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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1923)
" i r " - J - " , - '",'- ' - - . r -T- i . THE OTIPnnM CTATC'Gur axt oATtr Anr-AXT . " ' V- - - v - - - , .. Tr.T . nrrkvrTXTn "nvrPTRF!Tl 9. 1923 - wounds; talk about loyalty, j lumber was: strewn across our navy's "First submarine to carry seapl ane have it her.' - back lawn. The twin house next to ours, where Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bishop lived, was also In a bad condition. The lawns .and school grounds were, literally cov ered with little coops where lived (stayed) perhaps a hundrede Jap anese people. As we walked into the yard, our faithful "rusuban or caretaker, Inouye San and his wife, ml us and told the story, which we had already heard, of how he had walked the grounds with sword in hand to keep loot era away even when his own mo ther was dying; from earthquake The house, had loat about 'hair its foundation, and the 'porch was shaken entirely orf leaving the roof where the floor, was. Two large holes, in the roof marked the place where .': chimneys came through. Wo ,pried the- doors open as the house was bo twisted that no lateh iwould work. 'The Interior was a perfect, mew. The two '. larie brick chimneys had broken just level ' with ' the ; up stairs floor -and, 'dropping a chunks weighing, a ton or more, (Continued on page 6) ' 1 .T - - - -....... ?niJmfwx:-ri i . i I t i , ,i-ii,, -i.ii-.- M ---it 'rr - Don't Disappoint 1 (1 ..v jaw. , . 'J Prices of Models Hre-Tax and Freight Paid Touring Car - $630 Roadster7 - - 625 Coupe - 830 Sedan - - 990 Salem t. G.: DELANO QIavU A,,.U:1 LETTER FROM JAPAN ' Rev. S. Raymond Lathy. .; , October 29, 192Z. . 5 Shimo Shlrokane Cho, s("v - r V Hirosake, "4 You may be Interested; to know loine of the personal experiences of -the newest missionary on the Js!ind - of - Japan (newest of the ir E. Mission' folks at least.) dur ing the earthquake period. When we' arrived in, Japan, May 4th of this year, we went Into the home which was occupied-by Dr. Drap er I as he was to start to America oif his furlough a few' weeks later. ThisJ was ; at 222 B Bluff Yoko- hama--the city that suffered most. ' Fortunately we ' were not lat Yokohama 'September 1, the fatal dayi... . tvAt Karuizewa, almost 100 miles from Yokohama, whence we had ine to get out of the heat of the two hottest months of the lowland c itea, :the excitement and con fusion the dayof the quake, and i e days following were all any there cared for. We thought we V.;ere Jn "k part . of Japan seldom -tnoved 'by the: Interior . action of tKe earth, t But at, noon on Sat urday, September i, the cottage in ThIch- we were Housed began to iiove around and up and down at fttch a rate as- to upset vases, j-Itchers, lamps, books from the I pelves, etc The ohuse was soon rid of all ltaf occupants. Little JUymond Vincent, who was visit IN NATIONWIDE BOGUS DOCTORS' INQUIRY. . P" I- -.?: 5 , . t - . . - : ' ; ' ( V? fj ' r 1 ' ir-i- 1 in 8 - i St ' ; $1 -.; llj . , ..... - it . .Cov. Charles A. Templeton of Connecticut, with his State's At- , torney Kagh Alcorn, who called on President Coolidge in Washing ton ta Interest the Federal authorities In the nation wide investlga tloa izto.tha "tosras doctors", recruited from the ranks of black-sr-'-ths, ex-bartenders and street cleaners, recently brought to light 't t- cf Connecticut by the death of several people caused .... a ,vVc-, -"rfpon?. .' photo' shows , Gov. t -a i 1 ; j luiic'l. a ...-orn'Uaviij; the" Executive : T5 A critical putlic a . pxiblic spoiled ; by offerings lore of the finest that motor engineering has produce4 ' anywhere ; in the world has looked at the hew:1924 Star Car, and found it worthy in every way.' "iThey have0. KM" it and they are proving that fact by piling np order npon order, in'every town froju the north ern boundary "of Washington to ihe Mexican line in tile South. ing the little girl j at the next house, was soon gathered up in his daddy's arms and tljere fwe stood out in the open huddled to gether (the Shaws lived with us in; the cottage) iwalting for the trembling,' waving under our feet to quiet down, a! Japanese man who was there with us said that something terrible ' had happened as he had never seen anything like it in Japan. - Mt.k . Asama : only eight .miles away could be seen towering 5000 feet. above us. Just five days .before I had- stood " on the summit and, looked dvwn Into Its "bubbling,"' blazip.l .icrater.. Some' thought that It was getting ready to vomit out some of . its heated contents, so we kept our eyes on It. - When we - went to a meeting in the afternoon we found that Isome lot the houses had lost their chimneys and other small damages, were recorded in the little town, but no one knew