St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 4, 1918
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| PF ’ “ap secant 3 tee = hd BNE , ‘Rie oe ca he me 3 ae 4 ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH “AGREEMENT NOT MEANT TO DEPRIVE MRS. WOOD" ~_ ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH a MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 4, 1918. COURT ENFORCES INVENTOR'S SALE TWO U. S. DISTRICT JUDGES HERE TO ASSIST JUDGE DYER made after Sullivan’s employment with the Temco company ceased. He declared that after examining au- thorities he was clearly of the opin- jon that, under the circumstances of | the case and as applied to the inven- tion involved, the contract was en- forceable. RERVANY'S POLLY c WAR NFANOUS Humor From the Trenches Drawn by Capt. Bruce Bairnsfather of the British Army in Flanders. suffered a large pa ¥ 7 y 16 Being Set for y- Signt§ offs oe ns un | A | in ee for Employers. ae States District Judges Lewls succeed e consideration which had gov- o4s jas Ta of Denver and Pollock of Topeka, uo ser a (| BRAIN PRODUCT erned decisions in similar cases, he Deposition of ; Lawyer W ho Kan., are here to assist Judge Dyer found, was that a person employed| Framed Separation Paper Filed jin cleaning up the docket of his out ro by a company manufacturing an in- : : court, which has become congested rd four prise lod. Th; | vention aa ieeee euparteminas ay ne Wil Conti, Te canhauni ana seer eae or, were left ‘sei Says B é irsty Pro- Rules Against WwW. L. Salk learning its merits and defects, | 16 of which were set for today. ~- _ paganda Against Foreign e Ivan | which might suggest to his minu, it in ger t all, of yo t ind three ill complete oe a ¥ . SOON } . * AS - sheinski, suing a blood-thirsty propaganda against foreign countries. We are sold body and soul to the military caste. We are pursuing an infamous war policy.” At this point the vice president called the speaker to order, but he insisted on continuing his speech. “High wages in the munitions in- dustry,”” Vogtherr declared, ‘‘are cor- rupt wages for the purpose of keep- ing workmen in good temper in the interests of carrying on the war. The Imperial Chancellor has food sent to him from Bavaria, thereby infringing the law.”’ After another interruption, the Deputy accused an Admiral and acommandant at Swinemunde of appropriating confiscated foodstuffs, adding: “We must abolish the whole of this Michaelis-Capelle management. The Dittmann case (Dittmann was a Radical Socialist member of the Reichstag accused in connection with the German naval mutiny) ought to give the Reichstag cause for reflec- tion. A General who runs wild can, by arresting obnoxious representa- tives of the people, decimate the Reichstag.” Polish _ Deputy Complains, The Polish Deputy, Von Tramp- declared Poland is being treated worse than an enemy coun- try, whereupon Wnder-Secretary Le- wald said the Germans have “an immense amount of work in be- half of Kultur in Poland,” in the way of school administration, and similar activities. He admitted, how- ever, that “the hearts of the people there are with Russia.”’ .The Vorwaerts of Berlin, in re- porting the address made by Social- ist Deputy Vogtherr, quotes the Dep- uty as follows: “The Imperial Chancellor said Bel- - gium must not again be the jumping off ground for our enemies, but even before the war this was its position and it was only upset by the injus- tice which Germany committed in her violation of Belgian neutrality. How then shall guarantees be given in the future treaties, if, as against treaties, the rule recognized is that necessity knows no law. “Mr. Balfour has clearly stated What people abroad expect of us. But no Chancellor has yet uttered clear and unequivocal renunciation regard- ing Belgium.”’ Rule in Hands of Junkerdom. Vogtherr was interrupted by “Very true,” from Independent Socialists. He continued: “Imperial Vice Chancellor von Payer is only a wheel in the machin- ery. Our Government is entirely de- pendent on the steering gear which still lies wholly in the hands of junkerdom. No help can reach the People until it finally sweeps away its tormentors and takes its fate in its own hands.” RED CROSS UNIFORM PROTECTEC Persons Who Wear It at Masqucr- ades Ordered Arrested. THe Red Cross uniform is not to | be permitted at St. Louis masquer- ade balls. Chief of Police Young has _ Ordered that persons who appear at Such affairs as Red Cross nurses are to be arrested. The action is taken at the request of the St. Louis Chapter, which calls ' &@ttention to the fact that such use - Of the uniform is unlawful, even at Red Cross benefits. THAT PARAMOUNT CIGAR Bo live that when thy summons comes, to join the innumerable Caravan of Paramount smokers, thou'llt pay thy dime with cheerful Self-gratulation —ADV. Miners Deny Violating Injunctions. WASHINGTON, March 4 (By A. P.).—Denial that injunctions — re- straining miners’ union officials from organizing employes of the Hinchman Coal and Coke Co. 1n West Virginia have been violated Was made in the Supreme Court in briefs filed today by International President Frank J. Hayes and nine other officials and members of the United Mine Workers of America. 1917 the Post-Dispatch 19,721 Horses and Vehicle want Ads—785 more than the THREE t St. Louls newspapers com- done, | Copvright by the Press Publishing Co., atest. e> YL: P >. : . $ y J POSS Cae * ne en RY x 7 } Sok ae wer ae. ; “v o%s , y, ISS 4 . ~ : ‘ > (the New York World). ; “Yes, I know the road. is rotten, but I am sure this habit Second Lieutenant Smith has of finding his way back to billets with his private repeating Verrey pistol (his Aunt sent him) will dead to trouble. % - ad INDISTRIT NEAR THE Y. MI. 0. A Hotels and Rooming Houses Raided in Move to Protect Soldiers. ‘CLEAN-UP’ IN DISTRI McDaniel with Circuit Attorney today said that a re- quest from the War Department, a grand jury investigation will be start- ed with a view to “cleaning up” the district in the neighborhood of the Central Y. M. C. A.,. Grand and Franklin avenues, so that. soldiers quartered there will not be subject to temptation. The police will be asked to serve subpenas on persons arrested in re- cent rooming house and hotel raids in the neighborhood. The Circuit Attorney said that if it is found that persons are conducting improper places within 100 yards of the Y. M. C. A. or within the same distance of any church or school, they will be charged with committing a felony. The Y. M. C. A. building now quarters 150 men enlisted as air- plane mechanics who are receiving special vocational training at the Ranken School of Mechanical Trades. Detectives yesterda$S raided three hotels and a rooming house, but only three soldiers were found. These were at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Broadway and Market street, where 19 arrests were made at noon yesterday. Men and women registered there were re- leased and charges were placed against Frank Simmons, the man- ager, accused of conducting an im- proper hotel, and his assistant, Hen- ry Taylor, charged with selling liquor without a license. The other raids were made about 1 a. m. yesterday. At the Mozart Hotel, 3517 Lucas avenue, two wom- en and four men were arrested, but later released. Henry Jansen, the manager, gave bond to appear in po- lice court. At the Copeland Hotel, 3521 Lucas avenue, Houston Copeland and his wife, Clara, were arrested. Four men and four women were found there. Mrs. Gertrude Rob- ingson, 3102 Morgan street, ing house propwetor, with running an improper place. Four women and one man in the house when it was raided were not held. . The cases were continued in Po- lice Court until Saturday to permit a grand jury investfgation. in accordance Kaiser Buys More Krupp Stock. GENEVA, March 4 (By A. P.).— Rankers who have recently returned from Frankfort say that Emperor William, who has been a large stock- holder in Krupps, has bought shares amounting to nearly $5,000,000 since the war began. , ge room- | was charged tured. was forced to help BG GERMAN THRUST NEAR RHEIMS FAILS Famous French Regiment Repels_ Attack on Dominating Disman- tled Fort. GREAT HEADQUARTERS THE FRENCH ARMY, March 3 (By A. P.).