. N.

C. March 30.1 Since last Dec. IS the motor! yacht Kingfisher has been missing! with six persons aboard and i Game Hunter, rires ris-tol When She Fails to Effect a Reconciliation. By Leased Wire from the New York Bureau of the NEW YORK, March CO. Intimate letters by Dirk Foch, the Dutch orchestra conductor and composer, became public yester ed to disclose any! search has fail trace of her.

the orchard into which the plane I fallen, nsklntr Von Hoffmann kVS HE SPENT Hope has been abandoned fori the lives of the six. seen as! their yacht headed out to sea roi.i Southport. N. after weathering! ALL HER MONEY footing Occurs in Office in New York Skyscraper a two-day gale after a journey from New York from which port it sailed for Florida, Mr. and Mrs.

William Power of Palm Beach owners of the yacht; Mrs. Power's 3-year-old nephew, whom they were Planning to adopt: a Negro moid and two young men acting as Can. in Attorney Wounded Back and Arm. r9 I Fifteen minutes after the ftlir-of her divorce petition, Mrs. Hd-n Johnson Niedringhaus obtained a divorce late yes'erduy from f.c-Irving Niedrlnghaus of 29 Portland place.

In a brief hearing in chambers, Mrs. Circuit Judge Hall pbe bad ample means of eupport and received custody of the three children Marjoric. 21 years old; Irving Lee 15, and William 6. Mr. and Mrs.

Niedrlnghaus w-rs married In 190G. They separated, according to her petition, last Saturday when she went next door to luo with her father. Jackson Johnson. 25 Portland place, chairman of the board of the International Shoe Co. Mrs.

Niedrlnghaus charged pen-oral indignities. She alleged that for five years Niedrlnghaus displayed a violent temper, had caused her distress before friend and relatives and refused to pany her to the home of friend. Mrs" S. C. Walsh and Mrs.

I'Vstus Wade Jr. appeared as her character witnesses. Niedringhaus entered bis Jp pearancc, made a general denial of the 'charges but did not contest. He Js vice president of the Coldak St. Louis Co.

which manufactures electric refrigerators, and a member of the Racquet fc'id St. Louis Country Clubs. A settlement satisfactory to both was made out of court, it was indicated by Walter It. Mayne. attorney for Mrs.

Niedringhau-. the New VS. leased Wire From A York Bureau of the Post York Bureau or me l-osi-iuspatcn. NEW YORK, March 30. Mrs.

nier Wilson of Washington, D. whose pastimes have included to pay J500 for damage done to three trees in the orchard. The farmer has been offered $200 in settlement. "Flying doen't cost much as long as you stay in the air. but the cost of crashing is becoming something eUe again," Von Hoffmann commented.

The yoimg men in the plane suffered minor scratches. CLAYMO HOTELCLAYTQN, SOLD PRICE SAID TO BE $125,000 Purchasers Announce Loh-c mid Plan to Build Slows on Adjoining Ixt. The Claymo Hotel, a three-story biiek building on the northwet-t corner of Meramec avenue and Forty the boulevard in Clayton, was sold today for a price reported to be about 1 2 Noman B. Comfort and Gunther Meier of the Trio Realty Co. purchased it from the estate of Joseph.

Parks, who drowned two years ago. Comfort announced that the hotel, which has 24 rooms, a dining-room and rathskeller, lias been leased to Jacob Roth, 3971 Folsom avenue, who will operate It. One-story stores will be built an the 100 foot lot adjoining the hotel on Meramec avenue, which was included in the purchase. exploration and big game tain and engineer of the yacht are' lost with the vessel. i The disappearance or Mr.

and Mrs. Power has tied up three! estates, already involved in court; litigation. Power's own fortune is i estimated at $250,000. and under i Florida law if no proof of the! yacht's sinking is found seven years must elapse before her owner can be declared legally dead. His sitter, Mrs.

Atelia has asked court permission to administer the estate. She is his only1 surviving- relative. Meanwhile Power's sister, Mrs. L. Bates of Hot Springs, has asked Sen-1 ator Caraway cf that State to in- H4 Buck home again after a flight yesterday from Lexington, Col.

Charles A. Lindbergh today adhered to his previously announced intention of staying out of the public eye as much as possible. Although it is known that his next trip is 1o be from St. Louis to San Diego, Cab. be declined to say when he would start.

He spent last night at the home of Harry Hall Knight, one of his backers, and had dinner at the home of Harold M. Bixby, another backer of his trans-Atlantic flight. Today lie is answering letters and telegrams and visiting friends. Lindbergh declined to comment on press association reports that be contemplated a round-the-world flight, but said he had "no particu-ra plans at present." "There have lirtn so many rumors that I have adopted t'i-- policy of ignoring them." he said. With Col.

