Nevada State Journal (Newspaper) - January 12, 1918, Reno, Nevada Weather The highest temperature recorded yesterday was 53 degrees lowest degrees Forecast for ably rain TE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS Metal Prices SILVER London 46 fc Hew York lead strong 7.00 tin spot no quotation VOL 133 JANUARY 12 1918 FiViE CENTS Plains States From North to Te xas in Grip of Below Zero Weather Accompanied in Some Places by Tornadoes Which Do Heavy Damage and Cause Loss at Least 4 Lives Chicago Again Buried in Snow Drifts and Shortage of Ruel and Food Is Threatened Railroad Traffic Disorganized and Crops in Some Parts Are Damaged Wheat May Benefit KAMSAS CITY Jan en- northern Texas and Oklahoma and tire plains states area from the river to the Rock mountains rind from the Dakotas to the Rio Grande river tonight is experiencing the most severe weather of the winter following a blizzard that ended this morning after piling up huge drifts of Record low temperatures were reported in Texas and seasons records many other points in the section Four Deaths Four deaths have been reported from numerous cities and towns are from a fuel shortage Both wire and train nine inches in Kansas A ture degrees was reported in Corpus Texas According to officials the storm is expected to follow tho eastern line of the Appalachians and reach the St Lawrence valley by Saturday or day With practically tho entire wheat and oat belt of the country ed by snow grain experts predicted great benefit to crops The snow it was said would not only a covering provide moisture for winter wheat but it would also America Aircraft Program Far Behind Its Schedule He Asserts Says Advertising Given United States Plans Is tions were greatly hampered by the soften the ground to an ideal storm but scattering reports received tion for spring wheat and oats at the local weather office at 7 o'clock ing tonight indicated that the trough ov Railroads reported much trouble the cold wave was over this city ana with the drifts passenger service from surrounding territory tonight the west and north from four Mercury Drops Below to five hours late Tho mercury stood at 14 degrees Everybody Shovels below zero hero at that time with a In Chicago thousands of street de- minimum of 15 to IS degrees below laborers hundreds of high forecast before morning At school college and university field Mo it was 14 below at Des flits and public school children below and at Charles City the shovel in a desperate lowa 20 below Points around fort to clear the streets before the cities reported slightly high situation became a menace to the wel but the below zoro weather fare of the public reached as far south as Oklahoma A stern warning to open the streets Oily and Fort Smith Ark both of still blocked by last Sunday's which places reported two below and prevent any new came Wichita Ks had six from the office of Fuel 10 badge R E who fi below but at the in case of a severe and long cola mercury stood at Zero the public would get coal only 61 Cola tho streets wore cleared While Kansas City has been warned to ex- there is no surplus ho reported poet below temperatures by supplies of fuel on hand ing Topoka reporting a maximum South in Grip of Storm temperature oC 9 below today tho Jan by coldest day there since the weather wind rain sleet and snow bureau has been established thero a tornado taking toll of life and Smith Centre with 23 below was tho parts of southern Georgia and cold weather record here for the Alabama the south tonight was in the of its worst storm of the winter Interferes Traffic Only spasmodic wire communication Tho heavy snow badry drifted was was Possible with the larger cities and Interfering with rail and wagon camo reports that outlying fie A Missouri Pacific passenger districts where the storm's fury train in a drift 8 miles west was greatest were of Anthony Kas Thursday night was iy cut not released tolay and cannot be be- Hits Camp fore tomorrow but the 18 passengers Camp near Macon Ga are being provided for and are not where Georgia Alabama and Florida suffering Anthony has had no mail are training was for two days and drifts of snow 20 struck by a tornado late in the day feet deep are reported hero Meagro reports that came through Trains are behind schedule one man had been killed and the corral of the infantry wrecked This information was brought to Tan will have nothing to fear from the United States air fighting forces during coining spring because the aircraft program is far its schedule according to William A Bishop winner of a Cross who addressed the Canadian club hero today He is credited with shooting down 45 German aircraft Unfortunate Advertising Major Bishop characterized as un- fortunate the advertising has been Riven the States ment's aircraft program Ho that whiles France would find it impossible further to enlarge her Ing forces during the coming half year Germany knowing America's tions greatly expanded her flying corps in an effort to gaia in air warfare lie declared during next few months Great Britain will have to face the most terrible timo she lias yet and especially from Battles at Low Ebb on Al the Fronts Owing to Severe Cold and the Heavy Snow Peace of Russia and the Central Powers