St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 10, 1916

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Post-Dispatch. 341 656 Combinea 211,196 ' The BIG. RESULT MEDIUM of St. Louis : Three Nearest Nearest Com- Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With Associated Press News Sesates: EDITION. MARKE FINANCIAL VOL. 68, NO. 325. _ST. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 10, 1916-20 PAGES. _ SPORTS SS —— FRENGH A MILE “Al PERONNE, PUSHING AHEAD 3 Paris Reports Rapid Progress — South of ‘the Somme River of — Another Line Trenches Near Barloux Taken. Germans Lose 500 Yards in Champagne Attack—Brit- ish Report Repulse of Attacks and Advance. Foch’s Men Have Taken More Than 10,000 Prison- ers in Drive—Britain Is Raided by Aeroplanes. — PARIS, July 10.~A new attack was launched in the Champagne by the French last night. The War Office an- ncunced the capture of trenches over a front of more than 50 yards. On the Somme front, south of the river, the French took a line of Ger- man positions in the neighborhood of Barloux. In this sector 950 Germans Germans were captured yesterday and last night. The Germans made attacks at three points simultaneously in the Vosges, but all their assaults were checked com. pletely by the fire of French machine guns. The French attack in the Champagne was made at a point west of Mesnil. The French troops charged three times. On the Somme front north of the river the night passed quietly. In the Verdun sector artillery fire con- tinued at Chattancourt, Fleury and La Laufes. British troops have made a new ad- vance northwest of Contalmaison in the field of their offensive north of the Somme, it was officially announced at London this afternoon. Three additional guns and. sev gpmoners were captured. pte | The anndemecisant ows: “In the past 48 hours: useairty se- vere fighting has centered around Trones Wood which is triangular in shape and measures 1400 yards from north to south, with a southern base of 40 yards, and has been strongly defended by the Germans with trenches and wire entanglements. “On the morning of July 8 after a heavy bombardment, we succeeded in capturing the southern end of the wood. Subsequently we extended our position toward the north, and drove back a de- termined counter-attack with heavy loss to the enemy. Many Counter Attacks Made. “Yesterday afternoon, as already re- ported, two more German counter-at- tacks in mass against out positions in the wood were crushed by our. artil- ‘lery. Again last evening the enemy bombarded the wood with all natures of armaments and launched two strong attacks against it from the east and southeast. The first of these was com- pletely repulged. The second succeeded in penetrating the southern end of the wood, but the Germans were at once ejected with heavy loss. Later in the night a fifth desperate attempt was made to drive us from our positions, but this :lso was completely crushed by our fire, “The enemy's casualties in, these five frultiess attacks have been severe. “At other places on the battlefront, progress has been made. Northwest of Contalinaison, we captured a small copse and three more guns, and this morning we have taken several hundred more prisoners. “On the Flanders front, the enemy artillery was active and heavily bom- barded our trenches near Hoege for three hours. ‘In this neighborhood we made three successful raids into the. German front line,” The French hdvanced their line south of the Somme yesterday a mile and « half, capturing the German third post- tions along a length of three and one- half miles, and are now within a mile of Peronne. the capture of Peronne now is a ques- tlon almost of hours. Advance Within Precision, g 25] viet a = tr eS, WED kt a jTrate not present before the beginning French critica believe that } I LL ELL LL LDL LLL TE ONE tts ncretty FAIR SKIES AND WARMER TONIGHT AND TOMORROW THE TEMPERATURES. Humidity at 7 a. m. today, 74. THE GERMANS | WENT UNDER la Official fore- cast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair and warmer to- night and tomor- row. ~ eee tonight and to- morrow; warmer ; in northeast por- tion. Illinois—Fair to- night and tumor- row; warmer in west portion. | tage of the riv- er, 19.1 feet, a fall of .65 of a foot. AMERICAN EMBASSY DENIES GERMAN BABIES LACK MILK Official Report Says Children as a Class Have Improved in Health. WASHINGTON, July © 10.