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I PRICE THREE CENTS ST. LOUISOVEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH SECTIONS-26 PAGES. VOL. 63-NO. 301-7PART ONE In The at.

Louie Metropolitan Area. XCLUSIV ISTERI Immir If: 7., -i- oh r), I. 11 1 r. i 4,..... 4, 1 1 Of I 8 '1 .,....) I 1,4 RI EXCLUSIVE PHOTO I LEFTISTS 1 Can't Hold Out Against Rebels, Premier Negrin Tells Offtcials on Fling Visit to Paris By ASSOCIATED PRESS.

aaj aMtalkJ1101011411L ab tiama Jo oLiNla1v0a, 60 Homes Demolished in St. Clair County Seat, With Loss Estimated at O'Fallon, Glennvievf. and Fairview Also Hit 1 i a 1 PARIS, March 15.Premier Juan Negrin of Spain, it was learned tonight, told France in a flying visit the Spanish Government was unable to hold out against the insurgent drive un- less immediate aid were forthcoming. -7-. The Spanish Preraier's hurried visit to Paris was kept se- cret until he had returned by plane to Barcelona, Spanish Government capital now threatened by advancing insurgents.

Negrin was said to have pleaded with French Government officials to send him 200 planes and large quantities of munitions to stave. off the insurgent attack. 1 'Barcelona dispatches said the Spanish Premier summoned his Ministers into meeting as soon as his temporary 6 capital. At almost the same- time Foreign Minrster Joseph Paul. Boncour told the British Ambassador, Sir Eric Phipps, France was ready to participate in any mediation of the Spanish civil waeby foreign pbwers, though both Spanish Government and insurgent sources denied any move had been made for an armis tice.

A government decision to send three warships under forced draft to Spanish waters was believed to have been taken as a result of Negrin's visit. 1 What answer the Spanish Pre- ler gained from French officials could not be learned. for Negrin's visit.was shrouded In secrecy. I K.II 1 in State over 70,000 French troops were II 1I 1 by Tornadoes reported garrisoned near the Spanish froatier, principally at Perpig-, tan, Pau and Tarbes. Several of the regiments are motorized and could be moved, to the frontier quickly If necessary- The twister which struck Belleville yesterday, photographed by Theodore H.

Dressel of 28 South Ninety-fifth street, Belleville, who was about a quarter of a mile away. Dressel was in Valhalla Cemetery waiting to take a picture of a funeral when he saw the funnel-shaped cloud, and he turned his small camera on it. He is an apprentice engineer and an amateur 1 1 photographer. photographer. Eyewitness Eight persons were killed and scorea were iniiired; some of them seriously, when a tornado swept through Belleville and surrounding towns yesterday, shattering blocks of buildings in its path with an irresistible force.

Of the injured, q9 wereptreat. ed at hospitals and doctors' offices. The passage of the twister through a few blocks on 'West Main street, principally that between Twenty-seventh and Twin- ty-ninth, required only about 30 seconds, according to witnesses of the fearful visitation, yet-in that brief period buildings were transformed into 'crushed bricks and stone, splintered timbers and general debris. Also visited by the tornado or by separate ones were the towns of 0 781101, seven miles- to the north of Belleville, Glennview, a mile from 0 Tenon, where six houses were destroyed and one man killed, six miles from. Glenn.

view, and an area southeast of Belleville where 23 were re ported injured. In addition it is estimated that 'many persons in Belleville were injured but their names were not reported to police. Twenty-five miles east of Belleville, in Washington County, the storm leveled a home and seriously injured Mrs. Chris Sering. A church and two homes were demolished at the Darin.

stadt settlement and considerable damage done at Okawville. At Darmstadt, George Juener was critically injured when his home was demolished. I Mayor George Remnsnider of Belleville estimated the dams age in that city at about $1,000,000. Two persons were received at St. Elizabeth's lespital from Venedy, in Washington County, just east of the St Clair County line, both so dazed from injuries they were unable to explain their condition Belleville, the seat of St.

