Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 17

4 section I fM III MWmtU. i LAST EDIIIOi! VOL. LXXXII. WEATHER vlcln.ty-Cenera.ly fafr light west wind. OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 18, 1914.

48 PAGES 17 TO 24 NO. 59. TO www Hfr -H3 -WJ Kaisers Army Advancing to Important Naval Base on the Straits of TEUTONS MAKE DESPERATE EFFORT REACH mm I SI ALLIES REINFORCING STRATEGIC POINTON 500 Sink With Destroyers -s-O -H5-. British Navy Exacts Toll CM- -Hfre- Answer Germany 's A divity RAID FOILS COTTON IS GERM DIED II PLOT IR1 FRENCH SEAC0AS Battle Line Extends 400 Miles From the North Sea to the Northern Part of France Hope of Legislation for knots andv'only went Into commission this year. 1 The fleet of cruisers of this; type, known as the Aurora class, have been especially assigned to patrol duty, a work for which they are fitted during rough weather.

The destroyers accompanying also are of the latest type, oil-burners with a speed of twenty-nine knots. They are of the Class-L type, each of them identical, 260 feet long and of 965 tons displacement. DESTROYERS SIGHTED. It is understood that the flotilla, while cruising, sighted the apparently The destroyers remained in the background while the Undaunted steamed directly toward the enemy cleared for action. As soon as she came within range, her six-Inch and four-Inch gnns were brought Into action, while torpedoes were launched at the German craft While the admiralty was tonight without details of the combat, it was stated that It was of very short duration and ended with the sending to the bottom of the enemny's quartette of destroyers.

The German destroyers carry a crew of 125 men each, and it Is reported here that practically none of them were saved. THOUSANDS ARE PRISONERS IN CAMPS OF THE GERMANS BERLIN, Oct. 17, via The Hague-The war office tonight gave out the recently-compiled list of prisoners now in German concentration camps, revised up until October 1st: British, 180 officers, 8600 men. French, 2050 officers, 123,000 men, Belgian, 470 officers, 30,800 men. v' Russian, 2150 officers, 92,000 Since these figures for October 1st were received it is stat.

ed here that the number of Russian prisoners has nearly doubled. 8000 RUSSIANS ARE MADE PRISONERS. WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. Eight thousand Russian soldiers were captured near Lyck and heavy French attacks In the northwest of France were repulsed, the German Embassy announced this evening.

The radiogram from Berlin reporting progress in "Officials headquarters reports that Russians tried the 14th, to reoccupy Lyck, were repulsed, 8000 prisoners, one gun, three machine guns taken. "Germans occupied Bruges 14th, Ostend 15th; heavy French attacks In the northwest repulsed. Official French statements pretending important progress made at different places on the battle front, for instance near Berry-au-Bac and the northwest cf Rheims, do not agree with facts." GREAT BATTLE IS RAGING. PARIS, Oct. 17.

Fighting of the most severe character con- tinued all along the northern battle line today, despite the heavy cold rains which are now again deluging the north country. The Germans are reported making a desperate effort to break through along the coast, with Dunkirk as their objective. Former Edna Lof tus Is Arrested by Police Across Bay Was Fascinating Girl Who Charmed Scion of Wealth SAN -FRANCISCO, Oct 17. Edna Loftus Rheinstrom, pride of the London muslo halls, daxzllng Gaiety girl of the New York shows, fascinating beauty who charmed Harry Rheinstrom, the scion of the millionaire Milwaukee family, was arrested tonight In a raid on a resort and locked up In the city prison charged with vagrancy. In three years, during which the fair Edna has run the gamut of nearly every human experience, she passed one social step after another In the thorny path, and would never be recognized today for the prize beauty of the prosperous days gone by.

