St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 7, 1918

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LOU oe aa IS, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7 5 a ‘ TO MEET UNION, ARRANGE , 1918 —18 PAGES. A ae eee SS 0 LST 2296 SAVED WHEN TUSCANIA WAS. ~ SUNK BY A TORPEDO British Figures Indicate Only a Few of the 2179 American Soldiers on Board Are Missing. SHIP CARRIED WISCONSIN AND MICHIGAN GUARDSMEN LONDONERRY, Ireland, Feb. 7 (By A.-P.).—The submarine which torpedoed the Tuscania was attacked by a destroyer. An American officer gave an intimation that the submarine was de- stroyed. LONDON, Feb. 7 (By A. P.).—The loss of hfe on the Tuuscania, which was torpedoed when carrying American troops, is now esti- mated at only 101. This total is given in a dispatch from a corres- pondent of the Associated Press in Ireland and subsequently was confirmed by the American embassy. Previously the British Admiralty had announced, on the hasis of early reports, that 2187 of the 2397 persons on board the liner had been saved. There were 76 United States. army officers and 1935 soldier*among the saved according to the admiralty figures. At one point there are 550 survivors, eight of whom are.in a | ae hospital. \At another - there are 1350 survivors, 80 of them in hospitals. The Tuscania was bitdted Tuesday night. The*Tuscania remained afloat for two hours after being tor- pedoed. Three men from the Tuscania died from exposure in one boat. A number of surviv or, including the second officer of the. Tus- cania, were landed at a Scottish port. The majority of the missing were members of the crew. The admiralty announced late this afternoon that 10 move sur- vivors had reached a Scottish port. At noon today the number of missing from the Tuscania was, 101, according to unconfirmed unofficial reports. these were members of the crew. The following official communica-. of whom by that time had ‘Feached tion was given out early this after-| 550, including 40 members of the noon: crew. All the medical men at “The Anchor Liner Tuscania, Capt. | Larne, en the easterh coast of Ire: J. L. Henderson, was torpedoed on land, where some of the survivors the night of Feb. 5 off the Iri h | were landed, were requisitioned. coast while carrying the United! An Associated Press dispatch from States troops. Londonderry, Ireland, today says that “Following proof of the order which prevatiedion number saved: the Tuscania is given by the landing tary officers, 76; men, 1935. Crew, officers, 16; men, 125. Passengers; cases without bad effect. 3. Not specified, 32. Thetotalnum-! Forty of the survivors were taken ber aboard, 2397. Total saved, 2187 | to hospitals. In the majority ef cases “The foregoing are approximate) they are suffering from injuries as a figures but as correct as can be given. result of accidents in the lowering of at present.” '‘lMfeboats or in consequence of sliding Sailor Tells of the Sinking. down ropes. Thomas Smith of Glasgow, a boat- . a. pariah ors are proud of the be- swain’s mate on. the Tuscania, said ar or “ 1e Only two women on the the steamier was proceeding to an| ; UScania. They went down a rope English port under convoy. pene tf naan “At 5:46 o'clock on Tuesday eve- omen volunteer nurses at Larne ning,’ he continued, “‘I was in No. 1. attended to Slightly: injured men. room talking with a fellow boatswain | Wards were improvised in when I heard a terrific explosion and | Bevis dee goog injured men were felt the vessel. eeling over. I said) spatched to local hospitals, where oes ratte: ey've got her now.’ _ they are receiving careful treatment. “We commenced lowering boats on | |The Pesources - rie eg were taxed the starboard side. The soldiers | clothing tek euk AE sh ey food and > sre {gan cyiaagggets g One of the men, who swam about lined ee a for tw ohours before he was rescued, - fired mrpe ee as eat @ sta- | J0Kingly said he had had enough : eg . . swimming to satisfy him for the rest tion, to which I proceeded, had been | ef his life blown to pieces. I then helped to : get boats 9-A, 9-B and 2c. away | Remained Afloat Two: Hours. with full complements, and the sec- | ond officer safely away. “After seeing these launched, I proceeded to the other deck, where I launched a raft, I picked up 14 soldiers and two of the ship's com- pany who were swimming about. We had no oars and had to paddle along with ovr hands. We were picked up at 9 o'clock in the evening and land- ed Wednesday