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tt tk eee of krigatlateTTtew with y4aW emVamn inmmi LmnfTemV asm Aemn amtvS Ok fc I II A The Sunday Chronicle I rF lMl WK I feftftaaaooettftftaaftftaaftAoftift xl PAnTMri KICWCDADCD lU DArilTTr YACT FOUNDED 1805 SAW FltAKOigCQ CAL THURSDAY rEBRUABY 7 nowkle REG USfATOlT WEATHER REPORT 8n Franelsoo Oakland I and Vicinity TktrsJar rml fmk Mtaariy wl ls A DEALS rorKMter 0OC9 1018 VOL OX1I ISO 23 TROOPSHIP TORPEDOED IN WAR ZONE 267 MEN MISSING a SHIP BEARING 2179 HD AMERICA SOLDIERS SUNK OFF IRELAND Cunardcr Tuscania Carrying National Guardsmen From Michigan and Wiscon sin Sent to Bottom by Diver but 1912 Possibly Mpre of Those on Board Are Saved Only Briefest Details Are Received by Washington and Fact That Convoying Vessels Were Close at Hand Gives Rise to the Hope That Nearly All Were Rescued LOST TROOPSHIP TUSCANIA onoT16 p5ture 10W Tuscania which wai torpedoed off the Irish coatt while carrying 2179 American soldiere en route to France Latest reports show 1912 saved with 267 still missing The map shows the sector where the disaster occurred The survivors were landed at the Irish towns of Buhcranna and Larne 7TASU1NGTON Ibrurr Xhe CunrUiner Tuscania carrying 2179 American soldier has been torpedoed and sunk off the Irish coast but official reports late tonight said 1912 of the officers and men had been saved and indicated that the list of rescued might prove even larger The troops composed chiefly of detachments of Michigan and Wisconsin Na tional Guardsmen were traveling on the Tuscania i British vessel under convoy of British warships DISPATCH TELLING OF RESCUE OF 1912 IN LARGE MEASURE DISPELS CAPITALS GLOOM A brief dispatch to the War Department from Lon don early this evening announced the disaster and re ported the landing of only 1100 survivors This was made public shortly after 10 oclock and for more than two hours it was feared that probably 1400 men including members of the liners crew had gone down When a message came to the State Department from the Embassy at London at 11 oclock tonight saying 1912 of the Americans had been accounted foQ the joy of officials almost swept away the distress occasioned by the earlier news The first 1100 survivors were landed at Larne and Buncrana two widely separated Irish ports and this coupled with the evident fact that rescue ships were at hand quickly gave rise to hope that nearly everybody on board the Tuscania except those injured by the explosion might have been saved NEWS OF DISASTER WITHHELD FROM PRESIDENT TILL HE RETURNS FROM THEATER The President Secretary Baker and in fact all official Washington were up late waiting for further news Only the briefest dispatches were received and none gave details of the attack on the liner Even the time was missing but it was assumed that it occurred early this morning as the first message was filed at London at 3 oclock this afternoon probably within an hour after the relief ships reached the Irish coast The President was at the theater when the news was received and he was not told until he returned to the White House In the meantime the War Navy and State Departments had sent urgent messages by wireless and cable instructing their representatives in England and Ireland to forward every available fact immediately ALL OF SOLDIERS ABOARD ARE FROM MIDDLE WEST AND FORMER GUARDSMEN Because of the nature of the military organisation carried by the ship the War Department announced that it would be impossible to say definitely what troops vtt MSy tr yHwFk jfe mmmmmmmmmmmiilmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmML I TTirpiiEOBr inffi tiimfT rnrrifPT uuuHui ui uiii HMD mint i a in Stim JUIMA UlibtU PERSH If BR OGEOF Commander of Army in France Sends Appeal to People of Nation WASHINGTON Februray Slake a bridge of hlp to France wai the menace from General Penh Ins and every man of his command delivered to the American people to night by Major Frederick Palmer chief censor on General Penning a tafr In an addreee at tbe National Preee Club Build ahlpa and let every woman and child In the land think ahlpa aaid he We ought to be wearing little metal ablpa In our button holea Children ought to play with toy ahlpa The woman who turna from knitting to encouraging a ahlpa riveter to do more riveta a day la aervlng her country And every time you think of ahlpa you are thinking of our men fighting for ou In France Would you have them want for food for clolhea for ammunition to anawer the German flref Would you have them think that you had forgotten them you In your comfort at