St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 30, 1917

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Circulation Biggest Ever The circulation of the Daily Post-Dispatch in St." Louis compared season by season is greater than ever before in the history of this newspaper. This is also true of the Sunday Post-Dispatch. “Cir- culation books open to all” “First in Everything.” NIGHT EDITION em cee = ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH T he Only ae — in St Louis With the Associated Press News Service - ———— EE Re re +s Louts and Sudbuarba, One Cont, Jisewhere, Two ee ee Ee © ~anadiponpomaete EO Re a ee Y EVENING, NOVE MBE R 30, 191730 PAGES. a xehh Prati ce eae : ies North Americus Company Bleeds Its United Railways | CUARDSMEN FROM Through Keokuk Dam Contracts to Give-a Quarter of a Million Excosstealin Annually to Its Union Electric Company EVERY STATE HAVE | ARRIVED INFRANCE | All Units Which Sailed Land- ed Safely and Some Al- ready Are in Training- | Within Sound of Guns on" | Battle Front. Men Are Being Given Same Course of Instruction as First Contingent of the Regular Troops. |Substantial Vanguard of Great Army of U. S. Avia- tors Planned for France Also Arrives at Front. es _— - — - - Se uneneneeS ~ nt — Seeehnatepateaes ~ AUSTRIA AGREES TO DISCUSS PLAGE WITH RUSSIANS Foreign Minister Accepts ‘™»°! Proposal to Enter Negotia- «1 tions for Armistice and a General Treaty for End of Conflict. NETS ESS oe x UNITED mY "AND THE KEORUK DAM CONTRALTS —_ North American Company Taxes Railways $237,000 Yearly to Fatten Union Electric. | MAN SENTENCED FOR YEAR FOR MAKING DISLOYAL REMARK lias Dyer Gives Emil Albric ht Limit for Offense—Three Others Plead Not Guilty. Judge Dyer, in the United District Court today, sentenced Albricht,. an alien. enemy, to year in jail on a charge of mak- disloyal remark. This was the for the offer with which he charged in an indictment re Wednesday. quoted “This is no free country. The Kaiser | will lick you all. lie ll come over here in his submarines and Blow you all to hell.” In centeneing Albricht the Judges! said: ‘“T’ll give you the limit. May- the war will be over in a year. | Your kind is safe in jail.” Bolsheviki Give Out Pur- | Charles J. emis editor | ithe St. County erald, and} ported Secret Pact by 4 a contributor to. that Which Allies Agreed sod pega guilty on charge of Italy Annexing Territory. Stat mada serve Power Where, United Railwayg Gets Its one Kilowatt Hours 107,682,613 os, 397, S25 J 9 899.896 980,334 ne a ise v0.9 per cent. JL4A per cent 7 per cent oper Lane ee o4d ‘ste ©. ecm « From Electrie Company of Missourt (OWwme Krom, Union Electrie Generated at United Railways plant. . icht was as saying: | Oe © 68°C Ww & Cte. ee. 6 @ : OO per cent OWNS BOTH COMPANIES | Total Loss to United Railways on Item of Power ‘Total Cost to. Sister Com- panies Selling to United tailways Overgcharge : to United Railways Total Charge to United Railways Kilowatt he Hours Rate (Mills) Source (Mills) —-- - Railways Total Loss on Its Power Costs Exceeds Mil] Tax Complained Of. oft i } | louis Jablonsk}, pleaded publishing and not Missouri (owned by Linion Blectric Company ‘ ° ‘ 7 ss" : * * ¢ . . mi + . The U in Electric Company J(, 082,910, 9.40). - : : the | grant it a writing a disloyal ad ; | nites 'article. William Stremmel, former Mayor of Newburg, Mo., also plead- ed not guilty charge of disloy- Was to Get Trentino, South- «'\v. ern Tyrol, Istria, Dalmatia | eee onentin’ veneet? OF ‘MILK SICKNESS’ and Certain Islands in Ke-' 1 vimmowitk GIRL'S DEATH. profit because of excessive taxa- turn for Entering War. “White Snake Root FKaten by Cows | Hant anil J on Farm on Which Mildred * iPhat it cannot borra# nion- Baker Lived. ey to make needed extensions Coroner Vitt and improvements bécause of of death the uncertainty of ip franchise the tenure. vears There are two great in operating the United first,*the interest 6n its ma- | debtedness, amoufiting verdict foi- | ures“to $2,500,080 a vear, \dueted | ond, the operating expenses. This| ' huge interest cHfarge fixed by | |earlier schenfes of high finance an: 1) | | Railways Co., ask - | to the ing abolish mill tax. | and i that | taxing city to a 3i-vyear franchise | Cost to Electric Company of Missouri, includ- ing all operating expenses and allowing a@ re- turn of 6 per cent on its caprtal of $1,237,000. would deprive the city of its over the oe oe 8 @ @ Fe a aes ‘ power a ck a O24 |. y $564,256. 