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p .--y -t . - - OREGON SSI 1 X7 ft ; fl .V4jv-;i;!;. ThaWeather In these pagea eje. to be. found; adrertlseme-ts In which prod ucers and sellers of integrity ' rec ommend worthy goodso you attention, SjifS ing onJtfkhown, , vouched-f or goods into your home Read the advertisements. Clo.udy,' be- coming unsettled; 'rain northwest; temperature same; , moderate variable winds southerly dn coast. Wednesday Max. 55; Mia.- 54; River. 3.4; Rainfall none; Atmosphere clear; Wind NE. 3. SEVENTY-FOURTH YI3AR: "SALEM; OREGON, THURSDAYjtfORNJNMXRCHU9;i925 PRICE FJVE r - J V V J - -f ' . '' '? - ! ;- : " :" ' ' - - A "J l .. t luiittiiLNuiyuy HLLU 111 JiilL FOR POISONING Charge That Foster-Father of Mccimtock .Committed Murder Is Made By Court 2 indictment FARlAfJ, FJOT JAILED BY AUTHORITIES; IS HELD I'm i Ilea Pf Science School Admits pivinjj pnepnera aypnoia Bacteria , CHICAGO, March 18. (By j Ay..lt T- T-ll J t. Aasuviaieu iiess.! jmi auun closed on William Darling Shep herd late today after his counsel had failed in a hard fight to keep the attorney and heir Xo $i,OO0,r 005,f?om meetjpc tmmedia.te ser.y Ice on an; indictment charging he murdered young William - Nelson McCllntock, his foster son, by ad ministering typhoid fever grms anL subtle poisons. v , C. C. Faiman. head of a science school named with Shepherd in An Indictment of 22 counts after he told Robert E. Crowe, state's attorney,' that he had supplied the fatal typhoid : baccili and taught Shepherd how to feed them to the youtn, was -not jan?d,i.He wag held la custody of the state's at torney ' and, indications are that he would not , face' imprisonment in a cell until after ' Shepherd's trial. ; . , ' Shepherd through his counsel, William Scott Stewart, demanded 'immediate freedom on bail but it -finally was agreed to go into mat ters of bail next Saturday. Shep herd was not called upon to enter a plea today, but Stewart an nounced that, "our plea is. has been, and will be not guilty." "Our charge is that this is a giant conspiracy in which the de fendant is about to be deprived of his rights under a will," said Stewart. The testimony of only one man, Faiman, was all the material evi dence, the 'state had, Stewart told Judge . Jacob H Hopkins.; chief justice of the criminal 'courts, In his fruitless effort to save Shep herd from a cell. - A few moments - before Shep herd was locked up Peter Hoff man, sheriff, was called Into a hur ried conference with Prosecutor Crowe over what was termed new and important evidence,', against Shepherd.-.' ; - :' ; J'' Y. . ii' As a result of it V man described as a prominent .- insurance - com pany official was brougflt in. " Sheriff Hoffman said his testi mony would be so startling that other persona would be. drawn into the investigation and that probably other bodies would be exhumed. X" of Dr scar Olson, brother of T Jndrn ITarrv H ' ntan A - - towM ,uu xvi f a. McCllntock, mother of - "Billy" were meant. Jen Thousand Are Homeless When Conflagration Rolls Over Whole Section iJEl'ifDISASTER V SUVEEPS TOKID TOKIO, March 19. (By The Associated Press.)- Ten thousand persons were homeless, 300 injur ed. 20 missing and 20Q0 houses were destroyed in.' a conflagration that swept over northeastern. To klo last night, a police-check of the situation revealed. A bar racks Is being constructed to house , the homeless and a subscription list headed by the empero'r i3 pro viding immediate relief funds. TOKIO, March i. 19. (By the Associated Press). There was no loss of life in the fire which yes terday swept northern Tokia be- v tween Nippori station and' Uyeno, , (Contlaue on 1?) 