Ambassadors Assess Tokyo Yokohama Casualties After Disaster
A dispatch from Ambassador Woods and other U S officials reports grave damage in Tokyo and Yokohama after a disaster. Estimates of 10000 deaths are cited for Tokyo with many Americans missing or safe. Refugees describe a collapsed naval hospital and damaged consular staff. Relief efforts are organized with Kobe Nagasaki and Yokohama agencies coordinating aid.
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Ashington
Tokio
Kobe
Edward Bell
King
Yukon
Kirjassoff
Vicw
Sam J. Wardell
Ohama
Yokohama
Munder Webb
Erle R. Dicker
Obama
Martin
Nason
Leo D. Sturgeon
Wardell
Paul E. Jenks
Messaid
Sul Kirjassoff
H. B. Hitchat
Nagasaki
Kirff
Hitchcock
Tokio Yokohama
Msul Hitchcock
Woods
Foy
Policeman fatally shoots sheriff in liquor raid confusion
Sept 5 ap news William J Jones a policeman shot Sheriff Leo Sowers twice in Battle after being mistaken for a violator during a liquor raid. Police had previously raided a house and found liquor. Sowers fired from inside the building as others returned fire.
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Attle
William J. Jones
Leo Sowers
Sowers
Jones
Twenty in Japan missionaries reach country in Sept
In Salt Lake City a church official reports twenty Mormon missionaries including spouses and children are in Japan awaiting word on the status of those laboring Nippon.
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Japan
Salt Lake
Nippon
Utah Weather Glides Through Thin Skies
Generally fair conditions expected tonight and Thursday with little temperature change. Friday looks probable to stay fair across the state.
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Utah
Ford posts 54 million profit in four months end June 30 1923
Ford Motor Company reports net profits of 54 million dollars for the four months ending June 30 1923. The earnings translate to about 315 dollars per share on 172,465 shares outstanding. The figures come from balance sheet compilations released in New York.
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New York
Ford Motor Company
ZR-1 Largest Aircraft Built Fireproof Test Flight
The navy dirigible ZR-1, the world's largest craft, completed a 55 minute test flight before 2000 observers. Commander J B Hunsaker said the craft will spur a new marine defense element and a new aviation industry. The airship uses duraluminum and steel wire, with six engines delivering 357 hp each.
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Likehorst
N. J
J. 8
Hunsaker
Naval Design
Bureau of Aeronautics
Tire and Rubber
Regulars Lose To Rebels In Rio Grande de Sul Clash
In Poncho Verde a force of 700 Brazilian regulars was defeated by revolutionaries in the Rio Grande de Sul strike. Government losses were 86 killed and 120 wounded while rebels reported 9 killed and 23 wounded.
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Montevideo
Rio Grande de Sul
Poncho Verde
Osaka Cabinet Shakeup Delayed by Earthquake Moves
A Osaka deputy reports Premier Yamamoto installed a new cabinet with a Sunday ceremony at 7 p.m. on the Akasaka compound turf rather than indoors due to ongoing earthquakes. Yamamoto then led his first cabinet meeting outside the official residence to discuss relief measures.
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Osaka
Japan
Tokio
Yamamoto
Akasaka
Boy Kills Himself While Attempting Hawk Shooting
Bernard L. Phillips age 12 wounded himself with a shotgun while trying to bring down a hawk in a barnyard in Watsonville Minnesota. He ran about 300 feet before collapsing and dying from the accidental discharge.
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Watsonville
Malif
Bernard L. Phillips
Outsmarting Court Proved Expensive
San Rafael report describes Charles Kross a San Francisco grocer fined five dollars for speeding. He mailed the payment in pennies in separate bundles totaling 100 each, incurring 18 cents postage. He then faced contempt charges, fined fifty dollars and jailed five days for mocking the court by using pennies.
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San Rafael
Calif
Chas. Kross
San Francisco
Pony Express Rides Through Utah In Record Pace
Across Utah's northeast, riders covered 1060 miles from St. Joseph to San Francisco. The last Colorado rider Ralph Saulsbury finished 104 miles in 6 hours 34 minutes, delivering mail at Vernal after starting from Craig. Utah riders began at midnight, with Vernal reached yesterday at 3 32 p m. The route includes Roosevelt Myton Fruitland Park City Parley's canyon Salt Lake Wendover and into Nevada. A 17 year old Roosevelt resident Myrtle Gardner will carry mail from Parley Canyon to Salt Lake City. Governor Mabey and officials greet the rider on arrival in Salt Lake City.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Pony Express
St. Joseph
San Francisco
Vernal
Colorado
Ralph Saulsbury
Denver
Craig
Colo
Saulsbury
Ver‘nal
Myrtle Gardner
Roosevelt
Parley’s Canyon
Salt Lake
Myton
Fruitland
Park City
Wendover
Nevada
Tokio barren as result quake in Japan
New York dispatch reports Mitesui and Company's Osaka cables say 80 Tokyo and Yokohama employees are safe. Five main buildings in Tokyo and Yokohama stand but interiors burned. Shizuoka city also affected with uncertain reports.
