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Complete DispafcHes of United Press, InteniationpJ News Service and Universal Service Final sport EDITION faorit saq Ic" rLrim I LI LOUIS STAR ST. 41 NO. 91. ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1930.

24 PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS IB mmi mm Ml JV 0WEBS iff 1 1 SUES JIMMY CONZELMAN CHARGES WIFE TRAILED HIM IN MAN'S CLOTHES SAYS MONOPOLY HAS COST RADIO USERS MILLIONS WIFE SAYS RICH MAN INSTALLED RIVAL IN HOME i FALLS TO Stimson in London Calls on MacDonald, Has 'Nice Cup of Tea! Describes Three-Hour Conference as 'Pleasant Talk' Lack of Pomp Marks Arrival of Naval Delegates. 1AB0V Eipionage Forced Him to Quit Police Force and Seek Another Job, Onrille C. Cripps Alleges in Dirorce Salt. President of Grigsby-Grunow Informs Senate Commission Trust Has Exacted in Royalties. Mrs.

Lewis Luckenbacb Declares Ship Magnate Had Woman in Long Island Mansion While She Was in Europe. COMPLAINS SHE'D PHONE HIS SUPERIORS ABOUT HIM ALLEGES HER SUCCESSOR HAD WORN HER CLOTHES FORCED TO TAKE PATENT LICENSES, HE DECLARES Coldest for Winter Four-Inch Snow Covers City Season's Snowfall Greatest for 14 Years, LONDON. Jan. 17. (By U.

The American delegation the Five-Power Conference for limitation of naval armaments, opening Tuesday, was welcomed here today on one of the most Important peace missions since the war. With "great hopes for success" the Americans headed by Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson arrived at 2:12 p. m. (8:12 a.

St. Louis time) In the capital cf the nation which for centuries was supreme on the seas. An absence cf pomp and ceremony marked the arrival. B. J.

Grigsby Names R. C. General Electric, Westing-house and A. T. T.

as Members of Combine. Woman Speeder Once Charged That Former Motorcycle Policeman Tried to Pet After Arresting Her. Asserts He Introduced Her to His Son as 'Aunt Dolly and Tried to Escape Through Back Door When Raided. AIR LINES DROP ALL SCHEDULES Arthur Henderson, the foreign secretary; Albert V. Alexander, first lord of the admiralty; Sir Robert G.

Van Eittart, prime secretary to the Coolidge History of U. S. to Be Chiseled prime minister, and Malcolm Mac- Granite Mount on Auto Club Predicts Rural Roads Will Be Blocked by Nightfall Some Trains Three Hours Late. KEYSTONE, S. Jan.

17. (By I. N. A history of the United States, In 500 words or less, written by former President Calvin, Coolidge, will be chiseled into the granite face of Mount Rushmore, in the Black Hills here. The work will be part of the Rushmore National Memorial which Gutzon Borglum, sculptor, Is making.

It will be 100.000 years before erosion eradicates the carving. The history will be 80 feet by 120 feet in size. Massive figures of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt, scaled to the ize of men 420 feet in height, are also being sculptored in rock by Borglum. The memorial was unveiled during Mr. Coolidge's vacation here in 1927.

Jimmy Con-zelman, former St. Louis athlete, is being sued for divorce at West Bend, by Peggy Udell, his Follies girl wife shown here. Conzel-man met Miss Udell in 1923 and married her the following ipring, a short time after he had blossomed forth as a song wr iter with "There Isn't Any Loving Like My Kind." The bride was previously married to a Philadelphia millionaire. The Con-z el mans' romance came to grief some time ago when the wife said she couldn't get alongwitlx'her husband's family. Conzelman was formerly a all and baseball star at a i gton and St.

Louis Universities. NEW YORK, Jan. 17. (By U. Lewis Luckenbach, vice president of the Luckenbach Steamship Lines and a member cf the California shipping family, refused to give up his inamorata and suggested instead an impossible domestic arrangement, his wife charged in a divorce suit filed here.

Mrs. Luckenbach, a daughter of G. Hilmer Lundbeck of the Swedish-American Steamship Lines, accuses her husband of engineering a trip to Europe to get her out cf the way so he could continue an affair with Miss Delia Louise Stone. On her return from Europe, the complaint states, Mrs. Luckenbach learned the sixty-six-acre estate at Sands Point, L.

had been dismantled and that her 9-year-old son, Lee, had been sent to a boarding school at West Newton, Mass. When she arrived at Sands Point she claims to have found Miss Stone installed as hostess occupying her rooms, using her clothes and perfume and being presented to her son as "Aunt Dolly." Mrs. Luckenbach, in her affidavit, relates how she organized a raiding party, and declares her husband tried to disappear via the back door. She alleges Miss Stone was found in the. bathroom fully dressed, although her garter hung below her After the raid, Mrs.

