St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 17, 1916

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erate, 25g fe ae ao EB Rie santo 830 Want Ad High Water Mark! POST- DISPATCH Want Ads Sunday Twice as many Wants us the Globe-Dem- ocrat, Five times as many 45 the Republic. oI. LOUIS POST-UI 7 Ss ae > Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With Associated Press News Service. a ERY ARE EE I A ER I IES II I NE TS OTT OT SPAICH NIGHT EDITION - eae “VOL. 68. NO. 241. ST. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 1916—20 PAGES. PRICE ONE = FINANCIAL MARKETS SPORTS NOTE TO BERLIN READY: STONE 1S 10 Bt SSULTED| President Summons Senator for a Conference in Con- son nce With His Policy of Keeping Congress in Touch With Foreign Ne- gotiations. Final Word on U-Boat War fare to Go Forward Late Today or Tomorrow — Will Require Prompt Re- ply. Attacks on Neutral Ships Not Carrying Americans to Be Condemned on Grounds of Humanity. WASHINGTON, 1j.—President Wilson late today completed the com- +s Germany on submarine April munication warfare and sen: for Chairman Stone of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for a conference, pr»bably ton‘ght. This action was in line with the President's policy of keeping Cengress informed of the progress of tho negotiations. It was indicated the note probably will go forward to Beriin late today or to- morrow. The document is designed as the final word of the United States on the subject. President Wilson, it was said, has been steadily engaged on the note for two days. He did not go to church yes- terday, but worked practically all day, examining evidence submitted by the State Department. The document, officials said, will press the submarine issue to a decision. It was reiterated that the Sussex case would form only a link in the chain of evidence the United States will present to Germany to show that her promises have not been fulfilled. “Note Positive in Tone.” The document was characterized b/ officials today as being very positive in tone and they believed that only a yrompt acquiescence by Germany in the position taken by the United States can prevent a break in diplomatic rela- tions. Unofficial dispatches from Berlin in- dicating that the German Government is ready to meet the United States more than half way, it was said, will not change the course of the American Gov- ernment, decided on at Friday’s Cabinet meeting. Before the communication to Germany goes forward, the President and Secre- tary Lansing may confer again, but it waa said today that this was not abso- lutely necessary. The President and his Cabinet have agreed on the steps to be taken and the President is now finish. ing the phraseology of the_ proposed communication. He intends to include in ihe indictment of Germany’s sub- marine campaign. attacks on neutral ,exsels not carrying Americans. That will be done on the broad grounds of humanity and for the reason that many of these neutral vessels were going to or from the United States. Reports From Gerard Meager. The State Department today received a ecable from Ambassador Gerard at Berlin which it was said anthorita- tively was devoted entirely to editorial expressions from the German newspa: pers. State Department officials declared the Ambassador had not yet submitted @ report of conversations he was re- rorted in press dispatches last weel to have had with officials of the Foreign &ffice. Additional instructions from the Ger- man Government to Count *on Bern- storff, the German Ambassador. were awaited at the German embassy carlv today. Unofficial advices said that such instructions had been sent from Ber- lin, > BERLIN WORRIED OVER TUBANTIA By KARL H. VON WIEGAND. A Staff Correspondent of the Post- Dispatch and the New York World. BRI i ht, 1916, by Press Pub. Co.) , April 17.—Although the ver- ions ry Londen correspondénts in New York and Washington, as reprinted hera, show the American-German situation in nuything but a rosy light. no nervous- mess is observable on the part of the Governinent here. lor the last two days the Gernan tress has been featuring the anti-Ger tan utterances of American tnewspa- pers, und dispatches from London ya- pers which tend to indicate that the crisis again has become acutve.. Governmental circles express vonfi- dence that President Wilson will nn: al- low himself to be rushed into any prec!)p- itate action, and that the situation will not come to that extreme Where a break ‘in relations will be inevitable. It fy us- serted that Germany’s answer again has ahown willingness to do everything with. tw the Government's power to meet America’s wishes. At present the unsolved Tubantia in- cident continues tv annoy Government officials tar more than the American gituation. The greater part of the peo- ple of Holland distrust the declaration i yd see German Admiralty and believe the INCREASING CLOUDINESS WITH SHOWERS LIKELY TOMORROW THE TEMPER ATURES. Official fore~ cast for St. Louis and vicinity: In- creasing cloudi- ness tonight and tomorrow, prob- ably with sho.