St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 3, 1918

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NO. 253. ee ae ll A it IL et ite —_— eee eee ee yt >_> je ST, LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 3, 1918—24 PAGES, PRICE TWO CENTS.” ~ TS BILLIONS NEEDED FOR WAR PROGRAM BAKER ESTIMATES Biggest Expenditures to Be in Ordnance Bureau and Depart- | - Quartermaster’s ment, He Says. - IN SESSION WITH HOUSE COMMITTEE Declares Liberty Motor Is Be- ing Product in Quantities, and Is Sought Also by Al- lied Governments. WASHINGTON, May 3 (By A P.).—Details estimates of funds needed for all branches of the army service were submitted to the House Military Committee in an executive session today by Segretary Baker and his aides. a me ee } ; The Secretary yes- | terday asked the committee for un-. limited authority as to the BERS military authority of Gen. Foch, as of men that may be put into service. Secretary Baker’s estimates for the immediate war program, as submit-| ted to approximately $15,000,000,000, he said today. The principal increases are in the Ordnance Bureau and the Quartermaster - General's Depart- ment. The Secretary said the~airplane program had not met expectations, and attributed the situation to over- confidence of the Government and . lack of ability of contractors to ful- fill their contracts as speedily as they had promised. He said the Liberty pe Military Committee, total | | motor was beginning to be produced in quantity and that it was an un- qualified success, so much so that foreign Governments wanted to use itt He told of the needs of various bureaus, in the light of the knowl- edge he obtained in Burope. His trip, he said, opened his eyes to the. magnitude of operations. oo The hearings will be resumed Moh- day and the committee plans to re- .port the bill to the House thé last of next week. The War Department has made an- other effort to push its bill providing authority to commandeer property for war purposes. Secretary Baker, as a result of oppositign in the Sen- ate. Military Committee, today wrote Chairman Chamberlain that the leg- islation is needed for the department to obtain summer hotels and board- ing houses for war workers. While Secpetary Baker was dis- cussing army expansion, Secretary Daniels and his chief aids were out- lining the navy'’s needs to the Senate Naval Committee in connection with | the $1,358,000,000 naval appropria- | tion bill passed by the House. PRESIDENT REVIEWING DEATH SENTENCE OF 4 SOLDIERS Complete Record of Courtmartial in France Before Him for Final Deciison. WASHINGTON, May 3 (By A. P.). A complete record of the courtmar- tial proceedings condemning to death four American soldiers in France is before President Wilson today final decision. | for | Two of the men were sentenced for | | sleeping at their posts and two were charged with disobeying orders. The President will take up the cases at. , once, it was announced. 6207 SKILLED MEN IN DRAFT CALLED FOR MAY 17 WASHINGTON, May 3 (By A. P.). call for 6207 skilled men in the | + dréft for the National Army was sent! ouf today by Provost Marshal Gen. | Crowder. All states are included ex¢epting New Jersey. It directs the movement. of the | men on May 17. ~~ SENATE FOR HIGHER Insists on $3.50 a Bushel Price in. Bill. WASHINGTON, May 3 | i “wea (By A. P.).—-The Senate today again for- | mally recorded itself in favor of in- | creasing the Government minimum, guaranteed price for wheat from $2 to $2.50 a bushel, despite rejection | of the proposal by the House. It insisted on the wheat clause in the agriculiural appropriation, bill, returning the measure to conference, but it generally was expected the proposal would die there. American Sentenced for Drilling Irishmen. DUBLIN, May 3 (Ry A. P.)