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■ii » i # in -1 - - c*m Hundreds or vvoKers OuU Qa_L DaJI-. A .i_._n_M._u T\ Ll. jffK Doaies Among i/erois Left By Devastating Storm jjIahhti!!i 'SIn*«i>«nin a# 300 Mw, a C«H»fc la»>ln *• hriliafc Chicago. March 1»—After tha Itctkt at a tall day M cmM tu searching rays In th« debris left by Wedneeday's tirniii, and relief work had baa* or ggnltf^ tu gfthtr th# dsad, htwl tkc hart and aid the homeless, tha toll of deetruction of Ilia and property to night atill remain ad the graataat rear raaardad In similar eataatrophai, with Ml reported hilled and I.M Injured hi the five atatea affected. While the casualty llata had bean re dsced from flrat estimates hi boom In stances. word came from hitherto un report »wi places ta heap tha total caa uaJties, almoat aa M|h aa indicated Hi flrat massages from tha dovaatatad teana and ham lata. Aftet a night of -tartar, dawn revealed that saaae small towns virtually had haan obliterated, while whole blocks' of larger places had been leveled and fire had added to tha horrors of the wind. Tha fires for the moat part ware hept from buildings that escaped tha fary of tha twister. Outside help ar ilsod from many plaeaa durinr tha 4ay and by noon relief was wall or Where there had been happineas, prosperity and fatt»*. the tornado blasted all In a few cities. To others It showed a fiendish eccentricity by leveling and blackening portions while sparing tha rest. Nearly half of Princeton, Ind. was smitten. A sister city, Griffin, vir tually waa carried away. Deaota, IDs. with 1400 people, lost its existence A neighbor, Oorham of M popapla tlon, waa wiped oat. Murphysboro, Ills., lost nearly three square milea of its bosineas and rraidential sec tions Darkness still hampera rescuers to night In a few towaa, aa lighting sys tima have not haan repaired. Au tomobile light, candles and flashlights aw substituting for power plants. Pullman ears have arrived to hoaae lofngesa In one or two sections, vil lages of tonts are being used else where. Those in charge speak in millions arfcen asked t • r • I mate the material losses. The brief dispatches read "t100,000 in southwestern Kentucky;" "12.000,000 at Princeton;" "$*,000,000 in southern mtnoia;" "(100,000 In Missouri." Cavers KO Miles The tornado took it* toll over a ter ritory of 800 miles in fin hour* and within the name period of time out tide aid waa covering that distance te carry help and comfort to survivors. The Red Cross runhed supplier from it. Louis. Chicago offered $600,000. "The Illinois leg-islatore, appropriated • like amount, the Missouri legislature •18.000 and the southern Illinois American legion $6,000. Other con tributions are expected to reach 1100, Trom the Associated Press casual ty list tonight it appears that more than 100 children and infants were victims. Every available dwelling waa a morgue in the sone of risita tioa. Serious operations are perform ed virtually outdoors. Columns of persons three and four daep. several block, long, still waited in the dark nsas tonight to claim their kin and Apparently arising in the Miaaouri Osark hills, the tornado Jumped and xlg-sagged. Its path waa about a mile wide in som^ localities; in others it coo Id he measured by feet. It waa more merciful at Its start, unloading Ms fury In Illinois and Indiana. It swept into Kentucky and Tenneeaee, mere fancifully. It appeared. Worked hi Twinkling A brakeman on an Illinois Central train, who witnessed the Deeota trag edy. succinctly described the tornado as a crash of thunder preceded by two blinding flashes of lightning after which there waa nothing left. A former war chaplain said It isild he likedeJ to the war tone In fisaee; there waa no other com par - , Raman bodies la moat every form hrla. Only t raMfwithn ftw bar* b«»n ft>und lalMtt BwHw pi#rrwi with splintara of «M drlvnti wood ■n frumt The little hrnnlrt of Deeota probably •offered tba l»«rlMt single catas trophe inflicted by tha tornado, for it waa hara that US man, woman and children diad. Many of them ta tha achooibonae which waa rayd in tha twinkling of an ajra. Nina hodiaa war* found huddled about a coal atova In a Griffin raa taurant, partly namalad. In