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PACE FOURTEEN THE CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GAV TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1935. The City That Was How Gainesville Looked Before Devastating Storm 150 ARE KNOWN DEAD POLICE KILE CONVICT CURIOUS LOG ROADS TTTT-? zTl TTT t. vv GAINESVILLE STORM DRU TOR HOLDUP HAMPER RESCUE WORK could not be readily identified.

Some of the bodies were charred beyond recognition. There were taken to the basement Sunday school room of the First Methodist church, where an improvised morgue was established by Red Cross workers. Other bodies were removed to undertaking- establishments, which soon were filled to capacity. Abit Nix, of Athens, atate Red Cross chairman, arrived at noon and took charge of that organization's Continued From First Pace. Officers Arrive 90 Seconds Persons Without Business in Area Are Ordered To Stay Away.

After Call Is Given to Headquarters. One bandit was shot dead at about 11:30 clock last' night in a chain Miss Shepperson previously bad ordered nurses, relief workers, medical supplies, food, bedding and clothing shipped here from Atlanta, Marietta, Athens and other cities. A convoy of 50 trucks carrying 300 men was hurried from Atlanta with supplies. Two railroad carloads of supplies were sent during the afternoon, and another car tonight. drug store at 1388 Peachtree street and his brother was captured by police who responded to a call for help and arrived ao seconds after the hold up was staged.

The bandits were said by officers to have escaped from the DeKalb county chain gang last Wed- or persons from surrounding towns poured into Gainesville to look at the scene and to allay anxiety for safety of relatives and uesday and were serving 20-year terms ior roooery. iriends here. Radio Patrolmen E. V. Forrester Should the toll In this building run to 120, as Anderson believes, the total would be closer to 200 dead than the 145 counted tonight.

Most of those who died in this structure are believed to have been stampeding in a -stairway which collapsed and later became a pit of flames. The building, an old structure, completely collapsed under the terrific blow and as it crumpled it burst into flames. It was impossible for rescue workers to get anyone out. Those who escaped did so because they were fortunate to be blown clear of the building. Some of these were badly injured, however, and may die.

It will be days before it has been accurately determined how many negroes perished as the negro section was all but swept away. Hundreds of small houses and shanties were blown for several blocks. Their occupants disappeared and may never be accounted for. City Under Martial Law. Tonight the city is under martial law, Adjutant General Lindley W.

and R. R. Davis responded. Davis Concentration centers were besieged by persona inquiring about members of their families who are entered the. store in the lead and spotted-Theron Cranston.

22. As he A city whipped to it3 knees by death and destruction without water, it only food coming from fleets of army trucks, its bewildered citizens stunned by swift, and thorough disaster faced a serious problem yesterday as all roads from all points were jammed for miles with automobile loads of curiosity seekers, moving in fender to fender and blocking the paths of doctorsnurses, ambulances and all other flotillas of relief agents and relief v- Two-way lanes were necessary on all roads into and out of Gainesville yesterday. Southward toward Atlanta ambulances were creeping with load" of wounded. First the hospitals at the Chicopee mills were filled and then the hospitals at Buford and Gainesville and on toward Atlanta, Search for Hospitals. Northward, toward Alto, Cornelia and Toccoa, the same unending two-way stream of ambulances filled np hospital by hospital, after the one mill hospital at New Holland mills just north of the town could handle no missing.

started in pursuit of Theron, James The courthouse square, heart of the Cranston, whom police said was hid community, was wrecked. The dis ing behind the soda fountain, raised trict was knee-deen in debris, with and pointed a pistol at the officer. orrester, immediately behind Da power lines and telephone wires lying in a tangle underfoot. All power was -v 6 ryZ -i-aj8" vis, fired one shot, the bullet striking James Cranston in the Adam's apple cut on immediately to avoid electro cutions. and Killing him instantly.

it was impossible to drive a car Theron Cranston surrendered. The two thugs, police said, had gotten out money bags containing between $75 and SlOO when the -officers arrived. through the wrecked district although a clearing was made for ambulances and fire trucks. The city fire department waa hemmed in its building by wreckage. It was unable to get trucks in motion, O.

