The St. Louis Star and Times from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 1

1 i i LOU NIGHT EDITION VOL. 31 NO. 22. ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1916.

ui11J LLSKHHERE TWO tKSW 17 LOOT Ul THE WEATHER. $108,000 FOR 1 Charles M. Schwab, With President of the B. M. Forecast for St.

IxMiis and vicin BRIDGE WRECKED AT CERNAVODA, TEUTONS HALTED and Two Other Visitors Here for Steel Convention HOLDUP ff. ieredhere il UNION WAGES IS APPROVED ity: Fair tonisrht i ami probably Friday. Warmer. J. XWHJ CUV $34,000 Stolen in Temperature Kradlnc.

Midnight oi csumaie votes oum; provided in Bill to Pay Prevail- ing Wage to Union Men in City Employ. I jf uarrougn vuw Jl August 2, Found BoxmTrust Co. .42 .45 nV, 5 .62 ......4 8 a. rn 4s a. m.

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Stage of Falkenhayn's Troops Driven Back Across Border, Bucharest Says Berlin Announces Wrecking of Structure Over Danube. FALL OF FORT VAUX IN THE WEST IS ADMITTED the river at 2 SKanahln v.l. sailing from New York to-lay: United State i a lo jfKEYS FOUND ft HELD AT DALLAS; PLAYER SAYS COST WILL BE $400,000 ANNUALLY Liver- 1 ucania, rrom from London: outh HarceIonia- from Rigel. Plym- Ujjfied by Serial Num- in Name of Lane i Believed to Be Rela: Kiel and Hall Favor Measure for Which Organized Labor Leaders Have Been Fighting Nearly Two Years. French Trenches Bombarded Heavily on the Verdun Front, Indicating New Infantry Charge Is Being Planned.

CITY NEEDS A NEW CONVENTION HALL, COMMITTEE FINDS Hi? 1 1 i Campaign Against Italy The Hoard of nd Apportionment today approved an appropriation of SlOS.vOO provided In the. prevailing waste- scale bill. Men Chosen by B. M. L.

to Inves-j 1 boxes of James jjmes and Arthur Lane Trust Company, lively identified stolen in the. Vrv of the Burrougli. j.iu at De. UtLm of the; n.ie.live Agency the! L. Is Planned by Germans if Roumania Is Conquered IJOMK, 't.

If the tit'r. mans conquer P.otimani:!. their iif.t sr'ii campaign wi" he laiiiiihej against Italy, it I believed by many military critics. The Heme or i esuond ent the union lator flince February, IS 15. for the union wa sr sca'e for me tigate, Report Coliseum Is Inadequate.

in the city's chanics and laborers A 'sub. committee, appointed Vyth- employ, now seems assured of sue- i a i ess. oltseuni Company directors and Idea Nascitinnle telegraphed, to- committee of the Business Men's League, to present a plan for caring for conventions in St. Iouis, has! decided the best plan is to build a I new convention hall. The Coliseum was inadequate to are lor the rowd at the recent i Veiled Prophet Ball, the sub-com-1 mittee finds.

Jt is recommended that Several members of the Board of Aldermen had promised to use their influence to pass the bill, if the appropriation which it carried was approved by the Kstimate Board. The passage of the bill would raise the wages of about 1.000 persons in the city's employ. Union officials admit its passage would mean the a convention hall be constructed as city would pay $228,994 more to its large or larger than similar halls employes who are members of 1 i lay. that pians already are be. ins made in Merlin and Vtennn for a -great concerted attack agahint Italy and that material! arv belns gathered.

"The army groups will he composed of Germans, A ust ro-Mungm una. Bul-uarinns and Germany will furnifh ull 1he artillery and most of the other nupplies need-eU. one of the two main army group will te iniiiinded by Genet-itl von Kolken'uavn, it is said, and the tuber by Archduke Karl, heir to the Xnstiiitn throne. The cietrtils of the umpaisn are tieinj; oiit by Field Marshal von 1 1 indent utr. chief of tlie (ii-rmii St tiff.

