Evening Star Newspaper, September 5, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Showers this afternoon tomorrow partly cloudy; n temperature. Temperature for ended ut 2 p.m. today: Hi 3 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 7 Full report on page 7. today. . wenty: or _tonight; 0 change in -four hours ghest, 86, at 1, at' 5 a.m. gus?ng N. Y. Stocks ll_l.tl B onds, Page 22 he Zn post 28,081, Entered s second office Washington. cluss matter D. 10,000 REFUGEES DIE IN FLAMES AFTER QUITTING STRICKEN TOKIO; ANXIETY ABOUT MANY AMERICANS T rapi)ed inYard of Burning Factory DEATH LIST SET AT 320,000 NOW DisasterAccountsBe:| lieved to Be None Too Vivid. B the Associated Press. Fresh calamity has overtaken smitten Tokio and the terror-strick- en remnants of its population. Nearly 10,000 people, seeking refuge in the vard of a military clothing factory located in a suburb, were trapped by flames and burned to death. Food and water are scarce in the capital. As the story of the Japanese dis- aster is unfolded in the fragmentar: messages from press association c. respondents, Japanese newspapers and individuals, it is apparent that the magnitude of the catastrophe has not been overdrawn. In ouly one dispatch has been a suggestion that the death list will’ not reach the proportions al- ready indicated. This was a message | |D. C. Contributions Pour Into from the Radio Corporation of America in Japan, which said the Japanese home office estimated the dead in Tokio at 10,000, Yoko- hama at 100,000 On the other hand, Admiral Edwin A. Anderson, commanding the in United States Asiatic fleet, says the | last unofficial reports give the cas- ualties in the capital and Yokohama as 240,000 dead and 450.000 injured. A wireless message from Admiral Apderson to Admiral Edward W. Eberle, chief of naval operations, conveying this information, was picked up in San Francisco.” Naval officers in San Francisco believe that Admiral Anderson, who is speeding to Japanese waters, obtained advices of conditions in Japan by radio be- fore conufunicating with Rear Ad- miral Eberle. Another estimate, this one coming from the Eastern News Agency, says that 320,000 persons have been killed in_the entire stricken district. Two hundred and sixteen distinct earth shocks were felt in Tokio last ! Saturday, followed by fifty-seven on Sunday. The most severe tremor wa: of six minutes’ duration, Flames Burn Fifty Hours. The flames that swept the capital burned for fifty hours, leaving Tokio and its environs in ruins and desola tion. Fire and earth convulsions to- gether have devastated an area of twenty-one square miles in and around Tokio, demolishing 350,000 | houses. The suffering of Yokohama, too, appears not to have been exaggerated. An official statement recetved by U. Oyama, the Japanese consul general in San Francisco, says that the great port itself and the Yokosuka naval atation have been wiped out. This message. sent by a former Japanese consul general who is now at Shang- hai, added that more than half of Toklo has been destroyed Volcano Active, serting that ‘a new volcano has broken Into activity in the Chichihu range, fifty miles northwest of Toklo. Meanwhile, the Japanese cities and towns unaffected by the disaster are beénding every effort to relieve the condition of the millions who are be- lieved to be suffering from injurles and lack of food. Cargoes of rice arc arriving at Yokohama and Shiregawa. The efforts of the Japanese them- selves are soon to be augmented by aid from across ths Pacific. Seven United States destroyers and a cruis- er are speeding to Yokohama with supplies, while two Army transports expect to steam from Manila for Jap- anese waters today. All Shipping Board veSscls in the far east have been ordered to take any part In the relief work that may be assigned to them by Admiral - Anderson. Ship- ping board steamers in Pacific coast ports have received instructions to suspend frelght and passenger book- ings tor thirty days so as to insure the transportation of relief supplies. 10,000 REFUGEES BURN. Sought Shelter in Factory Yard Only to Die in Flames. By the Associated Press. OSAKA, September 5.—Approxi- mately 10,000 refugees, fleeing from ,the ruins of Toklo, were burned to death in the yard of a military cloth- ing factory in the industrial suburb of Honjo. Water and provisions are reported still scarce in Toklo. Three persons are sharing a single piece of bread. So vast an area of Japan has been devastated by the greatest earth- quake In the history of this country that it will.