Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 9, 1923, Page 1

aR Ser Se he Casper _ _ MAIN NEWS SECTION. VOLUME 33. GREECE Y DEATH DEALING WAVES OF JAPRN COAST RADIATED FROM OSHINAA Vivid Word Picture of Great Disaster Drawn by Correspondent; Famine and Pestilence to Be Fought Off With World Help. BY CLARENCE DUBOSE, (United Press Staff Correspondent). (Copyright in U. S., Great Britain and Canada.) TOKIO, Sept. 8.—(By Wireless From Iwaki).—Shaken to pieces by a terrific eruption that accompanied the earth- quakes of Saturday, the volcanic islet of Oshima, picture- ue site of the city of Mother of Pearl, sank into the sea, all its inhabitants being killed by spouting lava or drowned. As the island disappeared beneath the waves it sent great mountains of water rushing 4m upon Yokohama and the bay of Tokio tidal waves that carried ship- ping high on beaches and drowned many in the cities that still wero quivering under the earth shocks. Of the island itse!f, four miles off the mainland, nct a trace remains visible, With its tiny tea houses and famous caves and magnificent shell for which it was world famous it has gone back into the sea from which, centuries ago, it appeared. Through the ages Japan, scient- fats knew, had been sitting over a seething furnace, Probably the thin- nest place in the earth's crust was where the Japan islands jutted from the seas, Beneath the interior of the earth was a fiery cauldron. The fires haa gone through Japan's vol- canos. is }@ nation sitting on a pow- ont tose 4 the powder exploded througir Osh'ma. ‘The volcano’s death came at noon last Saturday, but its dying strug- gies lasted fortwo days and nights —a series of countless earthquakes. ‘akohama is obliterated — the atestect port of the mikado's king- dam is a heap of ruins. ot ‘okio, the capital city and le tine orient, is three-fourths de- stroyed. Kamakura the famed resort of the Far East where oriental and oc- eidental gathered in festival array, ‘was w ped out. In Tokio one bank was left stand- $og. Not a department storo re- mains. Two newspaper offices of the many in the city are left. How many peuple are deac can- not now be raid. The property loss is incalculable but it includes practically all the property, foreign and Japanese, in the cities of Tokio and Yokohama and in the great industrial district near them. High up in the mountains and resorts where the people went to escape the hot, oriental summer, are demaged but were more fortu: nate than romantic Kamakura. The royal family is safe. So is the American ambassador and his etaff. But the death of American consul Kirjassoff at Yokohama is confirmed. Prince Kuni, father of the future empress is dead and it is believed the wedding of the princess and Prince Regent Hirohito will be post- Doned. The great Imperial hotel, in the heart of Tokio was one of the few dings escaping with but slight ‘damage. Yet within sight of it stand the great skeletons of Tokio’s modern “sky-scrapper” district, their frames burned and blackened by fire and twieted by earthquake. But the picture of the people— the great masses left homeless and destitute—ds the sight which beg- gare description. They number somewhere between (Continued on Page Two.) OALVATIONISTS START RELIEF FUND FOR JAPS $600 Quota Is Asked of Casper in Program For Sufferers, Six hundred. dollars is Casper’s quota of a fund of $200,000 now be- ing raised by the Salvation Army throughout the United States for the purpose of assisting in the genera! relief work in stricken Japan. Beginning Monday the Christmas kettles af the local army branch will be placed on the downtown street here and the campaign will con- tinue all during the week. It is confidently expected that an over-subscription wil! be made in this city so that the great humani- tar‘an effort now on to lift Japas nese people out of the wreckage and death scenes of their devastated cities will not lack sufficient fi< nances. N. Y. MAYOR SERIOUSLY ILL, SAID SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., Sept. 8.