The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 1, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER FORECASTS Fair tonight and Friday. much change in temperature. Not ESTABLISHED 1873 OQUTHEAST STORM DEATH LIST GROWS | DEAD AND MISSING EXCEED 100, {HANGES URGED IN FARM LOAN LAW OF STATE ‘Ustrial Commission, in Re- art, Suggests Issuance gf Bonds in Advance BONDS SHOW leera L te Industrial Commission §fTas Issued $18,509,000 of | Bonds, Report Shows Recommendation that the law un- {+ which the rurat credi f nt of the Bank of Ni (erates be amended f ters or the legislature to faci fe making of loans and to obtain better prices for bonds, is made by the: State Industrial Comn its .anntal report. ; Bnder the present real estate loan 44, the commission’s report says, ‘mds canbe issued only after loans te completed and assigned to the \ %e treasurer in lots of not less th $100,000, Ht has been found,” the repert. } ys, “that bonds cannot be sold ad- ntageously in small blocks, and secure good bids the sales uld ‘be for at least two million \ dars. This necessitates accam- ‘ #ting at least a million dollars in WteiRes before it is safe to hold sale, im order to make possible the very. of .$2,000,000 within a rea ible time after the sale, Our ‘rience shows that to do a loan, ‘ss of from $600,000 to $600,000 } ith, requires a revolving fund , wut $2,500,000 to keep the busi- | going. The only funds available | his purpose are those on deptsit » Bank of North Dakota and as » fluctuate suddenly and greatly, sare times of the year when it * mes almost impossible to main- | 1 the wJime of loans on account 1 he lack of funds. Last summer | oecame necessary to borrow about [eee ayarters of a million dollars in ( fér to continue making a fair vol- | € of farm loans, Unfortunately, amount of money in the Bunk of h Dakota is smallest during the mer when the farm loan business be most conveniently and safely Ned and when the volume of should be largest.” Need For Change hese conditions,” the report con- ‘have caused the Industrial ion to feel thet it might be , in order to promote the itinued and increased service of Rural Credit rtment, to end the 1 s to pro- e that farm loan bonds could be ‘ed and sold in convenient blocks <dvance of making the loans, as ow being done for the rural cred- departments of South Dakota and nesota. This would enable the ustrial ‘Commission to take ad- age of favorable market condi- .s in which to offex bonds for sale, ead of being forced to sell re- less of market conditions when ‘ge volume of loans accumulates. Joubt a more favorable interest . could be secured and the ele- it of speculation now present yld be largely eliminated, as the ‘est rate on the loans would not to be! fixed until we knew the interest rate on the bonds seld, matter should have the serious ideration of our people and be upon in conformity with their 2s either at the fall election or ae next session of the legisla- | Rondg Issued pong the outstanding points of rmation given in the commis- ’s report are: pnd issues for state enterprises $2,000,000 capital stock bonds e Bank of North Dakota; $3,000,- mill and elevator construction Bs: $1,000,040 mill and elevator ting bonds for wheat purchase; farm loan bonds issued by the trial Commission total $12,509,- the total umount of bonds issued Industrial Commission being 09,000. * the total amount of real estate ls issued, $2,500,000 were under mer administration. dation of the Bank of North was less in 1928 than in 1922, hly a small section of the state iced sufficient net crop returns Whe liquidation of old indebted- possible,” and the earning pow- the bank decreased, average farm loan made in Was $2,298.18, or $9.73 per acre. ‘operatjng loss of the farm lepartment in 1928 was $46,543.- ‘net logs of the Drake fiour on January 1, 1924, was $89,678.- > net operating loss of the 1 Forks mill on January 1, 1924; 578,425.47 and interest charges wreciation totalled $299,821.04. gme Building Association as 1923, shows losses of @ the loss will increase flement of house ac- Fork: & , of course, that stained in the during the first machinery and tasted, when il found te be were organiz- nly the force 6 3 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Lauanm noted sculptor whi shown Moses Dyka ident and M is masterpiece. g STATE PRAISED BY COULTER AT | CLUB MEETING ‘Agricultural College President Addresses District Meet- ing in Mandan SAYS CLIMATE A HELP Aims of the State Training; School Set Out By Super- intendent McClelland MED PRESIDENT Mrs. E. E, Simmons of New England was elected president of the Seventh district federation of women’s clubs in session at Mandan today The Seventh District of clubs held the opening s annual mecting of delegates | the various clubs of the distriet, yes- terday afternoon in the Presbyterian church of Mandan, “Bright spots in North Dakota's Future” was