-be long before the actual loss of life is known. The most reli- 2bje estimates of the dead up to the present reach as high as 300,000 to 500,000. Tokfo and Yokohama, with sur- rounding towns, which formed the center of the disturbances, are almost completely in ruins. For two Tokio was swept by flames, and apart from the loss of life caused di- rectly through the flllln{ of the buildings, thousands must have per- ished in their attempts to make their way through the fire zones and other thoussnds from exhaustion. ‘The Manichi received a dispatch to- day saying that Baron Okura's resi- (fifi on Page 4, Column 1.) i there |and Edwa I the American Red Cros o ! immediately ¥rom Osaka comes a dispatch as- | A terrific_catastrophe has s a duty to perform. raised for relief work. fund. There is an urgent need f be fata'. As soon as possible that the city suffering humanity, will measure were made for assistance dus than their part. ing during an emergency. | am the same sympathetic attention times past, and that when the will be among the cities in the the stricken land. g Relief Fund.” undersigned), at the Second VICTOR B. DEYBER, Ch AMERCAS HEART *AND PURSE PN TOHELP APANES $5.000,000 Fund of Amer- ican Red Cross. America opened wide its heart and of devastated Japan today. ing every agency to rush supplies of food and medicine to the ruined Njp- pon cities, the American people them- selves were pouring their dollars by the thousands into the $5.000,000 relief fund of the American Red Cross re- quested by President Coolldge. Hardly had the President's appeal for funds had time to gain general circulation before eager responses be gan to reach Red Cross headquarters here. The first mail this morning brought a flood of checks ranging In size from $5, from individuals, to $25 pany, New York bankers, contributed. the country-wide evidences of sym- pathy. responding generously —and without hesitation to the eall for emergency funds. Contributions of $500 and $1.000 from individuals hdve been received by the scores and it is estimated that individual _contributions exceeding $1,000 each from New York city alone had passed $150,000 before noon to- day. - In addition, there were thou- ands of smaller contributions whicn ad not been tabulated. One New York couple, Edward L. Habkness and Anna M. Harkness, sent checks for $5000 each. The executive committee of the American Red Cross, met this morn- ing and unanimously voted to take over the purchasing and shipping de- partments if the American Rellef Ad- ministration to insure expeditious handling_of supplies destined from Japan. Dr. R. B. Teusler of Tokio. rd W. Frazer. both former chalrman of the Japanese chapter of were present. turn to, Japan thé Red relief They are expected to to represent Cross and become active work. Every chaptér of the Red Cross had telegraphed headquarters here today, that its organization for raising its quota of the $5.000,000 relief fund has been completed and contributions al- ready were being recelved. Even far-off Hawall cabled that it had tabulated thousands of dollars in contributions. Many pledges of support were among the telegrams read at the meeting.. The Federal Council of Churches in America vledged active co-operation, and the Vassar Collese Community donated 2.000. The executive committee simul- taneously voted to increase the fund of $10,000 for the relief of Americans in the devastated areas to $20.000 at the request of Ambassador Woods. and an additional $2,500 was placed at the disposal of the American con- sul at Kobe. D. C. Donates $06,000. With the passing of the first day of solicitation for funds to aid suffering in Japan, Washington was reaching toward the $6,000 mark in its quota of $50.000 for the $5.000,000 national Red Cross disaster rellef fund. Victor B. Deyber, president of the Second National Bank and chairman of the fund committee for the District chapter of the Red Cross, announced this morning that a total of $2,399.00 had been raised over night. In addi- tion to this amount the Evening Star jand the Washington Post each has pledged $1,000, and the Evening Star at noon today had a total of $2,494.13 including its own contribution 'in its fund, which, upon completion, will be turned over to the local Red