Luckenbach said she had a conference with her husband in a hotel. There, she asserts, he mads the "preposterous" proposition that they resume their relations as husband and wife "because he loved her," but that she promise cot to interfere with his affair with Miss Stone. WASHINGTON. Jan. 17.

(By TJ. The Grigsby-Grunow Company of Chicago, manufacturers of radio sets, has paid $5,302,879.15 in royalties to the radio trust' during the last eighteen months, its president, B. J. Grigsby. told the Senate Interstate Commerce Commission today.

Retail purchasers would have saved $15,000,000 if the royalties had not added to the manufaturing costs, he said. The royalties were paid for patent licenses on receiving sets to the Radio Corporation of America, the General Electric Company, the Westinghouse Company and the American Telephone fe Telegraph Company, Grigsby testified. Grigsby declared he did not pay the royalty because he believed he needed the patents, "but because the radio combine had so terrorized the industry and so intimidated dealers and jobbers everywhere that they were afraid to handle what they called 'unlicensed' sets." "Our bankers said they would not finance us unless we took out a license," the witness continued. "They said they would not finance a patent fight against such a monopoly and there was nothing left for us to do but to sign the license agreement. The merits of the patents were never examined by the rwrjfrr The original license agreement, Grigsby said, called for a royalty of per cent on his company's gross receipts, Including cabinets and packing cases.

Later, he added, the Radio Corporation abandoned the royalty on cabinets "because we served notice that unless there was a change of policy, we would manufacture our cabinets through a separate company." i -Aft -4 3 IN 7V Jy Orville C. Cripps, who resigned from the police department last Friday following a rather stormy career a.i a motorcycle officer, charges In divorce suit filed Circuit Court today that part of his troubles grew out of his wife'o habit of disguising herself In men's clothing and following him aboui In hts district The wife. Mrs. Margaret B. Cripps, lives at 2814 Henrietta street.

The petition, on this point, states: "The defendant would dress up in a man's attire and follow the plaintiff along his district as a patrolman to see what he was doing. "She constantly called his superior officers on the phone, much to his embarrassment and annoyance, making it necessary for him to sever his connections with the police department and look for another Job." Records at police headquarters, however, show that Cripps resigned under charges following a complaint lodged by a soldier at Jefferson Barracks thai Cripps had beaten him. Shortly after his appointment to the force as a probationary motorcycle officer in August, 1927, Cripps was cited for excellent conduct following his single-handed capture of a pair of holdup men. Things ran smoothly for him so far as his work was concerned until December. 1928, when he arrested Mrs.

Bernicp Dorullis, attractive 27-j ear-old mother of two children, on a charge of speeding. Mrs. Dorullis at the time told a reporter: "He got into my car and put his ftrm around me ad petted me and said the charge could be 'fixed Several weeks later, Cripps, at his own request, was transferred to a beat in the Wyoming street district, where nothing further was heard against him until the soldier, Fe'x Gllnskl, preferred charges. Mrs. Cripps said she did not wish to discuss the suit.

EXPERT TELLS HOW DETROIT CRIME WAS REDUCED BY RADIO Hie coldest weather of the winter will hit St. Louis tonight, the weather bureau predicted late this afternoon. The thermometer Is expected to stand at the zero mark. Snow fell all day today, while the thermometer crept slowly downward. The mercury dropped to the low record for the season when It reached the three-degree mark at 2 p.

m. The low record was aet November 30. At 4 p. m. the mrrcury had fallen to oae degree awve zro.

Today's blizeard, with Its blinding snowstorm and descending temperatures, was the worst of the season, regarded as the hardest winter St. Louisans have experienced in Approximately four Inches of snow had fallen up to late this afternoon. Including today' snow, the total precipitation of Know and sleet sa far this winter has been 23.C inches, considerably more than In previous year since 1915-16 when the snowfall totaled 31.3 Inches. Ist winter 13 inches of snow and during the previous winter only 9.7 inches. The weather bureau at 9 a.

m. today predicted the lowest temperature tonight as 8 above, but changed the forecast later to zero weather, with continued snow. Eleven above zero was the lowest tempera- tuxe last niKht. Skating Prohibited. Although coasters probably will brave the cold tonight, there Ul be no skating in the city parks, as the low temperature has not continued long enough to form ice of 4 Donald, representing his father, the prime minister, officially welcomed the American delegates at Padding-ton Station.