-— ' | | William Pedler, an American citizen, | Was sentenced by a magistrate yes- | terday to four months’ imprisonment | for drilling men at night near Dub-| lin. At the request of the military _ @uthorities the magistrate ordered Pedler ch eS after he had served ' Btls, Cretan = - ; | | St. Louis First City Above 500,000 to Exceed Bond Quota T. LOUIS was officially pro- S claimed, in a Treasury De- partmept announcement made last night, as having been the first city of more than 500,- 000 population to exceed its quota of Liberty Bond subscrip- tions. Notice toe this effect was received by William R. Compton, chairman of the campaign in the Eighth, (St. Louis) Federal Ie- serve District. The |other cities which had more than 500,000 population by the 1910 census, and which ™. Louis has surpassed in its achievement, are -New #§ £=York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston. Cleveland, Baltimore and Pitts- burg. | Detroit, which had less than 500,000 in 1910, though it doubtless has more than that number of inhabitants now, was not considered in the official awarding of the honor. Detroit has raised its quota. FOCH COMMANDS ALL ALLIED ARMIES IN WEST Military Authority Extended as Result of Italian Adhesion; War Council Results. | PARIS, May 3 (By A. P.).—The |a result of the Italian adhesion, has | been extended to ali the Western, fronts, and the General now be-| comes Commander in Chief of all the | cel Hutin, in the Echo de Paris. | Hutin saw Premier Clemenceau on} his return from the meeting of the Supreme War Council at Abbeville. | The Premier expressed satisfaction with the results of the conference. “And the situation at the front?” | usked the writer. “Gen. Foch. is very optiméstic;: | that’s all I can tell you,” was the | Premier's reply. Those present at the Snsatiingt! at Abbeville included Premier David Lloyd George of England, Premier | Vittoria Orlando of Italy, Viscount! Milner, British Secretary of State for for.War; Gen. Foch, Commander in Chief of the allied armies in France; Gen. Sackville-West, Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, American representative of the council; Gen. Blein of the Versailles Committee, - Major-General Henry H. Wilson, British Chief of Staff; Field Marshal Haig, Gén. Pershing, Gen. Petain, Vice Admiral Wemyss, Brit- ish First Sea Lord, and Vice Ad- miral de Bon, chief of the French | Naval Staff. During the two days in which the conference was im session alk military | questions of moment were examined | and settled in full agreement. The | results obtained are unanimously re- garded as most satisfactory. CONTINUED FAIR WEATHER; LITTLE TEMPERATURE CHANGE ' THE ph ney ygemage RES. | i$ | Official fore- cast for St. Louis | and vicinity: Fair tonight, to-| morrow and! probably Sun- | day; not much change in tem- perature. , Missour?r: Fair tonight, tomor- | row and prob- ably Sunday; not much change in tem-|§ perature. Illinois: Fair} tonight, tomor-'§ row ard prob- ably Sunday, slightly warmer tonight in south | portion* | Stage of river a. “m,, 127.5 feet, a fall of 1 foot. Buy BNoTHerR ‘LIBERTY BOonp at 7 ST. LOUIS LOAN Renewed Efforts to aceitine f, annette Is Last State to St. Louis County, ithe city and county, of $40,848,600, ‘allied armies in the West, says Mar-; y $ the county 8634. | downtown district, | district's | city and St. PLEDGE. TOTAL S $3,650,350 Members of Ccomedian’s Company? Make First Payment on Several of Purchases. Ed Wynn, comedian of the “Over the Top’’ company, which is appear- ing here this week, sold $20,000 worth of Liberty Bonds during the course of an hour’s bright talk to a large crowd assembled in Twelfth street at Olive this afternoon. He was,assisted by chorus girls from his| Subscriptions Made After. City Treasury Department. |DISTRICT IS. 29 PER CENT OVER TOP | erty Loan booth —— Get in Honor Role—Mem- phis Only Big City Still Behind. St. Louis subscriptions to the Third Liberty Loan reached a total of $39,- 650,350 today, following the achieve- ment of the city in going “over the top” by subscribing its quota yester- | The city’s quota, exclusive of is $39,107,350. The county, with a quota of $710,- 000, has oversubscribed the .amount by 70 per cent, having raised $1,- 198,250. This makes a total for the metropolitan district, which includes day. as compared with a quota of $39,- | $17,350. The number of city subscribers is approximately 162,000, and those in “Raise All We Can,” Says West. Thomas H. West, chairman of the | campaign for the metropolitan di- vision, said today that St. Louis should not be satisfied with the mere raising of the quota, but should strive for the largest possible over- subscription. ° Reaches Goal of |, making thé yrtop to the susbscriber ' $49. {and pleaded with his hearers to buy | bonds, ; GREAT INCREASE IN OUR. GUNFIRE | company. ° Members of his