St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 16, 1916

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"vith their own blood. Successful treatment ~— pati sete inoculated N Nex: Sunday’s Post-Dispatch Wicithie inoculated with the Want Ad idea—and benefit by the treatment that presents 10,000 suc- cess offers in the Big Sunday Directory. Only Evening Paper in St Louis With Aenncialed Press News Service. ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 16, 1916—28 PAGES. PRICE ONE CENT EDITION FINANCIAL SPORTS MARKETS PLATFORM Charges Cons iracy xists “Among Limited Few’ SP See 450,000 RAILROAD EMPLOYES 10 GET STRIKE BALLOTS Statements in Wage Deadiock Will Be Mailed to Men Tomorrow. ARBITRATION Board Under Federal Act Would Not Understand Situation, Garretson Says. NEW YORK, June 16.—Ballots for the vote to be taken by the four unions of railway employes on the question of au- thoriizng their officials to call a strike probably will be sent out from the head- quarters of the union officials here by tomorrow night. The question as for- mutated today reads: “Are you prepared to withdraw from the service of your railroad in the ab- Bence of terms agreeable to committee and representatives?’ Immediately upon termination yester- day of the conference of the railway managers and the union men resulting from their failure to agree, the union officials began to draw up a statement of the situation, which will be sent to the Tailway employes together with the bal- lot. As the ballots will go not only to members of the brotherhoods, but also to other railway men, it was estimated to- day that 450,000 of them would be sent out. If the men favor a strike, the union representatives would seek another con- ference With the railway managers be- fore resorting to a strike. Statement of HKailroads, The railroads rejected the men’s de- mands for an eight-hour day and time and a haif for overtime and proposed ~ arbitration or submission of the dispute to the Interstate Commerce - pion. Commis- The railroads’ formal statement paid: ~. approximately pas See Faas toe. Mie S, ha? a aac i iga.f at “The Nationo:! Conference Committee ot the railways have carefully consid- ered your proposal ahd your explanation and their meaning and intended appli- cation. In our judgment no reasons developed during our conferences to justify the extraordinary changes in operating methods and practices and the large expenditure for additional facili- tes which your proposal involved; nor was anything presented to justify your requested radical revision of the estab- lished basis of compensation for men in engines, train and yard service. The present rates and rules are largely the result of recent arbitration awards, and, in our judgment, now provide for the men liberal compensation and favor- able working conditions. Moreover, the best obtainable estimates indicate that tv accept your proposal would increase the cost of operation of the railroads $1),000,000 a year, all of Which must eventually be borne by the public. "Weare confident that you and the men you represent appreciate the re- sponsibility of this committee to three substantial interests: “First—to the employes here involved whose efficient service is acknowledged and with whom the railways have no differences which cannot be considered fairly and decided justly by some impar- tial body; to all other employes of the railways whose material welfare should not suffer because of the preferment of @ny particular group of fellow workers. Second—to the owners of the rail- Ways, who have a right to participate in the earnings of their business on a ~ fair and equitable basis. Third—to the public, who are vitally a interested in the maintenance of an un- ee = interrupted and efficient transporta- > tion service; whose ultimate contro] of - @uctors’ organization, the situation we recognize as funda- mental.” A, B. Garretson, head of the con- on behalf of the by ~ Brotherhoods, made the following reply: © ference Committee “The deciination of the National Con- of our proposition ds noted and accepted as refused, In : to the proposition as to the hethods of se‘itliement, | would say that sncer past deciarations by the Interstate merce Commission that body would Stnsider itself incompetent to act. There i no tendency on our part to make it @ tribunai for the disposal of questions ot Wages. We have always combatted the idea that a Government tribunal | Syduld be empowered to fix