The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 10, 1923, Page 1

ie | | | PROBE COAST NAVAL DISASTER if ae 25 Men ‘VOL NO. 169, (DUMBBELL UMBBELL DUP) Dumbbell Dud has taken up yachting. The above picture shows him in his yachting costume on the bridge of his good ship “Dumb- bell.” He is staring intently at the compass, at the same time grasping the wheel firmly in both hands. Note the whitecaps in the fore ground the whales basking in the sunshine on both port and starboard. The picture was taken at We- natchee. v for Geneva Cole for Saturday's pr “Dumbbell Dud ts so du he ood is a cap.” Come in and get it, Gen Die in a | The Seattle Star | SEATTLE, W. ASH, “MONDAY, ‘SE P TE MBER 10, 1928, NIPPON Eclipse Obscures Sun SEATTLE SEES : MOON PASS IN ~~ FRONT OF SOL “SHAKEN “AGAIN! Sunday Increases Alarm; Epidemic Fear Combatted HANFORD, Cal. Sept. 10—A slight earthquake was felt here early today. Several clocks were stopped by it but no damage was done BY CLARENCE DUBOSE JEFFERSON, IN Teron NEED OF FOOD, 2: 0» ON WAY HERE Mayor Strictly Ethical BY STEVE ARNETT | |Another Quake on Captain Divides With Refugees in « Quake Zone; Sur-|"2""=.: vivors Aboard is Carrying 400 passengers, y of whom a refug tute and injured, the miral Oriental liner Jefferson is plowing toward Seattle from stricken Japan with barely enough sboard to last thru the voyage elved M 7 “ th Ps - NU TODAY TOKYO, Sept Noon.)— domb he thinks. Radio From 10,)—Japan w rancis Ft OUR M r Iwaki, haken another hy Japan, Sept és @ new drink. noon today (Sunday) by > keys are used to open the| sharp earthquake bor. Wi That a dumb woiter ta en ignorant | 1,5 ash-slinger. —Mrs. 0. F. Kiggens, ot simfiar which last few days of the people, to increase the havoc) - wrought 8u It was acceptea as proof that a| Kobe , September 5. st voleanic . upheaval—probably | MADE TWO TRIPS the greatost since the Japanese inies | FROM YOKOHAMA were thrown up from the sea—ta} Instead or proceeding rexuturly jeontinuing deep down in the earth.| from Yokohama to Kobe, the Jeffer | DANGER OF EPIDEMIC n Made two trips between the two | HAS BECOME GRAVE citi ach time carrying a capacity a A | Danger of epidemics of typhoid and | passe list which means that she ets ee a og lavcenters, has become grave. Relief |tmust haye rescued about 1.500 in pa workers bent every energy to combat | all. Her ahort Lem Rape sas en | them. at ike | And In the mean time # effort to div Twelve foreigners, all refugees | tc plies he could disaster-ridden Yokohama, the joring and half-« sane. ple ‘ered.in t ili ag tr tp edGiid do | Sodom and Gomorrah are a man |i) : end his solfe—D. A. Olson, |. ‘Weon er fried sete, must Ballard & = oe Soest eee eady ar: pistes. . Lip-stick is another name for lock- Ade is a drink,—Haskell M thinks G &@ commander in t Degen D. M. says Dumbbell {s so dumb be inks the ships in Lake Union| culd be used to rush i Japan. peral Sctence is army.—Burton | from Several a a result of their exper During those horrib which followed immediate ake, fire and tidal w ein to }12 were forced to stand helplessly by | Hs nom others think hiboe'pe-damb,.| eet tee eens gern "lta ie thinks: yt Ss at ne Coffee is grounds for divorce. Ore Srtinas orc and | t Puget sounds the bugle.—Mrs lowiy- theo : henge pags ni Cass. thy harbor. (Allene » too much for |r eptember 2. ties. n to. distributing 1 12 finally found x could (Turn vo Page 9, Column 1) 400 gallons been dul! : . a eek oF ot ing in al- interest Sette the noes. moments | the of the son at Seat will be fir and United States. and } ew © por 1 valiar 4 to the survivors kohama as the Cirst following the quake shortly before sol in the naster ot nuffor ship to reach H. * burcaw ts a plece of an- iture—W. Jencks Veteran tique furs even s nasibly spare, Cay cwport has just Howard Nelson. totem poles be kimos slg Monda carried _ them | Orienta a line re | oneness | Many Houses Collapse Dune aie pt. Mike Jensen, master, ‘a ing Severe Temblor — | Adinicat Oriental line fleet, saying he rushin 2,000 te of sup plies from Shanghat to Yokohama. The ¢ of Spokane, Admiral Ort- M ents] line v ol, which had been aicutta | hela Kobe for relief work, has a] been relieved of duty | pu and Manila. This would m to indicate that the e¢ at Kobe has drinking pr stricken the the GRANT TAKES FOOD |FROM SHANGHAI ogee jes the word received the Admiral dispateh nsen, master of from mapa. on their | ed a Cc. Jenner. ———«! ar er | Mr. Dud’s wife just called up