Clair County, is 14 miles southeast of St. Louis and has 'a population of 29,000. sixrc HOUSES WRECKED At least 60 buildings in Belleville were demolished, In. eluding the Union School, a township grade school. The tornado; striking at 5 found the institution deserted, the last of the children having been dismissed at 3:15 p.

m. Aboutz 200 yards away was the $1,000,000 Belleville High School, which almost miraculously escaped -unscathed as the force of the twister smashed other structures within its shadow. The actually passed over the campus of the high school. The particular spot where the black funnel-shaped storm, dipped into Belleville -and up buildings as so much chaff is along the route of State Highway 13, which connects the city with East St Louis. Some of the territory was built with sub.

stantial homes and in most homes Which collapsed fire quickly finished the destruction. After I the storm subsided the entire top story of the two. story Urdon School had disappeared, some of the debris being found in the classrooms below. The plumbing and tradiators of the floor remained intact, protruding into the air.I Two filling stations were leveled in the storm-hit, zone and at one of them eight automobiles were piled up into a heap of wreckage. One tavern near by had completely disappeared, while another which had stood at 2800 West Main street was hurled completely across the street.

I CANNERY DAMAGED Ince. County, 1 Chris hen his IC dam. al from County explain lutheast led, In. L. The ted, the as the school.

1 storm chaff the city sub. quicIdy le two. being ne and leap of peared, et was sraiic rif cfnrm I a I WA. z- I OF IMF 110, I I I 1 I I S9-000-000 in Incom. aut- 1.m 1 1 St.

Louis District Shows 38 Pct. Gain Over Corresponding Day Last Year St. Louli District Shows 38 Over Carresaandina Day Last Year By Associated Press. POPLAR BLUFF, March 15. A roaring tornado spread death and destruction in Southeastern and Eastern Missouri late Six persons were known dead, all In Dunk lin County.

Scores were injured. Hundrects of homes were reported (-wrecked in. Dunkliza-A-Courtry alone, splintered to bits by' the whirling funnel that leaped across the Arkazusas line. THE DEAD Grady Sanderson, 23-year-old farmer, was killed in the Bakerville community. Lee Walker, 71.

farmer, his wife, 74, and their son, Bert, 25, were killed when hurled into a slough from their home four miles southeast of Kennett. Two Negroes, Mrs. Henry Johnson and her 9-year-old son, died-st Wardell. The twister cut a 20-mile straight path a quarter of a mile wide, sweeping everything before it. Motorists abandoned their automobiles on the highway to take refuge in culverts, as did farmers and their families living near enough.

-Claude Nichols, 29, and his Myrtle, 26, were seriously injured In Northwest Butler County. They were taken to a hospital here and rescuers went into the farming community 4. bring out others reported 3 SCHOOLS ESCAPE A DEAD Joseph Boesch, former pest dent of the Boesch Enamel Stove Company of Belleville, killed whet his automobile was wrecked. -Albert Weaver, 67, coal min-killed in Glennview, a mile from O'Fallon, when his home was demolished. Matysik, 52, foundry worker, 14 South Twenty-third street, Charles Johnson, 18-monthold son of Fred Johnson, Belleville, killed while being carried by his grandmother, The child's mother is' in a Belleville hospital, where she gave birth to another child yesterday.

George 51, of 110 South Twenty-ninth street. Mrs. Robert Malacarne, 23, of ,31 North, Twenty-ninth street. Oscar Krug, 58, 3101-Roland avenue. 31iss Jane Smith, 119 North Thirtieth street, died at St.

Elizabeth's Hospital at 10:40 p. ra. of internal and head injuries suffered when her home was demolished. EAD, 4-HOUR CABINET MEETING By Associated Press. BARCELZ)NA, March 15.After four-hour Cabinet meeting to' night thSp4nish Government announced it would 1- "employ the greatest possible energy toward reestablishing discipline" on the civil tar fronts.

