St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 14, 1917

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Your advertisement printed in the Post-Dispatch gets RESULT circulation. More Post-Dispatch Wants Sunday than the Globe-Democrat and Ke- public COMBINED. he — Only VOL. 70. NO. ——— = ST. LOUIS. ‘FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, — OT. LOUIS E vening Paper St Louis A NT in ee With the Service 1917—26 PAGES. POST-DISPATCH A ssociaied Press News NIGHT ee ee te EDITION oo -_—— A A oa oe nee PRICE} an St. Louis and Suburbs, One Cent Elsewhere, Two t( enta. BRITON DIES AFTER ENCOUNTER WITH AN AMERICAN SAILOR ~ STLIOSEPA SRDS OAD TO RAVE SOLD DRAFT EAEMPTIONS | Federal Investigators Assert One Man Admitted He Paid $250 to Be Found Unfit. of Shore Leave for Three Days As Result of Trouble. Sy Associated Presa, AMERICAN NAVAL PERIiTISI WATERS, Sept. 14.—-Shore liberty, which Americans below the rank of warrant officers as well as Isritish have been of for three days, was recommenced today by permission of the naval 2u- thorities, The itween J. W. Parente, an and a youth named Plummer, 'which resulted in the latter's deeth. The American bluejackets sent a t'oral to the funeral of Plummer. The ban the rank of traveling to /urbs still is BASE sailors, | Mae, SOME MEN RE-EXAMINED lieutenant commander a nearby city in force. COWBOY SAID TO HAVE FOUND All Found to Be Eligible and Are Conscripted; 75 Per Cent of Physical Claims Allowed. KANSAS CITY. Draft frauds volve a St. have uncovered agents for the A high subordinate in volved. Other announced today Attorney Wilson, lance and will be Government inquiry. The fraud revelations are the 911° come of a month’s work byy Govern. ment operatives. The grand convening at St. Joseph Monday investigate the disclosures. Exemptions 75 Per Cent. Suspicion was aroused by the large number of exemptions for physical disability. Within the first week after the examination of drafted men had begun, the exemptions in St. Joseph for this cause averaged 75) left that section about years ago per cent. | when it was a part of Mexico. When the District Exemption| always been thought. the Board here considered the Buchanan County claims for exemption and i: | ing. exemptions wate for Seemtbat dtexbit- : BELGIANS BRAVE DEATH T0 GET BODIES OF ENGLISH AVIATORS ity, several of the men who had beer exempted for that cause were brought here. A _ physician exain- | ined them and they were found phys- ically fit and were certified for Crawl in Face of Rapid-Fire Guns ice. Only 150 Yards Away After Air Battle in “No Man's Land.” escape | HAVRE, Sept. 14.—A tragic aerial] ‘combat took place the afternoon of} Sept. 9 above the Belgian trenches aleng the railroad from Niewport to Dixmude. had been aAnurrounded by five Ger- mans fell east of Ramscapelle in “No Man's Land’ with 150 yards separat- | Mo., threaten Sept. i 4, which to in Treasure said to Have By Priests Who Fled From Gra- ham County 75 Years Ago. PHOENIX, Ariz., Sept. 14.—The discovery of $400,000 cached in the hills (iraham County, this State, is reported by H. R. Whitman of | Solomonville, who is now in Chand- ler, near here. The discovery made by Joe Walsey, a cowboy. White hunting stray cattle north- west of Solomonville, Walsey found 4 tree trunk from which the handle of shovel protruded. Digging dis- an iron box containing Spanish gold coins and gold vessels the intricate worth of which is said to bring the value of the find above $400,000. The gold ford, seat placed in dozen exemption officials ir Joseph and Suchanan County been by specia! of and iu Department Jus- official office tice. county oi his in- draft are officials, it was Inited States under drawn into by are surveil! the closed jury will Saf- and taken to County, has been of Graham security. Old aoe is serv- $250 Payment A man who desired to the draft is said to have confessed to the Government authorities that it cost him $26@°and that the monev was paid to a subordinate in the of- fice of a county official who was a member of the Exemption Bonurd. Following a confession from the sub- papaptig ro wh ordinate, Government operatives ; | - The —. aes. office of the offiical and an Shahid mmething f JU, men from a Belgian regiment, The draft evader was found to be 4 a liaaser >. h ‘termined to lend aid, crawled out in @ligible. According to his story, h ithe broad daylight to the aircraft. was approached by a