homeT Would you have the Uvea of auch men unneceaaartly sacrificed becauae you had not con centrated your efforta on the thing that meant moat to them Toward our ehiparda for the power they mean during and after the war the German General staff atralna Its vision Bulk build and continue to build ahlpa Make a bridge of ships to Perahlng WILSON INCREASED AUTHORITY OF CONGRESS Measure Direct From White House Would Suspend All Laws Covering Executive Departments PERMITS SHIFTING OF DUTIES AND PERSONNEL In Brief Allows Any Kind of Reorganization and Puts Commander in Chief in Absolute Control Carranza Sends Kaiser a Cordial Happy Birthday LONDON February 6 Heuters Ltd learnt thai according io a telegram from Copenhagen President Carranza of Mexico tent a telegram to the German Emperor on the lattert birthday reading at follows To Your Ma jest who celebrates his anniversary today with just cause for rejoicing I have the honor to send your majesty my most cordial congratulations and am pleased to express to jou mv best wishes for our personal happiness and that of your august famil as well as for the prosperity of this great friendly naUon NATION BEATS SUE III IH LABORS i SAYS BAKER Secretary Answers Critics In Congress by Maintaining That Can Fulfill Its Promises 2r CHAK1E8 JOCHELSOU Heeelel Plaemlsb to Tke Outside A 1 Banker Charged With Aiding Aliens Escape PHOENIX Arls February A Streits vice presldsnt of the National Bank of Arlsona and Rich ard Psrtham wealthy business man of this clt were taken Into cua tody tonight by United State oft cars on the charge of aiding the escape of an Interned enemy alien Streits and Fsrtham have not yet been admitted to ball The only slertentents tliey have ihade are that they had not the slightest notion that Trltterman was a fugitive from an Internment camp StielU ssld he had nat heard him say anything to lead him to lelleve that he waa a fugitive Psrtham said that when the youag man told him ne had ea raped from the camp ho supposed that was only an Idle boast i i Roosevelt Operated Upon Second Time NEW TORK February I An oper atlon performed lata today oa Colonel Theodore Roosevelt In hospital bore the ascoad within fc week for 1st re moral abaoeuMu Wfs successful according to a bulletin leeued tonight PzP ykviioUa Vr WaltealUrUa City Engineer Recommends Building One Now and Five More Later Immediate conatructlon of a subway for foot pssssngers across Market street at Third and the subsequent construction of five more subwsrs across Market street was recommended to the public utllltlea com mlttee of the Board of Supervisor yeaterday by City Engineer OShsughnessy OShaughnesay told the committee that early Installation of four tracks down Market street will accertusts tbe existing nee for such subwsys Ths two additional tracks he said lll Involve tbe removsl of soms of the safaty stations now in use He estlmsted the cost of a subway at Third and Market streets st 17 600 Including ths Installation of comfort statlors a each end of the passsgi The committee dscldsd to ask the City Attorney If the expenss could be pel legally from tbe Municipal Itallvsy fund Nieu Amsterdam Makes Port Safely AN ATLANTIC PORT tebruar Ths Holland American I ine stesm ship Nisu Amsterdam which sailed from Rotterdsm January 2S a for long delay In that harbor arrived here today The liner had on board a large number of passsngers among them thirty Americans During ths time the steamer wss hsld ud at Rotterdam it wss an nounced In dispstchee from Holland that Germany had declined to give a guarantee for ber aafe croaslng of the Atlantl and thst her passengers board had received warnlnga almllar to those Issusd before tbe Cunard Una stesmsr Uifltsnla waa aunk advising them net to make tbe passage Mexican Neutrality Mission to Disband BUENOS AYRKS February The epeelal Mexican Mleaion which arrived here some weeks sgo it Is Snnouncsd will diebakid nsxt Sunday Luis Cabrera head of the dele gatlon will go to Paraguay Qen eral Montea wlllaso to Chile and dorse yna Ugarte will go to UrstIL Thsy all expect to return to Uuenos Ayres at some future data Regarding the probable time when the proposed neutrality congress which ths Mesl cans came to attend will be hebl tbe Argentinian foreign Minister says the dats is very retnon In mating that tb plan has beta Hbaadoaed ludiflnltely Boxing Contest of Oakland Lads Ends Fatally for Morton Bertsch Morton Bertach 17 veare old living at 148 Harrison street Oaklsnd died on the way to the Emergency Hospital last evening from the effects of a blow he received while boxing with