St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 10, 1916

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Rm nae . op Kg els ‘ “ as ste. - ty _~ a Fs * : F Fe - ~~ 4 y-. At P . : > ; > - . ‘ ; ; Po eee ee NIGHT EDITION Only Evening Paper in Sti Louis With Associated Press News Service OO ce en ee eee ee ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY EVENING. PRICE ONE CENT | FINANCIAL— MARKETS-—— SPORTS OCTOBER 10, 1916—22 PAGES. Le ee Phone your Want. Call 6600—Olive or Central. “BROOKLYN GETS _ FIRST SCORE IN THIRD INNING Coombs Pitches for Home Team and Mays for Opponents— National Leaguers Fill Bases Wite One Out in First Inning but Fail to Score. SOORE BY INNINGS. 1 a ae 5 8 BOSTON a 38 10 OOD 7: ae BROOKLYN os Big es a | ir ie ae eS ee Ju j Te i JL CHOU? TD EBBETS’ FIELD, BROOKLYN, Oct. 10.—To turn the tide that has been carrying them away from the baseball championship, the Brooklyn Nationals, staggering from two defeats at the’hands of the Boston Americans, made a determined fight today in their first contest on the home field. Coombs and Miller was the bat- tery for Brooklyn and Mays and Thomas for Boston. A defeat for dike (Brooklyn today would practically dispel their championship hopes. As it now stands Brookyn must win four out of the remaining five contests to win the world’s series ‘Keen for the taste of the big baseball event that makes or unmakes a cham; pion, hundreds came out early to the park and sat for hours shivering in the arctic wind that swept the playing field. Scores of spectators, muffled them- selves in sweaters and newspapers to keep out the biting edges of the north wind. The sun shone clear and bright but it was a poor day for a ball game. The players themselves hugged the Warm rooms of the clubhouse until the last moment. FIRST INNING. BOSTON—Hooper drove a foul ball over the t field wall. It was foul by a foot. r flied out to Wheat. stabbed Janvrin’s grounder his jeft hand ‘and threw him out. ten singled past Cutshaw. Hob- tried to reach third bg whe elses caany Stengel to Mowrey. NO RUNS, TWO HITS, NO ERRORS. BROOKLYN—The home folks gave Myers a warm reception, remembering ‘in time to retire the runner. + g r “ Pad ry ae _ ‘4 Pi 4 > ea a x = Pa Sow | Shaw's single to right. him: as the Brooklyn hero of yesterday's an Myers was hit by a pitched ball. Daubert bunted safely, Myers going to second, It was a superb bunt and neither Thomas nor Mays could get it Stengel Sacrificed, Mags to Hoblitzell, Myers going to third and Daubert ‘to second. The Bostons came in on the grass. Wheat was purposely passed, and the bases were filled. Cutshaw forced Myérs, Hoblitzell to Thomas. Daubert went to third and Wheat to second on the play. Mowrey fanned. NO RUNS, ONE HIT, NO ERRORS. : SECOND INNING. . BOSTON—Lewis flied to Myers. Gardner sent a high fly to Cutshaw. Wheat made a circus catch of Scott's long fly, taking the ball in deep left. NO RUNS, NO HITS, NO ERRORS. . BROOKLYN—Soott threw out Olson at first. Miller fanned on three pitched balls. Coombs got a real cheer when he came to the plate. Scott threw out Coombs. NO Kkuw8S, NO HITS, NO BRRORS. THIRD INNING. ~BOSTON—Thomas popped to Cutshaw. Mays couldn't see Coombs’ curves and fanned. Hooper singled through the box. Hooper was out stealing, Miller to Cutshaw. NO RUNS, ONE OHIT, NO ERRORS. * BROOKLYN—Scott threw out Myers Daubert ed to right. Stengel singled to left, Baubert stopping at second. Wheat flied to Lewis. Daubert ‘scored on Cut- Scott threw out ' Mowrey. ONE RUN, THREE HITS, a 1s = mS oa “4 + ee ria thd “ac d : i second. | 2 O ERRORS. FOURTH INNING. 2 BOSTON—Janvrin flied to Stengel. Shorten singled over Mowroy’s head for ga Bi. 7 second hit. Shorten was out steal- Miller to Olson. Hoblitzell flied M NO RUNS, ONE HIT, NO + - BROOKLYN—Olson beat out a bunt. dner threw wildly to first and Olson Miller sacrificed, Mays Janvrin, Olson going to. third. on scored on Coombs’ single past re mn. Myers sacrificed, Mays to soDlitzell. Scott threw out Daubert. ONE RUN, TWO HITS, ONE ERROR. PARLIAMENT CONVENES DON, Oct. 10—The British Par- t assembied today for the autumn There are few matters of im- to come before Parliament Batting Order for Today’s Game at Brooklyn BROOKLYN. BOSTON, Myers cf, Hooper 4 Daubert Ib. Janvrin 2b. Stengel rf, Shorten cf, Wheat