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Evening star., 1923-09-10
U. S. DEsTRoYERs ARRIVE.

from both sides. Soon the pile of
timber caught fire and the poor
woman was consumed before our eyes.
We could distinctly hear her cries for
help to the last,
Then l resumed my search for my
wife. The dead and dying were
everywhere in all sorts of positions.
city was very dense. / blundered into
a friend and learned from him that
he had seen my wife in the park. /
rushed to the place and found thous-
ands of people there. The park was
surrounded on all sides by burning
buildings and looked as though it
might become an awful trap. Then
Providence interviewed, the water
mains burst, and the park was soon
flooded almost waist high.
1--WE remained there for hours.
Everybody had torn pieces off their
the intense heat. When night came
heard the voice of the Englishman
shouting: I am here to save you We
discovered that he was from the
steamship Empress of Russia and en-
gagged in rescue work.
Sad Scene Aboard Ship.
ITO my question whether he had
rescued any foreign women he re-
piled that he had just sent boatload
to the Empress of$Russfa. / went di-
rectly to the vessel but my wife was
not there.
II connot describe the scenes aboard
the Empress of Russia Husbands
were looking for wives; mothers were
seeking children; they were hardly
interested in me.
Then. / saw another boatload OF
rescued persons approaching the
ships gsngway. I did not recognize
any of them until one came slowly
toward me. 1t was my wife, but sc
gray with dust and swollen from the
heat as to make her almost unrecog-
nizable. The earthquake had struck
while she was shopping. Escaping
from a collapsed building. she sought
safety in the park with thousands oi
others and spent the night there In
Ithe mud and water until rescued"
T. G. Nee. manager of the Horne
chinery importers. another arrival
here was at Miyanoshita when the
earthquake occurred. He reported
that all the compsny's employees were
He reached here with nothing ex-
cept the clothes he was wearing. Val.
uable collections of curios which he
had placed for safety In three safes In
TOXIC and Yokohama were lost, al
being in buildings which were de.
Mrs. w. H. C. weippert, wife of the
commissioner of customs of China
was among those rescued by Capt
David James. a Britisher, who or
ganized a party of relief. making tive
trips to Miyanoshita. Mrs. Weipper
rushed from her hotel at the frs
shock and saw the building COLLAPSE
end the swimming pool in the garder
disappear within two Tninutes' time.
The shocks continued Throughout
the afternoon and Mrs. Weippert ant
her two children slept on a hillsid.
for two nights On the third daV
torrential rain descended and tbs
hotel refugees sought protection III
the ruined building where they werl
found by the rescuing party.
Evening star., 1923-09-10
GETS 364-DAY SENTENCE,

Willie Brown, colored. charged
with assaulting Policeman Victor Cue
of the seventh precinct in Navy place
southwest April z last, was sentenced
70 S64 days In jail today. The evi-
dence showed that Brown assaulted
the policeman without provocation.
tfipped him and then struck him with
some kind OF blunt instrument, in
fiJctinE a wound that required sew
sral stitches to close. Brown left
town Immediately after the assault
and, II was said, had been working
in Newark, NJ. j.. all summer. He
returned TO the city Thursday and
Saturday night Detective Hildrun ar
rested him.
Evening star., 1923-09-10
PLEASURE CAMPS ROBBED.

An appeal has been made to the
local police to investigate two rob-
berries committed in camps on the Vir-
ginia side of the river above Aque-
duct bridge. AL Jacobs, 1S47 Shep-
herd street. and ]. Nicholson, Park
Lane, Va, were the victims of the
thieves. Bedding. a shirt and rife
were taken from the former, while
the latter told Of the taking of 500
worth of bedding, dishes and a vie
trola. Similar thefts on the Mary
land side of the river were success
fully investigated by Deputy Sheriff
Gingell q short time ago.
Evening star., 1923-09-10