89 $ Seco , company, | ; 4 el | gives two major reasons for the de- n . id 1and “d V nion Klee tric. W hie h rece iV es the pow el it ‘ec Ss to The es ak : 8 ores ganar a United Railways from its subsidiary, The Blectric . Company of Missouri i ' : : EXTENSIVE TROOP (ost to Union Electric (same as to its subsidiary | | | | _, | MOVEMENT WITHOUT Electric Company of Missourt), allowing the | 306,004.60, 182,201.22). LOSS OF A MAN 58,397,825| 8.36).... | 488,205.82; figs 20.—The Aus- AMSTERDAM, Nov. tro-Hung Government, ing to a dispatch from official accepting aAccorau has! the arian returned “milk sick- Miss Mildrec of Kimmswick, lutheran Hos- sirently today from of Vienna, verdict an reply in 14 Mo., who died at pital, Nov. 14 fr f}unknown malady | laria. The lowed an sent Russian posal to an armistice treaty. The reply ness”’ case old, the ym an Aap} subsidiary 6 per ct nf return on capital | WASHINGTON, Nov. 890. NOUNCEMENT of ‘the ar- A rival in France of the first national guard units give the first official notice that an '§ extensive troop movement has iS | been accomplished despite hos- | items of cost | cailways; | bonded in- round and, Government's wireless pro-! Baker, enter into negotiations for pe for all purchased by United Total charge power Railways and a general peace resembling tn fie- | $1,107,380.84 ja Coroner's sec- | vestigation by himself, Dr. Ralph pathologist at St. Louis for snd city chemists ied ‘ According Dr. Vitt, an | performed on the girl’s body proposals ty | examination the | stomach failed to reveal was sent yesterday and | Sister Companies r cent return Total cost of all to United Railways, allowing 6 pe power tile submarines, shortage of troop and supply ships, but without the loss of a man. Thousands of men have been loaded on transports and safely landed in France without any general knowledge of the facts having been disclosed to the country at large. War Department officials were gratified at Gen. Per- shing’s decision to announce the arrival of the national guard forces, but permission to pub- lish the designation of the guard units now at the training ~s as ee ee — - Fe ee . with- , as ) 1eld unless Gen. Pershin re- | | NOTE—The figures as lo quantiltes ; of power, source of supply and rates charged in above table are taken from United fit to release the iatorsaation.” MAN WHO FAILED TO REGIS shown in : , sé | ant was approximately $333,000 in ex- Railways’ Annual Report for 1916 (page 13). The authority for the ‘‘Cost Rates’’ will be found in the analysis of the com- It can be stated, however, cess of cna the power should have | pany’s power contracts in an adjouning column. | that the brief dispatch of tods GETS FOUR MONTHS | | Says He I ell Aslecp on Day He Was} in pa ts SOE why U nites | a 4 ae. has been in progress for several to Enroll for Arniy; Negro | Railways, which tells the city it is| weeks. The next stage will be N . 7 4s ’ . | “s 0 Slackers Senteng#d. |}on the verge of bankruptcy, squan- name occupation of front Mane ifdicted _ders a third of a million dollars a | FON CHG the tals : Guard units to be sent later ine year, 1t 1s necessary to keep in mind NM b are uactionsk ta: dias : . , , Tr b> . _ I the important fact that United Rail- | by ” ae rrouping of the old ways Co. is controlled, managed and. peicsenaies . eee Thompson, is l’niversity is as follows: “The guiding principies announced | its paymeng is inescapable. Operating expenses consist princi pally of payrolls and upkeep, which | of her!