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4, - Complete Service Of The : . Associated Pres3 ine weatner ctt-t-ttt a t w, .-c- . cowers Monday; Tuesday fair. , ' ,H W - M 4 1 j y CAROLINA KIDDIES 10 HELP PURCHASE J FRENCH HEIJORIAL governor Bickett Calls On Peo ple Of State To Contribute To Fund. EACH PERSON IN STATE SHOULD GIVE ONE PENNY April Sixth Has Been Set Aside As The Day For Con tributions. (Special to The Star.) Raleigh. March 2 8.--In behalf America's gift to France. Bickett today made the following ap neal to tbe people of North Carolina; The Statue of Liberty which stands at the entrance to New: York harbor was the gift of France to America. It was not the gift of the wealthy but of all the people. . The schools of ; France led the move, and from every corner in the land ! millions of ' contributions poured in. - . .' . . r ' ' "America has determined to make a similar gift to France. ; 'It will take the form of a heroic statue, "and will be erected in the town of Meau to com membrate the First Battle ; of the Barn.e. No large contributions ' are jought, and none will be accepted.. We want France to know this grift is from the people of the United Spates. I earnestly beg every man. woman and child in North Carolina - to give : one penny to this beautiful memorial. To this end J am placing the movement In the hands of the school teachers of the ttate. . -: -: ; '' -' "On Tuesday, the 6th of April, - which Is Tuesday after Easter Monday, I want the school children to carry : to their teachers one penny from every member of the family to which they belong. ' "The children of France, and their children, will rejoice in such a tribute of admiration and love. The number of contributions from each , state " will be certified to France, and I. want North Carolina, in proportion to iour-. popula tion, to lead all the rest ;- . - . ; j "All teachers will please take, notice of this appeal, and enlist the sympathy f. cooperatron or tne canaren.7 JETEX PERSON'S ARE DEAD . - . AS RESULT OK COLLISION. ! . -v.'-- ' - San Antonio, Texas, March 28.- Seven persons are dead as a result of a 'col lision today I . between ' a . northbound Missouri, Kansas and Texas train and in automobile near Luxello, twenty live miles north of here. The dead are a mothen her two married daughters ind their huBbands, , an , un-married oausoieriana a tnree-year-oia grand daughter.1 All were .residents of San Antonio, i ,' ' - :- ' FORMER GERMAN EMPEROR - u PREPARES FOR MOVING DAT Amerongen, March 28. Part -of for mer Emperor William's personal lug fage already has been moved from Bentinck castle, where- he Is living at preient, to Doorn, where he. is soon to tlfo nn Vi 1 n . i ' : i trunks, most of which had not been opened since the former, emperor's ar rival here, have been taken to.'. Doorn in motor trucks. Moving day ror Count Hohenzollern is expected to be May ' 1. ADOPTS NEW TIME. I NtW Orleans. Marrh 9, THlrnrm nt the New Orleans cotton exchange an nounced today that beginning Monday exchange here would, open at i clock a. m. and close at 1 o'clock In ternoon; except Saturday when It onld close at 10 o'clock In the morni. L. BROOKS IS READY TO RUM AGAINST OVERMAN it f i ' I . Greensboro Lawyer Is Waiting or Suffrage Amendment . To Be a Certainty.'. D-, . uc a lar.i . . ' Ul Him . - - today T - on bu8lne8S w not yet made up. his', mind - urpan.h . Hnm.1 inning for the senatorial noml- againet Sna SoV? at least . is - not yet ready I "ka known h. ji v he "' -HT- Brooks Is Interested in n ion of the Delaware .legislature fobahn 8uffraIst question, . and the . a01ties ar thn - L 6 tintil after B. I Anthony amendment - is tZr'r certainty than ife- is at tickett k ii lirae- He, like Governor f ln-.,.ilDT-l'Ves that woman - suffrage rr . ne governor, the Greens- ph.. " j cr i k Ji6 v, 5 nt for the cause toe- ves it inevitable.. He l ' OnA ftf v W4V u uuyo ne ia fnak. f . e forces tha has;helpe4 f b.t' ".inevitable."- '. He appear- n oda vi neia "-nd hopes he has Za 3olnt committee of the ) wl8enate when H. S. (Hot .Ctil " ,mUnl" ttCtL?vrtnn was brought into M tin,tmbrra88lng - prominence - at fberftf ecae the-, women and a L " enrt -u 'u""r' oi,me legtsio. K t7i, he Petition asking . the .'iffra e nis mind about wo- ee and vote for the bill then ? 