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-'r 1 4-- Ji-n it' 4t: -i Al Vz if 2 a r- ir4- vs I 5 e- a tm S' 7 l'r ss f- 1 i a A ft' j- ''O'' 'i i a a -V' -v 7 1 I rt-'i 1 -I Why Pay for Waste Circulation? 63 of The Evening Eaglet Circulation Is in the city 86 of The Evening Eagle'S Circulation Is In the City of Wichita and' Suburban Average Net Paid OQOIfi Past 3 Months 93VjM JO 86 Clfy and Suburban Aii 86 of The-Wichita Eagle lfoming and 'Eve nlng net paid dxculation of 86748 Is confined to Wichita and Suburban vi 1 -1 i You Win The Eagle "Tn the Heme1 i 1 J' VOLUME XCIX Pricer In the City 3c Outside City i-1 1 i WICHITA KANSAS MONDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 25 1935 EIGHT PAGES V1 -f 'f ir 1 7 ti i uvv iv-'- SCENE AS TOntlADO RAKE0 DISTRICT NEAR VICIIITA i 1 I Low Number of lnjuries Is Seen as Miracle Afler Roosevelt Drops Cares to Enjoy Sleighing Hyde park Feb 24 (AF) Fresident drove the 'old family sleigh over-the snow-covered lanes of the estate today In enjoying the 'pleasares of home Mr Roosevelt arrived this morning by special train from Cambridge Mass time for a steaming breakfast with his mother and Mrs Roosevelt In the hove overlooking the frozen river cares were put aside as far as possible for a president and he spent the day In relaxation No engagements have been made for tomorrow It was mid-afternoon when Mr Roosevelt took up the reins- of the two-seated black and red sleigh pulled by the chestnut mare of the daughtdr Mrs John Roettlger Mr and Mrs Roettlger -Joined in the ride Anna seated with her father on the front seat Terrific Storm Deals Destruction from Vesf fo North Side of City Woman Blown from Nome HOUSES BARNS AND Property Damage Will Run Info Thousands Victims Tell Hair-raising Stories of Buildings Crash- lng About Them Amidst iTerrifying Din A tornado lashed its tail to the earth two miles west of Wichita on Central Sunday at 2 mv and went skipping to the northeast for 10 miles leaving destruction at every point it touched-the ground It faded away near Kecht 5 corner There were so many narrow es TREES ARE LEVELED eapes from death that It -seemed almost miraculous no person In the path of the- storm was killed' Only ja few were Injured The property loss will run Into manyj thousands of dollars The storm showed its greatest fury at Wichita Heights There it demolished a feed store destroyed hduses! blew away sheds and performed other damaging feats Blown Out of House Mrs: Joe Uhl of 5125 North Broadway was blown out of her homo OTHER TORNADO SCENES Are on Pages 2 and 5 JJERE 18 THE TORNADO that When Ollphant' 2602 Park swept a 10-mlle course west and north of Wichita Sunday afternoon Place saw the funnel he dashed into his house and got a camera He took three pictures of the tornado as It passed to the west at a distance of about two miles The above View finds the Camera pointed -west from Twenty-sixth and Park Place toward Finn school Mr Oli-phant got good pictured In all three shots He then went to the Stone nursery and took additional views for his collection THE EDITOR SPEAKING: Yesterday Wichita had a tornado rain hail thunder lightning heat and cold There is no need to go elsewhere for a change of climate when you can have that assortment right here at honie IVICHITAN GIVES GRAPHIC TALE OF DESTRUCTION BT TORNADO i -v "1 -1 'J ::4 I 'Vi f7 Jl Sjlppery Texas Thug Runs Out of Police Trap In Hail of Bullets SURE BANDIT WAS SHOT Officers Declare Fugitive Stopped Car and Turned -Wheel Over to Pal TEX Feb 5-( Monday) The blood-spattered bnllet-tom sedan used by Raymond Hamilton Texas desperado in from a police trap early last nlgbt near McKinney was found on a conn-iry lane near here early today Nellson county attorney said a farmer whose name was not learned telephoned officers here that he had found the machine on a raln-drebched road near Weston ten miles north of here 1 Fifteen officers armed with machine guns went to the scene M'KINNEY TEX Feb (AP -Raymond Hamilton notorious death house fugitive escaped a carefully laid police trap three miles from McKinney early tonight but officers who laid the ambush belieyed they wounded him Two men occupied the front seat of motor car are certain we wounded him" saL Police Chief John McKinney the car was stopped out of of the officers gunfire co allow a change of drivers" recent escapades include escape from a police trap in Dallas which ultimately resulted in capture of "his brother Floyd Later Hamilton raided a Texas national guard armory and there seized sub- machine guns and ammunition Shower Car with Slugs Two state highway patrolmen six officers from McKinney and Dallas county officers were in the party that showered