000.000 BLA2E Whole Gity Threatened by Elnormous Confla gration ; Humors of Heavy, Loss'of Lif q Not Verified by Police; Famous Hostelries Are Reduced to Ashes in Afternoon Blaze PALM BEACH, Fla., March 18, Fire late today de stroyed the famous-Breakers h,oteI, wiped out the -smaller Palm Beaci hotel and for hours held a threat of destruction qver. the entire' northern section of this celebrated" winter playground of. the wealthy. , ' : v Beginning .shortly after 4 o'clock in the Breakers, the fire was fanned by a brisk sea breeze and was not brought under control until shortly before 9 o'clock' tonight. In addi tion to the hotels, from which numerous wealthy patrons were compelled to flee with little thought of saving their possessions, a number pf cottages were burned and the prop erty loss' was estimated between $4,000,000 and ?5,000,000. Rumors that guest? had perished in the Breakers and the Palm Beach were current as the flames , hurled blazing embers into , the air along Lake Worth, but none had been confirmed late tonight., . : ; V; An elderly man and woman were reported burned to death in the Breakers, and two small children and . their nurse were said to be missing from the same hotel. Parents of -the children were searching frantically tonight in the ruins, for them but neither wotild give their names. For a time tonight, the Royal Poinciana, another famous hostelry, and the almost equally celebrated Bradley's club, appeared sure to provide fuel for the sweeping flames, and the guests! were ordered to leave. These structures were saved, however, although the Poinciana barjracka and a num ber of shops were destroyed. " , 1 PALM BEACH, Fla., March ,18. Martial law fn Palm Beach was ordered by Governor Martin tonight. Troops are guarding bridges between Palm Beach and West Palm Beach, following the seizure by police tonight of two motor trucks and several automobiles filled with goods stolen during the fire. . Eight negroes and one white man were arrested. SARGENT NOW IPJ NEW POST Attorney General's Office Is Filled; Officials Are Greeted WASHINGTON, March 18. John Garibaldi Sargent became at torney general of the United States today. ; ; Two days ago he was a private citizen in a little village In Ver mont.;' At 2; p. m. today he ar rived here. An hour later he took the oath of office as field mar shal of the law enforcement arm of the federal government. Mean while his day was getting busier every -moment. The, inevitable pews photographers 'were arriving. They reached the department of justice in' three' distinct battal ions and frith a submisslveness not wholly In . keeping with his gigantic: frame Mr. ' Sargent is more thao six feet tall the at torney;. general, posed.--Then for the first time since receiving his appointment j he hastened to the White House for a .conference with the president, j He was there an hour with the president, his friend" since boyhood' Immediate ly afterward; he" went back to the department to meetofficials there, most of whom he had never seen. SEflJTORllI n iciiiiii Work Is Declared of Greatest Importance for Stability of! Country Portraying a bright '' future for settlers on government.; reclama tion -i projects. Senator . McNary, republican,. Oregon, declared In the senate today, that "it is of the greatest Importance to the stabil ity of the country that the great OIELSMST Losses in valuable belongings of the guests is expected to be great since many of the nation's wealthy families were represented among them. , . . The spectacle drew thousands of spectators. A large number join ed the firemen in their struggle, but the crowd was so great, an attempt . to check the onrush of the flames with dynamite had to be abandoned. : - I i - ; ?- When the Palm Beach hotel, a 250-room structure, began . to burn, the fire forces were divided. It became apparent at once, bow ever, that the building, was doom ed and those assigned to this part of the battle concentrated success fully on saving adjacent btldings. Meanwhile, four cottages which were part of the Breakers proper ty, had, been destroyed, . and the roof of the Royal Poinciana start ed smouldering.1 The -fire there, however,' -was" stopped before it gained any headway. -. " "ThjTconfusion and wildly, flick ering" flames continued far into the night and no reasonably accu rate survey of th$ loss was pos sible. -A few of the more fortun ate guests said their servants had saved clothing and Jewelry by sewing them hastily into pillow s'lipsahd sheets, but many were left only the articles they wore. Some bundles worth thousands of dollars were thrown to safety from windows, while the owners of oth er similar packages clung to them despite the added danger to them selves. ;; r..