St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 23

ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 21, 1918. ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ENDS SI. LOUIS days for the emergency fleet of ar now In the hand of mannfactur-boats and barges that Federal Di- era which must be given up. and rector of Rivers Sanders Bays will be which will be redistributed to other IR CZAR Si FORI CITY TO BEGIN CONSTRUCTION OF DOCK TOMORROW MORNING revolutionary conspiracy was discovered which had as its object the wresting of the ex-Czar from the hands of the council's authority. In Latest Snapshot of Nicholas Romanoff, Former Czar, Who Has Been Shot view of this fact the president of 0 0 1 5285, the Ural Regional Council decided to shoot the ex-Czar and the decision Mayor Kiel Says Materials and Labor Will Be Obtained Without Difficulty.

Active work towards completion was carried out on July 16. in operation by that time, I ehall ap- pear In the Government's eye as a deceiver, and I don't want that to happen." Director of Public Utilities Hooke, whose department had supervision of the building of the dock while the Heman company had the contract, will have charge of the work until it is completed. 1 "The wife and the son of Nicholas who have July certificate and aa out of wiigar. St. Louis People Will Get Instant Results St.

Louis people will be surprised at Romanoff have been sent to a place! of the municipal dock at WAR MATERIAL 1 the foot of North Market street, will of security. Documents concerning the con be begun by the city tomorrow morning. Mayor Kiel told a Post-Dispatch reporter yesterday. The He-man Construction which had spiracy which was discovered have been forwarded to Moscow by a spe RUSSIAN WIRELESS REPORTANNOUNCES Execution Said to Have Followed Discovery of Revolt Plot Widow and Son in Place of Security. The Mayor hopes to have one of cial messenger.

It had been recently the four units of the dock completed the INSTANT tion of simple buck decided to bring the ex-Czar before 1 th contract to bulId th dock-turn'd within 60 days. i over me unaenaKing 10 tne city a tribunal to be tried for his crimes against the people, and only later occurrences led to delay In adopting this course. The Truth," of Chamber of Commerce, Tells of City's Annual Output for the Armies. SUGAR DISTRIBUTING COMMITTEE Friday, after admitting It could not complete the work without Federal and city assistance. Mayor Kiel said that the Ileman Diaries Kept Up to Date.

"The presidency of the Central company had some materials on Executive Committee, having dts- hand and that the city will have no thorn Lark, glycerine, as mixed in Ita. Because Adler-i ka empties both and small intestines it relieves almost ANY CASK constipation, four Montarh or jr. od prevents appendicitis. A nbort treat mcnt helps chronic stomach trouble. It is astonihin the great amount of foul, poisonous matter Adler i ka draws from the alimentary canal-natter which may have been poinek xng vnur stomaeh for months.

The. 'Vlfr-Vi1nn 1'rtijf Compnnv (comer 7th and Washington), report Adler- i kn the im'kft find iiiot ('OXf difficulty in obtaining all the sand, gravel, cement and lumber required St. Louis Food Administrator Name Three Men for This District. W. F.

Gephart. Federal Food Administrator for St. Louis, has appointed a Sugar Distributing Committee for SL Louis, consisting of James E. Hutchinson Jr. of the James Hutchinson Sons sugar brokers, chairman; W.

E. Kllefoth 56,844 MEN GO IN FIFTEEN MONTHS RASPUTIN LETTERS TO BE PUBLISHED for construction. "The Government will see that we have priority in the purchase and transportation of supplies, and there will be no trouble In finding labor." he said. "Carpenters are the only mechanics we need. The rest of the work can be done by unskilled laborers.

"If this dock 1 not ready In 60 cussed the circumstances which compelled the Ural Regional Council to take its decision to shoot Nicholas Romanoff, decided cs follows: 'The Russian Central Executive Committee, in the person of its president, accepts the decision of the Ural Regional Council as being "The Central Executive Committee has now at Its disposal extremely important material documents concerning the affairs of Nicholas Romanoff his diaries, which he Bolshevik Officials Claim to of the Amos-James Grocer and pLETE action of nnrthing they ever til llft Life W. J. Buchanan of the Buchanan i 1V NT. Have Material Documents Grocer Co. This committee will have charge Statistics Show That in the Liberty Bond Issues This Community Oversubscribed the Amount 000,000.

Bearing Upon Affairs of of the distribution of the excess stis- Late Ruler. kept almost up to his last days; the diaries of his wife and his children and his correspondence, amongst which are the letters of Gregory Rasputin to the Romanoff family. THE CRIME OF THE AGE These materials will be examined and published In the near future." St. is sending out worth of war materials annually, it is announce! in the fourt edition of the Chamber of Commerce's circular, "The Truth." which the chamber Is preparing: to issue in order to give the latest figures on the the selllna of Spectacles and Ereclaases fcr I nco mp taut optician wh call themselvM doctors sad others. Nona of tbeae men aro brslctans.

