The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 21, 1925, Page 1

a | . house, fleeing to a*cowsh WEATHER FORECAST Partly overcast tonight Sunday; warmer tonight. and ESTABLISHED 1873 STORM TORN CITIES BURY DEAD HENRY LAYER, RIGHT, DIES Man Who Killed Members of Wolf Family Succumbs to Heart Attack b t SENTENCED FOR LIFE Slayer, Who Confesses Crime, Was Model Prisoner, Authorities Say Henry Layer, confessed slayer of Jacob Wolf, wife, five daughters and the Wolf family choreboy, Jacob Hofer, on the Wolf farm, three miles from Turtle Lake, on April 22, 1920, who was serving a life sentence for the murders, in the state peniten- tiary here, ‘died id the prison hos- pital at 3:10 this morning. Layer was operated on for appen- dicitis in, the St. Alexius hospital about ten days ago. He was taken to the prison hospital Wednesday. , Heart trouble developed and a blood clot formed. Heart trouble was giv- en as the cause of death, Although Layer confessed and pleaded guilty to the crime, he later repudiated the confession and said that he admitted the murders only atter being given the third degree. Chris Martineson, Bismarck chief ‘of police, ‘who is given credit for solving the crime, declared today that third degree methods were not used to get a confession from Layer. “The first lead came from Layer himself,” Chief Martineson said. “It was at the Wolf farm after the murders. Layer was roasting Wolf, declaring Wol dog killed one of his sheep. H actions were sus- picious the morning the bodies were found and at the funeral, We sus- peeted him from the first, and he was constantly under surveillance. We placed him under arrest after nore than a week of work on the case and after questioning him for|- » few hours he broke down and con- fessed the crime.” Chief Martineson was called in on the case by state and county offi- cers. The murders were the most cold blooded and fiendish in the history of North Dakota. Ill feeling had long existed between Wolf and Layer over injuries administered to one of Layer’s cows by Wolf's dog: The Wolf and Layer families were neighbors, and according to Layer’s confession, he went to Wolf’s farm sbout noon on the day of the mur- ders, and heated words, followed by Wolf's demand that Layer leave the place immediately, were the events leading up to the killing of the eight people. When Layer refused to leave the place Wolf went into the sitting room, got his double barreled shot “gun and loaded two shells into the breech. Layer grasped the gun and attempted to wrest it away from Wolf. ‘The struggle took place in the entrance to the kitchen during which the gun was discharged twice. Layer claimed in is confession that one of these shots killed Mrs. Wolf and the other the 13 year old choreboy. By this time Layer had succeeded in wresting the gun away from Wolf. The murderer darted into the sitting room, got a handful of shells from the bureau and hurried back to.the kitchen entrance. Wolf was running towards the barn and Layer fired, the shots striking Wolf in the back. Wolf fell to the ground and Layer ran up to him and placed the muzzle of the gun against the wounded man’s side and fired again, tearing a big .hole in Wolf’s body. Two of the’ smaller daughters, frightened at the fighting and seeing their mother and the boy fall dead in the kitchen, ran into an adjoin ing room and escaped from the ed. Arrest- ed by the screams: of the girls, Lay- er rushed into the barn, firing one hot which cut a furrow in one of the girl’s head. Layer jammed the gun \rgainst the head of the other girl, who was pleading and scream- ing for mercy, and pressed the izigger. The three little girls in the house }were screaming. Layer returned to the kitchen ‘and deliberately killed the children, two of them ‘with the shot gun and’ the other with a hat- chet. After seven members of the family and the choreboy had been killed, Layer went to the cowshed, cove: the two bodies of the girls with, ha: (Continued on page PLAN MAGAZINE FOR ENGINEERS Grand Forks, N. D., March 21.