ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVII More Barriers Are Smashed By Surging Rivers Fed By Their Swollen Tributaries In West USiSHEST mi DM6 NIGHT Heavy Rains in That State Sent Streams Through Levees, Causing Thou sans to Leave Homes. CLARENDON SWEPT BY HIGH WATERS White River Smashed the Levees There and Flood ed Business Dictrict.— Feared Lives Are Lost. Memphis, April 20.—OP)—While thousands fought desperately to hold the levees against the waters of three streams in the Mississippi Valley, in valiant efforts to save lives and prop erty from the greatest flood in the nation’s history, raging streams plow ed through barriers at numerous points today, inundating thousands of acres, tind putting One town. Claren don. Ark., under from two to twelve feet of water. Waters of the White River made mockery of a drainage district levee at Clarendon, the last barrier against the flood early today, and in ten min utes the little Arkansas city was in undated. Houseboats and river craft were smashed against the court house in the town, numerous homes were washed away, and unconfirmed re ports said many people were on the levee when it went out. Miss Rose Gibson. a telepKone oper ator at Clarendon, told the Associat ed Press over the telephone todn.v that the water rushed through the town at the rate of 40 miles an hour during the first few “hours, and that if any persons were in numerous houses in the poorer sections of the city, the speed of the water would mnke res cue impossible. From a window in the telephone of fice she saw houses, animals gild rirtf craft being washed down the mam business section of the town, she said. “Dozens of houses are completely covered by water, and every business building in the town is in water up to the ceiling,” she said. “Hundreds of persons are marooned on Tom's Hill, a little mound about a mile from town without food and some of them almost without clothing. The raging waters struck the town during the early morn ing hours, and while all citizens in reach of telephones had been warned by five o’clock yesterday afternoon, we did not know whether all houses had been vacated. “The waters are not rushing as fast as they were early today, but they are rising,” the telephone girl said. She said she was working on the sec ond floor of a building surrounded by seven feet of water. The break in the levee protecting the town follow ing the smashing of another levee near' the town of few hours before. While telephone officials heard of no loss of life, there were reports that dozen* of negroes and whites in poorer sections of the town had not escaped because they were unable to leave their homes, or they believed the levee would hold. Cries and screams were heard from those sections of the town. It was estimated today that 100,- 000 persons were suffering from the floods, and that 50,000 of these were refugees. More than 400 cars of ref ugees were moved to higher ground in Eastern Arkaansas by the Missouri- Pacific train crews today, and nearly 400 box cars were being loaded with refugees out of Wynne and the Mari anun districts. Calculations, here placed the number of acres'covered by water at a minimum of 4,000,000. The death toll of the storm probably will never be known. Clarendon Flooded. Helena. Ark., April 20.— G4>) —The White River levee protecting Claren don, Ark., gave way near the heart of the town at 2 o’clock this morning, ac cording to information received from the manager of the telephone ex change there. Wallace Graham, the telephone com pany manager, told the Associated Press that the water surging through the gap swept aside obstructions and ANNOUNCEMENT The 59th Series in this Old Reliable Building, Loan and Savings Association opened April 2nd. Running Shares cost 25 cents per share per week, matures SIOO.OO in 328 weeks. Prepaid Shares cost $72.25 per share, matures SIOO.QO in 328 weeks. Tax Returning Time Is Here, Remember That All Stock is Nbn-Taxable. Tou can take shares any time now. A lot of people already have taken a running start by taking shares in SERIES NO. 59—NOW OPEN Cabarrus County Building Loan and Savings Association OFFICE IN THE CONCORD NATIONAL BANK The Concord Daily Tribune carried cabin boats from the river through (the center of town. Graham said he believed there had been some loss of life. He was una ble to leave his office six hours after the levee collapsed because of the swift current. A number of persons were marooned in' the county court house, and above the roar of the rushing water could be heard the screams of frightened women and children who sought safe ty in the building. “Everything is bad—very bad." Graham said. Clarendon is a town of about 3.500 population, the county sea* of Mon roe County. I Warned to Leave Homes. Pine Bluff. Ark., April 2ft.