The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 4, 1923, Page 1

hurling U.S. CONSUL KILLED! American’s Wife Also Dies; Japanese Police Are Battling Looters in Wrecked Zone — WEATHER Rotered as ase Mater M NO. 164 14 »Americans o tt tnt tte tate mettre rn f Tokyo ay 2, 1009, at the Postottice at Be r the Act of Conaress Ma 0 1, WASH, “PTEMBER 4, “| The Seattle Star Embassy Safe! Lone) Seattle Plans Fast Relief Steamer for Stricken Nipponese (DUMBBELL DUD | o~ Well, folks, Dumbbell Dud was or the job this mornin: t as he ised us yesterday The picture above show one of his characteristic pc ng his morning work hou Dumbbell ts a_ fle he was kept ve mail: Readers of The Seat d heard of his contest for dumb sayings and had written him their dumbest ones. One of the first letters Dumb- hell opened was from George Harvard. George says that Dumbbell Dud is so dumb he thinks violet ray is a sister of Ch: grein 7 a0 Dad? NOt Bo bad." quoth Dambbell as be read the letter, “but LIT Gee Gee has a better one. “She thinks the Epistles were the wives of the Apost! Dumbbell was surprised to learn about the earthquake. “I never realized what an ¢arth- quake was before,” he sald. “I always thought it was some new fangied dance.” “My old friends know just what kind of dumbbells to send in,” sald Dumbbell Dud, Tues- dy. “So as to help my new friends Il just give them a few suggestions on the kind of dumb sayings ¢ want. Here they are: Fey's The dumbest fellow in Seattle is the one who thinks: eee “Emulsion” was one of Scott's best | hama within elght days. The ship | *troyed. acllers, eee @ band instrument. eee You can play music on a saro- phone. A shoe horn ee Jelly can be made from the Jap- anese current. . oe Bering Strait is a new cigaret. oe Hans Damm is on the Skagit river. | see There are honest men in politics see Mr, Dud will offer a prize of $1 for the best Dumbbell Dud sent in to The Star each day. SHIPLOAD OF ADMIRAL LINE PROVISIONS EMPLOYES 0.K.; MAY BE SENT OFFICES LOST! Joint Meeting of Ambassador Wood Mercy WorkersIs_ Reports Loss of Held; Chamber U. S. Buildings to Direct Drive | in Earthquake By John W. Nelson f Ww ae Sas —Cy bassador to an, Mrs, Wood and the whole personnel of the American embassy In Tokyo, safe, Wood notified the state de- partment today. Wood's message sald the em- bassy was totally destroyed by city’ official adopted, following a meeting Tues |day morning, In the office of Judge Thomas Burke, in the Burke build ing. | All Seattle wilt be aske@ to tmme. | te earthquake. diately contribute to the relief fund, | It was very brief and did not dis. ose various crgantrations. ‘The |clove whether any of the other Amer work wi co-ordinated hy the Se Ran ceciuate ee ease i ore oe Zokohame, ert fe erce. Frank Waterhouse {« we . Drealdent of both organtzations, and | Today's message from Wood was Tuenday noon was working on the | the first received from any American | Personnel of the committer that will | government representative in Japan jascist bim, jz PETITION SHIPPING BOARD FOR VESSEL during the day | One of the first steps to be taken| Following is the message from jin thé relief program will be to pe | Wood, sent from the Radio station tition the United States undated j board for the “All Embassy idings totally de. Seattle's relief contribution to the |stroyed bat no one In embassy tn. quake sufferer President | jured. Food situation very acute } Jackson, of the Admiral Oriental | Send rations at once from Phillp. jline, is now in the harbor, oiled | pines,’’ | and conditioned, ready to start on a] The department also received to. program relief org: |eince the diraster occurred. More detailed advices are expected jen elties. The ship was loading flour |sul John K. Davis at Shanghal, jfor the Orient at Fisher's millx,| “Following from master of steam. Tuesday morning. er President Jefferson to Admiral | The President Jackson, tf thesery: |line here from Yokohama, noon to. jices of this boat can be obtained | da: radlo direct jfrom the United States government, } “ “Yokohama completely |can carry a cargo of 10,000 tons of |out by earthquake and fire. Tokyo | foodstuffs and relie¢ material, load |494 Yokohuso refugees report |tt in three days and arrive in Yoko. |N¥svyanshita and Hakone also de wiped is one of the fastest on the Pacific, | and the proximity of Seattle to the /S8f°. Do not accept traftic for Yo Orient should enable thiv city’ re. | obama, but route all ships there to |llef contribution to arrive at the {Tender all possible assistance give | scene of the catastrophe dayw ahead |*uPplles. Returning Kobe with 350 Jog the relief ships from Californin | 2¢titute refugees. (Turn to Page 9, Column 3) |.