St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 23, 1917

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. x 15 1 2 A. oT 5 * * ae: * — — —— — ——— jut in the meantime the b em ot bsg or capable Sate’ ve | e ve the ad with your druggist — —•— A pleasant prospect, hail the : When every man will draw state pay! op be. thee 8 P ö Wants. Call 6600— Olive or — os day * —ͤ—öũ— — — 9 — — 7 * Cental, or \ | VOL. 69. NO. 157. ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY:. EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1917—18 PAGES. . | DUTHERN ARM OF ee a oe . ~ 4 ey + ae 3 e 3 * * ‘ " : 1 in J 1 8 ; . * ce. ’ 7 5 > Ce a odd * . 8 a 1 — 8 E : ar 7 a oe. =. Se . ae 22 r a 8 8 J n * 1 2 3 * * om" Sa Teutonic Advance in Dobrud- ja ls Resumed, and Ground 5 d Gained Near Tultcha Is | Held in Face of Russian j a Counter Attacks. : Ne Have Taken 200, 000 Rumanian Prisoners Rumanian Losses From _ 1 Shell Fire Heavy. — . 8 Board Said to Have Sent Out Distress Calls From “ — . a Vath . English Channel. * = eee Press. RLIN. Jan. 23, by wireless to Say- wil ~The Teutonic troops have re- Spur bd their advance in Dobrudja, it is ar nounced officially. Bulgarian forces . i the Southern estuary of the 2 mube near Tultcha and held the ground against Russian attacks. ds German and Austro-Hungarian ‘troops took from the enemy between "the Slanic and Putna Valleys 100 pris- ners and south of the Kasino Valley — grove back stronger hostile forces which af if 1" Teas advancing. 13 Uf . > “army group of Field Marshal von \\ \ | | | a 64} ee Mackensen: On the Lower Putna out- om Be WH) 7 — | 3 * — — . Bhs gs | “In Dobrudja Bulgarian troops crossed wae , a the southern arm of the mouth of the "Danube near Tultcha and maintained themselves on the north bank against a Russian attack.“ The number of prisoners of war taken "im Rumania has now reached nearly 20,000, says the Overseas News Agency. Dispersed soldiers who bad hidden in "the forest and villages. and who had “taken off their uniforms are reappearing rom their hiding places, the agency ds. A large number of them are still G Rn © Deseribirg the situation of the Ru- : lanlan ‘army the Overseas News 5 gency says: itrae rest of the Rumanian army, © part of which fought well, is reor- | fanizing in Moldavia and Bassarab is. ) The new Rumanian divisions which > still are engaged at the front are greatly reduced in numbers. Accord- “ing to assertions of Rumanian pris- "ners, one division was composed of » only 2800 men, while another num- bered but 2400. ' “The Rumanians suffered their MHeaviest losses from artillery fire. The large number of dead in proportion to the wounded is remarkable. On sduare kilometer (about three- he of a square mile) of the battle id of Campalung, 6000 Rumanian d. were counted. Some of the Ru- "Manian infantry regulars were com- f & sed of only four compantes of 150 den each. Because of the lack of _@anitary organization an extraordi- oy Harun large percentage of the wound- died in the hospitals which, how- 0 v r, afforded room only for the of- ft while large numbers of wound- soldiers were lodged in damp cel- ‘lars, peasants’ huts and barns, where . perished miserably.” ene Bulgarian movement across the Se0uthern estuary of the Danube r Tultcha, 38 miles southeast Galatz, places the Bulgarians, ntly, on one of the large Sands which stud the course oz rer near its mouth. The Teutonic ad lande is thus carried nearer the Bes- rab an boundary, which here is formed the northern estuary of the Dan- . 25 ä eins Reports the Sinking |. Several More Steamers. LONDON, Jan. 23.—Lioyds’ announces it the following British steamers have n 90 Toftwood, 3092 tons, crew fed. Port Nicholson, 8418 tons, and ina, 6780 tons, crew picked up. Nas also reports the sinking of the Gish steamship Kamma, 1516 tons and of the Danish schooner d, whose crew .was landed. of Bert, With 1800 on Board Said to Have Sent 8 0 8 Call. IN, Jan. 23, by wireless to Say- it—Wireless distress signals from a Mish transport with 1800 soldiers on rd which had struck a mine and was ming in the British channel were re- ve 0 in Rotterdam last night, accord - reports from that city, says the eas News Agency. af > r Million pore gee . 7 1 Kern. ; 8 Mor MONDON, Jan. 2.— Half a million men are engaged in the production of ni in Great Britain and their Aber is increasing daily, said Dr. ristopher Addison, Minister of Muni- Ms, in an address at the Mansion luse yesterday. Some 34,000 additional en are being employed monthly at J factories, but even this num- is not sufficient. Dr. Addison said oe Nomen ier % Pit ; len- Makes Flixht.. T Va., Jan. 28.--Sec- FAIR AND WARMER WEATHER TONIGHT AND TOMORROW THE TEMPERATURES. 