St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 25, 1916

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Map Sick the Rapid Progress of the Great German Drive to Crush Rumanian Resistance ie "4 es FARTHEST ‘XG ROUMANIAN ADVANCE oe 7 SEPT.28 | Hamidity at 7 a. cent. EVICKEY BIRD IS SINGING MSI-LEE, SI-LO”. m. today, S6 per Official fore- cast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair tonight and toe- morrow; colder tonight, with the lowest tempera- ture about 36; slowly rising temperature to- morrow. Missouri — Fair tonight and to Church Asked Ab- | - colder to- Members morrow; co stain : _ ¥ night in east por- Public Functions. temperature _to- morrow in north and west portions Iilinois—Fair to- night and tomor- row; colder to- night; slowly ris- BATTLE OF HERMANNSTADT SEPT.29 ast OCT. 4. | ‘ TRAN SYLVA NT PY hae READY ANY TIME AT Offer Includes Company’s Tracks in St. Louis and in East St. Louis. Tchernavoda Evacuated by Russo-. Rumanians Giving Mackensen All Railroad Lines in Dobrudja. President Kinsey of the Board of Public Service today made public a letter W. S. McChesney JZJr., president of the Terminal Railroad Important developments, in today’s session of the Protestant Episcopal gen- eral convention at Moolah Temple, were the passage, by the House of Deputies, MACKENSEN REACHES FSENT LUNE OcT. 23 x from of a resolution asking members of the church to abstain from intoxicating HMouors at all public functions and social gatherings; the decision of the House of Bishops to reject the proposed short- ening of some of the Ten Command- ments, in their use in the prayer book; and the decision of the bishops to take over the missionary district of Panama, which the Church of England has of- fered to cede to the American church. While the action concerning Panama has not been made public, a Post-Dis- patch reporter learned on good author- ity that the Bishops have voted to authorize Bishop Tuttle, as presiding Bishop, to assume jurisdiction over the missionary district of Panama, as soon as he shall be officially notified, by the Bishop of the Province of the West Indies, of the Church of England, that the latter church is ready to cede the district. The abstinence resolution was intro- duced by the Rev. Gardiner L. Tucker o: Houma, La., and is said to have been aimed particularly at the practice of some eastern dioceses, where wine haa. been served at dinners of churchmen. This resolution, like the one passed yes- terday, favoring legal repression of the liquor traffic, will require the concur- rence of the House of Bishops before it becomes an official utterance of the church. The Tucker resolution sets forth that “the seriquaness and gravity of life at this time calls for sion of clear thinking and personal self- control on the part of every Christian.” It is therefore declared that the con- vention, “sensible of the great evils resulting from intemperance in the use ef alcoholic liquor, appeals to all the people of the church to set the exam- ple of temperance and self-control by refraining from the use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage at all public func- tions and social gatherings.’ It was announced that the House of Bishops had rejected the proposal to shorten the Ten Commandments, in their use in the church litany, as was proposed by the commission on prayer _ book revision. The Bishops also reject- , @4 a proposed addition to the prayer ' for the church militant, because it was considered as a prayer for the dead. It Was not thought best to make prayers _ for the dead compulsory on those using we the prayer book service. but it was eox- plained that. a new collect, or short : . Prayer, which will contain the same _,. thoughts, will be made optional for use _ after the prayer for the church militant, 80 that those wishing to pray for the dead may do sc. ; Other Resolutions Adopted. The House of Deputies adopted, by Unanimous consent, a resolution asking State boards of education to give credit for Bible study in high school courses. A resolution extending fraternal greet- ings to the Church of England in Can- ada was also adopted. The resolution offered by the Amer'- can Defense Society, asking that the _ hurch name a commision to consider ¥ the subject of arousing the people to _ » the spiritual obligations connected with _ * Mational preparedness, was not consid ered, because the time had passed for considering any resolution likely to pro- voke debate. For the same reason, the president of the house, the Rev. Dr. Alexander Mann, refused yesterday aft- en Freaks ce yaa Maey a ag i oa 4 Sy ee + x a “ . a z a a . ee be ; is * va ae: as z ee 5 a wal we R a ae “4 # é i a i dal pee Ry . Mie. 7 hy, “4 ing temperature in west portion tomor- row. Stage of the river: 2:3 feet; a rise of 2 of a foot. SOLDIER AT LAREDO MARRIES GIRL IN MISSOURI BY WIRE Episcopal Pastor in Texas and One at Butler, Mo., Perform Cere- mony for Couple. LAREDO, Tex., Oct. 25.