Oakland Tribune (Newspaper) - January 12, 1918, Oakland, California Oakland anil C n s c t- weather probably rain moderate westerly winds VOL FIVE CENTS OAKLAND CALIFORNIA SATURDAY EVENING JANUARY 12 1918 NO 144 nin Dill Sea Craft Driven Ashore Atlantic Gulf and Lake Coasts Swept by Storms Finn Brick Chimney Blown Down at Lynn Mass Crashes Through Roof of Big Factory Indian Boys Are Burned to Death in Fire in School Indian hoys were burned to death in a fire last night at the Dwight Indian Training School at Marble City Oklahoma about forty miles southeast of here The fire de- the boys dormitory Its origin is unknown SAGINAW Mich Jan Five persons are missing and four were injured in a firs of undetermined origin early this morning which the Wright Hotel during a terrific blizzard Thirty-five guests were in the hotel and many row escanes were reported I Four Men Slain Wity Ax and j Fifth Still Living Says One i Man Committed the Crime ASSASSIN RECOGNIZED SEEKS TO KILL VICTIMS NO TRAINS MOVING 1 l t W nn Wit W W I i 4 W Soldiers In Training Camps Are Suffering Heavily From Flood Waters South Bears Brunt Snow and intense cold in a arch bending from Atlanta Georgia up to the Great Lakes and west to Kansas City and ver blocked transportation today brought suffering and death to many homes A tornado which swept portions of Alabama and Georgia added to the misery and a death list of sixteen with more than 100 injuries was reported in its wake Of this number six children were killed and forty in- jured when the tornado ished a school house near Alabama At Camp con Georgia the wind blew down sixteen hospital tents leaving some 150 patients exposed for the ment to the elements and the heavy rains flooded other tents One private there was reported killed in the collapse of a corral Business in Chicago stood still with snow two feet on the level Trains on all lines were blocked and local transportation was of a National i Army Bank Is Declared to Be the Work of An Officer BV ASSOCIATED PHESS WIRE CAMP Jan Lewis R of Salina Kansas who is understood to lune me at tlic National Army Camp here sMid killed low men and n fifth was found dead here late today CAMP FUNSTON Jan ney Wornall Kansas City the only five men who were in the bank at the national army j merit here last night when the In- was robbed told the LONDON Jan M S Ka- ties the robber was an army captain and was lost with all j whom he recognized it was an- aboard off the north coast of Ireland j today It understood he Wednesday an admiralty statement j the officers name announced today declared that one man statement said the the bank after School Official Is Sent Threat hy SACRAMENTO Jan letter threatening to dynamite the home of Will C Wood com- missioner of secondary schools because of his advocacy of ing of patriotism in the public schools was turned over to the police today for investigation The letter was received by Commissioner Wood It was mailed in San Francisco It was printed in red ink with rubber stamp letters and bore the signature T M T The letter said a tive was being sent to mento to look up Wood's home and attend to his case A clipping of a story from a newspaper ing a reference to Commissioner Wood's patriotic activities was attached to the letter Creation of New Cabinet Officer Is Frowned Upon By the Secretary of War UP Charges the Loss of More Fifteen Large Vessels to U S Flag to Congress Members 15 DF n n ii ii i ii n ANXIOUS TO DEFEND HIMSELF AND GOETHALS San Franciscan Asks Hearing Before Committee to Show He Didn't Block Steel Ships struck a rock LOS Jan Ing that a ship loaded with BY INTERNATIONAL SERVICE LEASED WIRE TO TRIBUNE i WASHINGTON Jan charging that the loss of more than flag was due to at least two bers of William Denman of today the commerce committee of- the ate hear his story of why the gram of the shipping board has failed Billions Damage by Claim of German Press LONDON Jan ing the first year of Germany's- ruthless submarine campaign which has now become a pal factor in naval warfare is being expanded and developed still further Summarizing the results of the campaign since the claims that the have sunk on an average tons of ping monthly from February to December and for the whole year the toll may be expected to show nearly tons and that the building of new ships fay the entente and neutrals ing the year will replace only between and Ions of these losses The newspaper says the monetary loss to Germany's enemies as the result of the riv reach figuring the value of the ships at per ton and their cargoes at the same rate fiaker Again Made Target for Grilling by Senate Probe Committee in Examination I COUNTRY IS ENTITLED TO ccci ur on vc Wl I W Loss of vessels says ands of worth arms and re We for the ammunition had sailed from San dro for Mexico four months agro is responsible for the present famine in Boston New York and General Nicholas one of Philadelphia Denman wants to tell his story in show that neither he nor General I I Goethals lost the country a single steel an ax four of the five men in the The Racoon was a of thu I building and injuring the fifth so 1310 class and was feet badly that he probably will die vith a beam of 28 feet She Wornall the cashier of the bank Placed 913 tons and her engines covered a short three men accused of public he says and it will against the neutrality law and