-*- ers tomorow: not much change in temperature. Now IS THE TIME TO PLANT SPRING BANDITS Missouri—Iin- creasing cloudi- ness, probably with showers, to- morrow, and _ in west portion to- night; Warmer in west portion to- night. lilinois—Fair to- night; tomorrow increasing cloudi- ness, becoming un- not much change in ce ttled by night; temperature. ENGLISH FINE, BUT GET UP T00 LATE, SAYS BARON DE CONSTANT French People at Work Hour or ‘lwo Larlier Every Morning, He Declares in London. LONDON, April 17.—Baron d’Estour- nelles de Constant, on departing today for l’rance, with the other French mem- Lers of the Franco-British Interparlia- mentary Committee, who have been vis- iting England for the last week, wave to the Associated Press the following im- pression of his visit: “My conclusion is that Great Britain is great indeed, and Prussian militarism is sure to be punished as it deserves. Victor:: for us is a question of time only. Our children are sure now not to te deprived of their liberties. They will onjoy their peace, not a German truce. Wwngland has still to hasten in the fabrI- cation of shells. She has made great vrogress, but she has to make more ani more. It is here that we want to say more ammunition, more ammunition, more a..munition.’ “The English people are fine and good and brave, but they get up too late. The French people are at work every morning at least one or two hours earlier tuan the English people.’’ WAR RAISES PRICE OF BIBLES NEW YORK, -cpril 1:.—The price of Bibles has increased, and is Wkely to advance still further, because of the ad- vance in the cost of paper, ink, leather and glue, due tu the war. The Methodist Look Concern says its bills for white paper will increase this year $159,000 and tne cost of other ma- terials $20,000. ‘Lhe price of Easter music is less affected because orders were giv- en long in advance. GITY 1S ENJOINED | M ENFORCING SEGREGATION LAWS Judge Dyer Issues gran ie Order Pending U. S. Supreme Court’s Decision in Louisville Case. THINKS ACTS INVALID Would Have Issued Perpetual In- junction if Question Was Not Before Higher Court. A temporary injunction to prohibit the enforcement of the recently evacted ne- was granted United sro segregation ordinances today ty Judge Dyer in the States District Court. In handing dowr his decisicn Judge Dyer said he would have made the injunction perpetual had it not been that the question of the va- lidity of such ordinances is now befor the United Stutes Supreme Court in the case Of similar ordinances enacted in Lwuisville. Ky. When the case, continued from April do, Was Calied this morning, attorneys for both sides asked to have it held in sus- pension pending the decision of the Su- yreme Court in the Louisville case be- cause a decision in that cas¢ would alse serve as a final judgment for the St Louis case The plaintiffs, however, vwanted «a temporary restraining order in th: mneanwnile and this the city would ro: agree to. Judge Dver then ordered the attorness to present their argu- merts, Arguments Take 3'2 Hours. The erguments consumed three and one-half hours. At the conclusion Judge Dyer announced his decision. “The Ccbate on the subject has taken a wide range,” Judge Dyer said. ‘“‘There is vracticallv but one question before tre Ccvrt—the fact of the validity of these ordinances. The Court’s personal opinion shoula have and will have noth. ing te do with determining this question. Judges, iike all others, all try to do what is right and to administer justice. “Tt have lived in this State within ©) miles of this spot 79 vears. My father came from Virginia in 1541. He was u slave owner. Nevertheless I have al- ways tried to be just to all negroes as well as to all whites, and with God's help I will continue to do so. The ne- gro asks only to be given a fair chance One negro complainant in this case is American-born and under the Constitu- Continued on Page *. Column 3. §T ee of Sassead Where American Soldiers Were Attacked; Commander Who Was Slightly Wounded Pitas te aan Photog regh 1 by _ Underwooe_ a Underwood. AUTO SPEED LAW OF CITY IS HELD 10 BE INVALID Conflicts With .»