|items are largely fixed by conditions ‘he cause of| over which the company has little! ‘death. Accompanied lr. Thomp-|controf, and power. the visited the girl's | Ths article has nothing to do with année | home, a cerm near Kinimswick. Pney | the, bonded indebtedness. It will be | had lamost abandoned hope of trac-| cogfined to the item of power in| ling the origin the malady when operating expenses The cost of | ithey discovered an herb, known as power depends upon business man- | tee . ‘* ’ ; . |'“white snake root’ groving on theyagement and is excessive or reason- (farm and which was frequently eatey] able as the management is efficient | fanf-jor bad. / The cost ‘ Co. of the 5 the pray apt annual was $1,307,971.7 This sum) $237,119.35 119.35 Russian (;sovernment ne- by the 7 ‘ ’ “ar i wpe ’ ° . > . » to aulopsy Total overcharge to l noted ftawdways.....- aa: and an | | $237,119.35 gotiations for an armistice peace treaty, counter of contents si which Government, the Austro-Hungarian a suitable these negotiations. garian clares that it upon negotiations as propeaee by the Rus- gian Government regarding an im- mediate armistice and a genera! peace. CZERNIN, “Foreign Minister.” , 6... REPORTED TERMS UPON WHICH ITALY ENTERED THE WAR. | Emil to not regis Russian Power generated at United Railways plants........ of are awaited by the are, in the opinion by at Union return on | son, Coroner Cost ¢f obtained from Union: Electric Electric (allowing 6 per cent capital as above) (;overnment, cost 104, for entering ect BIOS Gee The Austro-lLlun- therefore de basis of ee mp een eremmmeiy - 96,315.50 | $333,434.85 (;overnment Loss to United Railways........... is ready to enter iby cows belonging to the Baker an ee ae ; : | ily. the United Railways lotal loss to United Railways on item of powe! used in to ~_ oe eye power it eee adiiiemenatgane ee, ae — A A AT — \GERMANS REPORTED USING || U.S. ENGINEERS HELPED — TALAN WOMEN FR SHIELDS" “AAT OFFEN SIVE Invaders Conse vitae Labor = § ard | Log@tine Homes, Say Semi-official Dispacthes From Rome. | ‘Americans Laid Tracks for Vital Railways Be-| hind Gen. Byng’s Advancing British Troops. WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—All of | i aS a United was in Rinifleisch guilty in Court today and 4 serve Tour months pleaded secret Cireat Britain, | sentenced LONDON, Nov. 30. treaty between the charac- COTI- now wur. ov S oh oppressive measures which stock roes also jail were | : | invasion of Bel- | terized the German LO sentences 'gium. semi-official ‘dispatches from By Associated Press | WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY a IN FRANCE, Thursday, Nov, 29.— poured to lend support to the fight-| National guardsmen from every | ing forces the Union have arrived in . “y* ZL" . 7 . Tretw 7 , *" . re - » . - children before their troops | 7 IN FRANCE, Monday, Nov. 26 ig Behind ne ea riggs A : it is today permitted to be advanced and the Italian ' American engineers, the first The corresponden 1as Visite Ss ; - compelied to sacrifice | American troops to be engaged are of these engineers since their | announced, They as go> the countrymen. on the British | #rriva! and has found them as At | or lately a requisition |. Sn aie! as possible and eager for work. Most | being | front. took a prominent part in “' of them undoubtedly look forward priogn- | breaking of the Hindenburg line by to the time when they will be able batantd | Gen. Military ne- | to join the American forces, but jus. to | now they are content to do their ee troops | loot from Italian homes but | Bere and learn valuable lessons has been found on the | military railroading. dead troups. Soldiers on | it 1s now possible to inform the peo- | The declare they hear the|ple of the United States that the en-| with three officers and children from | gineers of the American army had a only anxiety they expressed river. The large part in pushing up the vital) the future was the fear that they taken