St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 16, 1917

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~ 7) Pe ag e Pe "ee ome ‘ ee a wy a ‘ Avg ; ; 8053 P - 2669 -DISPATCH WANTS ESTERDAY—SUNDAY. MORE than appeared tn the Globe- Democrat and Republic combined. The Only Evening Paper in St. Louis W ith ithe Assoc. ated Fress Nios Service ED [TION eee —_—_— Vou. 69. NO. 240. of. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1917-22 PAGES. PRIC as Bt Lowin nnd suburha, tne t's Minewhaee Tee een Mite it EMPOWERS. PRESIDENT 10 FORBID EXPORTS Adamson Measure Offered in House Leaves Embargo to: His Discretion. fe OTHER WAR PREPARATION 3 _ Benate to Take Up Seven Billion Dollar Provision Tomorrow; Arfangement to Receive Foreign Commission. ‘By Wire From the Washington Bu- reau of the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, April 16.—Develop- @ents in war preparation here today Sere as follows: @heirman Adamson of the House Commerce Committee introduced, with | President's approval, a bill to em- ‘the President to forbid export of ‘@ny sort when he dcems it in the public dnterest to do so. Announcement was made that on Wednesday the President would receive the British and French commisisoners mt the White House to discuss conduct of the war. The Senate Finance Committee today approved the $7,000,000,000 war revenue Dill which has passed the House and the measure will. be taken up in the ®énate tomorrow. Almost no opposi- tion to its passage is expected. A conference of. Republican Senators was called for tomorrow before the + Benace session to discuss in addition the “Yarious administration war measures, - Aneluding selective conscription and tax a, ‘The universal military service bill was iken up for the first time by the Sen- Military Committee. ' . ‘War taxation, navy and army, es- . pPlonage and financial and industrial mobilization bills are among the war measures which both Houses are to push through quickly on the heels of end big bond act. Corgmittee consideration will be given week to the bill authorizing the t to operate the railroads in of war, and to measures to induco > mtate banks to enter the Federal reserve : Ted fnerease and reofganize the S5. ne - assembly of the most mo- jevitous international conference ever held ‘n. this country only a few days @istant, officiais of several executive laaapptindats of the Government are dé- voting themselves to making final prep- for greeting the distinguished men Great Britain and France are send- Ga tes here to discuss war problems. State ae officials directly responsible Gor the details of the arrangements con- ferred in an effort to have no mark of _- @ourteay lacking. Bi Those famittar with “Official etiquette _ broad say that the sending to this / @ountry of men like British Foreign | Balfour, French Minister of «Jus and former Premier Rene Vivi- - ie and Gen. Joffre is almost without oe t. Not only does the trip here aie 4 much valuable time, but it sub- os ot ce: the high cfficials to danger from _ the present trip was taken only with ae ‘deepest foreboding quickened by ‘memories of the loss of Lord Kitchener. The Pie committees of wel- a moment's notice. The will welcome the commission- and accompany them here on a cooley train. A formal reception will. £ eet them here, ‘at which the highest. eck action of the House tn passing but a dissenting voice the §$7,000,- 00 war meaaure with its provision 3 Joan of $8,000,000,000 to the allies re scent by State Department of- as a convincing demonstration of t conduct an academic war. «Greet Action. action, with the plans for a war y and construction of 1000 wooden : ships, will be offered as a : mg to the Entente commissioners ae of the Government will par-} z - * $ 4 Ses et ; A) mer a , thelr arrival. ‘he near dpproach of the conferences ame Growing certainty that an at- will be made to harmonize the is for which the allies. are fighting conte principles laid down by Presi- mt has developed the fact that the Entente nations have informed. rach ‘ very fully of their maximum a@ minimum terms of peace so that pach one has come to an exact know!l- ge of what the others are fighting for. ‘Those details, it now seems practically in, will be disclosed freely to Prest- mt in such a way as to comply vit h the suggestions of his note of Dec all the belligerents for such n here of ‘America’s probable y brought from an official source | that this country stood rvedly on the broad basis outlined ae srenee two addresses, one to a world peace fed- a state of war be declared. ® terms involve the destruction of proposing tlon and the other to Congress advie- JAPANESE NAVY PROTECTING . 