-Mile an Hour State Statutc, Judge Jones Finds in Damazgc Case. The city ordinance limiting of automobiles to eight miles an hou in the business district and 10 miles in the residence districts was held to bh inivalid this morning by Circuit Judge Jones, on the ground that it is in con- flict with the Statutes of the State. The decision was rendered in sus- taining a motion for a new trial in case in which Walton H. Ballman, vears old, had obtained a verdict for $10,000 from the H. A. Lueking Team- ing Co., for injuries he suffered Oct. 1914, when struck by an auto truck at Seventeenth and Mullanph:; streete. Judge Jones said he had some mis- eivings as to the correctness of his view. He did not point out in his dee- sion the conflict between the State iaw and the city ordinance. Alroy 8S. Phillips, attorney for the Lueking company, pointed out to «a Fost-Dispatch reporter that the conflic' was between an ordinance passed by the city in 1999 and a State law passed in 1911. The ordinance, he said, makes u speed in excess of-eight or t0 mile an hour negligence per se, while the State law makes speed in excess of °5 miles an hour negligence per se, but left it to the jury to determine whether there is negligence when the vehicle moves at a less speed than 45 miles. Phillips also held that the State law expressly denies to cities the power ‘to egulate speed of motor vehicles. ihe speci ne was ee ; day, columns. RE ga RR LAREN NE CR MS FE ete EE REO OR rw y oP Ly Pee POST-DISPATCH alone . All other Sunday papers combined............ 182 Cols. ATCH Another New Record 405 Columns Gained 252 Columns Over the comparative week of 191o. Home Merchants’ Advertising— Real Estate and ‘‘Wants’’— The POST-DISPATCH &alone carried While all competition combined totaled only. . Circulation that induces all wise adv ertisers to buy most of their newspaper space in the POST-DISPATCH. Rat SN ase s cic de Sess. ae Average Daily Last Week............223,926 “First in Everything.” Record -Smashing Week On each of 5 separate days of last week, ending Sun- April 16, the POST-DISPATCH established new St. Louis advertising records, beating its own previous high records by many columns. Recapitulation : Tuesday—POST-DISPATCH Wednesday—POST-DISPATCH Thursday—POST-DISPATCH i R: (On Friday 14 columns of Paid Advertising was omitted in order to give its readers full quota of news.) Yesterday (Sunday), April 16, the POST-DISPATCH broke all previous St. Louis Sunday records under normal] conditions, with a grand total of paid advertising of While all Sunday competition carried but 369 columns. This caps the climax of a wonderful week, when the POST-DISPATCH, in 7 days, A new Foreign advertising record was also made on Sunday, when the POST- DISP. ATCH alone, under normal conditions. carried 72 columns of Foreign Display, while the Globe-Democrat and Republic combined carried but 46 The POST-DISPATCH beat ‘em all added to- gether 26 columns. - bite 263 188 Cols. POST-DISPATCH excess over all competition added together .136 Cols. .130 Cols. 160 Cols. _ 141 Cols. CORONER FUSED. 10 LET PHYSICIANS CHLOROFORM BABY Father Newly-Born ‘| ‘ Turns Over ~{ Child Without a Cranium - | to Doctors. A baby body, boy with qa perfectiy formed so deformed physicians termed but with a head {and incomplete | oe that monstro.1ty, was born tuo Mrs, Dan Eller, 22 years old, of ‘38 Wachtel avenue. Luxemburg, Sst Louis County, at 6 o'clock Saturday evening, and lived until] 1 o'clock this morning. It died in the office of Dr. L. C. Obrock, 779 Lemay Ferry road, where it was taken by Dr. Obrock at the father’s request, with permis- sion to do whatever he and other physicians might think best. The mother, who at no time saw the child, was told at her first in- quiry that it had died, although this was not truc at the time. : Because of the unhuman appear- ance of the infant, and the seeming certainty that it could never become anything like a normal human being Dr. Obrock and other physicians dis- cussed the question of chloroform- ing it Saturday night, and Coroner Bopp was called from Kirkwood, to learn whether he would issue a death certificate if this were done. Coroner Entered Objections. Dr. Obrock admitted to a Post-Vispatch reporter today that he had favored the use of chloroform, but Dr. B. F. Tate, while agreeing to the hopelessness of the case, could not bring himself to con- sent to this action, and the Coroner also objected. After a consultation with Dr. Obrock this morning, the Coroner issued a death certificate, which set forth asphyxiation as the cause o! death. This asphyxiation, according to Dr. Obrock, was of an automatic sort, ané was due to lack of organs for breathing and for taking nourishment. The infant, which was seen before its death by a Post-Dispatch reporter, was termed by the physicians an acranium, meaning that it lacked a cranium. Baby Able to Cry. The infant cried in somewhat the man- ner of a normal baby, and it was this fact, Dr. Tate said, which madé him tre- fuse to assent to Dr. Obrock’s sugges- tion of chloroform. Dr. Obrock was asked by the reporter whether an attempt was made to feed the infant. He replied that it could not receive nourishment in any normal man- ner, because of the lack of a palate. He suggested that it be stated that the child ‘‘died while the doctors were try- ing to decide what to do with it.” The case was not one, the physicians said, in which an incubator could have been used, since time was not the ele- ment lacking in the infant's develop- ment. The parents have one child, « normal boy. The body was ordered sent to the of fices uf the St Louis City Bactc¢riologist, where some city and county physicians will be permitted to view it. EXECUTION OF WOMAN SPY IS ADMITTED BY GERMANY Facts Limited to Bare Official Report; Another Woman and Her Two Assistauts Get Prison Terms. THE HAGUE, Holland, April l)..