- ' ; M, . t t More than a' score' of alleged Jooters who had - attempted i to profit from the fire which late today and tonight, wiped out the Breakers and Palm Beach hotels and a number of cottages in the famous winter resort Just across Lake Worth from this city were arrested. A company of Florida national guardsmen, meanwhile, watched . all highways ; leading from the city and guarded the bridges leading from Palm Beach. Most of the prisoners were ne grdes and the police here and at Palm Beach had J jewels, -money and clothing valued, at many thousands of dollars for the guests who were driren precipitately from : the hotels when the fire started. In addition, trunks, fur niture and .other articles valued at $50,000 were assembled under guard in a vacant space adjacent to the Palm Beach hojej site, . SENATE CLOSE SIQN; END EIEI Stormy Special - Session ' Brought to Close; Intens- uy ana reeling onaracier ize Whole Period ' BREACH WITH WHITE : : HOUSE HrLD SEVERE Failure of Assembly to Con firm Warren Nomination Is Dominant WASHINGTON, March 18.- The senate adjourned sine die. to day, bringing to an end. the stormy special session which began on Inarch 4.; ' ': 7 . , ; ; The cose saw no abatement of the intensity and feelipg'that char acterized the entire session, re sulting in a breach with the "White House. President Coolidge continued to the very last to challenge senator ial opinions on" his nominations, submitting the name, of Thomas P. Woodstock 'of New York to be a member of the interstate com merce commission, which the sen ate failed ' to confirm at th,e last sessionr" v;;v Y r-rV-. As in the ease 'of Charles Bt Warren to be attorney general, the senate accepted the Issue with the president by refusing again to give its approval to the Wbod3tock nomination: ' It was hot even con sidered1 by the Interstate commerce committee to which it was refer red. Friends of the president now believe he will give Mr. Woodstock a recess appointment. Opening, on March 4 with a fiery speech by Vice President Dawes Vho aroused the senators by his denunciation of senate rules, the speciaf "session was al most as turbulent in its last hours. r Most of the day was spent In reviewing the old scores that have divided the senate1 Into a group of small factions and wound up by Senator Trammell, democrat, Flor ida, denouncing his colleagues for adjourning without acting' on his resolution to investigate the price of gasoline. . Debate covered a wide field, in cluding discussion of Teapot Dome Muscle Shoals, the Warreh nom ination and federal waterpower. Then, 7 just before the senators agreed to'quit and go home, they heard . a . discourse , 'by, Senator Stanfield, republican, Oregon, on the need for better homes. The senate did confirm in rapid order and in open session, how ever, a large number- of nomina tions that were forwarded during the closing hours from the White House. There was no discussion or any roll call on any of them and they were accepted without a single murmur of protest. With the adjournment congress closed down until the first Monday in December unless the president calls a special session. which he has shown no disposition to do. MEN'S GLEE CLUB Twenty-First Annual Trip Will Take Songsters Thru Washington Willamette university Men's Glee club will start on its annual two weeks trip through northern Oregon and western Washington Friday. This is the 21st season that the Willamette club has made a trip similar to this. This year's program will include stunts, col lege songs, classical music, solos and quartet numbers. Those, who will make the trip this year are as follows: First tenors Milton Gralapp, Joe Lane, Harold Mumford, Dan Schriber, HY- DEBATE ST ARTS UPO TO Coatlpaed a pz 3) GRAPHIC STORY IS Vtold qftornadq DISASTER Ui EAST Hundreds' of Bodies of LitUe Children Are Kem9Ted, From' School Building CENTRALIA, 111. March 18. (By The Associated Press. )-r-A graphic eye witness account qf the destruction Qf the, pe Sota public school, and the widespread dam age there was toll) by Max Burton, telegraph operator for the Illinois Central railroad at Taulmaroa, about. 