D. King. manager of the store. was closing up, he told ofifcers, when two men walked into the place and ordered cigarets. King turned to se more injured.

By noon Alto sanitarium for the tubercular was filled with bat cure the order and when he again turned to his customers he found him self facing pistols. tered humans and the search continued on into north Georgia for hospitals with room to handle more in "We also want all the cash you've got." he quoted the bandits as saying. jured. Jimmie Hall, negro messenger bov On into the nizht the ior tne arug store, was in the rear nut equipment was sent from Atlanta and other cities. Water Pressure Low.

Falling buildings and timbers wrecked many fire hydrants and mains, and when hose was finally run to the scenes of fires, the pressure was low. Fire fighters were unable to make much progress. During the tornado and immediately thereafter the rain fell in torrents. The fall continued heavy throughout the day. But this failed to extinguish the fires before three city blocks were burned.

The negro section of the city was Camp being in command of 400 national guardsmen sent here by Governor Talmadge. Everywhere there are dead, dying and dangerously injured. Hundreds of doctors and nurses from Atlanta, Athens, Winder, Law-renceville and other cities are working frantically over the injured. What was the city is an appalling picture. From two blocks south of the public square to a mile north hardly a building remains standing.

Firemen, hampered by lack of water and with no pressure on what is available are dynamiting building ambulances from all cities in northwest Georgia continued with theie broken burdens. of the establishment and got to a hidden telephone from where he called police. AH were blocked and were forced to creep inch by inch as thev mickerf Theron told Detective Roner that a path in and out of the thousands he and his dead brother, James, were oi automobiles jamming all the high married early yesterday in Montgomery, and had been in Atlanta ways. It Was late in the iftsrnnnn hifnni less than half an hour when they at ieveiea oy the Mow. Hardly a house tempted tne holdup.

General Lindley W. Camp was able to block the roads wif-h en ii rlo remained standing. "1 married Sussie Sheffield and after building to prevent the spread of the fires. As this is written eight James married Winifred Smith in pickets at points five, eight and ten miles from Gainesville to head off and; Montgomery this morning" Theron fires are raging out of control. Noth turn DacK tnese thrill-seekers.

ing ran be done to stop them. They said. "We droie back here and had been here less than half an hour when run only burn themselves out and City Without Water. Gainesville in a Above is an air photo of Gainesville, the county seat of Hall county, as it looked before the death-dealing tornado struck yesterday. The arrow shows the path of the storm.

No. 1 is the courthouse, which was torn to bits by the tornado. No. 2 is the Baptist church, which was badly damaged. No.

3 is the postoffice, which was rent wide open. No. 4 is the Princeton hotel, which escaped with damages which may be repaired. No. 5 is the First Methodist church, itself slightly damaged, but which has been turned into a Red Cross, hos- pitaL No.

6 is the highway school. Damaged badly, it has become a' first aid station. No. 7 is a hardware store which was destroyed. No.

8 is the Jackson building, one of Gainesville's sturdiest, but it was shattered by the wind. No. 9 is the overall factory, where many were burned to death. It was destroyed. No.

10 is the Dixie Hunt hotel. Its roof was blown away but it is understood that no one died in it. No. 11 is the morgue. It was damaged badly but served its purpose right yesterday.

Shaded portion show storm's path. we came in this store. A minister by then the hundreds of rescue workers here awaiting an opportunity can go the name of Venable performed the Stores have been swent clem into them to see how great the toll double ceremony. We had not had a honeymoon." will be. Food Shortage Imminent food stocks by anxious citizens.

There are no soft drinks and no sandwiches to be bought anywhere and the town, in addition to its own norm Hon The body was taken to the mor tuary of Brandon-Bond-Condon pend Negroes who escaped death or injury wandered dazedly through the wreckage. Some tried to dig out victims from jthe debris and others appeared too stunned to know what happened. In one of the three banks damaged by the storm, the clock stopped at 8:28 a. m. (Eastern standard time).