—Waging the hardest fight of his strenuous career, this time against the ravages of pleuro-pneu- monia, Mayor John F, Hylan to- night was successfully combatting the disease. His courage may win the fight, physicians attending him say. Dr. Charles E. Nammack of Belle- vue hospital, New York City, person- al friends of the Mayor, and special- ist on pneumonia and its attending complications feels certain the ex- ecutive will weather the storm of illness. However, this afternoon, he changed his plans to return to New York City and will remain here until Monday at least. Despite optimism that prevatis among the physicians, however, some of them are hiding the fact that Mayor Hylan is a very sick man, Starting this morning every- one except physicians, nurses and Mrs. Hylan were barred from the ick room. OLD FOLKS TOUR TO BE HELD TODAY Attention is again called to the tour for the old folks and invalids of Casper which is to be given by the Casper Motor club this after- noon. The old people do not al- Ways get out as easily as those of the younger generation and for this reason the club has thought up the splendid idea of showing them Casper by the auto route with absolutely no trouble to them. Persons who desire to go on this tour this efternoon should give their names and addresses to thé chamber of commerce and should be ready to leave their homes at 2:30 o'clock. Members of the Motor club who can fur- nish cars should also inform the chamber. This is the most unique thing that the Casper Motor club has done and should not fail of recely- ing a hearty response. The more old people who take advantage of the offer, the greater will be the success of the tour. a FORD GIVES $15,000 FOR JAP RELIEF DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 8.—(United Press)—The Ford Motor company will spend $15,000 for Japanese dis- aster rellet-immediately, it was an- nounced at the Ford offices here to- night. Instructions were cabled to the Japanese agency of the company to spend that sum where it is most needed immediately, It was said. It was not indicated whether or not Henry Ford had made a separate persona! contribution. CONSUL KIRJASSLOFF KILLED TRYING TO RESCUE HIS WIFE KOBE, Sept. 8.—(United Press)— Max D. Kirjassloff, American con- sul to Yokohama, died while work- ing desperately in the ruins of the consulate in search of his wife, ac- cording to an eye-witness who ar- rived here from the stricken city. When the building collapsed fol- lowing the earthquake, Kirjassloff escaped unhurt. Unable to find his wife and believing she was buried in the debris, he ran back and tried to tear aside the tangle of timbers in the hope of saving Mrs. Kirjassloff. A moment, later the consul was pinned to the ground by huge gird- ers. Fatally wounded, Kirjassioff man- aged to gasp out to members of the office staff: “Take care of my two boys. Suna And WYOMING WEEKLY REVIEW CASPER, WYO., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1923 Then he died, The boys escaped injury. AUSTIN TO MEXICO CITY MEXICO CITY, Mexico, Sept., 7.— (By Mail to United Press.—From Austin, Texas, to Mexico City by Ford in 11 days, is a new record re- cently established. Mr. and Mrs. Vicente Jararo and son made the trip, which is extremely difficult, due to lack of roads in many parts. INGUEST OVERS BE CONDUCTE The inquest into the death of Hugh Honeycutt will be held at 10 o'clock tomorrow mornttig. ~ ‘By ‘this time it ‘s thought that W. H. Cram- bliet who is now in the county hos- pital with a knife wound in his chest will be able to attend the hearing. Examination of the body of Honey- cutt, whose death {is said to have oc- BIG_ VICTORY BUBBLES AND BLOWS GET MIXED; GUN IS BROUGHT INTO PLAY} Saturday night and a bar of soap a pleasant connection that might be indicative of a bathtub full of bubbles and shining lather on the ever-whitening skin of a mem- ber of the human species, but no such picture was brought to the mind of W. C. Rowe last night when he dodged a bullet fired from the revolver of Sam Cummings, all on account of that same scap. Rowe, be it known, 1s, or was at that time a tenant of Cum- mings’. Both are now guests of the police so the point is not im- portant. Rowe had borrowed a bar of soap from his landlord. He had in fact purchased it,-but had not paid the requisite sum for its retention, Since the soap had been consumed in the process of re- moving from the body of Rowe that portion of real estate that gets on everyone in the course of days, there was no use trying to get the soap back. Cummings dunned his man. It time, for the tenant had only six cents In his pocket. ‘This was less than the price of the soap. Discussion lea to argument, and argument led to a physical demonstration. According