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POST OATt.Y POST DISPATCH "1 El LOU FINAL el Paid Circulation for March Stock Market Closing Prices and Complete Sales A Gain el 6559 Over March, 1932 The Only Evening Newspaper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service VOL 85. NO. 215. ST.

LOUIS, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1933. 18 PAGES. PRICE 2 CENTS mEX-PREMIFR HFRMOT AGREES SHIP FINDS BODY TEMPORARY TEMPORARY KTIC REVISION OFSECURITIES OF ARMY OFFICER LOST ON AKRON St. Louis Drinks Breweries Dry in Less Than 24 Hours After 3.2 Beer Is Legalized Anheuser-Busch Initial Stock Exhausted and Customers Have to Await New Supply Falstaff Turns Away Orders. TO REPRESENT FRANCE AT WASHINGTON CONFERENCE Captured After 212 Year Search With thousands flocking to St.

Louis restaurants, soda fountains, hotel dining rooms and groceries yesterday for their first or third or tenth taste of 3 J2 per cent beer, there wasn't enough of the brew to go round. Many if not most of the places which obtained early supplies after Thursday midnight closed in the I 'I (I 0 i By a Post-Dispatch Staff Photographer. SAM ADESKKA (right), CAID to be a notorious swindler wanted in London, as he appeared at police headquarters here after being arrested at Denver, by Detective Sergeant Thomas Diamond of Newark, N. J. To the left is DETECTIVE HAKEY WALK of the St.

Louis department. BEER SALE DENIED Judge at Jefferson City Rules That Drys Suit Must Take Ordinary Course Setting in May. STATE REFERENDUM ON MEASURE SOUGHT Plans Are to Circulate Petitions and Halt Law's Operation Till Vote in November, 1934. By BOYD F. CARROLL, Jefferson City Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch.

JEFFERSON CITY, April 8. A temporary injunction restraining sale of 3.2 per cent beer in Missouri was denied by Judge Nike Sevier in Cole County Circuit Court today. He said the case would take its nor mal course without a temporary order. The case will be docketed for the May term. The suit, filed late yesterday, on the first day the beer law was operative, is based on a contention the emergency clause placed in the act by the 1933 Legislature, to make it effective when it was signed by Gov.

Park, is invalid and that the act could not legally become effective until 90 days after adjournment of the Legislature, which still is in session. It is argued that no emergency existed legally calling for inclusion of the emergency clause. This contention, if sustained, would give time for circulation of petitions to invoke the referendum provisions of the State Constitution and subject the law to a statewide vote on ratification. Filing of such petitions, if found to comply with constitutional requirements, auto matically vould susperd operation of the law until a referendum in the next general election in November, 1934. Validity of the law also is questioned in the suit on the ground it is in violation of the eighteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, notwithstanding a recent act of Congress modifying Federal laws to authorize manufacture and sale of beer with an alco holic content of 32 per cent by weight P.

A. Tate of St. Louis, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of Missouri, who was here in connection with filing of the suit said "this and all other wet legislation will be referred to the people at the 1934 election." The suit was filed in the name of. Miss Fannie D. Robb of St Louis, an officer of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, as a taxpayer.

It is directed against State Pure Food and Drug Commissioner Manville, whose department has general charge of administration of the law; Attorney-General McKittrick, State Treasurer Nacy and State Auditor Smith, who perform various administrative duties in connection with the law. Gus O. Nations of St Louis, attorney for the Anti-Saloon League of Missouri, filed the suit as counsel for Miss Robb. Nations formerly was chief of the Federal prohibition enforcement field forces in Missouri. The Brogan-Roberts bill was signed by Gov.

Park March 15. POWER OF THE NEW BEER REFLECTED IN POLICE COURT One Man in Dock After two and a Half Bottles, He Says. There were only four "drunk on the street" cases on the Police Court docket today, all of them in Court No. 1, covering the territory south of Washington avenue. Desiring to find out something about the effect of the new 3.2 per cent beer.

