Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • 1

WEATHER Cloudy Colder VOL 87 NO 2 03 jMwtt fee A INAL EDITION "i 1 DETROIT MICHIGAN TUESDAY APRIL 18 19g2 TWENTY TWO PAGES PRICE: 1 THREE CENTS 3 BODY OUND KILLED TWO SONS BELIE I I I ft ft ft Rim GIVES UP CLUE TO BOYS TO BE DRAGGED SWEEPSIHDIANA BALLOTS A VOR AT REED BUYING SYSTEM ft PRESIDENT CHAS McKENNT LATEST WIRE LASHES GETS 45 DAYS JAIL OR DRIVINGDRUNK 30 German Stirs Turmoil At Genoa ive Groups of Girls To Enter Pentathlon HEATS 3 STORMS Pleasant normal A i has on irm formal diplomatie pro test cnn he made to Germany BLIND MAN ATTEMPTS TO END LIE SAVED BY WIE $150 SILVER IS OUND NEAR ROBBED DWELLING I TO SCATTER PRISONERS TO STRONGER BASTILES HVIIn WITH "I ASTI Call West BOO and Investlgat ihe lasting qualities of Restrlck Certi fied Adv offenses wag or Governor Alex recent escape of the house of cor rd yesterday at Genoa which la regnrdcd In some quarter Moslem league the separatist the last Moslem been arrested at a charge of sedl pelled from the conference Third sanction iny be taken by the allied powers to prevent and tn concluding eecretdy a trcnty covering the very point the conference was colled to dis cuss The decision the Allies will tali In the circumstances has been postponed until to morrow There are aevernl crnl Teuton Muscovite alliance embracing 200000000 people threatens to disrupt the con ference The Allied delegates this afternoon condemned In be Impossible to make any Involving women Inmates there are a number at the correction The state has Institution for women A PIONEER MILLER DIER Minneapolis April Wil liam Crocker 78 years old pioneer miller and secretary of the Washburn Crosby company died today He had been ill since last fall WOMAN KILLED IN AUTO CRASH now shaping themselves admirably and Contlnnrd mt Page Three Column Eight CONVICTS HERE TO SAE JAILS NEARLY EVERY STREAM IN STATE IS LOODED BELltVES ARES WILL PAY DEBT Joseph Pluher blind and crippled by paralysis attempted to end his life in his home 3680 Roosevelt avenue late Monday night by turn ing on gas in the kitchen HIS wife discovered him and turned the gas before ft had any serious effect He was taken to Receiving hospital His condition Is not serious SCORES REPORT EXPELLING CO EDS ROM NORMAL 21DIE100HDRT fflffl TORNADO A black bag containing silver ware stolen from the homo of Mrs Sarah Miller 7818 East Warren avenue was found by police' Monday In a vacant lot near the Miller home Mrs home was rob bed carlys Monday morning by a thug who forced a rear window The silverware was his only loot It is valued at (150 It will transfer of whom house of nenal project for the establishment of such a reformatory at Okemos has beert under consideration for years and a start has been made In the ac quisition and preparation of a site Some weeks ago Governor Groes beck told Detroit club women In a public meeting that he favored com pletion of thia institution as quickly as possible and It is regarded likely a start will be made as soon as the necessary fundi are available Mrs Barbara Besse and her two sons Raebume aged 7 years at the left and Lieudonnie aged 6 years at the right (Oopyrtsbt IMS by Chicago Tribune) Paris April (By the Asso ciated The legal commis sion ot the Genoa economic con ference says a Havas agency dis patch Monday night will meet Tuesday to determine how the Russo German treaty signed Sun day affect the treaty of Versailles Afterward the dispatch Says the 11 delegates representing the allies and the little entente will meet and decide what measures to take Louis Barthou head of th rench a fine It was his second Testimony was that at avenue and Rtopelle street into a police automobile by Patrolmin Carl risk delegation announced Monday evening that henceforth he would not alt beatde the Russian delegates In semi official meetings says a Havas dispatch from Genoa Barthhu added that he considered himself bound to ask the Taris gov ernment for further instructions Three motorists were given dras tic ssntencesby Harry Keldan In night court Monday for driving while intoxicated William Wlxson 10816 Mack ave nue was given 45 days In th house ot correction without the alterna tive of offense Gratiot he ran drivAn After the collision ho speeded away disregarding the commands of traf fic men Ho finally vas overtaken at Broadway and East Grand River avenue Thirty days In the workhouse was the sentence imposed on Michael Kluack 8346 Clcotte ave nue I1 ack was arrested at Por ter stroat and Hubbard avenue after colliding with another automobile in which were two children He was given the alternative of a (75 fine but declined It Milton Burns 5624 Trumbull