St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 6, 1916

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Count of Want Ads Post-Dispatch . . Three of its four Competitors combin Last Month eg 42,692 St. Louis’ ONE BIG Want Medium 46,470 ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With Associated Press News Service. VOL, 68. NO. 199. ST. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1916—18 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT EDITION FINANCIAL MARKETS SPORTS | SFRMANS KEEP UP HEAVY GUN FRE WEST OF MEUSE Bombardment Intense Also Just West of Douaumont, Where Violent German In- fantry Assault Failed to ‘Make Progress. French Observers More Op- timistic Than Ever, Fol- lowing Bringing Up of Sufficient Shells. Twelve Persons Killed, In-| cluding Nine Women and Children, in Zeppelin Raid in Eastern England. PARIS, March 6.—There was no in- fantry fighting north of Verdun last night, the War Office announced today. The statement says: “In the region north of Verdun the nighc passed without any infantry ac- tion. The artillery action continued vio- lently on the left bank of the Meuse and intermittently in the sector to the west of Dovaumont and in the Woevre. “Our batteries have actively bornbard- ed the communications of the enemy. The night was calm on the rest of the front.”’ Yesterday was a good day for the French at Verdun, according to in- formation received today, and public confidence is greatly strengthened by the news of the continued repulses of | the German attacks. The opinion now begins to prevail that the great efforts of the Germans will be more easily dis- posei than was at first expected. Having failed to make any impression on the Dovaumont position and on Vaux to its right, the German general staff determined to smash the French left on the Vacherauville Wood-Cote du Poivre position. Without regard to cost the best troops were hurled forward, but with no more success than elsewhere, French Have Pienty of Shells. Pometesiame and what was left of the are - themselves’ amsiviet the } h a at Vatrx; the Germans finally fell back, leaving heaps of dead. The French infantry, supported by their formidable artillery, which will never henceforth lack © ammunition, showed themselves able to resist the on- slaught. On the left bank of the Meuse artillery on both sides thundered all day long. ‘the French infantry remains there ready for any eventuality, although the military experts believe it is extremely doubtful that the Germans will attempt to storm the L’Homme Mort key posi- tions, for to do so they must deploy over plain a mile wide, under cross-fire from the heights around. It ie chiefly the French artillery which is involved in the Woevre fighting. The French hold the outskirts of the village of Manheulles firmly and have stopped all attempts of the Germans to ‘Iebouch in that direction. An idea of the relatively sinall percent- age of French casualties in the Verdun battie is considered as deducible from a statement made by a Lieutenant who has arrived here wounded. “Our losses,”’ he said, “are comparatively slight. My regiment, for instance, had only 47 killed and 35 wounded, This is small for a unit which has been acting as support and which was engaged in the most violent of the fighting." French Hold Village Approaches. The official statement of the War Office last night said: “North of Verdun there was a very violent bombardment, particularly be- tween the Haudremont Wood and Fort Dovaumont. The enemy, however, was unable to renew his attacks in that re- gion. There has been no change as re- gards the village of Douaumont, the im- mediate approaches to which we hold. “In the wood to the east of Vacherau- ville, an attack directed by the Germans against our advanced position was com- pletely repulsed. In the Woevre a pow- erful bombardment occurred in the re- gion of Fresnes and east of Haudimont. Our artillery was very active on the whole of the enemy front and cannon- aded moving troops to the north of Vacherauville, near the Bois des Fosses, ond in the neighborhood of Louvemont.” Information from semi-official sources points out that “it must be demoralizing to the Germans to see some 40,000 to 50,000 corpses of their comrades lying before the French lines.” In front of the village of Vaux alone 4 German bodies were counted. after the eighth unsuccessful attack. ‘Tis “ ; ee The undertaker, day's ‘‘bread services,”’ loaves of bread, each with a biblical quotations, away as part of an advertising campaign _to attract persons to the church. WOMEN’S EXPOSITION OPENS rhase of the feminine interests. | BACHELOR JUDGE GIVES UP COURT OF MARITAL WOES Chicago Jurist Says He Wishes to Save Some of His Shattered Ideals. CHICAGO, March 6.