The -pit' ltose of tb- pr opose I oflVnsive Italy i to try altoti and Arthur (an was arrested in connection with Jie 'wbeiy- and Steffins is: Walton, according to admitted- he hadj jjoKt St. Louis and tkpy to two safe de-; frfihe Mercantile Trust him power of at-i Zt the box. jtt Mosher. Walton vis- i Bit, August 12, and the in the safe de-; Bank officials recall nd Steffins carried a) j(i frnni the bank somej It is believed that; stolen from the pay- 55 deposit there and that vs. removed.

Newspa- fare of August 2 7 were nj the money the detec-; the deposit boxes to- siWalton broke down in se learnt'd his pictures stifled an that of onej in other cities. The sub-committee was appointed July 20 at a meeting of a committee from the Business Men's League and; of directors of the Coliseum Com- Sfrf Kin-J party. I lie members are A. stein, John (J. lionsdale and C.

Roberts. Frank M. Robinson, Keneral ager of the Coliseum Company, unions than it now pays. Mayor Kiel and Xathan Hall, president of the Board of Aldermen, voted in favor of the appropriation in the bill find Comptroller Player voted against it. Player said the bill, if passed, would mean an additional expenditure of $400,000 a ea in wage.

Several similar bills have been introduced and have failed of passage because improperly drawn. The bill row before the board was introduced by Alderman Raur. and specifies the wage scale of every union man. The appropriation of it was estimated, would pay union wages for the fiscal year. The new City provided that, the prevailing union wage scale should be th'e committee in Its deliberations.

After an investigation of months the i to iiaKe tins kici'lom s-k a separate peae. it: LEFT TO KIGHT ARCHIBALD IU. K. VAKI. CHA KhKS M.

SCHWAB AND CLAKKNCK II. HOWAKD. sub-committee arrived at the follow- ins; conclusions: Colixmm The Coliseum does not meet the 1 requirements for buildings of thatl character and is inadequate fori many conventions, shows and enter- tainments that a building' properly-erected and equipped could care for. Schwab in St. Louis, Greets Taft; 111 DIE, 15 MISSING, Tells of Early Struggle to Win 25 HURT IN FIRE IN TAFT ATTACKS WILSON POLICY IN PHIUPPINES Hecratise it is not up to requirements' established for city employes.

i ii iiM suspected of hav-: art in the payroll roh Hamilton Brown Shoe 'wi was taken. ir wa identified by seriaf the bills. Before the jar would permit the box ei it inquired a bond ifflcuted. This Was given, iisiwy was taken it, im to the Ocean Act-TrtxCplBoiationj of XiOO-IJiUKired the HurrotiRha ud which has had to tirlos Of $3 4,000. St.

Louis is unable lo entertain many i large featherings and conventions and is deprived of holding many In-j atructive meetings and eathertnas of' A QUEBEC HOSPITAL The bill, if passed, would establish the eight-hour day for men working--under the union scale. The eight-hour day is not. now in effect Bt't'HAllKST. Oct. 26.

Ma km a stand aiainst the in.eding TeutouM' forces, the Roumanian troops have driven the foe back across the Trdii-lvanian border everywhere, the War Office officially announced today. There is nothing to report in the Dohrudja ctor. BERLIN (via Sayvillc witeiesat. Oct. 26.

The rreat fourteen-mile spanning the Danube at Or, navoda has been blown tip by the Roumanians, the German War Office announced today. The destrmtlon of the bridge followed the retreat of the Ru-Roii-manian forces from Ceriiovoda. German aviators have liombanied Fateshti at the western end of the, bridge. Further progress for the armies Million-a-Year Steel Magnate Started a Grocery Clerk and Arose Early to Wait on Man Who Later. Called Carnegie's Attention to Him.

in the city departments. The bill; doe-ot provide for does it provide that men shaii he Tells Citv Club Government's Ef- ber own people. At rthe recent -Veiled Prophet's Ball thousands were turned away by the Fire Department so tha the as is the cus- 350 Asleep in Building When Blaze Starts Many Jump From Windows. docked torn of for lost time, private firms. ficiency Is Impaired by Spoils System.

building would not be crowded be- yond safety. Many who were turned away had come a Ions distance to attend the ball. The committee believes the. city the million- comprehensive in its history." II) the Aoard predicted that it would KARNHAM Ol'EBKC. Oct.

