Sioux City Journal, The (Newspaper) - September 7, 1923, Sioux City, Iowa 125 i SUPPLIES FOR STRICKEN JAPS AT YOKOHAMA Dozen Destroyers First lo Reach of Quake and Fire Arthur Scars In without limit to stricken backed by all tlm resources of United ordered by today upon learning from American Ambassador Woods ni Tokio that Japanese are homeless and facing Instructions to spare no expense in purchasing supplies and organiz ing relief forces were sent to Admir J commander of tho Asiatic In the following message sent by Secretary of the Denby By direction of the president you are authorized to purchase whatever supplies and whatever necessary for Give all possible The Is due to at Yokohama tonight on his flag will commit tho to foot the for relief on a vast The president decided that Instant action was Im perative without canvassing the ques tion of his authority to pledge the resources of the nation in the absence of Ho does not doubt that congress will approve his action vote the funds necessary to pay for Ihe supplies purchased and relief organized by Admiral Food With lied also in the light report from Ambassador the limit from the relief fund it has set out to America was first to reach tne scene of the earthquake disaster today with aid on a large scale from Twelve fast navy destroyers from Admiral Andersons fleet reached Yokohama loaded with food aiAl supplies from The destroyer tender also loaded with food at is due at Yokohama The shipping boards City of which arrived at Kobe Tuesday with refugees from was sent back to the disaster scone yesterday with a cargo of relief One transport Philippines the with food and medical supplies and carrying doctors and and another transport will sill The President Taft sailed from Ban Francisco today with one hundred tons cf rice and medical supplies furnished by the Red Cross and Is due to reach Yokohama September Aid Without Ambassador Woods cable which President to direct aid without follows via Secre tary of Any aid from American people for over 000 homeless Japanese should prefer ably take form uf tinned con gal iron and dimensioned timber for one story The executive committee of the American Ked Cross in session here today in speeding plans for the rais ing of tho relict fund for the stricken Japanese took the following action informed all local Ued Cross chapters throughout the United States that in view of the urgent need of the earthquake sufferers and the response that Is sure lo be made lo tho appeal by a sympathetic Amer ican that bo re carded us a minimum Notified all local Ked Cross chapters that It was the hope of tho executive committee that the goal would be by next If not Urged that in accordance with the request to the American people President Coolidge that the Amer ican Ked Cross be made a clearing house for the collection of all funds to be sent to Jipan that all fund raising for thu stricken Japanese be concentrated through tho American Ued Cross to prevent Contributions Touring Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover attending this mornings meet stressed the necessity of raising the by next Act ing Chairman James of the American Ked Informed committee that local Hed Cross chap ters throughout tho United are bending every effort to exceed the allotted The machinery of the purchasing nnd shipping department of the Am FRIDAY SEPTEMBER PAGES I O m en THE WEATHER Thursdays s a fl 10 11 1 1 J i n fi 7 LOCALIZE IT Thp maximum was 77 and thp minimum The sun today nt and will set al TIIK South Ma nnd Fair Friday and Saturday riot much in tem NEWS SUMMARY Inge Page destroyers reach Yoki with food for Nearly all harriers to coal pence have been Page Powder blast kills four many whippings laid at dooi of kuklux Page 1 1Jxact figures on still Italys stand against nations creates a I age Famous old barn a Jown city burns loss at Page SOUTH Value this years corn crop in state is placed at Pago Al tendance records Cedar county are being broken this Page Gasoline burns cause boys father also caught in Page stars in box as Giants beat u to Page Oilers make it five straight wins from former league Page Red tox lose to Athletics dueto Rommels great Page Five bouts will be presented on Cudahy card at plant Sept Page peeved at says he will meet Page American legion announces boxing show will be held Page LOCAL Shanley offers explanation of from his office Page 11 Modern Woodmen to dedicate hull tonight to be Page 10 Number of marriage licenses is sued in August breaks Page I I John Marty succumbs to spi not meningitis ill one Page H Barbecue will mark opening tonight of community Page 14 Grand Jury probes booze violations chiefs