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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
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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
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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.