St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 1, 1917

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Total, 400. fe ane Thursday: Tenth Ward, 2; Bleventh Ward, ¢6; Twelfth Ward, 63; Thirteenth Ward, 100; Fol penth Ward, 45; Fifteenth Bens Ward, 43. Total, 426. aeerine Friday: First Ward, 19; CQ) Ward, 32; Third Ward, 47; th Ward, 77: Fifth Ward, 28; mth Ward, 44; Eighth Ward, 42 mth Ward, 53; Twentieth Ward. ; Twenty- first Ward, 50, and reuty-third Ward, 24. Total, 465. he total leaving from all St. Louis | is 1291, which is nearly 600 ss than 40 per cent of the city’s| raft Wo tment, but the aoa will lé up when the negro regis- t of St. Louis drafted men will be pe t to Can:p Fur ton and the work APR ohh a y 200 ) men or 45 per cent of the St. 4 peer quota, is now under training eS mp FP peen. Bot ag ie Showed. eo “District Board today denied aire for exemption and allowe¢ » following claims were ai: el eB ee AEE iy prareney. 3917 Ashland *2 = Suitus Kern, 3635 Arka 1sas; ’ until Jan. 1, 1918, on indus- : el Cullen, 3615A Cass; de’ } ss H. Buss, 4515 North Nine th; dependents. Sandusky, 3058 Thomas’ ne Sullivan, 6341 Union; de- vate. hr ote a, 6309 Bartmer; de: on Gaines, 377 N. Taylor; al- wed until Jan. 1, 1918, on indus- 1 grounds. sorge E. Geisler, 4147 Labadie bs enue; dependents. : __ Jam (LL. Malone, Clayton, Mo.; in- 5 Mat. Ha ry R. Bartel, 4117 Kossuth; in- . ear al. inthony Kalz, 822 North Market; ustrial. zy WW. elfth; industrial. Newman, 1725 South indus- @ a following claims were denied: oo W. Jankowitch, 1632 South roadway; married May 9. ogg W. Weis, 3351 California; ra, nk J. Oberle, 4164A Farlin; . Tied May 24. _ Oliver Kaiser, 2847 | Cherokee; ‘mer Denniss, 10045 ndents. i. lL. Berger, 4614 Bulwer; & o% 4 de- 'Edward Voigt, 1268 Delaware; de- endents. “oe t ry Eders, mts. L. Schroeder, Jeferson ; agricultural. iva : do Faudo, 6108 Daggett; sin Italy. . EC. Wilson, SELLS FIRST BOND IN 1424A Wash; de- Bar- de- - Albe ber : 4268 Arsenal: LAND 10 TRIS SPEAKER : SS ELAND, O., Oct. 1.—Secre- ot the Treasury McAdoo, of- iy opened the second Liberty : Nn campaign in Cleveland this ne cane . Thousands of factory--whis- ' -ehurch bells signaled the a en opening by whistling and Ampaign. Mayor Harry lL. Da- duced Secretary McAdoo! to every man and = an es America to join the} _by caeeges ng a Wit Beco : eyes "Approsinintss ‘ "Ties. La pe Gronna Petitions From New York Bodies Presented and Referred---Any Action Would In- ~ ‘yolve Question of Policy. WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—Pett- tions from New York organizations asking for expulsion from the Sen- ate of Senators La Follette of Wis- consin, Gronna of North Dakota and Stone of Missouri, were . presented in the Senate today by Senator Wadsworth of New York and re- ferred without action to the Senate Privileges and E@ections Committee. Vice President Marshall also pre- sented today another lot of petitions, ‘letters and telegrams from various organizations and individuals on the same general subject. Included were printed circular petitions indicating that many are being circulated and probably will reach the Senate in great numbers. In reply to one correspondent, Vice President Marshal pointed out that while the Senate may expel a member, the initiative must come from a Senator and cannot be forced by an individual or organization. Some Seflate leaders believe it would be unwise at this time to at- tempt any move looking to expulsion of Senator La Follette. One Senator close to the administration said that while “the Wisconsin Senator un- doubtly had made what ght be regarded as disloyal utter es, ic would be inadvisable to try to expel him because he would be martyrized if ousted. This Senator suggested that the way to deal with La Follette was to reply to him on the floor of the Senate whenever occasion re- quired. A member of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, which is to take up the petition of the Minnesota Public Safety Commission, demand- ing La Follette’s expulsion, said he did not think the committee would go any farther than to consider the communication in executive session. Chattanooga Bar Condemns Stone, Reed and Other Senators. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Oct. 1.— The Chattanooga Bar Association‘to- day adopted resolutions “condemning in unmeasured terms” the acts of Senators La.Follette, Gronne, Reed, Hardwick, Stone, Vardaman and oth- ers acting with them” in their atti- tude toward the war and demanding “their expulsion from the American Senate.”’ U. $. PATROL SHIP RAMMED AND SUNK BY UNKNOWN CRAFT WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—An Amer- ican patrol ship on duty off an At- lantic port was rammed and sunk early today by an unknown craft. The incident reported to the Navy Department was officially announced as follows: “A coast guard vessel on patrol duty off an Atlantic port was irammed and sunk by. an unknown ship early today. The work of rais- ing the sunken vessel will be begun at once.” A PLAN TO PUT WORLD'S SERIES RECEIPTS INTO LIBERTY BONDS CINCINNATI, Oct. 1.—Chairman August Herrmann of the National Baseball Commission announced to- day that he wotld recommend to his colleagues at their: meeting in Chi- cago on Friday next that the money received by the National Commis- sion, the interested clubs. and the players during the world’s series, ex- cepting such sums as may be nec: the price was to be“ The ; and Jordan jae til this placed under | State Prison Board, —_ stated fixed at $1000, a Prison Inquiries Carried om The first investigation of irregular- ities at the penitentiarx under the McClung administration was made by Post-Dispatch reporters in No- vember, 1913, which was less than a year after McClung took charge of the prison. After many ceietatele had reached the Post-Dispatch that pris- on officers were guilty of cruelty to} convicts, Feporters were sent to J::f- ferson City to ascertain the exact facta. They were hampered fin their investigation by prison officers, but p learned that convicts who failed to do the work assigned to them were strung up by the wrists with only their toes touching the floor for hours, and that this was the usual mode of punishment for infractions of the rules. .. Punishment System Defended. The system in.use was defended by Warden McClung and the Board of Prison Inspectors, which at that time consisted of Attorney-General Baker, Auditor Gordon and Treas- urer Deal, There were no prms | instituted, and the punishments and of irregularities: tm the financial management of the pris- on grew in volume until the Legis- lature, in 1915, appointed a commit- tee to investigate the conditions. Because Warden McClung also was chairman of the. Democratic) State Committee, Republicans in the House of Representatives sought to have the committee consist of an number of Republicans bar I ntermittently Since 19 i waa indicted by the St. Louis 1 Brand dan w jury, last June, on a charge of con- spiracy with members of the &t. Louis Police Depariment to pire members of the Legisiature in con- nection with the pamage of « bill t salaries of