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1MAX - ORMUIEW Dem-n VOL. 35 PLYMOUTH, N. C., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 7, 1923. NO. 4 FOOD RIOTS ADD AT LEAST ONE HUNDRED THOU SAND CASUALTIES IN YOKO HAMA ALONE. IfOLCANOES ARE IN ACTION Korea Maru Safe With 2,500 Fefugeea Aboard; Communications Partly Restored. San Francisco.—Food riots have broken out in Tokio, according to a radiogram received by the Radio cor poration from Iwaki station, 155 miles from Tokio. The generadarmes is re ported In these advices to have ex erted the most strenuous measures to suppress the disorders, even attacking the rioters with their swords. A number of Koreans were in the mob, the advices said. The advices confirmed earlier re ports of a great fire in Yokohama ana an estimate that there had been at least 100,000 casualties there. The fires, the message said, were caused by or followed by the explosion of oil storage tanks in the city where reserves of fuel oil for the merchant and naval marine were kept. ' The Toyo Kisen Kaisha steamer Korea Maru is safe in the harbor of Yokohama with 2,500 refugees on board, according to a cablegram re ceived at the company’s offices here from its agents in Kobe. Communica tions of all kinds have been reopened up to Numaza, 85 miles west of Tokio, the cablegram said. \ The Korea was in the harbor throughout the beginning of the dis aster period and was at once made available for relief purposes. She was to have hailed for San Francisco, but the sailing has been indefinitely postponed. -^The cablegram said that Tokio and Yokohama “have been destroyed.’’ A dispatch from Nagasaki reporting the destruction of the Fuji Spinning mills near Mount Fuki and the death of 8,000 operatives, also stated that a number of volcanoes were roported to be active. If Mount Fuki is among the erupt ing volcanoes, it is the first time it has exploded since 1707, but through out its long rest, its deep red hot crater at the summit has afforded an omnlous sign that it might be( arous ed to fury at any moment. There are 200 volcanoes, 50 of which are more or less active in the volcanic ranges In Japan, the Kurile, Jugi and Kirlshima. Cootidge Appeals to the People In Be half of Japan. Washington.—An appeal to the Am erican people to contribute to the re lief of the people of Japan was Issued by President Coolldge. The American Red Cross w»» uwsig nated as the organization to which re lief contributions should be transmit ted. i At the same time it was made clear that such assistance as was within the means of the executive branch of the government would also be rendered. The text of the appeal follows: ^ “To the people of the United States. “An overwhelming disaster has overtaken the people of the friendly nation of Japan. While its extent has not as yet been officially reported Snough is known to justify the state ment that the cities of Tokio and Yokohama, and surrounding towns and villages, have been largely if not completely destroyed by earthquake, fire "and flood, with a resultant ap palling loss of life and destitu tion and distress, requiring measures of ifrgent relief. Such assistance as is within the means of the executive department of the government will be rendered but realizing the great suff ering which now needs relief and will need for days to come, I am prompt ed to appeal urgently to the Ameri can people whose sympathies have al ways been so comprehensive to con . tribute in aiding the unfortunate and in giving relief to tlje people of Japan. “In order that the utmost co-ordina tion and effectiveness in the adminis tration of the relief funds be obtained, I recommend that all contributions, clearly designated, be sent to the chairman of the American National Red Cross at Washington or to any of the local Red Cross chapters for transmission to Japan.” Immediately after the President’s proclamation was made public the American Red Cross announced that > it had started a relief fund with a contribution of $100,000. In addition, it has appropriated from its reserve funds $10,000 for the assistance of Americans in the disaster zone. SIXTEEN CHILDREN KILLED BY ITALIAN BOMBARDMENT. Athens. — Colonel Stephen E. Lowe, of St. Louis, member of the Red Cross and attached to the near relief at Corfu, reports that altogether there were twenty killed by the Italian bombardment prior to the occupation of the island. Among them were 16 children, most of them killed by shrapnel which was fired among a crowd of Red Cross orphanage chilren bath ing in the sea. Colonel Lowe, describing the bombardment, said: "The number killed reached 20; nine of these were killed outright and 11 died in the hospital. Thirty-two wounded are now in the hospital and there were perhaps 50 slightly wounded." Of the 20 dead, 16 were children. All the killed and wounded were refugees or orphans from American and British orphanages