car with bull fts as he drove slowly along an abandoned highway Just after dusk tonight The gunman stopped momen-v tarily then roared away The' off leers afoot after leaving their machines hidden In the brush were thus handicapped in pursuit of the outlaw He fled in a north-' westerly direction and was believed headed toward Gainesville Through an informant the band of officers had been tipped Hamilton would be driving along the road late today They were given Jhe license number In three years Texas courts lm- posed prison sentences totaling 263 years on' Hamilton for robberies and killings-The death sentence was Imposed for the slaying of Major Crowson a guard at the Eastham state prison farm January 16 1933 during a prison break Clyde Barrow later slain in Louisiana was outside aid In the escape plot Later Hamilton was recaptured only to flee row" In the Huntsville penitentiary Hamilton was a confederate ol Barrow and-the clgar-smok-lng woman companion Bonnie Parker for a time GRAB SIX WITH NARCOTICS SEATTLE Feb 24 lng down on the waterfront In an early morning raid customs agents today arrested six men four of them Orientals and seized a speedboat and narcotics valued at $20000 AIR SUICIDES in JECENT PHOTOGRAPHS of right) show the sisters who and into the yard She escaped -injury When the -storm demolished the feed store of William Flshback at -Wichita Heights he escaped- Injury Jimmie Koontz 12 was In the store He held on for dear Ufa and was not hurt Virginia Ruth stone of the Stone nursery -one-half mile west: of Sul-' dam was taken to Wichita hospital with bad bruises Other -members- of the family were rvn-r injured alUiough the house 7 was carried away and the nursery badly damaged A piano remained up--right on the floor of the: home -although walls and roof were swept aside: I House' Wrecked v- The residence of Moore: two miles west of the city on Thirteenth' was lifted' from its foundation and set down so that' it settled into the basement There were '10 persons inride the home 7 at the time and A Bradley -living in the basement with his family was the only- one hurt-He did not- consider his bruises serious enough for 1 The mercury had slipped up to 64 degrees early Sunday 1 afternoon when the sky darkened and dark' clouds gathered to the north and-wesL A continuous roll of thunder told of an electrical disturb-ance above azid hundreds -of Wlchitans watched the to see what would 'happen The clash of a cold wave coming from the north and the warm hnm4 air over Wichita was not dlsap-t pointing Frdm their porches Wlchitans saw a long funnel shape west of the city azid start its swift Journey to the northeast it was one of the longest columns Wlchitans ever had seen The top disappeared into storm clouds: Many thought it was the thickest funnel they had 'ever witnessed to Hr ARL WALKER 2129 South Water was so close to thetor- nado that swept west of Wichita-Sunday that he felt the poll Which al one time was so strong it kept hls-neckfie -straight out was visiting with my brother-in-law Vem Collins at his place about half a mile north of Twenty-firzt on West" he said saw the tornado coming and Vem thought it was Just a whirlwind and would do no damage I had seen them before so I argued that It might be small but It would tear up anything in its path We stood outside and watched it come It hit the place of Green well Just' to the south it was plain that It was out for business The windmill was twisted iaround like it was so much putty and the top was thrown far into' a field The wind then cut the cow shed directly In two It crashed into the bam and two mules were knocked about We had to free one of them later from under a timber but it was not injured badly tornado then ripped through a row of cottonwood trees twisting and smashing them about They were snapped off This swath was about 100 feet long which shows the width of the tornado there funnel then started to 5' Fuehrer Warns Backers of plif Regime That It Can ever Return to' Rule YEARS Chancellor Asserts Reich Is Ready lo Defend Liberty Las! MUNICH GERMANY IebJ -Tke heavy hand and ahoutingv voice of Adolf I Hitler sought to ban-ish forever today all thought of the return of a -monarch to the German reich fools who still dream of a restored regime" Hltl shouted say that what once was: can never be again You will never return to Celebrate Putsch huge Munich town hall echoed and zeedhoed with cheers from an assembly of seasoned old Nazi campaigners and eager young aspirants to Nazi honors gathered tq celebrate the' 15th anniversary of tlje day Hitler proclaimed the Nazi gospel in a Munich beer cellar We are all for £aid Hitler during his speech" touching only briefly