NContinued from First Page).
Japanese government, conditions are
still far from sanitary.
There is the deepest appreciation
throughout Japan for the prompt re-
sponse from the United States and
other countries TO the distress of the
thousands of refugees. Admiral An
derson Of the United States Asiatic
fleet is closely cooperating with
sAdmiral Takarabe, minister of ma
rine, in the work OF relief. A num-
ber of British ships have already ar
rived with food and medical supplies.
While the weather is extremely hot
and there are occasional earth shocks.
the work of rebuilding the destroyed
sections of the city is already start
ing.
1t is announced that H. G. Parlett,
counsellor OF the British embassy, for
whose safety some apprehension was
felt, is alive and unharmed.
Evening star., 1923-09-10

should give a quarter in behalf of
sufferers across, the Pacific. With the
extent of the disaster more adequate
" known Il - urgent that all pos
sibIe relief should be taken to the
Japanese people without the unneces-
sary loss of an hour.
.T urge my fellow citizens, and par.
ticularly my fellow wage -earners, TO
contribute generously and immediate.
'iy in this urgent humanitarian cause
Evening star., 1923-09-10
z Believed Dead
In Trair, Wreck
Near Roanoke
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
ROANOKE. Va. September 10
Six injured persons are reported to
have been brought to the Lewis
Gale Hospital here today from the
scene of the wreck of a Norfolk
and Western passenger train in
which seven persons are believed
to have lost their lives O. few
miles north of this city.
Evening star., 1923-09-10
LOCAL RED CROSS GETS
$3I,235.55 FOR RELIEF
Star Relief Fund Noto
Totals $II,847.23,
Late Contributors

Contributions 20 the fund, when
sent to The Star, should be made
payable 10 "Jnpenese Relief Fund,
and mot The Evening Star. All
contributions will be acknowI-
edged I'm the columns of The Star.
Collections by The Evening Star
for the Japanese relief fund were
headed toward the $4,000 mark to-
day, the early mail bringing in
exactly sI21.S0s making a total raised
of s1l,S4723.
In yesterdays Star, because of an
error In addition. the total was listed
as sI1,025.T3, when it should have
been 500 more, or $11,125.73.
The list for today is as follows:
Evening star., 1923-09-10
MIAMI PIONEER DEAD.

MIAMI, September 10.-Phillip Pull
Iendorf, president of the Pullendorf
Company of Miami and pioneer resi-
dent of this section, died here last
night after an illness of more than
two years. Mr.. Pullendorf was born
in West Prussia, Germany. in 1867.
Evening star., 1923-09-10
ASKS SAUSAGE BE LABELED.

Health Officer Fowler has taken up
With, local dealers the question of
isbeIing sausage made with other
foods, as well as meat, so that buyers
nroSueta from ordinary meat sau-
sAEeA
Evening star., 1923-09-10
$I,425.N Received
Today as Total
Still Mounts.
Nearly $4,000 Is
Yet to Come for
ID. c. Quota.

Contributions of s1.425.4s came to
Chairman Victor B. Deyber. chairman
of the local finance committee of the
Red Cross. via the Post once Depart
ment's daily mail service today. swell
ing the Japanese relief fund on hand
to s31.235.55.
Evening star., 1923-09-10
MccARL THREATENS
BAN ON FUEL SALES
TO MILITARY MEN

Continued from First Page).
Evening star., 1923-09-10
REPORTS 10000 BURNED.
By the Associated Press.


OSAKA, September 10.-Thirty
thousand Japanese who had taken
refuge in the ten acre enclosure of
the Honge military clothing depot in
Toxic, perished in the flames that
swept the area early last week, ac-
cording to a man named Kawashima,
one of the few who escaped. (There
have been varying reports as to the
number of refugees who met de Ath
in this fire, but this is the largest
estimate).
II ran to a pool of water in which
spent the night with cushion over
my head" Kawashima said. ION all
sides the groans op the dying could
be heard and as the fires licked the
brick walls the enclosure was trans
formed into an oven, in which thou
sands were roasted. In the morning
when the fire had burned out. troops
came and rescued thirty of us from
the pool. The compound was COW
cred with half-burned corpses."
U. S. DEsTRoYERs ARRIVE.
By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News
Copyright, 1923.
KOBE, September 10.-Ten Ameri.
can naval destroyers, headed by the
flagship Huron, arrived here today
from Manila, bringing supplies for
refugees.
Maj. Gen. George W., Reed is aboard
the Huron as special representative OF
Gov. Gen. Leonard Wood of the Phil
ippines.
Evening star., 1923-09-10
FEVER EPIDEMIC HITS
TOXIC; WOODS ASKS HELP

