The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 8, 1923, Page 1

WRATHER FORECAST Fair tonight: and Sunday. much change in temperature. Not a fe ” the baer TRESORTS SINK a i i | was spared, j | absurd to, say that the damage will { cipal destruction was to commercial j organiza 4: | throughout the empjre have not been \ ed to find fresh homes, , Many Resorts Sink Into Earth Pham INTO EARTH AS SHOCKS COME Bathers Are Swept Seaward| Following Tremors 7 | HOTELS ARE DESTROYED —Many Spectacular Inci- dents of Quake Reported (By "the Associated Press) Stories of mountains that slid intu their vallevs of huge waves that | pt seaward hundreds of ocean , bathers at const resorts, of a Yoke-| hotel that “literally sank into the earth” and of other spectacular incidents witnessed by survivors of | the great disaster are being given to’ the world as communication in und; out of Japan is gradually restored. | The Tokio: correspondent of the, Chicago Tribune reaching Kobe says! that 500 foreigners were killed in Yokohama, The earthquake and fire left the! foreign residential section a rin; | bodies were everywhere when the} flames had passed. The hotets of the! port city were obliterated: of the 200! guests in the Oriental Palace hotel| only 2 few escaped. The United club, | thé Court Cherrymount and Bluff} hotels also'were wrecked with loss of life. The last three, situated on the heights, toppled into the ruins at the! base of the bluff. Thomas D. Cochrane, an Ametican motion picture man, was at a moun- tain resort with his family when the first quake came. Great slides oc- curred in the mountains, he said, and roads were wiped out and houses uv- molished. 135,000 Homeless Mf Tokio 135,000 persons are with- out shelter but order prevails. There are no -further rumors of cholera. The loss of life-in the capital was “nét as large-as first reported” ac- cording to she first message gent over the re-established Tokio-Kobe line. Frobably 10,000 people lost theig liv. in. the uptown section, most of Which Secretary Hoover believes that ma- [terial losses , in Japan .have been ! greatly over-estimated- and. says it is amount to five billions .of dollars. Mr. Hoover points out that the prin- ions in*Tokio and Yoko- that labor agriculture, fac- capacity and organizations hama an } tory | impaired, Nearly half of ‘the five million dol- lar quota which the American Red Cross metas its goal has been raised. 200. FOREIGNERS RESCUED Washington, Sept, 8—Two hundred foreigners were killed at Yokohama, accordin gto the navy department's direct word: from that port received in two messages from Admiral Ander- sen, commander-in-chief of the Asi- atic. fleet. One hundred and thirty foreign refugees, mest of them Amer- icans and Englishmen, were at Ha- kone, he reported, and others were arriving at Kobe, MANY AMERICANS SAFE Washington, ‘Sept. 8—The safety » ef, additional Americans caught in the earthquake disaster in Japan was es- tablished. today in a message to the state department from Consul Davis at Shanghai, transmitting verified Te- ports gathered by Consul Dickover at Kobe. ‘AMERICAN GIRL DEAD Washington, Sept, 8—A_ dispatch to the Japanese embassy here from Tokio dated today said that the en- tire personnel of the American em- bassy was safe except Miss Doris Babbitt, daughter of Elwood G. Babbitt, acting commercial attache. She was said to have lost her life at Yokohama. Dam To Obliterate - English’ Villag Derbyshire, Sept. 8—The pictures- que village"of Derwent, with its ducal seat dating back to the seventeenth cantyry, will be blotted out in the near future and the population num- bering several hundred will be oblig- The village will be submerged by eats of adam in connec- tion with the scheme of development of the Derwent Valley Waterboard. No one ae village. build- to dem niet. of which js a ‘fine ings, th stone. pn, Derwent Hall, a seat “of the Duke of Norfolk which was built in\1672, A large eum of money will bé paid to the owners of the: pro; peérty end for the half alone the au- thorities have had to: pa: FISHING GOOD IN Ottawa, Sept. '8.