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Tokio
New York
Mitesui and Company
Osaka
Yokohama
Shidguoka
Shidzuoka
Singer Sewing Machine Company
Japan
Flashes On Japan Quake Hit Cities Worldwide
News notes report Yokohama commerce halted while Kobe receives cargo reroutes. Tokyo fire destroys Baron Okmré museum. Morrison collection lost. YWCA staff in Japan safe. Soviet aid pledged. Empress of Canada carrying refugees to Shanghai. Singer reps safe. Texas Co workers unaccounted. American Legion mobilizes relief funds. missionaries safe. Seattle seeks 100000 for Japan relief. rice sent from Hongkong. Ackerman safe in Nikko. Kobe cable notes two US employees missing.
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London
Shanghai
Japan
Kobe
New Orleans Man Charles Davis Killed in Yokohama
Charles Davis aged 26, once with the Associated Press and a former newspaperman, was killed at Yokohama. He had been employed in Japan by a San Francisco coffee brokerage firm.
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New Orleans
Charles Davis
Associated Press
Yokohama
Davis
Japan
San Francisco
Court Rules That Marriage Is Properly a Game of Team Work
In Los Angeles a superior court judge ordered Mrs. Scranton to pay temporary alimony of 5 weekly while trial for separate maintenance proceeds. Lee Scranton testified his wife earns 150 a month in a bank and deserted him due to illness and inability to work. The judge likened marriage to teamwork, noting the husband has “broken in the harness” and the wife may have to “pull a double load.”
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Los Angeles
John W. Summerfield
Superior Court
Aaya
Charles Scranton
Lee Scranton
Farm cost figures show 1922 crop expenses versus prices
Washington reports from about a thousand farmers across the country indicate average production costs for wheat at 1.23 per bushel, corn 66 cents, and oats 3 cents, while average sale prices were 1.11, 73 cents, and 48 cents respectively. The department notes costs include labor and land use, and the figures closely reflect typical production costs.
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Washington
Browning Couple Pronounced Safe While Missionaries in Japan
Ogden Utah September 5 reported Mr and Mrs Wallace Browning of Ogden, Mormon missionaries in Japan safe according to state official Delore Hurley of Stateville.
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Ogden
Utah
Wallace Browning
Japan
Benbaidasembal
Delore Hurley
Stateville
Macon Police Nab Dentist In Whipping Inquiry
Macon Georgia September 5 AP officers arrested Dr C A Yarbrough a dentist J E Patrick a court official and W F Delamar a salesman on warrants charging assault and battery and rioting tied to recent whipping actions in Macon Police say Yarbrough known as a sacking official in the local Ku Klux Klan is considered the brains of the whipping operation and denies the charges while officials say the case is nearing trial
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Macon
C. A. Yarbrough
J. E. Patrick
W. F. Delamar
Yarbrough
Ku Kluxan
Tokio Devastation Escalates With Tokyo Death Toll Estimate
Amid fragmentary dispatches the Tokyo-Yokohama disaster nears catastrophe with estimates ranging from 210000 to 520000 dead and 450000 injured. Flames raged fifty hours destroying 350000 houses over twenty one square miles. relief efforts include US destroyers and transports en route to Yokohama and port areas.
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Tokio
Theapital
Yokohama
Aoyama
San Francisco
Yokosuka
Shiragawa
United States
Manila
Shipping Board
Admiral Anderson
Pacific Coast
Japan mourns quake toll as relief funds rise
Osaka reports Japan grateful for American aid. President Coolidge sent condolences, the prince regent contributed ten million yen, and nine million more was approved for relief. Tokio fires were finally extinguished after 48 hours of inferno as districts endured extreme heat. Ex Premier Takahashi and Seiyukai leaders believed dead are later confirmed alive.
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Osaka
Japan
Coolidge
Tokio
Takahashi
Seiyukais Party
Army loads Meiggs and Merritt for Japan relief
Manila dispatch says the army quartermaster corps works day and night loading the transport ships Meiggs and Merritt with medical staff and relief supplies for Japan. Pecos to arrive Wednesday to load and sail soon. Major Read leads the expedition with army and navy doctors nurses and four complete 750 bed field hospitals along with cots tents blankets clothing medicines and food.
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Manila
Army Quartermaster Corps
Meiggs
Merritt
Japan
Pecos
Read
Army
Navy
Food Ship Leaves Frisco For Japan Supply Run
Secretary Denby told President Coolidge that at the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce chief’s request and with Red Cross help the Vega at that port is ready to sail for Japan with foodstuffs. The Navy ordered the Arctic of the Pacific battle fleet to Yokohama with meat provisions and medical supplies.
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Frisco
Washington
Denby
Coolidge
Chamber of Commerce
San Francisco
Red Cross
Vega
Japan
Navy Department
Arctic
Pacific Battle Fleet
Yokohama
Italy Rejects League In Greco Italian Crisis
Signor Salandra told the League of Nations council that Italy resists League intervention in the Greco Italian crisis arguing the matter lies with the Inter council of Ambassadors. He warned the League lacks competency and insisted Corfu action follows Italian interests. The session drew crowds and stirred American observers.
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Geneva
Italy
Signor Salandra
Council of the
League of Nations
League
Inter- Council of
Corfu
Tellini
de M. Politis
Greeecea
Council
Robert Cecil
Not
Europe
Greece
Coun
Italian Forces Relieve Garrison at Corfu Island
Two regiments of Italian infantry landed at Corfu to relieve Greek troops who have held the island. Greek soldiers and gendarmes with the Greek exiled government representatives left aboard the steamer Imene, marking the departure of the last A government figures from Corfu.
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Ses Eraetey
Corfu
Imene
Santi- Quaranta
Albania
Giornale D
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