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Yokohama and Toxic had been dew
astated by earthquake. typhoon, fire
and tidal wave.
Six of the destroyers which are
being sent to Japanese waters on
orders from Washington will reach
Yokohama Wednesday. The seventh
was sent to Nagasaki and will reach
there tomorrow.
The six deStroyers sent to Yoko-
hama are the Stewart: Smith Thomp-
son. Barker. Tracy, John d. Edwards
and Whipple. Capt. G. T. Pettengill,
board the Stewart. The destroyer
Bori was selected to go to Nagasaki
Admiral Tells Plans.
Admiral Anderson reported that he
was proceeding from Port Arthur to
Chefoo, China. on his flagship. the
cruiser Huron, accompanied by the
destroyer tender Blackhawk
The message reached here after
several hours delay. 1t was timed at
Port Arthur at am. yesterday.
Although more than two full days
have now elapsed since the earth
quake spent it's force on the Japanese
capital, not a word has reached the
State Department from the American
embassy. The Navy has received only
SeiIcS VI Dy WIRE
less from Admiral Anderson, detail
ing the relief measures he has under
taken and adding graphically that ac-
cording to reports reaching him
Toxic and Yokohama have been de-
vaStated by "earthQuake typhoon,
fire and tidal wave"
Relief Plans Held Up.
Because Of the lack of informa tion
government officials here are begin
ming to delay steps which ordinarily
would have been taken in quick time
for extending aid to the distressed
people. Under the circumstances, it
is felt that the only move possible for
the present is the dispatch of the
American naval vessels in the Asiatic
squadron on relief missions
Acting Secretary Phillips said today
that several more comprehensive relief
plans were being held in abeyance, fol
final decision as soon as this depart.
ment was able to estimate the situa-
ton. One plan under consideration
calls for the issuance by President
Coolidge OF: a proclamation asking fol
subscriptions to national relief fund
Another contemplated the sending OF
Army, Navy and other government YES.
sells to Japanese waters with cargoes
OF food, clothing and other supplies
and for use as temporary hospitals.
These and other suggestions were
discussed today between State Depart,
fnent. American Red Cross and White
House officials. 1t was intimated thai
unless word was received showing the
extent of emergency needs, a decision
would be made during the day without
waiting longer. r
AS a preliminary to more definite
program of action, President Coolidge
today directed that not only the
Navy Department, but the War De-
partment and Shipping Board do
what they could to help in relief
work.
1t was indicated that some Ship
ping Board vessels might be diverted
from their regular routes to carry
supplies to the sufferers and to serve
as receiving ships for refugees. The
Army may be able to render as
sistance through the posts it main
tafns at various points in the Pacific
and the far east
Evening star., 1923-09-03
j. s. PARTY FEARED
LOST At YOKOHAMA
Deputy Marshal in China Had
Gone With Friends to
Meet Bride.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, September 3.-Fears
are entertained here for the safety of
Judge Charles Lobingier of the
United States court for China his
wife. United States District Attorney
Leonard Husar, his wife and United
States Marshal Thurston Porter, all
of whom are believed to be in Yoko-
hama. They left for Yokohama re-
Gently after a term of court at Har-
bin.
Porter went to Yokohama TO greet
his fiance, Miss Louise McCoubrey.
Ihey were planning to marry in
Japan.
At Ito. on the Idzu Peninsula. more
than 500 houses were washed away
by tidal waves
The British light cruiser, Despatch,
the foreign war vessel at Shanghai,
sailed at o'clock yesterday morn
ing for Yokohama. expecting TO ar
rive in eighteen hours
Evening star., 1923-09-03
NOTABLE BUILDINGS
WRECKED BY SHOCK
News of Japanese Disaster
by AirpIane From Toxic
ReIayed by Gable.
BY JUNIUS b. WOOD.