and told us to tell her husband she was going down to the dressmaker’s to | sons get, her kimono cut out. We did as|many } directed and Dumbbell fainted. W hen|men 8 he came to, he said: when “She should haveknown enough to go to a hospital for an operation.” oe CALCUTTA, Fitty killed injured ses collapsed in dist riot Sept. 10 or per. were nd city severe earthquake a {today 1ey | requiring her detention | been reome. The steamship W Inon Visitors in Seattle |: select ae cede as ipa . | Seattio dairymen and consuls rep-|£ust 18. has arrived & frimbbell thinks Sandy Hook | resenting Denmark, eden ana | om . is @ Scotchman. | Switzerland Monday were entertain. |‘ r orders eae ing seven of the world’s most noted | dairy experts, Prof. Orla Jensen and| Seattle Residents | his wife of the University of Den- | | mark; Prot. Robert Burri of #witzer.| Named as Survivors |land government work; R. E | WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 10. ‘An of-| ger, head of Stockholm Milk |Three residents of Seattle are named ficial estimate of the .¢ in the|tributing association nd his son, ivors of the earthquakes and Tokyo-Yokohama disaster, receiyed|and Y. Scharp, director of a large| fires of Japan, according to messages today by the Japanese embassy here | co-operative organization in Sweden. | made public by the state department _ from ‘ts government, stated that| ‘The visitors will be shown the|here yesterday. ‘The persona named * “up to September 7 there were liargest dairies of the dint and | Mary McGuire, J. P. Crow 000 dead in Tokyo alone.” may be taken to Mount Rainier, — | and Lyman Burke Joe’ Mager says he knows as. 0.| Noted Dairymen Are emptove who thinks $. $. Chadderton Is a tisamabip. | which Au there until Estimate Desi in Tokyo at 47,000 WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. Dis {home here and forget and has sailed | Yokohama | RUM SELI N'T WORRY Miss Kaukonen make her the bootk Rers, ncoording to her statement Mon. day. Mer practice In the caring for children will occupy Jer entire time, | and Seattle hooch dealers will not be troubled by her, she says. Dr konen will take over the office and f Dr. Adah Collison, Seattle Id spectalin leaves. for Bu In October She was get th her morning In Dr. ¢ will entele ¢ early prospective 4 tour The day t the Women‘! f Massachusetts at to live in Colt re and wa thweat, and when Dr. me to come out } over her practice I gladly make my home hert f to the pr Kaukonen take cepted. I and confine my medicine I Monday pe the questions put to her CLIFFORD HITS FUEL OIL USE Says School Board Action Hurts Coal Industry n her anxiety n the high schools t a temporar ll result because of the cost of petroleum say Ing that w present low tate fford, dustries. Clifford vigorously protests the use of fuel oil instead of coal, a Wash ington product, pointing out that the closing of the mines would cost the thou: in taxes and deprive ndant upon the ¢ » means of livelihood. busine proxin ford Protest instead of coal schools was voiced a letter to the board, according to E d director of Jabor and in state 20,000 citizens The s expenditures would total ap- ately $20,000,000 a year. Clit. the ax a by members use of fuel in Clifford of inst the in the school |SANTMYER URGES COAL, action THE USE OF While the considered would have fect upon the coal sidered the action (Turn to Page 9, of as the school in isolated only little ef industry, con of a public Column incident ‘ost in} Kau | to the entire coal industry | ands of dollars annually | industry of | Thousands Watch fo AIR VICTIM Event Here Thru Colored Glasses and Old Films venward omens rk in moon ‘ un's surface. Fev the slow slowness—shadow wun, that it erept over almost. imperceptible in its pk the | wan traveling with a| Price Miller, Seattle flier, who died in Spokane last, monstrous “speed inconceivable 0] night, following injuries sus-| the human brain. Few there were that. realized that the sun, $64,392 milex in ameter, was being blackened at a thousands of timey alrplane could fly The eclipse cau by moon going between the sun the ¢arth, This event every ten rate than bout years and made great pho- eclipre reparations were study world’ and of the about the sun, etary system during eclipse Spectators tograph Much moon has and the pian been watching smoked as the have used glass. or colored) glasses, harmful might come from a scrutiny sun with the naked oye. The Metropolitan Buliding Co. extended an