—Statements that children in Germany are starv- ing because of lack of milk and other nutritive foods are characterized as be- ing “without truth” in an official re- port from the American embassy in Berlin, made public by the State De- partment and published in this coun- try by authority of the Gerfhan For- eign Office. Children as a class, says the report, which was compiled by Dr. A. E. Tay- lor of the embassy staff, have present - | ed during the recent months a condi- tion of health and a reduction in death of the war. NEW RESCUE EFFORT NEXT WEEK Shackleton to Start Again for Ele- phant Island to Relieve Men. LONDON, July 10.—A Reuter dispatch from Buenos Aires says that Sir Ernest Shackleton expects to start a week hence for Elephant Island in another attempt to rescue the main body of his} antarctic expedition. He will sail on the schooner Emma. Sir Ernest Shackleton has made two vain attempts to rescue his former comrades, Twenty-two men have been in an ice cave on Elephant Island since April 15. At that time they had only five weeks’ provisions. GERMAN LOSSES 3,012,637 London Figures Compiled From Ber- lin Official Lists. LONDON, July 10.—German casual- ties from the beginning of the war to the end of June, as computed from of- ficial German lists, are given as 3,012,- 637 in an official statement made public here. They include wounded of all classes, many of whom return to serv- ice. The announcement states: “The figures include all German na- tionalities. They do not include naval casualties or casualties of colonial troops. They are not on estimate made by the British authorities, but merely casualties announced in German offi-' cial lists.’’ GOING AWAY? See the Resort and Country Board offers on the first waht “Missourt — Fair} page—especially Sunday. CHILD, 2, DIES F PARALYSIS IN 51. LOUIS COUNTY Infant South of Valley Park Is First in This Locality to Suc- cumb to the Disease. NEW CASE FOUND IN CITY Examination of Children Reach- ing Union Station From East Continues. nt the 2-year-old daugiuter of Edward Burkhart, living two miles south of Valley Park, died at 3:30 this morning from infantile paraly- sis. This is the first death in this vicinity from the malady which has been taking dozens of childrenin New York. The child was first reported to be ill Saturday. Dr. Dalton of Fenton, Mo., who reported the death, said this mosn- ing that there are no new cases in that Marie, | vicinity. A case of infantile paralysis in St. Louis was reported today by Dr. W. W. Simms of 6823 Manchester avenue. The patient, he said, was Charlotte de Salme 2% years old, of 6731 Garner avenue. The first case which developed in St. Louis since the disease became wide- spread in the East was that of the Mc- Lin child, at 3806A Maffitt avenue, which has been isolated. Health Commissioner Starkloff today instructed Police Chief Young at the Washington Avenue and Wabash Del- mar Stations to permit no children to leave trains there. All must go to Union Station. The examination of all children ar- riving at Union Station on trains from the East, which was begun Saturday by the Health Department, is being con- tinued: today. Three physicians, two nurses and four polHcemen are detailed to scrutinize all passengers alightinz from Eastern trains and to take the children under 12 aside for examination. Of 169 exaniined yesterday six had temperature above 100 degrees, which is one of the first symptoms of infantile paralysis. These children had no other symptoms, however. Their names and the addresses to which they went in | St. Louis were recorded and the Health| Department will watch them until it is certain whether they are infected. A new case developed in East St. Louis yesterday, making the fourth in that city. The child is Geneva Clark, 4 years old, whose sisters, Josephine and Virginia, 2% years and 6 months old, respectively, are suffering from the disease. These are the children of Ed- ward Clark, 507 North Twenty-seventh street. There are two other children in the Clark family, a boy 6 years old and a girl 8, and every precaution is being taken to keep them from contracting the disease. Child’s Death Not From Paralysis. Edward Brewer, 2% years old, of 