New Holland Hit. The New Holland miii community, near here, got some of the blow and a number of persons were injured and several buildings damaged. A roof was blown off one of the buildings of the Facolet Manufacturing Company. The new mill and village of Chico-pee Manufacturing Corporation, two miles south, were not touched. The Gainesville Cotton Mill also esca red ing completion of funeral MERCY TRAINS BRING crowded with hundreds of relief workers who are toiling patiently without food or rest.

Miss Gay Shepnerson, the atate WI'A administrator, is here personally in charge of relief work. General Camp and the nationnl guardsmen are on guard to prevent looting and other lawlessness. Although ten huge truck-loads of food were brought in under Storm Sidelights In Southern States NEGRO CONFESSES Death9 Finger Wrote Ironic Notes Into Holocaust of Tornado's Fury There is no room for sightseers. General (fcmn and Pnii SLAYING GIRL, 19 INJURED TO ATLANTA O. Sturdivant.

who a re Miss Shennerson's order there still oldier and police rescue details, asked is great danger of a food shortage Suspect, Arrested in Terre By LAMAR Q. BALL. gled to rescue the dying aad the crip- and Mayor V. A. Palmour tonight is sued an urgent appeal that all avail A dead man clutches a dead child in his arm.

Both are lying under a Scores of Victims of Gaines piea were numneriess convicts in stripes, unshackled and freed from able surplus supplies in other cities be rushed to Gainesville. Haute, Is Returned to Alabama, sheet in that damp, dark morgue in damage. prison camps near the city. Black and white, they labored tirelessly and Although the city's two undertak ville Storm Put in Hospitals Here. Arthur W.

Bell, mayor pro tern- auauia. newspapermen yesterday to; warn everyone who has no business in Gainesville to stay away. "We must turn them back. There no room for anyone in this city. We are feeding the population from relief supplies that the WPA and the army are sending us.

We have no room for idle onlookers and this is no time for persons to be standing mnnH downtown Gainesville that is the rem' nants of a funeral parlor. ing establishments themselves were witnout supervision or guards. said damage to property would run at nrarticallv destroyed what remains ot BIRMINGHAM. Ala- Anril 6. The Odd Fellows hall, on the eecond least Other estimates ran to $8,000,000 and up.

Gainesville, nonulation R.R24 hv the them is stacked with bodies tonight, Tonight the city is in darkness. Of We found them out in the residential area," explains one of the Red Cross workers. "We didn't have time to look around to find some neighbor Two rescue trains bearing victims WP) Walter Miller, negro captnred in Terre Haute, confessed to the brutal slaying of Vivian Woodward, 19, at Huntsville, March 28, tioor at Washington and Bradford streets, collapsed and buried under it 1030 census, tonight surveyed an area 21-2 miles long and nearlv half-u merely looking." of Gainesville tornado for transfer to Atlanta hospitals arrived at Terminal Station last night. ficials said that unless electricity is available by early today it will be neressarv to burn the bodies as noth Estes' Dress Shop. Out of all the By the Associated Press.

To Mayor J. P. Nanney, of Tupelo, Miss. The storm which almost destroyed the town he governs sounded like "20 roaring trains." To B. Hplcomb, undertaker whose task it will be to bury at least t0 of Tupelo's dead, the storm, as it approached, looked like "the end of the world." Nanney said that he was in his living room reading with his wife and 17-year-old daughter.

"When I heard the roar, I started to the door," he said. "As I reached the door it flew open and knocked me down. "As I hit the floor I looked up and the roof was I didn't see it go, State Highway Patrolman. II. H.

Road Clogged. That winding, treacherous road be rn ile wide wrecked or damaged by the Linch annonnced. ing to nrepara them for burial can The first train, which arrived at tween Atlanta and Gainesville The negro, brought here for safe 8:51 o'clock, brought 11 white per done. Church is HosDital. keeping, made a "full confession to sons and four negroes, and the second clogged with automobiles shortly before noon yesterday.