sudordinate | Both the aviators were found dead. and informed that he could chase exemption for pur- | $250. lle fered to pay the amount by check, | for the other. but was informed that it woule have | The rapid fire guns resumed their ‘to be in cash. Accordingly, he went | shelling of the spot where the ma- to the bank, drew out the monev | chine lay, but the Belgians neverthe- and paid it. less succeeded in bringing back to There are three selection boards in | their trenches the body of the other | St. Joseph and one for the county, | pnglishman. the city’s quota being 172 and the county's 108. SHORTAGE OF DOLLAR BILLS OWING TO ENGRAVING RUSH Nee / Banks Here Reunited to Put in Cir- culation Soiled Currency, Which Is Usually Exchanged for New. Owing to the great amount of Gov- ernment printing incident to the wr, particularly engraving of Libeit’ bonds, the Bureau of Printing aod Engraving at Washington has been unable to meet the demand of banks for new currency, especially $1 bills, of which there seems to be a serious | shortage. Consequently, Subtreasur- | er Vandiver has requestéd the banks | transferred to the aviation section. in this district to put back into cir: | His older brother, Combie, is al- culation soiled currency which in|ready enlisted in the aviation sec- normal times is exchanged for new.| tion, and a younger brother, Hoyle, As is customary at this time of| 19 years old, is a the year, the Subtreasury is sending | Hospital No. 21, now out to the South and Southwest large | shipments of silver dollars. In the last few weeks approximately of these coins have been sent goes daily. Vandiver said laborers of the | South and Southwest prefer to be Traced. ot- | bodies and returned a few hours later Clyde H. Smith, Son of Rev. E. Combie Smith to Go to Camp. Clyde H. Smith, 21 years old, of the Rev. E. Combie Smith, pas- ‘tor of the Maple Avenue M. E. Church, 'Minister to enter the national serv- ice when he goes to Camp Funston, Sept. 19, with the second contingent of drafted St. Loutsans,. Smith had been exempted by Twenty-eighth Ward Board on ground that he was a. medical stu- dent, but he voluntarily the exemption be he might join the colors and be the in France. Prevailing Since June 7. | + i a paid in stiver. HELENA, Mont., ‘fell in Helena today. | Preceding it was a general rain STEEL ROLLERS GET $800 MONTH throughout the state, breaking a |drouth prevailing since June 7. Sept. Other Skilled Workcfs at Ee town, O., Making $15 Daily. YOUNGSTOWN, 0O., Sept. 14.—| Several rollers in steel mills here are | earning as much as $800 a month, | at a rate of approximately $10,000 a | year, as a result of increases granted in a recent agreement with Amalra- | mated Association Workers, accord- ing to managers of the plants. Hea'- ers, roughers and other skilled work- | ers are able to make $12 to $:5) daily. The new wage scale is based on) the selling price of steel. This has. almost doubled the wages given for some classes of work, manufacttirers say. In Next Sunday’s Post-Dispatch Queen Marie of Rumania Tells of Her Service in War Hosa- pitaln—The second article in the series from this royal writer's pen, now runnine in the Post-Dispatch, describes pathetic incidents of her work “Knitters Here. Knitters There, Knitters, Knitters EKvery- where”—Drawings by Artist Westermann, illustrating amusing phases of a popular war-time diversion. Where St. Louts’ Drafted Men Are Being Trained for War- fare — Photographs from Camp Funston, handsomely reproduced in Rotogravure. The St. Loutsa Boy Whe Recame the World's Greatest Ruyer— Life story of a man whe is a great factor in America’s pre- parations for war. St. Lovts’ “Mother of Hohoesn”—— Story of a «auatnt character “ho is ever ready to oblige “her boys” with a “plece of change’ or a “atandoft’ when they cre down and out. a 700 Officers Get Assignments. LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Sept. 14. —The 700 provisional Lieutenants wnder instruction at Fort Leaven- worth have been assigned to regi- ts. A few of them are placed with regiments now on duty in France, but most of them go to or- ganizations forming at the army training camps. The special school ‘old | 'buried the church wealth before flee- | ‘any | Morris, but several | de- | 'The Belgians brought in one of the) 14.