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.
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