aW teaching ct bookkeeping in Page Preparations being fur North west Iowa Page 7 Corn crop Is 10 days ress is halted by Page S Public schools open thousands of pupils begin study Page 9 Child bride seeks divorce wedded at 16 sorry at Page 31 Grain prices at Chicago close higher all Page killers lower beat firm hogs Page Continued on Page TWO LINERS PAY FOR VIOLATION OF ALIEN ACT New of the four steamships fined by the government for bringing immigrants Into quar antine a few before September after the August had been sailed today after money cover log the had been with collector of The steamers are the of the Ward and Estonia of the Officials ojt company the fines would be paid under protest and they for redress on the that the government could npt oppose Jong as the im other two steamers of the not companies 4I91 plus money for tp have been ght In a read of The fines MEMORIAL FOR HARDING TO BE HELD IN One of the first acts of Florence Harding on her arrival here today rom Washington was to give her approval to a plan of tho Marlon committee to hold a memorial for tin late president here Novem er the 08th anniversary of his Harding said she would The memorial he i home town The train on which and her party relumed made a spe cial stop at White Oaks the mg of and Saw whose gut si she will bo for a so that they would not be compelled to go to the Marion sta H was believed Hardinp will file the will of tbe Utc shortly Outbreak of Cholera Reported in Yokohama A Central News dispatch from Kobe dated today says It is reported but not con Hint cholera bos broken out in This probably IH since tlie people drinking muddy water from ditches and eating foul food to stave off A spread of pestilence would in crease the difficulties of relief as otherwise supplying food and shel ter would be comparatively All foreigners are believed to be out of the vicinity of but still are Isolated In and other Internal Their condition is riot Export Demand in Trade Better A considerable Im In demand with Germany a heavy buyer of pork pro ducts was reported today in the Jn of American Meat August review of the meat of lard and fat backs were Demand for dry salt meats In the tho opening of the cot marketing season showed sub the report 15 BADLY HURT Explosions at South Rock Ihe j men and a boy were killed and twenty seven persons were fifteen probably by an explosion to of the thousands of cases of smokeless powder which were being transferred from barges to cars on the bunks of the The caused by a cooking fire on one of the rocked the entire blew automobiles upside down on tho road nearby and everyone within a hundred yards in a sheet of Two of the men killed were Winston Taylor and of The third was The whose body has not been was blown Into the v i consisted of a shipment of cases belonging lo the Atlas Powder The explosion which illuminated towns for miles around freight cars to and timbers were spat tered for hundreds of Other box which Immediately caught fire were hooked up lo locomotives and rushed through the heart of the city to get them away from the Tho pier and two of barges Were enveloped In those near the harge had a chanco to escape there followed second and a thirl is additional freight cars swept by the At each blast the air for i hundred yards around was filled with white women In automobiles passing under a bridge worn oped in tho light summer catching fire Firemen and ambulance surgeons found men and their clothes in running madly about beat ing one another In futile efforts to put out the The Injured wero hurried to Tho fire was brought under control after three MURDERS SHOW STEADY GAIN IN COOK COUNTY TULSA OUTRAGES FIXED ON KLAN CAST ASIDE BARRIERS TO COAL PEACE Made by in Parleys With Mine t the principal lo a settlement f n controversy bus Hhut down the anthracite mines have been sei aside by agreement be tween the miners mid PRICE SCENTS of with he exception union demand for Increase In pay greater ban In per cenl for day workers In the field mid Ihe further union demand for check off sys of union president of tlie miners called n formal meet ing tonight of the unions scale com to be held nl 1 tomor row to judgment on the Hoth union officials and repre of the mine operators agreed to meet again at 3 for further proposed attempt bring and miners lo an agreement upon the four point H which he tendered as a basis of of the difficulties had been success fill In he announced con elusion uf sessions with them He gave out a sum of thp situation upon Lewis would no but which miin of Ihe operators policy commit declared in be In 11 Ihn operators wen ve left out ration of wag Arrest 2 Men and Woman After 