Are Holding Center of the Stage Chaotic Is Situation rounding the Negotiations With NO light Yet in Sight out the southwest Orchards Four lives wore lost and great con by a driver who left Camp age done to the growing vegetables feeler while the storm was raging Tho samo blow struck the state fair where a circus was and orchards of Texas in a storm that blanketed the northern section of the state with six Inches of snow ins and animals there were reported sion Texas in the Rio Grande valley on a rampage got snow for the first time in forty Wrecked years and Laredo on the Mexican Montgomery reported that railway bordor for the first time in 21 years officials there had been advised that Below zero marks were reached by seven were killed and 25 in- the mercury all over the a tornado which virtually district and at Brownsville in the wrecked the little town of Cowarts tremo southern part of the state a Ala temperature of 25 degrees caused Hish winds prevailed throughout fears for the safety of the reports to the weather crop and other vegetables The snow bureau here said and a cold wave had will relieve the drought in the virtually all of that sections but In the western tion with the thermometer down to part where the drought was most vere there Is apprehension for tho stock already in a weakened tion on many ranges Teamsters Two teamsters in the Burnett oil fields Wichita Wan cannot be located and are believed to have ished in the storm and an fied man near Wichita Palls Tex is expected to die An man was found frozen to death near Fort Worth Chicago Again Buried CHICAGO Jan the ond big of the week burying Chicago and a sub-zero cold wave sweeping toward the city on a mile gale Chicago again faced a mine of fuel and food From to Lake and west to Texas sections of the west and northwest are feeling the same storm At on the Gulf of Mexico snow is falling and in the Texas the thermometer is below zero At Devils Lake N D it Avas 32 degrees below zero at Omaha 23 be- low at O'Neill Neb 37 below and tsp in Canada in Saskatchewan it's 42 below A maximum of live below is predicted for ChU cago ht Follows Mountain Range Six Inches of snow is reported In freezing at Pensacola Fla where a temperature of 15 above zero was forecast before Coal in Alabama gia and other states are expected to increase the suffering caused by the storm Coldest Day in 50 Tears OMAHA TJeb Jan railroads estimate today to have been the coldest day this state has ex- jn half a century although thermometers have fallen lower at some points in Not a spot in the state reported temperature as high as zero today O'Neill with 37 below zero was the coldest point and other temperatures ranged from that point to sixteen eighteen below In Omaha the thermometer registered below and the highest reached sixteen below Colder Weather Coming Indications tonight are for even lower temperatures than last and thermometers are expected to point of view of war in thle air u America's assistance in maintaining allied air fighting superiority may bo felt by summer but during the spring months said the States will not lie a factor for thp Germans to reckon with in the SUMMARY By Associated Press With at a ebb on all the battle fronts the chief political the between the ecu ral powers remains the ab- orbing interest in the world war Chaotic indeed is the rounding due to tho fact rn ports of the have conic through for publication That again has been discussed at seems apparent controverting tho previous reports tho ences would not bo continued by the Bolsheviki they wore red to Exactly as Prophesied Says Miss Anne Martin in Com- menting on Passage Special to the Journal WASHINGTON Jan ad predicted is the concensus of a statement made here last night by Miss Anne Martin chairman of the been closed to Russians and that national party in tho situation now had resolved itself ing on the victory of the suffrage into a question of a separate peace be- The latest to the effect that the delegates of tho central ers now have declared withdrawn so far as Russia's allies are concerned their proposals of forcible annexations or were on Great Britain France the United States and other enemy powers in The refusal to be drawn Teutonic net of discussion is given as the reason for the German delegates recanting Door Open to Russians But Count Czernin garian foreign minister told the that the door has not Great Damage Done at State Fair Grounds Circus mals on Rampage Corral of Infantry Col- lapses and Man Is Re- ported Killed MACON Ga Jan tornado struck Wheeler and Centra ty stale fair grounds late day Great damage has been done it the park and animals from a us wintering thero nre reported on Several persons have been One freight train on the Maeon Dublin Savannah railroad was wrecked by the storm between Macon and Camp Wheeler Railroad men say the tornado was followed by One Mini Killed The first message from Camp was brought here by a ab driver who said he left the camp uring the storm At that time the of the infantry had col- killing one man At 6 o'clock a telephone operator at lamp Wheeler Informed the that divisional ers was safe then tout that the storm continuing Kills Seven Ala Jan even persons were killed and 25 in- ured at Ala and the own was