avenue arrested at Brooklyn ave nue and Leverette street was sen tenced to SO days or $100 Mother of Detroiter Victim of Accident Near rankenmuth rom 100 to 150 Male Inmates Will Be Affected Women Are Not to Be Moved Transfer rs soon as possible from the Detroit House of Correc tion to state penal Institutions of all long term state prisoners con vi ted or serious dered Monday by Groesbeck The seven Inmates ot rectlou and the revelation that the city Institution In its present con dition does not provide security against escapes hastened the ac tion by the state Governor Groes beck intimated pointedly "Long term men should not be confined In an1 Institution where the wail ran qe pushed out and where the keepara ar dependent upon the morale of the Inmates to prevent th executive commented in referring to the recent statement of Superintendent Stutsman explaining the difficulty of main taining proper sofeguards about the over crowded institution MOSIEM CHIE ARRESTED Simla British India April 17 Hazrat Mohanl president ot tne Aii innia who headed movement In congress Pawn pore flpn PLANE New York April 17 lying at an average speed of 130 miles an hour through three storms a seaplane carrying 1 600 pounds today came from Palm Beach la to New York a distance of 1210 miles In hours and 56 minutes Allied Chiefs Roused Genoa April (By the Associ ated Tress) The Reuter corres pondent here sends the following dispatch to London on the Russo German treaty "The five heads ot the Allied dele gations met at Mr acia's villa Monday evening Signor Schanzer like Mr Lloyd George expressed his astonishment to the Gorman official who handed him the text of the treaty just before the meeting Everybody Is furious but the Allies will take no definite action until they have the night to think the matter over It Is not thought the incident will result in breaking up the conference "Mr' Lloyd George heard of the treaty quite accidentally while on his way to the conference at Signor He sent word by the Ger man secretary who brought a copy of the treaty that he took a vry grave view of the action and was unable to understand why they thus had gone behind the backs of the powers "It Is stated in British circles in Genoa that the possibility of a Rus so German agreement had long been foreseen One of the reasons for pressing forward a general under standing was the desire to prevent a division of Europe Into two camps It la considered that Ger many's action places her in a worse position toward toe Allies So tar as Russia Is concerned the situa tion at Genoa remains unaffected" A treaty between Germany and Continued on Tags Three Colamn Reven 'ormer President Denies He Ever Lauded Senator on Reserve Stand Mother Seriously Ill 1 At'her home the mother was re ported seriously ill from nervousshock She talked continually of that children she had last seen when her husband left with them In the early evening to "take them for a walk" Heft thoughts appeared to be on that "walk" which police had traced to the river front at the foot of Orleans street where Infant footprints were found on a sand pile Besse's body had been Identified before Mrs Besse was called to make the Identification positive A key ring had been found on the body by Coroner Burgess Deputy Coroner Charles Earl took the keys to the Besse homo at 1522 East Jefferson avenue He found that one of the keys fitted the front door another fitted Mrs private rooms and a third the door to a garage at the rear of the home While Earl was at the home Mrs Besse arrived at the coroner's office Dr rench showed her a small pile of belongings found on the body She slipped a plain gold ring on her finger and said It was her wedding ring She Identified a theatrical advertisement bearing the words "Say it with liquor" that had been found In the dead man's clothes She looked at a heap of bedraggled clothes and said they ware her hus band's Her only comment was "He Is better dead" It was only when Continued nn Page Three Column ive Second Motorist Chooses Days Instead of $75 the pier ham room Has alwaye Insisted upon proper dancing Old style party Adv YPS1 CHARGES BRANDED St Louis April Woodrow Wilson former president in a let ter tonight denied a statement printed recently In the Globe Dem ocrat that ha had thanked Senator James A Reed Democratic candi date for nomination and re election for service which the senator rendered him in perfecting and passing the federal reserve bill" The statement was 'issued by Lee Meriwether attorney and supporter of Reed here Accompanying Mr Wilson's letter the Globe Democrat prints another from Senator Reed In which a pur ported copy of the letter 'from Wil