St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 6, 1916

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5 . * 5 3 1 . cae nt Paper te S. Sr. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, 1916——24 PAGES. “PRICE Za Subst. One Com * — by Wireless to Sayville, Nov. en Rumania, ‘southwest of Predeal, the invading Austro-German forces yes- terday captured Laomu Height, it is an- nouncea officially today. Further pro- ress was made southeast of Rothen- turm Pass. Rumanian attacks in the - region, of the Sturduk Pass were re- ‘pulsed. It was announced yesterday that Rus- bien Warships again had shelled Con- Stanza and Mangalia. ports on the Black Ses held by Field Marsbal Mackensen’s forces, and that some damage had been dine in Constanza, but that the ships se nad Deen driven away by coast artillery oe ‘Transylvania, - offictal réport said: “Front of Archduke Charles of Aus- tria-In Northern Transylvania Russians yesterday's 5 a fo the Tolgyes sector gained local ad- 1 on the south front engagements : were begun yesterday between and the Bodza Pass road still 5 * on. The height or Rosca has deen reconguered. 9 “The successes already obtained by us im the region of Predeal Pass were com- pleted by the storming of .Clabucetul 2 The entire Clabucetul position especially strong and was de- ded tenaciously. Here 647 men, and. 0 rs among whom was one regi- uch. REST SAYS “BUCHAREST, Nov c. Nov. 6—The War Of- > des announced that Rumanian forces in and Garlic! are towns on the miles north: o ‘Hirsova. Gai- northeast of Hirsova. All RRMAN WARSHIP 3 donde Nov. 3 sub- me! af niger m North Sea oe umidity at 7 m. today, 79 per cent. Official fore- cast for St, Louis and vicinity: Fair tonight and to- tomorrow: jsoutherly to west- erly winds. AT 12 LEAT PERSIMMON. Missouri — Fair tonight and to- morrow; cooler to- morrow, and in west and north central portions tonight; fresh ‘southerly to west- érly winds. Illinois Fair tonight and to- morrow; cooler to morrow; fresh southerly to west erly winds. State of the river: 4.1 feet; no change. WOMAN RUNS INTO MAN'S AUTO AND. DELAYS DELMAR TRAFFIC Mrs. Parker Says Accident Would Have Beew Avoided if C. KE. Wight Had Net Slowed Down, “Mrs. George F. Parker of 6059 Clemens avenue, driving west on Delmar boule- vard, ahd Clarence E. Wight of 5136 Delmar, driving east, met at Rosedale avenue about 8:15 o’clock this morning and before Wight cleared the Ro~edale avenue crossing Mrs. Parker, turning scuth, drove her automobile into the side of Wight’s. A wheel of Mrs. Pa- kcr’s machine was broken and Wight’. car was badly smashed. Mrs. Parker said the accident was caused by Wight elackening the speed of his car. If he had continued at undiminished ‘speed, she said, he would hav. cleared the ctossing’ before she turned south. The damaged cars obstructed the east- bound car track and Delmar cars were wrecking crew arrived. WEDDING ON BOARD RAIDER Ceremony on the Prins Eitel Fried- rich, Interned. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 6 —In the’ 288 of the officers and crew of the erer n> Falder, Pring Ettel Friedrich. aeons,” ‘an Miss Hilda 9 Germany, : 1 K _ — Weisel, „A. of The Gremeny Armed the 400 ot in- terruptions and delays dating back to the outbreak of the war, when the cou- ple were about to be married. Instead Lieut. Hespe was ordered to join the crew of the Eitel and took part in the extensive raiding operations against ships of the : allles. ELECTION BET AI 2000 TO | onDs Harvard Man Puts Up Nickel to $100 Popular Vote Will Be Tie. BOSTON, Nov. 6.—Odds of 2000 to 1 were placed at Harvard on an election outcome, and if the fates play. a queer trick tomorrow Milton T. McDonaid, a wealthy gold coast“ denizen, will col. lect $100 for risking a nickel. Sam Sears, senior class songster, is on the long end of the unusual bet. Hughes may win or Wilson may win without affecting the bet, for: McDon- ald has wagered a nickel that the total popular vote in all the states for Hughes will be exactly the same as the total vote for Wilson. Sears with his $100 has bet that there will be no tie. “HONEYMOON HOW” FOR WILSON Ploture in ‘winaew of 1 of Every House in Sullivan Avenue Block. There is a Wilson lithograph in the window of every home on Sullivan av- | enue on the block between Twenty-fifth and Parnell streets. These houses, on the south side of Lat on Steamers Set at 91. FAST, Nov. 6—The death list as