The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 21, 1925, Page 3

SATURDAY, MARCH THE SEATTLE STAR PAGE 3 Floods, Plague Threaten Storm-Swept Area! ° Shortage of Clothes Is Causing Much Suffering! Relief Work Progressing Rapidly All Devastated Section: in BY UNITED PRESS The 1 r problem in the Illinois and Indiana areas dev- astated by a cyclonic fury Wednesday, is now to properly feed and clothe the homeless and ward off any threats of pestilence, Relief work was progressing satisfactorily in all centers, ording to United Press advices today, hortage of clothing and some lack of food supplies, mingled with f of disease, in southern Illinois as the third day of relief and rehabilitation of the devastated area began. In Indiana some alarm was felt that the Wabash river, approaching flood stage, might overflow its banks and increase the havoc already wrought, at Griffin and nearby points An outbreak of influenza as a result of exposure, was also feared. In Princeton and other portions of the tor- nado-swept “pocket” of southwest Indiana, where the men- ace of floods did not threaten further destruction, the work of rehabilitation was proceeding with rapid strides. Cold, predicted for tonight, will cause much suffering. Additional Red Cross workers ing the stricken district hourly. The national guard troops remained on duty and will be kept.at their posts until Mon- day to keep in check the crowds of curious that are ex- pected Sunday. United Press compilations of the known dead rose to 781 tods the total thus far in all six states affected by the storm. VANSVILLE, Ind., ey 21.—The menace of flood today added to the horrors of KNOWN LIST OF storm-ridden southern In-| DEAD IS 781 diana. The treacherous Wabash | river, which empties into the! |Rescuers Speed Work to Ohio near here, was rising} rapidly and threatened to, Aid Suffering Victims overflow. Persons familiar! LOUIS, Mo., March 21 with the river said a slight Ss 2 is beginning to rise out of the rise from its present stage and volunteers were reach-* Order SAVE $50, 000/70 sprak IN SCHOOLS New Teaching Deieait Cause Fewer Failures Increased schools efficiency in during tho past year has effected a saving of $50,000 in oper ating according to a report submitted by Supt. T. R, Cole to the achool bo costs, | The saving» was effected by de cerasing thé number of achool fail ures by 600 during the year, com pared with the 1924 report, Cc Altho the attendance r an increas 3, yhown © of 2,000 students, the record of failures shows a decrease of 600, It costs the taxpayer $100 per year to send a child thru the je schools, Cole pointed out. ‘This nitans that becasue $50,000 of greater offi clency the tax payers. "We have cut down failures by # of tests which has enabled v children in their proper grades and to advance them as they are fit was saved series individual mea reason fc rec that toache given a 20-minute longer da have been accepting mid must take the ser again, ( sined, dropped fr failure to pase, he WOMAN STRUCK DOWN BY CAR |Five Others Are Hurt \ Traffic Accidents ne exp! schools for are m the in A woman was perhaps fatally Jinjured and five other sons were hurt in a series of aut crashes on city streets here Friday would empty its water over! Mo made of “Little Egypt" by Mrs. Gertrude Mitch 710 “ $y, Poh ty de aes radney. |B Roy et. has a destitute Griffin and the land; the ‘eath-dealing winds Wednes-| Oo ie it was lies to the east. ar Mason hospital, as a resu estilence in the wake of |. 7" morning 781 are known to/ knocked down by an auto i EROS . be dead thruout the district hit by| Roy st. and Broadway high Water was an added dan-} ing storm, and approximately 400 | companion, Mrs ger, Red Cross workers point-) «tit are missing |atruck by the ed out. | From thruout the entire wind-| treated at the hospital Extreme caution was taken plein ities eeasidires Annapolis, Mo., | severe body rahe wit apse: Mei es meat 8% epidem.-| @24 into Indiana-there is acute river of the car, was booke: ie prevent spread of epidem-| ivttering. but rescue work ls get He lives at ard a | ting under way Relief workers were confi-| One of the big probléms confront | A. Rohichard, 16, who lives at dent they would be able to}! the workers in the district is tims in southern Indiana if} sexs are ‘children whose parents only the river kept within its banks. great number of missing. | the Central Y. M. C. | A., was bruised }when he was struck down by an auto driven by J. EB. Pitts, 6542 ve. N. E, In the Rayenna were either killed or are among the | @ 12, of 1418 W ae Psst The most of the homeless have) ¢ Johnson, 10, Little clothing. | were riding on a You can eny an automobile, too. At Daquoin, Benton, Carbondale, | when struck by a na Look in today’s Want Ad columna.