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For Nearly A Century Has Set The Pace For Mississippi Journalism Prints All The Hexes That9 Fit To Print And Prints It First FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT JACKSOff; WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 8, 1936 ESTABLISHED 1837 frDfrDfnl rvi The Daily IM July 1L mm Washington Merry-Co-Round By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN Authors of "Washington Merry-Go-Round" and "More Merry-Go-Round" WHERE -SCORES DIED IN SOUTHERN TORNADOES Sta Jacks Sunshine Finds on Senator Barah Waging War for TupeloEm erging Relief Rolling Its Chaos NASHVILLE KNOXVILLE LACROSSE COLUMBIA LITTLE ROCK BOONEVIIXE ELKVVOOD red bay GAINESVILLE i ARKX OjACKSON MONTGOMERY jj AL- a ga r-B oUSE (AgSg.l IL OTALLAHASSEE IJELA 0 2SSO IOO. ISO Striking with great violence, tornadoes roared through several southern' states, killing at least 163 persons, Injuring a thousand or more and doing damage beyond estimation. The towns underscored on this map were among those ravaged, the greatest loss of life being at Gainesville, Ga-, and Tupelo, Miss. (Associated Press Map) 13 COFFINS IN 1 GRAVE 12 MEXICANS DIE IN WRECK Nomination With Enthusiasm of Old; In Life's Biggest Fight He Aims to Prove He's "Go-Through Possesses Power to Llcfc Bosses, Name Candidate, Write Platform; Merry-Go-Round Be gins Its Series On GOP Presi dential Aspirants.

WASHINGTON, April 7 Three years ago William Edgar Borah was at the bottom of a personal and political depression. President Hoover, whom he had been so instrumental in electing, was to him a bitter disappoinc- ment. The Party which he had served throughout a lifetime had been overwhelmingly defeated. The state which had sent him to the senate for thirty years threatened, for the first time to desert him for a Democrat. His political power was nil.

Furthermore, Borah was in bad health. Two or three times a day he was forced to lis down on his office couch. The old fire was gone the passion in his voice, the crusading fervor in his eye. Old friends shook their heads and said that the Lion of Idaho had reached the end of his political road. But they did not know their Borah.

Today, after an operation and several months rest, Borah is back with all the vigor and enthusiasm of a dozen years ago. New Borah In fact it is a new, and probably better, Borah than the Senate ever has seen before who is makins: his present fight for the Republican nomination. For this Is Borah's biggest, probably his last fight. In the opinion of some critics, It is also his first fight. For the chief criticism of Borah in the past was that he was not a "go-through guy." He began hundreds of things, his critics said, never finished them.

He started the fight against Kel-logg's imperialistic policy in Mexico, then dropped it. He started the fight against Marines in Nicaragua, then let it dangle in mid-air when other things attracted him. He was lazy, his critics said. He preferred haranguing the multitudes in the Senate arena to waging unspectacular, tedious, but more effective fights in committee and cloak room. Never would he have (Continued On Page Three) still fight Ouida Now Says Laurel Jail Not Fit For Woman Prisoner LAUREL, April 7.

(P The fight to keep Ouida Keeton out of the state penitentiary has not been abandoned, in spite of the supreme court having yesterday affirmed her conviction and life sentence for the butcher slaying of her widowed mother, Mrs. Daisy Keeton. It was reported this afternoon that attorneys for Miss Keeton had prepared an affidavit for submission to Sheriff Charles Thompson claiming the jail here is unsanitary and unfit to house a woman. This affidavit recited that be- (Continued on. Page Ten) MISSISSIPPI Wednesday, partjy.

cloudy and warmer. Thursday, continued cloudy with sharp rise in temperature. Louisiana, Alabama and extreme northwest Florida: Partly cloudy and warmer Wednesday and Thursday. Arkansas: Fair and warmer Wednesday; Thursday partly cloudy, warmer in extreme east portion. Oklahoma: Fair and warmer Wednesday; Thursday partly cloudy.

