St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 1, 1918

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% 5 ae AE SET EY SER el r warn newspapers. 3 «pgs ees ae te Bins od on : Tenet ad é ; ; Si FEET KT, Pr ae ak ai tities | ~ ; : ti, i. Te - Wee he biezad Evening Paper in St. Louis wi ith the Associated Press News ——-- a ee —— —— 22 PAGES. * ITALIAN FIELD COMMANDER RECEIVES AUSTRIAN — ir HUNGARY PROCLAIME ee on eee '$866,416,300 WAS THE | Fourth | Final BOND OVERSUBSCRIPTION Final Figures Are Announced by Treasury Department as $6.866,416,300. by the Aewsociated Press. WASHINGTON, Liberty Loan scribed by mvre than reports announced today Novy. 1.—-The was oversub- $866,000,000. by ‘the Treasury show subscriptions of Berlin Tageblatt Prints Mes- gage From Count Karolyi, apd Troops Aided Civil- Eas RR co _ TAKES GO to Have .By the Ausociated Press, | “*COPENHAGEN, Nev. 1.--A _gessful revolution has taken place in Suc- f | Dallas, 111.69; New York, 111.11; ! ( ‘hicago, $6,866,416,300. It is estimated that 21,000,000 per- sons bought bonds. All Federal reserve districts over- | subscribed, the Boston district réach- | ing 126 per cent of its quota; and | Standing first in the percentage col- | umn. Richmond made 123 per cent. and Philadelphia 119. The other. district percentages were: Cleveland, 116; Minneapolis, 114; St. Louis, 113; Atlanta, 112; 110; Kansas City, 109; San 105. ee a ee eee ee 1653 NEGRO NAMES SUBJECT TO Francisco, ee ELECTION FRAUDS, SAYS ARNOLD | Chairman of Election Commissioners Announces Result. of Investiga™ tion by Pglice Canvassers. Chairman Arpold of the Board of Election Commissioners this after- /noon announced that a checking and Verification of the reports of the ’ . . police canvass of negroes registered ' for voting showed there were 1653 names of negroes on the registration | | books which pest and the Hungarian Nation- | #1 Council has taken over the Gov- | vernment, according to a message sent | the | ‘ut the Count Michael Karplyi to erlin Tageblatt. _ The message from Count Karolyi, who is head of the get game inde- t party, reads: — / #Revolution ir. Budapest and Na- could , be used fraudulent voting. These consist, he said, of 370 ne- | groes who are in the Army and Navy. and away from St. Louis on war! work, 61 who have died, 39 who are | registered from vacant houses and, $3 who are registered from vacant lots, 339 who do not and never lived address from which they are for | | registered, and 811 who have moved | ' these are but says that unless prevemed elec- al Council took over Government. | and police acknowledge Na- Ceuncil completely. KAR OL XI, 6 ta - . *% hed 7) sg eer tures chduke Jo- ntative of the Em-_| city, according to an 10 Te graph disp&tch” from Charles, the dispatch leaving Vienna, person- mve ordere that all conflict 2 pulation be avoided. He the authorities to yield nee to the new power. +. Nov. 1.—Military insur- rred in both Vienna and Wednesday, according ‘to The people ‘acclaimed a republic. ibles in Budapest seem to aused by an attempt of ph to impose a mili- ip. it would.be pre- ever, to try to form an events, which are ob- et aing which explicit is not available. out in high quarters | in addition to the Berlin taking energetic meas- the Germayg public of utionary troubles in Hun- Was taken by|the Wolf semiofficial German organizdtion, to news abroad, in Vossische Zeitung patch from Budapest a crowd stormed the released political’ and wry prisoners. Revolutionary the eastern railroad ’ and soldiers jfrom two ' which were about to » the front, joined ae =f the a reenals. ~Tye 7 ry ie 4 e "thie hg. v ‘ ‘ : 4 ; tt’s ling “A R public @ in Vienga. _ rations began in f h a meeting ' was joined by of the sident Din Council, in a . National G oe the whol ¢ 2 Ha ' ' Inhabi- ‘FOOD nae Administration for St. in since the last canvass by election clerks. Arnold does not charge that all | fraudulently registered, | tion crooks could vote those names. ———_—— VIOLATION PENALTIES , e legal division of the Federal Louis | Rnounced penalties yesterday as | Blows: The Dennis Restaurant, 712; e stteet,, ‘posted Tor “one week for | serving three and a half ounces of ; bread to one person: John Ellefredt, | ,ment by the army signal corps and | among the population in the Rhine | | guilty of these outrages when they | American baker, 3404 Laclede avenue: G. Schoe'pple, baker, 1403 Belt avenue; | ®. 