to Cummings, Rowe struck at him, landing a blow. Cummings is a small manjand an old man at that—let the genera- tion that has grown up in Casper witness this. He immediately turned and went into his house, coming out again with a revolver. A shot was fired in Rowe's di- | rection, but the lucky star that | permitted the tenant to obtain the | soap also permitted him to avoid the bullet. Rowe swore out a complaint with the police for the arrest of Cummings, and Cummings retal- Jated with a complaint against Rowe on the assault charge: “Blows may end in bubbles sometimes,”” quoth Cummings last night, “but what about bubbles ending in blows-" Both admitted when they surveyed their prison cells that bubbles burst east]; TULSA CITY OFFICIALS TO FACE OUSTER SUITS, SAID Police Commissioner to Feel Effects of First Blow Struck by Military In Effort at General Cleanup TULSA, Okla., Sept. 8.—(United Press).—Military authorities enforcing martial law here, prepared tonight to strike the first blow at “higher-ups” in connection with the investigation into alleged beating and whippings of prison- ers. Announcement was made-that ouster proceedings would be started Monday against Henry W. Kiskadden, police commissioner for Tulsa, and eral members of the department. Proceedings will be in charge of the state attorney general's office. Witnesses before a military court declared one prisoner under exami- nation had been forced to drink his own blood, gushing from a wound inflicted by 9 policeman with a re- volver butt. The action announced tonight. served to make more tense the situ- ation existing in Oklahoma as a re- sult of the fight waged by Governor J. C. Walton agai#st floggers. The fight came into the open for the first time when Governor Walton engag- ed in word debate with officials of the Ku Klux Klan in Oklahoma City, ‘The situation in Oklahoma to- night, admittedly the most tense since the “Sooners” gathered at the boundary line for the opening of the ‘strip’ was as follows: Martlal law in Tulsa county. Investigators for the governor working In McIntosh county with a view of extending martial law if con- ditions warrant. The governor has stated that if it is necessary to place another county under military rule, it will be extended to cover the whole state. A “reign of terror’ more severe than’in Tulsa was re- ported in McIntosh county. Police powers with authority to carry weapons granted to persons threatened by mob action, The governor's guaranteeing that Jany one convicted of killing mob} |membere, would be pardoned. Four confessed members of mobs, who also admitted membership in (Continued on Page Two) MAX D. KIRJASSLOFF, United States consul at Yokohama, who was killed"while trying to rescue his wife in the recent earthquake. LAIN MAN TO DHERE MONDAY curred in a drunken brawl witht Crambilet exst of Casper last week Shows. that the blow which broke. the man’s neck. was probably on the chin, A bad gash on the chin was also received from the blow, ac- cording to the supposition. It is thought that Crampllet was first struck by the knife and then he sent his fist into the face of his assailant. CLAIM cays. It will take that long to dis- tribute copies of the agreement to |‘the various locals, which must give their sanction, it was stated. After the agreement !s sanctioned the miners and operators will return to Harrisburg and place thelr signa- tures to the new contract which will replace the one expired September 1. “This agreement represents the greatest concession the operators have ever made,” John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Work- ers sald. “It is not as much as we| would like to have had, but it rep-| resents great progress.” The short respite of the strike will not materially affect the coal supply of the nation it is belleved. There was a large supply in the hands of consumers and distributors who feared for months that the walkout was coming. This will be enough to tide over until the mines resume operations, One of the chief points in dispute was the duration of the new con- tract. The dperators wanted to make {t for as short a time as pos- sible, They were willing to carry the ten per cent wage increase over a longer period. Living costs will change in a year or two and they wanted to be in a position to put a decrease into effect if necessary, The general impression of the delegates