— A magazine for all engineers of the state is being planned at the state university under the name of “North Dakota Engineer,”. plans being drawn up by the General En- \eineering society of the institution Sanction for. the publication has been received from the board of student publications control but the matter is,yet to appear before the university administrative com: mittee. As proj , the maga- zine is to contain 28 to 36 pages, and will deal with topies of inter- est to engineering students as well as to practising engineers through- out the state. = __ THE BIS CK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1925 ALL BUSINESS FIRMS SHOULD * MURDERER OF} BE GIVEN FAIR PROPORTION OF PURCHASES MADE BY CITY Fditor’s note: This is another of a series O? articles touch- ing on elty affalr;. Methods of purchases have a direct bear Ing on hi.h taxes, These figures from the official records. ° Competition is not only the life of trade, but also the means of securing lower prices for the same kind and quality | of goods. Women recognize this fact and consequently are keen shoppers. Unlike men they do not buy at the first place they enter and at any old price charged. ficials might well follow their example in making those pur- chases which the Jaw does not compel them ‘to let out on sealed bids and after due advertising. These small pur- chases in the sum total or taken all together involve a tidy little sum. Informal bids should be asked where possible with a view of saving every penny possible in the making of these open market purchases. On the other hand, where quality and prices are uniform due to standard makes and standard prices, then the orders should be apportioned among the various business houses on some equitable basis. All business firms support the government through taxes and are entitled to a fair proportion of the city’s business. least, there should be no discrimination, no playing of fav- orites. This is the real objection we make to the present policy in vogue at the city hall. The fact that the law prohibits waived or disregarded in our criticism. Examination of the (Continued on page three) NEW EVIDENCE "\x'rexnor pow PRESENTED IN | ‘Rast HEaRine SHEPHERD CASE Faiman Says McClintock Heir Said He Would Draw Will to Suit Himself ing themselves for the last round in the battle of the Teapot Dome lease annulment suit, attorneys for both sides today began their closing arguments which they will deliver before Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy beginning Mon- day. Taking of evidence was com- pleted yesterday afternoon. WRECKED CITY 10 BEREBUILT ieagp, March 21.—(By the A. P.) estigony that William D. Shep- herd, under indictment charged with the murder by typhoid inocalation of his, foster son; William McClintock, orphan millionaire,” had said he would, have ,McClintock’s will drawn to suit himself, was given by C. ©. Faiman, indicted with Shepherd at a bail hearing today. ’ The exhumation of the body of Courageous Murphysboro Men Mrs. Nellie McClintock, mother of Plan for Future While 1+ Wm. Nelson McClintock, was consid- j ered today by attorneys for the state s a means of further investigation ports that her death was due to poison. That the body of Dr. Oscar Olson, brother of Chief Justice Harry Olson, of the municipal courts, would also be taken from its grave was indi- cated when attorneys were informed by physicians that the chances of developing traces of poison in a body after it had been buried for some time, was three in every ten cases, Chief Justice Otson initiated the investigation which led to the indict- ment of Shepherd on charges of ad- tering typhoid germs and other i to his millionaire ward. man said Shepherd had agreed to give him’ $100,000 when he com- pleted “a big deal” which the wit- ness said Shepherd told him he was working on, “He said this “big deal” was admitted by Shepherd fo relate to the McClintock estate, Faiman, President of the National University of Sciences, repeated to State’s Attorney Crowe much of the statement which caused his indict- ment, He admitted that he knew of no witnesses who had heard conver- sations he alleged he and Shepherd had had about typhoid germs and about the McClintock will. He said Shepherd had in one con- versation referred to young McClin- tock and Miss Isabelle Pope, his fiancee, intended to marry soon. That was in the fall of 1923, according to Faiman, who said Shepherd referring to McClintock’s approaching his ma- turity—he was, 21 years old a year ago—and that he said to Shepherd that such a marriage would “leave him out,” but that Shepherd said he would have McClintock draw a will. The witness then said, “The girl must be taken care of or“it would cause talk” and that Shepherd ‘aid, “Some of those typhoid germs could be used.” WIND FREAKS REPORTED IN GREAT TWISTER West Franwfort, Ill., March 21.