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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1917
Page
2
President Wilson’s communication outlining U S war aims has been delivered to Petrograd by Ambassador Francis but will not be published in the United States or Russia for a day or two while the State Department clears up matters of detail.
Kronstadt garrison sailors arrived in Petrograd announcing independence from the central government. They pledged warships would sail to Petrograd to land men for demonstrations. A reported attack on Gutuyeff island proved false but sparked military mobilization and city tension.
A government supervised sale offers Choctaw lands in Southeastern Oklahoma for timber farming and oil development. Timber on each tract covers costs, with prices from 2 to 7 dollars per acre based on 1911 appraisal. A McAlester Real Estate Exchange schooling car tours the lands, open 9 am to 9 pm for several days in town.
Sailors demand new elections for the Council of Workmen and Soldiers Delegates and call for handing over former Emperor Nicholas. Street meetings express discontent with War Minister Kerensky. At Gutayeff quarter a huge fire rages, sulphur and phosphorus ignite, windows shattered, and a violent explosion follows. Icebreaker Oranienbaum shores a Petrograd workmen party. Fire may stem from incendiaries or spontaneous combustion.
Baron Rosen, former Russian ambassador to the United States, calls for a diplomatic conference with Entente powers to seek a basis for peace with the Central Powers. He warns Russia faces anarchy and a perilous brink as the war stalls toward general exhaustion.
Petrograd officials pledge to cut Kronstadt off from Russia and label the fortress town a traitor if it does not withdraw its defiance. Justice Minister Perevizeff said the council and deputies back a hard line against independence declarations. Kronstadt boasts of wide cover, but ministers say its revolt will end quickly.
Anatole Lamonoff, a Petrograd Technological College chemistry student, leads Kronstadt after the revolution as self styled dictator and president of the local Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Deputies. He aims to divide Russia into many local centers united loosely by Petrograd congress.
The American commission to Russia led by Elihu Root reached a Russian port and departed for Petrograd. The group aims to greet the new democratic government and pledge aid for war and rehabilitation. Attending officials include John R. Mott and Major General Hugh L. Scott.
San Antonio voters will choose a delegate to attend the American Jewish Congress in Washington on September 2. The vote will be held in Temple Beth E’s vestry on June 10 from 9 AM to 5 PM. Candidates Dr Burg and A S Weiner compete, winner becomes delegate, loser an alternate. The congress aims to press civil economic and political rights in postwar peace talks with support from US France and England.
Ten year old Andreas Yanez was bitten on the right foot by a rattlesnake near his Seguin Road home just after seven on Sunday. A two and a half foot snake was killed. Captain Brown sent a police car to transport the boy to Robert B. Green Memorial Hospital where he received treatment and is expected to recover.
Six girls aged four to eight from the Gunter Hotel area form a club named Do Their Bit and donate their club dues to the Red Cross as part of ongoing relief work. Named participants include Rene Saunders Sarah Rankin Betty Tyrrell Delia McKern Violette Stur devant and Laura Lucille Powers.
Portage Tire Co located at 221 S S offers bicycles for sale with easy payment plans starting at ten dollars. Advert confirms pricing and installment option for potential buyers.
Labor unions join mass drive for Liberty Bond sales with 200 life agents wearing official badges. Insurance men, bankers, and Chamber of Commerce leaders coordinate at the Gunter hotel and Chamber offices to channel subscriptions from registration day crowds and military officers at Fort Sam Houston.
Portage Tire Co at 2218 Alamo advertises Carter White Lead in a special sale. Priced at 12.09 dollars per 100 pounds with smaller sizes offered at usual advances. Ed Steves and Sons listed as advertisers.
The Beethoven Maennerchor honored charter member Herman Karber at the Hermann Sons Home for the Aged near Comfort. The party from San Antonio traveled by tally-ho and eighteen cars, singing and listening to speeches before presenting Karber with an enlarged portrait.
IS MADE COLONEL C. C. Guessaz OF SAN ANTONIO HAS BEEN NAMED colonel of one of the new regiments of infantry to be raised for the Texas National Guard. Colonel Guessaz has an enviable record as a military man and as a sharpshooter. He has held commissions in the guard and on the governor's staff, having been retired as a brigadier general.
Vitalitas is promoted as Nature's tonic for weak systems addressing indigestion rheumatism nervous debility and liver and kidney ills. The advertisement touts mineral nourishment for blood muscle nerve and bone and claims effectiveness where man made medicines fail. Sold by Sommer's Drug Store and all druggists.
Regular army regiments are rapidly forming from existing units in the Southern Department. Artillery regiments at Camp Wilson and the Fifty seventh Infantry are organizing, with notable personnel counts for the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty first field artillery and the Fifty seventh infantry. Moves to Leon Springs for cantonments begin, with Col. Harry L. Rogers leading site work as crews drill wells and cut roads.
Federal departments announce that military registration day is a priority and will receive preferential attention. Slackers and those who discourage registration face up to one year in jail. Federal Judge Duval West notes the term continues via a possible special grand jury.
Marshal Rogers announces deputies will handle registration day logistics and possible prosecutions for non registration or attempts to persuade others not to register. District Attorney Robertson and Inspector Barnes pledge cooperation with the Bureau, urging citizen reports of non registration and influence to keep order on the day.
The attorney general warned that evasion of the draft registration will be met without force but expects a few men in each community to refuse registration. He stressed no move to obstruct the law’s execution.
The dress rehearsal for the Knights of Columbus minstrels at the Majestic Theater drew praise from a professional talent audience. Orille O'Reilly, manager, has trained seventy five performers and lauds San Antonio as having top amateur talent in Texas.
Garrett Martin, about 10 oclock Sunday morning at his home six miles north of Kerrville, accidentally shot and killed himself while in a pasture with a friend about 50 yards apart. He had lived here fifteen years, came from Arkansas, and leaves a wife, two children, a mother and several siblings. Burial planned at Sulphur Rock Arkansas.
San Antonio band under William H. Smith presented a Sunday program at Brackenridge Park featuring national anthems from several nations and patriotic United States music ending with The Star-Spangled Banner.
A large crowd gathered at Brackenridge Park for an afternoon concert. Madame Alicia Petitclerc sang several songs as associations displayed flags from their lands while national anthems played. A U S soldier waved a large American flag amid applause for American war songs.
London reports an official announcement that arrangements have been finalised with Germany to withdraw all British war prisoners from the firing line. The prisoners will be kept at least 30 kilometers from the actual front.
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