St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 6, 1918

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MIC PAGE a ca a . ~ o. 7% os MARCH 61918. = = | Circulation Biggest’ Ever ei » Whe circulation of the Daily Post-Dispatch {n st. , =e . Mee score th the niats by more pay and shorter hours. They ' said the working day was nine and > threé-quarters hour;3, and that under | the company’s bonus system, which ' takes the place of the union wage ' scale the best workmen could make | &bout $3.50 a day, medium ones $3, ae > €alled a meeting for last Saturday, ' night, at Aschenbroedel Hall. meeting was largely attended. Mon-! day morning, Hannan said, a num-| ber of the men who had attended | as 4% : cently and ¥ tz " % ey ~ OUtside with the discharged ones and ' and others $2.40 or $2.60. John W. Hannan, district organ- a izer of the Machinists’ Union, satd oe that an international organizer of ' the machinists came to St. Louis re- ent to work in the Wag- ner plant. His identity was discov- 4 ered, Hannan said, and he was dis- | - charged. Following this, the organizers the meeting were discharged. | Meeting Held Last Night. At the second meeting, held last. Right, Hannan said, more than. 600. accessions to the union were report- | ed. As the men left the hall, he de- | clared, they saw some of the bosses | and foremen from the Wagner plant | Standing near the building. tending, the others would walk out. This morning, according to the Statements of a number of the men, the employes who went to work in _ the punch shop were asked, by one F f the bosses, if they had attended { the meeting. Several replied that had done so. These, it was re- - inte by the men, were at once dis- . Thereupon, the other men tn the punch shop voluntarily walked stood on the lawn. The news of the nee spread to other depart- and soon groups began to _ ein them: coming from various parts Of the plant. There was no union order for a walkout. _ Appear that they were picketing, but. | 88 the ‘number increased severe! ne men, as they left the plant, ed about the further end of a bridge across Plymouth avenue, | leads to the plant. It did not - deputy sheriffs appenred. The Wag- pier plant, | cial) Speaker 'promised to recognize members to| call up the daylight saving bill when! was protected heavily. This | - 150, ate7 | is high for so early in March lt was. ' agreed at the meeting, Hannan said, that if men were discharged for at- though classed as a St | eS institution, is in St. i nearest St Lovis newspapers — i bined. unfair methods of competition in tha! conduct of its business. Julius Rosenwald, one of the large war buyers for the Government, is president of the concern, The complaint summons -the firm | to answer aycharge that it has ad- vertised sugar for sale at 3 to 4 cents! loss, but only upon condition that certain amour nts | a pound, actually at a of other groceries be purchased for which a sufficient price is charged | to make a sale. The complaint profit on the com*bined further charges that Sears, Roebuck & Co., with the | purpose of injuring competitors, has | circulated catalogues the quality of merchandise sold by its competitors as inferior. The complaint charged that the low price on-.sugar was made for the purpose | of lessening competition and creat- ing a monopoly. set for April 11. ————— CHICAGO, March 6.—Officials of | Sears, Roebuck & Co. said today that the sale of sugar on the selling plan. complained of by the Federal Trade Commission was discontinued June when a shortage of sugar he- came apparent. Supporters Say House Consider It Necessity. WASHINGTON, March 6. ‘Champ Clark (‘Spe- | the legislative, executive and judicial lines also were out in force. (trenches the men divided their time ibetween watching the aerial opcra- and drying themselves in th:| A hearing has been | last. (or the In the tions dugouts. First U. S. Balloon Goes Up. the first time in several days, being stationed at intervals along the fron- i'tiers as far as the eye could see in both directions. For the first time \in the war an American observation 'balioon, fully manned and protected | by Amerivans, went up. This is the ‘first complete unit of the American ‘air service to appear in the field. ‘ascend, the observers having been ‘up in a French balloon severul days | an American bal- | previously. Today loon compeny was working where the French hitherto have been. The balloon was hauled out from its hidden nest and a slight delay was ‘experienced in getting it off the in which were an and Lieutenant. from the basket, American Captain were fouled. 