ana Illinois town tha flra niftna Kaelf waa burned .Into naalaaanaaa- Murphy* horn, Ilia., had to bnprovlee a pump ing plant on tha rulwa of tta water works hefora tba flraa could ha aa tinguiahed. At Annapolis a t]ulrk thinking ■ tat Ion agant uaad Ma caah iirawar successfully aa a backet to extinguish flra. Locomotives Overt arned So tremendous waa tba forca of wind that In Murphyaboro 11 loeo motlvea wara reported wraclwd, itx of them of tha heavy type. Heavy objects ware found several mlloa from their original poaHions, and paper* were carried M milea. Frankiah dlpa of the twiater left the nana) aafe spots in the path of the storm. A mine clerk saved hlmaelf by crawling into hia office safe which protected him from fire and falling walla. One family crept antler their motor car when the house fell and rambled ovor the machine. One of tha 75 girls employed in a Heina plant at Princeton, ImL, waa killed when tba plant waa daatroyad. The town's 1200,000 Chicago and Eaatern Illinois railroad yarda was method. Tba Mobile and Obio ahopa were a total loao at Murphyaboro, aa wall aa a new $*67,000 addition to Ha high school and aa 9*6,000 Baptist church. A school boose naar Cape Girardeau, Mo., waa carried away a abort time after Ha pa pi la bad been diacbarged. Fata was not ae bind hi other ptacea where schoola wave de moliahed. Another strange freak of storm waa reported from Prince ton where four miners en route to their home from a mine wore lifted bodily by the wind from the small au tomobile in which they were riding ind deposited n.ihort at tha rondaV v The!r car was swept away. A 17-yeer-uld Princeton bey waa credited with saving tha Ihree of his mother and two brothers, whom be huddled on the floor of their heme and covered with a rug. The rug was strewn with broken glaaa and debris, when tha roof waa blown away. A letter bearing a Poeeyville poet mark waa picked up near Bloom field, more than 100 milea away. Rowan County Dogs May Not Run at Largo Saliabury, March, It.—Dop that are allowed to run at large in Salis bury and Rowan county ara to kan a hard time keeping alive from now on. The county board of health which U supreme In such matters has decreed that all dog* running at large and unmutzlrd shall be killed and all officers of the county and towns ara directed to shoot to kill. This drastic ruling waa brought about on account of the recant damage done by several dogs afflicted with rabies. A number of people and much stock waa bitten by the mad dogs. Driaka Piut of Liquor On a Bot; Dioa in Yard Yonkers, N. Y„ March St.—After winning a bat that he could drink a pint of whiskey without stopping, Barney Williams waa found dead In the yard of his home hare today. Harold Powers, a store-keeper, who alleged to have given Williams the whiskey, and Mr*. Williams were held as material a Unseats. Police said she told them that whan her hua band came home she supposed ha waa only drunk and she peimltad him to rvmatn outdoors. About one out of every thousand fox pupptaa la born hslrleae. and, though healthy, remains hshrleas through oat life. tUrhorkinff of tha nmlij Hat with additional Hxatha from wiiunda raiaad tha total daad in soma plaeaa and wdwW tka flfim In othara, laa» Inf tka toll toniffht at tit, without including a antra luppowd to hava hr»n banMd to death In Morpfcyabora, whara 1M Moefca wara Mown down and tha dahrla partly humad. Had Croaa wnrkara alao announrad that tha Ijnt Hatad aa hurt probably Htd not Include htindrad* of paraow who had baan hjwad, but who had fallad to raport tha faet owbic to tka •sritanwnt and mraaaity of aldtnf i othara mora aavaraty Injorad. Laaa to tIMtMM i n»? iowii property iow n«* nox Kaon rompilad. hot Hkaly wilt bt nun than |12.000.0M in IHInoi* alona. With MM M.OOO.OOO in Indiana and ■hoot a Millioa mhHi in Miaaoori, Tan* nuaai ant) Kantnrky, tha pmparty loaa la Hkaly to mowd SIM.000,000. Thia flfur* >* mora aarion* than Ha mw aiia indicatra, for moat of tha loaa «M sustained by famiHaa of mod ••mta rirrom*t*mr* ami nmuit tha wipin* oat of all tanrihla poa****intta. (WW work not only prnraadad with ralarity in the affected ronaa hot col lection of found* to aid tha *uffarar* want on at an