St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 8, 1918

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EV EDDIE, By A. Pp 99 Signifies that the Post- e Dispatch receives exclu- Rit the afternoon reports of the greatest | Reattesteane The Associated Press in St. Louis With the A sociated ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATC Ihe Only Evening Paper Press News Service VOL. 70. NO. 258. ST. LOUIS, WEDNESDAYEVENING, MAY 8, 191824 PAGES. PRICE TWO wl VOTERS ASK OR REFERENDUM ONU. R. FRANCHISE Twice Required Percentage | of Total on®Books Said to. Have Signed Petitions, Filed Today. | MORE PETITIONS | BEING CIRCULATED Referendum League Official Predicts 20,000 Signatures | Necessary for Special Elec- tion Will Be Obtained. 245 AMERICAN | Michel against John J. Michel. LOCOMOTIVES IN USE IN FRANCE Shops and 700 in Process of Being Assembled. | 514 Freight Cars Set Up in Army. PARIS, May 8 (By A. P.). —On | _Tailway lines in France 245 large- | type American locomotives are now in operation. France in parts and set up in the, army machine shops. Likewise, 514 American freight cars of 30 tons capacity each have | been set up,and another 700 are on the way. GIVES DISLOYALTY AS GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE a ———— Mrs. John J. Michel Says in Petition That Husband Is Pro- German. Disloyalty is alleged as a ground for divorce in a suit filed today in the Circuit Court by Mrs. Malissa She Says that Michel was born in Ger- even parcels of petitions, said to. ‘@ontain 278 forms with the signa- ! tures of 7911 registered voters, were, filed with the Election Board today | by a committee of the Citizens’ Ref- erendum League, which has under- taken to bring the United Railways | franchise ordinance, recentry enact- | ed. to a vote of the people. Louis H. Proske is chairman of the Petition Committee of the refer-. endum organization, which has head- quarters at 810 Chestnut street. He said there was no doubt of the suf- | ficiency of the list of names, under the referendum law, which provides | that, m order to bring about a ref- erendum on a legislative measure, petitions with the signatures of 2 per cent of the registered voters at the last previous election for Mayor must be filed within 30 days after the approval of the ordinance. This required number would be about $350, or less than one-half the num- ber which Proske says are appended to the petitions delivered to the Elec- | tion Board. More Lists Being Circulated. Proske said 500 petition blanks | were still being circulated, and that | there would be no difficulty in get | ting enough signatures to meét all: the requirements for a special refer- | endum election. The charter re- quires to bring about a special élec- | tion petitions 12 per cent of the registered voters. This would be about 20,000 names. | Proske said he expected to get 20,- 600 signatures to the petitions now out. There was little difficulty, Proske said, in getting the signatures thus far obtained. He said they were from all parts of the city and from every class of citizens. Other members of the Petition Committee are William M. Brandt, Socialist leader; George R. Patter- son, Dietrich Eitzman and Dr, Lever- ette H. Crapp. The petitions were received at a meeting of the Election Board, with _the new chairman, Glendy B. Arnold, presiding. Oommisstoner Buder said that, in any case where it should |: be found that a signer had moved) out of the precinct in which he was last registered, the signature would not be counted. He said there was legal authority for this. Chairman Arnold said he would favor counting all names which were found to be those of registered vot- | ers. No definite decision point was made. The board will proceed to compare | the signatures on the petition with the registration books. RED RIBBON IN WINDOW SIGN OF CLOTHING FOR THE BELGIANS Hang Your Marker Up Sunday So : Collectors Can Get Garments for Oppressed People. Hang a red ribbon in your window } ! j expressed th says, to display ' Michel, | many and although he came away to escape military service, he is now a pro-German, as shown by his con- versation and conduct. He refuses