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Show Till SPANISH FORK PRESS, SPANISH FORK, UTAH EARTHQUAKE 8EARCHER8 Early Dispatches Report Quake felt In Many Parts of State; Build Inga Are Wrecked at 8anta Barbara; City Flooded ' ' i ' m VM. ( If, 3, lJ Property Loss Is Placed At a 4 est. Leading hotels crumbled to pieces and business blocks were in ruins. The first temblor was reported at 6:45 a. m. At Santa Barbara and other cities temblors shook the area J at intervals at twenty mlnuteB. Another tremble, less violent, shook Santa Barbara at 8:30 a. m. spreading further terror among inhabitants. ' Buildings were demolished and resorts damaged at Gollta, Naples and other cities adjacent to Santa Barbara. The Southern Pacific station at was split in two and tracks for miles thrown out of line. Airplanes and special trains were hastily dispatched to the stricken area with relief when reports of the disaster first filtered through. There are a number of tall buildings in Santa Barbaras business section and It is feared many, persons lost their lives when these collapsed. State street, the leading thoroughfare, was completely undermined and Us shops, some of the finest In southern California, are in ruins. 7 Ventura, Cal. Refugees from Santa Barbara arrived here shortly before noon and confirmed reports of the disastrous earthquake at Santa Bar bars, which has taken an estimated lives and reduced toll of sixty-fivthe city to virtual ruins. At least half of the business places In downtown Santa Barbara were partially or completely demolished, E. B. Hollister, an eyewitness, told the United Press. State street the main' thoroughfare la a mass of wreckage, Hollister said. Practically all of the larger buildings of the. city were levelled. The California hotel,' a' new five story stone structure, was wrecked, only part of Its inside walls remaining standing. Bedrooms .were exposed and furniture scattered about the - Go-lit- a . e rooms. The San Marcos office building on State street was totally destroyed. The high buildings on Anapamu street was completely wrecked and the county hospital, two miles from the city, was partially demolished. Several nurses were, slightly hurt by falling debris, but the patients were safely removed. SL Voncents orphanage was badly shaken, the walls were cracked and the roofing Blld partly off,. Nurses, removed 150 children to a hillside nearby without casualties. The plant of the Southern California Edison company was partly wrecked. The generators were badly damaged and the city was without lights or power. Brick residents were destroyed, only frame structures standing the shock without damage. Brick chimneys on wooden build. ings were toppled. m "The first tremor came suddenly at 8:45 and caused practically all of the damage," llolister said. "There were severe Jolts every half hour afterwards for about three .. rhours.! , "The' city Is 'Women are hysterical and have gathered their most precious possessions and huddled on the lawns of their homes or fled to the hills. ' ? When I left ab-u- t 10 o'clock there was no way of telling how many persons had been killed or Injured. 1 . - . panic-stricke- Arthquaka General In California Francisco. The earthquakes were felt In an unusual degree of severity, at Mojav and Lancaster. Antelope valley, a hundred miles north of here, according to operators of the Los Angeles bureau of power and light systems. Bakersfield, Oxnard and Santa Barbara, to the north, and Colton to the. east, all reported to the Southern Pacific train dispatcher here that they felt the tremors. No reports of damage . came- - Into the fsuthern Pacific offices. San j , v - i e One Hun-- By Quakes And . f ' f ; . ' 1 REBELS STRIKE ptV-hap- '' o , nesses. , Exits of the theatre which were located on the second floo? were few. There was the main entrance and a rear entrance and a rear exit behind the stage. Both led down a confusing arrangement of hallways and stairs of wood, which crumbled in a moment under the falling building. 1 v- - . . Broken Propeller Kills Aviator Mitchell Field, N. Y. Sergeant Douglas E. Logan of the United States army air service was killed at Mitchell Field when a piece of propeller, broken in the fall of a Martin bomber In which he was riding, tore through the fuselage and pierced his heart. He had relatives in Blsbee, Arizona. The bomber, piloted by Lieutenant J. A. Wilson, was undergoing a trial flight, being Just out of the engineering Bhop. Twenty feet from the ground a gust of wind tilted the plane and it fell, breaking the propeller and stripping . the ' under force, a piece carriage. With terrific of the propeller ' flew off and ripped through the forward cockpit in which - ; Logan was riding. ; . - Damages Is ordinance days., timated At Over Five Hundred .Thousand Dollars Kansas City, Mo. Firemen and an army of workers from the stret department