St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 8, 1918
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
The text was read from the page scans by machine (OCR), so it has mistakes and its columns may run together. See the pages · About this title · At the Internet Archive
Page 1
This page's text is still being fetched. See the page, or reload in a moment.
Page 2
Sy 7’ ot . — we , _—— s : mime a * - a on aoe ‘ ve) t 3 ges +, A aN D pallies Ste kg a ee, 4 hikes, ce a a? x orf PCy Sue: - . ’ nig 32 Ls ar . "20>" sex oe Washington With , ‘ull Power to : has Ascribes Rumors Decreased Output to German ye) ms ee ee w ASIINGTON, Chief Singleton no opportunity resentatives of all denial of rumors tha to return the visit (;o0vernm bring of the chaos (;overnments that it in think of no explanation » ° Proposal for Peace, : man propaganda. Our plans for in- _| states west of the with the exception of five, SAYS GERMANY WILL NOT ACCEPT HUMILIATING PEACE AMSTH RDAM, industry, of wheat Battling After Masterly Air Victory. Aseoriated Press Lieut. reported is believed to have fallen Iie went out a cording to Berlin CONVICT WAS ON “HONOR TRIP” was Conferences will (Carros MARINES UNDER CHRISTMAS RULE rurros yinpetitions the pioneer Parcel Regulations. time he held Associated Prees WASHINGTON, regulations governing Christmas packages to American sol- officially released tha sending of members of the Marine Corps whose Expeditionary BOY FALLS IN POND IN QUARRY Police Using Dynamite in Recover Body. born ire dynamiting the pond at Heman’s cal Red Cross chapters who Only Cold Meals in New York After Amerie vod Admintatrateor of these. authorities, troops would already their wanton destruc- leading hotels announce that. the Walnut told that there forbldding the gale WAe nO rational of foodstuffs on) Nourishment after 9 p. m. will have! the most distinguished to be satisfied with cold cuta German farthest The shaded portions show the Prees., rovernment the supreme power received by! the sind embassy from the pro-| \ (;overnments. the convention of rep- (rovernments and of and been Argonne. ‘The advanee dur} och seived Oct 8,—Im of the new Russian formed at convention last month liberation of Russia from the Bolshey! treaties along with those nternal affairs of Rus The act tia except the policy the provision- | announces as aims a powerful establishment and Zemstvos, opment of productive forces of the regulation of development of i and the forces which first op- | constituent rthrown by the ent is expected some measure in Russia abolition of -_ — ee aerial battle. Saturday i ae Ww ith and fixed prices FLYER GARROS FALLS IN FIGHT morning ght with sauadron Two cormn- ichine fall out belleve brought Im a masterly was Garros. down man- figured in ft in the Unite] dayea of ay the rer- by ascending to distance of 19.032 feet. Memphis, Worth Prof this He appea~>d | New Orleans, and Mexico | holds a number of speed at Cape Town of French parents GOMPERS OPPOSES PEACE MOVE American Union Leader. With Labor Mission, Project. ' Ry the Asaoriated Press Mamucl Gompers, of the American Federa- is here an labor leaders, YY denounced the recent peace move of the Central Powers. Piegae'’s Funcral Held. Mre. opening day salesfat the Internation- advance The auction will continue daily, 2000 Alaskan sealskins and biue fox from the Pribiloff Islands. blue fox were brought $57,099. 619 from the sale S, Which brought but $1250. Mongolia and Man- |= k soviets., ; Hrest-Litovsk 140.000 pelts bringin continuation | igainst the German coali- NEGRO GETS 50 POUNDS OF SUGAR MONTHLY FOR 10ME | Kriehilde trenches was twice or three times greater than ever before. Appeared to Food assembly, . and he complained because would not sel) are under- eventually ) ith which thev mays »@ pounds of sugara of two pounds | Ife has been given vy to purchase that amount. ildren and wards for each person. Pussian democratic devel- Steve produced disposed of it at around com-/isS 69 years old, ee re a ee a 2} Various war fund entreprises ws CAR THIEVES CONFESS |» all of Ferguson, | box-car thieves, : Squadron | Roland G.