St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 23, 1915

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GET A COPY TODAY The POST-DISPAT ESTATE GUIDE is F At Your DRUG STORE or REAL ESTATE OFFICE OUSE, HOME or the asking. a1. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With Associated Press News Service. ne, i a ee ee ee ee Cs ED and REAL 4000 PIECES VOL. 68. NO. 95. ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, 1915—24 PAGES. PRICE ONE CENT | NIGHT ITION MARKETS OF PROPERTY for rent, for sale or for exchange. ee neennieennenennreteneen DRDON TESTIFIES ~ TOAGOOD TIME AT STATE'S EXPENSE Auditor on Trial in Voucher Case Tells of Entertaining in Salt Lake City. — TURNED IN $201.21 BILL Judge in Jefferson City Again Overrules Motion to Quash Proceedings. By a Staff Correspondent of the Post- Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Nov. 23.—John P. Gordon, State Auditor, testified before the jury in the Circuit Court here to- Gay, that he entertained the auditors from other states when at the National State Auditors’ Convention in Salt Lake City at the expense of the State of Mis- souri, and had a good time generally, all of which was paid for out of his of- ficial contingent fund, appropriated to pay the contingent running expenses of his office. Gordon is being tried on the charge of having issued an illegal warrant for $201.21 against the State Treasury to pay the expenses of his trip to Salt Lake City to attend the annual conven- tion of State Auditors. A motion to quash filed by Gordon's attorneys was overruled yesterday, and Judge Slate overruled a demurrer from the same source this morning. The jury was se- lected and the case went to trial. Main Issue in Case. The main issue in the case is wheth- er Auditor Gordon’s attendance on the national convention of State Auditors was a part of his official duties, and therefore, whether the expense should be charged to the State Treasury. In the information filed against the Auditor for issuing the warrant, Pros- ecuting Attorney Peters charges that there is no legal basis for such a charge. Willard King, chief clerk in the Aud- fior’s office and brother-in-law of Mor- ris Gordon, the auditor's son, and John Russell, dhief clerk in the treasurer's of- fice, were placed on the stand to prove the issuance of the warrant. Auditor Gordon was the first witness placed on the stand by the defense. Although Gordon testified that he was in Salt Lake City only five days and that the convention lasted only three days, he declared the item of $82.50 which he listed in his expense account as “‘hotel expenses in Salt Lake City’ was cor- — Prosecuting Attorney Peters had ob- tained an itemized statement of the amount paid the Hotel Utah, where Gordon stopped during the five days, on the day of his departure. Discerapney in Hotel Bills. The amount was $17,60. Peters asked Gordon if the amount was cor- rect. Gordon admitted that it prob- ably was right. Peters asked him if that dij not represent his bill for room rent, cafe service, telegrams and laundry. Gordon replied that it did. Peters asked him if he had not rented a room for $2.50 a day. Gor- don admitted that he had. Peters asked several questions in an attempt to draw from Gordon an ex- planation of the difference between the $17.60 he paid the hotel on leaving and the $82.50 which he collected from the State for hotel expenses. Gordon said that he did not take all of his meals at the Hotel Utah. Besides a hotel bil! of $82.50 in Salt Lake City the expense account made out by Gordon and for which a war- rant was issued by him in favor of himself,’ contains an item of $28 for meals on train. “Had a Good Time Generally.” Referring to the Utah hotel bill again, Peters remarked again about the dif- ‘ference between $17.60, the amount Gor- don paid the hotel, and $82.50, the amount he charged the State for ‘“‘hotel expenses.”’ “Did you entertain the other visiting Auditors?” the prosecution asked, ‘Yes, sir, sometimes,”” was the answer. “l suppose you were having a good time generally, during the time you spent there?” Peters asked. “Yes, about as good a time as you or many other people would have had, I guess,"’ the witness replied. $28 for Meals on the Way. Gordon said, on cross-examination, that the trip between Jefferson City and Salt Lake: City required two days each vuy. “If the trip then required four days,” said Peters,”” and you ate three meals a day and spent $28 for meals on the trains, your meals cost you about $2.25 each, didn't they?” “I don't think they cost quite that much," Gordon replied. Peters then took up the question of how much time Gordon consumed on the trip. The expense account shows that he left Jefferson City on Aug. i11 and did not return until Aug. 24. Gordon said he reached Salt Lake City on Aug. 17. Peters asked him what he did with time which elapsed between Aug. 11, when he left Jefferson City, and Aug. 17, when he reached Salt Lake City. - Gordon said that he spent one day each in Kansas City, Denver and Colo- rado Springs. He said that his ex- when in those cities were not fmcluded in the account which he charged to the State. Peters also asked him about an item of $10.80 for taxicab fares. Gordon said he hired a taxicab to drive him to and Continued on Page i, Column 7, FAIR TONIGHT, MODERATE TEMPERATURE TO CONTINUE THE TEMPERATURES, *eeoeeveeveeeens 45 10 a. m SS - EE Gihsces cisieds 89 I 42 12 (noon) 50 44 _~ a : = m Yesterday’s Temperatures, High. .46 at 4 p. m. Low. .31 at 5 a. --. * Official fore- THE WAR COOKS | cast for St. Louis ARE WAITING and vicinity: Fair FOR GREECE. tonight and to- morrow; moder- ate temperature. Missouri: Fair tonight and prob- ably tomorrow; warmer tonight. Illinois: Fair tonight and _ to- morrow; proba- bly becoming un- settled in north portion by to- morrow night; rising tempera- ture tomorrow. Stage of the river: 9.6 feet; a ath of 3 eS foot. POLICEMAN CATCHES BURGLARS IN STORE BUT DOESN'T KNOW IT They Get $35, but Fail to Open Safe and Escape After Patrolman Searches Place. Patrolman John Bohlen of the North Mar..et Street District had a burglar— perhaps two burglars—but didn’t know it until too late. At 11:30 last night he found the front door of William F. Kramme’s dry goods store, 306 North Eleventh street, ajar. He entered, switched on the lights, and made a search, then crossed tne street and telephoned to his station. When he returned, a few minutes later, the door was locked. Kramme, summoned from home, said $35 had been stolen from the cashier's desk and that an attempt had been made to open the safe. The hinges had vdeen knocked off, but the door had not yield- ed. The approach of the policeman ev- idently had frustrated the safe robbery. “They must have beey enjoying them- selves when you happened along,” saic Kramme, as he lifted a flask of port wine from behind the safe. ‘‘I don’t keep this stuff in stock.”’ JUDGE WRONG WHEN HE RULED HE WAS WRONG RIGHTING WRONG Higher Court Rules as Grimm Ruled First and Reverses Case tw Initial Decision. The Court of Appeals today held that @ircuit Judge Grimm was in error in accusing himself of error in giving an instruction in the case of J. S. Hutton against the Lombardi Opera Co., upon which he granted a new trial. Hutton had sued for $217.80 due on a contract to act as defendant's advance agent in St. Louis for eight weeks beginning Dec. 21, 1911. Because of unprofitable business here the services of the plaintiff were discontinued three weeks before the ex- piration of the contract. The jury found in favor of the de- fendant but Judge Grimm granted a new trial on the ground that he was wrong in giving an instruction that the de fendant had a right to end the contract. The defendant appealed. In directing tlat judgment be entered for the de- fense, the Appellate Court says that Judge Grimm correctly stated the rule of law in the instruction which was as- signed as error. WILL DIRECTS DIAMOND RING BE BURIED WITH HER BODY Mrs. Mary E. Elliott Leaves Personal Property to Niece, Residue of Es- tate to Brother-in-Law. The will of Mrs. Mary E. Elliott, widow of the late S. W. Elliott, who died Saturday afternoon, was filed for probate today. She bequeathed tu Jennie R. Frame, her personal prop- erty except a diamond engage- ment ring and a diamond brooch. She directed that the ring be placed on her finger and buried with her and that the brooch be sold and the pro- ceeds turned over to the