— Many wind freaks were reported in Wednesday's tornado which struck Franklin and adjoining counties in southern Illinois, leaving death and destruction in its wake. Murphysboro’s tax receipts of Wednesday's date were picked up at Fairfield, 50 miles northeast. DAVID.COOK TO REPRESENT FRAT Grand Forks, N. D&k., March 21, —David Cook of Bismarck was elected recently to serve in the Men’s Conference, representing Beta Theta Pi, academic fraternity, at the University of North Dakota. ‘The Men’s Conference is part of the student self governing body at University. i . They Bury Dead Murphysboro, Ill., Mar. 21.—“Mur- physboro will rebuild.” of the tornado’s crushed towns’ heav- iest losers who ejected this defiance and courageous note into a citizens’ meeting held here yesterday. Hus- ky cheers from the throats of a hundred men gathered to make plans for a public funeral service Sunday in memory of Murphysboro's dead and to survey relief measures, were the echoes. Charles Ritter, a-business man, uttered it after Governor Small and a dozen relief work officials and committee chairmen painted horrors of the devastation. “It may take ‘years to get back to our old status, but Murphysboro will rebuild,” he said, Ritter is one of the town’s weal- thiest men. It was related that workers search- ing the debris of the Logan grade school uncovered a lad of 12, He seemed dazed when he first reached the light and air but recovered quick- ly. A photographer wanted to pic- ture him but the boy thought of his hunger and mother and dashed for home like a frightened hare. It was feared that a number of other students possibly still were buried in the Logan school debris. SNOW FLURRIES GREET SPRING Winter Makes Futile Attempt at Blizzard in Effort to Prolong Reign Fargo, N. D., Mar. 21.—Spring be- gan officially and in fact in Fargo and North Dakota today. Old man winter made a last grapple for the title. to this section last night with a futile attempt at a blizzard. The snow and wind were on deck but spring minimized the old man’s ef- forts to hold on by enforcing twen- ty above weather and the snow melted almost as it came down, Today the mercury reached near- ly up to 30 at noon and E, M. Hous- ton, Fargo man, came into town from the farm of James Quamme, who lives six miles “from Dwight, N. D., and told that Mr, Quamme was sowing wheat. This is believed to be the first sowing in these part: Other jnevitable signs of the ver. nal equinox were present. Several marble games were in progress, The first sand lot baseball game was played even though a little icy water covered the lot, Several robins have been observed ang other birda been noted since the warmer weath- er became effective. Eclipses as far back as 1207 B. C. are recorded in ancient docu- ments at Oxford University. Public of- | At! public officials selling directly or indirectly to the city is! Cheyenne, Wyo., March 21.—Prim- | ‘ i preparations for It was one; the | COOLIDGE SEES TROUBLE FROM | NEXT CONGRESS Group of Insurgents Will Hold Balance of Power in Both Houses | REGULARS IN DEFIANCE {Democrats Join Insurgency | in Blocking Plans of i Administration i \ isis BY CHARLES P. STEWART NEA Service Writer { Washington, March 21.—From Pre- | sident Coolidge’s standpoint, the 69th ‘Congress is going to be little, if any, improvement on the 68th. The Sen- ate’s defeat of his appointment of | Charles B, Warren as attorney gen- | feral proved it. | Just as in the 68th Congress, a | small group of “insurgents” will jhold the balance of power between Republicans and Democrats in the | 69th. | Thus they will be able to hold up | administration legislation, to pass a certain amount of anti-administra- | tion legislation, which will be vetoed jof course, but will be a nuisance nevertheless, and perhaps to keep a {batch of embarrassing investigations in progress all the time. This may not be true of the House, but it will be true of the Senate. The turning down of one of his cabinet \‘appointments is about the hardest |wallop it is possible to | president. The jwhich is capable of doing that is ‘eapable of anything. The Republican managers brought the situation on themselves, It was their idea that the last elec- able Senate majority. True, there La Ladd cans whom the Republicans couldn't count on, But even leaving them out of con- sideration, there still was a Republi- fean majority. This