housed in the old fortress. WEEVIL DOES SOME DAMAGE PRESIDENTS OF THE TWELVE FEDERAL LAND BANKS MAKE REPORT. Declare That Throughout Agriculture Areas Economic Conditions Are Regarded as Hopeful. Washington. — Agricultural pros pects were described generally as satisfactory and economic conditions throughout farming areas wer<f re garded as hopeful by the presidents of the 12 Federal land banks who have concluded a conference with the Federal farm loan board. The land bank heads based their views and subsequent report to the board on surveys made by their agencies scattered in every section of the country and with only a few excep tions their statements were optimis tic. Commenting that the reports taken together obviously revealed unsatis factory conditions in apme Idealities. Commissioner Cooper of the board de clared the statements of the bank presidents "clearly demonstrated the sound and improving conditions in American agriculture." The commis sioner added that he believed the farmers were back on their feet to stay. The report of southern districts summarized by the board, follow: ' Second district: J Maryland, Dela ware, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Crop conditions gen erally good; some labor shortage but not serious. Prices of wool, hogs, and cotton have gone higher and gen etal encouragement has followed. Third district: North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida. Conditions much better than last year although recent rains have caus ed heavy damage and the boll weevil has damaged the cotton crop. Tobac co prospects, both as to the crop and prices, are satisfactory. Collections have been good. The farmers are turning strongly to diversion of crops and this has helped many to make money this year. Fourth district: Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Crops on the average are very good and gen ! eral conditions have improved. Col i lections have been good. First district: Louisiana, Missis sippi, Alabama. Of the four big crops rice and sugar give most promising outlook. Corn has suffered material ly from heavy rains although the crop prospects justify the belief that a sufficient amount will be raised to supply home requirements. Rains likewise have damaged cotton while the ravages of the boll weevil have caused damage in the cotton belt 1 there as in the third district. Riot Breaks Up Klan Meet Perth Amboy, N. J.—- A crowd of 5,000 persons broke up a meeting of the Ku Klux Klan in Odd Fellows’ hall, 75 policemen and 150 firemen being unable to drive back the throng that stormed the building. Firemen drove trucks into the mass people, but to no avail. A hurry call was sent for state police in Trenton. Patrolmen fired shots in the air, threw gas bombs, and swung their nightsticks while the firemen turned streams of water on the fighting throng. Tke leaders of the mob were knocked down by patrolmen when they first started to advance toward the hall, but after they had been carried away another attack 1 was started. This time stones were thrown and all windows in Odd Fel lows’ hall, as well as many others in nearby buildings were broken. KILLED JAPANESE CITIES PRACTICALLY ANNIHILATED BY FIRE AND TIDAL WAVE. SPREADS OVER WIDE ERA i Yokohama, Tokio and Neighboring Cities, Described by Wireless as "Like Hell." San Francisco.—Tokio, Yokohama and neighboring cites were burning ruins, while more than 100,000 per sons in the vicinity of these cities were reported dead as a result Of Saturday's earthquakes, according to advices received in San Francisco by the Associated Press from is Shang hai correspondent and by the Radio Corporation from its station at Tom ioka. Death and destruction were spread over an area roughly comprised with in a radius of 50 miles of Tokio. How extensive casualties and the material d^nage outside that zone is, has not been determined, as all communica tions with Japan are still interrupted except for brief connections by radio with Tonvioka and occasional dis patches from Japan to Shanghai. Nagoya is Virtually Destroyed. The city of Nagoya is virtually de stroyed. The Japanese naval station near Yokohama was engulfed by a tidal wave and the Imperial palace at Tokio is endangered by fire. Nagoya has a population of 620,000. It is about 90 miles east of Osaka and about 70 miles west of Tokio. More earth tremors were reported by various seismographs. The Ma nila observatory seismograph record ed shocks. The shocks were violent, but could not be definitely located The Saturday shock, which devastat ed Tokio and environs, was the.great est the Manila seismograph has re corded in 30 years, according to Fath er Serra, geologist in charge. With railroad lines, telephone wires, and all other means of communication and ti-avel between Tokio an<^ the remainder of Japanese and the outside world cut off, Tokio and the other cities on the eastern central seacost