the, subject of a very able address by | Dr. John Lee Coulter, President of the North Dakota Agricultural Col- lege. In the course of his remarks he brought out the happy thought that we as citizens of ‘North Dakota are living sn a wonderful state, and] at the golden and opportune time. He made a strong point! of the fact that our geographical position was such as to lend the greatest climatic | impetus to the state's industrics, He} further stuted that it had been prov- en that our state did not lack mois- ture as had been supposed but that we were learning how to farm most successfully with present conditions. The Aim And Development of the State Training School” was discuss- ed by W. F. McClelland, Superinten- dent, who brought out many inter- esting features in the development of delinquent © children, also ster that were needed to be taken by c zens to keep the youth from becom- ing delinquent. A visit was made to the training school at the close of the afternoon’s session, at which time the students of the school ren- dered an excellent program Benefit Concert Last evening at 8 o'clock a ‘benefit concert was given at the Presbyter- Yan church. The concert was most ex- cellent but the size of the audience was rather disappointing tc those in charge of the affair. A number of Bismarck musicians appeared on the program, among them being, Mrs. V. J. LaRose, Mrs, Arthur Bauer, Mrs, Frank Barnes and Henry Halverson. This morning’s session was given over to reports of district officers and various committees and the con- ducting of a club institute by Mrs. Robert Wilson of Mandan. This was a new departure from the usual club annual meeting, and proved excep- tionally interesting and helpful to those interested in club work. The institute brought out points for the most successful conducting of a re- gular club meeting. Following this the rest of the mornings session was given over to balloting and ‘annual reports of various kinds, This afternoon promised to be one of the most interesting gf the entire meeting and a number of the Bis- marck Club women were in Mandan to attend the afternoon’s session and the banquet to be given at the Lewis and Clark hotel this evening. f Russia Enjoys U. S.-Jap Dispute Tokio, May 1.—A Far Eastern news y dispatch today from Moscow jians are jubilant over the Japanese-American “estrangement” believing it will compel’ Japan to jek a Yapprog:hment with Russia, HARDING BUST: FOR WHITE HOUSE leted busts of Pres- hing touches on 2 0 recently con putting the fin bust of the late President Harding, a work which Dykaar considers his Vote To Be In By Saturday Noon AN members @f the Ass of Commerce, who have d copies of the special rafrendum No. 4% are asked to have them in not jeter than Saturday noon. SORLIE FINDS - MILL MANAGER ‘SINCERE MAN’ League Candidate for Gover- nor Discusses Mill and Elevator Here ALSO The state mill and elevator at Grand Forks was discussed last nig at briefly by A. G ie, Nonpartisan ‘League candidate for Governor, be+ fore the Workers Political Ciub here. Other League candidates, here fer a meeting to plan the campaign, also spoke. Mr. Sorlie, in 1 said he would limit his observa this time to generalities, but would go deeper into the question later Mr. Sorlie told the audience that his adv had been sought at var- ious times by the management cf the mill and elevator at Grand Forks, and that he had congratulated U. E, Austin, general manager, last August “on keeping the losses down.” He also said he believed Austia was sin- core, He said that when the audit 1 July showed a deficit of about $365,- 000 he went to Mr, Austin and talk- ed about it. “I told him,” said have, done remark: The mill, Sorlie said, five months before it should have been, and most of the loss was caus- ed by this fact. He also said that inesses require years to suc- OTHERS SPE Sorl well. was opened “you ly. he added that he told Austin, “I congratulate you on keeping them dow! Was Trying He said that “I honestly believe Alistin up to that time was doing the best he could and that Austin up to the time the board of managers was created was trying tv do the best he could” He added that after the board was created Austin didn’t know who was manager, the board, industrial com- mission or himself, “until he bought some Canadian wheat and ther a member of the board appealed to the Governor who was in Minneapclis and he got orders from the Gover- nor not to buy Canadian wheat.” Regarding charges he said were spread on the minutes of the mill (Continued on page 4) RURAL ROUTE IS OPENED Fighty-Five Families to Re: ceive Mail Daily From Here A new rural route out of Bismarck opened today, which will put about 85 families in touch with the post- office each day, The new route, known as No, 2, is 31.7 miles along. The carrier will go out past Fort Lincoln, make a circuit south and east, and return past Applo Creek on the Red Trail. ‘All families recniving mail cn al prevails from the upper Mississippi™ P Hardy, rural ronte must have approved mail boxes. Not all families on the route have as yet done th's, and therefore will not receive maik from the rural carrier, Pending the result of ‘the examination held recently, Orville Kafer, substitute rural mail carrier, || is delivering the mail, BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1924 ~~. DEMOCRATS TO. PACE BATTLE ON TAX SCALE Present United Front Foy! Simmons Amendment to | | Senate Revenue Bill | eee | INCOME PROVISION | comes Marks Session of Washington, May 1. (By the Ai P.)