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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1933-03-30, Page 3THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE . THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1033 Letters from Eearthquake Zone, California J . lug. Compton a small city between here and Long Beach was really the hardest hit in proportion to its size. There isn’t a business house in the downtown section but what is dam aged beyond repair. It will have to be entirely rebuilt. Long Beach is badly damaged. The gas was turned off all over Long Beach to prevent fires. 'There is no telling where and how many places pipes are broken. The water mains are broken in many places. Some of the frame houses are skew gee but most of the damage is with old or brick-faced buildings. Garages seem to have had quite a toll of crumbled walls. In building them a brick wall was built without any form of reinforcement, stretched across and the on and when the qnaae walls crumbled and let down. The quake was as far Santa Barbara and as far south as Our readers will be interested in (ing. excerpts from several letters which have been received from the earth-, quake zone in California. Mr. life was spent in to his father, Mi’- Toronto, tells of periences. Box 694, Elmore Lane, whose early Exeter, in writing S, Lang, of following ex- R. the San Pedro, Calif. March 16, 1933 Dear Father; I was over to Long Beach on Sun day night looking for a friend of mine (the old man who is a spirit ualist) who was living in an apart ment house in the heart of the busi ness district, I felt much concern ed about him because this apartment house is an old brick building, three stories with a store on the ground floor. The windows of the store were all bro-ken, and the walls of the building were cracked. The front entrance was boarded up, and I did- n’’ " " _ _ him. I wrote him a letter when J-side got home and just got a .reply from him tonight. He was in his apartment at the time of the first, and worst shock it shook the pilaster down on but he wasn’t hurt. And the on his side of the building fell The building is on a corner and wall can’t be seen from the street— that is why I didn’t see it night, No wonder they front entrance boarded modern office buildings Beach suffered little from I noticed all the plate- glass windows in the department stores were brok en and cornices had dropped off here and there. I didn’t see the area where ihe most damage was done—the police were keeping everybody out except those who lived there and those who had passes and doing relief work | The greatest damage was done at \Long Beach and Compton, the lat ter is really part-of Los Angeles, but it is about eight miles south from the heart of the city towards Long Beach. -I was in my apartment at the time of the first shock, it is a one storey frame building, the saf est kind in a quake. Jt rocked like a boat but there was no damage to. speak of. Two of my doors rub on' the floor when opened now, and there is a tiny crack in the plas ter. A bottle was knocked over on my dresser and a glass jar was shook off a wide shelf. They claim the first shock lasted only 11 se conds. I live in a court; a woman living across from me went into hysterics and ran outside screaming. Her husband had his hands full trying to quiet her down, and as each minor shock again, about couple this morning but if"was very slight. In Pedro the- damage was confined to cracked walls, broken windows fallen • cornices and the fancy brick work on the- fronts of stores. A navy sailor was killed with a shower of bricks from the top of a store on one of the main streets. This quake has had much the same effect on people as shell-shock The wiife of the editor on the Long Beach Press Telegram had her hair turn white over night. Babies were born before their time, years old dropped dead She survived the first collapsed on the second half an hour later, plained that her heart was so over taxed from the first one that the se cond was like the straw that broke the camel’s back. My own personal reaction to the quake is that it makes one feel more religious all of a sudden. P. S.—I" J ' . since I left Toronto for tile and in nearby communities. We heard on the radio thia morning tlaat • from 60 to 70' per cent, of the homes and buildings there were wrecked or damaged and in Compton a smallei city nearby, all the business buildings were wrecked. Latest reports! give about 150 killed and several thousand injured. The first shake and the one that did most of the damage ca,me at a p.m. while we apparently the acted as a sort' shocks for we Steel girders roof came the were built the roof north as 't know where to go and look for,,gan niago and as far west as River- im. T wrot.fi him a let.tfir wh«n I . Real damage was felt in an area of fifty miles. ‘The. first quake was about five minutes to six Friday night. Ever since we have had many big and little quakes but none as bad as the first. The first night we went to bed quite late and I didn’t get very much sleep, wait ing I did not know for what. All the radio stations were "knocked” off the air. KAE'R, Long Beach came back a few minutes