—OP) — Withhenvy rains reported north of here last night, and all levees within 25 miles of Pine Bluff expected to be washed out today, all residents ns far sonth as Dumas were warned to evac uate their homes immediately. Grave danger lies near Varner, where the Cummins levee is reported to be weakening under constant strain, despite addition of thousands of sand bags. A break there would flood the most of Lincoln and Desha counties. At least one-third of city of Pine Bluff was under water today, varying in depth from several inches to six feet. Churches, the Y. M. C. A. and vacant houses were thrown open to refugees. Mid-Summer Furniture Exposition. High Point, April 20. —(INS) — Plans have been stratde here already for the Mid-Summer Furniture Ex poaition here, which will attract hun dreds of furniture manufacturers and dealers from all parts of the South. The ex)K>sition will be held by the Southern Furniture Market July 18- 30, according to a decision which has just been reached. Practically all space has been taken in the mammoth exposition building here, according to C. F. Long, man ager. There are nt present 175 ex hibitions having space, and three new exhibitions have just taken up. It is the market's policy to hold two shows each year. The last was held here in January, and was one of the biggest ever held in the furni tifna center. In January there was some 1,50 ft men L iti attendance at the two weeks” exhibition, and tttis sum mer it is expected that an even larger number of manufacturers and buyers will be present. “Hen Llkker” Makes Appearance. Mobile, Ala,, April 20.—“ Hen Likker"t—one drink and you lay—is the latest concoction to be introduced since the Volstead act went into ef fect—along with its premiere presen tation here by two brave souls, they attempted to introduce cock fighting, only they hnppened to get hens in stead of cocks. John Reese and W. H. Williams, under the influence of "a little too much,” visited the hen house of a negro woman and staggered forth with two hens, bent on staging a cock fight. But burly policemen nipptl their plans in the bud and they re ceived fines of $25 or 20 days iu jail instead of witnessing the rooster fight—between hens. S. P. Engineers To Build Duke Plant. Durham, April 2ft. —(INS) —Un- official but. well-authenticated informa tion here would indicate that the , Southern Power Conqiany engineers j | are to build Duke University's new $20,000,000 plant. 1 W. S. chief engineer of the Southern Power Company, is setting up his residence here and will super vise the mammoth building undertak ing, it was learned, j The Southern Power Company erect ed the university's power dnd light plant last summer. Land is being cleared for the erect iofYof the $4,000,- .000 medical school unit. South’s Baptist Schools Show Fine Growth. Birmingham, Ala., April 19i —The education board of the Southerti Bap -1 tist Convention, with headquarters here, will report to the convention at LouktviUe May 4th that during the 1 past seven years the total assets of Baptist schools of the South have 'grown from $22,837,389 to $57,744,- 807, an increase -of $34,007,418. or 152 per cent. The assets include $38,- 890,086 in physical properties and $18,854,721 in endowment funds. CHINESE REJECT DEMANDS MADE BY THE SOVIETS Paris, April 20. —OP)—Rejec- tion by the Peking government of the demands of the Russian Soviet government in connection with the rnid on soviet buildings in the em bassy compound at Peking, is re ported in a dispatch to the Indo- Pacifio Agency. The raid on or ders of northern Chinese authori ties was carried ont on April oth. THINK THREE NEGROES DROWNED IN YADKIN River Near High Rock is Being Searched for Bodies of Men Who Fell From Boat. Salisbury, April 20.