3Year Search his Maty nnd Morgan Van nil of here today a search of more 3 yenrs ami held for orders of the police on of announced tonight an officer would start for Vancouver tomorrow to bring biil and Jacob Wil Indicted for kidnapping of Vnn now years and Vnn father of Ihe charged with abandon nf his wife nnd three other i children in four miles j The of ihe trio In Vancouver this was the culmination of u pursuit of the girl and her aunt mid uncle over a period of three years and i half which led to the four corners of the United Culm and pf Claire Van Tiis 11 niece of the occured in I The girl was then eight years her disappearance the Wilsons were on Intimate terms with the Van The year be fore Ihe Van Tassels had separated mid he children mutual with the In the Wilsons A year later they had been traced to and but they vanished again und tlie search led back to Long Island where the trail Vas lost once Last spring Van Tassel sued for a separation and Justice hi Ihe supreme court at which anted a separation and and awarded her the custody of the four Vnn Tassel was a New York Cen track repre sen ted lo h demands fo Tlie tors agreed upon OHM hi had Involved granting of the eight hour full recognition of the un ion by Ihe a uniform In f anil Daughter I T I Lose Lives in a lire leaders and the opera the governor hn for Ihe living today farm g seven miles southeast The governors j of burnert to death pointed Carlson and A son way lo the fire had an arm broken bis cur that had Special Dispatch to The i with a crazed Driver continues to be tbp J cago but wp j rn I old fashioned weapons the pistol 1 and knife are hundred and seventy murders have been committed In Cook county In the first months as compared with 158 in the same pe riod of 1022 118 in in showing a steady Mur ders resulting from attacks by ban Floating float ins debt August 3K was more than one iin it was NATIONS LEAGUE TO CONSIDER THE QUAKE DISASTER Hy tho view of the Japanese disaster the league of na tions In planning to give special at tention to the project elaborated at the recent International red cross conference toward an Inter national agreement for rendering as in the case of such calami The Red conference recom mended that the league ot nations and the governments of the various nations a study as to what form of organization is feasible to render prompt help to stricken Ohio Man Elected Commander M of Van unanimously elected commander Jn chief of the Army of Re public shortly before 7 after announcement had been earlier that the had postponed dits are relatively lower than in the past but killings In tho foreign quar tern are Increasing at a notable rate A total of 458 persons have been killed by automobiles in the first eight months of the There were 226 burglaries for August us against in the same month a year There wero but 00 holdups during month with US In August a year according to figures made public today by the crime LOUIS GIRL VICTOR IN INITIAL BEAUTY CONTEST Atlantic Missouri victorious today in the first test for the beauties here from 75 American competing for Ihe crown of Miss Miss Miss Charlotte Nash swept tho boards In the roller chair test feature of third an Miss Nosh was the grand prize and the ver dict was Applause had greeted her from tho start to finish f the demonstration along a five mile from tell COO banked on cither side of the board This credits her with points town id the goal that carries the crown as a Second prize went to Miss third to Miss Miss and Miss Tho final for the Miss America crown will take place to EARTH SHOCKS ARE REGISTERED IN PHILIPPINES By Walter Sioui Cable Sixty three earth quake shocks were registered here this distinctly perceptible In the business Manila observatory states their seismograph Indicates they were after shocks occurring In Japan this They have not been measured transport Merrill sailed for Japan at 8 oclock this On of loading It had delayed nail Twelve doctors and 60 nurses are Thn transport and the navy vessel Pecos will sail to night pr Farmers Dollar Increases in Value The value of the farmers dollar Is gradually Increasing and now amounts to 75 as compared to according to cents not of the Iowa Farm Bureau declares no measure will the farmer to prosperity a freight cooperative marketing aud an Intelligent produc tion schedule will greatly aid Before Military Court Made Hy the Oklahoma folding the story of Tulsa gleaned from sworn as before a military executive presented to the press tonight an account of Home of the brutal floggings that led Walton to Invoke martial Inw In Tulsa Detailing u series of only a fuw of Unit spread terror more than a year