BY Gable TO The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright, 1923.
HARDIN, Manchuria, September a.
A brief government cable, relayed from
Osaka, whittier 1t had been sent from
Toxic by airplane, estimates the num-
ber of dead and injured in the Japanese
earthquake area at 100000.
This is the only advice that Consul
General Yamanouchi. here, has been
able to give the hundreds of Japanese
and foreigners, who are besieging the
consulate for Information about rela-
tives in the stricken zone.
No Report From Central Japan.
The Japanese government telegraph
advises the consul that 1t has been un-
able to communicate with central Japan
since the earthquake. The telegraph
lines have been destroyed and bridges
and tunnels wrecked
The government from Toxic said
that while the stricken area extended
from Toxic far south on the IZu pc
ninsula, the most appalling losses
were suffered in the densely populat-
ed district between Toxic and Yoko-
hama
Among the notable buildings in
Toxic reported destroyed are the I'M
eral sections of the imperial palace.
the metropolitan police headquarters.
the newly occupied Marunouchi sky
scraper OF reinforced steel, which
faces the central railroad station, and
the MutZokoski department store.
Worlds Thinnest Earth Spot.
The disaster recalls DIR. Mines re-
cent investigation of the volcano at
the mouth Of Toxic bay. which
brought him TO the conclusion that
the earth's crust under the bay was
thinner than at any other spot in the
world. This summer the volcano
showed signs of activity, being
crowned by day by a cloud of steam
and glowing by night
Earthquakes invariably precede a
volcanic eruption and cease when the
volcano becomes active.
Evening star., 1923-09-03
METHODISTS BELIEVED
SAFE IN QUAKE ZONE
Most Of Missionaries at Summer
Resorts, Church Board
Reports.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September S.-Most. il
not all the missionaries of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church in Japan are
believed to be safe. DR.. Frank Mason
North of New York. secretary of the
church foreign board. declared here
after receiving reports Of the earth
quake there.
."This Is the time of year." he ex-
planned. when the missionaries of all
denominations go to the summer re-
sort, karuizawa, about 100 miles
north of Toxic, for denominational
The Methodist book concern and
the Ginza Church, the principal Metho-
dist church, where union services of
several denominations are held, are
in the devasted area. according to Dr.
North. He stated his board planned
to make an appeal for help for Japan
within twenty-four hours.
Evening star., 1923-09-03
SHOCKS ARE LAID
|. TO DEPTH OF SEAS
Ocean Near Japan, Five Miles
Deep, Caused Disaster,
Is Scientists View.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MARE ISLAND. Calf. September g.
The great number of Japan's earth
quakes is attributed by Capt. T. ]. ].
See. astronomer at the government
observatory here and father of the
"sea leakage" theory of seismic dis
turbances, to the enormous depth of
the ocean near the Island of Japan.
East of Japan there is what is
known as the Tuscarora deep a
great area where the ocean is 4,600
fathoms, or about five miles in depth,
the greatest abyss in the world and
the source of the greatest disturbances
heretofore known" said Prof. See.
Lava Adjusting Itself.
Il have shown that earthquakes are
caused by the leakage of the sea
through the earth's crust. The leak
age Is proportionate to the depth.
The earthquakes in Japan are
dated back many centuries. as far as
history goes This deep sea is the
cause of them. This earthquake is
reported to have occupied six minutes
or time. which shows that the lava
under the earth's crust was adjusting
itself from the sea toward the land
The great tidal wave that followed
sea bottom was disturbed and the
cables thereby broken.
In geological time the whole main
island of Japan has been raised by
this process.
Advises Better Houses.
There is no relief for Japan ex-
cept to build good houses and make
them secure against fire.
1t is not necessary, he said that
L.
in the ocean floor for water to get
through to the hot lava underneath.
cause steam to make pressure and
necessitate adjustment in the earth
crust, observed by mankind as earth
quakes. He said that most of the
ocean hoor was granite, permeable
to water under the immense pres
sures set up by great depths of that
fluid.
Among the instances he cited were
deeps south of the Aleutians and
near New Zealand, in both of which
places earthquakes occur frequently.
Evening star., 1923-09-03