the real terror that, was going on at that very moment in the finest cities of the empire." In rthe even ing some .climbed to -the top of Mt. Hanapi ..nearby . and could see as the darkness of th night came on, the glare .against, the sky as il some terrible burning was go ing on. somewhere.. They decided that It was either some volcanic eruption or some cities burning. The following day news came f A. I. EOFF Phone 97 of the destruction that was go ing on In the cities of Tokyo, Yokohama and the surrounding places. . But the. news came in just little snatches as the means of comunication had been cut off. It being Sunday, we had our church services. Breathles" anx iety was shown on - the faces of all. Imagination was also set to work, in many minds. ; u More specific news came thru Indirect channels on - Monday. Crowds of peopel could be seen around the bulletin boards any time in the day and late at night trying to find out something sat isfying. Now and then some friend or relative would, be re ported .killed or missing and this would cause greater anxiety on khe part of all., In a few days folks began to arive from the stricken region and as they walked, up the main street of the summer town people would gather around them to find out what they' had' to -say. Bishop JWelch returning, called a meeting of 'cuf group ' and ; told of the losses,, particularly of our mission, in church and school con stituency rand "In property. Of these loses you t will likely hear. "Opportunity was ;r now offered for I relief J work,; Train ; loads of refugees were going thru Karuix awa. Something must be done for them.: Organized food stations were put in operation. I offered my services and , met trains all thru the night, handed out food and water to he hundreds' who reached from the car window, cattle car door, or- over the side of a coal car. t"'"'i I Of course, everybody waa asked to '.stay .out of : the'- stricken cities unless urgent business took them there, and even then they should carry sufficient food with them to-last while there and If posisble feed others. Since our heme and practically all we possessed were, right in the heart of the devas tated region, we 'could hardly stay away. ',-; . --' : ; ' I. , I went to the station on Sunday night, September 8th. expecting to take the 11:25 train.; The crowded ' conditions were well, known and I expected to . crowd thru a , window or sit on top of a coach as many had been doing. When the train came in there was no room anywhere and it was im posisble to crowd thru a window. The. next train was flue at 8 the next morning. I had stretched out on a station seat expecting to wait for it when suddenly I heard ia train pulling In. 1 Jumping to my feet, I ran acros th tracks to find that it was a special train carrying only j soldiers . and offi cers. But I scaw a trainman lead ing two ladies down toward the front hurriedly. I followed. He showed us into a little vestibule Just back of the electric engine. We were Just complimenting our selves when another trainman came down thru ..the train and told us we would nave to get off since It was a special train and the place we. had . was rather dangerous. We explained that we had ; been ushered there and wanted to ay" When he.lnlsted I weT!t t--c!c to the ttst!? muster The United States submarine S-l Is the first of its kind built for navy seaplane, which is assembled on the deck o t the underwater plane, when dismounted, is carried on the top of the submarine in a . T" while the ladies held our place. I explained to the station master that we bad purhcased a' ticket for '- the earlied train and being unable to get on we would like very muhc to go on that train as we were anxious to get to Tokyo. He could not understand English but - the 'man standing near him did and coming forward again led me to the little place back of the - engine and closed the door; Soon our "special train" was off down thru the twenty-six moun tain tunnels. We had to change trains and go thru a long process of sifting at a station called Omiya. Here the crowd was herded and driven thru gates where many soldiers guarded with bayoneted guns. Each person had to show permits or give just reasons for going into the devastated region. We stood there for about an hour be fore the next train came in: In the jam, we managed to get thru the .door and rode fairly comfortable. It was now daylight and slight wreckage began to appear. It increased as "we moved w along. Soon we were all changed to a train carrying only coal cars - ftn which we rode to our last station. Here fikishas could be' secured, making the rest of our journey to our Aoyama compound iairy easy. ; , Arriving about noon, I deliv ered some messages and letters and then parked in Dr. Berry's house for a