—OP)— Tlie Yad kin River nt High Ruck, Southern Pqwer Company development, is be ing searched for the bodies of three negro workmen who were drowned late yesterday when the boat cap sized. The negroes were Bill Mc- Cray, Clinton Jones and Dan Bolder. The boat, containing six workers, struck a rock at the coffer dam nnd capsized. Three of them reached the shore. With Our Advertisers. If you haven’t paid your city taxes you will be interested in the notice of Charles N. Field, City Tax Collec tor, in this paper today. Expert cleaning and blocking is done by M. R. Pounds. Also dry cleaning amt dyeing of clothes. The Foy Fisher property between Concord and Kannapolis, will be sold at auction Saturday., April 23, -at 2 o'clock by Waiter nnd Gurley Auction Co. Easy terms for lot purchasers. "Phantom of the Forest,” starring a dog. nt the Concord Thentre today. Tomorrow “The Dark Angel," star ring Vilnrn Hanky, one of the newest stars on the screen. Vaudeville Fri day. Washable silk frocks are being sold for $9.85 at the Gray Shop. Qnly a limited number. ' The J. & H. Cash Store is selling fine quality strawberries for 25 cents a .basket. Also bargains in groceries. Cotton' Week is being observed at Robinson's which has thousands of yards of new cotton goods in crisp new patterns. Read ad. for price par ticulars. H Try the Marvel Paint and Rug Cleaner sold by the Ritchie Hardware Co. Saves labor in house cleaning. Efird's is offering unusual bargains in new porch and kitchen rugs. Grass rags at prices lower thnn usual. These goods are on the second Hour and price particulars can be found in new ad todny. The Yorke & Wadsworth Co., in a new ad today says the latest Good year tire is a "konckout. This company carries a complete line of Goodyear tires in all sizes. Official Beer Tester Has Been Ap pointed For Tampa. Tampa, Fla-, April 18.—The city of Tampn appointed its first official beer tester today and he went to work an hour later on a case ot real "suds." He is Joseph Lyles, formerly waterworks chemist of Birmingham. Ala., but his new job has nothing to do with water. He is on a fee basis and will not consider anything with less than a kick, of one half of one per cent. It will be his duty.to analyze all beer and other liquor seized under the prohibition law and give scienti fic testimony. THE STOCK MARKET Reported by Fenner & Beane. (Quotations at 1:30 P. M.) Atchison 182% American Tobacco B 127% American Smelting 152% American Locomotive 110% Atlantic Coast Line 182 Allied Chemical 144% American Tel. & Tel. 165% American Can 46% Allis Chalmers 107 Baldwin Locomotive 191% Baltimore & 'Ohio 116% Bethlehem "Steel 52% Chesapeake & Ohio 168% Coca-Cola 196 DuPont 249 Dodge Bros. l9 Erie 55 Frisco 111% General Motors 188% General Electric 94 Great Northern 86% Gold Duet 53% Hudson 76 Int. Tel. 136% Kennecott Copper 65% Liggett & Myers B 161% Mack Truck ~ 109% Mo.-Pneific : 59% Norfolk & Western 181% N, Y. Central l5O Pan. American Pet. B. 58% Rock Island ' 98 R. J. Heynolds - 119% Rep. Iron & Steel 68% Stand. Oil of N. J. 36% Southern Railway : 125% Studebaker 56 Texas Co. 46% Tobacco Products 98 U. . Steel 171% IT. S. Steel, new 123% Wentinchouse 74 Westedn Md. 38 Chrysler 44% North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily CONCORD.N. 6, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1927 WALL OF ITER IS SWEEPING DOWN ON NORTH LITTLE ROCK Citizens of City Are Fak ing Wall of Water Eig|t Feet High Following a Break in River Levee. WHISTLESGAVE 4 FIRST WARNINO Rescuers in Boats Getting out the Inhabitants Wt|o Did Not Recognize the Warning Given. Little Rock, Ark., April 20.— 0 P) — A wall of water eight feet high was sweeping down on North Little Rock from the northwest this morning, fol lowing a break in the Arkansas Rivih levee northwest of that city. The break had flooded the town of Lety and a large part of the city north (if Main Street. Rescuers in boats were busy get ting out inhabitants who failed -so move when locomotive whistles shriek ed a warning early this morning. More than four inches of rain fejl here between 3 a. m. and 7 a. it|. and the heavy downpour later is be lieved to have added another inch. % North Little Rock is a separate municipality and hns no connection with the city of Little Rock. It Is located on the opposite side .of the Arkansas River, nnd has about 15,000 inhabitants. The chief industry is the Missouri-Pacific railroad shops which employ about 5,000 men. There also are a number of cotton seed mills and various other manufactories. ONLY TWO JURORS FOR SNYDER-GRAY TRIAL First Panel ot 10ft Talesmen Exhaust ed With Only Two Jurors Accept ed. New York, April 20.—0 P first panel of 100 talesmen in the Snyder murder case was exhausted shortly after noon today and only two jurors had been accepted. The ques tioning went on and talesmen con tinued to drop by the wayside. 