If. Hoblitzell 1b. Cutshaw 2b. Lewis If. Mowrey 3b. Gardner 3b. Olson as, Scott ss. Miller c. Thomas c, Coombs p. Mays p. CAPT. JOHN BERRY RETURNS SAFELY FROM BALLOON TRIP Made 3250 Miles in Race From Musko- wee atid Landed Near lowa Line— W. F. Asaman Probably First. Capt. John Berry, 6-year-old aero- naut, who represented the Million Popu- ‘lation Club of St. Louis in the bailloon endurance race from Muskogee, OkK., returned to St. Louis last night and brought. the first information of his whereabouts since the race started Sat- urday. The delay in hearing of his landing gave rise to fears for his safety. He said he released two carrier pigeons which he. supposed would return to ‘Muskogee with his messages of safety. The pigeons evidently were delayed, he said. He landed Sunday in Harrison County, Mo., 30 miles from the Iowa line, having covered about 350 miles. He said he thought first place was won by William F, Assmann:of St. Louis in the balloon St. Louis No. 1, who traveled about 490 miles. The official award has not yet been made. BODY OF STRANGLED GIRL FOUND IN A CELLAR Brooklyn Police Hunt Man Who Pur- chased Candy for 11-Year-Old Girl Last Week. NEW YORK, Oct. 10.—Strangled with her own book strap after having been attacked, Tillie Brown, an ll-year-old schoolgirl, was found dead today in the cellar of a Monroe street tenement on the lower East Side. The girl had been missing since yes- terday, when she failed to return home from school. The only clew the police have was furnished by an uncle of the girl. He reported that last Thursday he saw a strange man purchase candy for the girl near the school. The police say they have a good description of the stranger. WHY HUGHES HAS NOT VOTED Followed Custom of Supreme Court Justices Who Regard Themselves as Out of Politics. NEW YORK, Oct. 10.—Charies BE. Hughes registered for the November election here yesterday. He was the first voter to do so in the laundry shop which has been the voting place ever since he was Governor of New York. In explanation of the nominee's fail- wre to vote during the last six years, a@ statement was issued at Republican headquarters that Mr. Hughes found it was the general custom of the Justices }of-the Supreme Court, “who hold life positions and are wholly out of politics to abstain from voting.”” Mr. Hughes in registering gave his occupation as 2 lawyer. St. Louis had a visitation yesterday of diurnal rhopalocerous lepidopterous insects with knobbéd antenae, better known as butterflies. Thousands flit- ted about the skyscrapers and circied veined, with white spotted bor- » Their visit ‘was credited to che: - them into the city - ae ye a SRE Oe Paw 3 tobe ee ; 2 > t 2 Ra Wika’ et he load ; * Mia! F~ Pe not ae $ | German Submarine Raider as She Entered Newport Harbor Saturday | THE U-53. GERARD TOREPORT ON GROWING MENACE OF RENEWED U-BOAT WA Opposition to Indiscriminate Under- sea Camraign Said to Be Break- ing Down in Germany. ENVOY HAS NO MESSAGE FROM BERLIN FOR PEACE Copyright-by Underwood & Underwood. Post-Dispatch Correspondent Two Months in Germany Who Returns on Ship With Am- ' bagsador, Found Situation Serious for This Country. THIRD GAME OF WORLD'S SERIES AT BROOKLYN TODAY Coombs "tikely to Pitch for the Home Team and Lecoc~-~d for Boston. NEW YORK, Oct. 10.—The weather for the third game of the worlds series-is clear and cool. The ticket holders for the games to be played on the Flatbush diamond— there were more than 20,000 of them before the rush to the grounds start- the playing field. Manager Wilbert Robinson of the Brooklyns as usual gave no -hint of his pitching selection, but “Iron Man” Jack Coombs was looked upon as his probable choice. with Marquard in a comebaék effort aS’a possibility. Leon- ard seemed likely to be Boston's se- lection. ONE OPERATOR SENDS STORY OVER 18,000 MILES OF WIRE Associated Press Achieves Unprece- dented Feat in News Transmis- sion in World Series Game. NEW YORK, Oct. 10.