2 miles from the scene to the little town immediately af terreceiving word of the disaster. ' 1 "Rescue' .workers' were "piling bodies of little children on matt resses and blankets' on the play ground outside the school house," Burton said. "It seemed there was "no one. there to claim-' them. Their' parents were being taken to hospitals on special trains "and In ambulances. ; " ; -"The hallways of the school house had been' blown in and the passageway Was CQVered' with bricks. The few people engaged In rescuing them "could not get Into, them. " I saw' about 20 bodies and while , I was there they car ried some away, meanwhile others w,ere being brought out of thp wrecked building ' -'A few yards behind the school house in a field near the city lim its I saw the bodies of two little babies about six or eight months eld. Both were dead and their clothes torn off." " v "The principal of the school was on hand and he was trying to iden tify the bodies of the pupils, also worrying- over the -whereabouts anc safety of tyro giri teachers. who -were unaccounted for. The principal wag bloody from his in juries and staggered in his walk. He had barely escaped with his life.',- v - -.'- : - ' - ' "By this time the school build ing was a mass"' of 'smouldering ruins, fire having- destroyed what the cyclone had not. The hallway 6 the school house had caved in ajid what few 'rescuers were on hand were trying to uncover the bodies of pupils and locate the two missing teachers. "" "1 walked bu beyond the school grounds. Every " tree i was " left standing and eyerjr fence had gar ments, pea ciotnes ana nousenoia foods M own ntratnat tha woof ml A a of theml I It lopked io me like the Biurm oegan in me west ana trav eled, eastward. I! saw furniture, automobile tops and clothing scattered everywhere and saw people fleeing from the town with hardly any garments on. Thomas Alien Is Named Gen eral Manager of, VSalerri to Chicago" Campaign Thomas Allen, member of the senibf class of . the, Salem high school was fleeted general man ager of the "Salem to Chicago campaign which has been put nn dprwa by the Associated student lody of the local 1 high echooL Deenls Heenan, who is a member o jt the champion basketball team or the Oreeon state basketbaU o tournament. In' addition to being an all-state football star, and Francis Lutz, are to assist in the drive. ; .--i . ? '-- Already the Associated' student body has : shown its appreciation of the team's work by contributing a total of $95. in a 15-minute' as sembly held yesterday at the high school: auditorium. A big "pep rally Is to serpentine the "business streets of the "city to' kdvertise'the coming trip, for the Salem Hl-boys are to go "east, if the 'enthusiasm of the students indicates anything. ; PTan's are "underway for a dance at the'-Crystair Gardens where'the Ejudent-body Is to hpitf r6r)h"wfth a benefit dance for the basketball men. The Salem high -S" cfub is sponsoring the dapce, 'under 'the dire'etfon1 of "John Drager, "popular member of the student body A The silver fronhj pf 'the'bregon state baskethail'' tournament ' was presented yeterdayat!ihe student bp4yr ineetin'g, adding another trophy to1 the many held Vy 'ihe Ealecj schopl. ; ililfiS CITY OF 1 1 BY.JWMI STRE TABULATED LIST. OF ' DEAD Ap' iXJtHKD FltOId STORM GSlVEX The latest list of casualties with'the towns listed in the order' in "which the storm struck, follows: MISSOURI Vtd lnjnrw Annapolis . ..... 