after, then some of the Hollywood stations. After hours the Los Angeles stations re turned to night and a garage damaged. stantly and through them get a lot of information. All telephone lines were out of commission for quite a while. Sunday was the first real service they could give. Their building was so set up service in of the building. This morning deaths is placed at 116 for the whole area. A few of the deaths were from heart-failure. - Most of them were from falling debris. A great many people are afraid to stay inside their homes in the Long Beach area. Those queer tremors rattle the windows and make such a scarey sound. If one is on the se cond floor lie is apt to get a sinking feeling in the stomach like sea-sick ness. The marines, American Legion and police are patrolling Compton and Long Beach to keep out sight-seers and to prevent looting. They use the old slogan so many times "the Marines have landed and have things well in hand.” It is used so much that it is treated as a joke and yet it is near the truth. Most of the school buildings are damaged and there will have to be a general in spection of all before school re-opens. A few of them are burned. All the buildings in Long Beach must be in spected before they are used. When the quake came I was just reaching for a batch of biscuits from the oven, and the coffee was boiling. I turned off all the gas and stopped to consider whether there would be any danger from things falling from above if I went outside. Then out J went. The quake over a minute and my brain was very member everything though it didn’t seem to be a short time it must have been. Well as it is sort of chilly in the house I think I will go out in the sun. him wall out. this on Sunday had up; in the quake the 'The Long the air and have been on day since. They are over and consequently badly We ikept them dailed con. could damaged that they a vacant lot outside the official list of came she would go to pieces We’ve had these tremors a dozen times a day up to a of days ago. There was one A girl 11 from fright shook, but shock about The doctor ex- ■It’s just 19 years ago today “ ‘ s West. From a letter written by Mrs M. Stout, of Los Angeles, to .sister, Mrs. Wm. J. Smith, of < tralia, we take the following: Dear Kate,— Hurrah, we are still here and except for shattered nerves. The most damage done in Los geles was from broken glass, many' and~tliat"is plate glass windows being shattered ! The insecure chimneys all toppled over. A few of the brick-faced frame buildings lost their brick fac- did not last for for some reason clear. I can re- I thought of and Armstrong 73; Elaine Hoskins 50; Gen. Otterbein absent, A- E. Consitt, teacher (*) means missed examinations, Lieut. Bam. Bennie was ip Lon don last week attending a special military course. COMMUNICATION ...■■ .«««"■'. li-ww.. ................................................U.. He. .iiiuii EDWARDSBURG CROWN BRAND down on that section about in the afternoon S. fleet which was the coast. I had 150 in- sub- this planes few overhead in The roads along the jammed wit'll cars and it seven p.m. when we ar- and on the way back we few minutes to six were at dinner and hill which we are on of a cushion to t'he were not shaken as bad as houses a few blocks further down, We can be very thankful that the quake did not come a day sooner for an Thurs day afternoon we were Long Beach and the same time watching the U. in review along taken the, afternoon, off to see it and we had a couple of the neigh bors with us. It was a wonderful and interesting sight about navy ships of all descriptions eluding airgraft carriers and marines and in addition to about 250 formation, ocean were was almost rived home drove through some of these towns which were badly damaged the fol lowing night about the same time The territory where the buildings are down or in bad condition are roped off and only relief workers are.allowed in so it wiill be several days before we can go to see it. The manager of our shop and one of the salesmen drove out there yesterday morning but they had a deputy sher iff’s badge and so were allowed to go through and they report that t’he damage done was worse than the papers would have us believe. Wit'h the banks closed for over a week business has slowed up con siderable and then on top of that there had to be this earthquake. One good thing will result from it how ever and that is it will put a lot of unemployed people to work to build the damaged houses buildings. It his just been reported over radio that all schools in and around Los Angeles will be closed for a week in order to allow the city en gineers to inspect te schools before the cildren return as walls were cracked in a lot of buildings. They are making this week take the place of the regular Easter holidays, sc the children will not really be miss ing any time out of tlieir school term. I mentioned before that we were' well which we are except Doug- has a swollen cheek which looks i mumps but doctor claims it is ; swollen glands. A number of kids at school have had it and Apparently Exeter, 1 fairly well in dealing ! employed and needy, something from other ported in the public press. For