St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 28, 1917

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Many Big Guns and Men Are Captured — Russians Sink Ten Schooners in Black Sea Bombardment. LONDON, April 28.—The British have opened an attack along several miles of the front north or the Scarpe River, according to an official an- nouncement issued by the War Office today. The British troops are making good progress in the face of conésiderable opposition, the announcement says. The fighting continues. ~ BRITISH WIN ONE TOWN AND HALF OF ANOTHER ih sce ‘Reported Taken and) ‘Desperate’ Fight Is On ~ for Oppy. ° BY a Staff Correspondent of the Associated Press. BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN PRANCE, via London, April 28.—An- other attack was launched by the Brit- ish this morning. The blow was struck on the front between the Scarpe River and Lens on the ground ,over which some of the most desperate fighting has occurred since the British inaugura- ted the offensive on Easter Monday. The struggle now in progress is very bitter. The Germans in anticipation of another British effort had brought up reinforcements. Fresh German divis- ions have been identified by the Brit- ish. In today’s drive the British faced a well organized trench system protected by wire. entanglements and held by strong forces of Germans. The artil- lery. preparation which has been in progress for several days did much dam- age to the defense works, but there re- mained many troublesome strong points bétween Roeux, just north of the Scarpe, and, Gavrelle. North of Gavrelle satisfactory prog- ress was made so far as could be judged, and early in the day priséners were being brought back... South of this place the British got on toward Green- land Hill, taking a trench north of Monchy. 2. | It is reported that the. British have eocupied the town of Arieux and half of Oppy, but furious German counter at- tacks are developing and the situation is one of surging changes. , The fiercest imaginable fighting is under way for the wood west of Roeux. The weather is favorable. The airmen are very active. How Lens Withdrawal Stopped. There is an interesting report cur- rent here that Field Marshal von Hin- denburg came to the German positions opposite the British lines on the Arras front just after the Easter Monday at- tack and was much wrought up over the conditions which he found there. The ~ Field Marshal is said to have been par- ticularly annoyed by the German with- _ @rawal from Lens which then was un- der way, commanded that it be stopped _ and issued orders that there be no fur- _ ther retreat until he personally gave the = r 4. ~ This statement seemed to coincide with the sudden stiffening of German resist- “ance about Lens when it looked more than 10 dayé ago that the city would Whely be given up within a few hours. The fires lighted in Lens two weeks ago still are burning and it seems there will be little left intact by the time the Ger- mans aro ay eres out. vesian Cannen. ~The “Seiten hacen to take many Slings ali of whom profess an abso- lute faith that the submarine warfare #1 bring victory to German arms. Some of them also are confident that Russia will make a separate peace. It is evi- _ Gent that the German higher command - {= agsiduousty eultivating these ideas in Order to keep up the morale of the ‘troops. The prisoners also appear to be @onvinced that Field Marshal von Hin- - denburg either is or was preparing e t offensive on the western front. Whether due to a shortage of their “@wD cannon or not it has been recently ‘that the Germans still are | negro, GUATEMALA BREAKS OFF RELATIONS WITH GERMANY Washington Announces That the Ger- man Minister Has Been Handed His Passports. Germany, ister his passports and canceled the exequaturs of German Consuls here. Official advices of the break, coming from the American legation in Guate- mala City, President Estrade Ca- brera assigned as the reagon for his act the desire to stand with the United States in tho fight for democracy and the preservation of international law. WOMAN KILLED IN FALL IN AN ELEVATOR SHAFT Sixth say Stenographer Drops From Sixth Floor at the Roe Building. Miss Maude Evans, 28 years old, 513/ Yon Versen avenue, fell at 1 o'clock this afternoon from the sixth floor of the Roe Building, Broadway and Pine street, to the bottom of the elevator shaft. She died shortly after at the city hospital. She was employed as a stenographer at the Masonic Employment Bureal, 600 Roe Building. Immediately after she left the office for the afternoon two men in the office heard a scream, and run- ning out found the door to the ele- vator shaft open. While peering down, Alex B. Oerth was struck on the head by the elevator, which was descending from above, and narrowly escaped being knocked into the pit. The elevator man, David’ Porter, a said that he discharged a pas- senger at the sixth floor and that Miss Evans tried to enter the car. Porter told her to wait a minute until he came down and closed the door. But as he started upwards, he said, she thrust herself against the door and fell into the shaft. AMERICAN FLYER BRINGS DOWN NINTH ENEMY CRAFT Lefbery Gets Under German’, and. Enfilades the. Fusilage With His Machine Gun. PARIS, April 28.