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Newspaper Page TextVICTIM&0F TORNADO, CREMATED IN RU DM CITY EDITION Dally avras nl p:d circulation for mootb end Fehruary 28, I92i 6811 Average dally distribution 7261. Member Audit Bureau f Circulations. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 67 ILLINC S IS HARDEST HIT MM IN WRECKAGE OF SCHOOLS DIE Smouldering: Ruins Give Up Bodies; Food Scarce And Supplies of All Kinds Badly Needed. Murphyeboro, III., Mar. 19. (By Associated Preen) Southern Illinois early today presented a vast tableau of death and de struction and its horror stricken Inhabitants waited anxiously more definite reports on the toll of lives taken by yesterday's tor nado which swept clear across the central southern part of the state. Murphysboro, West Frankfort, Parrish and DeSoto, all situated In Illinois rich coal fields, ap peared to have suffered the heav iest loss of life and the biggest property damage. Smoke still poured from the debris of Mur phyeboro's smouldering ruins, while Its citizens searched the ruins for other dead. Rescue work was greatly hampered by the fire and it was said that many of the injured were cre mated in the blazing debris. Fires Still Burnine " " The city early today was burn In? in many places. The main business section was virtually wrecked and streets were filled with poles and debris and wreck ed automobiles. Many doctors and nurses who arrived from all points were tak en to the basement of the Pres byterian church which was not destroyed. Bert Scoby, an undertaker from Marion, III., who came thru West Frankfort, en route here es timated that one undertaker there had sixty or seventy bod ies and another undertaker prob ably had the same amount. - "The whole northwest corner of West Frankfort is razed and conditions there are as bad as hey are here," Scoble . said. "Three eohrwl buildings were virtually destroyed. The tornado scooped out the center of the high school, turned houses end over end and devastated block after block." Scores of Autos Wrecked "The wind carried automobiles great distances," he said. "It turned one house almost at right angle to its foundation." The number of persons burned In their homes after being crush ed Is undetermined, according to Major Robert Davie. An Associated Press correspond ent made a tour of the city at 3 a. m., and counted 85 wrecked automobiles. Fires everywhere till glowed and flared with in creasing fury and the streets were filled with homeless people. Food is scarce. Restaurants that were not wrecked were try ing to obtain food from Carbon dale. DeSoto was razed with the ex ception of- a dozen houses, ac- (Continued on Page Four) Shepherd Occupies Cell Where Franks Formerly Confined Chicago, Mar. 19 William D. Shepherd, foit-;r father of Willi im McClintock, orphan mlllion.Hro to day occupied the same county Jail cell In which Nathan Leopold. Jr., awaited trl.il nine month ago for killing Robert Franks, While prose cutors Investigated a theory that the typhoid germ he t accused of Riving McClintock to kill may have come from the city health department. They ejt;iblihM a connection between twj health 0pnrtmnt employee and the Nat if no 1 I'niver Ity of Sciences, whoe hrt. Charles C. Fdini.in, n.i rued w it i Shepherd In th Jn"- Caoltal. an Coast Hoop Tournament Abandoned Plans for a Pacific coast tourna ment to be held In Salem were definitely abandoned this after noon upon receipt of a communi cation by telepuone from high school authorities at Rupert, Ida ho, stating that the Rupert bas ketball team cannot arrange to enter the meet. Rupert holds the 'itate championship of Iduho, and without Rupert the tournament would not Involve the interstate championship. The Rupert team is leaving for Chicago next Wednesday night. " They state they have tried to think of every possible way to take in the coast meet and the national meet both, but find themselves un ablj to do so,' said Guy Rathbim. athletic director at Willamette university, who has been respons ible for the Idea of staging the ccast tournament in Salem. Negotiations For Lease Deliberately Concealed To Preventlnterf crrnce Says Witness. Cheyenne, Wyo., March 19. (By Associated Press.) The leas ing of Teapot Dome to Harry F. Sinclair was deliberately conceal ed from congress and the public, according to testimony read at the naval oil lease annulment suit here today from the deposition of Rear Admiral J. K. Roblson. chief of navy engineering. "We concealed what was being done in the