Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1930, Page 3

DEATH LIST NEARS 3000 N TEMBLORS Hurricane Also Adds to Ter- ror in Stricken Areas of Italy. _(Centinued From First Page.) Ppresence was expected to have a decided effect upon the spirits of the people, whose greatest need aside from imme- diate physical succor was spiritual and moral support The King was to visit hospitals in Naples and temporary shelters else- where in which more than 4,000 injured today were beine treated Prefects of the five provinces central within the devastated area today did their utmost to bring into an intelligible form the reports of relief workers which indicated this forenoon that the end of the casvalty list by no means had been reached. Official death lists accounting for 1.883 dead were supplemented by figures gathered by Italian and foreign news- {aflrr correspondents who traveled hroughout yesterday and last night in the ruined zone making tabulations as best they could of the many communes, Approximately 90 towns and cities suf- fered damages varying from complete demolition to the toppling o: some of the old buildings and in which death lists ranged irom 600, reported in Lace- donia. to a few scattered casualties on the rim of the territory. Quake Renews Panic. Yesterday's quake at Ariano, more | violent than many of the slight tem- blors of the last 24 hours, cost the life of one person. Its worst effect was a renewal of the state of panic which had subsided to some extent. Southern Italy escaped entirely the hurricane. which was local to the Piave River Valley sec- | tion and killed 22 persons, bringing to the once war-devastated Northern coun- | try new grief. Every estimate made by unofficial statisticians in Naples, Benevento and other points close to the death zone fix the fatalities at not less than 2240. One report sent to Rome just before noon today said that in the prsovince of Avellino alone, in which are located the cities of Villanova, Lacedonia, Aquilonia, Treviso, Ariano and several ©other of the hardest hit communities, there were 2,575 dead and 1,315 injured. Pressure of emergency work kept gcores of government officials at their desks without rest ever since the first alarming reports from the south began o pour into the capital. Council Is Called. Premier Mussolini today called & eouncil of ministers for next Tuesday morning at Viminale Palace, where he had remained, almost without sleep, since Wednesday. The council meet- ings will occur on his birthday and on the thirtieth anniversary of King Victor's ascession to the throne of Italy Although yesterday's Ariano earth- quake recurrence, which killed an old Tady and injured several other persons, increased the fears of the people, rescue | work in that area went forward more | swiftly today because the relief squads had been better equipped. Minister of Public Works Crollalaza reported this forenoon that he had met Undersecretary Leoni, Senator Cre- president of the Italian Red and the military and Fascist commanders of the zone, with the tech- nical experts of, his department, and that they had proceeded together to Rochrtia and had taken charge of the relicf and rescue work. er Kirk of Chicago, charge he United States embassy, X presented the formal condol'nce of the American . Govern- ment fo the Italian foreign office. Similar calls of sympathy were made by the diplomatic representatives of Cuba, Ecuador, Peru and Venczuela. Relicf Work Occupying All Survivors in H Stricken Area of Avellino. By the Associated Press. AVELLINO, Italy, July 25.—One thousand persons so far have failed to answer the frequent roll calls held at Villanova since Wednesday's earth- quakes, but this does not necessarily mean that they all are dead Prefect, Vicidomini of Avellino Prov- fnee attributed many of the absences to the fact that terror-stricken vil- lagers are wandering in the flields or have gone to neighboring villages, and does not believe that the death toll will go much above the 500 set in offi- clal figures yesterday. Avellino's second day following the quake began with additional burials in scattered sections of the countryside, | little groups following silently and sadly the bodies of those who were taken | from them by an outburst of Nalure,\l SPECIAL NOTICES. FOR BALE—UPRIGHT PIANO, $15; PLAYER- | ano, 4400 S o charges. 