816 Piggot avenue, East St. Louis, who for some time was believed to be suffering from infantile paralysis, died last night An infantile ; aralysis quarantine card Lung on the Brewer house for a week while the physicians were attempting to determine the nature of the il'ness. Later it was decided that the child was Continued on Page 2, Column 5. NOT competition a question of beating all Yesterday (Sunday) for the 484th Consecutive Sunday simply a question of how much. BUT or more than 914 Years POST-DISPATCH alone .... POST-DISPATCH alone POST-DISPATCH alone .... com All competition 16 Cols. POST-DISPATCH: A 100% se Average for the first > = f ; - ’ AE NE TI RR eR gnc J Mae et ME anpentriets t Facet a 34 - ; Le * #2. 4 Sag n. ae Se _ 2B RE RAE RG AE EGOS r Tipe sriancteee SH: xe tet eee pheno’ 4 ies - % Wt Cans A The St. Louis Sunday POST-DISPATCH beat the other St. Louis Sunday papers in volume of business carried— its leadership was even more pronounced than usual, as you may judge by the following figures for July 9 Total Paid Advertising— All competition added...<.........-.08.0.00.. Democrat and Republic combined... . Home Merchants’ Advertising— All competition added, 124 Cols. POST-DISPATCH alone carried 15 Cols. more than al] combined. Foreign Advertising— POST-DISPATCH alone ......................42 Gols. Real Estate and Wants— POST-DISPATCH alone ..................... L17 Gols. POST-DISPATCH alone beat all bompetition combined, Here is the reason for this continual supremacy of the CIRCULATION . 298 Cols. 274 Cols. beat both Globe- ... 24Cols. ree 39 Cols. added, 49 Cols. efficient six months of 1916: IN sc'v a Cadlvh soo ww a's s cess DOO BOE Daily Average. ...-.--.+......~......213,494 ; az ¥ ae: a - ssid Sy Sliiha cs Bisco, Deck House of Giant German Submarine That Crosses the Atlantic to America With a Rich Cargo gt me, re ; Oe dae ee +I Y oy. yy T service with the United States. HIS photograph, which was received from Germany in May, brought the first intimation that Germany was planning a trans-atlantic submarine trade It will be noted: that this Copyright by International Film Service. vessel is flying the German war flag and carries a crew in German naval uniforms, whereas when the ves- gel arrived at Baltimore today it was flying the mer- chant flag and the crew were dressed as méfthant sailors. LACLEDE. READY TO MAKE BI CUT WITS GAS RATE Unit Wants British Thermal System Used Instead of Sperm Test.) The Laclede Gas Light Co. will make a material reduction in its rate to con- sumers within a few weeks if a con- ference held tomorrow between the Light company and city officials is sat- isfactory, it became known today. The company, through its attorney, Charles A. Houts, has recuested that tne British thermal unit system of meas- uring gas efficiency be used, instead of the English sperm test, now in effect. If this agreement is made. the vas com- pany will reduce its rates as follows: The present gas rate is 80 cents a 1090 feet for 10,000 feet or leas; fer all in ex- cess of 10,000 feet, 60 cents a 109 feet. The new rate will be 75 cents a 1:00 feet up to 7000 feet, and only 55 cents a 1100 feet for all over 7000 feet. At the present rate $8 worth of gas has to be consumed before th» 60-cent rate is reached. Uniler the new system only $5.25 worth must be used before being able to use gas at the 55-cert rate. Under the new method the Laclede Gas Light Co. estimates that the sav- ing to the company will be $70,000 a year, and to the consumers, $221,000. Years ago the Laclede Gas Light Co. absorbed the St. Louis Gas Light Co. The latter’s customers were mainly in Scuth St. Louis, and the company made what is known as “wet gas,” because of the high lighting efficiency when burned in open gas jets, then the pre- vailing method, This “wet gas’ was measured for efficienay by the English sperm test, as a city ordinance re- quired. Rather than build new plants, the La- clede Gas Light Co. continued manu- facturing ‘“‘wet gas.'’ Recent estimates made by the company show that only 4 per cent of the gas consumed is used in open jets, and that “dry gas’’ ts per- fectly satisfactory sol heating and man- tels. Attorney Houts for the gas company says that he has seen the agreement permitting the change of tests, and tat it is satisfactory to him. This will be.a “gentlemen's agreement,” as the old or- dinance requiring the sperm test will not be repealed. Should the Laclede Gas Light Co. fall to keep its agreement in regard to the lower gas rates, the city officials can break their agreement, and the old ordinance will stand. COLORADO MOOSE STAND PAT DENVER, Colo., July 10.—Progressives of Colorado at an “open meeting” Satur- day night declined to indorse Charlies E. Hughes for President, decided to continue the State organization. Chairman C. P. Dodge was authorised to call at a later date a State assem- bly, at whieh it is expected State and county tickets will be placed in the i 'who was found guilty by Justice Steck- | REFUL DRIV AT 3o-MILE GLP CALLED REGKLESS Judge Declares Auto’s Speed Must Be Coupled With Cir- cumstances to Make Case. The speed at which an automobile is driven, according to an opinion given today by Judge McElhinney in the Clayton Circuit Court, does not consti- ture careless and reckless driving inde- pendently of the circumstances under which the driving is done. The decision was given in the case against Anderson Gratz of Kirkwood, er, May 18, of careless and reeKless driving and fined $25. Judge McElhin- ney, in affirming the action of the Jus.- tice, says that although Gratz, in driv- ing 3% miles an hour, was not careless, he was guilty, under the circumstances, of driving his car at a speed that was not careful and prudent and which en- dangered the property and life and limb of other persons. The circumstances were that h3 passed a man and woman in a buggy and a boy riding a polo pony and lead- ing other polo ponies. There is no fixed rate of speed, the Judge says in the opinion, beyond which a vehicle may not run. Although, he says, the law provides that running 2% miles:an hour is presumptive evidence of reckless driving, running at less than 2% miles an hour would not be pre- sumptive of careful and prudent driv- ing. What speed is careful and prudent he ho#ds, is a relative matter depend- ing upon the attending circumstances. At the trial of the case Gratz testi- fled that he had the car under control and was driving carefully because he had a timid man with him, and slowed down in passing the man and woman in the buggy and the boy on the polo pony. The Court héld that there was no carelessness in the driving apart from the speed, but that the speed, un- der the circumstances, made Gratz’s driving careless and imprudent. . MAYOR SHOCKED BY THIN GOWNS at They Are Barred Frem Streets Greenville, Misa. GREENVILLE, Miss., July 10.~—When * several young society women stepped between Mayor EF. G. Ham and the sun Sunday afternoon the sight of limbs ex- posed through diaphonous gowns shocked the Mayor and he issued an Collision. KANKAKEE, IDL, July 10.—Wil- Ham Fountain, 12 years old, was killed and Julius Neveau, 14, injured when. the automobile of W. P. Peter- son of Momence crashed into a wagon last night one mile east of Kankak ALLIED EMBASSIES ~ | Dust blinded the driver of the chia, - at. - —— | INSIST ON SURVEY OF DEUTSCHLAND French and English Representa- tives Ask U. S. to Establish Status of German Submarine. WASHINGTON, July 10.—The British and French embassies today officially called the State Department's attention to the arrival of the German super- submarine Deutschland and asked that this Government assure itself of the vessel's character. This will be done, it was announced. by the assignment of naval experts to agsist the Treasury Department. The fact that boarding office the submarine wholly unarmed goes far toward simplifying any question as to her status as a merchant ship tn Ameri- can waters. Officials realize, however, that the French and British em¥assies, while in- terested little in what the Deutschland has brought over, are concerned over the cargo of rubber and nickel she proposes to carry back to Germany, and expect that nothing will be left undosze by Germany’s enemies to pegging or hinder her clearance. Although the fact that the cient, ble is unarmed is of first importance, such factors as the composition of the crew and actual] ownership will have to be established to determine whether the submarine can be classed: as a naval auxiliary. Naval officers, while attracted by the great size of the submarine and her long voyage, the fact that she success- fully ran the allied blockade, attracta them most. Some of them pointed out that a successful means of running @ blockade has been perfected and one of the most potent measures of warfare has become a thing of the past, they say. foun! WOMAN FOUND AFTER 42 YEARS} Disappeared at Age of € When on Visit. ROCK ISLAND, Ill., July 10.