Oakland Tribune Newspaper Archives
January 26, 1916 Page 1

Oakland Tribune (Newspaper) - January 26, 1916, Oakland, California The Weather VMaltjr, Joaqu wemtber tonight morrow, light tjouthxvrnt FIVE EDITION EVFNiNG, JANUARY TWO MORE OF MEXICAN BANDITS Bodies of American Cowboys, Woods and Snell, Are Reported Found. F CHINA BIR TH- CONTROL DOCTRINE Firemen Fail to Hold BlanKets Into Which Victims Leap From 4th Floor of Building IS FURNACE AS ALARM SOUNDS Lofts Used for Drying Hemp Salvaged From Anti Munitions Plot Conflagration Burns n EFFORTS' Protests Aaainst Undue Pun _ _ ishment Will Be Sent Money Collected for the Shipping, Philippines Eastward. Jews to Stay in and Tariff Commission whii. Mrs H. United States i Measures Favorites farms trial in N ew York before, the 1 Contributions Are Senate and House Lead- rlFtht to discuss birth Wash.. Jan. men were killed this morning in n fire that destroyed the Interior of Ihe Tnlhot Walker building, a five- story hrick structure, at street and First avenue south. .Three were killed by leaping from fourth- slory -windows lo the pavement and Three were suffocated in the build- m? THE DEAD IS head of aiviueim.-.. Winklemnn Twine and Burlap Com- public puny. Portland. Ore. tolti between the lines of a petition in PHILLIP XKSHNKFFSK.Y. aged I bankruptcy filed this morning by I John II. Williams, author and pub- PIXK DEUOSOVSKV, aged -S married. ______I-'IUIJUMAX. aged 24. SIMON imOXSHCEM. BCCKIjEV. timekeeper. That literature de hi-fe does not pav dividends, and thai a mercenary of to a number xclusive rluhs up and down the j pnritu- roast, has for some time been one of the leading lights .in the. lite- colonv T makes the college The .building: was being used h> n her fisht for th control, local r-luh women, are. eagerly watching the details of the rase, and already a m'.vem.-ni has be. n started in Oakland to form a Birth Control LcaKlte, similar to those orfia- ilzed in other coast cities. Mrs. Sander was arrested and is f Ins trial as the result of her activi- ties in spreading her birth-controi theories. She refuses to employ coun- sel. flKhting the case herself. Following the sensation caused by the woman's arrest, birth-control leisnes sprang up all over the country. The I.os Angeles league, a branch or affiliated league with which is planned in Oakland, created a furore in the T.os Angeles women's llilis. Mrs. Estelle bawton LinJsey. Los Angeles council woman, in out- i lining the aims of the league, said: "I believe a woman's hotly is her own. to do with as she pleases. I ih> not believe any power nil onrlli man. govern- ment or any oilier Influence IIIIK any rlirht to dictate to a woman what she shall ilo with her body. "Woman lias a right to choose the father iif her children. "Khc has the' right to say when the male shall become the father of her children, and no power less than Almighty has a riiihl to diclatc to her in this matter. "Every woman has the right to avoid unwelcome motherhood. She ha? the right to refuse to hear children fathered by an inebriate or a detective. "It Is apiialh'K that statistics should show that idiots propa- ,-nte 25 per cent more rapidly than the normal person. We must stop this. has the right to say Pouring in; Big Sum Expected AH 'if Iho money hoinfr raised Tor tho relief of the Jewish war suffer- ers in Russia. Gaiicia. Poland and Austria as a result of President Wil- son's proclamation setting aside Jan- uary 27 as Jewish Keller Day will j be expended in the "United States. A. S. Lavenaon, publicity chairman for the. local executive committee In I charge of the fund gathering work. j received word to this effect from Xew York today. ers Called in Con- sultation WASHINGTON. .Tan. -6. President summoned to the White House today leaders of tile Senate and House to learn thoir Hltitude toward '-hp shipping bill, a tariff commission and tho Philippines Wli. to j ew or "That means." Lavenson explained. "that this money to be raised by j Americans will be spent with Ainer- I leans in the United States. Tl-'- -will not leave the counti. American