| Herrin an several of the other been dri by Patrotman You will be surprised at the many | southern Illinois cities which es TigKS, W. 64th at. The bargains that are offered. ecaped the storm's terror, the chil- urred at W. 60th st 1 }dren are helng cared for in prt N. W. The boys were vate homes temporarily In Southeastern Missouri homeless are living In boxcars and . in “lean-toa* made of standing a) walls and boards taken from the ys debris. The rescue workers are ning to make progress now Nines two days and two nights of con- [stant work among the injured and |thru the charred remains of the| | villages in the storm's path skin a business West Frankfort and De Soto, two} asset) lof the town’s hardest hit, are get- ting straightened out Practically Get rid of those blotches and black- heads! That skin trouble may be more | than a source of suffering and em- barrassment—it may be holding you out of a better job ok which a appearance is requir: Why “take a chance” when Resinol Olotment heals skin eruptions so easily. nothing is left in the village. Most of the homeless are being cared for elther in Duquoin or Ben. ton. Murphysboro, where rose to its greatest fury, Jem still f# difficult. jand 100 persons are still missing, the storm tite adescs tabthleg sedue coed |With 191 bodies accounted for. od men who like their gener. | Over night Murphysboro presented ous, cleansing and a tragic scene. Scattered thruout the (eagrancs. Atel | storm-stricken half of the city could “Restnol wins by improving shina” | be seen little groups ‘huddled about |camp fires or in front of salvaged | cook stoves. The groups were shivering in the | chill night wind. There were many youngsters gathered In front of these fires. Practically all of the surviv. ors were bandaged. 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[ra Clip and present your coupon 104 te sath” nt,’ Kansas City, Mo, toda: ” ” the | the prob- | Between 75| dictionaries of | | rctesa Emil automobile atal led on the car tracks at Hott ave. and Harrison at Martin, who lives at 315 W. Harrison st., in in the city hospital with a cut head. = CAN'T FIND BOY Aitho - divers. have searched Lake Union canal from one end to the other, they have been unable to find the body of Wallace Hokan json, 2-year-old baby, who wandered off from his home, 3014 Third ave W.. and disappeared February 12. His mother, Mrs. A. R. Hokan his aunt, Mra, F. J. Becker, Martin's street fon, and friends have searched the vicin- ity for days without finding a trace Jot the lost child. | “The suspense of not’ knowing what has become of her boy causes jthe mother great anxiety,” Mra. Becker said Friday. and killed the child on the high- way and then hid the body. She is to know that her baby in proper- ly buried and not left out in the open, exposed to the vagaries the merciless clements. “I wish you'd ask anyone who knows anything to call us up at GA rfid-6164 and relieve a mother's anxiety.” Police to Raise | $1,000 for Relief Seattle police mercy fund of $1.0 jvictims of the Middle Went a meeting of police officials Friday, decision to the fund to be are to raise a ) for the storm raise Louls was reached Each patrolman is to $1 and officers are to give $5. fund must forwarded at commander of director of contribute The be once, Hedges, and Capt. E. L. night patrol sald. the }fund raising, | atte \{ HERE'S MORE ABOUT GAMBLING STARTS ON PAGE 1 to me,” the mayor sald. The work of banning the ma chines was to be thoroly under way Saturday afternoon, * “No slot machine can operate in this city unless {t returns gum or mints or something for the money that’s put in the slot,’ the mayo: |naid. “And they can't run in drug stores, or places where women and | |children go, or near schools. Revelations of the mayor's boy- “have always been running uncon. trolled," | of! home when |forwarded to the Red Cross at St. | head of the list my men turned in | atti | | the | when “She believes | that some autolst may have struck | doesn’t care who It tm, all she wants! CAT CHURCH Prisoner Is Sentenced for ITYWENTY to 60 labor on a plea of gut handed Frida Johw Callahan by Pr J. G. Ronald, whe admitted his part in the § | Marche hold-up of Edward } recently con years at hard y was after eniding fant summer k and J. M. Dool fore Judge were ner and appeal nae am on the en arke Fa earn It's out up the town thing of searing a ‘operty of ting and taking anc « to allow » make his mations, Iam going to sentence John Callahan pr said Judge Ror rred to were ‘ © Counne Re Simpson, D, D.,| Menr ded wit! pastor of the United Churches | ® cipal speaker at the anni-| tan ge ying famous writer of h ymns, at Callahar ae Air PROMISES NOT TO the First Presbyterian’ Colvin's statement to RUN FOR MAYOR church Swiday eventna wax one of the robbers who fired a| put Clifford smasher ba revolver over the heads of th shop | tions He has ne owed , rowd at the Union st. entrance! ty xupport, 1 uldn't be to the m Marche, the afternoon of ¢ 2 othe Hold Funeral of he robbery, He was ¢ 1 My cata thstihal “ots Sedro-Woolley three wee Ko b ’ , _Robert Almquist| deputy sheritt Witlam Sears and)” act si 4 tO Re Fur for Robert Alm: ee city, detectives. hits him aulat j ue ina i The ambi an 1 while y jcome thel ¢ « boxing erti st : «= No General Appeal {07 fio iid oats Sisco Pp 1 it peed for Funds on Coast)". a ac covery Tuesday nigh he goes} lodge > general appeal In being made | along with the city hall's two other umbia ¢ for funds to aid the storm-stricken | prizefight fans, Sheriff Starwich terme Mid-Western states by the Red|and Mayor Brown, and every Wed-|" Croms in the Pacific Coast states, | nesday morning the chair rmers ived by jing to a gram r wy Frank Waterhouse, chairman of the widow Seattle chapter, from the San Fran?