The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 6, 1923, Page 1

conserva nounced this large e tate at ation will nd of 50 rive yeep river contains ys Harbor New uate _WEATHER Temperature Last 4 Hours = The Seattle sta | ko mamas, of F see Y = FREE LUMBER BANKER FACES ~. MAY BE SENT CHARGE FILED NEEDY JAPAN BY DIVORCE! Manufacturers to Former Wife of J. W. Bullock in Appear While "Tis a hard life, bell Dud this morning, sips of coffee and puffs of cigar. existence since coming to work on The Star is just dumbell after another. ‘I can hardly keep up with my seclal obligations, dumbbelis to read. Tonight ndon and I are scheduled to pat on g fancy danee number at the Women’s Auxiliary of the United Straw Makers’ association and I fear 1 will not be thru with my judging in time her p meetin the Dou “However, 1 will try hard not to disappoiut Dan, as it would be embarrassing for him to do the ‘Narcissus’ unaided.” Manufacturers, realizing Japan needs lumber immediat prize dumbbell was: & so dumb he ager boots to tempor SEATTL TAXED BY DEMAND the entire “Dear Dumbbell Dud: ete fae fumb, but they writes Miss Dude Richardson. have a friend who is so dumb he come dumber,” he utmost Sing Sing ts a lullaby. Scotland Yard . Onto, is a girls name mber industry of the Lansing, Michigan, xy paring to increase its ou utmost maximum to meet th A half-back is a cripple nese situation. WOULDN'T THIS SCRATCH YOUR ENSE OF HUMOR? There's a girl near my so dumb she tt s Bon Ami is a asked by the city to cover the next council meeting, but the respec ed gentleman grounds that he many dumb sayings he wouldn't would hear so EV other contributors. INDUSTRY AFFECTED My Dumbbell think ty of Irish pastry. to th dentist's walking A serap-book: {a the dairy of a mar- Elva Patterson. OFFER TODAY Who has been wanting a buflt-in kitehen; gas Vote on Proposal Thursday; Great Boom Predicted 4 Five million’ feet of lunter free as » good-will offering to War on alt the speculators. Determination to eheck lum fiteering ednesday night at Tacoma at a Fir Exploitation & Ex ta: porting Co. Dtrectors at a meeting in Beattie Friday will be asked to fapprove it, Maj, Everett ©. Grigem president of the company, said he! ad little doubt but that the pro. refuse to book ‘ders in an effort to head oft speculators and Eastern buyers . becoming panicky over a hreatened shortage as a result of | Japanese demands, are already flood ing the local mark with o Most mills en the ors y and to extend help before credit arrangements have been re-establ) . proposed the free shipment while it Is only a drop in the t compared with the immense needed, will a WILL BE mate of the ‘prinelpal citle of We indust hington and Pacific years to © materials for re: ction, local lumbermen said operat normal to meet th da, the is pre. © Japa Many lumber camps and mills of the state are now operating day and night, but with the opening of construction work in Tokyo and Yokohama on a large scale, night shifts will be come the order of business in every camp equipped for such work, and will remain the or- der for two or three years, in the opinion of R. D, Brown, as- sistant manager. of the West Coast Lumbermen’s association, RY LINE OF Altho the greatest strain is ex. pected to devolve upon the lumber business, due to the almost exclu sive use of frame const uction for in Japan {ll be tax ing house pu line of industry utmost during the comir ars, it is predicted eel plants, manufacturing con cerns of all kinds and food supply houses will feel the effect. Under the stress of rebuilding Japan’s capt (Turn to Page 9, Column 2%) the price committee of | . Bullock began sv court he harging Bullock with cruel which had continued over a long quake, fire | resources of | nation called © damage, Seattle, jand coarse language,” Mrs. Bullock to confer with Daniel Kelleher and a » will be pushed to uring the next two| FOUND KELLE HUGE SUM IN NO Subsequently, Mrs. Bullock ¢ Bullock 1 ansactions, and at the time to the bonds and securities, incl © block of stock in the Seattle National bank At tho interview, Kelleher charges, but act Entered as 1 Clans Mat Suit Claims She Was Victimized By John W. Nelson wan divorced from her hushand in February, 1922, and nince her divoree has. beén living at| | 1220 10th ave. N. Mrs. Bullock ¢ the period as counsellor and adviser to his friend Bullock MRS. BULLOCK ASKS FOR ACCOUNTING Mrs. Bullock asks that the prog division granted her at the of the divorce, totaling $9,009, t aside as void and fraudulent hat a full accounting of al timo’ of tle ; be r 1 by leher. Bullock . Mra. > superior In Jul of time. Immediately after Bullock ap and threat Jasphemous persuaded was started, ide, and by a property ement, it is a MELD ims h ed that Kelleher and » long been associated ather in business and personal Le in trust n of notes ding @ had in his possessio: Bullock, a huge su ed. her that her husband did not bank stock and that he had very little property of any kind and that if she accepted the cash avtiement offered, it would be more than half of his entire possessions This settlement was $50,000 cash $30,000. to be paid when § estate could be sold and $10,000! |when California mining property puld be sold Mrs. Bullock asked for permission to consult with r attorney, but Kelleher di 1 her, the com uring her he nt charg wld be her attor interests in the failed to do 1 on behalf of hi e, Bullock All of Kelleher’s and Bullock's representations at were falee and fraudulent, and made the result of a conspiracy and he interview (Turn to Page 9, Columr ECKS [0 Occurring in Wrecked Capital! | RARARARAR ARAL AA AAA renee AAD PPP PDP APD ADP AOD PPP PP PLP APPA YO FIRE! SDAY, SEPTE. MB E Re 6, MELON 5 IN’ AT | Corresponden eon that Kelle z to act | j h, boy! If I only had a bathing suit,” A ton of melons, will be sold tos swell the club's bush func TON OF NITRO IS she HOLD SENATOR IN BANK FRAU jured and the nltro-gtycerine ware house of the Hercules Powder Co. | Sinclair Charged With Mak- destroyed at 10:30 a, m. today, ing False Report SOUTH BEND, a ton of nitroglycerine exploded at the Hercules plan few miles from here. The man killed is belleved to have western Washington State ‘e of the explosion shook| of Hwaco, was placed under ar- jjust completed a three-di.: the countryside for miles ar 3 jevents. GAS REDUCED TO 16 C ENTS price of gasoline 4 that he and were being har which Nelson alleg the other plaintiff and will be charged with mak- report to the state r. Sheriff Oscar locked the senator in there was a real issue at stake, and should be tried upon its mer He said that if he sustained the emurrer the issue would agatn come in some other form, as entitled to a hearing. lement of $100,- jon with the embe service stations at 16 cents a gallon. is offered by any of the companies No reduction { for son and vice presid 1, immediately filed a reply to the original complaint in which he the health d had used improper methoc local offices of the Standard Oil Co. and the ments immediat arrest of Senator | amined the reply ded immediately ‘uments before the Ww udge | and Montana, taken into custody, Orders to file attle real the health department} ¢, strong-arm methods to force raw- | business and put th elty milk supply in a monopoly. declared that the milk men had as Ewing claimed, + Lcent a gallon state (Turn to Pago 5, OLYMPIA, Sept president of the bank of Northport, Wash, was|New Leaders Start Work 4 The imperial university, containing a library of half a mil- with |lion books of incalculable v » Has Man Trvosiaa for Card Fleecing ' tharging that le had been fleecea ate Banking nd protect te Banking F lement. ‘This the complaint in a card game William Stiles wa on complaint of George his alleged victim. si y charged that he was en- for drinks and later in- exist! duced to bet heavily with the result | ing not parties|that he lost a postal mohey order | will pay out, however, | for $99.70 and $5 in cas jailed ‘Thursday, Ewing referred to the » following the discover ileus statements, which cannot | which resulted: in ‘ths Oia in the pate of pec , Cary to Page 9, Column 4) - Just Ordinary Folks oe CAP HIGGINS to |The premier and his guests had “TW 0 CENTS IN § ITERRORS | OF QUAKE | ARE TOLD4 Tokyo. Rain has stopped the great conflagration which swept the capital unchecked for 72 hours. Yokohama is utterly annihilated. Most of the foreigners are dead. Six million people are homeless in the devastated area. The losses will amount into billions of dollars, dead and wounded will total thousands. Charred ruins, fragments of houses, cover the sites of ing cities and towns in the earthquake zone, which presents a scene of utter desolation. once thr * * * By a Staff Correspondent of the United Press and Osaka Mainichi | (Copyright, 1923, by United Press. and Great Britain) TOKYO, Sept. 5.—(By Courier, Sept. 6.)