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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY. MARCH 30, 1920 RE TEhaTES CAMPAIGNCHARGES Wood Asked to List All Ex penses, if He Replies. PERSONAL MESSAGE SENT Statement of Facts Aboe Signa ture Wanted to Explain Any Erroneous Allegations. WASHINGTON, March 29. Senator Borah, republican, Idaho, reiterating his charges of excessive expenditures in the interest of Major-General Leonard Wood's candidacy for the republican presidential nomination, telegraphed General Wood today, de claring; that unless the practices of the Wood campaign were corrected they would "bring disgrace upon your name, upon your party and upon your country." "Information from various states." the message added, had convinced Senator Borah that his previous state ments about the Wood campaign ex penditures were "modest." List of Expanses Asked. The message follows: "Press dispatches state you claim the attack upon you was to sway the roters of Michigan. You are in part correct. "It was Intended to sway the vot ers not only in Michigan, but in the United States. I know of no other tribunal to which to appeal to correct these practices. But it can only be effective provided the facts I stated are correct. It is within your power to give to the people- of Michigan and other states a list of your subscribers, the amount you are expending, the amount which you did expend in South Dakota, the amount which you propose to expend, for instance, in Ohio and Illinois. Signed Statement Wanted. "If you will make a statement of these facts over your signature I will correct any erroneous statement which I have .heretofore made. The material which is coming from South Dakota, Illinois and Ohio convinces me that I was modest in my statements. "General Wood, if you are not familiar with what is going on in your behalf for the presidency, I tak leave to assert that unless yo familiarize yourself and correct it yon will bring disgrace upon your name, upon your party, and upon you country." COOKEV1LLE, Tenn., March 29. The fourth district republican con vention today instructed its two dele gates to the national convention for General Leonard Wood. serosa the street, where her body was found In a mass of wreckage at a neighbor's former home. Johnson is in a serious condition.' " 3 ARB KILLED I INDIANA Many Persons In Storm-Swept Area Reported Missing. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, 'March 29. Latest reports from the storm-swept areas of northern Indiana place the number of dead from Sunday's tor nado at 36. Hundreds of persons were injured in ten counties and property damage will total hundreds of thousands of dollars. Many per sons have not been accounted for. Two additions to the death list came from Adams county, where no reports of death have been reported. Eleven dead were reported from Allen county, in which Fort Wayne is located, 11 were reported killed-in Jay county, one in Steubenville county, one In Montgomery county and ten from Union City, in Randolph county. I Full reports from many rural dis tricts have not been received. Relief work today was carried on by local organizations in towns or cities nearest the devastated rural districts. Temporary reconstruction work in some sections was begun today. Several counties. In which no loss of life was reported, suffered heavy property damage. 20 IX WESTERN OHIO KILLED Property Loss Is Estimated at Close to $2,000,000. COLUMBUS, O.. March 29. Twenty persons are known to have been killed, more than 60 Injured and prop erty loss running close to the $2,000, 000 mark caused in western Ohio dur ing Sunday's tornado. Dark county, in which Greenville and Nashville are located, suffered the greatest losses. KlgW were killed In the two towns and more than a score injured. Loss in the upper Miami valley was estimated to be at least $1,000,000. Three persons were killed in Van Wert and three others at Moulton. The villages of Renolette and Brunosberg, near Defiance, were wrecked. Six are dead in the two towns. IMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMilMimmilllUIIIMH Investigate the KASHVILLE, Tenn.. March 9. The Tennessee fourth district republican convention today instructed its two delegates for General Wood. DODGE CITY, Kas.. March 29. Two uninstructed delegates to the national convention at Chicago were chosen by the seventh district re publican convention today. IiOWDEN BIDS i'OR ILLINOIS Presidential Nomination Campaign Opened in Home State. SPRINGFIELD, 111., March. 29. Governor Frank O. Lowden opened his campaign in Illinois as a candidate for the republican nomination for president with an address tonight. For more than 30 years, he said, "I have lived In Illinois. The people or the state are familiar with my re ord. They have honored me greatly ana tor this i am deeply grateful. i aesire ineir good-will and ap probation more man 1 desire any of tice. Much as I would like approval of the people of my home state at the primaries. I shall make no at tempt to match the expensive cam paign being waged against me. I shall neither employ billboards nor the advertising columns of the press. 160 KILLED IN TORNADO (Continued From First Page.) Troops patrolled Elgin, Melrose Park and Wllmette today and police details from Chicago were on guard at Dunning. Wire communication with many communities, blasted by the tornado, still was paralysed today. Every pub lic relief agency was organized to aid victims. In several places American Legion posts sent volunteers to watch for looters and assist in relief work. A survey of the devastated districts wes begun today by Henry J. Cox, weather forecaster. Two Storms Caue Tornado. The tornado was the result of a combination of two storms, he said. One 'developed in Alaska, traveled through British Columbia and joined a storm from the southwest, which developed in southern Arizona and Nevada, This combination. Professor Cox said, resulted in a rotary motion, which formed eddies and caused a tornado. TOWNS EMERBE FROM DEBRIS Relief Measures in Ohio Arc Un der Way; Homes Guarded. TOLEDO. O., March 29. Genoa. Raabs Corners and Swanton tonight began to emerge from the wreckage caused by the cyclone late Sunday night. Two persons were killed and 14 seriously injured at Genoa. At Raabs Corners four persons met death and more than a score were hurt. More than a score were injured at Swanton. At Raabs Corners, a hamlet, almost every building was leveled, while the western section of Genoa was demol ished. At Swanton practically every building was marked