—To save some of his shattered ideals of matrimony, Judge Jacob H. Hopkins, a bachelor, was transferred today, at his own re- quest, from the bench of the Chicago Court of Domestic Relations, being suc- ceeded by Judge John R. Newcomer, a married man. For the last six months Judge Hop- kins had listened from his place on the bench to the marital woes of the city, but recently he told friends he could stand it no longer. “Once I viewed marriages through rosy mists of sentiment and poetry” Judge Hopkins said. ‘“‘My ideals died one by one as day after day I listened to the sorrows and tragedies of mar. riec couples; to sordid tales of wife beatings, disloyal husbands, treacher- ous wives, love drowned,in wine, love whose requiem was the fox-trot music of the cabaret.’’ WHALE CAPSIZES BOAT AND KILLS TWO OF SIX MEN Monster Which Had Been Harpooned Tries to Swallow 30-Foot Shell, Then Strikes It. ; NEW BEDFORD, Mass., March 6.—A whale boat’s crew from the bark Alice Knowles of this port, while fast to a whale which had been struck off the coast of Africa, was attacked by the monster. The whale was dragging the whale boat at the rate of 10 miles an hour when it stopped, gave a swing sideways and tried to seize the boat in its jaws. The crew managed to swing the boat clear of the threatening jaws, but the monster, turning partly around, switched its flukés upward, catching the 30-foot boat directly under the bow, where the mate stood. The boat went into the air. Mate Pina and the bow oarsman, Fidely Cecelia, were killed by the blow. The other four men of the boat’s crew were hurled into the sea, but another whale boat picked them up. ELECTRIC SPARK FROM ARM IGNITES NAPTHA, KILLING 2 Employes of Raincoat Company at Springdale, Conn., Fatally Injured by Explosion. STAMFORD, Conn., March 6.—HBlec- tricity emanating from his right arm in a spark that ignited a vessel filled with _napthea, “mas given by. Coroner .John..t.. Fhelan as the cause of death of Samuel Rotcoe of Springdale. Peter Sautalgato also was burned to death, and the plant of the British-American Raincoat Co., in which they were employed, was dam- aged. Rocco disobeyed one of the strictest rules of the concern Saturday when, with his forearm bare, he poured naptha into a chruner containing a compound. An explosion followed. “DEAD” WOMAN COMES TO LIFE Undertaker Revives Actress After He Gets Her Body. NORTON, Kan., March 6.—Ida Westo Rae, an actress, who was pronounced dead by physicians at a hospital here and revived by an undertaker, has re- covered sufficiently to leave for her home in Joplin, Mo. Mrs. Rae was taken ill when her com- pany was appearing in Norton. She was believed to have died last Monday. discovering signs of life, called for a pulmotor and revived her. SEEDS FOR CHURCH GOERS Chicago Pastor Distributes Bread to Attract Attendcnce. ; CHICAGO, March 6.—A package of seeds will be given to each persons at- tending services at the Immanuel Bap- tist Church here next Sunday, the Rev. Johnstone Myers, the pastor, announced today. followed yester- at which 1000 bearing a label were given The announcement President’s Wife to Press Button Ii- laminating Cleveland Coliseum. CLEVELAND, March 6.~—The fourth annual American women’s exposition to yromote social and industrial interest of women was opened here today. For- mal ceremonies will be held at 7:30 this evening, will press a golden key at the White House that will seum, where the exposition is in prog- ress. when Mrs. Woodrow Wilson illuminate the Coli- Two hundred exhibits represent every Their ARMED ShIP ISSUE WILL BE DEBATED A HOURS IN HOUSE Agreement Reached on_ Special Rule Which Will Be Re- ported Tomorrow. VOTE IS EXPECTED THEN Administration Leaders Say Resolution Will Be Crushed —Bryan Again in Capital. By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, March 6.