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Many of Finest Homes
in Berkeley Destroyed
FfKE ST ARTS FROM BRUSH BLAZE ON OUTSKIRTS
OF TOWN—THOUSAND HOMES BURNED AND
PROPERTY LOSS ENORMOUS—HOME OF BEN
JAMIN IDE WHEELER AMONG DESTROYED
Berkeley, Calif., Sept. 18.—The entire northern sec
tion of the city of Berkeley was swept with flames last
night. A thousand homes were destroyed with a property
loss of over ten million dollars. Two students of the Uni
versity were killed while dynamiting buildings in an effort
to check the spread of the first to the campus of the Uni
versitv. Over five thousand people are homeless.
The fire started yesterday afternoon from a brush fire
on the outskirts of the city. Spreading to a grove of euca
lyptus trees the high north wind blowing at the time car
ried the flames over the entire city. Despite the efforts of
the combined fire departments of Berkeley and Oakland,
assisted by thousands of students of the University and
business men the fire swept over 80 blocks of the beautiful
residential section and was only checked by the space of
the University campus from destroying the entire cities of
Berkeley, Piedmont and Oakland.
Among the houses destroyed were those of Benjamin
ide Wheeler, president emiritus of the University, and
Johnson Ward Taylor, architect. The burned section in
cluded many beautiful homes of the National Fraternities
and Sororities. Among those consumed were the houses
of Tau Kappa Epsilon, Alpha Tau Omega, Phi Kappa Sig
ma and Theata Phi. The Sorority houses destroyed were
theZeta Tau Alpha, Delta Zeta, and Alpha Sigma Delta.
The property damage was estimated today at ten mil
lion dollars. All the finest homes on Cragmont, Euclid
Avenue, and La Loma Park were destroyed.
The intense heat of the drouth which struck northern
and central California last week, is responsible _ for the
blaze. Intense heat accompanied by high, hot winds have
brought on an epidemic of fires. ^ An„
It is estimated that during the past week lo,000 acres
of grain and pasture lands, vineyards and national forests
have been destroyed.
experts claim firpo would,
HAVE WON FIGHT WITH 8TH
BLOW IF HAD QUIT THEN
NEW YORK, Sept. 17—Slow movies
of the fight showed that Dempsey
knocked Firpo down seven times in
the first round, only taking a count on
two knockdowns. Pictures also show
ed the first blow that hit Dempsey
caused the champion’s knees to sag.
Firpo hit the champion nine straight
times with his right just before Demp
sey went sprawling through the ropes.
As the eighth crashed to his jaw his
head drooped and his knees wobbled.
From the pictures it appeared as it
the eighth blow had finished Dempsey.
Fight experts who saw the picture
said they believed that had Firpo let
the champion go to the canvas attei ,
the eighth blow he might never have
gotten up, but the ninth sent Demp
sey through the ropes into the laps
at the newspaper men at the ringside.
When Dempsey climbed back he took
thirteen straight blows before he was
able to return one. Argentine still
gazes with determined eyes on the
crown which Dempsey barely saved.
Jack Dempsey and Luis Firpo bat
tled Friday night for the heavyweight
crown of the world as twro cavemen
in prehistoric days might have battled
on the edge of a cliff and Firpo lost
but he lost like a man, fighting to the
last agonizing gasp, more glorious in
defeat than he had ever been in vic
tory.
Knocked out in three minutes iiity
seven seconds of most furious fight
ing ever recorded in ring history, in
which he was floored seven times, but
managed to send the champion crash
ing through the ropes after battering
him to his knees, the Argentine still
gazes with determined eyes upon the
crown.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 18.—
Luis Firpo announced he would leave
soon on a tour through Canada and
then go to Argentina for winter, so he
would be unable to fight Harry \vi.L
for year.
COOLIDGE IN CONFERENCE
OVER CONDITION FARMERS
WASHINGTON, D. C., September 11*
—For an hour this afternoon, Coolidge
ami cabinet had under consideration
a remedy for the disasterous condi
tions in the wheat belt, which has
prevoked the present revolt of the
farmers against both of the old poli
tical parties.
MACHINE GUNS TURNED
ON REBEL TRIBESMEN
JERUSALEM, September 19—Rebel
tribesmen in Trans Jorania, have been
put to flight by machine guns and fire
from airplanes.
CALLS UPON FULL FORCE STATE
TROOPS—ALL AIDING KU
KLUX ARE ENEMIES
OKLAHOMA CITY, September 17—
Governor Walton last night proclaim
ed martial law for the entire state
of Oklahoma, calling upon the full
force of the states troops and declar
ing that any persons giving aid to the
Ku Klux Klan are enemies of the
state and will be delt with with mili
tary force. The governor also lifted
the military censorship over the Tul
sa Tribune.
WASHINGTON, D. C., September
19—Henry Ford, after a conference
with President Coolidge and Secretary
of War, Weeks, announced he has tak
en undfer advisement, Weeks’ request
he madify his offer for the purchase
or lease of the Muscle Shoals power
project.
