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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 19, 1925)
THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 19, 1925 CIMPIOIffilllP-TEl ras rams Salem People Are Asked to Help "Send- Basketball -Team to National Meet A The Salem hfgh school basket ball team, which won the Oregon Btate interscbolastic championship, desires to participate in the na tional contests to be staged In Chicago next month, according to action taken at the. associated student body. In a brief campaign put on while the students were in the auditorium resulted in secur ing $195 to apply on the $1700 accessary to send Coach Hunting ton; and his team east." Local bus- GREApV AWlMPHJ let Us Help Yon SOLVE YOUR HEATOtG PROBLEM Just give ns your name and address and we will Bare oar salesman call and go over your heating problem with you with out any obligation on your part -EASTMAN SIBLOCO" FURNACES $79.60 and up Installed Complete EASTMAN BROS' (formerly Silvavtoa Blow Pip do.) ' . BUverton, Oregom See Make Your Choice" Early I nd pictures mm ) m 1 ! i I f i hitS .frit mLr 1 It i 1 iness men hare already sent that sum to $215. -i'v; Members of the S club of the high school'; were responsible for the starting of , the fund. Their actiTlties resulted in the different organizations of the school pledg ing the amount given,. ' f The benefit dance which Is to be staged next - Tuesday ;: eyening will" be- the means -4 of clearing away the remaining! barrier . be tween the team and.1 the trip. Tick ets are sold for 55 cents each by the girl students ; of the high school. - Every effort Is being used to make this dance' one of the outstanding ones of the season. Already the Kiwanis club of the city have endorsed the move and have made motions signifying their approval of the: plan. Moves are under way to secure the co operation of other service clubs of the city. "Efforts are being made to secure the aid of the Salem Chamber of Commerce on the grounds that the advertising to Oregon will be worth while, and would repay for the help given the team. ! ! ; . .Members of the championship team are to be the guests of the Lions, at their regular meeting Friday noon at the Marion hotel. TO M SKILL IRE Tournament to Start Monday Between Professional' l and Business Men ""lift I T! '- ' ' ; . '. i ;-" i ' The volleyball tournament which is scheduled at the Salem YMCA between the ministers, doctors, bankers and bffslnes3 men of the city, will be started off Monday night with a bang. jjThe schedule calls for six games to De played on six different days, as Indicated: March 23 Ministers vs Bank ers; Doctors vs Businessmen. , March 25-Ministers vs Doc tors; Bankers vs Businessmen. March 27 Ministers vs Busi nessmen; Bankers ts Doctors. March 30 Ministers vs Bank ers; Doctors vs Businessmen. April 1 Ministers vs Doctors; Bankers vs Businessmen. April 3 Ministers vs Business men; Bankers vs Doctors. ' The players are as follows: ' Ministers J. Evans, William Hertzog. W. W. Long, Hickman, Harry Johnson; Rickey. Subs: I M S IS Friday and Saturday Selling , j IN the wonderful display of lamps we're fea turing tomorrow at spwlal price, you're sure to find Just the one that will add "life" to your living room, dining room or bedroom and pro fit by some really sensational values. Better be early the demand will be great! Floor Lamps Beauties At $17.95 i Unusually good looking polychrome bases, com ! pete with silk1' shades, at - I this extraordinary low price. - Come early! Our Windows Remember Two Days Only r Friday and Saturday DISGWLEDFIS, E Salemites Must Not Hold -Officials Responsible De clares Rathbun Coach Rathbun was a Portland visitor Wednesday and upon his return last night made the follow ing statement: v ; j ' ' "Salemites must not regard school officials as responsible when a disgruntled fan voices a criticism. When Secretary Me Laughlin of the state board phoned that Franklin would be invited to the tournament, I went to the of fice of State Superintendent of Public Instruction Churchill, who made the drawings for the ten districts to be represented. Dean H. D. Sheldon of the school of education of the University of Oregon also witnessed the entire procedure. "Coach Meeks of Franklin ex hibited the ideals of sportsmanship during the tournament. He : has manifested the same traits in his remarks to me' since the final game. ', - '- "Salemites should not let any one contribute to the further em barrassment of any school author ity by being drawn into contro versy through the statements of such a self appointed guardian as the disgruntled fan." Shanks, Miller. ; : . Doctors Barrick, Wood, Vehrs. Morehouse. F. Annusen. Bill Paul us, H. McWhorter, Albin. Bankers Si Eakin, A. Smith ers, R. Sisson, P. Acton, G. Hug, C. Lee. Subs': Elliott, Pope, Su ing. . : ' : ; Businessmen Carle Abrams. Byron Wright, O. J. Hull, John Bertleson. Walter Minier, Frank Neer, Morris Race, John Bayne Roy Klein. f TORNADO TOLL NOW 3600; HUNDREDS LOST (continued from page 1) ; mostly children, were killed when the elements ripped open the Join er school at Murphysboro. By a margin of only a few miles the tornado swept to the north of Herrin, 111., where troops have been called so frequently to quiet fighting among Its citizens. Hun dredg of telegraph poles were twisted off and many orchards were- rent bare of limbs while the Five Floors Good Furniture CRITICISM i ft . r . : coal mine tipples were twisted into masses of splintered timbers. With the arrival at unharmed towns tomorrow of