Judge Blaine called the defendants to the stand and questioned them. The first man insisted his trouble with the police occurred after consuming only two and a half bottles of the new brew. The Court showed an inclination to doubt the estimate. No. 2.

an Irishman, said he had counted 12 bottles before becoming drunk. The third offender told the Court he had lost count before passing out No. 4 said he drank "hard" liquor and has not experimented with 3.2 beer. As none of the defendants had ever been arrested before, the Court discharged them with a warning. New York Cuts Gasoline Tax.

ALBANY, N. April 8. The Assembly defeated a bill providing for the continuation of the 1-cent emergency tax yesterday. This reduces the State gasoline tax to 2 cents a gallon. The 1-cent emergency tax was added last year at the request of Gov.

Roosevelt -Jid was counted on by the fiscal leaders to raise $15,000,000 in revenue this yearf AGAIN! OUR BY SENATE GROUP Authority of U. S. Officials to Control Stock and Bend Sales Would Be Curtailed Sharply Under New Draft of Bill. PRESIDENT CLEARS UP ONE POINT Committee Informed That Roosevelt Favors Provision Giving Federal Trade Commission the Power to Revoke Registrations. Associated iress.

WASHINGTON, April 8. A wholesale revision of the administrator, securities control measure has beer, made by the Senate Banking Committee, and under it the fewer of the Government to block stock ar.d bond sales would be cur-tailed sharply. Trie new draft, made public by the committee right after it was ir.frrrr.ed officially that President under which the Federal Trade would have power to revc-ke registration of securities, ri-ce-i this power to apply only to ciss cf fraud or violation of the Tr. addition, the committee limited the bill's application security issues marketed after the bill becomes law, exempting issues of bona fide corpo-ri'i rs that have been operating a year or more. It greatly reduced the liability of for misstatements In the fir.arc-al reports to be filed with the Trade Commission, reqtiiring that or.

three-fourths of a directors be required to sigr. the reports. Lxemption on Signing. I -rther, the new version pro-v Ary director of a corporation n.d ir. tne discretion or me end upon request before vgirv.ion.

for good cause shown, he excused from signing and? swear-iz the said statement." Much opposition had been voiced the original mandatory responsibly every director for the tru-hfulness of the statements filed, "he administration's spokesmen, had held this principle Mtal to success of the act. The new bill specifically excludes paper, including notes, drif-s bills of exchange and bankers arrpptances with maturities not nine months. exempts securities issued fey rr.u-uai building and loan and tr. i'Mii homestead associations. It modifies the cause for revocation eliminating the provision "emriir.g unsound or insolvent con-r-' 'Ts rf the issuer, and the power ti rvoke when the commission this "is in th interest of the welfare." rains force to revoke for a-: of the provisions of the he issuer has been or is to engage in fraudulent cons, and for fraudulent in information Kerotery of Money Paid.

redraft retains the right of a holder to recover the price hp has been defrauded, but rates, his right to recover dam- CPs "emulation for foreign securl-t:" a tered to make requirements rr-i'v-raiiy tne same as those cov- omestic stocks and bonds, rx, ptt that the Issuers and under- of the foreign loans would to file in addition: terms of any collateral "'t, arrangement, or under- if ontr KAtwiian Via iinrf.r. or sellinc scent or anv rhe- C9 erson. and the borrower or "'her officer or agent of the er, relating to the said M. Butler, an attorney of the Department, who had a preparing the bill, and has explaining it to the Congres-lx': committees, told the Sena-p "5 was authorized to state the 'iient's stand. Replying to criticism of the clause gives the Federal Trade the right to revoke regls- vi securities in case or tms-'T reservation and for other causes, said: "I am authorized to say that the "Mder.t is in favor of the Idea revocation as exDressed in aec- 5.

page 12. House BiU number that he did not attempt to or his message to Congress to 'Afr any more than the general -uweat jegaxding tha MEASURE MAD A. F. Masury of Ordnance Reserve Was Guest on Navy Airship When It Fell in Sea. 70 MEN MISSING; SEARCH CONTINUES Victim Chief Engineer of Truck Company Made Dirigible Trip Without Telling Wife.

By the Associated Press. U. S. S. PORTLAND AT SEA OFF NEW JERSEY COAST, April 8.

The body of Lieutenant-Colonel A. F. Masury, U. S. A.