No Guard of Honor. There was no guard of honor at the station, but the police guard had been strengthened to hold back the crowds. The absence of ceremony at the station was explained by an official spokesman as In keeping with the program for the entire conference, Indicating that ceremony and formality will be reduced to a minimum to facilitate work of the delegates. Britannia waives the rules." the spokesman added with a smile. The delegation arrived here from Plymouth, where the George Washington anchored this morning after a stormy voyage.

All were in good spirits despite the rough Journey. Secretary Stimson went to No. 10 Downing street this afternoon and he and Premier MacDonald had a thorough discussion which lasted three hours. After the conference Stimson received newspaper men from all parts of the world at the American headquarters at the Ritz Hotel. He declined to discuss his conversation with the prime minister except to remark that he had a "pleasant talk and a nice cup of tea." Other The Americans were the second of the conference delegates to arrive, the Japanese having been in London for more than a The Influx from Europe started a few hours after Secretary Stimson and his associates arrived.

The Italian delegation, headed by Dlno Grandl, foreign minister arrived at Victoria station at 5:15 p. m. The official reception committee which met the Americans went to Victoria station to receive the Italian delegates. Aristide Briand, France's foreign minister, was due to arrive at Victoria station at 6:35 p. m.

and other delegates, including Premier Andre Tardleu of France, will arrive later tonight or tomorrow. All of the delegates will meet informally at No. 10 Downing street Monday, probably at 11 a. m. The Japanese delegates today categorically denied reports that their government had forbidden them from carrying on any further preliminary discussion with Premier MacDonald, on the grounds that the progress made thus far had been unsatisfactory.

Tne delegates reiterated that they had left Toklo with instructions merely to discuss various disarmament questions Informally before the conference begins, and that they were not expected to reach any definite agreements. Makes Surrey on Cost of Similar System for St. Louis Department. 4 7 1 I 9 4 At' USES CHEMICAL DISPLAY IN HOUSE TO FIGHT DRY LAW if S. PLANS COAST GUARD LAND FORCE LIKE MARINES WASHINGTON, Jan.

17. (By I. N. The government in strengthening the border patrol against liquor smuggling, it preparing to organize a "little sister" to the Marino Corps, to operate as the" land force of the coast guard. The guard will wear a different uniform from the coast guard, and Trill receive a minimum of $2,10 0a year.

The size of the patrol has not been Patent Suit Filed. WILMINGTON. DEL, Jan. 17. (By TJ.

The Radio Corporation of America and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company today sought a federal injunction to prevent Universal Wireless Communications, from continuing alleged infringement of two patents. The DeForrest Radio Corporation was named as co-defendant, according to the bill in equity, because it had declined to join as a co-complaining and because it claims title to the patents. WASHINGTON. Jan. 17.

(By U. IM With a table full of chemicals and a chart of the human body. the proper thickness. Representative William I. Sirovlch, The Automobile Club of Missouri How the radio reduces crime.

0 per cent was told today by Police Lieut. Kenneth R. Cox of Chicago, the man who perfected the Detroit police radio system and Is now in St. Louis being consulted by the officials with a view to installing a similar system here. Since its installation In Detroit in April, 1928, the felonies In that city have been reduced 54 per cent, and the number of convictions on burglary and robbery charges increased 45.8 per cent, Lieut.

Cox said. Lieut. Cox talked to reporters at Hotel Jefferson before going: on a tour of the city with Detective Sergt. James Teeter of St. Louis, preparatory to making an estimate of the cost of the system betore the Police Board later In the day.

It cost $117,000 to equip 140 police automobiles and fifty stations with radio in the Chicago installation just completed by Lieut. Cox. who was on leave of absence from Detroit for that purpose. It would nrob- New York, Democrat, a surgeon, held the house spellbound for an Pacific end Atlantic Photo. received report that the snow is drifting in the rural districts of Missouri and Illinois and predicted that manv highways wO be closed by nightfall.

A record number of homeless men. GIRL BERATES BANDIT FOR TAKING HER 'DATE' BOOK HULES MME. WAIJSKA CAN HAVE SEPARATE DOMICILE 1,075. sought shelter in the Munici pal Lodging Houj last night. Some motorists found the street CITY ZOO TO SEND AN EXPEDITION TO CENTRAL AMERICA SENATE REJECTS BOUNTY PLAN FOR SUGAR GROWERS slippery on their way to work this morning, and there were several minor collisions between automobiles and street cars.

DETROIT, Jan. 17. (By U. Dorothy Damm, 15 years old, blamed the bandit who held her up, not because he took 75 cents, but because he made off with a "little black book" containing the names and telephone numbers of her boy friends. Miss Damm told of the loss while testifying at the trial of Jack Bennett, charged with robbery.