his chum Mil ford Bsrtholomew II years old living st 6841 Msrshall street The boy wss prono inced drsd on his arrival at the hospital and his broken hearted chum tearfully aa aertlng hla Innocence waa placed under arreet on a charge of manslaughter Bertsch wss a rivet I eater at the Alameda Union Iron Works and th Bartholomew boy Is a aiipAttera helper It waa heir hal It to don doxing gloves and box a few rounds when they returned from work ecli evening According to Bartholomew the two started bciing In hi bik ard last night snd In a short time began roughing It Bartholomew aald he struck Dertsch under the In knotk ing him down and rendering I lm unconscious When he could not be re vlved the smbulsnce was summoned Surgeons ut the merzency It is pltsl said tl st Bertsch neck wns broken by the blow Bsrtholomew wss released from Jail on an order from Judge Mortimer Smith The two bovs hsd been hums since they were snd years old and hsd attended the Melrose Heights School together Bartholomew ssld Bertsch boy staved part of the at his houoe where the cni rled on their an ateur bouts for exeiclse Bsrtholomew Is a son of Mrs Net tie Bartholomew HerUih was the son of William II Bertsch a on tractor WAI as A8HINaT02r February President Wilson has so wer ed tbe various schemes of Congress to limit hla control of the war with a bill that has made the Senators and Representatives gasp They bsvs been demsnding co ordination of departments and proposed thst khe President accept a war Cabl net oatenalbly to asalat him In the exercise of the atupendoua taak the war has brought upon him and a director of munitions to consolidate the functions of the different supply departments of the Army and Navy Thry have urged these things in tbe face of the Preaidentlsl deilsrstlon that auch leglalatlon would only hamper him Now he ccmes back with a bill which if It la passed will put the whole matter of centralisation of au thorlty In the Presidents hands giv unrestricted authority to consolidate ll the Oovernmentsl ac tlvlties for ths period of the wsr and for a sear after 8o drastic sre the provisions of the measure thst Penalor Martin the Democratic floor leader dec ned to sponsor It as going beyon 1 what he thought ihoull be the limit of the abdication of Congressional powers and In his decltlon Martin had at lesst ths pa live suiport of bona tor Simmons who ss chairman of the Finance Committee put through the revenue bill and other fiscal Uglsla tlon the Admlnlatrtltn asked antl who has nsver before questioned the requests from ths White House COULD DELEGATE ANY EXPENDITURES SEIZEOILWELLS Entire Schene oMJ SjJoJ cwe uver iaiiiornia irop erty Explained to Board Penrose Calls For Unity of Republicans WASHINGTON rsbruary 6sna tor Penrose Issued a statsment to night calling for unity In the Re publican party and urging every member of the Republican National Committee to attend the meeting In 8t Louts next Tuesday He said there had been ISO days delay In puahlng prepared nets sin the Inited Statea went to war and that the beat way to speed up waa to make the Repub llcan party a party of constructive criticism aa well aa of patriotic co operation Emma Goldman Now In Federal Prison JEFFERSON CITT MoJ February a Emma Ooldraan accompanied by Deputy United States Marahal John Whalen and hie wife arrived here today to complete her two year prlaoa eajvtence for trying to obstruct the selective earvlce law She will be as alined to work of making clotblac tojthe Uuuatei of Ue prison era nveved of the Presl agencv that Among the other pov ty the bill Is the right dent to delegate to anj pleases him the expindlture proprlatlona In brief the bill permita the Prea Ident to abolish any of the war mak ing ageeclea now In operation and create any otnere ne deems necessary to do ths work He can shift the Personnsl of any department to an other either wholly or In pert In fsct is becomes under Its provisions the generalissimo of all the war making powers Postmastsr Qsneral Burleson hand ed the bill to Senator Overmen of North Carolina who offered It In the Senate late tills afternoon It was promptly referred to the Judiciary Committee where the first big fight on it will be made SUPPORTERS URGE BILL IS NECESSARY The Administration supportere while admitting the far reaching powers given the Preeldent by the bill eay that aa a measure of war emergency It la neccaaSry Those op poelng It some Democrats among them insist that It aruounta to an abdication of Congreealonal authority beyond anything heretofore suggest ed No word of comment from the White House accompanied