Products Company. was badly dam
aged by earthquake and held twenty
two feet Of water in the forward hold
when rescue ships arrived from Yoko-
hama. The Selma City is a 5,000-ton
craft. with New York as her port of
registry.
The message also said the buildings
the Italian legation were destroyed
by the fire which was started by the
earth shocks.
Other principal buildings reported
destroyed were:
The Peers School. official residence
of the minister of the imperial house
hold.
The Meiji College of Law.
The double bridge of the Imperial
Palace.
The Imperial Museum.
Tie military preparatory school.
Residence of Marquis Nabeshima
kacho Muslin Company
Nippon Printing Company.
Europeans Board Ships.
Many injured and homeless Europeans
were taken aboard the passenger
steamer Dongola at Yokohoma today, a
message to the Radio Corporation OF
America from the Tamioka wireless
station said.
The Dongola, Of Glasgow registry, is
owned by a London firm. The message
said the crew of the ship escaped un-
injured, although in the path of the
tidal wave and earthquake.
The Korea Maru also wirelessed
through Tamioka that it was held at
Yokohoma and would be unable to clear
port for several days. The message did
not include whether the Korea Maru
was damaged or unable to clear be-
cause of catastrophe conditions.
All Lighthouses Gone.
NAGASAKL, September 3.-Tokio
is still burning, according to advices
received here today.
The offices Of the Bank of Japan
are reported to have been demol-
ished yesterday.
Wireless messages received here
through the steamer Korea Maru
state that all lighthouses IN the bay
of Toxic have been rendered useless
and that navigation is consequently
dangerous during the hours of darkness
A wireless message from Sasebo re-
ports that the minister of home af-
transportation of lumber and other
building materials to the capital.
Flee Quake, Die in Tidal Wave.
BERLIN, September "a message
received by the Japanese newspaper
Linden from Yokosuka, the Japanese
naval port near Yokohama, saws
many buildings there were demol-
iahed by the earthquake, and that
there are many dead
The Linden's dispatches sa-- the
soldiers have been unable to control
the fires in Toxic, which have spread
over the entire city with the excep-
tion of Shiba ward.
Many of the refugees who fed in
ships from Yokohama after the
earthquake were drowned a few
hours later in the tidal wave which
swept the coast, 1t is declared.
Evening star., 1923-09-03

fifty villages wrecked, three swallow
ed up in earth. No estimate or prop
erty damage possible.
June IA, 1913. Tirnova, Bulgaria
ESQ killed. 377 injured. town de-
stroyed.
August, 1913. Falcon and Hope Is
land, Tongo Group. swallowed up by
sea, 500 or more dead.
November 10. 1913, Challhuanca.
Peru-25O dead. 1000 injured, town
December 10, 1913. Ambrim Island.
New Hebrides-partly submerged; 500
dead.
January 10. 1914. sakura. Japan
Earthquake and volcanic eruption;
$50 killed, 700 injured. property
March Is, 1914, Island of Hondo.
Japan-360 killed, 200 injured (most
of killed were miners entombed In
collapse of copper mine).
May 8 1914, Catania. Sicily-2OO
killed. 500 or more injured. many
nearby villages destroyed.
October 8. 1914. Northern Asia
Minor 500 killed, over 5000 injured.
800 square miles of territory laid
waste.
June IS. 1923, Northwest Persia
From 5000 to 10000 killed, 100000
made homeless.
Evening star., 1923-09-03
CANADIAN LINER
CAUGHT IN QUAKE
Was Tied to- Toxic Dock, But
Escaped With Slight
Damage.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associa ted Press
SAN FRANCISCO, September 81
The Canadian Pacific liner Empress
of Australia was caught in the fury
OF the tidal wave and earthquake
while tied to a dock at Toxic, a mes
sage received said, although she came
through the catastrophe undamaged.
except for Il broken propeller caused
by fouling another ship.
The vessel is unable to proceed on
her journey to Vancouver until divers
are found to repair the damage. No
indication was given in the message
as to the whereabouts of the passen-
gers and crew Of the ship, which in
cluded many Americans. at the time of
the disaster.
The vessel carried three Americans
on her passenger list. They were
Miss Mary Elieree of San Francisco
and Z. c. Allen and o. f. Taylor of
Shanghai.
Evening star., 1923-09-03
Obscure Radio Operator Sent
First Tidings of Catastrophe