Mrs. Rheinstrom spent three months in a Fruitvale bungalow with Harry at a time when he had been disowned by his family because of her. Then she accepted, with good grace, the role of housewife and swept, and scrubbed, and starved, It may be, for the sake of her love for the man of her choice. 1 Even then there were rumors ot night orgies when Harry Rheinstrom received his regular remittance, but "It was not until after a legal separation came that Mrs. Rheinstrom sought solace in the region of the bright lights.

Bince then her career has been a checkered one. Only to- rfntr It warn loflmnri that It. was she who attempted suicide Thursday at. the Art Dy cuiung nor ni with a safety razor blade. She gave an assumed name and was not recognized at the Harbor hospital.

Tonight when the police descended on the house at 833 Kearny street, gathering in four women of the underworld, the detectives were suprised to recognize beneath paint and powder the fair Edna Loftus, who at one time had all London at her feet She was balled out by the proprietor of the place, and Monday will know her fate in the police court. Hunger Leads Salesman to Try to Kill Friend of Whom He Sought Aid. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 17.

Because he was hungry and had left his wife and 8-day-old child home penniless and well nigh starving Harris Hill Park went out and shot his best friend. James O. Palmer of 1319 Seventh avenue when he was refused a 60-cent loan tonight. Both men are shoe salesmen, but Park is also owner of a nlckleodeon at 2575 S8tb avenue. Oak-land.

Palmer was wounded, in the abdomen, the bullet penetrating the Intestines and he has only a chance of recovery. As he lay at the Central Emergency hospital with an ashen palor blanching his features, he refused to make a dying statement. "Good old Park; you dld'nt mean to do it, old man. I won't prosecute you. I won't hold It against you," he moaned.

The occurred in Corey's saloon, 20 Ellis street, shortly before 10 o'clock. Park, who resides at the Maryland Apartments, 363 Page street, asked Palmer for 50 cents. -He claims that hie request was refused and before bystanders could interfere he had drawn a revolver and fired three shots. Only one bullet took effect; Patrolman Cadden, hearing the shot, rushed Into the saloon and placed Park under arrest sending Palmer to the hospital in an automobile. For a year Palmer and Park worked side by side In a shoe store, where the former is still employed.

Park was discharged. DENIED AN The presumption here is that LONDON, Oct. 17. Five hundred lives were lost when England today answered the activities of the German navy. The light protected cruiser Undaunted, accompanied by the destroyers Legion, Loyal, Lennox and Lance of the L-Class, sent four German destroyers to the bottom of the North Sea off the Dutch coast The British vessels came through the ordeal unscathed.

The British navy lost none killed and only one officer and four men were wounded in the action. Thirty-one German sailors were made prisoners and are now being sent to a British port. It was stated that the British destroyers were slightly damaged. While up to the present time the Identity of the destroyed warcraft of the Kaiser Is withheld, it Is understood here that they were comparatively old vessels which have been operating from a base in the estuary of the Ems. OUTCLASSED BY UNDAUNTED.

They were outclassed by the Undaunted, a brand new cruiser of the oil-burning type, which, while of only 3600 tons displacement, has speed of better than thirty Major-General of British Army Dies In Field of Action LONDON, Oct. 17. It was announced tonight by the official war bureau that MaJor-General H. I. W.

Hamilton had been killed in action. The list of casualties made public by the official bureau tonight Includes the names of ten officers, among them General Hamilton's. Major-General Hulbert Ian Wethe-rlll Hamilton, C. D. S.

C. V. was born June 27, 1861, and entered the British military service In 1880. He was a son of Lteutenant-Generat Meade Hamilton and during the South African war was military secretary to General Lord Kitchener. He served in the Burmese expedition in 1886-1888, the Egyptian campaigns of 1897-1898-1899.

He was frequent ly mentioned in dispatches arid decorated a number of times for distinguished services in the field. Woman Hurled From Auto; Fractures SKull BERKELEY, Oct 17. Hurled from the back of an automobile Mrs. Capltola Askew, of 2301 Grant street, received injuries in an unusual manner tonight which may result in her death. She Is under treatment for a fractured skull at the Roosevelt hospital where the attendants are not optimistic for her recovery.