majority, to be And so it did. Follette, Brookhart, Frazier and erals, but not liberal enough to be- long in the “insurgent” class. In all things reasonable they were pre- pared to “play the Republican game.” What's more, it was understood that the Democrats weren't going to co-operate, in the 69th Congress, with the “insurgents” in Republican plans, And then, with everything In per- fectly Republican good shape, the managers persisted in reading La Follette, Brookhart, Frazier and Ladd out of the party. This tically all moderately liberal senti- ment on the “insurgent” side. As indicated by the vote on the Warren appointment, Borah, zens, Johnson, McMaster, Norbeck and Norris are definitely “off the res- ervation,” in addition to La Follette, Brookhart, Frazier and Ladd. La Follette was absent when the vote was taken. Brookhart, Frazier and Ladd &indoubtedly would have voted against confirmation anyway. So, probably, would Couzens. But it is most unlikely Borah, Johnson, McMaster, Norbeck and Norris would have done so but for the punishment inflicted on the La Follette group. Moreover, the Democrats promptly lent their aid to Republican “in- surgency.” With the single excep- tion of Overman they voted against confirmation, and even Overman went over to the anti-administration side before the fight ended, There were 16 absentees, too, and if they had been present, the ad: ministration’s defeat would hav: been heavier still. If the 16, 9—Dill, Edwards, Gerry, Glass, Jones of New Mexico, Kendrick, Smith, Stephens and Underwood—are Democrats, who almost certainly would have oppos- ed confirmation. Equally certain, so would La Fol- lette, and perhaps Howell of the mo- derately liberal Republican element. One grain of. satisfaction even the Republican “regulars” got out of Warren’s defeat—what happened to Charles G. Dawes, None of them liked the way he lectured the Senate, in his inaugural speech, on the importance of being “on the job” and expediting busi- ness. 3 The thought that, ce the day had to be lost, it was lost because the vice president was asleep, in- stead of being on hand to break the initial tie vote, is comfort to many an otherwise sorely tried “regular” Republican senatorial soul. GASOLINE PRICE CUTS ANNOUNCED New York, March 21.—A series of one cent a gallon gasoline price re- ductions, the first to be announced. this year, took place yesterday in certain sections of the east and south. The cuts followed the an- nouncement that gasoline stocks in February had increased 2,234,934 rrels and several successive gains ‘weekly crude oil production, blocking 6 London’s famous clock, “Big Ben,” has been heard ticking in Borneo, a distance of 10,000 mil Its ticks ‘were broadcast over the radio, instantly consolidated prac-! Cou-) Jand on a! lawmaking body! tion had given them a clear, depend-: were four senators—! ‘who were elected as Republi-' |sure, included several moderate lib-; HOME RENTERS HARD HIT BY HIGH TAX RATE An average house and lot worth between $5,- €00.00 and $7,000.00, in a desirable residential sec- tion, will rent at about from $45.00 to $60.00 per month. It is assessed for the purpose of taxation at 75 per cent of its cash va‘ue, according to law. In 1924 at the tax-rate then prevailing such a home would be taxed from $190.00 to $280.00 depending on its value for state, county, city and_ school purposes. But, that is not all, we must add public improve- ment taxes, which may include an assessment for sewers, paving and water works mains, etc. This will add between 50.00 to $100.00 to our bill and make the total amount $240.00 or $380.- 00, especially if it is to- cated on a corner lot. A year’s rent at $45.00 per month is $540.00 and at $60.00 per month $720.00. Now, compare this with the tax figures. It would be quite conser- vative to say that a tenant pays at least four month’s rent to cover the tax and im- provement bill, and the landlord gets the rest to cover his other expenses and interest on his in- vestment. Now, if it is unprofit- able to build new homes as an investment, that is, for renting purposes, then homes which are for rent become scarce. Here is where you come in Mr. Tenant. A_ scarcity of homes forces un rents because renters will bid against each other for a desirable house, and so force the rent price up, and there is where you pay more than you ought to for the high cost of government. Economical city government keeps down rents and helps house-building. REMEMBER THAT ON APRIL 7th! MR. RENTER. STATE W. 6.7. U TO MEET HERE Annual Convention Will Be Held in Bismarck on Sept. 24-27 Fargo, March 1.