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Evening star., 1923-09-10

Authorization for the purchase OF
additional relief supplies for the
stricken Japanese was given this
morning by the executive committee
of the Red Cross In a meeting at the
national headquarters. The authori-
cations will bring expenditures thus
far in behalf of the earthquake sur
ferers by the American people. close
to the level of the funds so far COL
lected throughout the country.
Evening star., 1923-09-10

30 intent are certain political lead
ers in the Philippines to gain absG-
| lutte Independence that they flare up
| at the slightest provocatfon to FUR
| ther their movement and embarass
! as much as possible Gov. Gen. Wood
! and his administration. AT least thar
| Is the opinion of Mrs. C. F. Moelich
/ in the far east of the WrigIev rom-
| pany. who with her daughter Mar
garet is making an extended stav
at She Wardman Park Hotel
| III was on the Pacific when the re-
cent hurry, which resulted in the
resignation of the entire cabinet. ee
I-curred, but there was an undercl,r
rent rent Of d1isscontent 1dsc9 quite noticeable
she looked down, on the bsfhers 80
my way OF thinking the FiIipinos are
1 far from CAPABLE OF governing thst,o
selves at present, but there are Ger
| determined that full independence
4 shall be attained immediately They
!, use any pretext, from the low price
! of sugar to a defective package. OF
while they claim they hold nothing
( personally against Cen Wood, his
ant"
Mrs. Moelich said that from what
she had heard of the ssuffering In
Japan, and her knowledRe of the
country, 1t would take months before
\ the true story of the terrible catas-
trophe would be learned The Manila
woman Is looking for many details
OF the horror by radio from capt.1F.
1 Nichols of the steamship President
l.Jeffa'son.
H Capt. Nichols is a most prodcient
officer, one OF the best in the service.
and any flashes that might come 10
the governments from him from now
on can be relied upon as authentic"
she continued as she showed the
writer two recently received AmeFi-
can newspapers published in the far
away land. the equals of which are
lhard to be duplicated on the. American
1 continent.
i Mrs. Moelfeh's home is in New York.
and her. h isband is native OF
Brooklyn. THE MIXER.
Evening star., 1923-09-10

And back to the Dempsey -Firpo
Hght Just long enough to announce
that the entire New York Amerin.T
base ball team is of the opinion that
Battling Jaques" will be changinr
ms togs when helpers are taking the
south American from the ring.
Running into Babe Ruth and his
teammates just as they were rushing
from the Raleigh Hotel IN csfnb :
train for New York after winding nm
the season here, the BRmbino waved
MS mighty wallpapers" when asked
who he fancied. and shouted Lack
VII! Kill him. How aoout it, Whitley p.
And the tow-headed Witt nodded q
ditto. Put us ali down as favorinS
Dtempsey TO win" cried back the big
Evening star., 1923-09-10
SEVEN u. S. DESTROYERS
WRECKED IN FOG; 23 OF
CREWS KILLED. IS HURT

Continued from First Page).
Evening star., 1923-09-10
Fund Reported by Divisions.

Reports from the Red Cross dfvi-
sions throughout the country. issued
today at r. ed Cross headquarters here,
ara aa foiowS-
Evening star., 1923-09-10
JAPANESE FUND
TOTALS N,071,0O
Red Cross Reports Liberal
Response to Appeal for
Earthquake Victims.

