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GOES TO. JAIL RATHER
THAN SUPPORT WIFE

PHILADELPHIA. March 21.-
Rather than pay 81 week to sup
port his wife, Bertha, Michael Bier
man, forty, preferred to go to Jail
Brought before Judge Bonniwell or
the complaint Of his wife, Bierman
who claims to make only $18 a
week, said he could not spare the
amount the court ordered as the
wife's allotment.
When informed that If he did
not contribute the sum he would
have to go to Jail, he accepted i'm
prisonment. = The Beirmans have
been married for thirteen years.
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been carried to my husbands side
he was dead"
"It was like the whole world
turning over and over, upside
down." said Edna Forsee, daughter
Of Louis Forsee, a coal miner. She
IL In a hospital with wrenched
back.
Otis and Mabel, cher brother
and sister, were in school," she
said. Papa came home at noon.
It started to rain harder and then
to hail. Papa and mama started
td pray and / knelt with them.
Then the house swung around and
the world seemed to just turn over
and over. Everything was flying
in the air. ! didn't know what to
think. 1 just prayed"
Blew Her Baby Away.
From the arms of Mrs. Wanda
Mattingly, twenty-one. the wind
blew her infant son. Norman J.,
nine months, while the mother chung
desperately to the banisters of the
stairs of her home, from which
the wind had blown the walls and
roof away.
IT was on the second floor Of
the house when the storm came,
and gathered up the babies and
started to the first floor" Mrs.
Mattingly said. st was just on the
stairs when suddenly the walls
seemed to fall outward, one by one.
and the roof fell. leaving the stair
way standing. exposed.
THE wind had such force that
I had to take both babies in one
arm and grasp the banisters to
keep from being blown away. Then
Norman was Whisked from my
grasp. / just sat on the stairs and
bent over Charles Glenn to hold on
to the baby l had left. Then the
| wind went down, and / went down
stairs. / collapsed. Pretty soon
along came the preacher. Lee
Brown, with my baby in his arms.
He found Norman crying in pile
Of debris about fifteen yards from
the house"
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BALBOA WILL DESCRIBE
TOUR OF OFFICIAL 6

superintendent of Schools Frank
w. Ballou will address the Board
OF Trade meeting next Thursday
evening at the Willard on the tour
school officials are making of other
cities to study. school improvements.
Doctor ID. Percy Hickling, chair
man of the public health commit
tee, VIII report on the proposal to
establish municipal baths here. Re-
ports also will be submitted by
Frank +. Leetch, chairman of the
river and harbor Improvement com
mittee. and by George w. Offut,
chairman of the committee on
bridges.
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towns that Carmi injured In hospi-
tails were dying.
Here at Benton, search OF the
more isolated regions had amassed
sixteen bodies. at GRANVILLE four,
7 ana Gorham, sent death figures up
to seventy-two.
At Murphyshoro, six gave up the
fight between midnight and dawn
and two bodies were brought in
from the country, bringing the
total dead to 1S9.
InQuests are q seeming endless
formalfty everywhere. The coroner's
jury operates In relays, one group
sleeping while the other identifies
and legalizes the wholesale human
destruction Of Wednesday.
Doctors Supplies Failing.
! At Vest Frankfort four passed
away and three bodies more were
recovered, sending the total to 129--
and so it was throughout the en-.
tire area of misery.
The great task before medical
corps had, early today, practically
exhausted the supply OF morphine
used to sooti1e hundreds Of pain.
wracked men, women ana children.
Ether and chloroform supplies
have diminished alarmingly with
the accomplishing Of perhaps zoo
individual operations, mainly ampu-
tation Of arms and legs.
An appeal Tor airplane delivery or
these precious opiates ana an.
aesthetics went out before dawn.
But while surgeons and persons
sparingly apportioned the remaining
supplies. q deeper fear was re-
Elected In the possible attack OF
The sprInging up OF miles of
tented homes and crudely-con-
etructed shacks with sewage ana
sanitary conditions. generally In
deplorabIe state has provided
sound basis for these apprehensions..
Isolation has been resorted to and
wherever a patient develops symp=
toms of disease, they are rushed
out to these carefully patrolled out
lying stations.
Ten Thousand Homeless.
Relief work among the ten thou.
sand homeless in Mississippi and
Illinois, however. has ettled down
to systematical routine. Each
stricken city has it's emergency re-
lief association, composed OF local
business men and civic organiza-
tons.
Clothing and food. contributed and
arriving by train loads, are being
distributed by the tireless forces OF
the gallant Salvation Army,
churches, lodges and Boy Scouts.
Wearing apparel was grimly
humorous. Women were dressed in
odds and ends Of clothing OF both
men and women. Men were wrapped
in women's coats and the remaining
uninjured children prove a difficult
problem In distinguishing sex. Small
boys were wearing dainty little
dresses and small girls were run.
ming about the tumbied ruins in
trousers and caps. Occasionally a
little group assemblies and innocent
Iy trade garments.
Medical detachment, 12Sth infan-
try, Illinois national guard, with
Major Lord, Of Plano, in command;
Captain A. J. Roberts, OF Ottawa.
assisting, has arrived and thrown its
resources into medical relief bases.
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FILIPINO BOY KNOCKS
DOWN AMERICAN TEACHER