little rest, expecting to leave for Yokohama the- fol lowing day. In the late afternoon, however, I walked ; out around the compound to see the once fine colege buildings now either wrecked or badly damaged. , 4 J At 8 o'clock the next morning, Dr, Heckelman and I started 'for Yokohama expecting to do much hiking. -Soon after leaving the compound an auto picked us up Land took us to a station where we got a train going over the repair ed road to Yokohama; station. I say a train ; it was a freighter hav ing about 25 coal cars in which the people stood packed like sar dines in a box. You have per haps seen pictures of -these crowd ed trains with people hanging all araimd tho eneine. The repaired track over the crooked and broken land squeaked under its load of human freight. We reached Yo kohama station at 11 a. m. About three miles walk through the most devastated city you would look up on followed. We passed yby .Sak- uragicha station where had stood a structure which would have been a credit to any of the largest cities of America. Now, only a few crumbling pillars furnished ' a landmark. Across " the nearby bridge was the site of the YWQA. I can not begin to describe the horrors we saw as we passed over the ruins of this famous seaport city. Nine days had passed since the quake; Men with autos and wagons and also steamers had been busy removing the bodies, bringing in food and clothing, but even yet ..our eyes fell now gnd then 'on the untouched dead and the ashes told the story of a great cremation. The walls of the fine Specie bank seem ; to record the hundreds that were said to have perished within them. I had just been In this bank a few weeks be fore the quake and hadcounted on the first floor alone over 100 employees. It is said that when the quake came and the fire fol lowed, the steel shutters intended to make the building fire proof were closed shutting many people in for protection. Automatic wa terworks In the dome of the build ing being put out of order by-the quake played havoc so that when the flames swept across the city, the the people who sought refuge there were simply roasted. We walked on through the"city to one of the best shopping dis tricts where my companion,. fr. Heckelman, was, when the earth quake struck the city. He was n a furniture store when the pil lars and walls began to fair. and the lady clerk became frantic' Standing by one of the largest pillars and commanding her to do likewise, they were both saved from being crushed He then made his way through the burn ing city to the ocean -where he got Into a boat. The lady also es caped as we were told by her hus band whom we found on the very spot salvaging In the ashes, lie almost worshipped ' Heckelman for having saved the life of Jils wife as he thought fee did. . 1 -took a ri-t'ire c?;the two standing in the ashes of the store. We then went up on the bluff or high portion of the city. Around the- foot of the bluff, were chan nels or city water ways on which many small boats used to ply with their heavy cargoes. Now the walls were broken in on both sides and the waters were laden with debris which sent up stifling odors. As Dr. Heckelman said, "Hell is a tame word in any attempt to de scribe all this." Our eyes travel out from these water ways and in every direction is the most -complete job wrought by quake and fire you can imagine. The waters of , the great Pacific which once carried shipload after shipload of products from this coast, fringed with factories, shipping companies and the like, now dash against a breastwork of : ashes, broken stone and twisted steel. Calling this a rest, we contin f. 0 the navy to carry 'bo new type craft preparatory i j flight, The tanklike container. ued along the main street on top of the bluff. This section was once dotted with the best resi dences hidden among large ever greens and smaller shrubbery. How strangely the fire picked these homes up from among the trees. Once in a great while, where the fire seemed "merciful on a stray house, there was almost sure to be a heap of earthquake ruins. Traveling along the brok en ridg? of the tluff for a mile or more we came to where the fire seemed to have stopped. A street formed the line between the burned city and the few unburnt buildings in this outskirt section: The second house back from this division line was what we had called home since landing in Jap an. It was difficult to recognize it. The school for training Chris tian women near our house had tumbled down and much of the Who Is It That Wouldn't Run to Get Such .;:;yUEs;-- As We Have in VALUES ' You'll save from one hundred to three hundred dollars on every car you buy here. We've bought them on a forced market and you get the saving. 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