Evening Star Newspaper, March 20, 1925, Page 3

{ Phone Hyatts. 502 SOUTHERN ILINOS COUNTING THEDEAD Funeral Aspect Presented as Relief Work Among Tor- nado Victims Proceeds. By the Associated Press. MURPHYSBORO, TlL, March Southern lllinois presented a funereal aspect today With the vessatlon of first frenzied forts relieve the suffering, to nt the dead and to estimate dam- - yesterday that followed the most disastrous tornado recorded in this ion, organized relief work went rd quietly with system and dis h But death, injury and destructi remained; the aftermath of the terri- Ble twister that swept up from the Ozark footaills, touched southeastern Missouri, wore through the heart ot southern Illinois' rich coal fields. dotted with prosperous cities and towns and spent its fury in Indiana. forw pa Large Concerns Wiped Out. Among out in the this large concerns wiped section were the Reliance Milling €o., the Mobile & Ohlo Rail- road shops and the Borgs-Miller Wholesale House Breaking out a few the tornado nutes after ruck at 2:30 Wednesday afternoon, . fire completed the work hegun by - wind today only arred embers remained where “two 15s ago had stood quiet homes and pretentious dwelling places. » swath cut by the tornado plainly evident going from Murphys- boro to Hurst and Ziegler. Total of 152 Dead Recovered. With 152 bodies from the wreckage tornado recovered - today caused by the that struck hers yesterday, estimates place the number of dead at approximately 230. The same number lie seriously injured. The storm and night of fires which Jllowed have rendered 8,000, or out two-thirds of the population homeless. The force of the wind wrecked the city’s power plant, cutting off water i light. Approximately 100 blocks the city were demolished by the £torm and 70 more, including the best residential section, were swept by flames. Five students were killed when Murphysboro High School was azed and a number of others were tnjured. About 12 other students were Killed when four other public schogl buildings were wrecked. EN THAT CER- Ave xhiares of the capital stoc 1 Traction G Sashinzton, = Hallie H. Proctor, 4 ‘that apphication has been made to the said Company by sance of a duplicate certifieate in lieu of the one lost Person Maviue or coming into” poscssion of ertincate of atock is hereby war Tetars same Lo sald Haille B: Practor 0 *© HALLIE H. PRO TION FOR dates for licenses to practice medicine and surgery in the District of Columbia will be Leld in Washington. begioning April 14, 1025, Jor information address Secretary Boanl of Medical Superrisors, Apt. 104, Stoneleigh Court. Wi D. WANY T0 OR D, « POINTS, LIVERY b T FROM ISTON. 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Barber Chair Mystery. | By the Associated Press. | W FRANKFORT, I, March lany wind freaks were reported | n Wednesday’s tornado which struck | Pranklin and adjoining counties in| southern Illinois, leaving death and destruction in its wake. Murphysboro tax receipts of Wed-| nesday’s date were picked up at Fair- feld, 50 miles northeasi. A barber chair found in a fleld near here was a mystery, as no barber| shop was known to have been in the| stricken West Frankfort area. Pre-| sumably the chair had been transport- ed through the air from some other town. A frame bullding of the West Frankfort water plant was left stand- ing untouched, while large trees on all sides of it were snapped off or torn up by the roots. Hundreds ot automobiles here had their tops blown off, were hurled up- ! side down or Virtually demolished. Most of a tin-can dump was picked | up from one side of the West Frank- tort-Benton highway and transferred | to the other side. A gTOVe Of trees near here reminded | observers of the family wash day be- | cause of the articles of clothing stretched on the limbs. Tragedy In Vivid Pictare. Three silent lines of storm surviv-| ors, standing before the hospital and two morgues here, bore testimony to| the tragedy which yesterday brought | destruction and death to the north-| ern part of West Frankfort and| neighboring towns in the distriet. | Rescue workers, military author- Itfes, city oficials and throngs of curi- ous persons picked their way through the debris in the streets. With many dead still unidentified, officials expressed the belief that the | debris of homes still concealed bodies | of other victims. Late this afternoon | the sidewalks in front of the under- taking establishments were packed with relatives or friends waiting for admission to positiv identify some of the bodies. Children Designated “Unkmnown.” Wards at the hospital were crowded and scenes there were tragic as| anxious relatives were turned away by youthful guardsmen. In the ho: pital are five children designated simply “unknown. More than that number lle in