away]. ,., | might later be compelled to work and burn railways behind the advancing Brit-| far back of the lines out of the fight- bivouae | ish soldiers. ing zone. the | As a matter of fact the American | ae ter- | engineers have been laboring on the) roads through the devastated battie fields of the Somme _ district for nearly four months and two of their | men, who were wounded, were the first American casualties announced | Rome today say, are being practiced by the Ital, Near invaders ro boot Austro-German invaders ca dispatches Ry Associated Press : One hundred St. Louisans present oak | Italian women | BRITISH ARMY HEADQUAR- for navy at Zenson, the placed ' state in France, re- that emploved kilowatt | obtained | enlistment in the | ¢h, L'nited the local -eruiting office in the Calumet Build- Seventh and Chestnut streets, ‘this morning at the opening of the ,ed themselves re- as and they diers | their In States sol- were now training , “ troops ing, innocent the Friuli and conscription of labor practiced. Austro-German of Italian non-com by the invading military operations rived. | While it is not permitted to. dis- close the identity of units, it ynay i i | be said that all these which sailed n | 2 region ardens Confiscated 24 Quail on is .09 pet. Byng last week. from the United States have arrived safely and that some already are in training within sound of the gune dn the battle front. They a spirit In keep- ing with the purpose of all concerned to make the American expeditionary force a homogeneous Amerfcan army in which each division, whether regu- ilar, national guard or nationa) army, ‘cannot be distinguished in efficiency Among the American engineers in! from the others. The former State the Twelfth Engineers’ troops are billeted over a wide area Regiment, recruited in St. Louis. It and are pronounced excellent gol- was enlisted as an operating unr, | dlers: consisting principally of meoenewre | i has made it impossible ‘speak of their presence before, massacred cessitv and that Vedne talking | and the'| about | was today correspondent of are showing : heen as .36 mills | re- s Be who asked ‘afferata’s considered. Cafferata’s repeatedly within | : | place has been raided the last few weeks These power oe -—e = i France is Government Succeeded by Coalition Cabinct. LONDON, Nev. The Govern- ment of Nikolai Lenine has fallen, according to a Petrograd dispatch dated Wednesday. 1 suc-| KAISER’S RESIDENCE ROBBED ceeded by a coalition ¢ of ad- Lenine PRESIDENT CONSIDERING AUSTRIA Material on Re sila Before Him as| from Washington. 7 , He: Works on Message | The speet with which the lines ASHINGTON. Nov. 30 have been laid up through the broken | Hindenburg defenses during the last of Mis. : of Arriving for Weeks. The guardsmen have been arriving ‘in the American zone for many ‘weeks. They are scattered sonte- what, but as far as possible the units 4), engineers, firemen, conductors, | brakemen, switchmen, dispatchers, telegraph operators and trackmen. Letters received in St. Louis indicate that members of the Twelfth Regi- Py saa ys ‘ . qe 7s) , . - - wf ‘ f — . e icy France, Russia and Italy has been | 4,4) ¢y, toying fer the draft. } operated by the North American Co.. | divisional organizations has dispatch to the Daily Mail. It ‘wake until it was too late to regis-| corporations throughout the country. | however, shares in the honor of and Russia agreeing Italy annex- | tenced to serve for | Railways, and through individual | ‘ of State. Canvass for 1200 the Grecian archipelago and terri- ly was gen-!|American directors and stockholders tenced Yo serve six months in ja to read as follows: United Railways, in its annual Italy in her disallowing representa- in 1916 was 185.980.334 ‘or the vesanaepeat of peace or regarding matters pe 2a Electric Co. of Missouri The Russian envoys sent to Areat | i s a result of a plan worked OU) ors te report of a raid by (same War-'! Power Co. A ee ] 0 | f ers t 1} have telegraphed the Rolsheviki| John gives costs as follows | iS as : ’ Citizens ‘ormpaign Com ‘ : : and Hamilton avenue, \ sday.!