St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 8, 1916

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"RANGE LOSES BI Stew Stories About Lincoin | Gathered by Walter B. Stevens and new light on old ones from ‘‘A Re- porter’s Lincoln’’—in more than 5000 home offers. Next Sunday’s Post-Dispatch In the Big Sunday Real Estate and Want Directory Buy her a home, Only Evenng Paper in St Louis With Associated Press a ss f aie 3 . " te gi - ts eat oy ee Oe ee a ~a n may ee ae 5 Sa aa ot hate te orn pete eae oo Byler pe rat, ead? et apes sk ; Pe ee ae Re ee fi SE a One ee i ee ee he ea ee ae eee se eS ee Cee a 0 oie te Se RR ea i Mme as mk ies a Ne Se ee, oe eae, is ea ac » F of care > . 2 1h 1 4 sy edt y / tM) Ae east 4 ce ig i eh eas * os 4 ‘ a “= he PS total hi Ct, Ne Pa Ci om ot % i 5 oe ont DS ie ay ow” Sn * ’ Me C A eines age es Se ie { Mes RS i m . wM dali Pai " ons, Kine va —* a 5 4 Yeas we 2 ; Rea Oy : , 5 eta. ¥ ‘ : i Y ‘ ie ; ss x 44 tage ™ . - “ * me - ~ > k > j % eZ 4 ; ~~ . y ? | i . News Service VOL. 69. NO. 111. ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1916—24 PAGES. PRICE } St. Louis and Suburbs, One Cent Elsewhere, Two Cents A om —-—""_" 7 BATTLESHIP WITH ~REW OF 730 MEN A, On Bae Orang | Suffren, 12,750 Tons, Left Port Nov. 24, and’ Hasn’t Been Heard From. OFFICIALLY GIVEN’ UP Vessel Was Built in 1903 at Cost of $6,000,000—Four Twelve-Inch Guns. ° PARIS, Dec. 8.—The battleship Suffren, which left port on Nov. %, has not been f ul heard from since and the Minister Marine considers tlre vessel lost with on board. The Suffren sailed for Iyorient, French naval station in Brittany, on the Bay of Biscay, southeast of Brest. a The Suffren, a 12,750-tun vessel, was Completed in 1903 at a cost of $5,977,820. She carried four 12-inch, ten 6.4-inch an-] eight 4-inch guns. She had a speed of %% knots. The normal complement was 700 men. Last year the Suffren took part i ; ‘ONLY REGULARLY ENLISTED the battle of Turkish forts at the Dar-- Ganelies. She entered the straits to at- tack Turkish batteries and, according to an official Turkish announcement, was damaged seriously and withdrew in flames. She was sent back to Toulon for repairs. 9000-Ton Steamer in British Service Reported Sunk. LONDON, Dec. 8.—The Anchor Line lived aboard the mine layer San Fran- steamship Caledonia, of 9223 tons gross, is believed to have been sunk, says an announcement made today at Lioyd’s shipping agency. (Serene She was built at Glasgow in 1904. passenger service between New York and Glasgow, one of the crack ships of ;the face of a heavy sea swam toward She was com-.the boat. mandeered for Government service in| hardly able to move his paws, Bum was

what Germany’s pledges in the Sussex been led io believe, is to be found rather) case covered, especially as to armed ‘ships. Secretary Lansing said today that no final course of action had been agreed upon by President Wilson and himself. Although the State Department has been going on the principle of deciding each case separately on its merits, it was said today that the number of cases had reached such proportions that some general action would be justified, al- though it was made clear that nothing had .been determined upon. Developments of a Duy. The day’s developments in the situ- ation Were: The United States aske.l Great Britain for information to deter- mine the status of the Pentnsular and Oriental liner Arabia, which a German submarine commander took for an armed transport, and official informa- tion coming to the State Department established that the British ship Marina, torpedoed with a loss of six Americans, was in no sense a transport, and was entitled to the immunities of a peaceful merchantman. In both cases Germany has expressed a willingness to offer amends if her pledges were broken. It was reiterated again today that the United States stands squarely on the it~ took” in the Sussex,» case. | This, combined with Germany's state- ment that she, too, holds to the pledges she gave in that case, leads officials to declare there seems to be some differ- ences in interpretation. Great Britain has