wages. "As to arbitration, the attitude of this © has always been favorable to thia | of settlement so long as it was an tried fact, but our experience with Thitration has driven a large. portion Our membership against the attitude F that method of settling a dispute. hie has grown largely out of the in- 4 to get neutral arbitrators with grasp of all the details to settle the Btions. | must have been beitircaniale as ve of the inability of the men who |} been chosen a8 arbitrators to the detatle of the problems and inability to incorporate their rul- eat" OPPOSED MRS. NOLKER IN. TILT WITH LAWYER IN MARLOWE CASE Says He’s “‘‘No Man” Because He Asks Her Sister About Drinks. GIVES HER DEPOSITION Tells of Occurrences Before $1000 Disappeared, Leading to Arrest of “Baby.” Mrs. Pearl Elizabeth Hyman Nolker of the St. Regis Apartments, 4954 Lin- dell boulevard, recently sued for divorce by Robert «. Nolker, wealthy president of the Aero Club of St. Louis, this morn- ingg gave her deposition in the $150,000 suit brought against the Nolkers by Al- bertine (Baby) Marlowe of New York, alleging false arrest. Mrs. Nolker, accompanied by her at- torney, Charles M. Hay, walked smil- ingly into the office of Vital Garesche, in the Boatmen's Bank Building, clad in a white walking skirt, a white and gold sweater coat :.nd a white and gold hat of the sailor type. She said she was sorry she was late. “Why are you late?” ster, the referee, asked. “O—I—I came on a street car, and that takes time, you know,’’ she an- swered with a smile as she settled her- self into the witness chair. The case in question grew out of Mrs. Nolker’s causing the arrest of Miss Marlowe in a New York beauty parlor, March 17, 191; on a charge of stealing $1000 from Mrs,. Nolker’s gold mesh baz. Miss Marlowe, who is 16 years old, was George B. Web- |jtried and acquitted tn New York. “Ian’t I¢ Funny ft” When the depositions began yester- day afternoon Mrs. Nolker brought the bag with her and, turning to a reporter, she struck it an artistic upper-cut with her small fist, and remarked: “This is the cause of it all—isn’t it funny ?’’ Mrs. Mabel Hivman Teasdale, Mrs. Nolker’s sister, testified to occurrences in New York City the night before the money disappeared. Mrs. Teasdale saii that she drove her sister to the Wellinz- ton Hotel so that she might consult a Dr. Cotton in New York about a fever blister on her face. She said her sister Was on he: way to a rehearsal of a grand opera at the time. The physician had a suite with Iimmet Burke, a grand opera singer, and Mrs. Teasdale and her escort left shortly afterward to keep a dinner ergagement. Attorney James A. Tur- ley of New York City, representing the Marlowes, then asked her if she had anything intoxicating to drink. Mrs. Teasdale, who had grown nerv- ous under the examination, half-rose in her chair, clasped her hands, ané began to sob. “No—no—O,— I’m sensitive, I didn't drink,” she cried. “So is Miss Marlowe—sensitive,” marked Turley. Then Mrs. Nolker spoke. Grasp- ing the gold mesh-bag with one hand, she pointed an accusing fore-finger at Turley across the table, and de- nounced him for his method of ques tioning her sister. Thinks He's “Horrid.” “{ think you are perfectly horrid, Mr. Turley,” she snapped. ‘I've got your number, and others will get it. Shame on you for trying to ruin my sister's character by insinuating that she drinks. I don't see how a real man, even if it is his profession, can do such.” “Il don't blame Mr. Turley’’— Mrs Teasdale began, but her sister inter- rupted her. “Well, I do,” the latter cried. “He's no man—that’s one thing I will say without fear of contradiction.” “Your honor,! withdraw the tion,’ Turley said, quietly. Mrs. Nolker was called to the stand, and in an instant her manner changed. Smiling upon the group of men about the table, she remarked: “I'm going to try and hold my tem- per.” She then testified that she had known the Marlowe girl several years, and had tutored her free at one time. She said she never went to cafes nor theaters— orly to the opera. She said that just orce she had taken the Marlowe girl out at night, and that was to chaperone her when she was taken to dinner at the Democratic Club by a man whom Mrs. Mariowe said was connected with the German embassy. “And I found that he. wasn't what he Was supposed to be,’ Mrs... Nolker said slowly, with a cynical smile. “Why, he was simply a Jew lawyer—a New York Jew lawyer.” She then told of Dr. Cotton putting