north Of Toxic. BY some strange
freak this station. whose sending
mast towers 660 feet into the air.
was spared by the quake which de-
stroyed all other means OF commune
cation.
Panic stricken refugees pouring
past his post apprised Ionemura OF
the fate Of Toxic and Yokohama, and
Yonemura communicated to the
world. through the Radio Corporation
station in San Francisco. details OF
proba bly, the greatest disaster OF all
history
Evening star., 1923-09-03

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Kim has frequently filled Washington
pulpits and is known to large num-
Der of Washipgtonians. There are
understood to be about thirty Ameri-
can workers under Bishop McKim.
The Methodist Episcopal Church is
disaster district, the Womans For
eign Missionary Society having sew
eral missionaries in Toxic and in
Yokohama. These missionaries, and
the American branches of the society
from which they went to Japan. were
reported today by Mrs. f. l.. Harvey
of 1926 Monroe street northwest to
be as follows:
In Tokio-Miss Alberta B. Sprowles,
Philadelphia: Miss Mary H. Chappell,
Cincinnati; Miss Alice Cheney. Des
Moines, Iowa: Miss Barbara Bailey,
Topeka; Miss Ruth Weiss. Des
Moines;s Abby L. Sturdevant, Mime
apclis: Miss Myrtle z. Pider, Topeka;
Miss Twila Lytton, New York; Miss
Leonora M. Feeds. Cincinnati; Miss
Esther ". Thurston, Boston.
Miss Anna P. Atkinson. New York,
general treasurer for Japan, at Su-
kuoka, near Toxic.
In Yokohama-Miss Louise Bangs.
Chicago; Miss Georgianna Baucus.
Boston: Miss Emma E. Dickinson,
Philadelphia, at Hakodate.
Methodists in Japan.
Bishop William F. Mcdowell of the
Methodist Episcopal Church today
made public list of the Methodist
missionaries in Japan who. he said
may be in the danger zone. Bishop
Mcdowell had telegraphed the board
of foreign missions in New York, he
mitting officially to the States Depart
ment or the Japanese embassy any
word received by the board from its
missionaries in Japan. By noon he
had received no reply.
The Methodist work in Japan, Bish.
op Mcdowell said. is in charge OF
Bishop Herbert Welch, who also has
charge of the work and makes his
home in Korea, but who spends much
of his time in japan.
Other Methodist missionaries In
Japan, Bishop Mcdowell said, were;
The Rev. and Mrs. Gideon F. Draper
at Yokohama: the Rev. and Mrs.
Charles W. Iglehart, at Sendai. north
of Toxic; the Rev. and Mrs. Francis
M. Scott, at Nagasaki, some distance
Toxic, Rev. Arthur D. Berry. presi-
dent of the theological school; the
Rev. and Mrs. Charles Bishop, the
Rev. and Mrs. Frederick w. Heckel-
man, the Rev. and Mrs. Walter w
Krider, r. S. Shacklock and the Rev.
DR.. and Mrs. lava .. opehceI, a.
Fukuoka DIR. Spencer Is a brother
of John o. Spencer, president of
Morgan College for the Colored at
Baltimore.
Bishop Mcdowell, who was travel
ing in Japan about ten years ago, said
that he was impressed at the time
with the beauty, but the fire hazard
of the oriental city.
stances" said Bishop Mcdowell.
"would have been dreadful. but a fire
with earthquake which would break
the water mains. l thought at the
time, would be nothing short of a
catastrophe. Only a few buildings
at. that time were fireproof. the most
OF the city being built of nimsy ma
terial.'
Evening star., 1923-09-03
SAYS DISASTERS MAKE
JAPANESE .FATALISTIC
"1t Can't Be Helped" Common
Comemnt of Average
Nipponese.
BY the Associated Press.