have began searching the smouldering ruins of the Gillls theatre for bodies of persons believed to have lost their lives when a fire and an explosion wrecked the - theatre and more than a dozen stores here. Several hours after the search of the debris started three bodies had been recovered. ' Alex Hendehson, fire chief after a survey of the situation, said he believed that not more than six or s eight bodies would be found and not that many. A cook In a restaurant adjoining the theatre, which was entirely demolished, is the only one police know to be unaccounted for. It was estimated that approximately 100 persons were In the show house at the time of the blast. How many of them ' ' ' ' escaped was not. known. v The exact cause of the explosion is not known. Police believe the blast occurred, however in a restaurant located in the Gillls building. Parts of the charred walls of the four story building still standing will have to be felled before an extensive search of the ruins can be made, Chief Henderson said. The explosion came with startling swiftness. Flames enveloped the structure almost immediately following the blast and the roof and the floors of the ancient building constructed forty-twyears ago as the city's finest playhouse, collapsed. . Those who were able to make their way out of the building did so almost miraculously, according to eyewit- wmmmmmm Foreigners Instructed Te Leave Hongkong. The Cantonese govern-meaccording to reports here, has Issued an ultimatum to foreigners to evacuate Shameen. Shameens defenses were reported ready for eventualities. Three thousand strikers, who sought to sail for Canton, were prevented from departing when Hongkong authorities cancelled the sailing of their shin. The strikers, thereupon, staged demonstrations and many Chinese were arrested when the police, and volunteers armed with bayonets, cleared the ship. n, $g03!gfag3I3EI35I5SI3!Pf5Iii,l5,I3ISI3li3IPI3I3.1 Bingham. The town board at tho orregular weekly meeting passed an to better regulate card dinance games. In future all persons having card games on their premises will be Railways Are Put Out of Commission to procure a license. The required Es- dred and Fifty Thouaand Dollars; On Fireman Is Killed En- rout To Fir . , j r News Notes From All Part of EARTHQUAKES I UTAH SECOND SERIES OF QUAKES HIT MONTANA TOWNS; NO LOSS OF LIFE IS REPORTED : Mi-- Loa Angeles, Cal. At least rtity-SvperBona lost tbelr Uvea, hundred were Injured and enormous property damage waa caused by a aeries of earth tremors which rocked Santa Iiarbara and surrounding territory early on the morning of June 29th. The quake reduced section of Santa Barbara to ruins. Buildings were demolished, pavements uprooted and the collapse of Gibraltar dam, near to the panic and sufthe city, added fering. ' St nta' Barbara and 'surrounding eitlea were Isolated, with rail and wlya communication paralyzed.' Special trains left " from Loa Angeles and t San Francisco with Red Cross and other relief. The quake was general throughout southern California, but apparently centered at Santa Barbara, where the damage and loss of life were great- - DIG IN RUINS FOR BODIES BELIEVED EXPLOSION VICTIMS 1 BY : MAIMED , v MOdTAIIA VISITED PMM FII HUNDREDS ARE INJURED AND PROPERTY LOSS IS PLACED AT OVER TWENTY MILLION y . Welcome!! ROCKS . 4 , i u iii i uiinmuuii ... In will be effective tea , Logan. Officials of the Utah Pow.' er ft Light company and Cache coun- conferred here rel- Helena, Mont. Tremblors occurred ty commissioners of road grades to raising the stive at Three Forks, White Sulphur In some cases posand and bridges Springs and Anaconda, late Sunday, sibly the construction of new ones, All of them were slight After spendwill be made necessary by the that over a fear ing night fraught with reason of the . the hidden dangers of an earthquake raising of Bear river by now beand dam power project great In several disaster, the populations canBear River in constructed small towns were preparing to vacate ing level of the the will raise which yon, disturbtheir homes in case a new ' stream for twenty miles from the ance occurred. end of the county at Cache southern No loss of life has occurred, acmany Incidental cording to advices reaching here from Junction, causing and changes. road bridge cities and towns In the affected area. Only three persons have been injurSalt Lake City. So great has the ed, It is reported. demand been for the letter inserts The tremors were confined to the and the cards bearing' the slogan, l of Montana "What Utah Makes, Makes tftah, region where light shocks covered sections that the entire supply of 132,000 of the pf four states in the northern half of first and 16,000 of the latter, which the Rocky Mountain range. was on hand at the Utah ManufacIn the three other states, Idaho, turers association, has been exhaustWashington and Wyoming the tem- ed, according