Wyoming reserve be cause wo wanted to get it done," Admiral Robison said in cross examination conducted by Owen J. Roberts of government counsel. ORDERED CLOSED The Belleview hotel, which has been under the scrutiny of the po lice department and the city coun cil for some time, was today or dered closed by Chief of PoMcc Minto pending decision of the po lce committee of the council as to whether it will be allowed to have license to operate. Objection was made to the hotel as it was operated by Mrs. C. M. German, and Monday night the council refused to renew her li cense She did not contest the re fusal, but simultaneously H. H. Roberts n made application for a license and the application was referred to the police committee. I.'obortson hr.s good recommenda tions from Eugene, ivh -re ho lived for many venrs. charging MtClintock'g mi rder, said he gave the erms to Sh-phcrd for admini.Lerin to McClintock. Inc:u;od In the list of the fac ulty of the FtWv.an school were the nam 03 of Wiifield 3. Hocrxer, a health inspector, and Dr. Harry Rand, formerly In the bureau of diphtheria control. Until a month ag prortvutors said, Hoerger's duties had been to receive typhnid .in cthyr germ cultures at the ciry laNoi atory. He denied !inj t faculty mem-l)f-r of the school and said he vi only a tnilent thtre. Dr. Rnnd v -4 Uftt ri ?. the medical director "! s'-hool. TEAPOT DEAL KEPI IN DM BODIES OF 116 RECOVERED !N ILLINOIS CITY Two Hundred and Fifty Buildings Leveled In West Frankfort ; Loss Over $2,000,000. West Frankfort, 111., March 19. (By Associated Press.) The known dead as a result of yester day's tornado reached 116 here today, 13 at Benton, 14 at Logan, 25 at Parrish and at least 35 at DeSoto, according to tabulation. West Frankfort, 111., Mar. 19 By Associated Press) One hun dred and two boJiea have been ex tricated from the ruins of the build ings wrecked in yesterday's tor nado. More than 200 seriously injured were taken to hospitals. Two hundred and fifty building) in the north and west sections were leveled. An early estimate by Sheriff Dorris placed the prop erty loss at more than $2,000,000. Dawn today presented a picture (Continued on Page Kierht) THEFT OF CHILD PICKED UP HERE On a warrant from Fresno, Cal.. Roy Campbell was arrested here List night on a charge of child atealinrr. He wae taken at the home of hiB parents. Mr. and Mrs J R. Campbell, 50 South Four teenth street, 'ampbell arrived in Salem about 10 dnys ago, bring ing with him a little girl 14 months ola. The complaining witness in the case Is Campbell's wife. He is held in the city jail, being unable :o put up bail of $2500 which was fixed late yesterday by justice of 'he Peace Small. Extradition proceedings will be necessa -y in the ca.se. A telegram from Fresno officers stated that an officer would be sent from there immediately to return Camp- hell to that city. He was arrested here by Officer Cutler. Chief of Police Minto was in formed bv a telegram from Fresno early this afternoon that the Cali fornia governor refuses to issue a requisition for Campbell and that an officer will noL be sent from Kresno to take him into custody ere. "I don't believe there is much reason to be afraid of an influx of J n pane? into this country,1 the statement made by Clarence Y. Noble, reee-itly returned from a. year's business vlnlt to Japan and China, in a speech before the Mfirion-IV.k County Realtors' as sociation at the Marion hotel this noon. "Kven now the Japanese government Is trying to get the people to mora to Utazll yc.i see posters urging them to go in all the railroad stations In J.ip..n but they don't leave. For 20 years they have been trying to get thvn to move to Korea, but they don't do it." The Japanese point of view l tich that practically all Japanese prefer to stay In the city of their birth, according to Mr. Noble. They hava a iersitent belief that if they leave their old horn en. where the spirits of their ancestors live, the spirits will follow them and bring them bad luck. SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH, 19, 1925 BODIES OF 18 BABIES TAKEN TO ONE MORGUE Chicago, Mar. 19 Tlio riiUiieo Dally News publish til a siKM-inl diinaUli UHluy from West Frankfurt saying that one hundred bodies of storm victims had bevu found in West Frankfort, 111., mid Immediate vicinity. The tlNpatch add: 'The bodies of 1H ha bios wore plficfd side by side In our morgue. '(! woman, with blood 9ti'';iMilng down her elieeks, talking in a foreign tongue hud her t-hrlckd of grief turned to cries of Joy when a matt approached her car rying n baby. The baby had conic through untouched." Half of Amount Needed To Finance Expenses of High School Five To Chicago Raised. COXTIUUVTIONS ."111)11 a I Journal $ 25.00 Ijidd nnd Hush 00.00 I'. K. Niitloiuil .. 