PresS.
BERKELEY. Calf, September a.
Frequent disasters have affected the
psychology of the Japanese people
and made them fatalistic. according
to DR.. Clay MacCauley, D. D.. who
spent thirty-five years in Toxic as
representative of the American Uni
tartan Association. and vice president
OF the International Press Associa-
tion of Japan.
Japan. I believe. has been SUBJ
9ected to more disasters than per-
MacCauley. They have come in the
shape of earthquakes tidal waves.
volcanic eruptions. famines and pes
tflences. The people have become ia
talistic. Their attitude toward these
catastrophies Is shown blythe popular
expression 'Shikata ga mai which
means 1t can't be helped
Evening star., 1923-09-03
RED CROSS TO AID
QUAKE SUFFERERS
Fullest Measure of Efficient
Help Planned When Needs
Are Known.

The American Red Cross headquar-
ters here is preparing to give the
fullest measure possible of prompt
and efficient relief to sufferers from
the Japanese earthquake, just as soon
as official advices make il possible
to know how and where this relief
can be given.
Red Cross headquarters was in
structed today by a telegram from
Judge John Barton Payne in Chicago.
who Is chairman OF the Red Cross; to
be prepared to administer the fullest
measure of relief. acting through the
State Department and the Japanese
embassy, just as soon as they could
find cut what was needed.
Methods of Giving Aid.
Officials in charge of the relief
work explained that there are three
possibilities of relief, all of which
may be employed:
First, an appropriation of funds to
be distributed in the stricken area.
Second, the sending in of supplies
from some oriental port. and
Third. the sending Of nurses and
relief orkers.
AS no definite plans can be made
until official advices are received the
Red Cross officials on Saturday noti-
fed the Japanese embassy here that
they are prepared to give the utmost
relief possible Sust as soon as the
embassy notifies the Red Cross Off
cials what is needed and where.
Radio Messages of Inquiry.
The Red Cross authorities also sent
"a radio message to Manila and
Shanghai, where there are consider
able stores, asking advices as to what
resources, supplies and nurses are
ready to meet the emergency need
The officials of the Red Cross are
Of the Japanese embassy and the
State Department so as to be pre-
pared to give practical relief prompt
II. efficiently and in the largest
measure that can be used
Evening star., 1923-09-03
DECLARES DEAD BODIES
SCATTERED EVERYWHERE

By the Associated Press.
OSAKA, September 3.-An officer
of the steamer London Maru, who
landed at Yokohama, reports the
bodies of dead scattered everywhere.
and says that tens of thousands of
refugees are huddled in the public
park.
Odawara. on the Bay of Odawara,
40 miles southwest of Toxic, has been
swept away by tidal wave.
Evening star., 1923-09-03
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associat ted Press
SAN FRANCISCO. September a
Through T. Yonemura. an obscure
Japanese radio operator and the only
human link between Japan and the
rest of the world. after Saturdays
devastating earthquake. came the
first and subsequent news of the
catastrophe that had struck the
island empire.
Yonemura is operator at Tomioka.
on the Japanese west coast. l44 miles
Evening star., 1923-09-03
WORST QUAKE RECORDED
IN MANILA IN 80 YEARS
BY the Associated Press.