8S. Schalek, baker, 1205 Chouteau |! avenue, and the Modern Candy Co., 202 South Main street, were not al- | lowed to bake today becatise of using | insufficient substitutes. Thompson’ S| restaurant, 303 North Broadway, will not be allowed to bake tomorrow | night, because of using inamrticiont | substitutes. Fred Hausmann, baker, 2410 North Sarah street, will not! bake Sunday for the same reason. ;., A. Boznacki, grocer, 1414 North | Ninth street, who charged too much | for flour, was. posted for one week. | NEW ‘WILSON STREET’ IN PRAGUE. AMSTERDAM, Novy. dispatch to the Tageblatt says that the Graben, the fe ness street in Prague, has Veen re-| named Wilson street. —— | 1.—Irridentists are | planning to erect monuments to President Wilson in Trent and Tri- este in recognition of his leading) part in the struggle for the principle | of the right of peoples to decide. their own destinies. 1.—A —eer, Berlin | t busi- | By the Aesociated Pr ROME, Nov ee ¥ Missouri Licutcnant a Prisoncr. By the Aaswsociated Press. ' WASHINGTON Noy. 1.—Names | of, 21 officers, 50 enlisted men and one cKilian in German prison camps | were announced today by the War Department. The officers include, | arisruhe, Lieut. Elmer RR. E., t, Carterville, slo. | : th - In Next Sunday’s | Post- Dispatch Why the United States insists ~ that 60,000,000 oppressed peo- » ple in .Burope must be freed as a condition precedent to the formation of a league of na- tiens——No peace, not preceeded }j by this arrangement could last ‘long, says Frank H. Simonds. new ‘the American Rifleman is orming war methods in difference be- tween shooting at a target and shooting in the direction of the . enemy ; x - mae Husband not a rich Z ‘Conditions Will ALLIES IN ACCORD AT Entente Representatives Con- ' requirements, | cussed yesterday, | in lalso from the foreign offices in Lon-., ers present Italian Premier and Foreign Minis- | / Ler, | British Prime | bassy; | United States iwith Gen. ) without aid or orderly. | the hen dquartérs | War —_—_——_— oOo ARMISTICE. TERMS T0 BE CONFINED T MILITARY. NEED Be Based Independents SOCIALISTS 10 AGITATE 10. GET KAISER 10 QUIT =: Throughout Generally on President Wilson’s Principles, How- ever, Says Paris Dispatch. to Launch Move, Calling Also for Hindenburg’s Dis-. missal. FOR REMOVING CROWN VERSAILLES MEETING PRINCES’ COMMAND Outbreak in Rhine Provinces Reported — Bernstorff Called Into Berlin, Says. Frankfort Zeitung. tent Over Achievements, With Work Unfinished— Air of Importance in Ver- sailles. | | By tie Associated Press LONDON, Nov. throughout agitation for the il.—Independent Germany By the Associated Press™ PARIS, Nov. 1.—The terms to be submitted. to will be REE Poe ! iPIMISUCe | cocjalists are Germany | about to start confined strictly to military! abdication of the Emper- except that it will bE! or. the of Field Marsha? brought out clearly that they are: ° conditioned generally upon President | VO" Hindenburg whndrawa. Wilson’s principles, with some defi-| of Crown Princes niteness. Today's deliberations in connec- | cording to {to the Exchange Telezraph Co tion with the armistice proposition were participated in by Belgian and | \ing the Vols Zeitung of Leipsic. officials an immeciate dismissal aad the the commands from an Amsterdam dispatch o., quo Japanese representatives, the day’s| meeting having to do with Germany. | When Austrian affairs were. dis-) High-placed German et Copenhagen yesterday afternoon re- Serbia and Greek ; , RY e j ; representatives were in attendance. pestved ares en that the German because of their particular interest | Emperor had abd‘cated, according to Austrian matters. | the Copenhagen corresponaent of the Ps sew vg wns, Minis Te, of the allied| Exchange Telegraph Co., who adds: itries for several days have been) ,., . 3 doing the principal part of their) Notuing about the Crown (work in the small back parlor of the! Prince.’ ,apartment occupied by Mr. House. | he large windows of the parlor | Outbreaks in Rhine Provinces Are overlook *a little garden, and the! orted Fuge and upholatering are old rosc. By the Associated Press. change has been put into the apart- | has been an MSE 2 er a panic is said an American telephone girl. nvanipu- lates the plugs, reading. between | times a novel of western American | | life. The telephone wires run from ithe Various army headquarters and provinces, arising frcm reports thal the -authorities were prepared, necessary. tc allow the enemy troops to occupy Coblenz and Cologne, ac- cording to the Berlin Taglische don and Rome. -The whole impres-| Rundschau. sion is a blend of the old world and | The Cologne ‘Gazette announces ithe new, ‘that the political department at su- The representati ‘es of the Entente | Powers left Versailles after «their! pressed the department created by | first formal meeting visibly content | Gen. Ludendorff, former Finst Quar- with the results that had been termaster-General. for the purpose achieved. They have not finished | of holding all the threads in his ow:: their work, but have reached a'sub-! hands. stantial accord. Their task is mov- | ing, and they ‘soon will be able to | Bernstorff Said to Have Reen Called make announcements. ‘o Berlin. The Turkish armistice terms were | hiefly the work of the British and | BAS ~ > garry ede > + SASEL, Nov. 1.—The Frankfort Preach. In thém the United States! Zeitun > of which has b had no part. The decision in this | ce Pnhlnttgtedl egy ch. noyf meoreg received here, says Count von Bern- instance is regarded as one of great | storff. German Ambassador to importance. +] |Turkey, will An informal conference took place | having’ been ‘ at the’ home of E. M. House, Presi- | stantinople, less on dent Wilson's personal representa- | , P cent evenis in Turke nt ne- tive, in the forenoon prior to the as- ; y than the icessity ta. have someone in Berlin assenibling at Versailles... Among oth-, were Clemenceau an Pichon, respectively, the French Premier and FEoreign Minister: Orlando and Baron Sonnino, | matters. The néwspaper adds that the. Sig. | Turkish Ambassador in Berlin, Turk: the | N om oa we EST - jects in Russia in the House of C°™m- mons yesterday, Lord Robert Cec i,' Assistant Secretary of State for For-_| eign Affairs, said the Government’s | present Govern- greatly exceeded | shed by the ment of: Russia “There has been no pretense of, justice,” he said. “People of all na-| een ifiden haye been arrested and | ‘imprisoned without any reason being/and strategically as possible from! iscenes in the Hungarian Parliamen: | given. Moreover, there has been al large amount of casual murder and) brigandage throughout all of Euro- /pean Russia. There has also been | | reckless destruction of all means, of | | subsistence. “The British, Government sirink from mithing within their! power to get every British subject, out of Russia; and unquestionabiy | ,ean to exact justice of the people) | are able to get them into their power.” INFLUENZA BAN HAS LITTLE © EFFECT ON HALLOWEEN HERE | | Tsual Number of Minor Law Infrac- | tions—Girl in Auto Struck by Bullet. Influenza bans seemingly did not ‘blight Young America’s observance of Halloween in St. Louis. The po- | lice report the usual number of) street lights extinguished and the usual number of bread boxes over- | turned. Mrs. A. W. Carr, 5161 Maple lve nue, was retiring at 10 o’clock when | sire heard a pistol shot in the street. The bullet came.threuch the bed- Miss Anna Sisk, 14 years old, 1502 | Branch street, was @& passenger, in| an automobile passing Thirteenth | and Biddle street# at 9:45 o'clock. A bullet from a revolver fired in the | ficial flesh wound. MIME, BRESHKOVSKAYA SHOT ‘By the Associated AMSTERDAM, oF. 1.—Accord. | ing to a Petrograd telegram, Mme. | BMreshkovskaya, grandmother of the itussian revolution, was shot on Oct. 27. on the charge of opposing the | holshevik regime. Special dispatches from London on Oct. 16 said that Mme. Bresh- | kovskeya was.reported to have diet in Rus@ia on Gept. 14. 3 ? ? Official fore. cast for St. Louis | and SMOKED OUT. Vicinity: |, By the 9:30 _lery fire by the American heavy and NORTHWEST have been miany indica-! | tor, be taken —— AMERIGAN FIRST IRMY OPENS HEAVY ARTILLERY ATTAGK Greatly Increased Fire by Heavy and Light Batteries Started All Along, Is Front. INDICATIONS ENEMY PLANS TO RETREAT ‘Contentration of Resources Points to Stubborn With-| drawal From Present Posi- tions, With Metz as Pivot. Associated Press. AMERICAN ARMY WITH THE ‘NORTHWEST OF VERDUN, Nov. lI, m.