In many said Through tho pages of testi mony runs the mime brutal Its always the or some members of In every thus far except two which havu iot proceeded vary the evidence lias straight to tho of the In visible known as the of the Not an alien has been ac not breath of suspicion a ell of Ihe Imperial Oilier Declaring thai thb only Ihe first of the executive counselor promised revolu tion In tho near of other phases of the conflict between visible and Invisible The whole story of Tulsa will never be he Men flee from savagery Scores of Tulsa victims The man In pretty apt to change ad dress after bis skin has been whipped until il IK and then lie Is threatened with if That Is exactly what happened In not but 200 lull moro than a The wot rope Is ou of said In they use a leather II Is about three Inches perhaps four feet end of this sirup IM cut Into three Fifty lashes will nine the strongest A mile and quarter southwest of Is Tulsa countys most famous whipping Strong men slugger away ruined for life Women A mother deull with when band of twenty imr raided home and bent her child born prematurely as Ihn result u member of a township school board abducted by and coerced In to for a school head whom he opposed an elderly man lashed because he opposed Ihe way the school was a man and a woman routed out of their beds and taken to the whipping the strap was applied to both because Ihe charged that they had been selling are among related by Blake from the testimony according to a klarus man who attended a whipping party testified y I think there were out They were all disguised with old hats and coats and chief over their They had twp prisoners there standing near one that first was told to leave the The lights from the crease of 10 per cunt for cmj ployes and Ihe recognition of col bargaining In the Probe Hut It had been agreed In the eight hour day thai men whose working hours had been re would be given Increases Iden tical to those n Bleed pon foi Ing 11 ivas fui ther his state j ment hat the Conciliation board should make i of wage and recommend adjustments to next between the union leaders nnd ihe likewise an understanding upon how collective bargaining methods wero o be applied lo mining CHICAGO TECH COLLEGE MAN ENDS HIS LIFE Special lo The Ill student In I Ins found today In his in Ihe with of cotton In chlor into his nostrils and n his A bottle of Ibn fluid was found near In a fold In which he police found name graved with us his On un card lie mi me of Charles it bis was given us ids nearest Presumably In preparation for his had written let nnd hud addressed ivere found on bis dresser tin directing tho finder o mail hen for One of ihe o another to Miss Wohl in and the third A United discharge showing that Iage was born In was found in his ITALYS STAND CREATES STIR EXACT h NOT AVAILABLE Life and Properly Loss Greatest of Any Sim ilar Hy thi Associated appalling na ture of the firo and tidal waves with the loss of life and property of any siml Inr catastrophe In modern times con In be told by meager and un connected press dispatches and pri vate messages from foreign residents nnd tourists who survived the holo But thu graphic story of how earth shook lo pieces and then in Japans capital and scores of towns around Toklo including the commercial port of he loss of life Is estimated at in somo cases Ing Into hundreds of ny certainty of casualties is 1m while with he devastated districts an t Toll rin the whole the nows received odny Is of a more ban any the one all message from a British nn official at Yokohama placing thi of foreigners in that port at Kven this of Is small as compared with for icr Is for a of few thousands and ates that loss of life among inuy reach the high si reported only of Is based on home ot ici from Toklo that oss of was but Yokohama known lo have suffered much more everely than nnd he home office figures do not at to take consideration ne hundred miles of coast line towns nil all In Ihe path of the Ida I Higher Districts All Information shows hat Toklo imd were not totally ds Ihe foreign residential of the port which la ona high bluff overlooking the hav ing suffered comparatively little while the residential subur ban of Toklo also This would account for the few deaths the foreigners toi Continued on Page HUGHES VOICES NEED OF HELP FOR JAPANESE formal ex pression of grief al the tragedy In Japan and voicing he need of assist ing In was Issued by Secretary Hughes today upon his iv turn to the slate department un absence of several The American Hie have been the terrible disaster suffered In Ja We have already given voice to our deep sympathy and we shall bu prompt and