Rev. Father McFadden of the Blessed Sacrament parish for the holding of masses, The residue of the estate is to xo to her husband’s brother, Joseph Tay- lor. Mrs. Elliott's funeral place from the Blessed Church, King’s highway land avenue, at 8:30 a. m. will take Sacrament and North- tomorrow. ee FORD TO TAKE $1,000,000 OF CANADIAN WAR LOAN Dominion Banks Subs«cribe for Half of $50,000,000 Issue—Other Large Investments. of the $50,000,000 5-per-cent Canadian wa- loan offered today by the Finance Min- ister is assured. Among the subscribers are Henry Ford, $1,000,000; Imperial Oil Co, (Canadi- an branch of Standard Oil Co.), $1,000,00u, Canadtan banks, $25,000,000: Canadian lif. insurance companies, $10,000,000; city of Winnipeg, $2,000,000; city of Ottawa $500,000; citizens of Ottawa, $500,000. The Governor-General was the firs: subscriber. The loan is offered at 97%, payable in 1925. “TAG DAY" FOR CHICAGO WIDOWS Ordinance Passed by City Council to Aid Those Dependent. CHICAGO, Nov. 23.—Chicago will have a “tag day” for its dependent widows, if a resolution passed by the City Coun- cil last night is signed by Mayor Wil- liam Hale Thompson. The widows wil! do their own tagging and retain all money collected, according to the plan. The tags will be distributed by the Ald- ermen to those known to be dependent. It was estimated today that the city directory contains the names of 32,700 widows. OTTAWA, Nov. 23.—Complete success: } US. OF PAPER’ 10 Snip LINE MIEN ON TRIAL Government Prosecutor Declares Statutes Were Treated as if They Were Such. NAMES BOY-ED IN CHARGE Tells Jury He Can Prove That German Military Attache Di- rected Conspiracy Acts. By Associated Press. : NEW YORK, Nov... 23.—Capt. K. Boy- ed, German naval attache, was the di- recting head under whom was spent $750,000 in chartering and supplying neu- tral steamers with coal and provisions for German men-of-war, in the Atlantic and Pacific, in August, 1914, the Govern- ment formally charged—and asserted that it was prepared to prove the charge —in the opening today of the trial—on charges of conspiracy of Dr. Kar! Buenz, managing director of the Ham- burg-American Line, and three of hia subordinates. Roger B. Wood, assistant United States District Attorney, in charge of the prose- cution, in so declaring, asserted that the entire sum was spent under the per- sonal direction of Capt. Boy-ed and that from $500,000 to $600,000 of the amount was spent in San Francisco in chartering vessels and obtaining supplies for the German warship Leipsic and, perhaps, the Dresden. This, the Government charges, was part of:a conspiracy that extended from New York and Philadelphia to New Or- leans and San Francisco, in which Ger- man money was spent by the millions and in which the defendants were the leading characters. In the performance of this alleged conspiracy, Wood said, the defendants ‘‘rode rough-shod over the laws and treaties of the United States as contemptuously as if those laws and treaties had been mere scraps of paper.”’ Admission by Defense. William Rand, counsel for the de- fense, admitted that the defendants had chartered and supplied 12 ships which sailed from American ports for the relief of German men-of-war. In so doing. Rand asserted, the defendants acted upon .orders received by cable from Ger- many. “On or about Aug. 1, 1914,’’ Rand said, “Karl Buenz received directions by ca- ble from the home office in Hamburg to send ships laden with coal, provi- sions and supplies to various parts of the Atlantic, there to await for a rea- sonable time the possible appearance of yerman ships of war or merchantmen, to which, upon orders of their com- manders, the coal, provisions and sup- plies were to be delivered in such quan- tities as might be required. “Karl Buenz undertook to comply with these instructions and, with that end in view, issued the necessary orders to George Kotter and Adolph Hachmeis- ter—co-defendants—who obeyed them. “The Hamburg-American Line owned or chartered upon time charters a num- ber of steamships, bought coal, provi- #ions and supplies, which were loaded upon these steamships, and caused or attempted to cause these steamships to sail from the ports of Newport News, New