St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 13, 1912

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ew Humorist |Next Sunday Post- ut WINS THE. ENTION DATE,

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puri Delegates to Demo-

» Elected at Joplin, Feb. 20,

P/ | Feb. 12 in Large Cities. — —— LEADERS WILL BEGIN - THE FIGHT AT ONCE _——_—_—_ a

‘State Committee Meeting at Southern Hotel Marked by Sharp Clashes During Fight for Advantage of In- dorsement for President.

: Fhe Democratic State convention to

F glect Missouri’s 085 delegates to} the PDemocratic National Convention at Bal- ony

‘timore will he held at Joplin Feb.

Paccording to the decision of the Dem-

fecratic State Committee at the South-

Fern Hotel Saturday. } The holding of the conve ntion in Feb-

ruary is considered a victory tor the friends of Speaker Champ Clark, who wanted an early convention in the hope of winning delegates in other states if @ Clark is endorsed in Missouri. } The selection of Joplin as the con- yention city is considered a Folk vic- tory, as Joplin is regarded as one of the Folk strongholds. St. Louis was the ponly other city asking for the conven- tion. Under the call issued by the State Committee primaries are to be held in West. Louis and Kansas City Feb. 12 for Mme the election of delegates to this con- See vention. The County Committees were “given the option of calling primary elec- tions for the election of delegates to pth State Convention or by the selection delegates to county conventions by Mass primaries in each township, or by mhe direct election of delegates at maxs wonventions held in the county seat wns. Township meetings or primaries ‘are to be held Feh. 10, Folk and Clark Officials, » Wherever primaries are held. the eity wr county committees are given the power to select judees and clerks from ‘lists submitied by accredited representa- Hives of both former Gov. Folk and beaker Champ Clark, who are contest- ing the State for the delegation to the Pationa|) convention. he Folk men in the committee fought gainst a convention in February. They Mtended that the convention ought to be held in March, as the weather would bh more open, giving the farmers a bet- Mr opportunity to get to the polls. They miended that the selection of county egations as early as -Teb. 12 would make it impossible for the farmers to press their sentiments. . The Folk men knew from the start that the Clark men were in control of The committee. Mrormer Judge Virgil

ule. Inanager of the Clark committee Mor St. Louis, and Md A. Glenn of Louis- ‘ana, manager of the Clark committee Mor the State, both sat in the committee Meeting on proxies and fought for an peariy Convention ; Several members of the committee Moke strongly against the early éon- BFehtion, declaring that a large portion pat th voters of the State virtually wild _ be disfranehised by the holding of con- p*entions Or primaries in weather whieh peakes it impossible for the electors to meet tO the county seat towns Campaigns Begin at Once, As the Clark men had control of the MMMittee they voted down the motions Of the Folk men for holding WeNtion In Mareh is ; The Folk and Clark leaders, after the “s Smnittee had decided upon the date Po the convention, said they would be- | fin their Campaigns at once for the dele- _ to the State Convention. Whether Mark or Folk will get the Missouri in- dorse yt :? “te Ment will depend upon which has the con-

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; The « hiittee 11. Sal t | ‘> lesas ~ of bep- ; Mation as one delecate for each 250 YC es. ot or Major traction thereof, cast for Jame , . : e-"Mes Bo Gantt for Supreme Judge in - the lant te { yr} The , erin? } . Rot between. the two factions WAs hitter ren Miter. at Livrne Thre Joy in boost ers ‘) ‘ Wi CHING fers ask for the Gon Riss "RRC y: 2 Ventio, ile fared t] if hoohix \h i j | { ]

