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The Omaha Morning Bee ^ VOL. 52—NO. 230. a OMAHA. TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1923.* S'..™.* Wv.W’JLK'mTWp CENTS 111 °rTS,l,,cff. uiMni p. o. Under ^ct of Mircn o. m/*. _ _* t _ ———————— 35 KILLED. 200 INJURED IN STORM ■ ~ ~~ - - ■ — — ' ■■—-1) —~ ■ Brothers Meet Death in Ice Floe Iowa Pair Stranded on Mis souri River Island Swept Away When Stream Rises. Perish Singing Hymns Herman, N'eb., March 1-.—{Special i —Harvey McIntosh, 30. and Tom Mc Intosh. i!C, brothers, from Mondamln, la., were trapped on an island in the Missouri river off the Herman bank Saturday night and then washed down stream to death. They had gone hunting early In the morning and beached their boat on the island. At night, when they re turned to the shore, the boat was gone. Rising of the ice-filled v river had floated it away. Roth men shouted, but without re sult. The water got higher. Finally both men took refuge on the top of a stump, the only part of the bar i ctuainintr out of water. Their shouts atti acted Walter Pegg, a farmer, liv ing in the neighborhood. Hear Shouts. lie called another brother, Fred, and together they dragged a boat a quarter of a mile across land to the river, and tried to reach the island. By that time it was dark. They could • not see the men on the stump, but could hear them shout. The stream was swift, and floating ce cakes Rwept the rescuing boat down stream. The boat was beached again, and dragged nearly a quarter of a mile up stream. More than a score of ersons had gathered on the bank by this time. At IX p. m., watchers on ho shore heard the two men sing ing. The gong was "Nearer My Uod to Thee.” Waist Deep. They were standing waist deep in water. Immediately afterward, they shout ed they were on an ice cake floating downstream. Frantically, Fred Me iutosh launched the boat, and in a wild chase through blocks of Ice which momentarily threatened to i wreck the frail craft, gave chase. Gradually the shouts of the two loomed men grew fainter in the dark ness. as the current widened the dis ■anco between them and th* boat. Finally the voices ceased. The bodies have not been fbund. Sheriff Mehrens of Blair has estab lished a guard along the river for several miles from the spot where the ■wo men disappeared in an effort to recover the bodies. Man Kills Son’s Wife, Grandchild and Self Wichita Falls, Tex.. March 12.— Firing a pistol into the home of Hairy C. Budd at Bellevue, Clay ounty B. L. Gulledge, farmer. 55, living 1 miles south of that place, to ■ killed his daughter-in-law, Mrs. F.d Gulledge and her 20-months-pld son, wounded Budd. who is Mrs. Gul edge'e father, and fired at other no rollers of the family. He then re lumed to his home and while posse -lien made preparations to storm the place, took hij own life. A disagreement with hi* son. Ed Gulledge, over the latter's refusal to -ign an oil and gas lease Is said by tha authorities to have caused the tragedy. Co-Operative Bodies May Join Chicago Board of Trade Chicago, March 13.—Problems1 in ’. o!ved in the admittance of co-opera t.ve grain marketing organizations to memlrcrship in the Chicago Board -if Trade were considered at t con ference of officials of the Xtoard and farm groups tonight. At the con • lltaion of the meeting. John ■). Stream, president of the board, ipdi 1 .toll that the way bad been opened for further di*cu*slon. T hose attending the conference In cluded the directors of the board. .1. tv. Cloverdale, secretary of the Amet /an Farm Bureau Federation: C. TV. Hunt, president of th* Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, and Frank O. Wetmore, member of the advisory 1 ommittee of the L'nited States Grain Growers Inc. Secretary Work Anxious to See Irrigation Pushed Washington. March 12.—Survey of ho Big Bend district of the Columbia l it er, recently ordered by the Interior deportment, js to mark the Inaugttra 'ion of on active policy in the Inter cut nt western Irrigation projects, Sec ir-tary Stork Indicated today. "As secretary of the Interior.” he raid, “I am particularly Interested in oeiiig the successful devslopmcnt i t ii'-se barren districts of the west urn til every acre shall be under eiiltlva non, producing whatever crops are 1 dtable to the soil,” The Rig Bend project constitutes 'lie Urgent single Irrigation enterprise in the United Htntcs, comprising 2,000, "00 ncrcs, of v. (rich at least two-thirds • re deemed "reclalinable” by the do na, rtment. r** <rompers’ Condition Belter. New York, March 12. Hiunuel Mumpers, president of the American federation of IjMbor, who hss been seriously 111 with influenza here, passed a comfortable night and is much improved today. Congressman-Elect’s Successor Is Named Judge Hastings Succeeds Sears Former Seventh Judicial Dis trict Judge Appointed to District Bench Here. Judge TV. G. Hastings, who