1 -.John (i. Sargent in Vermont, who becomes United States attorney iietiernl after second rejection by sen
ate of 0. B.' Warren. 2- Six New York (iiants with tlieir wives at Florida training quarters. ? William I).
Shepherd of Chicauo. charged with murder of William N. McClintock by Inoculation with typhoid germs.
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Tornado Kills 1,000 in Five
States ? Sargent Made
Attorney Genera!.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
TTTiHLE spring poets art- singing
VV the beauties of Nature anil voic
ing the annual "Call (if the WiliJ." the
gods "of disaster are in the saddle all
o\er the world
Tuesday night an explosion? pos
sibly caused by a bomb ? wrecked
Bethlehem mine No. 41 near Fair
mount, W. Va.. entombing ;M coal min
ers. who are presumably\lead.
Wednesday Palm Beach. the popular
Florida winter resort where thousands
of Northerners are sojourning, had a
narrow escape from destruction by fire,
rise fatuous Breakers hot-el was among
trie buildings destroyed. The loss, in
cluding personal property of wealthy
visitors, is about S4.?Ki0.i.|"0.
Wednesday tire in Tokyo. Japan,
rendered" homeless and caused
a loss estimated at $2.,">00."00. Fire in
Fouradottro. Portugal. burned out f><?0
families. Torrential rains inundated
Trujillo, tlie third most important city
of I'eru; the population abandoned
their homes.
But by far the worst disaster is the
tornado that swept across a part of
the Mississippi valley, exacting a hor
rifying toll in human !i\es and prop
erty in more. than 27. cities and villages
in five states. .
T tKPNESPAY'S tornado disaster
V V is the worst in our history. The
tornadoes of February I\ 1 s.s I. in the
South, May 27. IM'0. at St. I.ottis and
vicinity and April 24. tin*. In Missis
sippi. Louisiana and Alabama, took
approximately 7>o0 lives each. This
time the death toil may run to 1.000
and the injured may number o.OOO.
The property loss is incalculable.
The tornado swopped out of the
Ozark mountains upon Annapolis. Mo.
Thence it cut a ruin path across south
ern Illinois and divided, one tornado
continuing ott half way across Indiana
and the other turning ott Into. Kentucky
and Tennessee. Beginning at 1 :;{0 p.
in., it ran its course in six hours. Five
communities in Missouri, fifteen in
Illinois, five in Indiana and eleven in
Kentucky and Tennessee have report
er! S2-"5 dead and 2.i?00 injured. The
less was heaviest in Murphysl.oro, HI..
-TO dead; Pe Soto. 111.. US; West
Frankfort. III., U?7: I'arrisli. III.. 20:
Oritfin. Ind.. ."0, and Princeton! Ind., 20.
All the resources of modern civiliza
tion quickly went into relief measures.
< 'hicago and Sr. Louis broadcast the
calamity to millions within' reaching
distance of the devastated area. Na
tional Guards. doctors and nurses;
food, tire engines, medical supplies and
tents were started by train and auto
mobile without delay. The American
lied Cross got into action by wire from
Washington. Hospitals were thrown
open and emergency preparations.!
made. Belief funds were announced
by radio; response by wire was in
stant from all parts of the country.)
Illinois will appropriate $7)00.000.
TOHN (lAKlIiALpI SARGENT'S
J nomination and confirmation Tues
day as attorney general brought to an
end the contest between President
Coolidge and the senate over the Ex
ecutive's selection of Charles I>. War
ren of Michigan for the place. ? 1
Notwithstanding tire senate's first
rejection of Warren, the President sent
back Ids name Thursday. Saturday,
with debate still going, :: statement
was given out from the White House
which in effect was this notice to the
senate. "Confirm Warren or 1 will
offer him a recess "appointment the
moment you adjourn." Conceive, if
you can, the outraged dignity -of the
opposition senators and their fiery de
termination to protect the senate's 1
constitutional right to "advise and-con
tirin." Anyway, the senate, after an
exciting debate Monday, again- rejected
Warren, this time by a majority of
seven votes. Tuesday letters between
the President and Warren were made
public. The President reiterated his
regard and his promise of a recess
appointment. Warren expressed his
appreciation and declined a recess ap
pointment. Thereupon tha President
nominated Sargent* Few of the sen
ators had ever heard of him. The sen
ate continued the nomination without
debate ? without even a roll call?and
I adjourned Wednesday.