a’ ‘of the disaster to the steamers Confiemara, and Retriever Thursday night is now set at 91. Eighty-two per- sons lost thelr lives on the Connemara held up about half an hour until al elected from St. Louie ll TO BE OPEN TOMORROW FROM DAM. 107? N. Voters to Get 6 Tickets and Separate Ballot Containing Proposed Amendments, SALOONS TO BE CLOSED Absentees Can Cast Ballots by Mail; How Tickets May Be Scratched. For tomorrow’s election the polls will be open in the 500 precincts of St. Louis from 6 a. m. until 7 p. m In the 2900 other precincts throughout the State the polls will be open from sunrise to sunset. When the voter goes into the polling place he will be handed a bundle con- taining six ballots—Democratic, Repub- lican, Progressive, Socialist, Prohibition and Sociaiist Labor. In addition he will receive a separate ballot containing the three proposed amendments to the Mis- souri Constitution. If the voter wishes to vote a straight party ticket he will select the ticket of the party of his choice and without mak- ing any marks whatever upon it fold it and hand it to one of the judges. Pen- cils will be provided in all booths for those who wish to scratch their tickets. Every voter has the privilege of scratch- ing the name of any candidate he does not wish to vote for, and to write in the name of the candidate he does wish to vote for. Hew You Can Scratch Ticket. The Post-Dispatch has received many Inquiries as to how a Republican can vote for President Wilson and at the Same time vote for the balance of the Republican candidates. There are two ways this can be done. First, the voter may scratch the names of the eighteen Republican electors. on the Republican ballot and write in the names of the eighteen Democratic electors, which he will find on the Democratic ballot.’ Care should be taken to write in the names of the’ Democratic electors’ in rotation. Second, the voter may use the Demo- poratic ballot, leaving the names of ‘the Wilson electors as they are printed and then ‘scratch ue names of the write in the names of the Republican candidates. Democrats who wish to vote for ‘hughes and at the same time vote. dates, process. Any voter who is away from home to- morrow may vote by mail if he is with- in the State. If a St. Louis voter should happen to be in Kansas City tomorrow he may present himself at any polling place there and vote. He is required to state to the judges and clerks of elec- tion his full name, residence address and ward and precinct in which he lives. If he wishes to vote for Wilson it will be necesary for him to say to the judges and clerks, a wish to vote for the 18 electors on the Democratic ticket,” and then to give the names of the candi- dates for Governor, United States Sena- tor and other State and city officers for whom he wishes to vote. All of the judges of election must write their names on the back of the ballot. Sample ballots have been provided for the guidance af absentee voters. These ballots are not to be used for voting, but merely as a guide for the absentee voter in having his ballot made out :by the judges and clerks of election at the precinct where he is voting. To Elect Entire State Ticket, In addition to voting for President to- morrow, the Missouri ‘voters will elect a United States Senator, Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, State Auditor, State Treasurer, Attor- ney-General, two Judges of the Missouri Supreme Court, and in the eastern dis- trict a Judge of the St. Louis Court of Appeals. Three Congressmen are to be and 16 in the ‘State as a whole. Three State Senators are to be elected in St. Louis. In all the odd numbered sénatorial districts throughout the State Senators are to be elected this year. In the eyen number districts the State Sena tons hold over may do so by reversing this: | for another term. Sixteen representatives in the Missouri Legislature will be elected in St. Louis —three each from the First, Second, Third and Fourth districts, and two Continued on Page 2, Column 5. : 8 * sae * 9 4 4 8 ; 3 » ~~ 5 se 1 ö f g T.. 2 — ‘will be displayed there as well as at the Post-Dispatch’s new " and Olive streets. NO BULLETINS WILL BE SHOWN choice of net only boxes being. reserved, for special guests. Seymour's e If Hughes is elected, the lights will flicker out ‘Post-Dispatch to Give Returns Free , im and to Signal Result All Over 2 City and Its Suburbs ed to “bulletin election