atnaxinir para. Thousand* of dollar* rollad In to swell tha fundi raiaad hy many nawa papara. radio station* and fratarnal >rder» and churehaa. With tha arrival of mora nurae* in tha atom araa taday, it waa las mod that many par»«w» wara probably fa tally hurt. Sararal diad of srounda to day. Danger of apidamica haa ham probably avoidad, doctor* Mid. by •ant by air plana, rhlorination of water Many of tha inhmd bar* baaa takaa during tha laat 48 hour* te laigw .lliu m fttll J "row, wiKTv infy covw rvcvivf ucivci traatmant. A few diad on tha way to boapitala, Iwtiw, hat H la raparted that Mat of tha othar* hara fair chance* of m mai lag. NEW HALF-CENT STAMPS TO BE ISSUED AT ONCE Department Will Require for Third Class Mali Matter Aft er April IS The postofflr* department will la sue • nn#-h*lf rent postage stamp, which will be nNtMtr; for weights In third diu mail matter after April IS. This will be the first half-Nat <tsmp 0trr distributed in th« United •State*. New postal rate*, incident to In cr*a*es in islaries for postal em ployri, become effective the middle of next month. At that time the rate on all third claa* mail matter will be one and one-half cents for each ounce or fraction thereof up to and including eight ounce*. When the new rate* bwww effect ive two rent* will be reqsired to transmit post cards. Government postal cards will re main one cent. Carroll People Pleased With Rood Proareei HUlsville Journal, March 18.—The first layer of crashed stone has been placed on one mile of road in the southern part of town, preparatory to making a hard surfaced road. This is on* more mile on the old North Carolina-Pane jr Gap and Tasewell Turnpike, that Is now known as the Great lakes to Florida High way. We 'xpect to see work being done on a large scale in a few months. The state will spend some money doing preliminary work, and they have ac cepted 1150,000 from the cooaty un der the Robertson art to commence work about the first of July. Thin •fotion and a few milee in Bland coun ty when completed, will connect up the Lakes to Ploridh Highway thru this state. The City of Bluefield has contracted to build the road from that city to the Virginia line. Bland coen ty has loaned the State IIM^M to help complete the road In that eonaty. Consequently we expect to Ma this highway umpleted thru the Appe> laehiaa and Mae Mp omtry, soase time withla the year lttt Washington, March lT-tate mm troveray httwwii f*Fmldffnt Cwltdiv wihlily «M afcraftly today wKh the nomination of John C. Sargent, of Vermont, for the poet and Ma prompt cunflrmathin by tha senate, Mr. hrfmt, a fin air attorney gen armI of Vermont and a cloae personal friend of tha President, waa selected after Charles 1. "Warren, of Michigan, whose nomination waa iwhe r> (acted by the senate, had declined to aoooft I an offer of a recess appointment. At the moment that Mr. Sargent's name waa transmitted to the senate, i he white home made public aa ex ! change of rorreopnadence he to sea tile e aecutive and Mr. Warren which dia i i«sed that the offer of sack an ap I pointment had been tendered yester day after the senate had acted unfav orably upon his name. Wee Id End Controversy Mr. Warren wrote the Pr«sidsnt that ho waa onwilling to prolong a ( political controversy which might lea I »en Mr. Coolidge'i "opportunity for fall usefulness to the nation, and pos sibly interfere with your making wholly effect ire yoor policies. Announcement of the selection of Mr. Sargent, who lives in the little village of Ladlow near the President's birthplace, waa made after Mr. Cool Idge had conferred with the republi can and democratic floor leaders la the senate. He was nnwflHng to sub mit the name until be had been as ■•tired that his old friend would not be subjected to the hazard of such an ittaclc as was made on Mr. Warren. Immediately upon recvlpt of the nomination, the senate moved swiftly to dispose of it. Chairman Cummins >f the judiciary committee, took the •innaoal coarse of laying the appoint ment before the body la open session, and then called a meeting of his com mittee to act upon it. There wae Rt tle discussion In the committee. Sen ator Dale, republican. Vermont, ap pearing on behalf of