aid Jasper County bv three a) four to pM, and they pMMvention Was awarded to theim | Hamp Rothwell of Moberly. declared that Folk wou! d carry Randolph County OY 10 to l over Clark. James Hi. White- . Potton of Monroe Coun tv said the fight p etween Folk and C lark would be close his county, with Clark having a | Aen advantage. AVIATOR VEDRINES _ BEATS SPEED RECORD ee Frenchman Flies More Than 88 Miles jn One Hour at Pau. France. ae Becrence, Jan. 13.—Jules Vedrines, / &Viator, beat the world’s record today by covering a tess ——- DOUBLE CANAL SEASON UNDER WAY ON MARS Titan Channel Has a Duplicate That Was Not Visible Six Weeks Ago. lh LAGSTAFF, Ariz., Jan. 13.—Obser- vations at the Lowell Observatory show that the Martian canal Titan has doubled since the last presentation of this region six weeks ago. The canal runs nearly straight north from the Gulf of the Titans across the equator and tar into the northern hemisphere of that planet, A perfectly parallel ling has now appeared at the east of it, the distance separating the twins being somewhat more than one hundred miles. This doubling of certain Martian canals at certain seasons is one of the proofs held to support the theory that the cCanais are of artificial construction. EDITOR WHO WROTE OF “NUDES” GUILTY Two Women Were on the Jury That Heard Testimony in His Case. TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 13.—A jury with Mrs. Lina Kennewell as forewom- an and one other women member, fe- turned a verdict of guilty here todav against Jay Fox, editor of the Home Colony Agitator. Fox was arrested for publication of an_ editorial called “Nudes and Prudes,”’ in which he crit- icized county authorities for interfer- ing with nude bathing practices at a communistic community near Tacoma. The maximum penalty is a fine of $1090

both. ee _——~—-—— —-- —.-e TO TRY THIRD TIME TO SCALE MT. McKINLEY Protessor Parker Hope Ss to Reach the Summit by July cS. NEW YORK, Jan. 13.—Prof. Hersche! C, Parker of Columbia University- is today on his way west for his third attempt to ascend to the summit of Mount MeWKinley. He proceeds direct. to Seattle, and will join Belmore Brown his companion for the rest of the trip, o- at Tacoma. The sail northward will be on baard the steamship Almeda, starting Jan. 24, and arriving at Seward, Jan..30. About eb. 1 the ascent will be begun, anf it ix hoped that the summit will be reached by July 15. Theres a Way of being: placed In touch with people who can aid You in condition. car, is a member of a well-known Tren- ton family. -The three men met the three women in this city last night and went to the roadhouse, which is several! trip, the thermometer being below Zero, the top of the automobile was up and the side and front curtains buttoned. The members of the party, bundled up in furs and covered with rugs, had no chance of escape when the machine, bowling homeward at a fast pace, sud- denly left a short turn in the road and r'unged on the ice covering the mill race at Brookville. he was driving the car. He went under struggled ashore. a mile away, and summoned help. He‘is tiireatened with pneumonia, and Was brought from the roadhouse to his fa- ¢ t| the victims of the tragedy, is a member of the party that is hunting for the bod- ies. Despite his years and his grief, he ec ‘ « 2MEN, 3 WOMEN DROWNED AS AUTO HITS ICY STREAM Driver of Closed Car Escapes but Companions on Night Pleasure Ride Are Unable to Extricate Themselves From Their Furs and Heavy Blankets.

RUNS A MILE IN COLD IN SEARCH OF HELP

Cne Victim of Accident Near Trenton, N. J., Is Son of Former High Court Judge —Bodies of Two Girls and Man Are Recovered.

By Associated Press. TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 122.—Two men and three women were drowned early today when the automobile in which they were riding ran on the ice covering an artificial stream of water used by a pov" -" ont outside this city. The men were Donald Reed, son of former Supreme Court Justice . Alfred Reed and Chester A. Van Clees, an au- tomobile salesman. Frederi« M. Foster, a third man in the party. who was running the auto- is » . a mvm@bile, escaped drowning, but is suf- fesaing from exposure. ‘Koster managed to g nt of the machine after it had t sken through the ice ar! ran nearly « mile for help. The accident happened at a “odin where there is a sharp bend in the road, and it is believed Foster had be- cea numb from the cold and that he \ ‘nable to control the steering w heel. + Girls’ Bodies Taken Out. Two of the girls’ bodies were soon gotten out and brought to the morgue here. C ». was Margaret Lindall and the other Helen Mulvey, said to be from New Haven, Conn. The third is believed to have been Anna Hazel. Reed's body was recovered When Foster reached a roadhouse he was coatec with ice and is in a critical Foster, the owner and driver of the r‘les north of this city. On the return Runs to a Roadhouse, Foster owes his escape to the fact that the water with the others, but disen- tangled himself from the car, and l’oster managed to get to a roadhouse, } ' ier’s home here. Former Justice Reed, father of one of

