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Evening star., 1925-06-30
PHONE SERVICE RESUMED
FROM STRICKEN DISTRICT
Santa Barbara Isolated Only
Temporarily - Complete
News Sent Out.
By the Associated Press.


SANTA BARBARA, Calf, June
30.-N. r. Powley, vice president and
general manager Of the Southern Cal
ifornia Telephone Co., with headQuar-
ters at Los Angeles, who surveyed
the communication systems Of Santa
Barbara late last night and early to-
day, declared that the city was not
isolated in any way, but was in d.
rect contact with the outside world,
North, South, East and West.
The local telephone system is para
lyZed temporarily, but the company
is ready either to reopen today in
it's old quarters. If the building in
spector passes its premises, or set up
emergency switchboards and operate
from temporary headquarters.
Mr.. Powley pointed out that all the
known facts of the earthquake and
subsequent developments were being
relayed faithfully to the outside by
press wires and that friends and rela-
tives of Santa Barbara residents scat
tered over the country might rest as
sured the whole story Of the disaster
was being told.
Evening star., 1925-06-30
SHACK EQUIPPED AS NEWS BUREAU
TO GIVE QUAKE STORY TO World
Begrimed Staff C0vers Stricken Area From Office
Equipped With Packing Boxes and Telegraph
Wire-Lighted by Auto Lamps

When night fell new problem
faced them-What about light? for
the wires had to be kept going so
that those who read the morning
papers comfortably between sups OF
coffee might know how a city of 81 900
had Jared during and after one Of the
outstanding cataclysms of the Pacific
coast.
The obstacle Of lack Of light, due to
the collapse of the electric power
house, was surmounted by backing an
automobile up to the door" Of the
Associated Press bureau" and string
ing a wire with a tiny bulb attached
from the machines battery to the
operating table.
Across the street the city firemen
had established lunch counter, and
between cups Of steaming black coffee
the begrimed staff men of the Asso-
ciated Press pounded" out the story
of Santa Barbara's disaster and her
heroic plans for recuperation.
Evening star., 1925-06-30
BY the Associated Press.

Dy tue A6SOCldycQ frese.
SANTA BARBARA, Calf. June 30
From a flimsy shack, by IA feet,
furnished" with five small. empty
packing cases and a make-belteve
table of discarded boards, to which an
Associated Press wire had been hasti-
ly hooked, the first direct news of
Santa Barbara's disaster went out to
the world shortly after noon yester-
day.
This emergency headquarters, man.
ned by staff writer's and telegraph
operators. filed a steady stream Of
news on the seaside temblor through
the day and into the night, checking
and re-checking lists of dead and in
jured, estimating and re-estimating
from the best available data the ma
terial loss to the community.
From here, the staff men ranged
the stricken area from the Arlington
Hotel to the water front in reverend
ing expeditions to get the facts to the
outside world.
Evening star., 1925-06-30
FEDERAL AGENCIES
. OFFER QUAKE AID
Army and Navy Rush Help.
|. Red Cross Heads Pre-
pare to Act.