—An unprecedent- ed feat in the telegraphic transmission of news was accomplished by the traffic department of the Associated Press yes- terday, when one operator sitting in the stand at Braves Field in Boston was en- abled to flash over 18,000 miles of lease’ wire the story of how the Boston Amer- icans beat the Brooklyn Nationals in the second game of the world’s baseball se- rieg. Taking dictation from the Associated Press representatives who were cover- ing the game, this operator, J. A. Bates, through the telegraphic connections ar- ranged for the service, was able to send the story to 300 Associated Press offices and newspapers In the United States, tick for tick, into each office si- fmultaneously—as far west as San Fran- cisco, as far north as Duluth and as far south as New Orleans. Heretofore in reporting world’s series; the news has been relayed at Chicago and other pdints.* 11 TOMATOES AND 11 POTATOES MADE TO GROW ON ONE PLANT Freak of Grafting Is Successfully Ac- complished at the Pennsylvania State College. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Oct. 10:— Eleven fully matured tomatoes and as many pdtatoes growing on a single plant In the vegetable gardens of the Penn- syivania State College marks the ad- vent of the newest of freak ;plants ir the vegetable world. : The experiment was conceived and earried to completion by.C. E. Myers, professor of experimental vegetabie growing at the college... A potato was planted andl on the stalk produced there was grafted a young tomato shoot. Tomato -blossoms appeared, and thes. developed into normal tomatoes. Un- derground at the same time the pota- toes grew and throve. SUBMARINE’S CREW RESCUED Five of Six Men Aboard at Time of Collision Feund Alive, COPENHAGEN, Oct. 10.~—The Danish submarine Dewkkereéen, which sank yes- terday after a collision with a Norwe- gian steamer, ha« been. brought to the surface. Five of the six members:of the crew who avent down with the craft, were res- cued alive. Lieutenant-Commander Christiansen was found dead in the con- SCRUBWOMEN IN TREASURE HUNT Dealer Loses $1640 ih Money and 825,- 000 Werth of Diamonds. CHICAGO, Oct. 10,—Scrubwomen and janitors were searching every nook and eranny of a downtown building today for a wallet containing $1640 and diamonds valued at $25,000, which Max Bioom, a diamond merchant, told the police he’ at, there so. sd A reward ‘of $2000 was offered. s . AO aah eae ae aoe Aaa Ss ee | ie aR. i ‘+ Bx ‘1 a ae é ed—were not overimpatient to get to’ IS. REFUSES 10 BAR SUBMARINES FROM {TS PORTS Request Had Been Made by En- tente Allies and Directed to All Neutral Nations, WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—The United States has refused to accept the con- tention of the entente allies urging that neutrais deny the use of their harbors to all submarines, whether merchant- men or warships. Counsellor Polk of the State Department announced today. The memorandum recently sent by the entente allies to neutral Governments said: “Any place which provides a subma- rine warship far from its base with an opportunity for rest and replenishment of its supplies, thereby furnishes such addition to its powers that the place becomes in fact, through the advantages which it gives, a base of naval opera- tions. “Any belligerent submarine entering a neutral port should be detained there. “The allied Governments take this op- portunity to point out to the neutral Powers the grave danger !ncurred by neutral submarines in the navigation of regions frequented by belligerent sub- marines.’ Counsellor Polk announced the depart- ment’s position today, but refused to discuss the reasons for it. The Amer- ican reply will not be made public before the return of Secretary Lansing from the summer White House tomorrow or Thursday. The claim of the allies that submarines are outlaws, as the note cabled last night from London shows, brought up the question of whether the American Government may be sued fur damages resulting from theéecall of the German submarine U-33 at Newport be- fore she started on her spectacular raid against commerce, Under the interpre- tation of the allies, the position may be taken that Newport was made the base for operations which officials es- timate already have caused at least $6,000,000 damage to allied shipping and trade. Any attempt to collect damages, how- ever, would probably be most vigorous], “pposed by this Government, which Hdlas that a warship has a right to enter a neutral harbor and that the U-53 in no way attempted to make Newport a base. PRESIDENT TAKES UP U-BOAT FACTS Executive Gives No Intimation That Drastic Action Will Become Necessary. LONG BRANCH, N. J., Oct. 10.