—Dem ats today faced the ap- income tax rate with an almost unit ed front-as a result of a party con- ference st night which gave in- dorsement to the plan of Simmons, North Caroli ranking member of the finance committee, Meanwhile the Sen took up the contest hanging over from an all. day debate yesterday on the treasary Proposal to restrict the reductions on gross incomes in the new revenué bill in relation to the income of 4 taxpayer from tax-exempt securities after which Chairman Smoot of the finance committee wa: dy to press some of the few remaining committed amendments, Agreement of the Democrats— with the’ possible exception of fod:— to the Simmons schedule gave impe- tus to the efforts of Republican or- ganization leaders to work out 4 compromise on the income rates which would win a majority of the Republican insurgents, most of whom have declared against any reduction in the surtaxes and in favor of a 50 percent cut in the normal rates The Simmons plan calls for a re- duction in the present maximum sur- tax rates of 50 percent to 40 percent, as against a maximum of 26 percent suggested b: ecretary Mellon and approved by fingnce committee Re- publicans, It aléo would make a cut in the normal income rate, from 4 percent on incomes below $4,000 and 8 percent to 2 percent on incomes helow $4,000, 4 percent on incomes etween $4,000 and $8,000 and six rent above $8,000. ILEAGUERS IN CONTINUATION Plan to Make Second Con- gressional District Bat- tle - Ground Nonpartisan league candidates for the League state exec- e committee and other leading Nonpartisars continued their confer- ence here today on campaign mat- but had not, according to formulated any definite pro- gram yet. The arrival of Walter Maddock, candidate for lieutenant- governor, and the only candidate not present, was awaited. Assertion was made by F, A. Vo- gel of Coleharbor and other League! that the Second Congressional d trict would be made a battle ground, with the League making a drive to to put over John Sherman for Con- gress to add to the strength of the “progressive bloc” in Congress. Mr. Sherman was present for the confer- ence, ast night in a@ local meeting indicated the Leaguers would emphasize their ‘demand for full continuation and extension of the state industries. SLAYS WIFE Winnipeg, May 1,—Attacking his wife with an axe while she slept in bed Monday night and crushing in her skull without arousing other in- mates of the home, Philip Albricht, of Inglesbright, Sask., ended his own life shortly after by drjnking poi- son, it became Known here today. Some time ago Albricht suffered a stroke and is reported to have been in failing health ever since. o—— ——————————EEe l Weather Report For twenty-four hours ending at noon today. Temperature at 7 Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday Lowest last night . Precipitation Highest wind velocity . WEATHER FORECASTS For Bismarck and vicinity: Fair tonight and Friday. Not much change in temperature. For North Dakota: Fair tonight and Friday. Not much change in temperature. GENERAL WEATHER CONDITIONS . 38 . 36 0 14 { the Senate on Bill { } proaching fight over reduction of the! had been received Senator| ) MAJOR MARTIN, U.S. FLYER, IS SAID MISSING No Word Recei Started Out Yesterday ved Since He on Flight in Alaska RADIO. BEING — USED een | All-Day Debate on Gross In4j Hoped That Some News Might Re Picked Up From Him After Station Opens a, May 1 (By the A this morning no word at this station, in constant wireless with the whole com hvorth which is munication derick Lo} dio at cannery ng the Alaskan peninsula and the Isiands — westy from Chignik, whence Major slaw at 11:10 yesterday morning, were ox pected to open at 9 o'clock and it wus hoped that enews might then. sets stations come Cordova, Aludka, 2 1.