3 0 High, 21. at 2 . m. ; low, 14, at 7 a. m. | Official fore- cast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair tonight and tomorrow, Warm- er tonight, with the lowest tem perature about 30; somewhat colder tomorrow afternoon. Missour!—Gener - ally fair tonight and tomorrow; Warmer tonight; colder tomorrow afternoon in north portion, : Illinois — Partly cluuay toast and tomorrow; probabiy unsetticd in north portion; warmer to- night; colder tomorrow afternoon in north and central portions. Stage of river, 1.2 feet, a rise of .6 foot. BOY GETS PONY WHEN HE APPEALS TO THE KAISER Son of Pastor Writes Without Par- ents’ Knowiedge, and Soldier De- livers the Gift. BERLIN, Jan. 23.—The Kaiseriana gontains a belated Christ- mas story. current The 15-year-old son of the Lutheran pastor of the village of Diederoff, down Cologne way, had, unknown to his par- ents, several months ago written a let- ter to the Kaisér, telling him that twice a day, in wind, weather and darkness, he had to walk a long distance afoot to and from the railroad station, com- muting to the nearest town, where he attended high school, and asking the Kaiser to send him a “captured Rus- Sian pony“ to make the road to knowl- edge easier. On Christmas eve a soldier arrived and turned over a Russian horse to the surprised family as the Kaiser’s gift to the boy. KNOCKED DOWN MAN WMO WIPED FEET ON FLAG; IS COMMENDED Signal Quartermaster at New York | Gets Letter From t Secretary of Treasury. NEW YORK, Jan. 23 —Signal Quartermastér L. H. Luksich, at- tached to the recruiting office of the United States Coast Guard here, who, on Jan. 3, while on duty at the bat- tery. knocked a man down for wiping his muddy hands on the American flag displayed at a recruiting station, has been officially commended by Treas- ury Department officials. Luksich is a naturalized citizen born in Austria. Several national pa- triotic societies have taken note of the incident and letters of commenda- tion have been addressed to the Treasury Department and to Luksich. A letter signed by A. J. Peters, As- sistant Secretary of the Treasury, was made public here today. STREETS FREEZE OVER WHEN MAIN BURSTS, FLOODING THEM Water Covers Two Blocks of Broad. way and Second Street— TTrattie Unhindered, The bursting of a water main at Broadway and Bissell street at 10 o’clock last night fiooded Broadway and Sec- ond street for a distance of about two blocks. The water entered the baso- ments of six houses on Broadway and three ok Second street. Water Department employes located the leak and turned off the water av 1:30 a. m. today. In the flooded area the water was from six inches to % foot deep in the streets and covered the street car tracks, but did not cause a stoppage of traffic. By morning. there was a thin coating of ice on the sur- face. GARDNER CONFERS | WITH F. S. LEWIS AND XP. WILLE — * Reported He Has Offered Excise Office to One and Election Board Place to Other. HEARD OTHER NAMES W. B. Jones, T. L. Anderson, O. E. Buder Mentioned for Appointments. rom a Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Jan. %.—Gov. Gardner this morning had a confer- ence with Edward S8. Lewis, editor the St. Louis Star, to whom, it is reported, he has offered the position of Excise @ommissioner of St. Louis, and with Xenophon P. Wilfley, who is said to have been offered a place on the Board of Election Commissioners. Neither the Governor, Lewis nor Wil- fley would discuss the conference, but it is understood about the Capitol that the Governor has decided definitely on them. Names mentioned in connection with other places in the Election Board are Wilbur B. Jones, Thomas L. Anderson and Oscar E. Buder. Anderson was here yesterda¥ as the representative of a trading stamp com- pany. He is opposing a bill which would abolish the use of trading stamps and which has the approval of several St. Louis department stores which do not give trading stamps. Since his visit there has been a report that the Gov- ernor will not name him onghe Election Board, to which he was appointed by ex-Gov. Major late in December. Police Board Appointments. In connection with Police Board ap- pointments, the names most frequently mentioned by persons close to the Gov- ernor are Philip B. Fouke and Charles W. Mansur. The Governor is said to have sent a friend to James E. Smith with an offer of a place on the Police Board, but Smith is reperted to have rejected it, on the ground that he expects an ap- pointment to the diplomatic service of the United States. The Governor said this morning that he would have no announcement regarding St. Louis ap- pointments for several days. THREE ANTI-LIQUOR BILLS SIGNED Tennessee Forbids Storage of Intoxi. cants, and Makes Bootlegsizng Felony. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 2.