her permission, she says, to express her opinion of the) Kaiser and her disgust with him and the German Covernment, and has vish that every American shi starts across the sea will be s yy the Germans. He has refuseu yer permission, she the American flag, and on April 7, when she was put- _ ting up the flag, he tore it down and beat her. George E. Mix, attorney for Mrs. told a Post-Dispatch report- er that she reported Michel’s attitude to the United States District Attor- 700 more are in | | Process of being assembled, while| DRIVE OPENS HER FOR RIVER MEN 10 ~ SERVE IN FRANGE They were brought to| Experienced Men Required at Once to Speed Up Transportation for Per-. shing on Canals and Rivers. | “QUICK ACTION” IS | PROMISED RECRUITS, Officer of U. S. Engineers Reserve Corps on Mission, Here Is Visiting Chief | s Waterways of Country. Capt. S. E. Lawrence of the U.) S. Engineers’ Reserve Corps, arrived | | ciation, in St. Louis this morning to open a | of $97,462 recruiting campaign for a regiment | Hotel Statler. ot boatmen and marine engineers to! ‘go immediately to France to speed | |up transportation of army supplies. on the canals and rivers there. Seven hundred and fifty men are) needed for the regiment, ‘vided into three companies. The War | regiment to France by | Pershing has twice made appeals for | ‘such a regiment to be sent immedi-; ately to relieve the transportation sit- | ‘to complete ney’s office, but that no action was} | taken. BRITISH SHIPEUILDER DRIVES ‘holds out the promise of immediate | action for those who enlist. who go into this outfit, i get action right off the\bat. 4267 RIVETS IN NINE HOURS Record Made by man Exceeded and New World Figure Sct. : LONDON, May 8 (By A. Baltimore Work- | _ will P.).—- | The record made, by Charles Schock, | who, at Baltimore, drove in 2720 -riv- ets in nine hours, has been beaten) in London. The workmen of Frazer & Frazer, engineers and boilermak- | ers, asked the management to give them an opportunity of beating idea eens a by a of riveters. A workman named Farrant ham- selected squad | ’ ’ ‘men to defend themsélves is eager-te send June 1. Department Gen. uation, Capt. Lawrence says. Quick Action Promised. The Captain, as a lure to recruits, “The men ’ he said, ‘‘will There will be no long, tedious waits in a training camp and later a dull month or two in another camp back of the lines after their arrival, their arrival there they will start the work immediately of manning the boats carrving supplies along all the water courses of the country right up to the firing lines.” The regiment will be known as the Fifty-seventh Engineers, and its /'members will be armed as infantry- in tight places. The work of recruiting the regiment has been made double hard mered in 4267 rivets in nine hours. | , (of draft age and because river men an average of siNghtly less than 475 an hour, or ofe rivet every 7% sec- onds. This is claimed to_be a world’s record. ~ Chicago Shipbuilding Co. Employe | Sets a New Record. CHICAGO, May 8 (By A. P.).-—~— Frank O. La Marche claimed today that a record for riveting was estab- lished when workmen at the Chi- | cago Shipbuilding Co.’s yards on the Calumtt River drove 3055 rivets in exactly nine hours. The former record was 2805 riv- | ets, La Marche, who is general su- perintendent of the company, said. ee BOSTON LEADS BIG CITIES - IN LOAN OVERSUBSCRIPTIONS on this | Credited With 165 Per Cent of Quota, | While Hartford, Among Smaller Places, Had 251 Per Cent. WASHINGTON, May 8 (By A. P.). —Cities which made the highest sub- scription percentages of their Liberty Loan quotas in their respecttve pop- viation classes were announced to- day by the Treasury as follows: Above 500,000 population, Boston 165 per cent; between 250,000 anid 500,000 population, Washington 197 per cent; between 100,000 and 250,- 000, Birmingham 186 per cent; be- | inow than |wages are being | -sioned officers and 62 first-class pri- | tween 50,000 and 100,000, Hartford, , between 25,000 | by reason of the fact that none >2n be recruited for the service who are of all classes are in greater demand ever before and offered for thsair labor than were ever before