50.01) First atioiuil 35.00 v. i ititshop 25.00 P. M. Gregory . 25.00 Frank Myers 25.00 While House lteMmimiit 15.00 It oval mteieria 10.00 !. K. Barber' Shop .... 15.00 Secretary of State's Office 50.00 301 tickets subscribed to high school dun C nt 55c 275.55 High school orgniii- xatlons 230.00 Total $H0.5A Vet to iio H0.45 The campaign to raise funds to send the Salem bigh school bas ketball team east to Chicago way started in earnest today. Business men of tna city were asked to sub scribe to the trip, with gratifying results nearly everywhere, accord ing to icport issued at an early hour this afternoon. The studente planned a serpentine through the city after school hours today. A committee appointed by the Salem Kiwanls club went to the high school yesterday and made arrangements to pitch Into the campaign. Harry Levy, Ralph Coo ley and Carl Gabrlelaon, who com pose the committee, stated that their intention is to divide the Kl wanlan roster among 10 men. to be selected by the committee, and see that every member of the dun is given a good chance to sub serlpe a substantial sirm toward the team's expenses on the pro poped trip. Indications today were that every member of every one of the three nervice clubs in the city will hnve an opportunity to do bin part In nupport of the trip. With the sin gle exception of Tom Kay, frosl dent of the Rotary club, who oc cupies the somewhat embarrassing position of being father In law to lloltls Huntington, coach cr the teim, the head of every service club and of the Salem chamber of commerce has come out In hearty support of the trip to Chi cago. "There Is no question In the mind of anyone," said C. II. Mc Cullough, president of the Klwnnln club, "but what this is a mighty fine thing. This la a mlRhty fine, clean bunch of boys a bunch any town would be proud to be repre sented by," W. V. Rosebrouuh, president of the Linn club, h.-'.s stated, "I think this trip In the chance of a life time to advertise tho city of Bn iem. It is Jurt what we need to put us on the n.ap." "Snlein ought to get behind thin thing and send the team," says Tero Hicks, president of the chum ber of commerce. It is the chance of a lif"ttme and we ought not to miss It." Ktfmntel profits from a dance to be tased In Cryrtnl ;nrden on the night of Tuesday, March 24. $4i0. 1 he high school orchsstra will play at the dance, atij ar rangement wero begun IhU morn ing to aell tickets. $830 RAISED TO SEND TEAM mm TOWNSARE ENTIRELY WIPED OUT Late Reports Tell Details Of Disaster; Hundreds Are Left Homeless And buffering:. Oarbondale. 111.. Mar. 19. Up wards of one thousand persons are dead and probably three thou sand injured with hundreds of others homeless within a radius of 25 miles of this city in yester days tornado, according to report today. uornam was isolated and re ported virtually destroyed. In the village of 500, seventy five were reported dead and scarcely a per son escaped Injury. DeSoto, a little town of BOO was reported virtually wiped off the map. The village, six miles from Carbondale, did not have d.izen homes loft Intact today with from 100 to 125 reported dead and 150 more Injured. Near ly 30 school children were killed at DeSoto when the school house collapsed as the pupils struggled to escape. Several were reported dead and Injured at Zicgler and Christo pr er, small mining towns and Chny were hurt at Bush, Hurst, Pgrrish, Rnyalton and Denton, according to meagre reports. Carbondale was crowded with the dead and Injured. More than forty bodice were brought here, The damage In West Frankfort was believed to he more than $1,- 000,000 with the total damage within a radius of 25 to 30 mites of Carbondale running between $6,000,000 and $7,000,000. At Murphysboro, at noon, an Associated Press correspondent had counted 126 dead. Fifty more were said to be dead and the e tlmates of Major Davie in charge of troops at Murphysboro and of the fire chief there placed the nnmber of dead whose bodies are yet unreeovored at from 10 to 250, a possible total of more than 350. ' From the rural districts little has been heard, and it was esti mated that 150 might be found dead. Murphysboro sent out a request for 50 additional doctors and nurses declaring that there are several hundred