some preparation on her blister and said that in jest she offered him one of her ten $190 bills in payment. She said Dr. Cotton returned the money, locked into her bag and, seeing some jewels, warned her not to carry around too many yvalu- ables. Turley inquired minutely as to how she re- ques- om Page 2 Column 1, | Continued on Page 2, Column 2. _ OLLOWING is the plank in the Democratic platform on Ameri- canism as drafted by the Resolutions Committee and as prac- tically worded by President Wilson: The part that the United States will play in the new day of in- ‘ternational relationships which is now upon us will depend upon our preparation and our character. The Democratic party recognizes the assertion and triumphant demonstration of the indivisibility and co- herent strength of the nation, therefore, as the supreme issue of this day in which the whole world faces the crisis of manifold change, it summons all men of whatever origin or creed who would count them- selves Americans to join in making clear to all the world the unity and consequent power of America. This is an issue of patriotism. To taint it with partisanship would be to defile it. In this day of test America must show itself not a nation of partisans, but a nation of patriots. There is gathered here in America the best of the blood, the industry and the genius of the whole world, the elements of a great race and a magnificent society to be melted into a mighty and splendid nation. Whoever, actuated by the purpose to promote the interest of a foreign Power in disregard of our own country’s welfare or to in- jure this Government in its foreign relations or cripple or destroy its industries at home and whoever, by arousing prejudices of racial, religious or other nature, creates discord and strife among our people loyal to his country. We therefore condemn as subversive of this nation’s unity and integrity, and as destructive of its welfare, the activities and designs of every group or organization, political or otherwise, that has for its object the advancement of the interest of a foreign Power whether such object is promoted by intimidating the Government, a political party or representatives of the people, or which is calculated and tends to divide our people into antagonistic groups, and thus to de- stroy that complete agreement and solidarity of the people and that unity or sentiment and national purpose so essential to the perpetuity of the nation and its free institutions. We condemn all alliances and combinations of individuals in this country, of whatever nationality or descent, who agree and con- spire together for the purpose of embarrassing or weakening our or of improperly influencing or coercing our public representatives in dealing or negotiating with any foreign Power. We charge that such conspiracies among a limited: number exist, and have been instigated for the purpose of advancing the interests of foreign countries to the prejudice and detriment of our country. condemn any political party which, conspirators, surrenders its integrity or modifies its policy. Government, Text of Plank on Americanism so as to obstruct the wholesome process of unification is faithless to the trust which the privileges of citizenship repose in him and dis- We in view of the activity of such — CONTINUED FAIR: LITTLE CHANGE IN TEMPERATURE THE TEMPERATURES. BRYAN WAS THIRSTY, BUT NOT ENOUGH TO DRINK NEAR-BEER Colonel, Obviously Irritated, Waved Boy Away With Opened Bottle and Called fér Water After Speech. After Col. Bryan’s notable oratori- cal efforts before the Democratic con- vention last night, he went to his seat in the press box feeling very thirsty, though he had been taking frequent sips from a water glass on the speaker’s desk. On _ sitting down alongside Mrs. Bryan he shouted to an usher and rubbed his throat to indicate his desire for a drink. The excited usher grabbed the nearest boy drink peddier and told him to “give Mr. Bryan a drink.” The excited boy opened a bottle of a pop- ular brand of near-teer and extended it without a glass to the Commoner, expecting him to drink as the colonels down South take their bourbon and rye. Col. Bryan, obviously shocked and irritated, waved his hands, palms out- ward in protest and this time shouted so that all could hear: “Water! Water!” A glass of aqua pura was forth- coming and the Colonel proved he was thirsty by swallowing the con- tents at a single draft. Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair to- night day; change perature. Missouri — Gen- erally fair tonight and Saturday; not much change in temperature. Tilinois — Partly a cloudy tonight and ii Saturday, proba- bly with showers in north portion; not much change in temperature. Stage of the riv- er: 25.4 feet; a fall of .8 of a foot. FREE BAND CONCERT TONIGHT Fischer’s Band at Hyde Park, 7 to 9:30 o'clock. Municipal Dance Tonight. | At Buder Playground, 7:30 to o’clock. and Satur- not much im tem- The Associated Press News Service is received and printed exclusively by the Post-Dispatch in the St. Louis even- ing field. 9:30 The Pulling Power of the POST-DISPATCH was again demonstrated yesterday, when (without spe- cial effort) it * Broke All St. Louis Records in volume of advertising carried. The previous high rec- ord (for a week day, under normal conditions) was estab- lished by the POST-DISPATCH April 13, 1916, and was 164 Cols. Yesterday’s (Thursday) big 32-page, record-breaker exceeded its previous record by Nine Columns More, or 173 Cols. The St. Louis home merchants contributed largely to this record-breaking issue, when they bought in the POST-DISPATCH Alone 119 Cols. 117 Cols. in its 3 nearest competitors combined. as heenecacbaatememnemeaiinie nel The POST-DISPATCH alone beat the Globe-Democrat, Republic and Times al] added together. Why? As usual, advertisers ‘‘put their best foot foremost’’ and concentrated their store news in the POST-DISPATCH, knowing that it always does more good than all of the others combined. Circulation With a Huge Selling Punch. Average for the First 5 Months of 1916: NN 8S EEO SP ef ee SG emery f) SL “First in Everything.” and only bought CROWDS ARE ABSENT FROM LAST CONVENTION SESSION [Senator Reed Speaks During Wait for Platform --Mexican Plank Heartily Applauded— , Suffrage Demonstration. (By Telegradh.. to the - Post-Dispatch Office.) COLISEUM, June 16. The final session of the Democratic National Convention, scheduled to be- gin at 11 o’clock this morning to hear the report of the Platform Committee and then to adjourn sine die, began at 11:26 o'clock when Permanent Chairman Ollie James rapped for order. At 11 o’clock there weré not more than 2% delegates in the Coliseum and the seats were filling slowly. The first gal- lery rows were filled, but there were no crowds around the doors. Even during the afternoon the galleries held only a sprinkling of delegates. It was a striking contrast to the great crowd which had packed the big hall up to midnight to witness the renomination by acclamation of President Woodrow Wilson and Vice President Thomas R. Marshall. There was an unprecedented incident in the convention this morning when the audience applauded the prayer of- fered by Rabbi Leon Harrison of Temple Israel. Dr. Harrison's prayer was a fervent appeal to the divinity to uphold the hand of the : resident of the United States, who had kept our country out of war and had yet Served the neéds of his country. At its conclusion the delegates cheered the invocation. Old-time attend- ants at Democratic gatherings declared this was the first time this had ever happened at a Democratic national con- vention. Pintform Was Not Read. At 11:39 a. m. Chairman James called for the platform from the Resolutions Committee, but it was not yet ready. Chairman James had been informed before the convention met that the rlatform was practically ready, and the only disagreement’ was on the suffrage plank. Gov. Ferguson of Texas prepared a minority report. recommending that the suffrage ques- tion be referred entirely to the States for settlement. Chairman James after the invocation, announced that the platform would be ready within a few minutes, and while the convention was waiting Senator Reed of Missouri was invited to address the convention. A motion to that ef- fect being made by a Michigan Con- gressman. Senator Reed said that he wished to direct attention to the fact that the Republicans at Chicago did not dare nominate any man for President who had spoken in defense of the Republican party during the last six years. The Republicans, he said, had sought as its candidate a man who had not been responsible for any of its policies, white the Democrats had taken an opposite course, and nominated as ite candidate the man who had directed its policies. Senator Reed made a vigorous attack upon the Republicans for drafting Jus- tice Hurhes as their presidentia! can- didate. declaring their act to be a vio- lation