'edied and the balloon was sent up, remaining in the air several hours. It rose higher than either the Irench Germans in for observation. While it was at the headed * in The balloon * was that it might be ‘their direction. ‘hauled down s0 has} grounded quickly if necessary. Ameriean gunners were on duty at many places nearby. for the balloon They stood appropriations bill is passed. Demo- | by their guns, but the enemy planes, cratic leader Kitchin is in favor of/ sailing across the sky with shrapnel getting the measure disposed of at! once. urge haste. “The daylight saving bill,’’ Chair- man Sims of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, said! lines bearing the insignia “will be brought up just as soon as there is a half day in sight to which some appropriation bill has not a prior right. The bill ought) to be passed by next.week. It is not today. opposed. There will be little time oc- cupied in discussing it, for members regard it as necessary.” PARTLY CLOUDY TONIGHT AND WARMER TOMORROW | cans. many of them upon towns. The | Civic 1 sion i SE THE TEM PERATU RES 51 1 a. 9 a. Yesterday, a. m. high 82, at 4 p. A mediyistiot ath of §2 Yes high, 82, Mm. ; low, a. m. Official terday, at 4 p. 50, at) He | OSPR IN (cIPAL EAQUE ah - fore- and Partly cloudy to-— night and temperature to-,; freezing point. cloudy tonight and to- morrow. Colder in southeast por- tions tonight. Rising tempera- tures tomorrow. lilinois—Part- ‘dy cloudy to- . night. Colder in south and central portions. Tomor- row,probably fair; with rising tem- peratures in porte and west por- tions, Stage of river 7 a. rise of .7 of a foot. Partly m., 10.3 feet, a Post-Dispatch | and Vehiele, the THREE | During 18t7 the printed 19,.2 Horses vant Ads-——785 more than Sa The appearance of a squadron ‘ae | low 'solely to patrol parties, | cans searched No Man’s Land in the | covered for St. Loui ‘front of a Hstening post. pris beet — had on his gas mask. vicinity— | to- | morrow. Lowest | | and there night about the | | puffs streaming out behind them like Supporters wf daylight say ing | the tail of a comet, suddenly changed their course and headed for home. of Américan of the French on their wings, probably was the cause, 20,000 Shells Dropped. Shélls fell thick and fast within the -American Jines and upon the) enemy’s positions on the Toul sector | Monday. Aside from a big ‘barrage | which the enemy placeu' on the planes from behind the |American positions at daylight in| projectiles | by | have been dropped in the vicinity of | i this neighborhood, 20,000 the terrain occupied by the Ameri- American casualties, however, have | heen extremely light. Sunday night the Americans con; tinued to shell the enemy and put activity was confined | The Ameri- ‘The infinite y snow for the bodies of enemy killed | ‘in the raiding. None was found, but | ithe body of one American was dis- | in the American wire in; The man A bullet had ‘passed through his head. Only two cartridges remained in his rifle, which was found under his body, ‘that he died fighting. The heavy snow continued Xon- 7, Misses | MARCONI MAY REFUSE U. S. POST Italian Unwilling to Shoulder Scan- dals Which Have Arisen ROME, March 6. (By A. P.)— Senator Guglielmo Marconi has not yet decided whether he will accept the leadership of.the Italian mission to the. United States. The Senator declares he is not willing to shoulder certain of ‘the scandals which have | | arisen. In a speech on March 2, according toa Rome dispatch of March 3. Sen- ‘ator Marconi urged the Italian Gov-. ernment to adopt energetic measures ‘'eoncerning reported irregularities in| purchases made in the’ United States) by the Italian mission. ground because thé telephone wires | This was quickly rem- | : an attempt to! | reach an altitude specially favorable DAYLIGHT SAVING T0 COME UP | nichest point the watchers saw two. ; mp airplanes, with the black cross of the | Members | enemy on their wings, J 'said he was counse)] for Observation ballodns were up for | revenues of the company § will smaller this year than in 1917. School Teachers Represented. J. Clarence Taussig entered his ap- pearance at the hearing and an opening statement in which whom are stockholders, of school teachers, many $75 a share, prior to 1910, when it was paying 5 per cent dividends. lt | is now selling*at $18 a share and pays no dividends. McCylloch identified ;showing statistics as to the com- | rane’ ' act timed 3 ae tee days it: had been réady to | 7e™™* operation and testified that in | representing } 1915, 1916 and 1917 revenue passen- (gers using transfers were more than’ 53 per cent of the total number of) passengers. In 1917, he said, trans- fers were issued to 140,735,831 pas- | sengers. ‘transfer, he said, the have been $1,407,358. Calls Many Transfers Unnecessary. McCulloch said be established, as under those condi- tions fewer transfers would be used. Many persons who now ride only a few blocks on ua transfer would not. do so if they had to pay a cent for it, he said. Many persons, he said, now unnecessarily transfer to the | Olive and Grand avenue lines, |women preferring to ride on the | Olive street line “because the pas- _sengers there are better dressed.’ As to equipment, McCulloch said tors antedate 1904, and his way he would put them in the’ scrap heap. The company, he said, | cannot replace these motors, though | sume an unnecessary quantity current. McCulloch said the company's gross earnings for 1917 were $12,- 125,559 and that he estimates that |for this year they will be only $12,- |} 569,035. He gave no explanation for the prospective decrease. Taussig, in his opening specch, | said: “In spite of imperfect man- agement the company could have paid dividends if it hag not been for the demands of the city, spurred on busy civic organizations.” At the opening of the hearing Villiam ‘FP. Woerner, counsel for the League, asked the to make a_valuation Wy of hyeen aiablinated by the courts. Priest's Opening Statement. Henry S. Priest, chief counsel for} the United Railways Co., made an /opening statement in which he said: “It appears to us that under nor- mal conditions we could make showing which we think would en- title the company to the relief asked | for. But there now exist times and conditions which make it imperative, | for this commission to grant that re- were other indications | jer “We “aoe no formula under which we hold the relief should be given, but we will present facts on which we believe that the commission, con- sidering the capital invested and. the public Interest, will give relief. “Weare now pressed by questions of great gravity which are serious to the company. The cost of living has been greatly increased by the War and the employes of the company are entitled to an advance in wages to meet that increase. “This advance unless the company cannot be given has the means to pay the just demands of the men. | 'I do not want to be understood as saying all the demands made by the in} representatives of the employes written form are just. but they have no rellef unless this commis- sion grants relief to the company. ‘When analyzed the demands of the eimplores mean the addition of. ee ee ge —— Centinued on ‘Page * Column 7. be | made | he | 500 women | who bought United | Railways preferred stock at $60 to) various tables | If the company had been | permitted to charge 1 cent for each’ yield would: he believed the. yield would not be so great as this | if a 1-cent rate for transférs should: the | 1000 of the company’s 1400 car mo-! if he had | they are costly to operate and con- | of | commis- | the! comvany’s property and City Coun- | rst Daueg fled a pleading: that th : 2!41891 he was elected from Waterford Operation Rel&ved Patient. The recent operation, which was 'for intestinal obstruction, was borne courageously and it Trelievéd- the patient, but heart disease intervened Tuesday night. The physician attending macmons issued the following announcement “We regret to announce that John Redmond died at 7:45 this morning. ‘Owing to several oanteie attacks of | illness a severe operation was faced J OHN E. REDMOND. -——-e += Om + oo > ~- pan a te enw ———— with great courage. It had become | _imperatively necessary, owing ty an | ‘intestinal obstruction. This was re- lieved: by the operation and for some days satisfactory progress was main- tained. After a fairly comfertable ' day Tuesday:heart failure’ super- vened during the night and after a few hours Mr. Redmond passed peacefully away.’’ Home HRule Leader 25 Years. Yor more than twenty-five years Rédmond fought for home rule for to and for a majority of that time he was the recognized leader of Ireland’s “struggle for liberty.” .-As chairman of the Irish parliament- ary party, the Nationalists, he exert- .ed a powerful influence in bringing ‘about the creation of the Irish con- vention organized in July, 1917, to. 53 devise a system of government for the island. When David Lloyd George, the British Premier, in that year offered two methods of settling the vexed | Irish question, it was Redmond who as spokesman for the Nationalists, rejected the proposition for a par- tition of Ireland and, instead, ac- ' cepted Lloyd George's alternative plan for the convocation of the Irish convention in which Irishmen of nearly all parties and creeds might | meet in the effort to compose their | differences and draft a constitution that wouid afford justice to all. WISCONSIN ASSEMBLY | Resokition Passed by Vote of 53 32 After Session Lasting 'Lreland, _ trelant Over 24 Hours. March 6.