been asked by the State Department for information of the status of the Arabia. Much anxiety is evident among offi- clals following Germany’s acceptance of responsibility for the sinking without warning of the Arabia. Status of Arabia. Germany's admission in the note made public yesterday, her similar admission in the Marina case, when six Ameri- cans were drowned and the early facts in the sinking of the American steamer Chemung have combined to dispel the temporary quietude which followed the pledges in the Sussex case and officials are recalling the belief then announced that submarine warfare is ‘utterly in- compatible with the principles of hu- manity, the long-established and incon- trovertible rights of neutrals and the sacred immunities of noncombatants.” Such information as the American Government now has tends to show that the Arabia was a passenger ship of the Peninsular & Orient line, passing through the Mediterranean on a regu- lar voyage. Among the many passen- gers was an American citizen, who was rescued. The werman note says if official data is furnished showing that the vessel was an ordinary passenger steame-, “this then would be a case of regretable mistake from which the German Gov- ernment would promptly draw the ap- propriate consequences.”’ It is assumed here that the consequences would be an expression of regret and an offer ¢ reparation for any injury or danger suffered by the American on boarfl. In official quarters the German expla- nation is regarded as weak ana unsatis- fuctory, no weight being attached to the statements that the Arabia was painted like a transport and was folluw- ing a route usually taken by transports end that the submarine commander SAW many Chinese, but no women and chil- dren aboard her. All the Crew of the Palermo Was Landed in Safety. NEW YORK, Dec. 8.—All thé crew of the Italian steamship Palermo, which was torpedoed and sunk off the Spanish coast on Tuesday, were saved, according to a cable received from their home office by Hartfield, Solari & Co., local agents of the ship. The cable dispatches from Madrid, re porting the sinking, said thac one saflor, said to have been an American, died In a hospital from wounds and that three ethers were seriously wounded. ‘There were & number of American horse trad- ers on board. The message filed made no mention of loss of life. KING CONSTANTINE IS NOT WELL PARIS, Dec. 8.—The health of King Constantine is again causing anxiety, according to news from German sources, IRARDNER OUTLINES | 10 NEW FORMS OF STATE TARATION Also Submits to Conference Three Tentative Increases on Existing Assessments. WOULD DOUBLE REVENUE Proposes to Do Without $7500 Contingent Fund, and Have Useless Clerks Abolished. 10 t+). Tentative recommendations for new forms of taxation and three creases in existing taxes were submit- ted Frederick D. Gardner to the conference on taxation at the Plant- by Governor-elect which met, at his call, ers Hotel this morning. He made these suggestions, which he estimated would yield, if enacted into law, new or additional revenue of $5,- 725,000, as the best way under the pres- ent Constitution of relieving what he called the ‘“‘deplorable financial condi tion of” the State.’’y This would more than double the State’s present annual revenue of $5,600,000, making a total of $11,325,000 a year, but the* Governor- elect pointed out that to pay off the present deficit of $2,000,000 and to pro- vide the progressive administration de- manded by the people this would not be an excessive revenue. He also proposed to save money y doing without the usual $:w contingent fund allowed the Governor for expenses and by asking the Legislature to elim- inate, useless clerks. He thought, tod, that $400,000 each two years could be saved the State by a change in the law which would require counties to pay a rroportional share of the commissions of county tax collectors. 