Bennett was convicted. There was a sprinkling of frozen NEW YORK. Jan. 17. (Ey I.

N. Ganna W.lska, opera singer and wife of Harold F. McCormick, Chicro millionaire won her fight for the right of wives to separate domicile, in a decision of the United States Customs Court yesterday. Explaining that a married woman in most states stands on terms of equality with her husband, the court upheld the right of Mme. Walska to exemption from customs duties hour today mhile he demonstrated the effects of poison liquor on health and appealed for modification of the Volstead law.

He introduced a resolution calling for an investigation of enforcement In New York City by a house committee which he said would reveal amazing corruption and the Impracticability of trying to enforce prohibition. ASKS JUDGMENT AGAINST BANDIT FOR $42 HE TOOK Assistant Circuit Attorney Sullivan has petitioned Circuit Judge Taylor for a judgment of $12 against John Miller, negro, in behalf of Harry Schricber. whom Miller confessed robbing of that amount. Miller was sentenced to ten years' Imprisonment by Judge Taylor. Sullivan acted under a statute which provides that all cases of conviction of felony, the party convicted shall restore the property stolen or destroyed, or make reparation in damages therefor." radiators, balky, motors and similar winter ills over the city, while the downtown garages did a capacity business storing cars normally The Public Service Company kept a score of snow sweepers on the Job all day to clear street car tracks, while a large force of city workers THE LEATHER on the ground that her legal resi filled wagons and motor trucks with snow from the principal streets and dence is Paris.

A year when the singpr landei at New York with $2,000,000 worth of jewels and intersections. ably cost a similar amount or more to equip the 233 police cars and fourteen stations here. Both Cox and Teeter represent a new school of scientific police, -of which the public knows little except in mystery stories. Cox is tall, quiet, suave and immaculately attired, while Teeter even wears octagonal rimless spectacles and spats, the pair making quit a contrast to the usual hard-boiled- type of policemen. Cox, who is 29 years old, left Purdue University, where he had been taking an electrical "Engineering course, in 1922.

he said, and after a year in radio work, joined the De Forecast for St. Louis: Mostly eloud.r tonight and Saturday; probably light snow; ton tinned cold; lowest tonight about sero. Train schedules were slowed up. clothes, customs officers attempted to fore- her to pay $1,000,000 in duties. more than half of the forty-six trains due at Union Station this morning pulling in Late.

Some were three hours behind schedule. MarL'n Perkins and Dr. Willard Bartlett to Seek Rare Reptiles. The St. Louis Zoo is going to send an expedition to Central America to get rare exhibits for the reptile house.

Marlin Perkins, curator of reptiles, will head the expedition and will be accompanied by Dr. Willard Bartlett, an enthusiastic amateur naturalist. Dr. Bartlett will pay his own expenses, but the Zoological Society has voted $1,500 for PeTkins expenses. The trip is expected to take about six weeks, and will include visits to the Jungles cf Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.

Announcement of the plan. was made today in the magazine St. Louis Zoo, Perkins hopes to capture many rare snakes and lizards. The Arrival at Plymouth. PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND.

Jan. 17. (By I. N. Pledged to aid In a conference designed to i bring about the most drastic naval armament cuts in the history of the world, the American delegates to the five-power parley starting In London Tuesday arrived here today aboard the United States liner George Washington.

After a brief but Imposing welcome ceremony staged by the city fathers of Plymouth, the delegation, headed by Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson. departed for London aboard a special Pullman train of the Great Western Railway. The George Washington, after ContinoedonPareiC. CoL2 Stepping out For Missouri: iTobably snow to-i night and Saturday, except mostly i fair Saturday in extreme north por- Air Services Abandoned.

The enow also caused plenty of trouble up in the air. The Trans if AL SMITH AND BABE RUTH GOLF TOGETHER IN FLORIDA On Broadway troit ponce force as a patrolman with Walter WincheW uon; coiaer tonignt east and south portion; not quite so cold Saturday in northwest portion. For Illinois: Probably snow tonight and Saturday except mostly fair Saturday in north portion; colder tonight; continued cold continental Air Transport and Southwest Air Fast Express abandoned all service to and from St. Louis. A Universal Air Lines ship which left Omaha.

for St. Louis, turned back at Kansas City and a St. Louis-bound T. A. T.

plane Votes S3 to 22 Against Howell Proposal to Encourage Industry in U. S. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. (By I.