BATTLESHIP ARKANSAS
RAMS DESTROYER M’FARLAND
WASHINGTON, D .C. Sept. 19—
The battleship Arkansas rammed the
destroyer McFarland of Newport this
morning, none were injured.
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CHARGES MADE THAT 8
VILLA BURNED 200 8
CAPTIVES TO DEATH *
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MEXICO CITY, Sept. 19—The 8
shooting and burning alive of 8
two hundred prisoners by the 8
late bandit leader Francisco Villa 8
in Chihuahua after the battle of 8
San Andreas de la Sierra on Sep- 8
tember 1, 1913, is related in a 8
letter by one of the survivors 8
published by Excelsior. 8
The two hundred were about 8
equally divided between wounded 8
and uninjured, according to the 8
story, and many of them, still 8
alive after falling before the fire 8
of the execution squads, were 8
thrown screaming on the great 8
pyr« of oil soaked timber which 8
E had been prepared an* set ablaze 8
t by the soldiers. **
E Among the victims were sever- 8
E al women, camp followers, with
E their children, who had ‘dared to
t scream curses at Villa tor sacri
E ficing their men.
E The story of this survivor of
( General Felix Terraza’s forces is 8
E equaled by other anecdotes of the 8
E fate meted out to Villistas cap- 8
E tured by the Federals, one which 8
E narrates how more than a score 8
E of bandits were bound and put 8
E into a dry well, there to perish 8
E miserably of suffocation after a 8
E lot of debris had been tumbled 8
l down the well to silence their 8
E cries.
MATERIAL LOSSES ARE LESS
THAN FIRST APPEARED—
LEAVING FOR HOMES
OSAKA, September 17—Final figur
es tabulated by the prefecture of Tok
o place the dead in Tokio at Seventy
seven thousand eight hundred and
wenty three. Yokoham reports thirty
hree thousand, seven hundred and
sixty seven. One hundred refugees left
rokio for the surrounding country, the
material losses being less than had
irst appeared. ^
OSKA, September 17—Ashia esti
mates to September tenth about five
thousand refugees arrived at Kobe
many taking passage for their homes
It is estimated 4,26S remain, includ
ing 445 British, 1S5 Americans, 15c
Germans, 3S French, 160 Russians anc
2,937 Chinese.
TOKIO, Septemoer 17—Premier Ya
mamoto will issue a statement supple
menting the recent imperial edict out
lining the new cabinet’s policies anc
expressing determination to rebuilt
and maintain the prestage of Japar
and voicing gratitude to the world foi
its aid. Material assistance is beim
felt. Food is plentiful. Typhoid anc
dysintery are increasing.
AIRPLANES MAKE FAST
TIME SEATTLE TO CHICAGC
CHICAGO, Sept. 19—Lieutenan
Bertrandis and Lieutenant Garret
testing out the air mail routes, arriv
ed here in 22 hours 14 minutes actua
flying time in fog and snow, from Se
attle.
1880 MILES COBLE
CABLESHIP DELWOOD WILL BE
DISPATCHED TO LONDON
TO BRING BACK CABLE
SEATTLE, Sept. 18.—Following tin
return from London of Colonel Georg*
S. Gibbs, formal announcement bai
been made in Washington of a con
tract with an English firm for tin
purchase of 1800 miles of first class
gutta perclia, insulated cable, to cos
$124,000. Siemans Brothers of Lon
don, submarine cable manufacturers
was the low bidder.
The cableship Delwood will proba
bly sent to London for the cable, as i
must be coiled down in the hug*
tanks before laying.
The line will run from Seattle t*
Sitka and Sitka to Seward, by th*
most direct route.
ESTIMATE PACK
ALASKA SiM
5.888183 CiSES
THIRD LARGEST IN HISTORY OF
INDUSTRY, ACCORDING OF
FICIAL ESTIMATES
The total Alaska salmon pack for
! this year will be slightly in excess of
' 5,000,000 cases, according to estimates
’ made by E. M. Ball, Assistant Fisher
ies Agent for Southeastern Alaska,
and made public today. This pack has
only been exceeded twice in the his
tory of the salmon industry in the
Teritory—in 1917 and 1918—when
5,922,330 and 6,677,569 cases respec
tively were packed.
Mr. Ball’s estimates place the total
pack at 5,022,600 cases. In arriving at
this figure, packs of individual can
neries were used, some being actual
pack figures and others packs to re
| cent date*? and estimates on the packs
[ for the remainder of the season, it is
j stated. In every case the cannery es
t timates are considered to be con
servative. The total estimated pack is
more than 500,000 cases larger than
last year’s pack when 4,501,428 cases
were packed.
The increased pack is caused by
the heavy production of Southeastern
Alaska canneries which, it is esti
mated, will put up 2,908,600 cases as
compared to 1,994,679 for 1922, a gain
of 913,921 cases. Other Alaska dis
tricts show declines as a whole. In
western Alaska, that is the Bristol
Bay district, this year’s pack is esti
I mated to be 1,200,000 as compared to
! 1,474,221 cases in 1922, and in central
* Alaska, 914,000 as compared to 1,032,
000 in 1922, a total loss for the two
. districts of 392,749 cases. This means
said Mr. Ball, that the pack of red
fish will be something like 25 per cent
less than last year’s output.