the morgue. In the hospital at the city hall is a three-year-old boy, his arm broken and In a siing, who has not yet been claimed by any of the refugees from Wednesday’'s tornado. He was found on the outskirts of the devastated area this morning. Attendants are unable to under- stand the lad when he tries to tell them his name, but he is sure his par- ents will call for him. The Illinois State guardsmen on duty have thrown a cordon around the devastated area. Petty pilfering in the demolished residences had been discovered and guardsmen were or- dered to protect all such property, Owners were permitted to visit their homes through the issuance of passes, and many of them, using a motor truck or a passenger car, re- moved their undamaged household goods. A steady influx of doctors and nurses contlnued all day yesterday from towns and cities on all sides of the devastated area, including St. Louis and Chicago. ‘Water Supply Exhauste The limited water supply of the town was exhausted in extinguishing fires which sprang up in the ruins. Throughout the day water for hos- pital and relief usage was brought in rallroad tank cars from Herrin, 15 miles away. Residents obtained wa- ter for private use from scattered wells and cisterns. Rallroad crews worked all night and this morning clearing tracks, and by noon suyfficient repairing had been done to permit normal movement of trains. Frantic calls were sent out yester- day afternoon for blankets, cots and other supplies to house the storm victims. Requests for aid were sent to virtually all nearby towns, and supplles were ordered from wherever they might be available. A call for volunteer grave-diggers went forth from West Frankfort last night. West Frankfort is compara- tively quiet. Rellef for the injured and destitute now is well organized, and many of those whose hurts are less serfous have left the hospital, enabling the staff of physicians and nurses to better care for those in a serious condition, Anxlous relatives and friends gath- ered despite the warning of attend- ants that they could not be admitted to the crowded wards, in the hope that a chance might permit them to learn the condition of their loved ones. WOMAN TAKES OWN LIFE Mrs. M. S. Reynolds, Sick and De- | spondent, Swallows Poison. Sick and despondent, Mrs. Marion Susanne Reynolds, 42, wife of Joseph W. Reynolds, 1413 Morse street! northeast, vesteday morning wrote a note requesting that white flowers| be placed in her hands after deatn, swallowed poison and died soon after. Her six-year-old child, Joseph, ir., saw his mother fall and summoned a neighbor. Coroner Nevitt gave a cer- tificate of suicide. Relatives and friends of the dead woman reside in West Chester and Scranton, Pa. Funeral services will be conducted at the family residence at 2 o'clock to- morrow afternoon. e ‘HEINZ WILL REBUILD. Ketchup Plant at Princeton, Ind., ‘Was Destroyed. PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 20.—The ketchup manufacturing plant of the H. J. Hfinz Co. at Princeton, Ind, which was destroyed by the tornado Wednesday, will be rebullt imme- diately, it was announced here today. 15, A T ‘RED CROSS RELIEF DECLARED AMPLE Trained Workers at All Af- fected Points Said to Have Situation in Hand. Relief machinery of the American in behalf of the thousands of injured and homeless in the tornado-wrecked section of the Middle West, with na- tional headquarters here speeding every facility for its growing fore of relief workers in the’ field. T stood ready also to carry out its of: fer of aid for the suiferers from fire at Toklo and of flood Tujiilo. Peru. 3 A party of trained disaster relief workers, mobilized at Red Cross headquarters yesterday, were due to arrive in Princeton, Ind., today to aid in rehabilitating the homeless and give all other assistance possible They will join other workers in op- erating under the direction of Henry M. Baker, national director of disas- ter relief, who assumed immediate charge of operations yesterday, with James Louis Fieser, vice chairman in charge of domestic operations, at St. Louis, in supreme command of the Red Cross work Al giving attention primarily the situation in the southern Indiana area, where reports so fsr received at headquarters indi- cated the greatest damage was done. He also is keeping in touch with re- life operations, continuing at the scene of the Fairmont, W. Va., mine disaster. A telegram headquarters late yesterday Vice Chairman Fieser in St stated that William M. Baxter, Bake national from Louis in received at charge of the St. Louis office of the | Red Cross, had organized and equip- ped with tents, medical supplies and other necessities three special trains. | F. E. Burleson is in charge of con- tingents of nurses, who are leaving St. Louis on other trains