—Giv. Rye has signed three anti-liquor bills as follows: Prohibiting clubs, lodges or axsociations from keeping, storing or in thy way disposing of liquor; making a second conviction for bootlegging a fel. cny; making it unlawful for any firm or corporation to keep in stock or store liquor inteded for present or future sale as a beverage. Gov. Rye last week signed the meas- ure making it unlawful to receive orders for liquor. This law takes effect July 1, the others at once. RECALL CHEERS SICK TROOPS News That Guardsman Are to Return Home Almost Empties Hospital. DEMING, N. M., Jan. 23.—News of the ordering home of the First Arkansas and First Delaware na- tional guard regiments so cheered their sick that the base hospital here was almost emptied. Seventy-five convalescents returned to duty in three days, following the order for return of the 25,000 guardsmen on the border. /When the regiments were desig- nated bands of the lucky units sere- naded their camps playing “Home Sweet Home.“ of € * — —— — com As Vice-President Marshall Wired President Wilson: is not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but tis enough, twill serve.” The Post-Dispatch alone beat 3 out of all 4 of its petitors by 1 column in home-merchants’ advertising yesterday, as the count proves. Post-Dispatch ALONE............43 Cols. — BRITAIN LIKELY TO ABANDON FREE TRADE AFTER WAR ENDS Imperial Preference and General Tar- iff Scheme Is Expected to Take Its Place, LONDON, Jan, 23.—There seems no longer reason to doubt that one of the most momentous changes which peace is expected to bring will be the aban- doning by the British empire of free trade. 1 The British Government Committee on Trade after the War, has decided, it is said, to recommend an imperial prefer- ence and general tariff scheme on im- portations of manufactured goods. A formidable free trade party in Great Britain will make a determined fight for the ancient policy, but the powerful influence of the colonies is ex- pected to be thrown unequivocally in the opposite scale. Even in his most radical before-the-war days, Lloyd- George was suspected of heterodoxy on free trade, and no opposition is looked for from him. TRAFFIC OVER FREE BRIDGE ON FIRST FULL WORKING DAY 1283 Vehicles and 1773 Pedestrians Cressed Structure From 7:30 A. M. to 6 P. M. Yesterday. Figures given out today as to the first full working day's traffic on the Free Bridge, yesterday, showed that 671 ve- hicles went east over the bridge, between 7:30 a. m. and 6 p. m., and that 612 ve- hicles came west. In the same hours 900 pedestrians crossed from St. Louis to East St. Louis, and $73 came in this di- rection. The count was made by em- ployes of the Street Department. an The excess of eastbound vehicles and pedestrians over those westbound is not taken as meaning a loss in population to St. Louis. The rest may have come | back after 6 o'clock, when a count is not kept, or may have used the Eads Bridge. More than one-half the vehicle,traffic, the enumerators said, was of a business character, such as drays and trucks. Every vehicle using the Free Bridge Saves 35 cents, as compared with the Eads Bridge charges, and every pedes- trian 5 cents. i The vehicle count for the morning was 228 eastbound and 176 west, and in the afternoon 443 east and 436 west. The pe- destrians in the morning numbered 289 eastbound and 167 west, and in the aft- ernoon 611 east and 706 west. STATE VICE LAWS DO NOT APPLY HERE, M’DANIEL SAYS Cireuit Attorney Informs Committee of One Hundred That Prosecutions Must Ne Under City Ordinances State laws for the suppression of commercialized vice do not apply to St. Louis, according to Circuit Attor- ney McDaniel, who wrote a letter to that effect to J. Lionberger Davis and Roger Baldwin of the Committee of One Hundred, today. The only laws which apply to the subject, with one exception, he says, are city ordinances which provide for a fine as the only penalty. The ex- ception is the law prohibiting disor- derly houses. within 100 yards of a church, school or public building. The condition grows out of the adoption of the City Charter in 18790, incorporated in which was a social evil law, the effect of which was to nullify the State laws on the subject as far as St. Louis was concerned. Protests against the social evil law caused its repeal in 1874, but the re- peal did not make the State laws ap- plicable to St. Louis and there has been no legislation on the subject since, SPEAKER WATSON REVOLTS AGAINST PAYROLL. PADDING Opposes on Floor Attempt of Re- presentative Farris to Name Six More House Clerks. JEFFERSON CITY, Jan. 23.