Mrs. Askew was seated on a dox in driven hv her husband. John Askew, a grocer. As he turned the corner of Allston way into Grant street at a rapid pace Mrs. Askew and the box upon sat, were hurled forcibly into the street.

The woman struck upon her head and was picked up unconscious by her husband. At Roosevelt hospital It was found that she had sustained a fractured skull. She was in a serious condition at a late hour tonight. Alamedan Is Instantly Killed by Loop Train ALAMEDA, Oct. 17.

John W. McLaren of 1359 Versailles avenue was almost Instantly tonight at about 10 o'clock, while crossing the Southern Pacific tracks at Enclnal avenue and Pearl street McLaren was a baker employed by George Morris. Deceased was about 60 years of age. He was on his way home when the accident happened. He failed to see the fast approach of the Southern Pacific train and was cut to pieces.

Motorman Frank McKin-nen notified the police at once, and the man was taken to the emergency hospital, but death was lntsantaneous. He was then removed to the branch morgue and his relatives notified. Eleanor Gates to Be Bride of Author NEW YORK, Oct 17. Eleanor Gates, author of "The Poor Little Rich Girl," will be married quietly tomorrow afternoon to Frederick Ferdinand Moore, the author of "The Double Admiral." The ceremony will be performed In Paterson, New Jersey, at the home of Rev. Dr.

Splkers, whose wife Is an intimate friend of the bride-to-be. Only twenty guests will be present. Eleanor Gatesi a California authoress, was the wife of Richard Walton Tully, the piaywpigni, Tully obtained an in- I submarine base. This is one of the most important military harbors on the northwest coast. It is strongly fortified.

Its harbor works are on the most extensive scale, enormous sums having been expended on them. It has been learned the German naval staff plans the movement of submarines from the naval base by way of Aix-la-Chapelle and there is no doubt left of the German coast objective. Ostend would be worthless as a naval base. Dunkirk, on the contrary, would be ideal, and once in the Germans' possession, would present a distinct problem for the "Anglo-French fleet." Edinburgh Factory Is Found to House Secret Wireless Building Is Believed to Have Been Made Gun Base EDINBURGH, Oct. 17 Spe-cial -government agents shortly after' midnight raided a factory building occupied by a German firm and arrested all of the occupants.

The building, it was stated, dominated the Edin-burgh-Rosyth naval base and the bridge across the Firth of Forth. Inside of the. structure the government officials found a secret wireless telegraph set of the 1 mst powerful character. They also made the interesting discovery that while the factory was bare of the machinery that would be necessary for use, it was one of the strongest concrete structures ever built in the city. In every way, according to the report, the building was re inforced and there were a number of places which seemed to have been built in a manner suitable for sun mounting.

The officials declared that the building was in every respect similar to those raided in France and Belgium which had been especially constructed by German aeents. and were utilized to mount big guns on. i 1 1000 Homes Destroyed by QuaKe in Greece ATHENS. "Oct. 17Hun.

dreds of persons were injured. manv fatallv. when a great earthquake shook the Attic, Boetian and Peloponesian dis tricts late today. More than 1000 houses were destrnved. many more badly wrecked and damage estimated in seven figures was done.

from the stricken cities were meager tonight and the full extent of the damage will not be known for hours. At Thnhan hundreds of cottages were overthrown and many persona were In jured. The shocks are continuing and have been felt In Athens. Chalets the damage la reported to be serious, while at Thebes many of the inhabitants have fled to the fields, where they remain without shelter. In Athens cracks have appeared in the walls of many houses.

ChurcJvll Answers Criticism of Navy LONDON, Oct. 17. First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill to day issued an address to the naval brigade which participated In the recent fighting at Antwerp. There had been a disposition severely to criticise the naval authorities for rushing these forces into Antwerp without adequate equipment or proper maps of the war zone. Tonight's statement was accepted as the admiralty's reply to this erltlclsm.