Attorney General Sargent is a close
friend of the- President. He lives a!
, Ludlow, Vt. lie is sixty-live years of
age. over six feet tall and weighs 2"i0
i pounds, lie is a Tufts college man.
1 lie was attorney general of Vermont
from litOS to Hit".
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TS THERE a curse that follows cer
A tain fortunes? Is the old saying
true that "Murder will out? Or can
murder be made safe? lhese ques
tions are raised by the sem?atioual
??McClintock case" in Chicago.
in 1STU a rich Englishman of title
died. His widow married William
llickling. She died at Ottawa. 111. Her
' hushantl and heir married Sarah fieus
; ler. llickling died. The widow mar
; pjed William McClintock and died. In
I i ? McClintock moved to Chicago and
j married Knmia Nelson of lopeka, K?m.
April 1003, William Nelson McClin
tock was born. In 100;>. William Mc
Clintock was killed by accident and !
William D. Shepherd and his wife j
went to live with the widow and her
; little son. In 1000 Mrs. McClintock
died suddenly. She left her son Hilly
i more than a million dollars, with the
Shepherds in almost complete control
; of boy and fortune.
November 2 5, 10:24, Hilly fell ill of
i typhoid fever. December 1, his fiancee,
Miss IsabWIe l'ope. took out a mar
' riage license, but Shepherd prevented
a marriage. December r> Hilly died,
leaving Shepherd his heir, with in
structions to provide for Miss l'ope.
December 1M Chief Justice Harrv 01
i son of the Chicago Municipal court,
i whose brother.. Dr. Oscar Olson, died
suddenly 'three years ago after a visit i
from the Shepherds, had Hilly s hodj j
disinterred for an autopsy. Shepherd '
cleared himself of suspicious. Judge j
Olson revived the case.
| Today Shepherd and "Dr." Charles
C. Faiman are under indictment, !
charged with the murder of Hilly Me- j
Clintock by inoculation with typhoid !
germs. Faiman has confessed that he
furnished the germs to Shepherd. lie
himself was to receive $100,000, The
indictment raises the possibility of
: Shepherd's being charged with the
; death of both Hilly's mother and Doc- !
i tor Olson. A complicated legal con- |
test for t lie million-dollar estate is
1 presumable, with Shepherd, seven ;
cousins of Hilly and Miss l'ope as
litigants.
Ml>. ERNST. I wish to know If f
there he any way under the ;
rules of the senate Whereby I can.
call a fellow member a willful, mali
! cious liar?
It was the senator from Kentucky ;
who said it; last Saturday during de
hate mi the 'investigation of the in
ternal revenue bureau by the commit- ,
tee of which Cotizens ot Michigan is i
chairman and Ernst is a member. In- !
cidentally Ernst had been defending
the action of the treasury in making
?an additional assessment of approxi- j
tnately Sll.lMlO.OUO against Couzens on
his UU0 income tax because of profits
on the sale of his Ford stock.
Ernest interrupted Glass of Virginia,
who went charging across, demanding
that the Kentucky senator "be
specific." Robinson of Arkansas, the j
Democratic leader, stepped into the.
breach. Ernst was made to take his
seat, and order was. finally restored, j
Later Ernst was given a chance to
withdraw his language and to say that j
he Was referring to Couzens. not Glass, i
It seems that Ernst had failed to hear j
Couzens accusing him of being a spy j
in t lie committee for the treasury, i
When he found out about it, he erupt
ed. Horali of Idaho took occasion to [
say, "It is a pathetic thing, a very ;
pitiable thing, that we have reached a j
point here in the senate of the United
States where we cannot discuss public
questions without indulging in person
alities."
AMERICA fought the Spanish
American war in 189S, signed the
! treaty of peace with Spain in 1809 and
evacuated Cuba in 1002. All this left
in doubt the status of the little Isle
of I'ines off the Cuban coast. In 1004 j
the State department made a treaty I
with Cuba, fixing the Island as a ;
Cuban possession. Every president j
since McKinley has approved that
treaty; secretaries of state like Root
nud Hughes have urged Its ratification.
I ast Friday the senate got around to
[ a vote on it :in<l ratified it. with only
1-1 opposing volt's.