|5 missing | arrested by Wabash weractives at they had broken a2 merchandiser car had concealed The stolen goods con- (Charlies authorities. Opposes $2000 Audit Bill. County Anditor Belleville is opposed to the p the balance of the bill presented by a Chicago auditing leged short igmes told the Roard of § in Rome | Denounces ——— which includes $4163 ———— D. D. Walker’s Funeral Today. with a ! the Bly & Walker heid today from of BRrentmoor Kennebunkport Kentucky camp Wilhelmina Ee. W. Pleggre “ho i@, who died morning with Hijill Cemetery. ‘ husband and two. daughters, Aurelia and Slyvia Plegge. ia principal of oun the Post- Dispatch | pr inted 15.2 more than the RMS OF ARMISTICE GAINS BY OUR MEN AT MAGNE MADE IN ONE OF THEIR HARDEST BATTLES ‘Shell Fire in Fighting Near Verdun Bee fs hunderclap—Machine Gun Fire Like Hailstorm,’ Post- Dispatch Man Cables. ee ee By THOMAS MARVIN JOHNSON, Special Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. (Copyright, 1918.) WITH THE AMERICAN FIRST Saturaay, Get. 5.—-With unabated desperation the Lattle that commenced yesterday Was A ‘resumed this morning and raged: throughout the day, at the foot of and upon the slopes of Romagne Ridge, which is the prize we are striving to wrest from the enemy and which he is struggling with all) his might to-retain. i With every hour after 6:30, when) nna 8 the greater part) the. Americans on the & | troops trapped a force of the Prus- of the line went forward again from) their newly won positions, the fight: * became fiercer. ‘The shel! fire} swelled into an unending thunder- clap and the machine-gun fire into a} hailstorm under the first blue sky we had seen in a wet | The men fought fiercely for the possession of a few yards of ground, so that many motionless dots, of gray and khaki are scattered in the fields and among the trees on wood- ed hills. Yet amid this infernal struggle, the hike of which the Americans hate seen only on the, Oureq at Sergy, Seringues and Muer- ev Farm, it was our men who had advanced and the German who gave way, though very siowly—slowly and praia hegre Hie is fighting desperate- and cleverly all along the line. Icnemy Belieyed Alarmed. Still there is reason to believe that he Franco-American advance in| ‘hampagne,. which Gen. Gouraud of- iciall¥ attributes to a famous Amer- can division, is filling the German with alarm and threatening his posi- tions northwest of the Argonne for- t ( I With such bloody fighting great advances can not be expected all at] once, but today the American patrols | got within less than a mile of Ro- magne town, which gives its name ta the tall important ridge, and they made themselves masters of a num-| ber of woods on either side of the village, driving back the Germans At | ‘many places upon the trenches of} the Kriemhilde position. Iiverything the enemy could do to! ‘stop their advance he did, his | (massed artillery being arranged in| itiers so that it can be readily’ dragged to safety and escape cap-'! f | ture. Ife fired so fast that our aerial | ® 'observers, spotting the flashes, ex- ‘pected to see the guns burst. Ile} issembled machine guns in unheard | of numbers and experienced officers are convinced that the ratio of ma- chine guns to .infantrymen in the | ' Their airplanes are again active and aggressive, more numerous even than vesterday. It is now reported (that they are using tanks along the bank of the Meuse, but this is un- contirmed. if true, we have captured plenty of their anti-tank guns, wherewith tan protect ourselves. In fact. the American infantry shot down a boche airplane armored with an anti-tank rifle today the first known feat of this kind In the forest of Argonne the CGer- mans managed by sneaking through > the underbrush in small parties to iencirele one American battalion which found itself attacked in the ~| KINDENBURG REPORTED T0 HAVE RESIGNED AS CHIEF OF STAFF and| Action Declared to Have Vollowed Iiceated Interview With Kaiser Over Ketreat Plan. e Assoctated Press LONDON, Oct. &$.—Field Marshal von Hindenburg has resigned is chief of the German General Staff, after a heated interview with the Emperor, in which the Field Mar- Shal declared that a retreat on a large scale was impossible to avoid, according to a Central News dis- patch from Amsterdam The correspondent based his dis- patch on — from the frontier. ee ee —— and * SON'S INSURANCE ‘BUYS BONDS St. Lonisans Invest $5000 Reccived When Naval Recruit Dies. A purehase of $5000 of bonds, nade by Mr and Mrs Pernard of Mense of 5605 Etzel avenue, repre- sents the life insurance of their son, Mmwald Mense, a recruit in the navy, who died Sept 15 of influenza at Hfiarvard University, where he was taking a radio trainifig course. The » | parents said they made this use of 9! the money in accordance with their son’s jast wish The purchase was made through rey x GIRL IN MARINE CORPS HERE Miss Ludwig Sworn in as Private, Will Be Stenographer in Office. Miss Marie lrances