Warcraft Ashore in Pacific Waters Near Los Angeles
Survivors of seven American destroyers reach San Diego after piling on rocks at Port Honda last Saturday night. Naval officers cite tidal or seismic disturbance linked to the Japanese earthquake as a possible cause. Officers and sailors were welcomed with coffee and light refreshments.
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Pacific Waters
Los Angeles
Associated Press
Washington
Destroyer Division Number 11
California
San Diego
Calif
Port Honda
Pacific Fleet Destruction After Offshore Ship Wrecks
Twenty three sailors died and fifteen injured as seven destroyers ran aground between Point Argullo and Santa Barbara. Survivors were transported to San Diego while wrecks pounded by heavy surf. ships Cuba and Reno incidents linked to the disaster. Officials reported crews saved with several missing and bullion guarding. details uncertain as reports continued.
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Santa Barbara
Cal
Battle Fleet
Point Arguello Light
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Neavy
Pacific
San Diego
Naval Base
Santa Rosa
Reno
Cuba
San Miguel Island
Santa Barbara County
Tel Francisco
Scientists Watch In Stellar Way To Find Data On Sun Eclipse
The first U S total solar eclipse since 1918 drew eclipse expeditions from around the world to the path of totality over southern California. Cameras spectroscopes and instruments tracked the corona as battle fleet airplanes radio and newspapers connected observers from Catalina Island Ensenada and San Clemente amid crowded highways and steamers.
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Los Angeles
Calif
California
United States
Santa Catalina
San Clemente Islands
Ensenada
Mexican
Santa Barbara
San Diego
Santa Catalina Island
Japan Plans Massive Relief Aid After Tokyo Disaster
The Japanese government appropriates 520 million yen for relief and reconstruction as cabinet and privy council approve. more than 300000 buildings destroyed in Tokyo and over 500000 people homeless. D S Kerr of Cleveland dies in Miyanoshita landslide. J S Ruble survive with minor injuries.
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Osaka
Privy Council
Tokio
D. S. Kerr
Cleveland
Ohio
Miyanoshita
J. S. Ruble
Kerr
Pennsylvania State College
World Cotton Supply Hits 27 5 Million Bales
Washington reports August 1 world cotton supply at 27 5 million bales, down from 29 6 million in 1922. Year ending July 31 consumption 20.15 million bales versus 20.05 million prior year. Beginning season stocks 9.54 million bales, ending season stocks 6.4 million.
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Associated Press
Washington
Department of Commerce
Run Amuck Gunman Holds Belleville At Bay
W C Cochran, 40, shoots his mother in law and wounds two officers as police surround his home. Reinforcements from St Louis arrive while Cochran barricades himself behind a kitchen stove. His wife lies in the yard and his mother in law is hospitalized in serious condition. The scene draws hundreds as gunfire continues.
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Associated Press
Belleville
W. C. Cochran
St. Louis
Cochran
Hall
Solar Eclipse Parties Hampered by Clouds in Los Angeles
Clouds hid the sky in Los Angeles at 11:29 a m as thousands of observers hoped to glimpse the first phase of the solar eclipse. Moments later the sun reappeared and watchers saw a thin crescent bite taken from the sun by the advancing moon.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Calif
Pacific liner Cuba lands treasure crew at Wilmington
San Francisco reports Captain Holland says all passengers and crew aboard the Pacific mail liner Cuba are safe at Wilmington. The vessel carries $2,500,000 in treasure and mail and baggage. The Cuba remains on the reef where it struck yesterday. The USS Selfridge landed additional crew and treasure at San Pedro harbor.
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San Francisco
Calif
J. Holland
Cuba
Wilmington
Holland
U. S. S. Selfridge
San Pedro Harbor
Unfilled Steel Orders Decline at U S Steel
United States Steel Corporation reported unfilled orders totaling 5,414,663 tons on August 31, down 496,100 tons from the prior month. The release highlights a seasonal drop in demand affecting the steelmaker's backlog.