will succeed Congressman-elect W. G. Sears, as district judge here, came to Omaha September 1, 1921, to be as sociated with TVilliam Kkrhie. Jr., in the law business. The judge was informed yester day over long distance telephone by Governor Bryan of his appointment. He will begin the new judgeship as soon as the commission arrives and he takes l he oath of office. Horn in Courthouse. Judge Hastings was born in a court j house at Woodstock. HI., when Ids father was sheriff of McHenry countv. He came to Nebiaskn in i*7S and established himself in law practice at Pleasant Hill, Saline county, movinj with the county seat to Wilber. He j served as county attorney during 1895 and 1891, and served one term as state senator from Saline county. For eight years lie was judge in the Seventh Judicial district, which then comprised Saline. Fillmore, Clav. Thayer and Nuckolls counties. From 1901 to 1904 he wag supreme court commissioner and from 1904 to 1909 lie was teacher at the law school nf the University of Nebraska. He was dean of this law school from 1909 to 1921. . W ins *2.000 Prize. The judge has contributed to maga zines on Jaw subjects. His translation from the Hus* tn of "The General Theory of Haw." was used at oxford. England. In 1901 he received a $2,000 prize from American Philosophical society for Ids 20.000-word essay on "police Power" He lias specialized tn equity and constitutional law. Judge Hastings livis at 132 North Forty-first stret. Hi; wife died in Omaha last year. He has been Identified as a democrat in politics, although he stated this morning that . Me is not now registered as of any party affiliation. Not Applicant. I.lncoln, March 12.—(Special.)— Judge w. G. Hastings, appointed to day by Governor C. TV. Bryan to suc ceed Judge Willis G. Hears, was not on applicant for the position. In appointing him, Governor Bryan ignored several prominent Omaha at torneys who were active applicants for the place. At one time, during the'w.ir, Judge Hastings was acting chancellor of the University of Nebraska. French Lay Occuptv©\^ .oes Will Be gin EV?'^ ..non of Ruhr When Teutons Resume Reparations Payments. Propagandists Blocked Brussels. March 12.—t^)—The French and Belgians, by declaring this afternoon that they are ready, when Germany begins payment, to evacuate the Ruhr and the territory recently occupied on the right bank of the Rhine, believe they have dealt a big blow to Germany's propaganda entirely contravening the German statement that they are actually in tending to occupy i\if district per manently. A formal decision given out in the form of a communique following to days conference of premiers, was .n part as follows: •‘The two governments (the French and the Belgian) are again in com mon accord not to accept simple promises from Germany concerning the evacuation of Ihe Ruhr and the territories recently occupied on the light bank of the Rhine, but such evacuation will Ire carried out gradu ally, following the execution by Ger many of her reparations obligations No Mention of Rhineland. It was noted in some quarters that no mention was made of the Rhine land in the statement. As regards the evacuation It is pointed out that the same principle Is applied as when the Germans evacu ated French territory after the Fran co-Prussian war, the troop withdrawal being carried out progressively as the French paid the indemnity. The Frunco Belgians say: "What we want noW from Germany is action, not promises." With this political aspect of the conference settled, the rest of the meeting was devoted to the immedia'e aspect of the situation, especially to 8 tions were made that any German workmen helping to load coal nt the mines would not he allowed to t>eonnie objects of German reprisals when thc Rtiltr is evacuated. The conferees took special measures for granting important export license* and facili tating the foreign trade of the occu pied tegion. Fight Germans Killed. Recklinghausen. .March 1— 4* — Fight Germans are dead as the tesulti of clashes with French troops in vavi ous parts of Recklinghausen One French soldier and three Get mans were wounded in a Hot auDor, mu mi. A state of siege has laen declared tit the entire Recklinghausen district. Additional troops have been sent to preserve order at Buer. where a French army officer anil A French civilian official were killed Saturday nigjit. and where excitement has sin■ been running high, resulting in tc rtewed shootings. of the Germans who met death, two wire shot down while living :o "scape from the gendarmes In the Buer disturbances. Five others were killed and several were wounded an hour later when a crowd attacked a French' guard post. The eighth Ger man was killed Ujt Dortmund when a crowd Hjt.ickcd a French detachment. Disturbance* Renewed. Disturbance* were renewed at Bue, last night when French gendarmes went to the home of a German su< pei ted of being implicated In the assassination of the French offlcla'*. Two Germans who were found there were arrested. They were being taken to a guard post when, according to the French report#, they tried to rs cape and were shot. This created an uproar and within ati hour the Germans began pouring' tTiirn to I'ss* Four, t'olnmn Ind.i Small Hot Water Bottle Secret of Michigan Girl’s High “Fever” Kscanal/a Mull . M.ir li 1C.