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THE DAILY MISSOULIAN, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 25, 1930. Italy Goes to Aid of Quake Sufferers FIVE PER GEN 1 HOUSES KING EMMANUEL PREPARESTOVISITAREA DEVASTATED; MUSSOLINI CALLS CABINET ITABLEi SiLITOI MELFI 1 Main Bridge Mass of Ruins. Whole Population Terror-stricken, Fearing Other Shocks to Add to Toll. Red Cross Workers Under Direct Supervision of Head Of National Organization. Air Pictures Are Taken.

inspection of the desolated provinces. Premier Benito Mussolini sent a circular telegram to all prefects throughout the country, forbidding public or private raising of funds for victims of the disaster. The cabinet will be called Into session to adopt measures In connection with relief but Mussolini has indicated he will have no interference in the government's handling of measures to help the stricken provinces back on their feet. The premier, shocked by the increasing severity of the disaster now a national calamity has kept in close contact with the hurried relief work already under way, conducted by the military and by Red Cross units. Army airplanes continued their contact with the quake zone, begun Wednesday, a few hours after the shocks shattered five provinces.

Air Photos Taken. Air photos of the crumbled cities and and rushed Into the streets, where I saw old and women rushing about with children in their arms, hysterical and weeping. Their lamentations were heartbreaking." Desolation at Rapolla. I visited Rapolla, where 20 were killed and 150 injured. The bodies of the 'victims were still lying in rows, awaiting coffins which were being made as rapidly as possible from packing cases, in the public bath house near the side of the road.

The bodies are being removed as quickly as possible to avoid danger of an epidemic. At Melfi, I interviewed the master, Attillo Loffredo. He said. "I was sleeping in the station building when I felt the shock. I shouted to my family and went out onto the platform.

My next thought was to advise the authorities, which I did by telegraph. "My brother, proprietor of the station lunchroom, came running. He asked about our sister. I could hardly answer him. I had Just seen her house crash.

She and her husband were taken out of the ruins." SEMI-ANNUAL AXE MEN'S SUITS Now in Progress To clear our stocks in preparation for incoming merchandise, all our clothing, light weight summer suits included, is now offered at sharply reduced prices. $25 Suits Now $1075 $5o Suits Now $2000 and $2250 $3 Suits Now $2035 and $4o Suits Now $265 and $30 $45 Suits Now $3000 and $3375 $5o Suits Now $3335 and $3750 $60 Suits Now $4000 and ALTERATIONS AT COST BY EDWARD A. STORER, United Press Staff Correspondent. (Copyrleht, 1930, by Unltfd Press.) Melfi, Italy, July 24. (U.R) Seventy-five per cent of the houses of this small hill town of 12,000 population were uninhabitable today, cracked and crumbling as a result of the earthquake which rocked South Central Italy early Wednesday, The people, homeless and dazed, sought shelter in the open.

I saw the prefect of the province of Potenza, who said so far official figures showed 180 'persons dead at Melfi, 100 injured and 200 slightly hurt in the disaster. He said it would cost many millions of dollars to rebuild Melfi. Hot and Calm. I rode the 50 miles from Foggia to Melfi through the torn countryside. It was very hot and calm which everyone said was "earthquake weather." The main bridge at Melfi is a mass of ruins.

Broken electric light wires are lying twisted in the streets. The whole population, terror-stricken, and fearing more shocks, is living and sleeping out of doors. Most of them sleep under trees. The military are providing tents as rapidly as were congregated In public squares awaiting government food rations. Pitiful cries went up of "We want bread." Fortunately, bread arrived at Monte-calvo tonight.

Linemen are engaged In replacing broken telegraph and telephone wires. The Montecalvo authorities are planning to remove the whole population elsewhere, as living in the houses, cracked and swaying, is Impossible. I then visited Ariano cemetery, where 40 dead lay awaiting burial. Carpenters hammered on coffins which they were fashioning from lumber brought right into the cemetery. The scene was pathetic.

Tragic Somes. There apparently were some survivors still under the debris, as their cries and shouts could be heard all day long. At Villanova, I witnessed a tragic scene. Guido Vito, born in Brooklyn, N. with his wife, worked hard to extricate their two small babies.

Heavy walls of the bedroom had fallen on them while he and his wife were asleep in another room. Vito described how he was awakened and realized the fate of his children. He worked all night trying to uncover them. But the debris was so heavy he needed a pickaxe, which he sent for and continued working. Vito also made leather coffins ready to enclose the children when he got them out.

It was a heart-rending task. He placed what little linen was available in the coffins, lining them with it. I witnessed the funeral of four of the victims at Benevento. Performed with impressive solemnity. Thousands lined the streets.

About 100 girls, dressed in black and shrouded in veils, headed the procession, all murmuring prayers. The population are grateful the disaster occurred if it had to occur in midsummer. They can at least, some pointed out with an attempt at cheerfulness, camp out of doors in comparative comfort. The quake zone lies in a straight line from Ariano to Melfi. The town of Villanova, Montecalvo, Aquilonia and Lacedonia are located on the line.

