The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 5, 1923, Page 1

RELIEF SHIP SAILS! ws chin Temperature Maximum, 73 Today Last M He Minimum, 56 65. rs noon, 165, Many Anti in LATTLE, WE DNESDAY, WASH., 9 Japan Feared teh (DUMBBELL DUD DUD | 4 i sf Dumbbell Dud was late to work this morning. He told the boss that he stopped to cet a shave and insisted that = new picture be made of him. The above photograph taken a few minutes aft Dud shaved off his whis! was Mr. My mail | Dud P ditional office boys tu ma md welcome h ome x } as gc Here are Dumbbell Dud ts egg plants stems.—F. thinks have s on thelr T. Ww Dumbbell Dud he thinks: President Coolidge is a beverage. Street car tokens.are Christmas ts so dumb ne ¢ Wgoer Adie to grow Kitchenette ts a French maid. Mra. A. G, Schille. “Dumbbell hasn't a t y wife,” postcards J. L. Ri ‘She saw a picture of Firpo and thought it Was ‘Doc’ Brown.” x | Dumbbell says he just can't | keep Li'l Gee Gee out of the con- | | test. She came in the office this | morning and said she had heard | | So much about this new tidal Wave that she was going down | to the hairdressers this afternoon | and get one. x John Kerr Dumbbell Dud is fo dumb he thinks: Gretna Green is a begbug poison. Bellingham ts an Armour product so dumb th a nickname for sgests the city ys he ought to “Some folks think Mercury messenger boy editor. Dumbbell sa know. are is “My bootlegger is so dumb thinks the dipper in the sky {s u wd | to dip the moonshine,” R. M. postcarded. Mr. Dua had to leave the office early today. He went out to feed| Homer G, Brew’s little bull, and see if the Smith brothers wanted a shave. Roy Haviland suggests ‘he follow- | ing dumbbells as candidates for the dollar prize: Dumbbell Dud thinks: fs so dumb he A telephone exchange is where you} get the wrong number for right | number. A bookkecper is a fellow, who fails to return borrowed books eee You use a telegraph key to open a| telegram. Cotton gin 1s intozicating of W (h) ales is a fish The Prince Vacationists go to Vancouver, B. C. for a rest. HOME BREW Will Not Appear While Homer Brew Is On His Vacation |mountains, particularly over the week-ends. he} Half-Starved Cripples Fleeing Death Region ‘IRe fugees Are Drifting Int Into Osaka, Kobe and Other Places With Stories of Great Terror BY MOTO TAKATA stant Foreign Editor Osaka Mainichi Written for United Press (Copyright by United Press, 1923; Copyright in Canada) OSAKA, Sept. 5.—Wan, half-starved and crippled refugees are drifting into Osaka, into Kobe and other points beyond Japan’s area of death and destruction today, and it is now possible, for the first time, to construct this complete story telling of the great quake and fire which wiped out Yoko- hama, razed Tokyo and brought death to as yet unnumbered thousands. Yokohama Virtually Disappeared; Tokyo Is Shadow of Great City Yokohama has virtually disappeared. Tokyo is but a shadow of the city which but a few days ago was the pride of the Orient. Smoldering ruins, great in the hard- baked earth, the stench of the the cries of the dying lite: millions wandering here and there search of food; wreckage, suffering, destitution on every side—these things tell the story of the violence of nature visited on the land of cherry blossoms. Science, inventions of modern civilization, all that minds of ern and Western civilizations have built in recent genel ations, broke down before the crushing, grinding, con- suming powers of nature. Gas mains, constructed as a means of comfort, instruments of destruction.. Wrenched from the [by the twisting upheaval! of the earth, they spat flame. Electrical systems became death traps. Modern buildings came tumbling to earth or were dissolved in fire, and, after the first big crash followed by constantly recur- ring tremors, Fujiyama looked down for the three nights and three days on the glare of flames and the smoke of disappearing cities. Japan Suffered During Summer A gaps became sund \in Wave of Sweltering Heat Thruout the summer Japan has sweltered in unusual heat. The humidity has been high. All foreigners and Japanese of wealth who could possibly leave the city went into the Saturday was a typical day. Most of the foreigners had left'the city. But the Japanese masses thronged the markets and Asukusa park, the great playground of the city, was jammed. The little, narrow streets, with their gay bunting drooping in the humid air, was filled with people. It was shortly after noon. The life of the city was at its height. The earth trembled. Streets seemed to rise. ward. In houses the floors bulged up- It was a rising, four-inch vertical shock. One came (Turn e Page 9 Suet 5) U. < Naval Hospital at Yokohama Total Wreck |Members of Staff Buried “in Ruins; Other Americans Listed as Dead in Quake Area ra RAY G. MARSHALL | PEKIN, Sept. 5—The American naval hos: pital at Yoko- hama collapsed duritig the ear auake shocks Saturday, in-! furing Commander Webb, 8. N., aud burying members lof the staff in the ruins, sri to refugees who reached Kobe and whose first accounts of the horrors in the foreign | quarters of the stricken area