further news It is feared that It will be found that other towns In Missouri suf fered under the violence of the wind before It rose to leap the Mississippi river. i: Before the twister descended on Murphysboro it had gained much more strength rnd it literally tore f'orn solid bl-icks when It hit that city.: ! Its ' energy continued ' to. xv era 1 mtle while it raised havoc at Gorham, De Soto and Bush and fui rounding territory and then seemed to be at its maximum vio lence when it struck the mining town of Went Frankfort with a population of nearly 9.000. Re ports tonight Indicated that 1.000 inhabitants were killed or injured there along with frightful property damage. . '. A preliminary tabulation at 9 p. m. of towns that had made re ports of their casualties gave' a total of 850 dead and 2,099 In jured with virtually no record of the damage that must have been done in rural regions. CEXTRAL1A, 111.. March 18. (By the Associated Press). -Be tween 300 and 400 persons were killed at West Frankfort in to day's ; tornado according to esti mates received by telephone from authentic sources. The heaviest loss of life . oc curred when the Joeiner public school was destroyed, 200 persons. the majority children, being killed or injured. CARBONDALE. III.. March 18. A tornado that, whirled across the western part of this county this i afternoon claimed an esti mated toll of between 100 to 150 dead, about 500 injured and ren dered thousands homeless: No de finite figures have been ascer tained. INDIANAPOLIS, March 1 8. Reports received at Indianapolis. Terre Haute and Evansville late tonight placed the casualty list in southern Indiana from a tornado ate today at 300 kiled and more than 300 injured. WEST FRANKFORT. 111., March 18.(By the Associated Press ).- Scores of persons were killed and hundreds injured and almost a third of the residential section of this city was completely destroyed at 3 o'clock this afternoon when a terrific tornado swept over the city. CENTRALIA. 111., March 18.- CBy the Associated Press). Ap proximately 700 persons were kill ed at Parrlsh and West Frankfort alone by the terrific tornado which laid waste to a large section of southern Illinois today, accord ing to word received here tonight. DE SOTO. 111., March 18 (By the -Associated Press). The num ber of dead and injured here in this afternoon's tornado was est! mated late this evening to run be tween 150 and 400, most of the victims being children, caught un der the crumbling debris of the two story school building of the town. The population of the town is 703. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., March 18 -(By the Associated Press) The entire southern section of Prince ton, Ind., was razed by a tornado which struck that city late today and according to advices received here at 9 o'clock tonight 27 bodies had been recovered from the wreckage, i Many other bodies were said to have been buried un der the debris, and while the exact number of dead was not known, it was reported' nearly 1 00 persons bad perished. ' . While lack - of communication and the wide area of the storm Precluded checking on the report ed T deaths and injuries which ex perience has shown are frequently exaggerated during the hours of distress, reports each hour en hanced rather than decreased the total casualties. : Persons who have reported tornadoes which are not uncommon in this region predicted that a final check of the dead and Injured might cul the total 1 In two. although the rural regions where many must have been killed or Injured, had notl been heard from tonight. Relief was almost as quick In Its action as were the elements In ,t destroying so much property and so many lives. , i Relief Uralns bearing doctors. nurses, wreckers and goodly sup plies of medicine and food were dispatched from Chicago and St. Louis, as well as other points within a few hours after the dis aster became known. . Governor Len Small . ordered troops and the medical corps of the Illinois national guard to pro ceed to the devastated regions -at the earliest possible moment. Almost In a moment the inhabi tants of the - towns struck were crushed to death or burled, maim ed under the debris of buildings that; : crumbled like cardboard houses. ;:'f ;i . - . Citizens,-after a period of be wilderment, quickly rallied in an effprt to rescue those who had not been . slain and attempts were made to get. word to unaffected towns asking for aid,- .. , It took considerable time to send out word from the distressed towns, but In the meantime citi zens who escaped the storm went to the. heroic work before them only to be handicapped in some places by an outbreak of, fire, la Resident from surrounding cities hurried to the stricken areas In automobiles and by train as fast as -t possible, and although darkness fell shortly after the storm had passed, organized res cue work was In progress within a few hours. Throughout most of the devas tated area facilities were scarce for taking care of the injured and many were taken to Carbondale, Cairo and other places, where all hospitals were ued, in addition to armories and ' other public buildings. In some cases residents of the damaged towns who had escaped Injury became panicky "and attempted to flee the scene of disaster the best they could. At Murphysboro a number of frightened persons, grabbing a few : articles, threw themselves aboard a. passing train while In other points many ran into the fields far from the towns. These panic stricken persons were comparatively few, however, and many of them returned