The Army, Navy and American Red
Gross are ready TO give every possible
assistance to sufferers in the Califor-
hia earthquake. Word came last night
from the headquarters of the twelfth
naval district, at Mare Island, that the
destroyer MCCaWley has been dispatch
ed to Santa Barbara with medical Of
ficerS and supplies, and that three
naval tugs had been ordered there.
rhe submarine destroyer tender Sa-
Eannah is being held in readiness.
The eleventh naval district. with
headquarters at San Diego, reports
,that it had dispatched two planes to
fhe stricken area to make survey OF
conditions. The Eagle boat No. "a
hnd the tug Koka also are steaming
there with additional medical assist
hnce and supplies The entire facili-
ties of the naval district have been
offered the mayor of Santa Barbara.
Other Craft on Way.
In addition. the practice squadron of
The midshipmen from the Naval Acad-
envy. at Annapolis, consisting of the
battleShipS Arkansas, New York and
Utah. is due in San Pedro from the
Canal Zone today. 1t will proceed to
Santa Barbara if it can be of any as
sistance.
The American Red Cross announced
that an initial appropriation to carry
on relief work in the affected section
had been authorized. the amount to
be determined when reports disclose
;the needs. James l.. Fieser, vice
Achairman of the Red Cross, is in Los
RAngeles and is expected to take over
supervision of relief work.
Acting Secretary of War Davis i'm
mediatelv sent message to Maj. Gen.
Charles 2. Menoher, commanding the
9th Corps Area, at San Francisco, to
give all possible assistance, but the
sArmy regulations give the corps area
commanders a free hand in giving
eelief in such emergencies.
William Carl Hunt, assistant to the
vice chairman, and in charge of the
Pacific Branch office of the Red Cross
In San Francisco, wired national head
quarters here yesterday he was leav-
ing for Santa Barbara by special
train. accompanied by J. w. Richard
son assistant director of disaster re-
lief. "All possible speed imperative" ;"
he said
A 100-bed hospital unit belonging to
khe Los Angeles Chapter of the Red
Cross. together with Red Cross per-
fonnel and supplies, was rushed from
Southern Pacific, according to a mes
Gage received from Mr.. Fieser.
Woman Heads Unit.
Miss Cornell, executive secretary of
the Los Angeles Chapter, is in charge
of the Red Cross unit on the train
Both Vice Chairman Fieser and his
assistant, Mr.. Hunt, state that In.
formation from Santa Barbara is
wholly fragmentary and that all COM
munication is cut off.
Immediately Col. E. P. BicknelI
acting chairman of the Red Cross in
the absence of Judge John Barton
Payne, who is in Europe, heard of the
disaster, he wired instructions to Mr.
Hunt, in San Francisco, to cooperate
with State and local authorities and
take ''all necessary steps for imme-
diate relief action
Miss Clara D. Noyes, national d.
rector of Nursing Service. wired her
assistant in the San Francisco Office,
Miss Dorothy Ledyard. to secure
nurses through the local Red Cross.
Evening star., 1925-06-30
EXPERTS DIVIDED
0NQUAKE'S CAUSE
Montana Tremor, Earth
Strain and Ocean Leak Are
Most Prominent Theories.
BY the Associated Press.

by the ASSOClateO HIcee
NEW YORK, June 30.-Experts
were divided today as to the cause OF
the Santa Barbara earthquake. Ocean
leakage, accumulated strain on the
earth's crust and extreme hot weather
were among the causes assigned.
There was also disagreement as to
whether there was any relation be-
tween the tremors in Montana and
those which laid Santa Barbara In
ruins. Some experts said that there
was no connection. while others
thought that the Montana shocks
pulled the trigger that caused IL.
mile disturbance of rock strata under
Santa Barbara and vicinity.
Laid to Montana Tremor.
Dr. Herman L. Fairchild, profes-
sor emeritus Of geology at the Uni.
versity Of Rochester IN. ", said that
the Montana tremor, travelling under.
ground, might have touched of
stored.up strains in southern Cali
fornia. He said that the Montana
tremor might also lead to further
shocks in the Western mountain States
in the next few days.
The view that the Montana and
California .quakes. were unrelated is
held by William Bowie, chief of the
division of geodesy Of the Coast and
Geodetic Survey, at Washington.
"The earthquake at Santa Barbara
Is the same old story, an ocean leak
age" said Prof. T. j. See of the Mare
Island Observatory, at San Francisco
He expressed the belief that the
disturbances in Montana had no con
nection with those in Santa Barbara
and suggested that possibly a recent
hot wave in southern California mao
something to do with the quake there
DIR. G. s. Townley of Stanford Uni
versity said that experts had discov'
cred earth strain three years ago IN
the Santa Barbara area and had pre-
dicted quakes. These strains, they
believed. had been gathering since the
San Francisco quake Of 1906.
25 Quakes in 1925.
There has been unwonted seismic
activity in North America this year
about % quakes at various points
from Alaska to Mexico having been
recorded since January l at Fordham
University, N. Y. The Rev. J. 8
O'Conor, director of the seismograph
attributed them all to the same gen
eral unknown cause.
"A protracted period OF seismic calm
Is always followed by a period OF
activity" he said. "The first quake
relieves the strain where 1t occurs
but increases the strain elsewhere
and the process continues until the
surface of the earth adjusts itself to
all the subterranean changes which
took place during the period OF calm.
Eastern seismographs recorded the
Montana disturbances as more violent
than the Santa Bargara quakes.
This has nothing to do with the
comparative loss of life and property,
said Prof O'Conor. Santa Barbara
was close to the epicenter OF the sec
end disturbance. while the epicenter
of the Montana shocks occurred In
sparsely settled area"
MANY FAULTS UNDER CITY.
Evening star., 1925-06-30
PACIFIC'S BED SINKING,
CHICAGO SCIENTIST SAYS
Prof. Goode Advances Theory of
Cause of Montana and Cali
fornia Earthquakes.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 30.-The cause of
the Montana and California earth
Quakes lies at the bottom Of the sea,
explains Prof. J. Paul Goode of the
department Of geology of the Univer-
sity Of Chicago.
The bed Of the Pacific Ocean Is sink
Ing is his opinion.
The ocean water rushes in on top
and makes the density at that point
greater. Something must come up
when the sea bed sinks. That is the
earth's crust on the western flank of
North and South America" he sum-
married. his theory.
He takes it for granted both earth
quakes were part of the same crust
slipping action. Earthquakes will
continue in the Pacific zone for CEN
turies, he thinks.
Evening star., 1925-06-30
Cl0udburst Blocks
California Roads
With Tons OfDebris
By the Associated Press.