—Snow Yankee and British Seamen Denwtend| | ban followed the encounter be- | American | against Americans below | Records Show Check Was for or jis sub- } $400,000 IN GOLD IN ARIZONA Been Buried | was | | | ’' gon City |snetion | } (he ordered the coal from residents of | | that section declare Wals as oe ee ee re Walsey has dis 'will testify that he had directed Mor- covered a hiding place of priests who It has | priests | | | | | Germans opened a hot gunfire | , GORDON TO TESTIFY HIS SON PAID SCOTT IN GASH FOR COAL Check Tendered in Payment for deprived | Purchase Through State Said to Have Been Refused. BELOW COST TO $113.10, and That Coal Was Billed at $116. By a Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Sept. 14. +The Post-Dispatch correspondent learned, today, that former auditor John P. Gordon will testify that he did*not pay John Scott check for the car of coal, belonging to the State, which was delivered ‘his home, but will say that at Seott’s |request the amount was paid in cash 'by his son, Morris G. G;ordon, State Supervisor of Building and Loan De- partment. He also will testify that Morris Gordon paid Scott only $113 10 for the coal, though the same cost the State $1.16. Scott is still absent from Jeffer and his version of the cannot be obtained. Gordon has told State officers who are conducting the investigation tha: Scott, when delivered. to coal Pyrat the Lle that he was out of town car arrived and was ris to pay Scott for the coal and that Morris told Scott he would give him a check. He will testify that Morris says Scott told him he dfd not wict check, but that Scott said “IT want the money.” don says that Morris then drew personal check, payable to State Treasurer Middlekamp, cashed it ‘tt the Treasurer's window and pail Scott in cash. The records in the Treasurer's of- 19 (,or- , ’ si}3s ‘fice show that Morris Gordon cashed | his own check for $113.10 at the window on June 28. The freight rec- ords show the coal arrived June 26, and the records in the Auditor's of. | Minneapolis Man AMERICAN AMBULANCE DRIVER KILLED BY SHELL IN FRANCE Meets Death and Companion Is Wounded When on Duty at Advanced Post. PARIS, Sept. 14.—R. A. N. Hall of Minneapolis, a driver in section 62 of the Hartjes-Norton Red Cross service, was killed on Tuesday when on duty at an ad- vanced post and was buried near Avocourt Wood, says the Herald to- day. The shell which killed Hall wound- ed his companion, B. E. Sylvester of Vlainview, Minn. ambulance AMERICAN AVIATOR KILLED STATE | Pau. State | by | ' forees IN ACCIDENT AS MOTOR FAILS Corp. W. H. Meeker, Formerly Harvard Crimson, Joined Lafay- ette Squadron in May. PARIS, Sept. 14.—-Corp. Meeker, tr American aviator, was killed at Tuesday, ‘n an airplane acei- (lent due to his motor stalling, the llerald announces today. of the France, is formerly of the Har- vard Crimson, who sailed from New York in May to join the aviation | in France and whose arrival, at Bordeaux was reported on May 31. Attached to Squadren, in lienry Meeker, U-BOAT SINKS AMERICAN tran-! +can : cording inot | SHIP; ALL OF CREW SAVED British Aamivelty Rmeteuibiii De- struction of the Wilmore on Sept. 12, by Submarine. LONDON, Sept. 14. ship Wilmore was sunk German submarine on Sept. to an announcement today by the British admiralty. members of the crew were saved. kurther been received. 12, ac- All of the vessel details have NEW YORK, Sept. more was an armed 5399 tons gross, built in 1914, at’ Quincy, Mass, and was § formerly! known the Atlantic. She sailed from Philadelphia, Aug. 26, with a cargo.of coal, locomotives and crude cil for a French port. Her owner was the Berwind White Coal Co. of | 14 The. Wil- steamship of | as | New York bees BYTERIAN BOARD ASKS - STUDENTS TO WAIVE EXEMPTION fice show” thatthe Sate Padded dmelgepupmendaion. days It Is Neither ise Nor Patriotic to Take Ad- An English airplane which | for this particular car of coal. The amount paid by Morris Gor- | don for the coal, according to his own statement, is less than the coal | | would have cost at $2.90 per ton, based on the weight of the car at the shipping point or on the weight here in the yards. ENEMY ALIEN HELD TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR HIS POST AT Z00 Case of Elephant's Keeper, Claimed Exemption, Is De- cided. | | (an | Counsellor THIRD BROTHER TO JOIN COLORS ‘and a | Specifically, son | | cause he was not a will be the third son of the)! A third-class anima! keeper can be an enemy alien and a city em- | ploye at the same time, according to opinion given by Associate City Hamilton to Comptroller Nolte today. Erich Tanzer is third-class alien keeper an enemy animal he is Elephant keeper at the Zoo. He claimed ex emption from the military draft be- citizen Efficiency Board got after him and |notified Park Commissioner Cunliff | ‘and Comptroller Nolte that he was) Young | the | does not require holders of city asked that | rescinded so that | member of Base | |that Tanzer was qualified. on Jim. asked Hamilton not qualified to wait Comptroller it. Hamilton found about that the charter jobs to be citizens except in specified in- stances, keeper is not one. He found also | ing } of the act, Who | | jsters | n | vantage of Divinity Provision. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 14.—The Toard of Education of the Preshby- terian Church has taken action ask- ministerial candidates tb waive exemption for military service, be- lieving “it is neither wise nor patri- otie to take advantage of the ex- emption provisions.’”’ The board “recommends that un- less they are compelled to seek ex- emption under some other they ‘‘waive exemption re- lating to tneir calling as future min- of the gospel.” This stand, the board adds, “rep- resents the spirit of loyalty on the part of the Presbyterian Church.” SSD URUGUAYAN MARINES BOARD TEUTON SHIPS AT MONTEVIDEO -| Order Covers All Vessels in Harbor Jim's and the) The | When Government Hears of Plan to Sink Them. MONTEVIDEO, Sept. 14.—Uru- suavan marines today boarded all the German ships in the harbor here, the Government having heard of plans to sink the vessels. DENTIST SUED FOR $5000 Bernard P. Bogy Jr., Says Tooth Was of which third-class animal | that there is an ordinance requiring | that day laborers employed by the | city shall be citizens. But Tanzer | gets $75 a month, so he is not a day laborer. His opinion, therefore, was Tanzer a still Jim’s keeper. | | | | » °° SHOW FALLS IN HELENA MONT. | STUDENT AVIATORS PERMITTED Follows Rain Which Breaks Drouth | Iixtracted Unskillfully. Bernard P. Bogy Jr., a lawyer, sued Harry M. Fisher, a dentist in the Metropolitan Building, for $5000 in the Circuit Court today, alleging | that Fisher extracted one of his teeth unskillfully. molars treated. TO TAKE CONTROL OF MACHINES Instructors at Scott Ficld Make De- scent and Ascent in All Flights, However. Student aviators at Scott near Belleville, were permitted day, for the first time since flying began at the field Monday, to take the control of the machines. into their hands after the instructors had placed the machines in the air. In each case, at a signal from the in- structor in the rear, the student took Field, ‘the front control lever and ran the ‘machine for a the instructor but as distance, descent, certain made the well as the ascent. | ' ' ' one time this morning. ‘all the machines now (but three Curtiss the air at These were at the field, machines are ex- tomorrow. They faster than Five machines were in to arrive and pected are smaller ‘will interfere with his chewing. to- | says he went to Fisher in 1913, to have one of his | Fisher advised him | to have it pulled and in extracting it broke it and teeth on gither side) of it. . Other dentists, he says, have | advised him that he will have to have two others extracted, which He bogy November, says he fears cancer. Fisher, when informed by a Post- ' Dispatch reporter that the suit had he not know anything did not know been filed, said Bogy and did about the case. REPORTS 0 CAMP N MOTOR CAR for duty Ranchman Appears at National Army Cantonment With His Golf Clubs. CAMP FUNSTON, Kan., A ranchmap from New reported at Camp Funston yesterday in the national army, driv- | ing a T-passenger motor car. He brought his golf clubs’ with him. | Sept. 14. There are three other golf players in | the. Standard machines now in use, and | will ‘solo’ while they hold two men, they be used later for the students’ 'fiving. | | Sunday. . will be, 'weather are not admitted to the field, There will be no flying at the fleld Tomorrow the fiving hours as on other days when permits, 7:30 to 11:30 a. and 1:30 to 4:30 p. m. Visitors but the flights can be seen from public road- ways. The place can be reached by m.. camp who brought with them and when other wealthy n:en arrive in the second contingent | a golf club probably will be organ- ized. Ok., Bank Has Its Yearly Robbery. ARDMORE, Ok., Sept. 14.