Ordnance Reserve, who was a guest officer aboard the airship Akron on its last voyage, was recovered from the sea today near the scene of the disaster. Col. Masury's body was sighted by the tanker John D. Archbold. It was picked up by the Coast Guard patrol boat Galatea.

Identification was made from papers found in Masury's pockets. The body is being taken to the Brooklyn navy yard by the Gala tea. Finding of the body of Lieutenant-Colonel Masury brings to three the number of bodies recovered in the Akron disaster. Seventh men still are missing and their bodies are being sought. The body of Lieutenant-Commander Harold E.

MacLellan, third senior officer aboard the Akron, was recovered Tuesday, the day of the crash, and was buried yesterday in Arlington Cemetery. Robert W. Copeland, chief radio man, died aboard the German Tanker Phoebus early Tuesday after being rescued from the sea. Col. Masury lived in New York and was chief engineer of the Mack Truck Friends said he boarded the Akron Monday night as a guest of Rear Admiral William A.

Moffitt without telling his wife he was going, because he was afraid she would worry. She did not know he was aboard until she was informed by his secretary the next morning that he was among the missing. Col. Masury had made several flights in dirigibles and was a passenger on the Graf Zeppelin in 1933 when it was caught in winds in the Rhone Valley and forced down in France at the start of a projected flight to the United States. Col.

Masury was 48 years old. He was born in Danvers, and was graduated from Brown University in 1909. During the World War he served with the Ordnance Corps with the rank of Major. Besides his widow, he is survived by his 86-year-old mother, Mrs. Evelyn Masury of Danvers.

Friends said he had written his mother that the Akron would be flying over Danvers this week and added: "Be sure to watch for me." SHOWERS TODAY OR TONIGHT; COOLER, FAIR TOMORROW THE TEMPERATURES. 1 a. m. "rn. 3 a.

m. 4 a. m. a. m.

5 a. m. 7 a. m. 5H 9 a.

fi4 7 JO a. m. 1 1 a. m. 57 S7 5 54 S3 68 12 noon 71 1 o.

2 p. 3 p. p. m. '73 76 76 8 a 58 Indicates street reading.

Yesterdays high, 69 (4:30 p. low, 36 15 a. m. Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Showers this afternoon or CUT THE WORKING TIME AND THE WORRYING TIME.

tonight. Tomor row, fair and cooler. Missouri: Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, except rain in extreme northeast portion tonight; cooler tonight, except in extreme northeast portion; cooler tomorrow. Illinois: Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, probably occasional rain; warmer tonight in central and extreme POST-DISPATCH WCATHERBIRD east portions; cooler tomorrow in central and south portions. Stage of the Mississippi at St Louis, 18.6 feet, a fall of 0.1; at Grafton, 16.1 feet, a rise of 0.5; the Missouri at St Charles, 18.4 feet, a fall of 0.6.

Next Week's Weather Outlook. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, April 8. Weather outlook for the period beginning Monday: For the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys Precipitation indicated beginning of week and probably again latter half; temperatures mostly normal gr fcejojK HE IS EXPECTED TO SAIL APRIL 19, PARISREPORTS World's Leading Powers Invited by Roosevelt in Effort to Smooth Way for Success of Economic Parley in London Later. DAVIS INTERVIEWS HINDENBURG, HITLER President to Seek Free Hand in Making Trade Agreements Before Beginning ersations With Foreign Delegates.

By the Associated Press. PARIS, April 8. Former Premier Edouard Herriot has accepted the Government's invitation to represent France in Washington at a meeting of representatives of the. chief powers and President Roosevelt, preliminary to the World Economic Conference to be held in Iondon. He will sail probably on the steamship He de France April 19.

While the announcement of hia acceptance said it was "virtual," the Government was confident ha would go. It was understood he hesitated only on account of the still outstanding divergence of opinion between him and the majority in the Chamber of Deputies over the war debt payment The Chamber overthrew Herriot's cabinet last December because he demanded the payment of interest due be made. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, April 8. Norman Davis, Special Ambassador representing President Roosevelt, arived here today from Paris and spent tha morning confering with Foreign Minister Konstantin von Neurath He is to meet President von Hin-denburg at noon and Chancellor Hitler at 6 p.

m. Davis is discussing plans for German representation at the forthcoming economla discussions in Washington. It is reported that Hans Luther, the new Ambassador to the United States, will represent this country; in the conferences at Washington INVITATIONS SENT TO CHIEF NATIONS By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON. April 8.