BAKERSFIELD, Calf, June 80.
A cloudburst on TETON Pass, A
miles south of here, on Ridge Route.
yesterday delayed all traffic nearly
three hours.
Tons Of debris were washed over
the mountain highway. and a crew
of Is men with trucks and scrapers
was necessary to open up a one
way passage.
Camp resorts in the mountain
pass were injured by the debris
that poured down the mountain
sides. No lives were lost.
Evening star., 1925-06-30

is impossible through that section and
its trains are being rerouted over
Northern Pacific and Great Northern
tracks.
Although the property loss at Man
haitian, Three Forks and Logan still
is estimated at 100000, some of the
partially wrecked buildings can be sal.
vaged, it is said.
Evening star., 1925-06-30
Children on Outing.

Four hundred Sunday school chill
dren are being entertained at Glen
Echo Park today by the Council of
Jewish Women. The picnickers were
taken to the park in three special
street cars. which made the rounds of
the churches to which the Sunday
school children belonged. Mrs. Harry
Rosenberg is chairman of the com
mittee which arranged for the outing
which is an annual event.
Evening star., 1925-06-30
OLD BLDGS. MADE NEW.
NEW PT DGC CnNSTDI-CTEn

THE SEVENTH STREET SAVINGS BANK
annua Dividend of cent on oesaeF the cspsa
stock of this bank for the period ending
June 80 1925. has been declared payable
on Wednesday; July d ! 1925 to stoekholders
STREET SAVINGS BANK. By JOHN ..
HOWARD. Vice President and Cashier
THERE. WILL BE A SPECIAL MEETING
July 9, at 9 pm. by order of President Nc.
Canaher- CHAS. F. OBRIEN. Bus. Agent.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT SAM
nel Newcorn and Charles Green, trading as
Newcorn & Green. y ye this day sold their
business located at 1909 ST. NV. Wash
tngton. D. C.. to Mr. and Mrs. william
Werner and hereafter they will not be re-
Fponsible for any debts incurred by said
business. eo
(Signed) SAMUEL NEWBORN
(Signedl CHARLES GREEN
June p. 1925.
Evening star., 1925-06-30
CITY OF BERLIN SEEKS
$4,000, 900 LOAN IN U. S.
25-Year, g 1-2 Per Cent Bonds to
Be Offered to Public to Yield
71-2 Per Cent.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 3o.-Negotia.
tions have been completed by New
York bankers for a 5000 900 loan to
the city of Berlin, Speyer & Co., who
head the underwriting syndicate, an
nounced today. Public Offering of the
25-year 6h per cent bonds will be
made this week at price to yield tx
per cent.
Flotation of the Berlin loan will
mark the first German financing in
this country since the election of Pres
ident Won Hindenburg.
Evening star., 1925-06-30
Scientist Says Insurance Firms
Should Aid Work

KILAUEA OBSERVATORY, Island
of Hawaii, T. H., June 30 R.-Di-
rector Thomas A. Jaggar, jr., of the
Kilauea Observatory today said the
Montana and Santa Barbara earth
quakes prove the necessity for more
and larger meteorological observa-
tories, which should be supported by
companies specializing in earthquake
Evening star., 1925-06-30
Santa Cruz Feels Shocks.

SANTA CRUZ. Calf, June 80 @~-
Slight earthquake shocks were felt
here at 6:45 yesterday evening. Re
ports from Salinas and Watsonv1lle
indicate that the quivers were felt
there also. No damage was done.
Evening star., 1925-06-30
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Evening star., 1925-06-30

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American saws. locks and drills now
are being used
Evening star., 1925-06-30

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lect on one occasionally when he got
hard up.
Evening star., 1925-06-30
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Evening star., 1925-01-25
Keith s Herman Timberg
The Rebellion"