Washington had gone over the top"
In les Red Cross drive for Japanese
relief today and the nation at large
had contributed more than 20 per
cent Of it's national s5.0oo.ooo quota.
With a local quota of $4,000. Wash
ington at noon today had subscribed
S52.3s629, While reports from Ma
tional Red Cross headquarters showed
total national subscriptions of s4.071,-
900 in the various divisions.
subscriptions classified.
washington's subscriptions were
classified as follows:
Received by the local finance COM
mittee. Victor 3. Deyber, chairman.
s3I.23555.
Received by the Washington Post
Ss,3o351, and received by The Even
ing Star, $11,S47.23.
Now that the quota is passed, MI
Deyber said, Washington is going to
roll up it's sleeves and put in another
week at collection work in an effort
to make the total subscription StoO,
0oo The climax will come at the
very end of the week, when the pho-
toplay, "Scaramouche, Will open az
the Belasco Theater. Proceeds TOT
the opening night of that picture VIII
be riven to the local Red Cross
Evening star., 1923-09-10

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Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-06-26
STILL CHANCE TO BE FIRST

Perth Amboy still has an opportunity to be the first city in
New Jersey to adopt the city manager plan for conducting munich
pal affairs. The borough of Deal, in Monmouth county, has just
had an election on the question, and rejected it. Deal now has
commission form of government and the people evidently are
satisfied with the way it works.
Perth Amboy is still laboring along under the old form of
government Wit an Anticipated city charter dating back to 1871.
Most progressive cities adopted the commission form of govern
ment some time, but experience in a great many places has shown
that a city manager, working under a commission, is even better.
It has been only since the last session of the legislature that any
city in New Jersey could have a city manager. Commenting on
the election recently held in Deal, the Newark Evening News says:
''The borough of Deal, in Monmouth county, was the first
New Jersey municipality to register the sentiment of its citizens
upon the question of local government on the municipal manager
plan as adopted by the legislature in its last session. The result
was decisive. Deal doesn't want the city manager form, at this
time at least.
ssThe decision was reached by a vote of nearly 5 to 1 against
the proposed change. 1t was emphasized by the fact that the
total vote cast was 304, which was fourteen per cent. more than
the combined vote cast in the last November election for the
Democratic and Republican candidates for United States Senator
and governor. That proves that the result of Tuesdays election
was not due to public apathy. The rejection Of the manager form
by this borough may have been due to dissemination of the resi-
dents, either of the so-called native class or the wealthy element
which does business in the cities and resides in Deal, to do pioneer
work in experimenting with a new local government system.
"Deal is at present governed by a commission of three,
under the Walsh act. Evidently the citizens are fairly well salts
fed with the kind of administration this commission is giving.
The vote in favor of a change was only ~fftyfve, as against 249
cast for a continuance of the existing form. The sentiment for the
manager form found but little support beyond those who signed
the petition upon which the vote was taken.
"The Deal result vindicated the legislative act, as the voters
took full advantage of the permisave character of the statute.
They found nothing that interfered with their freedom of action
in registering their preference. Some other community might feel
disposed to vote the other way. Its freedom of action will, in
such an event, be as fully guaranteed"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-06-26
EDISON TALKS

Some farmland will bump into the great discovery IN
radio, predicts Thomas A. Edison. He continues:
Everywhere the amateurs are raving over radio. Some
one of them will wonder what would happen if he should try
this or that, and presto he has solved the question OF the age.
Just as a farmland from Geneva, n. Y, walked into the Gen.
eral Electric Co. president at Syracuse and showed him now
to hook a locomotive up to a high-powered motor, something
that has been battling a corps of expert engineers day ana
night"
Invention is more chance and accident, the result of plain
primeval curiosity, than of creative thinking. 80 Is most
individual Success, most general progress.
The stuff" is all there in nature, waiting for an lnqnlsl-
tive Paul Py to notice it. If you want to invent the perfect
airp1ane, study the perfect flyer-the %dragon.fly.
Specialists, even the best. of them, get in a rut. they
are so close to the mountain that they see only a small part
of it. A light.hearted stranger approaches from a distance
and, having had a general view, points out the path to chmo
to the top.
"When I get in a rut, I place the object of my experiments
away in a ~pigeonhole and do not touch 1t again Tor TWO or
three years" says Edison. ~.
You have noticed that, when you have a very knotty prob
lem, which you are unable to solve, the solution comes to you
quite easily after you "sleep on it'-shove the problem aside
from your tired mind and relax your concentration ny d long
sleep and rest.
That way, you get the problem. If you stick too close
ly, the problem gets YOU
Never fear your Job. If you are apprehensive that the
task is beyond your handling, you are inviting 1t to master
you. In the long run, the quickest way out OF the mess wnen
your desk is cluttered with work may be to lock the desk and
get away for the rest Of the day-just to convince yourselr
that the lob hasn't taken charge of you instead OF you taxing
charge of the job. It restores your sense OF power, OF apinly'
Dangerous psychology for a chronic procrastinator.
Edison believes that, as soon as college men are grad
uated, their brain folds simply reject all the knowledge tney
have picked up. They fall down on simple questions OF oil.
viding so many apples among so many enlldren, thhgs they
learn in primary school," .a
That's quite natural. Most of the knowledge we acquire
in school, we absorb for the purpose of getting through school
rather than for later use. 1t soon leaves. Fl
So much for today's visit with Edison. 1t he hadn't gone
in for inventing, he would have made a good philosopher, IN
which direction he's done a pretty good job as 1t is.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-06-26
PRESIDENT HARDING's DRY" sTAND