food. American flour, Amer- ican clot lies. American medicines, will be purchased with the money raised in the campaign. Arrange- ments are belnc made for the char- ness prop-rain and revenue bills, thoso three measures would lie the principal ones backed by the adniinistialion. Most of the leaders summoned op- posed the shipping bill in the last III. Tex.. Jan. The bodies Snell ami Frank Woods. American cowboys, have been found west of ruesihulriarhtc. according tnj infirmed report from Western I'hlhuuhua. reaching here today. Snell and Woods reported last week to have left Cnsihuiriachic with 110" and Kramer to re-icue the Miner of the latter. Or. Oavid Kramer, who had been wounded in the I.-K hy a bandit and lhe lu.tiintuins.____ F.I TPS.. Jan. i Villa, the bandit chief, now in 'eru rhihunhna defying the forces of ho i government, is usinK the -Remember Orozco" to stir up ___eil against Americans and -gain recrulls for himself, according to foi- elgners who reached the border to- dllWcslcrn Chlhnahna was the home HUnllON pose e s Congress. The President saw llnjomy Leader Kitchin of the House, Chair- man Fitzgerald of the appropriation committee. Chairman Clarke of the Senate commerce committee, Chair- man Simmons of the Senate finance committee, and Senator, Fletcher, who led the fight for the ship bill in the Senate in the last Congress. The shipping bill which will be Japan Delivers Another Note Involving Seven Demands and Compli- cations Are Expected INDEPENDENCE IS BRITISH POLICY supported by the administration does salvage for the drying of quantity of hemp that was soaked with water dlil'lno the fire of October on the Blue Funnel line pier. That lire caused Jl.000.000 loss and is generally believed to have been m- rendinrv and caused hy persons who sought lo prevent shipment of muni- tions of war to Russia, the burned dock having been used for such traffic. Twenty men were al work in the Talhot Walker building this morning when Ihe fire was discovered. It s-omed in start on all five floors at once and the whole interior of ;he structure was ablaze. Three men appeared at the fourth-story wind (Ine leaped before the firemen below could make any effort to catch him. He struck on his head nnd was lu- .tantlv killed. The other two were caught by blankets held by firemen, but they broke through the cloths struck t'he stone of the pavement and were so severely injured that they died a few minutes after being taken to the City hospital. The firemen supposed that all the workmen had been removed irom the On entering, however. Ihey found three dead men.____ Part of the Delger Property Purchased Sale of lhe weslern half of the for- mer Delger property at Nineteenth street and Telegraph avenue, which was recently offered as a sue for the removal of the county buildings has been made hy the Piedmont Building. Association to .lames Hamilton Tod.1 Ir for according to deeds d 1 todav Th'1 plot sold is in _ nf the htofk between Tele- its headquarters and he has pub- lished and copyrighted three books of his own and three for others. He numbers these among his assets, plac- ina l-irre values on the copyrights and i on certificates of slock which lit- holds I in mines and corporations. The bankruptcy petition was filed voluntarily and places the assets al a greater value than the liabilities The obligations, consisting largely of bills due from art companies, paper firms. and clubs. Including the Union Uub of Seattle, amount to S-1-.l.'O. (Continued on Page 3, Col. 5) Husband Traces Wife's Movements Woman Insists Thai She Loves Negro Best HALT LAKE CITY. Jan. 116. V. U As'.Hood of San Diego arrived here today to terlng of American ships to carry these supplies to Europe, where they be distributed among tile 000 starving, homeless, clothesless Jews under the direction of the Amer- ican Rfcd Cross." Splendid work Is being done in Oakland for the relief of the Far Eastern sufferers. Every man. woman and child of tho city has heard the cry of the stricken people, and is doing his or her best to swell he fund for relief. Bankers, law- yers, merchants, men