St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 12, 1915

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week's on the firs : Want Only Evening Paper ? a. FS Or Ae " 4. "gi ; ‘ Ps ¢ vj in St. Lottis With Associated Press News Service. VOL. 68. NO. ST.LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING, 2b 12, i ~—STNEY DRIVER dy of Samuel Brown Jr., _ Mail Carrier by Day and _ Chauffeur by Night, Found at. Unfrequented Spot: on - Riverside Drive. ‘ aed by Phone Call to Take Out a Party of Joy Riders __—Three Wounds in Body “ying Near Auto. Aner ‘city. and county officials had heer working all day in an effort to : clear the mystery of the slaying of Sam- ; tel _ Brown Jr., 24-year-old mail carrier _ Aid jitney driver, of 6224 Cote Brilliante ~ pyenue, shot and left dead beside his _ se on the unfrequerted Riverview a ive last night, Coroner Bopp of St. vais County this afternoon said that | quarrel over a woman was the only rested cause of the killing. Sopp said he had received informa- a Ghat Brown’s attentions t® a woman ad cagyyar ‘the anger of one of her tives whose name was in posses- : the parsons who were in the machine. mee TONIGHT AND 1umukROW; SLISHTLY WARMER TONIGHT THE TEMPERATURES. & Ws cc accsve sso a ™|, Seu aaenaoue 8 m. Velewdeoes san ae ak ™, POR ON | 5 m. 12 noon eee eee eee eee nee eee D. Mc cctesocsess yi etek Temperatures, High, 66 at 1 p. m. Low, 44 at 12 (midnight.) Humidity at 7 p. m. yesterday, 69 per cent; at 7 a, m. today, 82 per cent. eee ev eee” Official fore- cast for St. Louls and vicin- ity: Fair to- night and to- morrow; slight- ly warmer to- night. IANS HAD TO LAND SOMEWHERE. Missouri: Fair tonight and to- morow, slightly warmer in north portion tonight. Illinois: Fair tonight and ‘to- morrow, slight- ly warmer, to- morrow, and in north portion to- night. Stage of the river, 8.2 feet: a fall of .2. AMERICAN-BUILT HYDROPLANE TO GARRY MAIL IN COLOMBIA Boat Is a Glider, With Draft of Only a Few Inches, and Has 40-mile NEW YORK, Nov. 12.—The Yolanda IT, a hydroplane needing a depth of only four inches of water and which can be driven upwards of 40 miles an hour hy two air propellers, is here awaiting shipment to Bogota, Colombia, where she will be used to carry the mails and Government officials down the Magda- sxena River, between the capital and the coast, 600 miles. _ The boat is said to be the first “glider”, of its kind ever built in. America. In a trial trip down the Hudson River from Nyack to this city, yesterday, she cov- ered 22 miles in a little more than half an hour. 1914 “YEAR OF THE TIGER” Japenese Prediction of Troublesome Times Borne Out. LONDON, Nov. 12.—-The year 1914, says a British ‘consular report from Japan, | just ‘issued, was, according to the old ‘| Japanese system of reckoning, the year of the tiger, and in conformity with Japanese superstitions shotiid have been “ies of tragedy and disaster. et bégan with the of ‘the Seatiaes Voleano in of Japan; in the spring the Dowager ‘died, later on the disclosure of certain scandals contrib- uted to the fall of, the Cabinet, in early summer the Kitshama Bank failed, and in August war broke out. _ >have) NEGRO STYLES CRITIC LYNCHED Said to Have Made Remarks About - White Women’s Dresses. ABERDEEN, Miss., Nov. 12.—John Taylor, a negro, who is said to have cised prevailing styles of dresses by. white “women in barber shop diavtoes ite yesterday, was lynched wages late last night. 5,498,982 NEW YORK ESTIMATE Population ef Metropolis Figured on / Laats of Police Census. “NEW YORK, Nov. 12.—A police census of Manhattan borough, made public to- May, shows a population of. 2,295,671. Taking the police figures for Man- hattan as a basis the Health Depart- ment estimates the population of New York City ts 5, , 498, 982, {WILSON TO SEE FOOTBALL GAME will ‘attena, Army-Navy Contest at — New "York, Nov. 27. WASHINGTON, Nov.. 12.—President Wilson has virtually decided to attend | the Army-Navy football game at New Th ¢ - : : Z > 4 = * - st - yy Buby: =. = $ ye : ae. & 4 - 5 a 2 ; k rr 3 } f ‘ we ; . : , : : : * 24 ’ B . - 7 ‘ ay " eta Rac u ‘ i 3 te _ as ~ 4 t — “a i“ ae 7 Cae a r oa * ‘3 » Sy > : > q - : ‘ ; . ; c he P Z ¥ é P ~ e ‘ x ‘ ; = ‘ eae 4 " . i *. : > . 653 ~ J 4 z - - J . 