on foreign relations' not at the price of our honor We are ready for any kind of cooperation but if the world does not un- dretend we' are ready at all times stand on our own 13 Years faith In the German people" Hitler loudly proclaimed my sole Inspiration add sustenance at a time when the country languished in deepest humiliation when materialism triumphed and when Mammon ruled fWe were dishonored for 13 yeats through false leadership" said the relchsfuehrer returning once more tq the theme of monarchlal rule such a Germany shah- never come hack The German nation Is dtermlnedTto defdad its liberty to the last Neither: I nor anyone after me will sign anything derogatory td our honor What we sign we will keep" STATE LEGISLATURE fLANS NEW SESSION DURING LATE SPRING rogrsm Practically Bogs Down Awaiting Congress Action on Relief Capital Punishment Beer Buried TOPEKA Feb 24 As Kansas lawmakers prepared to begin their eighth week of deliberation tomorrow administration and legislative leaders were preparing plans for reconvening the legislature late lxj the spring after congress had enacted a federal relief program (Aside from introduction of the irajor appropriation bills expected by the middle of the week little work of Importance is likely to be disposed of this week unless the senate calendar committee should advance the beer and capital punishment bills for consideration Fund Requirements in Doubt jThese measures passed weeks ago by the house have Remained burial on the senate calendar as that branch continued to devote its -attention to consideration of -its own bills rather' thah those sent over from the house 1 Until congress takes action did 1-age pension and other Continued on Page 2 Column 1) WINTER TO EASE GRiP ON KANSAS Becoming fsSr Monday preceded by snow in 7 extreme east much eolder along Missouri boundary not so cold In west portion in afternoon Tuesday fair with temperature OKLAHOMA: Cloudy snow in east portion colder in east portlon Monday Tuesday Cabinet so cold The worst fury of the belated februaxy? wlntry stonn was expended in its Initial sweep over Sunday afternoon and Kansas night and a' slow improvement is expected to start this morning-forecasters said Chances are the' temperatures In the Wichita area yin remain good and cold today and there may be some clouds but spectacular weather gymnas- are a' thing of the past they said Fair and warmer Is pre- Ucted Tuesday -y i It I INDEPENDENCE TWISTER LOSS NEAR $100000 Seven Houses Demolished 14 Partially Wrecked as Tornado Rips Over Town in Southeastern Kansas INDEPENDENCE- KAN Feb (P) Seven houses were demolished 14 partially wrecked and nearly a scase others were damaged by a tornado which struck Independence in southeastern Kansas at 5:10 today A woman was reported -to have suffered an arm fracture Unofficial conservative estimates of damage wrought exceeded $100-' 000 Like Roar of Train The funnel-shaped cloud swept in from the southeast and across the southeastern- quarter of the city One of the residences demolished was the large two-story home of Mrs Lena Haas Widow of Lee Haas dothjhg merchaditTlte home of John Denman wealt thy oil man was damaged PYank Sands newspaper man who witnessed the approach said roar sounded like that of a approaching train" lower end of the funnel appeared to be at least 100 feet In- the he added I thought at first It would miss us Then a tree crashed In the yard (Continued on Page 3 Column 2) 1 DEAD 15 HURT IN SOONER DL0W Two Mining Communities Near Picker Swept by Tornado PICHER OKUL Feb: One person was dead and 15 injured were in two hospitals here as a result of a tornado that swept two mining communities about dusk tonight The dead: Mrs Ellen Tague 69 The Injured: Marion Teague 69 Church Teague 25 Bertha Donaldson 21 seriously hurt James Donaldson 5 Thomas Donaldson' 3 MyereT-37 Veda Myers 37 William Myers 8 Mattie Shepherd 24 Amos Shepherd 27 Junior Shepherd Wanda Lee 3 Luther Spriggs 43 Mrs Zone Spriggs 37 Juanita Spriggs 14 The tornado struck first at Commerce four miles north of Miami with the wind whipping Out of the southwest then dipped twice at the edge of Douthat knocking over several lead and zinc mine derricks A few minutes later it dropped In full force upon a small mine settlement close In the edge of Douthat and left only one of a group of eight bousre standing: An eye-witness said the storm cloud apparently had a half dozen swlrlizig points instead of the usual single funnel azid that It swooped down again farther north In the vicinity of Baxter Springs One znan not Immediately identified was chaziglng an Autazzioblle tire on his car when the storm lifted him azul the machine droppizig them together