York, Philadelphia, Pensacola and New Orleans with this object. “The sums so expended were from time to time supplied by the- home of- fice of the company in Hamburg by means of credit through banks and bankers in New Yerk City in favor of the Hamburg-American Line.” The 12 vessels enumerated wero the Thor, Berwind, Heina, Nepos, Mowinckle, merstead, Fram, Graecia, and Navarra. Dental of Conspiracy, Attorney Rand, in making admissions, denied, however, that the acts of the defendants constituted conspiracy. ‘We expect to show,” District Attor- ney Wood said, “that Dr. Buenz em- ployed a man named Kulenkampf to clear two vessels in a hurry from Phi!- adelphia at the very opening of the war, telling him that this was desir- able because the Hamburg-American Line should not appear in the transac- tion. “Sixteen or 17 ships were used,”’ Wood continued, “‘by defendants to carry coal, water, Wine, sauerkraut and other need- supplies to the Leipzig, Dresden. Cap Trafalgar, giba, Santa Lucia, Elea- nor Woerger and other German men- of-war. The first witness was Richard PD. Wrigley, a steamship broker of this city, who testified that he chartered on Aug. 3, 1914, to the Hamburg-American Line the American steamers Lorenzo and Berwind, the first two vessels which sailed for the German Atlantic fleet. It became known today that an important Government witness was in Bermuda. After the jury had been se- lected, Attorney Rand said that the & previous admission pertaining to the alleged connection of Capt. K. Boy-Ea with cats charged by the Government. D. & R, 6. TRAINS TO BE DRY DENVER, Colo., Nov. 23.—The sale of intoxicants on all Denver & Rio Grande Railroad trains will cease after Jan. 1, 1916, when Colorado becomes dry terri- tory, according to a statement of H. W. McAbee, superintendent of dining car service of the railroad, given out today. The order, it was said, will apply not only to Colorado, but to trains operat- ing In Utah and New Mexico, by Rand Lorenzo Unita, Som- Macedonia ed FAN ADEE POM LALO OPS NEE, iare not prohibition states, LAWS SCRAPS ASKEW'S DRIVER IN FATAL RIDE DRUNK, DOCTOR TESTIFIES Coroner’s Jury Holds Hecker for Criminal Carelessness in Death of Football Player. STAGGERED IN WALKING Circuit Attorney’s Office Ex- pected to Make Charge of Fourth Degree Manslaughter. Robert P. Hecker, 25 years old, of 2943 Eads avenue, was held on a charge of criminal carelessness this morning by a Coroner’s jury at the inquest into the death of Walter H. Askew, 22, of Aber- teed | deen, S. D., a Roll a School of Mines football player, who was killed Saturday night, when he was thrown from an automobile driven by Hecker at Thirteenth and Benton streets. The verdict was returned after a city dis- pensary physician testified that Hecker was intoxicated when he reached the dispensary after the accident. After hearing much of ‘the evidence yesterday the Coroner left the verdict open to obtain the testimony today of Dr. W. H. Clithero, the dispensary phy- Sicilian. Dr. Clithero testified that Heck- er was suffering from alcoholism. He said that Hecker did not need assist- ance in walking, but that when he walked slowly he staggered. A physician at the North End Dis- pensary, where Hecker was taken aft- er the accident, told the police he was not intoxicated. A Police Lieutenant, not satisfied with this statement, took Hecker to the Central Dispensary, where he was examined by Dr. Clith- ero. Policemen yesterday testified that Hecker was racing his car in an at- tempt to pass another machine. George H, Kublin of 4280A Holly ave- nue, who was in the machine’ with Hecker and Askey, said they had had two drinks of liquor. He said that Hecker in attempting to avoid striking & man crossing the street, swerved his car too wide and that it struck the curbing. Askew was thrown out. Heck- er, on advice of his attorney, did not testify. The verdict returned was: “On Thirteenth street, just north of North Market street, Walter H. Askew died from a fracture of the skull due to being thrown from an automobile driv- en by Robert P. He r, which collid- ed with the curbstone near Thirteenth and Benton streets, while said machine was being operated at an excessive rate of speed. Criminal carelessness.’’ Assistant Circuit Attorney Fitzgerald said he would examine the evidence taken and that he expected to issue an information charging Hecker with fourth degree manslaughter. TABLEKNIFE SWALLOWED BY WOMAN TAKEN FROM STOMACH Blade Corroded and Saw-Edged Through Nature’s Effort in*s8 Months to Digest It. CHICAGO, Nov. 23.—The table knife which Mrs. Elizabeth Hochsberger final- ly persuaded surgeons she had swal- lowed while in a delirium due to ill- ness, eight months ago, was taken from her stomach today by an operation at the West Side Hospital. The knife had become corroded and saw-edged, and physicians said that nature had made heroic efforts to digest the implement. The woman rallied well from the op- eration. When she first told of having swallowed the knife, physicians said her story was a figment of the imagina- tion, but yesterday she prevailed upon them to make an X-ray examination and the resulting photographs vindi- cated her. Several dozen doctors and medical students watched the opera- tion. PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE READ TO MEMBERS OF CABINET Raising of Defense Funds Touched Upon and Cuts in Building and River Appropriation Urged. WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—President Wilson laid before the Cabinet today what was virtually a completed draft of the message he will read to Congress Dec. 7. The President has decided to touch on the question of raising revenues for for nationa: defense, but only in very general terms. Some of the Cabinet to the defense question, but as read at today’s Cabinet meeting it deals with Other legislation. The President favors cutting as much as possible appropriations for public buildings and river and harbor improve- ments. MAYOR GETS 27-POUND TURKEY FROM AN ILLINOIS FRIEND Mayor Kiel’s Thanksgiving turkey ar- rived in St. Louis today. It is the gift of Sheriff James A. White of Murphys- boro, Ill, who has been fattening it since Mayor Kiel went there on a fish- ing trip last July. The turkey, which weights 27 pounds, will be dressed and cooked at a down- town restaurant and sent to the Mayor's home ready for the table. The ‘teward who will prepare the bird | 8 a way of making even the drums .ck meat soft and tender. He place the leg joint in the crack of a door Then he closes the door and gives the turkey a vigorous yank. This. he says, pulls all the sinews out of the drumstick without spoiling its looks. pier wanted him to devote the entire address, Five Views of Jitney Driver Who Was Mysteriously Slain on County Road ae OIL ALLEL LEAL IPAS» is a mystery. Five views of Samuel Brown Jr., whose murder on Riverside Drive, the night of Nov. 11, still In posing for this photograph Brown sat with his back to the camera. his face were registered by an arrangement of mirrors. The four views of eed REWARD OFFERED FOR MURDERER OF ITINEY DRIVER Mother of Samuel Brown Jr. Knows of No Motive That Might Explain Tragedy. In an effort to solve the mystery of the killing of Samuel Brown Jr. of 5224 Cote Brilliante avenue, mail carrier and automobile driver. members of his fam- ily have offered a money reward for the detection of his slayers, or for any in- formation as to the identity of passen- gers in his machine on the night of the murder. Brown was found shot to death beside his automobile on Riverview drive, two miles north of the Chain of Rocks, on the night of Nov. 11. Mrs. Samuel Brown, his mother, said yesterday that she knew of no motive which could explain the killing of her son, as he had no enemies so far as she could learn. She said the exact amount of the offered reward had not been de- cided upon. Brown was called by telephone to go to Spring and Park avenues with his automobile on the night of the shooting Following out a theory that an an- gered husband might have been respon- sible for Brown’s death, the _ police. shortly after the killing, arrested sev- eral suspects, but found no evidence on which to hold them. FOREIGN DECORATIONS STOLEN FROM JEFFERSON MEMORIAL Two German and One Austrian Cross Taken From Missouri Historical Society Loan Exhibit. The theft of three foreign decora- tions from a case in the Missouri His- Society’s display at the Jeffer- in Forest Park was