The Rock Island Argus from Rock Island, Illinois • 2

FRIDAY THE ROCK ISLANP ARGUS SEPTEMBER 30, 1927. government here has had little oe REPORTER SEES re a i Performances of St. Louis Tornado Described caslon to use It, largely because of the limited amount available for communications. Unless congress specifically appropriated the money for long distance calls, the chances List of Dead In St. Louis Storm Area Announced STORM SWEEPS THROUGH SHE AREA, LEAVING are that funds already appropriated ASSERTS STATE DEPARTMENT IS BESTPEACE AID (Continued from Page One.) TORNADO FROM VANTAGE POINT for telegrams and cablegrams could In Eye-Witnesses' ies not be used.

Phone; of Big Aid. The department of state will al St. Louis, Sept 36. -(By the Associated Press.) ways no doubt be obliged to use radio, telegraph and cable to make DEATH AMD RUIN IN. WAKE Personal experiences were recounted today by many wno a formal record of business trans saw the freakish performances of the twister or yesterday.

Describes Staggering Blow Dealt St Louis in Four Minutes ef Terrific Storm. American poainon on important acted with other governments and with American officials abroad, but the telephone is expected to be of great aid In emergencies when a side and backed myself against the east wall of the -room. The west BL Louis, Sept 30. (By the Associated Prest.jj The death list of at least 74. caused by yesterday's tornado, included these known deadr ALVA ANDERSON.

JULIUS ANDRAE. JOE BARRY. REBECCA BLANCHETT. ORCHARD BLANKS. I WILLIAM BARKER, DAVID BLAXCETT.

DUCHESS BROOKS (negrd). PRINCE BROCKMAN CALHOUN CRAWFORD. M. A. CLIFFORD, chief of police (Continue from Pate One.) conversation cau save umo mnu bring about not only a better un hndie of threer women were taken from burning debris The rain stormed and the sun came out but shortly derstanding by the American ambassador or minister of what the Washington governments wants to have done, but a clearer idea of questions, but there is not enough money to cable the full text abroad and hence only fragments appear in the foreign newspapers, most all of which, owing to the unfavorable rates of exchange, are unable to accept lengthy messages from their American correspondents.

The American government, has again and again been criticised abroad on the basis of meagre Information, JTeed of Information. In line with Mr. Davenport's Idea afterward another storm threatened and the air seemed tinted green, later turning! to pale pink. i Schools and Hospitals Damaged. Edward Steinhauer was collecting bills when the tornado broke.

"Things suddenly gre.w dark," he said. "I saw a big automobile parked at the curb, and I made a dive for it, and crawled under the car. In a few seconds a two-by-four scantling came whizxing in after me and struck me square across the face. "I was dated but not very badly damaged. When the storm passed, I helped to carry jthree bodies from ruins of housee." William E.

Buren, a railway postal clerk, was in his room at Lindell boulevard. "First came a dash of rain that looked whits like snow. Then came the furious blast of wind. I sw things flying through. the Air out what the foreign government in questions wants the United States to understand.

If Mr. Davenport's wall of the house next door was blown down and a brick hurtled through my window, but missed me. The west wall of our house was blown down. Piano Turns Oyer. "A girl rooming above me had a piano which was turned upside down, but she was unhurt." Miss Ariel Cargo, superintendent of the Shriners' Crippled Children said: "I saw a funnel-shaped cloud coming orer Forest park.

The roof was torn off the boys ward, but! none of the children was crusade results in giving the de Many public buildings including seven schools and four hospitals, suffered damage, among the list of 5,000 St. Loots, Sept. 30. (By the Associated Press.) From a point of vantage In a street car, a news-paper man witnessed yesterday's tornado. "As I boarded the car I noticed that the huge black cloud over For.

est Park had been vomiting rain" he said. "The lightning was being succeeded by a yellowish green color. "Suddenly the car staggered un- der the wind from behind. The front lifted from the rails but vti set back again with scarcely a Jar. It rocked from side to side.

