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ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1925. SIX Remember This: GENERAL Gasoline assures you Easy Starting, Clean Com bustion, Maximum Power, Full Mileage I Jtlll . . . "PLANNED" and "BALANCED" Mean Much to you!'. PLANNED," in connection with gasoline, refers to the fact that GENERAL line, the super-fuel thousands of motorists prefer, is made according to a definite plan solely for use in automobile engines on the Pacific Coast. "Balanced," in connection with gasoline, refers to the fact that GENERAL Gasoline, which is refined by the most modern, most efficient method known to the industry, con tains just the right proportions of quick-exploding elements, medium and heavier ele ments to insure fast, easy starting, immediate pick-up and unlimited power. GENERAL planned and balanced hy bring ing motorist of this territory a new scale of fuel values has made gasoline history. If you haven't tried GENERAL you do not yet know what gaso line can be. , , Sold Only by Authorized Independent Dealers "Fill Up Your Tank and Let Your ENGINE Decide!" GA&OLINE and Lubricants C D. FIES, Local Distributor Roseburg, Oregon .TORNADO DEAD : DUG FROM DEBRIS (Continued rrom page I.) , Identification 1'ossibty two score bodies were ho badly marred as to prevent rec ognition and It Is explained Hint these will be buried with Joint servlres. rts snd J ran over and flanged the freight." Disaster Appalling " CARBONIMLE. 111.. Mur. 20 Pull realization of Ihe appalling disaster which befell the circuit of small cities and towns within a ra dius of 25 nillns of this city dawn ed today when, after another night ..of toll Jn darkness to rerover the Injured and dead, recapituliitlnn of ; ceremony. the disaster of Wednesday's torn- Visitors and sightseers by the do showed thn number of dead ' carload Invaded tho tornado din climbing steadily above the 500 j trlct yesterday and today and la mark, with between i.noo and 3.-1 places , nrncllually blocked traffic 000 Injured and property loss at ifor hours. .16,000.000. j Murphysbom. West Frankfort Keller measures were well under and Gotham continued In be tornado struck, arrangements Fairfield. 50 miles northeast, would be made for Interring most I A barber chair found in a field of the hundreds of victims by the! near here was a mvstery, as no end. of the week, llut few bodies jharber shop was known to have remained unidentified today and It been In the stricken west Frank will not be necessary to hold any !fl)rt ,roa. Presumably the chair appreciable number of them for! had been transported through the and Rive all other assistance pos-Many of them were outsiders In air from soino other town. A frame building of the West Frankfort water plant was left standing untouched ' while large I trees on all sides .were snapped off Several entire families were wlp-"r l"rn UM "'" r,n""' cd out and Indications were they I Hundreds of automobiles her would be laid to rest with a single Ihad their tops blown off. were hurled upside down, . or virtually demolished. Most of a tin ran dump was picked up from one side of the West Frankfort -Denton highway and transferred to the other side. A grove of trees near here sible. 90 Dead at Gorham CAIRO. III.. Mar. 20. Ninety dead is the latest estimate of the casualties In and around Gorham by Wednesday's tornado, accord- I Ing to a message received by J. c. l.uny, local agent of the Mis souri-Pacific. The school building was destroyed and the message in timated that many of the dead were pupils The town has been leveled and a tent city has been established to care for the many Injured. Presents Funeral Aspects MI'RI'IIYSIIOUO. Ill, Mar. ;n Southern Illinois presented a fun eral aspect today. With the cessation of first fren zied efforts to relieve the