L'6. continue after the YOUTH WHO KILLED MAN IS GIVEN A LIFE TERM Cliarb-s M. Schwab, dollar-a-year chair matt of the Bethlehem Steel the Planters I lot el this war for a time. At east eleven peisons. five of them ompany, at anJ inevitable, he nHl3ren oflt lives in a fire prosperity ha.

i hll ritroVitl the St. morning told declared, "when the Prof. William Howard Taft of Yale, former President of the United (States, told a large crowd at the City Club luncheon today that Pres-f ident Wilson's policy in the Philip the frun its course a cloud of adversity 1 hra, anrt fifteen a reporter for The Star that bhould aid iu the building; of the new convent ion hall. Slum ITae, Theater. The building should have a main Kuene Hamilton.

20 years old. was convied of murder in the first 1 will lower on our country. aud von Macken- (to twenty-five persons still are unac- xon iil Detective Serjeants -Kaiser-, and; present hen 4 wotH-Ofid and the money in eighteen pack-j tkas contained $17 in; Jdollars. Another con-j awkan half dollars an-1 1b bill mostly in de- Bsf $19. to hoiun to count thej am is ere sought by de- Ifc-Uuis first and later) Dallas where their Kalkenhayn reported.

txt of the "We have not been obliged lo fight 'j degree, by a jury in Jtidjre Grimm's hall and proper additional halls'for The official statement (court, ana sentenced to life impris our way lor pi oj.pt i estimate of the a uthorit ies. search the It still blar.tng cess has come to us easily, so it iL has come to us easily, so young men of the West are made of the best stuff in the nation, aftei which the steel kina proceeded to speak on iiis favorite theme, the young man of America. The steel king is iu Su Louis to onment yesterday, for killing- William B. Anderson, an automobile natural that we snoulu oe an extra --i pine Islands has destroyed the government's efficiency there. ilr.

Wilson removed civil service appointees who were experienced in the service in the islands, and appointed Democrats in their places, he said, and an example of the type appointed in their s.tead"wras a Tammany Hall Congressman. "A good man in his way, but ignorant of con- javjant people. So, it is inevitable and, i necessary that adversity should vis'i us to to get 'our balance ami re smaller' meetings and should include a theater for the holding of frand opera and other spectacular attractions. The smaller halls and theater would be a source of revenue for the, upkeep of the entire p'ant. The building should be erected free of all indebtedness and overhead expense so that revenues can salesman, in front of th Riverside (Dancing; Academy.

4100 South Proad way. May 7 last. According to the evidence Ander-j son was waiting for a car to take i him to his home, 2235 Montana ave 8 Walton. i now living. make two speeches today, in ad vance dure ourselv es to a permanent, nor- of the annual' convention of state.

Mv opinion is that this adversity American Iron and steel Institute, ruins. More than .150 persons were axleep when the fire broke out. Their escape cut off snd nearly all jumped from the window. Twenty-five children were badly injured in jumping from the third-story windows. After the fire had destroyed the hospital and a laundry and several adjacent buildings had been damaged, thr firemen controlled the CHARGE HALTS SGUNSKI INQUEST nue.

His wire and daughter were oitions in the Taft 'which opens a two-day session in St. adversity is still far away. After the; eluded. jen with him. IXamilton and other young mVl i.

wl "pn, who had been ordered out of Louis tomorrow. poer stops, a flywheel revolves of us The professor added that Mr. tltniVltlB the dancing academy, came to the Wilson never had had time to grant i The first was delivered before an interviews to visitors from the Isl-' udience which filled the dining momentum. So. is apparent that, when our foreign trade 000 this year is confronted with i sub-committee obtained data from other cities and found that Cleveland is building a hall costing- into the death of Ed-37 years old.

1216 found shot, to death the Mullanphy Pleas-4e night of October 22. ands, or io listen to men who were I room of the Missouri Athletic Asso-j familiar with conditions there. ciation. where lie spoke under the the war's end. we may be certain tne I flv keep in motion.

Senator Lodge follows: "Army group of General von F8l-lenhavn In ihe.Trotus Valley in Traiiev Ivania. Auslro Hungarian troops engaged and defeated lh-Kouma nians. On the height south of Oituz. Bavarian troops inflicted defeat on the cnniy, On the ron.1 lo Kampoluns and Sinaya our attack gained flesh ground. I'rcsli Ins in Dohrmljit.