MANILA, March 21.--Following
the knocking down of an Ameri-
can woman teacher by a Bacalod
Filipino high school boy when the
latter was caught cheating In an
examination, a student mob gathered
and stoned the home of women
teachers of the. school, according to.
reports here today by Bacalod.
Governor General, Leonard Wood
has ordered the school closed until
the stone throWers are produced.
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COOLIDGE CLEANS OLD HAT
AS PART OF ECONOMY

President Coolidge isn't going to
buy a new fedora hat this spring
He has sent his old one - the
cleaners, and it will be blocked and
properly beribboned for Easter Sun
day.
The President is emphasizing the
fact that he intends his economy
and retrenchment program should
begin at home,
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100 More Expected
To Die in Illinois;
10000 Getting Relief
By s. J. HUGHES.

BENTON, H., March 21.-AA
Illinois vast arena Of broken hearts
and shattered cities resumed the
enormous task of burying its
tornado dead, it was apparent today
the -ever-swelling roster OF death
would not be checked for days and
weeks.
Death, still alert and striking
nethodically, continued to stalk
over devastated paths OF Wednes
days epochal storm and today its
harvest stood at $50 mortals--an
increase Of more than twenty
deaths since midnight.
Although hundreds Of doctors and
nurses thoroughly equipped by field
supplies, augmented by hospitals
throughout Southern Illinois, bat
tied in unwayering vigil, each
hour saw the passing Of life from
broken and mangled bodies.
II will be thus for days. There
are more than 100 persons fol
whom little hope Is held.
Many Tragedies On Farms.
During the night and today
~rching crews that have patrolle(
the rural districts where 200 farms
lay in waste, brought in additiona
bodies and injured. It was thii
work, delayed for several days, tina
was responsible for the quick ris
Of the death toll in the early hour
Of Friday night
At Carmi where four persons haI
been known dead, the number sud
denly leaped to twenty-seven whel
rescue crews reported from tn
farm districts with dozen victim
and word came from surroundin
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Others were removed to different
towns. And there may have been
scores OF visitors in the section
who win not be missed for weeks.
Today eyes OF those in the
stricken areas turned for the first
time to reconstruction and with
the funerals over. concerted ef-
forts to rebuild the devastated
area is expected to start.
There is a possibility that some OF
the towns viii not be rebuilt. Res
cue workers say that Parrish and
Ds Soto, ILL.,, and Griffin. Ind. are
completely RACED and they intimate
that they will be left as they are
Ia permanent record Of the st01m.
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Medical School Dean
Is Found Guilty Of
Selling Diplomas


ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March 81.
The Missouri State board Of
health today found Doctor
Waldo Briggs, dean and owner
of the st. Louis College Of Ply
sicians and Surgeons, guilty as
a party to the national medical
diploma mill ring. His license
to practice medicine was re-
,voked.
Briggs was found guilty of
selling diplomas, classifying rec
ords Of the school and with. ac-
cepting large sums of money
from Doctor Robert Adcox,
clearing house" for the mill.
Sixty other graduates of the
school are cited to appear. 1t
was recalled that doctor" c.
C. Faiman, of Chicago, indicted
in the Billy McClintock death
probe, was awarded q diploma
from this school.
The board recommended
Briggs license be re-issued,
should he close his school here.
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Doctors Are Laboring
To Check Spread Of
Typhoid and Tetanus