open invitation t the roof of the Fourth and Univer uve. to watch the phenomena |!” from the SAN DIEGO TO Darkened glasses were DIEGO, that’ thetr wan expressed by observe today’s the sun, when, at 9:30 a. m. fog which had hung over the (Turn to Page 9, Column 4) Cal., Sept. 10. work would here to the DO YOU LIKE THIS ONE? Want bargains of them. Ad co! in lumns Used Today's carry many Cars, BUICK 7-pass. 2, in extra good condition, with light, wind defle bumpers and spare tire. apecial price, Pxtra You will find the party's addre who selling tonight's Want this Ads, d- fanter | the and happens Pp information garnered has Cobb not scientists eclipse of | city ,| tained in doing an air “stunt” | at ‘the Spokane Interstate a; fair. The picture was taken jduring one of Miller's last | performances on Lake Wi ash-| ington, Seattle. y Pr ft Ph & Carter jographers SEATTLE FLYER, INJURED, DIES Miller, Star 8 results of the Price alrptane stunt man who thrilled crowds over Lake Wash- | at Spokane Sunday night from injuries sustain- ington this summer, d e fell several hundred feet a defective parachute, Miller fell last’ Wednesday at the Spokane fair | grounds when tho third parachute of 4 triple drop, failed to, fully open. | It was to have been Miller’s last | appearance in stunt work. as bis 12 week contract expired with the end | cording 8 EB. 8lst | ed when in-law attle July 28, this year. At the | »|time of the wedding he promised his | bride that this would be his last sea- jeon-in “stunt” work.: "The couple | {planned to make their home in Los | Angeles. Mrs. Miller witnessed the accident | and was with her husband when his | |death came. The body will be taken | |to Portland by Miller's mether, who| |resides there, Mrs. Miller will return to her parents in Seattle. | | Miller thrilled crowds of Seattle by | his sensational stunts from an air- | plane over Lake. Washington this summer, He made numerous drops | from the wings of a plane, and intro- | duced his triple chute drop here, It worked successfully here. | \Suit Against Dead Man Is Digmissed | suit for $1,201 filed against | Smith by Adolph Boos was dismissed by Judge Otis W. Brinker | Saturday, Smith was mur ous’ farm May 12 last, and Boos | heing held for tne crime, jointly with A. ML. Bailey. The suit was filed} | three days before Smith’s murder, ‘ADAM AND EVA ; EVA. WE NEED THO THOUSAND ‘OH, ADAM) FoR A DOWN PAYMENT ON A SELL THAT HOUSE. AND I'VE BEEN FiccERIN’ Iq DEAR OLD AND HIGGERIN ANO ALL WE FAITHE UL AM RAISE fEM HUNDRED) CAR! | . Gorwour setuma rye OLD) Jwouro pe:| | BET THAT DEALER: witt. BUS - THAT OUGHT TO LIKE. SELLING BE woRTH FIVE HUNDRED A pear ool |_4 FRIEND A EVA , THIS IS PROBABLY QUR LAST RIDE (i HER + DON'T HER. ENGIN’ SOUND Fine . (T ADAM, JEL CRY INA MINUTE. FIVE DOLLARS FOR THIS MODEL BUT SHE'S (N SUCH Goop CONDITION MLL RAISE IT TO FORTY, ANTIQUE! MUSEUM FORTY DOLLARS! PIECE! THE FAT SLO’ HE DRIVES CAR HIMSCLE BY CAP HIGGINS e- BET A WORSE “Two i ENTS IN § 'S IN SEATTLE. AMERICAN SQUADRON ON ROCKS Warships Going Full Speed in Fog Pile Up in Darkness, Following Leaders; Others Unable to Stop (EDITORIAL) HE government ought to hire a few navigators to steer its warships when the navy wants to go somewhere. The transport Henderson, with the president aboard, rams a destroyer, and later runs into a mer- chant vessel. The flagship Seattle scuttles Puget Sound. Now seven destroyers, one after the other, like a line of sheep, pile up on the rocky California o “5 aground in placid Making 20 knots in the fog, the leader fails to recog- nize that he is far off the course. of responsible officers, with all the refined instru- ments of navigation and with radio and every conceivable aid to safety at their disposal, commit the same errors, fail to call his attention to the blunder and plunge blindly ahead to destruction. This is running up the expense too high. the country does not relish a heavy casualty roll of The six other sets other Besides, enlisted men every time the naval officers experiment in navigation. It is apparent they do need practice, but let them get it some other way. LET SOME SAILORS RUN THE SUPER-COSTLY WARSHIP: * & * * St FRANCISCO, Sept. 10.