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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH FRIDAY, NOVEMBER ,3, 1930 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, PAGE 3A IFE! in CON Strangler and Victim VOUNDEO ROBBER II S. INDICTS 74 Accused of Lottery Fraud ALDERMEN MUFFLE HE KILLED NURSE TELLS OF HOLDUP, ANTI-NOISE MEASURE IN $20,000,000 LOTTERY SWINDLE 10 SPURNED HI 110 OH CHASE Bill Sent Back to Committee, jW N. -( rjv I vN i I At Virtually Killing It for Session.

Two St, Louisans, Julius If t' I i 'y 1,11 The Board of Aldermen referret Attendant at Madison County Home for Indigents Found at Scene of Crime on Grounds. Relates That He and Pal, Both Bleeding, Escaped Trap After Shooting Ste. Genevieve Marshal. the anti-noise bill back to the Zweig and Julius Heitz, Named in Will Rogers' Memorial Fraud. islation Committee oday, thus virtually killing it for this sssion.

It bxl previously been weakened by committee so that it would have applied to nothing hut th HE AND VICTIM, HAD BEEN ENGAGED loud blowing of automobile horn and the making of disturbing BOSTON, Nov. 3 (AP)-In 40 cities, from Maine to Minnesota, Federal agents began a roundup today of 71 men and three women indicted by a Federal grand jury here as promoters and agents of an allegedly fraudulent $20,000,000 lot Admits William Salinus uuisea near nospttals, schools and churches. When the bill By a Post-Dispatch Starr Photographer. WILLIAM SALINUS MISS ELIZABETH JONES By a Post-Dispatch staff Photographer. JULIUS E.

HEITZ (left) and JULIUS ZWEIG LOUISANS indicted at Boston as members of a fake lottery ring, as they surrendered today at the Federal Building. w- day Alderman Joseph B. Schweppe sought to re-insert some of the VERDICT OF JURY Strangling Her After Sash Cord and Billy Are Found on Him. tery racket (PLEDGE TO PAY DENIED Those indicted included two St By TED C. LINK.

A Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. FARMTNGTON, Mo, Nov. 3. Patrick Palmer, a former electrical worker turned bank robber, described today how he and a companion led more than 150 State Highway Patrolmen and local peace officers on a wild chase through rugged Ozark country for 24 hours after they had robbed the Henry L. Rozier Bank of $2200 Wednesday and wounded City Marshal Henry J.

Drury of Ste. Genevieve in their escape. Palmer, captured yesterday in the railroad station at Piedmont is ON WHICH IMPOSTOR sections wnich the committee had cut out He was particular! in tery purportedly for the benefit of approximately 12,000,000 lottery Louisans, Julius 2iweig, named as the Will Rogers Memorial Fund. tickets were issued annually. terested In having the bill prohibit SERVED IS VOIDED manager of the Gold Bond Co.

in St The lotteries, according to Gov ihe indictments further charcM IN CURLING IRON SUIT ernment officials, were based on the organization advertised "fic Louis, alleged distribution center William Salinus, an attendant at titious hits and awards" and re for lottery tickets; and Julius Heitz. horse races, Treasury balances and other chance devices over a period fused to pay major nrizes. while Missouri Supreme Court Orders Among those listed for arrest was promising premiums exceeding Firm Head Testifies Letter to Abraham F. Zimmerman of Chicago, national headquarters of the of 10 years and netted the promoters more than $20,000,000, only a small part of that collected being paid out in prizes. New Trial After Man Impersonates Another on Panel.

a year. RISING AUTO DEATH TOLL i. rwaios petweea 11 p. m. and Ta.rn.io that they could be heard at a distance of 100 feet This would eliminate some noisy-taverns, he said, or at least force them to be more quiet He was opposed, however, by Alderman Hubert Hoeflinger, who said it -also would work harm on dance halls.

I used to dance until 5 a. m. when I was a young man," HoefUn-' lottery syndicate, who has been Claimant Was Written by Shipping Clerk. MOVES POLICE TO ACTIVITY named by United States Attorney Edmund J. Brandon as the "big Heitz and Zweig Surrender, Put JEFFERSON CITY, Nov.

3. A shot" of the ring. Zimmerman A letter on stationery of the Circuit Court order for a new trial earlier this year appealed a convic Sampson-United Corporation, 'Ro being held in jail at Farmington. He has made a full confession of the robbery to Col. Marvin B.