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|RELIEF TEAMS, MANNED BY BOY SCOUTS, STARTING IN ARCTIC MORNING WEATHER ON ERRAND OF MERCY

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REBER CENSURES. PRESS UN WATER AMINE ATTITUDE Escaped Present

President Reber ote aaie d at a luncheon at the City Club, * announcements about lie said the newspapers had and picked out passages

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imum expense. ‘Try Post-Dispatch wan' searchers,

make quick sales oi their me of the POST- DISPATCHL of thei advertising mn the Kk riday added together...... metropolitan newspape its field.

at the Aerodrome here.

. 8 1-3 Miles) in one hour, in we Circulation books open to all. — a. oe rae —the quick way to sell goods Is to adopt the lie ‘tthods ot the ae tive. progre ssive, SllC- cessful merehants W ho know from expe rie nee how to do it. These successful local merehants. great and small, the people what they have to offer through the columns Post-Dispatch alone, 64 columns Three out of the four of its competitors, all 62 columns | “The proof of the pudding is in the eating.’ The POST-DISPATCH is in a elass by itself, no other r in the United States so far out- classes all competition as does St. Louis’ ONE BIG Newspaper. Circulation, December Sunday Average, 294,152 Daily Average, — 167,141 == rehandise because they tell

The Great Home Paper of St. Louts ' To illustrate how these merchants value the relative | merits of the St. Louis newspapers, note the distribution St. Louis papers yesterday, | the POST-DISPATCH. in

First in Everything. th e depurtmen ‘ TRACTION MAN ENDS HIS LIFE WITH ACID Toroughman "4 one-ounce bottle Colder weather was reported inh forming in the West and this bring colder weather Monday or Tues- day, he says r husband was not a drink- , and had not a her what was was ene phn Webster's Sentence pleaded guilty to the murder of ! Bessie Kent Webster, Judge Farrand an-

‘COLD WAVE IS SUBSIDING: WILL BE WARMER SUNDAY

Rapidly Rising Temperature Predicted After Mercury Drops to 8 Below Downtown and 13 Eelow in West End.

THE ‘TEMPERATURES, T &. Meses.s .poelovw’ 8§ a. m......: § below 7. & MWh sccie S below 9 a. m....... 4 below sa @....33 8 Dtow Wa: mm... .1 betow Wee 7 below 11 a.m. ..4 above 5 a.m.......6 below 12 (mean) ....7 above tS er 5 below 1 p. m...... 11 above ge rary 4 below 2 p. m oer 12 above Yesterday’s Temperatures. High, 1 above at 4 p. m. Low, 9 below-at 9 a. Mm. —_— --—- Weather forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair and warmer tonight and Sunday; lowest temperature to- night will be about 10 degrees above zero.

The cold wave ' TRY HARMON'S is passing. The {SPEECH ON YOUR- cheering an- | HARMONICA nouncement made by Weather Fore- | caster Hayes Sat- urday, is that it will be: fair and warmer Saturday night and Sun- day. In connection With the breaking of the blizzard the Forecaster had soinething inter- esting to Say about smoke. In the last week, he said, the smoke Which hovered | over the city,

TANS ay warmed the dis- + ry trict east of Grand avenue so that it was impossible to get accurate thermom- eter readings at the Weather Bureau station on the roof of the Chemical