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MACHINES TRACE [TALY QUAKE Record in U S Was “ert ten® on Seismograph Within 40 Minutes. Within 40 minutes after the first great earthquake rocked Southern Ital taking its toll of thousands of lives, five selsmograph machines at George- town University were writing with un- canny precision the permanent records the world was aware of the disaster. Rev. J. S. O'Conor, S. J. acting director of the seismological observatory at the university, today explained a record sheet of the earthquake taken from one of the smaller instruments that registers the vertical movements of the earth. With other machines that recorded the horizontal movements of the quake, the observatory has a complete and carefully checked scientific record of the earthquake which proved one of the most disastrous of modern times. Forty Minutes From Italy. Traveling a distance of 4,575 miles, the first two waves of tremors recorded here passed through the earth. They were recorded on the seismograph at 7:20 pm. Tuesday evening, Eastern standard time. That would be at 1 o'clock Wednesday morning in Italy and the fact that the quake caught Naplc: sound asleep, Father O'Conor | said, probably explains the great loss e. = 1t took 40 minutes for the surface waves to travel the distance from Naples and Southern Italy,” he ex- plained. “The main wave, which shows The quake at its severest, came at 7:51 o'clock, 31 minutes later. Thede were other waves of lesser tremors, ‘lasting until 9 o'clock.” It is a comparatively simple matter for a trained seismogolist to extimate the distance of a quake and its ncation by the chart sheet. The intervals be- tween the different waves gives the dis- tance. As the machine recoris the movements of the earth, the wave tre- mors are separated at intefvals of one minute. The waves travel considerably | over 100 miles a minute. Althoygh the selsmograph pen is commonly yeferred to as “writing,” it is actually t¥e sheet that does the writing. The penfis sta- tionary, except when it is thrown from its base sometimes during violent move- ments. The sheet is blackened, thus leaving the record traced in white jag- ged marks. Magnifies Ground Motion. machine magnifies the groundmotion approximately 1,000 times. The largest ground motions, as indicated by the chart, are shown in the jagged Hines at op of the sheet. P ather O'Conor belleves therp 1 lit- tie likelihood of a volcanic eruption | from Mount Versuvius and discredits | ress :]v]fl'l VXA\ of a volcanic naturé. quakes have never been known to be as deep sealed ws this one, he said. The acting director of the ! seismo- graph observatory at Georgetown came to take over those duties this Summer. He is from New York and started his earthquake studies at Fordham Uni- versity in 1924. For the last four years he has been continuing seismological | work at St. Louls University under | Father Macelwave, one of the foremost | authorities in the United States. Pather OConcr is & Georgetown graduate of | about 1915 The director of the Georgetown ob- vatory is Father Sohon, who is at- tending Summer school at Fordham. New York. He succeeded Rev. POLICE DISBELIEVE SIGN ON LIQUOR-LADEN CAR Speeding Brings Arrest of Man Carrying Request Not to Shoot. By the Associated Press. KENOSHA, Wis., July 25.—The sign in the window of Frank Buttera’s au- tomobile said: “Don’t shoot-there’s no | liquor in this car.” But Buttera was speeding, so the police stopped him. Later they an- nounced that one can place little de- pendence in signs, as they found the car loaded with gallons of alcohol. Officials of Manila have confracted with a co-opeative live stock associa- (kln': to supply meat to the city's mar- e e R e e i e e e b i s i i e sheet on the vertical seismograph machine, which recorded the Italian earth- There, are five of these instruments at the Georgetown Observatory. took the eartf tremors 40 minutes to travel 4,500 miles. Below: A section of one of the record sheets showing the earth movements | of the tremors hours before the rest of | Father O'Conor explained that the ports indicating