Cas-teel of the Highway PatroL In the chase he suffered three scalp wounds and a cut lip. His companion, whom he said he knew only as "Red," is still being tion for evasion of income taxes on chester, N. promising compensa of a personal injury suit, based on discovery that an impostor had im- Instructions Issued to Intensify Campaign Against Speeders and Careless Drivers. Police were instructed today to pay closer attention to speeders and careless drivers, following discussion at vesterdav's mpptlnir nt the Madison County Home for indigents in Edwardsville, admitted to police today that he strangled to death Miss Elizabeth Jones, a practical nurse at the home, last right because she rejected his attentions. She was 44 years old and is 47.

In his pockets police found a piece of sash cord -which, they said, matched the cord bound around her neck, and a billy made of a pool cue. The killing took place at 10:06 p. m. in a gully about 150 feet from the administration building of the home. Salinus, a Mexican formerly employed as a railroad laborer and a resident and attendant at the home for five years, was engaged to marry Miss Jones a year ago, but they dropped their l'ans to marry six months ago when both received let-tprs warnine them to stay away an income the Government con tion to Miss Caroline A.

Gerst if 6si auucu, wun me music play- ing loud. I don't think we ought to interfere with such When Schweppe's amendment came ud for a. vnt it v.t tended totaled $400,000 in a year. ipersonated a business man sum the company used her idea of a swivel handle on electric curling Up $4000 Bonds. Julius E.

Heitz, a lottery ticket salesman, and Julius Zweig, former convict surrendered today at the office of United States Commissioner John A. Burke and posted bonds totaling $4000 each on three charges voted against them in the indictment by a Federal grand jury at Boston. The men are charged in the in Others sought In the Middle West moned for jury duty, was sustained today by the Missouri Supreme irons, was written by a shipping sought. A third man, whom Palmer Board of Police Commissioners re were Ernest Daliege, former Chicago policeman; Dr. Frank Deacon, needing at least 15 votes to clerk, who had no authority to Court inc Dili was finally referred back to the committee by a vote of 22 tn a of to- make any statement binding on the company," A.

O. Samuels, company garding the increasing automobile death rate. There have been 70 automobile fatalities so far this year, as compared with 66 at the The order grew out of disclosures bi, or Chicago, a Colonel in the United States Army Medical Reserve Corps, who saw active in Kansas City in 1937 of the sale Lawrence P. Walsh pointed out Vin4- a. 1 iii president, testified today in Miss Gerst's $300,000 suit against the firm.

m.i. me uw stood it merely re- service during the World War, and Russell F. (Duke) Emer-ich of Casey, former Uni of jury summonses to unemployed persons, for small sums, to enable dictment with mail fraud, sending mails concerning lottery, and interstate transportation of lottery matter with conspiracy to promote an Miss Gerst, who lives at 7107 icai.cu ordinances which are already on the statute corresponding time last year. Until Oct 24 the ai'to death rate this year was about the same as it was in 1938. In the last 10 days, however, fatalities have risen.

described as the "finger man" or the robbery, is under arrest at Ste. Genevieve. Col. Casteel expressed the view that the second robber might have died of his wounds in an isolated part of the country around Arcadia. Says Pals Planned It Palmer, who formerly worked for the Union Electric Co.

in St. Louis but has lived in Cape Girardeau the last several years, told how he and "Red" stole an automo them to impersonate the persons versity of Chicago football star. Emerich was listed as office mana Cambridge avenue, University City, alleges the company patented a illegal lottery. rom the other, Chief of Po called and thereby collect jury fees. Supreme Couri Commi Heitz gave his address as 2903 swivel-handled curling iron in De ALTON WOMAN WHO KILLED ger for the Twentieth Century Chief of Police John H.

Glassco was instructed bv the nnlicA hnoril Vi-tor street and Zweig said he lived at 753 Leland avenue, Univer Laurance M. Hyde, who wrote the bales another alleged distribution agency for the Gold Bond lottery. intensify the drive against speeders. cember, 1934, using the idea she had submitted the preceding May. The suit is heard by a jury in United States District Judge Charles B.

opinion, overruled a defense contention that the court could not grant a new trial because no obiection sity City. They were arrested here by postal inspectors and police in March, 1938. The three women were listori FIRM SIGNS WITH I 0 UNION bile in front of a Ste. Genevieve lime Davis' court HUSBAND HELD IN HOSPITAL Mrs. Nellie B.

