FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1933.
Graphic Account Of U.S. 'Quake
·
200 Shocks Rock Coast Of California
140 VICTIMS
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IRELAND'S
THE CHINA MÁIL.
NATIONAL
HOLIDAY
St. Patrick's Day Celebrations.
RELIGIOUS PILGRIMAGES
London.
To-Day's Short Story.
W
ROUGE
ET NOIR
By Michael Joseph.
17ISER than most
women, Marthe's laughter, softened by the Marthe Richoux rejoiced years, never checked him. An odd Irishmen, with sprigs of shamrock in her husband's poverty. Wise. appearance he presented. too: in their hata, will be clustering too, she was, in never allowing untidy, watery-eyed, like a pallid In elderly monkey, with a rapid, nerv-
AND 2,000 INJURED around the Downpatrick Cathedral her feelings to betray her.
her obstinate fashion she devoted ous cough and a-way of looking at
grave of their Patron Saint.
He never
He grumbled unceasingly at his
in County Down to see the grave of herself to her gambling-mad hus-you as though he was thinking of St. Patrick to-day. For St. Patrick's band. Los Angeles, March 11. | At Santa Ana three were killed
She shuddered at the something else, as he probably was. Southern California to-day was and damage, including 60 major
Day in Ireland, a national holiday, thought of losing him. The Gambling, most virulent of all the engaged in a grim effort to care for business buildings, was estimated at is a deeply religious fate celebrated prospect of ending her days alone fevers, dominated him. her injured and identify ser dead, $500,000.
by many with a pilgrimage to the terrified her. Her youth and acknowledged it, deluding himself the victims of last night's earth-
"Old Ironside" Loses Masts.
what faint traces of beauty had but not his wife-that his sys- quake shock and subsequent fires, The historic frigate Constitution,
The cathedral in which St. Patrick heen hers had long since gone, fail in the end to yield the riches his tems. gradually perfected, could not while terrifying tremors continued "Old Ironside" was tied up at is buried is in the village of Down-Only Gustave was left to her. at intervals.
Long Beach dock. The quake patrick, which takes its name from
At first she had protested violent-heart desired. The shocks were still being felt snapped two of the vessel's masts, the saint and which was one of the ly at the 'wanton dissipation of hia this evening, every twenty minutes A fire threatened Signal Hill, principal scenes of his labours. A income at the tables. That was poverty. "If only one had the to half an hour, bringing the total north of Long Beach, one of the small town with irregular and steep years ago. By degrees her anger capital," he would groan, "one could, since yesterday's crushing quake at richest of fields ever discovered, streets. it was
become fabulously wealthy." had given place 5.51 a.m. which did most of the Several other fires were reported many kings of Ireland.
quiescence, a philosophic shrug of regarded his experiments as busi- damage, to more than 200.
through the earthquake area. The grave which so many travel the shoulders, a murmured "A leness propositions which languished Late to-day the death list stood Long Beach was immediately cut miles Lo
for want of the necessary financial She [querre comnte a la guerre." see is a neglected оле at 142 while a check of hospitals off from communication by the unmarked by stone or monument.
began to realise that Gustave's bad backnig, forgetful of his sudden im- throughout the earthquake area ac earthquake, and first reports from It is now little more than a large luck was her good fortune.
pulses, his superstitious inspira-j counted for more than 1,000 injur. There placed the death list at even a hole in
Marthe was no fool. the ground. nude by
She had tions. ed requiring hospital attention. The higher figum than occurred. Police pilgrims taking
all the bourgeoise's reverence away handfuls of
for total number of injured was estim, first estimuted 500 dead,
the earth as mementoes to different money. Her own tiny income was ated at more than 4,000.
After some interval radio stations parts of the world. It is almost a sacred thing. All Gustave's
town and
the
the
residence of
to sullen
ac-
TO-MORROW'S STORY.
To-morrow's story will be "Portrait of a Gentleman," by Michael Kent.
Не
the
Virtually every
eity KFOX at Long Beach was put in barren of the shamrocks which are)
frenzied pleadings for a loan whe south of the Tehachapi Mountains operation and for the early hours of everywhere sold as having been had met with cold refusal. He had felt the quake, while damage was the evening provided the only means "plucked from
long ago realised the futility of nak grave of Sting Marthe any favours. confined principally to the area bo nf obtaining news from that city. Patrick."