"The naVal division was sent to Antwerp not as an Isolated incident," said the message, "but as part of a large operation for the relief of the city. Another and more powerful consideration prevented this being carried out But the fact that the British forces were able to co-operate with the Belgians enabled the authorities of Antwerp to destroy curtain ships and carry out other steps of great importance to the genera campaign. Therefore, your work is appreciated by the nation, and the duty to which were assigned has been properly carried Out" Austrian Destroyer Is SunK by French ROME, Oct. 17. Reports received here tonight from Ancona say that the French fleet operating in the Med iterranean has sunk another Austrian South Passes With Bill The Discord in Majority RanKs Welcomed by Republicans WASHINGTON, Oct 17.

Rejecting the Hoke Smith cotton-purchase amendment and with all hope of cotton legislation at this session of Congress, the Senate tonight passed the war tax bill by a solid party vote. The only Democratlo opponent of the measure was Senator Lane of Oregon. The little host of eight Southern Democrats who planned earlier in the evening to block the whole tax bill unless the relief legislation was Included wilted under a sarcastic fire, from the other Senator Shephard of Texas was won from his opposition by Postmaster-General Burleson of Texas. With Shephard, Shields of Tennessee, Smith of South Carolina wid White of Alabama succumbed to the administration persuasions and voted for the measure. Hoke Smith, Vardlman and Clark of Arkansas either pleaded "pairing" or illness or were absent when the showdown came, HOKE SMITH LOSES.

The Hoke Smith amendment was voted down, 40 to 21, and a motion by Senator Vardlman to postpone the tax bill indefinitely was voted down, 32 to 25. With these two out of the way. the fight was practically at an end, and the "recalcitrants," as Senator Stone called the Southerners, fell Into line. The Insurgents were flayed by other Democrats for starving the treasury. Republicans hugged themselves with Joy at the spetable of dlsord in the majority ranks.

One of the most drastic, income proposals ever made In congress was offered in lieu of a portion of the war tax revenue bill by Senator Polndex-ter of Washington tonight and turned down bv the senate. On Income greater than $260,000 the tax was per cent on all above 250,000 up to 1600,000. On all above $500,000 the tax would be 8 per cent, while on all above $1,000,000 the tax would be 43 per cent COTTON BEATEN 21 TO 40. The cotton relief amendment, proposed by the senators from the cotton states, were defeated by a vote of 21 to 40. The amendment provided for an Issue of $260,000,000 of three-year 4-per-cent government bonds, in denominations of $10, $20, $60 and $100 to be used to purchase, from producers, 6,000,000 bales of cotton at not more than 10 cents a pound.

The tax of half a ''cent a pound on all cotton grown and sold In 1916, and If necessary, a tax of 1 cent a pound on the 1917 crop, would be levied to repay the government the bonds and all expenses incident to the handling of the cotton. An amendment proposing a $500,000,000 bond Issue, to be used by the secretary of the treasury in stabilizing the price of grain during the European war, proposed by Senator McCumber, was voted down. The amendment would have authorized the secretary of the treasury to prohibit or allow the Importation of grain to Insure the stabilizing process. The amendment of Senator Overman, appropriating to pay to the southern, states the amount collected as a tax on cotton after the Civil War. was defeated, 14 to 44.

The amendment would have repaid the cotton tax on the condition that the states loan it to cotton producers on their product. Wife Frees Husband of Murdering Rival LOS ANGELES, Oct" 17. Roy L. Glover of San Antonio, Texas, was freed today of the charge of having murdered Daniel de VUllers, a former Boer army officer who was shot and killed in Glover's residence here last December during a quarrel oyer Mrs. Glover, who had been de Vllller's wife.