in stance, some places supply the wants of their needy but in return the re cipients of supplies will pay for these supplies in ing summer by working municipality, when they working for others. that’s self-respecting people come because they rather than charity without earning it. In ^Exeter a large amount could be done in this way and more work than usual on th© streets, boulevards parks, etc. This plan is worth a trial. Again, why should our treasury be called upon to supply fuel to able bodied men when there are so many trees on th streets and on private property that are unsightly because of great rotten spots where large limbs were cut off too late in the life of the tree and it was beyond the power of the wound. .Some of decayed so much menace in a wind property. Many of the trees on the streets and owned by the town could be removed and the beauty of the town greatly improved if young trees were planted in their stead. If anyone wishes to see an example of this improvement he should take a walk along Victoria street west of Main street. If he wishes to see though doing with her un may elarn oi towns as re- This have tc the for are is a com- the not plan wel- desire work tree to heal the these trees have tlhat they are a storm to life and THE CANADA STARCH CO. economical and delicious table syrup nourishing sweet for the whole family C8 LIMITED, MONTREAL large trees, the replacement of which would'be an improvement, he should take a walk along Andrew street or over to the corner of Gid- ley and William streets, or really almost any place around town. These trees, one or two to a family, could be allotted now and save the town the cost of fuel. It is a duty our council owe the people. There are many who would glad ly avail themselves of this privilege to provide their homes with warmth. We are pleased to see a little man drive down Main street lately with a load of poplar poles, to be willing to work chance. Some, however, have the day of high wages sibly for ever. At least, prices for farm products remain so low as they are now, farmers can not pay anything like the wages they paid a few years ago. One of these farmers tried to hire two of our villagers lately to help him pre pare for the spring work but they refused to work for the wages he could pay and one of them had the nerve to tel] him that he would apt work since he had never had a bet ter time because the town was keep ing him, He is said if he gets a to learn that is .gone, pos- while the CHAUTAUQUA DATES The Chautauqua dates for Exeter have been received and Chautauqua this year will be later than usual, the dates being June 12, 13, 14, and 15th. The average admission price on a season ticket basis will be 25c. There gram; one of ture; and other feature attractions. will be a Negro Jubilee pro- one thought provoking play; lighter vein; a challenge lec- a special children’s program NO MILITIA CAMP According partment of tawa, there summer for tive militia. to reports from the De National Defence, Ot- will be no camp this the non-permanent ac- There’s safety in numers—a ban ana is never skinned until it leaves the bunch. all ■ was like just the some that Douglas plays with, sc we were not worried about it when he got it and expect he- will be al right in a day or two. I want to get this away this af ternoon mail it. Hope so this will have to finds you all Love to all <1 Chevrolet Standard. PanelGENL'RAL MOTORS PRODUCTS Chevrolet '/z ton "Pick-Up” with Enclosed Cab hurry tc well. 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However it gave us quite a scare for after the first tremor there were numerous others throughout the night and oven last night wo felt two. Needless to say twe slept very little Friday night for shook after shock came a half hour or so apart and wheh we finally did lie down it was w’^h our clothes on so we could need be. The radio ful thing for first and severest shock till reports and advice was given over the ra dio, People were advised to stay away from the effected areas and it was only a few hours till they had sailors ahd marines which were on the warships nearby, come' lice the sections where the was done. Long Beach, a city of situated on the ocean was the worst affected as the quake centred there her Cen- 0 gangster 77; 70; Kenneth 69; Ruth Bell 69; Jack 67; Irene Hoskins 63; Alfred 62; Margaret Shepherd 60; Glenn 60; Dorothy Daters 58; Fee 57; Edna Saundercock Harold Wil- 8.5; Pearl 77; Barbara i get out in a hurry if is certainly a wonder- ft wasn’t long after the and po- damage ROOM I Sr. IV—Jean Foster 70; Robert Drysdale 69; Gladys Saundercock 69 Ivan Kipfer 67; Muriel Hoskins 44*. Jr. IV—David bert Drummond more monS Ropp Mona Nellie 55; Irma Kipfer 51; Keith Buchan an 47; Mae Wolffe 44; lard 17*. Sr. Ill—Mary Clark Harper 78; Alice Pfaff Shepherd 74; Jack Coles 70.; E. Mc Queen 69; Douglass Sangster 64; Gordon Hodgert 57; Lloyd Brock 52 C. H. Blowes, Principal iJr. Ill (A)—'Russell Hedden 84; Norma Cook 7 8.5; Marion Filshio 78; Carey Joynt 75; 68; Jim Campbell 66; 56. (B)-—-Geo. Sangster ter 53; Herman Wolffe 48; Billfr’ Higgins 47*; Laird Hudson 42*; A. 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