She was tween Los Angeles, Long Teach The announcer at this station told! There is a story
mean, the old furnace! And he told in Down-waited, desperately impatient, for and Santa Ana.
of the resolution and ruin in the patrick of how St. Patrick came to the next quarterly payment of his Long Beach Hit Hurd, bostners district where fires sprang be buried there after his death at! Long Beach was the uronal suf- Up.
Town money. Saul on March 17, 493. ferer bath in lives lost and th· gen-
Business Streets In Ruins.
A contention arose
With a wry smile somewhere in-
For eight years Gustave and eral destructiveness of the quake. Four firemen were killed when the sections of the people for possession spirits revive as the day grew near. of this "jewel of the coust," as
between two side her Marthe would watch his Marthe had lived thus on the fringe Ninety-six of the known dead were fire stations collapsed,
of the body. To decide the issue Then he would draw his money hotel announcements described the found in Long Beach.
Must of the building along Pine two axen Afnch of the business district of Street, the principal street of Long containing the remains, and it was near the Casino itself, carry it home ferent to its natural splendour, its were yoked to the bier from the picturesque little bank town Both were completely indif-| Long Beach was left ruins, Bench, were either destroyed ar decided that wherever the animals in a bag, and solemnly divide it into blue skies and not less vivid seas, its
Los Angeles, lying just outside badly damaged.
atopped, there should the body of ter equal amounts. the worst zone of the quake aren,
The roof of the Long Beach Sun the saint be interred. suffered heavy property damage and building, in which the United Press carried their sacred burden without rode him hard.
The oxen like all gamblers.
He was queer, radiant flower and fashionable re- Superstition putation. Gustave was indifferent Loflices were housed collapsed.
any guidance whatever, and stopped he would hunt for to bring him luck. When the salons were closed he ceas- New hiding-places to all but the lure of the tables. towns suffering heavily Long Beach, which experienced at the spet where the Present included Compton. Garden Grove, the major part of the growth dur Cathedral of Down stands. Here, it. Santa Ana, Boeno Park, Watts, ing the past two decades. was a is said, the body was laid to rest. Artesia. Costa Mexn. Bellflower, city et almost entirely new and The Cathedral
Lac-derm--begilding many of them different times; first being burned by was destroyed at Willington and San Pedro:-
Estimates of the property dam- vousfeneted to withstand earthquake Edward Bruce, and
again in the age ranged from $10,000,000 fa stressAJE
year 1538 by Lord Deputy Gray. $50,000,000.
Long Beach is about 20 miles was for this act that Lord Deputy Last night and to-night Hundreds south of Los Angeles on the ocean, wus beheaded three years later. of thousands of persons in the cen and apparently was near the centre After the second burning it remain- tre of the earthquake area, the of the disturbances,
ed in ruins for about 250 years,
listed in known dead.
Other
It
most populous on the Pacific Const. Among the major buildings in and 1790 the present building was i slept in the open,
fearing their Long Beach which were damaged erected.
them were the Gold Medal Creamery, the, The rest of Ireland-hose who Jorgin's Trust Company and the cannot make the pilgrimage to major famous Pacific Coast Jockey Club. Downpatrick spend St. Patrick's
horses would collapse upon from the continuing quakeä.
There were about 20
shocks, all sufficient to loosen addi-
these.
Hotels Stand Strain.
The larger hotels, apartments and business blocks, of first clue con-
Warst Since 1906.
(Continued on Page 4.)
THE S. S. ANTUNG DISASTER
Marine Court Of Inquiry.
NO BLAME TO MASTER AND OFFICERS
ed to exist, went home, muttered "Bouge et noir" to Marthe's habitual inquiry as to where he had been--as |though-she-did-not know! undress-
ed and went to bed.
Al
a
Marthe was content that he should. lose. She lived in fear of the day the luck might turn. She could pig- ture his return, his crazy elation, his; mndness. In his sullen moods, he had savagely reminded her of the golden, beckoning future awaiting] him. Him, not her. Once he bad taunted her with her faded looks, The quake area extended from Day al Torming meas and afternoon)
had said something which sent The Marine Court of Inquiry into chilly stab to her heart. "A pretty tional plaster and debris from the Santa Barbara, 80 miles northwest concerts. Que of the most impres-the circumstances surrounding the woman! What would I not give for already partially wrecked buildings. of Los Angeles, along the coast to sive sights is the open air muss held stranding of the China Navigation a pretty woman!"