Weather bureau records or temperature and rainfall for the 24 hours ending 8 p.m. in the principal cotton growing areas and elsewhere: Iligh Low Rain WEATHER rts Over $600 Is Volunteered From Firms, Individuals Via Clarion-Ledger Barely completing a drive for over $2,000 to aid flood suffers in the north and east, the Hinds county chapter of the American Red Cross was yesterday asked for a quota of as its share in the tornado-stricken area of its own state. The first day of the present drive netted a total of $1,087.65, more than one-fifth of the total assessment. Mrs. Ruth Zercher, executive secretary for the Hinds chapter, was ordered to the tornado area early Monday by Mrs.

Molhe Hodges, dis trict-representative, and she is out of the city during the. present campaign for funds. Other members of the chapetr, citizens of Jackson and the county, organizations, and other cgencies, however, have begun work in an earnest effort to give relief and assistance to the sufferers as early as is possible. Although it was urged that contributions for this cause be made through the Red Cross, more than $600 was tendered through the Clarion-Ledger on yesterday. This, it was stated, shows, how anxious the people are to have a part in relieving suffering in the stricken territory.

Among those who phoned or called The Clarion-Ledger, were: Rex Brown, for the Mississippi Power, and Light company, $250; Frank Cannon, for the Pan American Petroleum company, $100: Jackson Firemen, $100; J. C- Holton, (Continued on Page Eight) 11 DEAD AS PLANE FALLS Airliner Hits Mountain In Deep Fog; Hostess Escapes Death UNIONTOWN, April 7. (JP) -r-Rescue crews struggled up a muddy mountain trail through a blizzard tonight to bring back the bodies of eleven persons carried to death in the plunge of a giant Trans-Continental and Western air liner. The bodies of eight had been taken from the wrecked transport before the storm began, but the journey back over the tortuous trail by horse and buggy was to last hours. The victims were scattered about the mountainside under blankets.

Rescuers pried through a mass of wreckage to retrieve the bodies from the transport which ploughed through a heavy thicket, turned over and burned. Only three escaped death of the 14 who set on the plane from New York to Pittsburgh this morn ing. Two of the survivors Mrs. Meyer" C. Ellens tein, wife of "the mayor of Newark, N.

and Chas. O. Challinor of Cleveland, were carried away to the hospital at Uniontown. Rescuers at first believed the surviving man was Stanley J. Bay- ersdorfer of Steubenville, and (Continued On Page Eight) JOKESTER AMONG STORM'S VICTIMS MERIDIAN, April 7 (V-The terrifying tornado which razed a portion of Tupelo, Sunday night produced a 'jokester in the hospital here when Ernest Savage, a victim, was asked his name.

In the midst of writhing pain, Savage mustered courage for a broad grin and amused other patients in his ward with the answer: "My dady was named Savage and my mother was named Outlaw. What -would that make me?" Then telling of his experience Savage said the storm picked him up several feet off of the of his home and set him down again. "Then things began falling and walls were crumbling all around US." He said his wife and three sons and his 66-year-old aunt were huddled with him in their living room when the tornado struck. All were hurt, and both legs of his aged aunt were broken. "My aunt and two sons were taken to a Memphis hospital," Savage said.

havent any idea where my wife is." "Some of the folks the storm said the wind came In two or more puffs;" Savage said. "But. at my bouse it came all at once," From Mississippi's Storm Death Toll Now Stands At 219 Persons "SITUATION' AT A GLANCE Floods following tornadoes threaten new disaster-over wide area as death toll mounts to 425 in south. Property damage from latest twister placed at in six states. Search for bodies and Identification of dead continues in Tupelo, and Gainesville, Ga as hundreds of relief and medical workers toil there.