0vlrrnn the house.. , .Rut Sena SiiZn wa aot'to be moved bj by AUBRY CHURCmJAN SCORES FEMALE DISREGARD ORDINARY MODESTY Modern Dress Is An Abomina , tion In Minds Of Christian . - People. . Mobile. Ala.. March . 28. Rev. ' J. H. Shaw, archbishop of New Orleanay a native of Mobile. In a pastoral letter, scores what ; he tenna the "shocking disregard in modern femkle attire for the elementary , principles- of ordinary decency.;" . The. letter says in part: . . f'The shocking disregard In modern female-attire for the elementary prin ciples - of , ordinary decency Is simply disgusting1. , Thl disgusting realism' of the modern fashions Is fast extinguish ing in the hearts .of u nnhuim. Governormen that spirit of revmno:. chivalry which regarded the women, of other days as something almost mystic and ' divine.- '-V;-.'- -r-- "Oh, the pity and shame of it. that so many, of our Catholic women of all classes and of nearly every- asre: mar ried ae well as single, mothers as well as daughters, are the servile imitators of the Immodest fashions of ; the ' day. !ast that :I believe the next- democratic To such an extent have some of- them j na-tional i! convention 'Should V be . com lost the natural modesty of their sex jP08 of uninstructed' delegates, who that they hesitate not to come -befor should be free to exercise their un- the Holy of Holies and approach the j sacred table ': In such-, scant . attire . as must make the angels veil their faces with their wings.- ;--r. , "W-e .have- seriously debated -.with' ourselves ,wheiher! or not we are boqnd in conscience tq exclude such women from the house, of God, , whose vicar on earth would not tolerate, their pres ence for a; single moment." . f MAXWELL'S CHANCES GOOD FOR LANDING JOB North Carolinian Occupies . Ex l cellent Strategic Position. s (SpecUl to The Star.) Raleigh, March . 28. J udge Pell con tinues to believe that Corporation Commissioner A. J. Maxwell's chances for appointment to the Inter-state Com merce commission are better than those of any other man. If , tha President mak es the appointment . on the . same basis -that . other ' appointments to this Washington he found occasion to look oyer , ther list f - men. who - have . been nominated 'for, the place "and whose nam,es will be sent' to "the President when the . chief execuU''" the In timation that k is ready-to make the 'appointiiient. Judga Pell-does not think that a single .oneof the. other candi dates stand-in the same-class with the North Carolina man who is being urged for' the- place. ' rr :: . " " , " COMPITIiSORY EDUCATION ' t, OF ALIBNS. IS ADVISED. '.''V .T... New YorkJ March. 28. Federal legist lation providing compulsory education of every' alien" in the United States un able to. read, write or speak English is advocated by AL . S: Prall, president of the board of education, in a letter to Representative. Daniel J-.iRiordan, at Washington, v Amerlcanlsation, he said, "is not a problem'to be solved by any agency other than that of the United States government; ; ; V ; -v; Y; '. BUILD MILITARY HIGHWAY ' YY- THROUGH SOUTHERN STATES. WAntffAmrT. - Ala.. . March z o.- isn- f dorsing avmoveraent which; has for; Its purpose the construction of a'mllltaryj highway- between -Norfolk., va, ana t Jacksonville, FlaJ, and the general plaft I of federal, appropriations high way construction 4n the . states,-, were con cluding features' of the quarterly meet ing of-tha officers of , the southern set tlement and development organization, which , adjourned Saturday, to , meet In June at Columbia, S. C. '. ; "J -' Y- WEST DEFEATS THE EAST. Berkeley, Calif, March 28. The west defeated the east In the intersectional tennis' series for . women, when Miss Helen Baker, of San Francisco, won the fifth and deciding mat6h today from Mrs. George Wightman. of Boston, na tional woman champion, 2-6 6-1, 6-4. 4 STORM WARNINGS 'ISSUED ' Washington March, 28.-Southwest storm' warnings were, displayed tonight on the Atlantic coast, from Charleston to Eastport. The Kansas storm of Sat urday night was central tonight pver northern Wisconsin ' with ; Increased energy, .: , t . ' t FAIRFAX HARRISON JOINS FIVE PORTS Will ' Fight Cancellation Of . Ex port .Traffic Rates From , ; , ' Middle West. Washington.' .Mach 28,-r-President Fairfax Harrison,' of the Southern railway,- has telegraphed-R. !. Philips of Savannah.' 