St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 19, 1916

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Only Evening Paper mn St. Louis With Associated Press News Swelcs ry ae NO. , VOL. 68. ' The validity of the initiative provi- 3 sions of the new city charter was up- | held today by Cirevit Judge Shields, in | an opinion in whict, he dismissed a suit | in which a negro real estate dealer : sought an injunction to prevent the hold- | Ing of a segregation election, Feb. 29. - Judge Shields announced that his rea- sons for sustaining the city’s demurrer to the sult would be stated in a written opinion, which would be read from the bench during the afternoon. Judge Shields had had the case under considération since Dec. 28, when the suit was filed by a firm of negro law- yers, Vaughn & Phillips, acting for ~Charies A. Pitman, @ negro real estate aler, who appéared as plaintiff. | Asked for Injunction. : tman petitioned the Court to enjoin the Board of ce dapuannte ataan from holding the ation election under the Initiative clause of the city{ charter, and also from conducting the registration for ..e election, which had beon set for Jan. 13, and which was car- ried out beforé a decision in. the suit could be obtained. The petition asked that Comptroller “Player be forbidden to draw a warrant for thé expenses of the election, and that City Tréasurer Menhe be enjoined from paying out money for the purpose. : It was alleged in the petition that the election would’ cést $73,000, and that the use of this sum in. the mannér intended would be an unlawful expenditure of the taxpayérs’ money. — The injunction was sought on the assertion that tte initiative phase of the eity charter was unconetitution- al, in that it éxceeded’the limitations placed upon the framing of the char- ter by section 22, article 9, of the Staté Constitution, | @reuwnds for Suit. Tt wes aeserted, in the petition, that the sole grant of power to the city to adopt a charter is contained in this section and article, which enacts, “by way. of a limitation,” that any charter, adopted shall provide for at least one house of legislation, to be elected by general ticket. “This means,” the petition stated, ‘“‘that whatever legislation is.. adopted by the city shall be énacted Sy the house of legislation,:and not otherwise, and that. no. tion is, valid un- less concutred in by such house.” The petitioners pointed out that an ordinance providing for the segregation of negroes failed of adoption by the Board of Aldermen. The plaintiff de- clared that holding the proposed elec- tion would increage the burden of taxa- tion upen himself and others. ede This morning, when the »case was calied, the city filed a demurrer to Pit man’s petition, on the technical allega- tion that it did not ‘state a cause of ac- tion. Judge Shields sustained this de- murrer, and ordered Pitman’s suit dis- missed. - Two Ordinances to Be Voted On. At the special election two proposed ordinances will be submitted’ for adop- tion or rejection by @ majority vote, One proposes that. neither whites nor negroes shall be permitted to reside in any block now entirely populated by per- sons of the opposite race. The other ordinance proposes: the same _ ,restric- tions for blocks on which the popula- tion is 7% per cent of the opposite race. The ordinances will be voted on sepa- rately, and showld both carry, the ber cent proposition would be the law. ¢ NN POINTING NORTH PARTIAL ECLIPSE OF THE MOON WILL BEGIN AT MIDNIGHT Greatest Part of Surface Will Be Covered at 2:40 A. M.; Clouds May Spoil the Spectacle. | For anyone who happens to be out- doors, or near a witidow, in the first five hours of tomorrow morning, the moon will be worth a look. It will be faving a partial eclipse, which for a ‘Pa of that time will conceal just enotgh of its surface to make the rest inore interesting, and for the rest. of the time will give it M queer look. The real aclipse, when a part of the moon will be covered by the earth's in- ner shadow, comes between 1:55 and 3:24 a. m., and the middle of this period, when the greatest part of the surface is covered; will - be at-240. The part of the performance which comes from 12:04 to 1:55 a. m., and fromi 8:24 to 5:14, will be the progress of the moon through the hazy pentimbra or outer shadow of the earth. .From 12:4 to 1:5 the moon will be advancing through penum- bra to the inner shadow, and from 3:24 to.6:14 it .will be moving away, through the penumbra, from the outer shadow. “The accompanying diagram, which was drawn by Father Goesse of St. Louls University for the . Post-Dispatch, shows thé progress of the moon from right to left. The key to thé ‘ettérs is as follows: EP, enter penum- bra, 12:04 a. m.; BS, enter (innér) shad- ow, 1:55; MS, middle shadow, 2:40; LS leave (inner) shadoW, 3:24; LP, leave penumbra, 5:14. ‘Father Goesse said that while the eclipse would be interesting to students wf astrofiomy, he would not advise the general public to sit up for it. He thinke the paftial eclipse of the sun on the morning of Feb, 3 will be of more gen- eral interest. As cloudy weather is of- felally predicted for tonight and tomor- row, the moon’s movements may not be visible anyway. JUMP FROM WOVING CAR FATAL Frederick Schiess Dies of a Frac- tured Skull. Frederick Schiess, 6 ‘years old, an en- gineer, of 2263 South King’s highway, died at St.. Anthony’s Hospital this morning from a fractured skull suf- fered last Saturday night. Schitss fell in jumping from a westbound Tower TOO EXTRAMEN EMPLOYED BY 3 ~ PACKING PLANTS igen St. Louis Plants Find Busi- ness Is Good——Especially in the South, Seven hundre& extra men are working at the three big East Side packing plants, according to the general man- agers. The principal reason for this !s “a return of prosperity, particularly in tne South. Frank M. Hunter, geveral manager cf Swift's, said that he has 2500 rnen work- ing: now, which’ is 500 more than usual. There has not been. great difficulty in getting men. One manager said: ‘“While ve are not short of help, a man can be pretty sure of getting a job here if he ig a good man.'"’ Armour’s is, employing 1300 men, and Morris’ .1500, which is 200 more tian f.ormal for éach of them. The packers agree that business proepéets are good. ‘ihe: Southern planters are selling their cotton at good prices, an@ that is one element which makes the ‘St. meat market: good. KAISER IN NISH CONFERS WITH KING FERDINAND Presetts Bulgarian Movarch. With Field Marshal Baton: and Reviews Troops. LONDON, Jaf. ;:19.—A dispatch re- ceived by Reyter’s Telegram Co. says that Emperor William at Nish, Servia, yesterday met King Ferdinand of Bul- garia. “They greeted each other cor- Aially,” the dispatch says, ‘‘and re- viewed a procession of Bulgarian, Mace- donian and German troops.”’ Thé Emperor presented King Ferdi- nand with a Field Marshal’s baton and the King appointed the Emperor hon- orary commander of a Bulgarian infan- try regiment. Among the Emperor’s retinue were Gen. von Falkenhayn, chief of the gen- eral staff; Field Marshal von Macken- sen, Adjutant-Generals von Plessen, Von Chelius and Von Lyncker and Ad- miral von Mueller. King Ferdinand was accompanied by Princes Boris and Cyril, Premier Radoslavoff and others. Navy Mechanics Get Increase. WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—Increases in pay, averaging 5 per cent, will be given nmiaster mechanics in navy yards throughout the United States, effective Grove car while it was in motion at King’s highway and Arsenal street. ' probably within the next two weeks. etna tans tt, ete tt CN A CL LL ALLL AL LLL OOD ALLEL ALLL LE » Direct>Route> to> Success Via the Post-Dispatch advertising way. Prosperity follows our Home-Merchants because they e dictates of good business judgment and daily in St. Louis’ ‘‘One Big Newspaper.”’ Yesterday, Tuesday, they showed their preference as follows, when they bought - 62 Cols. In ‘the Post-Dispatch alone and on the same day 64 Cols. In all four of the other St. together follow * con only used added Each day this week our Home-Merchants have shown the same marked preference and 1916 bids fair to outshine the Post-Dispatch either two, three or all four o volume of Home-Merchants’ 281 Days CIRCULATIO 208,986 yee ee ee 8 oe 8 Louis newspapers 1915 record when it beat f its competitors combined in advertising carried, on - nN. 3 ‘ . % ’ eet 29 @e# @ 0.0 09 O88 Oe 8 8 ron r. e 3 Ss F Louis + FALSE SALOON REPORTS GOSTIN HTY THOUSANDS Acountants Employed by Mayor Find Many . Statements of Purchases Are Incorrect. SCHOOLS BIG SUFFERERS They. Receive $6 of Each $10.50 Collected on Basis. of Liquor Stocks Semi-Annually. * Expert accountants employed by May- or Kiel reported to him today that the city, the public schools and the State are losing many thousands of dollars annually because of false reports made by saloon keepers as to the amount of intoxicating liquors purchased. Under the law each saloon keeper in obtaining a renewal of his license must state under oath the amount of liquors purchased by him in the preceding six months. On this he is taxed $10.50 per $1000 of purchases. Of this the city gets e, the public library 40 cents, the art museum 20 cents, the public schools $6 and the State $1.90. Under the new charter the Mayor is authorized to employ expert account- ants. to check