40-Year-Old Constitution. He cited the 40-year-old Constitution as a handicap to the application of pro- gressive forms of taxation and acknowl- edged that some of his recommendations would have been different if it had been possible under the Constitution. He de- Yclared he favored a nonpartisan tax board or commission to take over the duties of the State Board: of Equaliza- -tfon if’ such were permissible under the Constitution. Members of the tax conference named by Gardner, who were summoned to the meeting were: Senators A. E. L. Gardner of St. Louis Ceunty, Thomas R. Witledge of St Mary's, Robert J. Mitchell of Verona Charles F. Carter of Kirksville and John F. Morton of Richmond; Representatives Boyd and Harr, Ross E. Feaster of Windsor, Wilson E. Shouse of Shelbina and George A. Auerswald of De Soto, Noah W. Simpson of Labelle, Secretary of State Cornelius Roach, E. M. Clen- denning, secretary of the Kansas City Commercial Club; Clarence Howard, president of the Business Men’s League; W H. Bloomer of St. Louis, president of the Missouri Federation of Commer- cial Clubs; F. s. McAllister, Attorney- General-elect; F. N. Judson, Prof. Loeb, E. K. Love, president of the Real Es- tate Exchange of St. Louis; James Y. Player, City Comptroller of St. Louis; John E. Swanger of Sedalia, former Secretary of State and a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor this year; Wallace Crossley of War- rensburg, Lieutenant-Governor-elect; Peyton Park, a lawyer of Clinton; Jo- seph Hauser, former president of the Central Trades and Labor Union, and Moses Shoenberg. Prof. Loeb’s Iden. Prof. Loeb expressed his belief that a tax commission could be constitutional- ly established. He cited the case of Col- orado, where the Constitution provides for a Board of Equalization, with five members, similar to that in this State, but where a part of the duties of this board have been practically turned over to a tax commission. This commission, he said, goes through the State to acquaint itself with values in different localities, and co-operates with the local Assessors. It certifies its findings to the Board of Equalization, and in five years, Prof. Loeb said, the board has made only minor changes in the commission's recommendations. One of the most discussed proposals of the Governor-elect was that of a general inheritance tax of 3 per cent. In suggesting this he said he had ignored the graduated or progressive feature ap- plied in inheritance taxes in most states because the Supreme Court of Missouri had held such a graduated tax uncon- stitutional. Attorney - General - elect McAllister thought such a law, properly drawn, would be constitutional and he believed the Supreme Court would so hold if the law made it plain that the tax was on the right of succession and not on prop- erty. This opinion was agreed to by Prof. Loeb and by Frederick N. Judson, a St. Louis attorney and authority on taxation. A proposed mortgage recording tax was discussed by E. K. Love of the St. Louis Real Estate Exchange who said that a committee of the Real Estate Ex- change had drafted a mortgage record- ing tax bill which it desired to have in- troduced in the coming session of the Legislature. He thought it would yield even more than the $300,000 a year which ' per cent. constitutional. ) rations D—Income tax E—Mortgage recording: tax F—Secured debt tax H—Increase saloon M—A general State poll tax of $1 Present annual revenue Or for biennial period Balance Present deficiency new plan) available for 1917-18 over 1915-16.) New State Taxes Proposed 2 by Governor-Elect Gardner A—Increasing the collateral inheritance tax f:-m 5 to 7% Estimated annual yield (This entire inheritance tax to be diverted to the general revenue fund, the appropriation to the university to be made from the general revenue fund direct.) B—General inheritance tax, 3 per cent pes (Our Supreme Court has decided a graduated tax is not C—Tax on capital and surplus or ou gross receipts of «orpo- G—Soft drinks, manufacturers and dispensers a eee I—Picture shows, poolrooms, theaters J—Tobacco, manufacturers and retailers K—Inecrease oil tax from 12 to 24e per barrel L—Tax on output of mines (coal and mineral) Less one-third for public schools For equipping penitentiary, for State industries, road building, farm and reformatory (under Total available for biennial appropriations Present available, less one-third for school Leaving net amount available for 1917-18 (If all the suggestions are approved the amount specified will be 150,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 500,000 300,000 100,000 500,000 750,000 300,000 100,000 175,000 100,000 750,000 5,600,000 **eeeeeeeneeere $11,325,000 22,650,000 7,550,000 e+ + $15,100,000 $2,000,000 1,500,000 $3,500,000 .. .