Cross. This made a total of $5,893.13 toward the city’s quota. A meeting of active leaders of the local chapter of the Red Cross wi held last night in the office of Mr: John Allan Dougherty at the National Red Cross building. At that time a plan of campalgn was mapped out tentatively. It was decided to pro- cecd with the task of raising the local quota along a broad line in the District,. seeking the co-operation of churches, clubs, fraternal organiza- tions and societier and various gov- ernmental groups in obtaining the funds. Machinery to work out this plan wasg started this morning and it I expected that organization will be erfected under Mr. Deyber -of the ocal finance committee withig th next day. Included in the total of $2,399 re- celved thus far by Mr. Deyber are contributions of $1,000 each from the Board of Trade and the Chamber of Commerce. The Sanitary Grocery Company sent in a contribution for a similar ) amount to The Star !0. Co-operation and as: its purse to the sorely stricken people | While the government was organiz- | 000, which Kuhn, Loeb and Com- | The National Capital kept pace with’ Appeal to National Capital To Aid in Japanese Relief wept Japan, and Washington has President Coolidge has asked the aid of all Americans in relieving distress in the stricken areas. Red Cross has pledged that $5,000,000 of American money will be ‘The American National Washington has been assigned $50,000 as its quota of this or this money. Funds contributed immediately may save lives, while' procrastination and delay may ‘Washington wants to place the $50,000 in the hands of the national organization. As chairman of the finance sub-committee, , which has never turned a deaf ear to an appeal for 1 feel certain up as fully to its duty today it did during the war times of yesterday. This city has an enviable record to maintain. ‘When appeals the war Washingtonians did more tance have never been lack- sure that this al will receive that similar calls have received totals are checked up Washingten forefront with aid to sufferers in Donations should be distinctly marked: “For the Japanese Checks should bear this designation. be addressed to the chairman of the finance sub-committee (the ational Bank, who will acknowledge receipts through the columns of local newspapers. They should airman Finance Committee, District Chapter Red Cross. FUNDS SENT STAR Contributions received at. the office of The Star for the Japanese relief 10.00 ugg : fus Scott. . { Henry "Eberbach... .. |Mr.and Mrs. W. P. Tibl {R. L. Barrington !Dr. J.A. Taylor. |Abbie Tompkin “A Sympathizer bits Moses. Moses Mose - Moses . . I Thompson |1+ R. Robinson. i |Clair W. Crankshaw {Marie J.' Bradshaw... Virginia A. Bradehaw . Mr. and Mre,Hector Lazo Mrs. A. C. Nothstine. Gertrude Barry i Le Verne Beales Sam Fusco ... E. J. Thompson Girard C. Wise George D. Horn Warren A. Ross Ameriean Legion, Delano Post, Francis R. Weller Mf. and Mrs. John M. Tiss Elizabeth G. Newbold. .. ‘Nrs. T. C. Farrow. 3 1 Rudgyard Smith ..... , Mrs. Rudgyard Smith. | Stone & Poole. . | Rosalind Moore i Sarah E. Willis. |John A Phillips Arthur J. Linn. !S. A Bond........ ,J. Edward Fowler W. Schaus ! Jai 22200 co2222: .00 00 50.00 Total. ... L...82,494.13 Contributions to the fund, when sent to The Star, should | payable to “Japanese Relief Fund.” | All_contributions will be acknowl- ediged in the columns of The Star. MISSIONARIES SAVED LUTHERANS BELIEV Baptists Also Reported to Have Escaped Death in Japanese Tragedy. By the Associated Press BALTIMORE, Md., September 5.— In a letter sent today to the 3,000 pastors of the United Lutheran Church in America requesting them | distressed in Japan, the board of for- ed the belief that all its missionaries in Japhn are safe, having been absent | in mountain resorts. | The missionaries were believed to be at Karauivawa, a resort fifty miles northeast of Toklo, for the hot weather. The Baptist missionarles ! were reported safe at Karauivawa I12st night. SEES FRENCH REVOLT. Actress Says Monarchy Sought by Many in France, Olga Petrova, the actress, said today on her arrival on the steamship Olym- plc, from Paris, that the movement for a royalist revolution in_France is being widely discussed in Paris. Many of her friends, she sald, believed France would return to monarchical government. 'Koreans Poisoni By Cable to The Star. PEKING, September 5.