offered. Classes of Men Wanted. The men wanted for the regiment | are office clerks, master ship carpen- | engineers, steers- hoisting riggers. marine gas ship carpenters, gineers, blacksmiths, makers, saddlers, teamsters, burge- men, electricians, boilermakers, ma- chinists, steam engineers and cooks The pay of the men ranges from $31 to $81 a month, with 20 per cent added for foreign service. Each company will have 60 noncomrris- ters, men, vates. Applications of recruits will be ac- cepted at any regular recruiting sia- tion. Capt. Lawrence is touring the larger waterways of.the country in search of recruits. down all of the is now preparing to g0 Mississippi, stopping at larger cities on its course. SUFFRAGE CRISIS CALLS \, KAISER BACK TO POTSDAM | ~~ von Hertling Summoned port Situation to the Chambcr. witzerland, May 8 (By Chan: BERNE, | reported was $5000 by Mrs. to be di-| the | in France, | but as soon as they erlist these men. be started for France and on: higher | en-— sail- | 'FRENCH PREMIER VISITS U. S. TROOPS BRITISH MAKE SLIGHT GAINS ON PICARDY FRONT Clemenceau Pleased at ee in Which His People and | | CHARGES BRING CABINET CRIS Americans Work Together. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN PICARDY, Monday, May 6 (By | ; ' A. P.).—The artillery fighting con-| tinues along the sector held by American troops on the Picardy bat- tle front. There is no change in the | situation. Premier | Americans congratulated them on. the ‘showing they have already made. Clemenceau visited the i EAST OF AMIENS; MAURICE’ TESTIN COMMONS. yestesrady afternoon and) fine | He expressed particular pleasure at | the harmonious manner in which | } the French and Americans are work- | ing together. The Premier inspect- with officers and men. $97,462 RAISED IN TWO DAYS FOR LOCAL Y, M. a A, FUND iad $57,462 ag to ‘Noon Today, Reported at Luncheon. M. C. A. campaign teams, ae. . ee ¢ engaged in raising $300,000.in three | days for the local needs of the aSSO- | , at their luncheon today at Of this sum $40,009 was raised yesterday, before noon today. The largest individual subscription | Holmes, 9 Portland place, and the largest su mreported by a single team was $26,582, by the Executive Team, composed of members of the board of directors. The team headed by H. H. Langenbeerg reported tota! subscriptions of $10,100. The Y. M. C. A. requires $300,000 buildings in course of erection and for local ' soldiers. ee ee eee ae eee — LEWIS ISSUES ORDER and $57,462: ‘Lloyd George Expected to ed the billets and kitchens and talked | reported total ‘ohdicloninen Belle R. | work among: 'of the / most serious political situation and | AIMED AT WINEROOMS | Dramshop Keepers Must Have Pcr- | mit After June 1 to Use “Ad- Joining Rooms.” Excise" Commissioner Lewis an- nounced today that alt keepers prould be forbidden, June 1, to ues any room after i the morning papers. dramshop | adjoining | their saloons, without a permit from | him. The purpose ofethe order, affair he said, was to prevent the use of such rooms'| as meeting places for women and sa-| Lansdowne. loon cestomers. Lewis said he did not use the word | “wineroom” in his order, because if he did so. every proprietor would say | that the room used by him was not a wineroom. He believes thé term ‘“‘ad- joining room” to cover all present abuses, and he holds thta a room is “adjoining,” even if there is a hallway between. cated, some for bona fide restaurants in rooms which adjoin saloons, will be broad enough | ito this time for | / On and under the same proprietorship | “But,” the Commissioner nounced, ‘‘they will have to be real restaurants. Camouflage sandwiches | wiil not constitute a restaurant” He said- he would send out deputies, or polieemen assigned to his office. to investigate applications for permits. When a saloon keeper with a per- mit for use of an adjoining room misuses the privilege, he said. | permit will be revoked. | be affected. ‘COUNT LAFAYETTE DECORATED He started at, | Trenton, N. J., going down the Dela- | ware River and the Ohio River, and | the Gilbert de Lafay ette, son of the Mar- fa Gen. Lafayette of Revolutionary fame, has been decorated with the | War cross. an-; the! He did not | ‘indicate that the saloon license wouldi--. i While |ignore or PARIS, May 8 (By A. P.).