Swollen rivers close many highways and two railroad lines in Carolinas. No concern felt for Missis sippi Valley levees, but lowland-ers flee homes on. Tennessee side. Known dead by states: Mississippi, 219; Georgia, 185; Tennessee, 12; Alabama. 11; "Arkansas, South Carolina 1.

GAINESVILLE, Ga, April 7 VPy The storm lashed south compiled a list of more than 400 known dead today from sporadic-spring tornadoes as flooded rivers threatened new disaster over a widespread area. Torrential rains sent major streams on the rise even before the task of finding and Identifying the dead left by tornadic thrusts had been completed. The known fatalities from the latest, storms which ripped through six stictes yesterday include Mis sissiDDl 219: Georgia, 185V Tennes see, 12; Alabama, 11; Arkanas, If and South Carolina. 1. Contributing the heaviest toll were this textile manufacturing center, in.

the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains where 185 bodies have been found; and Tupelo, Miss, another cotton manufactur ing center, where 192 died. A composite estimate of property losses was placed at $25,000,000 with uncounted thousands home less and thousands injured. Relief officials, expressed belief many more bodies of the dead would be uncovered before all the wreckage is removed. The threatening floods, coming after th south's most disastrous (Continued on Page Ten) CONDUCT TRIAL AFTER MIDNIGHT Lawsuit Over Accident Will Be Tried Out On Highway LAKE CHARLES, La, April 7 (JP) In the middle of the night on the Old Spanish Trail, just west of Lake Charles, Judge Thomas F. Porter of district court planned tonight to hold a unique session over a damage suit.

The suit was that of Mrs. Ruth Aultman, of New Orleans, against the Union City Transfer company, of Beaumont, Tex, asking damages of $12,500 for the death of her husband, Orrin Aultman, who was fatally injured in a traffic accident on Jan. 20, 1935; Court was set to convene at 1 a. m. on the spot where the accident happened and the judge planned to take testimony in a session at the scene and at the hour (1:30 a.

at which the accident happened. Theoretically the judge was "on the bench," but there was no bench. Witnesses and attorneys were to group themselves standing about the spot and given practical demonstrations of how the accident came about. On first trial of the suit before Judge Porter judgment was denied the plaintiff, but a motion for a new trial was granted. THirFELLOW SPEAKS WITH DIFFICULTY ABOUT STORM TUPELO, April 7 3 Arthur Price, Tupelo Daily News Linotype operator, spoke of the storm today great difficulty.

Arthur's false teeth were blown out of his mouth by Sunday night's tornado, and carried into the next county as far as he knows. He had little hope today that his plates would be returned, though he was encouraged by a storm story told by Smythe Huffman. Huffman said a farmer near Ripley today returned to him a postcard blown off his dresser Sunday night. The farmer lives 60 miles from Tupelo, White Returns From Tupelo, Immediately Issues Relief Proclamation A vivid picture of the desolation that is Tupelo was painted by Governor White last night upon his return to the capital from the devastated area. "The horror of the tragedy is simply indescribable," he said.

"Half of the homes In Tupelo are in ruins. Every school building in that city, except one, was demolished. Every MIAMI, Fla April 7 (JP) President Roosevelt tonight allocated $2,500,000 to the Works Progress Administration for im- mediate emergency work in the southeastern tornado area. chuarch was damaged, most of them being wrecked and blown away." The governor said he was "liter ally, by the magnitude and horror of the tornado's wrath. "Freaks played by the wind which in just a few minutes leveled most of the residential section were ap parent in every block," said the governor.

Then he told how the bark was peeled from young trees growing along the Pontotoc pike, west of the city; of how a garage was torn away, leaving an. automobile standing on the floor unscratched; how the homes of unnumbered negroes were plunged into the north of town. "But I have never seen people accept such a horrible disaster with such fortitude," declared the executive. "There were few tears but most of the people accepted" the catastrophe as. over which they had no control, and, not having control, saw.no good in bewailing the fate that befallen them." Governor White estimated the property loss in homes alone at ap proximately $4,000,000.

