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ign sDJcccIa anci Dacc Loyal MeJri Beau QSte,: on, LEATHER FORECAST: Rains, in west. ! X "t Miss. Americas "may come7andIise r rain: rains and snows la east portion; mild tern-' Derature: fresh southerly winds on' coasL J Americas may go, but Miss Columbia goes f iiil iwf winter a0 Lue fcifl, yitf uuwai. '. Detroit Free Pess; y ; , r , ' r, . ; - TheTmoraJ of, the foreign debt situatipny Is, the same old, maxim r Never lend, money except to your enemies, Boston. TranscripC Maximum yesterday, 52: minimum. ,37; X river. 3.7; rainfall, .12 ; atmosphere, cloudy; wind, southeast. " " 3 The Faithful V. .:G-:r::c:a-Ara-- Doing -.WelpBuMHe 1 'V x QUAKE, STORM IIIGII tf liOltfi Snowslide Killa 11 at Big Creek; Communications. 61 Town Cut Oft SAFi FRANCISCO SHAKEN Screaming Wind With ury, of TotimuIo Hitai T.own, aj -jkersfield; Boas Xati j Kate Ixw Angelp FRESNO. Cal., Feb, 15. (AP Eleren persons are believ ed dead and 2 are Injured, as the result of a snowslide which struck Camp 72 of the . Southern California Edison company,, at Big Creek, 75. miles east of here, earjy this morning, according to dispatches received tonight by t he j Fresno Morning Republican. All communication to Big Creek mountain i town of the . Southern California Edison company, were cut off by the slide, telephone and telegraph lines both being out of commission today. : From meager information avail able here, the slide occurred across the canyon from Big Creek and In the neighborhood of Camp 72 of. the Southern California Edison company. Whether or not it struck any buildings' of men 'at work could not, be learned. RAKERSFIELD; Cal., Feb. 15. (At WUK the fury of a tor nado, a screamlnjj; wind "struck Tatt today, stripping. 'roofs, from buildings in the business district, 'smashing light billbards, and leaving, it ! believed, a number of minor injuries A. A; Cros bie. manager, of,' the. Taft -boxing ttaa, received, ' serious' cuts "when xVVa .struck by a fragment of the arena's sheet; iron root which was torn completely off. ' t A portion ot-the rooP'of the New. Hippodrome ''theatre was' ripped, off. Wnen the wind was at Its great est fury, pieces of the roof of the Tatt branch of Security Trust com pany were torn loose and sent flying through the . business dis trict. '. " ' ' Practically every tree in Tatt not protected by buildings has been uprooted as well as practical ly all radio aerials, and, flagstaffs on buildings." ". SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 15. (AP) An earthquake of varying (ContlaoaA ca. pg 2.) V Z DEAD, 6 HURT INTRCRAH M)H ANGELES LIMITED, BUNS INTO CALIFORNIA CREEJfc. ' " ; i Locoiuoilve, Tender and Two Cars Li-a ve ' ' Track ; BrI icf Train Sent . WKITTIER, Cal., Feb. 15 (AP) Two persons are known to have been killed and six others injured tonight wheiv.the locomo tive, tender, baggage car, and one coach of the Los Angeles limited, crack passenger train of the Union Pacific, plunged into Puente creek five miles north of here. "' 'f The injured were brought to Whittier for medical treatment. Two relief trains were despatched to. the scene with firstaid ? sup plies. Rescue crews tonight were Hearching the wreckage for. pos sible further victims. 4 When the bridge gate way the locomotive plunged Into the creek, .swollen with flood waters, and landed upside down. " The baggage car fell crosswise against the on rushing waters. The first coach, a dining car, overturned when it toppled into the water. Rescuers recovered only parts of Engineer Ireland's body, which, have been removed to a mortuary here. V Rarkdoll, one of the cooks, who was (rapped in the diner, escaped fromj the car by breaking" a win dow glass with his flat. Th other ntrapped employes climbed out to safety after him. , i Reports received here state that a titee! bridge spanning the creek nucUed .under the weight of the in. The bridge Is believed to ive been - weakened by ,heary rains. : t The dead: , , Charles Ireland, ji)Kinff, Lou Aagelen. ' ' - . I .' . , An