In a mine settling pit pf water The man suffered a fractured leg Mrs Teague was reported crushed almost beyond recognition azid lived only a short time after readrizig a hospital here Marion Teague her husband had a fractured arm and other Injuries TRAGEDY PILOT QUITS LONDON Feb Janies Klrton pilot of the Hillman Airways plane from which- two American girls plunged to' their deaths Thursday resigned today The' aiz line said the resignation- had no relation to the tragedy' Dynamite Under Tank Car Sends Flames Roaring Through Freighter SPRINGFIELD ILL Feb (XP) dynamite bomb blasted a tattk ear loaded 'with gasoline from the tracks of the Chicago and Illinois Midland railroad today and turned it into a volcano of flame that spurted over 11 other cars of the loaded freight train destroying them Officials took it as a grim answer to the federal and state roundup of suspected bombers of coal trains the $200000 civil suit started last week accusing members of the Progressive union of the reign of violence There was one coal car an the mixed freight of 33 care that was wrecked by the dynamiters at Andrew station eight miles north ol Springfield A Peabody Coal company mine employing united Mine Workers Is located at Andrew Barns for Hoars The dynamite explosion buret under the one gasoline car of the train and the terrific heat of the spreading flames prevented any attempt to save the boxcars and the one coal carrier The right-of-way was burned for a quarter mile and traffic was blocked throughout the day- The fire was still stubbornly eating through the wreckage 12 hours after the explosion The firefighters railroad crews dispatched to the scene on switch engines had to confine their efforts to saving a small plant ad the blaz- jacent to the point where lng care rolled to a stop I No one was hurt Damage to the care right-of-way and merchandise had not been estimated late today Bombing Mystery Investigators assuming this to be another attack by one of the factions In the long wars between- the United' Mine Workers of America and the Progressive miners found a usual no clews to the Identity of the bombers TWO other dynamite bombs exploded last week on railroad switch tracks -near mines at Springfield and DuQuoln i The arrest of two' Herman Stoval of Muddy I1L and Elliott Wybyiek of ElDorado acted as a spur for the terrorists who replied with Earlier In the week railroad employes found 113 sticks of dynamite planted on a main line track RECENT PHOTOS I I Jane and ElizabetlrDw Bols (left to Wind Hurls Vfchltaip from House Info Yard )ICTURED above is Mrs Joe Uhl 5125 North Broadway who was picked up and thrown through the top of her house by a tornado Sunday afternoon yet escaped with bruises was in the living room" she said I heard a roar and saw a rocking chair leave the front porch Then the top of the house was lifted and away I went np and out to land in tbe yard I was Jolted and scratched but I guess I am hot 1 injured otherwise was all so sudden that there is little that eanbe said about It Three rooms were tom right away from the house and strewn across the yard to the highway" Mrs Uhl was right in the midst of the worst part of the tornado Property all about her home was tom up by the force of the wind A short distance to the northeast the tornado lifted and was seen no more FIRST WIFE SLAVS 'SDCGESSOI Kentucky Woman Succeeds in Second Attempt to Murder Love Rival 4 MONTICELLO KY Feb (AP) Shot four times ln the body by her former wife Mrs Marie Dutton Wilson 35 of Monti cellos Kyn died half ad hour after the shoottng which occurred In a theater lobby thia afternoon Mrs 'Eva Wilsbn who Bred the shots then calmly handed her revolver jto a- patrolman' who wi standing in the back of the theater and -rushed to the Jtibby She was arrested on a murder charge and placed In JalL Police said that Mrs Eva Wilson once before had shot and wounded the woman she killed todayThat was after Trnsdale separation from his first wife and before his marriage to his second wife who at that time was Mrs Marie Burns a divorcee -At that -time Vtacs Wilson was iarg6d-with malicious shooting and wounding with Intent to kill but the case never was prosecuted AMERICAN SHIP CREW IS CLEARED OF ESPI0IIAGE TOKYO Feb' 25' (Monday) The captain and crew of the American tanker Elizabeth Kellogg were dearedttoday of all suspicion of espionage: after: a further (ex-amlnatlon by officers Authorities announced the tanker now Yokohama after getting clear of a sand spit at the meuth of Tokyo bay on which she was Grounded! lis free: to depart' i'v TORNADOES BLIZZARDS AND DOST ward us We watched it come and saw that it would miss The funnel was whitish The tail bounced