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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-03
More Than 100, 900 Are
Dead in Yokohama Area

Premier 1amamoto, who took Office only last week and
had not completed his cabinet when the first earth shocks
began Saturday speeded up formation of his ministry
which completed and installed while flames ragged in
every part of the capital.
The plight of Yokohama port city, short distance from
Tokyo is described as pable
More than 100000 persisted there great tidal wave add
ing its terors and death toll to those of quake and flame
The city hospitals burned down and medical supplies
and instruments destroyed
The Hakone district devastated and it is reported
that many foreigners were there.
wireless message from the Korea Maru, in Yokohama
harbo says that expedition landed by that vessel found
of ndescrbabe horror with heaps of dead every
where
Eight thousand casualties occurred near Mount Full when
workers buried in the ruins of the famous thread fac
tories.
The Grand hotel at Tokyo and the Yokohama Specie bank
destroyed
Many thousands living parks others have sought
outlying districts.
The greatest suffering followed the collapse of buildings
in the first earth shock after which the nrshing waters in
tidal wave drowned caught by falling timbers
Hundreds OF children among the injured and MANY of
these have not been fed for two days Walls and cries fin
the arr with few to go to the relief of the stricken
Inc landing party was unable to proceed to Tokyo IL
was informed officially that the capital still was burning
but that the fires were believed essening somewhat ma
Jory portion of the city being already DESTROYED One re-
port from Tokyo the capital has been reduced to what
is nothing more than an unimporant aggregation of vii
lagos without hope of recovering its former grandeur for
decades. -
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-03
Indescribable Devastation
Is Seen in Wrecked Region

Railway from Tokyo tells casualties in Tokyo
about 100000. Aviator Tokoro says cannot single
house in Kamakura Yokosuka, Yokohama and vicinity
result of tidal wave.
Nottingham Hongo destroyed Loss of houses in Yoko-
hama estimated 1,400 Fire in than 20 places and
spread wards Hinjo, Fukagawa, Asakusa Nison
Bash Ushigome, Asakasa, Hojimach Shba. Safety zone
is Koishikawa, Azabu, HOMO and northward.
Marine corps Yokosuka annihilated and ships
stranded Buildings burned down in Tokyo the arsenal
military academy Ushigome, Metropolitan police, Imperial
theater home office finance department. printing bureau
imperial university.
Fire destroyed Honcho Inchoneto Hokucfo Motishi
rocho Sudacho, Surugada Ichmara theate Shtaya
whole of HOMO Fukagawa Kojimuh Pojuchone Akanaka
proimach Shichome, Sncanache, Hongo Hkamacho Myam
oocho, Jmbocho, Arakcho, Kogacho Kanda Shbuya ant
whole of Yoshiwara.
Prince regent took refuge in imperial sanctuary
"Al bridges, Sunda river reported lost Hoshima Kama
kura turned into muddy island Oshima still sending
smoke"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-03
Injured Europeans Taken
on Board Rescue Freighter

Fire RACED The residence OF the Processes Nabeshma,
Fushmi. Higasi and Kasho.
he naval club collapsed and destroyed by fire dur
ing sitting for cabinet formation.
THE ship Selma City badly damaged by the earth
quake Rescue ships endeavong to prevent her sinking
and standing by ready to her 1S9 passengersmen
and babies including and doctor There is 22
feet of water in the vessels fofehod
The vessel Empress of Australia safe at her pier but
unable proceed seward until ascetanng the extent of
damage done to her propeers caused thru oulng with
another steamer Near time divers unobtainable.'
The freghter Dongola reported that its ship and
safe and that it taking board many homeless
and injured Europeans.
(By this it is inferred that this vessel is in Yokohama
harbor the immediate vicinty.)
wireless was received from the steamer Korea Maru
which stated that it unable to sail from Yokohama and
was unable to tell its date of departure
Whether this that the Korea is at Yokohama is not
known She scheduled to have been in the neghbohood
OF that port at about the time of the earthquake.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-03
AMERICAN STEAMSHIPS
ARE NOW Being TRACED
Japan Tries to Re-establish Cable
Communication; Further Reports of
Disaster Are Given by Witnesses