that the Italian | Such | in Francis A. Tondorf, who died last year. | ITALY EARTHQUAKE AREA IS DESCRIBED Georgetown University pointing to the It his was at 7:51 p.m. Tuesday, Easurn“ —Star Staff Photos. | | ITALIAN DISASTER RELIEF IS DECLINED Rome Cables Ambassador | Situation Being Handled ! Adequately. Instructions from the foreign office | in Rome respectfully to decline all of- | fers of assistance or relief measures for the districts in Italy stricken by the earthquake have been received by Ambassador de Martino of Italy. Telegrams of Sympathy Pour In. A lengthy cablegram from the for- eign office, explaining that the govern ment was meeting the situation ade- quately, came simultaneously with a flood of telegrams from all parts of the United States extending sympathy to | the embassy and offering financial or | such other relief as might be required. | As a mark of sympathy, represen- tatives of all foreign missions in Wash- | | ington called at the embassy and left | customary caras of condolence. | "Amid the pressure of the work caused | | by the disaster, Ambassador de Martino | | prepared to deport tonight for New | York. where he will sail for Italy to- morrow night on two months' leave. Friendly Feeling Increasing. “The touching sympathy shown by | the American people in connection with | Naples, Historic Field. | soldier-duke. | mountain Most Destructive Shocks Struck Apennines Region of “Italy’s recent earthquake was con- fined in its most destructive effects to | the mountainous region known as the | Apennines of Naples,” says a_bulleth | from the headquarters of the National Geographic Society. “Just north of Naples the mountain | range that extends down the middle of the Ttalian peninsula loses its form nll a definite ridge and breaks down into distinet, _mountain groups joined_by | eross ranges and elevated saddles. This area of elevated masses and deep de- | files, where towns and villages perch ! on hilltops and cling to mountain slopes, has borne the brunt of the earth tremors. Farther to the east the table- land of Apulia has been shaken, too, but not so disastrously. “Naples, situated where this broken section of the Apennines slopes down to the Tyrrhenian Sea, and close to where Vesuvius_has belched out cubic miles of lava, has been shaken severely as it has been many times before. The city is largely built of gray lava from Vesuvius and in its old part consists of low houses along dark, narrow streets and alleys. It is Italy’s most populous community in one of the world’s most beautiful settings. Venosa Is Horace's Birthplace. “Venosa, an inland town of 9.000 population, which suffered damage, was | the birthplace in 64 B.C. of Horace, | best loved of Roman poets. There is | burfed Robert Guiscard, great Norman | in_the Church of St. Trinita, built by him in 1059. | “Melfi, another town in which the | toll of life was large, lies near Venosa and under the pyramidal peaks of Monte Volture, which marks the southern extent of the Apennines of | Naples. In Melfi Robert Guiscard set | up his capital until he captured Salerno on the coast and made that town his headquarters. Melfi was prac- tically wiped out of existence by an | earthquake in 1851. “Foggie, farthest east of the towns to feel the marked force of the recent quake, lies near the Adriatic side of the peninsula. It is the capital of the great Apulian tableland that was once a huge sheep pasture, maintaining mil- lions of the animals. The town is Jarge (61,000) and with its low white houses, has a somewhat Oriental aspect. It was largely destroyed by an earth- | quake in 1731. The Apulian tableland that surrounds it has been called Italy’s most dreary and barren area. Frederick IT at Lucera. | “Nearby is Lucera, where Emperor | | Frederick 11 planted his famous Sara- | cen mercenaries, 60,000 strong, in the first vears of the thirteenth century. Frederick lived among these Moslems, dressed as ‘the sultan of Lucera,’ main- | tained a harem guarded by eunuchs, and used his Mohammedan forces in ! his struggles against the Christian sol- diers of the Papacy. “Benevento, where property was dam- aged and lives lost, is a thriving town, capital of the region between Foggia | and Naples. It is finely