5. WEST COAST, SAYS TOKIO Admiralty Statement Denies mo German Submarine Is Operating im the Pacific Ocean. SAN FRANCISCO, April 16.—The Japanese admiralty officially denied yesterday that there was a German submarine in the Pacific Ocean, accord- ing to cablegrams to a Japanese news- paper here. The Pacific coast of the United States is safe from the depredations of an en- emy diver by the protection of the Japanese navy, the Admiralty an- nounced. Capt. W. W. Gilmer, commandant of the Twelfth Naval District, whose of- fice April 11 issued a warning that Ger- )man submarines were in the Pacific, said: “IT am very giad the Japanese think there are no German submarines in this ocean. We have had reports to the con- trary, but none which we have been able to verify.” COUNTRY NEEDS GOOD COOKS Bryn Mawr Girls Who;Can Milk Cow Need Not Study Aviation. PHILADELPHIA, April 16—In re- sponse to an invitation from the Na- tional League for Woman's’ Service, Bryn Mawr students met today to mo- bilize for service to their nation in war. “If you know how to cook,’’ the invi- tation says, “‘don’t stop to learn how, to become a;motor driver. If you can milk a cow, don’t undertake to study aviation. The country needs cooks and dairymaids rignt now and, if that hap- pens to be your job just now, stick to it and do it a little better than you have been doing it.’’. M. Carey Thom- as, president of Bryn Mawr, presided at the meeting. “DRY BUTTERMILK” BEING MADE: Product Valuable to Replate Sour Milk in Cakes. OMAHA, Neb., April 16.—Omaha creameries are contracting to deliver their buttermilk to plants which will convert it into dry food, beginning May 1, The dry food plants will run the but- Ntermilk over warm rolis, driving out the 90 per cent of water and, by a special process, convert it into human food. The product is a dry buttermilk that retains its lacti bacilli itn full ana is, therefore, valuable for making cakes and other bakery products in place of sour milk, JAPANESE WISH TO EWLIST Havelien President Barred From En- relling in National Gar, CHICAGO, 16—Yasud “Friwa, | representative of the Daily Nippu Jiji, Japanes® paper published at Honoitilu, is on his way to Washington to get a ruling from the War Department on the military status of 2,000 Japanese in the islands who wish to enlist. The law does not permit naturalization of Japanese citizens and on that account the Japanese citizens in the Hawaiian Islands have been refused admission to the national guard. Yasuo Fuwa says the Japanese citi- zens of the islands are willing to en- list a force “of almost any size up to 3,000," if the United States will accept it. It is in this connection that he will seek the ruling from the War Depart- ment. Horse trading fs still the pastime of many—who use th- Post-Dispa ca ae Horse and Vehicle Columns to buy d sell. SIIGAR SO SCARCE HERE THAT SOME. | STORES ARE OUT Stock in Others So Low Limit Is Put on Amount to Each Customer. A POUND 10 CENTS Asserted t..45 Railroads Are Not Furnishing Cars for Ship- ments to West. The scarcity of sugar in St. Louis today reached the gravest point so far in the dearth which has prevailed for several weeks, with the wholesalers and brokers complaining that only negligible shipments are coming in, and with the retailers in some cases having exhausted their stocks and in others placing a limit on sales to single persons of from lv at retail was 9 and 10 pounds for 2 dol- lar, but at some places as little as t&% pounds were given for this sum. Various reasons have been allesed for the sugar insufficiency. At the time of the threatened railroad strike, it was said to be due to a strike in the Fastern refineries. Last week brokers declared that the great refineries were finding adequate markets at their doors, wi*h- out having to consider frelght charges for hauls as far away as St. Louis To- day it was asserted that the railroads were to blame for not furnishing cars for sugar shipments