The Daily Courier from Connellsville, Pennsylvania • Page 1

ce Connelbville's Biggest and Beat Newspaper. The Best Advertising Medium in the Yough Region. NO. 251; PA. TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4.

1923. TEN PAGES. anese etely Destroyed; American Consul and Family Among Dead BritisK Consul Also Killed, According to Advices Today Devastation Wrought in Tokio clued to Be Even Rioting and Looting Add to Terrors ot Quake, Fire and Flood- Prince Matsukata, Wife and Son Killed. 200,000 KILLED AND INJURED IN TOKIO ALONE 1 By Unlttxl I Sept. foreign settlement at Yokohama was completely'destroyed by the earthquake Saturday.

The American consulate collapsed, killing the American consul and his wife. The British 'consul 'Wag 'also 'killed. destruction by quakes, fire and floods at Toklo was seven I First official reports, issued today, declared 200,000 were injured in the capital Rioting has broken out In Toklo, adding to the horrors of the flames. The population Is In need of food. Koreans are re- Sported to be taking a leading part in pillaging'and looting and proclaimed after the disaster, has been Thrburden of the tragedy.t* being borne bjr royalty as as the rtary- Mng.

Vatsukata. to Injuries received when house- tumbled upon him at Kamikura; The princess aad her son a The of other royalty' is'unVncrwn and th.y are 'feired parished. vera reported from Yokohama. main part destroyed, with the city, Hotel and the BjMClc la The iarbor-Is fluttered with wreckage, many ships laving The breakwater was destroyed. Many ihlps, loaded to the point with refdgtui, put to Hakoae Is believed to been completely destroyed.

Many Japanese residents, who were staying at mountain hotels, prob- Itarol wai hiavlly' werei; monitroin-'tidal Kamakuwi and other noted which were hard hit, but of commuiicatioa the exact extent of the destruction Is lunlcnowa. Ifl hoars after the catastrophe airplane observation and to -Foramunica'te with the sirlcktn cities by alrrHane were, useless owing to the rdenalty of This Mck authentic'iaformatten cautadmaay un- premier, Yamamota, lalwly reported to been aasMsin- Ysmamotb's cabinet, which he organized -while tb city iwaisbuTnlng, has received royal sanction, It held Its firat'meetlng and made for relief measures, requisitioned took 5 and uteamsn been ordered to participate In relief. Tney must the brunt of transpcrtatloa service, tho railways Jire dlsoriraniied. 9 r-- 1 iAN Sept. A wlre- less m'anace rtcelrod at 12:52 o'clock this morning by the Radio Corporation of Ainerlca from -Japan, follows: "Cparlar reports from Oyama, imetropolitan pqllce announce houses (burned number 300,000, caaualUes One 'regiment Infaatry, of the Imperial Guards Division are Imperial giiardtni the FHK3K Toldd.

Is ea scone's of horror eniujlefl every Deud bodies are 'heap- Jed everywhere. Imperial guarils blasting the re- jmainlng buildings. In the hope ot turn- ilng wall-of ilnmea from itha.royal.pnlace,.,. i Pekin not the casual- 'tles. but aavices' from Osaka Indicated much ua'eertsJtrty as the ft One Urea: the total it JOO.dio'while there Siere only 2,500 killed.

One.thousand persons in Toklo who. tho earthquake" and tha have coimnltted suicide by 4ro7fnlng. In Tokio and less than JM 'fooiJ-'iiupplr, remains and (many from of Engineers, are their to rspalrOn mains Vtid riswvolrt flames' approached the Tokio I' and ttarlnE'that nearly l.MO Isoners would bo roasted 'alive tho released Many of, tho lanaeidlataly; started-'lootlng. are also reported to binds, nod the "an JIJJM Koreans attempted' revolution. SEPTEMBER TERM CRIMINAL COURT GETS UNDER WAY September term of criminal waj with the charge to tb'e grand jury by Judge J.

Q. Van Swearlncen, following which adjournment ukea until Uils morning of the holiday. Petition of the Unlontown Motor Club, ttiat the grand jury Instruct all constables and township lupervlsors to see that road signs at all crosalngs In their districts, was referred to 'In the court'n charge to the grand of Biwrnsville.ls foreman of the 'grand jury which be- gan.It* deliberations this morning. trial Johnson the Qeorge Trotter Jiily 38 oalled afternoon nt 1:35 o'clock. The' two flrst two.

venlremen called were accepted Joiepfi McCpy. John nutter of Untontown, Of fiice in $1,070 report 'Ot tttq 'department, for tlie month of August shown of which amount 1905. was collected as Onou and forfeits. Tlie remainder came through: 1151 --being 'tor license.tax and licenses. Dance permits yielded the month.