— (AP)— The story of liow Mian Kvelyn Lyons fooled the medical profession of l> canaba, newspaper men and sympa thetic neighbor* for Cl days through her Ingenious fever raising tactics by a hot water bottle, was unfolded here todaj by Mr. Harry .1 Defnet. city lien it h lomriiisloner. and attending physician on the <a*c, which ha* at fraeted nationwide attention. The hoax was rnaif.- possible through tin aid of a hot water bottle of the same color as tile girl's ulghj. dress. Hr. .Dr filet sahl. "laist Saturday night I was called to the Lyons residence.'' declared Jn tciet, “and the girl germed to lie ex perlencing Intense ugony. I was sui prised that onyonc could possibly go through such agony and h\r and so my suspicions were nroused. I call'd in Hr. A. K. Snyder and we both ! watched the girl's feverish actions un til long Into the right. During the | time we spent there, 1 nevei saw such acting' ns whs displayed by the girl. The fact that her actions were so dm matlc led us to believe mure and more that her temperature reading* were not ns registered on our thermometers j Aftei n lapse of a few hour* wa found a hot water bottle concealed In Hie bed. which the ghl had up patently used to raise the tempera lure. Tlie noticeable fact about tlie bottle was that It was the same color flesh eoloi ns the girl s night cloth ing Hy this Ingenious device the girl would continue to fool us. nl though several medical men from 1-is canabu and several witnesses even now i annot understand the pheiiome tin "f her trickery, itv coughing Just 1 before we put the thermometers In her mouth, she would cause it delay just long enough to put the bulb against the small bottle, which was, Hut six lm tics In length and four incites wide, and hy Its color resembled the rilglit gown perfectly. When wo| placed th« thermometer under her arms she would cough snd In this way cause another delay .and then shake j the miniature bottle under her j shoulder and place the bulb against the bottlo again. Hy these mcMtis the girl completely footed everybody who came In sen the remarkable tempera tin e rending Her mother brought the I hot water bottle to the girl, unsuspco! Ingly hornlike of Evelyn s complain Ing of a sore back," When confronted with she charge of employing Ingenious methods of mis lug her temperature, Mlaa Lyons dc claredi * "You look my temperature' You j saw the trading! It Is not my fault if you tend wrong!" A Firpo Knocks Out Big Bill Brennan New York. March 12.—Buis Angel Firpo, South American heavyweight, knocked out Bill Brennan of Chicago in the twelfth round of a sensational 15-round match tonight in Madison Square Garden. The end came with dramatie swiftness when Firpo sent the Chicagoan down for the count with a terrific right to the head. Recognition of Russia and Mexico Probable Soon Harding Expected to ^ ield to Strong Pressure Shortly After Return From Vacation. By I niffr«*l Servke Washington. March 12— From sources of the highest authority, it is learned that the government is pre pared to extend recognition to Russia m the not distant future. This will be followed soon by extension of recognition to tfie Obregon goreiit rnent of Mexico, it is expected. While it is understood that Secre tary of State Hughes will make no moves In this direction while President Harding is away, it is believed that when the president returns from his Florida vacation trip almut the end of the month, one of his first act's will be the issuance of instructions to the state department to draft the papers of recognition. Pressure Brought to Bear. It is known that particularly in the case of Russia the strongest pos sible pressure i« being brought to bear upon the administration to resume full diplomatic relations. At the same time, neither the White House nor the state department has been able to present any convincing or satisfying reasons why recognition should he longer withheld from either Russio or Mexic®. Recognition of tile soviet govern ment of Russia is being urged for two elemental reasons. The first of these is wholly political, and is based on the inherent justice involved, namely, that the Russian government ts entitled In recognition and ha« done nothing to justify the attitude of the United Htntes jn continuing to regard it as an outlaw after its goverhment lias proven itself able to ..ope with condi tions. Even if no other grounds ex isted. senators and other officials who have studied the ouestion believe Russia is entitled to its place among the family of nations I’urely (oinmereial Reason. The other reason is purely a ■ tn inerclal one and finds Its greatest im pet u* in the increasing demand from business and manufacturing Interest* that the market* of Russia should he open to American trade. The piessurn for recognition from 'his source has become itv s' insistent and powerful. in addition there is the knowledge that .Japan already is dickering with Russia f.