with medical supplies for points within the disas- ter area reported to be in greatest need. Eugene Foster, Red Cross rep- resentative in charge of relief follow- ing the Sullivan, Ind, mine disaster, left there for the disaster area All messages received at headquar- ters from the disaster area unani- mously reported the situation well in hand. The injured are being taken care of by doctors and Red Cross nurses, canteens have been estab- lished to supply food, tents are being rapldly set up to accommodate homeless, clothing is being distrib- uted to the destitute and all other necessary measures have been taken. Governors of all the State affected were informed by Chairman Payne that the Red Cross was fully equip- ped to handle this situation. The fol- lowing telegrams were sent by Chair- man Payoe To Gov. “Extend sympathy Cross to cyclone disaster suffer- ers southern Illinois, You doubtless advised of active measures wiready taken under direction our St. Louis office. That office fully prep ared to handle situation.” To Gov. Austin Peay of Tennessee “Extend sympathy American Red Cross disaster sufferers in cyclone near Gallatin. Red Cross Chapter at Len Small of Illinois: American Red Gallatin, H. L. Brown, chairman, ren- | dering emergency relief. Red Cross furnishing ambulance and rushing injured to hospital 40 miles away. Clara Kummer, representing na- tional headquarters, leaving Nashville Thursday morning for Gallatin. Amer- ican Red Cross stands ready to ren- der relief and administer funds.” Memnage to Indi To Gov. Edward Jackson of Indi- ana: “Extend mpathy American Red Cross to cyclone disaster sufferers southern Indiana. Eugene Foster at scene of disaster now, administering emergency relief. Representative na- tional headquarters leaving today for area. American Red Cross stands ready to render relief and expend funds on same basis as Sullivan mine explosion.” From Gallatin, Tenn., where the cy- clone yesterday killed 30, the Red Cross Chapter telegraphed national headquarters that rellef operations were already under way and the chapter had the situation well in hand. Similar reports from numerous other chapters within the disaster area indicate that eyerywhere the Red Cross organization Is working smoothly to relieve suffering and pre- vent distress. PRESENT NAfl NALS BEST Team Surpasses Pennant Winners, Says Henry T. Rodier. Although not making a prediction as to the chances for another world series base ball game in this city, Henry Tate Rodier, who has just re- turned from a visit to the Griff's camp in Florida, declared ‘‘Washing- ton has the best ball club that it has ever had” in an address before the Monarch Club in the City Club yes- terday. Mr. Rodier told how the players amuse themselves while not practic- ing base ball and touched briefly upon “inside base ball” as piacticed by the big leaguers. Prof. Henry Gratan Doyle, president of the club, presided. A Germany Sends Condolences. BERLIN, March 20.—Dr. Walter Simons, acting president of the Ger- man republic, addressed a personal message today to President Coolidge expressing the sympathy of the Ger- man nation for the victims of Wed- nesday’s tornado in the United States. - There's no place so much like home for leftover vegetables as vegetable soup. NOUNCEMENTS. CHU R A DS, the | HE ilVEN;NG STAR, WASHINGTO The War Over the Air By Will Irwin. Chapter VI—*“Can Airplanes Sink Battleships?”’ Has the aerial bomb mastery over the battleship? To answer that ques- tion, the Navy anchored on the seas last |year a half-a-dozen battleships con- demned for junking by the Washington ! armamert treaty. om land bases as | much as a hundred miles away the | Army Air Force sallied” forth and | bombed t its sweét will. This should | Red Cross was in full ‘motion t0day |pove settled the question—and didn't | A 1ot of Government property which | cost hundreds of millfons of dollars to | build went to the bottom of the seas, |und still ‘the controversy fages. | Mainly for one pecullar reason. Those who should have been Judges of this porting event were partisans. Imagine a prize fight which, having no referee, is supposed to be decided after the final gong rings by a debate betwéen the seconds of the Battling Bomber and the Fighting Salor and you have a situation ~somewhat _paraliel. The general board of the Navy entered the test in a mood of religious faith that the battleship could thrash anything in he heavens above or on the sea be neuth or in the waters under the earth The Air Service flew forth with equa faith in the ability of a bombing aero platie to abate any nuisance whateves on the surface of the .water. And both several months later, held to the same opinions—and tried to prove them by the results of the tests. Let us in getting at what happened avoid far as possible figures and statistics and stick to general results Heavy Bombs Effective. The aeroplanes, making what seems like a falr percentage of hits, found that an 1.100-pound bomb would scarce- Iy sink’ & battleship. But'the 2,000- pound bomb, carrying nearly 1,000 pounds of high explésive, decidedly would. ‘The “pre-Jutland” types of ships, designed without the new pro- tection of blfsters and special’ water- tight compartments, succumbed to from one to three hombs dropped close along- side. Most spectacular of all was the demonstration against the old Germas battleship Ostfriesland. A bomb, per fectly placed, grazed her side, exploded at the proper distance below the water. 