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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1923
Page
2
A week of world events spans economic crises in Germany and Japan, Greece and Italy tensions over the League, and relief pledges from the United States. Reports note banking collapse fears, Greece Italy dispute, wartime veterans' federation talks, and Tokyo earthquake aftermath.
Tokyo police report mass inquests at Honjo warehouse ruins as 32,564 bodies are counted. Relief measures expand with imperial decrees against profiteering and rumor spread, while refugees flood from Tokyo and Yokohama amid fires, disease fears, and collapsing infrastructure.
Twenty three U S Navy sailors died when seven destroyers wrecked on Arguello light in dense fog near Santa Barbara. The Pacific Mail liner Cuba sank off San Miguel Island with all aboard landed except eight on board guarding 20 million dollars in silver. Dozens rescued, many injured, survivors swam to safety. Dead include Henry T Kirk Harrison Reddock Salter Martin Kirby Grady Ben Schank Taylor Overshiner Duncan Ray Morris Rogers Conroy.
The final agreement to end the Harrisburg strike was signed at Governor Pinchot's office. It provides a two year contract with a 10 percent wage increase, collective bargaining with arbitration, union recognition without dues check off, and an eight hour day. The settlement raises anthracite coal prices by 75 cents to $1 per ton.
Italy agrees to evacuate Corfu and nearby islands once reparations demands are met by Greece. Athens accepts the council of ambassadors stipulations in the Greco Italian dispute. Inter allied council mediation averts war between Italy and Greece but unrest grows over Fiume administration with Yugoslav concerns.
Max D., the United States consul in Yokohama, died while digging through the consulate ruins seeking his wife. A witness who reached Kobe described the tragic scene in the stricken city.
Fujiyama the snow capped guardian of Japan appears deformed in a Kobe scene described by observers. The piece notes the mountain’s familiar backdrop to Japanese prints and screens despite the altered appearance.
Nearly 250 contractors bid in Jefferson City for highway improvements totaling about 2 million dollars. Bids for five year supplies of sand gravel and rock drew 15 offers, with one contractor proposing rock at 1.20 a ton. Counties listed include Jackson Cass St Louis Barry and Taney among others.
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