Daniels Under Treat- ment for Shock; Says She Shot Mate in Quarrel. Mrs. Nellie B. Daniels of AJton, who admitted yesterday that she Mrs. Gertrude Becker of Chicago, Zimmerman's confidential secre had arisen during the trial.

The case involved a suit against the lice August Soehlke said to a Post-Dispatch reporter. She Had Spurned Him. Since, tret time, he continued, Salinus had been forcing his attentions on the nurse, but she had tpuraed him. Salinus told police Miss Jones went to a motion picture theater last night alone and he went to the same theater. After the first picture, he left, but she remained, he The letter referred to in Samuels' Western Leather Clothing Co.

kiln on the morning of the robbery and headed for the bank. tary; Mrs. Elizabeth Rice, nurse at Hotel Co. of Kansas Citv. contract A contract covering the Kfin em "We went in and got $2200 in the the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital, Heitz said his sales in St Louis for the "Gold Bond Lottery" and the "Will Rogers Memorial Lottery" amounted to about $80,000 a year and that he employed 85 salesmen at small commissions.

Lottery In the first trial, the jury awarded testimony was written May 10, 1934, and signed Schenberg, assistant to the president." Samuels testified Schenberg now is in the sales holdup and started away," he re a veraict lor the hotel. ana ranees Schedrow of Brooklyn, N. Y. lated. "Then the Sheriff and Mar shot and killed her estranged hus- The record showed that after thp ployes of the Western Leather Clothing Co, 2850 South Jefferson avenue, has been signed by the firm and the CIO Amalgamated Clothing shal began to chase us.

The car's Charges included use of the mails department and in 1934 was a ship tickets were found in his automo in a scheme to defraud, interstate ping clerk. He admitted, however, elated, tie "loaiea around a- brakes wouldn't hold on the curve and we got a flat tire. trial, Herbert Daniel admitted he had obtained a jury summons for W. W. Bennett, a business man, without Bennett's knowleds-e.

and transportation of lottery matter that Schenberg at that time "wrote letters for the company now and "As the Sheriff and Marshal worKers 01 America, union officials announced today. Max Michelson. manager of the and conspiracy to promote an illegal lottery. then." had signed Bennett's name to the Although the inditcmenta were The first letter to Miss Gerst verdict. came up, Red took the shotgun and walked right down the road to meet them.

He had real courage. The Marshal came out shooting. joint board of the union, said the contract called for the extension un Dand, wmiam ti. Daniels, Wednesday night, was held under guard today at St Anthony's Infirmary, Alton. She is being treated for shock.

She is held under $5000 bond, pending a preliminary hearing -Tuesday morning before Police Magistrate Henry S. Cotter. Mrs. Daniels, 65 years old, said she shot -her husband during a quarrel over his efforts to divorce her. He was 57 years old.

In holding his oninion. Commis returned in September, Federal officers waited until thev believed from the company, written May 2, 1934, and signed by Samuels him bile and at his room. Zweig had just been released from a Federal reformatory where he had served a two-year sentence for evasion of tax on income which the Government charged was received from the "Gold Bond Lottery." In his office in the 1600 block of Pine street police 200 books of tickets on a Kentucky Derby lottery. til next March of an old agreement sioner Hyde said, "Certainly condi "We backed them up and got a complete rounduD of defendants between the company and an inde self, said her idea "sounds interest could be accomplished before re ing," asked for a sample of the de their car and started out again. During the afternoon while we vealing the identities of those in pendent union, une old agreement, Michelson says, provides for a closed shop, a 40-hour week and arbitra vice and assured her that the com naiuvuic 1U1 a nunc auu started home, following Miss Jones and staying a half block behind her, he said.

As they entered the hospital grounds, Salinus related, he caught tp with her and they began quarreling. He said he jerked her arm. They began to wrestle, falling into a gully. Salinus told polfce he then took out a sash cord and strangled her. Her screams during the struggle attracted a taxicab driver, who called police.

When they arrived, they found Salinus lying beside Hiss Jones in a patch of weeds. He tions which would make it possible for such an interloper to impersonate an actual juror would not tend to inspire confidence in the result, reached by juries." All of the judges of Division No. 1 con dicted. were hiding in the woods near pany would be "glad to go into the matter further." Amone more than 100 nersons tion 01 oiiierences. Coffman, we divided the money.