Lindbergh when he arrived at the field yesterday were 'apt. Emory S. Land, assistant eiii-f of the No vy Bureau of Aeronautic, and Lindbergh's uncle, and Maj. Thomas G. Lanphier of lie Army Air Corps.

The party left the flying field immediately for Knight's home. Lindbergh. is flying a Ryan brougham lent to him by the B. F. Mahoney Aircraft Corporation of San Diego, builder of his "Spirit of St, Louis." The ship will be returned at the close of Lindbergh's flight to the Tacific Coast and be will lake over a new plane just completed for him by the Mahoney concern.

The new ship is a of the regular Kyan brougham but it is equipped with night flying gear, including parachute flares and wing lig-hts, and a set of fine instruments including an earth inductor compass. The plane lias a gasoline capacity of 170 gallons, which will give it a cruising range cf approximately 1500 miles. Unlike the "Spirit of St. Louis." the cabin of which is filled with gasoline tanks, the new plane will have seats for three passengers. For nomination as State Senator Hogan or Brogan? Tliat's the question facing Democratic voters again in Die jigsaw-puzzle btrip of thu city from the river to Vandeventer avenue, with Cass avenue as its backbone, defined on the State political map as the Thirty-third Senatorial District once dominated by the Irish and the German, but now a melting pot of races.

Edward J. Hogan whose nickname "Jellyroll" has been broadcast as result of battles other than political, is out a second time to win the senatorial seat that Joseph II. Brogan, an attorney and Democratic Legislator from Ue-, publican city, has occupied L'O years without interruption. Descendants of the Irish who once flourished in the district, now regarded as the most cosmopolitan in the State, they have lived there all their lives, but at opposite ends. Hogan's residence is at 303 3 Cass avenue, Brogan's at 1915 Warren street.

Victory went to the Senator back in 1S20 when Hogan, having served a term as a member of the House, entered the lists as the first challenger in the Democratic primaries Brogan had had in 12 years. "But now," says Senator Brogan, "Hogan is more famous than he used to be." Since 3 920 Hogan has gained (without fundation in fact, he says) the unwanted title of leader of the I Hogan gang, celebrated for its-bloody disputes with the Egan gang, followers of Dinty Colbeck in 1922 and 1923. "Jellyroll" a nickname Hogan does not relish was appropriated from a popular ou the streets i some years ago. Eventually police heard cf it and they helped perpetuate it. Huns Par In County.

Hogan's card explains he 53 "Business Agent, Local Union No. 303, Soft Drink Workers." with an office at 1503 North Jefferson avo- I nue. But he elected to discuss his I xticS in Africa, visited tne eiao-Cte offices of Dallett II. Wilson, lawyer-husband on the fif--ith floor of a New York eky-sper yesterday afternoon, to Lad for a reconciliation with She remained to fire two i its from a revolver into his back left arm. Wilson was tr.ken to City His condition is serious.

Wilson since coming here sev-il years ago from Bethlehem, where he was owner of the -ihlehem Evening- Times, coun-! for the Bethlehem Steel Cor- day as Mrs. Consuelo Flowerton Foch filed suit for divorce in the Si'prcme Court. Shu alleged that i-ite. divorce Foch obtained In The Hague, Holland, in October. 1926.

was fraudulent and that, therefore, his marriage to Mrs. Editha Simonds was illegal. Action on the question of custody of Nina Maud, the daughter of Foch. was deferred pending settlement of the divorce tuit. The letters, which Mrs.

Foch said were from Foch to her, were d.U-d during April, 1927. after the Holland divorce and while Foch was married to Mrs. Simonds. Excerpts from the letters follow: "Dearest, dearest little Bumple: 1 cannot tell you enough how I love and love you. The rosary of my affections for you today, dearest Biimpie of mine is a relic.

I love ou, I love you so dearly, my honey. ou, you little thing. I kiss you on jour lips, those sweet lips. All that is good in tne is spreading to you, my lcar little Burnpie, that walked off with me and brought me a little angel CXina) with blond curls blue eyes. I love you and adore you.

How nice were the last 24 hours, and not only on account of one reason no, for 1000 rca-fcons. "Do be, swet and write something of your own soul because we are one in an entity, an endless small particle of God's love look at the outcome of it. our little priestess with the blond curli and the blue "Darling Rumpie: Today I am very sad. I have written and written. This is the sixth Wter.