—fanadian fisher- men had r “luck” in 1922 than in 1921, The various concerns ing the sea and inland waters ‘of the Dominion. produced $42,000,000, worth ‘of fish ee a arn and Perish in Huge Waves ~\ infers with American Red Cross officials at Washington regarding: relief measures for his stri men. To the right «re James L. Fieser, acting chairman of the Red Cross; Herbert ey member of the central cymmitiee; Eliot Wadsworth, acting secretary and treasurer of the ‘WATER PLANT CARE EShre ASK REDUCTION OVER LATER: Pay Stier acmlingrtts, aucrunding walls, All prison guards and details of police immediately began cone Possibility, However, That City Will Exercise Its Option by Monday | Organization Gets “Hearing From United States Tariff Commission on Propodal FLAX IMPORTS the vicinity. Night STRIKE URGED -AS WEAPON IN. COST N. “D ~ $1,000,007, | TALK FINANCE CHANGE May Issue Long-Time Bonds ¥ Instead of Warrants to” FARMER FIGHT secretary ot Poree ®anian —— . 4 tion Asks Others to Inter- Mass . Meeting. at . Burnstad; _ est Themselves in Fight «2 , Adopts Resolutions, Sends Finan i puis of » petition with the Unit- rinapce Maia “Them to’ National Bodies /ea ‘states Toritt Commission’ for « System | | reduction of the tariff on -fjex ‘and vegetable ' oils has. brought many ae Burnstad, N. D., Sept. 8 —Farmers/ North Dakotans and .state organiza- The property of the Bismarck | in this vicinity propose to strike 98} tions-into activity. Reduction -of the tariff Dy.50 per- cent, which would admit flax from other..countries, woyld make ‘a dif- “ {ference of 20 cents a bushel on flax this -year and cost North Dakota farmers one millign dollars, it is es, (timated by W. P. Chesnut, secretary of the Fargo Commefcial Club, lay- ing the matter before A. F. Bradley, secretary of the Bismarck Associ tion of Commeree, in a letter teceiv Water Supply company wil] nof be! do labor anions. taken dver today.by.the city of Bis | Resoltitions: adopted marck, but since-September 9, is the | meeting: hdld-hete to discuss the! date of the expiration of the period | price situation, declare hat this / of 90-days in which the city agreed | method had proved effective for labo to take over the plant from the com- | unions and should be adopted by the pany, it may yet be taken over Mon- farmers. The resolutions were order, day and be within the spirit of the ed sent to representatives in Con- agreement, it is understood. gress and to various national farm- Difficulties have arisen with the | ers’ organizations. x bond houses which purchased the im- The resolutions and finding were in provement warrants to be issued in jsepecanee as follows: ‘tition con- (4. today. nection with the purchase of the “Whereas a serious condition Slant and the finaneing of the addi. | ironts the ‘armers of the nation duc ; ,, Numerous other state arencies have tions. -C, L. Young, city attorney, |to the mal-adyustment of prices as it| pea 4 oe rH eet pposing any an M, H. Atkinson, city auditor, re- | is now well-known and gur country: © ange. in. the tariff. in a mass D, A. ie, i hi turned at noon from St. Paul where rc dBredies femneasniative ct the they have been in conference. with | George P.. Flannery, administrator of ‘the Alexander McKenzie: estate an@ president of the water compgny- Mayor A. P. Lenhart, who alac was .at_ the conference,/will return later. Mr. Flannery, it was reported, is still anxious that the deal be carried through and. that the>sale of the. water plant be made to the city as agreed upon, and he appeared will- img to take any steys possible to meet the exigencies of the occasion arising from the actio:s of the finan- cial houses, Mr. Flannery, however, explained ‘that, theret are bond hold- ers’ over whom he has no control other than on the original basis and he, therefore, must conzer with them if there is to be any change in the arrangements .ig the shape of an agreement to take over the plant at at later date, The $225,000 bonds sold by the city to the financial companies, were in turn sold by them very quickly tu Twin City investors. The entire is- sue was taken “like hot cakes” as a bond man expressed The motey for the bonds was paid to Mayor. ne hart and Auditor Atkinson in Minne- apolis so that-the city has gone a large way in its