morning.” Survivors at 4:30 A. M. The first survivors were landed at | 4:30 o'clock in the morning. then until 7 a. m, many A majority of are the approximate, United States mili- got boats: 1 to 7 Des cania, as she remained afloat about two hours. , The Tuscania was one of a convoy of troop atid provision ships which was entering what until recently were considered comparatively... safe wa- ters. The ships were within. sight of land, which was just distinguished in the dusk when a torpedo hit. the Tuscania amidships. The steamer took a heavy [ist which made proper lowering of the boats impracticable Somie men jumped inte § the patro! when the buats were lowered: The survivors are receiving every | _ attention. British Figures Indicate Only a Few U. S. WASHINGTON, Feb, 7 (By A. P.).—-Indications early today were that 168 American army officers and tor, in thes not yet been accounted or, ing of the :. sink ss apm we for 2011 American officers ae we men complement of survivors, the number | ‘ords show 2179 American . officers and men were aboard. lltion: dispatches reu....i the War Department today saying that some 600 survivors are at Larne, Ire- +) land, and that 27 are at Islay, Scot- Continued on Page 3; 'C6l. 2. of two typhoid and two pneumonia‘ hotels. | There was sufficient time for re- | moval of all those on board the Tus- ; From | Others were thrown into the water) Soldiers: Are’ Missing CITY MUST OPPOSE. UR PLANTORAISE. FARES, SAYS. KIEL Mayor Says Cent Transfer Charge | Would Increase Revente $1,360,655 a Year. | ‘PETITION FROM COMPANY ‘Public Service Commission Asked | to Grant Permission for ~ | Increase. ' The city must oppose the United Bailways Co.’s petition for permis sion to increase fares, Mayor Kie!) sakl to a Post-Dispatch reporter to- | day in discussing the ocmpany’s application to the State Public Serv- | ice Commission for aut@ority to limit | ithe use of transfers or make an €xtra | | charge for transfer, to get increased | ‘revenue with which to meet the de- mands of the striking car men. “We cannot take any other posi- tion,’’ said the Mayor. “I believe that we have authority to be repre-| sented before the State Public Serv- ice Commission and we ought to do what we did in the McKinley line case and in the cases in which the Terminal Railway Association § re- quested increases of switching charges.”’ In the McKinley case the city un- successfully resisted’ the request of the Illinois Traction Co. for permis- | sion to increase {ts fare from 5 to 10 | cents between St. Louis and Granite) City. | If the commission were to author- ize a charge of 1 cent for each trans- fem the increase in revenue, on the basis of the number of transfers is- y in 1916, which. id amount +0) ' Company offi cials bay that the 1917 report will show a slight increasé over last year in the number of transfers issued. Valuation Would Be Factor. City Counselor Daues said he did not belleve the city could be ready to appear at hearings on Thursday, Friday or Saturday of next week, days which have been suggested by | ithe commission for hearings, because | | it is'to Le in St. Louis those days. | “The valuation of the company’s | properties,’ " gaid Counselor Daues. ! “is the vegy foundation of the ques- tion of fares. If the company som it cannot pay the wage increase from | the present income, then the amount \, of increase necessary to meet the, cemands must be determined by the | Pabicinurtortis arid in turn the rate of earnings which the company is per- itted to make on its investment will’ have to be Leper beneaa HEAVY ARTILLERY FIGHTING AT SEVERAL POINTS IN FRANCE British and French Carry Out Suc- cessful Raids—Ostend Reported Shelicd From the Sea. PARIS,-Feb. 7 (By A. P.).—Heavy artillery fighting on the Aisne and Verdun tronts and in Alsace ig re- ported in today’s official communica- tion. It says: “The artillery on both sides was particularly active on the front north of the Aisne, on the right bank of the Meuse, and in the vicinity of Hartmansweilerkopf. ‘In Champagne the Frengh car- ried out a successful raid on German trenches east of Teton. in Alsace after violent artillery preparation the Germans made an ineffectual at- tempt to penetrate the French lines at two points. near Banholz.” | LONDON, Keb. 7.—“Liverpoo!l | | troops carried out a successfut raid | | llast night east of Armentieres. cap turing several prisoners and machine | | guns,” | port. “Our casualties were light.” AMSTERDAM, Feb. 7.