situated on a igh above the Appian Way | and its two rivers. There stands one of | the most imposing of the triumphal | arches outside Rome, erected to Trajan. It is one of the oldest of Italian towns and stood out against the Romans suc- cessful until 276 B.C. “Potenza, base of operations for some of the relief expeditions, was itself | stricken by the recent tremors. It lies on a low saddle which cuts the Apen- nines and roughly marks the southwest - | ern limit of destruction. This town of | 14,000 inhabitants was almost complete- ly razed by the earthquake of 1857 which devastated the region cof tr Apennines of Naples.” Will Rogers BEVERLY HILLS. Calif.—You don't hear so much of prohibi- tion lately. Just drinking for the novelty of the thing has about wore off, and the ones that really liked the digaster only impresses me with the | growing bonds between our two cou | tries,” the Ambassador said. “Leaving | as I am for a brief period after five and one-half years of service in the | | United states, "I can only say that I| depart content in the knowledge that the relations between the United States and Italy are more cordial than in many years. Since I“last returned to American shores, I have seen the ad- justment of every major question be- | tween us. In addition to that, the statesmen of America and Itaiy have met on a common ground at the Lon- don Naval Conference and found each | sincerely seeking peace, | “One of the outstanding questions | settled recently has been that- regard- | ing military serviee of Italian-Ameri- | cans who may return to Italy. That has been adjusted to the satisfaction of both governments.” BRITISH PILOT LEADS AROUND-EUROPE FLYERS | Broad Arrives at Munich After Battle With Weather, Followed by Butler, Cape Town. By the Associuted Press | MUNICH, Germany, July 25.-The British pilot Broad led the around- | Burope, fiyers into Munich today, ar | riving at 9:54 a.m. | He was followéd five minutes later by Butler of Cape Town. Both reported they had battled nasty weather The international circuit flight, to cover 4,650 miles, started from Berlin | | Sunday’ with 60 entries. The route | covered France, England. Spain, Switz- 1 erland, Austria, Crechosiovakia, Poland | | and back to Germany. that you cannot | ook THATE. ’ CENTS YOU ton of our Famc | thracite by buy a full supply t the 811 E St. NW. MARLOW SAYS! SAVE ing NOW. it and decided to adoot it seri- ously have just settled down to steady drinking and are keeping pretty quiet about it. The House of Commons en- dorsed the naval treaty yesterday, . without the Norris amendment, which sald, “If there is any catch in this that we can't see, why it don't go.” The British said, “If there is any- thing in it and we can't see it hrhrc we sign, why that's our fault.” Yours, WILL ROGERS., Seven days left to file your personal tax return. Affidavits on personal tax returns administered free of charge at | Room 103, District Buildin Superior Garages, $125 up _ HOME IMPROVEMENTS WE BUILD. REBUILD. REMODEL. BEPAIR GARAGES. HOUSES, COT- 20 MONTHS TO PAY Nat. 9427 afford to over- XARAFIFTY on every us Reading An- Order rday and spend difference on your vacation. Marlow CO AL Company Phone Nat. 0311 | principal, | with a fierce white bulb- Anthrax Diagnosis In Death Puzzles Coroner’s Experts By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 25.—The death of John Bloch, 48 years old, from a disease diagnosed as anthrax, puzzled the coroner’s office yester- day. Anthrax is a virulent, febrile disease of cattle, sheep and horses, rare among humans except those working in wool or hair or hand- ling the hides of infected beasts. Bloch's work as a clerk required him to handle nothing by which the disease 1is usually com- municated. An autopsy revealed the an- thrax bacilli, Dr. J. J. Kearns of the coroner’s office said. BELASCO PASSES 16 WORKING ON PLAY Towering Cake and Jovial‘ Scenes Mark Anniversary of | Birth in San Francisco. By the Associated Press, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 25— David Belasco celebrated today an event | which happened in San Francisco 76 | years ago, and called this the blithest birthday he’s evep had. It marked for him the end of a theatrical season— i his fiftieth-odd—in which his only pro- No Controversy Between Borglum and Coolidge. By the Associated Press. - RAPID CITY, S. Dak, July 25.