son to Reed Is given The letters from the former president and sen ator follow: Wilson's letter The former letter to the editor of the Globe Democrat under the date of April 15 1922 dated at Washington says In part: "I note in your Issue of April 12 that one Lee Meriwether is quoted as saying that he had seen a letter from me to Senator Reed 'warmly thanking him for the great service the senator rendered In perfecting and passing the federal reserve I havemo recollection of ever having written any Buch letter "Statements such as1 the oqj quoted from Mr Meriwether ap pear to be intended to create the Impression that Mr Reed and I have held same principles and ad vocated the same policies and that he Is entitled to and may pa as sumed to have my endorsement as a candidate for re election to the senate "This Is far from being the case To those have closely observed Mr Reed's career In Washington he has shown himself of sustained allegiance to any person or any cause He has repeatedly forfeited any claim to my confi dence that he may ever have been supposed to' have and I shall never Willingly consent to any further association 'with ft Reed Give Out Letter A letter and statement given to a Washington representative of the Globe Democrat by Senator Reed Is printed as follows: did have a difference with the president entirely good naturedly over the ederal Reserve Bank bill The kernel of that controversy was that the president Insisted that the bill which had originated In and been passed by the house should be reported out of the senate com mittee and passed speedily without being given opportunity for hear ings I insisted that hearings should be granted and they were granted As a result of the hear ings the bill was amended hundreds ot times "It was after these hearings and with reference to them that the president wrote me the following letter I hand you a facsimile of the Senator Reed here produced a printed circular ending with a pho tographic copy of the letter which read: "The White House Washington October 23 1913 "My Dear Senator: "I hesitate to ask you to break in upon what must be one of the busiest weeks you have had by re questing you to come to the White House In order that I may say what is perfectly Impossible for mo to say In a letter I want to thank you very warmly ahd sincerely for your statement made through a New York newspaper I have fell ad along the sincere honesty and In dependence of Judgment you were exercising In this whole matter and you may be sure that there has never been In my mind any criticism except an occasional dif ference of judgment: "I think that things are The faculty of the school Monday night made a thorough Investiga tion Tresldent McKenny said oi the charge and records In the 17 cases and unanimously Indorsed the action of Dean Priddy President McKenny returned Mon day from Chicago where he hae been 'for keveral weeks attending the Hllteracy'Congrees meetings as a representative of Michigan He said he did not know of the charges until hl return "I was astounded at what 1 found" President McKenny declar ed "and Immediately started an In vestigation 1 found no girls had sent home other than those whose departure I 'personally had authorized The charges are abso lutely false" I Welcome Investigation President McKenny said he would welcome any proper investigation "The records are open 7 for any Continued on Psge Three" Column ive STATE TO SHIT THREE DISAPPEARED EVENING MARCH 3 Mrs Mary Donaldson 60 year vi old 147 West Milwaukee avenue at Detroit was killed Instantly an automobile in which ah wax ft riding skidded and overturned in a ditch near rankenmuth Mich Monday night Edward Morrison of lint driver ot the car was Injured Internally and at midnight still was uncon scious In a Baglnaw hospital Mrs Bruin of Detroit Kate and June 1 Morrison other occupants ot the ear escaped Injury i The party was returning from the funeral of Mrs Donaldson's A brother in law at Bay City rank enmuth officers are Investigating th smash and an Inquest will be held 1 at rankenmuth Tuesday morning Mrs Donaldson was ihe mnthec of Detective Sergeant Charles Don aldson of the Detroit police forces Ha was called from Detroit to lint where Mrs Donaldson's body wag taken tf sf 3 DEAD IX SHAMII'P St Louis April Three firemen were killed and a street car motorman was seriously in jured while three occupants of an automobile narrowly escaped death In a triple smashup to night when a fire truck street car and the automobile crashed The fire truck hit the automo bile and swept ft into the path of a street car MICHIGAN DENS STATED A DEY PRIMARY GROUP ACTIVE "The house of correction was not