A tree fell just in front as the motormao stopped "A big truck crashed into the rear of the street "The swaying of the car now be of Venice, 111. W. L. COTTER, Granite City. MARY DONNELLY.

KATHERINE partment of state more leeway rn that more money should be spent transacting the ever-growing vol structures razed for the department of state is the ume of its business with foreign countries, It may be Of Incalculable The Columbia school was seriously damaged. Central hiirh. recently reDaired. suffered severely and St. Louis aid In preventing the growth of those little spells of friction which suggestion that the American embassies and legations be given full Information on the position of the government at home so that it could be made available to all who inquired.

This is particularly true ultimately breed wars. EDWARD A. DUNN of OTerland, Mo. MRS. MOLLIE DONOVAN.

1 HUBER FURTLE. MRS. BELLE FISCHER. HENRY FISCHER. JAMES HENRY.

MRS. H. HARRISON. CHARLES (HEFT. Madison.

11L SPANISH WAR POST of presidential messages, announce university high was unroofed. The City sanitarium, the Shriners hospital, the Mullan-phy hospital and the Washington university medical school also felt the wrath of the elements. The roof of the Perfection Manufacturing company was blown away, and an entire block of homes occupied by negroes was wrecked. ments from the department of state and other authoritative data on gan to have its effect upon thepai. IN MOLINE PASSES 100 MEMBERSHIP CLOUDY, SHOWERS AND COOLNESS ON DAY'S FORECAST sengers.

but tne wnoie thing wii NELLIB IRWINi ALICE KIDNEYJ BRIDGET MATTHEWS. "It is possible that there are circumstances in the case which would brine the action of Hedges within sound legal practice," he said. "As a matter of public policy, I believe, It is important that, in cases such as this where public over in less than a minute. "Tumbling forth into the rain. I which American officials abroad are kept ia the dark until American newspapers can reach them by mall, sometimes too late to be of value to them In erasing unfavorable Impressions.

(Special Molin Sonrleo.) Three new members have been Riddick school was damaged, and a number of stu headed down LaClede aveBur. struggling through debris. I could opinion Is inflamed; any witness or not believe such destruction could admitted to the Kittilsen post. United Spanish War Veterans, in Mollne. They are Anthony O.

Yesterday President Coolidge and accused person snouia oe given ue benefit of every possible legal safeguard I understand that Hedges President Calles, for instance. be accomplished in so short a time. Houses had their walls completely: blown away. At one house lack Lubber, Richard Hillbert and Harry talked over the long distance tele S. Dickinson.

MRS. THOMAS MATSON. MRS. MAN LEY. F.

D. MUELLER. WILLIAM OWSLEY. JAMES OLE1VIE. HARRY O'LEARY.

MRS. MATTIE PROST. HATTIE PEAL (infant negress). ARVILLE PHELPS. MRS.

MARY POTEE. MRS. PRICE. VINCENT RUSSELL DAVID RHULE, Granite City, III. NICK RADICK of Madison, 111., phone between Mexico City and has said he will produce bis client UDon a court order.

Any definite Showers are probable tonight and Saturday, the weather man forecast today, dispelling the hopes of Rock Island people who thought the bright 'weather of yesterday afternoon and this morning might Cloudiness, and a continuation of cool, autumnal weather, as to temperature, ate also on the books for the trl-cities. The mercury went up to 72 yesterday, and dropped to fi3 last night. The membership of the post is now more than one hundred. At a or final opinion would depend upon ing walls, a dinner was still cooking away. At another, a man sat on a bed.

from around which all walls had been swept, holding his head." recent meeting a past commander's an examination or we- circumstances of the case and upon the jewel was presented to M. H. O'Con- New Jersey statutes." nell in recognition of his services to the post since it was founded. Washington through the courtesy ef the American Telephone Telegraph company. This is the first time the heads of statea on this continent have bad the opportunity for telephone conversation.