‘ ‘Sailing Kobe, Seattle direct ieee ) 800n possible. WAVE TODAY! man unknown, Esping and wife | Watch Coast Off Tatoosh; safe aboard. Fires are still burn- ing. United States consul at Yo- | Kohama and wife dead, Casual- | tes among foreigners very nu- | merous. Publish lists survivors | arrival Kobe. Empress Austra- lin disabled. Empress Canada ar- rived Monday freight and also |Tecord-breaking voyage to the atrick. |day the following message from Con: | Admiral Oriental line oftice | ruined, everything lost, all employes | No Damage Feared Tidal waves, reaching a height in some cases of #ix feet, may be expected along the Northwest coast some time Tuesday, according to “Send as many as you like,” says Mr. Dud. “The more yeu send the better I-like it. I don’t have to open the letter. The Star has hired 23 office boys to do this for me. All I have to do is to pick the best and | landing supplies and taking sick | ded. and woul 1° # all h Hotel Oriental are gone. “ "Suggest atic on bluff and Grand) carrying refugees and eme fleet send fast let urgently need-| Wash! hand out the silver shekel every day.” ie. Just as Mr, Dud was leave, the following message was re- celved over the wire: COLYUMIST’S DEATH NOT BELIEVED HERE POULSBO, Wn., that Homer G. Brew, columnist on The Seattle Star, met hs death here yesterday at the handy of squirrel- hunters is discredited by farmers in this vicinity, Brew was seen leap- ing from bough to bough, at least 12 yards ahead believed to have escaped. rae ey “Certainly, I believe Mr. Brew eseaped,” Dud sald, “He could easily outwit squirrel hunters,” (Send in your dumbbells to The | Dumbbell Kditor, The Seattle Star A prize of $1 will be given to the heat one each day.) $10 OFFERED FOR 200 WORDS OF PACIFIC NORTHWEST HISTORY 410 cash prize Im offered for the best 200-word true story on adventures of the pioneers The Star before September wonty-four additionai prizes the historical fitm, Metropolitan theater ‘The contest In taff. ‘The on not fiction, Jn ¥ “Addrenn lotte nted about to | ept. 4—Reports | of the hunters, and {s| “The Covered Wagon," soon to appear at the are offered also, open to everybody, except members of ‘The Star requirementig that the facts be straight, History, sto History Editor, The Star, ships at once. Ft | word given out earlier in the day|ed. Doctors, sure | by coast geodetic surveyors of the| plies. Publish a navigation warning navy department here, The roli-|to all ships leaving that lights ap era, which are a reaction from the|proaching Yokohama are all out | great quake and tidal waves which| north of Nikomato, except Ashita. |haye wrecked the const cities of|/ Approach inside breakwoter, Yoko- | Japan, will comhe in four consecy.| hema bottom come up.’ tive combers, each of diminishing, ‘The department made no comment height, according to geodetic invey.|on the captain's message. There was tigat no way here of identifying the per- Weather department —officlals| sons mentioned in it, except that the were stationed Tuesday morning at| Ackerman refer to was thought | Tatoosh island and other Pacific possibly to be Congressman Acker stations, r@Ady to notify Sound! man of New Jersey, believed to be in cities of any w * that may ap.| Japan. pear along t coast. | been reported at noon. None had tions in Yokohama (ndicated the floor of the sea had been shoved up there According to reports, the coast|by the seismic disturbance, making settlements of Moclips,, Pacific| navigation unsafe, and that all the Beach and other camping resorts, | lighthouses were out of commission, may be partially inuntlated. ‘The| ne be | . |camps along ‘the beach may t | List covered by the water, it was re v4 at Consulate Given ported, especially if the tide fs in WASHINGTON, Sept, 4. —'The at the time the waves roll, ‘The| 3 jurveyors are of the opt mn | poerg, auenerore. tire, of the: oplnloo) tate department today iéaued. the following corrected tet of the per jthat no damage will result if the (Purn to Page 9, Column 5) sonnel of the American consulate at Yokohama reported destroye Consul Max D, Kirkjus consuls, Lee G, Sturgeon, P Jenkn and sam J. Wardell. | Previouw lst included aa conyul § ; Mt reacivat | {Reneral, Georgy H, Soldmore nnd of) tho Pacltle Norghwest received: || vice consul Edward Russell Kellen, who, the partment now states, re leently died while country, and Harvey ‘tT, Goodier, Harmon 1, Breemall and Willam G MeCurthy, vico consuls, who, the | department said, are no longer con- |nected with the Yokohama con. sulate, consisting of palre of tlekets to sand medical stp-| His reference to the condi-| sof Yokohama and the fate of on leave in thin) lL AMERICANS IN JAPANESE QUAKE ZON i} | | | ’ { Congressman. Ernést R. Ackerman, of New Jersey’ 4. (left), a visitor in Yokohama\ ° lat the time of the earth- | quake and fire, who so far is ee) af ee ASUALTIES IN DISASTER AREA MAY BE 500,000 \Foreign Section of Yokohama Wiped Out; British Consul and Royal Persons Killed; Start Relief PEKIN, Sept. 4.