MURPHYSBoRO. ILL.,, March 81.
Physicians and nurses are Labor
ing to check the spread of tetansia.
Doctor J. z. Heis, OF the Northern
Hospital, Chicago stationed at Muir
physboro, expressed fear early to-
day that this infection il spreading,
notwithstanding the fact that In
incubation for both typhoid and
tetanus has been given all pa
TENTS.
The water system is stilI para
lyzed here, and piacards have ape
peared over the devastated area
cautioning the citizens TO boil their
drinking water.
As a result OF a survey of the
situation at Murphysboro. De Soto
and Bush" said Colonel Harry A.
Orr, OF the medical unit. II am
convinced II Is now . housing and
sanitation problem. The doctors
and nurses have done their work
well. There il a destion whether
the embalmers win not have to have
help to catch up with their work.
but have been advised that offers
OF additional eknbalmers already
have been made and We viii decide
tomorrow II more help 10 needed.
I'm Murphysboro, the water stu.
alton is serious. The water works
went out of commission and they are
now pumping unfiIterated water
into the mains. The result Is that
we have ordered the placarding OF
the place warning residents not to
drink water that has not been
boiled.
Comfort for the Stricken.
MANY OF the water connections
are being restored and much OF the
gas connections too. are being re-
placed and within few days, when
the tent city 10 complete. there
win be at least comfort for the
stricken people.
MY report to Adjutant General
Black win be that at least two
thirds Of the city has been de-
stroyed. We found the place well
supplied with the medical necessi-
ties. At Bush, where there were
twenty dead and 125 hurt, it also is
mostly q housing problem. Forty.
one Of the injured were taken to
the Herrin Hospital % the place,
with our assistance, can handle its
affairs now. Sanitation must be
observed, however, and It win be
under the direction OF proper au-
thorities."
Serum by AirpIanes.
Anti.tetanus serum 90 badly
needed as q preventive for the
wounded who had been cut by f1y.
Ing debris came by airplanes from
Chicago, st. Louis and Indianapolis
Before the shipments came. in
every area where injured were b.
ing treated, those for whom there
was no serum was listed. their ad-
dresses taken and later looked up
and given an injection which Il Is
hoped would counteract any posi-
bic infection.
For instance. one Of the victims
was William Simmons, q travelling
salesman from st. Louis. He was
tp Murphysboro when the storm
broke. He was blown clear through
q bookstore and when the wave of
wind and debris had passed, found
he could not extraciate his foot.
1t was finally discovered that his
foot was nailed to the floor by .
huge nail in the end of q piece OF
planxing which had been blown
right at Simmons.
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WNT~AW
NE\xC/

HERE ARE A FEW OF TIE NEW
WANTS APPEARING IN TODAXB
CLASSIFIED SECTION.
DIAMOND CRESCENT P1N-LOst;
liberal reward offered.
1928 CHEVROLET coupe, $S2S.
AUTOMOBILE PAINTERS wanted.
sMAN-Experienced for pop
ular price merchant tailoring
establishment.
BARGAIN-5-room bungalow. 6Ox
100 lot; price. $3.50.
GLASSES-Lost, tortoise shell. in
leather case. on day coach from
New York.
7-ROoM HOUSE In downtown
section, near Dupont Circle,
$10,250.
SUBURBAN for sale; 4-room bunE
allow. electricity; near cars;
s2,9
RAG-Lost: beaded, containinR
SOS: liberal reward offered
FOR FURTHER PETALS TURN To
THE CLASSIFIED SECTION
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Geological Survey Ball

The United States Geological Sur.
vey will hold their annual buffet
supper and ball at the Burlington
Hotel tonight. r. r. Mopbank 10
chairman Of the entertainment
committee,
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Hold AND TETANUS FEARED in WAKE OF DREADFUL TORNADO
A DAYS
WALK
With jim RING
,ET COME. DIST OF MARCH!