—A merciful rain has fallen upon Tokyo. Like an angry beast, 1 steam, has finally died down. This enables work of rescue toe proceed in more erterly were the hurried words of Harley aay 16, fashion and scores of the injured are being brought in to Thursday morning as he buried his nose ina giant piece of melon cut:from one he had \relief stations. just purchased at the Millionair club's sale, 98 Main st. Harley, a visitor here from Boi happened along just as the three-day sale of the club ope ned, and bought one. great, but I could do better with a pair of water-wings,” The Millionair club sale will last until Saturday. Klyce, commission ‘merchant, RAW MILK MEN WIN BIG POINT \Judge Overrules Demurer of City in Court Fight SSTER M. HUNT Smith im superior nussday morning the demurrer of the city to the com. plaint of James Nelson aguinst the and thé health department, Ke Wild, weird and fantastic are the scenes, as the people 's of the city endeavor to adjust themselves to conditions of he said as he came up for air.\the disaster. contributed by E.C Slender youths walk thru the streets, carr ‘ing big Japan- jese swords, aiding the police and military in maintaining —_—— jorder and assisting in the search for bodies. |Ambassador Wood Furnished |Offices by British Embassy The stench of corpses is becoming almost unbearable. Among the ruins lof piped houses are half-incinerated bodies. Soldi have taken over the task of endeavoring to save the city from the consequences that might naturally follow such conditions. Burials are impossible and soldiers ave bending their efforts toward hastening cremations. American Ambassador Wood and other foreign represent- atives and their staffs, whose embassies or legations were destroyed or damaged, are being furnished temporary offi- Dead litter the streets in some sections. ces i the British embassy Your correspondent, co-o,,z"uting with the war office, has investigation and cheek of The record shows there were 612 separate shocks |felt in Tokyo from noon, Saturday, to 6 a. m. Monday. ‘Italian Ambassador Dies jin Tokyo Quake Wreckage The Dutch, Spanish and Swiss embassies were de-_ stroyed. But three casualties are reported in the diplomatic corps. The Italian ambassador is reported killed. The American Lr aponsibit- | | military attache and the secretary of the German embassy sentenced | are reported, without confirmation, to have been killed on a to| train which was thrown from the rails between Oishi and © s in Walla Walla she ng for | Ratsuka. (Note.—Ambassador Wood reports all members of the staff safe and the foregoing may have >| been dispatched prior to Wood's report.) This investigation further showed that 250,000 houses in | American embass Tokyo were destroyed. Most of the houses were destroyed by fire, which followed | the quake, rather than by the quake proper. *:|With Flames Around Them, The British embassy w ‘The first cabinet meeting. was held Sunday night. ‘The meeting] toward thw river, crowding The weight proved too much for one bridge, red with the glow of the great! jammed. to capucity and ebkle Two thousand persons,” advisers discussed measures of re-! jt was estimated, |ief and rehabilitation, ‘The min. was in the garden of the premier’s bridges. residence. There, beneath the sky, nhs fire, Premier Yamamoto and his) japsed, isters had dinner with the premier menu was simple in extreme.| drowned. plain cooked rice and pickled plums. This is the same food that the refugees, Mega! the stricken area, are “tating. Meanwhile, reports of disaster! madly came in. t in Stricken Capital Writes Detailed Story of Tragedy; 6,000,000 Are Reported Homeless TOKYO, Sept. 5.—Earthquake shocks are continuing in Copyright in Canada sting efforts to drive it from a bloody feast of human bodies and habitations, the great fire which had swept the city for three days and three nights, hissing and enveloping the wreckage in clouds of lue, was burned. only slightly injured. The most dramatic installation of a Japanese premier in *'the country’s history took place on the lawn in front of Asahaka palace, while the fire was at its height and the’ The institution jean th was still trembling with recurrent shocks. Premier Yamamoto .stood on his lawn with his cabinet | around him for the ceremonies. The prince regent was jpresent. The party did not dare go inside the palace ow the danger of its collapse or being fired. But with the city in flames’ about them, the members |the new government were administered their oaths iturned to the great task before them. They were thrown water and a large. percent 3 following the, conference. The} was believed te yr, Women torn, from their families,and ran screaming — wong: Mothers, hysterical and searcli: ing for their children, dashed — the stunned, half. — crazed throngs. Children ran) Thousands of refugees raved (Turn to Page 9, Column 4 thra