$11,600,000 7,766,700 $ 3,833,300 a pus. MAN HITS BLY KENT IN EYE Park Theater Comedian Has Back Scene Encounter With ~ Johnny Hanley. Billy Kent, the Park Opera Company’s diminutive comedian, has been carrying around a black eye for five days, and futile efforts of a doctor and barber to remove the discoloration attest the thoroughness with which a chorus man, who aiso is the stage manager, disposed of the pugnacious Mr. Kent last Sunday night, between the second and third acts of “The Rich Mr. Hoggenheimer.”’ While Kent cannot find a way to con- ceal his discolored optic when on the streets, he is an adept at makeup and manages on the stage to darken both his eyes so that an audience cannot discern between nature’s indigo and the cos- metic. | Back stage at the Park Theater, Charles Sinclair, the director; Johnny Hanley, the chorus man-stage manager, and Kent, all agreed, when a reporter inquired about it, that ‘“‘some scenery fell on Billy” and blacked his eye. There was another rumor.that he had “run into’ the elbow of Musical Director Ba- funno. William J. Flynn, the theater's princi- pal owner, last night told what really happened. Kent had a bad cold and was in poor | voice Sunday night, he said. Something went wrong in the chorus, and some scenery became unmanageable. Hanley was ‘“‘bawling out’’ the chorus when Kent came downstairs. For some rea- son the star resented Hanley’s remarks. He made a furious rush at the young stage manager and encountered a right arm hook whith sent him reeling through the open door of an adjacent dressing room. The belligerents were next day shook hands. SENATE TAKES UP BILL FOR PROHIBITION IN WASHINGTON Measure Under Consideration Forbids Manufacture as Well as Sale of Liquor in Capital. WASHINGTON, Dec. &.—Prohibition legislation was forced in a point of van- tage today when the Senate, on motion of Senator Sheppard of Texas, began consideration of the bill to prevent the manufacture and sale of liquor in the national capital. BUTTER AND EGG PRICES DOWN But Dealer Says Public Should Pre- Pare for Immediate Rise. A decline of a few cents in the prices of butter and eggs which was in effect this morning, both at wholesale and retail, was said by commission men to | be a natural drop in prices which always follows ./w.e Thanksgiving season. separated and One of the largest dealers in butter. and eggs told a reporter that the public raise in prices, which might even exceed those of the early winter in the next few weeks. might as well prepare for an immediate BATTERY A EXPECTED HOME BY CHRISTMAS St. Louis Light Artillery Branch of Missouri Guard Ordered Back From Border. Battery A, St. Louis’ light artillery branch of the Missouri National Guard, has been ordered home from the Mex- ican border, and it is expected that its members will) be in St. Louis in time for Christmas dinner. The . -*tery was included in a total of 5767 national guardsmen yesterday desig- nated by Gen. Funston to be relieved of border duty. The order also includes Battery B of Kansas City and Battery C of Independence, which, with Battery A, made up Missouri's light artillery battalion on the border. It has been stationed at Laredo, Tex. Efforts to Get Boys Home. Maj. Slayton, in command of the bat- talion, today, in an interview at Laredo, said evey effort would be made to bring the Battery boys home by Christmas. They probably will be mustered out at Fort Riley, Kan. The Battery, under command of Capt. Frank M. Rumbold, departed from St. Louis for the mobilization camp at Ne- «ada, Mo., June 22 last. The start for the Mexican border was made July 2. Other Troops to Go Home. Other troops now designated to leave the border are: New York—Ampbulance Co. No. 3, Field Hospital No. 2, battalion of signal troops, Second Battalion Engineers and head- quarters of one brigade to be selected by Gen. O’ Ryan. Eighteenth Pennsylvania Infantry, E! Paso; Battery A, Utah artillery, No- gales; First Battalion California Field Artillery, Nogales. Massachusetts Ambulance Co. No. 1, Ei Paso: Second Idaho Infantry, No- gales; First Iowa Infantry and First Battalion Iowa Field Artillery. Browns- ville; District of Columbia Signal Co., Nogales; and Battery A, Kansas Ficid Artillery, Eagle Pass. TORNADO IN Atianta Damaged 840,000 by Storm. ATLANTA, La., Dec. 8—A _ tornado which swept over Atlanta early this morning demolished the business section, entailing a loss of about 840,00. Among the buildings destroyed were three churches and a railway depot. Two men were slightly injured and a child its re- ported killed in the northern end of the town. LOUISIANA Wind STUTTGART, Ark., Dec. *.—A severe windstorm passed north of here at 1 a. m. today, doing considerable damage to property and stock. The home of August Merten, six miles northwest of this city, was demolished and several persons are reported injured. A echool house was demolished. At the farm of Vv. O. Barlywine the bulldings were de- stroyed and several members of the fam- fly injured. DEPORTATIONS ARE RESUMED LONDON, Dec. &8—A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Co. from Amster- INRETREAT ARE CUT OFF AND CAPTURED * 10,000 Taken in Flight From Passes and 8000 Are Hemmed In in the Alt Valley Region. Pursuit Continues on Whole Front — Teutons Launch | Heavy Attacks in Mace- donia. Paris Reports Recapture of Position in the Verdun Sector Lost to the Ger- mans Tuesday. BERLIN, Dec. 8.—The War Office announced today that Rumanian troops retreating from the Predal and Altschanz Passes were cut off by Teutonic forces, and most of them have been captured. In western Ru- mania the pursuit is being continued by the Austro-German troops, which yesterday took more than 10,000 prisoners. Attacks made by Russian troops yes- terday in the Ludova region, in te Carpathians and in the Trotus Valley, on the Northern Rumanian front, were repulsed with heavy losses, the War Office also announced. °* The statement follows: “Front of Archduke Joseph: After the failure of the great relieving of- fensive in the Carpathians, the Russians have only undertaken local attacks. Yes- terday they several times drove agalriat our lines on the Ludova and Trotus Valley. They were sanguinarily repulsed. “Front of Field Marshal von Macken- Rucharest-Ploechti line proceeded so rap- idly that the Rumanians located in the frontier mountains, in the Predeal and Altschanz Passes, had no chance to re- treat in time. On their retirement they rian troops and being pressed from the north, a majority of them already have been made prisoners. “Between the mountains and the Dan- ube the pursuit is proceeding. The Ninth Army yesterday took more than 10,000 prisoners. “On the Alt, the Rumanian forces cut off in Western Rumania met their un- avoidable fate. Col. von Szive, with Austro-Hungarian and German troops under his command, on Dec. 6, forced them to surrender. Ten battalions, one squadron and six batteries, numbering 3000 men, with 26 cannon, laid down their arms. The capture of this force was announced in yesterday's supplemental army headquarters report.” GERMANS GREETED WITH FLOWERS ON ' TAKING BUCHAREST IS Berlin Dispatch Says Von Mack ensen Received Bouquets at the Royal Castle. LONDON, Dec. 8&—Reuter's Amster dam correspondent sends the following official Berlin dispatch describing the fall of Bucharest: “at 10:30 Tuesday morning Capt. Lange of the general staff was sent af a pariementaire to the commandant at Bucharest bearing a letter from Field Marshal von Mackensen demanding the surrender of the fortress. A second let~ ter notified the commandant that fire would be opened unless the parlemen- taire returned within 2% hours. “Capt. Lange returned before the ¢x- piration of the limit, the Commander tn Chief of the Russian Danube army hav- ing refused to accept Field Marshal