—Korean in- dependents are poisoning wells~and fleeing from Toklo, the Funabashi radio station reports. Many of them re armed, and they have explosives. They are resisting the troops. Efforts to maintain order are only partly successful. . Prince Kanin and the Dowager Princess Yamashina are missing. Princese Kayo was burned to death. Eight hundred patients at the Uni- " FOR APANESE AID fund. up to noon today, are as fol- | 1.00 | 3383 323333333333333= be made | to collect funds for the relief of the | eign missions of that church express- | NEW YORK, September 5.—Mme. Resisting Troops, Japanese Say 'WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ening e WASHINGTON, D. C.,. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1923—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. U. S. Consul List in Yokohama Grows. NAVAL HOSPITAL fMASS OF - RUINS Woods Emphasizes Grave Need of Fi)od. Fate of Americans Reported Killed. Max Kirjassoff, consul general at !Yokohama Mrs. Max Kirjassoff, Yokohama. Paul E. Jenks, vice consul at Yoko- hama. { Elwood G. Babbitt, assistant com- mercial attache at Tokio. Family of E. G. Babbitt Reported Safe. _Two children of Mr. and Mrs. Kirjassoff at Kobe Sam J. Wardell, vice consul at| Yckohama. e Willlam F. Nas, preter at Yokohama. Leo D. Sturgecon, Yokohama Mr. and Max student inter- I vice consul at| Mrs. Willlam Boyd Spen- cer of 1343 Park road S W. Lowry Farnham. brother of Arthur B. Farnham, 3140 17th street. | W. R_Lynch. formerly with United | ; States Shipping Board here. ' Representative Ernest R. man of New Jersey. Miss Jane Neil Scott, Y. worker. All on Y. W. C. I. N. McAllister, San Francisco. George Young.' San Francisco Miss Grace Heller, Harry Esting. Chicago. Mrs. Harry Esting, Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. C. Gréiner, Chicago. Kdwin P. Brown and party, Boston employes of Singer S Machine Company e :‘l’;r‘l‘i F. | junders aptist missiongries. All L'rl‘f«ed Luthcran missionartes. aj. Ernest Pugmir i afkorneet Pugmire and family, Capt. W. B. Bullivan, United States | Marine Corpd. attached to embassy. Believed safe, but report not con- firted Acker- W €. A Reported Injured. _Commander U. R. Webb, United | {States Naval Hospital, at ¥okohama Safety in Doubt. _Rev. Mark McNeal, S. J. Jesuit| {College, formerly of Georgetown Unl- | "ell;;“fi" John McKi: | shop John cKim, in c H Lpiscopal Church work in --:‘I-l:‘a‘lle . Rev. Norman C. Binstead, formerly {of St.”Alban's Parish, g Rev. Willlam Buchanan, Rev. Wal ter Buchanan, missionaries, brothers | of Dr. J. C. Buchanan of 901 M street | northwest. Miss Ruth Burnside of Hyattsville, ! sister of H. W. Burnside of 507 30th | street northwest. ! Harry H. Campbell, brother of Mrs. Eugene W. Bond of 222 Blair road Miss Mary B. Campbell, sister of Harry H. Campbell. ; Leighton H. Peebles. brother of Miss Annie B. Peebles of 1617 19th street northwest Miss Mary Hoffheims. sister of W. offheims of 1315 Decatur street northwest. Homer Rhodeheaver. Billly Sunday i _Miss Myrtie King. daughter of Mrs. | Will R. King of the Farragut apart ments. wh Clarence O. Dubose. Tokio corre- spondent for the United News Service. Dr. and Mrs. J. T. Meyers, mission- arles of the Epworth Methodist Epis- | copal Church fouth. | 1 | {E { assistant to | i | | | While all Americans in Tokio are | believed to be safe, American colon- | lies in other devastated Japanese | cities, especially among members of | | the consular service, are feared to! ! have suffered severe casualties, ac-! | cording to brief messages that came | | slowly into the State Department | here today over partially restored dines of communication. ! Ambassador Cyrus E. Woods, in { the first message he has been able to | file direct from the destroyed capitadl | of Japan, reported that he believed | Americans in.that city had escaped | death or injury, but added that he understood a number of Americans in Yokohama were dead. He placed the number of dead in Tokio at only | 10,000, but failed te name the source | from which he had obtained his in- | formation. 4 & i That it is still impossible to obtain | authentic information in the catas- | trophe-ridden area, however, is indi-.