1 Os fifty men examined on Monday, the first day of tße trial none was-SMi cepted. Yesterday the total rose to 87 and a foreman was secured. This morning Win. B. Meisner, the 91st talesman examined, was selected as juror No. 2. THE STOCK MARKET Prices Displayed Flrnr Undertone at the Opening, With Several Blocks Changing Hands. New York, April 20. —(A s )—Stock prices displayed a firm undertone at the opening of today's market, with several large blocks of stock chang ing hands. United Drug and General Motors attained . new record high prices, and Lehigh Valley showed a gain of 1 3-8 on the first sale. Com mercial Solvents B opened 1 "-4 points lower. Governor Smith Will Not Speak at King’s Mountain. Kinks Mountain, N. C., April 20. OP)—Governor Alfred ft. Smith, of New York, will not deliver the feature speech here October 7th at the cele bration of the 148th anniversary of the Bgttle of Kings Mountain. This was decided by the invitation committee, unanimously, after consul erab’.e outside talk that the Empire State governor would be a most ac ceptable speaker. The committee de cided to invite General John .T. Persh ing, commander of the American ex peditionary forces in the World War. and Senator Thomas Heflin, Alabama, prohibition big gun, to do the oratoric al honors of the occasion. O. 15. Carpenter is chairman of the speaker conimittee. The late William J. Bryan and Senator Royal Copeland, of New York, have both delivered speeches here at. the celebrations in the past, and mem bers of the committee expressed them selves hopeful that one or both of the celebrities they invited this year would respond. The -invitations will be delivered through Frank A. Hampton, secretary to Senator Simmons. County Commissioners in Raleigh. Raleigh, April 20. —IP) —County commissioners from various sections of North Carolina met here today to discuss budgeting and related sub jects. The meeting was called to order t>y J. E. Woodland, of More head City, president of the State As sociation of County Commissioners. Fighting Reported. Vienna, Austral!, April 20 —(P) — An unconfirmed report from Bucha rest says there was fighting last night between Roumanian nnd Russian bor der troops with “many (lend nnd wounded on both sides.” Cola M. Early Dead. Richmond, Va., Ap(jl 20. —(P) — Cola M. Early, assistant prohibition administrator for Virginia and North Carolina. >died today following an op eration last Friday for appendicitis. He was a native of North Carolina. Ten Pages Today Two Sections L- , „ ■■■■■■■ i Public Health Work in State Is Discussed By Dr. Laughinghouse The Tribune Bureau Wnshington-Duke Hotel Durham, April 20.—Public health work is dependent upon the whole hearted and hearty co-operation of the medical profession, and without this co-operation neither the State board of health nor the members of the medical profession can hope to ac complish much, the members of the North Carolina Medical Society were told this afternoon by Dr. Charles O H. Laughinghouse. secretary of the board of health and State health of ficer. in presenting the annual report of the State board of health to the society. "Medical advancement has brought us to where there can be no parting of the ways," Dr. Laughinghouse told the society. "Preventive medicine and curative medicine, public lienlth work ers and private practitioners must all hang together or they will all hang separately. 'For this is rhe law of the jungle ns old and ns true as the sky'." The principal point stressed by Dr. Laughinghouse was to call the atten tion of the profession to the almost alarmingly rapid increase in degenera tive diseases, such as cancer, heart, kidney nnd circulatory diseases, and to the fact that the treatment, of these diseases has become almost an indi vidual problem. It is the aim of the board of health during the next: yejjr and from now on to wage war on these diseases through the promotion of annual, or still better, semi-annual health exam inations —the only method through which these diseases can be reached and detected—and Dr. Laughinghouse asked the Medical Society not only to endorse the movement for these health examinations, but to co-operate with the board in promoting popular in terest in these examinations. "The board of health is converted to the opinion that physical examina tions of the people of the stnte should be made by the physicians of the state and if the Medical Society approves it. purposes to give all publicity to THE COTTON MARKET Opened Steady at Advance of 3 to 5 Points, July' Selling l’p to 14.56. New York, April 20.