It suggests not merely a means for the secretaries of state in two governments to get closer together and explain their thoughts orally, but rOSTPO.NE- jmiLL ETEJiT. Members of the drill corps of A leading New Yorit criminal lawyer, who did not wish to be quoted, said: "From what I have learned of killed at Granite City. 111. REPORTS HIS AUTO Rock Island commandery. No.

IS, Knights Templar, had 'planned to stage an exhibition drill at Ellxa Licensed to Wed IS STOLEN IN CITY EVA MICHOLSKE, 13. JOSEPH SIMON: EMMETT TONER. EDWARD SCHAFF, detective the case, the attorney has cieariy exceeded both his legal rights and the canons of Bound, practice. I it means that the department of this evening, but the event has state, it it had the appropriation. William McCarthy of Rock Island been postponed because of the re sergeant.

i reported to police headquarters last ceipt of word that the roads were could communicate by telephone to Its ambassadors and ministers. Although trans-Atlantic service by not in good condition for travel Carl, J. Waterman, 111. Marrie Grooms 111. Atafaano Torrzon Silvis Adelada Aamrro Silvis night that his auto was stolen from Twenty-fifth street and Eighth avenue.

It is a touring car. see no reason why the New Jersey courts should not compel him to produce his client whenever the police want him." At Hammonton, N. Attorney Hedges repeated his story of the The drill will be held at Eliza on EVERETT STONE. EARL SELD0N GEORGE A. LATTERY.

MRS. AGNES STRAUMANN. JOSEPH SCHWENDEMAN, Gran phone has been established, the the evening of Friday, Oct. 7. ite City.

I "inhumanity" or tne ponce ana re iterated his statement that he JOHN SOHBECK. ANNA SIMPSON (negress). GEORGE TOLLE. MRS. ISABELLE URIARTE.

MRS. ELSIE VOELKER. would not produce Beach until he was given assurance that he would be questioned in presence of FI EYC The stare that keep tkt ctt of living down. It it isn't right (. We'll mak, it right.

DEPARTMENT STORE 0LINE ILL. DEATH REVEALS LIFE STORY OF FORDJROTHER (Continued from Page One.) dents injured. Church's Novelty Shoe company, where 1,000 persons were employed until a month ago, was leveled. Churches Escape Damage. 'Churches seemed to halve suffered little.

A few tiles were missing from the dome of the new cathedral. The Rick Educational 'museum collapsed, and it was feared many priceless specimens had been destroyed. A block of 3-story apartment houses at Maryland and Whittier, was destroyed. The Roselle hotel. Sarah McPherson garage, Polar Wave ice plant, and Nugent's branch dry goods store, also seriously damaged.

The Central Furniture (ompany's factory was seriously damaged as were a number of other industrial plants. The wind, with a velocity of 90 to 100 miles an hour, swept from southwest to northeast. The devastated region is irregular in shape and of varying width. i Old brick houses of cheap construction, in some parts of the tornado zdne, were shattered almost as completely as the frame houses and sheds. While the path of the storm was nearly parallel to that of the 1896 tornado, it was not the same.

Southern St. Louis, and: East St. Louis, 111., which bore the brunt of the 1896 calamity, escaped yesterday's storm with a heavy blow and a hird rain. Loss to Schools Large. Damage to schood buildings was estimated at $1,500,000.

Abandoned street cars still stood today on the tracks of some lines traversing the damaged district. Service was restored on other main cross-town divisions. "Lindell boulevard between Sarah street and Newstead avenue, furnished probably the most impressive exhibit of the destruction. Old dwellings stood roofless, and the newer, or less substantial apartment houses showed damage of every character. 1 Streeta to the north fared similarly, the storm taking a wider course.

Insurance agencies and adjustment bureaus were swamped witlTwork. None would venture any definite estimate of the less. More than 500 received medical treatment while several hundred more were believed to have been slightly in-jurd and did not report. Other Towns Suffer Loas. Belleville, 111., Sept.