Then we started to try and find a way out of the country The indictments charged Zim- Miss Gerst testified her brothers, who testified before a two-week session of the grand iurv were Mrs. curred. John and Joseph Gerst, worked out a swivel arrangement which per Will Rogers, widow of the cowboy and about 9 o'clock that night we were riding along peaceful! when mitted the electric cord and heat humorist, and Owen D. Young, noted industrialist Federal inves FRENCH REPORT TWO mermann maintained two establishments with many thousands of dollars worth of equipment for lithographic and offset printing. These were named as the Morris Priting Co.

and the Michigan Press." The indictments also contended tigators had contended Will Rog all of a sudden some highway patrolmen began blasting at us at Arcadia. PEASANTS CAPTURED ing unit to remain stationary while the handle turned, after she had burned her scalp as a result of twisting of the cord. ers' name had been used without permission in promoting a lot- TWO NAZI AVIATORS had his arms around her and she was unconscious. Changes His Story. Taken to the police station, Sa- NEGRO WOMAN, BARRED Struck by Slugs.

"At the first blast I was knocked cold by the slugs and I fell over the front seat to the back part of the car and laid in the rear on the floor for a while. After a few PARIS, Nov. 3 (AP). Two peas FROM MISSOURI U. SUES ants were acclaimed today for the Twice Denied Admittance to School bare-handed capture of two mem' minutes I felt better and began to bers of the crew of a German plane.

fire back. of Journalism, She Seeks $20,000 in Damages. JEFFERSON CITY, Nov. 3 (AP). Havas, French news agency, said the men's quick action prevented "As we speeded along on that road with all the hairpin turns in the Germans from smashing their Lucille Bluford, Kansas City Ne "uus n.

nisi bcliu cuujcuut; licta ts- Suited them. After the sash cord and billy were found in his pockets, however, he said: "I want to tell the truth," then related what had happened. Miss Jones, the only nurse in the home, was in charge of 35 women in the hospital ward. She had been there about as long as Salinus, who was a helper in the men's ard. He is being held in the Edwards-vJ-Ule jaiL gro twice denied admittance to the it near the Royal Gorge I heard Red shout: 'I'm The patrol instruments and destroying their papers when their craft was shot down by British planes yesterday University of Missouri School of SPECIAL.

Friday Saturday Journalism, filed suit in United man had just, let go a blast at us. Then Red said, "we'll have to run over Northern France. States District Court today for for if It said the unarmed men, Eugene 000 damages against S. W. Canada, Vantours and Jean Elbout, rushed Both Bleeding Profusely.

registrar of the university. Miss Bluford, a gradaute of the "I bled like hell after I was hit, to the plane when it came down in a field near where they were working and held the flyers until University of Kansas, asked for but Red bled much worse. During French soldiers arrived. tne gun battle Red grabbed a rifle while he was driving and tried to fire it at the patrolmen as we were Of the four occupants of the Ger man plane, one was killed, another speeding along. EXPENSIVE I IN EVERY MM DETAIL Tm BUT PRICE WLf (I proving that fine Jfyl' I jot I footwear need not be costly! viw jfj SHOES I was wounded and two were "I never saw Red after we White on White SMI HI IT jumped out of the car below A French communique reported BRADY, WESTON TAX RECORDS ORDERED BROUGHT INTO COURT A subpena duces tecum directing York Allen, Deputy Assessor in charge of State income tax matters, to appear in court Monday with 1938 income tax returns of State Representative Edward M.

(Putty-Nose) Erady and Clyde A. Weston, extortion defendants, was issued today fcy Circuit Judge Robert L. Aron-on. The Circuit Attnrnpv'a tffnA in th- downing of a twin-motored Ger man reconnaissance plane by a originally $3 and $3.50 $10,000 in each of two counts in which she charged she had been "illegally barred" from the university by Canada's refusal to register her. Her complaint asserted she had suffered "great humiliation, mental anguish and loss of earning powers and efficiency in her newspaper work" because of the university's refusal to permit her to take graduate work in journalism.