Minister of Education Jesus Hernandez said the meeeting was concerned chiefly with military problems facing the Spanish Government; but the international situation also was discussed. Sound trucks in the streets blared rallying speeches to silent DENY SENDING TROOPS LONDON, March Spanish Embassy tonight stated the Spanish Foreign Office' has definite information that Germfuly is- preparing fresh intervention in Spain. Thirty thousand storm troops, with their officers specially trained In- infantry and I artillery technique by Reichswehr experts, left Germany for Spain Monday in German ships." Reuter's Berlin office tonight obtained a categorical denial from official quarters that there. Is any truth in the statement that storm troopers being sent to Spain. "Any report that troops or any other formation are being sent to Spain not only is untrue, but is nonsense," officials of the German propaganda ministry said.

EXTREMISTS BUSY By Associated Press. 1 PERPIGNAN, FRANCE (ATI THE SPANISH BORDER), March reaching the French, border from Barcelona reported today that extremists tbere were demanding reorganization of the Federal income tax collections for the St. Louis district totaled approximately $9,000,000 last midnight, a gain of about 38 per cent over the collections on the corresponding day of last year, Collector of Internal Revenue Sheehan announced. I This total will be swelled by the returns and payments which will be received today through the mail with additional tax returns. At the close of business on March 15, last year, tax payments had amounted to $6,500,000.

The increase this year amounts to $2,500,000. Total collections for the whole of last year in this district amounted to approximately The estimate of increased collections here, it was explained, will depend on normal improvement in returns of corporations and large taxpayers, which will not be received until today In the mails, or later, in the cases of corporations with complicated structures which obtain an extension of time. Large taxpayers usually mall in returns on the final day in order to take advantage of the interest Sheehan's office remained open until midnight last night, while the office of Assessor, Coale, in the City Hall, where state income tax returns are remained open until 9 p. m. However, as it is obligatory for persons filing a state return to accompany the return with a copy of the federal return, the effect was to enforce the clearing of most returns before 9 p.

m. Persons who had not filed their federal return before 9 p. m. had to get the copy of it and the state return In the mail before midnight to avoid penalty. A veteran deputy in Sheehan's office said yesterday the crowd vas the lightest closing day one in the 25-year history of the income tax August Hausam, material clerk on a WPA project, who was about a halt away from the district struck by the tornaao, said he heard a noise "like freight train" and then saw a black funnel rushing along, dipping occasionally to send parts of buildingrs and tree branches flying and telephone poles 'When the funnel -hit the- Union Grade School at Twenty-eighth and West Main streets, it tore off the upper front part of the building and, I found out later, part of- the ceiling and second floor dropped down to the ground floor," Hausam related.

"A two-story manufacturing plant. about 50 feet away from the school fell down like when you'd drop a mass of bricks on a paper house. "1 ran to the place where the tornado bad hit, which, as nearly as can figure it, is a stretch about five or six blocks long. .7. "In all, besides the school and the plant, I saw two filling stations, a tavern and front 11 to 15 houses badly damaged.

I didn't see any sign of anyone being killed, although I did see an old woman car-red out alive from a wrecked build-in: 1 also saw five automobiles turned over or damaged. One of them was standing up on Its front end against a building. Another one was turned over on its side. "Several of the buildings I saw had been completely demolished, but 'there was little of them left to be seen, as the wind evidently had carried the bricks away. "Just before the tornado hit, the Sky got dark and then lightened.

"It all seemed to last just a couple of minutes and then the sky cleared up and sun started to shine." It was estimated collections this year would run about 33 or 40 per cent above those of last year. Indicative of the increase in Income for the small taxpayer was the observation that many persons who in prior 'years had never received enough in wages to render them obligated to file a return are 'now in that class, although they have not changed employment This is explained by recent wage increases, it was said. INJURED In Jefferson County, not far from St. Louis, a several farm buildings and narrowly missed three rural schools. Rain and hail followed the wind.

Communication lines were disrupted throughout the storm area The storm which hit near. Kennett apparently was the worst One school was destroyed, a church was demolished and dead live stock littered the fields. Paul Jones, Kennett newspaper publisher, said the storm cut a straight path from the Nesbit community. 11 miles southeast of Kennett, and continued on to Baker-vine. While the teicher and 17 pupils huddled in fear in the center of the Continued on Page SA.