—Major Frederick L, Martin, commanding the United States army aerial squadron encircling the globe, left Chignik, A , for Dutch Harbor, Unalaska 5 + yesterday, ording to a wireless dispatch received here. Major Martin left the last point on the North American continent after receiving favorable weather reports from the United States coast guard evtter Algonquin, stationed at Unga Strait, half way between Chignik and Tuten Harbor. It was imated that under pro- per climatie conditions Major Martin would make the 400 mile journey to Dutch Harbor, where he will rejoin his three companions, in a trifle over six hours steady flying, The next stop on the itinerary for ibe four planes will be Atka Island, ; miles southwest of Unalaska {sland. WOULD GRAVEL |, TRAIL STRETCH Jamestown, N, D., May 1A unan- imous recommendation by the James town Chamber of Commerce was sed at the special meeting Tues- night, urging the Board of Coun- “ommissio d the Jamestown City Council to complete the build- ing and gravelling of the Red Trail Jighway from the seven mile coulee, west in to the city of Jamestown. This strip of ‘road, when completed rive unbroken gravelled between Fargo and James- us the other ungravelled strip: ill be completed this year it was stated. = an JOINT EXHIBIT IS FAVORED Burleigh, Morton Counties Urged to Combine A joint exhibit by Burleigh and Morton counties, to be sent to county fair. in states to the south of here part of an immigration cam- paign, is favored by Commissioner of Immigration J. M. Devin Last year Morton county sent out an hibit itself. Mr. Devine believes that the counties could cooperate to mutual advantage. The Commi: ner of Immigration will meet the board of directors of the Association of Commerce tonight to urge the importance of local fair exhibits.’ In the absence of a state immigration fund, he is urging that counties, or cities, in various parts of the state send out exhibits to county fairs in Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois and other states to prove to farmers that North Dakota is a place which offers relief from inflated land valu ND. FIRST 10 _ FINISH DRIVE _ North Dakota is the first of the ten states in Central Division of the American Red Cross to complete payments on the Seventh Annual Roll Call. According to a report just teceived fro mthe Chicago Headquar- ters. this state is more than one hundred per cent perfect in this res pect It has turned in more mem- bership fees than it. reported as u vesult of last years campaign. The state also had the honor of The southern storm area has mov- ed northwestward to the St, Law- rence Valley and precipitation oc- curred from the middle Mississippi Valley northeastward. High pres sure, accompanied by fair weather! Valley westward and southwestward to the Pacific coast. Temperature: have risen in the Dakotas, Montana and over the Canadian Nortawest. Temperatures are above freezing and all, sections, ORRIS W, conducting a Roll Call last fall which set. the page for all the states in the total result: exceeding, any year sinte the war. North Dakota’s success is due Jargely to the leadership of Mr. J. Fargo, who directed the campaign. He continued his efforts until all chanters in the state had dulfilled their obligations towards tlle National Organization with the above spendid result. He has ac- orpted the directorship ef the Fighth Annual Roll Call and is’ already be- ginning work on organization. fany Freakish Escapes From Storm Recorded May 1 ing today from f tornadoes which the state in widely separ sections yesterday, res ing in 11 deaths and causing pre nerty re more (han 00,000, A number persons injured, two seriously Many freak occurrences were reported. A mule was blown in to a well; a farmer's st ak stove wood was blown all ove: his farm; a turkey’s head was cut off; and one man walk back home after being hurled a au mile through — the air, Birmingham, Alat aos struck ed ma COVE were ier of a BABY'S ESCAPE Florence, S.C, Avg May 1 Snatehing five months old baby and the mattress on which it lay the tornado which swept this county yesterday — whirled the child through the window and deposited it 100 yards away in an open field, The infant, still cuddled in its mattress, w unhurt. The home it left hastily was demolished. QUESTION OF TAX ON BANK STOCK RAISED Entire Question of 1919-1921 Taxes Is Before Court in Burke County VOTE OF NO EFFECT? a Officials Generally Regard jon on March 18 as Without Significance The entire question affecting the taxation of bank stock in the scate for the years 1919, 1920 and 1921 may be determined in a law suit which has been instituted in Burke county. The question was brought before the voters of the state to some extent in the March 18 presidential primary, in which a legislative enactment vali- dating compromises on bank stock taxes for those years failed of ap- proval, The Burke county suit was insti- tuted by Citizen: ite Bank of - ton, the bank attempting to enjoin offic of Burke county from col- lecting bank stock taxes for the years named, and asking that the taxes be cancelled. After all of the banks in the state had been held exempt from taxes on bank stock because of a legislative enactment, compromises were enter- ed into by boards of county commis- sioners in the state, and most of the bafks paid taxes. The legislative