Building. “The lowest reading in our down town station last night was 8 below zero,” said Haves, but one of our thermome- ters in the West End, beyond the smoke belt, registered 13 degrees below zero. “Smoke prevents radiation of heat from the earth and tends to keep tem- peratures higher than they would be if the air was clear. This is an advan- tage in winter. Smoke has the same effect In summer and makes the nights hotter than they otherwise would be If there were no smoke it would be ec. ‘er ia summer and colder in winter. Saturdav it was generally warmer In all districts west of the Mississipp! River except in Sofithern Texas, where unusually cold weather prevailed. It was 18 above at San Antonio and -- above at Corpus Christi. The storm which passed through ¢t. Louis Wis working its way hast and the Lake and Atlantle Coast remions. The forecaster says the temperatures in St. Louis will rise rapidly for a cou- ple of gays at least, the minimum temperature Saturday night being ! above zero. There is a new high pressure area may At Chicago it was 2 below zero at ; 1}. 6 a. m. with the mercury rapidly fall im” oe SHIPMENTS OF PRODUCE STOP

The cold weather has almost put 4 stop to the shipment of produce int: the city. In the past 48 hours the on Louis Frutt shipment received gt the St. 1. and Produce Epnanse, s00 North

Third street, was.a carload of potatoes, witch came in Friday. AS ‘a’ resnuit, there is an increasing scarcity and prices are beginning to ascend. Great care is needed in shipping vege- tables and produce in this kind of weather. It is necessary to have a stove in the car and a man to take care of it, and any negligence on his part in permitting the fire to die down may eas- ily cause the loss of the entire carload. S CHAIN OF ROCKS PUMPS ARE GOING

Hard to Keep Up Pressure, at 150,000,000 Gallons a Day, Because of Waste. Five pumps at the Chain of Rocks vere pumping water at the rate of 150,- O).000 gallons of water a day, Saturday, according to Water Commissioner Wall. The centrifugal pump was shut of: at 9 a. m. for the day to enable a perma- nent concrete foundation to be placeu tinder the suction pipe, and will resume its pumping Sunday. The centrifugal pump has been work- ing throughout the cola weather with only a temporary pase under the suc- tion pipe, Wal! said, and it was thought advisable to ,.nake a firmer base Satur- day. At midgight, l'riday, the pumps were pumping at the rate of 115.1 00 gallons a day, and was difficult to keep up the pressure This was caused Wall said, by the waste of several million gallons through faucets which had heen left running during the night. a. _—" ANOTHER COLD WAVE IS ON WAY

Respite in Lakes Region and Northwest to Be Short. CHICAGO, Jan. 13,—After almost two weeks of the coldest weather experi- enced in vears,. the temperature of the Middle Lakes region and the Northweat is gradually rising toda’ The cold wave is passing’ on eastward and «couth- ward, But, according to the local Weather Bureau, the respite is to be short. An- other cold wave is believed to he form- ng in the British Northwest, and by NI malay, after [wo davs of moderate! temperature, the stinging winds will be back The -eoming cold spell may not be as severe as the one which ts pass- ing, it is said, but it will not fall far short of it MISSOURI VALLEY WEATHER NORMAL But in Southwest Unusual Cold Probably Will Prevail for a Week. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 13.—Al- though a rise of from 10 to §) degrees !n temperature today greatly alleviated uffering here and in the Southwest, nermal conditions probably will not pre- vail inside of a week Seven degrees below zero was recorded here today. ~ Continued on = Pase » 2, Celumn” 3.

MANCHUS TO QUIT CHINESE THRONE AND GO 10 JchOL Disorders in Provinces Convince Rulers That They Had Bet- ter Surrender.

the throne has been practically decided take place almost meeting of the principal members of the Government this after- noon partly arranged the Owing to the growing disorders in the provinces the Manchu princes of the im- MARINES ALREADY aN CHINA 900 U. S. War Disnaiieee ‘Billa Dis- patching Naval Troops There Last October. Corps it was learned today

ee we ee ‘and making therm ready for distributior) WEST POINT DROPS 31 OF “BEST CLASS” Two Boys Who Went to Wash- ington as Post-Dispatch Guests Pass Examination. sether in the inst! tut Surmmers of Hast St

of Battalion Chief Found. I a tinslihee ( iat William A life in the fire the Equitable Life Assurance sr of the ruined etructure.

of the Post-Dispatch tn St. Louls and ia greater thas that of Eeglish —— cComM-

RELIEF WAGONS ARE LOADED With GIFTS FOR NEEDY Cash - Total of $5000 Re- ceived Early in Day—Man Takes, Off Gloves and | Saying, “That’s All I Have” Tosses Them Into Pile and Walks Away.