--ihe North Da- kota Woman’s Christian Temserance Union will hold its annual /conven- tion in Bismarck, Sept. 24 to 27 was decidea by the executive com- mittee of the organization at the closing session of 1 two-day meet- ing in Fargo yesterday. Judge A. G. Burr of Rugby was the principal speaker at ar at the First Methodist ch the auspices of the com NEW MOVEMENT OPENS TO MAKE BRITAIN DRY London, March 21—A‘ new move- ment to make Gre: ritain dry is reported by the Daily Express. secret conference of 1:7 delegates representing 37 prohi temperance organizations was a few days ago at Hoddesdon Raper: says, resulting in a deri. to bury all differences and present a solid front to the enemy. Straight prohibition is not the first aim of the movements, but local op- tion, and committees have begun drafting a parliamentary bill toward this end. CLOTHING MEN’ OF CITY FORM ORGANIZATION The clothing merchants of the city met last evening at the Association of Commerce and formally organized as a group of the newly formed Mer- chants Division of the Association of Commerce. Ray M. Bergeson was elected group chairman, and Alex Rosen, vice chairman. The chairman will call another meeting of the group to develop a. program of acti- vities’ for the spring and summer months, held a MEN CAUGHT IN COAL MINE Hopes of Saving 22 of Imprisoned Miners et Believe Workers May Have Barricaded Themselves Away From Gas Fairmont, W. Va., March 21- cue work at the wrecked shaft Mine No. 41 of Bethlehem Corporation at Barretsville, 'speeded up today in the hope that lof the 38 mine’s workmen imprison- jed by an explosion last Tuesday night might still be alive. bodies had been found o'clock. ‘ six by for the Mines Corporation, upon emerging from the shaft at three o'clock said that he had penetrated one of its arms for a distance of 400 feet and had found the force of t had not reached that is believed that 22 of the im- ‘prisoned miners are in that arm and since all are seasoned mine workers he said that they might have es- caped the blast and barricaded themselves against gas and other dangers which followed. However, William Riggleman, veteran inspector for the West Vir- ginia Department of Mines entered the shaft after Berry’s unnounce- ment and penetrated it, he said, for 2,000 fect. He expressed doubt up- on emerging that any of the im- prisoned’ men sti SORLIE HOME FROM TRIP TO ~ TWIN CITIES lias Friendly Feeling For North Dakota in Minnesota; Visits Boyhood Home a Governor A, G. Sorlie returned to “his office in the State House yester- day after a week's absence, during which he was in Grand Forks and ;the Twin Cities on business in con- nection with the state elevator, and in his boyhood home in Albert Lee, Minn. The Governor said yesterday that he will have some appointments to announce within the near future. The next major appointments to be made are two members of the highway commission. The terms of 0. A. Brown of Dickinson and J. R. Pou- pore of Grand Forks expire on April 16. Appointments to the fish and game commission are also to be made. The terms of E. T. Judd and George Dickinson expire on April 1. The appointment of a fire marshall is to be made soon, that Henry L. Reade, the present fire marshal, will be succeeded by E, J, Pepke of Minot, who was Non- partisan League manager during the campaign. A number of minor appointments are to be made, The governor must name a new state board of accoupt- ants’ examiners, under the act pa ed by the last session of the legisla- ture, within 30 days after the act became effective. It. became effec- tive just after the legislature ad- journed. ' The Governor delivered an address friendly feeling for North Dakota in : | Minnesota. The Governor delivered an addres at a meeting of the Albert Lee Busi- ness Men’s club. He declared that there is a splendid spirit of cooper- ation among the business and pro- fessional men of Albert Lee and through working together they are pushing the city ahead. FORD TO BUILD - | Rescue Squads Rush Work in’ i BODIES RECOVERED William Berry, a rescue foreman’ It is reported ;train.” -|shoulder and saw my little boy in! FEARS FASCISM | i I } 1 | | i | Lord Ernest Hamilton, noted Br ish writer, author and critic, claims | that unless the British government | takes immediate steps, the Fascisti | representatives in England will have | ned sufficient power to-insure aj , Fuscisti-controlled England. | INJURED TELL OF HORRORS IN GREATTORNADO. | Stories Reveal Suffering of Victims and Miraculous Escapes from Death i { { | | Benton, Il., March 21.