Evening star. [volume], February 12, 1940, Page A-5, Image 5

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- Death and Confusion
Mingle in Turkey's
Earthquake Area
Torment of Fear Grips
Relatives of Those
In Stricken Towns
By RICHARD MOWRER,
Chicago Dally News Foreign Correspondent,
ISTANBUL.—They didn’t know.
Their anxious telegrams remained
unanswered. The papers had re
ported that 80 per cent of Erzindjan
had been wiped out by the earth
quake. Beyond that there had been
no news. The train that pulled out
of*Istanbul that night consisted al
most entirely of people distraught
with worry for their loved ones in
Erzindjan. The torment of waiting
- to hear something, and not hearing
it, had become unbearable. So now
» they were going to Erzindjan to find
out.
The young man in our compart
ment had a business in Istanbul.
But in Erzindjan he had a mother
and father and three sisters. He
was very quiet, very pale, hardly
spoke, smoked many cigarettes.
The officer had a family in Er
zindjan; wife, son, daughter. The
papers must be exaggerating, he
kept insisting as if we were all
arguing about it. But nobody was
saying otherwise. He was arguing
against an inner apprehension
about the family. “Now let’s be
logical ...” he seemed to be say
ing to himself each time. But his
apprehension would not be stilled.
The woman wept. “Erzindjan”
someone explained, nodding in her
direction.
Relief Trains Get Through.
At Ankara, more passengers. “Be
sure to send a telegram,” said an
old man seeing his son off. People
on the paltform handed scraps of
paper to the passengers leaning out
of the train—names and addresses
of friends and relatives in Erzind
_ jan.
At night, Sivas. Men with shovels
, stood in groups on the platform.
Twelve hours earlier the first relief
train had got through to Erzindjan,
they said. The snow was cleared. A
boy with a glass and a tea kettle
wandered up and down the platform
selling tea.
In the morning, Chetinkaya. Here
the wind howled and twirled the
light snow off the drifts on either
side of the tracks. On a siding a
train load of wounded survivors
from Erzindjan was waiting. The
people from Istanbul and Ankara
left our train and swarmed through
the other one, scrutinizing the
W'ounded. Outdoors two men met
unexpectedly and embraced.
shout fgr Hospital Aid.
Throughout the gorges of the
Euphrates our train went gingerly,
over bridges that might have been
weakened by the shifting earth,
through tunnels and clefts in solid
rock.
At Kemah, an hour's stop. In the
small cafe they served tea spiced
with cinnamon. In Kemah 52 per
sons had been killed by the quake,
they told us. Here we met Feridun
Kurt, Harvard graduate '32. "My
- father, mother and two cousins are
in Erzindjan,” he said, “I have had
no word. I am going to look for
them.” A few hours later he was to
find his relatives alive and unhurt.
We were 52 hours from Istanbul
when the train stopped at a dimly
lighted station. It was New Year
, eve.
"I want to go to a hospital! I
Want to go to a hospital!” a voice
shouted out of the darkness.
This was Erzindjan. •
The return trip was about to be
gin. In an hour the train would
start for Ankara with its cargo of
grief and suffering.
“I beg your pardon, but I believe
that seat is already taken,” ventured
the person installed by the window.
The man swung around from the
baggage rack and seized the as
tounded passenger by the throat.
People intervened. The man burst
Into tears and fled.
Family Lost in Quake.
“You must forgive him,” some
body explained. “He has just lost
his wife and two children in the
earthquake. He arrived on last
night’s train to look for them and
’ they are all dead. He is nearly crazy
with grief.”
Fate had denied him the survival
of his family. In his despair the
stupid, unimportant denial of a cer
tain seat in the train was more than
he could bear.
The train pulled out of Erzindjan
station. It was leaving behind it
ruins, tents and some of the people
it had brought the night before.
There were 53 wounded on the
train. Most suffered in silence.
Some died.
The old woman in the end com
partment died before we reached
Sivas. No one saw her die but the
k brown-eyed 7-year-old Kurdish girl
* sitting on the opposite seat. The
little girl was taken to another com
partment, uncomprehending, while
they covered the old woman’s face.
The brown-eyed child was an
earthquake orphan. Both her par
ents had been killed. They were
Kurds and she spoke no Turkish.
An army officer engaged-, in rescue
work at Erzindjan had found her
and adopted her. She was going to
Ankara.
Death Comes to Youth.
After the old woman it was the
youth who died. Nobody had no
ticed him particularly. At Divrigi
we had seen him go to the station
fountain to fill a bottle of water
Seeing him dead in his compart
ment we remembered that at Div
rigi he had walked half bent for
ward, unnaturally.
At Kayseri they passed him out
of the window on a stretcher, the
untouched bottle of water by his
side.