any city department. Un- der this authority the Mayor employed Marwick, Mitchell Peat & Co. ’ i No Reports From 455. In their report the accountanis state that for the period from Jan. 3, 1915, to July 3, 1915, three saloon Keepers re- ported purchases in ‘excess of $4000, 17 reported between $2000 and $4000, 152 re- ported between $1000 and $2000, 907 report- ed between $1000 and $2000, and 756 re- ported less than $1000. No purchase re- ports were received from 455. Appended to the report was a list of all saloons in the city and the amount of purchases they reported. The largest was S. L. Geisinger, 35 South Seventh street, who reported buying $15,000 of in- toxicating liquors. W. J. Fox of Sl Choutéau avenue reported $3500. Some of the larger saloons reported = smaller amounts. In tue list were: Jefferson Hotel, $2600; Planters Hotel, 22000; McTague’s, ett; Maryland Hotel, wv; Carl Anschuetz, Magnolia and Grand avenues, $800; Carl Anschuetz, 2262 South Grand avenue, $800; John Caf- ferata, 5901 Deliiar, $2000; Ciaardi’s, 4901 Welmat, $3500; Phil Dwyer, 4119 Easton avenue, $1200; Henry Grupe, Union and Katon avenue, $1000; John Faust, 6401 Easton avenue, $2000; Deck's, Sixth and Pine streets, $800; Badaracco, Central National Bank Building, $600; Sarazan, Frisco Building, $1500; Garavelli « Freschi, 3606 Olive street, $1500; Henry Roth, 3834 Olive street, $1000. In the report on the office of License Collector Alt it is stated that a great many merchants and manufacturers un- derstate the value of their property that i¢ subject to license and ‘the Board of Wqualization for Merchants’ and Manu- facturers’ Licenses have had to. make zrequent investigations which resulted -n increases of from’ §# to #0 per cent. . Keports Are Secret. The law throws secrecy about tle re- ports of mrchants and manufacturers, and for that reason the report men- tions no names, but it states that there ig @ good deal of license-tax dodging in spite of the efforts of Collector Alt to prevent it. The license is $1 per $1000 of sgles and $2 per $1000 of merchandise, materials, etc., on hand. They are due the first Monday in July. The merchants and manufacturers are re- qQuired to report sales for the year ending May 31 and the largest amount of merchandise, materials, etc, ,in stock between the first Mon- da yin March and the first Monday in June. The department, the report says, is well organized and well managed and the system enables Comptroller Play- er’s department: to have an adequate check all the way back to the origi- nal affidavit. The system in the department of Collector Koeln, according to the re- port, is about perfect. The Comptrol- ler has a perfect: check on it and accounts are settled promptly. The present report does not touch on the department of water rates collections. “Groosly Underestimated.” In their report the accounts state: “That the amount of purchases is grossiy underestimated by applicants for licenses is conceded by the Excise Commissioner and the collection depart- ments. They contend they have no au- thority to question or verify the affi- davits filed, although on some occasions, I am informed, the Excise Commissioner has caused an applicant to voluntarily increase the amount of purchases in his affidavit."’ The report recommends that such ad- ditional legislation as is needed be passed to clothe the Excise Commis- sioner with authority to compel appli- cants accurately to state the amount of purchase. ROOSEVELT’S NIECE, SHE SAYS LONDON, Jan. 19.— Ethlyn lande of New York. who says she is a niece of Theodore Roosevelt, has been detained by the police for examination as to her sanity. , If her relatives in New York will send for ‘her the police will start: her home jat once. Miss Lalande came here on war relief work. St sonntllimatediiedieneatl NEW YORK, Jan. appear in the New York — WOMANIS PUT ON POLICE FORGE AS A PROBATIONARY Miss Laura M.. Kinkead, 45, Assigned to Parole Bureau, McPheeters Announces. i eeemeenieeneemennadll WILL HAVE Has Been Doing Work Volunta- rily for Some Time; Salary / Is $65 a Month. St. Louis at last has a policewomai.. The appointment of Miss Laura M. Kinkead, 4 years old, of 4536 Morgan street, was announced by President Mc- Pheeters of the Police Board today. Miss Kinkead wil) have the rank of a probationary patrolman, with a salary of $365 a month. She will not walk a beat. President McPheeters said Miss Kinkead would be assigned to service with the Parole Bureau. Three patrol- men are now members of this bureau. The policewoman’'s main duty will ve to report on the conduct of women who have been, paroled by Judges in the criminal and police courts. For some time