auffer- TP" j ing. to count the dead anil to es timate damage yesterday, that fol l"B i n.l.l...l .I........ f fan.ltv I strength of personnel, bou-lng fa-'wcll as the greatest loss of life al- I cloUiInc stretched on the limbs I1"""1 .J", m" disastrous tornado cllltles for the estimated S.noo , though Ihe little town of He Soto ",'"ed on the iiiiids. r.or,i , thl, .,!, organized homeless, foodstuffs and medicines I virtually obliterated, had a higher . H? N"r E,cp , lr,,"pf work wrnt torrd quietly. ndprlvatosour.es. percentage of casualties. I Th SOTO. 111., War. . Jess West Frankfort's loss of life mini- l'lans for funerals bad not been i Many Wind Freaks iPankey or Harco. who was return-Ibers approximately 123 dead with announced today In snv of the ' WFST FRANKFORT. 111. Mur. ,n '?.nl" .non"' .,p'm m labout Ml identified. stricken cities today, but It was! 20. Many wind franks were re believed that with a measure of ported In Wednesday's tornado. order being restored fnmi the Murphtborn tax receipts of Wed- chaos which prevailed nftrr Ihe 1 netditv's dsro were picked up at A New Radio or Phonograph for Your Old Unused Piano v - - - ' (Jnhecrd of? But that it jusf the kind ot' trade we offer THE CLOEB RADIO wins by companion over machines costing thre or four times as much. Absolutely non-reradiatlng, will not Intsrftr with other seta tven in ths same building. Tom In and describe your piano, and let us explain tire Globe. W will deinonstrala In. comparison with any other Radio set made. OTT'S MUSIC STORE R08EBUR0, OREGON with his wife and two smnl! child- lien ton, MrLcansboro. l.oi-an ren In an automobile when Wed- .Parrlsh. Murphysboro and Do S.mi nesilnr's tornado approached, tivl,By shared a common sorrow, dny related his attempt- to seek ,,,. having suffered heavy lomes shelter and described a fanlnsy of ;)n lne rnK, of ctii,.na. the winds. Ho swung Into a ga- Sot0i perhaps, stistolned the rage to escape. Pankey said, and . ninst tragi loss. It being pstiuuited as he stepped from the automobile ,hlIt one-third of lis dead . re the roof of the garage was whirled lci,iidren under three yenrs of nse. away. Next he asserted. Ills car j S(,vt,n p,.rsons were killed. .sixty wns tossed Into the air and carried mme nT m seriously Injured, off with Ms wife snd children In .,.t unaccounted for and It. lie also was lifted and blown ,.),, homeless In Hush, III. five blocks, alighting uninjured on ThB iltU f th(1 n rolc work of the Illinois IVntrul railroad tracks. !,., . nn)y begun. Ills wife and children later er visitors and relief workers from found In a ploughed field and mey added that the last time h saw his automobile It was still sailing Ihrnurh the clouds. Relief For Suffering WASHINGTON. Msr. ?(. Relief machinery of the American Red Cross wss In full motion today In behalf of the thousands of Injured and homeless In the tornado wrecked section of the middle west, with national ncnuqiuiiii-ii. here speeding every facility of Its ,,,,,,,, the outside world gazed upon a scene of appalling destruction at Murphysboro. Virtually the entire northern section of the town, ihe Industrial center anils th wrste:n section, the best rcsldentbil dis trict, lay In ruins. The hanks of Ihe Hlg Muddy r v er are littered with debris. The streets of Ihe city aro croi.i with homeless people. Dans f ir burial of the dead were belnrf com- iwlng fore of relief workers in the field. It stood ready also to rarrv out Its offer of aid for the engineers of th fir at Toklo and flood st Trnjlllo, Peru. A partfcof traln-d !lnir writ ers mobilised at Red ( tos head quarters yesterdny wer due toCir- rlve In Princeton, inn.. iouy Many Msssagst Received CAIRO. III., Mar. 20 The local Western 1'nlon offlco today hail n III about Jrt.OoO messages g'l'lr. s .ed to pers ' In th storm ridlni coal region, but facilities were In adequate to handle the telegrann and It was decided to send mes sengers Into the storm area to ile aid In rehabilitating the homeless jllvcT tne8( m,,ase, personally quiring about their relatives living In the towns that suffered worst from the storm. Serum Dispatched INDIANAPOLIS, Mar. 20. Anti tetanus serum 750 tubes, all that was available here was sent to utorm torn Southern Illinois early todny In an airplane In ' command of two army officers of Fort Ben jamin Harrison. Red Cross officers at Carbondale and Murphysboro. 