—President Wilson appealed directly today to Rep- resentatives Bennett and wenroot, Re- publican members of the House Rules Committe, to consider the armed ship issue without partisan bias and assist in getting a vote on a resolution warn- ing Americans off armed ships. Yor an hour he discussed the foreign situation with the two Republican mem- bers, and told them of the necessity of demonstrating that reports abroad that the majority of Congress was not with him were erfoneous. After the conference Representative Lenroot. said the Republicans had no intention of bringing party considera- tions into the issue. Both he and Representative Bennet refused to dis- cuss the details of the conference. lhey left the White House to attend a meet- ing of the Rules Committee. Rule Agreed Upon. The House Rules Committee’ today agreed upon, and will bring into the House tomorrow a special rule for four hours’ debate on the McLemore reso- lution warning Americans off armed ships of the European belligerents. This action puts the much-discussed resolu- tion into a parliamentary position, where administration leaders are confi- dent they can kill it. The four hours’ debate will be evenly divided between the administration forces and ‘those opposed to it and will be preceded by an hour and a half of debate on the adoption of the special rule, Sai The rule will provide that after the four hours’ debate the McLemore reso- lution will be before the House for ac- tion. The program is to table it, as }was- done with” the "Gore resolution in the Senate, thus expressing the senti- no legislation whatever regarding the traveling of Americans on armed ships shall be enacted. The text of the rule agreed upon fol- lows. *‘*Kesolved, That immediately upon the adoption of this resolution, the House shall proceed to the consideration of House resolution 147 (the McLemore resolution), that there shall be four hours’ general debate, one-half to be controlled by the gentleman from Vir- ginia, Mr. Flood, and one-half by the gentleman from Wisconsin, Mr. Cooper: that at the conclusion of said general debate, the said resolution shall be con- sidered under the general rules of the House.” Republicans on the Rules Committee voted solidly against the rule, while Democrats unanimously supported it. Mann Against Any Vote, When Representative Gardner declared in the House today that there should be a clear vote on the armed-ship sub- ject, Republican Leader Mann _ an- nounced that he was against bringing the matter up in the House at all. “I have believed,”’ said Mann, “‘in let- ting the’ House attend to its constitu- tional duties and letting the President attend to his constitutional duties.”’ The House resounded with cheers when Representative Mann took the floor and assailed Americans who might involve the country in war by traveling on armed ships. “I hope our qgitizens never will be put to the test of having to fight because some fool has involved us by entering upon a joy ride,’’ he shouted. Members Lunch With Bryaa. While the Rules Committee was meeting Representative Bailey of Penn- Sylvania telephoned invitations to Sena- tors and Representatives to lunch with William J. Bryan at 1 o’clock at a hotel near the Capitol. About 2 members of Congress were invited. Most of them are strong advocates of a warning res- olution. Others were opposed to pre- paredne3s. Representative Bailey declined to make public his entire invitation list, but some of those invited were Sena- tors Kern and Vardaman and Repre- sentatives Callaway and Slayden, Tex.; Helvering and Ayres, Kansas; Steele, Pennsylvania; Hensley, Missouri; Ste- phens, Lobeck and Shallenberger, Ne- braska; Dill, Wasbington; Van Dyke, Minnesota; Sisson, Mississippi; Tavener, ment of a majority of the House that]- IT’S NOT CUSSING TO SAY YOU “DON'T CARE A D——N” Harvard Discoverers Assert It Is Merely Repeating Persian Phrase, 2 “Dam” Being Coin of Little Value. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 6.—The man that put the dash in d—n was wrong. It doesn’t belong there. Harvard students studying numismatics have dis- covered that the original was a Persian coin and not a cuss word’at all. The story from Bagdad brought vy the Harvard discoverers, is that once the Persians had a complete coinage System. The smallest coin in size and value was a dam, the worthlessness of which is exceeded only by Mexican and Stage money. Under these circumstances it became a@ custom for Persian sports to say that they “didn®* care a dam” about this or that, to show their utter in- difference, and from the Persian phrase Came the American idiom. In the days following 177%, the expression was para- phrased for Ameriean use, and people said the “didn't care a continental,” that being a piece of paper currency whose value was much in doubt. THREE BIG U, $, WARSHIPS TO BE STRICKEN FROM LIST Alabama, Chio and Georgia Called Useless in Modern YVarfare and Likely Will Necome Training Vessels. PHILADELPHIA, March 6.—The )t- tleships Alabama, Ohio and Georgia a'e to be stricken from the navy's rost-r as fighting units and probably will erd their days as training ships for the naval reserve, officers of the Phil1- delphia navy yard say. It is asserted that ‘“‘despite their excellent condition they are obsolete and serve no purpose other than to retard the progress and impair the efficiency of first line ships.’ The Alabama, flagship of the reserve fleet and the Ohio, are at navy vard here and the Georgia is on her way '. join them. The Alabama was iaid down 20 years ago and is a 12,000-ton ship. The Ohio and Georgia, ‘uilt a few years later, are virtually the same size and carry similar armaments. Concerning them_an officer said: ‘A ship like the Pennsylvania could sink the three in less than half an hour, end suffer no damage because the new craft would be able to keep out of the rance of the o!d battleships. While they ap- pear formidable on paper and swell the number of battleships, they would be of little service in an engagement with ary of the first-class naval powers.” AUSTRIA DECLARES SHE IS AT WAR WITH SMALLEST REPUBLIC Refuses to Give Up San Marino Pris- oners Because of Alfeméd. Neutrality Breach. — ROME, March 6.—Austria considers herself at war with the republic of San Marino, according to the message con- veyed by Frederick C. Penfield, Amer- ican Ambassador to Austria-Hungary to the regents of the smallest republic in the world, who had applied through him to have their citizens interned in Austria released. Austria justified her refusal with the statement that San Marino has committed a serious breach cf neutrality. The republic of San Marino, in North- ern Italy, 14 miles southwest of Rimini, is 22 square miles in area and has a population of 9500. This little state has had an existence of about 1000 years. NEWS ITEM REUNITES BROTHERS Two Had Not Seen Each Other in 34 Years—Another in St. Louis. FULTON, Mo., March 6—A news- paper item. telling of the formation of a real estate agency at Calwood led to the reunion of Louis Bittner, 6 years old, of Dubuque, Io., and his brother, W. L. Bittner, 78 years old, for many years a merchant at Calwood and who has recently entered the real estate firm in question. They had been sepa- rated 4 years. The item was copied by a publication outside of Missouri and was seen by a sister of the two brothers, who also lives in Iowa. The family consists of five brothers and one sister. Three of the brothers live in Iowa. They had lost track of W. L. Bittner andthe other brother, who lives in St. Louis. The sister wrote to W. L. Bittner and through him also got 'n touch with the St. Louis brother. A reunion of the family is planned. MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS STAMPED Substitute “for Cards, Which Were Used Illegally. LAREDO Tex., March 6.