—Speaker Drake Watson this morning led a fight on the House floor against an effort to further pad the pay roll by naming six additional clerks. Frank H. Farris, Democratic floor leader, championed the resolution providing for the clerks and attempted to line up the Democratic members to vote for it. Watson chal- lenged Farris’ party leadership. He de- clared the Democratic majority could not afford to pad the pay roll, and that the House had plenty of clerks. Repre- sentative Prewett, chairman of the Cler- ical Force Committee, also opposed the resolution. “God knows,“ he said, that the Dem- ocratic party must get rid of its political parasites if ft wants to survive.” Other Democrats supported the Speaker's stand. Farris moved that the resolution be re- ferred to the Committee on Clerical Force, which carried by a viva voce vote. WANTS 25-CENT DIET DAY PROCLAIMED FOR NATION Women Will First Ask Presidént to Try New York Police Experiment in White House. NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—Having proved that 13 husky policemen can thrive on a 3 out of all 4 of the other St. Louis Papers 5% AVV „ 4 42 Cols. One column is not so much, but if one inch was added to a man’s nose it would be plenty. This excess or more over 3 or 4 papers is a daily accomplishment with the Post-Dispatch, because our home merchants know that it has a CIRCULATION That is 100% efficient. Average Entire Year 1916: Sunday... ..+-356,193 | Daily... „ret in Rverything."” . * 3 404,201 W-cent-a-day diet, Mrs. Eula McClary, dietician of the police diet squad here, departed today for Washington to ask President Wilson to do likewise. In ad- dition to requesting Mr. Wilson to try. a 2%-cent diet day at the White House, she said she would ask him to proclaim such a day for the whole nation. “More than that\_I am going to ask personally and buy the food for the White House 2-cent meal day,“ Mrs. McClary declared. | Dig U RECORD OF STOCK | SALES CALLED FOR AT LEAK INQUIRY House Committee Wants Mem- bers of Exchange to Report Transactions Dec. 10 to 23. . LIGHT ON “SHORT” DEALS President of New York Body. Testifies Concerning Rules Governing Deals. NEW YORK, Jan. B.— The House Rules Committee conducting the “leak” inquiry will investigate immediately all “short” deals on the Stock’ Exchange between Dec. 10 and Dec. 23. It was or such speculation, if any, that profits are said to have been made on advance information regarding the President’s recent peace note. The committee today ordered H. G. S. Noble, president of the Stock Ex- change, to request the governing board of the exchange to ask its mem- Miss Margaret Wilson to go shopping} bers to supply to the committee forth- with a list of all of their transactions for that period, designating all custom- ers by their real names and not by numbers or -appellations. The state- ments also are to show the numbers of shares of stock borrowed, by whom borrowed, to whom loaned and the date returned. The committee believes that by this course it soon can determine if there is any basis to the charges of immense profit-taking through short“ selling by those in possession of leak' informa- tion. Noble was the first witness called after Sherman L. Whipple, counsel for the committee, had made his opening state- ment. It was featured by an outline of the immediate plans of .the committee contemplating inquiry into nothing save the “leak’’ said to have occurred in con- nection with the President’s peace note. Noble said the exchange itself made no record of the daily transactions as they occurred, this being done by the exchange ticker. The Stock Exchange Clearing House, however, did receive, age house, a statement of its purchases and Sales, explained the witness. He said the Stoek Exchange had absolute knowledge of what occurred on the floor and it was accessible to the committee. Whipple questioned the witness as to the difference between speculative and investment secyrities, an dasked if it was not true that the speculative stocks offered the best opportunities for ma- nipulated movements.“ The witness an- swered that he did not understand pre- cisely what was meant by manipulated movements. Explaining that it would be taken up later; the attorney advised Noble meanwhile to give an answer to the question,’ “prayerful thought. Gives List of Speculative Stocks. The witness turnished the commit- tee with a list of what he regarded as speculative stocks—United States Steel, Anaconda, Marines, “the indus- trial stocks, which had profited by the war,” Willys-Overland, Reading and Union Pacific. “Would you and the men who stand for the best that there is on the ex- change approve the action of men subscribing large sum of money to be used in making ‘short’ sales, using unfavorable news and accentuating that news to drive the market down and then buying in stock at a low figure in order to increase their prof- its?” Whipple asked. “Your question seems to imply,” Noble answered, that there is impro- priety in men getting together and selling on some news they think un- favorable.” “I ask you whether it would de in accord with the moral standards of the Stock Exchange,“ insisted Whipple. “I can’t see how it could be disap- proved as long as it is a legitimate tran- saction.”’ “As a basis for congressional action, I want your opinion. Would the board of governors stop it, if they could? J can’t see any motive for stopping, people from buying and selling as long as they fulfill their contracts. Chairman Henry here interrupted and insisted upon the witness giving a cat- egorical answer to the original ques- tion. “I can see no impropriety,“ Noble re- plied. Baruch at Afternoon Sessions Carrying a list of his transactions on the exchange during the period when “leak” information is said to have af- fected the market, Bernard Baruch, one of the heavy short“ sellers, who has frequently been named as a bene- ficiary of advance information on the note, arrived in the committee room at the opening of the afternoon session. Whipple announced on the resumption of the inquiry that whatever the an- swer of the Stock Exchange Board of Governors might..be as to directing brokers to produce their books, the com- — then the committee’s experts | would go tb work on the books and at the end of each day fram each broker mittee, on recéiving it, would go into (~~ ww — Mil bie FN — r * 5 3 HSS MRS THOMAS: W CUNNINGHAM Excavators for Adjoining Sky- scraper Go Twelve Feet Below the Walls. A problem for the builders of the new! i4-story ‘office building now under con- struction at the southwest corner of Fighth and Olive streets is the protection of the Odd Fellows’ Building adjoining it on the west, the foundations of which will be exposed by the deep excavation for the new building. The basement for the new building will be 2 feet deep, while that of the Odd Fellows’ Building is only 13 feet, hence the excavation for the new building will have to go 12 feet lower than the bottom foundation walls of the Odd Fellows’ Building: The latter is an eight-atory pbuilding of heavy construction and tf the deep excavation alongside its foundation were made in the usual manner, it would be in danger of collapse,. according to city inspectors. : A process of “shoring’’ will be neces- gary to brace the OddFeliows’ Build- ing, according to an inspector of the city Street Department, who has supervision over excavations as they affect safety on the streets. This means that the excavation next to the foundation of the Odd Fellows’ Building will be done in narrow sections and that supporting pillars of concrete will be placed under the old foundation to the full depth of the new excavation: Each section would be completed before an- other would be opened. The excavation also is exposing the walls of the railroad tunnel under Eighth -street. The tunnel wall is adja- cent to the Eighth street building line of the new building, but will not offer any difficulty of construction. The excava- tion will be about the same depth as the tunnel and the floor of the base- ment will be a foot and a halt higher than the level of the railroad tracks. LEBANON POLICE CHIEF AIDS WET CAMPAIGN Issue. John Wolfe, Chiet of Police of Leba- non, III., who a few months ago arrested himself for intoxicati§n, is working for Lebanon saloon keepers,” who have started a movement for a wet-and-dry election in April, at which they will attempt to have saloons voted back in * N Fee . CUNNINGHAM SAD, 8 HE WAS SN Former Joplin Banker So Stated > in Deed Filed in That City in August. Spécial to the Post-Dispatch. | JOPLIN; Mo., Jan. 23.—A’' deed, dated August, 1916, in which as Cunning- ham, aged millionaire ker, described himself as unmarried, was found: today in the files of the County Recorder’s office. The announcement was recently made that Cunningham was married two years ago to Dr. Zeo 2. Wilkins, # years old, an osteopath, with whom he is now living at Colorado's The deed was given on a lott Depositiqns are to be taken, th in, the divorce suit orc the young osteopath, alleges that since 1899 she had deen Cunningham's com- 3 2 E 74 be 2 * * 4 : 45 ws * & : “est 7 * 8 . * > 7 \4 2 1 — not more than lations Committee objected to substantial good will come of son’s un T1O KE N 2 5 2 K 4 * — 0 - f r ar ae : i 4 r tae. eh dh 4 * il : * 4 . 8 — — = 2 Stonb of It is pointed out that he did not a i 4 — te as Purpose Is Ur WASHINGTON, Cummins of Iowa submitted a 1 eotu- tion to the Senate today which wi Jan. . * Hour. eratlon, on the course he bas oli Mr, 3 * >. 4 ‘ in, ae stew Rigs 2 ay ee She: 22 1