"At first it looked to me like the damage would reach $6,000,000, but rechecking convinced me that the figure was too high." Governor White declared that the stricken community is extremely fortunate in having a number of federal agencies operating, in' (Continued on Page Eight) FLOODS ARE NEW THREATS Tornado Ravaged South Faces New Danger; Highways Closed in Georgia By ASSOCIATED PRESS A flood threat crept into the tornado ravaged south where the death Ust passed 400 Tuesday night while cold, dismal weather from the west lolled eastward to play a part in the crash of a trans-Continental-Western airliner which killed 11 persons near. Uniontown, Pa. Murky, freezing weather clunsr over the region where the passenger, plane crashed against a mountainside. At least 2,000 persons were. injured by two wind storms that swept across live southern states Sunday and Monday, wrecking an estimated 525,000,000 worth of property.

Officials said ten years would be required to restore the stricken region. There were 197 known dead at (Contmued on Page Eight) WEST POINT HAS CITY ELECTION Retired Merchant Wins Mayor's Post Over Incumbents Upstate City 1 WEST. POINT, April 7 OF) R. C. Davis, recently retired merchant, was elected mayor in yesterday's city democratic primary over J.

L. Young, incumbent, H. J. Kornegay, deputy sheriff, ied a of five in the race for chief of police. C.

V. Dunlap was second and a ruh-off will be necessary, it will be held on Monday. April 13. S. Westbrdok; running 'for selectman at large, defeated Claude Jackson, incumbent, and became the only new member of the 'city board.

D. A. Meek, J. E. Seitz, T.

B. Miller and L. B. McEachin, present members ol the board, were re-elected Burials On Wholesale Seals Held Without Benefit Of Churches By COPPENBARGER Clarion-Ledger State News Editor TUPELO, April 7 The sun shone on. Tupelo today for the first time since" "the wind hit.

With the warm rays bathing the scenes of destruction, the spirits of harassed Tupelo residents began to rise, and they were able to launch into reconstruction and rehabilitation with a zeal they would have thought impossible yesterday. A semi-official death total for Tupelo was sent to 192 tonight, and it was believed the final figura would not be far from this number. Funerals were conducted today on a wholesale scale but without benefit of churches, since all of the city's houses of worship havo been damaged to seme extent. This city will probably in the future date all big events from tho year or the month or the day of the cyclone, the most horrible thing that has ever struck this section, or the state for that matter. Not even the great flood of 1927 exceeded the magnitude of this disaster in number of lives lost.

After an all-night session of morticians embalming the bodies of a hundred storm victims to prevent them from remaining unattended too long, relatives tools charge and conducted burial services in any of the cemeteries la or near Tupelo. At Priceville, in a little country cemetery where many of the graves were marked only with wooden sticks at head and foot, a funeral for thirteen members of one family was held. All were burled in one huge, common grave. Fresh Graves Close Nearby were three other ne (Continued on Page Ten) ATTALA MAN MADETARGET Sheriff Reports On Robbery and Attempted Murder At Kosciusko KOSCIUSKO. April 7 According to Sheriff Sallis of Attala county, the store and home combined of Luther Turner at Mc-Adams was the scene of a rob bery and attempted murder.

Mr. Turner was shot behind the ear from the. outside of house by a 22 rifle in the hands of a negro. After shooting Turner, the assailant entered the rear door knocking Mrs. Turner down supposedly with butt end of gun.

Mrs. Turner's screams frightened the negro away. Cooper's bloodhounds from Jackson were rushed to the scene and hundreds of citizens assembled near the scene searching for tho negro, who is still at large. Two negroes were taken into custody early this morning but were released as were not identified by Mrs. Turner.

The condition of Mr. Turner was a first considered serious but the doctors are hopeful of his recovery. The thieves made their escape. with a very small amount of cash. "Economy in office an' reduction o' taxes! I remember that ruse when I was a boy." says uncle Niles Turner, 103.