unidentified man. '. ; The injured: , F.i L. Frazier. fireman. Xos An geles, badly sealdBd aaid Internally injured. Paul W. Boe. cook. Los Angelas, burned about face.! a ndbody , 'y Claude I lartiheim, cook, Los Angeles, scalded, f rV - I 'X- W. H. Bolden, negro waiter, feet crushed. ' . t T - J ' James BarkdolK caok, Clendale, Scalded and cut about hands. C H. Waters, passenger. Salt ; MOTHER AND SON WOMAN REPULSES ADVANCES, .: ' " icouxk siAi:k her Child, 5, Murdered With BasebaO ' Bat In feffort to Hide " Crim CONNEAUT, Ouio, Feb. 15.. ((AP) A jazz tune from a radio today led to the confession of "a lyar old, bo that he. killed Mra. Celia Brown, 27, and her. five year old son, Frederick Jr.. last night when the woman repulsed his ad vances. Floyd Hewitt, a farmer boy, liv ing across the road from the Brown' home, ! three' miles from here,' admitted to .connty author ities after three hours of question ing that he had crushed her head with a stove poker which she had snatched up to protect herself and then killed the boy to conceal the crime. Hls arrest followed information given to the authorities by, Fred erick Brown, Sr.,! the husband, who feund the bodies when he re turned early today from his. work at a railroad engine house. The radio was still on when... he entered the house, and as the boy was fond o( music and tiad been in the habit of coming frequently to the Brown home in the evening to listen, Brown suggested that he be questioned. Hewitt was found motoring about town with a friend. At first he maintained Ignorance of the killing, but after long questioning asked to be. left alone with, Deputy Sheriff H. D. Hanum. A feK min utes later Sheriff Frank Shelton was called in.' Shelton obtained the confession. Thn Knv said he had been seated on the davenport with Mrs. Brown. He made advances which were repulsed.- He sajd, he renewed. them nnH -, Mrs Ttrrtwii erahhed . the poker, struck him across the shoul der and ordered . him from the house. Angered. he tore,' the vinon from her hands, and chased her' about the house, fin ally cornerlag-: her on a stairway where he "kiUed her with blow's. 'on the head. 1 ' ' ' ' The child, who had, been, play ing with a deck of cards at hs mother's feet, ran screaming alter hr. m HftWitt Burs'ued her about the house, the boy said. After the mother was slain. Hewitt said. he turned on the boy, who fled tooths haspmcnt. There for severaL sec onds they dodged about in tho dim light until, trapped Denina a xur n ace. the. lad was killed with bis own baseball bat. A -warrant chareine first degree murder was issued and Hewitt was taken to Jefferson, the county seat where he was placed in jau to await the action of the county grand jury. ' Shelton said that a button torn from the boy's coat in the strug gle "with Mrs. Brown broke his nerve and. brought the C9n.?sstan. MABEL NORM AND UNWELL Screen Actress Has Pneumonia Case; Removed. tto Hospital SANTA MONICA, CaL, Feb. 15 (AP) Mabel Normand, screen actress, was removed to a hospital here today from' her home In Bev erly Hills, where she has been suffering from an attack of bron chial pneumonia. "Miss Normand is very ill, but doing nicely." Dr. H. Clifford Loos, the star's physician, - an nounced tonight. A second physician. Dr. George K. Dazey, was called into consul tation today. . STORM DELAYS VESSELS Ik'avy Sas in Sail PUro. Road- SAN PEDRO. Calt Feb. 15. (A.P).-i-Heavy seas-in the road- stead today stopped fcmall craft traffic and kept many off shore vessels at anchor, while a steady downpour of rain cut ; discharge and load ing of j freight cargoes to 25 per cent. ' II f' YESTERDAY IN, WASHINGTON I O"-:1 ... ' vAwtiM "f 1 . . . , C. The 'Lenroot-Taber milk bill was signed by President Coolidge. The house substituted the sen ate McNary-Ilaugen bill for its own. ; The senate voted to limit debate on the MeFaddeo 'hranch banking bill. 1 : . " ' : Tbe government continued pre sentation of ) its caao ' In ' the ; Ford tax suit ".:!:: i The navy department considered augunientlnK Its forces In the, Ni 