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o O O 9 The Weather Prediction Cloudy Maximum yesumlay 71.9 Minimum today 38.0 KM Weaker Year Ago Mnxlrntlm fit Minimum 39 IVJLJEjJLWr WU iVJL&JiJL Ballf MutMotfc Ttu. MEDFORD. OREGON, SATURDAY. MARCH 21, 1925 NO. 308' Wlrolene" Latest Fluid Beautiful Washington Debutant0 Will Be Bride of Swedish Diplomat Former Comedy Star qf Broadway fow a Drug Habit Victim to Make Autos Go,' Has a Sugar Base 01 III NEW CIVIC SPIRIT BURIES IIS m ad Relief Work Under Way and Money Pours In 3000 ln- jured Loss in Property Is Eight Millions Antics of Cyclone Told By Survivors. CHICAGO, Mar. 21. (By Associat ed Press.) The casually table of the Associated Prefls, prepared at noon today showed 822 known and estimat ed dead from Wednesday's tornado and storm which struck five middle western states. The Injured remained at approximately 3000. ' (By the Associated Press) The known and estimated dead from Wednesday's tornado and storm which dipped Into sections of five states, stood at 822 shortly before noon today. This total Included five additional deaths reported from Grif fin, Ind., one more from Princeton, Ind., and seven more from Murphys boro. The number of Injured still hovered around 3000. Burial of the dead was proceeding rapidly In all sectors with brief cere monies. Some communities plan me morial services later. Ministers are remaining constantly on duty. There are still some unidentified dead with more bodies probably yet to be found. Organized rescue and relief work was methodically tn operation within the devastated regions. An immedi ate need of surgeons for the southern Illinois field prompted the state health director to appeal to county medical societies fur help. He also requested supplies of anti-toxin for gangrene, which has appeared among the wounded. The department's field , 'director reported 73B surgical cases in this ftone.. .v :.: J tv . V Heavy contributions, of money and supplies continued to' pour in from sources all over the United States. Property loss in nil devastated dis tricts was estimated variously between five and eight million dollars. Survivors of such annihilated towns as Griffin, Ind., and DeHoto and l'ar rlsh. 111., clung desperately to the hope that the towns might' be rebuilt. , As town lots their properly retained value, as a pat Mi of ground on a wind swept rural hill their holdings were valueless. As the eyewitness accounts of the twisters visitation were more freely reported Us freakish, ironic and ec centric antics struck observers as without parallel in the history of tor nadoes. Unbelievable were many of the stories of escapes while others ex- ceeded the hope of the most Imag inary. ' Illinois , ; Dead Injured Murphysboro .". 2U8 100 West Frankfort 122 500 DeSoto 71 200 Gorham 70 100 , MoLeanshoro 34 75 parrish 41 100 Carml 20 50 Eogan 15 50 Denton - 18 80 Hurst 1 60 Enfield : 12 GO Bush 7 45 Thompsonville 8 GO Akin 4 ;.. 6 10 GraVvllle r 4 10 Crossvllle 1 11 Total i G59 2110 i Indiana Griffin 54 200 Princeton 23 200 Owensvllle 14 65 Poseyvllle : ;, 5 30 KHsaheth . ... 6 20 North Bands 4 Total 104 515 . T-cnncssoe. Gallatin 25 CO BhelbyvlUe .......... 2 Wartrace 2 . . Knoxvllle ' 1 (Continued on Pare Biz) A ROMANCE OF KANSAS HARVEST FIELDS ENDS; SAYS GROOM IS A BIGAMIST SALEM, Ore., March SI. Sheriff F. A. Coolt of Scott ciunty. Kansas, arrived here today to take back to his tate Moses Hind, alias Will Johnson, who is held In the Marlon county jail, and who is wanted In Scott City, Kan sas, on' a charge of bigamy. An ex tradition hearing will be held in the office of Governor Pierce at 2 o'clock this afternoon. According to the acquisition brought here by Sheriff Cook. Hind has a wife living with her father at Stella. Mo., whom he married December 2T. 1&12. By this wife he has four children, the youngest of whom is not yet a month old. Recently, nfter working in the har dest fields of Kansas and making va PARIS, March 21. Remark- able claims are made for a new automobile ftiel named "iro- lene" after its disnoverer. 14- year-old Irene La rent, daughter of a well known French chem- 1st. The product, which, is understood to have for its basis fr a solution of sugar, is said to 4 4 cost less and go further than 4 nny other of the substitutes for gasoline yet tried. 4 A party of prominent auto- motive engineers who tested the 4 new fuel In a long run. In nn 4 4 ordinary machine are quoted as fr expressing themselves as as- r 4 tounded by the results. 