destroyed by a tornado ay a report received at the local of Atlantic Coast Line rav said amendment in the house of Miss Martin's statement is as Events Prophesied Events have come about as we prophesied Having received the en- of the president our amendment passed The republican party in congress by pledging itself almost unanimously to vote for an suffrage put the democrats in a position where they could not escape responsibility for its defeat They so therefore supported the ment SUGAR HEARING KEPT OPEN FOR NEW WITNESS WASHINGTON Jan ate manufactures committee today its program for the sugar investigation but the inquiry was kept open at the request of the food to hear George H Earle president of the Pennsylvania ing company of Philadelphia a called independent Concern He will be called at some later date William H Gardiner and Charles F M Fadeley and E York sugar brokers sugar was not plentiful year as formerly there would not have been an acute shortage had the trade been to proceed in normal channels MARINE JAZZ BAND POSSESSES BAZOOKAS ROTAL S C Jan U R marines at this station have a new Invention It's called a bazooka No it isn't a cannon nor a flying drop as low as forty degrees nor a machine gun zero Slightly warmer is promised when in operation it will make you tomorrow by local stiff find is blowing Railroad trains are delayed from shake your feet The bazooka Is a simple contrivance ot three to four hours by cold not by funnel but its secret is in the snow ing It is said that the Marine Corps LINCOLN NeB Jan a Jazz Band is the only one in the world Continued on page 3 col 3 Uhat boasts of a bazooka Cars Crash Together oh Single Track at Bottom of Two Small Hills DSS MOINES Iowa Jan than a score of persons were injured three probably mortally when street cars on the Urbandale route col- head-on near Bennett and Twentieth streets here late today Except for two or three from by towns all the injured wore from Des Moines most hurt Meet on Single Track Both Democrats and Republicans by Word or Gesture Express Disapproval of Conditions Revealed but War Secretary Remains Unperturbed and Little Ruffled Baker Admits Deficiencies but Reiterates Formal Statement That Supplies Are Substantially Adequate for Initial Rush Needs Insist His Statement Misleading Jan Senator said a cies in army equipment were the sub- ject of sharp cross-examination by Secretary Raker today before the ate military committee For three hours the war ment head was under rapid questioning both from democrats and republicans who frequently by word or expressed of conditions disclosed Some times they flatly disagreed with tho secretary's and pointed to testimony previously heard to contradict him witness had testified the con- tract standards threaten to cause strikes and require employers to re- labor leaders He thought labor agitators would stir up trouble Mr Baker denied knowledge that nny considerable number of tors were to execute con- tracts because of the nsw ards Senator Weeks thought the board loo larse and very drastic ers but Air Bakor contended the functions arc purely advis- Ruffled Apparently littie ruffled 01 Chairman he said was a Boston business man Capt an army officer and the third by the Florence Kelly a social welfare vigorous quizzing Mr Baker ing and further detailing certain reiterated his formal Statement ment of yesterday that supplies are I Senator Weeks challenged the substantially adequate for initial nient that the board was only advis- ory and complained of tho ity of now and special boards and committees Persons with business are passed along from corridor to corridor and insisted that his was misleading to the ry even though unintentional and the public a wrong impression building to building trying to find The f conditions Senator Weeks de- federal agency with which to hired it had lulled the country to do said the senator leop I Secretary Baker explained that Ordnance Bureau hat he meant when he spoke of Turning to artillery Senator supplies was that all troops assailed thq ordnance bureau KO abroad to actual fighting tor continuing manufacture of nd will be amply of questions he said General with manufacture of ershing is short of motor trucks Shortages in this country below needs of February 1 he as Saddles 50 per cent Paddle American 9.5 none of which hare been delivered and whoso munition is not interchangeable with tho French Secretary Baker said he thought but was not sure that the department was the French type and promised io give further tion tn 40 per cent canteens per cent largo deficiencies ot pistols and belts as well as arms Thoro has been no explanation yst Statements oC the that said Senator production of the new Pounding the table with Tho cars singlo track small hills crashed together on OL at the bottom of two down which the track wound in a S fashion The cause of tho collision is ascribed to failure of signal lights to One car have waited on rt siding fr the passing of the other Both Cars Telescoped iNot more than ten persons were in the incoming car but the one was packed with shoppers and downtown workers homeward bound The impact telescoped both cars nearly to the middle More than a dozen persons were taken to hospitals but the rest were able