Ask thorn tor their license to practice medicine In Mlsaoart. KILLS SELF AS JURY PREPARES 50-YEAR SENTENCE FOR HIM NOTHING 18 MORS rHKCIOUS THAN F.T FLIGHT I AM a phyeldan. ocullet end optician and hare practlcd far maer Tears St. Louis; that I have been aacceraful Is ettraied Dt more than fc u-oilcited references. If your eves are diseased 1 will rare for them, and hoi! id rlaaves be needed.

I will prescribe and make them correct lr. and the total cost for treatment and lanees will not exceed the price of a pair of classes that mar do Irreparable Injury to your eye SATISFACTION LAhANTEEl). I ana both the oculist and optician. Marion (1H) Prisoner Also Stabs I Three Cellmates, One of Whom Is Ilxpeeted to Die. MARION, 111., July 20.

Tom Meg- no. a Sicilian, charged with murder, i today in the Williamson County Jail, stabbed three of his cellmates and BI-FOCAL LENSES JEs $2.1 Pair tKA HrL si $2.00 pair. mm Dalr For far and near oetna? two naJre of Ol 71 ssa te on The usual price la from to IS.tS per er By the Associated Tress. LONDON, July 20. Former Emperor Nicholas of Russia has been shot, a Russian wireless statement today announces.

The former Emperor's correspondence, including letters from the monk, Rasputin, who was killed shortly before the revolution, written to the then Emperor and his family, will bo published in the near future, the wireless message declares. The former Empress and the young Alexis Romanoff, the former heir apparent, have been sent to a place of security. The central executive body cf the Bolshevik Government announces that it has at its disposal important material documents concerning the former Emperor's affairs, including his own diaries. The message announces that a counter revolutionary conspiracy was discovered -with the object of wresting the ex-Emperor from the authority of the Soviet Council. In view of this fact, the President of the Ural Regional Council decided to execute the former ruler and the decision was carried out on July 16.

Documents concerning the conspir Thicken Your Hair With Cuticura If yoa have dandruff yonr hair wiT become dry and thin. Cuticura Ointment gently nihbed on sroti of aching, scaling and dandruff amMoUoweJ by a liot shampoo of Cuticura Soap will usually remove the worst cases. Nothing better than Cuticura fjr all skin and Kalp troubles. Ideal foi every-day toilet uses. .55 committed suicide half an hour before a Jury that had tried him had returned a verdict sentencing him to 50 years In the penitentiary.

Gay Stevens and George Kruger will recover, physicians said, but Frank Kruger, 13 years old, of Johnston City is unconscious and Is not expected to live. County officials are unable to explain how Megna came In possession of the knife. G. MORITZ, M. D.f The Oculist-Optician 7i.

nil OA WAT (Jut Ifertl of WaafclasTtoai At. Swaels tut rm by atoll Ajl east- CuUat A. J.d wwti Mv Book on the eye. tinoflnr the eve-cllnlo a-raft. tilLt the rraftlnn oculist and the srriftlnr ontlrlan that tan Sway abc.

ltntant Hd ter. lugs SM. This snapshot was made at Tsarskoe-Sclo shortly after the Czar's dethronement. No other photograph of him made since then has reached the United States. jnak.eslnterestins; readlna.

Callqr wrlteforone. acy which was discovered were forwarded to Moscow by a special mes senger. It had been recently decld ed. the message explains, to bring the ex-Emperor before a tribunal "to be tried for his crimes against the A school for plastic snrgery la located here, and hundreds of officers have already been trained therein. St.

Louis has a male quartette now in France, singing to the soldiers in the trenches and hospitals. Fifteen recruits a day are being secured in St. Louis for tank service. Missouri alone, answering the Government call for more food, raised a half-billion food crop in 1917, or double the value of its 1916 yield. St.

realizing the argent need of the Government for materials and labor, deferred municipal improvements amounting to over $14,000,000. Firt Over the Top. The fact that St. Louis was the people." Later occurrences, how ever, led to delay in adopting this course. Text of Rnsfdan Message.

The text of the Russian wlrelew message reads: "At the first session of the Executive Committee elected by the fifth congress of the councils, a. city's participation in the war, the extent of which up to the date of Issue was set forth in earlier editions. The edition will be out this week. Other important facts set forth are that from April 1, 1917, to July 1, IMS. 66,944 men from St.

