St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 5, 1916

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how busy Business Builders. nth t mo a «oo more than the FOUR ‘Plan Business Growth— Use the “Wants” oday’s Want Columns show > Y omiaee are using these he Post-Dispatch printed 57,553 want Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With Associated Press News Service. other St. Luuis VOL. 68. NO. 229. ST. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. APRIL 5, 1916—22 PAGES. newspapers combined. PHANCELLOR SAYS WAR WITH U.S. 1 NOT THOUGHT OF ‘Tells Reichstag in Compre- hensive Speech That Ag- ee CLOUDY AND COOLER TONIGHT AND TOMORROW THE indent eye RES. 1 Yesterday’s ‘Temperatures. High. .59 at 4 p. m. Low. .44 2t 5 a. m. Humidity at 7 a. m. today, 55 per cent; at 2 p. m., 67 per cent. fore- WHY NOT PLAY | _ Official THAT SPRING SERIES INDOORS ? vicinity: cnd cooler and Cloudy slightly tonight; tomor- row partly vast for St. Louis ST. CHARLES NEGRO WAO SHOT SHERIFF KILLED BY POSSE Pursuers, After 13-Hour Hunt, Find Him in Barn Near Scene of Crime. FRENCH REGAIN GROUND IN SEVERAL NIGHT ATTAGKS Germans Pushed Back Near Cail- lette Wood and in Douaumont Neighborhood. TROOPS IN MEXICO AWAKEN UNDER A BLANKET OF SNOW American Soldiers at the Front Sleep in Open, Being in Ad- vance of Supplies. LL Leader of U. S. Troma in Latest Attack on Band of Villistas IFFICULTIES OF SUPPLYING TROD INMEXICO GROW quest Made a Few Gen. Funston Asks Washing- . ton to Hurry Up His Re- cloudy. _otissour = Un" | BODY BURNED IN BUILDING {GERMANS TRY NEW PLAN with showers in gression in American Con- tinent Has Never Been] Ago for Four More Motor * MOUNTAIN TOP SEARCHED, Considered. Declares That After the War There Must Be a New Bel- gium; Poland Will Never Be Returned to Russia. “Any Suggestion of Peace on Basis of Destruction of Prussian Military Answer- able Only by Sword.” ee BERLIN, April 5, by Wireless to Sayville—Chancellor von Bethmann- Hollweg protested vigorously in a speech in the Reichstag today against the report that Germany, now or in the future, contemplated aggression against the United States. Regarding America, Dr. mann-Hollweg said: “The latest offspring of the calumniat- ing campaig:. directed against us is a report that we, after the end of the war, shall rush against the American conti- nent and that we shall attempt to con- quer Canada. “This is the silliest of all imputations invented aalust us. Equally silly are the reports that we contemplate the ac- cuisition of any territory on Americar soil as in Brazil or in any American country whatsoever. We fight for our existence ané@ for our future. For Ger- many and not for space in a foreign country are Germany's sons bleeding and dying on the battlefield. “Every %ne among us knows this ani it makes our hearts and nerves sv strong. This moral force strengthens our will in order not cnly to weather the storm, but also to achieve final vic- tory.” Reviews Military Situation. The Chancellor made his most com- prehensive speech of the war. He re- viewed the military and political sitv- ation, the use of various means of war- fare and German-American relations. The Chancellor indicated that any sug- gestions of peace on the basis of de- struction of Prussian military power would make possible only one answer, The German sword. The Chancellor stated that if Ger- many’s adversaries desired to continue the slaughter »f men and devastation of Europe, the guilt would be theirs, anid that Germany would have to “stand it as men.” The Chancellor, whose address was delivered to a crowded house, also spoke of the questions presented in relation to the principle of nationality, considering the Polish, Lithuanian, Livonian, Bel- gian and Flemish problems. He insisted upon the necessity of guaranteeing the peace of Europe after the war and also of securing this result by giving to these races opportunities of free evoluticn slong the lines of their natural individ- ualities and mother tongues. “Spirit of Union” Talk Applauded. At the conclusion of his address the Chancellor elicited great applause by von Beth- “The spirit of union shall