"Army group of Field Marshal von Matkensen Our operations in lo-brndja have resulted In fresh pro for us "The Roumanians blew up Hi-larae Imnube Bridge ut Cernavo.i:, which "bows tlie Importance of tb liouuieniari defeat jn Dohrudja 1 the opinion of the enemy. n- a'u-ships successfully bombarded esta bl ishm-nts and worka at Katetili. of -rttt-vodt. "Macedonia front--South of Prer-bal Itke Bulgarian cavalry rum- in touch with iiostiie detachments. Krapa on the Teberna River an north of Servian itac.

wer repulsed." Tiie statement dealing with the was quoted by tiie ausnicea of the Business Men's "It will be several years after lite i corner. Their language was inucb that Anderson asked that it be modified because of the presence of his wife and daughter. Hamilton became angered and shot Anderson, fatally wounding him. The jury was given the case at 4:15 p. m.

and a verdict, wa returned in four hours. former President as once saying of League, whose president. COUSIN HELD IN DEATH OF WOMAN IN A HOTEL Mr. Wilson, "that tie had such a tf. Howard, is his personal host dur-mind that when he set out to solve ing nis st j.ouis Schwab's ad-a question or reach a conclusion, his dress as directed chiefly toward a first step was to make up his mind." review 0f business.

Professor Taft arrived in St. Louis Becoming reminiscent. Schwab re 500.000; Chicago is planning a building to cost SL Paul, Denver and Oakland have built halls and San Francisco a auditorium; Milwaukee has built an auditorium, the people and the city co-operating; Kansas City-has a hall built by popular subscription. It is recommended that the Coliseum be maintained and tised until the new building is ready for war's end before the 'wartin jia-I tioiis can cease buying certain from said he was so optimistic i about the future that he was encour- I aging the enlargement of bis plantf, some of them by as much as pei cent of their capacity. Heicojritie Taft.

i Descending the stairs of the Plant- tire 13usi- i how hi a-ot bis firsi iob in a tne tsutsi- ated early toaay. rte aoarcssed ness ueaeue at oieahiasi Jt irmiprv slnr in "Rriimlock He PROF. O.A. WALL DEFENDS THE NUDE IN ART WORK the Planters Hotel. He will bo wos 16 years old.

and his clerking honor guest at a dinner at the Cni- I duties were such that he was forced versity Club tonightfi and will ad- to au night" in the store. In Kdward H. Richter, 171" boulevard, a post office clerk, was arrested at the Coroner's office today at the 'nquest into he death of ihis cousin, Meta Sohaaf. who 'died of poison at the Erlin Hotel yesterday. The inquest was halted 'at noon by Coroner Padberg and an analysis will be made of her viscera to determine what caused death.

Richter testified his cousin had s4denly this morning by wr Furlong, who as- evident of been 'framed." He; 64 Jy inquiry would be cuit Attorney Moore subpoenas on wit-; JNu9t and announced "i Jury inquiry would testified the Mul-I Cliibwas open today fhad been in it at 9 aant Circuit Attorney would call this to the Police Department. Greer ave-j in the club at "isht of the shooting fter that hour. dress a mass meeting tonight at i order to be on hand to open in thejers rotunda. recognized the i lcrrn of former President Taft. i Grover Cleveland High School.

I morning. i i "I am glad to be in Missouri again Karl y. rising Ilrst Customer unusually early- NEPHEW OF GOV. MAJOR IS SUED FOR DIVORCE when there seems to be a reasonable was An KlUrn fr.nt .1. 1 1.111 ism assurance of a Republican coming niade necessary because his first cutback inio power in the White House, i tomer was "Bill' Jones, the presi- iriuicueu if 1.111 im 1 x- merging from the dining room.

ne hour was 9:15 a. m. "Why, there's an old friend of mine." exclaimed the steel king. A warm exchange of greetings followed, "If I had known you were here I vouhl have gotten up re- wti aa tm-JHI. tj I 1 'times and that th night before i dent of the Braddock Iron and Steel No city is truly cultured until it accepts nude art, Prof.