'Ga.. head of.the South At lantic. Ports association, ' that ;rr the Southern would oppose ' any effort .at cancellation of export -traffic rates from the middift weat to 'South 4 At lantic ports. ; - ''-. ' ,1 .rr-.i ' "I am glad to reaffirm,- Mr. Harri son said in his message, as made , pub lic here tonight by - the - association. .'statement recently made to xviODixe chamber of commerce tnf-"" : export rate Question Ms heard by .-the interstate commerce commission you will And us there with every ounce of energy we have to resist the selfish proposal of the -trunk lines that they shall be protected In a continuing monoply as against South Atlantic and .Gulf ports," . - , ; .WILMINGTON, . t I . ' ' ' 1 1 ' ' I I I I. . I I J "J WILLIAM G.M'ADOO WON'T BE CANDIDATE IN OREGON PRIMARY Thinks Uninstructed Delegates , : Should Be Sent To Demo " cratic Convention. , t New Tork. March ." 2 S. William O. McAdoo ; as 7 again; - expressed himself as opqsed personally' to ' being a candi date in a Presiaentlal primary and as advocating that delegates to the next democratic convention should go ' un instructed. He made public tonight; a telegram to George A. Lovejoy, of Portland, Oregon which in part said: u " ' Stands On His Position , i .'I have your telegram advising me that,, the .McAdoo club of "Oregon has eecured 'one- thousand -signatures to place my name before) democratic elec tors in the Oregon Prestdential pri mary, election to be held . May 2,' and expressing . the hope, that I will grant permission' to file -the. ' pe'ti tion. . . . "I deeply appreciate , this ; genrous offer of support from my friends, in Oregon, but T I earnestly beg them not to enter me as a candidate in this nri mary: .' I ; publicly stated In February fettered judgment as Jto jjlatforra and kcbuutuaio. - , r - . . . k, . - -. 11 "I also ; stated that I. am not seek ing and will -not seek the nomination, although 1 1 , should regard it as the duty of any, man to accept a nomina tion "if tendered to- him unsolicited by the 'free action of a ''convention com posed of ; free men and women. -Holding these ' deep convictions, I ..cannot consistently enter the Presidential pri mary in any state where the object Is to instruct the delegates for a particu lar , candidate. . " Grave Issues Confront ' "The grave Issues - confronting the country , make this a., peculiarly inap propriate ;V time -, fop self seeking and; self exploitation,, a peculiarly Impres sive time' for the subordination .Of In dividual ambitions- to? high : principle and the common good; a pecularly . ex acting, time for clean politics and ,; for purity of- the ballot In. primary and general , elections,-' and a .time'- . for strong apprehension' of the j improper use of. money to influence the nomina tion fof the candidates to ' office. "x - - 11 , ' WONT WELD COUNTRY - i Tolstoy Says .Co-operation Solu- tion Industrial Problems. ir;Chicago, : March- 2 8.-T-A federated - re public similar to the United States was the aim of. Russia, Count Ilya Tolstoy, said in an address Saturday. , i , '.-"Co-operation is "the ' only solution o V Industrial ' problems," he said, "but the Tolsheviki are- endeavoring to en force co-operation by violence, and are preying upon' the' lower classes in Rus sia, exciting, their worst .elements.-. -' v'The alms of - the bolshevikl are right. " but ; their 4 methods are wrong. The ultimate ; failure of the bolshevikl forces lies in : the fact that they are trying- to force " a government by the fires of violence.. ' V ' v. CONVICTED " NEGRO DIES - a ' . . v. IN HIS CELL IN - JAIL. i-'-".?. ' i'i . ;; ' Dublin,- Ga March ; 28.--Hubert Cummins, " negro, sentenced ; to .' be ViancrA1 fnr the murder of -Raymond - .aTi At .. .i.iv today in the Laurence county Jail after mness of several weeks. The kill- o Gannon occurred last fall and fonowed by a series of racial dis turbances 'which continued ?or two months, after the .crime. ( ; - f TROOP BANQ.UET TONIGHT Members of old Troop C. of the North Carolina rcavaxry, w! noia qUefc o'clock. - .