St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 9, 1918

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Circulation Biggest Ever The circulation of the Vally Post-Dispatch in 8t season by season is greater than ever before in the history of this newspaper. This is also true of the Sunday Post-Dispatch. culation books open to all.” “First in Everything.” Louls compared 4 é F ? « te 4 oes a 2m By Bae gat ee ty ps es } ge roe: ae oes Fe x” ot as ‘e ; y he 2 Jom oy ¢ Ps , “ae : be ae ¥ + . \ e “Cir- 5 oa = ee i a i ei x > A % ’ a oa « - F . C | The Only Evening Paper in St Louis T-D the Associated Press :) News Service » —— VOL. 70. NO. 170. ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1918—12 PAGES. PRICE Bae pi ceemens = ae ee gh 7 GUL ROOSEVELT BELIEVED 10 BE PAST THE CRISIS hee Doctors Fix Tentative Date for Release From Hospi- tal Three Weeks Hence. STILL IS “A SICK MAN” Callers Barred, Only His Family Allowed to See Him; Cable Messages of Sympathy. been anxiously watching the progress of the infection of his ears which | especially qualified _cupy trenches,” said Gen. Pershing. | | er balance in rank and pay which _passed and when aviation was in the experimental stages. | (commanding the aviation fleld serv- ~|ice) is in full accord with this rec- | NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—(By A. P.) ommendation. | —Friends of Col. Roosevelt who have | | PERSHING SAYS AVIATION IS NOT EXTRA-HAZARDOUS WORK ' Secretary Baker Submits Bill to Re- peal Extra Pay Allowance for Air Service. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—On a re- port from Gen. Pershing that avia- tion is not extra-hazardous service, Secretary Baker today submitted to DISAPPOINTING TAX to repeal extra pay allowances in the RETURN FROM HERE aviation service, averaging about 50 | per cent. | “But Politics Will Not Prevent | Equal Assessment All Over “Flying duty is no more hazardous | State,’’ He Says. , than duty with other combat prtetahetngg and involves nothing like the hard- ships endured by troops which oc- “Such laws araproductive of improp- LISTS “SLACKER” COUNTIES result in injustice to other arms and | are no longer necessary in order to | get personnel, as was the case w hen | ‘Kansas City and St. Joseph in Sections Failing to Show - Gen. Foulois | Expected Increases. ‘By a Staff Correspondent of the Post- Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Feb. 9.—Cor- nelius Roach, chairman of the State Tax Commission, today made up a The measure submitted by Secre- tary Baker also would create a new | grade of “aviator” to be filled by | civilians paid | ; ROACH LOOKS FOR PRESIDENT SAYS THE FINAL TEST IS COMING SOON “Fighting for Some Than Man’s Imagina ,Can Grant.” Bigger MEMORIAL FROM se Ask for Permanent Cancale at Washington and Exemp- | ® tion of Farm Labor. WASHINGTON, Feb. dent Wilson had before him today & memorial presented by 16 national | ~| 9.—Presi- | | | | | | | farm organizations urging the ap- | pointment of an advisory commis- | required an operation at Roosevelt | $150 monthly. Hospital, expressed the belief today | that the turning point has been’ reached, and that he is now on the | SAYS WILSON’S “eT. LOUIS way to recovery. For the first time since wuroday | DREAM” WILL BE REALIZED | afternoon, when the Colonel's condi- | tion was declared to be serious, the! Secretary Daniels Predicts United attending physicians today fixed a) States Will Have Greatest Navy probable date for his release from | in the World. the hospital three weeks hence. His| WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (By A. P.). temperature and pulse were de-|—Secretary Daniels said in a speech scribed as normal, and the symptoms at the National Press Club that the of inflammation of the inner ear, the}time was coming “when President cause of worry, were declared to! Wilsom’s dream uttered at St. Louis have further subsided. will be realized: ‘That the United The Colonel was said, however, by | States shall have incomparably the This a person close in touch with the phy- | sreatest navy in the world.’ | St. Louis, which has not yet been re 'of other property sicians, to be still*“‘a sick man,” and) result, he said, will be accomplished | that his malady needed the closest | With ‘the aid of Henry Ford and| watching. Encouraged by the reports of the physicians today there was a con- stant stream of callers at the hospi- tal, but none save immediate mem- bers of the Roosevelt family were | permitted to see the former Presi- dent. He is known to have been suf- fering intense pain, a characteristic ef abscessed conditions in the ears. The Colonel awoke this morning, | however, slightly freer from pain, after a fairly good night's sleep. Doctors Martin and Duel, special- ists, saw the Colonel during: the fore- noon and reported “progressive im-' provement’ during the last 24 hours. “His pulse and temperature are normal,’’ read a bulletin issued at 10:30 a. m., after the two physi- cians had called. “The alarming symptoms in the internal ear are subsiding.. Absolute quiet and rest will be essential during his stay in the hospital of at least three weeks.” The Colonel did not awaken during the night, a murse informed Mrs. Roosevelt, when the former Presi- dent's wife entered the sick room at 5 o'clock this morning. | | Letters and, telegrams addressed | to the former President or to mem- bers of his family here continued to} reach the hospital today from all parts of the country. In _ addition there were cable messages from all over the world expressing solicitude and good wishes. President Wilson yesterday sent to Mrs. sage: “May I not express my warmest sympathy and the sincere hope that Mr. Roosevelt's condition is improv- ing.” | ' Miss Josephine Stryker, the Colo- nel’s secretary, arrived at the hospi- tal shortly after 8 o’clock and went to his room. “IN FOR A BAD TIME FOR A FEW MONTHS,” JELLICOE SAYS Former Chief of British Naval Staff Believes Submarine Menate Will ~ Be Over by August. LONDON, Feb. 9 (By A. P.)— Admiral Sir John R. Jellicoe, former chief of the naval staff, speaking at * Hull, said he was afraid ‘‘we are in ‘for a bad time for a few months, but by late summer—aboyut August—lI belleve we /will be able to say the submarine’ menace js killed.” Ad- miral Jellicoe then continued: “I won't say before August, Roosevelt the following mes- | some other gentlemen.’ Mr. Daniels spoke briefly at a pri- vate exhibition of official pictures. ‘of the. navy. He extolled the work of the navy since the war began hav- | ing been filled with glory. elieve,” he said, “that any organization in the world is so filled | Commission. and | Sessors show that the assessments in the newest re-/ rural Missouri have been increased | with the spirit of enthusiasm team work. From we have no old Admirals, and the} navy is a boy organization—they are eager to continue the great record) County, made in proteeting the country.’’ The keel of the first ;of the new $54,000,000, “I do not | ‘ other | counties are now in the hands of the | |cruit to the youngest Admiral—for | €rom | type of patrol’ boats to be buflt .by the Henry Ford company was laid: just 20 days after the contracts were’! awarded, Secretary Daniels an- nounced, in telling of the rapid prog- | commission, crease the navy’s submarine-chasing| should be as much as,/$580,000,000. ponte that you. gentlemen do not | ress being made in the plan to in- fleet. KAISER SAYS PEOPLE MAY LOOK FORWARD “TO A GOOD PEACE” Thanks Those Who Sent Congratula- tory Messages on His Recent _ Birthday Annivérsary. AMSTERDAM, Feb. 9.—Emperor | | William’s decree, in which he thanks | 'those who addressed congratulatory : | } messages to him on his recent birth- day anniversary, is published in the Berlin Reichsanzeiger. In it Emperor, according to | County 'of only $23,000,000 over | |also a member of the State Board of Se the a summary: telegraphed from Berlin, dwells upon | “the relations of confidence between | the crown and the people,” “his 26 ress of the German people. The Emperor recalls with grati- tude “the proudest days of German | history at the outbreak of the war’ | nae ag : ak of the war | commission, “world | WILSON TO CALL CONFERENCE and Germany’s subsequent l.istorical successes,”’’ and he lauds the self-sacrifice, perseverance, the enormous labor and the achieve-. ments of the people at home, by which, with God's help, A vote of the members o0f the Truck and Teamsters’ Union No. 600 is being taken today to determine | whether the union will arbitrate: questions of wages and shorter work- | ing hours for the baggage wagon | drivers of the St. Louis Transfer Co., Who have been on a strike since | Wednesday. Twenty men are in- | volved. . The union at first rejected a pro- be- | posal to arbitrate, but the decision ‘cause I always notice when we have |to put the question to a vote was an optimistic speech from the Pre- “goed or any high official it results in isaster about next day. I have the Premier often enough not to - make optimistic speeches about sub- es, because I have found the next morning I had to g0 over to the ‘War Cabinet with a very long list of losses. ' “I would ask them not to make ‘any more optimistic speeches until August, when they can’ make as “many as they ike! U.S, MONUMENT ON- THE MARNE ie ars to. American Gift 7 ve of Battle. 