persons there werlouely injured requiring imme diate attention. The storm area at noon was still virtually Isolated from the outside world bb far as wire com munication was concerned. The tornado whlrh skipped and hopped from town to town, spurn ing the uninhabited countryside, left in its wake a disaster so great that the people of the com munity where it occurred could scarcely believe the reports. With ruthless hand the storm laid the town flat and today the bodies of 30 school children from there lay in Carbondale morgues while stricken parents hurried from one scene of death to anoth er fearful of what they might find. Washington. March 19 Mem r.rable for Its breach with the White House over the Warren uoD-ination, thi sjrwMal session of the senate which convened March 4 had passed Into history today after pursuing its turbulent way to the veiy closing hours. With the senate's adjournment sine die veatcrday congress has closed Its doom until the convening of the ri.ular session on the first Mon dfcy In December unless called In special snslon. Of this President (oolidge baa Indicated do inten tinn. FK FOLLOWING IN TORNADO SWEEPING THROUGH Casualties CbtaBO, March 19. (Uy Asso ciated I'rcBS. ) Kttrly turiay cusu- aHic!! fur Wednesday evening loruudu listed in the order in which the tornado swept through allowed: Dead. Injured. Annapolis, Mo 3 100 lliehle 10 50 Altcnburn 1 10 Cape (jirardeau.... 7 52 Ocrring. Ill 50 60 Murphysboro 250-300 300-500 Gorbum - 50-100 150 DeSoto 35-50 160-300 Push - 5 60 Hurst 40 West Kranktort ..115-150 300-400 Denton 13 60-75 Lcgan 14 30-60 Parrish 25-50 100-150 Enfield. Ill 12 35-00 Thonipsonvllle 8 00 IKLeansboro 17 85-100 rarmi 2 25 Crossvllle 1 10 Grlftin. Ind. 40-100 250 Owensville 15 60-100 Princeton 25 60-100 Poscyvllla 6 30 Elizabeth 3 10-20 Without, Tenn. .. 30 60 lexington, Ky 1 Glasgow, Ky 8 Springfield, Ky. 2 25 Scoltsville 4 Disaster is Nineteenth Since 1884 New York, March 19. Yester day's tornado in southern Illinois and parts o' Missouri and Indiana was the nineteenth such disaster r.lnce the great storm which swept the southern states in 1M84. Following is a list of the wordl tornndoea in the middle went and south since that of 1MN4: February IS, 1S84 Six huu f'red killed In southern statt. April, 1S92 Forty killed In Kansas. June 14, 1S92 Fifty killed in MinnetiotJ. June 20, 1893 Sixteen killed in Kansas river valley. September 20, 1894 Seventy fire killed In Iowa and Minnesota. May 27, 1896 Five hundred killed In St. Louis and Kast St. I ouls. March 30, 189 Three-foui thu of the town of Chadlcr, Okla., de stroyed. May 9, 1905 Thirty killed at Marquette, Kan. May 11, 190j One hundred and till ty killed at Snyder, Okla March 2, 1900 Twenty-five killed at Meridian, Miss. April 24, 1908 Five hundred killed In Mississippi, Louisiana p.nd Oklahoma. June 6, 1 90S Twenty-seven killed in southern Nebraska and northern Kansas. March 13, 1913 Heavy dam age! and loss of life In Illinois indiana, Tennessee, I.oulsiana and Texas. April 25, 1923 Nearly 100 killed in Oklahoma. July, 1923 Sixty-three killed at Pomeroy, Iowa. The most recent stornr disaster was at Lorain. Ohio, on June 28, 1924, when 67 persons were killed and Bcores Injured during a heavy wind which swept the southern shore of Lake F.rle. The property loss was placed at 126,000.000. During the spring antji summer of 1924 tho south was visited hy two devastating storms. On April TO, 109 persons met death In Ala bama, South Carolina and George On May 26 and 27, forty person were killed In Mississippi and Ala bama. Japanese Cnrh Radicals. Toklo, Japan, March 19. (By Associated Preas. ) The house of r.eers today passed the peace pres ervation act, a measure designed to curb all forms of radical ac tlvlty. PRICE THREE CENTS gjUgg,0 A 11 WAKE OF 5 SMS ADDS 10 DISASTER Upwards of 2,500 Persons Injured, Some Fatally, In Path of Twister Thru Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Tennessee and Kentucky; Children Trapped In Wreckage of Schools Chicago, March 19. (By Associated Press.) At 4 o'clock tabulation of casualties and storm and tornado, according to the latest available reports showed a minimum estimate of 742 deaths and a maximum of 900. The minimum estimate of injured was 2192 and thle maximum exceeded 3,000. (By Associated Press) . Dead estimated at 500 to 1,000. Injured estimated at 2,500 to 3,000. TTomeless estimated at 8,000 to 10,000. A mid-ufternoon tornado, the worst hour to strike, when children were packed in schools and workers