— | Willilam Williamson, fember of the | Federal Rushmore Memorial Commis- | slon, yesterday said there had been no | ‘controversy between Calvin . Coolldge |and the commission, or Gutzon Borg- Ium, sculptor, over the brief history the | former President is to write for the mountain memorial. Williamson said news dispatches from, Washington Wednesday were “his | intimation” of a purported new invita- vlnn i) Mr. Coolidge to write for the rial ‘a new inscription which Hnr:lum would “not be allowed" to re- vise. The dispatches were credited to Williamson's Washington office. The “correct facts,” Willlamson said, “are that the commission on. July 3 adopted a resolution asking Mr. Cool- duction, a boister- | out little farce called “It’s a Wise Child,” made prof- its comnaring ‘a- vorable witn ay he ever has produced. It marks ihe beginning of a season which has churkling m anticipation. One bundred flnd fifty-two _ candles, alight on two towering cakes, and flowers and telegrams and cables were David Belasco. tokens that his friends remembered the | day. But “the governor.” his white hair awry and both eyes fixed on “Dancing | Partner,” which he is tryinz out here for Broadway, said he'd spend today “cracking the whip.” Doctor’'s Rules and Appetite. Between times, maybe, hc'd have a bite of cake, and maybe even a slice of lemon meringue pie. Both are forbidden him now by his doctor, except on great occasions. He said he will produce four more plays this season after his present play is launched—"Tonight or Never,” by Baroness Lili Hatvany, for Helen Gahagan; a play by Patrick Kearney for Beth Merrill; “The Berg.” by Ernest Raymond, with C. Aubrey Smith 25 a and “Laughinz Bov.” a dramatization of Oliver La Farge's Pulitzer prize novel. In recent weeks the white-haired pro- ! ducer has almost lived in the theater, | toiling over “Dancing Partner.” On the flower-decked stage: Music, gayety. bright-frocked girls. Down in the dark auditorium, scribbling notes beside a table made of a box and lighted ernor.” Business of Producing. A scene ends. Belasco peels his coat and lands on the stage. He plants his pointed, buttoned shoes far apart, waves bac!: and forth like a bear in a cage and | hurls anathemas in a silky voice. Another scene. Lines and business are repeated, changed and repeated again. ~Seven, 8, 9 o'clock. An actress bursts into tea Everybody _drops, exhausted. into chairs to wait while she recovers her poise—everybody but “the governor.” 1 bring one without holes tomor- . he say Belasco_comes down fiom the stage, | picks up his coat. “Go home. The second act has to be revamped. T've got {o get to work. ANNOUNCES MARRIAGE Former Steamship Executive Took Bride in Arizona June 26. NEW YORK, July 25 (#).—J. Lewis Luckenbach, former vice president the Luckenbach Steamship Co., an- | nounced today that he and Miss Dell Louise Stowe of Southbury, Conn. were married in Arizona on June 26. Luckenbach was granted a divor Miami, Fla., last April 23 Lillian Luckenbach, the daughter of G. Hilmer Lunbeck, director general of the Swedish-American Steamship Co. The present Mrs. Luckenbach is a descendant_of Richard Towner, who landed at Plymouth with the Pilgrim: in any | from Mrs. | | Dairy Industry ALWAY MEMORIAL DISPUTE' DENIED BY OFFICIAL Williamson Asserts There Is; first?] idge to submit the complete text of his historical inscription at its next meet- ing, November 19, at Chicago. Mr. Coolidge was invited to attend the meeting." Denying that Borglum was to be al- lowed to revise or edit the text, Wil- liamson said the whole commission is to pass on its acceptability as submitted by Coolidge. ‘Williamson said there never has been “any controversy outside of the press between the commission or the com- Coolidge.” He said the former Presi- dent in correspondence has not criti- be referred to in publicity as such. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Dance, Red Triangle Outing Club, Y. W. C. A. Roof Garden, Seventeenth and K streets, 9 p.m. Lawn fete, Hope Council Daughters of Liberty. 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