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. Silk Koreans, apparently
looters shot dead the Ueno station Of Tokyo
today, according to received here this morning
from Tomioka Japan via the Radio Corporation of America
Martial law had previously been proclaimed in the earth
quake and fre-stricken capital of Japan.
The message received this morning stated:
Provisions being supplied in front of the central sta
ton This station and the central postoffice are safe
'0ther principal buildings burned down are:
Peerless school, official residence of the minister of the
imperial household Meji university double bridge of the
imperial palace the military preparatory school, the imperial
museum, Nippon Denh company Eise Zairyo Hombu of
the department Nippon Printing company Muslin
panY and kAbuki theater
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-03
Details of Disaster Given
In Wireless by Eyewitness

wireless message received by the Radio Corporation
of America at 750 Sunday gave the following addi-
tional details of the Japanese disaster.
railroad reached the Iwaka radio station from
Tokyo and reported that there 100000 dead in the
capital alone.
the devastated and found that not house remained
standing in Yokohama Kamakura, Yokosuka and other
coast towns"
Kamakura was popular seaside resort
The wards of Shba, Komachi, Asaka and Ushigome
where most of the Americans in Yokohama lived have been
swept by fire
The message said:
Martial law is in force in Tokyo Nobody is admitted
to the city without provisions Noppn Bash ward prac
ticay annhiated, Ntsuk Shirokya department stores
being burned down.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-03
Six Looters Are Shot Dead at Tokyo
HERE'S MORE ABOUT
JAPANESE CATASTROPHE
SHAFTS on PAGE 1
STARTS ON PAGE l

are ruined. The country's manufacturing interest
are blasted.
Ten Great Earth Shocks
Follow Initial Disaster
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-03
Two Earth Shocks
Felt in St. Louis

ST. LOUIS, Mo, Sept. 1.-Two
very sharp earthquake trcmors. up.
parcntly about 1000 miles west OF
here. were recorded At 4:45 and i:67
a. m. today on tho 81. Louis univsr.
slty selsmogrDph,
Tho trcmors started nj 4a3 Cen.
trail standard time and continued
until $50 a. m.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-03
Premier Yamamoto
Forms New Cabinet

IAN FRANCISCO, Sept. Am.
nouncement Of formation OF the new
Japanese cabinet was received hsre
this morning from Tomioka, Japan,
by tho Radio Corporation Of Amer.
lea.
Premier Yamamoto heads the cabl.
net as premier and foreign minister.
The office OF home minister Is TO
be filled by Goto: finance, by Inque
Junnosukc; war minister, Tanaka
agriculture. commerce and justice
Den: comminications and education,
Inukai; railway. Yamanouchi: navy
Tokaragc.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-03
Japan Struggles to Repair
Shattered Cable Service

No additional word had the Pacific to San
francisco up 915 today, the last advces received
sby the Radio Corporation of America having been at
A:40 a. m.
Notice given by the Japanese station that it would
not be ready for transpacfc communication again until
late this afternoon which interpreted meaning it
devong itself to establishment of communication with
Other Japanese stations and with the Asiatic Mail
The cable to Japan still interrupted today. The
break located Yokohama, but the confusion
of the disaster there apparently has made difficult the
repairing of break which under normal conditions might
be easily accomplished All cabegrams for Japan were
being accepted by the cable company at sende risk and
subject to indefinite delay They routed via Shanghai
Tien Tsin and thence to Japan.
Steamship offices engaged in tracing their vessels
now in the Orient The Pacific Mail reported the liners
Presidents Pierce Lincoln and Cleveland all had left Japan
previous to the disaster.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-03

a luncheon Of tho club in tho l.. C.
smith building restaurant. Harry ].
Martin. Of tho National Carbon Co.
II the new president and j. NJ. Hoop.
or. Of the Rainier Electric Co, Is sec.
rotary. The election took place two
wWeeka nRn.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-03

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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-03

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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-03
Terrified Victims Race
Erantically Thru Streets

Every dwelling house in the capital either completely
destroyed or partly damaged.
Before the rumblngs Of the first quake had died away
people poured from the houses filling streets and other
open spaces
Some dragged others who injured by falling masonry
and tmbers. They left behind in ruined homes many who
could not be rescued whose cries followed them they
fed Then successive shocks drowned these vain calls for
help and added fresh victims 20 the toll of dead and dying.
The shocks continued until shutdown
To the horror of the successive quakes was quickly
added the greater terror OF fires which sprang up
on every side. Little groups of refugees in in
stances found themselves hemmed in by flaming blocks
of buildings and burned TO death by the hundreds
Persons trapped in dwellings which lay in the various paths
of the spreading flames had no chance.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-03
Electric Club Will
Install Officers