SOME BIG CHECKS REACH COMMITTEE

Picturesque Feature of Day Is Presence of Uniformed Boy Scouts as Collectors for Each Wagon—Distri- butions to Begin at Once.

DISTRIBUTION POINTS FOR RELIEF SUPPLIES ITIZENS’' Emergency Relief headquarters, %7-900 Wash- ington avenue. Telephones:- Kinloch Central 2247, Bell Olive 44S. The distribution will be made from the following places: The St. Louis Provident Associa- } tion, 2221 Locust street. United Jewish Charities, Ninth and Carr streets. Pi St. Vincent de Paul Society, 413 |) South Thirteenth street. | The Provident Association will be Ff open Sunday for the distribution. The other societies will distribute Monday.

About $5000 had been received by the} iF ’ . 2 Citizens’ Emergency Relief Committge | by noon Saturday for the relief of tho} poor. Many of the wagons sent to res-: idence districts to collect bundles of clothing, furniture and bedding re- turned to the headquarters, loaded,! within an hour after they started out. As soon_as they were unloaded the wagons returned to the districts to which they were assigned to continue | the collection. Three hundred Bov Scouts aided in) the work. of collection. Several Boy! Scouts and a patrolinan accompanied: each wagon and ruog the doorbell: along the route. The Boy Scouts re-: ceived the bundles offered and carried: them to the wagons, while other scouts: went ahead and ring bells announcing: the approach of the wagons. i An automobile truck assigned to Ho diamont avenue was filled with bundles after it had traversed three blocks north! of Etzel avenue Saturday morning and had to return to headquarters. It stari- ed out again immediately. When the truck reached Hodiamont and Etgel av- enues a man stood on the corner. He > asked the driver what he was doing. “We are collecting clothing for the} poor,’ the driver answered. | The man pulled a pair of woolen gloves from his hands and tossed them into the wagon. He turned and walked away barehanded, saying: : ‘That is all I have to give.” , Lemp Senda 81000 Check, The largest individual cash donation was made by the Lemp brewing Co.) Saturday, when a check for $1000 was isent to the committee P A special force of workers from the Provident Association, the Vineent dé Paul Society and tif Jewish Charities will work all day Saturday and Sunday sorting and tagging the articles donate;

Monday. Wagons loaded with bundley began to arrive at the headuarters af hour after they had left, and the sorte began work. Many Fager to Give. It was announced that contributions were being made liberally in all parts o the cit: Many telephone calla were roe celved asking that wagons be sent t¢ various places to receive .clothing, ete Man: persone delivered their bundiey personally to the headquarters, ha More tian $0 in cash donations have! been recelved by the committee. Th noney is available for use tmmediately and is used by the Police Department and arity societies for emergency work! in relleving suffering from the cold. Sev4 eral carloads of coal were Aletributed trh , i. “tnall quantities during the day te homes? where the famillos were reported desti- 1 ite wT ‘ ' tif of f jel. a re AUTOMOBILE IS BURNED. - - — Walter Scott's Machine -Back- fires and-Is Destroyed. Walter Scott's seven-passenger, sixs viinder tourtng car, valved at $87 burned Saturday afternoon near *% Mounted District Police Station tn For eat Park. Scott is a real estate dealer: end was on his way from hia downtowt | affice to hie heme, 7? Clark avenud| Webster Groves “3 flack-ftring of the carburettor ¢a the machine to be suddenly enveloped I flaines. Seott jumped out, end eal

‘for help, and the police station 3 'ferce ran out and threw @now on the fire. but did net sau ceed in wavicg the machine. r

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