to J. S. Earley, 'execublors were slight and no material tive secretary. damage was recorded. Ogden. Joseph Warren Wadsworth Property damage estimates In the 94 years old, hand cart pioneer and stricken area of Montana have soared one of Weber countys oldest resito the $500,000 mark, with reports dents, died at his home in Hooper. coming in from, the smaller towns While conversing with his wife, he and villages. was seized with apoplexy and sucTwo Isolated towns are reported to cumbed. ' , be seriously damaged by the temA tragedy of unusual Monticello. blors, Incomplete records stated. At gruesomeness was enacted at the White Sulphur Springs, which reportin this seced a new shock, virtually all of the EaBten farm, near Engar, when an few a ago, days tion, county buildings of Meaghar county a well and was and many' of the business structures old boy fell Into to death by burned and smothered have been demolished, with as eslittle victim timated loss of $100,000. A property burning brush which the had set brother his and damage toll of $100,000 also was exacted at Three Forks, it was report- afire. ed. Salt Lake City. Provided adequate The center of the disturbance, all security is furnished the United authoritative Information here- - Indi- United States reclamation service, cates, was in the lower Galatln valley bureau is ready to begin on the Echo and the smaller towns bore the brunt canyon reservior scheme at once. of the earthquakes damaging ef- Satisfactory contracts for 60,000 acre-fefects. of water must be presented to Northern Montana felt a series of the bureau. This Is the statement light earth shocks, none of which of the reclamation officials at a concaused material damage. ference held in Denver and which is Railroad officials in the south-centrcorroborated by W. M. Greene, enginsection of the state were organeer investigating the project izing their forces to repair the damPrice. A great celebration similar age wrought by the landslides and the to that planned at American Falls, boulders tossed down from mountains Idaho, next month, has been urged by the tremors on their tracks. E. B. Jorgensen, speaking before The Chicago, Milwaukee ft St. Paul by chamber of commerce at its the railroad officials announced that all and suggesting meeting weekly transcontinental trains would be rout- means and methods of how to best ed over the Harlowton Great Falls-Butt- e advertise the $750,000 Price River in the water conservation district lines, while the cave-iproject Lombard tunnel is being cleared. which it Is hoped ill one day be one Prisoners in the county Jail at Bilof the county's biggest assets. lings were panic stricken when the second tremor split the floor of the Ogden. The plans for the proposed courtroom located In a room near the new hotel to be built upon the site of the Reed hotel this summer have Jail been completed and accepted by the . conditions that prevailed In virtually every city of western executive committee of the board of diMontana when the tremblors bespoke rectors of the Reed Hotel company. their fury had subsided before the Most of the specifications are writnew shocks occurred and work of es- ten, and within a very short time the plans and specifications will be ready timating the damage was begun. Damage In Butte was negligible, for contractors, according to A. P. Bigelow, president of the Reed Hotel consisting of bricks being stripped from facades of buildings and chlm-new- s company. being toppled over. The quakes Salt Lake City. William J. McCoy, left no marks on the more than 1000 the oldest principal in point of continmiles of underground workings of the uous service in the Salt Lake City Butte Copper mines. Thousands of public school system, died at bis men labored In the stopes and drifts home. Mr. McCoy, who had been a while the tremblor was most severe. principal in the school system here The earth movements were of an for thirty-fou- r years continuously, bad oscllliatory character, a back and forbeen in ill health for a considerable ward wavelike swaging. Thunder and time and only recently was given an lightning played In the heavens above indefinite leave of absence by the Butte. board of education.' Death is said to The little town of Willow Creek, a have resulted from a complications of community of 300 Inhabitants surveytroubles. ed the wake of destruction left by the Salt Lake City. The state board of The two largest buildearthquake. examiners of Utah has been asked In the town, the school and the ings Newman Tallow and Soap principal business structure were by the Machinery company of Chicago tc badly damaged. Indications that. there had been consider the establishment of a soap plant in the State pri-- , marked underground disturbances manufacturing on. This the company points out, during the earthquakes were evident in the vicinity of Three Forks, where would