5 PARIS, Feb. 9 (By A. P.).—For- is staan ‘Minister Pichon ang notified * Willam Seanehe Cabinet, I would nt ment commemora- of the Marne which by American George J. Tansey, president of the company. reached last night after a conference | of Daniel J. Murphy and Thomas E£. | broadcast. Coyne, representing the union, with | the nation | may look forward tod a good peace.” | i 'dent Wilson next week will call into conference Democratic and Repub- DRIVERS VOTING ON ARBITRATION. ing bill to empower the President to co-ordinate departments for the suc- } ' i i ‘ship's trouble. ‘erty in the State’ ’ had its repres iv in my years of peace efforts” and the prog- | PE Cuensatey es tn. ti) list of counties which he declares are “slackers’’ in assessments under the new tax laws. They are: Jackson County, includ- 'ing Kansas City; Buchanan County, including St, Joseph; Jasper County, Roach’s former home and the cen- ter of the greatest zinc mining dis- trict in the world; and Marion and | Monroe counties. Roach expressed | the opinion that the assessment of | sion of nine‘farmers to aid the Gov- | ernment in framing more definite. measures to speed up agricultural | legislation. The memorial, given to the President by a delegation of rep- resentatives of the organizations, which called at the White House, asked also for the furloughing of trained farm workers now in the ‘army; that farm laborers be kept ‘from class one of the draft; that provision be made for furnishing | farmers with seed, fertilizer and /| short-time loans for crop production and, finally, that if a policy of price control be adopted, it be applied to what the farmer buys as well as to what he sells. While the President said that he could not answer such a compre- hensive petition off-hand, it would receive his most careful considera- tion. turned, will be disappointing, and not in the same ratio as the assessment throughout the State. General Intrease in Totals. “Regardless of the returns made | by assessors who have political am- bitions,”’ Roach said today, ‘‘all prop- “will be’ assessed on the same basis by the Tax Com- mission.”’ Reports from nearly all of the 114 Steps Already Taken. The President replied: | “T cannot, of course, offhand an- 'swer so important a memorial as 200 to 300 p ‘ -- | this, and I need not tell you that it | per cent, except In | will receive my most careful and | ies classed as ‘‘slaeckers”’ by attention. Many of the’ “The assessment of Jack site lag | weesment OF JacKSon | questions that are raised here have | as reported yesterday, is _been matters of very deep concern | $292,003,710, an increase of only | with us for months past fe I be-| ° 6r b. ? over last Ane” te: Pla cent lieve that many of them are ap- ' Figures. by Counties. Fea genes as successful solution as Roach wowld © not say “definitely we can work out for them; but just} ey t what those steps are I cannot now ee eee detail to you. You are probably fa- County will be raised by the tax) wiliar with some of them. but said he is sure it | “T want to say that I fully rec- The figures of the as-| the cou Roach. The tax assessment of } of Buchanan | jean that your ; utmost effort will be ha ierease | dependent upon the acceptance of st year. | these suggestions. I know you are The assessment of Marion County | d heat in. ti is $16,524,038. Last year it was $11,-} Rene <e SO. Our DON Sh ee eee 459.516 stances, and I count on you with the Manbon Wishes td utmost confidence in that. There PE ESE, | Ae SS MeAlllater i'has never been, a time, gentlemen, 4 Spat ee | which tested the real quality of folks : /as this time is going to test it, be- Equalization, and who will sit in) cause we are fighting for something ‘final judgment on the action of the’ bigger than any man’s imagination tax commission, S assess- : increased its assess can grant. ment from $9,342,556, to $9,924,380. The Final Contest. “This is a final