—Branding Mexican immigrants on the arm with a rubber stamp instead of giving them identification cards is a new method of keeping check on the inflow from the south, according to announcement at the local immigration office today. Many Mexicans who receive cards have giv- en them to other Mexicans who are ijl- legally within the United States, and the rubber stamp method -has stopped this. The brand is easily washed off, HOUSE ARMY BILL MANES 1,324,790 TROOPS AVAILABLE This Number, Based on Measure Offered Today, Includes 995,- 790 Formerly in Service. NOT UNLIKE SENATE BILE Differs in Provision to Draft Guardsmen and Provides for Greater Maximum. WASHINGTON, March -With the introduction today of the House arr.y bill by Hay of the Military Committee, the secund of the national defense measures >ecommended by the President Wilson was before Congress. The first of these measures, the Senate bill, was introduced: Saturday. The House bill was accoinpanied by a report which asserts that the conrmit- tee believes it has succeeded in em- ? h.~ Chairman army feature a bodying in the measure ‘every which is necessary to briag about reasonable plan for national defense.”’ The House measure proposes to in- crease the regular arniv to a strength of 140,000 fighting troops, which means the addition of 40,000 men and 7439 of- ficers. It also provides 78% additional officers for detached service with the national guard, military schools and elsewhere. A maximum streneth, how- ever, is fixed at 170,000 men President May Draft Guardsmen. The bill provides for federalization of the national guard under a plan sub- stantially similar to that proposed in the Senate bill. The House plan, hnow- ever, differs from the Senate Dill in that the President is authorized to draft national guardsmen into the Federal service on the outbreak of war. The ultimate strength of the guard ‘3 greater under the House plan since a minimum force of 425,000 is stipulated to be organized within five years. The | Senate plan provides for approximately £50,000 guardsmen. vided for, but the House would doubie the-enroliment at the military academy. es ‘HHay’s report estimatés that @"force of 1,324,790 men trained for mi- litary*gervice “will be at once available upton the passage of this bill.”” To reach this total he relies upon the regulars with a strength of 140,000 and a reserve of 60,000 §pon 129,000 National Guardsmen the guard’s present strength, and vpon 695,790 former regulars or National Guardsmen. Commercial Mobilization Planned. A feature of the House bill is the broad scope given to proposals for the mobilization of commercial industries and lines of communication for war use. Regularly enlisted reserves in all civil occupations necessary to the mainten- ance of an army in war time are au- thorized and Government orders for war material are given right of way at all plants, by law. The bill authorizes als« the construction of a plant for the fixa- tion of atmospheric nitrogen for use in manufacturing explosives. The total cost of the plan for the first vear is estimated at $116,319,271, whil« for the fifth year and thereafter it is placed at $137,494;945. PRESIDENT 40 MINUTES LATE Talks So Long With Col. House He Keeps Those at Offiée Waiting. WASHINGTON, March 6.—The Presi- dent and Col. House talked so long this morning that the President was 4 min- utes late keeping his first engagements at the executive office, a very unusual proceeding for him. CLOUDY AND COLDER TONIGHT, CLEAR SKIES TOMORROW THE TEMPERAT RES. Yesterday's shane Meaht High. .45 at 6 p. m. Low. .36 at 7 a. m. Humidity at 7 a. m. today, 88 per cent; at 2 p. m., 37 Oe ceet | a 3 AND ICE. WAGONS | east for St. Louls |} and vicinity: Partly cloudy and colder tonight; “tomorrow fair and colder: the lowest cM ee _ a J ahs 7 e ho . “25 be a ea a 3 a - a tN “Xe an a se Newly-Chosen Official Vie | The selection of Mr. Baker is under-_ . stood to have been discussed by Presi- ¥ % sas a5 ae” +e > g S ny, » ‘a . 