- ! ' LABOR TO ORGANIZE : pDLlflCAL CAMPAM Hundred And Fifty Thousand Workers To Be Mobilized , Into Committees. v i - Washington, March - 28. Steps s to mobilize 150,000 workers intoO.OOO committees to , prosecute labor, non partisan political campaign were talcen today by the campaign executive com mittee, composea or samiiei uompers, Frank Morrison -ana James r O'Cpnnell, Requests were sent to 40,000 local unions, asking immediate' appointment of a. committee of three by each : to .act in conjunction with ,10,000 other com mittees named by city central bodies and - other, organizations, "all working in harmony uilder r a carefully .worked out scheme of co-operation,", according to an announcement by. American Fed eration of Labor headquarters, : State ; conventions - have been called by. organized labor iin West Virginia and New Jersey to' make plans for car rying on a vigorous ' campaign. " Or ganization work In the various states is being supplemented, it was said, by publications of thousands, of pieces'of literature ana me suppiy oi poiiucai news ; regularly to 300. . labor "' journals and magazines." PRACTICAL FARMER . SHOULD , BE SECRETARY Or" AGRICULTURE v r-Y : ; : , ; ..- : r- YY v.:. Washington,- March 4 28. rThe direct representative of - farmers"' I the president's cabinet, - - its secretary of agriculture, - should T be ' 'a -'practical farmer, "not -a-theorist' according to a1 letter C from - Major:; General 'Leonard. Wood t N. J. Bachelder,' of - New Hampshire, former; master of the na, tional grange." made public , today by General Wood's campaign managers. 4 N. C., MON vfi MOKNING, TORNAD O STRIKE : HALF ONSTATES; THREE SCORE DEAD Three Distinct Storms Push East And West Leaving Death r u And Destruction. - PROPERTY LOSS REACHES ' i r MILLIONS OF DOLLARS 11 Half a Dozen ::, States" Suffered And Twice That. Many t Localities Ravaged. . Tornado that atrnck In half a dos ea states today caused a dath Hat tlnat may. pas three score, caused "property damage reaching niony mllllorna of del. If d played : fcavoe witk wire and railway "Berirlce. In- .wide, spread k"di trict. .- The 'greatest damage wai done a Chicago suburbs and - Elgin, where ftnowa - death ...list ' , wa: 25;" sin'd, f number of other personal were missing. Atlanta reported that the death list. in Georgia "I and Alabama Was at least 36. Apparently there were three distinct storms, one driving northeastward Into niiaola and dying r out on the shores Of - Lake -Michigan just north, of Chi cago, one striking tn Georgia and Ala banta" and' another striking fn Indiana and passing Into Ohio and Michigan. A list of v points ' suffering greatest damage fellows t ' " ' ' " -f ' ' f .Chicago suburbs, fifitieen killed, hun dreds Injured dozen - or ntot missing and damage of upwards a half million dollars done. - Elgin, Illinois, eight f knorn ' dead, several missing and , t scores , Injured t property damage estimated - tf 4,000 000. " :;' ' ! , ' - . Lnagrange, Georla," death list re- ported : aa hlgh aa thirty, a ir i property damage West Pointy Georgia; ten killed.' Near Fort Wayne, v. Xndl; n-i ..- three killed, ; heavy property damr r i ; - Agrlcola, Alabama, ?' live IJ. I, c Greenville 'and Union Cltyl 'i ;i, slac- leeB- reportca Kiiiea. --j ' -- ,v East' Trey, Wlseohs! 1H.IDU. Swatnton ' and Raaha .Corners', Ohio, a number reported killed. 1 v;-. DISASTROUS FIRE SWEEPS LAKELAND Loss- Nearly Four, Mil- Dollars : ' Lakeland, " FJa., '' March ' ; 28. Fire swept two city .blocks ' here tonight and- touched , parts Of three - others, causing a loss -estimated at between S?00,e00' and , $400,000. -Only a shift in the high windV'aiter ' two water mains bursted,- saved the ccity hall. ,The fire area is bounded by Missquri and Flor ida avenues. Main . street1 and the rail way. Insurance carriea was estimated at not more than thirty per cent. 1 Among ther conCernjs wiped out were the Lakeland. Manufacturing- company, in whose lumber yard the fire started; the Shaw hotel, Main Street garage Todd Hardware company - and the Lakeland Steam laundry. Y The Todd Hardware ' company saved - a large part of its stock. ;,' Water y was pumped from the lake after the, mains hurst, r v . ... BITUMINOUS MINE WORKERS : WILL HCLD CONFERENCE TODAY New York, .March 28. -Members hot the general"; scale- committee of, the bitumfnous mine workers and the ; op erators were gathering here today for conference tomorrows at which the n-will be--taken to make a new wage agreement.based ,on the major ity report' of. President .Wilson's -coal commission .The miners' committee will hold a . meeting at 10, a.' m.,. but they will not go into -session with the operators until 2 p. m.