NothhV retards th diges on like fcatia' someouddy, ABE MARTIN I I SANCTIONS MAY BREAK Ecuador Reported Ready to Loosen Up On Italy; League Group Meets GENEVA, April 7 OP) Reports that breaches may be made in the League of Nations sanctions wall around Italy stirred Geneva tonight on the eve of a session of the committee of 13 to consider negotiations for peace in. Africa. The League announced it has no confirmation of a Rome report that Ecuador would break the ice by dropping sanctions. The Ecuadorean delegate to the League said he had no official information on such a step but added: "I have, however, received instructions to oppose any move to (Continued On Page Seven) NEGROES INDICTED FOR CLAY MURDER Two 16-Year-Old Youths to Face Trial for Killing of White Man WEST POINT, April 7 (JP) George Owens and Joe Phillips, two 16-year-old negroes, were indicted by the grand jury here today for the murder of Herman E. Whatley, one armed filling station operator, on the night of December 27, 1935.

Judge W- W. Magruder. appointed Attorneys E. Caradine, N. H.

Malone and Hill Jarrett to defend the negroes. After being arrested last January they admitted, officers said," that they had committed the crime devilment." The negroes were arraigned before Judge Magruder and pleaded "not gu41ty" to the charge of murder. Whatley was shot to death, robbed and his store, in which his body was placed, was set fire. But the blaze was extinguished before much damage had been done. Since the negroes arrest they have been kept in an unannounced jail.

Sheriff W. E. Taylor stated that he believed they would be given a fair trial and the citizens of Clay county "would In no way interfere." Easter Egg Contest The Clarion-Ledger's annual Easter Egg Coloring Contest is on! Each year, along about this time, the paper, offers something for just coloring an Easter egg, something that most boys and girls do every year that rolls around. The rules for the contest are simple and the prizes are valuable. There Is nothing to write or make up all-that any child needs do is to bring the egg he or she has colored down to the Clarion-Ledger office, NOT later than 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon, April 11.

Annually, there are dozens of attractively -colored eggs en AS TUPELO DEAD ARE BURIED By H. L. COPPENBARGER Clarion-Ledger State News Editor TUPELO, April 7 They buried ah entire family here today thirteen of them. Side by side in simple wooden in a huge common grave, rthe thirteen members of -the'JP, Burrough family were put away. Burrough was found in the debris of his little frame house west of Tupelo, just south of the Willis Heights section, worst hit by the cyclone.

His body was carried to the courthouse and there, one or two at a time, as they were found, were brought the other twelve members of the family: his wife and eleven children. Relatives his father and their family lived in south Tupelo and escaped the full fury of the blow made arrangements for. the funeral. The burial was simple. The thirteen bare coffins were loaded on to four trucks at the funeral home and carried six miles to Priceville.

There they were laid side' by side, in a huge hole seven feet wide by about 30 feet long. The crude unpainted wooden boxes were lowered slowly and a simple burial service said. Then the first dirt from a huge pile nearby was thrown in. In the space of a few hours an entire family had been wiped out and buried. One bunch of bright red flowers was placed on the center box.

Mourners sang "In the Sweet Bye and Bye," softly, so as not to disturb another funeral some hundred yards away Baptist Minister H. G. West prayed, "As we stand with hearts and heads bowed Briefly he eulogized: "Jim Burrough. heard me preach the other, night and wiped tears from his eyes he loved the Lord." The historic old home of the late "Private" John Allen, Mississippi congressman from 185 until 1901, was wrecked by the storm. The wreckage was destroyed by fire.

