Show INFLUENZA KILLS BRAVE CAPT CAPTAIN AINI I II I I Hero of 41 Wartime Voy V Voy- Voy oy nages Sinker of Submarine Dies in New York eW York Jan 4 Emery Emer Rice born In iii Boston forty years cara ago who commanded the tho Mongolia the first American steamship to sink n a German submarine and who made one ono orty-ono voyages across the Atlantic during tho Wo war died toll today y at the Now New York nn navy yard ard hospital of oC pneumonia following Influenza Ho li wa was ill on only 1 L n week It Jt It was as on April 19 11 Eti 1017 a a. a few days das after the States Slates entered tho the war WAT that the tho Mongolia fired tho first i gun sun for tor America Naval gunners gUnner who I sighted In British waters a n. 1 bout to ti att attack ck the great steamship I I shattered her and sank her r with this clean hit lilt at 1000 I yards ards they named their gun eun th tho Theo doro dore Roosevelt Captain In RIcoa distinguished aea record dates back many years ears before the world conflict Ju just Juat t ended I As ter o on tho the cout ship Harvard durIng the war he ho wig waGged from tho bridge of ot that vessel the signal nal which brought Lear Henr Admiral Sam Sampson Pilon at speed to attack Admiral cras Cervera's squadron Later Laler ho he was decorated by the tho cm- cm of ot Japan for rescuing tho ho crow crew of from an overturned sampan in the tho Yellow sea at a risk to to his own I i vessel I |