'caraguan zone. . ..t; Bloom of New York and- lllan ton' or Texas; fought al no-KieclsIon round in a house committee room. ,rU , - , Leland Harrison was nominated to bo. minister to Sweden rJ. But ler Wright to be minister to Hun gary and Hugh Wilson to be mla- ijisz si gp'j. , , , ; HOUSETQUSE . Ill w Measure Passed in Upper Body Substitiiteibi Vote ' ot2QltQ,fi . QlNEgL DEBATE t ENDS ReprescntatlTe AswelL Announces Intention to Move for Replac- ing Portion of McNary .'' ? Hugen BRJ ' WASHINGTON. Feb. 15. (AP) The McNary-Haugen farm bill as passed by the senate was substituted by the house today for a similar measure It had been con sidering. The vote to substitute was 20 1 to' 62. ' : Shortly thereafter, general de bate on farm relief was- concluded and the enacting clause of the sen ate, measure read. This brought the bill to a point where amendments are in order,". ''' ' The house then adjourned, lead ers agreeing to postpone taking up the measure "until Thursday) to make way tomorrow for a, batch of other bills on. the calendar. Just as discussion came to a close, Representative Aswell, dem ocrat, Louisiana, announced that as soon as the McNary-Haugen bill was brought up again, he would seek to 'strike out its de claration of pplicy and substitute that in his own. bill. Should this motion' carry, he said, he would movelhat substitution of his mea sure for the McNary-Haugen bill. ? This motion is expected to be a full" test of strength on the As well plan. Should it fail, the As well bill woud be practicaly out of the running, and the fight narrowed between the McNary Haugen.' measure and the Curtis Crisp bill. ; The. vote today to substitute the senate bill was not. construed by either supporters or opponents as constituting a test' of strength,' as a number of members supporting the motion have announced - they (Continued on p?e 8.). - AIMEE TALK CANCELLED Directors of New. York -Radio Station Cut. u. Evangelist NEW YORK, Feb. 15. (AP) Because the directors of radio WRNlf at Hotel Roosevelt'declded lt; would be "bad policy" to allow Mrs, Aimee Seraple McPherson, Los Angeles evangelist to speak over their station, her scheduled addresses Friday, Saturday and Sunday of this week have been -cancelled,'' It was announced today. The directors of the station said, Mrs. Mcpherson had been asked to rseek' elsewhere for a place to deliver her radio talks. : - y : tiii i ami . mm awm m m w ; SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY rr-rsrrt WAYS AND MEANS BILLS IN HOUSE COUNTY PAIR APPROPRI '" TlONSMEET.OPPOSlTJLpN Building Program Bills May Cat ' Considerable Debate on Floor. The house of representatives continues'' to' hold night sessions their efforts to complete the worS before time, for 'adjournment this week. A great amount of wbrk li being done each day by the mem bers and only, a very few bills re main in the hands of committees. As a special 'order of business yesterday the house considered the ways and means, committee bills, which would, appropriate over 2, 000,000, iSeveral of them called for s,ome healed discussion. ; The bills, appropriating money for the bjiildlEg '-program' will come up later and, no" doubt will, create considerable debate.' ' ' Representative Gordon, chair man of the house ways and means committee, said that 'the work of bis committee this session had been very harmonious with the ex ception xl the appropriations ; for the building program. - ' ' ' Among the ways and means bills which were passed by the house yesterday were: For payment of expenses in curred in connection with trans portation of insane persons, con victs and apprehension of fugitives and salaries' of officials- engaged therein, $64,000, For expenses of Oregon state library, $105,000. For salaries and. general, expens es of judges and district attorneys $380,500. - - . j For investigations and experi mentations at OAC.'f 130,000. For salaries and 'expenses of ONG, $210,956. - For expenses, of biennial and general elections, $.65,000. ' For supreme court and attorney general of , state, $211,200.