| claco branch offict Friday. Volun tary contributions, however, will be diy received, the wire stated The telegram continued, ‘James I Fieser chairman of the St Louis brane office, Henry M Bak natic t Red Cross relief ir and Frank 1 Burleson % wanistant director of the St, Louis Methodist Pastor raat nti ererea no full Red relief jon is nd Given New Charge’ Rov, George W. Beck any after Stinday’s services, to} ha leadership of a prom! BANK EXAMINER vTy ureh mati, Rev DAVENPORT, March 21.—C. E came four years | Jenks, Davenport, has t appoint Ravenna | ed deputy state bank examiner. He ne wan! is assintant cashier of the Lincoln rahip, ¢ State bank Doctor Here Pictures Scenes in ’93 Cyclone WO huge, black clouds moving} was found sitting on the edge of a ywards each other well curb, up to Its waist in water like a cans and the cye entirely stripped of clothing, but struck, leaving as the result of its! paddling happily in the water with- few es’ work a trail of 60) out a mark on her body to indicate dead and many injured. her unusual attempt at aviation. That is,the way Dr. Emma Wing| “The twisted stumps of trees in the path of the cyclone were plerced almost completely thru by fragile pleces of timothy hay, driven by the he storm SCTATOR SAW Thompeon, the onteopathic University day physician in district, described eycione in Pome where sho had charge wpital The recent disaster | * Middle West brought the| FLYING CHIPS AFIRE | s back to her mind as clear-| “IN no Instance did a child lone ly as when she first experienced| both parents, and of those who them, sho said fled to cellars or caves, altho many were hurt, none was killed. Out “The rain poured down in torrents! the cyclone. struck." Dr,| 0 8¢v8n churches in tho community Tw houipeuat alld track was only | ODIY, one remained standing. One : : ” | spectator sald that when the cyclone one-eighth of a mile wide, but it a 4 i | made a trail of wreckage thru the|*ruck he saw what appeared to b chips of fire Mying thru the air. center of the town which mado it “ O ‘But the best part of it all was appear completely ruined. | BABY BLOWN THREE the the injured In the hos- ] mS At. —— | pital remained cheerful, no matter | BLOCKS AND LIVED | how severe thelr injuries were. Tho “Some peculiar things happened | need for physicians and trained | jin the cyclone. A woman with a/nurses was urgent. I happened to At! | | she standing In the door of her! be visiting In Iowa, my real home the storm struck, wan| being in Buffalo, N, ¥., where I was whirled around and around until|in charge of a training school for lost consctousness, Sho was| nurses. Of course I, along with found some distance away, badly in- others, was immediately pressed into jured. Three blocks awny, the baby | service.” baby, Part in Bon Marche Robbery Smashes Tradition; | Has Never Been Investigated BY LELAND HANNUM Gomez luckleas persons are bor wreat and spend the reat of thelr lives trying to live it dow them. But Clifford Hagmoe e ed fame this week by r ou a full year's service at City } without once getting h ame s picture in print Cute” in 18 and the mens ment from r Bro up, as you choose -to gr ir He's the only administr f in all elty offices are regaled wit) accurate accounts of every ble kK by 16 mitt wie ng’s Dill record of evad. ting publicity is hereby declared bro ken. Robber Ransacks Charity Society Seattle's =r anest thief was work again FYiday night, this looting the office of the Goodwill In. dustries, 1 a chari table orga in fur ninhing food and clothes to the ug employe When the superintendent, A. Ver jelde, entered the office Friday night he nd a burglar at work, The thug dashed across the room and ped out of an open window. Ver cide chased him but fafled to capture jh ne man took $15 cash, of papers, some clothing, a pistol be. longing to a Filipino boy, ransacked all the desks. Paulhamus Confined | in Swedish Hospital| hamus, president of the | W. H. Paw! Puyallup Fs ation, is r from a severe illness which h kept him confined to tho Swe hospital for more than two weeks, was announced Saturday He has been attended by attle specialists and @ special nurse Paulhamus, who resides on a ranch near Puyallup, one of the show places of the valley return to his home within doctors say. cover r assoc two Se Doctor Narcotic a bundle and also be: | New Booze Charges will be able to} a week, | Addict Sentenced Dr. R. M. of Montana, months in | day | addict. 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