—The bank at Elmore, Ok., was robbed carly today by six masked bandits, part of whom drove the townspeople indoors while others wrecked the safe. Only a small amount of money Elmore, SWEDISH LEGATION IN MEXICO ALSO Lansing Reveals From “the Hostile Camp” Was Forwarded to Berlin. lor to Reward Stockholm Charge for His Services. LONDON, statement Sept. 14.—An official issued Lafayette Flying | Government Willian: | secretary of the Swedish Ministry of | -The Ameri- | by a| made | provisions | ‘matic service. ‘in the minds of officials and diplo- | mats here is how much the Stock- | holm Foreign Office knew of the af- | Mexico | his arrival has not disguised his syn- | their golf clubs | by the says O. A. H. Ewerloef, Affairs, been given Foreign has leave | Cisposition of the Minister of Justice to assist in the special investigation | | in connection with the Swedish-Ar- gentine revelations. ————, WASHINGTON, Sept. | Germany's secret practice Sweden's, 14.—How diplomatic transtransmitting forbidden commu- | between German and the Berlin Foreign Office pre- vhiled in Mexico as well as in Argen- tina, is revealed in a document pub- lished ‘by the State Department |' which passed between the celebrated | Herr von Eckhardt, German Minister in Mexico; and the Chancellor. It discloses how charge 6f the Swedish embassy to Mexico, practically acted as a mes- senger boy for Von Eckhardt, nications agents own dispatches, messages for /German iegation, even 'them personally at the telegraph of- fice, and how Von Eckhardt recom- mended that a decoration be secretly 'bestowed upon Cronholm for his services. The disclosure gives a hint of the nature of the evidence in this Gov- ernment’s possession of Germany's illegitimate use of neutral diplomats. The full extent of this evidence mav neyer be published, but it 1. known to be complete and this Govern- ment’s action in making some of it public is not felt to be directed so much at Sweden as toward further informing the world at large of Ger- many’s practices. -No Longer in the Service. It does raise, however, some spec- ulation as to how the Stockholm For- ‘eign Office will explain it. Stock- holm has declared that Baron Low- den, Swedish Minister to Argentina, transmitted messages for Count Lux- burg, the German charge there, without knowing their’ contents. Whether the same defense will be made for Cronholm is @ot known: he no longer is in the Swedish The interesting point fair. Von Eckhardt’s intercepted letter te the German Chancellor recount- ing the extent to which Cronholm used Sweden's diplomatic privileges for Germany and his recommenda- tion of an imperial decoration for him is regarded by allied diplomats here as further evidence of their charge that Germany has distributed decorations among the diplomats of friendly neutrals for such services in «ther instances. Dismissed Last January. Baron Akerhielm, Swedish Charge here, said in response to a query that Cronholm was dismissed from the diplomatic service last January. He would not discuss the cause, | there was no int*mation that it was ‘in any way connected with Cron- holm’ gs relations with, the Germans. Baron Akerhielm called at | State Department yesterday to in- 'form Secretary Lansing that he hid) ‘received from his Government the statement already given to the pulb- ‘lic at Stockholm, explaining that 'Sweden had forwarded dispatches ‘from the German Minister at Buen»ss Aires to Berl’ in German code with- out knowledge of their contents. Jie did not leave a copy of the stat.-- ment. holm Foreign Office will not address any communication to the American Government on the subject. “Acts as Intermediary.” The department’s' translation of | the Von Eckhart letter follows: tin neeiat Legation, Mexico, | Excellency, | lor: | “Herr Folk Cronholm, the Swe- | dish Charge d'Affaires here, since pathy for Germany, and has entered | | into close relations with this lega-. | tion. He is the only diplomat through | whom information from a hostile camp can be obtained. Moreover, he acts as intermediary for official | diplomatic intercourse between this jlegation and your excellency. In 'th» course of this, he is obliged to g0 personally each time to the tele- graph office, not seldom quite late at night, in order to hand in the te'ie- grams. ! “Herr Cronholm was formerly at. and was re- | the preliminary ar-| Pekin and at Tokio, sponsible for rangements which had to be made } _tor the representation of this coun- | USED BY GERMANY Information | ‘LETTER WAS INTERCEPTED | Teuton