In spite of your promise of every day writing, I have received only one letter. Anyhow I love you dearly. I kiss your eyes and your lips and hold you in rny arms and pat you and pat you. my beautiful little flower in the garden of my desire. "Jt is just like a bird sitting en a branch of cherry blossoms, but he can't find his little tunes and can't sing, sing, sing.

And one night very sudden on a golden ray of sunshine came the bird's little wife and the bird flapped its winga and sang a tale of long forgotten trembling joy and love. "I love you dear, don't leave these letters around. They are written with all the joy of my heart, but for you alone. I kiss you, dear. 1000 million kisses." i vration ana director ot several kjrporations, nas punt up a mcra- law practice and becomes ac--e in Republican party circles.

Estranged for Sonic Time. His wife, at first calm, then was questioned by the PC'S and then locked up, charged felonious assault. Mrs. Wilson, who has been es-isged from her husband for ue time left Washington Sun-v. the police learned.

WOMAN SMOKER DIES OF BURNS Mrs. Florence Kelly, 65-year-old Negro, 4245 West Belle place, died yesterday at City Hospital N. of burns suffered Wednesday when she attempted to lipht her pip with paper, part of which f'-ll on her clothing. The house was slightly damaged by the fire. Town to Jl- "I Ami." Dj tli Awj-iKtil 1'ri-fcn.

TANKTON, S. March new town being- platted in Knox County, southwest of here, will be named "Llndy." in honor of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. Christian It.

licniicj'js Son Dies. Frank, 10-year-old son of Christian R. Kenney, president of the Christian Kenney Insurance died yesterday of influenza. lie was a pupil at the Clark School and lived with his parents at 5S31 Clemens avenue. He had been ill a month.

Funeral services will be at 2 p. m. tomorrow at Church of the Ascension, Goodfellow and Cates avenues, v. he re he was a choir boy. The body will be cremated and the ashes placed in Valhalla Cemeterv.

vestigate the disappearance. The two other estates involved are those of William A. Lunsford. a wealthy landowner, and- H. F.

Hammond. Power's uncle. Lunsford, whose will named as beneficiaries both Mr. and Mrs. Power, then unmarried.

was burned to death on his boat in November. 19 2 5. A Kentucky Masonic order, named in Lunsford's previous will, contested the later will which was made 30 days before his death. The case is still pending. Power was also beneficiary of his uncle's will, which was contested by other relatives and that suit, too.

is unsettled. LIGHTNING-STRIKES POYER LINE Street Cars Are Halted lour Minutes and Lights Are Dimmed. Street cars in the city and county were halted four minutes after a bolt of lightning struck a industrial power line of the Union Electric Co. near Ferguson. St.

Louis County, at 3 p. m. yesterday. Electric lights also were dimmed until the loss in current was restored. Damage to the power line, which comes from Keokuk.

was negligible. JCyfesterdny afternoon Mrs. Wilson tered the reception room of her island's suite and walking- past Mary Ann Jahner telephone srator. entered her husband's vate office. She remained there Senator ose-jii JT.

Brogan. Ej a rost-DiEpat'jh Siaff up and say 'Colbeck said this about you and 'Hogan said that about you' and started the trouble. They wanted some killing I hud to carry a pistol to protect my life. "There's no trouble between me and Brogan. We met in the Fed- eral Building the other day and shook hands.

But he's getting old." Hogan is just past 40 and Bro- gan is But Brogan Say As for Brogan, he is willing to let his record speak for itself and that, he says, will do most of the campaigning for him. A short man of ample girth, wearing a dark suit w'ith a pin- stripe, and a blue tie, Brogan sort two hours. Part of her conversation -with A 'n in Shnwinr AA'nnr- nri a ami Summer Ftihriem husband was overheard by i Godlie Hoenig, a stenog-ber. Miss Hoenig- later told ectives she overheard Mrs. Wil- pleading for a reconciliation.

SUITS TOPCOATS 0rtdeR $35 to $75 MESRITZ TAILORING 622 Pine Si. her husband apparently was filling to grant. Then, accord- li Humor Sends f'olonel All Over the World. By the J-'rts--. WASHINGTON, March CO.

The latest reports of Col. Lindbergh here have it that the flyer win make a round-the-world trip in a Ford plane, but will span the Atlantic and Pacific by boat. Some of his associates in the Capital say the journey will be made this spring, and that Lindbergh will be accompanied by Maj. Thomas G. Lanphier, flight commander at Selfridge Field, Mich.

Since Lindbergh left here, there have been countless rumors regarding his plans, some of thern fantastic. Lanjhier is at present on a 60-day leave from the War Department. There have been rumors that he intends to resign from the service- but the War Department has had no direct information on this score. to Miss Hoenig, she asked him increase her allowance from 3 to $1000 a week. 88 conversation suddenly was rrupted by the sound of two her shots in Wilson's office.

