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One hundred thousand were killed In the capital, according to latest re-ports by airplane, and a like number is believed to have perished in the port city of Yokohama. Aside from the terrible toll of livesf Japan has been set back a generation by the disaster, thq Osaka Mainlchi says. The financial loss from the which threw down many of the finest modem structures of the capital, destroyed bridges, tunnels, towers, manufacturing plants, banks and residences and from the fires which followed and are still raging beyond control, has been Inestimable. Japan will lose her position as fourth power of the worldt according to the Mainlchi, because the country has no financial reserve. The largest companies are bankrupt ; Insurance concerns and. many of the strongest banks probably are ruined. The countrys manufacturing interests are blasted. Financially and from the. vlew-Toiof loss of human life the disaster is considered the greatest in i Japans history. A message says the entire island of Enoshlma off the Japanese coast, the 8etf' durin,.tha oarth pabk into, - San Diego, Gal. With the mechanism of their airplane apparently functioning perfectly, and with three world records for speed having already been shattered, Captain Lowell Hv Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter, United States army airmen, Tuesday gave every indication of hanging up several more marks before the end of the epoch makiug flight begun early Monday. First of the world records to he broken ws that for 2500 kilometers, which Smith and Richter covered In 17 hours 32 minutes 44 5 seconds, beating their own former records which they established here on June 28 last, by more than an hour. It was just 10:37 oclock Monday night when Smith and Richter completed their fiftieth lap for' a total distance of 2500 kilometers. At 2:15 oclock Tuesday morning the second world record was smashed. This was for 3000 kilometers ; the time for this distance was 21 hours 1 minutes. The former speed record for this distance wlas held by Lieutenants Oakley Kelly and John A. MacReady and was 26 hours 1 Soon after dayminute 32 seconds. light Tuesday morning Smith and Richter set up a new world record for 2500 kilometers, which they covered in 24, hours, 37 minutes 8 seconds. This mark was reached at 5 :41 oclock Tuesday. lllinoise Team Wins Meet Salt Lake .City, Awarding of trophies at the. close of a banquet, ip eld 'thciUoteh Utah! W ednesday- ed the third International first aid and mine rescue meet that was held In Salt Lake Monday, Tuesday and It, was deWednesday of this week. clared by D. J. Parker, chief safety engineer of the bureau of mines, as the most .successful meet ever held. While the highest honofs of the meet went to the Illinois team, representing the United States Mine Workers of America from Benton, HL, a Utah team from Kennilworth mine of the Independent' Coal and Ooke company has the distinction of winning the most trophies, a total of earth--quak- es nt - L." qnaket- Lieutenant Ishida, who flew over Toklo and the stricken district In an airplane Sunday has rethe commander of the ported to Nagoya division that the imperial palace was only partially damaged. Toklo itself Is devastated with the exception of Ushirome ward, part of Kolsliigawa wardf practically the whole of Yetsuya ward and the north aide of Asyamaderi. Nearly all tlw concrete and brick Fukagara ward buildings collapsed. was flooded by the tidal wave The airman said It was difficult to fly over the capital at a height suitable for observation because of the Intensity of the flames and the suffocating smoke. The imperial palace has been thrown open for refugees. Nothing is known as to the safety of the foreign diplomatic representatives and there is no news concerning the many foreign residents. The latest estimate of casualties in Yokohama alone exceeds 100,000. Reports from Yokohama say that e damage to buildings In the foreign settlement has been particularly The specie bank and the serious. Grand hotel In that city, have been demolished. ' J While the capital of the empire burned, the new premier, Yamamoto, hastened the work of forming his new cabinet and various reports state that the new government was officially Inf stalled Sunday. After the final meeting of the ministers Sunday, acting Premier Uchida decided upon the promulgation of martial law( the emergency commanderlng act and the establishment of a relief bureau. Osako, Resumes Amity With Mexico The United States Washington and Mexico resumed diplomatic reAt that lations at noon Monday. hour George T. Summerlin formally presented his credentials as American charge daffaires in Mexico City, while Manuel C. Tellez presented his at the state department as Mexican Thaaeting secretary of charge. state received Tellez. Child Labor Law is Bettered Only eight states Washington, child labor laws, their Improved have since the federal