—Determined efforts by Germans to obtain Fort La Pompelle, of Rheims, and thus obtain another from possession dominating position they could complete the destruction of the city, hawe met with a san- guinary failure. The preparations for the attack began Feb. along a front extending’ nearly miles, from Loivre to Sillery. The German infantry, the follow- ing day, at five different points, went on advancing toward La. Pom- Haut over the top, salient facing Neufchatel, pelle. La Bretonnerie, Mont and Teton, at the same time ing a feint in the neighborhood Betheny. It was soon seen that the principal | point of assault was La Pompelle, | to which two battalions tried to force | Some of the Germans) | safes. their way. succeeded in reaching Alger Farm, a fortified point fronting on the dis- mantied Fort La Pompelle, but none} was .able to enter the fort itself. On Mar@h 2 a French counter inal position, and not an inch of French lines now remains in Ger- man hands. The French regiment) holding the position was one which | had already won distinction on other | It held tenaciously un- : battle fields. der the horrible bombardment, in which thousands of gas shells made the air deadly poisonous. Some of its men who were taken prisoner successfully eluded their escort and took refuge in a shell crater, where they found a large supply of gre- nades. Germans who were endeavoring recapture them, and eventually re- turned to the French lines. An aspirant officer who was cap- carry a | stretcher with a German casualty. His fellow bearer fell wounded snail the aspirant immediately lines with his wounded prisoner. CASTORIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years - OM! 'search the | of | to the southeast | which | nue | were robbed 20 | 10 | at | were robbed last Sunday night. e mak- | of | attack | quickly restored the line to its orig- | With these they held off the | to | turned | right about and made for the French | ~-POLIGEHUNT SUNDAY. NGHT SAFE ROBBERS Gang Suspected of Robberies at Filling Stations, Offices and a Church. Detectives were a gang ‘safe robbers who are believed to be responsible for a number of robberies on the last three Sunday nights. The cracksmen are said to have come) here from Kansas City, cialize in Sunday night robberies. Oil filling stations at Grand ave- and Connecticut street and at avenue and Keokuk _ street last night, the former) of $173.38 and the other of $103.26.) The offices of a coal company in the Federal Reserve Bank Building, of a life insurance concern in t he Bank of Commerce Building and of a coal company in North St. Louis The Third Baptist Church and a Kroger store were robbed the _ preceding Sunday night. The Kansas City police say that more than 20 safe robberies were re- ported there on Sunday nights prior to a month ago. The method of robbery in virtually all instances has been to “jimmy’’ windows and break the combination knobs from. the for of professional | Grand German Debt Nearly $31,000,000,000. AMSTERDAM, March 4 (By A. P.).—Germany’'s national debt has risen to nearly 124,000,000,000 marks | ($31,000,000,000), the Reichstag was informed by Count von Posadowsky- Wehner, former Vice Chancellor. serve Wheat Flour U. 8S. Food Administration Requests | ‘One Wheatless Meal Each Day Order Loyalty Bread of Your Grocer EVERY Day NAFZIGER BAKING CO. French Bakery. Sarah St. and Cook Av. “Cleanest Bakeries in the World.” U. 8S. Feod Administration License No. B 21267 | by Circuit Judge Jones in the suit of | the against the National Electric Ticket emg EMPLOYERS GET IT | Contract Was They Should Have All His Inventions for 3 Years After He Left Company. In a decision handed down today Temco Manufacturing Co. Kegister Co. and its president, Wil- liam L. Sullivan of Ferguson, in- volving the patent on an electrical ticket-vending machine, it is held that a contract by which a man mortgages his mind is not uncon- scionable or unreasonable and is enforceable. The defendants were ordered to assign to the plaintiff the patent which grew out of such a contract and the question of the defendants’ profits end the damages to the plain- tiff was referred to former Judge Rhodes E. Cave as referee. Terms of the Contract. The contract involved was between Sullivan and the Temco company. It bound Sullivan to work for the com- pany as draftsman for $25 a week and give the company title to any invention or improvement he might devise during his period of employ- ment or for three years thereafter. Sullivan gots the invention of the ticket vending machine within three years after leaving the employ of the Temco company and organ- ized the National company to manu- facture it. The Temco company sued for title