The charge was dismissed as a result of an Investigation which Ar thur assistant district attor ney, declared-had disclosed conclusive evidence that de VUllers had come here to take the life of Glover. The evidence was obtained by Mrs. Glover, who is a member of a prominent New Jersey family. Immediate ly after his release from Jail Glover took his wife on a trip to Mexico. Storm Touches Here on Eastward Journey SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 17.

The storm which threatened to drench California this afternoon and tomorrow has passed eastward and the U. S. weather forecaster gives his assurance of clear skies and a sunshiny Sunday. The precipitation extended only as far south as San Luis Obispo, which re ported .200 of an Inch lulling between 5 o'clock this morning and 5 o'clock tonight. The region south of the Tehachapl escaped entirely and the rain failed to penetrate tar Into the San Joaquin French Report No Changes; British Capture Fromelles PARIS, Oct 17.r The official war office bulletin Issued at 11 o'clock tonight characterized the general situation, as practically unchanged.

"Our left wing progress continues," reads the report. "The British troops have captured Fromelles, to the southward of Ypres. "On the Ypres canal to the sea, our soldiers and marines have repulsed a German attack. Elsewhere on the front there has been only cannonading." LONDON, Oct. 17.

An official announcement from the German headquarters today says that in the French theater of the war there have been no important events, according to a Berlin dispatch to the Reuter Telegram Company received by way of Amsterdam. "In the province of, Suwalkl." the statement adds, "the Russians yesterday were Inactive. t-umber of prisoners were captured ne3 Schir-wlndt and some guns weretaken. The battles near the south of Warsaw continue." Folsom Fugitive Caught by Guards FOLSOM, Oct. 17.

Frank Creeks, the life-termer who escaped from Folsom penitentiary was captured in a paroV fi. fmm I iwo omio priaun. treeKS made no resistance. He was asleep at the The man was brought to the penlten-tlay, arriving just before midnight. Ha now faces the gallows, It being a capital crime to kill a guard In the prison.

Creeks' capture came about through the pawning of his revolver, which he had with ihim when he escaped from Folsom. President to MaKe Peace Witlr Watterson peace parleys between President Wilson and his late critic, Colonel Henry Watterson, Louisville (Ky.) publisher, will take place tomorrow at the White House. "Marae arrived here this afternoon, following an initation from the President to call at the executive mansion. The visit tomorrow will be the last step in the three-cornered reconciliation between Wilson, Colonel George Harvey and Watterson. Autoists Crash Into Cyclist; Man Injured Unidentified joy-riders, returning from a country jaunt, early this morning crashed into Joseph Jonery, a cook em-Ployed by.

the Forum cafe, at Twenty-fifth street and San Fablo avenue. The accident occurred at 2:45 a. Th man was removed to the Emer gency nospltal suffering from a broken shoulder and other Injuries. The auto party drove away. A police investigation is being made.

Have Narrow Escape in Machine Mishap MARTINEZ, Oct 17. County Surveyor Elam C. Brown, Charles E. EI-W'J- a local garage man, and Qeorire Grlfnn had a narrow escape from death last night in an auto wreck In the Franklin canyon. While returning from Pinole in the evening the steprlno- broke and the machine clunked tm they want Dunkirk for use as a The French general staff, however, realizes fully as well as does the German, the Importance of holding Dunkirk, and It is admitted that very strong bodies of reinforcements have been hurried to the north.

Despite claims of the Germans that they have already opened their attack on Dunkirk, the military headquarters here declared tonight the kaiser's troops have not crossed the Belgian frontier west of a point directly north of Armentleres. The allies are steadily driving the Germans eastward in the vicinity of Armentleres and Lille, eight miles to the southeast FRENCH ADVANCE LINE. On the center, In the territory east of Rheims, there has been severe fighting and the French line Is reported to hava been advanced tully half a mile, Near St MUilel, the Germans are reported to have been compelled to take up new positions, although they still retain Camp de Itomalns. In Alsace-Lorraine the French rleht wing Is reported to be making distinct' progress. It Is advancing through the passes of the Vosges In the midst ot heavy snow storms and moving east from the neighborhood of Belfort It Is reported there that the Germans, who were attempting a movement against Belfort have now been drlveu back with very heavy losses, and that the fighting continues.