President Harding played a strong hand in his speech in
Denver yesterday when he not only pledged his administration to
dry" enforcement, but called for a ''bone dry plank in the Re-
publican platform in the next election. "The issue has become
whether or not the laws of this country can be enforced the
President declared. It makes no difference what action the indi.
vidual states may take, the laws of the nation are supreme and
any attempt to ignore them by the state authorities is an attempt
at notification.
There is no doubt that in this immediate section of the
country the sentiment is overwhelmingly "wet." But New York
3 and New Jersey along with a few other North Atlantic states
do not make up the entire nation. In the South the states were
dry even before the enactment of the eighteenth amendment.
A great many states in the West were dry also.
1t is quite significant that since Governor Smith, of New
York, signed the Mullan-Gage law which repealed New Yorks
possibility has been on the wane. President Harding, by taking
in the same strategic position that William Mckinley enjoyed
when he came out firmly for the gold standard during the Bryan
free silver craze. In those days it was a foregone conclusion that
certain states would be overwhelmingly in, favor of free silver,
and they were ordinarily Republican states, too. But the Re.
publican leaders relied on the common sense of the rest of the
country, and they won handsomely.
1t is not to be denied that there is a great deal of hypocrisy
in the prohibition movement. Many who use alcoholic liquors
themselves will vote dry when an election is held. A foreigner
visiting the United States recently remarked that on the ques-
ton OF prohibition he found this difference: In the North they
found fault with the Volstead act and did their drinking secretly
IN the South they praised the Volstead act and did their drinking
openly.
1t is a safe bet, however, that should the issue be squarely
drawn in a presidential election, the "dry" candidate will win.
President Harding knows what he is doing when he Takes a firm
stand on the dry side Of the question
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-06-26

A. Convenience is more important
than size. One hundred twenty
square feet OF space is plenty for
preparing food and washing dishfS
for q family of average size.
o. Is the use Of peyote among
the indians injurious to them ID.
J. P.
A. Peyote is a drug taken from
a plant related to the mescal of
Mexico. It affects the nerves in
somewhat the same fashion as
opium or cocaine. Opinions differ
az to its effect upon the Indians as
a race. While same men become
shiftless and d~ebauched as a result
Of its use, other individuals and
tribes have used 1t for many years,
with no signs of decadence.
&c. B. =
A. Aquarell means a drawing in
water colors The word is from the
Italian aequerel1o, which in turn rs
ADAPTED from the Italian word aqua
meaning water
@. Can bowlegs be Strengthened?
A. 3.
A. Bowlegs may be remedied in
many cases by appropriate ortho-
pedic appliances or by means of q
surgical operation. In the latter
case the outer condyle of the femllr
is cut off in a slanting line, and the
limb aligned, after which the con-
dyle is allowed to knit to the fe-
mu5. in its new position; or tho
shaft of the bone may be broken.
the leg Strengthened and bandaged
in proper position until healing ID
complete