reached here by wireless. Consul Dickever, at Kobe, forwarded to Pekin the report | of casualties among the Americans. Five hundred foreigners, including a number cans, are feared to have perished in Yokohama and Tokyo, according to a message from Osaka. The Yokohama club is reported to have collapsed and} of Ameri- | only a handful of the foreigners who were in it at the time |" escaped. \Other Americans Feared Dead in Yokohama Disaster Ruins 3esides the Acting American Consul, Max D. and his wife, others who are understood to have lost their | lives in Yokohama included American Vice-Consul Paul E. Jenks, Commercial Attache Bassett, Edwin Wheeler, J. P. \D. Hollison, Captain Simpson, a Mrs. Root of California, Kirkjassof, | }hat with several hundr eared for in the | FOREIGN Estimated Deaths Among Outsiders SE PTEMBER | 5, 192% SEATTLE SENDS FIRST REI L TLIEF SHIP at 500; Hunting, Citizens of U. S. (United Press Summary) of hundreds of who were caught in the areas of Japan devastated by 273 earthquake shocks Saturday and Sunday still was unde- termined today Many Fate Amer feans were i dead in the Yokohama and communities obliter ted in the catastrophe. With ar val of “American. relief ships at obe And extablivhment of new Tiner of ‘communication tite the ruinéd ta, efforts were helng made to- to locate United States citizens Aint rt iny who counted for mn Owaka re una placed 1 at and Kobe first estimate of foreign Estimates of the total ary great Omnka at 4:40 p ‘Tokyo toll as 15,000 and] njured The Japanese home office, ac- cording to « wireless message received at San Francisco, placed the Yokohama dead: at 110,000 and the Tokyo dead at 10,000, These figures do not take into account those who perished in other towns that were destroyed. Admiral Anderson, the United States Axiati s approaching Yokohama, A cave the at fleet, which mado a radlo rep trict at San I in which he jd nearl 50,000 were believed to ve been killed. Fresh death and disaster come to light as refugees who es caped the terrors of the catastrophe reach the outside world. Some are apparently overcome to talk. A to the British foreign said foreign stragglers from Tokyo had reached Kobe, but that details were unavailable, Others, who arrived at Kobe from Yokohama, told of the col- lapse of the American naval hospital in which the com- mander was injured and some of the staff reported killed. Recovering from the first of the Japanese nation) and relief organizations thruout the world ending efforts to r food medical supplies to the Nees astated Huge hospital ada was rane too sige office shock liners we rted ships; the press of Can reported approaching Shang 1 wounded who could not be overcrowded hospitals of Kobe Osaka. The American Asiatic squadron, hurried from China 1e work, put in to Yokohama Communications thruout Ja- pon, especially in the vicinity of the devastated regions, are still in a disrupted state, Cables are clogged with frantic In- quiries regarding the fate of persons trapped by the in the burning cities. — Rail- roads and bridges connecting Tokyo and Yokohama with the south are completely destroyed and which to help in the at Kobe on its (urn to Page 9, Column 1) AADAYS aiv E MEET ANNOUNCIP ¢" He ARRIV VUST ORDINARY aise FACE TO Fac by CAP ELIGGIN SS: (Turn to Page 9, Column 4) V/, FOLKS VAL EIN THIS SPACE TOMORROW, rt to the twelfth naval dis- | firat contingent of the | | commanding | _— Fam Yokohama The Maru, the first relief vessel to clear from the Pacific coast the devastated areas of Japan, is shown above as she prepared to sail from the Great Northern docks, Seattle, Wednesday morning with a cargo The flag of Japan is shown in the insert flying proudly. fre 0 of provisions for Yokohama. om the stern of the vessel. was once the standard of the fourth power of the world. Below, at left, is shown a sling Capt. S: Okiyoshi, commander of the vessel. At the right a part of the 100,000 pounds in the cargo is being lowerec | passenger agent of the N. Y. K. line, is shown watching the Photos by U S,MAY GIVE TRY TO CLOSE WAR SUPPLIES BOOZE PLACES |, W. W. on Strike Call on Bootleggers to Quit BY TOM OLSEN Promising action that will clean up the district below Yes- ler of all places selling moonshine, smite and grappo, officials of — the Seattle I. WoW. Wednesday morning started intensive tion against these places. Captain Here Ordered to} Check Local Market War the supplies, held in reserve by United States government haps for some future conflict Japan itself, may be turned their original purpose to be |succor the Japanese people suffering under the that has ever per with fron ent t n way “soft-drink” who gren befell a now | cxtastrophe | | nation. | | Capt. Richard Allen of the quar- | | teemaa corps in Seattle, re-| Handbilis requesting the ceived orders from the war dep ment Tuesday night by Immediately compile of supplies, including blanke (Turn to Page 3, Column | raitt ae. o's losing t-lof these places were distributed telegram to | by five committees thru e soft drink parlor below Yesler way, and |to other known bootlegging Joints Members of the I, W. com: declare that if the sale of intoxicating Hquor is not discon jtinued immediately, members {the organization will take the law ‘into thelr own hands and clean up the joints themselves, } The context of the handbilis fol- loy “To all ‘places in. Senttle selling liquor, smilo, grappo, ete,: The meinbers of the I. W. Wi are ona strike in this district for the release of ¢iass, war and_ political prisoners MOR “WIL yeu help us Seattle during thi ‘You khow Ww. keep order in stcike? a drunken person ean pnd while full commit some we do not want | violence. ‘This | “Will you co-operate "Kindly wvetrain. from selling) any (Turn to Page 6, Column 5) of! act of} a sling load of rice in saci 1 into the hold. E. W. Brown, loading operations. Price & Carter, Star St DEPUTY SHOT IN DUAL RAID |Policeman Guarding Shack Fires at County Men | Itching trigger fingers nearly cost the | Tuesday, William J trolman lives of two peace officers late when deputy sheriffs and orgetown pa- etl their guns. rgument with Instead of two fatalities, | Deputy Sheriff Leo Sowers, 28, is in the Columbus sanitarium with two |bullet wounds, both of a minor na- ture and Jones is at liberty thanking the deputies was bad. The shooting fray occurred at a |moonshiner’s shack, near the plant of the Boeing Airplane Co, |was the object of two raids, Tue: day. A squad of police raided the | place first, and Jones, who was chief of polive of Georgetown before incorporation of that suburb with attle, was left to guard the property | pending the retunn of a truck to cart away the contraband, Two Italians, Antonfo Demo and Peto De Martino, were arrested by the dry squad which made tho rad. A quantity of moonshine, a_ still Jand several barrels of mash were | found GRDER | “STLOK | At 4 p.m Deputy Sheriff Prank Brower and his squad of raiders, | Including Deputies Ray Murphy, Roy Horr and Sowers and two. fedofal mon, George -Hurlburt and Harry (Turn to Page 9, Column 1) for| It | his stars that the markmanship of | which | the | Seattle ‘Ship First to Clear Coast With Supplies for Japan By Steve Arnett Stocked to the hatches with 100,000 pounds of rice, hundreds of cases of canned goods, donat- ed by the Japanese Association of America, addition to thou- sands of tons of flour and wheat, the Yokohama Mara, of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha line, cleared from Seattle Wednesday morning, bound on a mission of relief to the strieken areas of Japan, She was the first relief acifie coast for the devastated country. to their native homes have been relatives probabl the crew of the Eager to get country, where destroyed and killed or injured, vessel, under Capt Oklyoshi, ta- | bored 42 their tasks, and as the last | sling of rice was lowered into the hold from the Great Northern dock, every man breathed a sigh of satis: | faction. “It is the last; away now we shall go," sald First Officer S. Deguchi, of the Yokohama MM. Hatches were | covered, hawsers were cast off and the great ship moved from the har- bor on her mission of mercy. The Yokohama Maru will proceed direct to Yokohama and discharge her relief supplies, according io | Capt. Okiyoshi. She will then sail | to Kobe, where the bulk of her com- |mercial cargo, consisting of wheat, flour and lumber, will be discharged, | These will be distributed thru the | (Turn to Fees 3 Column 2) SEATTLE HELP --GOES THURSDAY | Chamber of Commerce Ship to Sail in Morning BY JOHN | Ww. NELSON Seattle’s drive for the relief of | dapanese quake sufferers will bear fruit at 2 a. m, Thursday, when the first shipment of food- stuffs purchased with Seattle money will leave Puget sound on its voyage across the Pacific to Yokohama. The shipment, several score tons in all, will go on the Blue Funnel liner Proletariate, and will consist of 1,000 cases of condensed milk, 100 barrels of hardtack, a large quan. tity of flour, and as much tenting: ind awning material as can be gath- jered together between late Wednes- |day and the ship's sailing. |HANDLING COMPANIES. DONATE SERVICES a A total cargo space of 550 tons been devoted to the first ship ment by the Blue Funnel Co, the International Stevedoring Coy | will load the relief supplies gratis. At noon Wednesday, with $12,090 donated by volunteer subscribers, yung into an intensive 48- ve to raise at least $100,000 as this city's first effort to aid Jap anese quake and fire victims. Voluntary contributions received ~ ber of Commerce offices on Wednes day had totalled approximately one+ tenth of the total fixed as a tinh — mum of Seattle's contribution to fe lieve the suffering of the hundreds ~ (Turn to Page 5, Column 4) | EXCEPTIONAL OFFERS TODA Good homes ‘close to school and | MeNETT NORTH 1 Only $200 Cash Fosnesalon, at Once All Free and Cle This lovely BUNGALOW is lo- cated near Lincoln high school has 6 delightrut, rooms, and bath: Just newly. painted. and decorated, and shines like a diamend;) CORNER LOT; hoe taxes or aasessmonts, ridionlous priee: of! monthly payments PHO ete, » PECTALS: More details about. this hom can be found in the Want Ad columns, at drive headquarters in the Chars ©