SAVANNAH RIVER The First Methodist church has the attack and the slaying." Linch train, with 23 white persons and ZS to identify them. The man is in his early thirties; the boy about ten. To their shroud is pinned' a slip of paper "Unknown." An old man with battered face and a broken left arm sat in the Chicopee Mills infirmary. A nurse handed him a cup of cocoa. "This is his eighth cup he thas never tasted it before and he thinks RISING AT AUGUSTA said.

in tne first details went the doc negroes, arrived shortly arter mid AUGUSTA. ADriI 6. Pv tors, nurses, ambulances and fire night. Miss Woodward, pretty daughter of Huntsville city employe, was at The Savannah river will reach a atsee trucks. Then the onlookers started and One of the injured, Clarence Ellis, late yesterday afternoon the line of of 37 feet here tomorrow morning, according to prediction of Meteorologist died on the way to this city about a tacked and fatally beaten as she was returning from a movie.

debris that once was Estes' stood one untouched figure. It was a smart-looking dress mannequin, mute and expressionless. It was clad in a spotless white tailored Easter suit, a red carnation in its trim lapel. Not a speck of dust marred the stunning costume, as the wax figure stared straight ahead with unseeing eyes, all about it litter, crushed brick, splintered wood and glass. Telephone calls from Gainesville had to be made at Buford.

No wires of any type survived the wind in stricken Gainesville. Late yesterday afternoon, the manager of Buford's telephone exchange announced to. newly-arrived customers in his crowded automobiles stretched from Gainesville half hour before the second train I our negroes seized by a mob at to Lawrenceville and beyond. riarry Kaynes. At clock tonight it stood at 33.7 feet.

All day the ram feu and the creeks but I heard the timbers grinding. Then it was all over. Lowland areas below the citv are Huntsville after the attack and rescued by officers, remained in county jail being flooded for the second time and rivers all along the Atlanta-Gainesville road were overflowing th "The storm couldn't have lasted more than a few seconds. T- hardly within a week. A 50-foot Jevee protects Augusta.

think my wife and daughter had time to get out of their chairs. None of here, where Miller was being questioned. i They were brought to Birmingham after tear gas had been used by national guardsmen to disperse a mob in front of the Madison county jail at Huntsville. arrived. He bad suffered internal and head injuries.

Police Clear Way. The first group of injured were immediately taken to Grady hospital in ani'bulances which were lined up at the track, side and waiting. Motorcycle patrolmen cleared the way through traffic for fast runs to the hospital. Of the injured on the second rescue train. 10 were taken to St.

Joseph's infirmary, nine to Crawford W. us was hurt. I ran into the street to it's the best stuff he ever the nurse explains. He has forgotten his injuries. His wrinkled face beams as he gobbles the cocoa and look around for more.

One of those tiny, wiatful dogs of uncertain parentage sits patiently at the front door of a school. The children have all been sent home. But the dog knows it is noon time and he has an appointment at that spot every school day. So. he sits and waits obviously a.

boy's dog. been turned Into a hospital and here hundreds are being treated. Others have been sent to the state tuberculosis sanitarium at Alto and still others to hospitals farther away. Hundreds of the injured were being taken to Atlanta on special trains tonight and others will be moved from here tomorrow. The water supply is very low and Pr.

T. F. Abercrombie, state director of public health, who is here in charge of the medical work, said that there is grave danger that an epidemic may follow. "We have all of the doctors and nurses available in north Georgia here and we will work night and day to aid the injured and keep down an epidemic, but there is no telling what will happen." Every building In the downtown section is so badly damsged that it will have to be rebuilt entirely. The courthouse was blown wide open.

The city hall and fire department were wrecked, see houses and trees scattered every' BEARD GOES TRIAL where. At that time I didn't see any exchange: of the iniured. I accepting nothing but death and emergency calls. All are limited Noaone living in my neighborhood to three" minutes. You will have to was hurt.