vor Mackensen's letter on the ground that Bucharest was not a fortress but an open town. He declared that there ez- isted neither armed forts nor trooper destined for its defense and there was neither a Governor nor &@ Commandant Capt. Lange pointed out the character of Bucharest as a fortress and said that such an evasion would not hinder the German operations. Resistance Quickiy Overcome. “In the course of Wednesday morn- ing portions of Gen. Schmittow's cav- alry corps took possession of a fort on the north front and portions of the Fifty-fourth Army Corps pushed on and took the line of forte from Chiajna, on the west front, to Odalle on the north. Whe enemy infantry offered resistance which was quickly overcome. “From the south portions the Danube army pressed into the city through the girdle of forts, meeting with no resist- ance. “The troops entering the town were received enthusiastically and decorateg with flowers. Field Marshal von Macke ensen drove in.a motor car to the roy® Predeal and Aelschanz in the - encountered German and Austro-Hunga- - ‘ ? Se, eee _ , CS ae — a ~ - Lue sais —_ . 2 q an rest oe el) Pn ee es ae ae ae eh ale rs Oy ed ae et - Ret, : or Bb cite - , ' : ar bavige Pisa aca uae bak See SU Ss Soe “ot » Wee 5 E ; “a rig . COR Mpacae OR ape ae Ge eS +s ye 4 ‘ . + Mtg Ae Gar ‘aes ; ee ieee = . oe 7 ae We ere EARS BT aii hgh Te -) ¥ P~: ey oF sf APY ee peas Ls «¥, 4 - Pons * ¢ -. ‘“ ad ihe 2p a “ He EDITION SS llllllNNSell_l™“Seeeleee | FINANCIAL —MARKETS— SPORTS 18,000 RUMANIANS sen: Our advance against and across tie, > Man Zeppelins that have fallen on En- | e soi] are in the possession of Amer- ai army authorities, according to tes- as y given at the hearing on the na- - val appropriation bill yesterday by 2 Souther, consulting engineer for the Aviation Corps of the army. % samples, being carefully pre- i that a study of their composition be made. were smuggled off the peice where they fell and out of En- _ into the United States. | castie, where he was greeted with bow quets of flowers.” PLISH. Head of organization, whose mission is daily attracting more attention, explains its plans. NEW STORIES ABOUT LIN- COLXN— sid A highly entertaining of Walter B. Stevens’ book Order your copy today Kovernor-elect Gardner estimated. He also favored a secured debt tax, that is a tax at the time of filing on all municipal bonds. ‘These proposed mortgage and bond taxes contemplated the exemption of such securities from any other per- sonal property tax. Frequent references were made to the tax system of Wisconsin which was ex- | Continued om Page 3, Column 4. says a Zurich dispatch to the Matin. The wound in the King’s side contin- ues to suppurate, the dispatch says, and has been kept constantly open. The King’s condition is said to be very weak. to the prison for the criminal insane at Chester. Roeske was sentenced to life imprisonment when his companions, Pe- ter Niedermeier, Harvey Van Dine and Gustave Marx. were sentenced and hanged in 1904. The evidence indicated he had not been active tn the operations of the gang. He was 18 years old at the time of his conviction. Prison physicians say he \canfot live more than six months. dam says: “Deportations from Northern France have been resumed. Sixty thousand a!. leged unemployed persons from Lille, Rauobix, Turcoing and Cambrai passed through Liege in the last six days in long trains composed of cattle cars| raided Triest Thursday, according to am bound for Dusseldorf, Reimscheid and] official statement issued by the Ade Essen. Deportations also have begun in| miralty. The statement says that tae Namur province, Belgium,” [raiders dropped five bombe on » val - | He exhibited the report of the United States Warehouse Commissioner as evi- dence tnat there is a shortage of eggs. The report shows that there were 2,04,- 000 eggs in cold storage Dec. 1 of last year, while on the same date this year there were only 1,336,000 eggs in storage. He said there had been no reduction in the price of fresh eggs and he was confident there would be none. review ROME. 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