—Britist | naval forces have bombarded Ostend. according to a dispatch from the frontier. The marine yards were severely damaged. CUNARD LINER AURANIA TORPEDOED ON WAY TOU, S. | 13,400-Ton Vessel, Badly Damaged, Is Said to Be Making Way Back . to Port With Ald. NEW YORK, Feb. 7 (By A.’ P.).—! ‘The Cunard ‘liner Auraata. 13,400 | } tens, was torpedoed by a ‘German | submarine within the last 48 hours while bound for the Upited States, -it| wes learned from officials of thd! Cunard Line today. Aithough badiy damaged by the’ ‘explosion, the ship was not sunk, ianad is believed to be malAng her! way back to port with the assistance | of Government vessels, it was said. | The ship carried little cargo. ‘ ak Phone your Want Ad to the Post- ispatch, Cal. Olive: or Ceatral-— double _ double 0! ae | police are dead and buried and the | bankrupt. | (Special).—Col. formerly in command of the old sec Field officers’ '?+Thiston; ‘Clarkson Says today’s War Office re- |» e¢ast for St. Louls FOR THAT LITTLE ‘LENINE T0 SEND 10 MEN AGAINST EACH OWNER 10 SEIZE LAND iccemaneiias War 5 eneeniie as Idle Men | Leave Cities to Get Land; Every- ban to wg Doe sg = aged 27ETROGRA —W’ vit the cukekan at pou yo has planting season land distribution is be¢doming an acute problem. Un employed workmen who are leaving | ‘the cities for their native villages to | inet land,.rapidly are spreading the economic struggle throughout Rus- | sia. | The land-owning peasants as well as the bourgeoise are to be deprived | of their estates. Premier Lenine tc- day addressed a large gathering of agitators who are to depart soon for the provinces to lead the confisca- | tion campaign. He urged them : | make war on all village exploiters | and rich peasants as they did on the | wealthy land owners. ? “We *ave taken the land to ane! it to the poor peasants,” the Pre- mier said. “Do not let the rich peas- ants or exploiters get the agritcul- tural implements. Put 10 poor peas- ants against every rich one. The mass must take affairs in their own hands. “External war is finished or is ba- ing finished now. Internal war ben | | gins, but not a war with arms. This! ‘is an economic war. The masses preust§ ~:e back what has been sto-| len from them. Somehow we must)! uncover the hidden wealth, or oth. erwise the Bolsheviki Government is, The republic needs 28, | 000,000,000 rubles annually. The)! prospective income is only 8,000,000,- 000 rubles.” | COL. RAUPP IS ORDERED 70 REPORT AT OFFICERS’ SCHOOL Believed at Cues Doniphan He Has | Been Exonerated of Charges | Against Him. DONIPHAN, OkK., Feb. 7 William A. Raupp. CAMP ond Missouri regiment, has been or | dered to report to the brigade and school at Fort Sam, ‘Texifor three months’ im } struction. Charges were. preferred against Col. Raupp shortly after he reported | here for duty with his regiment. The} regiment was split up into machine | gun battalions. Col. Raupp was re lieved of all duties pending the out-| come of the charges of inefficiency (preferred against him. No definite information has ‘been | 'received here that Col. Raupp was/| exonerated, but the general opinion | of army officers is that he was found | not guilty because of the order send | ‘ing him to the Southern school. Of- | ficers say that he would not have} been assigned to school unless he was | entirely exonerated. HENRY S. POTTER, PRESIDENT OF STEEL BARGE COMPANY, DIES Henry 8S. Potter, 67 years old, of 5814 Cabanne avenue, president of the St. Louis Steel Barge Co., died of pneumonia at 8 o’clock last night at his home. Potter was born in ‘Hamilton, and came to St. Louis in’ 1874, two years after graduating from Yale University. He was in the hay and grain business here for many years, His wife, who died sevéral years ago, was Miss Margaret Clarkson Lion- berger. He is survived by two sons, Potter and Harry Potter Harry Potter is a son-in-law of the | lute Tom Randol b who lived at 7 Kingsbury place. Potter was a charter member of the University club and belonged to} the Noonday, St. Louis and Country |! clubs. O., The funeral services will be held at | Beges, father-in-law of rPesident Mc- the home tomorrow at 2 p.m. Bur | ial will be in Bellefontaine cemetery. } RAIN LIKELY TOMORROW; "ABOUT SAME TEMPERATURE) « tHE TEMPERATURES, +e Yesterday: High, 54, at 3 p. m;: low, 49, at 10 p. m. Official fore- WERE LONESOME and vicinity: Un- settied tonight and tomorrow: probably with rain tomorrow: not much change in tempcraturc; the: lowest tem- perature tonight will be above the freezing point. Missouri——Un.