—G4 3 )—The cot ton market opened steady today at an advance of 3 to 5 points in response to steady Liverpool cables, continued nervousness over the Mississippi Val ley Amid situation nnd the outlook for showers with lower temperatures in western belt. « if" July sold itfi to 14.56 aiiifHeremßer to 15.01 or about 5 to (i points net higher, but these prices attracted re alizing, while a little southern sell ing also was reported. Trading was active at the start, but tapered off somewhat after the first few minutes, the market showing reactions of 2 or 3 points from the best. Pope Hands Off in Al Smith’s Po litical War. Rome. April 19.—The Vatican offi cially informed the Associated Press today that it has no information con cerning the declaration made public yesterday in which Governor Alfred E. Smith, of New York, who is a Roman Catholic, defined his concep tion of the relationship between the Church and the State. In any case, it was asserted, the holy see would have absolutely no comment to make on this or any sim ilar matter affecting American poli tics, since such questions are con sidered purely internal concernfi of the United States upon which the Vatican docs not desire to enter. Five Men Killed in Two Crashes. Eastchur. Kent., Eng., April 19. Four members of the royal air force, two of them officers, were killed to day when a Vickers bomber crashed here. The plane, in rising hit the wing of npother plane and went into a n«w- dive. The men killed were Fly ing Officer Kelly. Pilot Officer Dowdesweli nnd two mechanics. \ Lieut. Wilkins Safe. New York, April 20.—OP)—'The North American Newspaper Alliance was informed today that Lieut. Geo. H. Wilkins. Arctic flyer, who lias been missing since March 29 when he hopped off for Point Barrow, Alaska, for the unexplored regions to the north has made a safe return to Beechy Point. NEW SERIES Will Open Saturday, May 7,1927 Right now you have the opportunity to open a Building and Loan account with ifs, tef invest your savings regularly, to get good earnings on yeur in vestment and to pile up worth-while totals. Don’t pass this opportunity. We sell prepaid stock at $72.25 per share. Citizens Building and Loan Association Office in Citizens Bank Building the importance of physical examina tions nnd to do everything else in Its power to assist the profession to meet the demands which annual nnd semi-annual examinations will make upon it," the report continued. "Hitherto there hns not been es tablished a e'.enn-eut always visible line agreed upon by the board of health on the one sidp and the phy sicians in active practice on the other, the line giving definition to the con fines of the specialty of preventive medicine, if specialty it is. “Do we 1 need definite expressions whereby the profession in a given community will be 'enabled to say to the board (if health. ‘Thus far shalt thou go and nq farther?" Shall it be agreed that whatever the profession can do better than the state, that the profession is doing, that the' state should do. even though it infringe a bit on the preserves of curative medi cine? "The executive officer of the Stnte .board of health heretofore is request ing that your president direct your committee on public health adminis tration to formulate a definite policy regarding this problem nnd submit that policy to your house of delegates for adoption." Dr. Laughinghouse then called upon the members of flip society to lend ta the board their personal support and co-operation, finally calling to mind the fact that the hoard and the so ciety were inseparably linked and in terdependent and that the two must work together or fail in the attain ment of the goal both have set. In the beginning of the report. Dr. Laughinghouse traced the work of the board of health during the past year and the new legislation affecting its activities enacted in the recent legis lature. He touched but briefly upon the request for an investigation of graft charges in the board, reading merely a portion of the letter from the attorney general to Governor Mc- Lean, in which the attorney general stated that he had found nothing upon which to base an investigation. SHERIFF NOT ADVISED TO ARREST JOHN EARLY j j State Health Officials Have Taken No I Action in Leper’s Case So Btr. | Raleigh, April 20.