The Banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1923-1933, September 05, 1923, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text- - 4-4 4-4 4-4 44 4-4 44 *1'. 4 4 4 4-4 SAYS ITALY 4-4 4-4 4-4 4-4 New Jap Breaks Out | Famous Japanese Tower Topples; American Embassy, Relief Post. OF DEAD IT TO BE 101 SOON L • Terrible Catastrophe Makes Accurate Count Impossible. Over Half a Million Known Perished. tokio, Yokohama, TOTALLY RUINED Rivers Have Changed Their Courses Since the First Shock. Americans Among the Dead. (By Axtocla'u Prexs) PEKIN—A now volcano has broken out In the Chlchlbo range, about Oft, miles northwest ot Tokio. according to advices from Osaka. -> Nikko, country seat of the Im- crial family, is reported net to be seriously damaged. (Many foreign ers wore reported curlier to have been slaying at Nikko when Iasi Saturday's quako occurred.) OSAKA. Japan.—So vast an arep or Japan bas been devastated by tho greatest earthquake to the his tory or this country that It wJJI.h® long betore Uio actual loss ol lire is known^ ... Tt.klo and Tokolmma, with sur rounding towns, which formed the center of the disturbances, are al most completely In ruins. Eor tw# days Tqkfo was swept by flames, and apart from the loss of llfo caused directly through the fall* ing of tho building*, thousand* tnunt -have perished in their at tempt* to make their way through tho fire rones, and other thousand* from exhaustion. * . Yokohama, Tokio’s busy nort. s a city destroyed. Probably more complete destruction has been wrought tbore than in the cspltal Itself, for Us grest docks were torn asunder. Its shipping wrecked. Its public buildings snd homes levelc* lo the earth., SAY RIVERS nAVE CHANGED COURSE All advices rewived here Yndi- cate a succession of earth dl '‘ u - 8 . ances In that area extending to' many miles Inland to too nortb. nnd everywhere the first Seslruc tlve forces woro augmented by ex plosions, tho bursting of water mains, the overflow of TlTer " “" i tho terrible, nverpoworlng rush ol tidal waters. . Rivers are said to have changed their courses, and volcanoes arc erupting in various districts. Tho disaster spared nono wM stood It) Its path. Many man*"* ot noble families have Jor- but thus far tho only « 8l „ b fk ||Ud elgn rcsldcpts In the list of killed to the American consul atYok hama. Max D. K!r)asso f f, w h o. with his wife. Is believed to have been killed In tho ruins ot the consulate. The American ambassador. ns E. Wood*} and all the members of tbs embassy at Tokio ate known to be safe, but many 0 ftho dlplo malic representatives of other ra tions have not been accounted tor. nor has any word been received of their fate, . Beacham’s Cafe To Open Soon on Clayton Street “ilcacham’s CafeF Is tho name of the new business opened next door to Cooper’s Barber Shop on Clayton itreet. H E. Beacban. I manager of the cafe and it win to open for business Saturday. Mr. Beachnm Is one of the most expert soda dispensers tn t» city, having born employed with the Royal Pharmacy lor five year*. Mr. Dcachan) will giro Wick lunch servle-, operate a cigar and cigarette department, a soda foun- tain and give delivery service. !Both American, and Brit ish Consuls Dead. Steam er in Distress. Whole Families Killed. (By Associated Press.) OSAKA—Approximately H).000 refugee* fleeing the ruin* of Tokit were burned ‘to death in the yard of a military clothing factory in th' Industrial suburb* of Honjo. Tnrer persons sharing a single piece o' bread In Tokio where water anf provisions are still scare. PEKING--One, hundred foreign ers are bollfvod, to have periahed in Yokohama aays a Reuters dis- ' patch from Osaka. The dead . In* Two Die From Self Inflicted Wounds In Same Town , . ATLANTA.—Two well kimwn local business men died today from self inflicted bullet wounds. W. A. Owens, real estate devel oper, died from shootins hlmrelf at .breakfast. A few hour* later A. Ip. DeBorde, cashier of a busbies; firm, died from wounds inflicted last night. Ill health was attrib uted as the cause for both acts. H CHURCH FOH IS AMERICAN ATTACHE KILLED Rev. Trammel,, Methodist Minister, and Robt. Ash ford, of Watkinsville, in Crash. The Reverend Trammel of the Watkinsville Methodist church and NAQASKIN—The tamlly of the JJi^ , ,i~^°«rio"ui l |n- American Commercial Attache *1 | eyeing at nbou' Yok^sm^E O. tobhlttL hMO altjl J0 o . c , ock when th( . Fort cur Ir !m«n killed in the quake. | h , h thoy riding was driven dtn, French consul at Tokohamo I whlch .hcy^^ ^ ^ W SAN*° FTtANCISCO—The lino/ 1 -ffl.