of all busi- ness and professions, stenographers, saleswomen in department stores, day laborers, stevedores, men -who earn small pittances In the perform- ance of hard labor, and the small boys nnd girls of thc grammar schools, are all contributing their it is. For instance, n shabbily-dressed] woman, worn and tired-looking, en- tered the committee headquarters in the lobby of the Central National Bank building today. She ap- proached l-'red Kahn. the committee treasurer. "I can't give she tola (Continued on Page 4.) Catches Rats With His Bare Hands suppore not Include the feature of the old bill providing for continued operation of ships by the government. Instead It provides that Ihe government shall purchase or build ships and then lease or sell them to corporations private Individuals. Only in case no one offers to le'ise or buy the ships does the mil allow the government to operate them. The government could buy back the ships at a reasonable price for naval auxiliaries in time of war. A bond is- sue of SSO 000.000 for the purchase or construction of ships would be pro- vided by the bill, which also includes a shipping board to control shipping Western of Ororco. as well as that of Villa, and the dead leader had a large which is said to have been highly in- flamed recently when Villa Informed them that had been murdered in Texas by Americans.______ ORGElftfRWHY TO KEY ROUTE BASIN Action of MiKado's ernment Reopens thei Controversy Threat-; ening to Cause Breach; LONDON, Jan. Japanese government has delivered to the. Chi- nese minister at TolUo for transmis'-: 'sion to his government a. note om- lbodying seven demands -which were I included in the Japanese program of [last s .--.._. I learns from Far I I The Guardian that this news Bitten but Oncein Many Years Th for t li Henry Os- rander and Kettle SlocUford. heirs to arge fortunes left them by relatives. Thev have not been heard of .for sev- eral' vcars. though It is believed that the'''left the East to come, to Cali- fornia to live. Attorneys in Oakland and "an Francisco have instituted the search "n the two. French Counter- AttacKs Are Futile I Hughes, n salesman em local market, was bitten j today catching a rat. Hughes, acting in tho capacity of a "human rat catcher." received severe laceration on the left hand. "Rat traps aren't worth a cent when T am he told the emergency hospital attaches when treated there, n rat has bitten I her rPfi'icst- pht: says she provided an j mo and I've caught them with my the funds for the journey and Bought the j for rlnthUiK Dmids She says they i-aino to salt Lake in a day coach and did j not speak to t-ach oilier on the trip. iH-qualmance with Dodds begat bia SoOOrt; "Yosemite and Its High j Hre in the city Jail, and indicated to Chief 55000. .Shores that lie would return later in tile j flay. TWO HSirS According- to statements made by Mrs. IWU HCil-J Hood, she will decline to return to her Fortune i if the opportunity, and A she continues to assert that the elope- ,-as Indicated at the White House todav that the President lyili not push any suggestions for revtivuc legislation until after the appropriation bills and thc other measures he is advocat- ing a.re disposed Problems Many For Girl Voyager Held Up at Dock by Immigration Men If you were a miss of fifteen summers and had traveled across the Pacific yourself, and v If. after completing Ihe voyage, a bib immigration inspector had nabbed yoi as you were stepping oft the gangplanl and kept you from' your family fo hours, just because you happened to b born in a foreign laud, how would yo like it? Well, that is happened today t Further improvement of Oakland harbor, bv adding to the. Rees plan he dreWing of a deep waterway from he bay into the Key Route basin, is sked bv the directors of the Cham of Commerce, who last night dopted a. resolution, calling upon ongress to make on for the vork The resolution will be ior yarded to Senator Phelan. Congress- man Elston ana Uetitena nt-Colonel Thomas H. Rees of the War Depart- "co'lonel Hees' plan, approved by al Oakland organizations