to continue to their homes for minor medical aid Virtually every passenger was badly shaken up and bruised J N Thomas 70 years old Des Mcines was reported tonight machine guns would begin month wore sharply challenged y Senator Hitchcock who said the secretary's figures were four times Senator Wadsworth asked whether in view of the shortage of artillery and machine guns tho secretary's greater than General and that thero were sufficient substantially for rush WHS correct that the discrepancy was ing Secretary Bakor promised further explanation of the d iff K Not The shortage of guns in training cantonments Mr Baker said was not surprising under the tions Mr Hitchcock asserted and Mr denied that contracts for Lewis machine guns were made Senator Chamberlain asked Baker ho could say that when were short rifles and machine gima und artillery Chairman Chamberlain 1 inean then that there is enough for the men actually engaged in the secretary's statements regarding of rifle supplies at canton- ments asserted that lack of guns and trucks are delaying ing work Vou menu that there is sufficient Cor men in said Senator said the secretary Wednesday Jan 9 French government has the of Franer to the Ukraine public This is considered in two pieces of gas pipe an4 France of tha Russia and tlic central powers The seeming ultimatum of tlie of the enemy powers was taken advisement the was adjourned Lenine Belligerent Nikolai Lenine pre- mier maintaining his prn attitude of unwillingness to con- jedo any points to the lias reasserted that unless the central ers accept the Bolsheviki proposals tho Bolsheviki will declare war oni He also has declared himself in favor of stopping demobilization and pre- paring for war The Ukranian republic its delegates at the conference is declared to announced an independent at- in tions Following the declaration of the independence of Ukraine comes the announcement that republic has been formed iif the territory of the Dou Cossacks in southeast Russia eral leader of the as president Little Fighting Going On On the fighting there is only slight activity except by the Several trench operations have been carried out on the western front by the French in the Argonne forest mountain sectors in German prisoners wore taken withstanding the deep snow on the northern Italian front the guns have beent active near in region the lasfc two weeks garments by the supplies com- and that we have all the artillery wo German trenches and forcing the exceeded the voluntary enlistments for of the council of national de- said Senator Wadsworth I to them The Italian machine by 2764 it was j disagree It is not an accurate de guns worked havoc among enemy here today Losses with When Secretary Baker's scription of the situation 1840 enlistments It 5s that tlon resumed Chairman Mr Baker insisted that his 47 per cent of the casualties will be said there fears for adequacy oC ii for service production nance for rush needs was The situation is satisfactory and correct He admitted that I think supplies are and will continue nance was needed for training men In replied Secretary Baker camp Time train men In Failure to prepare for war was j Gives Wrons Impression brought up by Senator Wadsworth Your we have sub- nnd Secretary Baker insisted that enough gives a for preparedness in were to the country when wo havo as obvious to congress as to tho only enough for men actually in the branch Events since he con- and not for those in ceded would have made larger in Senator Wadsworth interjected ry appropriations advisable j I agree with Senator Baker left the stand early to said Chairman Chamberlain that attend a cabinet meeting He will be your statements give a back tomorrow for further sion to the country was not your amination Others seriously Injured all from include W F Fisher H E Jones purpose Is Its effect What I meant to say and what ide Mrs Gels Botsford A letter modifying his testimony I want the country to understand and Mrs shoddy had not used m replied earnestly Is that garments was received during the day all the troops In Franco will be by Chairman Chamberlain from equipped with McGowan of the navy arms When before the committee the observed Senator admiral said no shoddy had been Chamberlain used Through further investigation I have assurances to that effect after He testified he wrote today he Mr Baker testified found that a very small order had Senator OTTAWA Oat Jan J been given for overcoats containing The statement leaves the CANADIAN WASTAGE EXCEEDS RECRUITING i I 1 izn i lie imi in the Canadian force 35 per cent of shoddy specified for sion that the situation rosy one as they endeavored to the Ukraine was made OPERA STAR Jim Curci soprano tonight reconsidered her Senator I k not to appear III 8 requirements and Boston the Grand that said were so the rigla mase Senator ot army A v vm m Opera company iud that are being delayed Any delay is slight Tex to by She appear on 28 At secretary Baker and health of commandant she said that sha too tired factory Is an important con- have the f rip her work jn to sing that every camp an officer of the French mill tlie east but reconsidered being I must with you that the How granted several rest delay said Senator you conform to tlm