Tia Juana, Mexico, about 150 miles in the various barracks throughout Company's verse! sa. Antung, on Outwardly calm, but with her Smaller buildings of masonry or to the southeast, and inland as far the country, which all the troops at Hain Jeland, was held yesterday life's fear at an instant's release, she part masury and part wood suffer-as Riverside and
San Bernardino, tend in full uniform. The most
before a full Court,
waited every day for his return from ed the worst. Reinforced concrete about 60 miles away.
solemn part of the service is marked The Court in their summing up, the salons. and steel buildings stood the test,
If he returned carly] by salates fired from dozens of rifles, found that no blame could be attach she breathed a sigh of relief. fairly well, although cornices and, The Carnegie Seismological la- Everywhere is the "wearing o' theed to the Master, Capt. Ashby, or was well, he had lost what he had. tiles were shaken from many of beratory registered more than 200 green." But the old ceremony of
his officers, shocks by to-night.
If she heard the hour strike when the| "drowning the shamrock" with a
An uncontrollable panic among salons closed, she waited in dread, plass of whiskey is fast disappear-
the Chinese crew and passengers which the passage of the years had ing, partly closed public houses on St. Patrick's of over 70 lives.
because the law has was stated to be the cause of a loss scarcely dulled, for the sound of his footsteps on the gravel path of their Day and partly because Ireland is The Court was composed of ramshackle villa.
"Where have you been?"
Her (Retd.), LL-Cdr. G. B. R. Rudyard foolish formula was never omitted.| Helpman, R.N., Captain J. Lennie, Her husband, pale and breathing master of the Raby Castle, Captain heavily, would look at her and say, R. Lloyd, master of the Adrastus, "Rouge et noir." It was a sort of and Captain D. S. Pethick,, muster convention between them. He rare- of the Hopsang.
ly spoke another word, unless by Captain R. H. G. Ashby, master chance he had won a few hun-l of the 8.8. Antung, and the officers dred franes, but sipped in silence) of the vessel were represented by the Red
Cross And other relief The object has been to extend the
nightly cafe-cognac Marthe Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton, on the re-never failed to prepare. agencies were concentrating their Treaty of London to include Franco
AI for forces on the Los Angeles from all and Italy.
spective Instructions of the Naviga-Marthe, she ignored his muttered The draft stabilizes over the Pacific Coast to take care Germany's naval position up to 1997.
tion and Insurance Co., Ltd., and calculations as completely as she re of the injured and needy in the
the China Coast Officers' Guilds, frained from upbraiding him for the Over three hundred people were while Mr. M. M. Watson watched silence which betokened his failures. Speaking of the reduction of ef- aren af desolation and ruin.
fectives, Mr. MacDonald said that:
guesta of the Consul-General for the case for the China Navigation, Sailors, soldiers, marines and na-the British plan included a reductaly and the Commander of the
Rouge et noir! The phrase seem-| tional guardamen were called outition of heavy
Lloyd Triestino's 8.8. Conte Verde,
Company.
ed to have rung as an fronte motif arms which
were on board the liner, yesterday oven-;
through The Court's Finding.
her life. to assist local authorities maintain more suited for offence
It always order, police the devastated area than for defence.
The Court announced ita finding the luck-the bad luck-held.
would be rouge et noir. So long as and render aid.
Two orchestras played for the as follows: benefit of the numerous dancers,
One night the wheel turned full circle. People pointed at the funny
struction, where the loss of life LIMITING POWER OF AGRESSION
would
have been
tremendous had
4 they collapsed, stood the strain.
The 25-storey Loa Angeles City
(Continued from Pape 1.)
Hali, rising white like a huge Regarding naval armaments, thej monolith far above the rest of the articles are generally designed to city, built under earthquake restric-hold the situation created by the tions prohibiting all bulldings over London and Washington Treaties a cerisin height, stood firm, although until the naval conference, to meet with the continuing shocks this in 1935, regulatos naval armamenta building was closed to the public as of all Powers on a satisfactory basis a precautionary measure,
for the future.
becoming a drier country.-Reuter.
ITALIAN CONSUL'S RECEPTION
Pleasant Function On Conte Verde.
rathering.
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Enough Of War."
Comdr. J. B. Newill, D.S.O., R.N.
We find that the 8.8. Aniung,
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MARTELL'S BRANDIES
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BOTTLED IN
THE MARTEL
COGNAC AND
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CORDON BLEU.