FOR MURDER IN DALLAS wait an hour and a half for your turn." lowlands and threatening the road ia the deep dips that add to its perils. Yellow river was far over its bank and its waters were level with tha roadway. But the sightseers continued toward Gainesville, sweeping around one another and blowing their horns in fa-tile demands for passage. "Keep the roads clear," begged General Camp, and to his soldiers he ordered: "Stop everyone but doctors, nurses, ambulances and NASAL CATARRH Holcomb. the undertaker, happened to see the storm approaching because the roof of his funeral home would Insanity Plea Made and Ex leak when it rained.

"I walked out on the porch to see if it was going to ram, so I could put some nucKets amination of Skull Is Ordered by Judge. under the' leaks if it did." he ex plained. "Through the ligntning Just two weeks ago, Gainesville's citizens voted to tear down the old courthouse and build a new one. The wind did the job in fonr minutes yesterday. The only task is to cart the debris away and try to recover the buried records.

"Two of the finest men in Gainesville died in that store," said one citizen, pointing to the remnants of the Truetr-Barrett Hardware Company, Guy Barrett and John Rogers. Two finer men never lived." flashes I could see a black cone trav eline fast. It looked awful. Monday and Tuesday were cancelled because of bad weather and death or injury of relatives of two Mississippi players. A brother and sister of Rab Rodg-ers, catcher, were killed at Tupelo and a brother of Mitch Grissom, center-fielder, waa injured there.

One year ago today (Tuesday) storms at Golster acid Gillsbnrg, and Lake Providence, caused 20 deaths. In Memphis, Euler Willis, who 30 years ago built the Tupelo residential section which bears his name Willis Heights was the first contributor to a fund for relief of residents of the stricken residential section, hardest hit by the tornado. The home that1 he gave his daughter as a wedding present many years ago was destroyed. The faces of the dead in the morgue. All are distorted with terror and pain frozen indelibly by death.

All died gasping for that last breath. All are dirty, the grime beaten in by the fury of the wind or as those dying bodies tried to drag themselves over floors or streets. There is one face to break that grim monotony. A young girl, her face spotless, her lips delicately rouged, her features calm in death. A beam, driven through the air, -had crushed her chest as she stood in what she thought was the shelter of a doorway.

"She never knew what struck her," comments a doctor. "It hit the house betore 1 could gei back inside. The place was demol Long Memorial hospital, four serious head injury cases to Piedmont hospital, and the 23 negroes to. Grady hospital." At Piedmont hospital, Dr. Edward Fincher, specialist, who had been at Gainesville, awaited the arrival of the child, two women and one man designated for that hospital.

In addition to the undertaker's ambulances, 26 army trucks from Fort Mcl'herson, three ambulances and tSH army men engaged in the rescue work at the station. They transported injured to hospitals and in general lent aid. Harrowing Scenes. The arrival of the second train made a harrowing picture, as the moaning and bloody bandaged injured were unloaded out train windows and train doors. The second train consisted of two coaches and six sleeping care, and the first was comprised of two cars, a ished.

I can't see how I escaped death." Just a few drops of Vicks Va-tro-nol clears clogging cus, reduces swollen membranes, brings comforting relief. 30c and JOt W. F. McDonald, principal meteor DALLAS. Texas, April 6.

Dwight Heard. on trial for the slaying of ex-Detective John Roberts during a holdup here last December 23, was taken to a medical clinic for a skull examination shortly after Judge rover Adams convened court toil ay. Defense attorneys requested the examination. They said it waa for the purpose of proving insanity. "1 got head injuries when I playing end on the North Carolina State College football team in 192S and 1020." Beard was quoted as saying.

"I've been shot in the head and ologist. in charge of the New Orleans weather bureau, estimated the tornado 8RUN0 'S OW VOWS that struck Tupelo, may nave been traveling between five and six Vicks Vathq hol The Diiie Hunt and the rnneeton hotels are practically demolished, although the walls of both are still standing tonight. Fire half a block down main street from the Dnif Hunt imperils what remains of that hostelry, but Ir. C. A.