on the Island of Hondo are isolated in the desolation. The cities of Tokio ana YOKonama were described by the superintendent of the Japanese Government wireless station at Tomioka, which operates via Aadio Corporation, as "like hell!’' Buildings were falling; Are was spreading everywhere; jiead and dy ing were on all sides; there were ex plosions an cries of horror and fear by the panic-stricken population. Fate of Ships in the Harbor. What quake and Are did not de stroy on land tidal waves are report ed to have crushed or sunk at sea. The fate of the ships in Yokohama harbor and what ships were there, still remain to be determined. The best available reports received said hardly a structure was left stand ing in the Yamanote district, which includes the Tokio wards of Honjo, Fukagawa, Akusaka, Shitaya, Nihon bashi and Kanda. Thousands are without food and water and no means o fgetting any at present. In Yokohama the Are started in the Bund, or foreign section, spreading rapidly to the business district which was wiped out. Tens of thousands of guests at re sorts in thme Hakone district near Yokohama in the mountains, were driven from their quarters by quakes and Ares. They were panic-stricken. The number of casualties is undeter mined. At Ito, on the Idzu Peninsula, more than 500 houses were washed away by tidal waves. Six hundred persons are reported to have perished when a Vailway tunnel at Easako collapsed. Italy Will Refuse to Recognize the Declsior of League of Nations. Athens—Signor Motagna, the Ital ian minister, on behalf of the Italian government, informed Foreign Minis ter Alexandria that Italy will refuse to recognize the decision of the league | of nations in the present controversy between Italy and Greece. Athens.—Reports that the Greek cabinet had resigned are unfounded. Former Premier Zaimis has definite ly accepted the leadership of the re conciliation party, lections will be Iheld October 28. — 8,"00 Killed in Collapse. Nagasaki.—It is reported that the Fuji spinning mills near Mount Fuji, collapsed and that 8,000 of the opera tors perished. AMERICA HAS PASSED PERIOD OF MOURNING. Washington. — American flags, which.the world over have been at half mast for the past thirty days as evidence of the nation’s mourning for President Harding, was hoisted to full staff Monday. The period of official mourning expires at midnight, thirty days having passed since the death In San Francisco on the evening of August 2 of the chief executive. President and Mrs. Coolldge have decided that there will be no immediate resumption of social activities so far as they are con cerned, but the white house, which has been closed to visitors will be thrown open Tuesday after the Labor day holiday. ONE OF THE PARTY ESCAPES AUTOMOBILE GOES THROUGH DRAWBRIDGE LEFT OPEN WITH NO WARNING. Conway People Were Returning From Myrtle Beach! Cauae of Accident Not Clear. Conway, S. C.—Six persons were drowned whe» an automobile in which they were returning from Myrtle Beach, where they had been spending the day, plunged through a partly opened drawbridge over the Wacca maw river, near here. One member of the party of seven escaped. The bodies of five of the drowned had been recovered. The dead are: Mr, and Mrs. J. S. Culipper, of Con way, and their three children, Eliza beth, eight years old; Gertrude, four, and J. G.( three, and Mrs. Marvin Conner, who also was in the car, managed to extricate himself after it struck the water and swam to safety. A coroner’s jury was empanelled and after hearing evidence irdicating that the bridge might have been open ed maliciously, adjourned until Sep tember 6. Evidence at the Inquest was that an automobile that passed the Culipper car shortly before it reached the bridge had speeded up. It was indicated that officials wanted to investigate a theory that the bridge had been opened by persons in the escaping car to prevent or delay pur suit. Marvin Conner, who escaped, was driving the car at the time. The manner in fhich the bridge was opened still was unexplained. Perry Quattlebaum, who has charge of open ing and closing the bridge, testified at the inquest that the drawbridge had not been opened since Monday morning when the steamer Malone passed through it. He also testified that the bridge usually is fastened with a chain at one end, but that the chain had no lock on it. Italian Government Demands Apology. Rome.—The Italian government has demanded a formal apology from the Greek government, an indemnity of 50,000,000 lire, and that full honors be paid by the Greek fleet to the Italian fleet in Piraeus because of the assas sination of the five Italian members of the Greeco-Albanian boundary mis sion at Janina, Albania. Hospital to Memory of War Mothers. Norfolk, Va.