111., and other hamlets. In appeals to the local organization, requested that serum be sent qutcsly. t Known Dead List Grows MURPHYSHORO, Mar. 20. The list of known dead here has climb ed to 175. It was announced by au thorities. The injured are placed at more than 400. The list of known dead In Franklin county toduy mounted to 151 of this number 110 were dead at West Frsnkfort and 41 at Parrlsh and vicinity. . Latest unofficial estimates placed the number of injured In Franklin county at 400 with 300 at West Frankfort and 100 at Parrlsh and vicinity. Missouri Dead IS ANNAPOLIS, Mo., Mar. 20. A recapitulation of the loss of life In Missouri as a result of Wednes day's storm show only 15 persons dead. Perryvllle and Rlehle and vlclnitv head the list with six each with two dead at Annapolis and on at Altonburg. Searching For Bodies INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Mar. 20. Rescue workers continued today in their search of the ruins In th storm torn sections of Southern Indiana for bodies of victims re norted to hsve perished In the tornado of Wednesday which took n toll of more than 100 Uvea titer. Forty-one bodies nav been re covered at Criffln. Ind., where from 15 to 50 persons are said to have been killed while at Irince ton where 10 are known to have perished, all o( th bodies have been recovered as wer tho bodies of twenty known victims at Owens- Tllle. Three wer killed at Elisa beth and thlr bodies rccc.red. Th tornado brought Injuries to more than fir hundred persons. In Princeton near ner. 3" home were devastated and 3ow others partially wrecked. It was said th damage would b 13.000,- 000 while at tlrlffln, where erery building was lata waste ana no in habitant caped unscathed, th property losa wai estimated at be tween 11,000,000 to $2,000,000. Seventy-five housea were wrecked at Owenyllle, and the- property damage will exceed a million dol lars, 10 Dead In Missouri. DIEHLE. Mo., March 20 Ten persons were known to be dead today In Southeastern Missouri as a result of Wednesday's tornado. The storm did not strike Perrv. I Till where six persons were re j ported dead yesterday. The dead listed In four little hamlots: Tllehle. Schumer Springs. Llx- vllle and Fronab. the Injured number more than 50. I Kentucky Buries Dead LOUISVILLE. Ky.. Mar. 20 Kentucky with a tornado casualty list of Jg dead and 131 injured, to .1ay faced the task of burying and nouiing una! rites over the dead. No estimates of the damage caused by Wednesday's storm was available although unverified pre dictions placed the total near the I3TI0.000 mark. That the wind was of power and of enormous lifting force was evi denced by Louisville's outlying dis tricts when pieces of broken furni ture were found scattered upon the ground, carried over Into Ken tucky across the mile wide Ohio river from Indiana. Red Cross Working -DUQUOIN. 