to the patent and $50,000 damages. Attorney Paul Bakewell, repre- senting the defendants, contended that the contract was unconscionable because it constituted a mortgage on Sullivan’s brain. Attorney Hugh K. Wagener, for the plaintiff, contended that, on the contrary, the upholding of the contract would make a market for the products of inventors’ brains by assuring their financial backers that their contracts would be upheld. The decision is in line with Wagner's contention. In his opinion, Judge Jones, after disposing of other contentions of the defendants, said that, to his mind, the only debatable point was whether the contract was conscidnable, espe- cially when applied to inventions pany’s employ, of the idea which owed its suggestion and origin and | cevelopment to the opportunities af- forded by the company that em- ployed him. Applying this consideration to this case the Judge said: “While I am not convinced that the defendant, Sullivan, actually conceived the invention involved in this case while employed with the plaintiff, yet I am the evidence and all stances that the general idea and plan of the-invention had occurred to him prior to the termination of his employment, and that the actual invention resulted directly from the opportunities afforded by his*em- ployment with the plaintiff.” , Inventor to Be Reimbursed. While the decision is in favor of the plaintiff, it is on condition that the Temco company reimburse the inventor for all his outlays in the matter of perfecting later inventions and procuring a patent and a rea- sonable per diem, measured by what his services would command in other fields, for the time devoted by him to the mechanical habiliment of the idea involved in the invention. The original machine was the in- vention of Albert J. Meier, president of the Temco company. It was op- erated with a foot pedal. Sullivan’s machine, which represented an im- provement on the Meier machine, was operated electrically. The Temco company alleged in its petition that it was virtually put out of business when the Sullivan machine was put on the market. THAT PARAMOUNT CIGAR For the end of a perfect meal.—ADYV. 3 KILLED, 30 HURT IN INTERURBAN TRAIN COLLISION Passenger Cars Crash Head-on Into Freight Near Boone, Ia.,— Several Scriously Injured. BOONE, Io., March 4 (By A. P.). —Three-persons at least were killed | 9ver the Wabash. injured, | and 30 others were some seriously, when a Des Moines- ‘bound passenger train on the Fort Dodge-Des Moines. and Southern Electric Road, crashed head-on into an interurban freight train near here today. convinced from | the’ circum- | | Garesche’s court today. | | The depo- sition was that of Percy 8S. Dudley, a New York lawyer, who was en- gaged in 1902 to draw up a separa- (tion agreement between Wood and his wife. Wood's will fixed an allowance of $2400 a year for Mrs. Wood and some of the beneficiaries of the wili, charitable institutions, have con- tended that this annuity is all Mrs. Wood is entitled to. They contend that Mrs. Wood, in signing the sep gration agreement, signed away her claim to a one-half dower right. Mrs. Wood denies this, and Probate Judge Holtcamp upheld her contention and declared her entitled to one-half. An appeal was taken from his de- cision to the Circuit Court. Dudley, in his deposition, says that William E. Burger, cashier of the Jefferson Bank, St. Louis; of which Wood was then president, called on him at-his office in New York in 1902 and asked him to draw up the Wood separation agree- ment: He said Burger gave him a memorandum containing the prin- cipal points and that all he had to do was to put the matter in legal form. He was asked whether it was the purpose of the document to deprive Mrs. Wood of her dower right. After refreshing his memory by rereading the agreement, he said he did not intend, in framing the agreement, to bar her. from the right of dower, or he would have done so in more specific language. | SEVEN WARDS TO SEND 95 MEN - JO CAMP FUNSTON TONIGHT Fourteen Will Send 194 Tomorrow; Quota of 3972 in First Draft — Completed. Seven ward boards will send 95 drafted men to Camp Funston to- night, leaving over the Rock Island at 9:03 o'clock. The wards are the Fourteenth, Twenty-first, Twenty- second, Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth. Fourteen