- . For support of Oregon state board of health, bureau of nurs ing and child hygiene, $80480. For salaries and other, expenses in office of superintendent of pub (Cqntinned, on page 5.) SATTER:. HOUSE BURNS tlcally Ev'erj'tblng Ixst ' SILVERTON, Feb. . 15 (Spe cial) -The Lew Matter house, lo cated about four miles south of here in the Waldo hills, was com pletely destroyed by fire this morning about eleven o'clock. . Mr.-' and Mrs. Satter had been away from home for several days' and,, just returned this morning." They started a fire In the stove and some time later they noticed the attic was practically a mass of owing to a high wind and all that could, be saved, of the. contents were a trunk, rug' and some fruit jars. There was no insurance on the house or contents, it is under stood. The house was a, frame building constructed a few years' ago and was , in ! excellent condition. The exact, feahse of the fire is not known. ' XERY SOURJV koWNG, FBWARX 16, DISTRICT COURT BILL GETS BLOW 17. SEN A.TORS, Op . QN RECORD 'FA VORING. i DISAPPROVAL r Measure Would Provide New Trl - bqnals. for Some ' Oonntiea of State , The bill providing for creation of district courts in counties with more than 15,00.0. and. less than lQO.OOq population,, introduced by Senators "MoSer, Norblad and "TJpf ton, received a hard, wallop yester day when 17 " senators : went on record, favoring its disapprovaL The bill provided that 'judges in counties with more than 15,0 Q0 and less than 5 5,0 0ft population would be paid,-$1800 a year, while judges in counties, with -between 25,000 and $35,000 population would, receive - $2400 a year. 'Judges in counties with between 35,000 and 100,000 population would be- paid an annual salary of $3Q00. : , I Senator Strayer said that this bill was the entering - wedge to place another court record s upon the: state. ' ' " - ' -Senator Eddy said as far as he had been able to determine there was no demand for the district courts. " 1 i " '-: -i Senator Brown charged that the only demand, for- tiro' creation of district courts had originated with the lawyers. He branded the bill as unwise and urged its defeat- ' "I have not received" any re quests to support this bill." said Senator Butt. . "You should not ask us to accept something that jwe do not want." ; Senator Elliott referred to the bill as premature legislation. Sen ator Hall said the proposed legis lation was bad, and If approved, he would not dare to return to Coos county and face his constitu- ( Con tinned, on page 3.) HENRY WALDO. CQE DEAD Prominent Portland Physician 1 1 m m-r ' a. m i a . , GLENDALE, Cal., Feb. 15. (AP) Dr. Henry Waldo Coe. 70, publisher of the. Medical Sentinel and owner of the Mornlngslde hospital at Portland, Ore., died at a sanitarium here tonight after brief Illness. 4 ' '' Dr. Coe had been spending the winter in' California and- had heart attack three weeks'ago. He was taken to the Glendale sani tarium and until today had seemed to be improving. -.- In addition to his medical prac tice and interests In. Portland. Dn Coe had banking and real, estate holdings in eastern 'Oregon. He was. the donor of several statues to parks of the city of Portland PORTLAND, Feb. 15. (AP) Dr. Henry Waldo Coe, whose death occurred in Glendale, CaL, today, was noted throught the west. aside from his medical work," for his interest in statuary and for his man gifts to Portland, of works or art. Among the' statues present ed to the city by, Dr. " Coe, ' the Roosevelt Rough Rider bronze by A. Phimister Proctor is perhaps the most noted. mm? H 1&2T FRIGE SittS GOiillUtl Elilll Reply, Made Public Yester- day, oays uonutuons i QQay " ' Are Changed BR1AND,;WBITES MESSAGE Armament Limitation Can Only Be TJntertaken' as Whole, With All Nations Taking Part, " Says : Premier j PARIS. Feb. 15. (AP)-l-The French- government has - politely declined President Coolidge'4 pro posal for a, new naval limitation conference. I The. French reply, made public this, evening, says, that the govern ment is convinced