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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Tornado Kills 1,000 in Five States Sargent Made Attorney General. By EDWARD W. PICKARD WHILE spring poets are singing the beauties of Nature and voicing voic-ing the annual "Call of the Wild," the gods of disaster are In the saddle all over the world. Tuesday night an explosion possibly pos-sibly caused by a bomb wrecked Bethlehem mine No. 41 near Fair-mount, Fair-mount, W. Va., entombing 34 coal miners, min-ers, who are presumably dead. Wednesday Palm Beach, the popular Florida winter resort where thousands of Northerners are sojourning, had a narrow escape from destruction by Are. The famous Breakers hotel was among the buildings destroyed. The loss, Including In-cluding personal property of wealthy visitors, Is about $4,000,000. Wednesday fire In Tokyo, Japan, rendered 20,000 homeless and caused ji loss estimated at $2,500,000. Fire In Fouradouro, Portugal, burned out 500 families. Torrential rains Inundated Trujillo, tho third most Important city of Peru ; the population abandoned their homes. But by far the worst disaster Is the tornado that swept across a part of the Mississippi valley, exacting a horrifying hor-rifying toll In human lives and property prop-erty in more than 25 cities and villages In live states. WEDNESDAY'S tornado disaster Is the worst In our history. The tornadoes of February 18, 1S84, in the South, May 27, 1890, at St. Louis and vicinity and April 24, 1008, in Mississippi, Missis-sippi, Louisiana and Alabama, took approximately 500 lives each. 'This time the death toll may run to 1,000 iind the Injured may number 3,000. The property loss is incalculable. The tornado swooped out of the Ozark mountains upon Annapolis, Mo. Thence It cut a ruin path across southern south-ern Illinois and divided, one tornado continuing on half way across Indiana and the other turning off Into Kentucky and Tennessee. Beginning at 1 :30 p. in., it ran its course in six hours. Five communities In Missouri, fifteen in Illinois, five In Indiana and eleven in Kentucky and Tennessee have reported report-ed 823 dead nnd 2,000 Injured. ,The loss was heaviest In Murphyslioro,' 111., 210 (lead; Pe Soto, III., 118; West Frankfort, 111., 107; Parrlsh, III., 20; Grlllin, Ind., 50, and Princeton, Ind., 20. All the resources of modern civilization civiliza-tion quickly went Into relief measures. Chicago and St. Louis broadcast the calamity to millions within reaching distance of the devastated area. National Na-tional Guards, doctors and nurses; food, lire engines, medical supplies and tents were started by train and automobile auto-mobile without delay. The American Ked Cross got Into action by wire from Washington. Hospitals were thrown open and emergency preparations made. Belief funds wwre announced by radio; response by wire was Instant In-stant from all parts of the country. Illinois will appropriate $500,000. JOHN OAKIHAI.DI SARGENT'S J nomination and confirmation Tuesday Tues-day as attorney general brought to an end the contest between President 'oo!ldge and the senate over the Executive's Ex-ecutive's selection of Charles B. Warren War-ren of Michigan for the place. Notwithstanding the senate's first rejection of Warren, the President sent back his name Thursday. Saturday, with debate still going, a statement was given out from the White House which in effect was this notice to the senate, "Confirm Warren or I will offer him a recess appointment the moment you adjourn." Conceive, if you can. the outraged dignity of the opposition senators and their fiery determination de-termination to protect tho senate's constitutional right M "advise and confirm." con-firm." Anyway, tho senate, after an exciting debate Monday, again rejected Warren, this time by a majority of seven votes. Tuesday letters between the President and Warren were made public. The President reiterated his regard and his promise of a recess appointment. Warren expressed his appreciation and declined a recess appointment. ap-pointment. Thereupon the President nominated Sargent. Few of the senators sen-ators had ever heard of him. The senate sen-ate confirmed the nomination without debate without even a roll call and adjourned Wednesday. Attorney General Sargent Is a cloBe friend of the President. He lives at Ludlow, Vt. He Is sixty-five years of age, over six feet tall and weighs 250 pounds. He Is a Tufts college man. He was attorney general of Vermont from 1008 to 1912. IS THERE a curse that follows certain cer-tain fortunes? Is the old saying true that "Murder will out?" Or can murder be made safe? These questions ques-tions are raised by the sensational "McClintock case" in Chicago. In 1870 a rich Englishman of title died. His widow married William Hickllng. She died at Ottawa, 111. Her husband and heir married Sarah Gens-ler. Gens-ler. Hickllng died. The widow married mar-ried William McClintock and died. In 1902 McClintock moved to Chicago and married Emma Nelson of Topeka, Kan. April 8, 1903, William Nelson McClintock McClin-tock was born. . In 1905 William McClintock Mc-Clintock was killed by accident and William D. Shepherd and his wife went to live with the widow and her little son. In 1909 Mrs. McClintock died suddenly. She left her son Billy more than a million dollars, with the Shepherds in almost complete control of boy and fortune. November 23, 1024, Billy fell ill of typhoid fever. December 1, his fiancee, Miss Isabelle Pope, took out a marriage mar-riage license, but Shepherd prevented n marriage. December 5 Billy died, leaving Shepherd his heir, with instructions in-structions to provide for Miss Pope. December 24 Chief Justice Harry Olson Ol-son of the Chicago Municipal court, whose brother. Dr. Oscar Olson, died suddenly three years ago after a visit from the Shepherds, had Billy's body disinterred for an autopsy. Shepherd cleared himself of suspicions. Judge Olson revived the case. Today Shepherd and "Dr." Charles C. Faiman are under Indictment, charged wilh the murder of Billy McClintock Mc-Clintock by Inoculation with typhoid germs. Faiman has confessed that he furnished the germs to Shepherd. He himself was to receive $100,000. The indictment raises the possibility of Shepherd's being charged with the death of both Billy's mother and Doctor Doc-tor Olson. A complicated legal contest con-test for the million-dollar estate Is presumable, with Shepherd, seven cousins of Billy and Miss Pope as litigants. MR. ERNST. I wish to know If there be any way under the rules of the senate whereby I can. . . call a fellow member a willful, mall-clous mall-clous liar? It was the senator from Kentucky who said it, last Saturday during debate de-bate on the Investigation of the Internal In-ternal revenue bureau by the committee commit-tee of which Couzens of Michigan Is chairman and Ernst Is a member. Incidentally In-cidentally Ernst had been defending the action of the treasury In making an additional assessment of approximately approxi-mately $11,1X10,000 against Couzens on ids 1919 income tax because of profits on the sale of his Ford stock. Ernest Interrupted Glass of Virginia, who went charging across, demanding that the Kentucky senator "be specific." Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, stepped Into the breach. Ernst was made to take his seat, and order was finally restored. Later Ernst was given a chance to withdraw his language and to say that he was referring to Couzens, not Glass. It seems that Ernst had failed to hear Cour.ons accusing him of being a spy-in spy-in the committee for the treasury. When he found out about It, lte erupted, erupt-ed, l'.orah of Idaho took occasion to say, "It Is a pathetic thing, a very pith. Me thing, that we have reached n point here In the senate of the United St.ii -s where we cannot discuss public qui-'inns without indulging In personal!! person-al!! s." AMERICA fought the Spanish-American Spanish-American war In IStW. signed the ti-i -a y of peace with Spain in ll'O and cm. ::it.'.l Cuba In 19o2. Ail this left in . .iiibt the status of the littie Isle of I no olT the Cuban coast. In r.4 the S!;i!e department made a treaty with Cuba, fixing the island as a Cultc.ii pessrssion. Every president since McKlnley has approved that treaty; secretaries of state like Hoot and Umrhes have urged Its ratification. Last Friday the senate got around to a vote on it and ratified it, with only 14 opposing votes. Had the senate come to a vote at any time' during all those twenty years of dilly-dallying, the result would presumably pre-sumably have been the same. So slow a performance of an act of good faith has been a grave reproach to the United States. In all probability the senate's neglect to act has been a contributing con-tributing factor in the lack of Latin American confidence in the justice and good faith of the United States. ST. PATRICK'S day found Americans Ameri-cans of Irish blood in the mood for celebrating and the festivities were nation-wide. The shamrock was much in evidence and the blackthorn conspicuous con-spicuous by absence. President William Wil-liam T. Cosgrave pointed out that the day found the Irish Free State mistress In her own house, with peace established estab-lished from Malin Head to Cape Clear and from Dublin to Galway. Her people, peo-ple, he said, had begun to realize that disagreement of Irishmen must be settled set-tled by methods of civilized and constitutional con-stitutional customs. The Irish nation had never been more confident of the future. EVIDENTLY the lot of the star of professional baseball Is not entirely en-tirely "hard work and no play." Anyway, Any-way, the accompanying photograph from the spring training grounds of the New York Giants at Sarasota, Fla., would seem to suggest something to that effect. It shows six happily-married Giants and their wives who see that the sulphur and molasses is taken regularly. The photographer Is evidently evi-dently a married man, since "ladles first" Is his motto. From left to right the couples are : Mrs. and Mr. Groh. Mrs. and Mr. Frisch. Mrs. and Mr. Ryan, Mrs. and Mr. Meusel, Mrs. and Mr. Wilson and Mrs. and Mr. Crump. The fan needs no Introduction to the first four "Misters" ; the last two are "rookies" who may some day astonish aston-ish the baseball world and draw down even more money than Captain Frisch. TWENTY-FOUR organizations have held this week in Chicago, the "All Out o' Doors Annual Nature Exhibit." Its purpose is to foster outdoor recreation, recre-ation, and to Interest the public in nature na-ture study and In the conservation of plant nnd animal life. "Good Manners Man-ners Out of Doors" was the subject of general discussion at the annual luncheon. This exhibit Is important. Many varieties of wild flowers are doomed to extinction unless the American people can be educated to mend their ways. Outdoor recreation Is being promoted by many thousands of good Americans who see In it the best antidote for the manifold ills of a civilization too strenuous stren-uous nnd complex to be sane and safe. And our out-of-doors manners are unbelievably and Increasingly bad. They are so bad, Indeed, that unless they are greatly Improved property owners In many parts of the scenic West nre likely to establish shotgun quarantine nnd the camping automobile automo-bile tourists will be herded Into auto camps under police regulation. DEAD as a doornail Is apparently the "protocol of arbitration and security" of the League of Nations. Austen Chamberlain announced Its rejection re-jection by the British government. M. Briand defended it. Doctor Benes of Czecho-Slovakla proposed that It be referred to the next League assembly in September. This was done. It Is the capital's belief that President Coolidge will call a second arms conference con-ference for next fall in Washington in advance of the League assembly. It seems to be the general opinion that France will accept an Invitation to attend, at-tend, provided the problem of French security has been solved which Is i problem for European nations rather than for the proposed arms conference. DR. EDWARD BENES. foreign minister min-ister of Czeeho-Slovnkia. Tuesday proposed to Premier Ilerriot of France ; the creation of a United States of Europe, di hied into two eastern and est orn rrnups. Marquis Curzon of Koddloston, lord . pre.sid- nt of the eounril, und British ' statesman, dh-d Friday iiu'l sixty-six. His first wife was Maty Victoria l.elter of Chicaco. Jacob Gould Srhttrnuin. minister to China, was named Tuesday by the President to be ambassador to Gei-' Gei-' many. |