"I have named him Selamet,
which means Saved, and he is now
my son.” Thus the young soldier
introduced us to his 7-month-old
adopted son. He had found the
baby in the ruins of Erzindjan. The
parents had been killed. The baby,
so small, had not been crushed.
“We already have a baby. My
wife is a school teacher. She will
be surprised when I bring her Sela
met.”
At the thought the young soldier
flashed his white teeth in a smile.
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Inc.)
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Father Maguire Dies
KANKAKEE. 111., Feb, 12 (&).
The Rev. J. W. R. Maguire, 57,
widely known for his work in behalf
of labor, died of a heart attack yes
terday in Miami, Fla. He was presi
dent emeritus of St. Viator College
near here, which closed in 1938.
DEPTH BOMB SINKS SUBMARINE—British caption on this picture says it shows oil from a
German submarine which was ignited by a British depth bomb. British destroyer, the cap
tion states, answered an SOS from a sloop which reported two subs. The destroyer dashed
up and dropped a depth charge which destroyed one U-boat and fired her oil.—A. P. Wirephoto.
Additional Wounds
Found on Body of
Stabbing Victim
Policemen Discover
Trainer of Polo Ponies
Slumped in Doorway
Discovery of additional stab
wounds on the body of James Ed
win Blush, 40, whose body was found
in the doorway of a house in the
1000 block of North Capitol street,
was announced today by Coroner
A. Magruder MacDonald.
The wounds indicate Mr. Blush
was victim of a fierce attack, the
coroner said. The wounds were
found in his back. Casualty Hospital
doctors already having discovered
he had been stabbed in the abdo
men.
Mr. Blush, who had no fixed ad
dress, according to police, was pro
nounced dead about 6 a.m. yester
day at Casualty, where he had been
taken in a police scout car. His
body was discovered by Policemen
P. L. Abel and C. G. Prather of the
second precinct.
Homicide Squad detectives said
Mr. Blush had been seen shortly
before midnight in a restaurant at
52 L street N.W.
A short time later Mrs. Danhakl
and George E. Heitkam ol 927
Fourth street N.E., saw Mr. Blush
stagger and fall to the street. They
picked him up and carried him to
a doorway. . :
Coroner MacDonald said ‘ Mr.
Blush probably died a short time
afterward.
Detectives said Mr. Blush had
been a trainer of polo ponies, but
had been unemployed for two years.
His brother, Leonard Blush, of 814%
Eleventh street S.E., was notified
of the death.
Will Lecture on Drama
Mrs. Frederic Ernest Farrington
of the Chevy Chase Junior College
will lecture on “The Drama: Some
Recent Plays,” on a program to be
held at the First Congregational
Church, Tenth and G streets N.W.,
tomorrow at noon. The Women’s
Society of the cht»ch is sponsoring
the lecture, which will be followed
by a luncheon.
D. C. Committee
(Continued From First Page.)
to pay $2 or $5 to some person who
looks into a crystal ball or a deck
of cards and tells her something
that makes her feel better, that is
her business. I think this commit
tee should proceed pretty cautiously
in putting on a vaudeville act. I
don’t think you can legislate to pro
tect people against fakers. They're
in every profession.”
Two Showmen Argue.
The remarks of Mr. Nichols led to j
a humorous exchange between him- j
self and Mr. Schulte.
"I was in the show business for j
years,” shouted Mr. Schulte, “and 11
know that this stuff is 100 per cent!
fakery.”
“Listen,” snapped Mr. Nichols, “I!
was an active member of Variety j
for years, ano did 52 weeks on the
Pantages circuit. And I sang in ]
every cabaret in Kansas City.”
Mr. Schulte then exhibited a card ;
showing membership in the Actors’ I
Union since 1907. “Let him beat I
that,” he declared.
Representative Bolles agreed with
Mr. Schulte that soothsayers, palm
ists, spirit mediums, etc., should not
be permitted to operate.
“We know,” he said, “there's a
sucker bom every minute. And
sometimes I think there are two
bom in the District of Columbia.”
Wants “Baby Peddling” Probe.
Representative Vreeland, Repub
lican, of New Jersey proposed an
investigation of the alleged “baby
peddling” business.
,“If that situation is true, we ought
to investigate,” he declared. “It’s
something that just shouldn’t be.”
Chairman Randolph announced
he had been requested to introduce
a bill that would require parking lot
and garage owners to carry fire,
damage and iheft insurance on all
vehicles in their custody.
The committee, however, objected
to such a plan after Corporation
Counsel Elwood H. Seal expressed
the belief such insurance would in
crease "parking rates.
In the course of the discussion,
Representative Nichols charged that
the Police Department had been
negligent in permitting some park
ing lot operators to park cars on
the public streets after accepting
a fee to park them on a private lot.