tackle between the tive Working in Office. thing that America has always been Assessor Wolbrinck, discussing the, opposéd to and was going to fight dispatches from Jefferson City, said: | and the things that she stands for. “The State Tax Commission has/| It is the final contest, and to lose it office | Would set the world back, not a hun- for several months. They had au- 'dred—perhaps several hundreds— thority to do with assessments what- years in the development of humar. is $81,000,000, the home of At- who is Wolbrinck Tells of State Représenta- | Brest-Litovak were begun the | sheviki consented to the admission ‘of Ukrainian delegates but subse- | quently discovered that the Ukrain- Map Showing Point at Which (Giermans Raided American Trenches WW Ty BERLIN 7 \ Some Men Captured Ten Miles Ez of St. Mihiel, . Official Re- port Says. ate The arrow pointa at St. Mihiel, ing to the German official report, taken. ‘‘10 miles east’”’ of which, accord- ‘““some American prisoners’ were PEACE AGREEMENT SIGNED WITH Recognize Action Taken at Brest Litovsk. BERLIN, Feb. 9, via London (By | A. P.).—Peace between the Central | Powers.andvthe Ukraing was ‘signed | at 2 o’clock this morning, according to an ‘official statement issued here today. The Bolshevik Government proba- ment signed by representatives of the Ukrainian. Rada. This is the leg- islative body set up by the Ukrain- ians at the time they declared their independence of Russia. Attemots to overthrow the Rada and establish a Soldiers’ and MVorkmen's Council as the governing authority in Ukraine have resulted in fighting during the last few weeks. When the peace negotiations at Bo!- ians were carrying on secret nego- ever they pleased. If the assessment | life. The thing cannot be exagger- in St. Louis is not satisfactory to the | the fault is not mine.” | that you men are ready, as I am, ‘spend every ounce of energy we | have got in solving this thing. If we cannot solve it in the best way we will solve it in the next best way, and if the next best way ts not available, we will solve it in the way next best to that, but we will tackle it in some way and do it as well as we can. “T am complimented by a visit of so large a representation and I than you for the candid presentation of this interesting memorial.” In recommending the creation of ON NEW CO-ORDINATION BILL WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Pres!- lican Senators to diséuss the pend. cessful prosecution of the war. The administration hopes the bill ated in its‘importance and I know | to | will be passed, at least in-a modi-|* farmers’ commission to sit per- | fied form. 'manently in Washington. with pro- | vision by the Government for ayer CALL FOR HELP FROM SHIP) ssis.°"* "rene ‘he memoria said: AN ATLANTIC PORT, Feb. 9 ike | A. P.)—A call for immediate assis- | tance from a steamer in distress, far | out at sea, was picked up today by | the Cape Race station and sent | Need of Commission. “Such a commission is needed, | first of all, to give to the farmers of America a sense of partnership in the conduct of the war to which they | have a right. The occasional consul- Naval authorities said they wa ae ‘tation with farmers called to Wash- | ington of the occasional appointment information as to t he nature of the | of a farmer to a subordinate place Why U. S. Must Not Set Time Now for Returning Railroads to Private Control ee! William Gibbs. McAdoo, Director General of Railroads. essential. industries. /as nothing else could. 4 | posal to issue $4,000,000,000 in bonds ‘to finance essential industries an4 A Remarkable Article That Will Appear Exclusively in Tomorrow’s Sunday POST -DISPATCH Order Your Copy Today. | suggested that assistance for food /guch vast expenditure: | ‘ | cide that Paul Chapman, a 16-year- eld youth, should pay the death pen- alty for having participated in the robbery of a Brooklyn store last Oc- tober during which Harry Regens- burg, the proprietor and his brother were shot to death. | tiations with the Germans and Aus- trians. They thereupon repudiated the Ukrainians and sent new dele- gates, representing the Bolsheviki regime in Ukraine, to Brest-Litovak. The Germans and Austrians, how- ever, declined to recognize the new delegates. | 'o’clock tonight, pqeegeeseatiny-~epstenmmeemnnananegempene bly will recognize no peace agree- | aliens, ‘and was to have been endéd ALIEN REGISTRATION UKRAINE, REPORT FROM BERLIN: | Bolsheviki Probably Will Refuse to) -HAS BEEN EXTENDED Work in~ St...Louis Interfered With by the Street Car Strike. The police registration of enemy which began last Monday, at 8 has been extended, the country, to next Wednesday. The street car strike interfered with the registration here to a serious extent. Up to the closing hour last night the total number registered at the various St. “ouis police. stations throughout -was 2317. In issuing the order Attorney- General Gregory said he desired to give the registrants sufficient time in which 40 comply with the Presi- dent’s. proclamation. The districts and the* number registered in each are: Central 333, Mounted 223, Page Boulevard 93, Newstead) Avenue 61, Carondelet 100, Wyoming Street 375, Soulard Street 300, Carr Street 97, North Market Street 175, Angelica Street 95, Magnolia Avenue 197, Laclede Avenue 56, Dayton Street 102, Deer | Street 110. Patrolman Walter Sonntag of the TWO SEAMEN GET HONOR MEDALS | Soulard Street District, who has been Acts of Bravery in U. S. Navy Re- warded by Danicls. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—-Secre- tary Daniels today announéed the award of medals of honor to Sea- men Ora Graves of Maxwell, N. M.., end Tedford H. Cann of New York City, for extraordinary heroism. An explosion aboard the VU. S. 8S. Pittsburg Dec. 23 threw Graves to the deck, but he extinguished burn- ‘ lirg waste near powder in the case. | mate and prevented serious damage: does not amount to fitting participa- | , tion in the conduct of the war on the | | part of one-third of the population | 'of the United States, and all the more | | when that third produces the one | | form of supplies which is the most } “This plan would be in harmony | | with the procedure already adopted | by the Government in other essenti1 | The creation of such a/| commission would convince all farm- | ‘ers that their viewpoint was fully | represented in Washington and al- | ways accessible to the President and | would inspire and encourage them | The memorial approved the pro- | | production would not involve any | ‘Boy Gets Death Sentence for Murder. | NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (By A. P.).— It took a jury only 20 minutes to de-— Cann entered a flooded compartment of the United States patrol vessel Mayor, on Nov. 5, stopped a leak cnd saved the vessel from sinking. FAIR AND. COLDER TONIGHT, ‘discovered yesterday by reading the. | ‘taking finger prints of enemy aliens, ‘regulations governing the registra- tion of aliens, that he also is in the ‘enemy alien classification. and so BUT WARMER TOMORROW | _emy alien classification. THE TEMPERATURES. bs 4 Yesterday: m.; low, 40,-at 11:30 p. m. Official fore- cast for St. Louls and vicinity: Fair and colder | NOW TO WASH “THE CAR. WINDOWS. lowest: temperh- ture tomorrow warmer. Fair colder portion tonight; in warmer northwest tion and tonight tomorrow: cold- er tonight: row and “tomorrow night. | Stage of river at 7 a. m., a rise of 1 foot. about 22; and tration today confiscated 600 pounds Monday, fair and of flour which had been purchased warmer tomor- the Wyoming He is 27 years Nebraska av- registered today at Street Police Station. old and lives at 3132 enue, Sonntag was appointed probation- ary patrolman by the Police Board Feb. 8, 1915, and was made regular patrolman Act. 8, 1917. He. was born in Germany and was brought to this country when he was two vears old. Sonntag recently discovered that his father had taken out only first naturalization papers, which are not sufficient for citizenship. He took ithe matter up with C. Orrick Bishop, Judge Advocate of the Police Depart- 1v.ent, who gave an opinion that Pa- trolman Sonntag came under the en- The law governing the appoint- ment of patrolmen is that full nat- ‘uralization of the foreign born is nec- High, 58, at 4:30 p. | ‘ : tonight, with the | essary to appointment. 