30.4 (By the Associated Press.) A high wind storm did damage estimated at several thousands of dollars at Scott field at 7 o'clock last night. Two hanagars formerly used of airplanes, but lately used for storage purposes, were razed. Another was unroofed and a number of other buildings badly damaged. Debris was strewn all across the flyingjfield. The wind did not strike the huge dirigible ship hangar nor the mooring Poplar Bluff, Sept.

30. (By the Associated Press.) Two men were killed by lightning and at least a score injured, several seriously, by an electrical storm followed by a tornado in the rural sections about eight miles east and south of here late yesterday. MRS. E. J.

WILLIAMS. WILLIAM A. BESSLER. RALPH BRUENING. CROSSLEY.

MRS. ROSE DOYLE. WILLIAM JONES. GERTRUDE KUBISCH. MARY E.

NUNNALLY. FARO PIZZOT FRANK RADERTCH. HULDA REICHMAN. JESSE ROBERTS. LOUISE SAXTON.

HAROLD TAUSSIG. JOHN D. CAIN, i SARAH GREENFIELD. FRED MASON, (negro). BLANCHE REED.

MRS. DELLA RYAN. LOIS ROBERTA SHAW. ZENA SCHNEIDER. J.

H. WAIN WRIGHT (negro). WALTER WILSON. Here are some of their ac presents to be given away on purchases over $1.00 until Saturday night, October 8. Every purchase over $1.00, anywhere except groceries counts on free gifts: power; when he dared to attempt a pacification of the world at war, to chum with presidents, to hobnob with royalty on visit to his magnificent industrial plants even dared to look around and see if his poorer relatives needed money.

They didn't. Able-bodied and strong. Americans of a vanishing breed, they refused to accept a dollar they had not earned. The brothers, MRS. SUSA B.

1 HARTGRAVES Free With Purchases Over $2.00 Free With Purchases of $1.00 Anywhere in the Store (Except (negress.) WALTER PENTIONS. CHARLES N. HENDERSON, 50. LORRAINE YOUNG, 12 (negro.) EARL EDMUND; 5 (negro.) John and William, loved, respected Beautiful little four piece ''pure aluminum high polish caster sets, free with purchases over $2.00, anywhere except groceries. and admired Henry, but his money 30 MRS.

JOSIE SAUNDERS, Groceries): Good quality kitchen knives like these. Buy over $1.00 and take your pink, free. was his own. They had helped him 1 (negro.) I earn none of it and they stead fastly refused his plea to be al CONCEALING OF lowed to "put them on easy street." Catching the automotive fever from his brother, William Ford purchased the Michigan agency for 1 sr i 2 -quart pure the Fordson tractor and has grad Every good housekeeper wants at least one of these 8-inch drip-Dans. Free with over ually builded a small fortune of num pud' DEATH SUSPECT BRINGS DEBATE (Continued from Page One.) $1.00 purchase, any day during this October Anniversary sale.

ding pans, the size sold regularly for 50c, free with purchases over $2.00 during this sale. Felt base rugs, 24x36 his own. John FOrd stayed doggedly with his farm and dairy on a forty-acre tract adjoining the old Ford homestead, adding dollar to dollar with hard labor until Michigan's miraculously growing industrial population compelled him to realize that land was worth more as building lots than as grating land. He sub-divided the little farm and launched Into the real estate business with a friend. John H.

A crystal glass measuring cup free with purchases over $1.00 anywhere but groceries. Every good cook wants one. result in considerable probing of the rights of a witness under such circumstances. Inch, worth 29c. These go free with purchases over $2.00.

2-qt. aluminum handl ed sauce pans go free with $2.00 purchase. 25c good, fluffy Turk" ish towels go free in this sale, with purchase over Doubts Legal Right. M. Cimbalo, New York criminal Handled glass moulded jelly dishes, free with pur chases of over $1.00.