of the traditions of the Bupreme Court. He read a statement issued by Justice Hughes in 1912, in whieh he then de- clared that no Justice of the Supreme Court should be avaliable for politica! office, and that no extraordinary con- dition might arise which would justify a Justice of the Supreme Court in enter- Ing upor a political career. As Senator Reed finished speaking. at 12:25 p. m., Senator Stone of Missouri, chairman of the Committee on Resolu- tions, appeared on the platform. At the same moment William J. Bryan took his seat In the press stand, and there were noisy demonstrations in his behalf and demands for another speech from the Commoner. The clamor was s9 vociferous that Bryan withdrew from the hall. Platform Report Submitted, At 12:27 p. m. Chairman James intro- duced Senator Stone to read the report of the committee. He asked that the convention be in perfect order, so that close attention might be paid to the im- portant declaration of principles of the Democratic party. Senator Stone said that he was not going to read the platform himself, as he had had no sleep during the last 30 hours while he and the mem- bers of the committee were engaged in the arduous work of preparing the party platform. He said that two of his colleagues in the Senate, younger than he, had. volunteered to relieve him of the task of reading the plat- form. These colleagues were Sena- tors Walsh of Montana and Hollis of New Hampshire. Senator Walsh began reading the first section of the plet- form at 12:36 p. m. The first applause given the platform was for the indorsefent of the ad- ministration. The delegates gave close attention. Before Senator Walsh had firished the preamble spectators in the galleries began to leave and the noise made it difficult for delegates to hear. Indorsement of the Underwood tariff act was given general applause. The delegates seemed too wearied to inter- rupt with lengthy applause. The much-discussed plank on Ameri- canism, drawn by President Wilson him- self, was next read. It was interrupted by hand clapping. Its denunciation of conspirators for the advancement of for- eign influence in this country was roundly applauded. The plank was in- tently followed’ Its criticism of dis- loyaity by some Americans was loudly applauded. Excoriation of a political party that should receive such support received similar applause. Declarations for military preparedness were also uniformly applauded. Close attention was given to the plank relat- ing to foreign policies. There was occa- sional scattering applause and cheers. Mexican Plank Applauded. The Latin-American policy plank got some applause, but more greeted the Mexican plank, and frequently inter- rupted its reading, especially the re- affirmation of the Monroe Doctrine. The assertion that American troops should be kept in Mexico unt!l danger of raids subsided was loudly applauded. The assertion that intervention is a “last recourse’ received applause and generous approval was given to the in- dorsement of the President's attempt to prevent intervention. After concluding the Mexican plank. Senator Walsh was ‘spelled,’ as Sen- ator Stone characterized it. in the read- ing of the platform by , Senator Hollis. The reading of the plansk went on ‘to the accompaniment of scatteerd ap- plause, but when the plank declaring for an eight-hour day for Federal em- ployes, civil service, pension, child labor and the general welfare planks were read, there were joud yells of ‘‘Hooray.”’ When the woman suffrage plank was reached the galleries started a demon- stration. Frolonged cheers, applause. CONVENT GUNCLUDING SESSION 10 PASS ON PLANKS Preparedness, Non Partisan Tariff Commission, Continuation of Pres- ent Mexican Policy Is Pro- vided for. SUFFRAGE DECLARATION LIKE THE REPUBLICANS Monroe Doctrine Ieaffirmed, Shipping Bill In- dorsed and Fair Play Is Asked for Business and Labor— Session Called to Order at 11:26. (By Telegraph to the Post-Dispatch Office.) anh CAT a, Cane oe President Wilson’s Americanism plank, which condemns ‘‘¢on- spiracies among a limited number’’ for the purpose of embarrass- ing and weakening the American Government in its foreign re- lations, and which also condemns any political party which sur- renders its integrity or modifies its policy to gain support of such - conspirators, is the most notable feature of the Resolutions Com- mittee’s draft of the Democratic platform, submitted this morning to the convention, in its final