Mr. Sargent, ex plained that he would bory -political differences" with the nominee bo caaao the iaeoe waa "above political controversy." An hour and • half later, the (nation was reported te Um In •nratlrt session at •d in open Huion by i ■ant, Juit fnar boar* after it I received. The committee discussed It only a little a»orc than half an hour and the aenate debated it not at all. Mr. Sargent'i name flrat came into prominence in connection with the at tornel generalship last Saturday when aenatora received a report that he would ha nominated after the aecond rejection of Mr. Wairan'a name. It waa the publication of thia report that led to the white house announcement that the President would offer Mr. Warren a recess appointment. GREATER CROP ACREAGE DISCOURAGED BY BUREAU Bit and Warm Against It Waahington, March If.—A tendency toward expansion of farm crop acra agea in IMS was ahown today la aa intention to plant report laauad by the department of agriculture. If the in tentions are carried out, the depart ment aaid, and the weather during the ■■ason la such aa te bring forth average yields production in many lines will ha greater than in 19H. "It aeema doubtful," the department aaid, "if the general expanaion of pro duction contemplated by farmers would be to their beat interests. The outlook indicated that any marked ex panaion in moat line* would tend te lower prlcea and results In Waa sat iafactory return• to the farmers." 1,000 Crap* MyrtUe Planted El kin, March II,—The campaign launched several montha ago by the Woman "• club, to make ElWn tha "Town Beautiful." haa been highly aucceeaful te date. The town beauti ful committee of the dub haa (old and delivered te the people of El kin 1,000 crape myrtlea. moat of which have been eat oat thia w*ak. The myrtle (elected fair HUn la a dwarf variety, and the effect of aaeh a peufualea of ealarmelaa pink Itoa will (lee te tha town a meat aUiat Darky Waiting Reward For Fideky in Civil War Test! Shelby. March 21_Up U Shelby weeks tWn lni|H a reMr of CHfl ww (fairs. Ob Ma «li n illif to an a*. mm foot b <mgad along m4 it« other l«c la hiaught ay wKh a lark. Under the tattered coonaMn ay la 'ha fare mt an old-time darky wrtrkled with afi and kinky hair that la be ing Invaded by "the anow that lewr melt." If. "Uncle Phillip" Koae horo, hearing the nam of an n(d and prominent South Carolina family, and , he'» looking for the panaion ha m% I pacta to gat for fighting "dam Yan | keea along wtf Captain John and Captfai Jim". Other wlss he Is jaat ait old negro with an onuaual amory and a remarkable record of »ai'»We behind him. and Mfa story that from the point of human Intelsat la nil ad ad hjr few. "Spry en Ma feet" for one of Ms age time is gradually tailing, al though the hands that onca mads cof fee for Stonewall Jackson still cot two eorda of wood a day. It's a hard taaala far the old fallow to drag sroand the lag woondsd at Sevan Pines while making breastworks for the Confederate troope and earn a livelihood, bat he is and wtthoot com plaining. Told that Ms name had bean brought op, approved and sent off for a nenslon a tear crept down the old wrinkled face as his eyes flitted bock over thna and Ms loyal service ta Ms reply: "Well sah! AhU swan! Taa sah, ah was shot in da laig at Seven Pines attar Captain John was killed an' den ah fit wtd Captain Jim and wux captured by dem Yankees at Virksborg. whuh day had de canals. Atter de end at Appomattox—an ah was right dare—ah cam back home and stayed wid da Old Mfssoa till she died. Yassah, guesa ah desove sum pin. bat ah wuk right oa Ball aba be preod tar gat It " And the story he covered In one breath la ana mt the preod bits of old Southern Matary far It taUa of the loyalty aad faithful sa» ilti of the old-tiaae negro and la lutai >pm»ed with politeness. The Eeaaboro plantation la-ar rather waa about eight mllee from York. S. C, and whan the Civil war broke oat there waa only owe in the proud old family mt ftghtteg age —the son John, 28 years of aga. His mother, the "Missus" to Phillip, was of the historic Key family of Mias issippl and naturally she urged her son on to the front. With Mm want the young negro Phillip as a body ser vant. And in the harking