—Police of Tokyo fought a pitched battle with 200 Koreans who attempted to arouse so- ~ cialists and other malcontents to revolution, accord- | ing to a dispatch from Osaka today. The Koreans finally were expelled and martial law tightened, the \dispatch said. The casualties were not given. ‘ * & es # t+ & & F NCISCO. 4.—A wireless message Yee ceived here at 12 o'clock this morning by the Radio Corporation of America from Tomioka, Japan, follows: “Courier reports from Oyama, metropolitan police @ nounce houses burned number 300,000. Casualties 500,000, One regiment infantry, one battalion engineers im q jguard division guarding imperial palace.” | e # % * # & * | BY MOTO TAKATA Assistant Foreign. Editor of the Osaka Mainichi (Written for the United Press) OSAKA, Japan, Sept. 4.—The foreign settlement at Yo hama was completely destroyed by tremendous earthy | Saturday. ; s The American consulate collapsed, the consul and his ying in the ruins. The British consul also was killed. Destruction by quakes, fire and floods at Tokyo was eve * *# | unaccounted for; the Ad-| more appalling, first official reports, issued today, de | miral-Oriental liner President | 200,000 were killed and injured in the capital alone. | Jefferson, now at Yokohama, | | which will head the fleet of | those of the flames. | Admiral-Oriental ships order-| of food. Koreans are |ed to concentrate at Yoko- | } | | } Admiral-Oriental Ships to Stand by for Relief Shipping Board Chairman Issues Order to Vessels Now in Orient All vessels of the Admiral Oriental | been received here, the Admiral Ori. Ine of Seattle that are now in Ori-| ental line officials declare Tuesday. Jental waters have been comman-|If the situation ts relié | deered on order of Chairman Farley | the next few days the shi of the United States shipping board, | local line will sail on schedule, it was |to be used in reHef work and for! said. Otherwise, all the vessels will] bo held at the disposal of Farley supplies, according to word rece } 7 ptains of all vessels ordered in the local office ‘Tues rom| to stay in the Yokohama harbor for 4 D.C. | relief work are to report to the The vessels of the Seattle com. | Senior naval officer at that city, ac- {pany that will be afféc | cording to the local offi leva order ficlude’ the ‘Presi Tho President Jackson, of the Ad- Jefferson, now in Yokohama harbor; | ral Oriental Une fs now in the tho President Grant, due! there in| Seattle harbor and the officers: of two days; the President McKinley, | the line are awaiting orders, expect |due September 11; tho City of Spo |1n# that ship may be used to rush | kane, now in the harbor; the Wheat: | Supplies to the devastated areas jland Montana, due there tn two | days; the West Ison, due in four | days, id the West Cadron, due in five days. | Identieal’ orders have been insued | to the Pacific Mail, the Columbia Pacific and the Struther & Berry |Co, lines, all operating vessels be tweon the Pacific coast and ti | Orient, | Orders have also been fasued by Farley, according to dispatches re. ceived here, withholding all private passenger and froiziit bookings. for the next 30 days. No such ‘inet Missionaries May Be Safe in Japan NASHVILLE, Tenn,, Sept. 4—Sev- eral hundred American’ missionaries in Japan were attending an inter. denominational conference at. Kar: zaiwa at tho time of the earthquake, {t was ‘announced here today by the Southern Presbyterian board, ‘The menting place is 150 miles trom Tokyo, All of the missfonaries in ; ‘Tokyo and Yokohama wore believed | al the meeting place and probably |Many Foreigners Jowchped {tie dinaster:it those citlen | Reported Missing |’ announcement mad by Dr. J. 0. | AtIN, BADE, (A Reavis of the Southern Presbyterian Flames wiped | | | boa out tho forelgn residence distriet ictions hay ard Wax concurred in by the Bap. | tist and Methodist boards, many Americans, and Wuropeans ix unknown, 1. wireless mexsane trom| Tacoma Chamber to the Koren Maru ‘oko a hare! R . . aise Relief Fund hor reported today, } Kebres of foreigners are minsing|. TACOMA, Sept. 4—An appeal for nd injured, ‘Tho three foroigh dix-|tundy to ald the victime of the Japa tHety of Hamon Yama, Nogeyaun| newe earthauakus: and fires was te jand Tyeyama were destroyed by] sued by the chamber of commerce Saturday’ quakes, a6 were the| today, Managing Soofstary Hdward beach ition of Ehoahima, Ixoko! P. Kemmer announced (ho ehi and Hommoku, which were heavily| would collect the funds and Tpopulated with forelgnors. thelr proper dixtribution, Rioting has broken out at Tokyo, adding its horrors The population is in desperate i¢ d reported to be taking a leading ps lin looting and pillaging, and martial law, Which was pi hama for relief work, and) claimed after the disaster, has been extended, her master, Capt. Francis R. Nichols. 