I.oula and surrounding territory entered the military service of the United States and its allies, through the various recruiting channels in the city, and that St. Ijouia has oversubscribed its quotas in the three Liberty Loans to the extent of $34. 000. 000. One of the objects of "The Truth" It to correct the false impression that has prevailed in some sections of the country that St.

Louis is tainted with Ormanism. The earlier editions of the circular have shown that Si. Louis has fewer German-born residents, in proportion of population, than any large city in the nation, and that its war record compares favorably with that of any other city. Thousands of these pamphlets have been distributed to newspapers. magazines, business firms and individuals throughout the United States.

Output of War Materials. The Information as to war materials manufactured here sets forth that 3450 factories in the St. Louis industrial district are working on war contracts. Among the war materials which It says are being made here are: Airplanes, ammunition, army shirts, artillery wheel hubs, bags and bagging, bandoleers, bayonet and bolo scabbards, bayonets, breech sticks, buckets, palls, metalware, canteen covers, caterpillar frames, cartridge clips, chemicals, medical supplies, clothing, rolls, coffee, cots, electrical supplies, fire apparatus, food products, fuses, ordnance, gun mounts, hardware, machinery, malleable iron articles, mattress covers, metal beds, motors, transformers, oil clothing, paints, pharmaceutics, piston rings, motor accessories, ranges, field and kitchen refrigerators, saddlery, shells and ordnance, shelter tents, halved, shoes, shovel, email arm cartridges, spices, stoves, switchboards, tanks, tents, conical, Underwear, uniforms, wagons, wire rope. Diesel engines, necessary both to submarine and ship construction, are being turned out in Louis by the Eusoh-Sulzer Bros.

Diesel Engine Co. Because the Covernment has Bald "ntnre coal now," St. Louis has stored tons to date, and by Septf-mber will have 4 40,9 5 6 tons in storage, according to pledges already the circular says. lilif.iry llcx-niltlnR. The figures on military recruiting hTe are Introduced with the statement: "St.

Louis is proud of its Service flag One St. Louisan in very 14 in Uncle Sam's service." Following are the detailed figures given: n. S. regular army recruiting: Regular army 9.188 National Guard 316 National Army 1,610 Kr.llsted reserve corps 377 Training camp for officers, 1,281 Quartermaster and mechan if, r-l i first city of over 500,000, and that the St. Louis District was the first message was made public that had been received by direct wire from the Ural Regional Council concerning the shooting of the ex-Czar Nicholas Romanoff.

"Recently Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Red Urals, was seriously threatened by the approach of Czecho-Slovak bands and a counter Lonls. Although the accounting for these would substract something from the total figures, yet nearly 8000 recruits through selective draft have not been credited in the statement. These are the 6000 men Included in the three July calls and about 2000 in the last June call, making a total of about 16,000 sent from the city through the selective draft. Center of Bread Basket. It Is pointed out that St.

Louis also has a commanding position in the question of food supply, being virtually the center of the Bread Basket." In the states of the Mississippi Valley, of which St. Louis is the metropolis, 677,160,000 bushels of wheat were raised this year, or 76 per cent of the country's yield, and corn production to the extent of 2,686,000 bushels, or 85 per cent of the nation's yield; 72 per cent of the live stock, and 81 per cent of the hogs com from thi3 valley. Other achievements credited to St. Louis and this district are: The first regiment in France to receive service stripes for six months' service was the Twelfth Engineers a St. Louis regiment.

One of the first hospital units to land in France was from St. Louis, which was outfitted by the St. Louis chapter of the American Red Cross at an expense of The second ambulance corps to land in Franco was from St. Louis. Within five months after the, declaration of the war St.

Louis recruited and equipped an entire additional regiment of National Guards. St. Louis was the second city In the United States to bar the teaching of German from the high schools, April 26. 1918. In our primary schools German has not been taught within 20 years.

St. Louis is spending $100,000 in war camp community service. Within a few miles of St. Louis is one of the country's great aviation schools Scott Field. "4.

ILV I I Federal Reserve District "over the top" in the third loan, is pointed out forcefully. The War Savings Stamp figures show St. Louis as 6elling on an average of $2,000,000 worth a month. Up to July 1, the sales of the city amounted to $8,957,902. These figures do not include th3 thousand members of the "St.

Louis Limit Club," each member of which subscribed for $1000 worth of stamps. The circular shows that St. Iouis had the first food conservation organization of the United States. Between April, 1917, and March, 1918, a reduction in the city gafhage of 12.690,000 pounds was brought about through the efforts of this organization, and that 850 acres of bacK yards and lots were ploughed up this spring for thrift gardens. The information on Red Cross work Is to the effect that 20.000 women had registered in St.