financing gf the water plai The’ bond companies, because of their experience in selling the city’s bonds so quickly and the recognized fine value of Bismarck securities, caused a suggestion tv be advance that in liew of the improvement war- rants the city issue additional bonds, probably $200,000 bonds, which they would be willing to take at a lower rate of interest than the improve- ment warrants, It is thought $2,500 a year interest might be saveq by this ‘method. This afternooh a conference was being held between city officials and leading citizens to go ever the sit tion, While it ‘appeared there might be some delay in completing the con- tract with Mr. Flannery there ap- peared to be in the minds of the city- | cate the belief 'that it was a ques- method only and oe Bet ts disposed of finally in due time. ere was no question raiseq. a8 to the procedure: of the city under thé statutes, {t was: said. DROPS HOME RUNS ‘New York, Sept. 8.—Cy Williams ‘the Philadelphia 2 C3 | are under the’ can not lof remain half competitive and half-subsidized as it now is; “and Whereus our own farm econo- | |mist of the State Agricultural , Col-| |lege, Rex E. Willard, has found after ja careful survey for the past three years that it cost $1.49 per bushel to Faisp wheat while the farmer is r ceiving right: now at the -local..sta- {tions on an average of &5c for’ all wheats |" “and Whereas there is as\great a \foss in raising other farm products as wheat with the exception of dairy products and wool “and Whereas the labor unions dur- ing the late war and at the present time use'the strike as a club to force the public to come to their térms re- gardless of the suffering public, | “Therefore be it resolved that all farmers and producers of livestock, grain, cotton, etc. unite to refuse to market any of their products excepi- ing dairy products for such a period and at such time as the majority of the executives of the various national farm organizations shall designate.” Fargo To Have Zoning Commission Fargo, Sept. 8. Fargo’s zoning ion, for which $500 was pro- vided in the city budget, which pass- ed its first reading at the city com- mission meeting has not yet organiz- ed and is marking time at present. “The committee is composed of very: busy people,’ member of the.committ do not wish to’spend their time: u) til they are sure that it will be pos- sible. to really: accomplish pometning: for the city.” It is expected that the « committee will megt and organize it knows just what, funds’ it’ to work with, and at that‘time see what..can, be done toward putting the provisions of the new ‘toning’ law in- to effect. PANCHO VELA chlonge, Sept, Erran ‘world. champion fl; it. ‘and Bud | of. Taylor of Terre Hauté, Indiana, will meet in a 10-round no decision con- test here late taday. The. little-men, stipulated weight, of 116 pounds, accordii ‘ing ‘quarters,: = National Producers’ Federation of Washington, D. -C., informed Mr. Chesnut that a hearing has been called by thé tariff commission to be held about the last of the month to consider a reduction of the tariff on flax. The hearing is granted on petition of National t Manufac- turers as well as the National Soap Manuf. rers to secure a reduction in‘the price of flax and vegetable oils, The.President, under'the: flex- ible, provisions of the new tariff act, has power to: reduce the rate 50 per- cent, it was added. Mr. Chesnut is bringing the mat- ter to the attention of _ commergial and other organizations im the state. APPLICATION | _ IS. DENIED The application of J, J. McIsasc to conduct a basement pool-hall in Val- ley City. has. been denied by Attor- ney-General George Shafer, in re viewing the testimony taken in a hearing conducted by Edgar’ Rich- ter, deputy license inspector. Mystery Surrounds Deserted Baby Peking, Sept. 8.