re- ported to the police today. The dec- orations once were the property of Charles Gibson, a prominent St. Louis lawyer, now dead, and were loaned to the historical society by his daugh- ter, Mrs. Luther Conn of 1728 Waverly place. Mrs. H. E. Beauregard, custodian od the exhibit, this morning discovered the case containing the decorations had been opened. The missing decorations are the grand cross of the first class of the Prussian Roval Order of the ~rown and the sec- ond class cross of the same order, and the Austrian Commanders’ cross. They were conferred on Gibson in recogni- tion of legal services to foreign Gov- ernments, torical son Memorial gee ee ge ee — ee ene $7,500,000 FIRE IN BONMARCHE DEPARTMENT STORE IN PARIS Old Furniture, Art and Oriental Rugs Valued at $5,000,000 Among Goods Destroyed. PARIS, Nov. 23.—The loss in the fire yesterday in the annex of the Bon- marche, one of the largest department stores of Paris, is estimated as at least 20,000,000 francs ($7,500,000). The flames destroyed collections of old furniture, objects of art and Oriental rugs worth 20,000,000 frances ($5,000,000), in addition to vast quantities of merchandise. It will be necessary to rebuild the an- nex. The loss is covered by insurance. CARNEGIE 80 ON. THURSDAY PITTSBURG, Pa:, Nov. 23.—Andrew Carnegie will be 80 years old on Thurs- day, but his anniversary will be ob- served today and tomorrow in connec- tion with the fifteenth founder’s day celebration of the Carnegie Institute of Technology here. Bronze medals will be given tne sxonor guests. . Engiand to Deport Ted Slean. LONDON, Nov. 23.—Tod Sloan, the former jockey, was arrested here today on a deportation order under the de- fense of the realm act. He will be sent to the United States immediately, GUNDUCTOR CAME SHAKER, MAN SAYS ‘Clerk in Daues’ Office Gets Fingers Burned on Street Car and Is Arrested. Bertram Newton, 39 years old, of 932 North Newstead avenue, a clerk in the City was arrested on at Grand and Finney avenues this morning on the charge of disturbing the peace, following an altercation with the con- ductor, whose name was not obtained by the police. At the Dayton Street Police Station. where he was released on his own bond, Newton said that he had boarded the car at Newstead avenue behind two other men. He had one foot on the foot- board, he said, when the conductor gave the signal to start, and the car began moving. He said he would have fallen had not the other two men pulled him into the car. He said he had a quarrel with the con- ductor about starting the car so quickly, and that the conductor then went to the front of the car and returned with the iron shaker used to shake down ashes in the stove. He said the conductor, holding the shaker aloft, said: ‘“‘Now start some- thing,’’ and struck at him. He grabBed the shaker, he said, and almost imme- diately was arrested by a private watch- man. A doctor who dressed an injury to his hand said the fingers and thumb were burned. ANTI-SUFFRAGISTS TO SEE THE PRESIDENT ON DEC. 14 Audience Arranged Before Opening of Convention Which Will Plan Work to Be Done in Congress. WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—An agree- ment was made today for Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge of New York, president of the National Association Opposed two Woman Suffrage and a delegation to see the President on Dec. 14. Arrangements already had been made for 900 suffrag- ists to call at the White House Dec. 6. The National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage will open its annual convention here Dec. 13, and during the sessions will plan the work to be done before Congress this winter. The President is known by his close advisers to hold to his position of fa- voring woman suffrage, but opposing any suffrage amendment to the Fed- eral Constitution. CUT IN HARD COAL RATES POSTPONED UNTIL JAN, | Interstate Commerce Commission Had Ordered That They Become Effective Dec. 1. WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—Reductions in hard coal rates ordered by the In- terstate Commerce Commission to be- come effective Dec. 1 were postponed today until Jan. L This is the second postponement in the anthracite case. The