111., Mar. 20. Amid Ihe confusion and pitiful sights wrought by Wednesday's tornado there shone today one bright ray of encouragement, the fruit of the incessant work of the Red Cross which established temporary head quarters here, principally to take care of the refugees from De Soto. Clothing, food, bed clothing and cota have been supplied the needy. Those who .escaped the storm were cared for In private homes and In public buildings. CHICAGO, Mar. 20. E. . W. Creighton, farm bureau adviser for White county, 111., telegraphed to the Illinois agricultural associa tion today that 47 persons have been killed In the rural sections of i this county, eight school houses were demolished and there Is a . great loss In livestock. ! Red Cross Makea Appeal . t "SAN FRANCISCO. Mar. 20. The headquarters of the Pacific division of the American Red Cross ; here received a telegram today from national headquarters In ! Washington, saying that no public ' appeal for funds is being made by I the Red Cross, but that voluntary , subscriptions will he received. These subscriptions will be for : warded to the headquarters In St. . Louts. ! Copies ot the telegram were sent from here to all Red Cross chap ters In the western states and in ; Alaska. Masonic Lodges Aid BENTON, 111., Mar. 20. Grand I Master R. C. Davenport, head of 'the Illonois Masonic lodges, was i In Benton yesterday and headed a committee that visited the storm- swept area making a survey to be I used in a drive for funds which I they will use In rehabilitation 1 work. After the survey Mr. Daven ! port authorized the statement that ithe .Masons of Illinois would raise a fund of J100.000 for this work. At Princeton, Ind.: Mrs. Ho bart Reed. At Owensvllle, In.: L. C. Jor dan and two small sons, Mrs. Bra dy Johnson, Roy Oiler, Paul Sto neberger. Helen Harris, Kthel Grublis, Harry Van Way, Walter Kern, Mrs. Flo Kokomoor. Mary L. Kokomoor, Thomas Notting ham. William Westheidman. Les ter Price. Willmer Kern, Auburn Sanders, Virgil Horton, Sid Hlght, Clarence Combs, James 'Oldham, Cecil Sears, Fern D. Lasham, Floyd Strickland, William Greg ory, Mrs. Daugherty. Charles Stal lings. Mrs. Louisa Denby, Richard Nash, James Lamar, Mrs. u imam Price, fant), Chrlsi and At ley a: At Mrs. mons, Flann At Lewis, aldlne Malcol daug Panes. Irvin Luther Burton and Gilbert Rome del. Fates. John Black. Mrs. Fra Hrown, Klizabeth Bolen. Mrs. Sho plnksy. Mr-. Floyd Dixon, Mrs. C. L. Illrks, Frank Dnnar. Ida Og den. Charles Campbell, Wayne 1. Hrown. Jesse I). Brown. Belly .lean Browa. John Novotney, Na haley Starns, Randall Karnes. Mrs. Tim Karnes. . At llnnlnn 111 Mrs ftchnria Ra'lney. 45, Charles liunter, f. 4 Roy Braden, 3, Wllna Braden, 6, k Kttle Kerley, 4, Bertha Kerley. ; 4. Gunter 7. Hattle Smith, 67, Ivan Smothers, 18. m k Wa-ASK your Grocer TRU-BLU SCta " fytf&r ' Biscuit Co. SfSfl? . Spokane, Portland , ol).y'o?glGRtlEN GUHP WATCH E3SSt-ij HERE few suggestions for the fltffirT tri-m rr MaisssJi EASTER BRIDE The same make of clock your grandfather used to "wind" 8-day movement, gong strike and mahogany case big value at $18.75. t . , A dainty Gruerv wrist watch In white gold, 15 jewel movement. A bar- 11I1 gain at . , I 0 $35.00 i ' QUADRUPLE SILVER CANDLESTICKS Other jewelers sell 'em for more money but we'd rather give our customers something to talk about. Colonial style $8.00 Dutch style 7.75 11S Ca JEWELER Repairing i v. fr .1 mm William Price. Jr.. Iln-J 19. l afl M 'A Mrs. Charles Stalling. Mrs. j 5 ILf A fft 1 1 I -lfi7 AVC1 I 5 topher Elspermax, Infant, I Bl Nil I H lV ft- I 1 K four others unidentified. Jj JLTA VVVUil M M. J I T KJm f. Logan, 111.: Mrs. James Cur- K f nd daughter. f n ei noawaiaM 'A Akin. III.: Mrs. Arthur Shu, d 8iias-suitivan, John Gam- a j.iere 18 a planter sold strictly on its merits. ' The 2 Mrs. Monroe ing. Mrs. uiuo "A . . 'A igan, John Lempiey. IK , Droof is in what the man who uses it savs: any of ! West Frankfort, III.: Flmcr r , , ... . , . , , . an unidentified child, Ger-1 9 the toiiowing men, known to you all, will be glad p Rumley. Waiter Ogden, f . . 11 . 'A m Ogden. Brown Zukorla. ' TA to tell you: . K hter of Luther Pattile. 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