St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 5, 1918

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Circulation Biggest Ever The circulation of the Daily Post-Dispatch in &t. 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.” LOUIS POST-DIS PATCI The Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Seroice cy | eats ce pe Spee NE Comte NO. 166. 3 ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, 1918—16 PAGES. sf COMPANY DIRECTORS Of N WILL ARBITRATE WAGES VOL. 70. LIEUTENANT OF POLICE KILLS HS SUN AND SELF Frank E. Florida Shoots De- formed Child as It Sleeps in Bed in Home AMERICANS CHECK GERMAN RAID BY. BARRAGE FIRE Artillery Shells Lines Believed to | to Have Been Awaiting Signal | to Attack. —— INCREASING Strikers Accept Suggestion of. Post-Dispatch as Basis of Settlement men who have struck be per- mitted as members of a union to return to work. ® That the striking employes returne to work under these conditions and take up the question of wages and hours of service with the company. 3. In the event of the fail- | ure of the company and em- ployes to agree upon terms, that | ACTIVITY their differences be submitted to arbitration. - | ! The union officials said they had Sector Occupied by U. S. Troops nothing to add to the bem asses Is oNrthwest of Toul, it Is | MORE CARS PUT raphs n fi h it , al tak es peeve pritlepioncrdy rn Valea Announced. | OUT MAKING ag ] they were willing to stand, in nego- tiations with the company and in the | ber orem of the public. Company Officials Report In- crease in Limited Service on Various Routes. r, Mt The Executive Committee of the: | street car men’s union this after- | noon announced that it had decided to accept the suggestions made in a. Post-Dispatch editorial, printed this afternoon, as the basis on which they | are ready to settle the strike. They! said they were ready to proceed at | | once to a conference for a settle- | ment on such a basis. WORRIED OVER DUTIES | The three suggestions which the | strikers adopt as their platform, and as they appear on the editorial page | Attracted Attention SOOT | ot this edition of the Post-Dispatch, When He Patrolled Olive Street | are: Wi | 1. That the management of ith ncaals in Hand. | the United Railways recognize | the right of the employes to or- Lieut. Frank EB. Florida of the Po-| gsanize and submit their griev- lice Department, assigned to the al ances and demands; that the ha Seria m0 mn Bago, an ten ‘Muck VLOWEST ABC AVE Fizz sory ALIS] MEMBER OF REIGHSTAG GETS weom YEARS IN PRISUN cast for St. tants | | morning at his home, $737 South, i > | ° e a. Wilhelm Dittmann Sentenced to Spring avenue. He had oeen worry- Partly cloudy he Fortress for Participating in ing the last week over his aoe: which the street car strike increased and warmer to- | night n o | ° ° e ee | Direction of St It is believed his mind became at- | morrow; much! fected. warmer to- | He attracted attention yesterday by patrolling Olive street, between Yesterday: High, 15, at 4 p. m.:; | mtd i sa BERLIN (via London), Feb. 5 (By — eee” | A. P.).—Wilhelm Dittmann, the rad- Twenty-second and Ewing avenue, in| low, 4, at 7 a. m. ture slightly ical Socialist Deputy, who was tried | an excited manner, with his revol rer | EN WALKING , above the frecz- by an extraordinary courtmartial on oo Outline of Strike Situation SETTLEMENT—The dispute turns on unionism. The men are willing to return to work at once if the company unionize its lines and shops. They are willing to arbitrate wages and hours. Up to this writing the company declines to recognize a union. The company is trying to throw the dispute into the hands of the State Public Utilities Commission. which has jurisdiction over ita fi- nances and service. However the commission cannot act except upon written request by both parties and the strikers prefer to Cees with Mayor Kiel or the Federal Arbttrator, Patrick H. Gil. The company’s directors meet today. This meeting may possibly modify the situation. =” WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY |" IN FRANCE, Monday, Feb. 4 (By A. | |P.).—German plans to rald the’ American trenches were frustrated | early this morning. The American artillerymen put down a heavy bar- rage in front of the German lines, which are believed to have been filled with men and officers awaiting the signal to attack. It was discovered at a certain | hour that the Germans intended to carry out a “silent” raid. Fiftevn minutes before the time set all the American guns concentrated their fire where, according to the informa- lion, the enemy was massed. It is believed heavy casualties were in- flicted on the Germans. Artillery Fire Increases. There has been a general increase | Ninety-three street cars were in'| in the artillery activity for the last |. peration under police prétection’ ot day or so all along the American | f the United Railways to- front. The Germans are still unable/ 11 lines o to occupy the first line trenches, | 4ay, the third day of the strike, an which were caved in by the Ameri- | increase of about 15 over the makxi- can artillery fire. They have now! ™um in operation yesterday, accord- constructed another line of trenches | ng to an announcement made by ° v ah * : Head of North American Co. | pected to Exercise Decid- — ing Influence at Meeting of Board of Directors. Company Takes Stand ‘That Lower Taxes or saciineatt Fare Is Needed to Grant Higher Wage Scale. Strikers Ready to. Arbitrate All Points Except Recognl - tion of Union ved Ca tion of “Closed Shop.” " i“ 4 The next move toward settling the | strike of the United Railways con- R CARS RUNNING—Company reports a maximum of 98 care this morning on 11 lines and 99 early in the afternoon on 18 lines. a. m. } m., 8 1 p. m a re eee eee ee Ss +a ARMORED?’ CARS OUT EMERGENCY TRANSPORTATION—VJ/ttiney cars still running in all direction with fares ranging from 10 to 50 cents but an increasing number of workers walked downtown on the second business day of | the strike. Some concerns carry employes in motor trucks. Suburban trains making stops at stations in the city are crowded. - Six on Hodiamont Lime ieutened ' With Wire Screens on Front Vestibule. were innocent pedestrians. When he arose this morning ae went into the kitchen, where his wife Was preparing breakfast. He asked her if the auto sent out to pick up the Bighth District men and take ported, and urge the Mayor to oppose such importation... United Reoil- | ways asserts strikebreakers have not and will not be brought here. | STRIKEBREAK ERS!?—Union insists strikebreakers are being im- | PUBLIC UTILITIES—Telephone, mails, gas, electricity, and water service normal. Companies have solved problem of transporting em- ployes to and from their homes. RETAIL TRADE—Volume of business at all downtown retail. stores much below normal. Telephone order departments unusually busy, the volume of this kind of business being much in excess of the usual daily telephone orders. Deliveries by department stores cut to one a day so that delivery trucks might be used in carrying employes to and from their homes. INDUSTRIES—Factory work almost normal today with employes sisting public authority. Mitigating | circumstances and the absence of dis- | honorable intentions were admitted. Socialist Demand for Convening of in his hand part of the time. He or- | dered the arrest of two men who | pny YOUR were acquitted in police court this | ST morning when it was shown — them to the station had arrived. She told him it had not and he told her ing point; fresh to hurry up. “It will be here at 20 “s en the charge of inciting to high trea- ” “ . oO southwes sag age oie hao ragd said, “and I've got | i son, resistance to authority and ..|\that point. lSupt. Bruce Cameron at 11:30 a. m..| “He was agitated and his wif> tried Missouri: Part-| transgression against the Govern- | American patrols have oaateail They include six “armored” Hodia- to quiet him. She told him not to , ly cloudy and|ment for participating in the direc-| their way over No Man’s Land and ‘mont cars, with the front protected worry, that he would get to the sta- | , A warmer tohight/tion of the general strike, was sen-| inspected the damaged trenches as/by iron screens. | tion on time and it would be all’ and tomorrow; | tonced yesterday to five years’ ‘con- lips as they could. “On phen eee Sars ine a right. ( . much warmer SS aR PORE eee Sa | ‘The Germans are using gas shelly |*7 TUS! Hours an ° n tne Child Killed When Asleep. | tonight; fresh to ainigaies.: | freely and endeavored to enveloy |™iddle of the day. “Tl am going to end~ it all,” he | strong south to Dittmann also was sentenced to| one of our battery positions with; Between 70 and 80 were in opera- said, and went into the room in which | southwest winds./two months’ imprisonment for re-| gas, but without success. They have | tion yesterday, on the Page, Olive- the child was sleeping. An instant Illinois: Most- dropped a number of shells in the|Velmar and Wellston lines. Service Jlater two shots were fired. Mrs. ily cloudy and warmer tonight and Florida and her oldest son, Rolla, |to0morrow, probably light snow to- 16 years old, rushed into the room. | "ight in northeast portion; fresh to n¢ 7 - erib,( Strong south to southwest winds. shot through the head, and Florida dying on the floor. He had shot himself above the right ear. Rolla called in a passing police- man, who notified Inspector Walsh. The auto arrived a little later and the men in it notified Capt. Hess. The child killed by Florida, the youngest of seven had deformed feet and it is thought that Florida, who prided himself on his fine phy- sique, killed it because of its de- formity. The other children besides Rolla are Archibald, 11; Reginald, 10; The- odore, 8; Walter, 5, and Ethel, 13. Joined Force in 1899. Florida, who was 47 years old, went on the force in 1899. Tor sev- at Broadway and Washington avenue and at Broadway and Locust street. He was made a Sergeant in 1907. His was the first promotion on merit un- der efficiency rules. Six years ago he was made a Lieutenant. For sey- eral years he was at the Wyoming street station. He has been at the Laclede station for the past year. He was a Spanish War veteran, having served in the Philippines as a noncommissioned officer in a Mon- tana regiment. He was one of the organizers of the Spanish-American war veterans and organized the lo- tal auxiliary of the Military Order of the Serpents, composed of Span- ish War veterans, and was grandis- simo of Jolo Lair No. 3. He was a trustee of Theodore J. Wint Camp and past commander of Hamilton Fish Camp, Spanish War Veterans. A short time ago he applied fora commission as Major in the Quar- termaster’s Department, in the Offi- cers’ Reserve. HEATLESS MONDAYS MAY HAVE TO BE CONTINUED = Discouraging Reports on Movement | of Froight and Coal Threaten De- feat of Plan to Cancel Order. WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (By A. P.).—Most discouraging reports on movement of freight and coal be- cause of the extreme cold threaten to defeat the plan to abandon the Mon- day industrial closing order. ~ As Director-General McAdoo and Fuel Administrator ‘Garfield went fnto eonference to discuss abandon- ing the heatless Monday, reports ¢ame in showing coal movements east of the Mississippi cut more than 16 per cent in the last two days. +» Dispatches tell of 356,000 men thrown out of work in Detroit by closing down of factories because of lack of coal. é‘. "ae . ~ Ship Channel Frozen Over. . CHATHAM, Mass., Feb. 5 (By A. .).—The main ship channel, from onomoy Point Light to Nantucket, “he by steamers plying between dg New York and Philadelphia, _ “was frozen today for the first time _ gm record, coast guard officials said. as is choked with ice |-—A two-ounce bread ration was or- | dered by the food administration to- |day for customers of hotels, (taurants and dining cars. eral years he was a traffic officer| lowance is about that now observed | Stage of river at 7 a. m., 3 feet, a fall of .3 foot. Reichstag Rejected. AMSTERDAM, Feb. 4 (By A. P.). refused to comply with the demand | TWO-OUNCE BREAD RR RennRErGRP is |