The installation OF officers OF the
Seattle Electric club for tho coming
year took place Thursday noon at
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-03
600 Workers Are Killed as
Housing Structure Crashes

strong wind blew up and famed the fires until every
part OF the capital which has 10 wards abaZe. 1t
impossible to get the outbreak under control To add
the disaster. the water supply failed.
When Mainichs aplane correspondent left last evening
nearly all the government offices had been burned down.
including the minister Of interior and police headquarters
The correspondent estimated that less than 100000
houses reduced TO ashes with many others threatened
The city hall was burning and bodies of many worimen
lay piled the streets in this vicinity Hundreds Of others
were injured in the collapse of the government printing
offices.
Six hundred workers killed when the earth shocks
tumbed the huge structure that housed the Nibondenak
electrical works.
As the correspondent flew southwestward to Osaka he
looked back upon the flaming capital Great rings of fire
visible for miles and
that the full extent Of the disaster has not been reported
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-03

Financially and from the viewpoint of loss OF
human life, the disaster is considered the greatest
in Japan's history.
Part Of the royal palace destroyed by the quakes and
the prince regent of Japan fled from his house the fam
k shrine where he worhped while portions of the palace
cumbed about him and his house partially destroyed
major portion of the royal palace saved however
The Osaka Mainchi established today arpane news
service from Tokyo.
It's correspondent brought the latest eyewitness stories
of the disaster
According the Manichi the first appalling shock
Cured at noon to be followed by than 10 Others in
rapid succession
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-13
STATE SCHOOLS
 COST IS HIGHEST IN NEW ENGLAND
Cost Is $53.44 Per Pupil, Another Reason Workers Children
 Should Get Advantages.

It costs $53.44 pupil, on the aver age, to pay the current expenses of public schools in Connecticut for a year, according to statistics com piled by the Bureau of Education in the United States Department of the Interior. For new sites, buildings and expenses of that kind, there IS an additional average cost of $8.o7 a pupil. The. cost per capita of total population in this state is $II.82.
 Twenty-two states have higher average costs per pupil, but the aver age for the country is $4o.oo a pupil for current expenses, $7.I2 for new sites and buildings and $o.8o per capi- ta of total population. Only two of the other New England states have lower per capita costs III this respect than Connecticut, they being Maine and Rhode Island Massachusetts has the greatest expense in proportion to the number of it's pupils, so far as New England is concerned, it's cur rent expenses averaging $6ooo pupil and it's capital investments $47o. On highest expense of any of the New England states in proportion to it's total population, Massachusetts being a close second with a rate of $Io.62
 Nevada leads the country in the cost per pupil, paying $85,I2 a pupil for current expenses and SI2.o2 for capital investments, and Montana, which Is second in this respect, leads the country in the cost per capita of total population, with the figure of $22.24.
 The statistics, while issued only re- gently, are based on a survey for the school year IoIo-Io2o, considerable period being required for the com pilation of the figures which comprise booklet of Al pages.
 The daily cost for each pupil at tending public schools in Connecticut IS 37 cents for current expenses and 6 cents for capital investments, where as the average for the country IS .34 cents for current expenses and 6 cents for capital outlays.
 The median salary paid to eiemen- tary school teachers in large Connec- ticut cities last year was $I,568, ac- cording to figures of the National Education Association. The median for the United States was $I,876 for that class of teachers.
 All but IS towns in New England supply free text books in the schools. These towns are all in Connecticut and are as follows:
 Ansonia, Bozrah, Brooklyn, Bristol Chaplin, Derby, Durham, Middletown (part), Milford, Norwich, Preston, Torrington, Wethersheld, Windham and Windsor Locks.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-13
EANTI-UNIONISTS
 SLIP AS EMPLOYERS AND
 WORKERS PULL TOGETHER

By International Labor News Service
 Seattle, Wash, Oct. I3.-Organ- ized labor hating is on the blink in this big city of the northwest.
 Associated Industries, the organ ization of anti-trade union employ CTS, formed when general strike bogies were thick in the air, is get ting back to earth.
 Associated Industries was founded on the fear generated by hokum about the general strike. Great plans were laid on that basis and fairly strong organization worked up. Lots of people went into the thing just be- cause trained agents were able to scare them with bogey talk
 It was all duck soup for the anti labor propagandists for while. Then Seattle and the whole state began to get a better view. They found that the world didn't fall down and that the sun even rose and set just as it used to.
 It's hard job keeping up a fear of something, that doesn't materialize and that never even really existed So Associated Industries began to slip and slide. Today it just peters along, with only the bitter-enders holding the fort. There's no steam i'll the ol dlabor hating boiler any more
 President William H. Short of the Washington State Federation of La bor says that the feeling of friendli- ness between employers and trade unions in Seattle and throughout the state was never as good as today. There IS cooperation and general desire to pull together, work to- gether and build together The re- actionary employer and the rip-roar- ing red are both just about ready to flop into blue funk. Bushes for both IS on the toboggan. Union organization in Seattle IS strong, negotiation and joint agree ments are the rule and the result is condition of stability and prosperity that just about ranks heads even with any other place in the country. The overwhe elming bulk of union member ship in Seattle is heart and soul with the policies and principles of the American Federation of Labor and this IS not the least of the factors re- sponsible for the present condition of increasing soundness and wholesome ness.
 A fact of much importance to those interested in revolutions Is the fact that some 40 per cent of the homes in Seattle are owned by those who oc- cupy them. "Fat chance for revolu- tion in a place like this," said one business agent.
 Extremists on both sides are in a bad way in Seattle. Sound pfactices are vindicated and those who keep the score on such things can chalk up another home run for American de- mocracy.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-13
MINE OPERATORS
 AID RED PLOTS
 IS NEW CHARGE
Senate Investigation Demanded By Miners Representative Follow
 ing Owners Reply.