The family escaped with minor injuries. i Fame first came to the congress-' man when he boasted he was the only Confederate veteran who was "just a plain private." Another Civil War veteran, the oldest in Lee county, "Uncle Joe Smith," 94 was crushed to death (Continued on Page Eight) Coloring Is Announced tered" in the contest and a little ingenuity with dyes will bring a nice prize to several boys and girls. Prizes have been listed as follows: Prettiest, egg, $5 cash; smallest egg, $2 cash; largest egg, $2 cash; most originally colored egg, $250 cash. Second prize 'in. each division is a week's pass to the State theatre.

Remember the simple rules: the child must color the egg himself and bring or, send it to The Clarion-Ledger no later than Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock. That's all there is to it so get busy. Attempt To Kill Political Leaders Blamed. for, Bombing of Bridge VERACRUZ, Mexico, April 7 A desperate criminal attempt to kill State of Veracruz political leaders was blamed by authorities tonight for the bombing of a railway bridge and wrecking of the Veracruz-Mexico City train which resulted in the death of at least 12 persons and injury to 15 others. The politicians themselves were unharmed.

Soldiers searched a wide area for the bombers. A conclusion that political enemies of one or all of the three candidates for the gubernatorial nomination CoL Eduardo Hernandez Chazaro, chief of the presidential staff of former President Pascual Ru-bio; Ochoa Zamudio and Dr. Guillermo Padilla plotted the attacked was- tentatively reached by authorities. A search for other victims was continued tonight among the mass of twisted and charred steel where Pullman cars were plunged into a 40-foot ravine last night. Victims identified included five passengers, five members of the (Continued On Page Seven) GRENADA PASSES QUOTA OF RELIEF Upstate City Accomplishes Much to Relieve Suffering at Tupelo GRENADA, April 7 Citizens of Grenada held a meeting at the mayor's office here this afternoon for the purpose of aid for the relief of storm sufferers at Tupelo.

Mayor L. C. Proby presided and appointed a committee consisting of Homer J. Williams, -Ed Underwood, T. H.

Meek and Hurd Hor-ton to make a hurried canvass of the town, for contributions to be used in aiding the stricken area. Grenadans auota of three hun dred dollars has already been raised and more money will swell this total. The local American Legion post this afternoon dispatched a truck load of food to Tupelo and cloth ing will also be sent there. J. H.

Murray, dry -cleaner, expressed his desire to clean any and all clothes donated and to send a truck to Tu pelo with the garments, for de livery. Homer J. Williams, local theatre owner," will give benefit picture shows Sunday, one to the after noon, and two at with entire proceeds to be used in relief of storm refugees, at Tupelo. SUPERINTENDENT RESIGNS CLARKSD ALE, April 6 Isadore S. Moyse, superintendent in charge of the Greenville Municipal Terminals, on the Mississippi river, has resigned, effective April 1.

He has been succeeded by Roger Generally as terminal superintendent. Gen erally has been at Greenville for some time getting acquainted with his duties. Mr. Moyse has been sup erintendent for two years. He said he had not yet determined as to his future plans, -N JACKSON 60 42 Atlanta oi 48 2.20 Birmingham 58 44 .12 Chicago 32 28 ,01 Deiuer 64 32 Jacksonville 85 68 .04 Little Rock 60 36 Memphis 54 40 Meridian 58 42 .06 Miami 2 Mobile 52 43 1.44 New Orleans 56 48 1.83 New York 46 42 .04 Vicksburg 62 42 MISSISSIPPI RIVER Flood Pres -24-Hour Stage S'age Change ADD WEATHR St.

Louis 30 Memphis 34 Helena .,..,44 Arkansas City Vicksburg 43 Natchez 46 Baton Rouge 35 Donaldson ville 23 Reserve 22 16.3 35.0 42.7 32.4' 32.4 35.7 23.6 0.4 fall 1.0 rise 0.8 rise "j.4'rise 0.6 rise 0.4 rise 0.5 rise 19.5 0.5 rise 14.2 0.4 rise New Orleans 17 10.5 0.5 rise OHIO Cairo 40 5L5 0.7 rise.