4 4 ; «J Ls hy 4 oan - . > ‘ ; J Ny J * » Py . 4 wt ie ? 3 °: : vy : 2 re > p " 3 % : : p : +3 ie y . ” ‘ é; we c ; : * : + c 1 . ; fe of b ‘i . t ; St York, Nov, 27, He attended the game two years ago, | but was unable to be present last year, because of Mrs. Wilson's health. 7 ‘acon agra Pali med | BERMANY TO TAKE GONTROL OF WHOLE SUPPLY OF FOOD Coffee, Cocoa and Tea Added to Articles Whose Sale Is Regu- lated by State. SAUERKRAUT PRICE FIXED Maximum Prices for All Varieties of Meat and Fish Believed to Be in Sight. By Associated Press. BERLIN, Nov. 12, by wireless to Say- ville, N. Y.—Answering the petition of the Soctalist party concerning the ques- tion of food prices, Dr. von Bethmann- Hollweg, the Imperial Chancellor, de- clared that the population of the coun- try could be ‘completely assured that the hopes of the Entente Powers of starving out Germany would be disap- pointed. BERLIN, via London, Nov. 12.—Vir- tually the entire food supply of the nation is expected soon to pass under governmental control, to insure an equit- able distribution ‘of supplies at fair trices among the entire population, rich and poor. Coffee, tea and cocoa were added today to the list of prod- ucts whose sale will be regulated by the state. The Federal Council authorized the Chancellor to issue regulations cov- ering trude in them. The Chancellor also was authorized to establish maximum prices for buck- wheat and millet, marmalades and honey, vegetables, fruits and sauerkraut. These prices apply to producers. Local suthorities in municipalities of more than 10,000 population are. required to fix maximum prices for retailers in these- supplies. The authorities in smaller Places are empowered to take similar action if they see fit. The Chancellor is given authority to set a high lmit above which prices may not go. Bread, potatoes, pork, milk and butter already have been subjected to maxi mum price schedule. The consumption of other meats is. regulated arid esti- mated by so-called ‘“‘meatiess days.”’ Maximum prices for all varieties of meat and feh are believed to be in sight. LONDON, Nov. 12.—Beginning Nov. 16 butter will be added to the list of ar- ticles whose exportation is forbidden by the Swedish Guvetitivale: according to a Reuter dispatch from Stockholm. This will make an embargo on the export of food products virtually complete. (Swe- den has been supplying much food to Germany.) JUNY AWARDS $2200 DAMAGE TO WOMAN BITTEN BY A DOG Ernst C, Albrecht, Owner of Animal, Fails to Appear in Mrs. Mary Kenney’s Case. A jury in Circuit Judge Hennings’ court today awarded to Mrs. Mary Kenney, 2% years old, of 337 Cottage avenue, $2200 damagés against Ernst C. Albrecht and his wife, Anna, of 2244 Louisiana avenue, for injuries she re- ceived, June 18, 1913, when she was at- tacked by the Albrechts’ bulldog and bitten 29 times. The case went to Mrs. Kenney by default, Albrecht failing to appear for the trial, although he had filed an answer to the suit. Mrs. Kenney formerly occupied a fiat above that in which the Albrechts live. The building is owned by the Albrechts. it was their custom to keep a dog in their cellar. On the day Mrs. Kenney was attacked, she testified, she entered the yard from an alley and was sur- prised to see the bulldog, which had been unleashed. Mrs. Kenney sued for $3000: Marcus W. Johnson, 38%4A Windsor place, fore- man of the jury, is a dog fancier and breeder. $65,000,000 POWDER ORDER Nov, 12.—The WILMINGTON, Del., Dupont Powder Co., according to trustworthy information, has received an additional $65,000,000 powder order from the entente allies. Rs awaits the staunch advertisers in the POST-DISPATCH, who always reap a harvest of profitable results from their store news, pub- lished daily in its columns. Yesterday, Thursday. _ these home merchants bought ‘Ten Columns More Space in a. POST-DISPATCH alone than they did in - o abs ey” ys . whee eee eee * [82.6 for tous. BRITAIN WILL NOT | HELD TOU. 8,, SAYS LONDON SPECTATOR Declares Demands in Note Will Be Firmly Rejected and “There Will Be No Consequences.” DOCUMENT HARSH CALLS Future Americans Will Not Be Proud of Country’s Course in War, Paper Says. LONDON, Nov. 12.