Column 3. 1 $7500 Drive i at Mark Illinois Driver Dies as Train Hits Auto i Colder Today, Partly Cloudy Continued on Page 3A, Column 1. Early Morning News Flashes Forecast for St. Louis and VicinityPartly cloudy and slightly colder today; tomorrow fair and lwarmer. Temperature readings follow: 1 p.

m. 58 8 p. tn. 65 2 p. m.

61 9 p. m. 64 3 p. m. .62 10 p.

60 4 p. m. 62 11 p. m. 5 p.

tn. 64 12 p. m. 57 6 p. m.

65 1 a. nu 56 7 P. m. 65 2 a. m.

58 Unofficial. 3 a. m. 57 The halfway point In the $7500 drive of the St. Louis Chapter of the American Jewish Congress has been reached, campaign workers reported at a luncheon yesterday at the De Soto Hotel.

The drive, part of a nation-wide $250,000 campaign, will be concluded with a victory dinner sometime next week, according to present plans. M. J. Slordm, one of the campaign leaders, pointed out the fund will be used to improve conditions of Jews throughout the world. "The Nazi conquest of Austria has enhanced this need," he declared.

"Already we can see what Is happening to Jews in that country. Many of them will have to flee for safety to other countries." One unit of the G. S. Suppiger Canning Company, tomatol firm, was badly damaged by the storm. 4 A huge smokestack of the plant was blown down 'while the second story of the brick plant at the rear was shaved ofteleanly from theground-floor structure.

Barrels of the plant were strewn along the street for 100 yards. I A troop, 100 soldiers, was at once from Scott Field to assist in first-aid work and another 100 was sent soon after I Police said 60 homes had been wrecked by the twister. In the damage the gas mains were wrecked, allowing the fumes to escape and requiring police and soldiers to maintain rigid regulations against exposing flame in the stricken area. One of the first relief work delegations on the scene was a detachment of the Red Cross, which set up a service station in the area, where the wounded were treated. Lamp posts were felled by the wind while some huge trees as well as smaller ones and the saplings were blown down with the roots laid bare.

More than a mile and a half of telephone wire was torn down and a score of poles were leveled- by the tornado. Repair crews from East St. Lotiis and St. Louis were dispatched to assist Belleville workers I Telephone calls to the stricken, city so jammed the lines that some calls were delayed two hours before being put through. An extra corps of operators was sent to the Belleville exchange.

Lights in the area and adjacent parts of Belleville were ex. tinguished and two huge towers carrying current went down. The electricity was restored to the adjacent territory by throw. ing in an emergency circuit and Illinois-Iowa Company officials said they expected completed restoration of, service promptly. Heavy rain, of almost cloudburst proportions, broke over East St.

Louis twice yesterday afternoon after two days of in. terraittent but heavy rainfall. A lightning storm accompanied' the rain, but no damage was reported. Many automobiles were stalled in the streets. A rainbow' stretched over the East Side A A re.

i tomatoi lilts the relean- it were were ex. nt down, by throw. Company If service 1 Otto J. Eraleben, 42, of Centerville, 1114 was killed instantly at 5:20 o'clock last night when an pun ois Central passenger train struck his automobile- at the Centerville crossing. I I Deputy Sheriffs Ed Hots and Frank Baur, who investigated tlae accident, said it appeared the locomotive struck his car as he drove upon the crossing.

A rain and bail storm was raging at the time and Erxleben's vision and hearing probably were obscured, they staid. 't The automobile and driver were dragged- 200 feet. Illinois, Central officials at East St. Louis were unable to get immediate information about the accident because of interruption of wire service. They learned, they said, only that their fast Panama Limited, south-bound from St.

Louis, had been in a grade crossing accident at 200 Students and 26 Priests Flee to Safety When Fire Destroys Seminary By Associated rims. The injured treated at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Belleville, are: Mn. Anna Sierling, Venedy, Vernon Sierling, Venedy, George Juenger, Darmstadt, Bt. An unidentified girl about 9 years old Miss Mary Simmons, 112 North Thirtieth street.

