St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 31, 1916

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The Primary Reason for advertisers’ faith in the Post-Dispatch is Results For more than 914 years, or 487 consecutive § they have concentrated their announcéments in St. Louis’ ‘as they did yesterday when they again overwhelmed all competition. Total Paid Advertising— POST-DISPATCH alone.....................273 Gols. Globe-Democrat and Republic combined. .......273 Cols. POST-DISPATCH equaled both. Home Merchants’ Advertising— POST-DISPATCH alone ..... Globe-Democrat and Republic combined....... .137 Cols. Foreign Advertising— POST-DISPATCH CS ae Globe-Democrat and Republic combined........ . 41 Cols. Real Estate and ‘‘Wants’’— POST-DISPATCH alone ERE S * 066 tee cee ccescee AO Cols. Globe-Democrat and Republic combined........ .95 96 Cols. Post-Dispatch excess over both.............11 Gols. Circulation Average for the first 6 months of 1916: Peet eee eres seers r ene s SO GOS aie nea RE EA cscs Sundays, The score: .seee.. 126 Cols. we ee STRIKERS VOTE TO: Vote Cast Likely to Be Smaller Than Four Years Ago; Registration Lighter. CLOSING RALLIES TONIGHT Lamm to Speak in Maplewood Swanger Talks to 300 in Clayton. TOMORROW’ HOLIDAY IN CITY FOR THE PRIMARY Tomorrow will be a holiday in St. -Louts for the primary election. All saloons are to be kept close: from midnight tonight until. mid- night Tuesday. The Federal] and State courts, city offices, banks and markets will be closed for the. day. The primary election for the nomina- tion of Republican, .Democratic, Social- ist, Socialist Labor and some Progres- sive party candidates will be held througout the State tomorrow. In St. Louis the polls will be opened at 6 a. m., and will close at7p. m., giv- ing the electors 13 hours in which to cast their votes. . The St. Louis vote probably will be censiderably lighter than political lead- ers of the Republican and Democratic parties anticipate. There are only 119,- Fp sree ore 744 names on the registration books, as compared with 137,27 names on the books for the primary election four years ago. One of the reasons why the registra- tion fs so small is that no provision is made by the State primary election law for a registration of voters with- i. a reasonable time before the election. The result is that thousands of voters who have moved recently, or who have become of age since the last registra- ticn, are disqualified for the important primary election tomorrow. This condition has prevailed ever since the law was passed, but the Leg- islature, at the several sessions held since that time, has Gene nothing to hbece Abas to Véte. Some Republican leaders aré expect- ing a vote of 55,000 to 60,000, while Dem- o¢ratic leaders say they expect a vote of 35,000. Election Commissioners estimate that about 80,000 votes will be cast in St. Louis. Of these votes, they exnect 50,000 to go to the Republicans and 30,- 000 to the Democrats. Twenty-six new precincts have been created recently by the Board of Elee- tion Commissioners. There will be iw polling places open tomorrow. Most of the judges and clerks of election were appointed for previous. elections, bu about 500 new judges and clerks have been appointed to fill vacancies. Judge Henry Lamm of Sedalia, candi- date for the Republican nomination ‘or Governor, who spoke in St. Louis, Sat- urday night, will speak at Maplewvoca tonight. Most of the other candidates are out in the State, making a final ap- peal to voters. Fred D. Gardner is in Northwest Missouri, but will start home tonight to be here in the morning tc vote. As soon as he casts his vote he will board a train for the Northwest, to join Mrs. Gardner, who left St. Louis i week ago, after a nervous breakdown. John E. Swanger, Republican candi- date for Governor, appeared unan- nounced at Clayton in the morning and, made a speech to about 300 people from) the courthouse steps. He devoted much of his speech to an explanation of his position on the liquor question, saying that he was opposed to State-wide pro- hibition and was for local option. He will speak tonight in Maplewood, and also in Webster. There has been mo printed matter distributed throught e State during the campaign than in any previous one. All the candidates have conducted a vigorous campaign by mail, and have tried, as far as possible, to reach every voter with their literature. A consider- able part of the mail campaign has been devoted to attacks of various kinds upon candidates. There has seldom been & campaign in which candidates were so persistently and generally attacked by their opponents. Nearly all of the can- didates, unless they had taken an open stand on the liquor question, have been accused of being dry in the country, where the dry sentiment is strong, and wet in the cities, where the wets are in the majority. Many Organizations Active, There are also more organizations participating in the fight than ever be- fore. The Anti-Saloon League, on the one hand, is making the political