Washington, Oct 13.-Charging
 that Communists and other destruc- tive reds have received substantial
 encouragement and aid from non- union coal operators" Ellis Searles, representing the United Mine Work CTS, published a reply to the recent Statement of John C. Brydon, presi- dent of the National Coal Association, which ridiculed the unions recent ex- pose of Communistic activities in the coal fields.
 At the. same time Mr. Searles, in behalf of the union, proposed that a committee of the United States Sen ate make a thorough investigation of the subject and predicted if that were done, ''there are persons in and out of the coal industry who probably will feel like running for cover.
 "It is significant" said MT. Searles, 'that the only attack upon the rev elations contained in those articles came from the non-union coal opera tors who are managing and direct ing the National Coal Association. These non-union operators are as anxious as the Communists to wreck and destroy the United Mine Work CTS of America. Both are working to accomplish the same purpose and the fact that these non-union operators, headed by John C. Brydon, have thus joined hands with the Communists and rushed to their defense has done much to confirm the well-grounded belief among the union miners that the Communists and other destruc tive reds have received substantial encouragement and aid from non 11nion coal operators in their various activities.
 "On March 16, 1923, MT. Brydon called Thomas R. Marshall, member of the United States Coal Commls- sion, by long distance telephone and told him of alleged cases of dynamlt- ing of coal company property, and placed the blame on the United Mine Workers of America. When the mat ter was reported to me, as the repre- sentative of the United Mine Work CTS of America, 1 wrote a. letter on that same date to Mir. Brydon in which I told him that Communists and not the union miners were re- sponsible for the crime.
 "Mr. Brydon and his non-tnion coal operator associates are af this time preparing to launch a vicious public ity attack against the Communist ex- pose made by the United Mine Work CTS of America, and this campaign will break forth in a short time. It will add further courage and boldness to the red element in this country, be- cause the campaign will attempt to absolve the reds and Communists from all responsibility for the crimes that have been committed"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-13
PINCHOT KNEW IT TOOK MINERS
 TO MINE COAL

Governor Pinchot seems to be unique public official He knows that it takes miners to mine coal, fact that other officials have apparently never grasped
 In taking steps leading to a settle ment of the anthracite coal strike, Gov ernor Pinchot fully recognized that coal stays in the ground unless 1t Is removed by miners. He didn't propose to get coal by talking 1t out of the mines, as so many governors, presidents, mayor and other cubic officials have tried to do in the past H He took the stand that there would be no coal produced until the mi ners worked-a fact that Is hardly open to dispute.
 Governor Pinchot might have paved the air and filled thelwell<in with threats of injunctions and force, the while he acclaimed that ''coal must be mined" and that the full inbuences of the govern ment will be exerted for the production of coal" But he didn't He knew that coal is a stubborn mineral, which can't be extracted from tlie ground without skilled labor. So he proposed plan of settlement that recognized the absolute necessity of miners in coal production and which provided for full recognition of the union and of collective bargain ing.
 It has been a favorite indoor and out door sport of public officials and reac- tionary newspapers to mine coal by the power of the mouth and the typewriter. Words, words, words-Inillions and bil- lions of em-have been spoken and writ ten on coal, but they haven't budged the coal. It has perversely stayed right m the mines until the miners went down and bearded 1t in its den.
 It is hoped that Governor Pinchot's common sense stand will make public officials and reactionary editorial wris ters realize that while it is possible to mne coal without operators, 1t cannot be mined without miners. They should re alize that injunctions, soldiers, congress- men, cabinet officers, attorneys general and editorial writers make poor miners. Likewise editorial writers should realize that there is a vast difference between picking coal and picking typewriter and that it takes fully as much intellect to mine coal as it does to write some editorials.
 Perhaps, though, it is too much to expect public officials and reactionary editorial writers to see what Governor Pinchot so thoroughly sensed. It takes brains to see things as Pinchot saw -hem