O. A. WTall. 41S0 West Pine boulevard, told East St. Louisans in a lecture at the Elks' Club held under the auspices of the East St.

Louis Commercial Club last night. The title of the lecture was "Art and Ethics; a Defense of the Nude in Art." Professor Wall said St. Louis had learned the nude through the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. He cited the erection of a statue, "The Xaked Truth," in Reservoir Park. death she accused ilJIIl OI evacuated by its gar called early in the his day's supply of Company, who morning to buy friendly with anotner giri.

iticnter Taft the Business Men's League, at a breakfast at the Planters Hotel. He emphasized the word "reasonable." "Mr. Hughes will win," he told a reporter for The Star. "Mr. Hughes speaks what he thinks and follows KANSA3 CITY, Oct.

26. Mrs. Aline Major, wife of Lon Major, who i a nephew of Governor Major, filed suit for divorce here today, charging desertion. She alleges she was compelled to work to support herself. The couple were wed.

in cigars. This afforded the opportunity rison when the French took It. The test of the ataternerit follows: "Our fighting artillery efficiently fteld the enemy's trenches, hatterie 0t marked Schwab. said he tried to calm her. and took' one poison bottle away from her.

but the following morning she obtained another noison bottle and killed her-! And if i had known you were an acouaintanceship which the i here. I wouldn't have come at. all. youthful Schwab availed himself retorted Taft self. his convictions.

He is the sort man tre want for President." of anrt in due time expressed his arnbi-! tion to his customer of learning the Edwin F. Clendennlng, secretary 190 i At ponce neaaquariers mcmer said Taft told the business men at steel business. that Miss haaf had had a suicidal mania ever since the death of a Accordingly, a little job as a rodman, then of the Kansas City Commercial; Club, sought an interview with Schwab to invite him to address the Schwab to invite him to address the later he sot a cniAisturii merits on uoin sioes ot the Somrne under fire, 'Our positions on the northern bank of the river were covered b-j the enemy ith strong fire wave which prepared English partial ad-j vance north of Courcellette and iu the regions of Ie Sars. Guedeeoot 'and Les Boeufs. nc: a rfrai.T.tm3n.

and dint 0ri brother by suicide breakfast that he believes President Wilson follows the line of least resistance, and in the matter of the in He said had objected to unH n-nrU- ker.t himself in the Kansas City organization, I parents of both of the steel company 21. at the occasion of tne city a cele- their keeping company because of oration of commercial independence, their close relationship. Adamson eight-hour law sacrificed I attention his principles for political expediency i head. showed Schwab sent up for his date-book rrs. Paula Scboilmever.

1440 and in consideration of votes. The young draftsman "Just a Song At Twilight' and found he was scneauiea to make; Burd avenue, a sister of Mi 3c ha a None of these attacks They only caused new sacrifice, to Taft expressed himself as more talent which reached the ears of an address in Baltimore on naiSail today she had been unable to Andrew Carnegie, and Schwab sec- interested in Hughes' election than tOSES FOOT I TING ACCIDENT! (Gus) Cicardi, pro- i tater garden at Del- and. Euclid avenue, i J80 was amputated be- st night because of fd' was resting easily ri. Baptist Sanita-' h' brother, Victor, I 'Sucks at Grafton, 111., when Cicardi ac- shotgun as he a boat. The gun th shot striking Su5ted IN ING OF CHILD 3io 1 4 A.

I the enemy. i fouautnOftf KTSJ-uateiJ. he was in his own four years ago. because he considered the Issues of I the campaign of 1916 much more important, If the country elects Hughes, it but in reality a song ond ambition, which was to attract aal. -ana remarxeu mat in-j communicate with their father, Kev.

the attention of the then rising pow- bound to fill the engagement as htsjF. pastor of the Evangel-er in the steel weld, was realized. 1 company was engaged in fulfilling ajicaj Lutheran Church, at Diedrich. Carnegie sent for him to draw the $60,000,000 transaction with thatjni. plans of the first steel plant of the! city.