- settled tonight and tomorrow 7 probably ratn to { morrow, Sume what. warmes tr, . south pertion tao night. colder ts morrow afte: noow in neort, west portion. llliinois—Unsettled tonight and tv morrow with rain tomorrow and ain or snow in north portion tonight: sormewhat warmer tonight. ‘Stage of river at 7 a m., 3 feet, a rise of .2 foot. NICKEL BOX _ a i'might be modified. only by internal differe:..cs of opin ‘reorganized and rejuvinated Cham- | ‘national Shoe Co., a $25.006,000 cor- land a director of the United Rail | faction, cade -9 | who does not consider street car em- | ployes as ‘has put himself on record as hnogld- ing that any attempt on the par: of -@ union ‘are in the United Railways directo- , rate, ‘as “unfriendly,” ‘president of —‘‘Make a bridge of ships” to ' people last night by Maj. Frederick France was the message from Gen. | Palmer, chief censor on Gen. Per- “MAKE A BRIDGE OF SHIPS” TO FRANCE, SAYS PERSHING JACKSON JOHNSON. . “Let Every Man, Woman, Child in the Land Think Ships.” | WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (By A. P.) rm QUESTION Pershing and every mi.n of his com- mand, delivered to the American ‘Beggs. Led Opposition While | 'shing’s staff, in an address at the | Brown Favored Recognizing “tional Press Club. “Build ships and lgt every woman * Organization. ‘and child in the land think ships,” | ;said he. ‘We ought to be wearing | little metal «hips in our buttonholes. INEVITABLE, SAID PRIEST |chitaren ought to play with to: ships | The woman who turns from knitting | lt encouraging a ship’s riveter to do) Faction more rivets a day is serving her| * Took Stand Car Men Were fervece ys And a gti ou think | ships you are nking of our men Not Skilled Labor. |fighting for you in France. Would 'y-u have them want for food, “for clothes, for m~munitign to answer the German fire? “Would you have them think that ‘yeu had forgotten them—you in your comfort at home? Would yéu have the lives of such men unnecessarily sacrificed because you had not con- centrated your efforts on the thing that meant most to them? “Toward our shipyards for the The split in the board, it was|Power they mean during and after learned, had ‘been brought about not | the war the German General Staff strains its vision. Build, build and continue to build ships. -Make a bridge of ships to Pershing”’ nn" ee eee “REBUILDING OF PEOPLE'S STRENGTH GREATEST TASK” Emperor William Replies to Con- gratulatory Message Sent by Ber- lin Medical Congress. AMSTERDAM, Feb. 7 (By A. P.). — Emperor William in reply to a /congratulatory message from the Berlin Medical Congress sent this telegram: / “The rebuilding of the people’s strength is almost the one greatest task. It can only be fulfilled by the co-operation of science and legisla- tion -and with the warm-hearted par- ticipation of all discerning people.” Replying to birthday greetings With the issue of unionism the great barrier to a settlement of the street car strike the Pest-Dispatch learned before the Chamber of Com- merce meeting today that there was | @ split in the: board of directors of the United Railways Co. on that is- sue, and that, the disagreement gave prospect that the company’s position ion, but by. the tremendous pressure which has been brought to bear ‘against it by the business interests ‘of St. Louis through the medium of ‘the Chamber of Commerce. Jackson Johnson, president of the ber of Commerce, induced the United | Railways Co. to treat with the Cham- ber of Commerce after settlement ef- ‘forts launched by Mayor Kiel and by the mepibers of the new street car men’s union had been without result. Only One Issue. . Johnson is president of the Inter- 'proration which maintains an open shop, employing woth union and non- union men and women. He has said unionism is the only tssue demanding. immediate settlement in the street railway strike and that the men’s clear-cut demand for union recogni- ‘tion should at’ once be answered : by | United Railways. Henry S. Priest, sént him by the President of the up- peror William sent the following by telegraph: “The intimate union of the crown and the pedple, which I received as a sacred heritage from my fathers, dates from the hard times by which Prussia was trained for its world-his- toric mission. May these hard years of strenuousness, which I feel more deeply in consequence of thé respon- sibility placed upon me by God, strengthen and deepen this intimate relationship so that it may stand the test in the battles which still lie be- fore us and in the great tasks whica, after a victorious peace, we shali general dounse) ways Co., in a conversation with a Fae RTE reporter, said: “In my personal opinion the union. ization of all large industries is in- evitable.”’ As the older and board was aligned, the more reactionaary mem bers of the “stand-patter” type, leo by. John I, Beggs. an inveterate foe | of union labor, were openly and ve- i|hemently opposed to any recognition | of the street car men’s union. A younger, and more progressive typified by, if not actually led by Alanson C. Brown, an em- ployer and friend of organized labor had been equally insistent that the union be recognized. It was learned yesterday that the “stand-pat’” element in the directo rate of the company had held out against treating with the union for only one reason. This was that*they were not willing to concede that the occupation of a street car conductor or motorman is “‘skilled labor.” Women Trained Quickly. One of the arguments used m sup- port of this contention was that women conductors, recently put 9 trailer cars, learned their duties anu performed them satisfactorily with only a short $eriod of training. The director who has argued most vehemently against any recognétion of the union, whether it take the form of a ‘‘closed shop,” “open shop” or “preferential shop,” has been G. W. SIMMONS AND OTHER ST, LOUISANS REACH FRANCE Red Cross Division Manager, C. G. Petrie and Miss Leslic Le Beaume Land at Bordeaux. Word was received at the head- quarters of the Southwestern Divi- sion of the Red Cross last night that George W. Simmons, manager of the division, landed at Bordeaux, France, last Tuesday. Simmons, who is vice president of the Simmons Hardware Co., went to France té study the operation of the Red Cross and the manner of ad- ministering the funds supplied by the chapters in this country. Other St. Louis passengers on the same ship were Charles G. Petrie, a member of the Crane Insurance Agency, who went across to act as storekeeper for the Red Cross, and Miss Leslie Le Beaume, daughter of Culloch. Beggs is president of the St. Louis Car -Co... @ $6,000,000 corporation which operates as an “‘open shop.” ' It does not recognize or treat with unions, as such, and is regarded by nion men as unfriendly to organized Beggs is one of the directors 4710 Westminster place, for the American Fund for the' French Wounded. POLICE REGISTER 5000 ALIENS An order issued from police head quarters this morning at the reques) of the United States Marshal’s office | “skilled labor.’ He also to dictate ternrs or condi- tians of employment is an interfer- ence with “the rights of capital.” Another argument which has been used against recognition of the union, when this quéstion has been dis- cussed ‘by directors and large stock- holders of the United Railways Co, is that street car men are migratory and do not remain long enough in one city to maintain a stable organi- zation. Besides Beggs, two other St. Louis men of large business interests, who to the allen registration now going cn. It is said that the action was taken because several registrants had com- plained of being harrassed as a re- sult of the circulation of stories re- garding their failure to have taken out citizenship papers before the United States entered the war. Up to date about 5000 allens have been registered by the police. The work will be concluded eatereen, night. BOLSHEVIK] TO FREE TEUTONS and regarded by labor leaders are A.: J. Siege, iluttig Sash and Deor Co.. which employs no union, labor, and Murray Carleton, presi-; -dent of the Carleton Dry Geods Co., which also operates on a nonunion | basis. rograd. ‘Carleton, at yesterday's meeting | announces that: large “number: ‘of with the Chamber of Commerce rep- | these prisoners will be permitted to resentations, took the same decided | return home next week. stand ag Beggs against the street car | union. _ Brown is president-of the. Hamil- ~~ “Coutineed on Page 2, Column 4 the —Denmark ia providing money ford | anc transportation for Austro-Cier | man war prisoners cong: sted in Pe Automobiles—the best used care to choose from Post-Dispatch Want pages. ection of mn today’s per house of the Prussian Diet, Em- | THINKS. “CARS BE RUNNING TON Directors and Strikers to Come Té ie ak ae ee, tS Ree et ae fy, ai me. me, MER OR groan