to the West Several grocers in South St. Louis re- ported that their stock of sugar had been exhausted since Saturday, and that they had been unable to replenish it either by buying from the wholesalers or borrowing from other retailers. “ne of the largest grocers in the West End stated that he had a supply of only 200 pounds on han4, and that he vas lirit- ing individual purchasers to 50 cents or $1 worth. Urged te Ecohomize. Most of the grocers were selling only to their regular customers, and some urged them to economize in the use of sugar, while others recommended sub- stitutes, such as syrups and molasses. At a South Vandeventer avenue shop, buyers were asked to. be content with 10 cents worth, and were not permitted to buy more than 2% cents worth. One of the biggest downtown groceries would sell only 6&0 cents worth to an tn- dividual buyer, and gave five pounds for that amount. Another reported that he would sel] as much sugar as the pur- chaser wanted at 9% pounds for $1. Highest on North Side. A West End grocér, on Laclede ave- nue, is selling 9% pounds for $1 in limited quantities only to regular customers. He told a neighboring grocer who ordered five barrels of sugar from a wholesaler and got only three sacks. The highest price was noted in several North Side groceries—8% pounds for $1. In some of these places purchases w limited to 2% pounds, -- 2% cents worth In the West End and South Side prices ranged from 9 to 10 pounds for $1, and sales were limited to from 50 cents to $1 worth. they Yesterday POST-DISPATCH exceeded and Republic, combined, “Wants.’’ POST-DISPATCH alone . SSS Another Clean Sweep! The keen, analytical minds of up-to-minute advertisers. are never thrown off the track. They know just what are doing when they buy more space in the POST-DISPATCH than they do in all the other papers added . It’s profitable results they, are after, and that’s what they get in St. Louis’ one Big, Newspaper. (Sunday) In Every Department Viz.: Home-Merchants, National and Real Estate and The Record for Sunday, April 15: Total Paid Advertising— POST-DISPATCH alone ........... Globe-Democrat and Republic combined. wees. 368 Cols, POST-DISPATCH alone exceeded both..... 52 Cols. Home-Merchants’ career POST-DISPATCH alone ..... Globe-Democrat and Republic combined . POST-DISPATCH alone exceeded both. National Advertising— Globe-Democrat and Republic combined....... POST-DISPATCH alone exceeded both..... Real Estate and Wants— POST-DISPATCH alone ..........°. Globe-Democrate and Republic combined...... 187 Cols. POST-DISPATCH alone exceeded both...... @eFor More Than 10 Years or 524 Consecutive Sundays = the advertising in the that of the Globe-Democrat pesccess» 420 Cols, . .203 Cols. . seve» 168 Cols, 40 Cols. 71 Cols. 68 Cols. 3 Cols. veeeese e+ 146 Cols. 9 Cols. is St. Louis’ The Sunday POST-DISPATCH has demonstrated that it Louis*. ‘‘One Big Newspaper.” First in adVéertising—First in news and features. -FIRST IN OFRCULATION Average entire year 1916: | Daily.......204,201 cents to $1 worth. The prevailirg price+4 Wreckage, of War in One Fre A City ul 2000 people. It lay in the path of the German invasion. The Germans held it for two years and this was the way ut a. memory. Puissieu, before A sag war, ° was a - lively little town of] ‘Le main street of the town the invaders were driven out. ‘ew heaps of debris, the town now is literally nothing - wer. . bd ae bee - % a oe a -, oe aa , ' hs sr : nn Ra a > ae aL, ‘s& 4 ¥ Fo a a . ‘ > A . ‘ . *F oR 7 . - * yr eee , ‘e ‘ , 2 © a , be ~ * a Se eat ‘ a, = > an = . ~~ - ¢ Se > Se ee | : : a ; ° es ay Me % a 4 Pat a a = ; ore . - -¥ - Ric : * x P . . : ee = . Sete i, = ; ae “ @ a a mk “4 ee * ee r . r - ae + Pee, he é ae ” + ¢ ~ Stage of fiver: “16.6 Bat a fa! al trated the German second line lust night at several points in Alsace. The War Office reports that great numbers of German dead were found in the trenches which had been torn by the French : g : i “a - t $ g. m . ‘ ~ paths? + aati, RS Se Mile bis, Sat ott aaa! De Mis) eae ROR ets EA AD OS ie Sane he Ye “8 MS. rr SM eS. tia oP <7 cee : Pee, ee a a Ca er Ap PES ~ REO Cie tee Ree ware Ago . ae a ee , ae) ae G ay ybeer ARIE 5 ae Be ws, 2 Yair at a am ny 3k wen —_ ¥ ws ; rE) se i FRANCE, April 16.—The Desh sone 3 ued today gradually to widen the line