lead us, as it shall lead our children and grand- children, through the struggles of their fathers, toward a future of strength and liberty.” The Chancellor began his address with a weview of the military situation. He stated that since his last speech in the Reichstag the Dardanelles enterprise had ended as a failure, that the Ser- vian campaign, with the assistance of Austria-Hungary end Bulgaria. had been brought to a victorious conclusion and that Montenegro and Albania like- wise were now in the hands of Ger- many’s allies; that the British attempts to relieve Kut-eil-Amara in Mesopo- tarnia, has been in vain; that the Rus- sians, although they had succeeded in occupying Erzerum with superior forces, had found their advance checked by strong Turkish forces; that Russian attacks against the front in East Ga- lea and Italian attacks against the Tsonzo positions had been beaten back. Moreover, he said, the Russians had driven columns against the Germaa lines, but their assaults had broken down before Field Marshal von Hinden- burg and his men. Denies Force ts Expended. The Chancellor declared that the re- ports that the German military force had been expended were erroneous, as the Verdun battle har proved that where operations are prepared with great foresight and where the bravery of German troops is called into Play one advantage after another is ob- tained. The Chancellor then expressed the nation’s thanks to the soldiers and their Discussing attempts which he said were Germany, Dr. von : continued: understood that in 1915 our enemies oat sive up this hope, but I do south and east central portions; tomorrow partly cloudy, cooler in east portions to- wight. Illinois — Gener- ally fair in north + and central por- tions, probably showers in ex- treme south por- tions tonight and tomorrow; slightly cooler in east por- tion tonight. Stage of the river: SOCIAL DEMOCRAT TO BE NEXT MAYOR OF MILW?"KEE Daniel A. Hoan Defeats Nonpartisan Incumbent by About 1500 It Is Estimated. MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 5.—City At- torney Daniel A. Hoan, Social Democrat, will be the next Mayor of Milwaukee, having defeated Mayor G. A. Bading, nonpartisan, in yesterday’s election by a majority estimated from incomplete returns at bewteen 1000 and 1500 votes. Unofficial returns from 128 out of 143 precincts give Hoan 30,187 and Bading 29,030. John I. Drew, Treasurer, and Louis M. Kotecki, Controller, both nonparti- sans, Cefeated their Social Democratic opponents by approximately 6000 votes. The complexion of the new Common Council will be nonpartisan. According to the returns all the Social Democratic candidates for Alderman at Large, with the possible exception of former Mayor Emil Seidel, were de- feated. Hoan was once a chef and worked his way through the University of Wisconsin and a Chicago law school largely by cooking. He is 35 years old, a native of Waukesha, Wis., and has been City Attorney six years. ALTON WOMAN, 97, HOBBLES 26.1 feet. Teacher Leaves School in Assistant's Charge and Walks 14 Miles for Same Purpose. Mrs. E. B. Clarkson, 97 years old, and Alton’s oldesi voter, hobbled to the polls yesterday and voted dry. Enfeebled by age, she canie out on the streets with a crutch and was supported in the poll- ing place by a friend. She still teaches a Sunday school class every Sabbath at her home, and she is an active tem- perance worker. Miss Alice Jooesting, who lives at Alton and teaches in the Wert School, seven miles north of there, walked 14 miles to east a dry vote. She left the school early in the morning, placing an assist- ant in charge, and walked home. Then she walked back, arriving late in the afternoon. GETS FORMER HUSBAND A JOB SO HE CAN PAY ALIMONY Divorced Wife of H. M. Vet, Half- Brother of Gastavus Von Brecht of St. Louis, to Collect From His Wages. DENVER, Colo., April 5.