1t had the effect of a mine, which until now has been rated the deadliest dan- ger of the seas. It broke her back, sent her to the bottom in a few minutes These, however, were old-fashioned hulls. The Washington, an uncom- pleted ship condemned by the treaty, had the very latest kind of post-Jut- land blister construction. On her the Navy _experimented in a different manner. Calling off the fiyers, they er_loded alongside three TNT charges of a half tone—equivalent to the load of the largést aerial bomb. After these explosions the Washing- ton merely listed and leaked: she was shaken, but still in commission. The naval experts reported that stopping her leaks would have been only part of the day’s work for & crew in action. The planes came out again and dropped on her decks the cases of armor-piercing bombs loaded not with explosives but with sand. This test proved that an air bomb from a great height could penetrate her deck armor. Thereupon, “we need stronger deck protection,” announced the naval people, “not only against air bombs but against plunging gunfire. This can be installed not only on new ships, but on those we already have.” Controverny Over Result: Over the effect of the bombs on the hull of the Washington controversy rages hot and heavy. “The explosive | churges,” says in effect the report to the general board of the Navy, “were aced at the most effective distance rom the Hull. Two were in contact.” The men of the air, on what authority 1 do pot know, declare that none was placed nearer than 25 feet. “The most effective point,” they add, “would be tight up against the hull. The force of an underwater explosion decreases as the square of its distance. Close alongside, it would have had the et- fect of a big mine. At that—two or three more charges and she would have been all in.” The conservative faction of the Navy hits its adversary at another point. In sinking the old-type battle- ships, they say, the aviators were Stratford \ Apartments 2010 Kalorama Road il Exceptional apart- ments of three and five rooms and bath in new fivé-story building. Ele- vator. Oil-heated build- ing. Refrigerator ‘in cach apartment. Shower baths. Beautifully dec- orated. Best location in city. One block from car line. Large reductions in rent. Apartments as low as $62.50. Moore & Hill Ine, 730 17th.St. N.W. 'HURCH ANN( 5 B 11 NS g God’s Kingdom Has Come! When? Hear Judge Rutherford of New York City How? Bible Belasco Theater Seats Free Where? President of the International Students’ Association SUNDAY, 3 P.M., MARCH 22 Lecture to Be Broadcast by WCAP All Welcome .10 per cent of hits in target practice D. C, FRIT)AY.’. MARCH 20, 1925. shooting at anchored targets. A ship in action is speeding and dodging. She would be much harder to hit Again, the aviators were not harassed by anti-aircraft fire. Some of .the hits were made/from not more than 1,500 feet, at which height the aero- plane would have been under fire even of the mackine guns, “And you must allow much,” said one of the admirals to me, “for the uncertain aim of men in battle. A gun crew which makes cannot be counted on for per cent in actlon.” However, one result of the blood- less battle off the capes looks rather convineing to a civilian landsman. A 1,100-pound bomb struck the quarter- deck of the old Virginia and there exploded on contact. It did not dis- turb her gun emplacemen A pho- tograph snapped immediately after- ward shows even the great guns of the after turret poking their snouts through the wreckage, un- broken and unbent. Damange In Minimiz more than But it reduced everything above the turrets to tangled junk. It leveled ompletaly the skeleton masts and funnels. “Looks worse than it an admiral commented to me. “You could still have turned the tur- ts, our people found. She could have continued to navigate and to ight with all her guns.” But the landsman still wonders. Speed, he uas been told, is important in battle maneuver. How much would the loss )f her funnels have retarded her? What about the complex and delicate ransmits loads guns? Would not part of &uns at least have gone