i9 that the settlement wil! result in an increased cost of a ton of coal from sixty cents to one dollar. Governor Pinchott who ne- gotiated the settlement believes it will only amount to about sixty ‘cents and plans to take steps which may safeguard the consumer against jcarrying all the increase, The new wage scale—ten per cent |highér than the old—will cost the operators $30,000,000 annually they say. The eight hour day which has been agreed upon will force the op-| erators to pay about $2,500,000 in| additional help or overtime to pres- ent 12 hour men, they contend. MAIN NEWS SECTION. JS TO ALLIES olcanic Isle and Its People Swallowed by Sea HARRY DURHAM HEADS DISTRICT KIWANIS CLUBS Next Convention Voted To Boulder at Meet- ing in Cheyenne. CHEYENNE, Wyo, Sept. 8— (Special to The Tribune)—Harry B. Durham of Casper was elected dis- trict governor of Kiwanis for the Colorado-Wyoming district at the closing session here last night, while Boulder, Colo., was selected as the next convention center. G. A. Greenwalt of Denver and H. 0. Hop- per of Ft. Collins were elected leu- tenant governors, and C. E. Arm- strong of Colorado Springs, treasurer The election of Mr. Durham to the governorship is looked upon by al) Kiwanians of this district as one of the great things to come out of the two-day session here. The new gov- ernor is considered to be eminentty qualified for the high office into which he has been placed. His long period of activity ror the betterment of the Casper Kiwanis club, his un- ceasing epergy that had already gained for him the honor of past president of the Casper club, made him the choice of practically every Kiwanian assembled. His success in the election was furthered by the enthusiastic support which he re- ceived from the Casper delegatio: ED BY MINERS Great Concessions Won From Operators In ‘Agreement to} End Anthracite Walkout; Resumption of Mining In Ten Days Is Predicted by Leaders BY PAUL R. MALLON (United Press Staff Correspondent). HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 8.—The final agreement between the operators and miners that will end the hard coal strike was signed shortly after 9 o’clock tonight in| the office of Governor Pinchot. John L, Lewis, president of the miners said that the tri-district convention probably; would meet in Scranton on Monday, September 17. Miners leaders say they believed the miners would be back in the pits in about ten No mention has been made by any party to the negotiations recently as to who is to carry the burden of the increase. It was Pinchot's orig: inal scheme—and {t is expected he will follow out the arrangement as far as possible—that the operators | would absorb ten cent out of his es-| timated increase of sixty cents. The remaining fifty cents would be cared for by restrictions in distribution and rafl rate reducttons, The agreement carries with it, be- sides the ten per cent increase in wages of all workers, full recogni- tion of the right of collective bar- gaining without arbitration, full rec- josnition of the union without the|tion Monday, check-off method of collecting union dues and recognition of the eight hour day, NIPPON OIL OFFICIALS VISIT CITY D. Matsuzawa, chief of foreign affairs of the Nippon Oil company of Tokyo, Japan, and K. Tsunoda, also associated with the same oriental concern, arrived in Cas- per this morning. Both are making a tour of the Salt Creek fleld today with offi clals of the National Supply com- pany and expect to visit other nearby oil producing districts later. The wife and two children of Mr. Matsuzawa are living in Tokyo and whether or not they escaped the recent disaster to that city is still uncertain as no werd has been received from them by 4 Crile NUMBER 7. CONFLICT WITH ITALY WILL END IN PEACE, LATE REPORTS STATE |Conditions for Amends Laid Down by Council | Of Ambassadors Are | Agreeable to Athens. (By The United Press). Peaceful settlement of the |conflict between Greece and Italy over the slaying of the Japanese oil official —_——. —— BIGLOAN TO BE ASKED BY JAPAN, SAID =. NEW YORK, Sept. 8.