***** Taiyo Maru, reported in dlstrosS Tuesday Is nomowherp off tho coast s the American c.noassy at toeyo, ,, be the seat of America’, relief work for the Japanese refugee, made homeless by fire and earthquake— ■ ALL RESOURCES TO IICKEI1 Red Cross Launches $5,- 000,000 Campaign to Re lieve Suffering in De stroyed Area. i WASHINGTON. — The Untied State, governmaat haa moved to render every possible aid <" strick en Japan. President Coolldge has announced that .11 resourec. of the government will be p the disposal of those endeavoring to afford relief. , A five million dollar campaign for the American Red Crow will IJ launched . Elliot Wkdsworth. secretary of the orgxnlsatlon an Soaneed after a conterence wlth secretary Hoover ambassador. Alt ehlpplng vowels on the «*">™ (Turn to Pag* Flve > L OPENI Registration and Assign- merit to Rooms Occupies Time Wednesday. Exer cises At Pound Audito rium: Classification, registration and assignment to room, occupied tha time at the State Normal School opening Tueaday and Wednesday and Thursday morning at 10:31' formal opening exercise* will be held and clan room work started The minister, of tho city have been Invited to attend tho first chapel exercisea and other* Inter ested In the school will be on hand also. The attendance for the now yeal will , he all that tho facilities al low and many more than will bo registered would attend the achoo' If they could get In. of Japan’safe,’ according to a meat sago received ’here. LONDON—The steamship. ol Canada, ou route to Shanghai with soveral hundred Injured refugees says a Central Nowe dispatch; at tho hospitals are Kobe are full edical suppllee are being rushed tc the etrlcken areas. , | The Day’s News FOOD riot* ha vs broken out in Tokio nnd a million people are re ported homoless. the American embassy In To kio has been wiped out .according to late reports from Tokio. A NEW volcanos Is reported to have broken out In the Chlchibu range. GERMANY says she baa "ar rived at the end of her tether" *r far as her ability to finance pass ive resistance Is concerned. NEW YORK headquarter* of thi Salvation Army ‘ expresses feat that all officers and workers It •Japan may have lost their' live*. ATHENSSCHOOLS E Enrollment Expected to Be Several Hundred More Than Last Year. Two New Buildings. Hundreds of Athena children tramped hack to school Wednes day, following a vacation for teach era and student*. No formal exercises were con ducted for the opening at the vari ous grammar schools and the High School. Although no official count was nude Wednesday It la expected that tjio enrollment will exceed! that of.laat year by several hun dred. The High School will register nearly 700 students. It I* Indica ted. i Two now school buildings are- ready for the aobools, tbe one on Lumpkin etreet and the other on Chaee etreet The Baxter street and Nantahal* building* are not being used. Bankers to Aid Peanut Growers and Just beyond the city Y. M. C A. Reverend Trammel was ot »tnc. wheel of the piachino and explain ed that the accldcnt'wns the re*ul' of poor light*. The two men were returning to th^lr homes In Wat- klnsvllle after attending a s*«*lor at the First Methodist -church her* The car could not have hit th- pole any more evenly to the ciatei than It did had the driver deliber ately aimed nt th post. Th lmpa<* was sufficient to crash tha wind shield. break the steering whce> from off the steering rod, and t< cause both a front and rear tire to. be blown out. Both men sustained cuts *abou the face and bruise* about th* body. Reverend Trammel hnd hit coat and shirt cut ’ in severe places about the breast The mer were taken into the Y. M. C / where their injuries were treate- by Dr "W W Brown It was thelt purpose, as stated at the Y M. C A, to have tho machine put-int* running shape Tuesday evening MRS. MIKE F. COSTA DIES TUESDAY P. M. Wife of Promnient Ath ens Business Man Suc cumbs After Long Ill ness. Funeral Thursday. Mr*. Mike Frank Costa , died a‘. a local hospital Tuesday, afternoon at 3:48 following an ill net* of lom duration. For over two and’a h.;ll years she has borne her nuffernig fcheerfully and those who knew end loved her realised when the came peacefully that her spirit nad but passed to a sweeter rest. She was 33 years eld and war born In Italy but has lived In Athens seventeen years, and during this Umo bad won many friends t* mourn ner death. Surviving her are her husband Mr. Mike Frank Costa, manager o Costa's delicatessen department her mother, .Mr*. V. Coma rata ot CsrtersvIUe, one brother,, Mr. ‘ J. ! T Coirarata of Cincinnati, Ohio, ohi