in some manner by the storm. t Members of the American Legion post are guarding the ruins of the 20 or more demolished homes. Relief measures were put under way and'a fund was started at Genoa to build new homes. The section of the town destroyed was occupied by the poorer Vlasses. . Some. weird antics were played by the storm at Genoa. At the home of Don Bell, principal of the high school, a two-months'-old baby, sleeping with its parents, was lifted from the bed and thrown across the room on a pillow, depositing him so easily that he was not awakened. Otto Steindam, whose house was blown off the foundation, was sitting in the living room with, one of his children "In his lap. His wife was in another room with the other child. The house was thrown back 20 feet. There was little shock, however, and waa t,-i. t Vi eA Th furnirura was not even moved out of place. The home cf Hiram Johnson was wept away. His wile was .carried WAR DEPARTMENT OFFERS AID Sarplns Building Equipment Avail able for Stricken Cities. WASHINGTON. March 29. Surplus building equipment and supplies held by the war department were offered today to cities devastated by recent storms. E. C. Morse, director of sales, tele graphed mayors and councils of more than a score of municipalities, sug gesting it was to the mutual advan tage of the government and the stricken citizens of these places to get into direct communication con cerning the reconstruction which they will have to do. Reasonable prices and emergency consideration of such orders were promised. 3 6 KILLED IN TWO TOWNS LaGrange and West Point, Ga., Re port Nearly 200 Injured. LAGRANGE, Ga., March 29. Thirty lives were lost, nearly 200 persons in jured and property damage estimated at nearly $2,000,000 sustained in La grange and West Point in the torna does Sunday. Of the 3$ dead, 12 were white and 24 negroes, and . of the 200 persons injured, approximately 75 were whites. GIRLS TO GIVE CONCERT Washington Students to Stage Eas ter Music Festival. An Easter music festival, with chorus of 100 girls from classes in Washington ' high school, will be staged at the public auditorium Sun day at 3 o'clock under the direction of the city of Portland. Frederick W. Goodrich will preside at the organ and the programme will be composed entirely of taster music. The programme, although on much larger scale than the SundaN afternoon concerts held by the city during the winter season, will be con ducted on the same scale. A small admission fee to defray incidental ex penses will be charged, and the first come-first-served system will be fol- owed. According to city officials, it has not been planned to hold regular Sunday concerts until next fall. SUICIDE PLEA ADVANCED Woman Accused of Murder Says Mother Killed Herself. DEADWOOD, S. D.. March 29. Mrs. Angeline Holland testified today at the trial of George Searle and his wife hat sho was able to crawl into the furnace where the body of Mrs. Searle's mother was found and assume the position in which the body was discovered. The defense contends that the aged woman committed suicide and the state charges that Searle and his wife killed the woman and placed the body in the furnace. Property Being Developed. ROSEBURG. Or., March 29. (Spe cial.) A 27-acre tract in West Rose- urg, locally known as the Nachter grove, was today purchased by a com pany who will plat the property and ut it on the market as an exclusive residential addition to this city. The ntire tract overlooks the Lmpqua river and is covered with a growth of oak and laurel. The new owners an- icipate that many new homes will be built within a short time. Grain Delegates Go East. THE DALLES, Or., March 29. Special.) Professor George R. Hyslop of Oregon Agricultural col lege in company with A. S. 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MORRISON AND ALDER PHONE: MAIN 141 iiiiiiiiitiiniiiiniiimiiiiiiiniininniiiTTCiimiiiiiniiiiniirnraiiitiiiininrnniiHii 1 ! ' i BANKER TULKS OPTIMISM PORTLAND MAN TELLS SOUTH ABOUT LUMBER INDUSTRY. Countries " Bordering on Pacific Ocean Declared to Be Today Fl nancially Soundest in World. An optimistic voice from the north west was heard at the convention of the Southern Pine association at New Orleans, March 16-18, when E. G. Crawford, first vice-president of the United States National bank of Port land, addressed the meeting on "The Business Outlook and the Lumber In dustry," with special emphasis upon the region he represented. He was reinforced with numerous copies of a handsomely bound book made up for the occasion by Edward C.'Sammons, assistant cashier of the bank, giving figures on forest resources. I tried to place before the South ern Pine convention in a new way some of the features of the lumber Industry of the great northwest, said Mr. Crawford, who returned home yesterday. "It was a notable meeting, with several hundred men of the first prominence in business affairs of that region in attendance and afforded an admirable oppor tunity to lay before them some in formation concerning the timber business in Oregon and Washington and incidentally to demonstrate what perhaps is a rather new thought that the countries bordering upon the Pacific ocean are today the finan cially soundest ones in the world. "Pointing out the virtually unlim ited territory now open to the trade of the Pacific coast, I endeavored to demonstrate that on this side of the United States there is destined to be the greatest prosperity ever recorded that, while we have had no specula tion here and are already in good financial condition, everything con sidered, we are just on the eve of vastly greater activity and expansion in our trade relations. "Sounding a note of optimism, for I see no cause for the reverse view, tried to show the convention that with a country full of all kinds of supplies, we are bound to come out all right eventually. While a little hesitant about so doing, being in the south, I nevertheless took occasion to charge that the country has been and still is suffering from maladmin istration in its national affairs. My declaration, somewhat to my surprise, brought forth prolonged applause." LA GRANDE FIELD VIEWED Tract Offered for Aviation Is In spected by N. C. Evans. LA GRANDE, Or., March 29. (Spe cial.) N. C. Evans of the Aero club was here today and in company with the Union County Ad club, the county court, city commissioners and Wal lowa and Union county fire associa tion looked over the fields which the local committees had In view for the government landing field. 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