save the state from 40 to 50 per cent on the market price which huge fissures, several feet deep, apit pays for soap.. The matter was peared In the earth's surface. The water level of the Jefferson river, a called to the attention' of the state under whose mile above where It Joins with the board of corrections, Gallatin and Madison rivers was re- Jurisdiction the prison operates. ported to have dropped two feet. Logan. Beginning at 6 p. m. July 20, and continuing until noon, July Virginia Man Heads Masonic Club 23, the fifth annual farmers encampSaratoga Springs, N. Y. Charles A. ment and summer school for farmers Macliendry, Fredericksburg, Vs., was and their wives will be held at the elected president of the National Utah Agricultural About college. of Masonic League (Tubs at the final 4000 are to occupy the tentexpected session of the annual convention. R. ed city on the college campus .and A. MacGregor, Pittsburg was chosen additional dormitories in college as vice president. The 1926 convenbuildings. tion will be held in Philadelphia. Ogden. A granite "monument, fifteen feet in height, to be placed at Twenty Death Toll of Typhoon Manila. The recent typhoon In the grave of Martin Harris, one of the central Luzon caused more than three witnesses to the Book of Mormon, in the cemetery at Clarkaton, twenty- - deaths and heary property Cache county, is being mode by thf damage, according to reports refirm of Joseph S. Parry ft Sons of ceived here. The heaviest losses ocOgden. It is planned to ship the curred in the provinces of Bulacan. Nueva, Eclja and Nueva Vizcaya, monument to Clarkston on two large motor trucks. . where floods overtook the residents Provo. Eph Homer, prominent in and drove them Into the hills. Thouthe political, fraternal and civic afsands of head of livestock were fairs of this city, died suddenly at drowned and many houses washed his home, in this city from sutq way. Roads were washed out and heart trouble. irrigation systems damaged. south-centra- NEWS DISPATCHES ARE BEING DISABLED SOLDIERS OF WORLD CLOSELY CENSORED; NAVY WAR RECEIVING MORE JOINS MOVEMENT SAYS HINES Military Government Has Been Formed and All Civil and Military Institutions are Under &n- - erals Orders Paris. Dispatches from Salonika report Greece in the throes of a revolution and say the Greek fleet has Joined the movement. The dispatches say a military government has been formed under General Pangalos and has occupied all civil and military Institutions. Admiral P. Coundouriotis is provisional president of the Greek republic, having assumed that office May 1, 1924. Admiral Hadjikirakos was one of the five members of the Greek revolutionary committee appointed In 1922 the activities of which led to the formation of the present Greek republic. General Pangalos was appointed Greek minister of war In June, 1924. He formerly was generalissimo of the Greek army and military governor of Athens. He headed the rebels, who defeated the Greek royalists la Athens in September, 1922, and thereafter became minister of war In the Gonatas cabinet. He resigned that office within a month to Join the Greek army In Thrace, then fighting the Turks. He became commander in chief during that campaign and after returning t Athens there were rumors in 1923 that he would attempt to overthrow the government. This plan, , if It existed, did not materialize, and in November, 1923, he was appointed military governor of Athens. On December 20, 1923,. he proclaimed a Greek republic, demanded the resignation of the Gonatas government and favored Papanastasiou for premier. Salonika, Greece. The newspaper Independent announces the Salonika gaitlson decided to demand the immediate resignation of Premier because of his alleged inefficiency in office and for the purpose of forming a military government presided over, by General Pan-golo- , i . a. - Than Four Thousand Have Passed Away 8ince Last Session Held In Salt Lake City; Will Make Recommendations More Omaha, Neb. Extensive Improvement in the administration of the United States veterans bureau, made possible by legislation, Improved study of conditions and excellent cooperation by the veterans, has enabled the bureau to extend more benefits than ever before, General Frank T. Hines, bureau director, said. In an address prepared for delivery before the fifth annual convention of tie Disabled American Veterans of the World war. his addres. General Throughout Hines stressed his desire for a continuance of cooperation between the bureau and the veterans and their officials. "This spirit of he said, "must prevail, as It Is one of the largest factors In putting over the Job. Reviewing the results achieved by each bureau department during the last year, General Hines said that the organization now had a better conception of the wants of the disabled veterans; that medical care and hospitalization has been improved through