4 . FATHER GRABS Little Tot Has Dress Blown Off Parents Cling to Fence Post Family Blown Quar ter of Mile, and All Saved. BENTON, 111., March 21 (By the Associated Press.) Margaret Parks, 6 years of age, who was Injured In Wednesday's tornado, today told ol' the things she saw. , "The sky was dark and the wind commenced blowing, oh, so hard," she said. "We were scared and before we knew It We were blown away and our home was ruined. When 1 woke up, mother was holding me tight in her arms and wo were way out in the field. "A great big plunk was. p.n me and my dresB was gone. Daddy picked us up and we all went to Parrish and then they brought us over here on the train." ' Everett Parks, her father, said that he and his family were carried a quar ter of a mile from their home. "I did not remember anything after the storm struck until 1 found myself holding a fence post a quarter of a mile from the house," Parks said. "I happened to glance over my shoulder and saw my little boy in the air, only a few feet above the ground and coming directly toward me. 1 reached and was barely able to grasp him by the leg. I pulled him down to me add held him until the slorni had passed. Then I picked up my two other babies and led my wife to Parrish, a half mile away. We were picked up at rarrisb aud brought to Benton." PLEISTOCENE BONES INGLEWOOD, Cal., March 2f. Huge fossili'ed bones which blocked the operations of a gang of work men cutting through a new street here recently were examined by Chester Stock, University of Cali fornia paleontologist yesterday and pronounced portions of a pleisto cene mammoth which roamed the hills of- southern California some 50.000 years ago. The fossils were found only three feet beneath the surface of the ground. American Charity. ' ST. LOUIS, March 21. Evidence of a nation aroused to sympathy for its hurt and suffering was at hand here today. By telegram a citizen of Redlands, Cal., sent $100 to the American Trust company here for use in helping the sick and the in jured of the tornado devastated re gions southeast of St. Louis. The money was turned over to the Red Cross. rious other movements, he went to Healy, Kas., where he joined Goldina Wallace, twenty years old. whom Sher iff Cook described as "one of the fin est girls in our county." Hind had met her during the harvest season. They went to Scott City, where they were married by a probate judge No vember 20. Inst. Soon afterward they left for Oregon and were traced to Salem. When Kind was arrested hy Marion county officers he, his wife nnd her sister, were living here and Hind was taking a course in automobile mechan ics in Portland. The Salem wife claims that .e did not know llJkl had nn lOthor wife. Her mother Bigned ie complaint against Hind. 1 SON FROM AIR IN CYCLONE TO Kin Died Suddenly and Left a Drug Store Will Benefic iary Starts Legal Battle to Gain Freedom On Bail in Germ Murder. CHICAGO. Mar, 21. A fourth fourth deal It, that of Otto Ornf, In Snllna, Kas., twenty years ago is being investigated by Judge Harry Olson of the municipal court In connection with the ulloged murder of William X. McClintoelt. Graf was a brother-in-law of Wlllfnm D. Shepherd, foster father 'of McClintock, now charged with murder. After Graf's death, Shepherd is said to have succeeded to the management of the drug business In Sal in a. Julie Graf, daughter of a Sallna barber nnd a sister of Otto, Is said to have been married to Shepherd when he was lying In bed with an injured neck, reported at that time to have been broken, and when he is said to have believed he would die. Charles B. Wyrlck of Chicago, son of a former clergyman of Sullna, al ready has conferred with Judge Olson and recalls Shepherd when the latter was lying there. Judge OlHon's information Is that Graf's death was sudden and that doctors assigned heart disease as the cause. The deaths of not only McClintock hut that of his mother, Mrs. Emma Nelson McClintock, who died sixteen years ago while Shepherd and his wife were living with her and thnt of Judge Olnon's 'brother, Dr.. Oscar dlson, v whose death occurred three years ago, have been declared by the Judge 'to. have been suspicious. " That of Graf adds" a fourth ho has ques tioned. ' - CHICAGO, Mar. 21.--(By Associat ed Press.) Testimony that William D. Shepherd, under indictment charged with the murder by typhoid inocula tion of his foster son, William N. Mc Clintock, orphan millionaire, had said he would have McClintock's will drawn to suit himself was given by C. C. Faiman, indicted with Shepherd, at a bail hearing today. Faiman said Shepherd li!ld agreed to give him $100,000 when he com pleted ' a big deal" which the wit ness said Shepherd told him he was working on. This "big deal" was admitted by Shepherd to relate to the McClintock estate. ' "A few days after the death of Mc Clintock," said Faiman, "Shepherd called me on the telephone and said he was going away for a few days and would not bo able to see anybody." Faiman said In his conversations with Shepherd he told him that cath artics administered in the typhoid case would act as irritants and aggra vate the disease. Miss Isabel iope, fiancee of McClintock testified at the intiuest that Mrs. Shepherd gave Mc Clintock castor oil and that