—Ger- man authorities in Belgium have limited information about the trial and the put- ting to death of Mile. Gabrielle Petit vf Molenbeck, Belgium, to the official an- rouncement. The report says she was sentenced to death March 22, after hav- ing confessed that for pay she had or- ganized a spy service on the railroads and that for several months she had given to the allies information about German movements. The official re- port, issued April 3, a@mits the execu- tion took place. Loutse de Bettignies of Lilie was sen- tenced to death March 16 for the same offense, but the sentence Was commuted to life imprisonment at hard labor. Her assistants, Marie Van Houte of Reubalx, France, and Mile. Joys de Sas- ver, were condemned to prison for 1 | years at hard jabar, a ee AD OEE Eile GLO LIN, AE LOE DIN, RU no = ws BPr"s RS pee a le === gr rete FRANK TOMPKINS, USA & Underwood WY PATRONAGE BAll USED BY ROAGK IN HIS CAMPAIGN He Promises to Remember: Jas- per County Liberally if He Should Become Governor. A copy of a letter in which promises of State patronage to Jasper County are made by Cornelius Roach, Secretary of State, and one of the seven candidates for the Democratic nomination for Gov- ernor, has been torwarded to the Post- Dispatch. Here is the fetter: Headquarters Cornelius Roach of Jasper County, Democratic Candi- date for Governor. Mr. J. B. Cole, Joplin, Mo.: Dear Mr. Cole—Having been a resident of Jasper County for nearly ® years, I hope you do not regard me pre- sumptive in assuming vou will be active in behalf of my candidacy for the governorship. I would like to have you write for mealetterortwoto your friends or relatives that may reside in other parts of the State. Please hand the in- closed to each of vour neighbors. When I am Governor, Jasper Coun- tv will come in for a share of State patronagt something like Pike Cour ty has enjoyed, and I'll serve the people as well in the highest office as I have in this. Thanking you for such measure of assistance as you may see proper to give, and with kindest personal re- cards, I am, yours very truly, CORNELIUS ROACH Gov. Major is from Pike Cuunty, and has appointed many of his Pike Coun- ty friends to State offices. Roach, ap- parently, was trying to inspire ‘his friends in Jasper County to work for his nomination in the belief that they might receive appointments from jim {ff he should become Governor. DEFIED JOHN 0., DIES A PAUPER Man Whe Refuscd to Self Saloon Succumbs in Alma House. NEW YORK, April 17.—John Metin, the Sleepy Hollow inn keeper who de- fied John D. Rockefeller for rears, was buried Sunday from the alms house. John Melin years ago owned a corner plot in Sleepy Hollow, opposite the en- trance to the Rockefeller estate. He had conducted a saloon there for years before Rockefeller came to Pocantico Hills, and refused to sell. Rockefeller bought all the property around Mein, he pu: in as tenants Men employed on his estate and issued an order that none should patronize Melin. The result wus that Melin lost his business and ‘iaallv went to the alms house. Rockefeller finally got the property. The Associated Press News Service te received and printed exclusively. by the Post-Dispatch in the St. Loulg even- jing Seid, PERSHING ADVANCING: UR OF VILLA’S. DEATH UNCONFIRMED Report Quoting May Have Grown Out of Correspondent’s Dispatch Rumor. REPLY TO CARRANZA IS OUTLINED AT WASHINGTON Plac2 Is Reported Americans Go to Chihuahua, Where It Is Said Outlaws’ Body Is Beinz Taken After Burial to Have Been Re- vealed by Captured Bandit. By Associated Press. that Francisco Villa’s body had dnarez todry. A dispatch was received by Gen. Ga- vira, commander of the Juarez garrison, from Cusihuirachic at 10:30 o'clock this morning stating that the body of Fran- cisco Villa had not arrived there. “ft still feel reasonably certain that the inessages received Sunday over the Mexican land lines that Villa’s body had been found are correct,’ said Andres Garcia, Mexican Consul here. “We should have some official information about the Villa reports today.”’ Official word from Washington that United States troops would be immedi- ately withdrawn from Mexico if Villa was dead, undoubtedly will result in ex pediting the efforts of the de facto Gov- ernment to asceftain the truth of the reports of the locating of Villa’s body and to make a full and satisfying iden- tification. A number of newspapjer correspond- ents and a few other Americans left here early today for Chihuahua in the hope that the story of the finding of Villa's body was true. The messages telling of Villa's report- ed death in the order in which they were received here yesterday were as follows: The dispatcher of thé Northwestern Ratlroad/ at reported to Gen. Gabriel Gavira, Carranza commander at Juarez, inat he had heard a conversation over the telegraph wires to the effect ‘nz: Villa’s body was in the hands of Carranza troops. Gen. Gavira notified Consul Andres Garcia here, who rushed messages to the telegraph operator at Mader. and Custhuirachic, asking for cun- firmation. The Madera and Cusihuirachic op- erators answered, stating the body was being taken to Chihuakua. The telegraph operator at San An- tonio, 50 miles west of Chihuah'ia, telegraphed Consul Garcia that Vil- la’s body was in possession of Col. Carlos Carranza, nephew of Gen. Carranza, who was taking it in A special train to Chihuahua. In reply to these messages, telegrams were sent to the Carranza Generals in the field and officials in Mexico Clty, Chihuahua and other points. asking con- firmation, but no answers have yet been Mexican Juaces received. Nothing positive has been known of Villa since the battle at Guerrero, at which time reports of his being wounded were accepted by Gen. Pershing and other American officers. If he had con- WASHINGTON, Apri) 17.—Derinite in- formation regarding the fate of Panchu Villa is eagerly awalted by administra- tion officials today. If the bandit chief is dead, as repori- ed in unofficial advices from the border the American troops will be recalled from Mexico at once, according to cf- ficial announcement. Latest developments in the situation were read with keen interest by Con- gressmen, who realize that the death of Vila would end all further diplometic negotiations over Carranza’s proposal tor a withdrawal of the American forces in Mexico. Gen. Obregon forwarded to the Mext- can embassy yesterday the following dispatch: ° “after the incident at Parral, the forces cormmander of the American [asked for a conference with the COLUMBUS, N. M., April 17 oeeweies oe .—It was learned today that Gen. Pershing has asked for more civilian scouts, especially those famii- iar with the district south of Parral. men here to mean that the report of the finding of Villa’s body had not been confirmed and that the advanced cavalry detachments ure pushing forward, possibly into Durango. This was taken by military EL PASO, Tex., April 1/.—Confirmation of Mexican reports been exhumed at San Francisco Lborja and was being brought -o Chihuahua, as still lacking at | How Report That Villa Was Dead May Have Started POSSIBLE explanation of the A rerores from Mexican sources of Villa’s death is found in a dispatch sent out by the Post-Dis- patch correspondent at Gen. Per- shing’s headquarters yesterday. The dispatch, telling of an unconfirmed report reaching headquarters that the bandit leader's body had been found was sent over the Mexican land wires via Madera anu Juarer. It was held in Juarez all day. Gen. Gavira at Juarez, who first gave out the report, said he had heard it through conversations of “operators talking over telegraph wires.”” The Mexico City dispatch- es were based on Gavira’'s, report to the capital The correspondent's dispatch follows: WITH GEN. PERSHING, AT SAN ANTONIO, Chihuahua, Mezx- ico, April 17 fvia Madera and Juarez).—Reports of apparent au- thenticity reached here Sunday that Francisco Villa died one week ago, at San Francisco Borjas, 3% miles south of Cusihuirachic and 30 miles west of Satevo, where Villa was re- ported last alive by American troops. Villa is sald to have died of gangrene. The report says that Col. Carlos Carranza, a nephew of Venustiano Carranga, and Gen. Jose Cavazos are bringing Villa's body to Chihua- hua City for positive identification. The report ig to the effect tha* Villa was shot through the knee at the battle of Guerrero by Carran- zista troops and lack of care caused gangrene to develop. His body was buried. A Villista Colonel, captured by Col) Cavazos, Carranzista con- mander, offered to: show Villa's burtal place if granted his life, and he led the Carranzistas to the chief- tain’s grave. : Gen. Pershing said a few days ago that the death or capture of Villa would end the campaign. tinued South, as was assumed, he must by this time heve reached either To-- reon or Durango City, in which evert some news of his movements would al- tn poritive’, have l.come known. Outline of U. S. Reply to Carranza Finished, Work on It Goes Forward of the city, Jose de la Luz Merrers. ani after it had taken place, the Mayor has informed me of the following: “*I visited Corral Villeas, where the they made a vital mistake in entering the town without advising the author- ities. They state they sent a courter from Zaragoza, but he probably was apprehendéd by the bandits. On that account he did not arrive on time.’ “ — at HLS, MR RRC, MIO cactagmi nae aie oBey write of |