200,000 VICTIMS IN TOKYO ZONE! News of Coming From Japan (United Press Summary) First official reports from Tpkyo, where looting, rioting, sfarvation and fire are stalking in tho wake of Saturday's dis- aster of earthquake and flood, placed the casualties of killed and injured in the Japanese capital at 200,000. A later official dispatch sent the United Press from Osaka said only 2,500 persons ‘had been killed and 100,000 injured, with 260,000 houses destroyed, A dispatch direct from Tokyo, which appeared to have been fied by Clarence Dubose, United Presa staff correspondent there, said 3,000,000 Japanese were homeless, but placed the dead at from 500 to 1,000. Simultaneously with these reports, which seemed to indi« cate the casuasties of the catas. tropho might be less than at first waa feared, came, however, wireless messages of fresh dis. ayiter, Death of the’ British and American consuls and of) the lutter's wife at Yokohama was reported by Moto ‘Takata, as- sistant foreign editor of the Osaka Mainichi, Narrow escape of the emperor and-empress of Japon at Nikko, isolated Instances of the audd blotting out of 500, 1,000 an 1,600 lives,) destruction: of the foreign districts of Yokohama and of a hitherto unheard from: city east of Tokyo, with the preatest casnalty Uist of als, wore reported from Varto ie sources clam fo the scenes of destruction, More Than 100,000 Are Dead in Tokyo PARIS, Sept, 4.—More than 100. 000 persons are dead in ‘Tokyo, Where tho business quarters were completety wiped aut, According to a telogram from of the Japanese imperial househole to relativer of the emperor here. ‘Phree members of the Japitiose imperial family, Princess Yama, shina, a daughter of the Prine Kanin, and’ son of, Prince Aig “}hikuna, were (killed, 1 New Disasters tho chamberlain |Princess, Two Princes Killed; |Other Royalty Are Feared Dead | But the burden of the tragedy is being borne by royali as well as the starving masses. Prince Matsukata succumbs today to injuries received when his house tumbled upon him at Kamakura. The princess Banyin and her son, Prince Hi- | gashikuni, also were killed. | She whereabouts of other royalty is unknown and oth jare feared to have perished. ‘ Terrible scenes are reported from Yokohama. The part of the city is completely destroyed, while the city ha Grand hotel and specie bank are in ruins. The \cluttered with wreckage, many ships having collided. | breakwater was destroyed. Many ships loaded to the dai point with refugees have put to sea. é Hakone is believed to have been completely destro Many Japanese notables and foreign residents who were sti ing at mountain hotels probably escaped. ae Itami was severely damaged. There were monstrous waves at Kamakura, Hayama,and other noted sea res which were hard hit, but owing to the lack of communic: the exact extent of the destruction is unknown. For 10 hours after the catastrophe, airplane observa‘ and attempts to communicate with the stricken cities 3 airplane were useless, owing to the density of the smo This lack of authentic information caused many unfounded rumors, * *% Japanese Emperor and Empress Escape Deat. Their Majesties Caught in Falling Buildin; but Are Rescued; Prince Regent Is Safe BY RAY G. MARSHALL PEKIN, Sept. 4.—Tokyo is still burning, c Fresh scenes of horror are enacted on every side... bodies are heaped everywhere. Imperial guards are blasting. the remaining build the hope of turning an advancing wall of flame jroyal palace. Re. |The emperor and empress of Japan narrowly — ‘death in the devastation, ccording ‘toa wireless jfrom the Korea Maru in Yokollama harbor today. A portion of the villa in which they were taking s during the shocks was shaken down, y $3 Immediately their majesties expressed fear or thes lof the prince regent, who was in the imperial” Tokyo, Whereupon the head of the: imperial ho \volunteered to go to the capital and walked alms | | | (Turn to Page 9, Column 3) 3 e & ee SR jentire distance, completely wearing away his wooden ‘stepping over corpses along the Toad, not ieee ‘aid the wounded and dying, until exhausted gnd w ing feet, he staggered into Tokyo and reached th a) pr Ths government immediately dispatched an aixpl (Turn to Page 9, Coluiin 3) t