| Cost of water | head of the Citizens’ ¢ npal; and shops 7oon at the crossing in the Divinsk was plaeed in the hands of Excise! Cost of Union Electric pow- . or Of ‘$587 and men 91,108. pounds | | Stage of river) Cas- | | ; ’ PARTLY CLOUDY TONIGHT at Cassel, . Most of the of art which were stolen have been recovered. objects AND SOMEWHAT COLDER: THE TE MPE RATURE, A. _. , Fare Y esterday High, 41, at 5 D, low, WOULD THE STREET CARS BURN SOFT : "1 °° ot F mere Fan | YEARS Official cast for St. Louls nod vicinity: | Partly cloudy to- night and tomor- row:, somewhat colder tonight, with the lowest tcmperat ure | slightly above the freezing point. Missouri and | Illinois: artly | cloudy tonight | and tomorrow; somewhat colder | tonight. fore- 4 at 7 a: m., 2.5 ft.. | a rise Of .1 foot. ‘it pays 8. i rent | was i rate >) only 905.82, that Ahe sour ' Union | Electrte or (j;enerated at United Rail ways plant, 19,899,896 k. w. h. at 10.08 mills... 200-590.97 207 thal United mills for ; from the Elec- of Missouri, but mills for the current it receives from Union Electrie. If the 58,397,825 k. w. h. of cur obtained from Union Electric charged for only at the same paid the Electric Company Missouri——5.75 mills—it would $355,787.49 instead of $488. and would result in a saving United tailwavs of $152. Total It will observed Railways only the current it receives Company be pAaAYvS ey ae tric o6 to the 418.33 A reason why the United Railways shouid get all of the power it buys from cither Union Electric or Elec- tric Company of Missouri at one and) fact: rate is found tn the electric Company of Mis- owned and operated electric. A further reason, cven vincing, is that the source fent. whether bought Electric is the the same is more of COn- (ur from that same. is the Keo- gourt, kuk dam. Both quantities of current—that bought from the Electric Company | lof Missouri and thi it bought from the| a ee Continued on Page Bo. 9AY.79 | that | of | COST | by Union | Company of Mis-— Wilson continued to work on, address to Congress today, and) fact that he had before him a > . Sunday's Post-Dispatch. great quantity of material bearing | Lord Northcliffe Tells Why It’s || | °” relations with Austria caused | Going to Be a Long War— SOoTMNe speculat ion as whether he Head of the British High © om would touch on the subject. | mission to the United States He is holding the address open to| ‘ ; . the last minute, probs vy so late that Germany is far from = Ses: bly so late th beaten, though she suffers advance copies may.not be available | until he starts to speak. One offi- Arthur Guy Empey, Author of cinl today said the problem of wheth- | ‘‘Over The Top,’’ the ‘Best the Government should declare War Story of the Year, Begins on Austria was not easy of), a Series of Articles—T hw first it looked to the average | tells of a vovage he made on a war horse ship to France, 4 thrilling of one oft the scamiest of the world confliet. The Man Whom $500,000 Cotld Not Tempt—By burning 'a piece of paper the existence of which nobody but himself knew he could have preser’ eck this sum for his Read sail about this extraordinary per ee son. In No Yankee Tutor Now at the Helm have informed | in France—Something about of the Eighteenth the Ameriean history of the the Czechs belonged. It was strenuous Man now in eharge thut the seat of the of the destinies of our Sister Czech conspiracy was at. Prague. Republic The Minister of National Defense! onk he inquiry into the charge could | Order Your Copy Today || °° "° concluded after the accused | ? Italy, his dent In Next | the to savs er war 80 solution citizen. CZECHS ACCUSED OF TREASON as story siileg Soldiers Said to ; ieee oo Aus- | trian Position to Italians. \MSTERDAM, Nov. 30.