- r .;. . ; ,. ; , WANDERED INTO EVERGLADES ' ' ' Amoia " -TTlal March" " 28. Word . . - . . . . , . the plane i bf rLlentenant Omar - Nier garth "had , been -' found abandoned thirty-two miles south' or Deep Lake. It is believed i' Neirgarth , wandered away into the! Everglades, The search for him - Is being eontinuedand- the hope " is " expressed : thai Indians will rescue', him.-' s . ?;JV;;Jv:-ii! -T;; GENaLEONARDlOODl ANSWERS SEN; BORAH Says Charges Unwarranted And Are For Purpose Of Influ- encing The Voters. Chicago, March 28. General Leorfard Wood ; In a statement tonight declared that charges made by ' Senator Borah concerning the campaign methods of the Wood .national, committee were' un warranted,; end that he was ; convinced thiftv ivt r m nd ; for . th a. nnrn-A .'.it influencia? adversely the primary, vote in Mi ?t next Monday. The statement follows:. ' " 1 1 "I am "convinced tnat Jenator Borah's: attack at ,tms time is for : he purpose , of influencing adv.jrKely . the primary vote in Michigan Tiext Monday, April 5. ? - A similar attack was re ported in . the . press a few days - before the South .Dakota ' primary; t and was used throughout that ; stats, ,1- believe for a similar purpose. , . ; i " "Tho3er who are ..In . charge; of my campaign- ' stand' "ready : to A answer ; all proper inquiries concerning expendi tures. Senator" Jsorah s 'attack - is en tirely unwaxranted." . .. . ; IARCH 29, 1920. SCORES PEOPLE ARE KILLED; SEVERAL TOWNS DEMOLISHED BY SOUTH AND VEST TORNADOES FEDERAL BUREAU TO. HELP TEACHERS , 4 FIND POSITIONS . - r 1 - - - ' . - ' - ' ': Ofifers Service Free Of Charge 4 To Both Instructors And , -LT Schools. . , . - Spectal to The Star.) V Raleigh, March 28. The federal em ployment service In North Carolina' Is offering to act as a teachers employ ment agency this coming summer, and this service; will; be furnished free of ail costs 'to either the teachers or the school officials who may be aided in locating .. teachers,;: ;The. federal di rector fori the state, M. I Shipman. has sent out letters to all the county and graded school superintendents In the state : explaining tha offer and asking that they co-operate with the service in aiding teachers to get lo cated during the summer! : ' 4; Help Teachers and Schools. . . The federal, .employment bureaus are not. njaklns'-an .effort to run the teachers' 'employment agencies out of business,-buVthyy do believe that they can aid . In this vwork with no -expense to the . teacher or the school officials, and .the money thus saved can be -used to 'advantage, either; by the teachers or the schools. Here is the letter that J has been sent out:; i-'-uV' .- ,"As the end of the present school term approaches, with itsi inevitable changes in personnel, your - attention la calle.4 to the opportunities offered by i tha :-United States - employment ervice for v the . schools.- to secure teacher for. thsVcomlng year; and for w?j . wHwpjai.. ... vaanK. - latB or- ganiiatidn ' offers its - services to "both the schools and the teachers absolute ly . fre -r of : charge. We "are well equipped to act as a clearing house whereby- the--teacher may be brought I uzs uunutui. . WILa LIIS LMcaer. dsitfbn Jn contact' Wlthtte teacher. Already we are. receiving applications from-., teachers v desiring to . make' a- Sange,- also, from students who will aduate from colleges this year, pre pared to accept positions as - teachers $t ithe.Various--grades.;5r;'i','.:. ; - 'i 1 ..Should ;FJle --Ordera'Now.;i ' Y- r ' vl.Of:0'tiieedf'r"Wjlaedi f.teachera for the graded, the county: or? the high schools, we suggests that yon '. file - your order ..with us. . ,'For ' thit . purpose we .enclose, drder. cards rwhite ;for male and- blue ; for -female teachers. ' While we cannot . guarantee - to supply your needs, .we :will .certainly give;, the : po, sl tion . publicity and 1 wjll refer - to you any applicant: whom -.we -".consider capable.'