Ludwig. a | stenographer of 2751A Park ave- nue, Was sworn in as a private in the United States Marine Corps by Capt. Turin: toda She the first st. Louis woman to enlist under a |Special order from the -Navy De- partment which permits the jceruiting of a female reserve for of- ice and cler] a! work AT i« T (iw , why qa ° ve eo 4 assed an exceliet! ental and phys il examination She will he rated if a private, but I eive a @alary of i anthi, she is an orphan and gave the ’ name of her uncle, John Ludwig, 1290 St. Vineent avenue as next of ADMISSION OF SEROUS STUMTON SENN RESPONSIBILITY FO WORK ORDER REST! UPON U. 5. AGEN Police Notified Many Change Jobs When The Had Been Told by Dra Boards It Was Unnecessai Central Powers Would Not Haye (sone So Far Before Allied avs French Pregs. Teutonic peace sum. in an _ OF fic ia] aiepatell fron. en bv Germany, Aus. owing to the allied victories. A ments uld not have consent. incr peace maney.- of the first 24 hours of fighting capture of the important 0, after the storming of CONFLICTED WITH OFFICIAL RULE by one of those divisions that has al- npg proposais have borne. done splendidly the inward thought that. succeed in weakening the gi Substitute Instructions Caz for Arrest of Idlers—Polli to Watch for Men Leavir Essential Work. special nickname or catch word. see that she is mistaken. but only say the Central Pow. ers would consent This is openly confessing that These were fr other ' se OES ‘tend to discuss these points and Pe in some particular or other after rae Sh the machine gun nests from Maximilian of Bades are in some essential points in con- divisions which tradiction of the 14 clear clauses of stand their ground | In the words of were expected Acknowledgment of De- View of Ltalian Press, _chine guns poured in a heavy -The whole prev says that the request for an armistice: acknowledgement viations on the subject, over some of the the enemy front The Journal Italia gays: of Germans, who made a hard fight. The tanks rolled up and down the streets spraying the enemy with ma- ‘house windows the with their own machine guns pir gs as } the latter eens under her But Tindgls the village was all ours, Order Caused Confusion. Thinks Wilson Will Not _——— Negotiations, ‘deluged with callers a The Americans did not storm it not § rim it with telephone inquiries Tarations of the new nlone the whale front demanded peacs, agree to open any nego speaks only eof President consld- fundamental.” , opened up with a withering fire from held the ground for a few | GERMANS EXPECTED TO LEAVE OSTEND AND ZEEBRUGGE SOON Police to Aid Draft Boards. illied naval offt iinted with sub- — of the Yankee - JUDGE BOYLE'S ESTATE SUED IN | FAVOR OF HIS MOTHER'S ESTATE Action for $200,000 Questions Right | of Late Jurist in Selling Mc-Pher- tonnage |osses, It is pointed out inaugurated which has de- - (O1OTO COR Cre & Bele aleleielele 2 6 (60Oe Ne That Heautiful Plieer Was MORREY PLACED IN CLASS ( lat for Deferred € lLassiffeat (Oe ereerere @e.e e:e i.e ef -
Page 3
This page's text is still being fetched. See the page, or reload in a moment.
Page 4
This page's text is still being fetched. See the page, or reload in a moment.
Page 5
This page's text is still being fetched. See the page, or reload in a moment.
Page 6
This page's text is still being fetched. See the page, or reload in a moment.
Page 7
This page's text is still being fetched. See the page, or reload in a moment.
Page 8
This page's text is still being fetched. See the page, or reload in a moment.
Page 9
This page's text is still being fetched. See the page, or reload in a moment.
Page 10
This page's text is still being fetched. See the page, or reload in a moment.
Page 11
This page's text is still being fetched. See the page, or reload in a moment.
Page 12
This page's text is still being fetched. See the page, or reload in a moment.
Page 13
This page's text is still being fetched. See the page, or reload in a moment.
Page 14
This page's text is still being fetched. See the page, or reload in a moment.
Page 15
This page's text is still being fetched. See the page, or reload in a moment.
Page 16
This page's text is still being fetched. See the page, or reload in a moment.
Page 17
This page's text is still being fetched. See the page, or reload in a moment.
Page 18
This page's text is still being fetched. See the page, or reload in a moment.
Page 19
This page's text is still being fetched. See the page, or reload in a moment.
Page 20
This page's text is still being fetched. See the page, or reload in a moment.