several months ago. call for the construction of a quav wall the entire length of th vestern waterfront from the Long to the city of Richmond, the to be lined by a comprehenslvi svstem of docks and wharves, coy e'red with electric cranes to facllltati the loading and unloading of chip; and. warehouses Tor the storage a CaThls plan has been presented ti Congress, and has the support of th California delegation for a federal up propriatlon to carry it out. It pu Into effect, this system would mak this side of the bay one of the world greatest harbors. KEEK' SUGGESTION. IV fluyc- nOSpll.nl iilull.tlln M nv.i ,i....... 1 mem was her plan and took place al j "This is lhe first time a rat ha stale is being searched shu says she provided all! vhorcabom- Miss K. Kasinussen. daught .Mrs F R Raastmissen o[ Oakland. Last summer Miss Rasmusscn. wit was born in Australia, but has lived sex eral years In Oakland, started out alon to her old home. From To make the plan Colonel Rees has more effective, sueuested tho UOIOIICI 1XH-.J _ dredging of a broad and deep fairway, to extend from the deepest water in the bav to the system of wharves and docks 'to be constructed in the Key spring, the Manchester Guardian learns from Far Eastern sources. J expresses the hope be "authoritatively as the demands -when revlously presentod were full of er to China's independence and their general effect would have been to dace China under the tutelage of 'apan. "It is. the aim and hope of British the note, continues, "to iee China, strong and independent; dfl- f veloplng peacefully without interfere ence from any foreign power.' "It is a 'duty we owe hoth to ourt selves and says the Guardian; finally, "to 'hoip her in 'that and we have enormous material .iijr. terests, too, which reinforce what IS" for us the only right and just policy.; y On January IS. 1.915, Japan pre> sented to China a list of 51 demands arranged in five groups. The first, group related to the Shantung proy- ince and to the conceding to Japan or rights and privileges previously .en- joyed by Germany in as well as new prerogatives. Group related to South Manchuria and to concessions there for leasing property, trading., railroad operation and con- struction, the appointment of Japan-' ese as political, financial and milltarj advisors and other concessions. ThiJ group also included demands for spe.- Australia Route basin, behind which the cits- Route asn, is making several hundred acres of land." This Is the plan which the Chamber of directors when he was employed by her parents before her marriage, she says, and was renewed wbe.n he was employed as chauffeur by her husband at San Dlftgo. Leon Hone, special investigator for the Department of Justice, is looking into the cafe, to determine whether the elopement constitutes a violation of the Mann white .slave art. but has not an- red his conclusions. Detective Complains of Political Pull SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. Detective Henry McGrath returned today from De- troit with a story of political influential she went to Japan to visit a brother. On the day that the Slunyo Alaru (-namuui u. to sail, she discovered that she had lost ht approved and asked to he her ticket. Her brother Imd been thc orlginal Kces plan. ,he couldn t appeal 10 j PASSED. determine that the loss of] The resolution adopted was as fol- nol keep her from going I lows: liner. "Whereas. The developing commerce er out of town and sh BFRUX -inn- r.reiit number; Unsays She Was taken by the with a depth of 175 fee is snhiect to mortgages the First Savings Bank, to Edward F. Delge ,et of Xenville. hut they were repulsed time after hand to hand fight- 1o ing -ivs the statement issued 000 by 'the 'German army hraihiu staff. fay and 'when T pulled "out from the dock she -imply went to Captain Ml- mer and told him her troubled. Ho as- signed her 10 a berth and the iwssengeis were about to make up a purse for bur troit wun a EIOFJ- 01 "era a ramc from brother. which rivals conditions in San Francisco 8tra'WllelimE out the whole matter, during the old days of hers