Louis to do knitting; 5000 to sew on hos-pltal garments; 10,000 to make surgical dressings. During the month of June alone 1,300,000 articles were shipped to France. The monthly output of the knitters amounts to I tl 1. I Will be paid to the person responsible, at any time, anywhere, for the arrest and conviction as a thief of anyone operating an automobile equipped with a Security Auto Theft-Signal, or tampering with a Theft-Signal in place. (Signed) MILLER-CHAPMAN Los Angeles.

20.000 sweaters, socks, wristlets, etc mifiwiiOTi's Jewel feB gm? watch Manufacturers THIS OFFER is open to everybody citizens and police, men, women and children. It is your opportunity to help reduce auto thefts and get $100 Reward. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin has -L proved more satisfactory than any other laxative I have ever used. The other members of my family also use it and we ft) mmsm mmmM 1 1 1 1 recommend it nigniy. We show a woaaerfsl 'From a letter to Dr.

Caldwell written by ment of Watrheo la all style and size. However, we hlchly rrcoin-rnead the 17-Jrirel Illinois. Sold ob the enreptioaally low ternso of 110 1.698 200 47 4.428 8.688 1,200 1,800 2.000 900 300 Mr. Charles Fenske, 5005 N. 5th street.

') ical repair shops of national army British recruiting Polish recruiting Jewish Lopion United States Marines fritted States Navy Twelfth United States Engineers First Regiment National fJuard (13Sth Infantry) Fifth Regiment National (13Sth Infantry) First Missouri Field Artillery. Signal Corps National Army (selective Philadelphia, Pa. nfi CALL THE POLICE if you we any-one operating a car with a Security Auto Theft-Signal on the wheel, or trying to remove the Theft-Signal without the proper key. YOU CANNOT MAKE A MISTAKE. Y'ou cm be absolutely sure that any such person is likely to be a thief.

The rightful owner woulJ remove the Theft-Signal inttmntly with his special key. I WEEK BE SUSPICIOUS of anyone working around the right front wheel of an automobile for more than a few vconds. It may be a thief trying to remove a Theft-Signal. THE THIEF WILL ATTRACT YOUR ATTENTION. He must wotk plain siht if he tries to remove the Theft-Signal.

If he attempts to run the car with the 1 heft-Sipnal attached, the big pointed hump will make a terrific jolt every time the wheel frs around. 9 I DOWN The Theft-Signal is simplicity itetf Whrn the owner lesvei hi car he lfck the S.gnsl on the right front wheel. it ii in plain of everyone; 8,377 draft). fciedien! Reserve Corps and 1,500 550 medical units Aviation service it is sway trom a' mecnaniim, i3 the owner unlock, it with bis special key; 1 any unauthorised person snoat tamper" or leave it alone. In this jj way it enables the public to know 1 the owner from the thief.

I $100 REWARD if will be paid by the manufacturers to the person responsible, at any time, anywhere, for the arrest and conric-g tion, as a thief, of anyone operating; an automobile equipped with a Self eurity Auto Theft-Signal, or tamper- Shipbuilding (enrolled but not all called to date) 9,364 Intelligence, ordnance. Quartermaster, Red Cross. Red Triancle. directly nee ted with war and war re- l'ef work 3.010 Iff 20-Year Ctfty Case This $p'-- Handsome Bracelet Watch -WiU Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin The Perfect Laxative Sold by PrupKists Everywhere 50 cts.

(S) $1.00 A- combination of simple la.uive herbs with pepsin that acts in an easy, natural way, and is as safe for children as it ij positively effective on the strongest constitut'on. A trial bottle can be obtained free of charge by writing to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 453 Washington Street, MonticelloJ Illinois.

Watch carefully the car that wear Theft-Signal it may mean $100 to you any day. Motoritlt: The 1 hrfl hignul, thr Krumd on-f the Co-oprratirm of the 1'ullic Insure HEAL FHOTECTIOX. At Your Dealer, or Security Auto Theft-Signal Sales is ing with a Theft-Signal in place. DZaC rme otreet, 01. l.ouis.

aauiiamiBfflmL'iJ' I'lfoM mvi: tvtal 56.944 The general army, navy and Marine Corps recruiting has Included Bien from territory adjacent to St. Louis. The method of enrollment "lakes It impossible for the recruit-lss? effiees to furnish figures of St. IrfvuiH' contribution exclusively. The wiistmenta in the Twelfth Engineers.

tJie First Missouri Field Artillery "1 the aviation service also include Tai number of men from outside St..