President Roosevelt has taken the leadership in an organized effort against the depression, and the nations he has Jnvited to participats are falling into line in response to his call to come here and talk over plans. The United States has sent invitations to the conference to four" of Europe Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy; the "big three" of South America, the "ABC" Powers of Argentina, Brazil and Chile, and the two chieC Oriental nations, Japan and China Invitations to other Governments are expected to go out soon. Today Canada and Mexico were invited to send personal representatives for economic conversations with President Roosevelt Prime Minister Ramsay MacDon-aid of Great plans to sail for Washington a week from today. From foreign capitals came general expressions of satisfaction and indications of acceptance. Seeks Success at London.

The President has chosen to assemble the statesmen in Washington for individual conversations far in advance of the convening of the world's monetary and economic) conference this summer in London. Definite word has been received In Washington that the world economic conference will be held in London about June 15. The personnel of the American delegation is already under consideration by President Roosevelt The name off Bernard M. Baruch, New York fi- nancier, has been heard in soma quarters as a possible member. Statesmen feel that the world cannot afford a failure at London.

-But success will require patient preliminary moves designed to. Continued on Tage 2, Column 6. JEWISH SEER WHO TOLD OF HITLER'S RISE TO POWER IS FOUND SLAIN IN BERLIN By th Associated Press. BERLIN. April 8.

ERIK JAN STEINSCHNEI-DER, alias Hanussen, who years ago predicted Adolf Hitler's accession to power, was found slain yesterday in a forest. Police say he is a Jew. He built a tremendous following by means of his asserted clairvoyancy, beginnnig with the campaign of the Fourth Army in Bosnia, where he was assigned to the divining rod detachment. After the war he lectured on telepathy. Police said he was appointed royal seer at the Dutch Court and subsequently traveled extensively in the United States.

He published a journal on clairvoyancy. Recently, police said, he was arrested in connection with his professional activities. There was no clew to the slayer. DEDUCTING GIFTS ENTIRE UPHELD Ruling of Tax Appeals Board Saves Large Sums for John J. Raskob and Du Pont.

By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, April 8. The Board of Tax Appeals decided today, in the case of Aaron Straus of Baltimore, that a taxpayer could deduct charitable contributions from his entire income, and not just from his ordinary income after excluding capital net gains. The old rule was that the contributions limited by law to 15 per cent be deducted only from ordinary income. Immediate beneficiaries of the ruling were expected to include John J.

Raskob, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and Pierre S. du Pont, industrialist. They have assessments of $15,977 and $164,477, respectively, pending against them. In the Straus case, as in the Raskob and du Pont cases, the contributions exceeded the ordinary income and were deducted from the entire income, including capital net gains. In 1930 Straus had an ordinary income of $43,079 and a capital net gain of $766,463.

His contributions for the year were $144,695. He deducted for contributions 15 per cent of his total income, or $117,677. The bureau disapproved this deduction and permitted him to deduct only 15 per cent of his ordinary income, or $6461. The board in its decision in the Straus case overruled some previous decisions and held that Congress had intended that a taxpayer could deduct bis contributions from his entire income and not just his ordinary income. While the decision will affect contributions amounting to millions of dollars in 1928 and 1929 when large gains were reported from stock market transactions officials said it would not affect as much revenue in the later years of curtailed incomes.

U. S. AGENT'S WIFE FREED OF KILLING HIS SECRETARY She Deads Temporary Insanity in Shooting of Narcotics' Official's Aid. JACKSONVILLE, April 8. Mrs.

C. R. Frazier, wife of a former United States narcotics official, was free today of a charge of murdering her husband's secretary, Miss Manona MurrelL She pleaded temporary insanity domestic trianele and a jury acquitted her last night after an hour a and 55 minutes oi aeuo-eration. Mrs. Frazier fainted.

Miss Murrell, 26-year-old divorce, was shot to death by Mrs. Frazier on the lawn of the Postoffice Build-inr here Dec 16. Mrs. Frazier charged the younger woman had urged the husband to get a divorce and marry her. Brewer Die of Beer Fumes.