—In lower house of the Hungarian Par- | liament today the Government was! interpellated regarding the action of Czech soldiers, who shortly the Austro-German offensive | rthern Italy are reported the Italians of the po-, Division, to the wife. to! sition which pointed out sahdan ; urned from the captivity in | * —— “= /-much labor, week has called forth the highest praise from the British authorities. The Americans have been working in. shifts 24 hours a day. Working Under Fire. Naturally the Americans long time have been working under the range of enemy artillery more than once they have come un- der heavy shell fire. One of the most striking sights along the front for ai and | ‘in nonfighting service— , er /ment rolls except in special, has been that of the engineers labor- | ing coolly at their shells were bursting 10C yards away. At one time the Germans loose wi their guns on a sectior of the of rails which had been but they scarcely had finished this bombardment when the twin lines of steel began to creep After the en- | cial line of service exceeds those of |thusiastic, and their soldierly qual- ities have drawn high praise from | French instructors. ei forward once more. gineers had reached a point where they were exposed on the skyline, it) was necessary to work at night or on | foggy days in order to avoid enemy observation. There have been three forces of Americans employed in this region since about Aug. 1. Two of them have been occupied with the opera- | morning. tion and maintenance of light rail ‘ways and the other has been con- structing narrow-gauge lines. The importance of this work hardly needs emphasis, for it is well known that over there ratiways food, ammuni- tion and material of all sorts are tracks while great | Cut | cks and tore up three miles | laid with | ‘sions from ment Gen. Byng’s operations. RULES AGAINST DESK WARRIORS ‘in French ' quartered ‘specially erected. — ee le WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—Desk are at work near the scene of ‘They warriors—army officers of draft age | are no long- ndded to the War Depart- unusual Cases. Secretary Baker in an in- formal decree published today ex- pressed his strong disapproval of the practice of placing men of fighting cgeo in positions that might be octu- p.ed by older men. Formal applications for commis- men between 21 and 30 to be ‘years of age will be rejected unless ithe applicant can exhibit adequate proof that his capabilities in a spe- some man immune from the draft. a ee ee ee ne we — in School Strike. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. Nov. 3@.- Students of the Springfield High School who failed to recognize a) strike for o extra holiday attended | classes under police protection this | oo ete re eet. Police Called Policemen were summoned to guard against possible trouble fol- lowing the posting of notices to the effect that there wouid be no schoc! today. that school should be held, , French red, | pinned \'These were given to the soldiers when | they The school board decreed | | from the same State have been kept together, except in one case. found the regular army had made good preparations for them and while many are billeted in houses towns, others have been in low wooden barracks close The troops from the various states lhave been recognized by the French population and have been welcomed | enthusiastically. Many of the unttz on arriving In billet towns wore the white and biue cockade to their campaign hats. landed at base ports. After @& sufficient time to reat from the jour- ney, which in some cases has been extremely tiresome, the troops have been set to work training for actus! service at the front. they are declared to be the most 6m t few days one has been workigg with grenades a automatic rifle. while another oan been working out military problema ‘in maneuvers. Another unit hae n the instruction treaches bring them as near as actual fighting conditions. Many @ the former guardsmen in t have heard guns roaring in : tance. They are all being given t¢ same course of [Instraction am <a During the ! in all quarters 5 Oe gh