MANILA. September 3.-New earth
quake shocks Of moderate intensity
were recorded on the Manila obserya-
tory seismograph at am and 10
am. here yesterday, according to
Father Sierra, chief of the observa-
tory.
The big terrestrial disturbance of
Saturday, Father Sierra said. was the
greatest shock he has seen recorded
in his thirty years experience. He
recalled the memorable earthquake
Of 1891. when Toxic and Yokohama
were burned. The disturbance, he
said. lasted five hours, and was about
1000 kilometers from here
Evening star., 1923-09-03
TROOPS GUARD TOXIC
RUINS WITH BULLETS
Six Koreans Reported Executed
in Making Military Con-
troll Effective.
BY the Associated Press.

SAN FRANCISCO. September Six
Koreans were shot to death by soldiers
making martial law effective in the dew
astated area Of Toxic, according to
wireless messages received here at 3
o'clock this morning from Tamioka by
the Radio Corporation of America.
The same message said the work of
relief was already under way, and pro-
visions were being supplied to the
refugees from the Toxic central station,
which was undamaged
Evening star., 1923-09-03
new QUAKE RECORDED.
" the Associated Press

LONDON. September 3.-Another
great earthquake was recorded at
the West Bromwich observatory at
A o'clock yesterday morning. ;. Its
origin is estimated to have been
about $500 miles distant and slightly
southeast Of the scene of. Saturdays
disastrous upheaval in Japan.
Evening star., 1923-09-03
CONVEYS SYMPATHY.

BY the Associa ted Press.
HONGKONG, September 3.-Sir
Reginald Edward Stubs. governor of
the colony of Hongkong, today con-
veyed his personal sympathy and that
of the British colony to the Japanese
consul general for the great disaster
Japan has suffered
Evening star., 1923-09-03
Y. NJ. c. A. WILL RAISE
JAPAN RELIEF FUNDS
Subscriptions Asked to Aid Home
less Thousands of
Toxic.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Calf, September 8.
The Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation has opened a subscription for
relief work in the districts in Japan
devastated by earthquake and fire. 1t
was announced that all funds re-
ceived would be relayed to the
stricken areas through the New York
offices of the association.
Evening star., 1923-09-03
BRITISH SEND CRUISER.
Warship Goes to Yokohama to Give
Aid to Victims.

LONDON. September 3.-A British
cruiser has been despatched from
Shanghai to Yokohama to render aid
TO the. earthquake victims says. o
Central News dispatch from Shanghai
Evening star., 1923-09-03

The bolshevists have abolished four
of tn thirty six letters Of the Rus
sian alphabet.
Evening star., 1923-09-03
FIRES STILL RAGE IN TOXIC
WITH 100000 DEAD; NEW
SHOCKS ADD TO DISASTER

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Evening star., 1923-09-03
SOLDIERS USE BOMBS
IN EFFORT TO STOP
GREAT TOXIC BLAZE

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FEARS FELT HERE al
FOR U. S. COLONIES

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Evening star., 1923-09-03
ENTIRE ASIATIC FLEET
OF U. S. OFFERED JAPAN

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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-31

Mister Daily Oily Pee Wee was Il
dude.
He wore suits with wide stripes
sometimes, suits with big dots other
times and suits like checkerboards
in between times.
He wore eyeglasses and carried
cane and looked quite as gorgeous
rs King Snookums himself, although
he didn't wear a crown on his head
but a high silk hat instead.
And I'm sorry to say that some
Of the other Pee Wee Landers made
fun of him behind his back - the
boys most of all. Winky Wank and
Davy Dumpy and Dinky Doodle and
Tiny Mite and George Porgie and
the whole crowd behaved something
awful whenever he was around.
They should have been ashamed Of
themselves. for although Mister DAT
fy Oily was a bit odd about his
clothes he had heart as big as &
watermelon almost and liked every
body. And his manners were simply
fine.
One day there was BALL game in
Pee Wee Land. And everybody
was there to see how it would come
out.
Daffy Oily was there, too, right
in the front row.
First thing you know. the ball
came along and knocked Mister
Daffy's hat off. But he acted as il