child labor tax lw was declared unconstitutional, the childrens bureau of the department of labor declared 'Monday, in a Labor They day review of the situation. are: Deleware, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, North Dakota, Rhoae island, jsouth Dakota and Wyoming. t I h u LONGPERIOD OF UNREST FLIERS OUTBREAK OF DERA REVOLUTION . . -- five. Cuban Cables Are Censored New York, The Commercial Cable company announced Wednesday that messages to Cuba were subject to censorship until further notice. The company added that it had been notified to this effect by the Cuban govNe reason for the censorernment. ship was given. Probe of Gasoline Prices Decided thorough Minneapolis. Minn. A of and nationwide investigation gasoline prices was decided upon by the National Association of Attorneys General In a resolution adopted at its national convention here Monday. Clifford L. Hilton, attorney general of Minnesota and president of the association, named O. B. Spillman, attorney general of Nebraska, to call a conference of attorneys general at once at Kansas City or some other centrally located city to begin the MA- . Washington, The United States and Mexico Lave agreed to resume full diplomatic relations. Formal announcement of the agreement was made Friday by the statt department. The restoration of relations carries with it full recognition by the United States of the government of President Obregon. It results from the negotiations recently concluded in Mexico City by Charles B. Warren and John Barton Payne. The American embassy at Mexico City and the Mexican embassy here are to be restored at once to official standing for the first time since the collapse of Carranza regime in 1920, and all pending claims will be humiliating conditions im- - submitted to specially appointed comPOSED AS RESULT OF KILL-- , missioners for settlement. I ING OF FIVE The signing of two claims conventions provided for in the report of the American commissioners would be Indemnity of 50,000,000 Lire, Salute one of the first acts after the resum-tio- n of relations. These convento Roman Fleet and Punishtions have been approved by the two ment of Assassins governments and the affixing of sig, Demanded ' natures is expected to take place I within two or three weeks. Acting Secretary Phillips announcAthens, It is understood heri that ed the resolution to renew diplomaGreece is not disposed to accept the tic relations in a formal statement. conditions kjumiliating imposed by tbe Italian government in its note dePresident Starts Pony Expres manding satisfaction for the killing Washington, Stepping from his ofof, the five Italian members of the fice in the White House to the telefrontier delimitation graph room in the executive offices. President Cpolidjre ' at 11 a. m. piess-ed- 'a S' s gnat' Wasf lashIn the event of a deadlock Is reached to St. Joseph, Mo. starting off the ed in settling the affairs, Greece, it old pony express. On a muddy track is further understood, will propose to and under heavy clouds following submit the question to the league of showers during the night and early nations. Robert Lee Sliepperd, morning. The Greek government Is disposed who will ride the first lap in a widely to express Its profound sorrow over heralded pony express race from St. the massacre and to indeminify tne Joseph to San Francisco, got away families of the Italian officials who promptly at 10 oclock Friday to the were murdered on Greek territory. shot of a cannon. The Italian governments note to N. J. Mob Attacks Clansmen Greece demanded that the Greeks Perth Amboy, N. J., Battling pay an indemnity of 50,000,000 lire, salute the Italian fleet and punish between Ku Klux Klan Klansmeo the Greeks responsible for the assas- of Perth Amboy Friday morning as members of the order tried to escape sinations. And Athens cablegram Wednesday from Odd Fellows hall, where they night said Premiar Gonatas had in- had sought refuge during an attack formed the correspondents that while on a. klan meeting Thursday night Greece did not find all the Italian in which more than 100 persons are The demands acceptable., she would agree reported to have been injured. klansmen were severely beaten beto some of them and ask for modi; fication of the others. The Athens fore they escaped. of intention its government signified Wrecks 'Plant replying to the note within the time Nephthaline Explosion Two workmen were Philadelphia, limit killed and ten others injured when a Air Disarmament Meeting Favored large nephthaline still exploded early Friday at the dye and chemical works Indianapolis, Ind. Responses re- of the Barrett company in the northof ceived at national headquarters eastern part of the city., According the American legion in reply to that to workmen employed on the night in for opinions organizations request of the plant and who were in shift Inregard to the convocation of an the building, the shock of the exploconferdisarmament