the erection of many modern hospitals; that vocational rehabilitation had made progress so that by June 30 next aU'ellgibles will have been contacted In cooperation with the hospital authorities and service organizations; that veterans employment had Improved; that Investigation and action on more thau 200,000 cases calling for compensation claims had been completed; a more efficient rating schedule adopted and war Insurance' policies reinstated for many disabled veterans. The veterans bureau will again recommend before congress the establishment of a veterans bureau medical service. Mr. Hines promised. With the authorization of hospital construction of mors than $64,000,000 be said, It Is essential that a high , type of professional men must be in their charge. Not only would better physicians and surgeons make for . better medical care, but they would guarantee the permancy of the medical service. N Service Is the slogan of the veterans bureau today, Director Hines said. "Whether It be In regional offices, hospitals or In the central office, no single feature of veterans relief has been more emphasized. The factors of service are organization and personnel. During the year a new field organization had been established, Involving the expansion of authority and action from fourteen district offices to fifty-fou- r regional offices, commenced under the authority of the World war veterans' act of 1924, In July and completed in April pced The revolutionary officers occupied public buildings and railway stations. Press censorship has been established. A revolutionary proclamation has bden Issued. A military communique says the revolutionary movement is now fn control throughout Greece. The Greek Filer Drops 1400 Feet Bayonne,' N. J. Chief Petty Offi- fleet, under Admiral Hadjlklrlakos, cer L, H. Ford of the dirigible She; former minister of marine, has Joinnandoah dropped 2400 feet by para- ed the revolution. Leaders of the revolution telegraphchute from the ship as she cruised over Bayonne, to, attend - the sixth ed the president of the Greek repubstate encampment of the Veterans of lic: "We proclaim an overthrow of the Foreign wars. , Ford made a successful landing in City park, bringing a government. We will hold the cabinmessage of congratulation from Lieu- et responsible for any bloodshed. tenant Commander Zachary e to P. J. Dense n, state head of Iowa Man Geta Finland Post the veterans organization. Swampscott, Mass. Alfred J. Pearson of Iowa was appointed by Pres, Clothes Design Art , ident Coolldge to be minister to ' Buffalo,, N. Y. Establishment of A Finland. John B. Stetson of Philacollege yourse In mens clothing de- delphia was selected for the post. signing because "creation of clothes He has not sailed for Finland and styles Is an art," was recommended It was said here that he would reby N. P. Hlmmet, Buffalo clothing main In the diplomatic service, almanufacturer In an address here to though the president was not preparthe convention of National Clothing ed to announce his new assignment. Mr. Pearson resides In Des Moines. , Designers. Case Appeal Is Planned Atlee Pomerene and Washington. Owen J. Roberts, the government's oil counsel have returned to Washington and went into conference to consider the decision of Federal Judge Kennedy at Cheyenne, Wyo., which held Harry F. Sinclair's Teapot Dome lease valid. Mr. Pomerene said the case, which has been appealed, would be pushed forward "as fast as It Is humanly possible to do so." Chivalry Costs Boy His Eys Witchlta. Kan. The chivalry of Elmer Henderson, 18, cost him the sight of one eye,, and perhaps of both. Elmer was attacked with a pitchfork wien he warned three men against' Insulting a purty of girl bathers in the Little Arkansas river, north 'of here. Both of of bis eyes were punctured by tines of the fork. Ills right and physicians eye was destroyed said It piay be necessary to remove his left eye also. Exempt From Tax Mexico City. Tramway companies In Mexico, Is It announced, will be exempt from payment of the 10 per cent tax on gross receipts Imposed on railway and transportation companies shortly after ratification of la Huerta agreement. the Lamont-DThe tax was Intended to cover Indemnities for the seizure of the railThe railroad companies wer ways. enabled to pay the tax through an Increase in tariffs, which is Impossible for the tramways. 1925. Lans-down- Experiment Fatal To Electrician Oakland, Cal. Bert 11. Lynch, in charge of one of the substations of the Pacific Gas and Electric company, lost his life here while demonstrating to a friend that current would pass through a lead pencil. Taking a pencil from his pocket, he placed the tip against a fuse terminal and at the same time rested his other hand against a steel post. Tin re was a flash and Lynch fell tq the floor, badly burned and un. conscious. ! Oil e et , n Near-panik- y . . ; -- ; I . |