—(A s ) —No in j structions have been sent to Sheriff Banks, of Yancey County, as to the : disposal of John Early, leper, report i »<1 lhcated near Burnsville insofar as | had been reported at the offices of the State Board of Health today. Of ficials were attending the state health board meefing at Durhatff. John Early’s Camp Located. Burnsville, N. C.. April 20.—C4 3 )— John Early, western North Carolina leper, who escaped ten days ago from the Federal hospital at Carville, La., and headed for his old home at Tryon, to visit his family, is encamped on the South Toe River, about eight miles from here. The town is agog j with exeitment. Dr. .T. B. Gibbs, j county health officer, lias wired the. i State health department at Raleigh | requesting information as to what : should be done. Who Will Take Him Back? Washington, April 20. —(4 s ) —Public health authorities have not been in formed as to the whereabouts of John Early. If he were found the Stnte authorities would be requested to take him into custody. However, the health service officials said that on account of the failure of the deficiency bill in the last Congress there would be no funds available for Early’s trans portation back to Carville if he were captured. Income Tax Collections Increase. Raleigh, April 20.—(A>) —North Car olina income tax collections for 1927 today exceeded the total for the en tire previous year. The total an nounced today from the State revenue department was $0,094,245. as com pared with total collections last year of $6,083,000. The present fiscal year hns two months and ten days to run. Injuries Prove Fatal. Salisbury. April 20.—C4 5 ) —John C. Rusher. 77, of East Spencer, died at a local hospital late yesterday from injuries sustained when hit by a truck while he was attempting to pick up a walking can ho had dropped. The mishap occurred in Spencer at the intersection of Depot Street and the national highway. Decorated | M.: W P ■ ' Jfcf-VA r * ; »WM* • Aik King Albert, of Belgium, pinned the Cross of the Knight, Ordei of the Crown, on Mrs. Delia J, Akeley, widow of Carl Akeley, American naturalist. The honor was bestowed on her because she continued with an expedition into the Belgian Congo gorillfc reserve after her husband died of fever. “SLOW” SIGNS BENEFIT TURKISH WATER CARTS Stamboul. Turkey. Apr. 20—OP) —"Go slowly" signs are ail inno vation in the streets of Stamboul, indicative of the new day which has brought speed to a land where progress was formerly measured by centuries. While the new signs are unpopu lar with chauffeurs, they are smiled upon by drivers of water-buffalo earts. Traffic cops who try to hurry up these lumbering vehicles now receive the retort, "Can't you read the signs?" MRS. JERMAN SPEAKS TO METHODIST WOMEN Urges More Practical Living of Prin ciples of Christianity as Duty of Citizenship. ■Sanford. N. t\, April 20. —QP) — More practical living of the principles of Christianity as a primary duty of citizenship was urged by Mrs. T. I*. Jerman, president of the North Caro lina Legislative Council of Women, today. She'spoke at the annual session of the Woman's Missionary Society of the North Carolina Methodist Con ference here on “Christian Citizen ship.'' Reports of the conference officers and the discussions relative to a gen eral advance in the work marked the meeting which will last through to morrow. Rev. W. W. IVele. pastor of Trin ity Methodist Church, Durham, spoke on "The Mind of Christ In Us" at the noon day Bible hour. Prof. J. M. Ormond, of the department of rural life of Duke University, told of "The Country Church—Our Opportunity." Miss Elizabeth Lamb, representa tive of the conference at one time in Brazil and also former president of the conference society; Miss Fran ces Burkhead, superintendent of the Moka Garden Mission of Soochow, China, who has been delayed from returning to her work by the trouble in China : and Miss Mamie Myers, of Korea, were guests of the meeting. The executive committee includes: Acting President, Mrs. A. M. Cates, Durham; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Harvey Boney, Wilmington; treasurer, Mrs. F. B. McKinne, Golds boro : superintendent of children’s work, Mrs. N. H. D. Wilson. New Bern; superintendent of publicity. Mrs. M. T. Plyler, Raleigh ; social service. Miss Vera Herring, Raleigh: literature. Mrs. S. H. Scott, New Bern; secretary of the Durham dis trist, Mrs. Mamie Merritt. Roxbero; secretary of the Elizabeth City dis trict. Mrs. R. H. Willis. Hertford; Fayetteville district. Mi's. Junius Wren. Siler City; New Bern district, Mrs. Flora Kendall. Goldsboro; Ral eigh district. Miss Helen White. Ox ford : Washington district. Miss Bes sie Hnrding. Washington: Wilming ton district. Mrs. E. R. Clark. Wil mington. A1 Smith Club Formed in McAdoo’s Old Home. Milledgeville. Ga„ April 19.