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Long Beach Disaster Toll of Deaths Is Mounting

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SCORES APPLY FOR RIGHT TO REOPEN WITH FEDERAL 'AID Many Expected to Renew Business on Monday; Requests for Licenses Are Studied in Order of Receipt. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER t'nltrd Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 11.—The twelve federal reserve hanks today began pouring a stream of new currency into the nation's hanks to fortify them for gradual reopening. beginning early next week. Ranks in all sections were deluging the treasury with applications for licenses to resume full, normal operations. Officials were working at] nan

top speed on these applications. They indicated some! banks may be permitted to open Monday. Other authorizations will jp> forward asj quickly as officials can check condition of the banks. j Applications are being considered in order of receipt. Officials emphasized that delay in approving reopenings should not be construed as a reflection on a bank's soundness. A perfectly sound bank's reopening may be delayed simply because its application is farther down on the list. Must Be Sound Federal reserve member banks must satisfy the treasury that they are “sound, going institutions" before their applications will be approved. Secretary of Treasury William H. Woodin announced. He authorized state banking commissioners to approve reopenings of state banks and cautioned them that he expected them to adhere to this same principle. Secretary Woodin indicated that reserve system member banks which reopen must open up 100 per cent. This was taken to mean that they must abandon the percentage withdrawal restrictions which many banks invoked before the holiday. To give the banks time to obtain ' additional currency before reopening. the twelve central federal reserve banks and their branches were ordered to open today and begin advancing the new currency authorized under the banking bill passed Thursday. Money Hushed to Banks Bales of the crisp new money already have been rushed to the reserve banks from the bureau of engraving and printing here. Every hour of the day and night the presses are turning out additional millions of dollars' worth. Federal reserve member banks immediately ran convert virtually all their sound assets into this currency. They can get SIOO of currency for every SIOO of government obligations which they desire to pledge with the reserve banks. They ran obtain SOO of currency for every SIOO of other sound collateral. rending reopening of the banks for full normal business, officials emphasized they may continue to release funds for pay rools, food, medicine, and other necessary household expenses as prevously authorized. Administration officials felt gratified at the spirit in which many banks were taking advantage of these authorizations and easing the ineonvenence of the holiday on the public. Public Is Helpful Officials were graified. too. at indications of public co-operation in meeting the emergency. They noted with satisfaction that millions of dollars' worth of gold was being returned to banks and postoffices. Thousands of persons stood in line in New York and other places l Turn to Page Two)

Call Us Every one in the city and count> who has friends or relatives in the quake-torn zone of California today is anxious for some word from the coast. By calling The Times, Ri. 5551. it will be possible to obtain the latest information on the disaster. The stories of the tragedy will change hourly today and The Times will be glad to supply the latest news to you.

The Indianapolis Times Cloudy with light rain or snow tonight, Sunday partly cloudy; slightly warmer tonight with lowest temperature about 30.

VOLUME 44—NUMBER 261

CITY BANKS MAP REOPENING PLAN Renewal of Business Early Next Week Expected by Officials. Indianapolis banks remained closed today, but reopening early next week virtually was assured, with the twelve federal reserve banks resuming operations today. While employers were struggling with the problem of meeting their pay rools, many being forced to pay 1 off with checks which can not be I cashed at this time, clearing house I members were preparing to meet to j work out reopening plans. It was reported that all four of | the federal reserve banks here made ; telegraphic application Friday night to the Chicago federal reserve bank : to reopen as son as the President’s | banking holiday is ended, probably I Monday. The applications are being considered in the order received. Folowing a ong conferecen Friday night with several clearing house members, Luther F. Symons, state banking commissioner, and others. Governor Paul V, McNutt announced that state banks of Indiana would remain closed today for general banking business. News that the reserve banks had been ordered to reopen this morning was received by the bankers (Turn lo Page Two) 2,000 JAPANESE FLEE Wrap Possessions in Bundles, Dash for San Pedro Hills. Bit I nited Press LOS ANGELES. March 11.—Two thousand Japanese workers at Terminal Island, in Los Angeles, decamped in a body shortly after the first earthquake last nght. With their possessions wrapped in bundles, the families left for the San Pedro Hills a few miles distant. FIRE SPREAD IS FEARED Extinguishing of All Flames Asked by Long Beach Chief. Py l nited Press LONG BEACH. March 11.—The chief of the fire, department early j today asked Long Beach residents to extinguish all fires, explaining | that a city-wide fire might follow the disastrous earthquakes of last i night.