—The veterans of for Ign wars will foster a movement t, erect somewhere in the United States a gigantic tuberculosis hospital, as a memorial to war mothers and to other women in America who made sacri fices for the cause in the world war. A resolution placing the organiza tion behind this movement was pre sented to the annual encampment here by J. H. Toulouse, of Albuquer que, New Mexico, the commander of the department of New Mexico which originated the plan. The veterans adopted the resolution with a cheer. Mr. Toulouse, taking the platform to speak in behalf of his resolution and of the plan on which he has been at work a year and a half, paid a glowing tribute to the women of America who endured silently the bitterness of war and of wars sacri fices. And he called attention to the fact that the only memorial to war mothers America has erected is in an obscure spot in the city of Washing ton. Drawings showing the proposed memorial hospital, which is to cost in the neighborhood of $12,500,000, w'ere : presented to the convention. They i showed an enormous institution, so constructed as to cover many acres of land and equipped to care for hun dreds of tubercular patients in com fort and with efficiency. MEXICO TO GAIN EXCHANGES BETWEEN THE TWO GOVERNMENTS HAVE BEEN CONCLUDED. DETAILS ARE WORKER OUT All That Remains to Restore Basis For Renewal of Relations is An nounced. Washington. — Exchanges between the American and Mexican govern ments, characterized by administra ’ tion officials here as necessary pre liminaries to the resumption of dip lomatic relations, have been success fully concluded. All that remains to restore a basla for renewal of friendly conduct ot affairs between Mexico City and Washington is the making of a formal announcement to that effect. One of the exchanges already made provide* the means for thi3 last act incident to recognition. Recent estimates of White House spokesmen that actual resumption or relations with Mexico would be an nounced formally the latter part or September, it was learned, have bead altered by the success of the nego tiations and, in all probability, the next day or so will suffice for that purpose. The passing of the present arrange ment by which diplomatic affairs have been carried on unofficially by Amer ican representatives In Mexioo City and In Washington by unaccredited Mexican representatives, will auto matically follow the announcement. While full diplomatic representation in the two capitals will be delayed for a short time, due to the necessity of selecting ambassadors for the re spective posts, means already have been provided for accrediting the •charges at the American and 'Mexi can embassies, and this making pos sible an immediate conduct by affairs directly between the two govern ments. Two Officers Shot to Death. Johnstown, Pa. — Two detectives and one negro were shot to death and three police officers were prob ably fatally wounded when three automobile loads of policemen were answering a riot call to Rosedale, a negro section of this city, where the coke ovens of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation are located. All available Johnstown police were rushed to the scene of the ambush and a call for aid was sent to state police. The rioting which grew out of a quarrel among the negroes was quelled and 15 negroes were arrest ed, The assailants of the officers are believed to have escaped to nearby hills. The negro, policemen declared af ter an investigation, had been craied by “moonshine" liquor and had fired all the shots at the officers. The dead are: John A. James, a county detective. Joseph Abraham, a constable, and private detective. Robert Young, a negro. The three men who are not expect ed to live and who were taken to a Jdhnstown hospital, are police Cap tain Otto Fink, Lieutenant William Bender and Patrolman Joseph Grach en. Forecast Nation’s Cotton Crop. Washington.—This year's cotton production was forecast at 10.7S8.000 bales of 500 pounds each by the De !partment of Agriculture. The forecast was based on the con dition of the crop on August 25 which was 54.1 per cent of a normal, indicat ing a yield of about 134.8 pounds per acre. Last month's production fore- j cast was 11,516,000 bales, based on j the July 25 condition of 67.2 which in- j dicated a yield of about 143.9 pounds per acre. Last year's crop was 9,- j 761,817 bales. Drought in Oklahoma and Texas, excessive rains in the southwest, the | boll wevil, and the leaf worm caused ! a marked decline during August in i j the condition of the cotton crop, the j department announced. Bar Association For World Court. Minneapolis, Minn.—Adoption of a resolution urging participation of the Gutted States in the Permanent Court , of International Justice at The Hague j and the election of Robert E. Lee j Saner, of Dallas, Texas, as president j of the American Bar Association, 1 marked the‘closing session of the as* sociation's forty-sixth annual conven tion here. Professional Cards W. J. 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