—Chats with injured people. brought to Benton from the Parrish storm area, re-} veals stories of horrors and pathos, some of them telling of miraculous escapes from the storm’s wrath and bearing out all but unbelievable \facts, The family of Everett Parke, re- siding a half mile from Parrish, is authority for one of these stories. Mrs. Parks is receiving treatment ! in the Chri n Church relief hos- pital here and on the cot with her is her six months old baby, Imogene. | The mother has a slight’ fracture in, her skull and the baby’s face is cut} and bruised. Little Margaret, 5 years old, and her brother, aged four, are at the home of Benton peo- ple where they are being looked after and their minor injuries treated. The father yesterday after- noon was able to leave the relief station. Little Margaret earnestly tells of the things she saw. “The sky was dark and the wii commenced blowing, oh, so hard she said. “We were scared and be- fore we knew it we were blown away and our house was ruined. When I woke up my mother was holding me tight in her arms and we were way out in the fields. A great big plank was on me and my dress was gone. A nail or something had torn my underwear. Daddy picked us up| and we went to Parrish and then they brought us over here on the i The little girl’s father said that’ he and his family were carried al quarter of a mile from their home. “I did not remember anything after the storm struck until I found my- self holding a fence post a quarter | of a mile from the house,” he said. “I happened to glance over my the air only a few feet above the| ground and coming directly toward me. I reached and was barely able to grasp him by the leg. I pulled him down to me, and held him un-| til the storm had passed. Then Ij picked up my two other babies and led my wife to Parrish, a half mile away. We were picked up at Par- rish and brought to Benton.” Mary Melvin, seventeen, is on a cot near Mrs. Parks. Her mother and five brothers and sisters were with her in the home near Parrish} when the storm struck. When asked what the family did to.escape the! storm, Miss Melvin said: “We didn’t do anything. We had no idea it was as bad as it turned PLANE MOTORS; MOORING MASTS Detroit Free Press yesterday quotes Edsel Ford, pe! oratories come to a Ford al head. world, ‘to be constructed at $75,000, for the mooring of the Shen- ‘andosh and Los Angeles or any other} of them miraculous, were related to- craft of similar or even greater size. TO BAN PLUMBER JOKES Evansville, March 21.—The Nation- al Trade Extention Bureau of the Plumbing and Heating Industries thinks it is time to stop making joke plumbers, 4 Detroit, Mich., March 21.—The De-|up and carried away and we were president of the Ford/from where our Motor company, as saying that his|came to myself and got up but. I company will go into the production | don’t remember anything from then of airplane motors as soon as ex-| on until I seemed to wake up sitting ents now in progress at its lab-/ on the porch at a neighbor's home.” is quoted as‘saying | lar bone and. several injuries \of a that construction will, be started at} minor nature. once at the Ford air plant of the} vin, was away largest dirigible mooring mast in the | on}: cost of | cape injury, plumbers “the butt of super-anhuated| yardm: It is. spending $250,000 a} was leaving the building the rush of year “to create better public rela-| wind picked me up as if I were a tions and higher prestige for the| feather, twidted me around, and out to be. When the wind started to blow so hard we tried to hold the windows arid doors to keep them from being blown down. While we were at this the house was lifted dropped several hundred feet away house stood. I Miss Melvin suffered a broken ‘col- Her father, Jim Mel- from home and t ly member of the family to es- Numero narrow escapes, many |ring from a woman’s 2,916 maimed. 