session at the Coliseum. The Republican platforn., adopted in Chicago last week, does not contain any plank corresponding to the Demo- cratic plank on Americanism. It prom- ises to protect American citizens, on land and sea, in all the rights given them by treaties and international law, but it says nothing about any internal disloyalty. Moose Have Americanism Pliank. The Progressive platform has an American plank, in much more genera! terms than the Democratic. It calls for “unwavering patriotism and unfalter- ing fidelity to America,” and says that ‘if in this melting pot of a hundred na- tions, the children of any fail to find our common destiny worthy of com- mon devotion and defense, we shall sus- tain irreparable loss of national char- acter.”’ The planks in the platform on Amert- canism, woman suffrage and the tariff were expected to arouse the most com- ment in the convention. The Demo- cratic suffrage plank recunimends ‘the extension of the franchise to the women of the country, by the states, on the same terms as men.” This does not differ essentially from the Republican suffrage plank, which said that the Re. publican party ‘favors the extension of the suffrage to women, but recog- nizes the right of each state to settic this question for itself.”’ However, the Democratic plank is smoother, and is likely to sound better to women voters in the 12 suffrage states. The Progressive platform ex- presses a ‘‘desire’’ that women shall have the ballot, without specifying whether the states or the Federal Gov- ernment shall give it to them. Piatform ina Twe Parts, The Democratic tariff plank is in two parts. The first part, in the pre- amble, is a declaration that the Under- wood tariff is “adequate for revenue under peace conditions, and fair to the consumer and to the producer."” The second part, dealing with the party's future’ tariff policy, reaffirms the party’s belief tn “a tariff for the pur- pose of providing sifficient revenue for the operation of the Government eco- nomically administered.” The plank then save that tariff rates are neces- sarily subject to change to meet chang- ing conditions. and that a nonpartisan Tariff Commission should ascertain the facts on which future changes should be based. ‘ The Republican tariff plink denounces the Underwood tariff as “a complete failure in every reapect, and says it has not reduced the cost of living, and that, but for special conditions created by the war, it would long since have paralyzed American industry. The Republican Piank favors the creation of a Tariff Commission, to compile tariff informa- tion for the use of Congresa. The Procressive platform declares for the pgm — ane for al " Continued om Page 2, Column 1.~ | cratic platform praises the “stubborn resistance” of President Wilson to those who desired “intervention, im- plying, as it does, military subjuga- tion.” The troops sent into Mexico after the Villa raid “must remain,” it ia stated, untill, through the restora- tion of law and order, a repetition of such incursions is improbable. The Republican platform charges that the administration has inter- fered indefensibly in Mexico's internal affairs, and at the same time has not properly protected the rights of American citizens in Mexico, Deliberated 24 Hours. The Resolutions Committee, after hours’ deliberation, finished its draft after 8 o'clock this morning, and authorized Senator Stone, its chairman, to present the decument te the convention. The committee began its final seé- sion at 11 o’clock last night and kept at work continuously until the draft was completed. Few changes wére made in the tentative platform, as drawn by the subcommittee of nine, but the night was spent in discussion of the phraseology of some of the planks, especially those on American. ism, woman suffrage and Mexico. Party leaders expressed belief that approval of the platform would be given by the convention without much discussion. MARSHALL WIRES WILSON, “ AM ALWAYS YOURS TO COMMAND” President Rises Earty, and ts tn @ Happy Frame of Mind. WASHINGTON, June 16.—President — Wilson today received the sitiontiie telegram from Vice President te. shall at Indianapolis: “In the fight which you are to pr: IT am always yours to commanéd* x Mr. Marshall's message was one o hundreds received. The President was in « happy. of mind. He rose early ‘anal read newspaper account of _* nation of which he had been f by Secretary Tumulty just as t retiring at 1 o'clock. é: 4 34 ¥ ry