It is remarkable that all the towns worst stricken are located on high summits. They tumbled into the valleys. Houses on summits were absolutely destroyed. Those on the hillsides were in the main intact. On one isolated hill near Villanova, there Is a fissure in the ground a yard wide running 500 yards along the side of the mountain.

BV FRANCIS REA. TjnHed Press Staff Correspondent. Rome, July 24. U.R) Italy at large began to realize tonight the extent of Wednesday's earthquake disaster. King Victor Emmanuel prepared to leave for the earthquake zone.

Premier Benito Mussolini took personal charge of relief work. Compilations made by the United Press showed about 3,700 dead so far reported. Official figures, which at first listed only a few hundred dead, neared 2,000. with many of the worst affected areas yet unheard from. An official communique said that "further communications from the stricken areas put the earthquake in the Vulture region in a far more serious light than was indicated earlier." The Vulture region embraces the affected areas in the provinces of Avel-lino and Venevento, which were the worst hit.

3,188 Houses Wrecked. The official information said the total number of houses wrecked was 3,188, according to incomplete reports, of which 2,066 were in Avellino province alone. The number of injured is incalculable. In towns where the most dead were reported, no reports of injured had been made at all in most cases. King Victor was ready to leave tonight for the stricken zones east of Naples.

He hurried to the capital from the Royal lodge at Santanna-Valdieri, In Piedmont. He will make a personal hamlets of South Central Italy were brought to Mussolini by plane the first pictures of the disaster. They were slightly blurred, but revealed the extent of damage to buildings in the shaken zone. Supervision of the government's re- 1 lief program has been turned over to TANNER IN CITY. F.

B. Tanner, county assessor of Ravalli county, was an arrival in Missoula last night from the Bitter Root. MRS. SOL RECOVERS. Mrs.

H. P. Sol, 106 East Kent street, returned to her home yesterday after her recovery from a minor operation. I interviewed Dr. Puolo Moles of Melfi.

He said: "I was playing cards at my house Undersecretary Leoni, who proceeded to the quake areai Wednesday. Red Cross workers are under the direct supervision of the head of the Italian Red Cross, Senator Cremonesi. Several groups of engineers, architects and builders are cooperating with the civil and military authorities. Much already has been done In the way of first aid to injured and In rushing medicine, food and water to the sufferers. The military have furnished tents and blankets and many places in the flattened country to the south, open fields have been turned into camp grounds.

The terrified people refuse to go inside what houses are left standing. with friends when the shock occurred It overturned the card table and put out the lights. Rheumatism? collected members of my family Quick relief from rheumatic pains without harm: Offers of Aid Are Declined by Italy In Message to U. 5. 1 MILL ON HOMELESS Compare With Reduced Goods Elsewhere To relieve the worst rheumatic pain is a very easy matter.

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(A) Instructions from the foreign office in Rome to respectfully decline all offers of assistance or relief measures for the districts of Italy stricken by the earthquake were received tonight by Ambassador de Martino of Italy. A lengthy cablegram from the foreign office, explaining the government was meeting the situation adequately, came simultaneously with a flood of telegrams from all parts of the United States extending sympathy to the embassy and offering financial or such other relief as might bo required. The message from Rome said the people of the affected districts had so farfar shown complete confidence in the measures taken by the authorities. As a mark of sympathy, representatives of all foreign missions in Washington called at the embassy and left customary cards of condolence. Portland Aviator Much Improved in Hospital at Butte Butte, July 24.

OP) Having regained consciousness, Major Gilbert H. Ecker-son, Portland aviator, who was injured in the crash of, his plane 33 miles southeast of Butte Tuesday night, was reported must improved tonight. Three officials of the Breese Aircraft corporation, which Eckerson represented, arrived today from Portland to Investigate the accident. (Continued From Pate 1.) The districts of Volpago, Nervisa and Susegana were affected. Militiamen, firemen and Red Cross workers went to thei zone from Terviso to bring in the injured.

Some injured were brought here, others were taken to Conegliano and to the town of Montebelluna. Militiamen of the Eleventh regiment of the Engineering corps have gone to the area. Many of them were war veterans, and they sent back word that the portions of the territory which were hardest hit were battered as if by big gun fire. Ten houses, a bell tower monument to war dead and a rope factory crashed at Selva. LOADED WITH DEADLY GERMS SPREADING DISEASE CONTAMINATING ANYTHING TOUCHED lfrT! fell PAUL Whiteman THE FEARFUL "Ring of Jazz" HITS Mtfi ply Two New Temblors In Quake District BY THOMAS B.

MORGAN, United Presa Staff Correspondent. (Copyright, 1930, by United Press.) Benevento, Italy, July 24. (U.R) Two new earthquakes today added to the terror of the half-maddened people in this vicinity. They are living in fear of repetition of the disaster which early Wednesday shook South Central Italy. The shocks were felt' at 9:15 a.

m. and 1:15 p. m. They caused several already badly damaged houses to collapse. I was told 1,000,000 persons are homeless in the quake-devastated region.

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