—Mrs. Lulu L. Vet, who recently divorced Henry M. Vet, half-brother of Gustavus von Brecht, a St. Louis and Colorado Springs millionaire, because he insisted that she support him, has decided upon a novel way of making sure of obtaining the ali- mony awarded. When Vet was before Judge Hillyer on a charge of contempt of court, grow- ing out of his failure to pay alimony, he pleaded he had been unable to obtain a position, Mrs. Vet got a job for him as a chauf- feur and he has taken the place. She will collect her alimony from his wages. TO POLLS TO CAST DRY VOTE: John H> Dierker Probably Fatally Wounded, Deputy Injured in First Encounter. old, night Lacy Chandler, 35 #£=years a negro shot who last probably fatally wound- ed John H. ODierker, Sheriff of St. Charles County, when Dierker. and others sought to arrest him at Richard Tleisch’s farm, eight miles north of St. Charles, was shot and killed about 12:30 o’clock this afternoon by members of posses which had been hunting for him for 13 hours. Sheriff Dierker was in St. Joseph’s Hospital, St. Charles, and attending physicians said he could not recover. Within 10 minutes it was estimated 2 hundred*men or more had gathered around the Boschert barn. The negro appeared in the dceorway without the tifle. ‘‘Shoot him,”’ several men cried. There were a number of shots and the negro ran back inte the barn. A moment later the barn was set on fir: by the negro, who during the night had escaped from the Fleisch barn by firing it. The negro again appeared in the doorway with his hands. elevated. His appearance was the signal for hundreds of bullets. He fell back into the blazing barn, and the passes were content with watching to see that he burned up with the barn. Boschert placed a value of $5000 on the barn and contents. Fleisch estimated the value of his burned barn at $3000. The hunted negro was found in a hay- loft of a barn on the farm of Edward Boschert, a half mile from the Fleisch farm. This was at 12:15 p. m., when Boschert’s 17-year-old son, Oliver, went to the loft to get hay. The negro con- fronted him with the repeating rifle with which he had shot’ the Sheriff and Deputy Sheriff Joseph Orlendorf. “I’m hiding here,’ the negro told the boy, ‘‘and you get out or I'll kill you.” Armed Men Goto Scene. Young Boschert ran to the house and notified his father, who telephoned to St. Charles. Within a few minutes armed men in automobiles were on their way from St. Charles to the Boschert farm, and posses in the vicinity of the Fleisch farm hastened to Boschert’s. Shortly after noon about 30 men, with- out a leader, walked toward the St. Charles jail and threatened to try to lynch Andrew and Harry Black, ne- groes, who were convicted of the mur- der, on Dec. 6, 1914, of Policeman Dave Lamb and John Blair, and were «en tenced to be hanged. They are still in the St. Charles jail, pending an appeal decision in the Missouri Supreme Court At 1 o’clock a posse, headed by acting Deputy Sheriff Bianco, started from St. Charles in autos to bring the ne- groes to the St. Louis jail. Fires at Former Employer. Chandler last evening took a rifle and a supply of shells belenging to Fleisch, his employer, -in the absence of Fleisch and his family, and went a mile to the home of Ernst Plackemeier, for whom he for- merly worked, and with whom he had quarreled as to the pay due him. He fired at Plackemeier as he sat at the supper table, and Plackemeier fell out of his chair at the instant of the shot, and escaped injury, though the negro ap- parently thought he had been killed. The negro fled to Fleisch’s barn and hid in the hayloft, where he was found, at 7:30, by Dierker, Deputy Orlendorf, Jailer Philip Rutt and Herman Hunte- brinker. He fired once at Dierker, miss- ing him, and then began a long parley with the party as to giving himself up. He would seem to change his mind about this occasionally, and fired sev- eral shots, though apparently not try- ing to hit anyone. Dierker thought farm hand, and he could be taken Continued on Page *, Column 3. TEXAN FOUND CARDU GREAT FO MORNING AFTER’ Witness in Libel Suit Says Wife Drinks Third of a Bottle Before Breakfast. CHICAGO, April 5.