Castle, and died leaving a fortune estimated at $750,000. practitioner, believes that Hedges' proceeding was extremely doubtful Made Rich by City. Lean and hard were the Ford from the legal standpoint, and that it would be possible for the district attorney to appear before a brothers, ascetics all, believers in hard work, moderate eating, no drinking, no dissipations just faithful toil, getting all they could OLDEST magistrate and procure a citation Extra quality crystal blown star cut glass water glasses, free, with purchases of over $1.00, anywhere except groceries. BANK IN for Hedges which would place him in contempt of court if he refused to produce the witness. out of it of course, and spending $2.00.

i Free With Purchases Over $5.00 Anywhere in the Store (Except Groceries) as little as they had to on modest ROCK ISLAND ILLINOIS and wholesome pleasures. An af "To conceal a person under. fectionate, helpful, resourceful family group. Free With Purchases Over $3.00 But the ironic twist in the life of John Ford, first of the three uirsc circumsiaDces appears to me to be an obvious perversion of the law," he said. "Tb rights of accused persons in I such circumstances are carefully safeguarded.

The attorney has full privilege to refuse to act in any manner injurious to his client, but the law in this does not contemplate that be Is therefore empowered to take affirmative action in circumvention of the law." Attorney Milton V. Jessup was inclined to take an! opposite view. A pure aluminum, high polish, 4-quart pudding pan, free with' purchase over $3.00 anywhere except groceries during this sale. brothers to die. Is that he would probably have been a hard working farmer to the day of his death had not a magically grown city demanded his farmstead for building Jots a city grown vast and rich because of the dreams of his brother, Henry, whose money, out of manly American pride, John refused to accept.

Glass pitchers to match the star cut tumbler that we give free with $1.00. Put this pitcher with the glasses for a beautiful set. Pitcher free with $5.00 purchase. Extra quality 54-inch rag rug worth 75c, free with purchase over $5.00. SAVE YOUR DIMES-HAVE MORE DOLL ARS One of our visible Dime Savers contained in a handsome leather wallet will help you to save your dimes.

From day to day your dimes will mount up and you will never miss this loose change which otherwise would be spent. Dollars in your ba'nk account will mark yor progress. Let us giro you full details. Pure aluminum bread pan, finest quality, free with purchase over $3.00 during this sale. Steel skillet like this, full wire dish drain Security of Principal Stout era.

stove size, tree, with pur- chase over $3,00 anywhere in the store except groceries. Fresh baked bread. loaf. K.T. Anderson, Cashier F.

Channon, Asst. Cash. a J. MitchcuY-ta Cash." Phil Mitchell Ck. BoarJ B.

Connelly; Pict. Pres. -My First Consideration will be pleased to offer counsel and suggestions iimm? S1? Estllte Bond SOUND Investments to my client! and others interested in the type of Investments where safety of principal ia the first consideration, but without style Llmpa bread. Swedish loaf. coffee cakes.

ircuanjr vo reasonaDie returns. GROCERIES, SATURDAY: I Fine granulated sugar, 12 lbs. for 79c delivered if with other groceries over $1.00. Freah creamery butter, one pound to each for 39c. Fancy Minnesota potatoes, one peck to each for 29c Young spring chickens, dressed and drawn, 32 2C lb.

Fresh Muscatine sweet potatoes. 7 lbs. for 25c. Fresh baked each. Best No.

1 storage eggs, guaranteed, 32 Vjc dozen. Fresh country eggs, 38c dozen. Fresh crisp wafer crackers, 2 lb. box or 29c Fresh ripe Muscatine watermelons, 35c each. Sugar cured bacon, sliced, 35c lb.

"Mary Jane" white bread, 3 loaves for 25c; Fresh California grapes. 10c lb. shankless Caia Sugar cured bams, 2oe lb. C. R.

CHAMBERLIN Bonds and Investments Room 12 State Bank Phones R. 2321-923 Best boiled ham. sliced, lulf pound for 80c "fPSapck) Mnxvk street Fresh Snow apples, 5 lbs, for 25c Best Peaberry coffee, 2 lbs. for 69c Summer sausage, 80c lb 'J.