Representative Schulte, as chairman
of the Police and Fire Subcommittee,
promised to confer with Maj. Brown
about the complaint of Mr. Nichols.
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Rainbow Division Seeks
Relatives of Maj. Hudson
The District of Columbia Chapter,
Rainbow Division Veterans, is trying
to locate relatives of the late Maj.
William B. Hudson, Rainbow sur
geon, who was killed in France in
1918.
Maj. Hudson, a graduate of
George Washington University med
ical school, served as a hospital
steward in the Spanish-Amefican
War and as a captain and surgeon
with the District National Guard
Hospital Field Corps service on the
Mexican border in 1915.
He was assistant surgeon at the
District Jail in Washington and
superintendent of the old bathing
beach near the Washington Monu
ment. He also coached athletics at
Business High School.
After the Armistice the local
Rainbow Chapter planted a tree on
Sixteenth street N.W. as a growing
memorial to Maj. Hudson.
The chapter plans to conduct a
memorial service soon at the tree,
and chapter officials request that
cither the widow or the daughter
of the late Maj. Hudson communi
cate with local headquarters in the
Munsey Building.
Italo-Turk Trade Pact
Is Seen Helping Oust
Reich From Balkans
Fascists Hail Agreement
As Logical Moye in
Commercial Drive
Br the Associated Press.
ROME, Feb. 12.—A trade pact
between Italy and Turkey Is near
ing completion, and authoritative
Fascists regard it as a logical step
in the Italian drive for commercial
eminence in the Balkans.
Whatever its effect may be in
further excluding Germany from
Southeastern Europe and in placing
Italy in friendly relationship with
Turkey, a nation in the British
French political orbit, they say
Italy’s only interest is improvement
of her own trade.
Fascist sources here say the chief
significance is that Italy’s energetic
Balkan leadership has been shown
thus far to have kept Southeastern
Europe out of hostilities and there
fore, has made her trade progress
with Turkey possible.
It is denied here that the prospec
tive agreement has any direct
political aspects.
Italy and Turkey enjoyed a
flourishing pre-depression trade.
Commercial accords in 1936 and
1935 went far to re-establish it,
Italian-Turkish commerce in the
latter year amounting to about
$20,000,000.
Italian trade circles hope the new
agreement will double this.
Turkey sent a trade mission here
early this year, as agreement in
principle on trade increases had
been reported, but the conferees en
gaged in long talks on details of
products and quantities to exchange.
Turks See New Pact Sign
Of Growing Friendship
ISTANBUL, Feb. 12 OP).—Con
clusion of an Italian-Turkish trade
agreement was reported yesterday
by official quarters, with the predic
tion that Italy would oust Germany
completely from the expanding Turk
ish market as a result of the pact.
Informed circles acclaimed the
agreement, expected to be signed
shortly, as evidence of growing mu
tual confidence between Italy and
Turkey and said it gave promise of
an early political rapprochement.
These circles said the pact carried
great political significance because
it would align Italy beside Britain
and France in establishing Turkey’s
economy, which has been grAtly
shaken by the virtual suspension of
trade with the Reich.
Added importance was attached
to this development because Turkey,
while occupying a non-belligerent
status, has mutual assistance pacts
with Britain and France.
Meanwhile it was stated that
British and French technical ex
pert* are en route to Istanbul to
take the places gf some 100 German
technicians dismissed from govern
ment advisory posts and ordered to
leave the country.
Trade circles said Italy would
supply exactly what Turkey needs
to become fully Independent of
Germany.
The possibility of Italy diverting
imports of wool, cotton, Iron ore,
cereals, chrome or coal to Germany
was discounted here, as these are
commodities which Italy Is known
to lack herself.
Lincoln, as Lawyer,
Charged Modest Fees
Bjr tht Associated Press.
Abraham Lincoln, as a lawyer,
charged very modest fees for repre
senting the Illinois Central Rail
road.
The Association of AmsHmui Rail
roads made public a hitherto un
published letter from Lincoln to
James P. Joy, dated September 14,
1855, submitting a statement for
$150, covering 15 cares In which he
had taken part during the previous
year. Joy was then counsel for the
Illinois Central.
The letter came to the attention
of the association when It was re
moved from the files of the Illinois
Central and returned to the family
of the late Henry B. Joy of Detroit,
son of James P. Joy.
Will Dance Tomorrow
The Zohar Youth Club of Beth
Sholom Congregation will hold a
"Sadie Hawkins” dance tomorrow at
9 p.m. in the congregational audi
torium. Arrangements are in charge
of Robert Abel, Dora Brotman, Yetta
Brelow, Louis Snyder, Janet Bush
low, Harry Cohen and Louis Weger.
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are, and more than half of this
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