A clever satire on the craze for
syncopation, called The Rebellion
will share the headline hopors at B.
F. Keith's Theater this week, with
Herman Timberg, versatile comedian,
in Little Bits
'The Rebellion" billed as a "mel-
low" dramatic satire, is presented by
Herman Timberg, and features Sam
my Timberg. 1t is said to be one of
the fastest acts in vaudeville today.
The cast includes Leo Chalzel, Vir-
ginia Roche, William Pike and the
Survivors Orchestra One of the big
hits of the act is the dancing of Sonia
Meroff
Herman Timberg, the author and
comedian, in his single act will en-
deavor to prove that he is a producer
of laughs of the 60a-second variety,
and England will contribute one OF
it's popular singing condolences in
Lily Morris, who Will be heard in her
own comedy songs. Others will in
clude Ted and Betty Healy. with fun
and song in "fun in tho Healy man.
ner," as the fiapper and the philoso-
pher; Pepfto, Spanish clown, who Is
said to have been the royal jester to
King Alphonso; "Syncopating Toes" a
dance fantasy of the artistic and sur
prise nature, by two comely girls
Foot Loose" a song and dance offer
ing by Lew Murdock and Mildred
Mayo; the Kismet sisters, attractive
eouiIibrists, in feats of skill and
strength, including a thrilling finale
and the Aesop's Fables, Topics of the
Day and the Pathe News.
Evening star., 1925-01-25
Teddy Gerard.

THE coming of The Rat" TO Wash
= ington this week will introduce
to our playgoers a personality at once
striking and individual in Teddy Ger
ard, who will appear as Zelie De
Chaumet in the David LEstrange
play.
Miss Gerard is an American girl
who for-the past eight or more years
has been sensation of London in
the musical comedy field. Like Edna
May and Pauline Chase of Belle OF
New York" and Peter Pan" fame, she
went to the British metropolis prac-
tically unknown and stayed to be-
come perhaps the idol of London
. Her greatest success abroad was
achieved in London Calling" the
World War revue that won her a
command appearance before King
George Later she was seen in "A te
T. and "Charlot's Revue in which
latter piece she introduced the Lime
house Blues" popularized in this
country by Gertrude Lawrence, then
understudy to Teddy Gerard.
Miss Gerard's appearance here this
week will be her first on the dra-
matte stage, and therefore, somewhat
of a debut in the more. serious work
of dramatic. acting. Miss Gerard is a
native of South America She came
to New York from Buenos Aires al
the age of 16. and her career since has
been succession of triumphs.
Evening star., 1925-01-25
Wardman Park-"The Man
Who Was Dead"

Bertram Bloch's newest play The
Man Who Was Dead" which had its
premier Tuesday night at Wardman
Park Theater, with the Rams Head
Players, will continue as the attrac-
tion throughout this week. with A
matinee Saturday, playing every night
but tonight and tomorrow. 1t is full
of unexpected moments and unusual
climaxes with a finale that is q tre-
mendous surprise.
1t was written especially for the
Rams Head Players and is given a
fine presentation by them under the
|, direction of Robert Bell, with the
supervision of the author. 1t is pro-
vided with most attractive setting,
a log cabin in New Hampshire done in
James Reynolds best manner, with a
beautiful view of green hills in the
distance.
The story is of an author, Gordon
King, who, with his charming wife
and a young and impressionable sec
retary, goes to the New England
hills to write a story of the Russian
revolution, taking as his guest a GER
tain Capt. Fernine. well acquainted
with revolutions and intrigues, who
subsequently is found dead. King,
Fernines friend, DIR. Trent and the
county sheriff. assisted by the young
mystery
Evening star., 1925-01-25
"Ceylon and Singapore .
TODAY.

L. NJ. Newman's third lap of his
"The Road to Mandalay' series, a
traveltalk entitled "Ceylon and Singa-
pore" will be presented this after
noon and evening at the National
Theater.
Small in area, Ceylon presents a
picture of radiant color. Mr.. Newman
brought back from his recent journey
group of motion pictures from Co
lombo, the capital - some charming
vistas along the coast and at Mount
Lavinia; quaint and unusual pictures
taken in and around Handy; gorgeous
professions of priests and elephants;
the kings of Handy; a remarkable fes-
tival and a magnificent Oriental spec
-tacle; interesting pictures from the
streets, temples and baZaars of Ma
dras. There are also motion pictures
of sacred elephants, intimate glimpses
of fanatical population; holy men in
the great temple, and procession of
the great Juggernaut- car, the most
remarkable festival to be seen any
where in the world
A visit to Singapore reveals a hu-
man potpourri of Malay, Chinese, Bur-
mese, Indians and all the people of
the Orient.
Evening star., 1925-01-25
Strand-Vie Quinn and
Sunnybrook Orchestra.