intended as a pentltentlary" Gov ernor Groeebeck declared "but as something between the county Jail and the state reformatory and prisons Its purpose Is to establish proper restraints about offenders whose crimes are Just a step be yond misdemeanors In practice the more hardened offenders have been sent there" Governor Groesbeck has Instruct ed red Janette state commissioner ot pardons and paroles to compile a complete list of all state pris oners) now held in the house ot cor rection Orders tor the desired transfers will ba Issued Immediately upon Its completion It is expected from 100 to 150 men inmates will be affected Some ot these will be sent to Ionia' reformatory where the new dormitories and cell blocks opened last week have greatly increased the capacity It Is expected 1200 inmate can now ba taken care ot there compared with a present re formatory population slightly less than (00 1 Some ot the more hardened in mates will be sent to Marquette branch prison state officials Indi cate New cell hioi kj have recently been completed at the upper penin sula Institution to take care ot the swelling population Co Incident with the decision to transrer long term state prisoners from the house of correction a com munication will be sent to circuit judges of the state asking them to refrain from sentencing new of fenders of this classification to the Detroit Institution This letter likely will be sent forward this week With the completion of the re building of Ionia reformatory and the new cell blocks at Marquette state officials have contemplated a ehlltlng of prison populations and a reorganization to make the penal Institution more nearly fulfill the purposes tor which they were In tended In this connection lunla reformatory will house principally young offenders whose eventual restoration as useful members or society is hoped for Last week's escapes from Detroit house of cor rection and the poor condition that Institution was shown to be In con vinced authorities that the tran fers should be siarteu at once from Detroit The house of correction Is sup plemental to rather than a part of the state's penal institutions The state exercises no supervision or control over Its Inmates except In the matter of pardons Payment is made by the state to the city for the cost Involved under an arrange ment of long standing There are now about oiO state prisoners held in Detroit many ot tnenr for short terms and others for long sentences Governor Groesbeck's order will not affect those properly classified as house of correctlA: inmates the pentathlon by Jlay 5 rom this list entrance cards grouping contestants will be issued No girl will be allowed to participate In the pentathlon unless she pre sents one of these entrance cards Ihey will be issued Slay 13 is Test or Individuals pentathlon Is considered an Individual lest for girls of unusual athletic skill but It plays an im portant part in training girls who undoubtedly will qualify for rep resentative field day teams for tfiose games It also give the school coaches and captains a fine importunity to choose stronger teams for ield day when 8 006 boys and girls are to vie for medals and prizes awarded by The ree Press It addition to the gold silver and bronze medals offered to girl who qualify for 2250 points or more credit a silver ring with the seal of the department of health educa tion will be awarded the city champion The ree Press Intends to give a special prize to th city champion and girls who show unusual effi ciency in the pentathlon An an nouncement of these prizes will be made before the School trials In th pentathlon which began April were resumed with the opening of schools Mon day Dark clouds and weather mak ing outdoor competition Impossible greeted the children when they re turned to their schools after a week vacation but they are hop ing weather conditions will per mit work in the school yards later this week large number should qualify In the pentathlon and de cathlon trials held outdoor Miuourian Produces White House Letter to Support His Statement Tax Payment Plan Also Given Big Majority The fight with the Detroit United Railway company was brought to a close Monday when I the electorate by a vote ot 55658 to 12198 decided in favor ot the purchase of the company's city system for (19850000 Th result of th special Mention ended a flgfit which has gone on ft for nearly (0 years and ejected from Civic politics an lesu which has Sj been prominent In practically every ft! "Th groups end the order of event for each have an nounced a follows: Group Dash and Throw 60 yards Dash Standing Broad Jump Low Hurdles and Basketball Throw Group 60 Yards Dash