71 arrests were wore to I'matle of nuinfcer four wure Soclallats and other triatcon-j; dhiirsed, nine opmtaltted and.56 They were expelled and, tho erttnl Inw under which Toklo waa held Saturday has tlghlen- The flnrt eye witaeai account of tho llmster tha, Pacinc coast of rapan-and the appalling loss of llfo aid' aceneal" of destruction In Toklo on wa'a irought more than, 200 soafli.iOf Tokio by the'Tokio Osnko MainJchl. eorrwpondont made his way out it'the laming and shaken city Satur- tar afteraoon, during tho betgfc.t of ae His 1 Japan. -last. of-Toaio was 3 P. M.

Satur- At time in the midst of inehecKed and repeated I vatoly. trying to reach. heed! en of hundreds of In nnos. Two hearings wore pORtponed. Twelve.

Twelve have been'- made during the flm three days ot Snptem- bor. All prisoners wero'charged with Red Cross to Ask Nation for Five Millions By United Press'. WASHINGTON, ioptl" American Red Cross will ask the Nation to subscribe for Japanese relief. The plan approved today by President Coolldge at conference Red -Cross officials and Hoover, an expert In relief work, will be put. Into erteci by tllDtrlctlng thu country and aaslgnlng quotas to cities and states as was done war times.

A detailed announcement will ba issued -later. Meanwhile' telegrami have gone to'Red Crosa pre paring, thorn to orgoalie relief fund U. Embassy Bestroyed, Ambassador Woods, Family And Personnel All Safe United'Preai. Sept. B.

Woods, American ambassadpr to the "whole personnel pi the orabaasy In Toklo are 'Vybpds nptlfled the State Depart- riient't'oday. i Woods' message 'said the embansy waa 'totally destroyed by the. earth- City Schools ItSfflVESIS Trotter Man Dies at' HosplUl Soon After Hkltorjr Bat. 'torn Collision. FOUR OTHERS ARE HURT week, at Bottom, which occurred Saturday evening 'when automobiles driven by Edward Lyons of the Motor 8hives of Trotter 'collldeil, ono man waa; killed and four other ot the were lajuredv.

The dead man Robert Shlvea; 10 years old, of. been an. employe 1 of the H. Trftk: Coke fcompany for 42 yearn. Ho pinned under one of the cars, and r'eaelered unconscious.

A passing automobile rushed him -to th'e Cottage State Honpital where, tlcath -occurred at 3:25 o'clock. 'He suffered-a broken neck, fractured ekull and a broken jaw-bone. was driving the car of PlkVof Star Juuction. He bad taken It put to determine why the' motor was, nqt running cprrbcUy and was returning when the collision The other car waa returning: to'Trot- ter following a short utter trip. According to Lyons he Shlves'machine wan going to stop to give him the right way.

Ho said lie could bavp.Btbppeii own ckr but-when tho other m'u- chlne Intended halting he continued ahead. In order, to avoid chlne rammed trough on the Lyons vfas thrown out. of the m'n- chlne. He landed on Ills Aa ho (ell he saw baby biirtllhg through the iilr and with (lUiulc pruBeuce of mind grasped It in both hands. Tho baby escaped injury.

Just before the collision of tlie wrack had boon in hla lap. It hiugraudaoii, 'All 'other pccupanta of tho Shivps. machines Vere-falftp -thrown out. Both father and Were pinned 'beneath: also of Trotter, 1 occupant Shlvoi i riceiypd acalp of tlio wounds, striking 'the back' of his '-hentl. Mrs; Shives, was.

Injured about the nock and'shpulders. tnrp.wn. iot the'o'thar machlne.valiglitins on his llou'd. He wos in a daiod ubhciitlbn for a lime, Lyons i badly automobiles the elder Mr. ShiVes, spa and Andy to the while the mother baby taken tdtlieir home in othar machlnoe.

and drunkennos's. and ono man -waa al'soj brought to the city, the former lutot h.irf mn held for under the while liifluence of Intoxicating llojuor. Ho paid a fine of 1100. Five left forfeits of each, tour p'a'ld flnea- and two are serving Brewnnvllle Itrownlaf. CMUey 22 years, of and WIl- and.Eugene Merriagton 0 1 elc about noon while nwjmraing in the gahela Rlvor at.