generous in urgent relief The historic friendship be tween the iwu peoples cemented at conference and the noble attitude of the distinguished representatives of the gov lit that conference can never be There is u universal desire among us not only to express our grief at this appalling but to lend In every way a helping hand to our who are so sorely Cargo Frozen Meats On Way to Japan President Grant Is sailing for Japan today with a cargo of frozen There has been difficulty in obtaining ado refrigerator space which pro larger supply Of meat going on the council toSay for Japanese has the Inter national relief commission operating I In Kobe eight thousand pounds of on Respect for Covenant Iy Henry lily defied tho league of nations today lo Interfere in the a reek The council of the league formally handed over to the conference of am all Its suggestions for deal ing the contro a discussion of iho liisi evening the of Corfu never was the only reference In Italys act being opinion of the occupied territory as soon nil which found mi reiteration Abandoning the fight for action by the league in Italys menace to ihe worlds pence through military per and the capture of Greek ter Koberi Cecil merely contented himself that must Ihe of IIH to deal with such affairs In thu With the assembly meeting can to Ihe little nations open council lions two thirds of the metropolitan of 16 wards with the completely wiped These the slums of the Industrial section of on he right bank of the river famous for its amusement parks and Includes most of modern toklo where four and five storied d and office Ined thb principal the The section also Includes in which before Japan opened to tho western na foreigners were compelled to re It recently has been occupied by their schools and During Hummer months most of the nre but pf the hut of property there baa been Heavy Fire In other of and Uahl where the foreigners live In more or less Isolated foreign com consisting of u few western style houses on small The damage was by which on ao count of the of open could be The foreign em and legations were widely scattered throughput the higher dis of and a number of Including the American em have been The British foreign office tonight received its first news Its ie In Japan in u message delegates thai all the from demanding ere but that the build Ihe of ihe ing was necessitating privately hy mesages received since bust night o by the London of Japanese frame up a compromise whereby the state that sky could save Us district escaped eased BU Premier Mussolini It is known as have an opportunity to is situated between the Central rail league be will not from fill bis threat to withdraw If U All day long the members of the council held sessions In each other M hotel rooms und sent converse with the umall slates to urge patience until a makeshift arrangement to everybody was Bought out by do Spanish council member Spanish plan pro enumerated In eight articles In u note addressed by the council of the league to the conference of am whereby the Geneva or tentatively Indorses the al lied bodys competency to deal with the affair and urn braces Genevas Idea as to what the final solution to the should The league leaders took no framing thy propositions as cally point previously agreed to by both the Italian and Greek govern ments 1 their respective diplomatic correspondence since the ua Spanish Envoys Quinones Ue Leons plan Is listed In iwp the four articles being the moral reparations Greece must assassination of the In her and the second four ar ticles relative to tlie financial In Athene must make to n compensation for the The plan follows Official and ces by Greece to thu three Powers which the A In Athens Irv honor of the victims govern ment way station and imperial It consists of great blocks of rein forced concrete buildings were reported to be mass of it Thiy station saved them from the In the which Is of tho Is tempor arily tho famous Morrison is the completion of the permanent library building of tlm imperial The fire which swept the eastern and central sections of Toklo after the A salute by to the to Continued on Page i Continued on Page EMPIRE STATE JUSTICE ANNULS DIVORCE DECREE to Mary Clark Culver daughter of former copper Is wife of Char les Potter from whom received an interlocutory decree of divorce The decree and the action discon according o a down by Justine kin a at special session of the su preme court of the state uf New held In who hag pawed last year and halt in returned abruptly to country few weeks ago ana la HOT in instituting fresh divorce against her on tha ground Qf It U understood that Kilns will not oppose in