2 SO Riehle ........ . IO 20 Altonbnrg 1 10 Cape Girardeau . . 13 50 ILLINOIS-- Gerin . . 5Q Murphysboro .... lOO 30O Gorham, ......... T 80 De Soto ...... ..lOO 300 Bush .......... 5 60 Hurst . , ..... . 1 ' 6 4o West Frankfort. .850 650 Ienton . 1 . . . . . . .' . : SO ; Logan : 6 80 Parrish . ; . . . . 73 432 Thompsonville . . 8 40 " M'cLeansboro . . . . IT' 80 Carml ......... 2 25 Crossvffle . . . . . . 1 10 INDIANA Griffin ' . ..... 73 73 . OwensvlUe ..... . 73" lOO . Princeton" .... . .lOO 20Of Pbseyvllle ...... 5 20 Elizabeth '. . " 12 ' . Totals .... .-.Q57 2,674 1DFLJ1 . FOR CONCLAVE Delegates From All Parts of State Will Gather Here April 7 and 8 " Plans are complete for the Ore gon State conclave or urotner hood of American Yeomen to be held here April 7 and 8, when, delegates from all parts of the state will be preset. Headquarters will pe established in. Fraternal temple, formerly the' Elks tem ple. Registration of delegates will be made the first5 day with the opening program of the conclave being held. at 10 o'clock Wednes day morning, April 8. ' 'ReyV Ward Willis Long, pastor of ther First Presbyteriapl church, will give the invocation with May or John B. Giesy delivering the address of welcome. The response will be given by E. Earl4 Feike, o( Portland. 1 State officers of the Yeomen are R. R. " Mathews, Portland, presi dent; T. B. Reeve, North Bend, vice president; soren sorensen, Amity, correspondent; Walter Fry Silverton, master of Accounts and Florence Wilkerson. of Salem. chaplain. Appointive officers are Wealtia Bones, - Turner, Lady Rowena; Hilda Hooper, Salem, Lady Rebecca; II, M. King. North Bend, ' Overseer; William Boone, Tpledo, Watchman ; Leonard Fer guson, Tillamook, Sentinel and Robert Hpdge, Dayton, Guard. Members ' of the . various com mittees are:" ureaentiais e. carl Feike, Portland; Dr.: Iryln Fox, Eugene apd J. J. Seeley, Portland. Rules and Order C. E. Albin. Salem. J. 1. Weich;Medford and Joe Allen, Portland. Finance Charles Lind ley, Leb anon. Julia E. Moore, Eugene and Arthur Galiaher. North Bend. Resolutions Fred E. Schmidt, Pendleton. L. B. Kent," Portland and Will Hebenton, Fossil. f Entertainment Lucille Biwer, Dick Hooper, Clara M. Albin, Car-. r)e Chase and L. M. Wilkerson, all of Salem. Reception- Florence ADPlegate Portland; ' Marie Tangen, : New- berg; W. J. Croner, Oregon City; Marie Burgeson and Clara Scott, Salem. ; By-laws Mary E. Mayville, La Grande; Charles H Mintefn.' Euf gene ana a. u. uarte, Mcilinn- viUe. Publicity A. L. Bones, Salem; is wn SCORES Eastern Illinoi Laid in nadpt Wipes Out Cities 200 School Chadrcn Are Lost When BuHdingr Gollaptes ; Nurses an4 Doctors Are Rushed to Scene CHICAGO, March 18. (By Associated Press.)--A tor nado tore through eastern Illinois today after lashing western Missouri and then caused considerable 'damage lin Indiana before it died out to the northeast; after collecting a reported toll of 3,631 persons dead or injured on the basis of estimates available tonight from the storm swept regions where cpri munication was largely destroyed. v While darkness and prostrated wires made the collection of data difficult, estimates, whiph came in through various sources with everincreasing totals placed the total dead at 957, and the injured at 2,674 before, midnight, j JONAH SIB. POLING HOLDS Biblical Fish Story Believed By Speaker at First Pres byterian Church "People who doubt can't be happy. There are some sincere doubters, nevertheless, the doubt er has a hard time," said the Rev. Mr. Poling at the First Presby terian church 'as he introduced his subject last night: "The Book of Jonah," or "That Fish Story' was his subject. "The story of Jonah has suffer ed more abuse and misuse "than any other story in the Bible," said Mr. Poling. The speaker emphat ically declared that he had no trouble .'at alf believing th much discussed story just as it is writ ten. He gave three reasons , why ile-believed the story of Jonah Is true" First: Jonah is an historical