en- actment ratifying these compromises which failed of approval on March 18, is generally thought by officials here to be without great consequence, and the entire matter is likely to be determined in the Burke county suit, No Taxes Levied The special session of the legi ture of 1919, controlled by Nonpar- tisans, passed an act which exempted all corporate stock from property, taxation, he law, house bill 20, bears the names of Representat Hoare, Wadeson and Burkhart, In a law suit which followed the supreme court held it-could only decide that the Isgisloture meant wv i exempting bank stock It was following the decision that the banks were not taxable that the banks generally offered to pay taxes on the basis of class two property, that is on the same basis as most personal property such as stocks of goods, merchandise, etc, Mi the banks in the state paid taxes on this fifty percent valuation basis, A few banks declined to pay any taxes. Purpose of Act The purpose of chapter 300 of the 1923 session laws, it is generally un- derstood, was to make it possible to collect taxes from banks which re- fused to settle on this bas Section J two only of the act was submitted to a referendum vote. This section pro- vided: Boards of county commissions and the tax commissioner are here- by authorized to compromise and set- tle taxes assessed upon bank stock for the years 1919, 1920 and 1921, which have not already been com- promised, settled and paid upon the same basis of settlement upon which nearly all of the banks of the state have paid taxes for such years, The Settlement of the taxes upon bank stock for the years 1919, 1920 and 1921, heretofore made by the tax commissioner and carried into effect by boards of county commissioners is in all things hereby ratified and confirmed,” Because of the suit pending in Burke county, state officials decline to comment on the situation, but gen- erally hold the section above was of little effect. PRISONER IN ESCAPE Indianayblis, May 1.—Robert Lam- bert, a federal prisoner in the cus- tody of officers, who are taking for- mer’ Governor Warren T. McCray of Indiana to the Atlanta peniten escaped today near Rathburn, Tenn., according to dispatch to the Indian- apolis News. st all of | INJURED NUMBE Communities, with L Relief Work. DEATH TOL Atlanta, ( May 1.—-(By tional deaths from tornadoe ties in South Carolina, today sv series of storms that struck s Atlanta, Ga., May 1. known to be dead, more than 500 injured today to relieve regions stricke: tension storm in history. Tornadoes descended wit jcaused damage estimated at $ -(By ginia, Louisiana and Arkansa: fi to suffer being in the a originated Tuesday. arly toc facilities distributed the total | | Louisiana one; Arkansas one. With many points in the pa’ hourly. GAS HALTS RESCUE WORK Wheeling, W. Va,, May 1.—Poison gas in the Benwood-Mill mine of the Wheeling Stee! Corporation in which 110 men were trapped by an explosion Monday, has retarded the work of rescuers who today continu- ed their efforts to locate the 59 missing miners. Fifty-one bodies have been recovered. BOLSHEVISTS GATHER ROUND LENINE SHRINE Celebrate May Day in Moscow With Remarkable Dem- onstrations Moscow, May 1,~ Bolshe today departed from its of observing May Day tacular military parades its celebration to peaceful demon- strations at the tomb of Lenine. The authorities ng decided to allot two s to the ce ration, to- morrow will be given over to par-| ades of the communistic Boy Scouts | and children of the working classes, | who will take the oath of allegiance | to the revolutionary principles at} Lenine's shrine. Hundreds of thousands of men and their families and many government employes marched from} afi parts of the city today, bearing flaming banners and flags, and con verged upon the mausoleum in Red Square, formin ga spectacle hardly | less impressive than that at the fun eral of the premier. HEARINGIS NEAR FINISH Townley, Hastings Case Again Marked By Bitterness Fargo, May 1.—The preliminary, hearing of A. C. Townley and J. J. Hastings, who as former officials of the Nonpartisan League are charged with embezzling tore than $72,000 ef funds belonging to the Consumers | tnited Stores Company, is expected to be concluded this afternoon, { Today's session, similar in nature te al! others since the hearing be-| gan, was marked by unusual bitter-| ness between ~ opposing counsel. Charges and refutation, dwelling on! | personalities of the defendants and jeounsel for both parties to the dis- jPute, which at the last hearing in March resulted in a cloxcly prevanted | fistic enconnter, flew fast and thick; at today’s hearing, Judge W. S, Lauder of Wahpeton chief counsel for Townley and Hast- ings, was not present ai today’s hear- ing owing to business at Wahpeton and this absence was particularly as- cailed throughout the session by! Arthur Le Sueur, special prosecutor, TOKIO SILENT | ON PROPOSALS Tokio. May 1—(By the A. P.)