—Although only offi- cially credited with eight, Raoul Givas Lufbery of the Lafayette escadrille, shot ddwn his ninth German airplane Tuesday. Unlike the Germans, the French score victims carefully, requir- ing, corroboration by artillery and avia- tion observers for the pilot’s statement that he destroyed an enemy machine. Lufbery was just inside the German lines when he engaged an enemy ma- chine und succeeded in getting under the German’s tail and enfilading the fusilade with his machine gun. The enemy airplane burst into flames be- fore reaching the earth. BAVARIAN PREMIER GOING TO VIENNA TO DISCUSS PEACE Count Hertling, London Hears, Wil Confer With Cabinet Men Re- “garding Prospects. LONDON, April 28.—Count Hertling, the Premier of Bavaria, says a dispatch from Munich by way of Amsterdam, to the Central News, is going to Vienna to confer with the Austro-Hungarian Cabi- net Ministers. regarding peace pros- pects. Car In Tomorrow’s Sunday Post-Dispatch The Menace of World-Wide Famine— Noted economical and food student analyzes the unparal- led and dangerous condition that confronts mankind today. What England Should Do for reland__ Roosevelt, Taft, Cardinal Gib- bons, Dr. Eliot and others tell why Home Rule should be granted to the Emerald Isle immediately, Raising the Stars and Stripes at St. Thomas— peeve org in the OGRAVURE ECTION = of ' ia scene attending the Amer- fcanization of our new colon- ies in the West Indies. “Enlist in the Navy’’. A stirring appeal by Secretary Daniels through the Post-Dis- patch, What ince Un.ied States Has Done for the Poor Boy From Germany— A noted St. Louls business man, who was himself a poor im- migrant from Germany not so long ago, tells what this coun- try has done for him and others like him and why Germans should be loyal to a land that gives them ot ig Bg aye they never dreamed of at home and would never have had there. Getting a U. S. Naval Recruit Ready for the Sea— Just what he is put through .to make him fit “to do his bit” in our first line of defense. The Président's Great Mcaaage— ° A Printed in full, in colors, on a double magazine page. so Sun- gay Post-Dispatch readers may lie for reference the historie plea for the democratization of the world. Order Your Copy Today wer GAINES TESTIFIES WASHINGTON, April 26.—Guatemala | has broken off diplomatic relations with : handed to the German Min-' WIFE TOLD HIM OF BUVING in High School Teacher’s Family Ill After Meal. SHE BOUGHT Webster Released Six Weeks Ago From the Missouri Sanitarium. J. Allison Gaines, instructor of mathematics at - McKinley High School, testified today before Coroner Denny of St. Louis County that his wife, Mrs. Sarah Gaines, confessed to him before her death under myster- ious circumstances, that she pur- chased arsenic yestérday afternoon at a St. Louis drug store, Mrs. Gaines, who was released from the Oakland Sanitarium in Glendale, six weeks ago, died at 6:30 a. m., at teh family home, 604 Bonita avenue, Webster Groves. She was the or- ganizer and former secretary ofthe St.. Louis County Welfare Association and probation officer of the St. Louis County Court. She had for several years been active in social service work. She was 38 years old. At the inquest Mary Angelica Meigs, 15 years old, a Spanish girl and a ward of Mrs. Gaines, stated that while she was helping Mrs. Gaines get supper last night the latter handed her a pack- age wrapped in blue paper and told her to put it away in the medicine cabinet. The girl identified which was found iy the cabinet. Cor- oner Denny said it contained arsenic crystals. At the family dinner last night, steak, gravy, potatoes, milk and coffee were served. A tray of food was sent up- Stairs to Mrs. Gaines’ mater. Mrs, Mary Carnahan}«a widow, ‘ ofthe dinner because she carried the tray upstairs to Mrs, Carnahan, and on her return, the others having eaten and become suddenly ill, was warned by Gaines against partaking of the food. The attacked Mrs. her husband, her mother her five sons, Strother, Kénneth, Quentin and Allison, ranging in oge from 19 to 11 years. A dog that had been fed after the dinner was also sick. Two physicians were summoned and worked for several hours to save their lives. At noon it was said that all the others would probably recover. Samples of the food eaten were taken by Dr. Claude J. Armstrong, who will make a chemical analysis. Mrs. Gaines, in December, 1915, had herself appointed guardian of Mary Angelica Meiggs, the 14-year-old girl who had ben sent here from Peru by Mrs. Gaines’ sister, Miss Grace Carna- han, Superintendent of Schools of Peru, into whose custody she had been given pt the death of her mother. Mrs. Gaines took the action when she dis- covered that another . sister, Miss Mray Carnahan of Glendale, was plan- ning to adopt the girl. Mrs. Gaines said she felt that Miss Grace Carnahan had a better right to the child than Miss Mary Carnahan be- cause of the interest the former had taken in the child in Peru. There was considerable litigation in the Clayton courts over custody of the child. RAIN FIRST PART OF WEEK AND COOL, THEN FAIR, WARMER THE TEMPERA TURES. illness Gaines, and Stewart, . 