the bill Tonight gossip la tnat If the Preal dent gets tke authority he will create what will be the Supreme War Cabl net of the Nation to consist of Seer JConftaMd am rag CoUsen WASHINGTON February Plana of tns Navy Department to tske over by Presidential proclamation and to operats all oil and gaa wells on naval petroleum reaervea Numbera 1 and In California were explatned today to the Senate Naval Committee Senator Swanaon acting chalrme explained that he had drawn a bill after conference with Secretary Daniels snd Attorney Genersl Greg or snd that lta purpoae waa to asttle ell disputes with private claimants which have tied up the lands for sev ral years It wss desired he said to give the President power to offer a price even to claimants who preaurq ably had no legal title to their wells Should they refuae that price the could have recouree to the courta If they lost there they would re elve per cent of the original offer WRHIIT rlHU WITVM HE REFUSES TO GIVE SECRETS ON SHIPPING He Agrees to Inform Senate Committee in Executive Session as to Basis of Uio Coll mot a Wl IJeutenant Commander 11 Wright In charge of oil reservea for the departrrent waa the chief wltneaa Me aald tl at If the Navy too over and operated the 330 wells on reaerve No 2 dieting contracta with various California municipalities would be tarried out If necesssit the addl tlonsl gas wells would be drilled The present wells he said wculd prod ice sufficient oil to last the Navy for two years of wsr snd elgl or nine fubae quent years of peace snd In addition would furnish a reserve of 150 008 000 bsrrels It developed that the etock of oil In California is declining so rapidly thst ssrlous situation is threatened Commender Wright said paasage of the sproposed bill would enable the Navy to develop its oil field to meet that altuatlon If the extensions by the Drlvate ownera failed to overcome the ahortage The Navy Intended be said to keep up the California oil supply and to trade ite oil at the pipe lines for refined produ te at auitable de livery polnta for the fleet ytcnlllfl BILL HEARING While the Senate Committee wss In session the House Publlo Lands Com mittea held a hearing on the Ferris oil leasing bill Benjsmln Rice representing the Roxana Petroleum tonipaai a foreign owned concern testified that his company fsvossd legislation aa to leaaea and ruvaltlee that would enable It and other Inde 1 ei dente to compete aucceasfully with tl Stsndsrd Oil Company Rlcs emphatically denlvd that there la any Oerman holding In the Inter eats of which tbe Roxana Company la a part tbe Shell Transportation and Trading Company of England and He Royal Dutch Development Company of Holland Tbe Dutch Government said Is a partner in the combine tlon The Roxana Company he aald owns 10 000 or II 000 acre of oil laada In Oklahoma to 00 or too acres In lexaa 1000 or 4000 acres In Kansas 1100 or 1060 acres of patented lands in Wyoming and has an Investment of more than 110 009 000 la California with pipe lines In that Stale an la Oklahoma and another under eca st Hon The wltneaa aald all ed CeaOaMjl dg Colaat BUWOIPfiu sbxaiMTC KJ3 Secretary Baker cants for cross eiamlsa tlon today bstora the Senate Military Com mittee on hla aaaertlon of the atate of preparedneas of ths Armj which Congressional critics have attacked aa groaaly exaggerated But the principal point of tbe whele controveray the queetlon of where tle Army Is going to get ahlpa to tranaport a million men tp France this year wae left untouched partly becauae Secretary Baker did nothave the detailed figures to show the com I mlttee on what baaia he made bis assertion rfnd partly because th committee got Into a aquabble aver whether it would be proper to oave the Secretary of War disclose the Itguree In public SHIP FIGURES WILL BE DISCUSSED IN SECRET Ths upshot of it wss that the question of ships was left to be prf aented in detailed exact stateraeata to the committee in aecret aeaaloa tet morrow and the crOaa examination went on to other ibjects of a gsttt eral nature Senator Hitchcock who haa nt tacked particularly the Secretary of ar a statsment that the United statee could put a million men la trance tills ear In addition te The CAB NEVfcll STOOD HIGHEB IX PUI1UI staTKEX IHA5 IT DOES AT THIS H0XET rTHE Cadillac Eight provide 1 a standard of performance nd a quality of traniportatioa DM obtainable in any other vehicle The Cadillac not or superior performing car but it is today the moat economical machine selling for more that 1300 It truly the tUrgliftl quality car of the world Tm Ni ire aid CtUUrit.