— ‘Some unusual current in the Santa Barbara channel,” was given by navy officers at head- quarters here today as the prob- able cause of Satarday night's Point Argutllo, California, While they Japanese earthquake waves, it was known had that did not me and that tidal | navy officers in} mind. reflection the the currents off the cos on the rocks the ships. The statement was made on convening of a board of inquiry to determine cause and responsi- bility for the disaster. The in- quiry will be held at San Diego, Cal. ‘he indications was no negligence nor culpable in- phenomenon across are rried Miss Helen: Logan, ben on on the part of anyone con-} aduate of Broadway high school, | nected with the direction of the de- stroyers’ courses,” the said, “and that the caused by a combination of unfor: | tunate circumstances—probably to some unusual current in the Santa Barbara channel. The board of inquiry will consist | of four naval officers of high rank | and the board can be expected to re- }turn one of three decisions, it was stated. The three decisions are: Wilful negligence. Carelessness. Accidental The board ately. will convene immedi LIST OF DESTROYERS WRECKED IN FOG OFF CALIFORNIA’S COAST poss AGUELLO, Cal, Sept. 10.—Thru the fox the out- lines of seven destroyer, which piled up on the rocks here Satur- day night in’ the most remark- able marine disaster in Paciric coast history, could be seen to. day. Here's the way each destroyer Jay FULLER—Firmiy and listed about 20 starboard, WOODBURY—High on the rocks and listed 40 degrees to port, CHAUNCEY—High rocks, standing surf. YOUNG—Lying on ends, three-quarters submerged, DELPHI—OGn beam ends, al most submerged and broken in halt, 8. P. LEB—Thrown on beach beneath a high olift, 25 derreos to starboard, NICHOLAS—Lying — broadside on the beach and listed 10 de: kress to starboard, The spot where the dostrovers were wrecked is about three mile« north of Point Arguollo—a small eape known as Pedernales point. on rocks degrees to the the inside upright’ in its beam the sted that there | pounding waves of the Pa- cific are slowly breaking up seven navy destroyers which il e cordwood upon the jagged rocks of Point Arguelio Saturday night and caused the deaths of between 20 and 25 members of the crews, The ex- act number of sailors drowned cannot be definitely determined, The sea is running heavy, pos |sibly reflecting the earthquakes, eruptions and tidaa that they beiteved some weird | Waves from Japan, ifie upset | t and threw | seven fighting | Racing, full steam ahead at 20 Knots thru an impenetrable fog, the destroyerss Delphi, Young, Chauncey, Woodbury, Fuller, 8. P. Lee and Nicholas: crashed on the rocks. Run- ning in formation and believing themselves eight miles _off shore the boats piled up like sheep following a leader. Each one steered by the lights of the boat ahead. They lie today on the treachery ous Point Arguella, north of Sante | Barbara, where they probably will statement de destroyed. accident was | Only one man, Chief Fireman's Mate Conroy of the Delphi, has been officially listed as dead - by the navy department. His body has been sects Nineteen of the Young have not yet been found, it is said, They © were listed as missing. violence of — Thirteen seamen received severe” injuries, while half a hundred more: were cut and bruised during their’ ™ rescue after swimming thru jagged rocks, E More than 500 haii-clothed and unshaven gobs and officers saved from the wrecked hulks have been taken from the wild, barren. point to San Diego. Half dead from exhaustion, exposure and lack of sleep, they lay sprawled on the floor or ov the seats of the train coaches and told the Story of their night of terror and of the toll taken of their comrades, The men believe there are 20 dead on the destroyer Young alone. They think their comrades were trapped — like rats in the hold of the ship when she went down after the crash,” On the destroyer Delphi—lea of the pack-—tnres mei went 0 board; according to, members of crew. One was knocked ii and carried away on a monster comber which raked the vessel fore and aft. Another, Fireman Pearson, blind by oil, went insane, Screaming: fighting, he tore himself away f his mates, who attempted to hold him down, and Jeaped to his death in the surf, ~~” t A third member: of tha crew, his grip on the life ling and washed overboard, } After the Delphi struck the ro it was not mon: thah an instant until the Young rammed up bebiitd her and swung over against side, ‘The Delphi's «propeller, racing, caught the Young in vow, and, aided by a big sell,” Kicked her over, ‘Then the Chauncoy ited up. The commumnder of the Ch: cey had just a thash of warniy He crdered full xpeed a when he way cote tlown a (Turn to Jest, one