—Presj- dent Wilson gave his entire attention today to considering facts collected by the Navy Department regarding Ger- man submarine attacks on merchant- men off the American coast. He had in- tended going to Brooklyn for the third baseball game of the world's series, but changed his plans to devote himself to the foreign affairs of the nation. . The. President this morning went over all the evidence collected so far. There was every indication that the President has received no information necessitat- ing drastic action by the American Gov- ernment. The President has on his program to- day conferences with Secretary Lansing and Jules Jusserand, French Ambéssa- dor to the United States. He took Tunch with W. F. MeCombs, Democratic nom- inee for United States Senator. Lansing hwill nét' come unt late this afternoon and will take dinner with the President ~~Gontinued on Page 2, Colima : 3 Rist ne eee A Se ee. en mere oe oy a sie; ow. >. ‘ ty by a Pe, a “a ae a * Ft = CONTINUED FAIR, TO BE WARMER TOMORROW a. Mine se tedee ..48- 42 12 IT. sameksoncs ce Humidity at 7 a. m. today, 55 per cent. YYE FINISHED IN FIRST DIVISION— noon Official fore- cast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair tonight and to- BREMEN HAS BEEN GIVEN UP AS LOST IN A BALLOON RACE. morrow; warmer, tomorrow. Missourit — Fair tonight and prob- | ably tomorrow; warmer tomorrow, to- tral portions night. Iilinois—Fair and continued cold to- night, with frost: tomorrow fair and warmer. Stage ot the river: 3.7 feet; a fall of .3°of a foot. VILLA BAND SAID TO BE TEN MILES FROM PERSHING'S LINE Mexicans Reported at Galena—An- other Force Believed to Have Occupied Madera. FIELD HEADQUARTERS, AMERI- CAN EXPEDITION, by radio to Colum- bus, N. M., Oct. 9.—A band of Villa fol- lowers is reported at Galeana, within 10 miles of the line of communication be- tween the expedition headquarters and El Valle, the southernmost camp of Gen. Pershing’s troops. Advices received at headquarters last night also state that Julio Acosta, a Villa leader, has occupied Madera, where a valuable lumber plant owned by En- glish Capitalists, is located. Reports that Villa himself, with 1800 men, is at Guerrero are also at hand. . RUSSIANS REPORT SINKING ) TWO GERMAN SUBMARINES Undersea Vessels Had Attacked Wire- less Station on Lapland Coast— (sunfire Kills Several Persons. CHRISTIANIA, Oct. 10.—A Ruselan torpedo boat yesterday sank two German submarines after the submersibles had attacked the Russian wireless station at Sepnavolak on the Murman coast, ac- cording to-information received here to- day from Petrograd. Several persons were killed by the gun- fire of the submarines. The Murman coast, a part of Lapland adjoining Norway. is on the Arctic Ocean and is a part of the Kola penin- sula, JAIL TERM FOR COURT CRITIC LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Oct. 10.—B. Waisst, president of a lumber company at Benton, Ark., yesterday was found guilty of contempt of court and Chief Justice McCulloch of the Arkansas Sy- preme Court sentenced him to serve 1° days in jall and to pay a fine of $350. Faisst was removed from thé court- room by Deputy Sheriffs while he was attempting to deliver a further denun- ciation of the Court and was taken to the Pulaski County Jail to begin serv- ing his sentence. Faisst’s conviction resulted from the publication ina, Benton newspaper of an article in whigh he accused the Su- preme Court Justices of beipg corrupt. Strike at Standard Ol] Piant. BAYONNE, N. J., Oct. 10.—Armed po-. licermen today are guarding the local plant of the Standard Oil Co., where a strike was called which was said to affect more than 3000 men or about half the employes. The strikcrs demandewage increases of from ™ to i -per cent. A. trol'ey car carrying men to work tudar Yr and weet and Geet BY BERLINOWNERS Post - Dispatch Correspondent Learns Craft Sailed for U. S. on. July 40, = Se Rtas | imposed upon the United States. By Leased Wire From the New York KRureau of the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Oct. 10.