in stores and! shops, yesterday's storm in five mid-western states still held many victims buried and unreported this afternoon. Where it did the worst damage, the tornado lasted less than five minutes. It flattened heavily constructed schools and business build ings with worse results than the casualty in lighter dwellings. Babies in homes were special sufferers. Fires still raging or smouldering and millions of dollars worth of wreckage delayed counts of the larger death lists. The hardest hit places were the NO LIVES LOST HOSTELRY FIRE Palm Beach, Fin., March 19. A check-up of hotnl YeRlsters, al most completed today, failed to re veal that any lives were lost In the ft re which Inst nif;ht destroyed two hotel) and other buildings I'ere. Authorities continued to In vestigate rumors tnat the Break ers hotel, the first huildinp to be attacked by the flumes was set afire a a part of a plot to loot the hotel rooms for Jewelry and money. I'olice have arrested a score cf persons charged with loot ing. Palm Beach, Fla., Mar. 19. Mure than four million dollars worth of property lay In ruins here today after the fire of lat night which ewept through the Breakers and Palm Beach hotels, destroying Biveral shop and cot tage and for a time threatened the defltruciton of that entire sec tion of the city. Smouldering nshee wae all that remained of two noted hotels of the play ground of millionaires a etept; were made to check the damage to property and verify rumora that there had been a ls of 1 if . RELIEF OFFERS ARE EXTENDED Ixis Angelt. Cal., March 19. The Ixir Angeles chamber of com merce early today opened sub-si-rlptlon llts for a relief for the tornadu ctrirken areas ot Indiana. Illinois and Missouri. Boston, Mass., March 19. The Christian Science board of direc tor today announced that It had placed $40,000 at the disposal of the committees of the church for the relief of tornado sufferer In the middle west and that contribu tions for relief wight be sent by the Dtihlic through the mother church relief fund. RAIN TODAY . And tonight, Friday etnudy; modamt temperature; strong south, shifting to went winds tonight. Local; Max., 55; mln., $7; river, 3.1 falling; rain, .19; aintos., cloudy; wind. injured from Wednesday's small cl'-iea in southern Illinois- WetH Frankfort, Murphysboro and Carhondule. Nearly all the destruction waa ;n the auft coat fields. Next to Illinois, the worst suf ferers were in Indiana and Alis- ouri with fatal echoes of the twiuter coming from Tenuesaca and Kentucky, Relief Work Rushed. Red Cross, state guardsmen. uviny aviation forces, railroad re sources piled into many special trains and private relief from two if the nation's largest cities, Cut ago and St. Lroma, with a host of contributions from smaller cities concentrated on southern Illinois. Two Towns Destroyed. Two towns in the wake of the lornado were reported to hava been virtually erased from tut laap while a large section of an other woo laid to ruins. But una iiome and a school house were tht remaining structures In the vil lage of I'arrlsh in Franklin coun ty, Illinois. The four dwelling left standing at Griffin, Posey county, Indiana, a town of 750 people, were biully damaged. Ont hundred city blocks at Murphys boro were pructically flattened. Seventy blocks in the residential .tut ion were swept by flames. Setting a record for swift leg islation, the members of the Illi nois legislature and those In tha .Missouri aKsembly, respectively, pushed forward measures appro priating $500,000 and $25,000 for relief in their devastated sections, (.iovernor Small of Illinois and staff left for the storm area. Over in Fivi. Minutes. In tho stricken district la southern Illinois the storm took its toll In several places in less than five minutes. A brakemaa m an Illinois 'm tral train who messed the traced) at DeSoto, pLctured It thus: "A crash of thunder, preceded by two blinding flashes of llght nining, after which there was LHtlilui left of the town." In a mnie near West Frankfort, eight hundred men were under ground. They felt a concuwsloo ;nd fearing dinaster (locked tn tho lifts. None of the rages could bo peratel. When they were ablo o reach the surface they found tornado had passed over them. Ons of the Interesting faturcs was re rorted from this same locality where s rescue worker, noticing av baby's shoe protruding from tho debris of s miner's home, grasped it to flml Becky Reed under tho wreckage. She was unhurt. Cairo, 111., Mar. 19 A mcssago t Continue 1 on fage Eight)