—‘‘The American note causes us little concern as English- men,” says the Spectator, commenting on the recent note of the United States to Great Britain relative to interference with American trade. “Its harsh and unsympathetic tone will not make us relax in the slightest degree thé grip on the throat of Germany which our sea power gives us.’ We shall answer the note politely and in a much more hu- man spirit than that which tnspires ita . but we shall answer it firmly whatever the conse be no conse words, That we must do, quences, but there will quences ”’ The Spectator believes that the malor- ity of Americans would not tolerate seeing Great Britain ‘stabbed in the back.” It does not believe President Wilson will mix the problems of muni- tions and contraband and it refuses t regard America as a purely foreign country. The weekly continues: “When history comes to be written Americans of the future will feel any- thing but pride when they remember the officia! action of America during the great war. They will note how, first it considered maintaining a rigid neu- trality on the moral issue—the brutaliz- ing of Belgium, as Col. Roosevelt called it—further, how the Washington Gov- ernment bore the outrages committe: on American subjects like the sinking of the Lusitania, until the efficiency of the British navy had abated the under water menace, and again when, in the supreme moment of England's agony’ they thought they had found certain technical infringements of their rigi‘ta they vepamenely pushed their paper | -case.”” - ot, see “}- , The Spectator says that ‘ts Britists have not torpedoed. killed Ameéfican citizens, and that the British embassy has not been the cer! ter of plots and conspiracies, yet when. the whole tone of the . notes toward Great Britain and Germany is consid- ered, it is much less friendly toward Great Britain than toward Germany. Referring te the sinking of the Ital- lan steamship Ancona, the Spectator gays that unless the championship which the executive has assumed refers to goods only, and does not cover hu. man beings, it ventures to suggest thet } Washington at least repeat the Lusi- tania warning. German Newspapers Comment on U. S. Note to Britain, EERLIN, via London, Nov. 12.—The Vossische Zeitung says it regards the American note to Great Britain ag an irrefutable document from a legal stand- point. but that everything depends upon the practical thing the authors intend it to achieve, “for they cannot have been in doubt that they have placed Great Britain between two alternatives—of po- litely rejecting the Ameriean demands, or of surrendering all the advantages which the navy gives Great Britain in her war against the Germans.” What is said to be an inspired dis- patch from Berlin to the Cologne Ga- zette says: “The energy. with which the President. after the settlement of the controversy with Germany, hag taken up the set- tlement of the Anglo-American question is acknowledged unreservedly here. ‘here could be no more eonvincing doc- umentary proof of the importance of American interests and the extent of the British violations of right than this note. “America, it must be conceded, has spoken’ thoroughly and. energetically. The immediate future wi show how strong is the political demonstration be- hind these words.”’ INDIANA COUPLE WED BY PHONE Pastor in Arkansas, 600 Miles Away, Performs Ceremony. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Nov. 12.— Miss Blanche Henning Drosta, deughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Drosta of this city, and Charles Francis Miller of Louisville were married last night at the bride’s home, by the Rev. W. C. Wood, her brother-in-law, who said the ceremony over the long-distance tele- | phohe from Paragould, Ark., 6X miles away, where he is a Baptist pastor. Each of the principals had a receiver. connected with the same instrument and members of the family were witnesses. At Paragould the minister and his. wife eceupied separate booths and the. long- f Gistance operator was also a witness at. that end. The ring ceremony, which was used, took 3% minutes und ‘cost. | Biotien Conaatnen His Chief of Staff aid Map Showing Where His Army Is Said to Be Cut Olt American ships nor : se EERE OL trians from the Northvtdst’ and ‘the Bulgarians fron ‘the Bakt> ahd South-. east. mate ‘youttics of the Servian army. : The star indftchtes thé approxi- 7 rs. 7 ta SES 2. ¢ GEN PU ; he i , _ 2 . . = if ’ a + iro & is “DETROIT PINCH’ 70 BE TRIED HERE N AUTO DRIVERS Means Pasting on the Machine. a Printed ‘Notice of Arrest for Unlawful Parking. The “Detroit pinch,” so known from its use in Detroit; by which a patrolman netifies you that you are under arrest by pasting a sticker on the windshield of your automobile, will be used on mo- torists in St. Louls why defy a, new or- dinance forbidding the parking of ma- chines in streets east of Twelfth. Director ’ of Streets ‘Talbert will next week introduce bills regulating this and other features of traffic reform that he has evolved from a study of downtown conditions. Director Talbert will : arranes for, the perking. of automobiles: on .Twelfth street . between. Chestnut ant Market streets, and on , the vacant property owned by. the. city on the block east. of Twelfth. , Automobiles may. not stand longer. than. an ,hour.at any point in the district -bounded . by Market. street, Wishington avenue, , the river, , and Twelfth street, wane the proposed or- dipance. The only exception will be the block on the Fourth street side of the Court- house, where the sidewalk has been natrowed in order to«make room for machines. This will serve also at night as a place for a certain number of ma- gai chines carrying’ playgoers to. the Olym- pic Theater, “while the Twelfth street Mock will furnish room for those at- tending the Shubert Theater. aoe Bt Ing an_ornance which forbade densggiam A 8 ce was decided that automobiles, block- Ing the streets, were more of a hin- @erance to fire protection than the pres- eee en ey SUES BANKER FOR $6297, PRICE OF A STORE Widow Says She Was Misin- formed as to Value of Stock Sold: to Hef Son. Mrs. Sarah E. Moset of St. Louis County brought. suit, tod&y against Julius Kessler of Bfridgéten, presi- dent of the State, National Bank of Wellston, for $6297.98, with om from Jan. 29, 1913. | | Mrs. Moser states if her petition that following her pband’s acci- dental death in April, 1912, on the Wabash Railroad, she received $4575 damages and $2000 tnsurance, which she deposited in Kessler’s bank. Her son, Ignatius Moser, in Jan- uary, 1913, wanted to purchase. a store at Bonfils, St. Louls County, ahd she agreed to lend him $1000, it Kessler thought the store would be @ paying proposition. | ‘Mrs. Moser alleges that Kessler in-. fluenced her son to purchase instead a store at Bridgeton, owned by David ‘Schaap, who; she states, is a brother-in-law of Kessler’s. She al- leges her son used nearly all of her bahk funds, upon Kessler’s repre- séntations that the store and con- tents were worth $6500. After purchasing the store young Moser found, she ‘alleges, that the stock was not worth what Kessler later went inte Post-Dispatch reporter, refused make any ‘comment,’ except to sae that there was nothing to the suit. yore Pane ' Kessler, fii asked about it by S ' FE : tI ces Osetra star 4292'S iw, | Policeman Says: He: Was ‘Ready badilliversy: # ‘in: Appeal of ' Borcher’s’ $200 Fine. Case. avenye, kn the daredevil of the jitney Leen dismissed in Judge Clark's violation of the speed Jaw within five months. Assistant. City Counselor Norman. J. Sadler, who dismissed the case in Judge Ulark's division of the Court ‘of Crimi- nal Correction; said yeasterday he did not remember the ease, but he assumed that the:motor‘cycle policeman who was the prosecuting ‘witness did not appear. ‘Motor Cycle Policeman Walter Shaw said he appeared in Judge Clark's court on ‘the ‘day of the trial; and’ informed the bailiff that he’ could be found; wanted, in Police Judge Hogan's in the same building, he hep. a0 Aug. % for driving. % miles an. hour on Washington boulevard, between Vandeventer and Newstead avenue, rte ; i 4 i : i i : i rt Sy 7 Ha if 7 ; - i 3 3 He | ¥ : ae? - N- ls $6 | 2 i rt Fee i y .. A a taining |i» 0 a | Sei: fea Met of Pox alae By Associated MILAN, Ita reason to fear ur 7 sr action oe, Oe N - 12. pa the Servian army, which es been iq! " any - o! » . =~ Daweh ey f : wee habe a PEs? - Seeing» : nat a aaa 0 , syn oe ee ie ee tens iw oy oe an 4 ibe Ste | Bs . Pe / Shee gens Ge hcg as Servian forces may suc ot teem ae