—Herbert Bayard Swope, staff correspondent of the Post- Dispatch and the World, who arrived today on the Frederick VIII, declared that the underséas merchantman Bre men sailed from Bremen for America with a cargo of dyes and chemicals: on July 10, the day her sister ship. thef Deutsehland, docked at Baltimore. She has since been given wp as lost by her owners, the-Géerman Undersea Navigation Co. ‘ Swope told of dining with Alfred-Loh- mann, director of the Underses. Naviga- tion Co., at Bremen, on Sept. 14. “Lohmann told me,"' said Swope, “‘that the Bremen was expected to be heard from as reaching her destination safe- ly almost at any time, and that he twas certain he would have recived the anxiously awaited word within a day or two. . “She was then long overdu+.' On the sixteenth Lohmann called me 6n the telephone and admitted that the Bre- men had not béen heard from, as ex- pected, and crave fears were en*ertained for her safety. Since then nothing has been heard from thé liner, and that she has been lost or is in the hands ‘f the enemy is virtually adrottted in the em- pire.’’ DRYS BARRED FROM COURT YARD Prohibition Campaigners Campelied to Une Church at Peoria. | PEORIA, IIL, Oct. 10,—After having been refused the use of the courtiuse yard for holding a meeting last night, and going to a church to talk, the Prohi- bition national campaigners left here to- day tu fill engagements at INinols points and in one Missouri city. The drvs were wnable ‘to learn |. the cause of thelr. being refused the yard, as meetings were held in it during the recent primaries by both Bemocrats and Republicans. Petersburg, Ashland, Jacksonville, Mount Sterling and Quincy, Ill., and Hannibal, Mo., are on today’s schedule. , PATIENT. SHOOTS CHICAGO DOCTOR CHICAGO, Oct. #—Dr. J..B. Wein- traub was shot and probably fatally injured in his office today by Arthur. McLaren of Livingston, Montana. In his statement:te the police MelLaren said that Dr. Weintraub operated on him in 190; that the operation was im- properly performed and that as a ré- sult he could neVer marry. “I was sick at that.time,” gaid Me- Laren. “He told me that the opera- tion would* cure me, but it ‘didn’t. I have never been able to stop thinking of what he did." The prisoner said that he Was a dentist. . | Mr. Gerard will report that Germany is nurturing no false hopes or delusions on this point. She does not believe peace is a likelihood or will be a probability for a long tinie, so she is concerning herself with means of war, ignoring the plans for peace. Therefore it is proper to say the diplomat’s visit has to do more with the war and the possibility of our becoming involved than it kas to deal with peace through our agency. It is, of course, true that the Ambas- sador has received a communication) from the Katser and the members of the German Governmen: on the subject of ending the war, but these are all in- definite and formulated in plans lacking any immediacy. Planning New U-Boat Campaign. On the other hand, I am able to state the real purpose of the Ambassador's journey is to present to the administra- tion in concrete what every intelligent visitor to Germany recently has been impressed by— the sure and rapid weak- ening. of German opposition to a ‘‘rueck- sichtslose’’ U-boat campaign and the de- liberate preparations being made to re- sume the practices objected to by Amer- ica in the cases of the Lusitania, Arabic and Sussex, to mention only three of the most prominent instances. Those few German statesmen who helped the ambassador in his effort to have the President's restriction on sub- marine warfare accepted by Germany ere now casting about for some means of permitting the resumption of the {n- terdicted method, but at the same time changing !t in some way to come within the limits laid down by the United States. They confess themselves unabie tu discover such plans, and they have been made to understand that no sub- ae will be permitted by Washing- ton. In the Ambassador's opinion it would be doing Germany a great injustice to gay she is ready to sue for peace, as such thoughts are far from the German mind. She is ready, even anxious, for “honorable peace," but her ideas on that point are so far removed from those of the allies that it is proper to conclude she is not permitting peace thoughts to enter her present calculation. m “Durchaiten” (go through with it) fs her motto, and included in the word is her intention of employing the most ruthless forms of warfare, which she justifies on the ground that her very existetice as a nation is threatened. For two months I have been in close COW " ) h with the situation in Germany, A FAILURE IN FIRE ROLE} 10v- mation ts Germany. fand was fortunate CHICAGO, Oct. 1.