rule. Me- Today her mother was not at the dock Grain went to Detroit to bring back Hay protest thc girl was delayed Davidson, who is alleged to have stolen. acvcral by the immigration nii- JSMKI'I worth of jewelry and SSOn in cash I before she. was permlttnrt lo from Mrs. F.. A. Tiittle. who charges that j lard Ihe obtained her valuables after promising! ilo ivwl her. McCratli found Hint David-I ft.ftn son's family included an unrle. r. capital- j filllU isl. find K brother, an Influential tractor, both lenders In Democratic poli- AUSTRIA ASKS Jan. n' today -panment what the today After'nine years of happy married i K. Wedelsted discovered that shojtics. He was denied requisition ,had been tricked into her marriage with and came home without his prisoner. i George "Wedelstert. according to her tiled in lhe superior ciiurt today, j MQ Word MeCGlVeQ She had baen wedded to another man of BafK in Distress ASTORIA. Ore One- i j Mrs Yv-edcMrd snys that WeilclEted onla has as yel been unable to locale the i toid "her lh.il it would he all rlgl.l for: French bark Bayard, whicn was report.-.l 1Ci- to marrv him. as her marriage In in distress yesterday forty-five mil..., Dfiimnrk was not Iciial. While, in a fit south of the Columbia river. .No further nf that he later told her word lias been received from the oil tank Cars From e evepn f Harbor and the activities I immediate prospect require the creatlou of and- provision for maintaining an alemJnte ehannel from the dew waters of the bay into the so-called Key Route Basin on tile western waterfront of tho cltv of Oakland and outside of the I es- eut Uaklaiid harbor project of the Lnltea Elates Covernment: therefore be It "ResoKed. That, the Oakland Chamber of I'onimer.-e request the United States Government to take the necessary seps fnr ir.nudlns Ihat portion of the westein .Vfront of the city of Oakland facing the bav of San Francisco, In the Oak- harbor prolect. nnd to provide for nrrying on the ueressary dredging. The theft T four automobiles was nrvridri the police last nig lit. r i Um-oln Wl lionlta- avenue, complained ithat his live passenscr machine wa., stolen from Thirleenth and Franklin. I s P. Freeman ..f 'Wm' avenue. u. That copies of this resolu- tion b'c sent to S-nator TMielnn. Congress- man Klslon Ljeutcnaiil-Colonel Thos GreeK Railroads Will Receive Coal later P.offei- KiKlU'-eiilh avenue.. coniplaiiK-d Mint his fl" [.a.-wcnR Twolfth r.u.- lln streets and M. hhn'iit. I l.ONPON. Jan. -r: An agreement in principle is said to have heon rcncliet ('.real Britain and Greece in re cird to Ellpplies of coal for Greek In needs, neuter's Athens corrc Kroup also iiiciuucu.......------ cial rights to be granted to Japan re- garding inner Mongolia. AGAINST MEASING. Group three referred to the Hanyeh- Ping Company. Group four, knpWTias. the "special demanded that China proclaim that hereafter she would not yield or lease, any costal territory to any power. Group five, known as the gen- eral wos_the -one which.- (Continued on Page 3, Col. iulgars Face to Face With Albanians LONDON. Jan. 26. Bulgarian orces are said to have advance.jj.mto eiitrnl Albania and to have come In ontact with Albanian troops under Sssaa Pasha, provisional president of Albania, who Is co-operating with the ntente allies. Dispatcnes from Tirana. Albania, to Brlndlsi_ Italy, as forwarded by the Exchange Tejegraph Company, say hat an advance guard of the Bul- garians has been defeated near glbas- ian by Essad Pasha's forces. Americans Are Jailed in England LIVERPOOL. Jan. Several have been arresud here, charged with livins in areas in which foreigners have .been prohibited and with registering themselves as Eng- lish. whii-h arrived in Xew York several days aJo with two guns mounted at "eTheeinnulry was the same as that made by B; ,ron Zwiedinek in tho_casp signified its npprova of Great Britain. It Is understood thc formal reply i defend the action of thc British authorities by citimr evidence that induced h n dren as a result of the union. t be had fraudulently There are three chil- theft 'of a lln n Germans