original or- ders were to become effective Oct. 1, but on a showing by the railroads that the new tariffs required to be filed were complicated, a first extension of 60 days ee POLICE GUARD CAPITAL TUNNEL Washington Action Prompted by Rumors of Dynamite Piot. WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—An extra force of policemen were today guarding the tunnel of the Union @tation here and the viaduct approaches, to forestall possible activities of bomb plotters. A. M. Keppel, general superintendent of the Washington Terminal Co., operat- ing the Union Station, expiained that the action was prompted because of ru- mors that dynamiters had threatened to blow up the bridges of one of the big trunk lines. Counselor’s office, an eastbound Hodiamont car ~~ AT HIM WITH STOVE. $3 FOUND IN SAFE. EXPERT CHARGED $5 FEE TO OPEN Suburban Garden Trustee Has $2.98 in Bank So He Has 98 Cents Left. Following a suit filed filed in. the Sub- urban Garden bankruptcy case, it was revealed today that Charles D. West, upon becoming the trustee in bank- tuptcy, expected to find a considerable sum of money in the amusement com- pany’s big safe at the garden. The com- bination, apparently, had been forgotten by those connected with the company. West hired an expert safe opener for $+ and when the door of the big vault was swung open it was found that the strong box contained only $83. The trustee, in searching for assets of the $50,000 Suburban Holding and Amuse- ment Co., found only $2.98 in bank, mak- ing the total cash assets $5.98. He paid the expert safe opener and had 98 cents left. In the suit filed in the Circuit Court the trustee alleges that the stockholders of the amusement company did not fully pay for their holdings in the corpora- tion. ‘ Assets of Only 8342.67. A balance of $14,486.28 is owing to cred- itors, and there are on hand assets of only $342.67, which will no more than pay the costs in the bankruptcy pro- cedure. The Court is asked to ascer- tain the exact number of shares sub, scribed for by each defendant, the bal- ance remaining unpaid thereon, and to compel the defendants to pay into court an amount equal to the total amount of the remaining indebtedness to creditors, with interest. . The defendants are M. L. Meletio, David L. Remiey, John H. Johns, Fay Huddleston, Frank J. Wiget, A. C. Wjget, Frank Becker, A. B. Koenig, John Kratz, C. H. Hauck, Otto Riek, A. Hollweg, Pat Fitzgerald Jr., Joseph Sippy, Herman Kronsbein, Albert Plack, t red Essen, J. W. Smith, Charles Auten- reith, William Sacks, F. J. Witter, Tnad Linck, John P. Haney, A. H. Kuhs and Charles Troll. ‘Plan of the Organization, The petition, filed by Attorney Charles A. Powers, sets forth that when the company was. organized, April 28, 1914 it was stated that the capital stock of $50,000 was fully paid in cash and prop- erty. The stock was distributed ag follows: David L. Remley, 1 share: A. H. Kuhs, 1 share; John P. Haney, 1 share; Thad Linck, 1 share, and M. L. Meletio, 496 shares. The petition alleges that the defendants entered into an agreement that the en- terprise should be incorporated without any assets in fact paid In; that the de- fendants should advance money suffi- clent to pay the preliminary expenses of the incorporation, and to begin the oper- ation of the enterprise, and that certain assets, then under control of the de- fendants, should afterward be turned over to.the corporation by the incorpo- rators. F Listed Assets 850,687. The first board of directors, the peti- tion states, claimed to have in its pos- session #400 cash; the leasehold, valued at $15,000; an option for renewal of lease, valued at $21,000; electric wiring, electric bulbs and a switchboard, valued at $90, and restaurant, office and theat- tical fixtures bringing the total stated value to $60,687. The trustee asserts the corporation never paid for the leasehold or the option, and that they were utterly with- out value, although listed at $36,000, and that investigation proved that the cor- poration’s actual assets were worth only 53000. These assets were sold for $2028, and preferred claims were paid, leaving $342.67 in the trustee's possession for ad. Naistration expenses. 100 SICILIANS ARE DROWNED ROME, Nov. 2.