| cated by the conflicting reports that the State Department is receiving from its representatives in the orient. One report stated that only Vice Consul Sam J. Wardell of the (Continued on Page 4, Column 2. ng Tokio Wells, versity Hospital have perished. Dam- age to the imperial palace was slight, and it has been reopened to care for refugees. One-third of the buildings in' Tokio are still standing. Many were wreck- ed by the earth tremors, and the rest were burned. Among the destroyed structures were the Bank of Japan, the Mitsul, the Tokio Bank and the Yasuda. The department of justice, the navy building, the supreme court bullding, the house of re) ntatives, the pre- fectural office building and the Im- perial Hotel wcz not destroy e .k WHENU. S. HOSPITAL ! beset Washingtonians having friends| | and | Commander U. ghmmr of Arthur B. Farnham of 3140 | Yokohama, | escaped. | Curtis COMMANDER HURT FALLSINYOKDHAMA Two D. C. Families Reported‘ Safe—Fate of Mission- aries in Doubt. The suspense which for days has! relatives broken by in Japan today was: news of the injury of; R. Webb, 1832 Kenyon street, and the safety of Mr. and Mre. William Boyd Spencer of 1343 Park road and W. Lowry Farnham, 17th street. No deaths of Washingtonians have been reported. These mossages were the first to come to relatives or friends in this city concerning local persons in the stricken area. Commander Webb was in charge of the United States Naval Hospital at Yokohama, in the collapse of which he was Injured. He has made his home here from time to time at the Kenyon street premises. Miss Anne Pegram of that address, sister of Mrs. Webb, today was noti- | fled by the State Department of the message from Japan, saying that the hospital had collapsed, and that the | ommander was injured. There were no further details. During the war Commander Webb | was in Washington at various times | | during changes of assignment to duty | in the Navy. Among his services dur- ing the war was the command of the ! hospital ships “Mércy” and “Comfort Word concerning Mr. and Mrs. | Spencer was received this morning by | Mrs. Edward F. Moores, an intimate ! triend of the family, in a cablegram | from Kobe, Japan. The cable said! that both were safe and well. Mr.| Spencer Is representative of the in-! ternational law firm of J. H. De Beker, | at Yokohama. Farnham Family Safe. | Arthur B. Farnham was notified to- day by the Natlonal City Company that a message had been received arlier today saying that his brother, | W. Lowry Farnham, and family were' safe. The family had been at Kobe,: and had just left, according to the| message, when the disaster befell.) There was nothing to {ndicate whether | their home, on a bluff in Yokohama, was destroyed. ] M. Farnham is a brother of Miss | Emma J. Farnham of 3138 17th stree He was born in Washington, and re celved his early education’ here, but | had been in Japan about fifteen years. | The last visit to Washington was in the fall of 1921. Mr. Farnham's offices | were in Toklo. ! Sinters Still Hope. Two sisters here of the American consul general . Max D. Kirjassoff, at who has been reported killed, are still hoping against hope that their brother may somehow have They are the Misses Rose d Lillian Kirjassoff of 1400 Girard treet northwest. Although no definite word has been heard from Capt. W. B. Sullivan of he Marine Corps, attached to the em- bassy at Tokio, officials here were in- clined to the hope that the report saying the embassy staff was safe also included Capt. Sullivan. He has a brother-in-law, Ernest E. Eiler, at Quantico. Capt. Sullivan was' in Washington for a time, assigned to the naval inteligence. Friends of the Rev. Norman C. Bin- stead, who I8 in Japan for the Epis- copal Church, today entertained hope that perhaps he had gone to the mountains for part of the summer and may haVe escaped the quake. He had been a worker in St. Alban's par- ish, at St. David's Chapel, Conduit and Canal roads. No News of Buchanan. Two brothers of Dr. J. C. Buchanan of 901 M street northwest, are in Japan, it was learned last night. They are the Rev. Willlam Buchanan, a missionary there for the last thirty- four years, thought to be at Gifu, and the Rev. Walter Buchanan. president of the Presbyterian Seminary at Kobe. The latter was in Washington last summer. The Rev. William Buchanan has two_children, ‘Miss Elizabeth and Danlel Buchanan. Miss Myrtle King of the Farragut Apartments, who with Miss Emma Tucker of Baltimore is on her way around the world, was_said by her mother, Mrs. Will R. King, to be in Japan. - ,The two girls started on their world-wide tour some time ago, it was said, teaching