This poem was contributed to
the column by some one who re-
toices in the concealment OF his
name by the signature, Matty.
Not that we care. On the con-
trary.)
welcome, 21st of March!
Spring ordinarily takes the starch
Out of me.
However,
On each blossoming Tree.
The birds on wing
Do gayley sing.
How clever
Nature hides the marks Of Winter,
Covering each bow and splinter
with verdant leaves and foleage.
This is indeed the Foolish Age!
Welcome. Spring!
An office critic, to whom Ye
Ed showed the above touching
tribute to the infant season, was
unkind enough to say. Now
know why it's such q chilly morn
ing"
pointless, but rude.
Poor Mister M. o: Eldridge has
DeCH nOOhSuS AAOAA oAA RAOAAS 80
dications.
He is accustomed to bask in the
warm sunlight OF his A. A. A.
activities, and now the Commits
sfoners have opened the door and
let the wintry blast Of his Domi-
nation as traffic director play
upon his shivering form.
Mister Eldridge today goes to
the District building to talk over
with the city fathers whether he
will take the Job or not.
We await developments, with
concentrations in one hand and
condolences in the other. Guess
which hand, we waggishly sug-
gest.
Household articles and other
things were blown 800 miles away
from their moorings by the Illi-
nois cyclone.
In a little Illinois town, wreck.
ed beyond description, a haggard
householder paved through the
twisted mass that once had been
his home. An afternoon passed.
Then he emerged, tired and per-
body's bed.
s'Thank Godv' said this Illinois
PoIlyanner. IT can't find that
enlarged crayon portrait any
where's"
LOCAL NEWS.
Doctor Joel Boone, a frequent
visitor, more or less, at tile
White House, was seen shooting
his cuffs In the Willard last eve.
Doc Boone 10 known as the nat
test medico hereaboutS, with T1o
takers to the implied challenge.
Senator Hi Johnson is fixing to-
go home in his sons ninety-f foot
yacht. Don't hit any sharks,
shoals, or other perils Of the
deep. say we. by way Of bon
voyage.
Doc Frank Ballou, our school
supt., has not received testi-
monial from the high school frat
boys, and probably is not expect
ing any Of late.
Hon. "Biff" Phillips yesterday
confided to us that cartooning
is a good, clean job. Except for
the ink stains and pencil marks.
and white-paiRt smears and art
gum refuse, we are ready to agree
to same.
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telligence at the command Of
their trainer, Prof. Drake. The
Magginni Brothers twist them
selves in and out of all kinds Of
knots with graceful case. Nine.
Candles pomeranians are a
bunch of canny animals and win
approval with difficult tricks
Jolly Irene, the poor little girl
who only weighs $40 pounds
shakes the house and causes the
audience to do involuntary SHIN
mics when she laughs.
Last, but by no means the
least. there Is L.ionette, the lady
with face like lion; Nine Pic
toria. the tattooed girl: Nine.
Beatrice, who winds vicious look
ing snakes all about her, and
Londy, the Holland giantress, who
looks as If he she had just
stepped out of the pages Of Jack
and the Beanstack. Again, we
must tell you it's a great show.
The Love Hour featuring
Huntly Gordon, Louise Fazenda
and Willard Louis, Is the screen
attraction. A strong AMI in
teresting picture good for many
hearty laughs.-H. s..
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VALENTINO In A
NOT-SO-GOOD
ONE

Rudolph Valentino, starring in
Cobra" at Loew's Palace pro-
vides as poor picture as could
be seen anytime and certainly an
unusually unattractive bill for
this holiday week. Although an
all star star cast attempts to
make a Ego" Of it. an absolutely
ordinary and hackneyed plot,
savoring somewhat Of the risque'
and yet so common and sordld as
to fall short Of even that, drags
through interminable length.
Most noticeable is frequent
entrance or exit through doors
(the doors are really artistic and
ample time is afforded for
examining them) and such slow
action as can scarcely be con-
nected with Valentino.
With none Of the dramatic and
picturesque setting which is his
forte, Valentino becomes involved
with many women. while one
intriguing and INSCRIPTIONS
woman (Nita NaldD carries the
vampire role. The only decent
appeal in the play is the final
triumph Of his true friendship
with the vampires husband
(Casson Ferguson). Gertrude Ohm
stead as the secretary, is cap
able. A Christmas comedy by
"Our Gang" who are usually so
wholesome and entertaining, is
much below their standard. Pathe
News reel is interesting. H. x.
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FORD STERLING COPS
MET HONORS

Ford Sterling is starring in
stepping Out the Christmas
week feature lat the Metropolitan.
and he shows the stuff he is
made OF, for the better part of
the comedy is due to his efforts.
This farce Is rather slow in
getting under way, but it re-
trieves itself nicely by becoming
wholly hilarious when about half
over and ends in a roar Of
laughter.
1t is much better put together
than most farces; it has plot,
a little shop worn, but still
funny, and the continuity is par
ticularly good.
Ford Sterling is assisted by
such mummers as Dorothy Rev
Ter, Robert Agnew and Cissy Fitz-
gerald.
An Aesop Fable cartoon pic
ture proves as funny as this ex-
cellent little advertisement usually
does. The Pathe News Reel is also
interesting.
Another novelty, Santa Claus;
A Christmas Fantasy" is rather
thin and uninteresting.
The overture consists of some
of F'rimPs outstanding hits in
"Rose Marie" The Totem Tom
Tom is included in the selections,
the first time this reviewer has
heard this number played else
where than in the show ITSELF.
w. 3.
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MARION DAVIES
AT THE TTVOLI
TODAY