Had tin* senate come to n vote at
any time during all those twenty years
of dilly-dallying, the result would pre
sumably have been the same. So slow
a performance of an net <>f good faith
lias been a grave reproach to the
United States. In all. probability the
senate's neglect to act has been a con
tributing factor in the lack of I.atin
American confidence in the justice and
jrood faith of the United States.
QT. 1'ATItICK'S day found Aineri
^ cans of Irish blood in the mood for
celebrating and the festivities were na
tion-wide. The shamrock was much
in evidence and the blackthorn con
spicuous by absence. President Wil
liam T. Cosgrave pointed out that the
day found the Irish Free State mistress
in her own bouse, with peace estab
lished from Matin Head to Cape Clear
and from Dublin to Galway. Her peo
ple. lie said, had begun to realize that
disagreement of Irishmen must be set
tled by methods of civilized and con
stitutional customs. The Irish nation
had never been more confident of the
future.
Evidently the lot of the star of
professional baseball is not en
tirely "hard work and no play." Any
way. the accompanying photograph
from the spring training grounds of the
New York Giants iit Sarasota, Fla., !
would seem to suggest something to
that effect. It shows six happily-niar- .j
ried Giants, and their wives who see
that the sulphur and molasses is taken
regularly. The photographer is evi
dently a married man, since "ladies
first" is bis motto.. From left to right [
the couples are: Mrs. and Mr. G rob. |
Mrs. and Mr. I'risch, Mrs. and Mr. j
Iivan, Mrs. and Mr. Meusel. Mrs. and j
Mr. Wilson and Mrs. and Mr. Crump.
The fan needs no introduction to the
first four "Misters" ; the last two are |
"rookies" who may some day aston- I
islv the baseball world and draw down j
even more money than Captain Friseln
TWKNTY-FO'l'K organizations have
held this week in Chicago, the "All
Out o' Doors Annual Nature Exhibit." |
Its jnirpose is to foster outdoor recre- i
ation. and to interest the public* in na
ture study and in the conservation of
plant and animal life. "Good Man
ners Out of Doors" was the subject of
general discussion at the annual
luncheon.
This exhibit is important. Many
varieties of wild (lowers are doomed to
extinction unless the American people
can be educated to mend their ways.
Outdoor recreation is being promoted
by many thousands of good Americans
who see in it the best antidote for the
manifold ills of a civilization too stren
uous and complex to be sane and safe.
And our out-of-doors manners are
Unbelievably and increasingly bad.
They are so bad. indeed, that unless
tin*' are greatly improved property
owners in many parts of the scenic
West are likely to establish Shotgun
quarantine and the camping automo
bile tourists will be herded into auto
camps under police regulation.
DEAD as a doornail is apparently
the "protocol of arbitration and
security" of the League of Nations.
Austen Chamberlain announced its re
jection by the Hritish government. Al.
Kriand defended it. Doctor Penes of
Czecho-Slovakia proposed that it be
referred to the next League assembly
in September. This was done. It is
the capital's belief that President
Coolidge will .call a second arms con
ference for next fall in Washington in
advance of the League assembly. It
seems to be the general opinion that
France will accept an invitation to at
tend. provided the problem of French
security has been solved-j-wliich is a
problem for European nations rather
than for the proposed arms conference.
DU. EDWARD PENES, foreign min
ister of Czeeho-Slovakin, Tuesday
proposed to Premier Herriot of France
the creation of a United Stutes of
Europe, divided into two eastern and
western groups.
Marquis Curzon of Keddleston, lord
president of the council, and Hritish
statesman, died Friday aged sixty-six
His first wife was Mary Victoria Lelter
of Chicago.
Jacob Gould Schurman, minister to
China, was named Tuesday by the
President to be ambassador to Ger
man;.
THE WEEK'S EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF 8TATE, NA>
TION AND THE WORLD
BRIEFLY TOLD
ROUND ABOUT T!IE WORLD
A Condensed Record Of Happenings
Of Inlereet From All Polnte
Of The World
Foreign ?
Prince Alexander Hohenlohe-O.ehrin
gen lias been discovered sleeping, rap- 1
fred and destitute, on a park bqncli in
Budapest.. A policeman discovered
the disreputable-looking tramp and
dragged him off to the police station.
There (he former German prince iden
tified himself.