one season in Oregon, another in Honolylu, and expecting to teach this coming season in the Phil- ippines. No word has been received from them since the disaster. Mrs, Clare O. Dubose, well known in ‘Washington, wife of Clarence M. Du- bose, Tokic correspondent of the United News Service, obtained pass- ports yesterday to sail for Japan, Mr. Dubose was registered at the Imperial Hotel in Toklo, August 15, Star. PSS e H1,THeRE! £y \ COOLIDGE.URGED TO PICK 12,000 BY MERIT TEST Civil Service Reform i,eague Proposes Policy to Free Executive From Office-Seekers’ Importunities. Measures designed to relieve the Chief Executive from the importuni- ties of office-seekers were recom- mended to President Coolidge today 'by a committee of the National Civil Service Reform League, headed by the organization's president, Willlam Dudley Foulke. The committee was accompanied to the White House by Chairman Deming of the Civil Service Commission : The first recommendation was that the President issue an order providing for appointment in each case of the first man on elvil service eligible lists for presidential postmasters. The presidential class of postmasters em- braces about 12,000 offices and the committee contended that such an order would effectually dispose of patronage disputes arising under the present system of awarding these offices. Would Include Others. A similar order to cover the fourth- ciass postmasters and rural carriers, requiring the Post Office Department to choose the first name on lists es- tablished by competitive examination, was urged. This would take in ap- proximately 37,000 postmasters and 45.000 rural carriers. The committee advised that steps be taken by the President looking to the classification of such offices now xcepted from clvil service rules as might appropriately be filled through competitive examinations. Such posi- tions would include deputy collectors of internal revenue, deputy United tates marshals, employes of the hipping Board, the Vetergns' Bu- reau, the prohibition unit and various owner bureaus and independent estab- | lishments. | Changes suggested affect the dis-| { tribution of appointments of approxi- SEES NEED OF MORE DENTAL CLINIGS of Service in Schools. D. C. Mortality Rate. Additional dental clinics for school children are urged by Dr. William C. Fowler, District health officer, in his annual report submitted today to Commissioner Oyster. An item covering the cost of such clinics is contained in the annual estimates of the health department, Dr. Fow- ler said. The report shows that 248 more persons died during ‘the year than the preceding year, increasing Wash- ington’s death rate frém 13.34 to 13.89 per thousand. Total deaths during the year numbered 6,305. of which 4,043 were white. There were 9,616 births, of which 6,732 were white. Heart Disease in Lead. Organic heart disease was the greatest cause of death, 721 being ascribed to it. Pneumonia took 639 lives. Accidents cost 361 lives, an in- crease of 100 over the previous year. Suicides numbered sixty-seven, as compared with eighty-four the pre- cedipg year, and homicides were fifty- two as compared with fifty-seven in 1921. Influenza and grip caufed forty- one deaths as compared with thirty- four in 1921. Many more persons were bitten by dogs last year than the previous year Dr. Fowler said, and rabies prevailed to_a greater extent. Forty-four cases were referred by the health department to the District Attorney for prosecution, for viola- tion of the food and drug laws. Fines and forfeitures amounted to $1,425 as compared with $1,400 the year be- fore. Police Court cases numbered 291 compared with 333 the preced- ing year, and fines and forfeitures amounted to $1,793 as compared with n.s? the previous year. | of federal office 7=, EAGUETY ~ P 78] Hamons Wy T — mately 120.000 federal employes and would in the view of the committee greatly decrease the work of the President. Members of the committee clined to say what attitude President had taken toward recommendations except that he declared himself favorable recognition of merit in de- the the had toward the filling President Coolidge received and took under advisement today an invi tation tendered by the Southern Trade Congress to speak at its an- nual meeting in New York, October 9. 