company, near the cl he of the mreeting, offered to pay on each $50 bond bought, thus WhHe Wynn talked, told jokes the chorus girls canvassed the crowd and led prospective pur- chasers through the throng to a Lib- located near the | Street curb. Wynn wecognized sev- ‘eral friends among the gathering and persuaded them to buy. One of the bonds, a the bargain price of $49, was taken by an elderly woman who announced that she had three sons in the service. A detach- ment of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station band played patri- otic and popular airs. ENGLISH CAPTAIN FINDS U. S. | SOLDIERS “KEEN AS MUSTARD” | COMMUNICATION British Officer, Training Men at ' REACHED Camp Pike, Helping Loan POINTS ‘ Drive Here. - “Keen as mustard,” the English | equivalent of “‘Radrin’ to go,” is the / Bombardment Said to Be way the American soldiers in train- | ' ing feel, according to Capt. T. W.;| Most Violent in That Sec- Rawecliffe,-M. C., of the British army. who has been training them since tion in Three Years; Two Germans Desert. Nov. 1 at Camp Pike, Ark. He is in St. Louis for a-few days, helping with the Liberty Loan drive, and he tells | audiences that all the men who have | come under his observation‘in the | BY CLAIR KENAMORE, training camps are eager to learn! A Staff Correspondent of the Post- and anxious to “go over’ and will | Dispatch. make mighty good soldiers. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY Capt. Rawcliffe, who is 24 years; IN FRANCE, May 2.—The artillery old, was sent over here to teach the} behind the American front in the American soldiers how to use the} Luneville sector is demolishing trench mortars, the “glorified bomb-/| towns and dumps behind the Ger- man dines on a considerable front. The bombardment is the most vio- lent experienced in that section in three yyears, and has reached im- throwers,” as he calls them, with which he fought the Huns for 22 portant communication points. The reply from the enemy. was fairly Artillery Behind . American and Dumps Along a Con- siderable Front. “The quota is*merely the minimum fixed by tHe Government,” he said. “The call is for all we can raise. We are not answering that call properly, unless we largély over-subscribe our quota.”’ An individual subscription of $50,- 000 today came from FE. C; 8Sim- mons, chairman of thé board of the Simmons Hardware Co., besides a| supplementary subscription of $100,- 000 from the company. The bombing of the city at 4:35 n. 'm., yesterday, in hofior of the com- pletion of the quota, was con- ducted in front of fire engine | houses, and on Twelfth street and some other chief thoroughfares. There was such excitement in the for a few mo- ments, that business was practically suspended. Although an announce- ment had been made of the plan, many did not \Wnow the meaning of months in the battles of the Somme and* Vimy Ridge and in trench war- brisk in the first 24 hours, but is diminishing. fare. He told something about his expe- Two German deserters surrend- ered to the. Ameridan forces last the noise. Distrg@t Far Over Top. The Eighth (St. Louis) Federal | Reserve District, including this city, ‘showed an over-subscription of 2 per cent by yesterday’s figures. The ubscription at that time were $168,885,900; in comparison | with its quota of $130,000,000. Tennessee, the last of thea seven states, or parts of states, in the dis- trict, went over its quoéa yesterday. | Memphis is still. beenath its quota, | but is expetced to make it up be- | fore the close of the campaign. Of the 94 Missouri counties includ- | ed in the district, not including this , Louis County, 58 are. now reported as entitled to honor | flags. The State has exceeded its | ‘allotment of number of sales by 25) per cent, the purchasers numbering | 165,784, and has gone over fs money quota by 39 per cent. Showing of States. The showing made by the differ- ent state sections in the district (Ar- ‘kansas is the only entire State in the Continued on Page 2, Column 3. ‘ { the dramatic German invaders. low Belgium’s King Rallied the Nation Brand. Whitlock’’s absorbing narrative .of ‘ meeting of Parliament which King Albert sounded defiance to the A Full Page in the Saturday. Post-Dispatch | | | at ey ' Dispatch for him, Ling. | With “orders received here today from Ma- | | jor-General ‘eral of the army. | cers’ camp had been called off in or-| | officers may not be used as instruc- | it was at first believed. 