—Attfacted by the wailing of an infant, 8 pedestrain re- ently turned aside into a cemetery outside Heichimen, one of the -princi- pal western gates of Peking, and found = new-born child/ wrapped in red silk and with a silken ea about its neck, An envelope attached: to the cord contained $300 in cash and a note king the-finder to yse the money wr the. care of the youngster. The finder was further instructed to ap; pear at a certain place, Wofusu, on Suly 18, three years hence, when, the note ‘said, he would meet | with good| : the thieves is: known and aireetsl are‘ therefore ‘doubtful The’ clothes was found slong the ‘way. That the: garments:we: ently “misfits” or were out. « thei train- ba ‘carded, it “ORGANIZATION KEPT INTACT Differenogs with Farmer-La- bor Party Program De- velop in Minnesota WOULD COOPERATE Townley ‘Opeanisation Op- poses Farmer-Labor. Effort Toward Complete Unity Minneapolis, Sept. 8—(By the As- sociated’ Press)—One faction of the | farmer-labor party of Minnesota and the state Nonpartisan League met in separate conferences_here today to outline their political activity for next year. Known as an “unofficial” conference as it was called without the sanction of the party’s state cen- itral committee the farmer-laborite bmecting had before it a.resolution of the- Nonpagtisan -League against fo- sion of the two within one party. This union of all farmer and labor elements, into- one- compact political organization was the ptimary aim of. tthe farmer-labor conference’ which was called by William Mahoney, St. Paul labor léader, and Henry Tiegen, secretary of the Nonpartisan ‘league. Meanwhile the farmer-labor group headed by F. A, Pike, chairman of the party’s state’ central committee, determined in conference to’ call a state conference ‘for next spring with representation apportioned on the basis ‘of’a vote cast ’for its guberna- torial candidates in the. 1922 election. While the Nonpartisan League in its ceriference late yesterday decided to continue its present organization ed; to'“gn-the, mit” in cooperating | with ambor groups in achieving. pol- Atical. “results beneficial to. both. FEOGGERS IN SOUTH TAKEN Arrests Made in’Georgia and Texas‘in Anti-Flogging Crusade by Officials “ 2 Macon, Ga., Sept, 8.—J. E. Blood- worth, traveling salesman, was ar- rested today on warrants charging rioting and assault and battery in connection with recent floggings here. He immediately gave bond in the sum of $5,000 and was réleased: It was the seventh arrest in the roundup of alleged flogsers. Port Arthur, Tex., Sept. 8.—Eight arrests and two Warrants for arr ed men, four. of them -city offici: today made up the tally so far ed by Texas rangers in their investi- gation into recent flogging parties. The indictments were returned by the grand jury and Capt. Roy Nichols of the ranger force served the war- rants. Three of the Port Arthur officials indicted have beeri arrested and mage UNCLE SAM ~ONSHINE ers in World—Royalties Increase Washington, Sept. 8.—Uncle Sam ig one of the largest land owners in the world, sad his rents and royalties amount to a stapendous and ever- increasing sum feed Coal and oil lands form the chief part of his holdings, and immense tracts of oil shale lands, deposits of phosphate, potagh and other import- ant salts add greatly to his acreage. The Bureau of Mines has supervision over fperation of more than a hun- 1 mines distributed through eight: states, and while at present, mining on public land is ovarabadew:| ai by private industry, the govern- nt mines are increasing ae jy in importance. In addition, leases for one phosphate development, oue oil shale project and four potash op- erations have been ented. i toake administered. oper- ations involving 334 Ee gas 4 avenues “and ping trom these. other leases have totaled shout 090) a eee of which 1 a tae. and ‘settle Its own problems tt resolv. |?! LOOMS AHEAD Governor Pinchot Successful in Getting Miners’ Lead- ers to Concede Points ‘be Cleared up Before Set-” tlement Is Certain “ “MAKE WAGE CONTRACT. Harrisburg, Pa, Septe 8—A wage cation will insure resumption of Anthracite mining at an early date was more than half written at noon when“operators and millers tempor- arily adjourned nego Completion of reached on all minor, which have separa:ed the two groups. John L, Lewis, umon president, notified members of h:s conimittee to hold themselves in readiness for assembly this evening to take the: first step in giving union approval. : Unfon negotiaters dropped. an effort to%et a greater wage increase than for