—Internat-| Corfu. ional bankers in London and New| Meanwhile, with war clouds clear York are expected to be approached | tng, there was a minor outbreak at sometime within the next thres|Patras, where Greeks attacked an months by the Japanese government | Italian ship and the Italian consul- with a proposal to float a large re-|ate and engaged in a clash which construction loan. | police finally ended. In all probability such action on A Greek commission tnvestigating the part of the Nipponese will be|the Janina assassinations reported in order after the paramount and| evidence that the slayers were Al nitial problem of caring for the|banians and Greece is reported to homelers and destitute survivors of | have sent tin ultimatum to Albania the great earthquake there is tend-| demanding the murderers be given ed to. Since the national finances of | UP in five days. the Japanese government are in ex- cellent shape practically no difft culty will be experienced in the ab- sorption of the anticipated loan is-| sue in England and the United States, |Italian commissioners at |Jania and Italy’s seizure of | Corfu was at hand tonight. Both Greece and Italy accepted proposals of the council of ambas- |sadors for ending the incident. An Jinternational commission of inquiry | under Japanese direction will inves- tigate the slaying, while Greece posts a forfeit of 60,000,000 lire and | pays military honors to the dead GREECE CALLS ON ALBANIA FOR SLAYERS CORFU, Sept. 8—(United Press)—~ An ultimatum has been delivered by Greece to Albania, demanding the surrender within five days of the slayers of the five Italian officials near Jania, according to a report here. Greece made the demand on Alj- bania following an investigation which demonstrated that Albanians assassinated the Italians, the report stated. Demonstrations against the Ital- Jans are going on tn Patras, accord- ing to reports reaching Corfu. | Two Italians were injured when a Greek mob attacked the Italian | consulate at Patras, Two Greeks were said to have been killed. Police repelled the attack after a short but furious battle. The consulate was set on fire before the attackers were driven off. ROME, Sept. 8(United Press—It Greece has sent an ultlmatum to Albania as reported, Athens merely is attempting to transfer the blame for the Italian assassinations, it was | stated in official circles here. | WAR DEFINITELY AVERTED, BELIEF. By HENRY Woop (United Press Staff Correspondent.) GENEVA, t. 8.—Both Greece and Italy have accepted the allied ambassadors proposals as a basis of | settlement. Kansas—Fair Sunday and Mon-| Leaguo of Nations leaders are day; not much change in tempera-| confident that the conflict is at an j tur jena. | Iowa—Fair Sunday and probably| But the turmoll that threatened |Monday; slightly warmer Monday for a time to cause war has left thé |in extreme east portion. gue with a serious problem on Nebraska—Fair and slightly hands—the problem of saving Its warmer Sunday; Monday fair. face before the world, Wyoming—Fair Sunday and Mon-| Leading statesmen at Geneva ay; somewhat cooler in north por-| recognize that as a result of Italy’s challenge of the league's com- Sunday,|petence to adjudicate the dispute Monday|the question cannot remain mnset- Continued on Page Two. Fair and Cooler | Weather Forecast | South Dakota — Fair |warmer in east portion; fair. NIPPON SUFFERERS LOOK Voluntary Contribu Casper Public In Raising Quota Toward Jap Will Casper be able to report subscriptions of $2,000 be this to Japanese relief early in the week? It all depends on the voluntary gtion of the Casper public and to this end Mrs. the campaign, and others identified with County Red Cross chapter are asking that prompt action be taken. Subscriptions should be taken or sent to Red Cross hea quarters in room 219, Becklinger building. . FOR AID HERE leaps and bounds but nothing has due to tions ‘Asked of the been reported from Casper, delay in receiving instructions. It is certain that Cesper will be as generous and prompt as others if it lives up to its reputation for charitable enterprise. No more worthy demand has been made since Only by prompt response city do its share toward | fighting off famine and pestilence |emong suffering millions in Japan. } Subscriptions have started off in and it fs the hope that they in without The honor anese Relief E. R. Purkiser, in charge of the Natrona a gen of Red Cr will nue to pp personal solic ous sp! or] als ur Reports are being received cities and towns throughout the/ roll will show names of all wha country are going over the top. The|contribute $5 er. Place your Central States fund {6 growing by!name on the honor roll at once, that ation. the