Long Beach Citizens Struggle Through Debris-Littered Streets to Ruined Homes

BY NORMAN B. DEUEL, I nited Prf*s Staff Correspondent Long beach, cal.. March 11. —Residents of this seaside city of 142.000 population fought their way through debris-filled streets today, returning to ruined homes and shops crushed under brick and concrete torn loose by Friday night’s earthquake. For the most part, they spent the night oh lawns, on the beach, in parks, or seated in their automobiles in the surrounding open country, where camps of tents, smoking fires and serried rows of parked cars sprang up away front the menace of falling walls. By thousands, automobiles of a fleeing popuation choked all highways leading out of the stricken city Friday night. They returned today to a city guarded by troops with fixed bayonets courteous guards who saluted and said;

Where Fury of Earth Shock Struck

j V Siis?r O J ''Sint* ™"n .* *’ SENATOR OAVIS IS UNDER KNIFE Suffers Acute Attack of cnr Appendicitis Flying to nr PITTSBURGH, March il. Jnited States Senator James J. Davis was reported resting comortably in a hospital here today * ”

SENATOR DAVIS IS UNDER KNIFE Suffers Acute Attack of Appendicitis Flying tc Pittsburgh. By United Press PITTSBURGH, March 11. United States Senator James J. Davis was reported resting comfortably in a hospital here today after an emergency operation for appendicitis. Senator Davis suffered an acute attack of appendicitis while flying to Pittsburgh from Washington Friday night. Arriving in Pittsburgh, he immediately consulted a doctor, who advised the operation. He was taken to South Side hospital, where the operation was performed at 1 a. m. His condition was reported as satisfactory later. TROOPS CALLED IN SAN PEDRO LOOTING Governor Rushes Aid After Warning by Radio. P>t United Press SACRAMENTO. Cal.. March 11.— Looting broke out in San Pedro, badly damaged earthquake center, early today, and troops of the National Guard were ordered rushed there by Governor James Rolph Jr., when he was informed that civil authorities were unable to cope with the situation. Governor Rolph was informed of the alleged looting in a radio communication from Major Harris, of the California National Guard at Long Beach. Major Harris said he had the One Hundred Sixtieth battery of guardsmen assembled and the Governor ordered the troops dispatched immediately. Colonel Paul Arndt, Sacramento, was placed in temporary charge of military affairs by the Governor. PUTS END TO LIFE AS FIRSTS HOCK HITS Unemployed Man Fires Bullet Into Head With Opening Temblor. Py United Prrss LOS ANGELES, March 11.—Ivor Williams, 52, unemployed bookkeeper. committed suicide by shooting himself at the moment that the first of a series of earthquakes shook southern California last night. Members of his family first believed that the report of his revolver was the sound of some damage being done by the temblor.

"This block is quarantined, sir,” when a resident sought to enter a danger area—guards who preserved quiet and order and prevented even a semblance of looting. Two hours after the temblor laid waste buildings and the heaving earth brought on a nameless terror, downtown Long Beach was as deserted as a sepulchre—whitened by mortar and plaster, and silent except for wailing sirens and the fall of crumbling walls. tt a a T'HROUGH the usua Ily thronged streets, a few groups of pedestrians made their way. They walked in the center of the thoroughfares. To all but officials, whole blocks of the city were forbidden. Cracked walls and still falling bricks made them dangerous. Occasionally ambulances and

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1933

FRISCO REGION BELIEVED SAFE Little Danger of Quakes Spreading to Area, Says Expert. By United Press PALO ALTO, Cal., March 11.—San Francisco, once destroyed by earthquakes, was believed safe today from any shocks radiating from the Los Angeles district by Profesor Bailey Willis, noted Stanford seismologist. Professor Willis reported that seismographs at Stanford, Berkeley, Mt. Hamilton and Golden Gate Park recorded no activity of the San Andreas Fault, cradle of all San Francisco disturbances. VILLAGES WIPED OUT IN COAST DISASTER Two Communities Demolished, Report to Capitol. Py United Press SACRAMENTO, Cal.. March 11.— Reports from Orange county today stated that the communities of Costa Mesa and Garden Grove were demolished in the series of quakes. The two communities are south of Long Beach where the quake centered. Reports from Orange county officials stated that the post office in Santa Ana was wrecked. HURT IN MAD DASH Frightened Woman Trips Over Cat; Breaks Knee Cap. By United Press HOLLYWOOD, March 11. Frightened by the first of a series of earth shocks in southern California last night, Mrs. Blanche Morris, 42, rushed through the kitchen door of her home, tripped over her cat and fell, breaking her knee cap.

fire engines rushed by. Water flowed in the gutters from the pumping which had extinguished dozens of fires. Broken glass and brick, plaster ana lathe littered the sidewalks. Merchandise tumbled in confusion from the shelves of shops, laid bare to the streets by broken windows and fallen walls. Smaller buildings suifered most. Hotels and apartment houses twelve stories high, remained standing, while one and two-storv markets were demolished. Garages collapsed, crushing automobiles as if they were toys of tin. At the curbs, falling cornices crushed through the loofs oi parked cars. nun ORDERLY and calm after their first panic, householders in the residence district removed their household goods to

