03 Jan 1916
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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1916
Page
1
British and Japanese vessels suffer hits as the Glengyle, a 9000 ton Glasgow steamer, sinks after a Mediterranean torpedo strike. About 100 survivors rescued. no confirmed American casualties. The St Oswald and Persia cases underscore a sharp rise in submarine activity.
Jiji Shimpo reports a squadron of Japanese warships will sail to the Suez Canal to protect shipping. The armored cruisers Kasuga, Tokiwa, and Chitose are assigned. This comes after the Yasuka Maru and Kenkoku Maru were sunk in the Mediterranean, with passengers and crew rescued. The Japan Mail Steamship Co. has withdrawn from the Suez route.
Pensions for the blind start in Illinois with payments of 150 dollars a year in quarterly installments to eligible men over 21 and women over 18. Counties administer benefits with medical exams and fraud safeguards. The act, pushed by Rep. Tom Gorman of Peoria, targets 20 000 to 40 000 potential beneficiaries.
One hundred men answered John A. Kerr's call to organize for strict enforcement of the local option law in Jackson County. Six rural saloons in Sugar Creek Cement City and Levasy will close at midnight tomorrow, with Independence backing enforcement efforts.
John K E Collins and Roy Moore were charged with first degree murder in the death of Mrs. Julia Murphy at 1732 Locust Street on New Year’s Eve. Witnesses Annie Brown and Ollie Jordan testified Murphy hid in a closet as Moore kicked in the door and dragged her out. Collins followed and shot her in the kitchen after a quarrel.
Bowman, owner of the Anchor Restal, facing a statutory offense charge involving a young girl, had the case continued again as a state witness fell ill. Judge Porterfield set the next court date for the first Monday in February. Bowman, a Democratic ward worker, was linked with ice man William Moore in alleged rides with the girls last July.
Board of trade members faced a rush of 732 cars of wheat for disposal, the largest current crop season receipts. Experts attribute the surge to wet harvests and lower summer prices, prompting more farmers to bin their wheat. Kansas City receipts last month totaled 6,650 cars, up from 4,278 the prior year, while the 1915 Kansas wheat crop stood at 95 million bushels versus 181 million in 1914. Corn receipts today reached 470 cars, also the season high.
Ernest Neuer of Neuer Brothers Meat Company appeared at the prosecutor's office as the inquest for motor victim L. K. Pratt began. Pratt, a 70 year old blacksmith, was struck while crossing Fifteenth Street at Main. Neuer said he did not see Pratt in darkness and fog. coroner's inquest to follow.
Army officials report the mounted service school at Fort Riley opened with sixty non-commissioned officers from posts nationwide. A shortage of cavalry horses has halted practical horseshoeing, temporarily suspending the course.
Paris on January 3 reports the government will requisition all crude leather nationwide to meet army needs. The measure starts January 5 and extends to stock nationwide.
The Kansas Public Utilities Commission seeks a injunction from the state Supreme Court to compel the receivers of Kansas Natural Gas Company to drop a salt brought to overturn the 28 cent rate. Utilities claim receivers waste money and fail to provide adequate gas while suing over the rate, and a writ of mandamus for efficient service is requested. Topeka city officials move to enjoin the PUC from enforcing the recent rate increase and free gas cutoffs.
Russian warships reportedly sunk two German submarines off Varna on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast as of Jan. 3. The engagements involved Halgar Comet and Amusrexnam forces reported to have attacked the subs.
London dispatches report continuing heavy fighting as General Ivanoff’s Russian army gains ground beyond the Stripa River. Austrians initiated the big offensive in Volhynia and Galicia but were repulsed. Pflanzer failed to take Tarnopol, while Von Mackensen moves toward Czernowitz to defend against Russian advances in Galicia.
A dazed girl found by C D Miles at Hunter Avenue and Main Street last night was Mary Joyce, 12, daughter of Richard Joyce of 948 West Forty second Street. She was unable to recall the accident and the car did not stop. she may have internal injuries.
A ship explosive blast at a Brooklyn drydock aboard the steamer Aztec left one man dead ten severely injured and eighteen missing. Authorities continued searches as fire crews battled remaining flames and worked to determine the cause.
San Antonio officials visited Kansas City and secured pledge support from the Commercial Club to back a grand fair in 1918 marking the bi-centennial of the city. Eleven San Antonio men represented the delegation while Kansas City officials accompanied them. They met at Union Station then toured parks and boulevards before an afternoon luncheon.
The board of public welfare opened the city rock pile at Second and Main for the year. Ninety six men worked today to earn lodging and meals. Tickets entitle lodging at the Fox Hotel or meals at a Missouri Avenue restaurant. One hundred thirty six men were lodged at the Fox Hotel today, about sixty paying by cracking rock. others are certified by the public health office as ill or disabled.