that following the American proposal would risk compromising the. success of the work which the League of Nations already has-undertaken. j The reply, which was written by Foreign .minister Briand and approved by the entire cabinet, takes the position that the circum stances of today are. different! from those, in 1921, when the Washing ton conference, was restrictjed to the limitation efforts of a few powers. Today, the note says, tho arma ment limitation can be considered only, as a whole. j The note says that In the eyes of the League of Nations, there is the principle that all states, ismall and large, alike, are on an equality. For.?France to enter a limitation agreement of a Select ed few. powers would not be true to this principle, the note con tends.-" " : ' To limit efforts to holding down armaments to a - few powers and a few types of fighting machines would,, it 4s argued. enfeeble: the authority (5 1' the league and at the same time violate 'the' principle of equality of all nations. "it ils to be the interest f " of all the navies-of the worId,"th note asserts., "to be associated ih the deliberations on such an. import ant problem.' r M. Briand takes . several occa sions to hammer home the ! point (Continued on page 2.) McNARY CERTAIN OF JOB Joint Recommendation of Senators Make Nomination. Snrej - - . PORTLAND, Feb. 15 (AP) A Washington dispatch to the Morning Qregonian states that the nomination of John McNary, Sa lem attorney and brother of iSena tor i McNary, as TJnited States judge for. the district, of Oregon, became a certainty today when Senators McNary and' Stahfield signed a Joint recommendation inf ', his behalf and forwarded It to the department of justice for the j guid ance of "Attorney" General Sargent. - "Since, .President Coolidge? al-f ready has. signified that the selec tion of Mr; McNary meets with his aDDrbval, :.'ih& -nomination Is ex pected to go forward tn the sea ate tomorrow or Thursaay," tne ais- natch states; . . "Prompt contirmaiion is as sured as senatorial courtesy will .give the nomination, a preferential status.". - . - - pyL; DEBATE SlQH.EDU LED i i alcm and Albany High hool Teams to Meet Monday . i Judces for the Salem - Albany high school debate in the local high school auditorium next Mon day evening will be three members of the Monmouth normal school faculty,' Principal J.-'C. Nelson of Salem high announces. - The judges at Albany the same evening- wiH be Dr. - R. M Locke- nour, head -of the political science department R.H Ewing, political science Instructor, 'and F. H. Butt, English instructor, ait or uau. 4 This will,. ber the second debate for each of the schools participat ing. .'Salem high tied with Staytonr m to? irBtfauaA, contest. POftZI. BEADX EPR PRISON former Wizard" ' Ready to Take Ccdlcine After Dodgfnd BOSTON. Feb. 15 (AF) Charles. Ponzi, the postal coupon wizard of 1920, today, declared he would J "take my medicine," which was in tho form of a seven to nino year fmnrlsonment! aa a common and -notorfo8thieCJ . --" The Ben tence had' been waiting fpr bim "for- 8oTe4 months" whllo he engaged in real estate business in) Florida, worked as wjalter on an Italian steamship -4n7 an, ffort to reach his jiattve land.' was arrest ed In New! Orleami tby. a Texas sheriff, and while he fought - by every- conceivable.appeal to .Texas purjsan governors to 'TJreTentl Ci3 ISlEJJl tH .T"-hV?etty.M 1 YWCA FINANCIAC CAMPAIGN OPENS RAISE 20 PERCENT, QF TOTAJ IN FIRST HAUP DAY OF DRIVE Various Church Ladles Serrlne . Meals to. Workers, Lunch-. . - - - eon Programs An amount of $1568 w.as real ized .'as a result of the first day of the YWC A finance drive which opened yesterdayr and "will continue through Friday jot. this week. A goal -of, $7000 has been. set for the campaign in which a large num ber of .committees are intensively engaged, v Mrs. Walter L. Spaulding Is general chairman of the teams. The . following .prominent women are, .captains, and are 'making every- effort ' to i raise the ' entire amount: ' Mrs. Harley O. White, MrsJ F. A. Elliott, Mrs. Harry VL Hawkins, Mrs. - G. C. Bellinger Mrs." W. D. Clarke, Mrs. Lewis Griffith and Miss Carlotta Crowley. Yesterday tne. team captains. team members, and ; members of tho board met at theYMCA for tne noon luncheon which' will be a feature of each day of the cam paign. '."The Speakers for the Tues day luncheon were Mayor T. A. Livesley" and Rev.: Charles E, Ward. Special music, was fur nished by a group of Girl Re serves. ' Lnncheon was served Tuesday by the ladies of : the Knight Me morial Congregational church and will, be 'served this noon ' by the First JBaptlst church workers. According to leaders In the cam paign, their work is greatly handi capped by the scarcity of solicitors caused by -1 he influenza, epidemic. As the work of the TWCA was held down to a minimum this year because of the shortage in the budget raised" last year, everyt ef fort is being made to reach, the full quota, which will put tho local organization' on a' firm 'financial basis, with full, ability to meet the increasing 1 responsibilities, la -the city. ; ; ' 7 '. ' : HONOR HOUSE Or- CARrlN Beautiful Gifts Presented Speaker and "Real S ;er" .l As atoken of their appreciation of .his work as speaker, the mem bers- i-of-. the-ri house r presented Speaker Carkin 'wlth a gold watch yesterday, and as a symbol oC fur ther esteem gave. Mrs. Catkin, beautiful silver tea set . ; -The presentation was cleverly carried out by Representatives Lonerganand Hamilton. 'In - the midst of the afternoon work Speaker Carkin was informed by Mr, Hamilton that the 'House -was very dissatisfied with his actions as speakers and -demanded that he retire in favor of, the "real", speak er, Representative - - Gordon and Graham, were appointed, as. a com mittee to. condncV the ."real? speaker to the chair- ' . i "They retired into the speaker's room and shortly, returned with Mrs. 'Carkin, who twaa introduced aa the "real speaker, pf tiie house of'Carkih."-- : : Mr. and Mrs. Carkin expressed their sincere appreciation' for; the PORIANDiHAS, MUCH FLU 100, Cases Reported, to Officers PORTLAND, Fel). 15. (AP) .Although, thero are approximately 100. cases of- influenza, inv the city, according to the records of the city health of flee, with additional cases oemg reported.. in! numbers each day, city officials; declared- today that they believedr'only about, bhe tbirdof the cases, are being report ed, many of them, being classified as colds or gripped ..-.- ;. Erevett new cases were reported today. .With the increase in the number, of cases Dr. J Hujiter Wells, assistant health; officer? said that, people snould-l be more care ful with severe colds, stay in. bed keep' warm and take a teaspoon ful of soda in a glass of water every two or three! hours for the first two days of the attack. He pointed out that the danger from the disease. lies, in: the fact that ib -tuajr ubibiui) xuio yueumouia or at. . , . I . ' f - some other illness. V . ' i ' . BRITAIN AWAITS WORD Nation Still in Doubt About Break- - -vaaV-. ' C W j JLnMm -tT J Great Britain tonight- was still without confirmationordenial of newspaper dispatches of yesterday iwhich "'said- the negotiations . at Hankow between . the Cantonese Foreign Minister Eugene Chen and ariush Charge D Affaires Owen O'Malley had broken down. As if perhaps preparing for un favorable : news,' official circles maintain that whatever the imme diate fate fo tho Hankow, parley. thef British government has,; for-. nut a fori - iavtri - hrArfaimflrl '-ia (ha world, a conciliatory ; policy toward . China; whicH will tand tho test COW BREAKS RECORD1 OTTAWA. On t. Feb. 1 5( API X The senior two year, oldi Jersey heifer.' : Farlelgh, St. Mawesretta, his .broken a second world's record further aRe'frnd"breedl lB'rthet "pro- dctioa of milte pud tj nUer fa t, j; PRICE FIVE CENTS III BILL SPECii J - i. .... . : . . , . ... ! li Opposition PeyelopA to, Titti Ing Bill; Joseph Bill Passes, the Senate ; C FISH FUND BILL KILLED, : Measure Granting Po.vc To, Board Of Control To Transrcc Fubds 1 From' One "Classlii':ul6il " To -Another' ':" : ,) The income tax bill has 'been, made the special order of huslnoss in the senate for this afternoon at 2 o'clock. It Is to be reported to the senate without changes ' in, rates and exemptions although some amendments have been made in regard to -corporations. . A .few other minor amendments were, considered; but the , bilL remains practically the same as when i first made Its appearance in. tha legislature ; " :- 'A Thl is one of the administra tion ' bills, which wilt probably pass, although there has developed,, considerable ropposition to" it, 'in some instances. It has been esti mated that the bill, when if be comes a law. will raise about $2,- 000.000 in taxes during the year,' It cannot become operative unfit 19 2& as it must first he referred to' the people for their, approval-' In the meantime something hS3. to be done to meet .the exist! uC' deficit. The ' Patterson ;Uthim4 bill' reposes "In tha bands 6f the senate committee.-' It' passed the house Mvith a substantial majority; but a bloc of opposition has been ' encountered In the senate. ' This bloc became; more; pro-: nounced. yesterday when. tHa Jo-t seph bill number S07 was. passed without opposition. This bill pro-- vldes the board of control with the, power in time of emergency. tI. borrow money from the industrial: accident . fund or. the state, high,-' way fund to" carry on the affairs ot. the, 'state.' . It Is reported: 'that, a.ma)ority of tle members of thi senate are unfavorable to the tlth. Inr hiU' and "so "Its sponsors are holding it back. until a more' an-1 splcious occasion; In the mean . (Continued oa pAfa 5.) . j SERBIAN QUAIClv JUGO.SL AVTA ROCKED ALONU I COAST AND INTERIOR1 Accurate f DeUils' of Shock;- Vv " ' itrallable Dde to Poor - r Communications ; ' I BELGRADE, Feb, 15, (AP).-i-Jugo.. Slavia, along - the, Adriatip - .coasts and far. inter the. interior, was aeait aeaaiy damage' Dy a, great earthquake. Sunday,; which. hundred, lives,- ,-'-t V ". Communications, are such .In the striekeusi territory - that it' is :1raW.' possible to obtain an accQrate, 'idea-; " off' how widespread - the " 'shocks were, or, how extensive, the;-. - ipsa or, itres, and property. isx : peditiona haye started out from the capital, and. other centers of population- to the afflicted yeg-v" lona,' which' include parts of Dal-': matia, Bosnia and- Hercgovina. . The earth: shocks were felt sev . erallyas; far, inland as. Sarajevo, but the most, widespread' damage occurredr apparently along tho hiUy.r territory i. paralleling: 1 the " coast- for; several, score, miles. r The shocks, which numbered 19, -i or 20, 'occmrred; within; less,; than an boar during: the 'period- or darkness ! preceding r Sunday's ': dawn.- They rocked the land on Doth sides ot the " river, warenta, , which cleaves Jugo-Slavla -on tho wayrtol therasea: and boOi' north and south' of the mouth" bf the, j Narenta ,'" i ; nn'! - : . ;-t , s From each village thus far has come, a different story either as. to the nature Of the. Shocks and. the damage done of regarding the.v". loss of, llfei. "Some tidl ot the" eartlj openlng'and. Swaflpwlng up, bu itrl-' ' ings; others"; of, houses toppling buried liv.by the suddeq open-, ing and' closing' ot ""the earth's, surface, : : : , ,.- Manr persons are reported, to. have perished, at JUgusa," LJubfn- t ie and Petkovitchl ' 'Those "wh escaped Were 'forced; from- their ' hqmes in the darkness into thc snow filled streets, without si c- q.uatj covering br. hope of shHr.,. HaDDlly ' most of." the "etrirkrn. regions' are ..." sparsely, inhabit ed.. Nevertheless, 1t is'feared that t'",. death list raay prove even If rrrr thah flrs recorted'renorti indi cated. - ' , ' ' '''.''-. ' . Tner seismoiogicai station. at.. Belgrade tonight "attributed ' thrv " shocks to a; rupture in'th bedoT the Adriatic-whtch'ca'ased-'in'ov"- irieit ot the thrtu treat strata uu der (b F rf Herzov ir into the rivers, carrying, with thpi tu the'', sleeping occupants. " . Stilt" others relate that Individuals were