Awaits Arrival of Police. ijfs Jahner and Miss Hoenig-, l4J rtirvion ifhtozr Tiiotv nocr md opened the door leading the private office. They saw UkMWIt JhWife AferAJk KVIr in these wonderful coats won lying- on tne lioor. tney 1 slLday and Sunday at These Stations baXUIUdJ overland Tire Co. the police, and Mrs.

Wilson iing with a revolver in her Miss Jahner ran to her Phone switchboard and called police and an ambulance. Tien detectives arrived they i Mrs. Wilson in an office ad-irs that of her husband, but unle Oil t. XVoodson and Midland White ay Supply Co. U59 St.

Louis Ac. senatorial aspirations in his trim saloon and restaurant at 9025 South Broadway, just across the county line. An appointment, however, took him downtown, so he actually told about his desires for office, to reform the State prison system and put the penal institutions and parole system in control of one man, in a secluded back room at 208 North Eighth street, Hogan's round, fleshy face, usually creased in Jovial laughter, lengthened Into seriousness. Ponderous, his heavy shoulders bulging under a brown checked suit, he leaned across a table to emphasize that this time, without doubt, he would win the Democratic nominal tion in the coming primaries and thereby insure his election. "F.rogan has outlived his usefulness to the district as a Senator," said Hogan, his deep-set eyrs peering from under a large black slouch hat.

"He used to be a saloonkeeper, but he studied laiv at night and now- he's a lawyer." Hogan signed, in a boll hand, a typewritten platform which affirmed his belief in the rights of labor, good roads, "the Democratic doctrine of self-government," and repeal or modification of the State prohibition laws. But his favorite is plank No. 5, dealing with the prisons. Hosran himself knows something about prisons from personal experience, for the police arrested him frequently tor investigation during the hectic days of 1922 and 1923 and he spent 50 days in jail for carrying concealed weapons. He favors "placing the State penal institutions upon a sound financial basis, either through appropriation? from the revenue fund or support from the counties And.

he adds, "the policy of running the penitentiary industries in competition with free labor is all wrong." "The warden." he continued, "should have full control of the prison One mail should be in charge of the penal system- That will stop them from shoving the h'ame off on each other." Gang leader? Hogan denied he ev.T was one1. "The police started that gang war that was talked about." he said. "The police would lock you MM St. Charles K- 15 Lemay Itrry 225 i S- Vandeventci ise same suite. She was calm composed, awaiting the arrival tat police.

ilson was sitting in a chair in Private office. Tho shot you?" asked Patrol- picked up a map of his district and ran his finger over the boundaries, from the river over Brooklyn street to Tyler, over Chambers and Mullanphy streets to Cass avenue, west to Jefferson avenue, then over to Beaumont street and west along Lucas avenue and Del-mar boulevard to Vandeventer, north to Evans and east along St. Louis avenue and other streets to Salisbury street at the river front, a district with a population of approximately 100,000. "I've learned the needs of the laboring classes and the factories in that district." he "The old folks, the Irish and the Germans, have died out for the most part since I was elected the first time, and the young folks have moved away, but it's Ftill a good district." "A rerjKtual Candidate." Brogan was reluctant to discuss Hogan's candidacy. "I knew his father," said Brogan, "and there's no bitterness as far as I'm concerned.

I suppose he's become a tort of perpetual candidate. For the last 14 or 15 years, as I remember, he's been running for something nearly every election Alderman, representative or Senator." Brogan started selling newspapers as a boy to help support his widowed mother. Ten years ago he became a lawyer. Hogan has been a telephone operator in the Police Department, a Deputy Constable, member of the State Legislature, and deputy State Beverace Inspector under Speed Selafani, the first one to lj -wife," Wilson answered ac- RADIO BOARD HEAD APPROVED Senate Has Bitter Fight on of O. H.

Caldwell. Ey th- Afc'iocjatpcl P-eFe. WASHINGTON. March 30. After a bitter fight behind closed doors, the Senate lat etoday confirmed the nomination of Orestes H.

Caldwell of New York as a member of the Federal Radio Commission. Caldwell has been serving under a recess appointment. Two other commissioners serving under recess appointments also were confirmed Sam I'ickard Kansas, and Harold A. La Fount Utah. They were confirmed without record votes.