other wards will send 194 men at 8:45 a. m. tomorrow They are the Second, Third, Fourth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Sixteenth, Eighteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-third wards. The departure of these men will complete St. Louis’ quota of 3972 in the first draft. First, been ordered interned. Frank, who is a mechanical engineer, claims, te be a native of Switzerland. Judge Pollock will spend the reat of the week trying cases which may include those against@Harry Turner, charged with sending obscene mat- ter through the mail and in making disloyal comments in his occasioggl publication, “Much Ado,” and against Henry B. Krenning of 5157 Water- man avenue, charged with calling President Wilson a traitor at the Orpheum Theater. At the opening of court all three Judges sat in Judge Dyer's court. { Judge Dyer called the docket and as- signed half of the cases to Judge Lewis and half to Judge Pollack. Judge Lewis withdrew to th® Coyrt of Appeals room and Judge Pollock remained on the bench in the Dig- trict Court, Judge Dyer retiring to his chambers. — CHARGED PHONE WIRE KNOCKS - PATROLMAN UNCONSCIOUS Hand Burned When Eagging Elec- tric Company Wire Falls Across, Telephone Wire. A sagging wire of the Union Elac- tric Co. fell across a police telephone. wire near the box at Eighteenth and Papin streets at 2 o'clock this morn- ing, and when Patrolman Henry Sauerhage attempted to Ose the tele- phone instrument, a shock was in- flicted that hurled him to the ground, unconscious. His right hand was burned. He was sent home, and is recovering from the shock. Firemen were called, but it took an electrical repair crew to adjust the dangerous condition. An electric light pole, which took fire after the accident to the policeman, was burned off at the ground, the police reported. Rorto Rico Goes Dry. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, March-4 (By A. P.).—Porto Rico went dry #4t midnight Saturday. This followed an act of Congress, which the elec- tion of last July failed to repeal. This act prohibits the importation, manu- facture, sale or gift of intoxicatiig liquors or drugs. A local law per- mits the manufacture and gale of beer containing not exceeding 2% per cent of alcohol. MMB ttipang. assigned today to) Mo., and spe- | be We——> Sixty-Eight Reasons Why Tuesday Is One of the Big Saving Days of the Week © -_ & Blue Bird No. 42,518-—Tuesday Only. orsets, $4.30 Bon Ton; medium or low bust; heavy coutil. Blue Bird No. 42,519-—Tuesday Only. ,. , . Philippine Gowns, hand-embroid- ered designs, seallops and eyelets. Blue Bird No. 42,520-—Tuesday Only. .00 Chemise, $2. Envelope Chemise of crepe de chine; tailored and lace trimmed. Biue Bird No 42,521-—Tuesday Only. $6.00 Petticoats, $5.20 Of taffeta and satin; assortment . of colors; elastic fitted. Biue Bird No. 42,522-—-Tuesday Only. Kimonos, $2.1 Of crepe; floral patterns; empire style; satin ribbon trimming. Blue Bird No, 42.523—-Tuesday Only. Neckwear, Men's; fancy patterns and beauti- ful designs; wide open four-in- hands. Blue Bird No. 42,524—-Tuesday Only. ° ’ Men’s tub silk Shirts: faney and satin stripes; all colors; 14 to 17. Bive Bird No. 42.526-—Tuesday Only. $30.00 Suits, $27.40 Men’s and young men’s cheviots, worsteds and serges; Spring mod- els. Bive Bird No. 42.526—-Tueeday Only. Women 's latest Spring styles in Oxfords and pumps. Blue Bird No. 42,527-~-Twuesday Only. ' ’ Spring styles in Wane "s Pumps . and Oxfords; ‘‘ Dorothy Dodds.’ Blue Bird No, 42,.523-—Tuesday Only, . ’ oy Men’s black and tan lace Shoes, © Blue Bird No 42.629—Tuesday Onty. ilverware, Sheffield reproduction of casse- roles and sandwich plates. Blue "§ No. 00 Hats, $3.65" Only. Men’s hag. or Stiff Hats; green, brown, steel, pearl and black. Bive Bird No, 42.6231-—-Tuesday Onis, . $5.50 $4.95 Men's and Young Men’s cheviots, worsteds and cassimeres; 29 to 50 waist. Bive Fird No. 42,532-—-Tueeday Only . .95 Dresses, $3.40 Girls’ White Dresses of organdie, lawn or batiste; prettily trimmed; 6 to 14 years. Bive Bird No. 42.633-—Tw v Only. "$1.75 Sheets, $1.55. Hemstitched Sheets; bleached; eot- _ ton; 72x99 in. Bive "$5.98 Sets, $6.25 Only. Madeira Luncheon Sets, 13 pieces; _ | fine linen; pretty patterns.
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