? '' M j r-YY--v. j-Y s:'t. '.; lrY' VThts. letter is- being- sent out- to' the superintendents with--the -request that they notify their teachers i' who may wish to make a change of the service, and. In order to, acquaint the, superin tendents with the fact -that It is pos sible ihat the .employment bureaus of the department.' of labor may be in - a positions to meet their needs The let ters i are also .being sent to .the colleges-.; t t - - :.. v. ,;.-iYY:;i Y' ' ' ' ' . .! : . u i . ; ; MILTON WINS-AUTO RACE: . Los Angeles, March28 Tommy Mil ton, driving .fifty miles .on the one -and one-fourth mile Los Angeles speedway in ;26 minutes and - 52.20 seconds, : won th third final heat i and a . s prize of 5,800 in a t series of . automobile "races today, His average for the" fifty miles was 111.8 miles an hour. : . ; ,: . WOMAN CONVICTED CAUSING BLINDNESS i INFANT CHILDREN h Y YY -'YY'-S Y ' . v : 'lU;-;Kv I - Midwife Neglected .To , Adminis ft ter Silver Nitrate After; -y VfYY Child : Is .Born. Zrffr f . 1 ; V 0 :rY (Special to The Star.) v-7 - ' ; Raleigh, March - 28 For : failure to comply with the . state 'law , requiring the -administration ofv silver nitrate, to the eyes of - newly born -babies to'pre vent blindness, Margaret Perry, a. mid wife, . of Edgcombe county, ' was ; tried in the . local courts at Tarboro, , con victed, fined; ten dollars and -costs of the action and deprived of Uoense to continue - practice. Tho woman had recently i had two cases ,, of ophthalnia neonstorum, or.'babies'. sore eyes,- In her practice and had' not used 'the silver-nitrate solution , required. The consequence is that both the children will probably,, be .blind ror life. - The case was pro secuted' by the state board of health., . , ;, .'- C '-. ;. ; , The silver;- nitrate solution ,is sup plied by the : state . boad of; health without cost to. all. physicians and mid wives in the state. , The state law re -quires that-. It be used '. within two hnnra after the birth of a child. It Is .hours, after the birth of a Child. jeStimiated that compliance with this j requlremnt means an -annual, saving to the. state each year , or more, man fifty1 thousand dollars ; that - wpnia otherwise be necessary fpr the educa tion -of .Its blind children without con sidering the economic ra11: of a citizen that canp.efee as : compared ne that Is: blind. ". ; Yli YC, V. , --K r Physicians ' and tnidwives of , the state f have . been instructed fully with regard, to , the provision," of this s law, a.nd the methods of complying. The state boards of. healthr Is prepared to prosecute all violations, that its' offi- icera caa discover. , : : - .. ..--'-.'. ;: '. TORNADO SWEEPS : HID-WEST STATES, : KILLING; SCORES Other Hundreds Are Injtlf ed and Towns and Villages Practi- : cally Demolished: PROPERTY DAMAGE WILL C REACH INTO MILLIONS Martial ': Law - f Proclaimed At Elgin, IUinois, To Prevent J: '-'i Looting Of Stores. , Z: ; t . -. cwcagor! March 28. A 'rcora of pr sons -Were . killed - and .a'., hundred or more Injured f today by, 'a ; tornado that swept the county and a number of towns; north vand west of Chicago and ravaged some of the, city's northwest-' ern suburbs. The property., damage ran into the millions of dollars, Includ ing the demolition of many buildings, and the rasing of telegraph and tele phone ; . lines. ""Communication . with rural regions was , for , a time . cut off. Eight persons were killed end a score . injured : .when the , storm swept through the center i of , Elgin. . 111., about thirty miles west of ; Chicago, causing .$4,000,000 : "damages to' prop erty. Melrose Park, , a. suburb of Chi cago, reported .six dead,: and Dunning, another suburb, ': and . Wilmetts, a North Shore jtown,- each: reported , sev eral .dead. ,-. ' "'. ..; ' 'Y.,.- . More-than one- hundred" "persons were taken." to the Chicago, state hospital at ' Dunning- during, the 'afternoon and police and private ambulances were arriving, every, few , minutes with ad ditflonal ; victims; ; . Aout 150 residences and buildings, were ,wrcKed at Dann- I - - . r ' - the " northeast. -;;HAlf" a dozen business buildings, ;two :; churches and twenty residences were -demolished . In ' Elgin. Meagre' reports brought , In hy farmers indicated local - damage' in - - a wide' spread rural region.". Falling telegraph and telegraph poles cut - off ! communi cation, and many - trees, uprooted by the twisting winds, so tangled . the wires that restoration., or 'communica tion; presented a difficult problem. The