returns t of the vote for President all over the city. tomorrow e 3 „eratie state and city candidates and n a trophy for collecting the largest {thé Democratic State ‘ee city cand. — 1 B RUHR KILLS HIMSELF, AUTO “IN FOREST PARK Was Real Estate Man, Lawyer and Candidate for, Office Had Been Ill. A REPUBLICAN ELECTOR Once Offered to Keep but $5000 a Year if Elected Public Administrator. Frank B. Ruhr, 4 years old, of 4002 Palm street, lawyer, real estate dealer and Republican elector ‘for the Tenth Congressional District, shot himself in the mouth with a revolver shortly after noon today while being driven through Forest Park in his automobile. He died on the way to the city hospital. The automobile was passing tlre zoo bird cage when Alonzo Dedman, Ruhr's chauffeur, heard an explosion which, he at first thought was caused by a tire blowing out. Looking around, he saw Ruhr lying in the bottom of the ton- neau. . The frightened chauffeur drove to Delmar boulevard and Taylor avenue before finding a policeman. Ruhr was then still alive, but unconscious. In Ruhr’s pocket was found a sealed letter addressed to his wife. and writ- ten on the letterhead of his real estate office at 1136-Chestnut street. Ruhr Had Been Worried. Business associates of Ruhr said that recently he had been worried over 4 cancer of the mouth which he believed to be incurable. About two weeks 480 he slipped and fell in his garage and @ small bone in his leg was broken. To add to his worries, his wife had been ili for several weeks. Dedman told the police he was not Ruhr's regular chauffeur, but that he was summoned to Ruhr’s home today. Ruhr said he believed a drive in the park would do him good, and engaged Dedman to run the car. Ruhr was active in Catholic church af- fairs and was a member of many church and charitable societies. Several years ago he ue the member of a team which amount of money to be contributed to the Mount St. Rose Hospital tor con- sumptives. Whilé Miss Mildred Glatt, Ruhr’s sten- ographer, was on the way from his of- -fice to his home to break the news, Mrs. Ruhr telephoned to the office and asked if anything had been heard from him. She said he had promised to call her up at noon and had failed to do se When he left home in the morning, she said, he told her intended to stop at a phy- sician’s office. Ruhr was not at his office today, but he made arrangements by which a friend took his place there and attended to Susiness in his absence. Ruhr was Republican candidate for nomination ax Public Administrator in 1912, but was defeated. He was a candi- date for the Republican nomination for Recorder of Deeds in the 1914 primgrien, but was beaten by Charles F. Joy. Wanted Only $5000 a Year. In his campaign | for the public admin- istratorship he Roe 27 cted some attention by announcing blected he would keep only $5000 a year out of the fees of the of- fice and return the remainder into the public treasury. Ruhr on Aug 17 last, while automo- bile riding with his wife ran down and fatally injured Andrew Joers, 11 years old, son of Robert and Eva Joers of 2100 North Thirteenth street. The boy was playing near his home when he ran in front of Ruhr’s machine. Ruhr took the boy to the Mullanphy Hospital, where he died a short time later. A Coroner’s jury exonerated Ruhr. Man Out of Job Ends Life in Forest Clarence H. Dierker, 22 years old, of 4406 Forest Park boulevard, was found dead in Forest Park at 7:30 a. m. to- day, with a revolver beside him. He had shot himself in the mouth. The body was lying near one of the main drives 10 fect east of the shelter pavilion. A card in a purse bore Dier- ker’s name and address and later he was identified by relatives. Dierker for about three years had lived at the home of his aunt, Mrs. P. B. Fenske. It Was said there that he had lost his position as timekeeper for the Goebel Commission Co, about two weeks ago and that recently he had been mel- ancholy. Dierker left home last night: He was the son of J. H. Dierker, proprietor of a bottling plant at Troy, Mo. POLE FALLS WITH LINEMAN James E. 8 2% years old, of 413A Gibson avenue, a lineman for the Union Electric Light and Power Co., was seriously injured at noon today when a ‘pole in front of 1817 North Prairie ave- ing wires, broke off, carrying him » feet to the ground. Both of his arms and several ride were broken and he was injared internally. The police reported that the pole