mine laborers under. the sisscst settlement term. t suspension in. the anthracite, fields were still under way today. Gover- nor Pinchot was successful late yes- terday in ‘getting the leaders of the mirers’ union to‘ agree to all of the terms of the proposal he made for adjusting the main points in the con- troversy which had shut 'the mines down. igreement to the bat thgre still remained the nec of getting union demand: importance. the for gettin, said. of perhaps 10 days in resuming mi! ing operations, even -should adjust- ments of all terms be made, [Sear ow printed out. tions would result of a tentative contract which would } be placed before a convention of min- ers’ delegates from the anthracite re- gion. The convention is yet to be summoned, Governor Pinchot’s proposal the men be given a flat increase of 10 percent, that all bat eight-hour day arrangements be abandoned, that the union be - recognized and that principles of collective bargaining be accepted in the industry was accepted by the miners’ scale committee, The scale committee authorized its officers to drop the: demand for “check-off collection of dues” and likewise the demand for an increase of more than 10 percent for 100,000 day workers in the field. f Help Save a Life. ferers is only $500. It was San Francisco in 1! once, phe. per capita. out-in the Bismarck Tribune. ed the banks in the county have been considered as‘ re- ‘houses for the funds of the people in this drive to furleigh éounty’s quota AL Schafer, director of number of cities are Rremdanirtens Fargo IN COAL WAR OPERATORS FOR THEM Still Are Numerous Points to contract whose completion and/ratifi- - . {the earthquake that visited Japan. major and, | CONSUL. DE | "| | Max D. Kirjesoff, United States consul: at Yokohania, was killed in’ His wife was also a victim. TWO COUNTY EXHIBITS T0 COUNTY FAIRS Foster and Morton Counties! ‘Will Send, Exhibits to Boost Immigration Harrisburg, Pa., Sept. 8. tai tions looking to an end ofthe ‘mining PRICE FIVE CENTS IAN MOBS CLASH QUAKE SLID D MOUNTING SINTOVA VALLEYS [Penne Ratt or ten pen] LEAGUE WANTS |PEACE STILL ALLIES BACK ITALY INNOTE SENT GREEKS Demand Practically Same Sa- lutes as Asked by Premier Mussolini of Italy LEAGUE KEEPS OFF — If Greece Accepts Ambassa- dor’s Dictates League of Nations Will Not Act Rome, Sept. 8.—The Italian consu- Inte at Patras, Greece, was burned by a mob during an anti-Italian demon- stration, says a dispatch to an Ital- ian newspaper from its corresponden’, in Corfu who received the news frum boatmen arriving from Patras. The Italian colony, numberinz £,000, organized a counter-demonstra- ‘tion and th were victims on both sides. Police and, military surrounde: a Italian quarters for its protec- jon. Central News London, Sept. 8. dispatch from Rot joting a mes- from Corfu it is reported an anti-Italian demonstration has oc- curred at » Greece, in which tho Italian consulate was ‘burned. The members of the Italian colony retali- cted, according to the reports, and two Greeks were killed. SALUTES DEMANDED Paris, Sept. 8—The proposals con- tained in ihe néte which the inter- allied council’ of ambassadors has sent to Greece afte virtually identica! to those of the original ultimatum | dispatched to Athens. by Premier Mussolini. * Ali the penslties the couneil would impose are in conformity with the Two. county exhibitd@ltthose Morton and Foster counties—will be| the three allied nations. instead Italian demands except that the Hel- of} lenic fleet shal lute the fiags o operators had given unquali- There 18 every pre ect that terms back into pro- duction will be agreed upon, it was ! There would be a necessary delay | *"¢ ‘two in Central Ilinois unfon| e negotia-! in the preparation ; that sent to agricultural fairs ow being held in Jowa, Illinois, Wisconsin ‘and Minnesota, J. M. Devine, commission. er of immigration, who i ugureted a plan to gel counties to send the, ex- hibits, anngunced today; Bhch of.the exhibits will be ‘shown in ten ¢oun-’ ties, Foster in court of thé southern counties in Minnesota and Morton , county in one county in Wisconsin Both of j the exhibits are up to-date in every! way and first class. The Foster