—Greatly increased artil- a. light batteries began this morning all along the front of the American first army. --——— Indications Germans Plan to Retire | Slowly, Pivoting on Metz. Ry the Associated Press WITH THE AMERICAN OF VERDUN, Nov. 1.—There tions in the last few days that the Germans intend to retire as slowly their present positions, especially west of the Meuse, and possibly withdraw entirely from non-German soil. The vicinity of Metz will con- tinue to be the pivot of this retiring will { movement, because of its strategic iniportance. Much evidence + this intention on the part of the enemy is especially recognizable on tle front of the Second Army in. the | Woevre. De«serters from the German lines and prisoners corroborate this ‘information, and t that the Ger- man command is saving every bit of war meterial in the region and trans- | porting light and heavy guns into| German territory east of Metz. Even reperts of artillery having been sent from the front east of St. | Quentin to the Metz and Vosges re- gions have been received, and it is believed the Germars have tearing up narrow-gauge railways on some sectors. Meanwhile, the Germans are or- zanizing strong defense positions cn the front of the second army. They ij have made preparations for meet- ing attacks of all kinds and special! measures have been taken against a | possible tank attaak. The artillery ‘has been echeloned at great depth | room window and struck the ceiling. | and corps and divisional headquar- | ters are being moved to the rear. The .theory is that the Germans intend to hold stubbornly to this sec- while swinging back on the north, pivoting on Metz. The Ger- | street struck her Im the back, near | *@ns show great nervousness on the the left shoulder, fnflicting a super- | Americam front. The Germans now are removing’ ‘the civil population in advance of the retreat of their armies from French soil. A document captured by Amer- jican soldiers contains instructions tor) | rounding up the male population fa pable cf bearing arms, and all catils, All division commanders are cor-; dered hereafter to search each dis-! trict systematigally and to deliver under guard all'men betfween 14 and 60, together with all cattle. Concentration canips will be established near the head- quarters téwns for the civilians who | are to be removed. The cattle will to the nearest’ slaughter hduses. The German order also pro- vides that all horses must be taken and concludes: y t'+ ee ee ae * <& a ENGLAND FOR SLIGHT OPERATION Washington Reports St. Louis pinto. | mat Plans Departure From Post | at Archanzel Soon. ) By the Aasoctated Pre«s, WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—Ambas-_ sador Francis soon is to leave Arch- angel for England. where he will undergo a slight operation. ) "Values sre changing. Many vila | articies offered in ‘Post-Dispatch “Wants” are worth twice the price asked. and Iltinois: Fair and | morning. Field Marshal Haig says good progress is being made. ae Se qy~cw Ere the Near Guise, Payee {Violent artillery battles | were in progress during last » French = TS the the e warmer tonight and tomorrow, Stage of river at 7 a. m.. 2.5, tise of .3 of a foot. , the feo ere ual Rebs ’ Kaiser Has Gone tc German Headquarters, Says Berlin Dispatch By the Absociated Press. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 1. MPEROR WILLIAM has E left Berlin for German grand headquarters, a message from the German capital today states. | | Budapest Telegram Says Former Hungarian Premier Was Shot I . . . . : } | | Walking in Street. | | By the Associated Press. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 1.—-Count | Tisza, former Hungarian Premier, | has been killed by a soldier, accord- | |ing to a Budapest telegram today. The Count was shot with a revolver | while.he was out walking. BASEL, Nov. 1.—Count Tisza was| promenading with his family when) he was shot, a Budapest dispatch re- ‘ceived here by way of Berlin an-,| nounces. A woman member of ti:¢) group was wounded, it is added. | Count Tisza has long been one of | the storm centers of Hungarian poli-| tics. He was known as “the iron | 'man” of Austro-Hungary. The ac-'! id PSS Bre r | & 300 GUNS CC UI : | Enemy Troops Streaming in Confusi Toward the Tagliameni Czecho-Slovaks Are Tr ing Part‘in Drive. | By the Associated,Press, LONDON, Nov. 1.