a lire in the bitter controversy here be- tween the military and federal Hig Jetter tQ Fletch m the alleged gun the is as j plot today said he was ready confess details of other In answer to the questions to some plots to the government of the Senators evidence has been I will tell all I know if they treat elicited that fifteen steel ships were right Zogg said I have commandeered and were lost to live evidence that a ship loaded with I our flag because of neglect due to arms and ammunition valued at j differences between General Goethals i thousands of dollars from San and myself The press of the which swept this coast last night drove throo steamers in tlic harbor here The are hard and fast but none is thought to be in serious danger the storm has tied up shipping at this port no serious damage been reported CHILDREN KILLED IX COLLAPSE OF SCHOOL ATLANTA On Jan nado which yesterday evening swept portions of Alabama and Georgia caused deaths at the following Ala killed and 25 Dothan Ala six children killed arid 40 injured in collapse of in the country near Webb Ala one killed and estimated TO injured in destruction of store nnd other Troy Mi nnd several one at Camp ler and several The wave that extended is far as was preceded by an low barometric pressure being recorded nt Knoxville r thunderstorms and lightning a heavy snow fall at was thought today that sleet and v were the chief onuses of the isolation of most of the towns and that little or no damage had resulted in the larger cities of the war she was armed with injuries probably will provo four-inch and three three-inch guns physicians believed and two torpedo tubes Her TjriTJTJinj ment was 105 men IT all her crewl was lost probably at least 100 men j KILLS VICTIM perished i an insistent ALL OlN BOARD j knock at the door of the bank LOST WITH VESSEL about o'clock last night I caused to admit a man who All those on board the Racoon immediately covered them with a re- when the vessel sank were lost The volver commanded statement issued by the Admiralty j lo ie the of tne others j Wornall says after which he tied H M S Racoon Lieut hands in command struck on Roman's description of the rocks off the North coast of Ireland ls indefinite at 2 o'clock in the morning on He nc the robber during a snow storm and tnat he waf recognized by sequently foundered with all hands of his that he de- of crew had behind at her last port of call and are the sole survivors teen have been picked up by BEATEN WITH AX craft and are beiner buried at Five more bodies were said he picked up a hand washed ashore and they are being from the floor and tegan raining buried blows upon the heads and faces of Believes Departments of Crazier and Sharpe Are Up to the Standard Satisfactory unanimously reported twelve to fifteen large that from i steel vessels Pedro for Mexico under the noses of the government officers four months ago 1 had been lost and most of them put I will tell the government the responsibility on me j thing I know of plots S i they will treat me right I won't tell 1 d that army bunch a thing 1 Zogg Myles nnd Charles j T Viin show lhat of anv Tnn ance by tbc powers of For- 1 Trotsky's proposal to continue the Russo-German armistice on all fronts for an additional month was forma announced today The neutrality law At the request of participants in saving over a million their Attorney the was tons ot lo the American ilag tinned until January j shou of Four members of the federal the operation of some one l grand jury which is investigating the else's commandeering order it was I controversy between the authorities v jd preventing the which was an outgrowth of the ar- the Ian I nf mm were in the lur the mobilization of all Continued on Page 2 Col 3 rest of the three men were in the ten days of our and ing the ecu nnd thp of board concerning the Hog island con- tract upon the helpless men The mutiny in F- vice-president of the the eastern National Bank of Kansas Ian 1 German army on front has now spread to the City and of the Army Bank Hungarian army Petrograd the first man attacked He died patches quoted German de- early today serters as that Austrian U M Hill and holding the line in the were next clerks down after which sector in mutined and that the mar attacked and John fighting has taken place between Jewell of Springfield was found by a sentry received four or five severe thf viMons A on both di- I ot men were killed cuts on the bead and forehead Hill German mutineers beaten on the head in Poland have taken almost beyond recognition session of the city and at last reports The murders were committed bv were still holding it although they a captain Woman is said to have by loyal tnp authorities He wore no men mask He came into the bank and e j said he was of money and hated t winters uas well taking a few Field Marshal mv Haig reported BY UNITED PRESS WISE TO CHICAGO Jan tenter of tho which has been the fur three ex- during the night and today extended from the upper region i to the St Lawrence valley and ward to the Atlantic seaboard At the wave up the to streets The cold was too bitter tor the men to work I Nowhere was the Arctic blight moro Although thousands of soldiers i county officials and civilians scoured AIRES Nov surrounding country all night and ber of Argentine newspapers today no trace has been found of ACCIDENTS 3 DIE that the