The Cuban senate unanimously ac
cepted the amendments added to the
Hay-Quesada treaty by the United
States senate.
An attempt to murder a Soviet Rus
siau delegation returing to Moscow
from Tiflis has been frustrated, ac
cording to dispatches from Leniherg.
The Communists were aboard a train
which would have crashed through a
bridge damaged by explosives if the
plans of the assassins bad succeeded.
Foreign Minister Austen Chamber
lain of London, En-;., denied in the
house of commons the possibility of
American use of Rritjsh naval base at
Singapore, or that the question even
had been discussed.
Official and private radio advices
from Trujillo, the third important city
of Peru, say that the city has been
completely destroyed by inundations
caused by torrential rains.
A bulletin issued recejjly by the
physician of Marcus Curzon,' says the
patient is showing early signs of a
lung complication in I^ondon England.
The strike of metal workers has
been abandoned- Socialist of Rome,
Greece, voted to end the walkout fol
lowing a conference recently. The
reasons which caused the strike were
explained.
There was no loss of life in the fire
which swept northern Tokio between
Nippori station and Uyeno. the Tokio
terminus of the Northern railway, a
section which was partially destroyed
after the earthquake of 192.1.
| Marquis Curzon of Kedleston. Eng
land. lord president of the council, is
dead. His lordship had been ill for
about a week. Me suffered a nasal
hemorrhage and since that time had
been operated on. Reports from his
sick room have been increasingly un
favorable. The marquis had been bred
for public life and followed the ca
reer of politics and government with
great successes, having held almost ev
ery great office under the Rritish
crown except that of prime minister.
>
Washington ?
The senate elections commit lee. m
Washington, recently authorized both
sides of the Brookhnrt Steele sena
torial contest in Iowa to appoint su- I
pervisors to collect the ballots and
bring them to Washington for a re
count.
The condition of former Senator
Culberson ef Texas, who has been in
ill health for years, is causing con- !
siderable anxiety to his friends, due j
to his age. 70 years. His physicians j
fear be lias pneumonia.
Disturbances 1n Peru, due to dis
satisfaction over the award by Pres
ident Coolidge in the Tacna Arlca ar
bitration case, appear to be subsiding, j
at least so far as Lima, the capital, is
concerned.
John Garibaldi Sargent, in an hour
after he had arrived in Washington,
took the oath of office of field mar
shal of the law enforcement arm of
the federal government.
Secretary Jardine, of Washington,
directed the grain futures administra
tion to make an immediate investiga
tion of the recent violent fluctuations
in the market price of wheat.
Representative Frear, of Wisconsin,
one of the house Republican insur- 1
gents, in Washington, charged in a j
statement inserted recently in the i
Congressional Record that "punish
ment" of twelve house members for
"party irregularity" was brought
about because of the legislation pro
posed for the next congress.
Hearings on the Van Sweringen
plan to consolidate the Nickel Plate
railroad with the Chesapeake and
Ohio. Erie, Pere Marquette, and Hock
ing Valley will begin before the inter
state commerce commission in Wash
ington April 15. The consolidation
plan is the largest brought forward
since the transportation act opened
the way for big mergers. The nec
essary stock acquisitions already
have already been carried out.
Senator Norris, Republican, Nebras
ka, declared in the senate recently
in Washington, that an effort had been
made to influence his vote on Charles
C. Warren's nomination for attorney
general by propaganda emanating
from the "Republican machine" in
Nebraska.
Twenty-eight local land offices were
abolished in an executive ordef signed
recently, by President Coolidge in
Washington. The order is effective
April 30, and brings to 39 the number
of such offices discontinued in the
lost two months.
The concluding oral arguments in
the supreme court, in Washington,
on the constitutionality of the Oregon
law requiring children between 8 and
1G years of age. to attend state
schools brought further questions
from the justice recently, which indi
cated to an intensely interested au
dience that contentions in behalf of
the act wore meeting with little suc
cess.
Although the War-hinirton govern
ment maintained complete silence on
the recent demonstrations in Peru
against the arbitral award made by
President Coolidge, of Ihe Tacna-Ari
ca controversy, it was learned from
other sources that these anti-Ameri
can demonstrations were of wide
spread and serious nature, and that
Herman Velarde, tbe Peruvian am
bassador here, may withdraw from
Washington as a personal protest.