Shepherd told of giving the boy pills. Fniman said that Shepherd told him In a con versation after McClintock became 111, that he had given him cathartic pills. "During the first few conversa tions," he said, "wo spoke of criminal bacteriology, whlchh ehad discussed with my representative He said, when I gave him the germs, that he wanted to experiment with them." Faiman, president of the National University of Sciences, admitted that he knew of no witnesses who had heard conversations he alleged he and Shepherd had had about typhoid germs and about the McClintock will. He said Shepherd had in one con versation referred to - young McClin tock and Miss Isabel Pope, his' fian cee, intending to marry soon. Thnt was In the fall of 1923, according to Falmnn, who said Shepherd referred to McClintock's approaching his ma jority he was 21 years old a year ago. Faiman asserted that he said to Shepherd that such a marrluge would "leave him out," but that Shepherd said he woulohave McClintock draw a will. The witness said he then said "the girl must be taken care of or It would cause talk," and that Shepherd said "some of those' typhoid cultures could be used." Falrmnn had previously stated that he had given Shepherd three tubes of bacilli. These tubes he had obtained In the Chicngo health department. The interrogation was the opening of Shepherd's first legal battle, the attempt to get him out of Jail by the admittance to ball. HALKM. Ore.. March 21. An epi demic of influenza has struck the public school her that is the most widespread of any epidemic in th history of the city. Ktnterents is-' sued this morning by high school authorities indicated that for the month ending March 20 the percent-1 oko of attendance of hlich school children wyt 81.1 per rpnt. over five per cent lower than normal, and the lowest for which any recorts are available. Individually the cases are not bo severe aa In previous epidemics DEATH SKEPHARD Cupid, superb archer, shot an arrow from Sweden to New York! . and added Miss Margaret Dows and Knut Kicliard Tliyberg to his list of victims. Thyberjr, whose home is in l.indcsberfr, Sweden, will wed Miss Dows, New York, the Washington debutante of this lesson, in June. tHc is in the Swedish diplomatic service. QUEBEC FEELS TREMBLOR. LIAMAG I I i t .'Rescue work at the wrecked shaft of ShOCK LaStS TWO MinUteS and the mine, No. 41, of the Bethlehem PhnnP ServifP HaltPfJ Mines corporation at Bnrrackvllle. was rllUIIC v oeiviue . ndltUU speeded up this morning In the hope Window and Dishes Rattle !Sr ZZrlVZ -Short But Violent Tremor!nlf 'b0 "" E'ym bodies Alnnri Wafprfrnnt : ...-.a .w QUEBEC. Mar. 2 1 .An Intense earthquake shock was felt hero this morning. Houses were shaken but no serious damage or fatalities were re ported.. The shock occurred between 10:24 and 10:26 o'clock. Following the earthquake tremors of February 28 there were recurrent disturbances for several days In this district. To day's shock lasted only five to ten seconds depending upon the locality. The telephone communication with Bniestpaul, Murray Bay, St. Simeon anil other places In Charlevoix coun ty, as well us points In tho Saguenay district was Interrupted. First reports of the quake enme from the harbor front in Quebec. Tho signal Rervlce station timed It as about 10:2G and described it as short but violent, sending a perceptible tremor up the building tower and rattling windows. Residents hear the parliamcntory buildings suid the quake made china dance on breakfast tables, spilling contents of cups into saucers. The shock ceaed to lie observed only a few streets away and was be lieved to be confined to a narrow belt along the river bed, although a spora dic offshoot gave a twitch or two in parts of upper town. The dominion observatory seismo graph recorded the movement as tak ing place at 10:22 and lasting thirty seconds. BOMBER SAVED SAN JUAN CAPIBTHANO, Cal.. March 21. Ten men won a race with death last night when tho bat tle fleot bombing plane 2-S-3, In which they were flying from San Pedro to San Diego, threw a propeller and was forced down twenty miles offshore west of hero leuving thorn far from land on a sinking craft. Alighting In a fog the plane's Im pact with the water sprung several bad leaks In the pontoons and the three officers and Boven enlisted men aboard the craft bailed frantically to keep It afloat until it could be taxied to shore under power of the second motor. tenant H. E. Hnyander, com mamtfr, brotiKbt his plane to a bind ing upon tho ror ks of Han Juan point without injury to anyone aboard but the big bomber was so badly pounded hv (hf wnvM thnt It wan trive-n nn an a total wreck, save possibly ror the'rjVer, seat t engines, which may be salvaged. 