ut.......... have, been nf Ihe Giuseppe Verdi, privileges of first-class mi' ?vhch rc-'lchl-cl York with two; Brltlsll Knvernment will rely cms mounted aft. The Verdi was j conventions adopted lo sail on her tnp. for justification t in. States i The United Stnton in mcVehanl vessels milted 10 sail with guns aboard even u t. if inlended for defense only, will ho c.oumi> considered linstile craft, subject to being sunk without warning. msing the Th the The i? j Aged Man Run Down by Car; Badly Hurt Executor to Award j Disputed Jewels ously injured loihi years when street T.OXDOX. Jan. foreign office handed to thc American em- i.arir- qnanti- tles of mail matter, pnrlicularly par- cels post packages, have been taken from a number of steamships detained In British ports on voyages to lhe continent. ___ STORM HEMCEWIIMES 6BHI in Km.-rvvilk.. Walson siiplnlnert several l.rcken rll-s. internal injuries, and is at the Emergency Hospital, where grave fears are entertained fnr Ills re- j The'aged man lias lived In Oakland I at 1101 Cotton street for some years. He IK unable to toll how the accident oc- ctirred. I i2V2 Tons of Gold Is Hauled Through City PAN .'an. John Fn Cnz'i of Ihft Ttank.i T'upolart- Ilnl i.inn. who has filed two suit? to rer n-nnr-y, jewelry anil valunhle." amount of SI'JP.HOrt. pnrt of tlio liir. late w'fe. which lie claims an-. m> nriiperly, today to tlio the Vninn 'I'nist fompanv, t" i charpp of the disputed property. The rourt was before .Turtle Coffoy. Waterways Money for Old Projects! Williamson of the I Thc theft of fiv valiicd in S-T, wa-- li'OtJ Fiflii that He taken thi'tn. l I'" ;iuton ndent sir fU-wer pols Lv Manuel! informed had says the Brilish governmen eeil to authorize the exportatioi fnr the of railway and otho rompanles in Greece In accordance wit their needs and also to meel the require ni.Mits ni the Greek navy. Orrat Britain also agrees to plaec n difficulties in the way of exportation of from America In Jury Can't Agree in Berlin Impressed Trial of Mrs. Cherry; bv Coionel by Colonel House jtlier ni hours, to reach .1 v.-rdi- I, tli.- jury In the f. personal rfprcsontative of trial of Hazel i'borry. accusorl of li'li'S I pr.-sidcnt Wilson, arrlvi-.l loilay in rmmnlli-.- with h.-r Ipidbaiul. Wllliain I lln from Paris. A correspondent of tno I-V.I oione, dischnrged tilt was .Inn. Tlie and harbors committee, voted uvlai chide no new projects hill, hut to confine approp................... projects already authorized, limiting the total to approximately Idle Herman liirsch. ...mine by Superior JiidK'e Frank H. Og- The jurors stt'or! sli to six. rherrv th.- liiifband. scmenrrn In iti Sun rmentin prison by Intentl oprintinns solely to-1" two ago for niise ai Knrl.Tiihc am! found him "very regarding tin- purpose of ilia trip. The correspondent drscribe.i him as the inirromlon of a calm, well 'i from Utrsrh. ir'd w..r without who Hrpl hnrrora i nnv t lit hnvo fallen Bencrally i slatfB this aids nf tl.e Mississippi. The storm extends from the Washington roast In a semicircle, to thc northern portion of SAN" -Inn. L'fi. TV ji half Ions of f.old londed on a 'drny and guarded by a plntmm of pnllce was hauled lo Hie city treasury frojn p.ank .if f'aliforuiii. Tlie gold conditloiis. Junl .-whnt turn the storm I al (1.0110.0110 ami Is n portion will take neems al present problematical nlfi payment hy Rlytb, Wilier hut the. Pacific states are completely sur- Company for Helth Hclchy, <i4 per cent .-ou-idtd by'lt on lhe land side. 1 water bonds. ue'lgh'norliood of tile Hay cllics. The forn cast or the I'nited Slates weather bureau TnrKs Tell New 'Higher Lumber Rates BriUsh Reversal i Held Not Justified u; IIKAD. -lames Alev- RKTSMX. .Inn. "fllcUl Ttirklsh received liere tnday says Pritlsh forpwi In Mesopotamia nnothcr nl- m, Cnliriirnln. rallrnnd points lii to Soiitliern i JVnl is' ntth'e' ase of HO. One. i.f von .stcrnhnrB's sons was killed on Ihe French front early In the war and another a prisoner ,u THP: FAMILY TABLE A CHEERFUL ROOM, REASONABLE RATES. These you will find in "Room'and Board" Column of today's TRIBUNE.