West Ther's body, was four, hours later after river had been to bringing both damaged to the garage: Shlves und 'Andy lelt tbe :yoSterd.tiy. the gixrng6 to go'borne'tor his'evening meal whim Pike-drove up and asked to have hia Jt-Vas! still' and after going out.the rpad distance': defect. They were re.tu'ralng;;when.,tbe wreck 'Hnya' i ib.e.7;.'.w as. 30 i 1 was.born,at Hancock, on May 27, 1863 and ape nt Are Enrolled The ConnellsAiilio Public opened today with ono of the hcavloat ftrst day enrollmentn In the. history of tho oily.

The total announced by Sujwrlntendent Bela B. Smith tills attcrnbon Is not exact but It is.close enough to give a fair estimate of numiber to be'educated here this'term. A'total of 3,051 enrolled Oils mo'-nlng In the various 'aasemtly and class rooTOs. Tho High School had an enrollment of 1.150. In tbo senior class alone that uro nearly 200 students, the heavloat senior enrollment ever listed; in school here.

Enrollment in other buildings (ol tows: Cameron 68u; Crawford School, South Side. 394; Third 276; Second Ward, Parochial schools opened -yes- James, FornWalt Frick Coke Co. Jaioes Fornwalt, 'iuperlritmdent' ot the Contlaeatal Not plant of future to. move family from Uniootown'to that place, Mr. FornwsU Is Jonner Con'nells- vllle resident and Is a son of A.

Fbrnwalt of the We.t Side. Court Orders Akent foought In After. tho. roll jironj had boea called at the opening of the i afternoon session of criminal oourt In Un- lontown today, Judge J. Q.

"Van Swearingen ordered Sheriff Shiaw to bring ialgi court It'wai said eight or 10 had: failed to respond to the'roll call. sorvloe granted only In cases of extrene.nocossity, the court Indicated. Italians Unload Heavy Artillery Sept. have unloaded heavy artillery at Corfu and are building strong fortlflca- tlonH, an uncpnllrmod'report frprjv the laland etutes: Another 1 reports occupation by Italian forces of tbe Albanian harbor Agf. Sarahtn.

A British Hrrlred' near the scone of naval activity around' Corfu to protect British interests, according to report; "H'ater Increimed. KAJlRISBUna, Sept. 4--The Public Sovvlco Comniiesloi) has a tariff for Wat-; ec Comtpuny incrensoa-of 25' cents'a. in doniestfc and.com- inorciai rates and. an from $6 to.

in the rule for. fire hydrants. It was very-brief and did not dlscloapj whether any "of Ame'rlctt'ris 'In Toklo or vijre. victims of thev.dlsaBter. Today's mcnBugo from WAS the flrttt received from any American- government reprustMitatrva in Jnpau airiue thb'disaatcr.

Morn ad- vleea were expected later In the day. DEMONSTRATION BY KLAN PASSES ThoHsands of Members of Or- AsNemble Soar. Wale. MARCH WITHOUT ROBES 'Speoliif'lo The Courier. SCOTTDALB, night's dcuiODBtration by the)Knlgilta ot the Ku Klux Klan, conalstlng of a parade through the.

streets and the Initiation pt. several hundred candidates burning ot a crosa on the farm, a mile'from town, passed ol without untoward Incident. wavestlmated that several thousand members of the, came states and' u.Westeru Pennsylvania participate la the festlylUes, The klansmcn the were minus hoods and robes. Scheduled by meuas of handbills to pass through, ihe town at 8 o'clock, was. nearly '11, o'clock when the lino Thouaanda ot persons lined: 6w streets.

They came for miles to witness the demonstration. Saturday morning early, bo- Former Connellsville People in Tokio; News From Them Is Lacking American Navy Rushes Supplies To.Quake Victims By i Sept. and effectiveness with which American naval units are being concentrated rnllct of the Japanese victims was shown in dispatches to the Navy Department today from Admiral Anderson, commander ot the Adriatic fleet. He notified the department he is speeding from Cbefoo', la Chinese waters, to Yokohama, aboard his flagship' Huron with all available tood and medical supplies. The destroyer tender Black Hawk he has sent to Trlng Tao, supplies and it will go thence': to.

lie-, and! Mrs. W. D. 1mm Across Street Prom Imperial L'aUce. SIXTEENERS OF UNIONTOWNS.O.S.