—Neg cusation has been made that he n, | tions between the Italian stigated the assassination of Arc duke Ferdinand. A Magyar to the core, Count Tisza | was pro-German and aimed constant- ‘ly at the supremacy of Hungary archy. Count Tisza was Premier of Hun-| gary ‘from 1903 to 1905 and from) June 6, 1913, to May 23, 1917. He | was the center of many riotous | ‘during his leadership, and in 1913) | fought at least three duels with po- litical opponents. In January that year he wounded Count Michael | Karolyi, a life-long and bitter oppo- nent, in a duel. Within the last year he had urged peace, and in a speech Oct. 19 de- clared he no longer had hopes for an Austro-German victory. An unsuccessful attempt was made to assassinate Count Tisza in Buda- pest Oct. 17. ‘ADVANCING ITALIANS FIND VENETIAN PLAIN DESOLATED : : Austrians Said to Have Refused | Food to Sick Children During Recent Influenza Epidemic. | By the Assoctated Press. | | ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS EAST | |OF THE PIAVE, Thursday, Oct. 31. '—-The Venetian plain immediately | | east of the Piave is a scene of deso- lation. Houses and villages have been ruined by shell fire. When the| advancing Italians reached Sacile they were removed as liberators and the women and children of the town | fell on their knees before them. Dur- | ing a recent influenza epidemic in | the town the AubBtrians are said o| have rejecte dappeals from oe ameamenl for food for their sick children. King Victor Emmanuel has been | traveling incessantly from place to! place, giving orders for succor for _ the exhausted .population. 7 INDICTMENTS TOMORROW IN | AIRCRAFT INQUIRY PROBABLE Eo | Statement by Office of U. S. Attor- | ney in Chicage; Men to Be Named All TAve in Chicago. | By the Aasociated Press, CHICAGO, Nov. 1.—It was said at the office of the United States Dis- trict Attorney here today that indict- ments probably would be returned tomorrow in connection with the air- | craft investigation. | The men to be named all live in Chicago, it was said. CROWDER CALLS | 100 FOR NAVY Will Entrain Noy. 9, but Volunteers Will Be Up to Nov. & naranahal aN ic’. 1.— Provost-. arsha a rowder today om . ~¥ nn the service in a from 16 states Columbia by | ey gt — « *} . - fol ro pductions will be ac- 5, after which, if Pincerss will fill the “ oti ‘By the Associated Press. oi heen permitted to cross fighting line for pre dispositions with a view Austro-Hungarian military con manders for an armistice ar proceeding, according to advici ‘over Austria within the dual mon-, ‘received in London this after. noon. have come to an end. Fighting may air “A pe VIENNA, via London, Nov.’ An Austrian deputation Hag ee: A lnninaty — pour parlers -with the a commander, aceording to the . ficial announcement last The statement says: | “The high command of the early Tuesday by means of «@- ‘jementaire established comm tion with the Italian army cont Every effort -is to, be made for avoidance of further useless of blood, for the cessation of hostiii- — ties and the concMision of an. ‘arm ‘Towards t@js step, which was afni- . mated by the best intentions, the ‘Italian high command at first as- ‘sumed an attitude of unmistakable refusal, and it was only on the even- ing of Wednesday that, in with the Italian high command, Gen. Weber, accompanied by a deputa was permitted to cross the nehtiag . line for preliminary pourpariers. _ “If, therefore, the cruelties of ws fire must continue fn the ItalHan ater of the war the guilt and sibility will have to be ascribed. the enemy.” Refbrted Text of _Anetrian, mandecr’s — stice. By the Associated P PARIS, Nov. ee says the text of the A an communication to the preme command asking an ate suspension of h : “If hostilities are evacuation of the Venetian now in a good state of would be accomplished | damage whatever to the c this reason the Italian sur mand ts asked to take mediate suspension ¢ of cor ITALIAN ARMY TERS, Wednesday, Oct. 0, 4 in answer to Austria’s an thet she was ready to ian territory, Italy has plied that the offer late. It is assumed eniieavor to drive th garians from Ital ermistice can be ye ho the aoe Comma n ef, issued the, following ™ tin to his “Soldiers,” theware) ta tethyo aia we will place the wreath of on the tombs of our. Forward! Our calls!” 7 J