—An A1 Smith-for-President club has gained a membership of 100 in a few days in this central Georgia town, which in cidentally is the boyhood home of William Gibbs McAdoor, whose can didacy against the New York gover nor made political history at the 1924 Democratic convention in New York. City Tax Notice All property on which 1926 Taxes have not been paid will be advertised and sold after May let. 1927. Also all 1917 street asessments that expired December Ist, 1926, on the following streets: South Union, East Corbin, North' Church, Franklin Avenue, North Spring. Buffalo, McGill, and North Kerr. ■ CHAB. N. FIELD, City Tax Collector. THE TRIBUNE PRINTS TODAY’S NEWS TODAYS NO. 86 IT JILLS IN ‘ ILLINOIS KILLEOJ 23, INJURED lOQ Property Damage in Five | Counts es Which Squftllfl Struck Is Now Esibnatejl at Million Dollars. NINE PROBABLY FATALLY HUM High Winds Were Felt fgj| Indiana But So Far j|s* Known No Serious Datin'| age Occurred in State. 4. Springfield. 111.. April 20.—0P)-—. & Line squalls that extended from Greene County yesterday, one striking southeastward and the other north eastward. left a known dentil l'«T » 2.1, nine others listed a» probably fatally injured and about 100 Ipsa seriously hurt. Property damage in the five coun ties njhere the storms took human lif/S and in half a dozen other cbityffps which felt the storms with diminished violence, was roughtly estimated s£/ $1,000,000. Many buildings, most of them farming communities -were de stroyed. and considerable damage done to crops. Greene County, almost direetjy north of St. Louis, suffered Wftfit heavily in casualties. Nine were ed there. Another death resulted K few miles west in Sulhoun County. One arm of the wind reached ffitiU Greene County, 60 miles into Bond County, where one life was los£ -V The main series of storms, h»yWisr ( bounded northeast, taking four liven m Sangamon County and four mure ili Logan. While the loss of life. gtu 1 confined to a relatively small terri tory, most of central and northern Illinois as well as part of Indiana felt the high wind. Damage was re ported nearly ns far north as Mil waukee. Wisconsin. Greene C-ounty deaths were distri buted in four small communities. Misa Anne Keller, teacher of the Centerville t'unnl school near Carrolton. lost her life when caught under debris, al though none of her pupils was kilkU. She had ordered the pupils to take shelter beneath their seats. , At Wrights, another rural center 3 in Greene County, four died while d three others met death at WoodjfWMSSJ and another death was at AtlieiisviHe. Sangamon County had three deaths | at Buffalo Hart, (hie was killed at -J Loami. LIGHTNING KILLS TWO PERSONS AT CAROLEJSM J Mrs. Jas. Morrow and Mrs. fiw. Reavis. Mother and Daughter. | Stricken in Home Rutherfordton. April 19. — jtyjs. James Morrow and daughter, JfMjuJfl George Reavis, both of Ca rqßaßaM were killed instantly iast night ing a severe electrical storm. Hotb* . were in the same house. Mr. Morrow wars on the side of the bed ready & retire and spoke to his wife übowit 3 letting down a window. As she tttn£j3 e Accordingly he wired for SIOO via Western Union and received it. But 1 upon n second request, via Postal Tel egraph. for a like amount, lie and Louis Moon, who went for the moqey, were apprehended. . Negro Sitting oil Dynamite Blown to Pieces By Blast. New Bern. April 19 —Uosooe Mer ritt. 17-year-old negro, was killed near here today when dynamite .-anti which he was sitting exploded. Ilia body was blown to pieces. The head was picked up some distance frosjfc the scene of the explosion. ; W Two Prisoners Killed in Explosion. Raleigh. April 20.— (A 3 ) —Two prls- ; oners on the Pitt County convict gong. : were killed instantly near here today ' by a premature explosion of dynanjjHß 1 being used to blow up stumps. Thagpf were Jimmie Stokes, white, arid EfwjO Thomas, negro. Will Try Atlantic Flight. .%!■ Paris, April 20. —(A*)—Capt ninja Charles Nungeseer and Captain '3 Francis Coli are planning to start | Sunday morning on a truns-Atlantic : a flight, from Paris to New York, '.TriMW ,|,iy. s’iglilly raider tnnlghl. j