off-the ground twice while I watched It seemed to upabput50 yards andthen down it would eome" The tail whipped about Everything was gathered up as the cloud moved at once it started along an old road bed It followed it a short distance shifted and then came directly at us We took out but it shifted again As the funnel went by I frit my tie stick straight out and could fori the pulL It was dead still jusi before it passed and dead still after it was gone fuqne! moved on northeast seemed to change a bit upon hitting the took down a swath of trees along the river and then moved on to hit the Stone nursery path across the wheat fields could bo followed easily by the logs sticks Junk and other stuff it left strewn behind It hit a dump once and tin flew upward into the cloud it hit a woven wire fence but contented itself by winding it around a shed" Walker said that intense hail and rain fel immediately after the tornado had passed He has seen three In Arkansas and knows a good one when he It 1 Goodland Kan covered thousands of dry acres Wyoming was blanketed completely Dust storms which slowed up trains and drove section hands to cover near Colorado Springs whined across parts of Nebraska Colorado wnnn and Wyoming Planes Grounded Dust and snow were churned crazily by a wind In zero weather at Gothenburg Neb Transpokt planes wert grounded at many points None made trips out of Cheyenne Others were delayed at Nebraska airports by visibility and no The army patrol" from Selfridge' field ML Clemens Mich which is studying winter flying conditions in the Northwest- got in plenty of study: Driving winds forced two of 11 planes taking' off at Wls to land at Green Bay The others made Malntowoc Trains ran behind schedule The Rock Stocky Mountain limited tiesched Colorado Springs an hour and 20 minutes late Doubleheaders fought their way through in western Highways near Goodland Kan were blocked by snow drifts The storm caused -cancellation of contemplated jakrabbit' hunt by 50000 club-wielding western Kansas hunters! i The -snow at many points' rep- (Continued on Fge 2 Column Kansas Oklahoma and Missouri Points Suffer Destruction from Twisters Traffic of Air and Ground Is Held Up Over Expansive Area a tornado Everybody was it had done damage' A check showed that the funnel formed and started its Journey near Central west of the city! It dipped to earth first at the Moore residence Mr and Mrs -Moore and thrill (Continued on Page 2CoIi TRI-STATE TORNADO DAMAGE IN BRIEF (Br tka AiMkM hw) Death and extensive pro: damage Sunday rode storm trails of the west crazily with tornadoes blizzards deep and blinding dusL Mr Ellen Teague! 69 killed and-15 persons were Mnt to hospitals with injuries by tornado which swept the mining communities of Commerce and Douthat In northeastern Okla- horn Sir persons were Injured- In southeastern Kansas by tornadoes which struck at Independence and a Wichita suburb A dozen build- fogs) were destroyed at points 'and others wer At Joplin' Mo 11 were injured by a tornado whieh demolished 12 homci a garage grocery filling station: Nearby Springs Kan loflt two houses a-briek businms building Homes and other buildings ut Upola Kara suffered heavy damage from tomadle winds William Reffett 17 of Springs told of a narrow from the storm Ha abandoned bio automobile Just a moment -before a trod fell across It smashhig'the front seat''- (Br tha Associated Prase) Tornado blizzard deep snow and blinding dust chased away the premature spring Sunday Greatest damage was done by the toroadie (finds In the tri-state area of Oklahoma Missouri Towns i hit Included Wichita Heights Independence Upola Baxter Springs Kan North Century arid riftllthof And Commerce' and Douthat Okla and Joplin and Webb' City Mo wiinu-ifs raged along a- storm trail from Canada through -Montana Wyoming Utah Colorado and Nebraska Snow six to eight Inches In depth at Denver Cheyenne Wyo and KILLS SELF AFTER SIX DAYS OF HICCOUGHING MANCHESTER 0-Feb 24F Victim for six days of an attack of htcenughz David McMulle 59 was found dead today- a shotgun Mast' through his heart He lived alone and had been under treatment of two physicians for the aliment THIRD I FIRE VICTOI DIES OKLAHOMA CITY Feb third victim ofa fire that destroyed "at' farm house near here Thursday Mrs Alice Dills 30 died ina hospital here this other: victims were Mts' Annie Busey -52- and her 19-yrar-dd daughter Mrs Ida Darrow leaped from aa airplane In VwgtnA tn what was believed a suicide pact resulting from grief- over the deaths of two British airmen They were daughters 'of Coert Du Bois United States consul at Naples Italy Father fcnd mother are grief-stricken fr I 'r j-' -i '1 a 'T "i 'i L- jv Tj I.