NEW YORK, April 8. John Wurzburger. 28 years old. brewer in a Brooklyn brewery, died yesterday of carbon dioxide given off by fermenting beer. He coiiapseu in the FROM THE NCOM early morning hours only when the supply was exhausted.

A few, changing bartenders, remained open continuously into the forenoon until they ran out. They, and others obtaining new supplies for the forenoon, were thronged by patrons with such breakfast orders as "beer and toast." Many were out of beer two hours before lunch. And then, attempting to telephone rush orders, they found the brewery telephone exchanges swamped. Many drove to the breweries but found they could not get their orders filled. Brewery Supply Exhausted.

At the Anheuser-Busch and Falstaff plants, while 24-hour production went forward at top speed, the streets were congested with waiting trucks. The Falstaff brewery closed its doors in the afternoon, augmented its telephone facilities, and concentrated on filling old orders before accepting new ones. Retailers were told at An-henser-Busch that the initial stock was exhausted, and they would have to wait for deliveries from new stock today. Orders ha- been prorated. Many retailers had obtained only a small fraction of the supply ordered.

Brewers said many were over-ordering in prospect of a not unlikely national shortage, and immediate deliveries were being reduced to the probable scale of immediate consumption. One brewery was orders by two-thirds. St Louisans who sought a late breakfast found restaurant service difficult to obt-'n in the flood of beer orders. A waiter in a West End restaurant when a customer ordered coffee at 9:30 a. m.

gazed ruefully at the swarm of beer drinkers at the "counter" and said, "You'll have to wait about 15 minutes for coffee, mister." The patron ordered beer and got it in much less than 15 minutes. Drug Store Demand Big. A beer house at Ninth and Pine streets remained open continuously from about 12:30 a. m. into the forenoon with 12 half-barrels and 75 cases hauled by the proprietor himself.

At 10 a. m. it was exhausted, and all attempts failed to obtain more for noon and the sunny and thirsty-provoking afternoon. At lunch-time restaurant patrons commonly looked or asked for beer before they sat down. In some restaurants every patron had a beer bottle before him.

In one downtown hotel cafeteria, just two at an early lunch hour were without a bottle of the new brew. Those fortunate places with adequate supply were thronged through the afternoon. A casual count at a drugstore fountain showed that, of nine customers, six of them women, five had beer, one a banana split, and three soft drinks. Fountains were deserted in some other stores which, failing to anticipate the demand, had opened at 8 a. m.

with a few cases, exhausted in a few hours. Sandwich Demand Large. South St. Louis restaurants with beer were crowded all day. Eating went with the drinking.

The proprietor of an inn famous for its mint juleps in other days declared he'd "never sold so many sandwiches before." His old garden, after a few years in the unaccustomed role of a miniature golf course, is to become a garden again. A downtown night club offering music and dancing from noon through the evening was packed with afternoon family parties. The proprietor, whose standing before prohibition changed to wider fame under the slogan "Nothing worries Toe" when prohibition agents gave him plenty to worry about, commented that the return of beer had brought out evening crowds of a sort he hadn't seen since prohibition. "Finest people in St. Louis," he insisted.

"I hadn't seen some of them for 20 years." "Count" Henry Hoffmann, presiding at a downtown hotel, up until 5 a. m. yesterday to serve a party, at work again after two hours' sleep and at his duties late last night, insisted he had nothing to do compared with the old days at McTague's. "At New Year's then," he said, "I'd start at 6 o'clock in the evening and work through until maybe 4 the next afternoon, with 50 60 gallons of egg nogg to make. Filling steins this is just toy stuff." Country clubs are planning beer parties tonight.

With the mercury up to 69 yesterday and with beer CoaUaued. ca agt 24 paf it. PRISONER STOPS HERE A NIGHT ON WAY TO TRIAL IN LONDON Put in Holdover by Officer Who Caught Him in Denver Alter 2-Year Search. Detective Sergeant Thomas Diamond of Newark, N. left St Louis this morning with Sam Adeskka, whom he is taking to London to be tried on a charge of obtaining $70,000 in a confidence game.