201 with the finding of 11 addition- al bodies, while belated reports from tions. jestimates were ) checks were made. No radical change was anticipated as checked lists of an appeal for all sightseers to remain away from the storm area, stating that every available building already was packed to capacity in caring for the injured and homeless. was wiped out, plans were made to bury 80 dead in one grave. village of 600, fewer than 200 per- sons were left uninjured. Most of the casualties were among children who perished when the schoolhouse was destroyed by wind and fire. . were held in adjacent towns, as near- ly all of the towns 260 inhabitants were killed or injured and the hand- ful of survivors moved’ to homes of neighbors outside the tornado dis- trict, elemental blow in Illinois, 12 funer- als were held yesterday. casualties may never be known, as complete records Many of the victims were moved to other towns. known to be in St. Louis alone, the wilderness that is Murphysboro, where 1,000° residences once stood, continued, said to be in a Medicine, clothing and food was ar- riving by the carload for its 4,000 homeless. DeSoto, and Griffin in Indiana were outlook is that no effort will be made FINAL EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS DEATH LIST OF TORNADO CUT TO 809 Nearly 3,000 Badly Injured in Twister That Swept Central West OFFICER KILLS LOOTER Business at Standstill Rescue Workers Bring Order to Area as Chicago, March 21.—(By the A. P.) —The storm swept territory of the Ohio Valley today continued the tra- gic task of burying its dead, while relief workers completed the work of bringing order out of chaos and plans for rehabilitation were ad- vanced. Funerals of some of the victims of Wednesday's storm were held yester- day but most of the burials were ar- ranged for today and Sunday with memorial services to be held later. In towns where the loss of life was heaviest, community funerals were planned, with burial in one long grave. Reports from the destroyed dia- trict said that relief work was well organized and today a flood of ma- terial aid -continued to pour in for sufferers in the greatest tornado in American's history which snuffed out more than 800 lives, injured 3,000, and left entire communities homeless. While some cases of pneumonia were reported in Southern Illinois, there was little other illness to add to the storm horrors and no threat of an epidemic of tetanus. Seven hundred units of anti-te- tanus’ serum, sent by airplane from Indianapolis, were available for emer- gency use. A few isolated cases of looting came to life, but generally there was no disorder, At West Frankfort a man caught taking a finger was slain by a police officer. Business generally was at a stand- still but with the work of clearing debris from demolished districts rapidly advancing, commercial activi- ties in:some communities were ex- pected to be resumed next week. The main street of Murphysboro was cleared yesterday. Rechecks of casualty lists today indicated that the death count was slightly more than 800. Additions to the list in some towns and subtraction of du- plications left the figure at 809 dead, The toll at Murphysboro rose to rural districts made further addi- But in other places original reduced as final identified dead contained 750 names, The Red Cross at St. Louis issued At DeSoto, Ill, which virtually In this Funerals of Parrish, Ill. victims At Gorham, which first felt the The total were not kept. Twenty-two dead were In search for additional bodies was Of 700 injured, 300 were serious condition Two towns in Illinois, Parrish and virtually annihilated. The present to rebuild the /Illinois towns but Senator Sneed refuses to give up De- Bete. “My father is buried there,” e Griffin, where 54 persons are known to have perished and several have been reported as missing, will be rebuilt, it, was announced today. It was first indicated the town would not be rebuilt. -One old man, although not a house was left stand- ing, announced he would return and build. “I don’t want to die anywhere else,” he said. VERDICT FOR BANK day by survivors. Several were hurled through the air for yards and yet lived to tell their experiences. “I saw the tornado coming and warned three others in the office to get out,” Otto Bagley, C. B. & Q. id. “Just I drop- (Continued on page taree) A jury in the case of L. R, Baird, receiver for the Baldwin State Bank, against Con G. Johnson for payment of a note alleged due the bank re- turned a verdict for the plaintiff at 8 p. m. yesterday in District Court. The verdict was for $1,629.76, the full amount of the note. =x Moti voleano has. been’