—The naive cesti- mony of Milo T. Crouch, a farmer living near Sardis, Tex., as to fils fondness for drink caused amusement yesterlay in the $300,000 libel suit of John F.. and Z. CC. Patten of Chattanooga, Tenn., against the American Medical Associa- tion and the editor of its »official pub- lication. Crouch testified that his wife was “‘bit- ter opposed’’ to his heavy drinking du>- ing the last 15 years. Her oppositicn, tt appeared, was expressed voludly. ‘“But,’”’ said Crouch, “I never sail nothing to her about the way she hit up the Wine of Cardui, and she’s been at that a long time.” ‘Where are you from?’ asked -\-tor- ney J. 8. Sizer, for the defense. “Sardis, Tex.’ ‘Now tell us about Wine 9f Cardui. ’ “Well,’’ continued Crouch, “I’v2 veen a booze fighter for about 15 years. One morning after being on a big drunk the night before I didn’t feel goxd—did-’t want to do no work. My wife told ime that Wine of Cardui sometimes made her head swim, but she dicn’t tell me to take none of it. “Well, when she went out with the milk pail I up and sneaks a ssig of her Wine of Cardui. Then she comes 'n with the milk, but goes out again to feed the chickens, and | took another pull. That made me feel pretty good and ever since I have had it around to use when coming out of a drunk.” “How did your wife get te using it” “She heard about it from other wor)- en. First she took it with a spoon. Then she got to tipping up the hottle and gulping it down. She’d drink a third of a bottle. before breakfast sometimes.” FIRST STEEL, SELF-PROPELLED OHIO RIVER BARGE COMPLETED ‘rude Ol ‘ar- 900. eet ea, por Wir wanaic” Cargoes Mechanically, LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 5.—Inco No. 1, the first of a fleet of all steel, seif- propelled barges completed for the In- land Navigation Co., and with which it Is expected to revive river trade, tied up at the Louisville wharf today on her maiden trip. The 200-foot freighter was completed yesterday at the Howard ship yards, Jeffersonville, ind., oppo- site here, on the Ohio River. Inco No. 1 will burn crude oil and carry a wireless outfit. Her cargoes will be handled principally mechanically, oth- er equipment of the barge inciuding a traveling crane, electric wenches and self-propelled freight-carrying trucks. DEFEATED CANDIDATE ENDS LIFE CARMI, TL, ‘April. 56=—James A. Welch, Tax Collector Township, shot and killed himself earls today. Welch was a éandidate j lic went almost 5 ttoit i te onieatell ass Ty was défcated. © eb Cee. | ¥ zp at, eee ise BS mS fs f Vhs + pe - Ries tees : bi re ivtug 4 ee ae ee ee are vi of Carmi: to succeed himself, and in the election | | NEW FLAG SENT TO BAKER; WHY? IT’S TO TRAVEL WITH HIM Secretary of War Told He Must Take It to All Military Functions; Old One Wore Out. WASHINGTON, April 5.—Gold braid and embroidery on a field of scarlet silk, which cost $130, arrived at the War Department vesterday, and was deposited itn the office of Secretary of War Baker. “What, may I inquire,” Secretary, “may that be?’ “That,” he was told, “is your flag.” “Flag?” the Secretary mildly ex- claimed. “I did not order a flag.” “No, of course,” it was explained, “but tery Secretary of War has a flag.” “Why?” asked the insisted Baker. “It's your emblem,” he was told. “It travels with you on gala occa- gions or military functions.” “Oh, but does every new Secretary get a new flag?” “No; but the old one wore out.” Ok: NEW PLAN FOR FINANCIAL REDEMPTION OF MEXICO Carranza .orbids Further Ia: ue of Faper Morey and Wtilt Name Monetary Commission. MEXICO CITY. April 5.—Mexico’s plan for financial redemption was made public last night in two decrees issued ty Gen. Carranza, the first of which orders a cessation of further issues of piper money, and the second of which provides for a monetary commission of five members who shall have full power in the matter of the redemption of the present circulating medium. The new commission will be headed by Luis Caoerera, Minister of Finance, and will begin its work in Mexico City May 1. MRS, VILLA QUITS LOS ANTELES Believed to Be on Way to Mexico to Join Husband. LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 5.