Permanent fected Kcunlon 'at Jtim- onyllle WILL GATHER ANNUALLY A permanent organization ot of the alumni of tho Unlontown Soldiers' Orpblins School, better known as Slxteeners, effected at a re- neighboring state's, numbering at least 400, and were parked In the field. Immedintoly after the nooa hour began arriving. All roads led to Scbttdale. There was a contTnubua stream of automobiles, fjirer had Scottdale -'tfiP-io '-'m'aoy visitors -'pa thi evening 'train along with thttiii "iiume erowdi -upon crowds each tin. a West Fen'n car Even before 7 o'blbolc the BO erovrded Ihat.pne'wiis^lmbst forced" to move with the'crowd to get along.

Persons who had come out of curlousity to see the parade could find no place to park along.the 'streets as those who earlier found -the parking It waa necessary to keep driving. Early in the afternoon'state police arriving' in' uniform" and armed with and cluba. Deputy In force. The-parade was one of tho largest ever, held In Scottdale. At Its head was.the American flag, color guard and.tho Following 111 par ado the initiations hold and between 1:30 and Ji o'clock the cross was burned, winding up the festlvltloa of'the night.

President C-aJls on WASHINGTON, Coolldge has issued an appeal to. tha Ameriuah people aid tor the relief of jjapku following the carthquutte and horror of Saturdtiy. The Rod. Crosn la as'; tM). agency which Belief be Iprwiiril- President's.

'proclamation i The Weather and modernts. temperature Is Oic noon woather forecast for Penn' Temperatnrp Tterorrt. 1K The Ypugh'. dropped durlng the night from. of a foot of various union Sunday at or LDuabar'i.

tbe 'of "old irtaehlnes' Harrying Klanstnen began I school- arriving from Now a lAfthe some time action was taken to the reunions annual affairs, at Jumunvllle, the time to be determined from year to year by the executive committee. The gathering ot. Sunday Flint of Monongahela City was elected, president of the reunion association which will probably take on the uame Uhlontown-Jumonvllle, from Vhe fact that the school originally was-located at Union town and tranate'rred to" Jumonville. Mrs. Nettle Conner ot Pltlnb'urg was elected vlce-proaldent; John A.

Hays of Qrcenaburg, acaretary, anil Mrs, Mary Banks ot. Dunbar's Camp, treasurer. On the executive committee are 0. Lear ot Greensburg, Charles Dall o'tUuicintowu and George N. Orbln, Dormont, Pittshurg.

Oilier comraltuiea" will be named by Priialdent; Flint. At tlie reunion- in the summer of 1922 a moremcnt ing toward erection.ot a.memorial to the lute Asa H. founder of tho Soon, after tlie reunion, 'son. of the founder "and. hlu 'successor as manager ot the died suddenly'.

At last Sunday's assembly. It was' decided to erect WlUi In view. a conimiltcc was named to determine tho character of the me- moriali; and to confer with the management of. tho Waters eatato as to its doalrea lo.whore they should'be On tills committee are William N. SpulcB, Mrs.

Kate Jones Sloan, Mra. Kate Bowaer.Schroyoi', A. 'L. The Bowser, Maurice L.GIbbs- and George Turnbaugh, Plltshurg. The committee will report at the next reunion.

Wbllo the Unlontown-Jumonvllle nunoclullpn will bo separate from the Western 1 Pennsylvania Asaociation, which holds periodical gatherings In will- be in no way in opposition to that On thu other hand it will he made up ot members of the Uni'outown-Jumon- vlllo alumni alone. About 200 peruons were rflgiBtorcd for the 1923 reunion began Saturday evening and closed Monday, many remaining for the three days. i In the morning of Sunday a. memorial service wag held at the old church with Rev. MOUB Waters of Newark, N.

HOU pf the founder, the upoukcr. At' noeu dinner was nerved by tho management -the Waters estate which liu'a liecu convortnd iuto n. modern summer resort, with Mnry. Banka of Rev. in charge.

A the afternoon Prof. H. B. Gross of Moiiesson, principal'of the. nchool (roni 1001 to 1908, and Rov.

Waters woro Bpbakcrn, Judge- Tliomaa J. Foril of Allegheny'county was on the program but WUH abBQnt 111 Canada at tho time. sung 'former aludentn who Jlllcd every available snoeo in the church. In attendance at the re'uulou were! Mru. Caroline Tannehlll 'Miller, Pitts, i on Be At PolU Until 10 Q'Clock Tonight Ip the second day of roglstra- tlon 1 TJ'O iit; the polling untillO'olclbck tonight.

more iluy, 15, mains. tiake Victims ifoliow's: of th'e. United -'Ail i i (akon 'tho p'aopln nt! tha.friendly" nation While has not UK yet, boon. nnoug-J) jy 'HfioSvn lo tire 'uLktomcnt that Toklo and Vblcohnnia and i i i I a a U.ocrv lai'icb'Jfy If riot.compJjiLely. destroyed' by ourthcuiiiko, lira mid Hood, -with a "appaHlitK.