Standing Broad Jump Low HurdlesBasket bow Hurdles Basketball Throw Group Standing Broad Jump Low Hnurdles Basketball Throw Dash and Throw and 60 Yards Dash Group Ixw Hurdle Basketball Throw Dash and Throw 50 Yaids Dksh and Standing Broad Jump Group Basketball Throw Dash and Throw 50 Yards Dash Stand Irtg Broad Jump and Low Hurdles A special bulletin will be sent to th school csptaln by the depart ment of health education this week nnd rqulre schools to return fists of eligible glrb who plan to enter "Now that th fight is over we will get down to hard work and give Detroit the best municipal' railway system In the world" Mayor Couzens said when asked what 1 statement he had to make regard Ing the result of the election 11 says he ha no doubt a to the ft line paying their own way and be ft Ing able to take car of th ft" annual payments which must be made to the until 1933 In ft accordance with the contract ap J' proved by the voters While the fight with tile had gone on for many years be fore Mayor Conzlns entered poll Xs tics In Detroit It became more bit ter gfter his election In 1918 The chief pank In the' plat form at that time was the ejection from the streets of Detroit of the much distrusted corporation Since his election he has fought the coni ft pany consistently at every ft tunlty and when the voters In 1919 refused to approve hfs plan to buy the company's lines for (31500000 he began work' on a plan to build a municipal system to compete with the company or 'this purpose (16000000 was appropriated by ontlnud on pege Two Column Three ft' Mustn't Long Term Men Where Walla Can Be Pushed Out Says Governor Signing of Treaty With Soviets layed May Break Up Conference BY HENRY WALES Genoa April 17 The Rneeo Little ootprints Were ound in Sand Pile Near River on Orleans Street With the identification late Mon day night of a body dragged from the Detroit river as that of Rae burn Desse who disappeared March 3 with his two small sons police launched plans early today for re newed search for the children whom they now believe dead Believing that Besse carried out threats to his wife that he would take his own life and the lives of th children police were planning to order the river dragged in a search for the bodies Close watch will begin at daybreak along thebanks of the river for miles Believes ather Killed Boys While police plans were getting under way Mrs Besse hysterical with apprehension called continu ally for the children throughout the night She too believes they were carried to death with their father Besse had threatened to make her suffer by "doing away with" his sons She is satisfied by the finding of his own body that the was tfot an Idle one The body was found blocks from the foot of Orleans street where Besse and his boys last were seen alive It was there that po lice had ound the footprints of a man and two small children The body was identified at the county morgue by Mrs Besse She looked at It and then screamed "My babies my two little babies Where are they?" she sobbed riends rushed to her side and supported her as she was about to collapse She sobbed on "My babies drowned them Bess diowned them never see them again" Dr Albert I rench chief of the Wayne county Medical examin ers assisted Mrs Bess to a cot where she regalnedufflclent con trol of her emotions to be taken home Many Homes all Before Gale and Steadily Rising Waters SAWS AND Want carpenters Use a ree Press Want Ad to morrow morning to get them Holding up a big job some place waiting for men is a mighty costly proposition do it Employers who are "help less" turn naturally to ree Press Want Ad col umns for assistance Results? Of and immediately CALL AD TAKER MAIN 9400 or take your ad to any one of our 400 Want Ad one in your neighbor ly MOTHER AND BOYS SHE BELIEVES DEAD Harbor Springs Postmaster Dies Relief Being Rushed to All Districts That Are Stricken Indianapolis April (By the Associated Pres Twenty persons met death and more than 100 were seriously injured in a series wind and electrio storms which passed over Indiana today Property damage was estimated at' more than (1000000 Communication means are meager tonight railways and Highways are flooded and it Is believed that the death and property toll may be higher when more complete reports are available Cause Death and Ruin Heavy rains continued in all parts of the state today and in more than a dozen Instances high wind developed into tornadoes leaving depth and ruin Hi their Will Pick Candidates at Con vention Regardless of Law Comstock Says War horses of the Wayne county Democracy met Monday night at a smoker in Charles Glaser's Liberty Cafe Library and Monroe avenues