—-Count | | ly shake public confidence in every | quis de Lafayette and a descendant! statement of the Government’ and He has been serving as a | | Sergeant in the French artillery. His | | citation says: y distinguished himself in the oper- Boson on March 14, remaining six | hours in the open in an adv anced ob- and report on minenwerfers which he found successfully."’ ' The Premier, it Permits will be granted, he indi-’ tends to give facts and figures when FOR THE PREMIER COMES TOMORROW Situation One of Vital Im-| portance. to Its Existence, View of London Papers| Supporting Government. ASQUITH “TRYING” TO REGAIN POWER Make Statement of Facts Heretofore Withheld for Military Reasons. LONDON, May 8 (By The action of Gen, F. B, former chief director of military operations at the War Office, in im-' pugning the veracity of Ministers | Government has created a} A. P.).— Maurice, one which is of vital importance to | the Cabinet's existence, according to the views expressed by several of Papers which have’ consistently supported the present administra- tion rally to its side and insinuate or assert openly that former Pre- mier Asquith and his followers are back of Gen. Maurice and that the is a maneuver to oust the Lloyd George Cabinet and part in its place a Cabinet headed by Asquith, Viscount Grey and the Marquis of a consequence of the political situation brought about by Gen. Maurice's letter, Premier Lloyd George, according to the’ lobby re- port of the Daily Telegraph, con- siders it unavoidable to disclose facts which have been withheld up military reasons. is announced, in- AS he speaks on the Asquith motion Thursday. Express Attacks Maurice. Gen. Maurice is attacked by Daily Express, the pose of this latest mare’s nest in such an unmistakable manner that the unrestricted warfare which lately has been an unedifying feature of political life will disappear.’’ The Times editorially urges the which hopes and be- | lieves that ‘“‘the Government will dis- Government to stand firmly on their | into . proposal of a judicial inquiry the statements of Gen. Maurice. the paper says: “Gen. Maurice’s challenge is one which no Government can afford to, merely rebut. until it is disproved it will profound- revive those mischievous controver- sies of last winter, which were the greatest stumbling block in our preparations for the German offen- | sive.’”’ ‘Sergeant de Lafayette particular- | ' adds, The matters in question, the Times “cannot be settled by any ex- _parte statement, however apparently | convincing from the Premier. | Servation post in order to discover | 'answerable case against the charges | “but | ' i “The Premier may have an un- not attacking the aca ceriage Unless and | | Former Chief of British Army Operations Who Accuses Premier of-Falsifying | MAJOR-GENERAL F. B. MAURICE. Underwood & Underwood Photograph. we Gen. Maurice Most Authoritative of English Military Critics P ns peice § ceeinery ane Reet. Selene night resulted in the a British linea a short ¢ Amiens i aspects .|and@ Ancre rivers, the War C fice |mouneced today, — ae ES aie + a = * - “The pantie 5am en tive during. Pe the night t cn . and Robeca, and in the | hood of St. Julien. Early t ing the enemy's mapkane AF increased activity in the Kemmel sector.” The statement reads: “As the result of successtu operations carried out last line between the Somme “ a. e q pax? Troops. WITH THE BRITISH anus / FRANCE, May 8 (By A, Pee Australians last night made anot advance, pushing forward the ie 500 yards along a front of +e near Sailly-Le-Sac, on the s oF em La | of Amiens. They also , bac | the Germans 300 yards along & fas of 500 yards west of Moria just above Sailly-Le-Sac. standing a heavy mans were unable to worn One of Has Been Austere and Strictly Conventional Professional Soldier—Admirer of Lee and Grant. LONDON, May § (By A. P.).—'! was late found the door barred | advance. | Heavy Artillery ~ Fighting Sides of the Avre.’ PARIS, May 8 (By A. P.)