was} partially decayed. — Wan Killed te Overturned Auto, CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Nov. 6. Mrs. Bessie Northrup, 23 years old, of ' — Tenn. was killed etarly this“ orning when an Btomebile in whi She was Jin. wks © * „ DON, Democratic Candidate for as State Auditor. NER, Republican Candidate for the State Senate. JUDGE BEN We Democratic Candidate hurt of criminal Correction ~ for Re- Election, SCRATCH John P. Gordon, Demoeratie. candidate for re-election as State Auditor. H* official record (published in full in the Post- Dispatch of Oct. 29) abounds in evidence of his unfitness for the offiec. He participated with other members of the Major administration in the secret diversion of $300,000 of public school funds to other State purposes for po- litical reasorfs, and restored the sum to the schools only upon order of the Supreme Court. As a member of the State Board of Equalization, he has always refused to vote for equalization of as- gessments as between St. Louis city property and property elsewhere in the State. As a member of the Board of Prison Inspectors, he bought. an automobile for the Warden of the Peni- tentiary and accepted an agent 's discount on a ma- chine he purchased from the same dealers. He has kept has wife and son on his office payroll. He has misrepresented the true condition of the State’s finances by declaring that there are millions of dollars in the treasury, whereas those millions must be used to meet specific obligations, and the State is more than $200,000 behind in its obligations to State institutions for current expenses. SCRATOH Seebert G. Jones, Republidan candidate for a second term as Circuit At- torney. i 18 e in that office in 1908 and 1912 (pub- lished in the Post-Dispatch of Oct. 29) shows that he is unfit for the place. During his term Jones brought an ouster suit against the Light and Development Co., filing im the case a petition prepared by his brother. in law, Jeptha D. Howe, former Republican hee of St. Louis, who received a fee of $2500 from the late James Camp- bell, acting for the real es in the case? the Union Electric Co. His handling of several other cases in which the defendants were clients of bis brother-in-law caused much comment and criticism, Election Tomorrow Dw. „ ** 8 — + has 8 * * e * 2 SCRATCH Frank B. Warner, Republiean candidate for re-election oe e in the 29th Distriet. : H record during eight years in the Legislature (published in the Post- Dispatch of Oct. 29) shows that he is unfit to sit in that body. | He never has been identified with progressive leg- islation. He has voted against bills for direct nomi- nation of United States Senators, to probibit dele- gates to politieal conventions. from receiving free railroad tickets, to regulate public utilities, to pro- hibit lobbying at the State Legislature, to establish a needed municipal court system in St. to ere- ate a State Public Service Commiasion, to call a State constitutional con vention. *® SCRATOH Benjamin F. Clark, Democratic candidate for re-election as Judge of the Court of Criminal Correction. | H's record (published in the Post-Dispatch of Oct. * 29), shows that be is unfit for the office. He acquitted August H. Kuhs, a member of the School Board, of the charge of making a persdnal profit of $11,500 out of the sale of ground to the board for a high school; and 6m the bench made light of the evi- dence proguced by the State. Upon the same testi- mony Circuit Judge Shields later ousted Kuhs from the School Board and caused him to restore the $11,500. / Innumerable complaints of favoritism, and leniency amounting to pg of justice} have been made against Judge Ofairk. ” Polls open from 6 A. M. to 7 F. M. * 4 ‘ heal 7 * * 5 NEW YORK, Nov. 6— presidential election probably. will cided by the votes ot New York, I Ohio, Indiana and New Jersey, N ö votes in the electoral coll 4 parties are claiming those 8 - * Fi, 1 1 4 x Hs JO epee 4 Be 4.79 * . Laying aside the claims of u = managers issued for pubdlicat mitted that President when b. a advantage in Ohio. | ae Tt is conceivable that den * can be elected without New chs that either candidate — d without Ohio's vote. Ir 1 wt have been strenuous battle g publicans have centered att nue, at the top of which he was repair- | 4 Wherever such ! is found to have been dee to — or other wake agningt the ottenders the severeet — ay — which the law prescribes.” — — —