—Slipning quietly away frum this city with her ‘nfant and near relatives, Mrs. Juan Torres Villa, 19 years old. wife of the bandit chief, Francisco Ville. ts selleved to be on her wey to join her husband in Mexico. “Mrs. Villa left here because of tlireats made against her by Carranza gents * said the owner of the house m which che has been living. ‘‘She will e> to her p-rents’ depleted estates in Chihuahua.” Shortly before her disappearance Mrs. Villa said to a reporter: “My nuspand is a 00d man and a brave one, he fears nething. Some day we will meet again and then we will be happy together." ARMOR PLATE BILL FAVORED iS te 6 House Cummittee Vettes for It. “WASHINGTON, April 6.~The Senate bill for a Government armor plate fac- tory was favorably reported today by the House Naval Committee by a vote of 15 to 6. Britten and Stephens, Republicans, a voted with the ge a: to report the bill favorably. Truck Companies. : Full Equipment Will Make 270 Trucks for Moving 7g Goods Over the Line TERE oe ee ee Feed That Need 84,000 Pounds of Grain Daily. © - Funston his request made a few days ago for four more motor truck compa for work in Mexico. of communication. If four more are Quartermaster’s Department furnished tite will but with even that number the task remain difficult, citficers here. ijt was said at headquarters today that there are in Gen. Pershi force approximately 6000 horses mules, grain for each animal is 10 pounds, while 84,000 pounds of ‘J:ay is sup- pesed to be provided. The seven carloads of supplies me were sent out over the Northweste Railway recently to Mormon me chants at Casas Grandes may tern purchased by the army, it ° saic, but that amount would War Department to Buy Trucks for Mexico. partment today authorized the purchase of 108 more motor trucks and two gase- These will be formed int» companies of 27 cars each, to maintain the gzcatly lengthened lines of communication with Gen. Pershing. ment from Gen. Funston definitely Io- cated Col. Dodd and presumably the Seventh Cavalry on Monday «xt Provi- dencia. The dispatch also indicated that Gen. Pershing had gone far south, v v.ard the fighting front near Gu A message from Gen. Pershing to Gen, Funston, dated April 4, was as fol lows: “Met Col. Dodd yesterday at Provit dencia and got details of fight with Villa bandits on March 29. His ex- ceptional march with the Seventh Cavalry to reach Villa's work done by that command deserved high praise.” a Gen. Funston sent no further de- tails today of the latest engagement of the American troops with a band of the Willa forces near Aguascalien- tes. The order for motor trucks f¢ due to a growing conviction that ¢ Mexican Rallways may be of | supplementary service for the pr at least and that the army will have to rely principally on the over motor line from Columbus. The Mexico Northwestern Ratiway *) its present condition is running only train a week and lack of renay stock is another factor. With tracks torn up and many bridges € road materially serviceable may too long. Meanwhile, however, State Department is continuing its gotiations with Gen. Carranza to se use of the rallways. The offer of the Aero Club of Amerten to sell two aeroplanes to the Govern« ment for $1 has beea declined. The new. planes made its acceptance poems: sary. : Senator Fall, Mexico telegraphed from the today to Senator Gallinger that food situation for the American peditionary force in Mexico was carious and there still was "1 that all means of communicatl with the American forces far in interior would be cut off. Senator Fall, who is watching situation for the Senate Republican asked whether he should return, and Senator Gallinger telegraphed him that it would be wise for him to r@s main on the border for a while | ! er. NEGRO CA 0 ta DEFEATED Vi > a . = * Pounds of Hay and 60 ,000 Six companies ee aro in service along the 300 mile = of feeding the army in Mexico will © according to staff ; The average daily ration of been sifficient for onl¥ one day. aa 108 Meter ee WASHINGTON, April 56.—The War De- _ A dispatch today to the War Depart- ‘ out, necessary repairs to make the rail- appropriation of $600,000 for more aero Republican, of New. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., April ae has suggested to the War : jDepartment prompt compliance with 3 have 270 trucks for moving supplies, — 4 line tanks for the Mexican expedition. ee camp and jag ar 2