> | artillery fighting occurred on both sides of the Avre southeast of Amiens, the wees announces. The statement tullows: “There was very great the artillery on both sides night north and south of the 4 “Raids attemptéd by tt west of Montdidier and in =4 gions of Thennes and G: broken up by the French, prisoners.” OME OUT Sunday if you have any cast-off | Conn., .261 es ieee pie A. P.).—®mperor William has re-| i Gen. Maurice,” it continues, HERE tes clothing which you are willing to) and 59,090,‘Topeks, Ram, 202 ‘per turned to Potsdam owing to the po- the inevitable restrictions in ai!The most talked-of man in England); against him. Military usage demand- ~ OOKS LIKE give to destitute Belgian men, wom- | | cent. (litical crisis resulting from the re-) ‘TWO ARMY AVIATORS KILLED, speech on military disposition, a! today is Gen. Frederick B. Maurice, | ed promptness and Gen. Maurice en and children. Members of the| jection of suffrage reform by he | | growing public distrust of all of- | |, formerly chief director of military | behasy not forgive or excuse a lack | Last Night's of it A Figur Advertising Club of St. Louis, aided | by Boy Scouts, will collect the cloth- | ing and attend to the sending of it to, devastated Belgium. | Again It Is Prussian Diet. | MINEOLA, L. I, May & (By A. ‘Count von Hertling, the Imperial | p, ).—-Two army aviators were killed 'Chancellor, has been summoned to, today when Potsdam to report on the situation. | the machine in which they were flying fell near the town ficial statements whether by Gen- | ierals or Ministers, and the Premier’ S| own incurable habit of protesting too much makes it hopeless to expect | any end to this controversy operations at the War Office. If some volunteer General or some | soldier who had been’ graduated! from polittcs or business into sol-, except | diering had defied and trampled upon | A tall blond gentleman with a fresh pink complexion and a mono- | cle, surrounded by maps of all pean contour maps, flat maps, maps of | Reports on the Figl LONDON, May 8 (By Ad “Our own and the enemy's a lof Cent ‘ | ral Park, Long Island. elevations—all marked with flags, have been very active north | Responding to an appeal to af the | Pe & farmer early today. - Belgians. : A: re a ss a Seeger, Who Missing. arranged with the Automobile Club | the Advertising Club has || of St. Louis for about 600 automo-| Worn which can be used by a people all has been taken from them | he Germans. of Mr. and Mrs. les A. Seeger, 4410 Evans ave- was found in.the Meramec a mile below Valley Park by A search began for Seeger last _ * lay when his canoe floated | n the river to Valley Park bot- sup. He was graduated from hgton University in 1916 and. » employed by the Southwestern © Diles to be used in the collection of | © the clothing. The red ribbon in the, > Window was decided upon as the sig- al that there is in the house cloth- | _. ing which can be had. | The clothing appeal covers blank- | @ts and bed coverings and anything | | | | ‘ ! | | none Co. A Yreward of hod the recove recovery of his body | ; ‘Even Up’’ |' Monday’s advertising score was an ‘‘even break’’ in volume of Home-Merchants’ Advertising car- - ried—the POST-DISPATCH vs. 3 out of all 4 of its competitors added together. } Yesterday. Tuesday, also fur- nished a tie score. Tn columns of National Adver- tising the POST-DISPATCH alone equaled that of the Republic, Star and Times combined. POST-DISPATCH alone..12 Cols. 3 out of all 4 of the ‘‘others’’ added 12 Cols. , enna Why? POST-DISPATCH advertising supremacy is the result of every- day performance. rt Ld - | | wheat and other I ' CLEANER: THRESHING ADVOCATED | | through an entirely disinterested in- | ’ quiry. Food Administration Plans to Save Wheat and Other Grain. WASHINGTON, May small grains by cleaner threshing, a special grain | threshing grain division has been cre-| 8.