ternational air sion was so great that practically ence show a preponderance favorable was hurled to the floor. announced everyone to the project It was A tabulation has been Thursday. Crazy Negro Shoots Officers made of 252 replies from United senJohnstown,Pa., Alone in a shanty ediators, congressmen, governors, Robert Young, a negro, is alleged to tors, college presidents and private have opened fire on three automo225 citizens. This tabulation shows biles loaded with police Thursday fourteen favoring the conference, night, killing two detectives and probagainst It nine undecided and four ably fatally wounding three police ofexpressing qualified .approval. Twelve ficers before he was shot and killed. congresssenators and forty-seve- n An Investigation disclosed, police men have endorsed it said, that the dead negro had been crazed by moonshine liquor, and had Convent Fire Routes Nuns fired all the shots at the officers. Pittsburg, Pa., One nun was overcome by smoke and 50 nuns at St. Shipping Board Has New Plan Marys Convent were hastily driven Washington, The shipping board out of the building by fire which rag- was moving forward Friday with its ed on the third and fourth floors of plans for indirect government operafleet through that institution here early Thursday. tion of its merchant Firemen carried out three nuns who subsidiary corporations pending an were ill. The estimated damage Is opinion as to the legality of the plan e which it was indicted President $40,000. would request from the attorney general. Greece Balks at Orders Rome, Naval Minister Admiral D1 Mint Director Wants to Retire Revel returned hurriedly to Rome Washington, F. E. Scobey of San Friday from Fola and conferred with A semiofficial Antonio, Texas, director of the mint Premier Mussolini. statement Issued Thursday night as- and close personal friend of Presiserts that the government Is resolved dent Harding, has asked President to obtain adequate reparations from Coolidge to permit him to retire to Greece and that the Italian people private life . It was said at the Mr. Coomay feel confident that everything White House Thursday that to had accepted reluctantly to the lidge there Is possible to do will be done request. national during the prestige uphold the present crisis. PEGE KILLING OF ITALIANS CREATE PROFOUND IMPRESSION ON ITALY'S CAPITAL Members of Greco-Albanl- Bound- an Mission Slain While Par- ty is Motoring Through. ary ' s v Forest Rome, The assassination of five Italian members of the boundary mission has create a profound impression here, and it is announced that the government has already taken the severe measures the extraordinary gravity of the sit' , uation warrants. v' An official report of the, massacre tft the; couiI .orembassoreVBj ThatThe''five'' filen allldd vefeY' General Tellini, Dr. Corti, the medical attache; Lieutenant Bonaclni,, For-neta chauffeur, and Craveri, an Interpreter. The assassinations occurred Monday, the report asserts, as the party was motoring from Janina, Albania, to Santi Quaranta. The road lay through Santi Quaranta. The road lay through a forest and when the automobile had reached a point not far from the Greek frontier post at Kakaida, the chauffeur was forced to stop because of the density of the road. Suddenly , firing opened on the commission, the report continued. From thirty to forty shots were fired, Dr. Corti being killed instantly. The others died afteT making a vain effort to reach shelter. General Telling collapsed after walking about twenty paces. The automobile bearing the Greek members of the commission, Botzali, came up, but the assassins had fled. The Albanian government has conveyed to Premier Mussolini its Greco-Alba-ni- ti, , The incident has caused much feeling throughout Italy and demonstrations of protest were reported Wednesday from Milan, Florence and other large centers of population. Hippo Trainer Fined for Cruelty Pittsburg, Pa., For assaulting a hippopotamus with a bull whip, Robert McClain, an animal trainer in a circus here was fined $10 in police court Wednesday. McClain, Agent F. M. Ferguson of the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society testified, Sheriff Holds Floggers struck the hippopotamus In the face Bryan, Tex. Seven men who con- with the heavy whip several times, fessed flogging Manuel Moon Tues- finally hitting It in the eye. An ofday night were held Thursday by ficer of the circus company testified The men the animal was worth $11,500. Sheriff L. E. Morehead. refused to divulge the reason for the The whipping was adGunmen Get Night Receipts whipping. ministered with a knotted wet rope. Detroit, Mich. Five gunmen held Moon, an man, is still In up Leon Krell, cashier of an alleged a hospital. gambling house here Tuesday night, and relieved him of between $50,000 Americans' Hurt In Crash and $60,000. according to Information Maidstone Eng. Three Americans, in the hands of the police Wednesthe whose