-A cow playing the; opened to me, in many cases, the same role of the caw {that kicked over the] sources of information on which Mr. lantern in Mrs, O'Leary's barn fm 1871) thus starting the great Chicago fire, de- clined jas! night to put her hoofs any- where near the it. Firemen, therefore. were obifzed Habt the @traw in the reproduction of the scene on the lake front, The oce.- sion was the oglebration of the anntver menace In our relations with Germany is today 60 obvious that its existence Was attacked with ston hut no oat; was sgerlousiy hurt ; 7 ied , * ' eg 8 aoe 2 a” “gd from rary of the Ope tn which § fire. |” it te the belief at the Perlin . P © * a By Herbert Bayard Swope. A Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch and New. York World. (Copyright, .1916, by Press Pub, Co.) (Special Wireless Dispatch to the Post-Dispatch.) ON BOARD S. S.’ FREDERICK VIII, via Siasaconset, Mass., Oct. 9.—The Post-Dispatch can state positively that Ambassador Gerard, who is on board the Frederik VIII arriving in New York tomorrow, carries no message from Germany to President Wilson requesting his good offices to make peace. Such reports are wholly false, and are probably the outgrowth of a stock-jobbing plot having its origin in Copenhagen and being The Ambassador resents the ef- fort to use the President and himself, especially as his visit is fraught with such seriousnes#’that a misconstruction may add to the gravity-of en already delicate situation. Ambassador Gerard is making his first visit to America in three years to report to President Wilson in person on a matter vastly more important to America than the subject of peace, important as that is. He comes to describe the heavy black cloud over German- American relations in the form of the submarine menace, which is growing day by day and which, statesmen agree, wil] break open after election unless the un- expected occurs and peace intervenes.. even the most friendly German th» fact that the extremely rigid German political censorship permits no word to go out of the truth. That is why the story of the Tirpitz manifesto to tho Admiral’s supportera, regarding the necessity of preparing for the {nevitabie conflict between Germany and “Anglo Americanism” burst upon America like a shell from a masked battery. «+ Previous to Ambassador Gerard’s de- parture from Berlin he had a long conference with the Chancellor; Herr Zimmérman, the permanent chief un- dersecretary for foreign affairs, con sidered by many the strongest man of today; He von Jagow, secretary for foreign affairs: Dr. Helfertch, secre- tary of the interior, and Herr Soft, colonial secretary. These men may be sald to have con- stituted the chief suporters of the policy of friendship with America against the coalition of conservatives, Agrarians, National, Liberals and the members of “all the Deutschthum”’ who are fire- eating advocates of the “ruecksichts- lose’"’ methods. Field Marshal von Hin- denburg is reported also ak opposing the plan, but he has never taken a public position on the question and his alie- giance is not counted on. Prepa te Recede. In the face of the opinion and senti- ment that no posible weapon should be left unused, the Government {s pre- paring to recede from the position ae sumed in reply to the Sussex note. Its recession is clearly foreshadowed -—apart from what I was told in prt- vate conversations with Herr Zimmer- man, Herr von Jagow, Count Brock- dorff-Rantzau, Minister to Denmark and a possible successor to Herr von Jagow, and other big men of Germany —by five things: First: The direct intimations given the American Anrbassador. Second: Letters, speeches and protocols of Admiral von Tirpits, of Herr Bassermann, the leader of the powerful National Liberals, and of the leaders of the “Junkerthum.” Third: The immense public ser- timent favoring it. Fourth-A significant Incident i the middle of September, when Count Zeppelin wrote an open letter to the Chancellor, by arrangement, giving Chancellor of standing against the “program of ruthlessness,” 8 point 7 which i the resumgt ie euch that he cannot talk, bul the