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'I- -Defies ComiiLirel Boar awmak reae Before jM II MB Exclusive Assoclatod Press Service Lsmn mm 'V 1 4, NO. 44. 20 PAGES OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 5. 1913. VOL, LXXIX.

WEATHER "hri p.biy to- Bht Jnd sundayt light southwest wind. LY1 BSJU EH I TOm I AivARAnn rmzFws 1000 CONTRA COSTA BOOSTERS WELCOMED HM II A I KAY WH I OAKLAND ANTIOCH IS FORMALLY OPENED PEACE NEAR IN WEARY BALKANS- 5 MEN WRECK SAFE HEADS OW CARPET $27,000 Is Saved When Steel Lining of Strong Box Be- 117 11 Allies Reply to Mediation comes weagea Proposals; PowsrrMaks Concessions 'Assembly Investigating Committee Questions San Quen-tin Management McNamara Brothers Alleged to Have Been Objects of Persecution Seven Charges Exploded in the Early Acceptance of States Practi Morning; Robbers Make Escape caily Repudiate ths Terms Offered by Europe in Auto; Get Only $15 SOFIA, Bulgaria, April" 5. The SACRAMENTO, April 5. Warden Hoylo of San, Quentln penitentiary. prospects for peace in thn Balkans looked bright todiy.

Although the bandits armed with powerful searc Wights and 'rules stood off all interference on the part of citizens in Alva-( rado at an early hour this morning, when they dynamited i the vaults of the Bank of Alameda County in an effort to members of the State board of prisqn directors" and other witnesses were allies In their reply to the' mediation scheduled to appear before the special prison investigating committee of the suggestions of the powers demanded numerous and radical changes, the powers promptly replied with concessions designed to bring a prompt I' i urirm ,.,,1.11 i 1 ikA 'i a xz S.y tit XK'VV vv v. Assembly today at 3 o'clock. It Is said by one of the committee With the building shattered and the heavy wrecked, the two men working on the inside of the institution were forced to leave with but spite of the fact that the greater amount cessatli of hostilities. members that either today or at a In a note presented today to 'the Bulgarian government, the powers proposed that the Thrace frontier Wao All (71 lib bli.UUiJl WX WW omCI UWiO! should he foriried. by a line drawn from Mldla, qn the Black sea, to Enog Theyt could not move the doors which had been blown inward Instead of putward' and with daylight threatening and the alarm onronHinc Into trie siirroundinor ftonnfrv.

t.hv ohnnHnnpH thpir on the Aegean sea. This would give Bulgaria both banks of 'the river Ma- rltza. in accordance with her de efforts. mands. It is also, suggested that all fl later date officials of the State labor organizations will go before the committee with charges that' the McNa-rnara brothers have been the- target for persecution because of their labor affiliations.

In this connection hp explained why neither of the McNamaras had been summoned before the committee at Ban Quentin. EXPECTED "We arrived at the prison at noon the first day," he said, "and two of us went into the diningroom at once to ask John McNamarato testify. Dis nanclal questions, such as the Indem Fair Weather, McAdie nity, should be left to -tne decision of a technical commission to meet In CONSTABLE. IS PRISONER. Constable O.

Bot hallo, was held a prisoner in his home across the street from the bank. Threa men stood guard about the building flash' Ing their searchlights upon neighboring doors and windows whenever a head appeared. Their threats were backed ud bv freaaant shots from Paris. Forecast for Sunday The reply purports to be an accept' ance of the mediation conditions, but the acceptance -Is subject to reserva Rain Is Expected in the San tlons which practically repudiate the proposed terms. Joaquin Valley Late Today.

1 regarding outstretched hands he said sneerlngly: 'Well, have you brought PROPOSALS OF POWERS. The proposals of the powers were your whitewash brush along? "That remark took us off our feet and when we recovered from our SAN FRANCISCO, April United States District Forecaster Alexander McAdle was able this astonishment and thought about talk ing with him again we found him con. sistently. avoiding us." morning, after a survey of the heavens rifles and sawed-off shotguns. Tele- phone wires Into the exchange were severed before the men commenced their operations.

From Information obtained by Sheriff Barnet, who went to the scene several hours later, when he received word of the robbery, five bandits had entered Alvarado shortly before o'clock In an automobile. SEVEN CHARGES FIRED. Seven charges of nltto-glyeerlne were used in the attack on the vaults. The first charge evidently had blown and a careful scanning of his reports, The Judiciary subcommittee which Is framing a blue-sky law failed to to give expression to the belief that the San Joaquin valley would receive complete its labors last night and will try to have a bill ready to report slight rainfall this afternoon and 1 1 I A as follows: One The frontier of Turkey shall start at Enos and end at Midia. All territories west of this line shall ro to the allied states with the exception of Albania, the delimitation of which shall be fixed by the powers.

Two The question of the Aegean islands shall be settled by the powers. Threes Turkey shall abandon all claims to Crete. Four The powers cannot fav-ornbly entertain the demand for indemnity. Five As soon as these basis are hostilities shall cease. COUNTER PROPOSITIONS.