In connection with the formal open
ing of the first direct cable to Italy,
on March Ifi. President Carlton of the
Western Union Telegraph company,
received a cablegram informing him
that the king of Italy has conferred
upon him the cross of Grand Officer
of the Crown of Italy.
Domestic ?
The government won a victory in
its suit to break the Teapot Pome
lease of the Mammoth Oil company
in the Federal Courtroom. Cheyenne
Wvo., the other day when Federal
Judge T. make Kennedy overruled
the motion of the defense that cer
tain government evidence be thrown
out.
A readjustment of the financial
structure of the Chicago, Milwaukee
and St. Paul Railway company, prob
ably through a receiveship was divid
ed upon tbe other nfcht, in New York,
by the board of directors.
"Tbe, present generation isn't bad,
it's just different and so is every
thing else in the world." In this man
ner, Mrs. M. S. Bannister, of St Ix>nis,
defends the flapper ase. She bases
her statement on observations.
The New Hampshire house of repre
sentatives voted against ratification
of the federal child labor amend
ments, 327 to 37. The amendment
will not be referred to tbe senate.
The board of governors of the In
vestment Hunkers' association of
America, in New York, announced
that it had selected St. Petersburg,
Fla., for the 14th annual convention
of the association, to be held Decem
ber 2, 3. 4. and 5. Special trains will
be run from New York and Chicago.
Gerald Chapman, notorious mail ban
dit and alleged slayer of Policeman
James Shelly of New Britain, lost the
first skirmish of tbe battle fur his
life when Judge Newell Jennings, in
superior court, in Hartford. Conn., de
nied the other day a motion that
Chapman be tried in some county
other than Hartford.
Twenty-six cities and towns, in five
states report an estimated total loss of
life in the recent tornado as 891 dead
and 2,832 injured. Fire completed the
destruction of large sections of many
of these cities, it is said in Chicago.
Illinois.
A bitter attack on the Underwood
bill to lease the government proper
ties at Muscle Shoals was made re
cently in the senate, in Washington
by Senator McKellar, Democrat.
Tennessee.
A fire at Canal Point early the oth
er day, destroyed a general store and
an adjoining building in Okeechobee,
Fla.. with a loss estimated at $:jo,000.
Bucket brigades prevented a spread
of flames.
A new system in Florida for select
ing jurors,' which will stop some sher
iffs from "pickine; their own jurors.''
was urged by A. E. Lawrence, of Se
brtr.g, judge of Highland county.
A rapid reorganization of the ( hi
cago. Milwaukee and St. Paul railway
company, under the. receivership pro
ceedings, which were started simul
taneously in New 'tork and Chicago,
was forecast as a protective committee
for stock and bondholders laid pre
liminary plans for a financial read
justment.
Six men. a woman and a six-months- ,
old baby, surviving the wreck of the j
schooner Beatrice, bound from Hava
na to Nassau, have been rescued from j
Green Bay, Bahamas, by Harry Payne
Bingham's yacht Pawnee, according to
a wireless dispatch from the jacht re
ceived at Miami, Fla.
Tbe coast guard cutter Carabasset
is towing the distressed tug Leroy to
Hampton Roads, it is announced at
coast guard headquarters at Norfolk.
Ya. The cutter picked up tbe disabled
sliip and was headed for Norfolk
when last heard from, but was mak- j
iUg slow time, duo to a heavy fog.
Leopold Schepp, known as the "co- j
coanut king." recently distributed $22.- ^
flOO to the employes of his firm in ,
New York City, and then announced
that he had set aside $2,500,000 of his
Xorune to carry out philanthropic plans
for the betterment of humanity.
Kid McCoy, the former welterweight
champion, was found guilty at Los
Angeles, Calif., on chargos of assault
with a deadly weapon and assault with
intento kill. He was found not guilty
on four counts of robbery.
Charles C. Faiman, proprietor of a
school of bacteriology, admits, accord
ing to assistant state's attorneys, that
he had given typhoid germs to Wil
liam D. Shepherd, foster-father of Wil
liam Nelson McClintock, the Chicago
"millionaire orphan," whose death
from typhoid fever ia now a subject
for Investigation by the grand Jury.
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liver trouble and indigestion which I
had are Rone and I am enjoying
good health." ? Walter R. Martin.
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