81 Official forecast for *%*. Louis and vicinity: Unecttied weather tonight and -tomorrow: probably with rain; not much change in temperature. o-_--—-— WASHINGTON, fined ons BiT AS A GARDEN April 2 8. SPRIVALER: Weather predic- tions for the week beginning tomor- row, issued by the Weather Bureau today, are: Plains States and Upper. andg Middle oe a Valleys—Snow rain over plains states and iy rain-in the Mis- sissippi Valley at the beginning of the week will / probably be fol- lowed by fair aft- er Monday. The first -half of the week will be cool, with frosts: the latter half considera- bly warmer. West Guif States—Cool and unsettied, probably showers first half of the week; latter half fair, higher temperatures. Ohio Valley and Tennessee nsett)ed, coo! and showery first half of week: probably followed by fair and warmer SS after Wedneerday. POISON Woman Dies and Seven Others ARSENIC Groves Woman Was such a package}. The little girl escaped from eating SHH | come tax of a client, stated that at A manufacturing firm tribution to the country it would dest | Ship: That Fired Our First Shot in the War} LIEUT BRUCE WAR In Command of Mongolian Gun Crew. INGOME TAX PAYMENTS HERE TOTAL $792,000 Collector Moore Reports Many Responses to Government's Appeal for Funds. An appeal made two weeks ago George H. Moore, Collector Revenue for the Eastern District of Missouri, that on account of the war in- come taxes be paid at once instead of waiting until they are due on June 13, has resulted up‘to today in the payment here of $792,000. Last year the income tax payments up to this time amounted to only a few thousand dollars. In addition to sending their checks many taxpayers inclosed letters stating that they were happy to do this serv- ice for the Government. One farme: in Scott County wrote that at this sea son he was hard up for money, bw was giad to be of assistance to thi by of Internal country. A 8t. Lovis law firm, sending the in it this ta. as possible stated that it but that all is a i? urging all its clients to pay once, or as much of it resources are small, the disposition of the Government. A $t. Louis wholesale firm wrote thi. it is heavily in debt and needs every available dollar, but is pleased to sen] its tax. Another firm, in addition sending its check, stated that :—) as a CO}- hy $10 worth of revenue stamps instead of presenting them for redemption. Last Thursday Collector Moore's of: .ce received $143,000 in payment of: ince ne taxes, and he reports that a simfar « )»n- dition exists in all the other district: of the country. The amount still to be paid in, this district Is about 3.500.000 SUBMARINE BOMBARDS A HARBOR USED BY TRANSPORTS BERLIN, via London, April 23 —‘4 submarine has successfully bombarded the harbor works’, important for trans- ports, near Gouraya, west of Algiers.” says an official statement issued today. “One loading bridge was demolished and another badly damaged.’’ Gouraya lies on the Algerian iterranean coast, © miles west giers. Med- of Al- City Employes to Get Pay Monday. The Board of Alderinan passed the an- nual appropriation bili of $16,306,188 today and on Monday the 730 emploves wil! receive their pay for the first half of April, which was due on April 1. May 8 will be pays day for the second half of April. Imay deem wise. “THE “MONGOLIA. PLANS TO SET DRAFT IN MOTION WITHOUT DELAY Every Township in Country to Be Registering Young Men for Duty Within 10 Days After Army Bill Is Signed. WASHINGTON, April 28.—With en- actment of the selective draft army bill assured, the War Department is preparing to set machinery in motion Yithout delay 10. producesrnter he, ‘Tmeastre within two years a trained aimy of 2,000,000 men. Within 10 days after the biit is S:gned, every township in the coun- try will be registering its young men for duty, and work wil! have begun on the 16 training cantonments or camps where preparation of the fcrces for war will start in August cr September. Sites for the canton- rents have been selected tentatively, and all arrangements made for the ccncentiration of the troops assigned te each, ‘ Decentralization of administrative work will be sought by the depart rent in every move it makes. De- toils will not be disclosed until the bill has passed, but it is known that registration . will be carried through Sheriffs and other county officials, a&ided by postmasters or other Federal agencies where that seems desirabie. Instructions and forms already have been prepared, ' on | end wil be forwarded to the State Ad- | jutants-General for ———, county officials. Vide Publicity Vianned. Wide publicity is planned so that no man liable for registration wil: have a good excuse for failing to re- spond. On a date to be set every citizen affected by quired on pain of heavy penalty present himself at the nearest regis- tration place. where machinery Le provided for classifying the cruits and eliminating those exempt. Doubtful cases will be referred tw higher authority. With the rolls of those liable for service complete, the task of select- ing the men to go in the first incre- ment of 500,000 will begin. It has been suggested that this be done by means of the county jury wheel. The first man whose name is drawn would go, under that plan, with first 500,000 men, training within a few months. distribution | i | | the act will be re- | to | will. re-, —-— amended bill with the draft sa he will answer “aye.” - Representative Shackleford us act sent. ott Senate Bars Liquor From | Men in Army and Navy WASHINGTON, April 28. > | .§ N its first vote on the admin- | istration army biil today the Senate adopted a most Gras] tie prohibition amendment, mek ing it unlawful to sell or « any liquor, wine or beer to any officer or man in ‘uniform or knowingly furnish liquors to one ‘person in the army. =— fluence or weight in his ce ean raise a division under this” ment,” Senator Lodge replied, “4 be glad to see him do it.” Senator Williams of Mississippi he favored allowing Co’. Sey recruit a volunteer expedition, bat | 0 ot to command {t. hae “He is competent ae vy ae ae ment, but by no means a diviaton, Senator Williiama. Fs Wtlttams for Registering his approvel ae ae |» that Sptener Gov. Sulzer of New 7? 5 “It any man, by his own personal in-