In the case of Caldwell the vote, taken in executive session, was reported to have been 3 5 to 35. Opposition against Caldwell was led by Senator Dill Washington, author of much of the radio legislation, largely on the ground that the Commissioner had used radio stations in a personal campaign of propaganda against the recently enacted measure. Confirmation also was given the nomination of Ira Robinson of West Virginia, whose name as a member of the commis EASTER Specials Girls' White Kid or Patent Pumps and Straps 'E to Selafani. and at the r's request pointed out the of-mto which she had gone and hen confronted with tier isked if she had shot him re-- "Tes." ars He Spent Iler Money. f- Wilson, explaining her act, -s3 her husband of forgery aid: has used up all my money aken all I had and now he is -Eg around with all the worn-a New York City." this point Mrs.

Wilson be- hysterical and it was some White Kid Straps or Beautiful before she regained sufficient Pumps for confirmation. Also All-Patent Leather Straps and Pumps, the popular patterns for Spring. t-ioi cr herself to answer the es' question. Sizes 2y2 to 7 Mosby. And with "Hogan versus i Brogan" on the card, the Thirty- third district is certain to have a lively primary.

I lift -f 1t .00 sion was to the Senate only yesterday by President Coolidge. Theer was no opposition to him. shooting of her husband 48 the second unhappy ending 1 Patrimonial venture for Mrs. who is 47 years old. bru- Md attractive.

Her first hu-: Douglas de Forest, a broker, divorced her 1. naming Wilson, who. ho the had met in a parlor To Cure ifj'hiie on her way to visit ild iR California. Coid in Children's Oxfords and Strap Pumps "Built Over Foot-Shaping Lasts' Pretty little Oxfords and Straps in patent, hazel brown and white elk; some with trim inti. wng aiso ootaineu rce from him in Baltimore.

Mrs. I'e Forest and in son nnri Mrs. lie One Day We YoxVvc never seen anything H1e them before Our Tailcrmoor and Rothmoor fine man-tailored coats for women Rich imported fabrics beautiful silk linings s39' J150 mings. Flexible extension on is the 8on of John S. Wil- Tice president of the Railroad, lie wes born 'Iphla in 1ST9 and was grad- soles.

Sizes to LOTTERY OPERATOR JAILED ON RETURN AFTER JUMPING BOND William H. Emerson. bo Ran Furniture Club, Prefers the Workhouse. William R. Emerson, president of the defunct Mauiding operator of a furniture club lottery here, who was sentenced to a year in jail for his part in the business, but who jumped his bond and went to California for his health, surrendered to the Sheriff today and began serving hi.

term. Circuit Judge Rosskopf set aside- the bond forfeiture, which had been against Jack Keegan, a professional surety. Emerson's lawyer r.sked the Court to charge the sentence to the workhouse, to the prisoner could get outdoor exercise for l.ls health. Circuit Judge Krey. who had pronounced the original sentence, feared the charge might not be legal at this time, but a decs-son I it -n v.p.-: r.k--'.

to the Court cf af'r-il'J I- 1 rOra the fnlvorcltv r. Mr. CORONER GIVES OPEN VERDICT IN DEATH OF WOMAN FROM GAS Husband, Found I in-onscious. Says He BoIUmos A lnd Blew Out Three Jets. A Coroner's jury today returned an open verdict in the death of Mrs.

Joseph Green. 0 years old, who was found dead, and her husband unconscious, in bed yesterday, in a gas-filled room at 2023A North Tenth street. Green, who is C4. is in a serious condition at city hospital. Neighbors told the Coroner Mrs.

Green complained lately of being ill and had remarked she would be "better off dead." Green, at city, hospital, said he believed the wind blew out the flames of three gas jets he had lighted in the two rooms they rented in a boarding house. Returning from an errand, he related, he noticed the lights had gone out. bu concluded bis ifc had Failing to d't--t tlf a s. ami Hug til. Iny on rot a lev: conSi.ioU.-.iivs.s School.

He is a direc. $1 ted reneral counsel for the tableftj? Sizes sV $1-75 Tk tonle and 1 tK-- mf u- Eagle Corporation -rector of the National Kerr York Indemnity Co. piunt Found l.y Piam smoking outfit and a rJin opham was found ftives a roo occupied in Olive street hotel. actives reported today. The ho had ben Arrested a Lr.tir BROMO QUININE Tablet will fortify the mltm asaicst Grip.

WE GIVE MAIL IcSuensa ud other aerioaa tile reai ic( from a Cold. Pric Zjc WOLFF'S ashington Avenue at Broadway 5r a wi.ismfd since ivt ORDERS EAGLE STAMPS FILLED Tie bos tear thit rctafjre SIXTH and I'RANKLIN tj'tu'l'tr 1'" -Ml fatuity tf- declined to tell where r'd when tak'- to Foliec 'it iter. Proven Men: since lit.

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