The vaudeville bill at the Strand
Theater this week, beginning today,
is headed by Vie Quinn, Winter Gar
den dancer, assisted by Palmer Young
and Harry Quinn. singers and dane
ers. and the Sunnybrook Orchestra,
syncopators of popular music.
others to appear are Jimmy Lyons,
lately featured with the Land of
Fantasie," as the Ambassador,
with uniform, medals, ETC.; Bobby
Jackson and Ida Mack, in sketch
entitled THE Book Shop: Frost and
Morrison, In You'd Better Sing" and
the Mcdonald Trio, offering "a Cycle
of Beauty and Daring"
Cheap Kisses" photoplay by G.
Gardner Sullivan, will be the screen
feature. 1t Is described as story of
young love enmeshed in a webb of
jazz madness, scheming woman try
ing to steal a rich young husband
and wonderful girl who eventually
rescues her husband from the ruinous
pace he is going.
The cast includes Lillian Rich,
Culleen Lands, Vera Reynolds, Phil
/ lips Smalley, Louise Dresser, Jean
Hersholt, Bessie Eyton, Lincoln Sted-
man, Kathleen Myers and Sydney de
Gray.
A comedy called Her Ball and
Chain" the latest Fox News, and
Director Manvelfs orchestral music
completes the bill.
Evening star., 1925-01-25
Belasco-"White Collars.

Monday night, February ?, at the
Shubert- -Belasco Thcater, white Col
lars" new American comedy by
Edith Ellis, who has furnished the
stage with many admirable native
works. will be presented at the
Shubert- -Belasco Theater- 1t had
phenomenal success out on the Pa
cific coast, and will have its New Iork
premiere February Q, Immediately fol-
lowing the Washington engagement.
The company, organized with spe-
cal design for Broadway consump-
ton, viii include John Marston, Clark
Silyernai1, Mona Kingsley, Frances
Underwood, Frederick Burton, Rea
Martin, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Allen
Moore and Robert Craig, all well and
popularly known in New York and
Washington.
white Collars" has for its subject
matter the much discussed decline of
the fine old American family. With
out going into sordid details, and
with a lot of natural humor, it is
said to be a keen physiological study
of what has been variously termed
the white collar class of American
workers such as are found in small
businesses.
Evening star., 1925-01-25
Baby Peggy Coming in
Person.

"BAB1 PEGGY" the charming little
81 queen of the silver sheet, is TO
make Washington n visit next week,
in company with her new picture,
Captain January.
Not even the famous little Jackie
Coogan has a wider host of admirers
than this charming little screen star,
and Manager Sparrow of the Strand
Theater, where her picture is to be
shown, beginning next Sunday, is ar
ranging a royal reception for her.
A little less, perhaps, than three
years ago Bah.- peggy made her
debut in the movies as a.. extra and
in her first week landed a contract
for $50 week. The second week her
salary was doubled, then trebled and
1T kept on soaring until now she is
said to be in the class where the
fabulous amount paid her would bs
insulted if one called 1t a mere sal
ary."
Her real, honest-to- goodness name
is Montgomery, and she is the proud
and delightful little daughter of Mr..
John T. Montgomery, although he
doesn't count at all when Baby
Peggy" is mentioned.
This will be her first visit in per-
son to the Capital of the United
States and the theater management
and movie fans doubtless will make
it memorable one.
Evening star., 1925-01-25
Belasco-"She Wanted to
Know.

The announcement of the appear
ance of Grace George is always of in
terest to theatergoers, for Miss
George stands for the finest in the
American theater.
For her present starring vehicle
Miss George has chosen she Wanted
to Know" a comedy by Paul Geraldy
who also wrote ITO Love-" in which
she appeared two seasons back, and
which, under the name of Isl Je YOU
1ais," has been running in Paris for
eight months. "She Wanted to Know
is the literal translation of the
French title of the play, which comes
to the Shubert Belasco tomorrow
night for a weeks engagement.
AS Gerry, the inquiring wife, Miss
George is said to have found a role
which fits her charming personality
and gives her inimitable opportunity
for playing subtle comedy.
AS Phillip, the husband, Bruce Nc
Rae is given a charming lover role,
and as the family friend, who is will
ing to philander with every one .and
any one but Gerry, Frederick Wor-
lock, the husband of Elsie Ferguson
is given an opportunity to shine,
Charlotte Ives plays Kitty, the pretty
diyorcee who could not and did not
want to prevent men from falling in
love with her. others in the cast in
clude Edward H. Viewer, H. Tyrrell
Davis, Anita Damrosch, daughter OF
Walter Damrosch, the famous con-
dtfctor and Barbara kitSon.
John Cromwell, producer OF Tar
hish," directed the comedy and ii
Livingston Platt designed the setting
William A. Brady is the producer.