—Forty- two years ago, when she was 6 years efit [il tt f 4 : $ i § * H FIRST OF GERM N LINE OF UNDERSEA FREIGHT BOATS AT BALTIMOR Deutschland, 315 Feet Long, Entered : Delaware Bay After 16-Day Trip From Helgoland. BROUGHT DYES, WILL TAKE BACK RUBBER AND NICKEL Traveled Direct Route of 3800 Miles, All but 90 — Miles on Surface—$1,000,000 Cargo’s Value, Carrying Charge $500,000—Captain’s Story of Voyage. “ a BALTIMORE, MD., July 10.—The gigantic German merchant- man submarine Deutschland ended her voyage across the Atlantic at 6:30 this morning ‘when she was docked at the pier of the Réstere Forwarding Co. on the outskirts of altimore. The submarine lett quarantine at 5:30.a. m., after health officers beara and 7) permission to proceed. _ Definite announcement that the Deutschland is the first of re q fleet of such craft built to ply regularly in the transatlantic trade was made today by Capt. Paul Konig, master of the rape marine. i ‘This is not the only one that is coming,’’ said the cz «Just wait. There will be. more here soa, and, we areigoing.t for another cargo. e are weing to hove 6 net ie ‘ ‘peared at the downtown offices of Ap Schumacher & Co., agents of the North German-Llioyd, carrying an armful of papers. It was his first trip that way from the water front. On delivery of his papers to the office of the North German-Lioyd line, Capt. Konig issued a formal statement 4 claring his voyage across’ the Atlantic had broken England’s rule of the seas. At the same time the captain disposed finally of the report that he carried « message from Emperor William to Presi- dent Wilson, saying there was no foun- dation for the story. The statement, typewritten on the sta- tionery of the Deutsche Ozean-Rhederei G. M. B. H., Bremen, after announcing that the Deutschland was the first of several submarines built for the trans- atlantic trade, said that she would be followed by the Bremen. Capt. Konig’s Story of Trip. Capt. Konig’s own story of tht Deutschland’s voyage across the ocean was told to newspaper. corre- spondents soon after he made public his prepared statement, He laughed. at stories of his being chased far off his course by enemy vessels, and de- clared that on the entire trip the ves- sel traveled submerged only about 90 miles. “Why should we go out of our course, except to submerge?’ he asked. “That is the simplest and most effective way to get out of our course. Besides, it is much easier to sub- merge. “We came to Hampton Roads by the straight course from the English Channel. We do not come by way of the Azores. Altogether from Helgo- land to Baltimore we covered 330° miles. . ‘Throughout the entire trip the offi- cers and crew were in excellent health and spirits. Of course, when we were under water for long spells, the air got very stuffy, and there was some in- convenience, but it never was serious. The Deutschland is built to stay under water four consecutive days. We never reached anywhere near our tubmersion limit on this voyage. “The ship is much easter to ride in| then a torpedo boat destroyer, much steadier. Nothing can happen to her, she is go perfectly built, Of course, sh rolls a little at times, but that is no es timated that a 750-ton miscel- Z laneous cargo, the capacity | of the Deutschland, would fill 0 = railroad cars of 14 tons each. Thia [| would make almost two train loads, _ as carried on the average Ameri~ can railroad. Pas ee DT our ship gave out no smoke. We did submerge several times in the ne Sea, staying under sometimes two hours and sometimes less. Every time we came to the surface, if all looked / well, we kept on going. We saw no British battleships In the North Sea, — only cruisers and destroyers, or at <4 least what we took to be British out S ee J the night of the fourth day we sub- — merged and remained ati all night om be bbe StH: : i hardship. “Any nation that can build « ship like the Deutschland can do what we did.” SREgaz at ; -_ T ; a 3. “ a A