St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 16, 1917

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MARVIN JOHNSOI pecial Correspondent of the Po (Copyright, 1917.)- . WITH THE AMERICAN IN FRANCE, Oct. 16. eed come and gone. He has Americans and Americans have s him and they have parted with | tual estem and affection. v4 Yesterday morning the a 19 Frarce reviewed the troops of G Sibert’s command, the first ne a troops. that landed in France; ‘uncheon with Gen. Pershing ar staff. where he saw other troops, and in the afternoon pouring rain and unabated siam saw demonstrations of fighting at the first officers’ established in France. He deg for Paris, leaving behind hi many friends as there were Ar soldiers. Wherever he went the An gave the Marshal the smartest they could muster, then a grin of welcome. It is safe to say tha the command, “eyes left” never obeyed more cheerfully than ors troops as they passed in review 2 this got.a good look at i the Marne. As for the Marshal, his ¢ an . LS =% . ss » Ree of 6000 miners in th i trict’ this morning. Dissatisfaction over the recent wage increase at the Washington conference is given as the cause for the strike. With a freight rate advance of 15 cents a ton on cqal, effective today on Illinois railroads, operators say they will be unable to make any fur- ther increase in wages to the miners. TARDY DRAFTED MAN BRINGS A GOOD STORY Tells Camp Funston Officers Girl Asked Him to Wed When His Rival Got Exemption. Special to the Post-Dispatch. CAMP FUNSTON, Kan., Oct. 16, —The third quota of men to arrive at Camp Funston for service in the national army came in short approx- imately 2600 men, an unusually large number. 606 were due, while only 16,006 re- ported for duty. The biggest short- ages are in Missouri and Kansas, where in many places entire counties failed to send any men. No one here can explain just how it happened that entire counties were shy except that they may not have been ready on time. Many of the quotas came in short of men although the papers of the entire quota were sent along. This means that the men either failed to report at the train or disappeared en route. The names of those who have failed to appear are being com- piled by the various organizations to which they were assigned and unless they appear in the quo due this week, they will be classed as desert- ers. One man who came in this morn- ing explained that he was almost two weeks late in reporting because he wanted to get married and spend a few days with his wife. He was from St. Louis. “Two of us have been going with this girl for almost two years,” he explained. “She just kept us both on the string, me and then the other fellow. When the draft came I didn’t claim ex- emption, and the other fellow did. on the grounds that his parents need- ed his support. He was exempted, end didn’t have to go. The night before we were to entrain I told her good-by. “Tl didn’t say anything abbut get- ting maried, but the girl just up and says, ‘Bob, you haven't asked me io marry you in the last three weeks. And I said to her, no. I'm going away to join the army and fight so thu rest of these young fellows tere i, the neighborhood can stay home and look after their parents.” the only evening Post-Dispatch is mt. I that ef or pub- ed Press, The newspaper eg Louts lishes pews gathered by the Associa The records show that 18,- ‘| Co. first seeming*to favor | t DEALERS SUE 10 TEST MISSOURI FISH LAW Allege Statute Is Unjust, and That Game Warden Doesn’t Know a Blue Pike. A suit to test the constitutionality of sections of the Missouri fish and game law relating to the sale of small fish was filed in the Circuit Court to- day by six St. Louis fish firms. The specific object of the suit is to enjoin Tim Birmingham, State Fish and Game Warden, and his deputies, E. B, Alexander, E.. H. Schwartz and P. H, O’Brien, from seizing large quan- tities of fish which they contend are too small to be sold legally. The plaintiffs’ are the Meletio Sea Food Co., Faust’s Fulton Market Co., ‘| Mound City Sales Co., Central Bish and Oyster Co., French Market Fish} and Oyster Co. and Booth Fisheriocs A result of the seizure of the fish, the plaintiffs allege, would be a shortage of fish in the St. Louis mar- ket and an increase of at least 100 eer cent in the price of other fish. It is alleged the Fjsh and Game Wardens threaten to seize a quantity of blue pike on the ground that they are jack salmon. The plaintiffs say they will prove that the Fish War- is and that they will prove by com- petent expert testimony that the Fish Wardens are wrong in their classification of the fish. — Sunfish are to be seized, ft is al- leged, because they are less than eix inches long, measured “from the tip of the nose to the fork of the tall.” The plaintiffs say the fish y have were caught in Illinois, where the law. permits the sale of h four inches long. They also al- lege that a six-inch sunfish is a rar- ity,,and the enforcement of the law would prevent the sale of sunfish. Catfish, it is alleged, are to be seized on the ground that they are Blue or Channel catfish, which can- not be sold legally if less than 13 inches in length. The dealers on this point protest against the classifica- The dealers say they are not Blue or Channel catfish. . The dealers ask for an injunction on the ground that the selzure = deprive them of their property with- out due process of law, and that the law, at least so far as the sunfish are dens do not know what a blue pike; tion of the fish by the fish warden. | ' ‘spoken as company after ¢on red " ge te expression of his motions...” 7 our hopes,’’ he said. “The best pro of your determination ¢6 “help wi this war against autocracy may. read in your eyes. Under the d tidh of Gen. Pershing you are gett ready to face the enemy. Guide@ @ that eminent chief; guided by © zeal with which your great new @ mies are being -perfected, you © wil move forward to gather the laurel and glory that He before your+-~ “All the news I have from Anter ca is to the effect that there, as Wwe as here, you are working in the | intense manner. Guidéd. by men as Gen. Pershing, Secre War Baker and your chief of Gen. Bliss, you are rapidly ahead;~and I am confident: emy will see before _— one ¢ most formidable war mac could ever ‘be imagined. “Our enemy believed in + pride that he could dor universe. Your reply to hist has been most eloquent: You 3 come here to join the allies in | ering humanity from the wou yoke of German intolerance: 1 continue to be united and surely will be ours.” + We Sina sta by no Gi ‘ . To-héar from the lips of the viet of the Marne such assurance of- tory gave a thrill to thé Amet which burst forth spontaneously vheers. The cheers of the off were carried by the wind the great miasses of troops # at ease. They, too, cor cheering. Joffre was up bright and ¢ the morning, eager to c day to which he and the Al had began looking ing toewart at first transport arrived coast. Accompanied ae ‘aha shing and staff, the party en tomobiles an@ drove rapidly t; quaint villages to the--re ground. As they passed thro town the French soldiers. there preparatory to newly arriving American turned-out and presented At the reviewing grounds — Sibert “wai waiting with ‘his while over the brow of a hi whole of the first American gent was tnassed in readiness f rade, , Points Out “Good, Joffre and Persihng ly in the wei gtr ae Each the Marshal Marseillaise. Notion ‘kept uae ning fire of comment in on bal - 2% am a Exo * concerned; is unreasonable.