10 and 11. The invitation was de- livered by a committee of the con- gress, which has among its member- ship southern governors. senators, and representatives, mayors, editors and business men. Watson Takes Mensage. Senator Watson, republican, Indi- ana, will carry to the republicans of Missour, to whom he will speak at a meeting Friday night in Kansas City, a message from President Cool- idge to “get together.” The Indiana senator, calling today | at the White House, asked Mr. Cools idge if he had any message he would like to have conveyed to Missouri republicans, and the President's | answer, according to Senator Wat- | on, was: “Tell them to get together.” President Coolidge received at the White House this afternoon the 110 cadets of the Massachusetts Nautical “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. ] Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 89,379 TWO CENTS. LEAGUEATCRSS ASITALYDEFESIT POWER N DIPUTE Sensation Follows Sensation as Greco-Italian Issue Is Hotly Debated. EUROPEAN PEACE FACES STRAIN, DELEGATES HOLD England Leads Powers in United Front at Cost of Rome Withdrawal. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, September 5.—Italy’s rep- resentative, M. Salandra, told the council of the league of nations today that Italy would regard intervention of the league in the Greco-Italian crisis as unjustified. The league, he asserted, had no competency in the affair, which belonged properly to the interallied council of ambassadors. It is reported that Paul Hymans. the Belgian delegate, has received orders from Brussels to stand solidly with England in assuring respect for the league's pact, even at the cost of Italy's withdrawal from the league. Signor Salandra’s statement created a sensation In the council chamber. which had many Americans among the spectators. In his address M. Politis declared that the Italian seizure of Corfu was entirely unjustified beqguuse Italy al- ready possessed doubfe assurances which were sufficient guarantees— one was the council of ambassadors and the other the league of nations. Signor Salandra in the course of his address sald: Assalls Assassins, “The brutal assassination of the Italian mission on Greek territory vas not only a flagrant violation of > laws of humanity and the funda- mental rules of international law, for which Italy has a right and a duty to require just punishment, compen- sation and moral reparation, but also an offense without precedent against the council of ambassadors, which had entrusted the international mis- sion with the difficult and delicate duty of fixing the frontier between Albania and Greece. “Though the right of Italy is not dependent on the right of the council of ambassadors. the connection be- tween the violation of each of these rights is so evident that Greece has not denied that it exists. Gen. Tellini and his companions were assassinated because they formed part of an ternational mission. There is thus a perfect parallel of the interests of the conference and tke interest of Ttaky: Honor Involved. “The assassins, however, chose these officers for their victims because they were Italians. Violation of the sanctity of human life, which Italy must_guarantee to her citizens, and an offense to the dignity and honor of the Italian nation, consequently are added to the violation of Inter- national law. ““The council of ambassadors has well understood that this terrible crime could not remain unpunished. and if the news which has been published is correct, Greece has recognized its responsibility by declaring that it will submit to the decisions of the. council. Italy, whose rights have been more seriously offended than those of the conference, has on her side claimed punishment of the guilty and moral and material compensa- tion “In order to secure execution by Greece of her obligation, Italy has felt obliged to take guarantees, which School, before their embarkation upon | the U. 8. S. Nantucket from the whart at the foot of 7th street. | The cadets were introduced to the | President by Commander Copeland. They arrived here last Thursday, and | will’ leave Friday. They have just| | completed a foreign cruise. | PRECINCT COURTS, | Health Officer Urges Increase , Says Magistrates in Stations ! H 1 ] SULLIVAN'S PLEA Throughout City Would Be | of Greatest Value. | | Creation of magistrate courts in the | several police stations of the Dis- | trict to dispose of the numerous petty cases of violation of the police regula- | tions is advocajed by Maj. Daniel