back to his boyhood days the former slave tells of Atlanta when it was only a small town; of slave days and of the Mm! treatment he received from Ma I masters. Younf John Roaeboro won rapid , promotion and was aoon commissioned • captain. At his first big battle at Sewn Pine* he waa killed ia t* pulaing an a tack. Reaching thia far in hia atory, old Phillip', eyea become misty and in them cornea a longing for old timaa and the young master in daya gone by aa he tells how the shell anuffed out hia life. No longer doea one wooder why he did not take the freedom the Civil war brought— he loved the Roeeboroa and today proudly tenet himaelf the laat of the family. Phillip hlmaetf waa wound ed in the leg at Seven Pines, bat deapite hia wound he and a white sol dier brought the body of the young captain back acroaa the Itatea to the Roeeboro ^plantation. Here again hia ' remlniacences bring a touch of aym-! nathv aa he re la to* the anguiah of, the "Missus" when the body of the be loved young son ahe sent away only ] a few montha previous waa brought I ark by hia servant. When the funeral waa over Mrs.; Roeeboro sent for Phillip to come to the "N« house" and there made an other aacriflee by aendhtg him back le Jack eon'a army aa a body servant jo a son-in-law. Capt. James William son, "Captain Jim." Phillip terms Mm.' Captain Williamson waa killed at Drewry*a Muff, but by that time his body — rvaat waa a favorite with all the officers of the diviaion and Phil lip remained At VicMmrg Phillip waa imptuied with a number of Oaa federate troops and rimsleU a pria oner^fromAprH until July. Wt Mem mtwiritl u4 A* Uf Mn of Ma few remaining y—■ > >■ to fWt MM mountain and aaa tba fa* of 1 ■abort" and as bo term* tbo madr coffee far, "*ao Tbrae weoki It took tba ant to walk hta way bark back to what he thought mU bo tka old plantation, tbo "Mtaaaa aa all tba folk." and tba !M or more otbar alaaaa. And Ma arrival tbaro waa ono t»f tbo Mf dtsappotetMMta of tka tba * lares to tboir nawly fawd floo dom. No ana rimahw ■ad old "Miaaoa" and T amine Ma back on t freedom, Phillip M tba year* that fat lowed doubly earn) o* porta to fat, or wbita friend* ka«f Soon tbo daughter diad, bat oa tba mined plantation Phillip »ti inglad to make enough far "Waa WeQta" and lb hotweon tba nt niggle* reminded bar* of the brarory of tbe heroic captain. Then tbe old "mimm? and Phillip, Ma eerriea over. »ot into tbe world, lame and with tft and toil. Hi* wife had dtad and hia eleven children wart •rattor »4 After »om to tbla county a The farmer* and luilmmii of tba in tba county despite Ma af tarond to hia **wah record." bnaata of tba two eorda af still rata a day. Tba oM form with ha little jarky boar af fraatinf ia vaO •traata af Skalky and with of Ma wbita frtaadt w Ma penaiaa aterta. To kaar Ma story ia to know that be daaarrea It alone with tka Immortal wldian ha ■errad ao well. COOLIDGE VOTE NOT SO LARGE #! Vmdmr Tkat 7,000,000 i Wtihinfton, March 1#. Stmmnna thinks that the republican* ■ltd the large daily paper* of the I try are creatine a wrong about the popularity of the President He aaid today that the oft-repeatad claim that he got an approximate majority of wren million* at Um poll* i* incorrect. "Mr. CooUdge did not yet any *uch majority." add he "la laying ma jority the people who dm the word mean plurality, and thaw ie • bif difference. The Coolidge plurality waa approximately *ix million, but hi* majority 2.2S1.10. "Republican* arc constantly claim ing the largest majority ever record ed. If Senator La Follette had net run last year we would have made a much better showing. We loot a lot of our own people who would km supported the Davia-Bryan ticket In an opon fight between and democrats. Mr. CooUdge not be as popular as Ma sert that he ta." v Here ie the final veto: lft.74S.0X2; Davis S.7M.U7 Mid La Follette. 4.M7JI12. J! During the debate in the ' over the Charles ] ■nation for attorney general cans referred to the "tremendous ma turity" of the President. TWy need this in a futile effort to* whip their own men m line, and to get < to break away from their Mr. «d. that Mr. CooUdge had won by six or seven millions
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