to hear Chairman 'William Com stock of the stat? central commit tee sound the keynote for the com ing campaign to prepare for the Grand Rapids convention Wednes day It was a real old time rally where talk of the ot de feat rankled not and flowery pic tures of the big chances for success in the fall stirred to life the real old Democratic "pep" for battle win or lose The outstanding feature of the rally which was arranged by Chairman Andrew Baird of the county committee was the an nouncement by State Chairman Comstock that the Democratic party primary law notwithstand ing was going to handpick lts delegates in the good old conven tion style at an "advisory conven tion" Wednesday In Grand Rapids Suitable candidates for governor lieutenant governor and senator will be selected "by the party" to run In the primary with the support of the party "undamentally th primary ys tm is right and I am a believer In It" said Chairman Comstock "but we must have something to work around and if we can have an ad visory convention while th Repub licans scrap along In a family row that seems to me to offer us a big opportunity we will have a tre mendous advantage over them thia fall" Chairman Comstock expressed the wish that Democrats from Wayne would attend the banquet In the Pantllnd hotel Grend Rapid Tues day evening at 7 the Democrats of the stele will be ad dressed by James Cox recent candidate for the presidency of the United States: former congressman rank Doremus of Detroit Cordell Hull ot Tennessee chairman of th national Democratic committee and Mrs Bernice Dike of Cleveland ormer Judge William Con nolly made a brief and forceful ad dress Event Announced in Tests to Precede ield Day Contests for ree Pres Prize ive groups of girl contestants will compete for medals and special awards given by The Detroit ree Presq In the annual pentathlon at Codd field May 13 an important athletic forerunner to Detroit pub lic schools' ield day which is June 9 this year The purpose of grouping compctl tors In the pentathlon Is to aid the officials In handling the meet In which 600 to 1000 of Detroit's skilled girl athletes are expected to participate Bpwlel tn The rs Press Harbor Springs Mich April Postmaster A Thorn Swift 4 years old died suddenly st his home I here Monday night following stroke of apoplexy Mr Swift was born In Weyn county and came here early In life He was graduated from the local high school and from Petoskey nor ma I and Michigan Agricultural col lege Outside of five or alx years in toe west Mr Swift spent hla later life here He was prominent in civic affairs and organised the Ottawa Lumber company about seven ears ago and was president and the lai eat stockholder of the company Besides bl widow he leaves a son Dean Swift now attending A and two daughters Airs Haggard of Saginaw and Lenore Swift now attending Ml Pleasant normal ft ree Press Installs Private Leased Wire To Washington WITH the purpose of enlarging the scope of its news gathering facilities The ree Press takes pleasure in announcing the installation of its own leased wire to the national capital thus permitting of the publi cation of a larger amount of live up to date news matter than has been possible heretofore The addition' of this' service to that being furnished by the Associated Press International News Consolidated Press Mutual Press Chicago Tribune special wire service and scores of corre spondents throughout the country leaves nothing to be de sired in the matter of the news fields in a most effective manner The private leased wire also will put The ree Press in more immediate touch with New York Philadelphia Baltimore and other met'ropolitan cities of the east 1 Wife Identifies Dead Man Cries for Her Missing Babies Taken by ather President McKenny Declare Report of Expuhion Ha NoBai Charges placed before Governor Groesbeck Monday that 17 girls had been expelled from the State Normal college here for violation ot rules Monday rilght were brand ed as by President Charles McKenny i "The story be absolutely no it I entirely without founda tion of fact The 17 girls tfere not expelled at one time but that num ber represents those sent home dur ing the entire evhool year" th president declared incn province in taxpayers may clear their lend from tax titles for I two year upon the payment ot 10 per cent additional The vote wa 59622 for the amendment and 7567ft' against A a result of the numerous times ft they have gone to the poll upon I questions the voters haAA become disgusted with th entire ft matter and as a result only 7M)6 (d out of a registration nt 14000 cast ft ballots Monday eity officiate said' srl Mayor Couzen who forced th