1, he will think of you overy fight. Preparations for a ball game were under way and every man foreneon. » “Circus Army’”’ Now Is Us- Havelock Wilson, president of the “Sea murders are growing because | UN THE-IIELD, France, May 1.— Germany after the war. ‘All are in'| the latest, and has won the name of _extended to five and one-half years.” | cals it is believed that the Germans was stated concisely by the Major Airplane Falls 300 Feet at Post Field | looked fit after a bath. lot, was injured seriously yesterday riences at the Credit Men’s banquet at the Armory last. night and spoke to Red Cross workers at Tenth and Locust streets, yesterday noon and at Soldan High School yesterday | night. “ 4 9 SAYS “GERMAN PIRATES” wave, |“CARLIC GAS” New ER | FORM OF GERMAN MURDERED 15,000 SEAMEN) Lieut. Meissner te a graduate of Cornéll. He eame to Frahce a few months ago and quall- fied as a pilot here. While he. was protecting a pho- tographing plane the Germ plane came in sight. The day was brilliant with sunshine. Meissner was flying in a speedy Nteuport chaser. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS | DEFERRED UNTIL AFTER WAR River des Peres Work Put Off, Wa- bash Grade Crossing Abolition Postponed. The Board of Public Service today approved a letter written by Presi- dent Kinsey to Federal Reserve Agent Martin informing him that the board some time ago decided to defer until after the war all public improvements requiring large expen- ditures of money and materials un- less vitally necessary. The letter is in answer to one from Martin urg- ing that this be done in order to avoid sapping financial vitality. Kinsey mentiqns in his letter that the deferred improvements aggregate | $14,370,000, including streets and al-. leys, $1,200,000; sewers, $4,100,000; River des Peres improvement, $7,- | 000,000; new hospital building, $250,- 000; Fourteenth street viaduct, $300. 000; abolition of Wabash grade crossings west of Forest Park, $1,- 500,000. TWO ST. LOUIS DOCTORS ARE PRISONERS OF GERMANS Ident. H. A. Goodrich and Capt. J. F. Hardesty, Reported as Missing, Are Well, Relatives Are Informed, Lieut. Harold A. Goodrich, of Webster Groves, 29 and ' the by relatives from the War Department and Red ' Cross. They were reported missing in a casualty list published by the War Department on April 14. It is thought that they were mem- bers of advanced dressing station medical units which fell into the en- emy’s hands in the recent retirement | of the British forces in Flanders. Dr. | Goodrich was at a first line dressing | station in Flanders for nine months, and Dr. Hardesty also was with the British tn Flanders. PERSHING’S. CHIEF OF STAFF ARMY | | WITit THE* AMRICAN the most recent order is that assigned | | to have suffered more severely than| IN FRANCE, May 3 (By A. P.). a tors. The personne! of the instruc-|1.ation has been received from ‘tors wtll include only attached offi-} German prisoner, who was brought staff of thé American vin by one of the American patrols. | Forces, assuming his duties imme- ‘He was a Red Cross man who assist- | diately. cers? One of the best influences on your!ed in the removal of the wounded | soldier camp its his home time he. ‘hone Olive or the Post- engagement and told the American intellige nee officers that the Gerth yan c continued on’ Page | 2, ‘Counma = r breaks the wrapper. | Central 66969 and order This infor- | Major-General paper— | and the burial of the dead after the | chief of staff, has been assigned to a James W. MeAn- | Expeditionary | Brigadier-General James G. Har- bord. who has been Gen. Perehing’s eommand in the field. which he wil! take over this week. years old and : MRS. LOUIS CELLA DIES 4 DAYS AFTER HUSBAND, Her Share of $12,000,000 Es- tate Probably Will Go to Collateral Heirs. Mrs. Agnes Johnson Cella, widow of Louis A. Cella, who was reputed to bé the largest holder of Aowntown St. Loulg real estate, dred of heart trouble at 9:45 a. m. today at St. Luke’s Hospital. Cella died there of typhoid-malaria Monday’ and ‘was buried yesterday. He left an estate estimated to be valued at $12,009.