later to aid In the rescue work. The wind made a jumble of all sorts of property in its path. While buildings were moved only a short distance wherever they withstood destruction, light objects were carried over a great space. Resi dents of a town on the edge of the storm path reported collecting paper that had been borne many miles by the wind from one of the stricken cities. ; ; - In some places where the twist ing wind struck hardest whole buildings were moved from their foundations, a grain elevator at De Soto having been carried in tact some 40 feet to the middle of a road. Churches and schools seemed to have suffered most out side of dwellings and less sub stantial farm buildings. The storm was not so severe in Missouri, where it seemed 8 to emerge ft om the Ozark mountains, owing to a low barometer pressure from Arkansas, but it laid waste a number of towns and : many farms before it jumped the Mis sissippi river into Illinois. There the tornado was at the height of its fury for several miles while it careened from Murphys boro to Parrish. ; The twister rose above the tree tops for a consider able distance but lapped the earth again, just west, of the Indiana line, creating more damage at ' - . - ...... gbiPN sr-mm, ' ..... 1 j? .s- i mm mm m- t a m m m m m u mm mm n ar - am jm u mm u . ii mr w r Carmi.u - s . v . V: ; :vf- The tornado lifted slightly once more, split Into two sections and swept - northwest and southeast, through Princeton and Griffin. Ind., before it stopped Its havoc.- - ST. LOUIS. March 18. The "west end of the Murphysboro is completely destroyed and is still burning," says a dispatch received late tonight by the Missouri Pa cific railroad here from its dis patcher at Gorham. 111. "The citizens have organized fire fighting squads and are using dynamite in an attempt to stop the progress of the flames." In a miners' settlement, east of Rush, ill., IS men are known to have been killed. A bridge over the Beauchamp river, between Gorham and Murphysboro, was wrecked but a crew Is now re pairing it. "More than 200 of the injured have been taken to Herril, 111., where they are being taken care of in the Masonic and Elk clubs." EVANSVILLE, Ind., March 18. At least 200 persons are be lieved to be dead as the result ot a tornado that struck southern In diana, razing the towns of Prince ton, Griffin, Owensville and Posey ville between 4 and 4:30 o'clock this afternoon, according to con servative, estimates available up to late tonight. While the storm started shortly after one this afternoon from its Missouri lair and had terrific de molishing force, it did not reach Illinois until around 3 o'clock and it was nearly dusk before it took its last savage blow in Indiana. Whirling and swirling with such irristible energy that it crushed large buildings like egg shells and razed reinforced mine tipples like weeds, the punishment inflicted on the towns in its path was meteoric-like in its fury. .'. Relief Started SPRINGFIELD, 111., March 18. - (By the Associated Press). A bill appropriating $500,000 for the relief of those In the tornado zone will be introduced in the state senate tomorrow morning. The . bill, which will carry an emergency clause, will be rushed through the house and senate and the money will be available early next week. At midnight the Chicago Tri W ih flKViiy, smokers eysy &gr bune, at the request of Mayor William E. Dever, started a finan cial relief fund. The newspaper gave ?1,000 and added subscrip tions were reported In later hours despite the fact that a general cir culation of. the' disaster had not been thoroughly spread in the city. WASHINGTON, March 18. The American Red Cross tonight began mobilizing its disaster relief personnel for service In the tor nado stricken territory of the middlewest and south and it was dispatched from Washington and other points as rapidly as possible Chapters in the affected terri tory were authorized to expend all necessary funds and , efforts were being made to get in touch with Henry M. Baker, director of disas ter relief, who was in Sullivan Ind. JONAH SINNER, POLING HOLDS (Coatinoad from psgt X) right mean old hypocritical sin ners In history. Our churches are full of folks that don't care any more about a lost world for whom Jesus died than did Jonah for those people to whom Jehovah had sent him. But just as surely as God settled Jonah's score, you can depend upon if that thd judg ment day is coming for all the Jonahs in our churches today." sad the speaker. "The wonder to me Is that God'ever could for give such a lazy and cowardly sin ner as poor old Jonah. But in God's meicy to Jonah there is a promise of mercy and forgiveness for the worst of Jonahs in our churches. "Jonah was small enough to get angry because he thought his rep utation was worth more than 120,000 Ninevltes. Jonah died in obscurity. God. can't use a little, mean man. so to gel rid of him, he just forgets him and when God forgets a man, history does too." The largest audiences of the week greeted Mr. Poling last night. Those who hear him once are glad to hear him again. His subject tonight is: "The Way of a Ship." At 3 o'clock this afternoon he will address a prayer group at the church. Much emphasis is laid on the request that everybody who jjjfy' W ' V Now is the Time to Begin Tire Economy McCLAREN CORD I G fjh A Perfect NON SKID Vim" - d " Bill' Smith & Watkins SNAPPY SERVICE PHONE 44 Will '4)0" believes in prayer should devote a few minutes of special prayer for the services at each noon hour. mw ISe debris, LiccrrT & MtsmToiacco Ca