Wellborn, the proprietor, who is also a practicing physician, has forgotten his hotel andi siding in treating the hundreds of injured. Visitors Are Haired. Early tonight Adjutant General Camp Usued orders thst no visitor be permitted to come within 10 miles of the city. Already there are thousands more here than can be fed and there is no place for them to stay. The highway leading in and out of the city are jammed with cars.

Drivers can't get in and can't get out. General Camp said that he hoped to detour all cars out of the city by day- I'fht. "Of course ttere are thousands or people in the state who are interested! miles a minute, it is cieariy possioie, he said, that the winds reached the amazing velocity of 300 to 400 miles TO AVENGE EXECUTION per hour. Newman's department store is nothing but a pile of bricks and splintered wood. Not even the frame of a front window is left intact to indicate that here stood once a model small-city department store.

"I know there are some children in there," commented a man who owns a store across the square. "I saw A traveling salesman, driving to ward Tupelo, abandoned his car ana lsv down in a ditch to escape the Why Gulf is the Gas for April baggage car and a coach. Friends and relatives were waiting for the train, and peered anxiously into the ambulances as the injured were being unloaded. Mrs. J.

O. Mclntyre, of 475 Jones storm's fury. He saw houses and ar Body of Kidnap-Slayer Cremated. Following Strange Funeral. also injured in an auto wreck." Beard was heavily manacled during the trip from the jail to the clinic.

Selection of a jury to try the accused man proceeded slowly. His attorneys, Leo Darley. David Weinstein and Jack Johannes, presented a plea of innocence because of ticles of every description flying by. several on their way to school duck in there when the rain Btarted, just before the wind." he said. When the worst of the mow was over, he emerged unhurt but his Tt will be davs on davs before that avenue.

was one of these. She feared her father might be among those car was gone. high-heaped hill of bricks is removed and the dead underneath counted or on toe tram. Hut he was not among in their relatives. wpnrr amy NEW YORK, April 6.

(Pi Bruno Richard Hauptmann's foody was given nossihle being insanity. tnem. Story of Injured. claimed. done and more people coming in can-j District Attorney Robert L.

Hurt to a crematory's flames today, vbut events stemming from efforts to dis Almost every family in Tupelo bereaved the loss a relative or dear friend, but bravely carried through Miss Ruby Parker, 19. an employe Facing the square was a store op ot a Gainesville factory, her face bear prove his guilt in the Lindbergh ing scratches, and speaking in a feeble naoy murder continued their course, erated by' a father and son. son always was down early to open up. The father, along in years, always The widow. Mrs.

Anna Hanntmann voice, recounted her experience, lying its share or rescue wors: neroicanj. The city water tank at Tupelo was blown down and left no water supply with which to extinguish a series of on a stretcher on the floor of the bag stood 'before his opened casket and vowed to make someone "pay" for his came down later. gage car, firoi which broke ont after the tor The father came down yesterday, death. "I was on the top floor of the fac nado had struck. The downpour of hurrying after the tornado, to see if tory, when suddenly the lights went out." she said.

"All the girls in the rain which followed the winds put out Governor Harold G. Hoffman, of New Jersey, was pictured by Lieutenant Robert Hicks, criminologist asso BEARD UNDER IMPRESSION HE KILLED OFFICER HERE Dwight Eeard has been under the impression during his flight from the law since his Atlanta escapade that he killed Patrolman I. P. Jones in his escape from the West Peachtree street robbery several months ago. Patrolman Raymond Ector declared yesterday on his return from a vacation trip to Texas, where he talked with Beard.

Ector talked with Beard in the Dallas jail. Beard refused to discuss the not help. 1 tiey win serve onij i impede those who are working." Miss Shepperson announced that she had a crew of rescue worker in Gainesville, most of them from Atlanta, ready to help clear away the debris. Major General George an Horn Moselev. the army fourth corps area commander, ordered all Civilian Conservation Corps workers in northwest Georgia into Gainesville and they are standing bv tonight ready to join the WFA workers in the great task of reforing order tomorrow.