out of action pending repairs to this indispensible auxiliary? Sure they would!” say the airmen “She's be a cripple. And that was only an 1.100-pound bomb. What would our one-ton babies have done? And there you are again. The con- gressional committee proposed at one time that the Delaware, which is ord bury the Vi others. stricken o system of electrical apparatus which | day controls fire gnd|mobilit. marked for junking and has a mod- ern hull, should be sunk by air at- tack, with a committee of newspaps men and Congressmen acting as ref- erees. back stalrs of the squelched this proposal. same, and we should have had, be- sides, the views of some fairly neu- tral persons, who, while not experts, may at least be credited with com- mon sense. The Delaware, by the way, is about all we have left to ex- periment with. Part In Coast Defense. The best any one can say, perhaps, that the aerfal bomb has proved itself a formidabie new weapon against surface craft. Whether it is formidable than the submarine may depend on circumstances. It is doubt- ful if two fleets meeting on the high seas, even though armed, with air- plane carriers, would be able to d. much bombibg. But the submarine of the cruising type, with its radius of 6,000 miles, fights as effectively on the high seas as it does near land. While the warhead of the torpedo contains only 300 pounds of explosive to 1,060 in the glant airbomb, it ex- plodes at contact with the hull or does not explode at all. Get the at- tacking fleet within 200 or 300 miles of its enemy’'s coast and there is a different story. The planes are then based on land. They could come, dis- harge, return “NOTICE” Te All Home Buyers We Hare under coustruction a new Home development that undoubiedly fulfilis a long cherished wish of the buying public to get a respectable home in & refined neighborhood within 15 minutes of the center of the city. and where there is not the environment of a limited breatuing space, but where they are privileged at a normal outlay to lve and erjoy an atmosphere of real home conveniences These and many other advantages await the purchasers of these Homes. Watch for the anuouncement. The price will be under $8.000 and the terms oh basis and with_the ht of defesting the High Rent Problem. Wait for this epportunity. Chas. D. Sager Realtor and Builder 924 14th St. One - and If you've got so ‘much money that you can af- ford to buy without in- vestigating, this is no store for you! Our cus- tomers insist on value! Hard worsteds that “hold their press.” The Johnnie Walker fam- ily — Thrifty in price— " nifty and nice. Famous Middishade guar- anteed sunproof blue serge suits, $39.50. Downtown 9th & E At Washington's 42nd and Broadway ¢ battle operation of a modern ship. Some of the influences at the) investigation i enth installment of Will Irwin's series The experts on the aircraft controversy could have weighed results just the|morrow | | more | | FRED PELZMAN President RESCUERS SEARCH SOUTHERN INDIANA Expect to Determine Number of Dead in Four Towns by Tonight. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 20 Rescue workers continued today in their search of the ruins in the storm torn sections of Southern Indiana for bodies of victims reported to have perished in the tornado of Wednes- day evening which teok a toll of more than 100 lives in that part of the State. Already covered at Grifin, 0 to 125 person: 41 Dbodies have been re- Ind., where from are said to have heén killed, while at Princeton where 20 are known to have per- hed, all of the bodies have been re covered, as were the bodies of known victims at Owensville. Three were killed at Elizabeth and their bodies likewise were recovered Plans were being made today to tims of the disaster which brought injuries to more than 500 Clearing of the debris in the area was started yesterday The roads into Griffin ensville and Princeton were pas- sable. Curiosity seekers were b from the stricken zones and on bearing passes signed by the commanders were permitted fevery and today. turn, hour after hour, and, if need be after day. What with their they may yet become the arm in coast defen omitted gas from this cal- culation; it is less important in sea warfare than in ‘land operations. However, a gas bomb would not have to graze a ship in order to get its effect. Bursting anywhere close to windward it would envelope its tar- get with a. deathly cloud. You may mask or screen your men, ventilators and funnels, but still gas would han- dicap and embarrass a crew in those delicate operations necessary to the dominant 1 have “Our Westerh Defenses” the sev- follows to- (Copright. 1023, in’ United Star and Great Britain by North American paper Alliance. AlL rights resers _AT TIRE? 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