Fred Herbert, Millstadt, 111. Verna Schoeffer, Rural Route 2, Gertrude Marble, 119 North Thirtieth street. Jacob Deckert, 35 North Twenty-eighth street Estelle Randle, 2913 West Main street. Lucy Weaver, O'Fallon, Ill. Alice Craig, North Twenty-ninth street.

Leado Koch, 400 North Twenty-second street Mary Schoeffer, Rural Route 3, Belleville. Dora Jane Kaiser, Glennview, 11. Robert Weaver, Glennview, Mrs. Thomas Hargratens, 400 North Twenty-second street. Margaret Lane, 135 North Main street.

I Edward Munie, Caseyville, Alvin Herbert, Rural Route 3, Leroy Frankle, OTallon, El. Orphid 139 North Thirtieth street James Daniels, South ninth street Georgia Daniels, South Twenty-ninth street Jessie Randle, 2913 West Main street; Chester Oughtan, 219 South Twenty-ninth street Mae Schaeffer, Caseyville Roy Matacrone, South street Ann 'Marie Malacrone, South HERMAN; 31arch 16 raged early today through St. Fide lis Seminary here but near-by residents said 200 boy students and 26 priest instructors had escaped. Firemen at Butler, five miles from here and 35 miles' from Pittsburgh, said they had received three calls for help and that firemen from several other near-by towns were rushed to the school; Yesterday Maximum temperature, 65 at 7 p. minimum.

46 at 6:15 a. In. Relative humidity, 83 per cent at noon; 86 per cent at 7 p. m. Precipitation, 1.41 of an inch in the 24 hours ending at 7 p.

River stage, 14.8 feet at 7 p. rn, a rise of 3.6 of loot in 24 hours. A year ago yesterdayMaximum temperature, 31; minimum, 22; Normal maximum this date, 53; normal minimum, 35. Sun rises today, 6:11 a. sets, 6:09 p.

FORECAST BF STATES Russia Would Join France Jor Czech Aid Woman Arrested in Plotto Kill 10 Persons With Poison to oison Meramec May Reach Flood -Stage Today The Meramec River, rising at the rate of about a feet for each 24 hours, is expected to reach its flood stage of 14 feet in St. Louis County late today or The river yesterday had reached the 10.2-foot stag. on the guage at Valley Park, having risen 32 in the 24-hour period preceding the reading. Whether the stream will overflow its banks depends on the amount of rainfall within the next few days, it was said at the weathz Sr office. sr office.

Missouri Partly cloudy and slightly colder today; tomorrow fair and warmer. IllinoisMostly cloxidy and slightly colder in east-central and extreme north portions; fair and warmer tomorrow. ArkansasFair today and tomorrow; cooler in east and south portions today; warmer, In northwest portion tomorrow. Weather In leading titles Page 711. IT 0114411Cr an 'caging clues rage 72161 By Associated Press.

I MOSCOW, March 13.A high SOviet official -tonight said Russia vrould go to the aid of Czecho-Siowilds in case of a German attack If Prance also gave her Central European ally military. assistance. I Both Francs and Russia have agreed in treaties to aid CzechoSlovakia against aggression. The Russian treaty provides assistance, however, only in the event of similar Trench aid. I Ur Trench aid.

By Associated Press. MOBILE, March 16 Sheriff James Stafford announces a woman, booked at County Jail here as Mrs. Denice Crenshaw, 47, has been arrested and charged with administering poison to 10 persons with intent to kill. The woman was identified by the deputy as the divorced wife of Gus Crensbaw, a farmer, whose family stricken with poisoning last December from eating food prepared from king of flour in her home. pareu iron' a Dag in Liour ill her 110131e ProduL.

home in, Belleville we struck. Tlie tornado struck with terrine forcl, she said, rand was accompanred by a deafening noise. The wind seemed as a cloud about 20 rith terrine pas accom- tiolse. The ri about 20 at 4 :50 m- GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION Mrs. Joel Dtuileis, 10 years old, of 6 South Twenty-ninth street, gave graphic description of the storm as she awaited treatment for slight injuries sho received as her li II ght inj es uri sh received as her Continued on Page Continued on Page Continued on Page 1 I i I Coritinued on Page Z.

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