home addresses have not yet day. The money, representing been learned, wpre among those In- house winnings for the night, was bejured when a French passenger air- ing placed in a safe in the cigar plane fell to enrth near Maidstone store below the gambling room when Their names are the bandits appeared. Monday night. Mrs Dougins, Smith, who is suffering Malls from broken nasal hones and cuts on 12 Charged With Misuse her body; Douglas F. Smith, who reHouston, Texas, More than a dozceived a fractured elbow, and Albert en persons were named Wednesday In the first Indictment return by the Austin, suffering from shock. federal grand jury here investigating 19 Lost In Shipwreck the alleged misuse of the mails. of Bonds set by Judge J. O. Hutcheson, Boulogne, Nineteen members the crew of the French steamer Jr. ranged from $2000 to $10,000. Emile-Drlan- t were believed lost when Capias for Immediate arrest were orNames the vessel turned turtle in mid chan- dered Issued by the court. nel. Five survivors picked up by of those Indicted were not made another vessel landed here. , H State Department For U. S. Gives Announcement; Warren-Payn- e Negotiating Complete Success 4-- , H 3TART-ING-WIT- BILKS IT f The badly mutilated body of a man presumed to be Arthur Milliman, was found on the Western Pacific tracks at Lago. Brigham City The efficient work of City Sanitary Inspector John H. Burt, is being felt in Brigham City and not one new case of paratyphoid has been reported within the past week. Tooele, Fire destroyed the garBeaver, age and woodshed at the rear of the county court house causing a loss of several thousand dollars to Beaver county. Delta, Harold Steele, local farmer, was almost instantly killed at his farm when he fell from a wagon and was kicked In the head by a horse. Pinto, Three hundred descendants of the founders and early settlers of Pinto, Washington county, came to g the first general here. They were gathered from five differ- ent states. home-comin- Coo-lidg- t . ' Grand Moab, The second annual County fair will be held after the state fair at Salt Lake so that much of the fine products from this section may be returned here for exhibition. Smithfield, Budd L. Griffiths, 3, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arvel Griffiths, son of Mr. and and an Mrs. Joseph Hodges, each received a broken left arm in a fall while playeight-year-o- ld ing. Provo, William P. Baker, 61, pioneer brick mason, died at liis residence from injuries received while working about a week ago. Ogden, A $5,000 pipe organ is to be installed in the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, according to the rector, the Rev. John W. Hyslop. Grecp-Albani- a , Salt Lake City, Two of the occu- - ner were seriously Injured, when the ear overturned near the mouth of Parleys canyon. Panguitch, O. W. Carlson of Salt Lake has been appointed by Seth Pixton, state bank, commissioner and receiver, as general counsel for the Stfate Bank of Garfield. io Ogden, Public schools of Ogden will re open September 10, It was announced by Sperintendent W. Karl Hopkins. Teachers have been given their assignments. Ogden, A man who gave his name as Frank Burns, and says he came from Flint, Mich, was arrested by the police when he was found prowling around residences. During the absence of W. H. Cook superintendent of the state fish hatchery at White Rocks, last week, someone liberated 300,000 rainbow trout fry into the spring run tributary to the Uintah river. Salt Lake City, Robert Evans, of Granger, was given treatment at the emergency hospital suffering from a severe laceration and bruises as a re- suit of being thrown from a frightened horse netar his home. Richfield The Improvements on the Third ward chapel have been completed, including cement walks, massive cement steps leading to the front door, and a complete redecoration of the interior. iProvo, Provos contribution to the flood relief fund has passed the $3000 mark, according to John W. McDam, chairman of the local committee. ; Richfield Grant Sorenson, 18 a years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs N. C. Sor- enson, of Central, died at the local hospital following jan accident which occurred at his home four miles south of Richfield. Provo, William Le Roy Clark, son of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Clark was accidentally shot and fatalbrother. ly wounded by his Smithfield The Morgan Canning companys plant at Smithfield is in the midst of a heavy run on beans and is turning out about 100 cases daily. About 110 employees are working at the factory. Price, Mrs. Nick Semis and Steve Tappas both have broken backs, as a result of an automobile accident which occurred near Colton when the car skidded off the road and toppled over. Logan, The Logan Boy Scout band of twenty-thre- e members, and Band Leader Rollo Y. Johnson and Scout Executive Victor A. Lindblad have left for a truck tour of Yellowstone park. t |