Adeskka, said to be a member of the Dick (Buttermilk) Gold-den gang of swindlers, spent last night in the Central District holdover. Diamond, commissioned by Scotland Yard to find Adeskka, arrested him in Denver, several days ago after a search of two and a half years. AUTOMOBILE LOAN CONCERN ROBBED OF $325 IN HOLDUP Two Men and Two Women Employes Forced to Lie on Floor. Two men and two women employes of the C. I.

T. Corporation, an automobile finance concern on the third floor at 3713 Washington avenue, were compelled to lie on the floor when two armed robbers stole $325 from the safe and cash drawer this afternoon. Entering at 2 o'clock, the robbers asked where the safe was, found it open and then ordered the employes to lie down. The employes are Forrest W. Peterson, Joseph Zychinski, Miss Virginia Nic-oletti and Mrs.

Margaret Harpe. The holdup men apparently escaped down the stairs. Bertram E. Davidson, manager of the company, -was absent during the robbery. STREET CAR SET AFIRE BY LIGHTNING; EIGHT HURT Blaze Apparently Caused by Induction and Not by Direct Flash.

PORTLAND. April 8. Ten Portland residents were injured, none of them seriously, when lightning set fire to a loaded street car today. They were treated at hospitals. Witnesses said that apparently the lightning did not strike the car directly, but set it on fire by induction.

Passengers said the flames suddenly leaped from the left side of the car and that the interior was immediately filled with smoke. Practically every window in he car was broken, either by passengers or by passersby who attempted to rescue those inside. J. E. Hull, motorman, estimated that 20 passengers were aboard.

3 OF EVEREST EXPEDITION HURT IN BALLOON EXPLOSION LONDON. April 8. The Indian meteorologist of the British Air Kxoedition which recently flew over Mount Everest and two as sistants were Injured today when the hydrogen-filled balloon from which they were testing wind velocity exploded, advices received here Xrom India. aay. 50 HURT IN WRECK ON THE BIG FOUR AT DANVILLE, IND.

Two St. Louis Women Among the Seven Persons Seriously Injured Passenger Train Rammed. By the Associated Press. DANVILLE, April 8. Seven persons were in an Indianapolis hospital today, the only ones requiring more than incidental treatment of nearly 50 who were injured when Big Four passenger train No.

40 rammed into the rear of passenger train No. 20 of the same line here last night. Meanwhile, trainmen refused to place responsibility for the crash, which occurred when No. 20, east-bound from St Louis to Cleveland, made an unscheduled stop to discharge a passenger. The other train, bound from St Louis to New York, usually runs about five minutes behind No.

20. One baggage car of train No. 20 was derailed, and traffic on the line was delayed several Those taken to the hospital and their injuries were: Misd Cora E. Wells, St Louis, broken leg; Mrs. Lawrence Bertram, St.

Louis, cut and bruised; Miss Edna Banes, Freeport, L. wrenched back; W. R. Bristow, Indianapolis, conductor on No. 20, cuts; J.

R. Payne, Bar-gersville, brakeman on No. 20, cuts and bruises; E. M. Fullen-wider, Indianapolis, baggage man on No.

20, cuts and bruises; Ray Thomas, Negro waiter, Buffalo, N. broken nose. Others who reported Injuries included: H. D. Benedict, St Louis, injured leg; Alphonse Peterson, Negro porter, St Louis, cuts on head; A.

B. St Louis, mail clerk, shoulder bruise; Mrs. L. T. Clarke, St Louis, slight concussion, and Miss Verna Filla, St Louis, cuts and bruises.

Train. No. 40 left St Louis for New York last night at 6 o'clock. Train No. 20, which makes many local stops between St Louis and Cleveland, left Union Station an hour earlier.

Beer Souvenir on President's Desk. WASHINGTON, April 8. A big amber-colored goblet with a white painted collar at the top, adorned the desk of President Roosevelt yesterday. The President received it in commemoration of the legalization of beer as the gift of a Pittsburgh glass company. When Senator Norris of Nebraska, an advo-vate of prohibition who voted for the beer bill, paid a White House call during the late afternoon, he walked off with the goblet as a gift tit the President..