—Of- ficial circles here were non-commit- tal concerning the proposal for a year’s postponement of the effective- ness of the American exclusion bill pending the making of a diplomatic agreement which the administration is expected to offer. Nothing in the way of suggestion on this point has heen received from Ambassador Hrn- ist Russia ual custom with speec- and confined wo aL, MOUN some perhaps fatally jrell Hill, 12 mile PRICE FIVE CENTS RSIN HUNDREDS, PROPERTY DAMAGE IN MILLIONS iseven States Feel Brunt of Tornadoes Which Wipe Out Many Particularly Heavy in South Carolina—American Red Cross and Other Agencies Rush S the A. P.)—Report of addi- in Richland and Sumpter coun- welled the life toll to 108 in the yutheastern states yesterday. the A. P.)—With 95 persons a score missing, approximately the southeast set about n yesterday by the worst high h devastating violence, and 10,000,000 in the seven states jot South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, Vir- s. The latter two were the rea in which the disturbance jay incomplete reports delayed by crippled wire ist of dead as follow South Carolina 66; Georgia 13; Alabama 11; North Carolina three; th of the storm yet completely isolated reports of additional casualties were anticipated Relief work is proceeding rapidl under the supervision of the Ameri. can Red Cross assisted by numer- ous local, fraternal and civie izations, municipal and county gov- ernments und individifils. Hundreds of the more fortunate survivors of the storm have thrown open their homes to the sufferers while in vir- tually every loculit) of the stricken districts tempotary kitchens have been set up to dispense food to the hungry. Desolation Everywhere A picture of desolution and wreck- age was swept in the wake of the path of the storm which traversed = path roughly estimated at more than 1,000 miles long. Its destructive for however, seemed partly te have been spent as it swept through Virginia last evening. deaths have occurred ther' as is known and but slight property dam- age was caused compared with other sections which it struck. Dead and injured and many of those unhurt were picked up by the wind and hurled through the air buae dreds of feet, Miles of telephone and telegraph lines were torn down, hundreds of dwellings and other buildings were ripped from their foundations, trees were uprooted and much livestock was killed, while bridges and roads were washed in many sections by torrential r which accompanied the storm, Women and children made up large part of the known dead. Communities Destroyed Entire communities were destroy- ed in sections and there was not a place in the storm’s path which escaped wholly unscratched, In South Carolina where the tor- nadoes were most disastrous, Hor from Columbia, was wrecked, 17 being killed and numerous others hurt. Among the dead were four school boys, who with other pupils were buried beneath the wreckage of the school house when, it was demolished. ht persons, five of them ¢hil- dren, were killed and more than a score injured when they were trap- ped in their houses at Anderson. Ne 50 residences were raised in the Riverside ‘Hill village fear here while numbers of dwellings in the city proper were demolished. Property damage in the hill villege area alone is placed at_ $1,500,000. 15 In One Town Dead At Florence, 15 persons met death, 50 were injured. and 30 houses were destroyed. Undetermined number of. negroes are reported missing. The village of Ficklen, Geor near Augusta, virtually was. wiped from the map when the storm struck there, killing the postmaster, injur- ing many and destroying nearly every village, At Khipley, near Columbus, nine persons, two of them white women, were killed, 30 injured and an un- determined property damage caused, Near Mason, a white woman, her In- fant child and a negro man were killed when the house in which they had taken refuge was demolished, Many other parts in Georgia were struck by the storm, including Law- renceville where several persons were injured, but available rdyorts chronicled no further loss of lif Freaks of the storm together with many miraculous escapes fram pos- sible death were reported from every part of the hurricane area. At Ope- lika, Alabama, a man was picked up. in the bed in which he lay, and hurl- ed far into the road, where he wa found still between the covers, un= harmed. so fa some LIST GROWS Columbia, S. C., May 1.—The list’ of dead and injured in the series of tornadoes that swept over South Car-. oling yesterday continued to grow as additional deaths’ slowly trickled in- to Cclumbia from the stricken rev gions today. Seventy-nine dead have been reported up to one | o'clock. ee During the year ended June 20; 1928, the rura} mail system was en+ ihara at Washington * larged by the addition of 304 new routes, Sits known