—Private By- ron J. Linhart, B Company, Second Missouri Infantry, stationed here, and Miss Ruby Swartz, in her home town of Butler, Mo., were married last night by telegraph according to the rites of the Episcopal Church. Linhart, accompanied by the Rev. Cc. W. Cook, appeared at the Laredo office of the Western Union Tele- graph Co. at 8 p. m., for the unique ceremony. At the same hour Miss Swartz, accompanied by the Rev. E. M. Talbot and the wife of Capt. Ed- ward 8S. Clark, the bridemaid, ar- rived at the telegraph office in But- ler. The telegraph operators handled messages direct between' the two places embodying the full marrriage ceremony of the Episcopal Church, wherein both bride and bridegroom signified their acceptance of each other as life partners. HENRY FORD PUTS WOMEN _ ON PAY EQUALITY WITH MEN Makes Announcement After Having an “Inspiring Talk” With Presi- dent Wilson. LONG BRANCH, N. J., Oct. 26.—Henry Ford, the automobile manufacturer, an- nounced after a conference with Presi- dent Wilson yesterday that as the result of an “‘ingspiring’’ talk with the Presi- dent two weeks ago he had established the women workers in his plants upon the same pay basis as the men. Ford said: “I had the pleasure to in- form President Wilson that I had estab. lished the women workers of my plant at Detroit and in the branch factories in other cities upon a pay equality with the men workers. I took this step fol- lowing my conference with the President more than two weeks ago, and I did so because of the inspiring talk I had had with Mr. Wilson on the forward move- ment among womankind.”’ PLANS TO USE WOMEN AGENTS TO GET RECRUITS TO ARMY Recruiting Officer Advertises for 12 “Attractive, Intelligent and Industrious” Girls. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 2.—The United States army recruiting office has advertised for women to aid in obtain- ing enlistments for the army. The ad- vertisement inserted by Lieutenant- Colonel John H. Gardner, who is in charge of the recruiting station, calls for ‘12 girls for the United States army.”’ The advertisement specifies that the sirls must be “attractive, intelligent and industrious’ and holds out the in- ducement that here is a chance to “make money and do your country a service,”’ and concludes with the warn- ing that “no triflers need apply.”’ Association in which he says the Ter- minal will voluntarily consent to con- of the Free Bridge system Mill Creek Valley in St. Louis and Valley Junction in East St. Louis. The letter was dated Sept. 22 was addressed to Public Utilities rector Hooke. at any time the city obtains a formal Commission and the Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Commission. A bill providing rur the connection of the Free Bridge and Terminal tracks in St. Louis has been pending in the Board of Aldermen for some time. At a publie hearing Frank Ger- hart and other opponents of the bill ing the Terminal a free franchise to operate over the new bridge. The bill providing for the connection of the Free Bridge and Terminal tracks is one Of three ordinances still pending. One of these provides that the city Shall acquire the St. Louis Transfer Railway along the levee and another that the Terminal shall be permitted to vacate certain streets so as to use tha Ranken tract west of Compton avenur- for switching purposes. All of the bills mention the granting of free bridge track connections as a contingency on which their terms will be carried out by the city. The Terminal’s letter of consent to track connections means that physica) facilities will be provided so that any railroad crossing the free bridge will have access to the Terminal yards on both sides of the river. The letter says nothing as to what compensation will be charged for this privilege. President Kinsey today said that in accordance with railroad usage there will be a charge for the connec- tion facilities. This charge will be fixed cither by the Interstate Commerce Comission or Illinois and Missouri Public Service Commissions. The connection will enable the Ter- minal, as well as any other road to use the Free Bridge. THREATENED RAILROAD STRIKE IN CANADA IS CALLED OFF Conductors and Trainmen on Cana- dian Pacific Had Been Ordered to Quit Tonight. WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Oct. 25.