fight for the drys, and the-German-American Alliance is making it for the wets. The Independent Voters League, an anti- Catholic organization, has flooded the State with its sample ballots. : The I. V. Lh ballots contain an in- dorsement of Cornelius Roach as the Democratic candidate for Governor. The Menace, an anti-Catholic paper pub- lished at Aurora, Mo., condemned the indorsement of Roach, in its last issue, and criticised the I. V. L. for having made it. Roach himself repudiated the I. V. L. indorsemént. The Taxpayers’ League, headed by Henry W. Koik- schneider, a St. Louis brewer, who, al- though he has lived in St. Louis # is | —— PRICE ONE CE ee ae ON em me ee “— Map Showing Hazardous Route eh Dewieddaad Must Take to Open Sea; Her Daring Com Pe bedt tL 3 5° ae : “> x » “eae i > ed é ~~ ott 8 mitts mUnkaie wos g "SOUNDINGS IN FEET AT MEAN 1 leaving Chesapeake. Bay. FROM A. | ERE YESTERDAY Man Succumbs in Hotel—South Side Resident Found Dead in Bed. — = Two deaths from heat prostration, re- ported this morning, followed 16 such fatalities in St. Louis, and 10 in the territory adjacent to St. Louis, yester-: day. The season’s heat record, 99 de- grees by the official reading, was reached at 2 o'clock this afternoon, as it was at 3 p. m. yesterday. This is the twenty-first consecutive day of #-degree teniperature. Patrick J. Stamps, 53 years old, a clerk, who had lived for 17 years in the Ericsson Hotel, 2608 Locust street, was found dead in nis room there tnis morn- ing. The heat is believed to have bec: the cause of death. He was last sean alive Saturday evening. Mike Kelly, 42 years old, a widower was found dead in bed at 6:30 a. m, at his home, 1306 North Twelfth street, by his son, Mike Jr. He nad complained of suffering from the heat during the night. Most of the fatal prostrations in St. Louis yesterday occurred in houses or yards. But those who sought to set away from the city’s heat did not stic- ceed in escaping the danger. William Ayers, 34 years old, of 6271 Reber place, s window dresser in a department store, died at 2:3 p. m. on the excursior steamer Grey Eagle, between Alton and Piasa, Ill. He had been dancing shori- ly before he was stricken, His wire, who was with him on the boat, said he had suffered from heart weakness. Two other excursionists on the Grey Eagle were prostrated by the heat, but were revived on the return trip to St. Louis. They were Mrs. George Perry of 428 Vista avenue and William Catlett of 149 Papin street. Yesterday's Death List. Yesterday's death list in St. Louis, from the heat, including some who were stricken on previous days but lived until yesterday, is as follows: Mrs. Julia Walsh, 33, 508 South Broad- way, found dead in bed at 10:20 p. m. Henry Klasing, 48, *807 McKissock av- enue, laborer; stricken in front yard of home: died in ambulance. Charles Senew, 4, 2001 Chestnut street, chef: died at city hospital. Jerry Delaney, 38, 2027 Divison street, teamster; prostrated Friday; died in city hospital. John Fabian, 6, 726 Chouteau avenue, laborer; prostrated Friday; died in city hospital. Leonard Norden, 30, 3700 South Main street, laborer; died in ambulance. James F. Almony, 720¢ Delmar avenue, William Wolff, %, 217 Carroll street; died in city hospital. Frank Reynolds, 30, carpenter, 29% Olive street; found dead in bed. Michael Delahunt, 87, 252 Easton ave- HE map shows the.narrow channe) which the Ger- man supersubmarine Deutschland must traverse in With periscope sub- merged, the Deutschland must have at least 35 feet of water in which to travel without he, Sad observed. Only depth of water. lied warships are curved line to the ‘Ow "WATER. one channel: out of Chesapeake Bay—and that only one and three-quarters miles wide at one point has that The thrée-mile limit beyond which al- seonas is indteated by the heavy _timore to the » three-mile limit. aht. It is about 160 miles from Bai- Followed by U. S. Destroyers While She Apparently Watches for German Freight Submarines. NORFOLK, Va., July 31.—An allied cruiser moved in close to the three-mile limit of. the Virginia capes at daybreak today, apparently maintaining a close watch for the German submarine mer- chantman Deutschland, now at Balti- more ready to depart for Germany, and for her aister ship, the Bremen, said to be due now in American waters. As soon as the foreign cruiser neared the territorial limits United States torpedo beat destroyers began following her. The Deutschland has obtained clear- ance papers at Baltimore and may sail at any time day or night. Deutschland Is Not Expected to Sail Today. BALTIMORE, Md., July 31.—Be- yond an intimation from one in au- thority at the plier of the Eastern Forwarding Co., where the German merchant submarine Deutschland is berthed, that the submersible would not sail today, nothing could be learned regarding the sailing plans of the underwater boat. PROPOSAL IN SENATE TO DELAY RAILWAY RESTRICTION Amendment Would Held Up for Twe Years Section Restricting Dealings ef Lis.es Having Commen Officials. WASHINGTON, July 31.