—One hundred persons were drowned today by the washing away of a bridge over Salso River near Licata, Sicily. GERMANS REPORT TAKING 10,500 SERVIAN TROOPS ——— ee Cannon and Machine Guns Also Captured; Teutonic Forces Continue Advance Around Prishtina, 50 Miles From Albanian Line. British Foreign Office Denies Blockade of Greece—Safe Conduct for Allies’ Retreat Expected. Italians and Austrians Con- tinue Isonzo River Battles With Bayonets and Heavy Artillery. SALONIKI, Greece, Nov. 23.—The res- ignation of Premier Skouloudis of Greece, according to reports In circu- lation here, is expected momentarily, on account of difficulties between Greece and Great Britain. BERLIN, Nov. 23, by wireless to Say- villa—Notable progress for the Ger- mans in the region southeast of Prish- tina, with the capture of 8000 Servians, 44 cannon and 22 machine guns, was an- nounced by German army headquarters today. The Teutonic troops have taken 1500 additional Servian prisoners and captured six cannon elsewhere. Prish- tina is in Servia, about 50 miles from the Albanian line. Northeast of Prishtina and north of Mitrovitza the Austro-Germap forces are advancing, throwing back the Servians, who are resisting in rear-guard actions. Slight. Success Over Bulgarians in Central Servia Reported. PARIS, Nov. 23.—A silght success over Bulgarians by the Servians in a battle in Central Servia is announced in an official communication given out at the Servian legation here today. Five Bul- garian cannon were captured. The communication, which gives par- tial confirmation of recent reports that the Servians had assumed the offensive, follows: “Battles occurred recently on the old Servo-Turkish frontier. The most important encounters were fought to the west of Velika Plana and Mount Zetovatz. We inflicted a defeat on the enemy at the latter point, capturing five mountain cannon.” Velika Plana is 2% miles west of Nish and 35 miles northwest of Leskovats, in the region of which a Servian victory has been reported unofficially. London Assumes Greece Has Guaran- teed Allies’ Safety in Retreat. LONDON, Nov. 23.—The Foreign Of- fice states no Greek ships are being seized or held up in the ports of the United Kingdom and that no’ blockade of Greek ports has been instituted or is in force. No amplification of the Foreign Office statement is obtainable in official quar- ters The universal deduction is that the Greek Government has satisfied the British demands submitted by Earl Kitchener, Secretary for War, who was in Athens last week. It is assumed Greece has furnished guarantees of the safety of the Anglo- French expeditionary force in the event of its retreat. It is believed the announcements from Athens concerning a commercial block- ade of Greece were premature in that they presented the provisional inten- sions of the entente allies as accom- plished facts. Recent dispatches from the near East have stated that the British Government had inaugurated a “‘peaceful blockade” cf Greece. A message on Sunday from Athens gave what was represented as the text of an official announcement from the British Legation there, sayin¢ the allied Powers “have deemed it nec- essary to take certain measures which will have the effect of suspending the economic and commercial facilities which Greece has received from them hereto- fore.”’ French and Bulgarians Fight Des- perately in River Gorge. FRENCH HEADQUARTERS, KAVA- DAR, Servia, Nov. 21, via Paris, Nov. 23.—A sanguinary battle between the French and Bulgarians in the gorge of the Rajec River, a confluent of the Cerna, Southeastern Servia, has resuit- ed thus far in the retirement of the French from a point north of Drenovo to the right bank of the Cerna. The French, however, are still holding the Rajec Gorge and the important bridge- head at Bojharsti, controlling the heights opposite Gradisce The Associated Press correspondent today visited the French post west of the Rajec bridgehead which is detailel to guard the strong natural position in it runs a narrow rapid. stream held by infantry. ~~ : Half an hour later, the correspondent, with a party of French officers, watched the battle from the neighhborine hills. 6 ne Cee eter pee 2 ee ae ed ee ee ee ena me xe Oe ee ene