sister, Mrs. O. H. Carratt, Car- teravli;* and the brothers and sis ter* and other relatives of s ' Mr Costa. The funeral will be conducted from the St. Joseph's Catholic church Thursday morning nt 1( o’clock with Father Clark ir c n*rfe. The iitterment will be li Oconee cemetery. The pallbearers had not been an nounced Wednesday at noon. Bernstein Bros., Funeral Parlor* ore In charge of the arrangement* A LONG VACATION LONDON—When Henry Jackson was sentenced recently for house Mrs. George A. Mell Is Chairman - of a Commit tee on “The New Church Proposition." CARDS ASK VIEWS OF MEMBERSHIP New, Place of Worship in Western Part of Athens S o u g 'h t. “Methodism Would Be Served." A movement ha* been started to build a new Methodist churph li Athens, an outgrowth of the FIral Methodist, located at the cofnor ol Lumpkin and *Hancock Mrs. George A. Mell Is chalrmun l a committee on the "New ChuJch Proposition" and the com' miitee has sent out the followlw reply requested card: ‘My Dear Friend! . % It is the opinion of some of th* membership of the First Metho- diet church. Athens, that method 1 Ism, would be jmbiflr ved bjrr division of obr projwtt member- ; hip anil th«‘ ostuhllshrnont of « new church In tho western section or the city ThiM is, therefore, tr get your views upon the subject." I Tho return cards nre requested ffom those who are favorable to the pVopocltiotf and read as follows - Irenrtlly np pvovo '-r tin- proposition to erccJ it prw church In the western sec tion of the'city of Athens/.and hereby indicate my Inlentlon to remove my membership to the nov church and give the same, my loya’ support. I feel thfct b ythe estab lishment of a new church ,th< mother church will not suffer, anf that mcthodlsm wii? take on new life In this community, and th* Flm ALBANY. Ca —Oeorgla bankers have promised to assist peanut planters of t tho ‘A 8 * 8 “J'pJarnt l !" ,|kln k 11 dlseovei-ed he ha. It has been announced.' . ‘ — NEW GREEK PUNS MAY BE SPURN! BY THE ITALIANS Greece Suggests Payment of Indemnity and Appointment of Commission ter. Investigate Crime. Salandra Wants No Intervention. (By Associated Press.) GENEVA.—Italy’s representative- Signor Salan dra, has told the Council of the League of Nations that Italy would regard intervention by the League in the Grcco-Italian crisis as unjustified. The Lea gue, he asserted, had no competency to handle an affair which belonged properly to the inter-allied council of ambassadors. He said Greece is trying to escape responsibilities by appealing to the League. He pointed out several nations not yet recognized by the Greek government. The statement created a sensation. HOLDINGS LISTED IT th* old chuml will soon b* proud of having furnished the nu clous for an additional organiza tion- to pronagate the gospel of the Christ." IS UNIQUUE ORGANIZATION The-First Methodist church her* In on unique one 'n Souther* Method!cm. The conference doe* not Own the Church properly bn' the chu-ch rather holds a chatter from the legislature, and could. !.’ It desired, so It has been stated call Its,own minister. It has. how* * yer. always abided by the ap- ivtfntment* and regulations of tbl Conference though there have beer thore who favored putting the property In the hands of the con ference n« other Methodist church* es but this has never been done This was especially urged by som* a few years ago when an effnr* was made to have Athens, and the First church, -made a great college center of Methodism, with a fun*' end personnel contributed by the Conference. o»her churches here grew out of mother churches, as Is proposed Ir this case The Prince A Venn* Baptist church (s an outgrowth ot the First Baptist church and war established several• years. ago nad maintained on Childs street tintl’ the building burned and the pres ent building on Prlrice avenue war erected. The cards have Just been tnaltoJ out by the new church committer and the members now have them Ir hand. Additional Guests Attended Reunion In addition to the guests pub- tirt-ed aa attending the Bolton re union at campion last Sunday when the family connexions gath ered tor the annual reunion ihouli he added the foRewInc; and Mr*. J. P. Bolton and children. Crete Bolton. Mr. and Mr,. Dewev Bolton and daughter. Frsuees Bell of Bogart. Against This Sum of De- funtt August, Athens! Cotton. Co. Are " Loans _ Totaling’$115,000. Lord Robert Cecil of Kngland added a sensation by insisting that articles ten, twelve, and fif teen, in the covenant of the Lea gue of Nations be read in Eng lish and French and declaring that if they disregarded it the whole scttlcmcrt in Europe would be shaken. The articles stipulate clearly the , eight of the League, to investigate when' there if> danger of a rupturo between two members of the Na tion’s Leaf,oc. Further discussion of the crisis was postponed until probably Friday.. Ihf ENEV.A—The , f' Nations has iwt« u m.ilM from the Greek Oov- } eminent, designed to help settle fhe r.rerco-Itallnn crisis The prnpos- j nlK were presented beforo a special AUnUSTA. On.