Elgin . company,' of ,; the - state militia, . was placed on fluty to guard property, laid - open ttO the public by the Unroofing ; and ; upseting of ; stores. . At Melrose , Park, ,, on the western edge of Chicago, sixty. houses were de stroyed, .the evastate'd .; area covering four blocks. The tornado '.followed, in the wake of severe hail storm. -' TonightL six dead - had been identi fied at Melrose Park and , It was pre dicted the - fatality v list would reach twelve.; Scores were- Injured. ; Fire followed the collapse of buildings and the. fire department, of several suburbs were . summoned. '. -'Yj ; ; . A score of houses tn Bvanston, a northern suburb, were - demolished "and a number of persons injured, but . no fatalities were reported. Roofs .were carried from houses: and: trees were uprooted ''. and carried a - half block in some instances. h- :;;- -Y YY '-:'.',' I The . damage in Wllmette, another north shore suburb, was estimated at $500,000. . Many buildings in the busi ness quarters were k damaged, . along with.' the town ,hali and the Episcopal church. ; The storm tore a . path 1 two hundred yards wide through the main part of Wllmette. Vf.vA'V''V-; ;?,;.:. .. , " Several Hundred Injured s ' Mrs.- H. i Hansen . and - Edward Jame son were killed, several hundred in-, jured and ?900 ..made' -homeless at Dunning, ; a-, northeast suburb. . . : More than 450 houses, mostly frame - struc tures, were destroyed there. Mrs. Han sen . ' and her f our -cmhildreh were in the ' parlor of their home; when the build ing' was blown over by the wind. The ' children -were uninjured. Jameson: was buried in the debris of his cottage. The Chicago state hospital at Dunn ing was not 'damaged. The , injured were -taken " to the hospital,, which also was .'converted K into 1 a barrack 1 for , the homeless. v t;;::,-'j ;-:':, ;' :f;C- " ' i: . - At Plalnfieid, r a small town west of Chicago, two - persons - were Injured; probably fatally, when their home was blowhv down. Twelve . other persons were - less seriously hurt.; and . damage estimated at $25,000 done , in the town. One of the injured was Mrs. John Den ver; of , Joliet, . whose Automobile was turned upside down by the wind. More than . score of ' barns In the neighbor hod of Plalnfieid were demolished. Among; nearby towns damaged by the storm, - according to reports, " were Waucon.da, ; McHenry, ? Woodstock, Al gonquin and .Marengo. Dundee; was reported to have been ; passed over by the storm, but. damage in, the farming country was heavy. ,;-,;, j Eight Killed -At Elgin"'-;-. ! Elgin, Illinois, March 2 8. At . least eight persons were killed and property damage estimated as high as.' $4,000, 000 .caused by a tornado jthat struck tM ' eit-v. shortly after noon today, A large part of the business quarter and a portion-of . the residential section was in .ruins tonight; ana u was iearea more bodies - were s under the" . wreck age'. - Military law was declared at 5 pi m.. and the streets cleared : by troops to prevent looting.. ; -: Elgin was in darkness tonight. More than 100 persons Were injured in this city. Light wires and trolley wires were down." Street oar service was suspended. Trains were blocked by uprooted trees, and for - a time only one telegraph and-telephone wire con- nected the city with the -outside, On proclaiming military -law,' Mayor Price called out company T, 10th Illi- - (conunuett on f age iwe.; . .-; .'-'" " WHOLE NUMBER 30,127. CYCLONIC STORH ; PARTIALLY WRECKS GEORGIA CITIES Lagrange And .West Point Both Suffer.; Material Damage And Loss Of liif e. SCORES WERE INJURED ; ' 'j NUMBER DEAD UNKNOWN .t --.i.-f .-.;'J,';.; : '4 '"'s . ,--, .',;:, .- '.' v?:y'-: Yr- ,, Yu.tr-YYY' Atlanta Red Cross? Has Started ; Aray Trucks To Scene ; ; Wt6 SuppUes, ; : , '- Atlanta, Ga," March SAt; ' least thlrty.slx lives - were lost, a hundred " or - more persons were ; injured and property dan?a8re;josslbly running into the millions, was caused by tornadoes that swept through' Georgia and Ala. " bama late today.' ".'. .v..-..