The luck had V.V.E.Š.O.P.
Gustave
PURE GRAPE
BRANDY
MARTELL
Mased
(also in square pints).
MARTELL & CO.
Victims Calm.
and light refreshments were served official No. 154003, of which Rettle bearded habitue, some amus- Sailors and marines came ashore)
in the lounge and the verandah ginald Harold Gordon Ashby, who from the Pacific fleel, riding at, AB to navul disarmament, he cafe. anchor off Long
envious: Beach, while showed that Great Britain
holds a certificate of competence No.ed, many was The guests included: soldiers from Fort McArthur, near ready to go as far as any one else,
3688 of Hong Kong, was master,
turned with a vengeance. Crowds Consul General for Portugal, left Swatow on March 4, 1838, on a baize, sooner or later to desert his
followed his choice San Pedro, turned out.
in this direction.
on the green Great Britain Consul General for the Nether-voyage to Singapore via Holhow.. Governor James Rolph at Sacra-hud maintained her obligaționa landa, Mrs, and Miss Douglas Jen- mento called out certain national under all the different naval' dis- kins, Commodore and Mrs. E. McW.sengers and a crew of 110.
That there were on board 420 pas foolish belief that he could not pos- THREE STAR
incredible run of good fortune in the guard units when ward was recely-armament treaties and would con-Lawrie, D. 8. O., Hon. Mr. and Mrs. ed from Watts of looting.
That the ship stranded on Kainen sibly continue to win. tinue to study the possibilities of C. G. Alabaster, Sir Shouson Chow, Island at 3.49 a.m. on March 8, and savoured the miraculous thrill of the The victims of the quake showed disarmament sul further.
Hon. Mr. and Mrs. E. D. C. Wolfe, was subsequently abandoned.
gambler. He gathered his win- surprising calmness and courage. The British Premier added that Hon. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Bra-
Long Beach officials immediately he favoured the total abolition of ga, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. C. G. 3. Mac were an abnormal current and a mist lait with all the icy latentuees of V.V.E.S.O.P.
That the causes of the strandingning mechanically, betting to the set to work to clear the streets of military and naval aircraft on the kle, Dr. and Mr. S. W. Teo, Consul obscuring land.
the professional. the city and start reconstruction. condition that a plan was created, for Germany, Consul for Brazil,
He spoke not a Two thousand unemployed per to which all would subscribe, Bir Robert and Lady Ho Tung, Mr. ed, the boats were rushed and but imperceptibly.
That when the ship was abandon. Word. His watery eyes became hard Bons were given jobs clearing the against the misue of civil aircraft, and. Mrs. A. Drouth, Cav. and Mrs. proximately 50 passengers and 20 of
and dilated. His hand trembled. wreckage from the streets.
Mr. MacDonald concluded, "We Bacel, Mr. and Mrs. Ma Ying-piu, the crew lost their lives. The Court City officials ánnounced they have had enough of war, enough of Prof. and Mrs. Gerrard, Mr. and has taken into consideration, the ex-rang, Gustave Eichout was a rich | would seek assistance from the recourse to force, We can stop it Mrs. E. M. Raymond, Col. and Mrs.perience of the master of the man. Reconstruction Finance Corporation. and we must stop it. I implore you C. W. Leung (representing the Raby Castle, who is a member of brought off his coup,
He bad, after all these years. In Huntington Park practically to apply yourselves to the practical Kwangtung-Provincial Govern- this Court and who also observed his scarf and coat, descanded the He put on every building in the business sec-problems and give yourselves up to ment), Mr. and Mrs. L Heath, Dr. an abnormal current when approach marble steps and stood for a second tlon was damaged and twisted. the task of supporting common and Mrs. C. H. Wan, Mr. and Mrs.ing Hong Kong: Wreckage lined. The sidewalks and sense and objective reasoning, for M. K. La, Mr. J. P. Warren, Dr. Y.
bathing in the cold night air. streets. The Huntington Park High which your children will praise you K. Lo, Dr. and Mrs. Cheah Ken-attached to the master or onder Monsieur a bien gagne 'ce soir,"
The Court findi that no blame fat it was hard to realiae. School, one of the largest in the in the times to come."--British|sppg, and Captain and rs. Smea-and that the ship was navigated wild a soft volds at his elbow. United States was destroyed by fire. Wireless Service.
with proper and seamanlike cari
*Continued on Page 11.)
ther.
The luck held. When the bell
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