The Kansas City man sag- Reverend Schaaf is somewhere ir. Carnegie Steel Company, and the gested an alternate date, and Schwab Minnesota. Mrs. Schollmeyer Mi ctrvrU spntimental perhaps, or other music after the hours of work to part of the re fining, restful influence of home. homo needs music in it, and The Star's "Mu- will have a man who represents principles, he said.

foundation for a life-long associa- tentatively acceprea wnon iraruci today. Until he in located, she ill lart gave it as nis opinion inai the Republican party wil carry Illi it TwvmjthlA for "A French attack day before terday northeast of Verdun, favored by misty weather, advanced beyond destroyed trenches as far as the fort and village of Dovtuntont "The fort had ben evatrtsated by the garrison. "We did not succeed in re-occupying the work. "Our troops took up prepared positions close to the north in the majority of cases only on strict command and reluctantly. Tn these position yesterday all column neips sical Instruments there was a liiceiinooa or nis inenc.

rnajce BO arrangements for the J. Ogden Armour, also appearing onjfuneraJ Sne ai, the church, of the program. w-htch her father is pastor, strongly Arrives in Private Car. 1 discountenances suicide, it is not Schwab arrived in St Louis on tnat rer giber's funeral will his private car, the "Loretto." there, named for his boyhood village in music everv home to possess nois, rew torit, Connecticut ana New Jersey. "The eight-hour law will not affect the laboring man's vote," he tion in the steel industry was laid.

'I like the young men of the West," said Schwab, "because, when I grasp tyie of them by the hand. I usually feel that I have something at the other end. "Personality and integrity are the most important factors in the success of a young man. It is not nPre are announcements of good musieal instruments are new ajva someumes mpy sale, sometimes t.c. for said.

Because the laboring man is thinking his own thoughts. always good values and tne nt.j an Armenian. ter the discovery i2 dy of Alphonse oW, has been in-frr of murder by the but they are i. used Ukl. Tne laboring man is more in-1 WIFE'S EFFORT IN VAIN, SLAYER OF 2 SENTENCED Pennsylvania.

He was accompanied1 by Archibald Johnston, "vice president of the Bethlehem Steel Company, and Dr. M. R. Ward of Phil- nhia further French attack were re. to.

nrtv- t. than he enough that he should say I shall be is to cleave to a strictlv labor natty." toda for the prices at which they are offered pur. mem reach of practically every home in St. Louis. This column will help you to put musie in your life if he must be prepared to embrace the ut Station bv CHICAGO.

O'A. 26. E4gar W. pulsed. especially violent one, against Vaux.

Russian attacks in Volhynia. Gati-cia, and in the wooded Carpathian, broke down under the German cur- opportunity, spontaneously, at any time. Clarence H. Howard, president of Foster, who killed Bertha Kub.viez, he Commonwealth Steel Company hi affinity, ani their child, today is BRITISH MINE SWEEPER Jt and use It faitmuuy. Find Congenial Work.

who ereeted him both on nw wa to jotier ujioer a wno greerea mm wm SUNK; 73 MEN ARE LOST He should nd a work that isoi St. Lous, -jtain or nre, tne war umce an- St' Louis- The 1 today to Judge Van-: cuy court. murder against Christ Asff'5d, when tor state-nJJ t0 ve made to reort tlle -raud Wi gambling r.r;;1 ui) oonvmo- 'congenial and to which he shows as a 'enow nwei-maner i nouncea. British I adaptability, and then stick to It. I president of the Business Men in the house with them, provided The text of the statement follows; which he then stick LONDOX, Oct.

26: The THE ST. LOUIS STAR chr Riiildinf. Star Square rr. .1 t- ern r.i. to ntice" wir'Iaeue.

-Vorth Miadzcer Lake, the Rus- 1 A -1 V. .1 1 Is Our Agent success, and never make for 1 Schwab wiil atloress me jnniorj u.uc -cj released ga without succ i Citizens and I Joy Scours their enalty was demanded for her hu- x.t HH a m-an, to preparv an mine sweeper Genisba has Wn tor-i pedoed and sunk, it was' announced to.hiy. All officers and seventy-three men lost their lives. Only twe.ve men were saved. -Use for Results strongly deplore tor Tront- Memorial Arts sne anwf, fh'kii ii-r imr rnj 1: ead quarter Schwab called the prospertty (otsrt and denounced them.

"ottlioitctl on I'ae- 2. 4'olitruit 7. the country the "-best and most inir. at o'ck tonight..