- " . v . LaG range : and West Point. Ga towns near the "Alabama-Georgia" bor der, suffered the " heaviest, the esti mated . dead at ' LaG range running aa high as thirty-six. :' Twenty-one bodies, six of white and fifteen' negroes, were found. - West Point, which lost heavily last; December from' the flooded Chat- , tahoochee, reported ten dead and se vere damages in the business section, The tornado also was felt in Macon, where property damage ran high and " some persons were injured. V Washington,- Ga.,i a town -near Augusta, also felt', the effects of a storm, but ap parently no lives were lost. Some dam age also ' was thought to have been caused iw eastern Alabama. - x j'Y Wire Service Interf erred Wire service,' both -telegraph' and telephone, was partially paralysed and it was almost impossibble to ascertain exact; damage,; or to' get reports from many ; sections of ' the state that have v MpSlC.tlie, eff ectSf' of 'the" atornv: -Heavy lame leu mrougnoui 'a great portion -of Georgia during the day and it was feared flooded rivers might add to the suffering.'. ' ';'.,-'- The "Red Cross here was t preparing' tonight1 to rush supplies to - LaGrang by army motor trucks as the Atlanta and West Point railroad reported it could not dispatch a relief train be cause its wires were jlown. Its passen ger train, New Orleans to Washington, No. ; 36, -was notrlocated late tonight.' ' Army - engineers' were preparing ta go to . West Point to rebuild a pon toon bridge r they threw across tht Chattahoochee river last December when floods that Inundated the, town and; caused seven millions . of dollars' property damage- - . ' '';'- Most of the damage in West Point was said to.be In the business section,' and its effects on merchants and other business men just struggling from tht heavy losses of last December were ex pected to 1 be', almost ' Impossibble foi them to bear.' Half a dozen buslnesg structures were 1 said to ' be ;, severely damaged. ' i?-.,'; , " Mill Village Less Heavy ' " In LaGrange the chief loss to life and property ' was said to be In the mill section, but the town was thrown Into darkness as the ; electric . lighting plant, was partially wrecked. In addi tion to this the - waterworks v plant was said to be out of commission and Swift & Co.'s packing plant was re ported a wreck: .; ' , ; . ' ', ' ' . ; Hospitals were filled with injured in LaGrange, according to telephone re ports, and the, : courthouse had been made into' an emergency hospitaL The injured had not been counted .tonight, but apparently their , numbers ran into tne. hundreds. ';...'.-'"",-.. ' Damage in Macon , and Washington Ga., was chiefly confined to plate glass windows and., roofs' of .buildings, wltjh property loss rather heavy .In Macon. Loss resulting from . hall and rala storms was reported from Grantville ind J Hogansville, towns 1 In the West Polnt-LaGrange section, a small tor nado struck , Williamson, Ga., unroof ing some houses. There were , no in juries or loss of life there as far as was known tonight. ' ." Tornado at Lagrange, , , Atlanta,. Ga.,, March. 28. At least twenty-one, persons were , killed and possibly more in a tornado that tsruck Lagrange, Ga., ' late today, according to word received here tonight The Information "came 'from Fullei E. Callaway, capitalist and mill own er of . Lagr Ange, i who stated over the telephone that ; some reports placed the dead as high as twenty-five to thirty-six. Scores were Injured, he said, and the court house and churches were being used as ' hospitals. . . The town was - left, in , darkness, a the light" and power plant was de- stroyea or so severely aamagea as to . be - rendered -;useless.- -'The water works also were, put - out , of commis sion, - while the ; plant of - Swift and company also was partially wrecked i j ; The chief loss, of life and property no tuca. 3 0 ww c a ' w csr aa ui tt xa ao lllQ Hillside mill - section of Lagrange, where ; the tornado twisted, tearing down mail, residences and smashing nearly everything else in its path. Estimates 'said' at least 100, and pos sibly 800, small residences were .de stroyed or heavily damaged. v , Mr. Callway requested aid from At lanta and -"; the local . chapter of the Red Cross arranged -to start j army trucas witn supplies lonignt. . Heavy Loas at West Point. Montgomery, Ala.4 ' March 28. Mes sages received here from West Point, Ga over railroad - wires, reported the death of ten -or more persons and the destruction of the northwestern cart (Continued on Page; Two.)
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