I a 'dottUutlon a dlulrens, roimirlntr 'muttmiroB o( urfront Such luiitstnnna aa In, ttuj meHna department, ot the' Kovernmotit i be roriderotj; 1 but tlift. preat ''Burforlnff which i tor dam to am prompted- to a a urtfently-. lo' 1 iha whoso h'avoVftiwtiya no 'comprobonalva 'tn oo'nirlbtue in Aiding- unf-ortunat'o ulving rellof to people of In tho utmost oo-ordtna- tlorf and. of a tratipn of itl'ie' bo obtained, Ieoonimehd. that all cliiirly dcilffimtcd, be nenj.

to tlio phJ.iirmAn' 'of tho American Katlon.il Bed Cross, or of th'e' local Red Croni trannraUelon to DAUGHTER SAFE ON OCEAN Two Others of Children In at. 1'lnie of Disaster) Mrs. 1. G. Ji'ace XlmlMt.

ary Work IK CaplUI. Concern Is fell for the safety of a number ot former Connellavllu persona. In Toklo. Among thorn are. llev.

and Mrs. W. D. Cunningham and tbitlr son, Bobby, whose houe is Hie Yotsuya district, just across the street from one of the imperial palaces. No word bas from the Cunninghams, Friends here entertain the hope that Rev.

and Mrs; Cunningham havu boen spending the summer In the mountain districts ot Japan, accord- Ing to their custom, and lave thereby escaped the danger In the section devastated by tho earthquake. It Is possible, however, that their home and the church and school established by them In Toklo nave been completely destroyed. Three ot the family mere outsldo. Japan when the quake caused Ju destruction. Ruth, a daughter, WM on the Pacific on her way to America.

She sailed August.21. She plans fj enter a college in Kentucky. Misses Elotae and Dorts Cunningham, also daughters, have been In the United for some time. Following tha completion of their college they spent the summer pursuing special work In New York. Mention has been In dispatches of the destruction of Imperial palace, but whether this li the.

one near the of the Gun- Mrs. Cunningham Is a sister of Mm. B. M. Swartzwclder and Mrs.

Ralpa Porter of Connellsvllle, In also are Rev. and Mrs. I. 0. Nace, formerly of Connellsvllle.

Rev. Nace waa for several pastor of Trinity Reformed Church. Hn and Mrs. Nace are now In missionary work among the Inhabi- tants'of tho Japanese caflltal. Ira Fisher, formerly of Ounbar and broiler of, Mrs.

Ira ot Greenwood, Is missionary In Toklo, and recently returned from a lought.spent In Connellsville, Dunbar and Adrian, Mich. He was unacted to arrive In Toklo on August 10 and had Intended to go to a moontala resort. Mr. Fisher Is a grandson ol James McVey of Dunbir. HERBERT JOY ARRESTED FOR EMBEZZLEMENT Herbert Joy' ot Isabella road wax arre.ted afternoon by a United Slates marshal at Klllarney Park, Indian Creek Valley, where hi was employed, on the cbirge of em- beuleatent of from the Indian Creek Postofflce, while be was postmaster there.

alleged he took the money, the -not made known, about ago. Joy was taken to PltUburg same day and was given a preliminary hearing before Knox, his ball bolng flxod fit Joy unable to furnish ball. Mount Reaunt Slayer Given 12 to 20 Year, in Pen Special to Courier. Sopt. H.

Bray, colored, wlso killed his wife while 'drunk' at hla home at Mount Pleasant Juno and concealed the fact for several days, due largely to thi) fact that ho was drinking, found guilty of murder In. second degree thlis morning in criminal court and sentenced to sori-a to 20 yenra in 'the Western Penitentiary. Two witnesses wore huord--Deputy Coroner W. Horner and Deputy Sliorlff M. P.

McCully, Bray collapsed when nentenco wan and It wuj necessary for court attaches to carry him from tile Humes rjnlvwslly. Clarence Humes ban entered Du- quoime Uplvoralty, PittsburK, tp study engineering-. stated his Intention of Rolng out for football, bukotball, and track. one ot tha best 'all-round, athletes In this section. Detachment Drill, Tho Medical Delnchnuint win liold HI regular drill ibis earning at the.