coun- {ty exhibit was shown at the state |fair-at Fargo. The Morton. county ‘exhibit has been arranged recently. The Morton county exhibit will: stress corn, forage crops and vege- tables. Samples of lignite coal and Hebron brick, and clay and pottery made from native clay also will be shown, Mr. Devine belipves the exhibits will be a fine advertisement for North Dakota, OFFICIALS TO CONVENTION State Auditor D, C. Poindexter,| State Treasurer John Steen and M. E. McIntyre, purdhasing agent of the Board of Administration, have gone to Ashville, N. C, to attend the national convention of secretaries of state, treasurers, auditors and pur- Italy's alone and that the highest Greek military authority shall pre- ' sent his government's regrets for the Jehina murders to the three allied diplomatic representatives in Athens. Demands eet forth in the ambassn- Gori” Rote are: ~ Formal regrets shall be presented by the highest Greek military author- ity to the representatives of the three allied powers in Athens. A funeral service shall be celebra- ted in honor of the slain Italian cor missioners in the Catholic Cathedia in Athens with’ the members of the Greek government in attendance. Warships of the three allied no- tions led by an Italian naval division shall steam into Piraeus Roads the morning of the funeral service and the Greek fleet shall salute the Ital- ian, British and French flags with 21 guns, which salute shall be returne. by the allied warships immediately after the funeral. Military honogs shall be renderc‘! by Greek military units at Prevezu while the bodies of the victima are barked, Geneva, Sept. 8.—(By the ciated Press)—If Italy accepts yester- council of ambassadors Greece LEAGUE MAY NOT ACT Asso inter-allied wil! decision of the While flames leaped and roared i the Presidio to the eastern limits, fromm Fillmore street to the San Francisco ferry, Japan cabled $250,000 3 the imme- _\diate relief of the stricken ¢ity. Japan was the first of all foreign nations to extend. “relief ‘on that occasion.. Don’t forget that. /Put:your dime, your dollar, whatever you. feel } spare into the relief fund so that Burleigh county's quota will be raised quickly —for he helps doubly who helps at already. He said, Burleigh county’s firs@response, he felt sure that little del chasing agents. BURLEIGH RESPONDS TO APPEAL FOR AID FOR QUAKE SUFFERERS Burleigh county’s share ‘in the five million dollar Amer- ican Red Cros fund for the relief of Japanese disaster suf- 906; Tokio in‘1923. ' Every minute counts in the battle with the great: spourge of disease that-follows in the wake of every great catastro- Do it today—$500 from Burleigh means. ee a few cents Three contributions of $10, $5, and = came into the local Red Cross office yesterday evenin; first appeal for funds to aid in relief work in Japan Hat gone of $500. the Junior Red C telegraphin; would exist in the raising of. the complete total. JAPANESE RELIEF. FUND. lease find my. ‘my. subscription for ee the ieee of sufferers in Japanese , Address Bi eras ck Slgned..-..6...sbeteregectereeeers in their seething bed from ou can almost before the reports hats ‘quotas’ to t as a result’ of Ellendale’. Fessenden view her dispute with the Italian government as settled and will not push her request to the Leaque of Nations to investigate the crisis, M Polipis, Greek spokesman, told the correspondents today. |. Polipi ded, however, that ac- ceptance by Greece was contingent ther the program of settle- ed at Parig 4ncluded er-' rangements for the Italian evacue- tion of.Corfy and thé other Greek is- lands seized by ‘the naval forces of the Rome government. WEATHER FORECASTS For Bismarck and’ vicinity: Fair tonight and Sunday. Not mueh change in temperature. For North. Dakota: Fair tonight and Sunday. ‘Cooler extreme southeast. portion tonight, General Westher feather Conditions The pressure is high over the West Coast.’ Low. pressure, by precipitation, prevails over. the Great Lakes region. Road fons throughout the State are mostly in good condition, but the Red trail is getting.yery rough in accompanie:! The roads i ayqoaae 8Y | Grand Forks Jamestown: . Sedesoocsos Qanaadag aeeeshesssesesesy