Miss Kinkead has been doing this work voluntarily. She has reported on many paroled persons and in some cases the information which she gave caused: paroles to be revoked. She was recommended by several Judges of the criminal division of the Circuit Court,, amiong them being Judge Grimm and Judge Cave. Chief Young's first order to the new policewoman was that she must not per- mit her picture to be taken for publi- cation in the newspapers. .1e explained this by saying that many of Miss Kin- kead’s assignments would be on secret work, and her efficiency would be im- paired if her features became familiar to the public. The Legislature at its last session granted to cities of more than. 5000 pop- ulation the right to appoint policewom- en. Since then clubs and other organ- izations of women in St. Louis have been urging such an appointment here. .At a meeting of club women recently, President McPheeters promised that a policewoman would be appointed in a short -time. The Police Board decided that if the experiment is successful two or three other women will bé made members of the police department. Miss Kinkead reported to Chief Young today, shortly after her appointment was announced. He ordered her to take up her new duties Monday. The Chief said the appointment was in the nature of an experiment. He said Miss Kinkead would have no uniform, star or revolver. PREACHER DIES ALONE AND IN DARKNESS AT OWN REQUEST Rev. Frederick Hemplemann Asked Relatives to Leave Room When End Drew Near. The Rev. Frederick Hempiemann, % years old, pastor of the Immanuel Ev- angelical Church of Hamel, a suburb of Edwardsville, died alone and in dark- ness at 3 o'clock this morning at hi« own request, although several relatives and a score or more of his friends were in a room adjoining the one he occu- pied. He had been ill for one week with a severe col4 which weakened his heart. About 10 minutes: before his death he called his friends to his side and said: ‘I’m going fast. I wish. to go in dark- ness and alone. Please turn out the lights and leave me.” His friends complied with his request. He is survived by three children, one o” whom is Mrs. Mary Miller of St. Louls. GERMAN LOSSES 2,535,760 of British Under Secretary Says These SS8,986 Were Killed. LONDON, Jan. 19.—Harold J. Tennani, Parliamentay Undersecretary of War, announced in the House of Commons this afternoon that the total German casualties as published in the Berlin lists to date total 2,635,700. Of this num- ber he said 588,986 were killed. The War Under-Secretary said the German wounded and missing numbered 1,566,549, while $56, 153 men had been tak- en prisoner. In addition 24,080 Germans had died from various causes. SNOW OR RAIN, STEADILY ~~ RISING TEMPERATURE THE TEMPERATURES. Yesterday’s Temperatures. High..20 at 4p. motow 14 at 3 a. ™. , Offietal fore [THost RUSSIAN cast for St. Louls [SKATERS AR and vicinity ec BACK Gengrally cloud; weather tonight and tomorrow ; probably esbout 39. Missouri—Snow o: rain and warmet tonight and to- morrow, Tilinois—Snow or rain ond warmer tonight and _ to- morrow. Stage of the riv- _ er: &1 feet, a fal , ofdifiet, .. NO UNIFORM: . ts ae page g Se _ ST. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 1916—20 PAGES, fe, — He Gets $10,000 a Year From Ford and Is Asking for $25.000. THE REV. DR. CHARLES F. AKED. FORD PERMANENT PEACE BOARD NOT AUNT ONPLANS None but Dr. Aked-in Favor of Proceedings on Trip to Stockholm. > aoe THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Jan. 19.— While preparing for the proposed de- parture to Stockholm, where it is fn- tended to begin sessions in an attempt to bring about the termination of the war, the Ford Permanent Peace Board is threatened with disruption by the re- fusal of all the members to proceed on the trip to Stockholm. Of the five American members of the board only Dr. Charlies F. Aked has announced his willingness to go to Stockholm. Mrs. Joseph Fels of Philadelphia says she is going to England on business. William J. Bryan, Henry Ford and Miss Jane Addams, who are the other Amer- jcan members, are still in America ani as nothing has been heard from them, members of the expedition here ure per- plexed. There Are Five Altertates. The disagreement developed over five alternates. Madame Rosika Schwimmer, who is employed by Mr. Ford as a peace expert, announced that she had cabled to Ford for'permission to dismiss John D. Barry of San Francisco, who was elected an alternate member of the Permanent Peace Board by members of the expedition, most of whom are now homeward bound on the steamer Rotter- dam. Mme. Schwimmer says she will ap- point Harry C. Evans of Des Moines. The