Minister Asked Chancel-| Swedish | of absence from the Foreign | Office and has placed himself at the | service for, Folk Cronholm, | per-| sonally transmitting as his legation’s | the | delivering | diplo- | but | the) It is assumed that the Stock- | to His! the Imperial Chancel- the American military the Committee on Public ‘*On Sept. 6, by army, 741,053 enlisted men. naval reserves and 14, making a total of #09,340, 29,971; tired men on active duty, 14. enlisted men, 819,881 and the Canip. Armed Volunteer Strength of U. S. on Sept. 6 Was 1,074,146 Men and naval forees, Chairman Dent of the House Military Committee today submitted to the House for publi- cation in the Congressional Record a statement prepared at his request, Information from Government records. 1917,’’ the statement says, ‘‘there were in the regular National Guard and reserve corps of the army 78,828 officers and In the navy were 141,867 enlisted men, 51,473 500 of the naval militia in the Federal service. There were 5000 men in the coast guard and 6500 in the hospital corps, Enlisted strength of the marine corps was reserves in the service 1070; T the belief that the country does not understand the real strength of There were approximately 12,000 officers in the navy and 1166 in the marine eorps, ‘*In other words, on that date the army had, including officers and navy strength on that date of 1,074,146 men, all of whom are volunteers. Prior to that time there was not a drafted soldier in a single training The draft law was approved May 18, 1917.’’ WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. national naval volunteers, 704; re- 254,265, making a total armed — CUMMINS INDICTMENTS | Said to Have Been Made Com- plete by Other Witnesses. of indictments in the investigation of Police- which has been The grand jury return man Ray Cummins, in progress a week following a state- ment by George Frank, a convict In ‘the Missouri penitentiary, mins was his constant associate and knew of his many burgleries in St. Louis, is expected by the Circuit At- torney’s office tate this afternoon or tomorrow. Corroboration of which was told early in the week, ‘said to have been virtually made complete by witnesses who testified this morning and yesterday. In addition to indictments charg- ing burglary and receiving’ stolen property, it is said there will be sev- eral perjury indictments against wit- nesses who testified before the grand jury early this week and that at least one woman associate of Cum- mins and Frank will be indicted for receiving stolen property. Frank has submitted to the Cir- cuit Attorney a number of letters re- ceived by him soon after he entered the penitentiary, nearly a year ago. It is understood these will be used before the grand jury to show the close relations between Frank and Cummins at a time long before the present investigation was. started, and that they will silence the con- tention of Cummins that the investi- gation is a “police frame-up on him.” KAISER THANKS SWABIANS FOR WILSON NOTE PROTEST Kmperor Is Pleased With Rejection “of the Enemy's Dishonorable Eenticements.” AMSTERDAM, Sept. 14.—Replying to the Stuttgart Chamber of Com- merce protest against President Wil- son's reply to the Pope's peace pro- | posals, Emperor William, says a dis- | Patch here, has expressed his thanks | for this new promise of Swabian loy- alty and the indignant rejection “of the enemy's’ dishonorable entice- ments.” “Whoever attributes to the German people disloyalty or lack of honor,” said the Emperor's reply, “foes not know the history or the soul of our people.” PLAN TO AVERT STRIKES Labor Leaders Would Prevent Delay on War Work. WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—The | Council of National Defense has de- | termined to call a conference of la- bor leaders to consider a general agreement Frank's story, | pulsory directly concerning war production, prevention of strikes and lockouts 'and maintenance of prevailing open /or closed union shop conditions. | Secretary Baker, in annéuncing this ‘said no place nor date had been set. an organization representing manufacturers, which already | pledged its adherence to such agreement. an i ‘PARTLY CLOUDY TONIGHT AND TOMORROW; WARMER TONIGHT oo TEMPERATURES: THE Official fore- cast for 6t. Louis and vicinity: | [—AND MANY OF'EM, STAR- SPANGLED ANNER! * night and tomor- , > row; warmer to- | > night. Missour i— Partly cloudy to- night; warmer in south and east central portions. tomorrow unset- tied. _ Iiinois-— Part- = ly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; probably show- ers in north por- tion tomorrow’ warmer in south ARE EXPECTED TODAY | vices from Vienna quote the Politishe 'Corroboration of, Frank’s Story) of using | | central —— = - a ee ee 2 —_ ee ee ee | CENT RAL POWERS TO REPLY 10 THE POPE'S NOTE NEXT WEEK Reported It Will Express Readiness for Peace but Will Not Elaborate on Conditions Regarding Belgium. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 14.—Ad- Rundschau as saying the reply of the Powers to Pope Benedict's | peace proposal will be presented next | week. It is reporte dthe reply will be thoroughly friendly and concilia- tory and will warmly thank the Pope, who by his action contemplated only the welfare and happiness of man-. kind. It will emphasize the readiness of the central _conclude a lasting peace, which will that Cum-! (and peoples. safeguard the rights It will of all states deal in detail |with some of the proposals made in the Pope’s note. is | The Berlinger Tageblatt says the discussions of Germany's reply in the Chancellor's committee have been extremely lively. The reply, says the newspaper, will specify the German terms rather more in detail, but will not define, more than previ- ously had been announced Ger- many’s conditions regarding Belgium beyond saying that Belgium must in no circumstances become a British bulwark on the Continent. LONDON, Sept. 14.—The German Crown Prince has arrived at Berlin, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam. He has had a long conference with the Em- peror regarding the matter of the Polish situation, as mentioned in the Pope's note. COUNTY SALOON KEEPERS WARNED TO FIGHT RESORTS Excise Commissioner Tells Them Failure to Stop Violations May Put All Out of Business. Excise Commissioner Mooney of St. Louis County told about 100 sa- loonkeepers, called together by him at Clayton today, that it was up to ‘them to put a stop to violations of the Sunday closing law and to the illegal ales of intoxicants. Hy warned them if they did not help put a stop to violations of the laws by some of their number they all soon would be put out of business. He suggested they employ investi- gators to gather evidence and prom- ised that if this was done and it waa shown that Sheriff Bopp was not do- ing his duty, he would proceed against Bopp and would ask the Prosecuting Attorney to.call a special grand jury and if necessary appeal to Gov. Gardner. Mooney pointed out that there were many saloons operating with- out a license in St. Louis County, mentioning Mark Gumpert’s “Fauna Flora” particularly. He suggested ‘that the saloon men form an asso- / Dodd, with employers for com- | arbitration of labor disputes | : ers clation to business. put such Mooney places out of and his associate, ing and 40 saloonkeepers joined the St. Louis County Retail Liquor Deal- Association, bringing the mem- bership up to 75. A fund of $159 was raised to employ investigators. ‘A, WESLEY SHAPLEIGH FAILS The conference was proposed by the, National Industrial Conference Board, | 50,000 | has TO WIN DRAFT EXEMPTION Son of Chairman of the Board of Hardware Company Was Mar- ried April 21. A. Wessel Shapleigh of 6 Portlan4 Place, son of A. L. Shapleigh, chair- man of the board of the Shapleigh Hardware Co., was denied exemption from the national army by the Dis- trict Board today. Shapleigh was married April 21. last, and the Board adhered to its practice of refusing exemption | the declaration of war. Partly cloudy to- | | The claim of Shapleigh was based on a dependent wife. mitted an affidavit that his engage- ment was publicly announced last year. The Twenty-elighth Ward board had denied him exemption on this claim and he had appealed to the District Board. GIRL DIES FROM TETANUS Jessie Helston, 15 years old. who lived with her aunt. Mrs. Joseph Federhofer, 701 East Marceau street, -— —— ee KORNILOFF READY Powers in principle to} then withdrew from the meet- | | classes. TO SURRENDER 10 GEN. ALEXIEFF eabellbom Practically at an End as Troops of Former Commander in Chief Stam- pede to Side of Premier Kerensky. ‘Cossack Division Arrests Its Leader, Sending Word Sol- diers Were Duped Into Joining the Revolt. Petrograd Regains Its Calm, and Reconstruction of Cab- inet to Prevent Further Outbreaks Is Begun. PETROGRAD, Thursday, Sept. 13. —After being received by Premier Kerensky at the Winter Palace and informed of the fate which awaited him, Gen. Kruimoff, commander of the Korniloff troops, which were sent against Petrograd, returned to his lodgings tonight and shot him- self. The General's wounds were net fatal. PETROGRAD, Sept. 14.