So far as the general battle la concerned, it -In nnw n.ttrlu Afttx long. Starting at a point near West-ende. Just south of Ostend, on the North sea, It swings eastward through Houllers, and then In a southerly direction throurh Tnrea ta Monln the Belgian frontier. The line then runs wavo-shaped in a generally southerly direction through tiers and Lille to the west of Lens and Arras, west again to Albert, and then runs about half way between Amiens and Peronne through Roye and Lasslgny, curving into the triangle formed by the Olse and the Alsne rivers north of Comptegne and Sotssons. It then runs due east to Craonne and then again turns southeast through BerrjNau-Bao to a point north of Uhetms.

From here, it curves always eastward to the Meuae line, which It follows, with gaps here and there especially near St Mlhlel 1 Heaumont, from which the line continues to Mots. The Rlgantic- battle of startling magnitude and great Importance being CoatiauedoaJ'asaJSLCoL 4) Noordam StrucK Nine; Limping Into Port AMSTERDAM, Oct 18 (Sunday). A wifeless dispatch received here early today from the Holland-American Uner Noordam, en route to this port from New York, states that she struck a mine off the coast Saturday. The force of the explosion was diverted by something not yet known and the vessel was not sunk, although she Is reported to be very badly damaged. The Noordam Is proceeding to her home port here under her own steam.

Several passengers were Injured. The Noordam was diverted from her course and taken Into Falmouth harbor by a British cruiser and her master and manifest examined. She was released early Saturday and at once proceeded toward this port. En route she struck the mine at a point not yet reported Jo the local agents. General Von Arnim in Charge of Right Wing I LONDON, Oct' 17, 3:30 p.

m. According to wounded German officers who are prisoners in a hospital England, It Is said General von Arnim has succeeded General von Kluck in command of the right wing of the German armv in France. It Is asserted that this change was made two days after the battle of Marne. One of the German officers who are credited with vouching for this story la Lieutenant Von Arnim, described as a nephew of the general, and who is In a hospital at Netley. Wireless Plant Is Seized in London LONDON, Oct 17, 5.: 30 p.

m. The police today seized a wireless receiving apparatus and a quantity of wire at the residence of Professor Arthur Sinister, near Wokingham, In Berkshire. Professor Fhuster, who is a brother of Sir Felix Shuster, governor of the Union of London and Smith's Bank, admttted to the police that he could receive messages from Berlin or the Eiffel- Tower In Paris with his Charges Made Against Federal Prosecutors 8AN FRANCISCO, Oct 17. Special Government Prosecutors Theodore J. i Roche and Mat Sullivan and Federal I Judge William Van Fleet are accused of making improper comments and arguments to the Jury in the transcript of appeal filed, by counsel for F.

Drew Cam-' lnettl, son of Commissioner-General of immigration Anthony Camlnettl today. Some of the statements made by counsel are branded as inflammatory, and nearly 400 pages are 'devoted to attacks on the alleged improper conduct In this, the most Important case of alleged vlola-fMon of the Mann White Slave Act thus far to be tried in this country. Objection is taken to the statement by Roche that "the people of the United States are watching' this case and waiting to ascertain whether on such a record as has been made here under the law of this as it will be given to you by -the 'courtthis sfndan-shali tenocuiory decree oi aivorce on August the grade, a distance of over 20 feet 22 last Jn California, this to become final striking a tree. The three occupants of ofcJ.ugutitje$tyeai1Jha. KewJEprk.

law, however, permits the marriage. rjwtth a few cuts and bruises. VlQed Of Justice.".