Miss Bluford first sought admittance in January, 1939, and again in September, 1939. She has been managing editor of the Kansas City Call, Negro weekly newspaper. "I followed the railroad tracks to Piedmont all night about 22 miles and every time I saw any troopers or deputy sheriffs I ran off the British fighter yesterday. A general headquarters com munique of the British Expedition tracks and hid in the weeds, stay ing perfectly still until they were out of sight I saw plenty of them that night but I managed to hide ary- Force in France said two uer-man Heinkel bombers were brought down by British flyers in Northern France yesterday and a third was dorsed Allen's name as a State wit These are the famed St. Regis white Jacquard patterned Shirts They are custom quality and handsomely tailored with French or Barrel cuffs and come with regular or tab attached collars.

each time. ness on indictments against Brady, Weston and John NTirlr hnsa "In Piedmont I bought a new cap and a pair of trousers and jacket. chased toward German territory. It was not known whether that was the same air fight as reported by the theatrical unions, whose trials the French. extortion charges growing out alleged payment of large sums by ttovie theater owners are scheduled I went to a culvert below Piedmont on the railroad and changed my clothes there.

I had my share of the money with me and it was wrapped in a roll the size of a con 4 UNION OFFICERS INDICTED IN BUSCH Maccelsfieia TIES pr Monday. York appeared before tfce grand jury yesterday with tax Records of the defendants. densed milk can. That was the BUILDING DISPUTE last I saw of the money and it must be around there somewhere. Continued From Page One.

The State will announce ready 'hen the extortion cases are called "I wrapped up my blood-stained clothes and the cap with the two bullet holes in it in a bundle with ii of the inquiry. There have been flareups of the quarrel between the carpenters' and the machinists' II II Ti a automatic pistol. Monday, it was said at the Circuits Attorney's office. Sig-jaund M. Bass, defense attorney, told a Post-Dispatch reporter he expected to be ready to stuck another automatic pistol in my belt and walked to the station.

originally priced $2 Maccelsfields are among the smart est English patterns you can wear. They're pure silk and of sevenfold construction which is noted for the beautiful knot it makes and the length of service it gives. Palmer was arrested at noon yes llo J' 1 Ik 212 10 'a Va AAAAtoC JJ terday by State Highway Patrolmen Gleen Lampley, Ben F. Graham and Vincent Roisabin. A search will be made today for the money WOMAN JUMPS FROM AUTO AFTER STRUGGLE WITH DRIYER Hurt in Leap After binding Man Misrepresented Self as East Side Taxi Operator.

Mrs. Wilmeta Ford, 1613 St. Louis avenue. East St. Louis, jumped from a moving automobile yesterday on learning that the driver was not a taxicab operator as he had claimed.

Mrs. Ford, 46 years old, told police the man drove up in a dark coupe as she was waiting for a taxicab at Eighth street and St. Clair avenue, East St. Louis, and said he did not have his cab with him but that he would drive her in his car. When he drove past a street he should have turned into she protested.

The man told her he was going to get a drink, and when she screamed he speeded the machine and tried to choke her, she said. As he slowed down to turn into Thirty-seventh street from St Clair avenue, she managed to open the door and leap from the machine. She was cut and bruised and was taken to St Mary's Hospital, East St Louis. Her purse containing $45 was left in the automobile. which he left in the railroad cul vert He had $200 in his pockets when captured.

Fine Lisle Ribbed MO SE DIMMER SET originally priced $1 COUPON This coupon together with MM hohA- unions, ootn a. r. 01 auuiaws, in various sections of the nation. The conflict has interfered with a $2,000,000 building program at the Anheuser-Busch plant. At one time William Green, A.F.

of L. president, washed his hands of the dispute. When the jurisdictional counter claims resulted in the picketing of Anheuser-Busch by the carpenters this year and stopped construction on new buildings at the brewery, Green announced that another effort would be made by committees representing the two unions to reach an understanding. Hutcheson is a hard-bitten labor veteran. He and John L.

Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, threw the 1935 A. F. of convention at Atlantic City into an uproar when they exchanged blows during a heated argument. The fight grew out of the bitter feeling over the method of organizing mass production industry workers. It was following this convention that the CIO, now the Congress of Industrial Organizations, was formed, with Lewis at the head.

Hurt in Fall at Home Dies. William Crabb, 4515 -aryland avenue, died today at St. John's Hospital of head injuries suf-jered Tuesday when he fell in the aroom of the apartment he occupied with his sisters, Miss Eliza-and Miss Viola Crabb. He was years old and had been in poor Ceth for 20 years. SUOUiS POST-DISPATCH iuJfd by JOSEPH PCUTZfcJl iw 12.

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