BLOOD AND SKIN GIVEN FOR GIRL Jobless Carpenter Offers Self to Save Life of Burned Child. After examination of nearly forty persons Friday, physicians at city hospital were preparing today to replace the seared and scarred skin on the body of 10-year-old Kathleen Carroll, 504 Dorman street. Through the sacrifice of James Strode, 2602 East Washington street, an unemployed carpenter, Kathleen will be given a chance for recovery from burns suffered nearly four months ago. Strode's blood and skin was found compatible with that of Kathleen. Classification No. 1, in which Kathleen's and Strode's blood falls, is rare, physicians said, and his was the only found suitable of all persons examined. The operation will be today or Sunday. Approximately nine square inches of skin will be required. When informed he had been selected. Strode said; “I'm glad. I hope that I can help that little girl get well."

ARMY CONTROLLING ALL COAST RADIO Every Amateur Short Wave Station Is Silenced. By United Press LOS ANGELES, March 11. All amateur short wave radio stations in southern California were silenced last night at the order of James Chappell. United States radio inspector for this district, to permit the United States Army short wave system to handle information and appeals from the stricken district in Long Beach and Compton. Headquarters for the United States Army network were established at the armory in Exposition park, Los Angeles, where Chappell was personally in charge.

lawns, lit campfires in the streets and gathered In groups for companionship and to discuss their plight. Probably half their neighbors had fled, but they remained by their homes. Here a comfortable living room stood naked to the street, a reading lamp shining over an easy chair by a radio revealed by the falling of a wall. There a porch was shorn from its supports. Another house leaned crazily, seemingly ready to fall at a touch. Dinner stood on a table in a second floor dining room. Not a brick marred the interior of the room, as open as a movie set. A number of apartment houses were inspected hastily and condemned. Winter visitors, who throng the city this time of year, were forced to the streets, parks and parking lots, or to the open country in their automobiles. They (Turn to Page Three)

MANY MILLIONS LOSS IN PROPERTY IS TAKEN IN FAR-FLUNG REGION

Known Dead

LOS ANGELES. March 11. ! —The known death list of \ fifty-five in last night's earth- ' quake:

Long Beach

Helen Labaritch. Thomas Murray Mrs. August Lentz. George Donahue, 60. Dorothy Kain. A. E. Summers. Terrance Roberts, 13. Mrs. J. W. Mitchell, 18. Clayton Stevens. Jack Freeman. Dwight Cormish. White. Mrs. P. J. Derry. Sergeant J. Morten, Santa Monica police officer, killed in plane crash. Officer George Towne. Santa Monica, killed in plane crash. Flora Weeden, Montebello. Mrs. M. J. Corbin. H. Lopez. Mrs. B. W. Sampson. Ab Stephens, fireman. Long Beach. E. Caulder, Long Beach. C. P. Wertzburgher, Long Beach. Emil Johnson, Compton. Donald Slauson, Long Beach. J. W. Wilhoit, Long Beach. Pauline Sanders, Long Beach. Unidentified. 52.

Los Angeles

Jean Boyer, 3. Luella Aitrum, 78. R. Tobias. Tcny Ducharne. The Rev. J. A. McLaughlin, 59 Hettie Katherson, Hollywood.

Huntington Park

H. Lobes. 37. Lottie Martinis. Mrs. Ralph Swenson, 39. Mrs. Edna Greenmayer. Dottie Martyne. 30. William C. Van Noy, 56, Walnut Park. C. L. Runyon. One unidentified.

Santa Ana

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ellison, Oakland. Earl Adams, Santa Ana. One unidentified.

Garden Grove

Miss Pollard, high school student

Watts

Four unidentified.

San Pedro

Jay W. Rurray, foreman from U S. S. Marblehead. One unidentified.

Compton

Dr. A. Firkins, 55, dentist. Harold Glenn, 35. John Young. Richard Wade. Mrs. Ruby Wade. 32. Son of Richard Wade, 3. William P. Marshall. Seven unidentified. Mrs. B. W. Simpson, Lynwood. Harold Gundeman. 17. Compton

Artesia

George Stone. Mr. Green. Two unidentified.

Belleflower

Mrs. Frank Ball. Mrs. Irene Campbell. 25 One unidentified.