Before the national guardsmen arrived earlv th'w afternoon the city was policed by SOrt students of River the blazes. the shop was damaged. He iouna his son pinned nnder a counter. The building was afire and the flames place rushed for the stairway at once. It was awful.

I was far behind the others. "Then the windows blew in, and creening ur inch by inch. The heat It was feared that many negroes ciated with him in the last weeks of the executive's campaign to "break the case," as still determined to locate possible accomplices of the stolid wss suffocating. were drowned, as the blow, hitting The father struggled and pulled, glass struck all around me. The hardest in the negro section Bronx carpenter.

but the son was hopelessly pinned. pelo, carried a number. of flimsy cot-taees into Park lake, a municipal building swayed, and the last I remember was being struck by a brick." In Brooklyn, the weird story Paul H. Wendel told of being kidnaped in So, the old man sat down while the flames crept up and held the boy's body of water. were pulled from charges against him in Texas, but was i talkative enough about the Atlanta hand.

Mercifully, death came before February and beaten to yield a "con fession of the hourlands crime the flames. spurred half a hundred detectives to The old man inched back slowly as the-water alive. A postcard apparently blown from the vicinity of Tupelo, 57 miles away. Roll view. Tenn.

It was seek the honse in which he said four auair, rector said, iseard told nim ne thought all the time that he had killed Officer Jones, Ector declared. Jones received a scalp wound when two bullets fired by Beard near Piedmont park during the chase grazed side Military academy unoer me ni-rection of Colonel Sandy Besver, head of the school, and Colonel O. R. Norton, commsndant of the cadet battalion. Riverside.

Brenau Escape. he watched the son corpse consumed. A young husband surveyed the men kept him prisoner. -Strange Funeral. addressed to Mrs.

T. M. Clark, at Ve It was a strange funeral they rave rona, and was postmarsea Fer ruins of his home. "I naid the last note last week his skull. Jones dropped to the ground nando, Miss.

Hanptmann in the stone crematory building overlooking a Lutheran ceme In a voice equally as feeble as that of Miss Parker. Joseph Palmer told how he was caught under the wreckage of an anto tire shop. "I stepped into this place," he said, "and was watching the storm coming np. "In a twinkling, the roof blew off the building, and the entire place fell down on me. I was knocked out, I guess, because I don't remember anything after that until somebody pulled me ont.

Julian V. Boehm, Atlanta civic leader, representing the Red Cross, met the train at the station. Neither Riverside Academy or Bre was his only comment. All he could I but got up again and continued the nau Collece for women was inju tery. Hundreds of neighbors and find was the shattered foundation and hv the cvclone.

tt passing several ,1.:, The fire station at Gainesville, was demolished, trapping fire-fight-in nnmmnL firemen strung hose six pieces of wood. children pressed excitedly against the tall iron fence, and a score of police blocks from both institutions. Brenau and nmmH from nn. pushed them back from locked gates. Doctors from Atlanta labored in students acted as nurses until the mpro.is police traps in this and ur- from the fire station to burning build the emergency clinic, installed in the Mrs.

Hanptmann spent an hour gmunaie nurrra arm uvui rounding States. with the body. "Richard, some day Sundav school room of the Jsirst ings. m.ht nf the homes destroyed in your name will be cleared and those Methodist church. Double mattresses MRS.

W. J. BEALL, 69, responsible will pay. or they mur He supervised the placing of the PASSES AT HOME HERE I ambulances, from virtually an white dered: murdered you, my Kichard, were spread about the floor and these were covered with sheets rushed up by Atlanta hospitals and other agencies. Tupelo were the city's finest.

After a survey Adjutant General Ma A. O'Keefe estimated that more than she said slowly. and colored undertaking establish Then she plucked a carnation from ments. Ouicklv the mattresses were filled residences had been the huge floral cross that bore her Lieutenant R. P.