—To save | FAIR TONIGHT; PARTLY 'ated under the Food Administration | ‘grain corporation of New York. Capt. uU. S. R., an active wheat producer | of Oklahoma, has been placed at the| It is esti- | mated that three bushels of grain | head of the new division. are lost in every 100 threshed. Bar Liquor to Drafted Men in New | York. NEW YORK, May 8 (By A. P.). —Saloonkeepers in New York City | 'were notified today by jJeneral C. H. Sherrill, | coholie liquors must not be sold to drafted men even though they not in uniform. The new interpreted as affecting all drafted . men from the instant local | new their boards accept them into the army. he panes by a fine of $1000 or one year's imprisonment or beth. Kenneth D. Hequemboursg, | | | Brigadier- Adjutant- | General of New York State, that al- | are | order is | Violations of the order may Yesterday: CIRCUS IN’ TOWN. | | EAT ANOTHER PEANUT, ; low, 67, a. mM. Official fore- cast for St. Louis and vicin- ity: Fair tonight: tomorrow partly cloudy; not temperature. Missouri anid Itlinois—Fair to- night; tomorrow | partly cloudy: | not much change | in temperature. Stage of river as 4 &... wee. 3.9 of a foot. 'fed with being in very ane = TOMORROW | | to meet the General's charges at once | answer, indeed, to them. ipa ‘85, at 3 p. | Minister, when he made his state- at 6| ment as to the strength of the forces jin France and Flanders at the be- |ginning of this year. and as to the much change in| graph thitks, ' continuance in power. feet, a fall of | The Evening News, which is cred- close touch with Premier Lloyd George, says of, _the letter written by Gen. Maurice: “We understand that both Bonar and Lloyd George are anxious 'and consider they have a very good The Prime number of white divisions in Pales- tine and Mesopotamia, was basing it on figures supplied to him by the War Office authorities. It is stated that he had no reasen since to doubt the correctness of the figures.”’ Pacing Serious Situation. ‘ Thursday's debate, the Daily Tele- will be the most se- rious that any Government has had 'to face involving the question of its The paper is 'eonvineed that the Ministers acted | .in perfect good faith when they | ‘made the statements which Gen. Maurice contradicts. and believes) ther merely _ repeated informa ion Continucé on Page 2 2 c ‘olumn | mous surprise as has: Gen. | ee not been interviews but ‘all the laws and traditions of the | British army and all armies, | would not have excited such enor- Maurice in his famous letter impugning the) veracity of the mmistry. Had some less well trained officer written the. letter it would have been put down, to lack of tradition and disregard of the conventialities by a citizen-sol- dier. But Gen. Maurice, in his personal- ity, his record and his career has been the personification of all that is eenventional, austere and correct in the professional soldier. His weekly and recently bi-weekly conferences with American newspaper corres- pondents have impressed them with his wide knowledge, a passion for ac- curacy in detail and his personal aloofness, as though he Were per- forming a function that profession- ally, he rather disliked and resented. Barring his uniform he would read- itv pass for a typical Prussian staff officer of the Moltke school. Not Interviews, but Lectures. His receptions to correspondents lec- tures, The correspondents filed into | the sanctuary at the War Office at the appointed minute. Any man who es 4 + 2 : ty 7 5 g ie” = hs eae ae oo Be es lige >. en t Ra sig 8 =? ee oe eg ation: Mei bds. 3 Sate tee Peat ae Oe ee atin? na Res ; re inane Le Ree tae he | | He 4id not parry with ply killed them with the brutality such as Speaker Tom Reed | dealt to his critics in years ee with numbers and with red, blue ‘and yellow pencil marks, faced the correspondents. Gen. Maurice dealt | with all those maps-as Paderewski | ' deals with the keys on a piano. He | knew every detail of them. “Good afternoon, gentlemen,” was the greeting; never anything more. Standing before the maps with a professional manner and in 4anguage so precise that his stenographer would not need to correct it, the General stated the military situation, Fools Having finished, the paused for questions. All the an- swerable questions were replied to promptly and incisively. He avas one of those “who suffer fools badly.” | Foolish questions occasionally. were asked by amateur He crushed them quickly and curtly. in Washington. General | “Sy ma Lys and have shown some. on other parts of the battle & said Fie ae st Go Soe from British