'by dog team, SPEED RESCUE WORK IN HOPE THAT 22 MEN IN MINE, LIVE FAIRMOUNT, W. Vn., March 21. William Berry, a rescue foreman for ...mm Ing from tho shaft an id that he had pentrnted one of its arms for a dist ance of 400 feet and had found that tho force of the blast had not reach ed that far. It is believed that 22 of the imprisoned miners are In that arm, and since all are seasoned mine workers, Horry believed, he said, that they might have escaped tho blast and barricaded themselves against gas and other dangers which followed. However, "William Kingman, a vet eran Inspector for the Virginia de partment of mines entered the shaft after lif-rry's announcement and pene trated It, he said, for 2000 feet. He expressed doubt upon emerging, that any of tho Imprisoned men still live: Mine officials said toduy that a check revealed that only 33 miners were caught In the hUiHt and not 34 as was ut fii'st believed. COAL FAMINE AND NOME, Alaska, Mar. 21. (By As sociated Press.) Nome was threat ened with two crises today a coal famine and a threatened renewal of a diphtheria epidemic which took a toll of six lives from the time of the out break back in January to the lifting of the quarantine a month ago. The city council purchased fifty tons of coal, the last of the spare fuel In town, from the United States signal corps radio station yesterday and ap portioned It In one to six sacks. This has to lust until Juno when the next coal ship arrives. Sudden prosperity of the natives, who purchased coal from the proceeds of their rich fox catches and failure of the coal ship Apollo, due to storms, to arrive last full, caused the shortage. The nearest forest Is seventy miles Inland with no trails connecting It. All beach wood for thirty miles up and down the coast has been exhausted. A white child, the daughter of Her man Becnunky, formerly of Meatlle, was the diphtheria put lent reported yesterday. Nearly all the Nome diph theria patients have recovered. Dr. Curtis Welch, sole physician of Nome, on reccing word of a sore throat epidemic and possible diphtnoria cases among residents of Buckland shipment of antl-toxln NEW YORK, March 21. William J. Montgomery, who with his former wife, Florence Moore, was once a vaudevillo headltner nnd a Broadway mu- 4 slcnl comedy star at a salary of 4 $1000 a week for the team. Is 4 now a drug addict, working for , $:10 a week as pianist in a small restaurant. 4 In court yesterday he plead- ed guilty to possessing narcotics but his sentence was suspended 4 when he requested that he be permitted to continue a cure he is taking. He suid ho had developed the habit after a physician treating him for a fracture of his hip In Detroit three years ago had f given him a narcotic. FIRST TO GIVE FORDLTD. CLUE Salesmen Came to Salem and State Officials Act Vic tims Thought They Were Buying Ford Stock Henry Denies It Grant Injunction NEW YORK, March 21. A tem porary Injunction restraining the salo of bank shares of the Ford Motor company of Canada, Ltd., lias been issued against the Continental company and Marshall and company of this city, State Attorney General Ottlnger announced todayl In asking the Injunction from tho state su preme court, the attorney general's office asserted that between 6000 and 10,000 persons ha4 bought the shares 'under - the impression that they were buying Ford Motor com pany stock. Ford stock, according to the at torney general, was purchased in the open market and bunking shares were issued against It to bo sold to the public at a rate which brought the price of the stock above market value. The Ford company of Can ada has denied any Interest in the hankers' shares of its stock. More than fifty letters to Henry Ford asking about stock were Introduced as evidence. A permanent injunc tion will be sought. SALEXl, Ore., March 21 The ope rations of stock BaleBmen in selling bank shares Issued against Ford Motor of Canada stock first came to the attention of federal and state officials, it Is believed when stock salesmen of the company came to Salem. Local automobile men took up the matter with the Kord com pany In Detroit and were Informed that the stock offered for sale was not stock of the Ford Motor com pany. Also persons who hnd received matter through the mall advertising the sales and soliciting their Invest ments sent the advertlslnu matter to Htato Corporation Commissioner W. h,. Crews. Commissioner Crews ls Hiied a statement cautioning the pub lic against the Investment and also sent copies of letters and of the ad vertising matter to tho postal au thorities. SALKM. Ore., Mar. 21. The state banking department which for many years has occupied offices on the third floor of the state canitol will next Tuesdny be transferred to Port land whero offices have been arrang ed in the Henry building. Frank C. uramwell, stnte superintendent of banks, is head of the , department. Employes of the department from examiners In the field number about half a dozen. BALTIMORE, Md., March 21. Dr. Veader Leonard, chairman of