All over Southeastern Alaska, lie
added, there has been a heavy run on
fish, equal, if in fact not greater than
the big runs of 1921 and 1922. Despite
the low water that prevailed over the
district for a large part of the season,
1 there was a fair escapement to the
spawning beds. During the recent vis
1 it of Senator Jones and Commissioner
L of Fisheries O’Malley, several small
? streams were inspected by the party,
1 said Mr. Ball, in which as many as
50,000 salmon were seen.
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KANSAS CITY, September 19—L
- A. Johnson, postoffice inspector, ir
- charge of the Kansas City district
- said late Tuesday that the total loss
1 in the holdup Tuesday at Okesa, Okla
1 early Tuesday morning would not ex
i ceed live hundred dollars. The ban
r dits did not reach the registered mail
; pouches lie said.
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MOVEMENT FOR LIGHT WINES iS
GAINING GROUND RAPIDLY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 19
With the movement for beer and lighl
“ wine modification of the Volstead ac
■ gaining ground, increasing curiositj
- concerning the attitude of Presidem
Coolidge on the whole question o
prohibition is being manifested.
1 Senator Morris Sheppard, Democrai
Texas, who piloted the eighteenti
amendment through the Senate, is
confident the President will stan-c
with the drys against any modifica
tion of the Volstead law. Senator Wal
e ter Edge, Republican, New Jersey, is
e equally certain that if Congress au
s thorizes beer and light wine the Pres
L- ident will sign the bill with alacrity
e Mr. Coolidge has made it clear tha
!> ke stands for strict enforcement of th<
t law but as to changes therein, he has
L' maintained unimpaired his well-kuowr
brand of silence.
The new president used to take £
L' ,,drink of hard liquor now and then
l but according to the testimony of hi;
e intimates, he swore off completely £
short time ago for the same reason a;
0 I did President Harding. He though tha
e j those who enforced the law ought tc
! set the example of obedience of law
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DETAILS ARE GIVEN TO PRESS
HEAVY STRAPS ARE USED
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OKLAHOMA CITY, September IS—
Aldrich Blake, executive counselor to
day presented to the press an account
of some of the brutal floggings that
lead the Governor of Oklahoma to
declare martial law in Tulsa County.
Blake said: “Through 1,200 pages
of testimony runs the same brutal re
frains. It was always that some mem
! bers of the Klan used the same kind
! of flogging instruments, the wet rope
being out of style, and a leather strap
! about three inches wide and four feet
long with a cat-o-nine-tails being
spliced into three straps being em
ployed to inflict punishment.”
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 19—Mar
tial rule over Oklahoma is approach
ing a climax today and attention is
focased in Tulsa, where Governor
Walton’s authority to suspend the
right of recourse to habeas corpus will
be tested.
COMPLAINT ALLEGES PARTNER
OF VICTIM KILLED HIM, ON
AUTO CAMPING TRIP
SAN BERNARDINO, Sept. 18—The
body of a man was found in a shallow
grave here yesterday in a grove in
Cajon Pass. The remains have been
identified as those of N. N. Lucasen,
i a former resident of Alaska, accord
• ing to Sheriff Shay, who swore to a
murder complaint against a man nam
ed Williams, who is alleged to have
lived with Lucasen in Oakland, for
five weeks previous to the two men
; leaving seven weeks ago in Lucas
sen’s touring car on a camping trip.
Lucasen was 62 years of age and
had resided in Oakland since his ar
i rival from Alaska, where he lived for
■ 15 years.
GOVERNMENT PUNISHED OFFI
CERS HELD RESPONSIBLE
WHEN NOT TO BLAME
PARIS, September 17—The cause
of the revoluton in Spain is believed
to be due to the treatment of the army
by the Cabinet and Parliament arter
military reverses in Morocco. It is said
the civil government took action to
punish officers held responsible for
the reverses while declining to act
against the contractors and’persons of
various government departments for
furnishing inadequate supplies for the
expedition.
MADRID, September 17—It was an
nounced after a conference between
King Alfonso and General Primo Ri
vera, that for the time being Spain
will be governed by a dictorate of
Generals representing every military
district, under the presidency of Cap
tain-General Primo Rivera. Quiet pre
vails.
THREE EARTHUAKES ROCK CHI
NESE CITIES—POPULATION
OF THIRTY MILLION
SHANGHAI, September 19—Three
earthquakes rocked Chihli province to
day and numerous buildings collapsed.
Casualties are very heavy at Huh
sien, Chihli province, in which Peking,
and Teinsin are situated, and has a
population of thirty-three millions.
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ICE SEIZE JILL
BERLIN, September 19—Police last
night asd this morning raided the
principal hotels and cafes of the city
and emptied the pockets of all guests,
confiscating foreign currency in their
possession.
Money Orders issued. Seward Drug
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