character in the Bible and the book of Jonah is a true' part of the Bible. ' Second, Jesus believed the story was true. " Third, the story" is reasonable and in fact far less In credible than many things which modern science has brought about. I was once as big a fool as poor old Jonah," continued Mr. Poling. I, top, trid to "run away from isod I o.nce declared I never would be so foolish as to be a preacher and starve to death, but here 1 am and I wouldn't trade places with any other man in all the 'world, no matter how much money he might have." Here the speaker injected into his sermon a bit of his life story, how he fried to hate bis own way over against the plain will of God for him. . '.-.-' v-.--'. - "Jonah was either the biggest slacker, or one of the worst down- Contlnue4 on ptf e 2) oralis IE TABULATED NEW YORK. March 18. To day's tornado in southern Illinois and parts of Missouri and Indiana was the 19th such disaster sipce the great storm which swept .'the southern statesnn"i884. - Following is a list of the worst tornadoes in. the middle west and sout Blnce that of 1884: - February 18, 1884 -Sir hun dred killed in southern states. April, 1892 Forty killed in Kansas. Y si. !. , June 14, 1892 Fifty killed in Minnesota. ,t , ' -;s ; ' June 20. 1893 Sixteen killed in Kansas river valley. Sept. 20, 1894 Seventy-five killed in Iowa and Minnesota." "May 27, ;896 Five hundred killed in St. Louis and East St. Louis. " " . March 30, 1897 -Three-fourths of the town of Chandler, Okla.', destroyed. . . ' fm OUT BuinsPath of Tcr- The destruction pt property was enormous. Several towns were al most entirely wiped out and such populous places as West Frankfort and Murphysboro having lost whole blocKS or buildings. In the town of Parrish only three persons were said 'to' have escaped iniury or death out of a population ot 5.00." '- ' ' The wind was so powerful" at Parrish that bodies were carried mbre"thah"a"mHe7it was" reportesT. At Murphysboro where the dead, totalled iP0,,a school house was blown down over the heads of 245 pupils, while at De Soto,' late esti mates placed the dead at 100 and the injured at 300 out of a total population ot 703. A school house at De Soto also, was razed and only three of thej 250 occupants escaped unhurt, while 88 bodies already have been taken from the ruins.' The' latest reports say that 700 persons were killed at Parrish and WeBt Frank fort alone, but other intorciaUon placed the loss in these town somewhat lower. In. spite of the wide sweep of the storm after crossing the Mis sissippi river, several of the best trains running between the south ern resorts and Chicago escaped its fury so far as reports showed tonight, but the scores of passen gers ' were ' delayed somewhat la reaching their destination as the trains - had to feel their way through the storm region for tear that the timbers might have been thrownacroBs the tracks 'or bridg es torn down. - -t Churches and schools were rased at various places and 200 persons, (Continued en pif a t) WEDNESDAY IN WASHINGTON The special session of the sen ate adjourned. - .' - John G. Sargent was sworn In as attorney general. , i - ' , ; . Peter A. Jay minister to Ru mania, was nominated as ambas sador to Argentina. 7 George L. Kreek of Kansas was named minister to Paraguay. Ulysses Grant-Smith of Penn sylvania 'was named minister to Uruguay. ! " '' ' A joint congressional' commit tee began consideration of the Northern Pacific railway land grants. f ' " " ' - - Executive realignment of key positions in the department of ju3- 1 tice were forecast. Advices, from, Peru Indicated disturbances due to dissatisfaction over the Tacna-Arica award were subsiding, - " 'r i - Vice President Dawes decided to carry to the country the issue of revisions of senate rules. SecreUry Jard in e directed the grain futures administration to In vestigate recent violent fluctua tions In wheat prices. - .""' V ' Secretary Kellog-g directed thit inquiry te nada can e?5i?tanc v" ? rce "t - -