NANCY
OH, AUNT FRITZ! ---MARMADUKE: IS GOING TO VISIT ME TODAY*** WAIT'LL YOU SEE WHAT A SWELL CAR HE.
ARRIVES IN
YES-
I HEAR
HE HAS
THREE BEAUTIES!
Tuesday,
WHICH CAR Do You WISH TODAY, SIR,
THE ROADSTER,
SEDAN, OR TOWN CAR?
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
NO, LEON -- I'LL USE MY NEW CAR--- THE ONE SLUGGO GAVE ME !.
November 12, 1940,
By Ernie Bushmiller
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In 'Quake Which Shook Balkans
Special to the "Telegraph"
BUCHAREST, Nov. 11 (UP).-Two new earthquake shocks rocked. Bucharest nt 8.36 this morning.
The authorities have estimated Sunday's toll at 1,000 dead and upwards of 4,000 injured. So far this morning there have been no casualties, although the capital is still unable to contact some of the isolated areas.
After sixty bodies had been recovered all rescue work at the Carlton ceased owing to the gigantle explosion of a crude oil reserve in the basement used for supplying fuel to the central heating system.
Thousands of people have been given 24 hours to quit their This number homes following surveys by official architects.
into important figures.
includes three families in one wing of the building occupied by
"United Press."
to
repairs to the plants will be neces-
ary. The greatest damage was ofcial buildings of the oil companies, few of which escaped.
Rushing Relief
Food and clothing is being rushed to the areas stricken by the earth- quakes in the provinces where there are legions rendered destitute and homeless.
Building material and tents,
the province Moldavia where the damage is
bring rushed to ported to be very great.
pre
of
rc-
Mr. P. Lambright, director of A high Government spokesman olt fire in the petroleum regions a Standard Oil subsidiary con- also toldt "Unlied Press" that the only pany told the "United Press" yesterday was quickly extinguished that he would be obliged to close by expert firemen, working along- the company's big refinery for side the Ploesti are department. He
nir the damage inflicted was in Hopes of saving 30 people trapped ten days for repairs, and that the significant, and that the entire oll allve beneath the ruins of the Carlton cost of the damage would run industry is intact, although slight Building, a skyscraper, appear to
Refreshing!
Trapped In Skyscraper BUCHAREST, Nov. 11 (Reuter)
have been aband
The last voice 'ceased to reply
on the telephone line which enabled the trapped to communicate with the Sunday. They, It is feared, have been asphyxlated.
rescuers since
The latest
atest estimates are that at least 207 people were killed in the Carlton Building alone..
More than 1,000 badly-damaged houses in the Rumanian capital have been evacuated.
oll
Travellers recount that the felds are said to have been razed to the ground and tens of thousands of peasants are homeless.
News from the provinces add hourly to the death-roll.
Oil Tanks Burst
LONDON, Nov. 11 (Reuter)--Only slight dainage as a result of the fresh Iremors is reported in Bucharest It-
sell.
While rescue workers were busy on the debris of new block of flats, however, oil tanks in the basement A exploded and fires broke out. number at the rescue workers were killed and the work had to be stopped.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS DONATIONS TO CHARITABLE AND OTHER OBJECTS"
A total of $1,413,074.07 was reached yesterday by the Was Fund Inaugurated by the S. C. M. Post, Lid., with the
lowing donations:
Gear &
$20.20
A
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Pittman Condolences
CHUNGKING, Nov, 12 (Central Newa)Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek yesterday cabled Dr. Hu Shih, Chinese Ambassador at Washington, delegating him to convey his condo- lences to the family of Senator Key Pittman, late chairman of the US. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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