—Al- though the revolt can be considered formally ended only after announce- ment that Gen. Korniloff, its leader, has actually surrendered, the capi- tal and country already show signs of recovering their composure and are attempting a new process of re- construction. The provisional. Government ac- tively is taking necessary measures to restore the interrupted ¢conomic and social life and although the fundamental difficulties which in- spired Gen. Korniloff's adventure remain, hopes are expressed that the Cabinet, which is now under recon- struction, will show greater, vigor and decision in the future. The director of communications, M. Liverovsky, was able to announce that railroad communication had been restored on the Warsaw, Mos- cow-Windau and other interrupted lines, which resumed the transport of freight. _ Premier Kerensky last night is- sued an order giving to the military governor of Petrograd, who tempora- rily is Gen. Paltchinsky, after Gen. Savinkoff's resignation, special pow- ers with regard to the press. ' Petrograd Again Is Calm. ; Petrograd has recovered its calm entirely, a remarkable effect of the suppression of the revolt being that the panicky rush from the capital, caused by the fall of the Baltic port of Piga, has ceased, and the ratiroad stations have recovered their nor- mal appearance. On the bourse, where only private deais are trans- acted, there was a sharp rise in #e- curities. From Moscow it is reported that refugees have begun returning to Petrograd. Doubtful elements in the provinces who certainly woul4 have backed Gen. Korniloff, had he succeeded in his revolt, are passing resolutions in support of the pro- visional Goevernment and in cone demnation of the revolt. The new Cabinet is rapidly prog- ressing toward completion, though friction again has arisen between the Conetitutional Democrats and the Socialists. The Constitutional Dem- ocrats announced to Premier Ke- rensky that the Government must take a lesson from Gen Korniloff's revolt by removing the cuuses and not repeating mistakes Cause of the Revolt. The rovoit, declared the Constitu- tional Democrats, undoubtedly was the fruit of extreme dissatisfaction existing in the more conservative Therefore, the Government i must render reasonable satisfaction to the Conservative Democrats and | resist any pressure to move it toward | Premier |Minister Terestchenko opposed the left. In the debate which followed Vice Nekrasoff and Forel«n the and stip- Constitutional Democrats | ported the Ministers helonging to the to) ' drafted men who were married after | land Terestchenko and He also sub- | ; ) ; ; struction, resigned, parties of the Left, whereupon the Constitutional Democrat Ministers left the room. Afterward Nekrasoff M. Nikitin, Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, re- signed, but later M. Terestchenko withdrew his resignation. Early yesterday the Constitutional Democratic Ministers, Prof. Kokosh- kine, State Controller; M. Youreneff, Minister of Public Works, and M. Oldenburg. Minister of Public In- leaving this par» ty only M. Kartasheff, the procura- tor of the holy synod. Reproached by Premier. Foreign Minister Terestchenks, ac- died from tetanus today at the city | cording to an announcement made by hospital. Last Saturday she broken arm in a fall. days the break was the Russian official news ageney, suffered a will remain in the reorganized Cal- For a few| inet. replacing M. Nekrasoff as Min- Eee ate al QD oe w apparently | ister of Finance. it portion tonight. | healing. but tetanus developed and) The evening newspapers say Pre- Stage of river | she was taken,.to the hospital yee-|mier Kerensky reproached tye | Soe at 7 a. m., 5.4 feet, a rise of .2 foot. ' terday. H ~~ Continsed om Page 2, Col, ® Order Your Copy Today a motor ride of six miles from the was obtained. The bank has ben | try in each case. Before he A out | ‘Belleville Public Square, out the| robbed six tim@ within the last rix| here he had been in charge of the | Carty le road. years. Continued on Page 2, Col. 6 ae | @f instruction closes Saturday, Sept. | » £3.83. They are to join commands by) 5-e ee » ee exes BEE? ‘<e ca ~s3 ~~ ‘ cy