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Associated Press
New York
United States Steel Corporation
Ouachita Parish Assessments Rise Under Hanna
Ouachita parish assessor Joe Hanna announced 1923 assessments total 39 784 630 including public utility values of about 6 500 000, up 4 614 060 from 1922. Valuation for property including utilities stood at 35 170 570 last year. Hanna left for Baton Rouge for review by the Louisiana Tax Commission next Wednesday and approval if satisfactory.
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Joe Hanna
Ouachita Parish
Hanna
Baton Rouge
Louisiana Tax Commission
Pinchot Turns His Attention to Coal Price in His State
Governor Pinchot shifts focus from the anthracite dispute to coal prices. In a letter to President Coolidge he urges federal and state action to readjust freight rates and to probe dealer profits. He proposes I C C rate reviews and P S C consideration within Pennsylvania.
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Pinchot
Associated Press
Harrisburg
President Coolidge
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pennsylvania Public Service Commission
United States Coal Commission
Passive Resistance Policy Abandoned on Frontier Front
The occupied German populations have been ordered to end passive resistance to French and Belgian authorities. Berlin reports German capitalists plan to send a representative to Paris to gauge France's willingness to concede. Direct negotiations between Germany and France are believed imminent.
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London
Germany
Berlin
Germaine
Paris
France
U S Ambassador Calls for Aid in Japan to Battle Fever
Ambassador Woods reports an epidemic of fever in Tokio and urges immediate use of one million dollars in American Red Cross funds for relief in Japan. Funds to buy medical supplies and food locally.
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Associated Press
Washington
Tokio
Ambassador Woods
State Department Today
American Red Cross
Japan
Checotah Klan Defies Walton Ban On Meetings
Governor Walton orders Stephens county to swear in extra deputies to block a Klux Klan parade planned for tomorrow night at Dungan with the threat to call in the state militia. Muskogee dispatch notes the Checotah Klan ignores the ban and plans a public initiation and barbecue five miles from the city.
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Checotah
Walton
Associated Prows
Oklahoma City
Stephens County
Dungan
National Guard
Associated Press
Muskogee
Oklo
Checotah Klan
Calcutta Earthquake Kills Fifty in District
A seismic quake in Calcutta today caused fifty deaths or injuries, with many houses collapsing in the Nymensing district. The report, routed through Exchange Telegraph, notes casualties in the Indian city amid widespread destruction.
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Associated Press
London
Calcutta
Nymensin
Ireland Elected to Membership in World Peace League
Geneva Sept 10 Ireland was unanimously elected to membership in the League of Nations by the assembly today.
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Ireland
Associated Press
Geneva
League of Nations
Assembly Today
Louisianians Urged to Give $35,000 for Japan Relief
New Orleans reports Louisianians must raise 35,000 in the coming week to meet a 50,000 quota for Japan relief. Neal M. Leach, relief committee chair, urged continued aid to feed grief-stricken areas until local systems can supply necessities. Louisiana has donated 15,000 so far.
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New Orleans
Japan
Neal M. Leach
Relief Committee
The
Association of Commerce
Louisiana
Fraternity Bond Foils Robbery in Chicago
In Chicago on Sept 10 a lodge brother confronted by a robber lowered his ring to show shared fraternity. The bandit spared Cooney and fled with $12 from Cooney’s companion, who was not a lodge member.
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Chicago
Joseph Cooney
Cooney
Tokio Earthquake Toll Mounts Across Yokohama
Reports say sixty thousand bodies recovered in Tokio and Yokohama with up to half a million treated for wounds or sickness. A U S destroyer Huron party buried the dead from Yokohama hospital as fires engulfed ruined districts.
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Associated Press
Tokio
Yokohama
Huron
Yokoohama
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Sonoma
Aggie” Report
Pacific Liner
Ouachita
Coolidge
U.S
Woods
Weaks Supply Co
Genasco
Monroe Auto Wrecking CO
Jackson and Lee
Fox Produce Co
Son’s Barn
West Monroe
Monroe Coffee CO
St. Matthew’s Parochial School
NEW South Drug Store,ltd
R. L. McHenry
Mgr
Chivalry
Palmer
H. H. Royd Co, Inc
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G. W. Copeland
Famlies
Geo. Tucker
West Monroe Methodist Church
School OF
Elks Club
Armandine Renaud
Stephen B. Williams
Methodist Protestant Church
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