00 POUNDS OF FLOUR BOUGHT BY FAMILY OF 3 CONFISCATED Food Adrhinistration Learns of Pur- chases‘at Different Stores; Does Not Give Out Name. The United States Food Adminis- 'for a St. Louis family of three. The Missouri ee purchases were made at different ‘stores and the flour was ‘found in east | the family’s residence. and)! in|such confiseations except in cases por- | ‘tomorrow | certain that hoarding is the purpose. Monday, |The name of the offender was not fair and warmer. given out, but it was said that he Illinois ——-Fair | was of some prominence and that he nn 4! submitted to confiscation rather than The administration does not make where the offense is obvious dnd is risk court proceedings in which he might have been fined $5000 and | sent to the penitentiary for two years. “| e flour will be sold and the pro- coh ds given to the Red Cross. | | | marked success last night and today. | patrols were observed in front of our icorporals left a large patrol in an INDICATES ANOTHER RAID ON U.S. TRENC American Troops---German Battery Posi- tion Is Blown Up---Shell Causes Large Explosion of Ammunition. : dig 7 haa mS ae prisoners “iid been sealed north of Kivday, pe miles ‘east of Mihiel, says the official statement issued today by the Geral General Staff. The foregoing ade indicates | that the Germans have again raided the American lines. The point on the line is along the southern edge of the St. Mihiel salient about 10 miles east of St. Mihiel itself... he announcement fixes definiiely ‘for the first time the location of the northeast of Toul. “From this’ position sor where dlong the it ‘the St. Milfiel galienit,« if southeast of Verdun, was esvumnetl: ai" = German Battery Position : Is Blown Up by Ameriec can WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY, afflicted, IN FRANCE, Feb.:9 (By A. p.),—-| corps of newspaper aba ata The American artillery continued / hammering German positions with| CROWN PRINCE REPULSED IN 7 RAIDS AT vannid p A destructive fire on enemy buildings | and works was maintained. <A Ger-| man battery position was struck by | a shell from our large’ guns and| Coeman Attacks Since Feb. 2 ph. a heavy axplosion of eget S im S Cc With | nition. A sheet of flame shot high! in the air, the ground trembled and | the camouflage protection around the | position was set on fire. Just before dawn two FRANCE, Feb. 9 (By A. P.). German n armies of the German Crown Prince position. <A barrage fire called for by the infantry in the front trenches effectively scattered and drove off the enemy. With our machine guns we all day harassed the enemy continuously, shooting streams of— bullets into working parties or wherever the enemy showed himself. The artillery duel continued all day. The enemy patrols have evidently learned a les- son for last night, while our patrols worked freely all over No Man's Land, they were unmolested. Germans Have “Dog Listeners.” The Germans are using dogs in their front lines to warn them of the approach of patrols opposite the American sector. A .German dog ‘listener’ early this morning pre- vented one of our patrols from exe- cuting a daring stroke. Two cor- porals who were concerned in it have meen mentioned in the official reports for their spirit and coolness. Accompanied by two privates, the fered costly defeats in seven the Meuse. Although large t troops were employed at thestid: single permanent advantage has gained. On Feb. 2 the Germans made t separate assaults on the C Wood, on the right bank of Meuse, but were hurled back on occasion by the French, who to meet them with bayonets and h grenades, killing large mt North of Hill 344, on Feb.. 3.4 German columns advanced in a fog, after a heavy pestsrgrin bardment and succeeded in ent the French front line The enemy was driven out iss ous hand-to-hand — and a shock units, prince Boh the ren line at the. same place on » abandoned trench in No Man's Land irenenee ee ey last midnight and went on to the German lines. They first found a smooth wire barrier which had been shot to pleces by the Ameriean fire. Fifteen yards further on they came upon German entanglements of wire 20 feet deep with four pointed barbs. The men were inspecting an open- ing in the wire when a dog appa- rently chained:on the other side be- gan to bark. A dugout door opened quickly in a trench and a gruff voice was heard to say “Fertig,” meaning ready. Suddenly a brililant rocket. went up and the Americans threw themselves flat on the ground just as a machine gun began to spit bil- lets In their directién. <A few feet away a heavy object struck the gtound. This was sacpaceesn rca er to be. a bomb which had been h the German .trench. ; | [Asten to German Talk. The corporals stayed where ican censor in this connection vam : E that the Americans were “this thet | ; as is one member of the ; WITH THE FRENCH ARMIEST SIN Pe: a oe ‘3 before Verdun since Feb. 2 have out. raids on positions on both wees | t |