Hermosa Beach

Mrs. Moore

Wilmington

Mrs. M. J. Corvin. school teacher

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Business District of Big Seashore Resort Is in Ruins; Thousands of Homes Are Wrecked. MARINES PATROL STREETS Shocks Felt From Santa Barbara to San Diego, Distance of 250 Miles; Fear in Los Angeles. By United Press LOS ANGELES, March 11.—Southern California Mas rocked by another earth shock at 6:54 a. m. (8:54 central standard time) today. A heavy earthquake shook Los Angeles at 6:23 a. m. (8:23 central standard time) today. BY GEORGE H. BEALE I'nited Press Staff Correspondent LOS ANGELES, March 11.—Southern California, wracked by a prolonged series of major earthquakes, counted its dead by the scores today, and reckoned its damage in numberless millions. The temblors which shook the area Friday night and today todk an indicated death toll of at least 131 lives. A severe shock was felt at Long Beach at 3:40 a. m. (5:40 a. m. central standard time). A number of buildings, weakened by previous quakes, crumbled. Long Beach, a city of 140,000, center of the disturbances, reported eighty-four deaths. Police Chief V. B. 5 ancey estimated the toll might run to 200.

Coroner Frank Nance, however, said he did not believe the Los Angeles county death list would exceed 100. Nance claimed the Long Beach list contained many duplications caused by removal of bodies from undertaking parlors to the American Legion armory. Other sections that suffered heavily were southwest Los Angeles, Compton, Garden Grove, Buena Park. Watts, Artesia, Costa Mesa, Bellflower, Santa Ana and Huntington Park. Death and injuries were reported from these cities and property damage was heavy. More Than 100 Tremors The shocks started at 5:54 p. m., Friday and this morning the seismograph had registered more than | 100 tremors. The jolts were felt from Santa Barbara to San Diego, a distance of 250 miles, but damage was slight in many places. Fire followed the initial quake in i man places. A number of residences in Long Beach went up in j smoke. Oil wells in the Signal Hill field, one of the richest in the world, also were fired. All blazes were under control this morning. For a distance of fifty miles down I the coast from San Pedro, eastward perhaps twenty-five miles into Orange county, and between Los Angeles and the sea, the countryside was damaged. Within that area approximately 600,000 people reside. Minor damage was reported up the coast from San Pedro as far as Venice and Santa Monica, but the area of greatest damage could be covered roughly in a thirty-mile radius from Long Beach. Marines Patrol Long Beach The central part of Los Angeles suffered only minor damage. A few falling cornices and brick walls were reported frfom the business section, but in the southwest part of the city, where a "shoe-string" strip, a mile wide, runs to the harbor district, the damage was increasingly heavy. Along this strip lie the towns of Huntington Park. Southgate, Walnut Park. Gardena, Torrance, Willmington. San Pedro. Lynwood and Compton, all of which reported loss of life. Five thousand sailors and marines from the United States battlefleet moved quickly into Long Beach to help peace .officers maintain order. They were fully armed and had orders to shoot to kill if any looting : was discovered. Other sailors and marines were

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j sent to cities for fifty miles up and I down the coast line. | Police in the area affected estimated that more than 4,000 people ! sustained injuries of varying seri- ! ousness. Long Beach reported more than 1,500 injured, 25 per cent having serious hurts. Thousands Flee From Homes Many terror-stricken residents of Long Beach left their homes and camped in parks and outlying districts, far from buildings that might topple. Authorities said 25.000 people were massed in the vicinity of Signal Hill. The American Red Cross began moving truck loads of food into the stricken area long before dawn. They planned to set up canteens to feed those who otherwise would go hungry today. All fires within dwellings in Long Beach were ordered extinguished to prevent explosions from escaping gas which might have formed in pockets. Gas had been turned off in the mains immediately after the initial temblor. Scenes of pathos dominated the atmosphere around the Long Beach American Legion auditorium, where Coroner Frank Nance set up a temporary morgue. Dramatic Scenes Enacted Bodies were removed from various undertaking parlors to the central morgue to facilitate identification. Outside were hundreds of persons, fearful that missing relatives I were lying beneath sheets on the floor of the huge building. Fireman, hundreds of whom were i sent here from Los Angeles, began I to canvass the business and resi- ■ dential districts today to demolish 1 still standing buildings which might t be a menace to safety. Later a score of building inspectors will inspect thoroughly the area, reporting on the safety of each individual structure. Their word will be law. Doomed buildings will be pulled down promptly or dynamited. Dramatic scenes were enacted throughout the earthquake zone. At seaside hospital in Long Beach floors were covered with four inches of water from’ broken water mains. Doctors and nurses worked through the night and this morning, standing in the water and j carrying on emergency treatments. Compton Badly Stricken Compton was hit hard by the shocks, only one building in the business district remaining unharmed. It was the Kress store. The Stockwell building went down under the first quake and five bodies were dug from the ruins. Search- , ers expected to find more bodies in the debris. Authorities considered dynamiting the Compton postoffice. Its roof fell iTurn to Page Three)