- -; 000. Before her marriage to Cella. more than twenty years ago, Mrs. Cella was employed in a shoe factory near a saloon which Cella owned at Twenty-first street and Washington avenue. This was before he accum- ulated a fartune. Under the law at least one half of the fortune became hers at the death of her husband and it ts be- lieved her portion will now go to her collateral heirs, as the Cellas had no children. Their home, Whild- wood, on the Crece Coeur Lake line in St. Louis County, is a beautiful 40-room mansion, with a garage which is said to have cost $75,000. 'The estate also includes much choice downtown property, including hotels, theaters and valuable business cor- ners. Cella’'s will has not yet been filed for probate. Under the law she would have had the right to reject the wil if its provisions gave her less than her dower right. Since her husband's death she has not been in / physical condition to accept or re- ject the provisions of her husband's will, but lawyers say this will not ‘affect the right of her heirs to inherit j her dower share, amounting to one | half of the estate. Mrs. Cella’s nearest relatives are an uncle, William Mongan of 4533 |Maffitt avenue, and,two aunts, Mrs. Elien Redding and Mrs. Nona Mur- | phy. who live at 4522 Cottage ave- nue. One of Mire. Cella’s cousins. William J. Donnefian, 3005 Easton | is doortender at the Grand a:drews has been appointed chief of | Opera House, which Cella controled. | avenue, Mra. Mary Fiynn, 5649 North Market street, and Mra. Nellie McDaniels, 2119 Eugenia street, are cousina. Mre. Flynn's smal! daughter, Pits- abeth, lived with the Cellas, at heir St. Louls County home. Cella. who had been « saloon Continacé on Page 2, Coleman 3%. ' “"rust anon FRENCH AND BRITISH GAIN GROUND IN LOCAL ATTAC ON FRONT EAST OF AMIE “I Saw. That I Had Him and Headed for Home, and There You Are’’ Young American Aviator Tells Simple Story of His Thrilling Fight and Victory—His Own Machine Damaged. e = /. ee Tees Rees -_. BRITISH HEADQUART! FRANCE, via Ottawa, May 3 cB P.).—A tremendous ~ saree See the principal increase being appar d as ently in the Lys region. hes 4 PARIS, May 3)@y A. P= Pronch made an ‘tack late pester: and cape tured Hill 82 and @ wood on the Avre River near by, the War fees nounced today. ’ The statement follows: “In the region. south of Villers- Bretonneux there was violent artil- + ' lery firing by both of the combatants — as well as fairly spirited infantry @n- 4 ageménts near the monument, in the course of which troops*Wained some ground, “South of the Avre the French date yesterday corried out a local opera- tion which met with perfect success, Our troops attacked the German pe sitions between Hailles and Castel.(« front of about one and one-quarter ~ miles). We took possession of Hill 82 and the wood berdering onthe Avre. The number of nae taken exceeds 100, including f of- ficers. “In the region of the Allette—the French repulsed a German party. French reconnoitering .de- tachments were active, the Woevre and in exeaagt bring - ing back prisoners.” a a Hill 82 is an éminence of 250 feet overlooking the Avre. It was sat Hailles that the Germans effected their greatest westward penetration in their Amiens drive, and at Hill 82 they were within less than three miles of the important Paris-Amiens Railway. Adding this new terrain to the other high ground taken, Ey the French further south along the: Avrq@ not long ago, ane of defense appears to have been ta- ken up by the entente forces in this region, The positions of tha at Hangard and those of ish on the Villers-Bretonnewg preserve the continuity of the commanding ground at virtually all the vita! spots north of the Somme. a BRITISH GAIN *"3"™* IN NIGHT FIGHTING é crescendo, e gunfire has broken out this morning, — the French — me 4 Agtiac B ey bias Peel, | MES Ot Pa cca Da: SR ; Mgt) | FAN te ¢ Fi aed Petes Fs 2 % Ae see ay ‘ Se oR zi ‘Sor, + z bat fa ie: A Eee oe B ra, Ad ae i ea a oe . ne aioe E, of j Fs ite he 3 we aie els : ‘ STO : a oe = me oe RUM AA RR EL SEE ES DPN eM A II RY BF LFS EE a FROME TEA OOO, 9; : PO OME DRIVE TOR AO ie OE RegtR 50H eetenas GIES IE IG, cs RIN SNL IB ES” SEE 2 PRPS OR RE ‘ oat) y : ‘pis - a, 4 fens PAD, Sy a "7, ‘> ree a ‘ ‘ se de le “ 7 c ae tee) 7 ite ee eee as ‘ e ve y , ae . % ORI rire a) Se I AB pn ts > Ore te ee ns Pre 5 tee 7 a A, m * ary ~ - ERC L DELON AN SE SSSR tee TET 6 ee - . ie ee ee ae “