—Aftef a con- ference between Chairman Overman and President Wilson the Senate Judiciary Committee today considered an amend- ment to. the Clayton anti-trust law to postpone for two years the effectiveness of a section which, after Oct. 15, would restrict dealings between railroads and other corporations having common offi- clals or directors. The plan is to delay putting the section into effect pending Investigation of the entire railroad situation by the recently created Joint Congressionad Committee. The proposed amendment which is ear- nestly desired by the railroads has the support of the President and efforts will be made to pass it during the present session of Congress. REBELS BURN PART OF HANKOW AND LOOT CITY Many Natives Killed Before the Up- 2 PETROGRAD, July 31.—In the of Brody, on the Volhynian and frontier, Russian troops. are nal The statement says: “On the River Stokhod our fighting there went forward. At of the bends in this river in course of our attack we hav® among other prisoners the ¢6 Thirty-first Honved regiment the regimental commander and entire staff. At other places on Stokhod we took 21 officers and rank and file and four machine guns, — “In the direction of Kovelo > Hare fighting continues. “In the Brody area we ti mi.2 + 3. ee ~VGE | BY ALLIES How Teutons Are Resisting Brit- ish Straining in West, Yield- ing Ground in East. By EARL H. VON WIEGAND. A Staff Correspondent of the Post- Dispatch and New York rote om: (Conyright, 1916. by Press P BERLIN July 25, via London, Juty 21. —Slowly but steadily, the screw on the vise in which Germany finds herself is being turned tighter and harder. The entente Powers are straining the lart nerve in the attempt to crush in the Ger- man ramparts east and west. In the west the allies cannot record much progress. In the battle of Somme the biood of today is mingling with the dust an4 ashes of the dead of the past in the ter- rible fighting around Posieres, especial- ly. for the possession of the cemetery. There the long sleep of the dead is ve- ing rudely disturbed by the hail of shells which scatters the bones and dust of the sleepers to the four winds and the soldiers have before them ‘%n impressive picture of what they may soon be. The British with characteristic te- nacity, are throwing themselves again and again againet the stubborn, almost immovable German lines near Posieres and Longueval, while the massed German artillery is turning the portions of woods held by the En- glish, especially the edge of Deivilie, into a hell, and literally pounding ile face off the English advance. And stil the British come on. In the east the Austrians have prac- tically evacuated Brody, Brody is # miles from Lemberg. The left wing of the Austrians has fallen back and taken a position behind the swamps of Hal- durka Creek, while the right wing ex- tended northeasterly and barred the road to Brody. With constant reinforcements, Gen. Sakharoff pressed through Bielawice and Koninsskow with such force, and so pounded with his artillery the Aus- trians and Hungarians in their sand trenches, that after an exhausting day the latter were compelled to fall back when the Russians toward evening pen- etrated their lines. With that the road to Brody was open to the Russians. Brody is an open, unfortified city of 14,000 inhabitants, lying on a low, sandy aE jude escent ated “| ther driving home tween the army of and Gen. von Boe hase has been reco Aces in the renewed activity Letchitsky to the south of the Dniester, The Russians here have begun a new turning movement on Von Bothmer’s right flank to the west and southwest of Tarnopol. “The operations in this sec- tion, which were brought to a halt a fortnight ago by freshets, have been re. newed in the direction of Stanisiau, a division of Cducasian cavairy having rushed the Austrians and captured Ezerzany, 2 miles southeast of Stanis- lau. , At the same time new blows have been delivered on the north extremity of the Lutsk breach just south of the Kovels Sarny railroad at Gulevitehi, and Svid-+ — niki, where the Rovno-Kovel raliway crosses the Stokhod. The latter center has been-the most fiercely contested portion of the Kovel defense. The fact that the Russians have been able to and at Gulevitehi and establish a foot- taken by military experts in Petrograd - to signify a definite weakening of Ger- man opposition and the the circle around hovel. of Viadimir-Volynski and Sokal contin-~ captures of prisoners, totaling - under Von Boehm-Ernolll. The official communication from en, eral headquarters issued yesterday said: “On the Western (Russia) front on the station our detachments have through the enemy first line and tinue to advance. As a result of the fighting here 19 officers and the rear of the enemy; it passed his terles, repulsed an attack made ty FRENCH REPEL 14 a) eed ee COUNTER ATTACKS | , dy x J Gen. Sakharoff's drive in the tirection 4 throw bridges across the tSokhod here .— hold on the west bank of the river, ie — . ues with unabated vigor. His enormous ‘a com +