—The Senator La MADISON, resolution Wis., ndemning to 32 in the State Assembly this afternoon, after a continuous ses- sion of more than 24 hours. The pr hepee' strength, shown on a rolicall at 2:10 o'clock this morning, was 4§ votes, three fewer than re- quired. At 5:46 the weary members | again voted on the oft-repeated mo tion to raise the call. The count was yea 47, nays 39. Socialist Blocks Breakfast. A new subject, in which everyone was vitally and obviously interested, namely, breakfast, brought out a motion by Assemblyman Donnelly for a gentleman's agreement to go out Red 1 aaa i OLS ORDEIP for something to eat. Assemblyman i to the convention which sat at vari-| })00:6d the motion ous times at Dublin, Belfast and sy et ? ; es . | The members convened at Cork in 1917 and 1918. ' 10 ‘ ; o'clock yesterday morning and after espn Me aki isa ae tae an midnight 86 were present out of a A. Redmond, member of the British | °°! membership v3 rb Forty- Parliament from Wexford, Treland, eight votes, three less than the re- Redmond had sat almost continu- | Guired 51, were all that could be ously in the British House of Com- mustered at ate! Cme tor brn motion mons since 1881. There his parlia- | to raise the call, a formality neces- ment fights for home rule earned | @7Y before the resolution can be for him the sobriquet of the “‘stermy | taken up. The determination to see netrel of the House.” : the fight through. regardless of tired Educated in. Clongeawes, Woods merves and heavy eyelids, was ex- College, Kildare, and T nity College, pressed in the faiiure to pass a mo- Dublin, Redmond was called to the | tion to adjourn, London bar in 1886 and the Irish Many Sleep in Chgirs. bar the following year, but he never Moet of the members spent the practised law. He devoted himself night on their feet, but many sought |almo&t wholly to his parliamentary 'anterooms for a nap, or stretching and political duties. their legs over their desks, slum- Pricr to his first election to Par-. bered in thetr chairs. |liament from New Ross, Ireland, An unrebuked profiteer who ap-| | Redmond was for some time a clerk | peared with a bucket of coffee and! ‘in the Vote Office of the House of;a box of sandwiches, disposed of. |Commons. From 1885 to 1891 he/ them quickly, and sent out for more. |represented North Wexford, but in In the course of a half hour the |looks directed at Turner had become so ferocious that Speaker Whittet | took a hand. He said he would per- ‘and had been returned from that district since, generally without op- | positien. Redmond's eloquence and _ his grasp of parliamentary procedure won his early recognition in Parlia- ‘ment and when, in-1891, the Irish baek at 9 o'clock to go out to eat. Turner started out,’ but the’ ser- geant-at-arms asked him if he would give his word to be back. Follette was passed by a vote of | Bergeron: of the i'mit. oly those who promised to baw can | iparty was disrupted, consequent on the Parnell scandals, he became the accredited leader of the Parnellites. In 1900 he succeeded in s#ringing ‘about an amalgamation of the two leading NationaMst parties and made his position as Nationalist leader se- ; cure. Twice Visited America. Redmond was well known in the United States, which he visited in 1908 and 1910, and Australia, where ' in 1883 he not only performed a/| great service for his party in direct- ling the collection of a fund of more ithan $50,000. but found a wife in the) ‘person of Johanna Dalton. New ‘South Wales heiress and beauty. The Irish leader's first visit ‘this country proved a fiasco, but his ‘wecond,. made for the purpose osten- | sibly of attending the convention of | : Column é. ~ 29ers coer Re c ‘ontinuned on Pame 2. to | “Yes,” said the Socialist. The loyalty resojution was passed iby the Senate Feb. 25, and returned to the Asseiibly which immediately issued a call for members. : —— ‘42 CANTEENS IN SHELL RANGE . Sao " aaatbe Hot Drinks & Free to American Soldiers. | PARIS, March 6 (By A. P.).— The American army Y. M. C. A. an- inounces that it now has 42 recrea- tion centers and canteens . within range of enemy shells behind sectors occupied by, the American troops. There are also 150 in the French War | zone The Y¥. M. C, ’ . A. workers supply! jhot drinks’ free of charge to #0)- diers in the frorfJine. Cans of soup, | aie and chocolate are distributed : each night. FRENCH PRIVATE HELD Contracts in U. S. and Ex- acting Commissiotr. WASHINGTON, March 6.