The reply of the Balkan allies con tonight. The northern section of the Tuesday. Several of the amendments urged by speakers at the public hearing Wednesday will be incorporated In the measure. i-n -i -i inn- mr mnrrnf wninn'i Ji WIImWMniiniMilltf)JyiilllflimM out the heavy outer dooTS while subsequent, blasts shattered the Inner state is well satisfied and enthusiastic over the precipitation of from a quarter to a half-Inch last night. At Red Bluff 'there was .50 of.

an inch, at Sacramento .29, and In the region about the bjuf JiS. Tomorrow will likely be fair hereabouts. receptacle. The final charges resulted in forcing the inner lining of the SCENE AT THE ARRIVAL OF THE CONTRA COSTA BOOSTERS I OAKLAND TODAY. AV.

E. GIBSON ADDRESSING THE CROWD, AND VIEW OF ONE OF THE DECORATED AUTOMOBILES IN THE PARADE. IN THE AUTO, LEFT TO RK.HT. ARE MISS. ELSIE AIEI WETHER, MRS.

GEORGEJWASON, MRS. W. H. MEYERS AND MJtS. II.

M. NUCKOLLS. vaults inward, which fact saved the uttnu. Luiiua. When citizens finally ventured into the streets and to the bank, they found the interior a wreck.

They were CONDEMNED BY SAN FRANCISCO, April 6. With Clarence S. Darrow and Fremont Older in attendance, the San Francisco Labor Council adopted resolutions last night declaring that the recent legislative investigation of San Quentln penitentiary showed that Warden Hoyle and the board of prison directors are unfit for the positidne they hold. The resolutions called on the governor and legislature to "stop these horrible, barbarous tortures that should not be Inflicted even on dumb beasts." I tains the following counter propositions: Four. Scalded to Death in Explosion ciLSiu asw ihv vault and there noticed piles of gold STATE'S POWER IS HEPLlf THREE MfLES OF and silver lying scattered beyond reach.

It would have required 9 One In definite: termination or the frontier of the province of Thrace, the line indicated in the conditions formulated by the (Continued on Page 2, Col. 1) strenuous effort with crow-bars to re HOT TO PITASBURG, April 6, Four men were scalded to death and other probably latally Injured in an exptoslon today at ISJE ill OIIS Lf- the Homestead Works of the United States Steal Corporation. Twenty men move the doors. The robbers had evidently not taken time to place a charge that, would remove them. CITIZENS CTREI ON.

The first explosion awakened many townspeople and caused them to peer out of windows to ascertain ths cause. They were at once greeted with a fusillade of bullets and birdshot, which were at work in that section of the plant DIVORCE SUIT AUTOS IN PARADE FRANK JORDAN WILL MAKE APPEAL TO LEGISLATURE where slag from the furnaces Is broken up, when from some cause, at present unknown, a terrlflo explosion occurred. Men were tossed about in all directions, some of them being thrown beyond the range of the flying metal. The three who were killed were buried under a mass Of Ends Board of Control Proceedings by served to Keep tnem inaoors wnne trie robbers continued to place and ex- plode their charges, With Sheriff Barhet "were Deputies -Joe Soares, Bert Brown and George Continued on Page 2, Col. 4) slag and burned bevond recognition.

The Industries of Oakland San Leandro Woman names of the dead and injured will not Refusing to Testify Further be known until the company's roll books Solons BalK at Amendment Proposed by Tax Association have been examined. Says Husband Tried to Murder Are Shown to Many Visitors SACRAMENTO, April 5. Frank C. Jordan, secretary, of state, who was placed on the grill by the Board of Control for alleged TSdare Island Will Remain Three miles" of automobiles and SAN LEANDRO, April 6. Firing three shots In rapid succession at his wife, who cnarges against mm in ine cuuuuti uia uxuee, uiuukih pu-ceedings to an abrupt end today by announcing that he would trucks, bedecked withuntlng, flying fled into the house and narrowly escaped pennants and flowers, paraded this morning in a mammoth pageant be death, Nicholas Finley, a San Leandro not again testify before the board, appealing directly to tne legislature to investigate his office with a view of ascertaining the Navy Yard of First Class WASHINGTON, April 5.

Secretary Daniels of the Navy De- fore nearly a thousand boosters from Contra. Costa who are today truth or falsity of the charges, (Special Correspondence of THE TRIBUNE.) SACRAMENTO, vApril 6. The changes in the State constitution which. the tax association of Alameda county are anxious to have adopted, as provided in an- Assembly constitutional amendment Assemblyman William Clark of were reviewed by the Senate county government committee late" yesterday afternoon. Mark Requa, president of the guests of Oakland on the occasion partment decided today that the Mare Island, California, navy ward concurrent resolutions were in of the formal opening of the Oakland, Antioch Eastern railway.

yard should be continued as a yard of the first class. With qplors flying in the California troduced providing for the appointment and the duties of such committee. Senator Wright stood sunshine the machines, amid cheers and music, wound they way through sponsor for the resolution in the sen carpenter, this morning gave a leaden answer to a divorce suit, according to Henrietta Finley. escaped into the hills after holding off neighbors who attempted to capture him. Later, the police say, he took ah Elmhurst car for Oakland, stating, according to authorities, that he Intended to hun tji Is i 6 augh ter Daisy In Ban Fran-cisco.