—The Athens | 0 f the coup’ll nt Oeneve. holding, of Barrett and Company CrCcci- that ^council defunct Augusta and Athens cotton I should on. ^ ^ firm, la listed by the refers, am { • ( . rfp b „ ;h , judicial Inquiry whh-h rocelvor In hankrutcy at M«.l»« th , t!n . t . k n „ihnrltles have alrehd, Against this nro loans totalling bftRUn also the trial of Hunts 1118,000.00. ... I responsible for the Janlna inur- Thls developed at the firs- meet j n i so to assist In the work ol log of tho creditors In Augusta | ^ r , inMn , BBlnn wh i 0 h On«e hoe Tuesday when nothing other tnnn ]iropoirl j through tho cnunelt of am tho naming of Roy Kllleon was np- bM—dor> for investigating pointed trustee was acYorn,dished due to .the illness of frank M. Barret who Is Ul at his home. Judge Joseph Ganahl, referee in bankruptcy, .will call tho creditor together ’tor the purpose ot|«? .mining the bankrupt *■ 8 , Mr. Barrett’s physical c°ndltra|S« mils, according to his statenieo' nt tho meeting. Jjj Judge oonahl told the creditor that Mr. Barrett’s physician had In formed turn thnr -is patient tvouU be unable tn attend the hearing and he said thejthyslelan was > nhle to atate Xtlltnely wh» . h condition would permit hts a ,l f anco Tha ssMts of ths iconcern. whlcl are given as 13.595,427.33 with lto- bllttles of f3.73f.058.48, were gon- Into by Mr. Bradley In his examina tion of the receiver. Mr. EUIsto* •aid he had made b*> report to the referee other than the schc dules. which contain a complett statement of the company** affairs oo far as he has teen able t« learn up to July 35 He said thee* schedules had been prepared by ex pert auditors under his direction and that all of the companies books had been examined;hers am were still here:except th*4 books of the Athens, Oft* office which were returned ihere to be used by th*. auditors. Mr Elliston told the at torney questioning him that could not give an estimate as - tc the real worth ot tbe assets listed as It all depended tiphn how th* accounts worked out .He,gald mos of the quick a*se(s ‘had alreadj been converted info eiprti, such ai the cancellation of such ss open assets ho described as fixtures an<* cotton coming In agalsnt motgage on crops. P. J. Pratt, th* chief auditor, wm questioned by th* Bwalnaboro at 1 torney with reference to real es tate holdings of the fcompany. H* said one property was the Athenr bonded warehouse with a book value Of $287,130.83, against which there was a mortgage of $115,000: tho company's office building at (Turn to Page Five), hnnla and Greece. The ^ircum- stances which preceded and ac companied the crime. COMMISSION TO SETTLE INDEMNITYJggj It I« niso suggested, ’.hat a com- mission bo appointed, txnnPOaBI of three high Judicial autborltlee Greek, Ilallnn nnd noutrnl. In nice' as soon as- possible ot Geneva to •Thirdly, that the council should agree that the Greek governmen* forthwith deposit In a bar.'. In Switzerland fifty million lire as r guarantee for the Imm ment of whatever Indei be decided upon." Thoee who succeeded in purcrin/j the council chamber witnessed courteous but firm wordy elaa between Signor Solandra And M Polltis, Italian and Greek respective!/, an amiable kMBj ■ Oil on-the trouble wnters l.y Lord Robert Cedi, and witnessed nroceodlng which puts up tn Italy for the second time the quei to whether she will rjerept form whatsoever tho aisfsf the league In regulating her <:if- Terence with Greece. SALANDRA WINS HIS POINT M. Pomis. who wax horn •*?«! reared In Corfu, speaking In Grcok ^*Uh a prqnnunecd Corfu acfrtnt played hi* second stroke Tuesday with a Grecian touch, but Slgnol Salandra, always Jolly* and smiling In keeping with tho league atmos phere of conciliation and good hu mor. won hi* point In Insisting that In presentng hfs new proposals, M Polttte should not Indulge In the forensics of Demosthenes, but get down to bald facts, without at tempting to argue the Jutfce of the Grecian cause. M. Polltis then proposed the new Greek suggestion, adding thftf; the : Indemnity was Oo amour.: Italy originally demanded. (Turn to Page