vote on the purchase proposal said th light vote was a source of gret to him but that bn believed a large number of supporters of municipal ownership had been con ft vlnced that the nronosil would carry' by large majority and a reA suit had not gon to the noli Relief wi being rushed to strick en districts tonight Most of the damage was In rural district Barn trees silo and home fell before heavy winds and hundreds of acres of wheat were damaged by high water There was scarcely a single Indiana stream that was within its bank tonight lood stages equalling the high marks of 1913 were reported from several points Struck by Tornadoes Two belts were struck by tor nadoes In southern Indiana there was no loss of life North of In dianapolis however from Danville Ills to Summitville Ind two dis tinct tornado scries caused heavy loss of life Reports of Iridlarja dead reach ing here tonight were as follows: Hedrick (Warren county) 8 Wil liamsport Warren county) 4: Sloan (Warren county) 2 Jasper county 1 Alexandria (Madison county) Orestes (Madison county) 1 one drowning at Knox ville and one drowning at Ham mond Arkansas Also Hit Chicago April Tornadoes were reported Monday night from a score of Illinois Indiana and Arkan sas towns Homes were demolishedwire service crippled and livestock killed Throughout the area from Ohio on the east to Kansas and Nebraska on the west heavy down pours swelled flood waters ot streams al ready out of their banks and In undated thousands of acres ot richfarm land In addition to the vast tracts already under water While isnow and sleet covered Colorado Kansas Missouri and Iowa were pelted with heavy hall storms which smashed windows and caused much damage to crops Sev eral Inches of snow were reported from Denver The storm was believed to have been the same which lashed several towns In northeastern Kansas Sun day night killing several persons then jumped over Missouri only to reappear carly Monday In southern Illinois Tn the vicinity ot Irvington the twister swept a path 23 miles long nnd 150 yards'wlde killing several persons Mpre than half of the home In th Jown were destroyed Plainfield III syas reported almost obliterated After visiting many Illinois towns th tornado jumped Into Indiana Continued on Page Three Column Two VOTE GIVES 0 INAL VICTORY OVER pUR ft 2 ft re WOODROW HITS 55658 67856 mayoralty campaign during the last i 15 year On May 16 the city will take over the line and the ftj will cease to be a public utility corporation In Detroit ftSJ Tax Measnre Passes 1 At the special election the voter I alo approved of tine Ingall amend ft ment submitted upon request ot Guy Ingalls city treasurer and Ij which provide that taxpayer may Michigan Delegation 113 Strong Play Prominent Part in Big Convention BY MAXINE DAVIS By ree I'rees Private Leased Wire Washington April must translate love of country into ac tive service" reminded Secretary of State Charles Hughes at the 'formal opening of the continental congress ot the Daughters' of the American Revolution Monday night Mr Hughes in a brief speech urged restraint in public matters "in the field ot International af fairs restraint was never more necessary thun at this time i some of our public men talk ss If nothing could be seen or heard out side the three mile limit Must Cultivate Goodwill cannot expect foreign pow ers to have the nice appraisement of our newspapers we have acquired through experience We must se cure amity through a cultivation of good will a very close relative of good times Those who ridicule and criticize should be considered ene mies of ourown country We need manifestations of Ambassador Jusserand of rance nnd Sir Auckland Geddes ambassa dor from England Joined in the expression of goodwill and good wishes The Michigan delegation to the congress is one of the largest and most active In attendance One hun dred and thirteen delegates under leadership of Miss Allee Louise Mc Duffee state regent for Michigan have registered More are ex pected Th delegation has been actively pushing the candidacy of Miss Mc Dtiffee for vice president general of the society Seven vice presidents general will be eleetd although the elec Honnef the president general will not come until next year Pur suant to the plans for pushing the election th Michigan delegation will have a tea and general meeting Tuesday at th Powhatan hotel The congress as one of th hostesses Mrs Jared inney of Detroit and Mra Alfred Brossea ot the Albion Mich chapter na tional chairman of the transporta Continued on Page 15 Column Mayor Promises Best Traction Service i Mn World 9 Ska 'I A WHSM Sr ft ft ft ft Ms' ft ft i 'i iastanu 'ft 0 ft "'Mft ft ft i.