It is feared by the police that the enraged man will make an attempt on the girl's life and desperate measures have been taken 'to warn her. Finley was served with papers in his tne association, former Governor Geo. ate and Assemblyman T. Johnstone in the principal streets of the city, past the buildings at Fourteenth and He was not summoned to the hearing before the board this morning, when a group of automobile and insurance men who are said to have been furnishing lists of automobile licenses by Secretary Jordan testified behind the closed doors of the board of control's room. Jordan expected to be'called this afternoon, but he declared at 11 o'clock that he would not go.

"I have taken my case to the supreme law-making body of this state," the lower house. The resolution was C. Pardee and Professor William Cary Jonesr tllrector of nher department or Broadway, wherer-thg-boosters from as follows "Whereas1, The secretary of -state of jurisprudence at the State University, appeared before the committee. Professor Jones, who Is a recognized authority on constitutional law. the state of California Has petitioned this body for the appointment of a the neighboring- county sat in the places of honor, and through the business section; from there proceeding to Lakeside Park, where the judges passed on the different features of the.

procession. committee to investigate certain alleged charges' directed against him in explained that the purpose of the tax association was to so amend the con wife's suit This morning he; stitution as to make It easier for the ON SPECIAL TRAINS. county of Alameda to draft and adopt a charter that would make possible he said, "and have asked for an investigating committee" Petitions asking for the appointment of a joint committee- from the senate and assembly to inquire into the charges were filed in both houses this morning and Immediately after- found Mrs. Finley in the front yard and the woman says, whipped out a revolver. She struggled with him for possession of the consolidation of city and county The Contra Costa boosters arrived in Oakland on two special trains, one arriving at 10 o'clock, and the other, which, bore, 100 visitors from Antioch, with their own band, as well a a delegation from Martinez, came in offices, so as to create greater effi ciency and economy.

the weapon and two shots went wild. Finding herself powerless, she declared MISSt ANNIE- LORENCE BROWN -IS ENDORSED BY HOME QUB The following: resolution was unanimously adopted at a meeting: of the Home Club: Whereas, Miss Annie Florence Brown has been a member of the Board of Education of our city of Oakland for two years and has shown by her honorable and intelligent attitude toward all questions coming before said board, her special fitness for her position and her single purpose to be the betterment of our educational department and the good of all the schools and pupils, therefore. Resolved. That the Home Club take pleasure in endorsinjr Miss Annie Florence Brown and ure her nomination and election as a member of the Board of Education of our city of Oakland. the conduct Qf his office; now, therefore be it "Resolved, That a commee of three members be appointed from each house of the legislature for the purpose of Investigating the actions of the secretary of state of the state of California in the conduct of his office, said committee to make any and all investigations which it deems advisable at the earliest possible moment and to report as soon thereafter as possible back to the house." The assembly, however, refused by a vote of Si to is to ausnnnil the BALK AT AMENDMENT.

Several of the proposed amendments she fled into the house, banging closed the door. Finley sent another shot in were favored, but one in particular the senatorial lawmakers balked at Practically all of the members of ths her direction, according to. Mrs. Finley, the bullet crashing through a panel and shortly after. The guests, on alighting from the' Oakland Antioch and also the Key Routs trains impressed into service for the occasion, gathered about the station, from, the roof of Ben F.

Woolner, city attorney, representing Mayor Molt, who was unable to county government committee of the I Just missing the woman's head. Holding off neighbors who had heard Senate, of which Senator Breed of Oakland is chairman, are old-time OAKLAND RAINFALL. (Sanborn Gauge) Inches Last 24 hours .21 Season to date .12,13 Corresponding period last year 9.32 the shots and Mrs. Finley's screams, Fin rules and '-permit the introduction of the concurrent resolution out of reg-Lnlar ri1p. Senators.

Senators Camlnetti and Hewitt were the authors of the par ley made his escape. Marshal Peralta. Cinpt aH1 Humipl Prg, PH'eriff ticular part of the constitution which I Demont and others pursued In an auto The witnesses before the board be present, them welcome to Oakland. President W. E.

Oibson of the Chamber of Commerce, Secretary A. mobile but failed to locate their man. pontrol today were C. N. Weaver, the tax association wishes to amend.

While no serious opposition de- They learned, however, that he took an Ihf. Etalwnnd. Cenrff-A Pha! mers, 3, Clrmons and E. IL Mer- Elmhurst car and say ha uttered threat fflj, t. i against his daughter.

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