Bnrnett was in with broken and crushed human bod Cities. Part of the roof of Brenau College was djimareil but It was slight and official considered that the institution had escaped almost untouched. The injured were taken as quickly as possible to emergency hospitals at the Chicopee Manufacturing Company, the New Holland cotton mill, the Gainesville cotton mill, the infirmary of Riverside Military Academy and a newly built home for aged. The death list monnted as search of the wreckage revealed corpses that card: "With love, Anna, and put ies, gasping for life. Electric power Af- nni time during the day when it in the same hand the state of was olt.

candies Btucc nere ana the hand of death was dealing the New Jersey proved built a ladder, there throughout this makeshift oper charge of patrolmen at the station, to keep crowds in order, and Lieutenant R. L. McLean was in, charge of the motorcycle escort. REPORTER RECOUNTS killed a baby. Jv -j-i cards.

Dr. I C. Feemster in charge of the courthouse "hospital, snorted that the patients were "dying A few minntes later there was a ating room helped to relieve the gloom, but added to the weird, nerve-wracking touch of that unforgettable Mrs. V. J.

Beall, 9, died last night at her residence. 461 ArnoM street, N. E. She had been an active member of Westminster Presbyterian church prior to a recent illness. She is survived by her hnband; two sons, N.

L. Beall and A. E. Beall, and two daughters. Mrs.

Angnsta B. Couper and Mis Fannie Mae BealL all of Atlanta. Funeral arrangements wiU be announced by H. M. Patterson A Son.

WITHHOLD PAYMENT. MIAMI. Fla, April by the dozens" In Tupelo. brief service held behind locked doors in an office of the crematory building. The Reverends John Matthiesen scene.

EXPERIENCES ON RADIO Tk a TTn Werwi rv if ississippi-To- ledo baseball games at Oxford, and D. G. Werner had pledged to New Jersey authorities that only the legal limit of six' persons would be Termite Roaches Frank Drake, Constitution staff correspondent and one of the reporters covering the Gainesville tornado, was interviewed for 15 minutes over Rats Vermin present before the open casket. The ministers prayed in German. En fC9 Don't Lose 111 HOPE PLAY BALL! That's one of the surest signs of spring -and another is the new gasoline Gulf supplies for April.

Why new? Because April temperatures are up and gasoline must be changed accordingly or you don't get the Best mileage. Switch to That Good Gulf it's 'Kept in Step with the Calendar." A tankful will prove that all of it goes to work none of it goes to waste. Try iu station WATL by Maurice Coleman, city ot mi new op a second payment for 4 parking meters today fallowing its dinanprorinr assirnment Five hundred cadets from Riverside Academy, near Gainesville, were the first to act as emergency police and rescue workers in downtown Gainesville. The boys were dragging ont bodies, digging in the debris for others, regulating traffic pushing back crowds, and displaying creditable calm as they labored in the midst of the horrors. Some were as young as fifteen.

Outstanding tfiMt vboataGfi' ITALIAN SHIP KEY WEST. Fla April 6. OPy- If yoa suffer from deaf neas, ringing, bon-nw head now. don't lose hope until yea try Oorine, the Vienna specialist's treat starting at 8:15 clock last night. They talked over a straight line to the station.

Drake was interviewed on the methods and problems of gathering the news in the disiaster-ridden city and gave a color story of condition ia tha town. The Italian freighter Maddalena Odero was still grounded a sandbar seven miles off Key West's harbor tonight of a contract by the Dual Park-O-Meter Company, of Oklahoma City, to Shaw Brothers. Inc. Payments await efforta to obtain reduction oi the meter eocU, 1 ment. TbeosaMS aanzea ana ercnoyra Ourine reenrta.

Tern- money refwded if met satisfied. Casts oary a few cents dairy. WA. 1050 after the wrecking tug Warbler failed ctzg it tree iftirinf-tae daj -1.