4 ¥ A, 4 » ra, Ag: byt ae ae ca ts rl ig J wait MOET UAE A ay mB oe “I have nothing to say except that I i feel complimented by the President's a confidence. I am deeply grateful and ~~ : 5 certainly appreciate what he has done.” __ Baker was born in Martinsburg, w. 2 Va., in 1871, and studied law in Wash- he became connected with the — Fat eas + Pe Foire — City Solicitor. He held this position one E 1902 to 1912, and became Jiohnson’s right- 4 hand man in the legal fight to establish 7 * ai value is estimated at $2,000,000. INDIANAN DIES’ OF HICCOUGHS In tHe fall of 1912 Baker made two visits to St. Louis, and he apent an aff — 5 ernoon with the Board of Freeholders, pert of the battle, though overshadowed by the fight for Douaumont, is re- garded in Paris as a serious check for Miss Stolze's physician does not say positively that the girl has anthrax, but that she has the symptoms. Ac- fresh westerly winds. Missouri — Gen- Illinois; Tillman, Arkansas, and Gordon, Ohio. Efforts were made not only to invite Caeice as ambadwides te Russia Likely to Be Confirmed tn a Few Days. tut non-transferrable. A local Mexican paper calls the inno- vation a ‘“‘degrading practice,”’ and de- the attackers. The Germans carried on the assault with great courage nti! the dead lay thick on the field. Tinc- attack on Vaux began on the evening ef tiarch 2, after a furious shelling, and. continued until the following night. Col- umns of Germans, advancing simulta- neously from the north and northeast, tried. to envelope the village. French artillery immediately opened a heavy fire, which separated the first wave of Germans from thein reinforcements. Nevertheless the fresh troops came on, bert d’Honau, here of the hiccoughs today. tack came on five days ago and 30 different drugs were used in an un- successful effort to check them. sisters Ky., When on hersway to the depot to take a train for Evansville to be Sister in Kentucky Dropped Dead on Way to, His Bedside. EVANSVILLE, Ind., March 6.-——Al- aged 60 vears, died The at- Several days ago one of d’'Honau's dropped dead at Cloverport, Continued on Page 3, Column 2. at her brother's bedside. . men regarded as particularly friendly to Bryan, but also to draw representa- tives from as many different sections of the country as possible. Thus leaders in the movement belleved a better gen- eral view of the situation might be ob- tained. Bryan insisted today that the lunch- eon was only a “friendly gathering.” Representative Bailey at about the same time said that it was “a meeting of those oposed to preparedness and fa- Centinued on Page 2, Column 4. j mands that a protest be made to the Carranza Government. —— Will Help St. Louis-St. Paul Road. LA CROSSE, Wis.,.March 6.—To pro- mote a paved roadway to mark a Gov- ernment trail along the Mississippi Riv- er from St. Louis to St. Paul, passing through La Crosse and thé towns along the river a mass meeting will be held here in April. Every town and village along the proposed route will be repre- ted. erally fair tonight and tomorrow; colder tonight and in south and east central portions tomorrow; fresh northwest winds tonight. Illinois — Partly cloudy and colder tonight; tomorrow generally fair; colder in south portion; fresh shifting winds. Stage of the river: 16.1 feet; a fall of cording to her mother, she covered her pace with furs when she went to work one cold day three weeks ago and next day her face broke out with red pos tules. She was forced to go to bed and has been unable to walk since. Other cases have been reported of anthrax being contracted from furs. Burgiars Make Haul of Tools. Burglars picked a lock fn the tool roon) of the John Nooter Boller Works, 1400 WASHINGTON, March 6.—David R. Francis, former Governor of Missouri, was nominated by President Wiison today to be Ambassador t6 Russia, succeeding George T. Marye, who re- signed. The Senate is expected to confirm the nomination in a few days. Last “ear 114,54 Room and Board Want Ads were printed in the .Post- Dispatch. This is 48 more than ap- South Second street, last night and stole | tools valued at $75. which was then framing the city 1914. His ocviee. wee. conmineset, 52 aaa eral of the freeholders, the most uable which they received from any side source. His second visit was for puropsee of viewing the ceeeens tee Oe See eee Tbe built In Cleveland. <" ae Baker, in his talke here, exp he ctiagemem yp se Pepe yh | peared in all of the combined. four other 8t. —— —_——— ———— ee — _ ———— c Sunday Circulation Over 375,000; Last Sunday, 384, 325 A AE pe ae OO ia i ; bled “a $y = ie ter which was atopted by the voters i Tom Johnson's idea that "Seine eet