—-On a out by Counsellor French embassy, | charging larceny of from $3,500,000 | ‘to $6,000,000 from the French Gov- ernment by means of truck and au- tomobile contracts, Frank J. Gold- jsall, formerly a private in the French larmy, was arrested here today and ithe Federal authori ties were asked tuo ireturn him to France. According to the papers on which ithe warrant was issued, whose name previously was Godsol, has been indicted in France. It is alleged that after being invalided from the lIrench forces, came to the United States with one of the French officlal missjons and | while not officially attached to them, let motor truck ‘contracts for the French army. Investigations of the operations, the papers say, disclose that he exacted commissions ranging from can after ‘warrant sworn rhanufacturers. Immediately | his arrest Goldeall long and 70 feet beam. She was byllt 7 i ; ; CONDEMNS LAFOLLETTE FORS3,500 000 RAD | one of the finest auxiliary cru ; ' | | ' Two officers and 46 men were lost. A dispatch from Belfast says*there ‘were 610 persons on board the Cal garian and she was struck by cour torpedoes. The Allan liner Caigarian was. * | vessel” of 17,515 tons gross, 568 feet in Glasgow in 1914 and for some time ‘has been in the service of the British — Government. For some time the Calgarian has been conyoying cargo ships between . . British ports and Noyes Gootia, Calgarian Remained Afioat on Eyen — Keel for Some Time, ~ AN IRISH PORT, Monday, Mareh (By A. P.).—The people of this town, who a few days ago won the gratitude of the American people by - bie thetr kindness to ‘the survivors from Accused of Letting Motor Truck | the Tuscania, have extended their the last few days to n, ‘hospitality in nearly 600 men from the the Atlantic service, The Calgarian was torpedoed in the late afternoon, net far from the place where the Tuscania met her doom. wer The ship’s bell had just sounded 4 o'clock when a torpedo struck. The shock ,thought the vessel had merely | touched a mine astern. It was hoped to get her safely to port. Later a second torpedo struck her, followed quickly by two more. By ‘this time there were several trawlers oldsall, | Goldsall | | 5 to 20 per cent from Ameri- | was ar- raigned before a United States Com- | missioner for hearing. John B. Stanchfield of New York headed a greup of lawyers who were | here today to Téok after Goldsall’s interests. Goldsall, time aga, was authorized by the New York Supreme Court to change, his name from Godsol to Goldsall on-pe- | tition that his name was too ai manic. In addition to indicting him, the French army already -has ordered Goldsall back -to active, \ PE v ies. MARCH: WHOLESALE PRICE: Ft MILK CUT T0-$3,10 A’ New Contract Provides Titat Pro- ducers Shall Ship to Distributers | Only Six Days a Week, The wholesale price. of Sank: for March was reduced: from: $3.20 to $3.16 a hundred poupds Sachi | ay lons) at a meeting a ew ae St. Louls the Southern’ * ~y Milk Producers’ Association. Louis distributers. This be the Government celematarins for the Chicago district. Tee ale. where 25 had ‘demanded a reduction to $2. rant a contract provides ' that the producers shall ship only six days a week, taking the «seventh day's milk and disposing of it to oth- er dealers, the buters claiming that the high prices reduced con- sumption and created a surplus that} ‘resulted in a logs to them. St. Louis dealers reduced the price iof milk 1 eént.a quart, from 14 to 12 | cents, on March J, in the belief that ‘the producers. would make a sub- | stantial reduction in the wholesale | price. = Dynamos, drills and other ing gl ‘ery offers appear from day to day in it is said, some | ’ | | | and patrol vessels in the vicinity arid the work of disembarking the crew was hastened. The ‘Calgarian re- mained afloat on an even keel for some time. It was possible to take off n all the crew except men in the. holds and others who had beer fr. * = 23 eee |jured by the explosions. Most of the rescued men’ #ére brought here. Hot meals and .dry clothes were provided, and .thetd were turned over to them thie ‘sane beds which the Tuscania had occupied a few days wicaters pee Calgarian’s Navigating Of nded is) ma Empress of I + MONTREAL, March 6 (By A. PB}. -—~-The Calgarian had made sey trips between England and Halifae with distinguished passengers. -~ -On one occasion she carried Sir Robert orden, the Canadian Prime Min¢ ister, and on another she brougb: -over the Duke of hire, Gox? ernor-General of Canada. after tak- ing bis predecessor in office. BP n> Duke of Connaught, back to sp gland. wore The Calgarian’s navigating officer. Capt. H. G. Kendall, commanded the Empress of Ireland when she sank after a collision with the wari collier, in the St. Lawrence tn 19 In the recent Halifex disaster he hed & narrow escape from death. It was i bd * ia Capt. Kendall who {dentified ee murderer Crippen on the wee 26% was so slight that it war a = 7728 Montrose, when Crippen tried toes cape from England on that which Kendall then commen ae ee Fey LONDON, “English troops. ° l trenches early this morning my has been driven back out 6 : iete ‘ .. za Md ax § | Paxe = Columa 5. 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