The grand jury from Blue Springs postpones its reorganiza tion for a week due to Mrs. Frank Ware’s illness. She is not expected to recover. Six road contractors expected as first witnesses when the panel reconvenes: Mike Ross, W A Ross, Luther Davidson, Robert Davidson, Frank Feren, J J Feren. Drug stores advertise Rabam’s Foot Sweet for foot odor control.
Wichita editor Henry J. Allen predicts growing undercurrent favoring Colonel Roosevelt. If Republicans reject a true progressive platform, Roosevelt or his allies may be forced into the race on the Progressive ticket, though some see a national ticket as unlikely.
A strong underwriting syndicate of New York bankers is being formed to take up securities not purchased by bondholders in the Kansan City Mexico Orient Railway reorganization. Charles H. Jones said this at the Hotel Muehlebach during Kansas City talks with W. T. Kemper. The plan aims to reduce excessive interest charges per mile and to cancel weak contracts and leases. The Orient is raising 15 million dollars from current security holders to restore financial stability.
W B Knott an Englishman at the Hotel Muehlebach recently in London last summer argues that after the war Englishwomen will win universal suffrage not through Mrs Pankhurst but by demonstrated patriotism. He notes women staff ammunition factories street care police work and entry into commercial fields replacing men as key to securing the vote.
Paris dispatches report Emperor William II’s illness as dangerous with claims of a successful operation last Wednesday though details are unclear. The condition allegedly involves a deep seated disease with a skin eruption as a minor symptom and possible relapse of throat trouble reaching the mouth, with talk of an artificial silver palate.
The Pennsylvania Lines report two years with no passenger deaths in rail service as 261 572 114 passengers were carried over 26 000 miles of track. The company issues a bulletin highlighting the safety record distributed locally.
New York January 3 1916 color trends for American boulevard cars show demand for canary orange cream and vermilion hues with white bodies also in fashion according to leading exhibitors at the motor car show.
Gravity of the Persia affair drives President to return promptly. Orders are sent to American for immediate reports on the evolving situation and the gravity of the matter.
President Wilson to lead crisis handling after German submarine campaign. State Department seeks clear facts on the sinking of the Persia and Austrian submarine command. possible Congressional briefing and a potential Wilson doctrine messages to world.
The Persia, a P&O steamer, was torpedoed about forty miles southeast of Crete on January 1 at 1 05 p m. with no warning. The submarine's nationality was not visible. The ship sank in five minutes. About 360 aboard, including many women and children, were aboard and about 160 were saved after thirty hours.
Consuls report the P. O. liner Persia carrying 27 guns sank about noon the day after Christmas, 300 miles northwest of Alexandria. Two Americans aboard, including Robert Ney McNeely last seen in the water, with 164 of 400 aboard landed at Alexandria on January 1. The department seeks affidavits and names survivors such as Bromley the second officer.
Survivors describe a rapid sinking of the Persia after a submarine attack near Crete. Most passengers were at luncheon and had little chance to escape as lifeboats failed and waves washed survivors overboard. Warships and fishing vessels search for victims while Greek trawlers are possible rescuers.
Jan 3 LONDON. Accurate counts remain unavailable for the Persia disaster. Survivors listed between 155 and 160, while missing range 247 to 266. Reports from Alexandria claim high losses amid differing crew survivals.
Surviving officers of the British liner Persia testified at Anexanonta port that the steamer was torpedoed. They disputed a mine theory, noting a white wake seen on the port side before the explosion and asserting a mine could not account for the rapid sinking.
More than two hundred children were in the school building when a furnace fire started the morning of January 3. The students were marched out safely with no injuries, and the blaze was extinguished, causing little property damage.
German detachments claimed a Russian repulse near Hamadan and Savie with casualties and captures. Reported by wireless from Constantinople via Berlin, the engagements yielded two machine guns, two cannon, and a motor car, with 180 Russians wounded.
Two brothers Horace Bruce and Hays Breer were arrested on Vine Street after a flood of unsigned $16 and $20 bills circulated through local saloons and pool halls. Police traced the currency to a Muskogee bank shipment and found hundreds of dollars at the suspects’ home.
Harold W. Miller nicknamed the dream robber confessed to a dual life as a baker and thief. Police recovered stolen goods from his 3202 Howard Street home and identified items worth hundreds from homes and seven stores. Miller faced two years and additional charges were planned by the authorities.
Helen Keller has gained fifteen and one half ounces since Christmas at Mercy Hospital. During her first week she lost three ounces but after treatment and recovery from beatings she began to fill out rapidly despite immobility of her limbs.
Theodore Roosevelt was named as a Republican presidential candidate in Michigan after petitions with enough signatures were filed with the secretary of state. The petitions were circulated in Genesee County by ex Progressives.
Chicago January 3 with the county hospital reporting a record 2035 patients treated in one day the highest since its establishment the epidemic of grip and pneumonia blamed for the surge in visits and admissions
French artillery shelled Lutterbach in Alsace on January 1. One girl was killed and a woman and three children were wounded as they were leaving church, according to a wireless dispatch from Beaty to Sayville.
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