An interesting and colorful
photodramatic reflection of the
New York Of generation or two.
ago is on view at Crandalfs
Tivoli Theater through today,
where Marion Davies is charming
audiences Of. ample proportions by
her enactment Of the stellar role
in Lights Of Old Broadway q
new Monta Bell production tor
Metro oldwyn. Here is a pic
ture that picks up the gay lie
OF Manhattan when Tony Pastor
was q young fellow just trying
to get along and q couple or am
bilious young song-and- dance men
applied to him for an engage.
ment-they happened to be Weber
and Fields!
Monta Bell, former Washing.
tonian and one OF the moot skill.
ful directors the shadow drama
has developed, has done one Of
his best jobs in Lights Of Old
Broadway" The cast which adds
supporting luster to the brilliant
performance Of the star is led by
Conrad Nagel.
The comedy for the first bill or
Christmas week at the Tivoli Is
Mack Sennett's "A Rainy knight
and, as an added attraction, a
new issue OF the Pathe Review
is screened.
The program is tllnefully
rounded out by Otto r. Rock,
concert pipe organist, and Ida v.
Clarke, assistant.
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PARTNERSAGAIN JACKIE
AND MAX

Jackie Coogan Kelley, heading
the firm Of "Ginsberg and KEEL
ley" dealers in "Old Clothes, /"
has opened up business again at
the Columbia Theater, delight
full contribution to the seasons
sentiment, for Jackie Coogan, IN
anything, is "a pleasure to see.
Just how long before the appear
ance Of this youngster will cease
to be such and become sac
charine. padded bunch OF senti-
mentality, we cannot say. There
are dangerous signs already,
however, for Jackie Coogan has
begun to act, and 1t may not be
long ere he has assimilated the
mannerisms of greater and older
comedians: We can only await
developments.
But back to "Old Clothes"
The thread Of the story is as fine
as usual, but amply affords OPP
portunities for the explorations
of the once "diminutive star"
Having lost their money in cop
per, the firm again takes to the
road, at about the same time,
taking into their fold girl who
later affords the love theme for
the piece. There Is an accident
which brings In some cash, and
likewise brings the wealthy lover
to the girl. And there is the
evident worth Of the old copper
stock, the certificates for which
have long served as wall paper.
And there is a wedding, Jackie
as the best man, and the last
laugh Of him loosing pants. just
a genuine Coogan picture, hu
man, funny, and interesting.
Max Davidson is essential to
this picture and is the typical
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AND
HIS ARENA OF
WONDERS

It takes a circus or a mag1-
clan to prove that men and wom-
en- are, after all, but grown up
children. Last night. Blackstone.
the magician, had to hold his
opening curtain for twenty min
utes until he could seat the mon.
ster audience that wended its way
to the Washington Auditorium for
his exhibition.
blackstone offers some startling
new illusions, besides the familiar
exposition Of sleight-of with
out which no magic performance
would be quite complete. His
most amazing trick is the vanish
ing horse. Blackstone rides into
an abandoned cabin-a flash-an
exploston-the side OF the struc-
ture falls away--there stands the
rider but the horse is gone.
A new speciality introduced as
appropriate for the current sea-
son was the spirit OF santa
Claus Blackstone conjured up
his own st. Nicholas and then
made the children in the audience
happy bv presenting toys ana
various gifts to the little ones.
Some of the most interesting OF
the Blackstone feats comprise the
creating of spirituahstlc phenom,
ena. reproducing the familiar bell
ringing. tambourine shaking and
other cabinet tricks on lighted
stage. Another my stery that
brought amazement was causing
a woman to vanish in thin air be-
fore the eyes Of a startled COM
mittee. A miniature parachute
floating down from the top or the
Auditorium was found to contain
a ring which Blackstone had bor-
rowed for his purpose some min
utes before. Rabbits and doves
are snatched from thin air and
the most unexpected places and
Blackstone proves his dexterity
and skill with an ordinary pack
of playing cards by a number OF
clever tricks.
The man who walks away from
his shadow is simple Illusion
that proved most Tnystifying' Of
the entire Blackstone program.
Blackstone also demonstrated that
he was able to do most OF the
rope and other escape tricks by
freeing himselg in sight Of the
audience after he had been sound
ly tied.
There will be natinees on Wed
nesday Christmas Day and Sat
urday, on which days Blackstone
will make the children happy by
distributing white Dummies as his
contribution to the holiday sea-
son.-D. ]. H.