Show News NewsMen Men Work T In In Box DOX Office At Santa Barbara Associated Press Staff Grinds Out Quake Bulletins by Light From Automobile Automobile Automo Automo- bile Battery SANTA BARBARA BARBAnA Cal June June 30 AP From AP-From From a flimsy shack 8 by 14 feet furnished with five small empty packing cases and a make believe table taLle of discarded boards to which an Associated Press wire had been hastily hooked the first direct news news' of Santa Barbara's Barbaras Bar Bar- baras barns disaster went out to the world shortly after noon yesterday esterday This emergency headquarters manned by staff writers and telegraph telegraph telegraph tele tele- graph operators filed a steady stream of news on the seaside temblor through the day and into the night checking and rechecking lists of dead and Injured estimating estimating estimating ing and from the best available data the material loss to the community From Irom here the staff start men ranged tho tha stricken stricken- are arete from the Arlington Arling Arling- Arlington ton hotel hutel to the waterfront in never ending expeditions to get the he facts to the outside world When night fell feli a new problem faced them What about light For the wires had to be kept going so that those who read the morning papers comfortably between sips of coffee might know how a city of ot 1000 had fared during and after one of the outstanding cataclysms of the Pacific coast The obstacle of lack of light due to the collapse of ot the electric power powerhouse powerhouse powerhouse house was surmounted by backing an automobile up to the door of the Associated Press bureau and stringing a wire with a tiny bulb attached from the machines machine's battery battery battery bat bat- tery to the operating table Across the street the city firemen firemen firemen fire fire- men had established a lunch counter counter counter coun coun- ter and between cups of steaming black coffee the sweat bathed be begrimed begrimed begrimed be- be grimed staff men of ot the Associated the of ot Pi ess Pl-ess ess pounded out story Ranta Santa Barbaras Barbara's disaster and her heroic plans for recuperation |