objection to.Berry is that he re- fused to sign a statement on board the steamer Oscar Il, denouncing President Wilson's preparedness policy. The other alternates decline to proceed to Stock- holm. Jadge Lindsey te Quit. Judge Ben Lindsey of Denver says he is preparing to leave the party and ‘4 going to Germany in an attempt to formulate a plan to relieve the childreu of the belligerent countries. ’ The Rev. Jenkin Lioyd Jones of Chi cago, another alternate, says he is pre- paring to leave on the steamer Rnydam on Jan. & for New York. Gaston Plaintiff, personal representa- tive for Ford, has received cabiegram wetructions to return to America and explain the situation to his employer. Some Are Barred. — Other difficulties arose over the man- ner of reaching Stockholm. “The Ger- man Government has granted permission to 8 Scaridinavian members of the par- ty to return to their homes through Ger- man territory. It ts expected that they FIRES AT SAME PLANT AT GRAFTON Widely Separated Buildings Be- lieved to Be Incendiary. Thé Tilinois Powder Co’s.. plant at Grafton, IiL, (which manhufactdres, among other things, nitrie*acid, which is used in the manufacture of war mu- nitions for the allies, was. damaged about $10,000 by three fires which start- ed simultaneously in widely separated parts of the plant at 5 o'clock this morn- ing. There was no explosion, and the only damage was from fire. Leo Peterson, superintendent of the plant, said that great damage would have been done if the fires had started prior to yesterday. He said that yes- terday all the dynamite on hand, six tons, was shipped out and ‘thdt there were po explosives in the plant. The fires started in thé ammonia building, in the box magazine and in the shipping house. Two of these builld- ings are about 1200 feet apart, and the third is 400 feet from one of the others. It is customary to store dynamite in the shipping house after its marfufac- ture until it is shipped. ' The principal business of the company is the manufacture of dynamite, which is not used in war munitions. The com- pany u nitric acid in making dyna- mite. It manufactures about twice as much nitric acid aa it uses, and sells the surplus to munition factories. In the last month it has sold about two cars of nitric acid. ‘ Peterson is convinced that the fires must have been of incendiary origin, but has no idea as to who started them. He said the company had not discharged an employe for 16 months, and that so far as he knew it had no dissatisfied workmen. Peterson said an employe of a quarry near the plant told him that when he was going to work this morning he saw a stranger walking rapidly away from the plant. His suspicions were not aroused until a few minutes later, when he saw the smoke from the. fires. The company had no watchmen at the plant last night. CIGARETTE SPARK AFIRE AT She Is Baediy Burned, Alse Three Mea Whe Try te Rescue Her. NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—Three men and a woman, dinner guests of William Jerome Toomey, a broker, at 5 West TIME"IN POWDER Blazes Startingt at 5 A. M.. in” DER PARTY Fifty-third street. were bediy burned By Associated Press, | the allies is being held in London present. This news Is cetelved landing of additioral allied sources that the allies have laters of the central Powers: in Greece have been received here olution, backed by the allies and former Premier Veutzelos. rtia is to be proclaimed in Greece “In to put an énd to dangerous ran nople to’ the effect: that-a s Greeks, originating among } iimited means is gaining. 3 an es = pers rather than permit them into the hands of the allies, paper is sald to report that eympac:hy .of the high military off doubt. An official statement tesued what premature. It is now @ from another source that nego between Austria and Montenegro been broken, the conditions of # Hi ga ; F oy a ' . : 4 e b % i : . j 5 , ee ' 5 . ¥ — > ae 4 Ee , ' * see g 3 site : ” Ste Ev eee i = a . | : ‘a ‘ bo a ) . 4 2 i ee * ., See q ; ¥ i ee aare.4 a 4 as. ung prints a message trom Cong igi 2 Y a. ¥ E Pe y .* ¥ Aristide Briand, the French Premli arrived here early this morning } to much interest because of the fF porte ae 7 4 that Greece issue passports to the io~ various sdurces. Dispatches of Ger man origin even hint of a possible re¥ bes ad =, = 5 Se according to“ a” Daily News” dispet > :. at ae * ‘d ~~ . & ee rected at the King 4n@/ Queen oft we the Veniszelist party and backed by t ESS PE “ee Rey isters of the central Powers in Gre have been ordered to burn thelr | et ~ * ae The sary iat demonstrations in Athens are © pected, that the King retains only ti and that the attitude of the army i ‘<=