—The threatened strike of conductors anil trainmen of the Canadian Pacific Rail- way, Ordered for tonight, has been called off, it was officially announced here this afternoon, following a confer- ence between representatives of the em- | Ployes and officials of the road. SIX KILLED WHEN CAR HITS AUTO Vehicle Interurban Coach Strikes Near South Bend, Ind. SOUTH BEND, Ind., Oct. 25.—Six per- sons were killed today when an inter- urban car of the Southern Michigan Railway Co. struck an automobile north of South Bend. Only one body has been identified, that of Franklin Brown of Linwood, Ind. -_ rem ener nee ~ mo oy 2 ee tn onan penn percep i a ermoon to permit the introduction of a Pepolution favoring universal] militar y Service, presented by the St. Louis branch of the National Security League. > ° The House of Bishops held a specia) > ~~ «Cfession tn Christ Church Cathedral this % - Morning, to elect missionary bishops for aL ‘ Bquth Dakota and Western Colorado. ' The names of those chosen were with- _ held, pending consideration of them by ‘the deputies in executive session. a f At ll o'clock a joint session of the two ‘7 houses began, with the theme, “The ee and the Nation.” Bishop Jo- a seph M. Francis of Indianapolis pre- _ Bishop Page of Spokane said that the ~ ‘onvention could do little towards the “~~ @olution of social problems by legisila- a>, but that moral advancement must he through the personal work of the Post-Dispatch alone 67 Cols. The above figures would for any other metropolitan a “‘one newspaper town’’ and the Post-Dispatch is the one paper—consequently the Tuesday showing is only ‘*fair to middling’’ compared with the usual Post-Dispatch leadership over the other papers. CIRCULATION First 9 Months, 1916: Evenly. =Balanced The Post-Dispatch just “‘tipped the beam’’ yesterday, when weighed against its 3 nearest competitors combined, in volume of home merchants’ advertising printed: Globe-Democrat, Republic and Times COMBINED 67 Cols. mean a big accomplishment newspaper, but St. Louis 18 Sunday average, 360,193 Daily average, 207,120 ‘First in Everything.”’ nections between its tracks and those in the and Di- McChesney writes that the Terminal will be ready to grant the connections order from the Missouri Public Service ae . ie ew « ! ly, 4 wt e i et Wis 77 ’ Sofia Philippopolis R jmuick succession. fensive in Transylvania. By Oct. UMANIA declared war on Austria Aug 28 and im- mediately began a spectacular invasion of Transyl- vania, capturing Hermannstadt and Kronstadt in Field Marshal von Mackensen was ready to strike back Sept. 4, when he began the invasion of Dobrudja, but it was Sept. 20-before Gen. von Falkenhayn took the of- 14, alleged that it would result in giv- ‘thrown the Rumanians out of Transylvania and by Oct. 20 he was hammering at Red Tower and Predeal passes, ee ee ee eee two days later. Meanwhile, Dobrudja south of stanza, the only Ru hands. In the map, indicate those porti by the German hos Falkenhayn han ready for’the invasion of the little Kiagdom which began Mackensen had At Techernavoda, which fell today, bridge over the Danube between Belgrade and the sea. Rumania is shaded and the black sections taken "penlicieatiy all of the Danube and as far north as Con- manian port, which also is in German is the only ons of its territory already conquered ts. ee ee ee ep ee —-—_ ~ -——_——_ -- CARMODY HAD BEEN THREATENED, WIFE SAYS Testifies at Inquest He Once Left Saloon to Avoid Trouble With Ex-Convict. Mrs. Ann Carmody of 624 North Gar- rison avenue, testifying today at the inquest over her husband, John Car- mody, a pickpocket who was found shot to death at Twenty-third and Olive streets early last Sunday. said there had been a grudge betweon Carmody and Joseph Swisher of 209A North Twenty-first street, an ex-convict, who is held by the police in connection with the killing. Mrs. Carmody told of a shoplifting expedition in which her husband and Swisher engaged. Last June, she said, they told her they were going to the Famous-Barr store to ‘get” a hat apiece. Her husband, she said, “got” the first hat and gave it to Swisher with the