the common Internal antiseptics, national research council .explained further before the Baltimore Medical society last night the action ot hexylresoci nol, the antlseptlo which he recently discovered. The new drtyr has been described as fifty times more effec tive than carbolic acid in its power to kill disease germs In the genito urinary tract. While the antiseptic Is an Irritant to the stomnrh nnd has been admin istered with olive oil In rnpxuln form Ir. Leonard declared it to be non- Irrltatlng to the genlto-urlnary trnt. He described his discovers as "no- tently germicidal, subtle ?o a high degree and capable of being elimi nated In high percentage by the OREGON CITY IS NEW ANTISEPTIC, 50 TIMES STRONGER THAN CARBOLIC ACID.CONQUERS INTERNAL GERMS ARISES ABOVE STORM IN Murphysboro Citizens Cheer Rebuilding Plans, While Death List Grows Red Cross Brings Cheer and Order to Stricken Areas. MimPHYSHORO, 111., March 21 "Murpliyaburo will rebuild," It wns one of the heaviest loHera as a re tnilt of tho tornuilo who IhhuuU thla duflniico at a meeting hold here yes terday, Charles Hitter, a bufllnefummn, ut tered It after Governor Hmall and a cloven relief work offlcluh and com miHHionera painted the horrors ot the tornndo. "The relief activities," Hitter said "can be only temporary. It is what will happen after tho temporary re lief measures that concerns us moRtly. "The Mobile and Ohio shops are destroyed. The Brown Shoe com pany's factory is gone, . There alone were Jobs for 2000 people. We must prepare for the future and bring hope to the stricken by assuring them that their Jobs will come back. "The banks of this town are pre pared to strain their creifit to the utmost to aid Its people in restore inir their lost homes and Industry. "Murphysboro and you will build on Its ruins. It may tuke years to get back our old statUB but Murphys boro will rebuild"." . , Hitter, one of . the town's weal, thieat' men,- striking looking with white halp and ruddy cheeks, climb ed down from the speakers' platform with tears in his eyes and Muruhys- jboro uttered the first cheers that swept over it since the advent-, of the tornado Wednesday. . ' . 1 CARBONBALB, Jll., March 21. (By the Associated Press) Rehabil- , Itatlon work In the devastated -tornado-swept area of southorn Illinois was under way today, while the dead were yet unburied nnd the homeless and injured were still being aided. - A survey of the entire district was promised by a construction corpo-.. ration with a view to determining the damage to building and other property and ascertaining the amount of construction necessary to repair or to replace the wrecked struc tures. . Meanwhile relief work now thoroughly organized in , all towns of tho stricken area wns progressing smoothly with plenty of doctors and nurses to care for the hundreds of injured and a steady supply of pro visions, clothing and other necessi ties flowing into the storm area. Search for additional bodies was con tinued. Of 700 injured. 300 were said to be in a serlntin ennrlltlnn. I Medicine, clothing and food was ar- iiviiib uy ine cariuaa xor its inuu homeless. , INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 21 Desolation and terror left In the path of the tornado which Wednes day killed or fatally injured 104 per sons, injured more than 609 and caused property damage In excess of three million dollars, In this state, gave way today under the cheering influence of a vast army of- relief . workers headed by the American 1 Red Cross. Order appeared whore chaps had reigned as the bereaved were being comforted, the injured cared for and the dead buried. The situation in southorn Indiana seemed to be well In hand. Griffin, where 54 persons nre known to have perished and several have been re ported missing, completely devastat ed, will be rebuilt. . Meanwhile the- work of clearing the debris at Princeton, where 22 perished and at Owensvllle, where 14 died, was progressing rapidly. The death list at Princeton was Increased by one today when William Mitchell died. Likewise the death -list was increase! at Elizabeth where f Continued on Page Six) kidneys. The effect of hexylresorci nol, Dr. Leonard said, wns to -coin- -bine at once with the secretion of the kidneys and to render those se cretions, w.h e n acid in character, themselves antiseptic. Tho power ot . the drug is destroyed. Dr. Leonard said, when the kidney secretions are alkaline. Dr. Leonard presented reports ot enses In which he said the new anti septic had been used. Several types of germs best known as producers of pus and irritation staphylocco cus. streptococcus and bacillus coli Dr. Leonard declurcd. have been suc ceiwriilly romhatted. The first named two types, he said, were conquered after treatment ranging from two to nineteen days, although the third, peculiar to the large Intestine, re quired more patient effort.