Sullivan, chief of police, in his annual report for the last-fiscal year, sub- mitted today to Commissioner Oyster. The establishment of such courts | Maj, Sullivan pointed out will not only | save the time of the citizens and po- | lice, but will relieve to a great extent | the congestion in the police courts. The police chief recommends that the | magistrates shall determine the cases | at the several station houses every | morning and evening. Baltimore, Philadelphia and other large cities have magistrate courts Maj. Sullivan said, and he believes that it would be in the interest of progress that the magistrate court system be adopted in Washington. Cites Delay Caused. In 5,223 instances last year mem- bers of the police force, not including those atfached to the detective and woman's bureaus, were detained in Police Court awaiting hearings of cases until after 1l o'clock, Maj. ivan stressed. ot infrequently is there an arrest made during the after hours of the night, and the member of the force making It is not only required to re- main on the street untli after § o'clock in the morning to complete his tour of duty, but must repair to the Police Court, without rest, per- haps without breakfast, and there re- main until his case is tried,” the re- port declared. ‘“The merchant or pro- fessional man may be taken from his or employment as a witness. i er may be acquitted, but he has been transported in a ' van or rol wagon from the police station the court, after being confined in P to | courd are all the more necessary as the in- stabilijy and inferior moral position of the Greek government, which has not been recognized by a large num ber of states, and its present attitude not ensure the confidences, Which alonc would have rendered such a guarantee superfluous im the circumstances “Greece, with great skill, has en- deavored to escape its responsibilities by turnfng the attention of the pub- lic and of the League of Nations away from the crime that has been comi- mitted, and by endeavoring to airect attention to the seizure of a guar- ante 2 Lord Robert Cecil of England added a sensation by insisting that articles Jo, 12 and 15 of the covenant of the league of nations should be read im- mediate}y both in French.and in Eng- lish, an@l 'by declaring that if these articles were to be disregarded the Whole settlement of Europe would be shaken. Articles Cited by Greece. The articles in question were cited by Greece as the basis of her appeal to ‘the league and stipulate that the council of the league has a clear right to an Investigation when there -is danger of rupture between any of the states which are members of the league. Further discussions of the Greco- Itallan crisis was adjourned to an unfixed date, but perhaps tomorrow. in order to give the members of the councll an opportunity to examine the Italian declaration and decide upon the future attitude in the crisis, Which is generally regarded as hav- ing been aggravated by Signor Salandra's pronouncement. M. Politls remarked that it was for the council to say whether it was competent to deal with the Greek aftair and not for one of the parties {o the dispute to declare the league's incompetency. Would Ruin League. “If such a point of view was ad- mitted,” asserted the Greek spokes- man, “it would mean the definite ruin of the pact of the league and of the Mnternational organism which the pact has created because it would always be possible to pretend for one reason or another that the pact did not ap- ply to the nations which were parties to the dispute, and also that a nation interpreted the pact differently and that consequently the league's or- ganism would not operate.” “"This would.mean that the league wag not to operate for the main tenance of peace” added M. Politl but merely a kind of official body, offective only “when two parties had reached an accord. The Italian government expressed its irrevocable opinion through him that the council should not accent the Greek request that the league take up the matter. By her appeal, said Signor Salandra, Greece sought to escape her responsibilities. He em- phasized that the present Greek gov- ernment had not vet been recognized by a great number of countries, hence the necessity of Italy to ‘seize Corfu_to obtain_satisfaction for the (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) . i i (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) e