understanding that Carmody was to have the second one. While trying to ‘“‘get’’ the second hat Carmody was arrested. He was sent to the work- house for 90 days. Swisher did not visit Carmody while he was in the workhouse. Mrs. Car- mody said she met him in a saloon at Twenty-first and Olive street and re- proached him for this, offering to give him a dime for carfare to the work- house. Swisher, she suid, took this as an insult. Later, when Carmody was re- leased, he also reproached Swisher for not visiting him. Mrs. Carmody testified that about six weeks ago her husband came home one night and told her of having gone into saloon at Twenty-first and Olive He but a etreets and found Swisner there. bought a drink for everybody he had been slighted he said to the bar- tender: “Give me my gun,” according t. Carmody’s account to his wife. Car- mody said he saw the bartender hand a revolver to Swisher and he then left the seloon to avoid trouble. Mrs. Tess Batley, keeper of the room- ing house where the Carmodys livea, testified that Carmody also told her this story and said to her: “That's a fine saloon keeper. After you buy drinks from him he gives a fellow a gun to kiil you with.” A verdict of homicide at the hands of Swisher was returned by the Coro- ner’s jury. 500 AIR RAIDS IN ONE DAY REPORTED ‘BY THE GERMANS ie Agency Says More Than 16 Planes Were Shot Down in Somme Sector. BERLIN, by wireless to Sayville, Oct. %.—German aeroplanes on the Somme front made more than 500 raids on the Anglo-French positions Oct. 22, the Over- seas News Agency reports. There were 99 aerial fights between German air- men -and entente allied flyers on this day, and, according to the news agency, it is stated, with certainty, that in the Somme sector alone more than 16 entente seroplanes were shot down. In addition, several hostile aeroplanes were forced to land behind the Anglo-French lines. The weather on the day men- tioned was bright. Of the aeroplanes shot down on Oct. low directed their machine gun fire on hostile trenches. PRESIDENT WILSON TO SPEAK Swisher, he said. When Swisher found | $11,500,000 for hull and machinery alone, IN CINCINNATI TOMORRCW Reception at Chamber of Commerce, Luncheon at Women’s Club Din- ner With Business Men, ' LONG BRANCH, N. J., Oct. 25.—Pres- ident Wilson left here at noon today for Cincinnati, where he will make three addresses tomorrow. He will reach Cin- cinnati at 11:30 a. m. tomorrow. At Cincinnati the President will go immediately to a hotel and at noon will receive an official, welcome from the Mayor, to which he will reply, and will attend a reception at the Chamber of' Commerce. At 1 o'clock he will attend luncheon at the Women’s City Club and then will take a motor ride through the | city. At 6 o’clock he will take dinner | at the Business Men’s Club and at 8:15 will speak at the Music Hall. He will | leave Cincinnati at 10 p. m., arriving in | Long Branch at 10:45 Friday night. Mrs. Wilson, Secretary Tumulty and = ‘Yr. Cary T. Grayson, the White House | physician, accompany the President. The President's only caller here today | was James B. Regan, a New York hotel | owner, who discussed New York politics with him. $10,000 FOUND HIDDEN IN HOME WHERE WIDOW DIED Pin Cushion on Shelf Contained $2500 and an Iron-Bound Trunk $7500. MOBERLY, Mo., Oct. 2.—While | searching for a will in the home of | Mrs. Johanna Dadell, who dropped dea‘ , here Monday, Frank Holman, Publi: | Administrator, last night found $10,000 hidden. Mrs. Radell was the widow of a baker. When her husband died 10° years ago she continued the business. - It was known she had never deposited , money in any of the banks. Frequent- | ly she paid her bills in gold and silver, | often settling accounts of $200 or $300. In a pin cushion placed on a shelf |; in the store $2500 in silver, gold and bills was found. Under the counter in a small iron-bound trunk $7500 was found tied up in a rag. SOCIALIST CLERGYMAN TELLS WHY HE’LL VOTE FOR WILSON Brooklyn Man Attending Episcopal Convention, Outlines Attitude to New York Newspaper. The Rev. John H. Melish of Brooklyn, Socialist orator and conspicuous mem- | ber of the House of Deputies in the Protestant Episcopal convention at Moo- lah Temple, sent a telegram today to the New York Times, announcing his intention to vote for President Wilson. The Times sent the Rev. Mr. Melisn a telegram asking for an expression of his intention as to the election. In re- plying, he said that he would vote for the re-election of President Wilson be- cause the President ‘has kept us out of a second Boer War in Mexico,” has preserved neutrality and upheld inter- national law, and has inaugurated a financial mb ey which “breaks the strangle hold of consolidated money.’ PRICES FOR MATERIALS FOR NEW WARSHIPS SOARING Bids Run Close te Margin of $3,000,- 000 More Than Allewed for Each Vessel. WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—When bids for new battleships and 2 destroyers— the largest single order ever placed by the navy—were opened today, it was dis- closed that the Government facer the soaring prices of structural materials tn perfecting the navy building program. Although the department had allowed $3,000,000 more for each battleship than it did last year, and placed a limit of the bidding ran within & close margin, t , would be a 24-hour rest, in which time DANIEL JURY PANEL DISMISSAL EXPECTED Court Says Publication of Al-' _leged Suspicion of “Jobbery” Is Serious. Special to the Post-Dispatch. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Oct. &.—Judge Thomas F. Ryan thos morning called into his chamber attorneys for both sides in the McDaniel murder case and conferred with them concerning a news- paper quotation of a statement said to have been made yesterday by Attorney- Ger-eral John T. Barker, who vame here to conduct the prosecution of the Bu- chanan County Prosecutor, who is charged with murdering hic wife. The alleged statement by Barker was to the effect the jury pane: was not fair to the State and had hee jobbed’”’ by McDaniel supporters. The Court said he wanted more time to consider his action in the case and ordered a recess until 2 o’clock this afternoon. “This is a serious matter,” Judge Ryan said,,‘‘and may influence the jury panel now being drawn, so I want to be cer- tain of whether I should proceed with the trial.”’ It. is the general belief that the case will be continued to the November term of court and a new jury panel drawn. Possible influene of the jury by tho newspaper report, and the fact that attention was called to it by E. L. Strop, chief of McDaniel’s counsel, in open court, instead of in private, would be the grounds for a discharge of the jury and continuance of the, case by Judge Ryan. If the trial should proceed at this aft- ernoon’s session, Only seven more ve- nirmen must be qualified. Then there peremptory challenges of veniremen by State and defense would be accepted, before the beginning of th taking of testimony. ] “If the Judge discharges this jury panel,” Attorney Strop said after the conference in the Judge’s chamber, ‘‘I shall demand another one on the in- stant. We want to go to trial immedi- ately.’’ ENTRENCHING TOOLS FOR U. S, ARMY ARRIVE AT BORDER Officers Take Heavy Shipments as Indication of Possible Renewal of Activity in Mexico. COLUMBUS, N. M., Oct. 2%.—Heavy shipments of intrenching tools, picks, shovels, crowbars and sandbags have arrived here. It is said they are for the use of the American expedition in Mex- ico. Officers take the shipments ag indi- cation of a possible renewal of activity in the field. Officers say the tools would not be needed at field headquarters if the troops are to remain there. Recently the bands of the Fifth, Seventh and Thir- teenth Cavalry, left at the border when these regiments went south, were or- dered to rejoin their commands Adobe houses are being built at field headquarters in Mexico, it is reported here and army overcoats are being is- — to the soldiers of the expeditionary orce. of Hughes and Fairbanks with an ad- dress Nov. 4 in St. Louis. PETROGRAD ADMITS RAPID RETREAT NEAR CONSTANZA Biack Sea Position, 12 Miles North of Port, Is Given Up-— Berlin Admits French Made Gains in Surprise Attack on Verdun Front. By Associated Press. tion in Dobrud)ja. The text of the announcement follows: “On the Eastern Transylvanian front there were local engagements. The sit- uation is unchanged. “North of Kimpolung our attack pro- gressed. Vulcan Pass was taken by storm by German and Austro-German troops. ‘In Dobrudja, Field Marshal von Mackensen’s army group is continuing the pursuit of the enemy as planned. ‘'Tchernavoda was captured this morn- ing. No details are yet known. By this the Rumanian and Russian forces oper- ating In Dobrudja have been deprived of their last railroad communications and an exceedingly important success has been gained. “Quiet prevails on front.”’ The conquest of important places in Rumania has come with surprising speed. The capture of Predeal announced yesterday came as a climax to the re- cent forcing of a number of important mountain passes from Transylvania into Rumania so that the central Pow- ers appear to be nearly in a position to swoop down upon the Rumanian plains and attack the heart of the country. Predea! and the passes behind it spel! the loss of Rumania's natural western fortifications formed by the Transylvania mountains. Medjidie, Rashova, Tcher- navoda, denote with Turtukal and Silis- tria the remova) of artificial barriers to access in Rumania across its other nat- vral fortification, the Danube River. the Macedonian The bridge at Tchernavoda is one of the greatest railway bridges in the world. When completéd in 18%, it bound Ostend on the North Sea to Con- stanza on the Black Sea, two ports that at the outbreak of this war were con- nected by a de luxe express train serv- ice three times a week. Together with the approaches and the stone cause- ways across that part of the neighbor- ing marshes and meadows, which are subject to periodical inundations, this great structure is fully 14 miles long. The bridge proper, over the main chan- nel of the river, is a slender fron struc- ture more than 2400 feet long, disposed in five arches. Two mighty abutments on the right and left banks, together with six stone piers and ice breakers, support this section, which is elevated more than 100 feet above the water, thus French by Surprise PARIS, Oct. %.—The Germans made a counter-attack north of Verdun last night in an effort to regain ground won by the French in yesterday's assault. They attempted to recapture the Haud- romont quarries and the Damloup bat- tery. The War Office announces that in both cases they were repulsed. The French gains were maintained. The German officer in comamnd at Fort Dousumont is among the prisoners taken. Verdun, long lost sight of, spran« % ai ta ms sate = ite: Yes i a Me ARGS me SA, ences" “ey BERLIN, Oct. 25, by wireless to Sayville.—In Dobrudja, pur- suit of the Russians and Rumanians continues, the war office an- nounced today. Tchernavoda was captured this morning, depriv- ing the Russians and Rumanians of their last railroad communica- At Tchernavoda is the only bridge across the Danube between Belgrade and the sea. | Vulcan Pass, on the Transylvanian front northeast of the Iron Gate, has been captured by Gen. von Falkenhayn’s army, the War Office also announced. enabling the tallest vessels to pass be- neath it without hindrance. “The bridge cost the Rumanian Gov- ernment nearly. $7,000,000. With its com- pletion Bucharest was brought within « seven hours’ journey of the Black Sea shore. The eastern end of the bridgo is 30 miles in an air line west of Constanza and 90 miles east of Bucharest. The dis- tance by rail between the capital and the port is 147 miles.” Vulcan Pass is one of the important passages through the Transylvanisn Alps between Hungary and Rumania. It is midway between the Iron Gate of the Danube and Rothenthurm Pass, south of Hermannstadt. PETROGRAD SAYS DOBRUDJA TOWN WAS EVACUATED PETROGRAD, Oct. &.—The Ruman- ians and Russians have evacuated the Danube town of Tchernavoda, in Do- prudja, the War Office announced to- day. The statement says Field Marshal von Mackensen’s army is continuing its at- tack al! along the Dobrudja front. The Russo-Rumanian postition at Lake Ta- chaut, near the Black Sea coast, about 12 miles north of Constanza, also has been evacuated. Bucharest Admits oa Retirement Transylvania ¢t. BUCHAREST, Oct. 25.—A further retirement by Rumanian forces on the Transylvanian front is announced by the War Office. The Rumanians near Predeal and Kimpolung, the statement says, were forced to fall back a little. The Rumanian forces in. Dobrudja have retired to the north of Tchernavda. the official statement @lso says, On the Transylvanian front east of the River Alt, the statement says, the Teutonic forces were driven toward the north. In the region of Vulcan Pass in the Transylvanian Alps the Rumantane ceded ground. “In the Uzgul Valley the Rumantans advanced westward, taking more than 100 prisoners. At Oltusz the Teutonic troops were driven beyond the frontier, losing 188 prisoners. | Attack Retake D>uaumont and Capture 3500 Men positions it can readily be attacked. The French artillery preparation was recovered from their surprise over trench after trench, oners in al! lines to the rear. HE if i , _