N. refusing an increase in sugar tariffs yesterday, the senate today rejected, 53 to 22, the proposal to pay a bounty to American sugar producers. The double blow completely defeated the Republican drive for greater tariff protection for the sugar industry in the United States against free trade Philippine importations and the dutiable Cuban imports. The bounty plan was in the form of an amendment to the tariff bllL It was introduced by Senator Howell, Nebraska, Republican, and proposed to pay from the treasury 44-100 of a cent on every pound of sugar produced in this country. Many advocates of protection for the beet and cane sugar interest, including Chairman Smoot of the finance committee, declined to vote for the Howell plan because of prejudices against any form of government subsidies.

The farm bloc had indorsed the amendment. Senator Smoot still hopes to obtain an increased sugar tariff, and has offered a proposal to raise the rate from the existing 1.76 cents a pound to 2 cents. Senate Accepts Idahoan for C. WASHINGTON. Jan.

17. (By U. The nomination of William E. Lee of Idaho to be a member of the interstate commerce commission was confirmed by the senate yesterday. TEMPERATURE READrxOS.

CORAL OABLES. Jan. 17. (By U. Gov.

Alfred E. Smith of New York played golf here today with Babe Ruth, BUI Klem, major league umpire. Jack Sharkey, heavyweight boxer, and BUI Wallace. Ruth and Smith were partners. Farller today when Smith visited a fire station, a trial alarm was rung in.

He donned a helmet nnd swung up beside the driver of huge truck. During a mile ran the former presidential candidate founded the siren with his foot. 5 a. 13 from the east transferred ten passengers to a train at Indianapolis, parked on lots cr streets. The chilly weather was not handed to St.

Louis alone, but, according to dispatches, prevails over the country. Storm conditions as reported to United Press from the following FLYER ARRESTED IN PROBE OF LOAN FIRM'S SHORTAGE a. 14 a. 13 a. 13 a- 13 a.

12 IMP io because a needed a job." worked four years on my idea to equip police cars with radio." he related, "and spent $3,500 of my own I money on experiments. I got the money from two outside jobs as a radio technician. When 1 offered the idea to Police Commissioner Rutledge of Detroit, he took me off my high horse by telng me such a system had already been tried and failed. But special devices on which I have obtained patents made my system more successful. "Each cf the thirty-two Detroit cruiser automobiles has a set tuned I in with a broadcasting station at I headquarters.

As soon as the flash on a cr robbery has been received at headquarters, the radio operator gives a warning buzz, then 1 broadcasts instructions to cars cruis- ing in the neighborhood where the 1 crime has been committed. Thev 11 a. 11 12 noon 8 points were as follows: a daily diversion HAWKS WRECKS PLANE IN TAKE-OFF, BUT IS UNHURT Today's Features Walter Winchell 2 Side Glances 4 "Custom Built" (Serial). 6 Daily Short Story 7 Books 8 Kadio 0 Cross-Word Puzzle 10 Wo an 's Pages. .10 and 11 r.ridpc .11 Frazier Hunt's Story of Soviets 13 Comic Page 15 Sport Pages 20 and 21 Market Iieport 22 pr Midnight ...11 1 a.

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Jan. 17. (By I. Cant. Frank Hawks, holder of the trans-conti- aviator.

1210 Woodiawn avenue, St. Louis County, was arrested as he alighted from a plane at Lambert-St. Louis field last night and will be questioned by the circuit attorney's office about a 15,003 shortage in the accounts of the Neighborhood Loan Mortgage Company, 5639 South Kingshighway. Richard C. Craig and William G.

Voorhees, a lawyer, are at liberty on $5,000 bond each in the case. Hutchison denies any connection with the aUtged issuance cf loans by the company on fictitious Kansas City Snowing, temperature near zero. Warrensburg, Mo. Snowing, temperature near 4 below. Topeka, Kan.

Snowing, temperature 5 above. Oklahoma City Snowing. temperature 5 abo-e. Fort Smith, Art Steady snow. Lincoln.

Neb. Cloudy, heavy snor last night, 15 below zero. Wichita. Kan. Strong north wind.

Terra Drv. Wet. Humid. 12 10 66 12 10 68 13 13 96 IienUl airplane speed record, narrowly escaped serious injury here today when his plane was wrecked hi an attempted take-off. The ship hit soft ground and overturned.

Hawks, uninjured, crawled from the wreckage. TODAY and every day on Page 2 THE ST. LOUIS STAR 12 noon 7 p. speed to the spot at once, and in lone out of seven tunes in Deiroit have caught the criminal red-hand- I 7 a. m.

Stage cf river, 6.8 feet, a fall of 1.2 (Con tin wed en Page 2, CoL 5.) of a foot. Rudy Vaflee's Career Is Described Interestingly in Story on Page Tlwree.