the man barred to include the trade uas Killed instantly by a routes between South America and i blow on the from the ax Europe is an act toward j blade this country The papers renew Just how much money the robber their demands that the obtained was not announced by siver relations with Germany i authorities i courtroom for the hearing i Colonel Louis Goodier judge I ate oi the ment of the army was also Branding the arrest and detention j j i of Myles as highhanded j ed by law and in open violation of the I fundamental right of American zens the federal grand jury this Goethals afternoon reported to Judge nn dofs at uvo miu F Bledsoe asking that the result who of its investigation in the case jn referred to the attorney general ofi he th United States and ORS o the shortage of fuel and coal in larger cities Cu New York and had retained them and u the coal in would have been CHOLERA EPIDEMIC LOST OVER STOCKHOLM Jan epi- VIGOROUS PROTEST will thai were lost Though with the Sloan contract i I will be ahl to 1 eral connection with lhat transaction I will of witness before you in in to jour questions tnat 1 over steel construction will show that I sought to i increase in Jan of a Dutch asaki the steamer Tli- uas en by the and con- rill show that it is true that into a cruiser The passengers than fifteen large steel ships u ere taken prisoner were lost to the flag and will The Japanese admiralty does not the blame where it belongs Tins e the although the loss of the ship en route to Delago Bay has been known Jan of a munitions director was disapproved today by Secretary Baker I in testifying before the Senate tary committee who said the of the war department is virtually similar to the British tions purchasing system Despite strong support in the ate military committee the proposal to create a department of munitions j Headed by a new cabinet officer is I not favored by President Wilson and j indications are that it will not get far in the House The President's attitude was made known to Representatives who called at the hite House yesterday He was said to have expressed utmost confidence in Secretary Baker and advanced the opinion that the work of supplying munitions would be handled by the present of the navy and war de- Secretary Baker came in for more sharp today at the hands of the Senate military tee conducting the war inquiry The committee demanded to know what had been done about 1200 Lewis machine guns held in storage while cantonments and camps need them for practice Secretary Baker promised that they immediately would be distributed and Senator Weeks observed that the dis- had been delayed a month That is the essence of this whole is too much delay Things that should be done at once are de- layed when every day counts Baker cited statistics of shortage early in and supplies Continued on Page 2 Col 2 War Baker The jury's report com- exonerated States District Attorney J Hubert O'Connor of any implication in the plot to munitions into Mexico j filmic of lias broken out in 1 the Caucasus according to a 1 patch from of The that section of Russia lying the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea and bordering on Turkish Armenia Answers Flood Tribune Advertiser Continued on Page 2 Cols lo include th Cape Verde lands thp Island of Madeira and parti French around Dakar was announced in a statement received in London It was declared thit the new regulations would become effective j January 11 i Late in November the barred was extended around which with the Cape Verde Islands and Madeira are on the principal steamship paths between South erica Europe 1 murders were discovered Camp ton went under a strict regime The camp today n guard surrounds the entire urea with orders to shoot to kill anv who attempts to en- ter or leave the camp by stealth Immediately after the murders were discovered military unit in ramp WHS ordered to make a check which accounts for every man not only by name but by being recognized by his superior officers LOS Jan 12 Three are dead and are injured as the result of a number of mobile accidents in the city police and records show The dead i are Jean Verrez 7 run down 7 C Mason fell under truck Ivan killed in automobile our steel lonn had member of the board 1 v ill show that t was opposed to wooden and only drivn to the advocacy of building i iio of iho i will I far umre drastic powers for the creation of a steel LEADER INTERNED Jan Ernest 1 former director of the orchestra was ordered interned at Fort Thomas This uas taken during I lowing receipt of instructions from j l the department of justice at cured to haw 1 will that Sopite the ity shown thi hoard in out our o shortage of will increase instead of Further evidence of the pulling power of The TRIBUNE advertising columns is shown hv this To thr Publisher of I cry yon If hrn I inserted nil in ronr J did not that I he to Iwk upon the of business and and tion to the unemployed portion of the population of Oakland and its suburbs especially find firm fre Imr ntl mv telephone in the last stage of endurance and I am sure that eral centrals arc under hospital treatment for prostration from overwork li such a commotion created for to do tifo hours a he the re- is a of permits II tRIUM L SHUTE in a the matter Yours as as mv This the present January K Circulation alone results i Continued on Pago 2 Col 6