-i a complete diplomatic on derstandlng. and that France, liar ra**etl by the fear that Russia may unite with Germany, is also making moves m the direction of recognizing the Russian g- vcrnment. If it should come about that both Japan and France, or Cither of them, should recognize Russia in advance of action to that effect by the United States, American business men would he placed at a tremendous disadvantage, in the opinion of officials here Reasons \ppl> to Mexico. The same reasons apply with equal force to Mexico and the demand that is being made fur recognition of the Ohregnn government. Senator Horaji, back today from New Vorlf where lie delivered iwo ad dresses on the subject of recognition, said he found verv strong sentiment In his audiences there in favor of recognizing both governments with out further delay At a meeting In Brooklyn, attended by about 2.500 “substantial business men. affiliated with the republican party, there whs practical)i a unanimous sentiment tie hind the senator's plea for Russia and Mexican recognition, he wild. Clubs Blamed by Warden for Downfall of ^ omifc Men «'olumbun, .Wb , March 1! -<8p. f i.il l— H. V. Clark, nup.i ntendent of thn Nel.rnskn State 1 iKluetfiitl RI'hlH)! for bo.v* nt, Knfli nry. who ,iddi ensed iiic I,Ion* i lull a? it* luncheon *nJi>, "The old fn«hloned home an you men ami I km v Jn our i hlldli'*x1 I* gone There nre too many lodge*, too many < lub* lo keep parent* away from home, and while they nre away, the i hlldren nre running !oo*p and nre be ing educated away from home, Ksrnanhe elgnrel .looking. loafing 'n the pool hull*, .making room* and other public place* without proper nupervi.lon, Wmint.ored moving pic lure*, the appeal of the automobile ami dl.reapect for lnw, Mr. Clark il< c la red to bn rontrltnitny rnim - of the delinquency of boy* VI illiiim /. Foster on Trial. St. Joseph, Mich , March if—Wil liam Z Foster of Chicago was pUccd on ti i.il in He? i in county circuit court this morning oh urged with wilting, Advocating and "deliberately justify JndM th«» doctrine Ilmt "industrial und polltlml reform should he hi ought slwmt l* v crime. «ii In it ngo it tid other unlnttftil method* of terrorism ‘ Fonter 1* the first of JJ person* Ai restml After a mid on the national eun\entinti t*f the communist party 1*81 August to f*tvo trial. “And the Villain Still Pursued Her” Candler Files Reply to §500,000 Heart Balm Suit Defendant Says Investigation Convinced Him Marriage With Mr>. I)e Bouchel Could Not Be Happy. Atlanta, Cia., March 11’.—Asa C. Randier filed Jn the United State* dis trlot court here an answer to the JjftO.OuO breach of promise suit iwi id ly brought against him l>> Mr* One zlma de Bouchel Mr, Candler told I ho court that he became engaged to Mrs. De Bouchel In January. 1922, and that immediately thereafter she proposed "that thev go at once and be married.'' Thia he declined to do. The answer concedes that i num ber of Mr. Candler’s family visited N'ew Orleans to Investigate ''certain suggestions' regarding Mrs. I>e Houchel's conduct, contained in letters from certain people in New Orleans. These letters, it was said, were turned over to the petitioner's attorney and lute never lieen returned The answer contends it disposes fully of the charges brought by Mrs. D« Bouchel. and asks that her suit be dismissed. "In answer to paiacravdi S.V the answer said, ' the defendant admits that he made no investigation other than to estubiislv the .fact that the statements referred to wire actually made by a gentleman in Atlanta and defendant felt that in any "event, a marriage hereafter consummated could not be a happy one. as he Stated In his letter " — Naw Department \X ill Take Steps to Check Desertions Washington, Mmch 1-.— Nearly 7,000 dfoertloni ami discharges "with out ho no i ' from the United State* tmvy in the last eight months will lead to vigorous step* by the navy depar; ment to check an apparent breakdow.i of nu t ale among the en1i*ted perwon nel. if v \n learned officially this after noon. How Much Would You Pav for a Tenant? ' Vou wouldn't say that sev enty-two cents is an un reasonable price to pay for a tenant, would you? r That's nil it cost Mrs. \. I.. King. 30611 Farnam, to rent her apartment through the "Want” Ad columns of The Omaha Her. 1 If VOU have any sort of property to rent, ur sell phone your "Want” Ail to AT lantic 1000. * Remember. Omaha Bee "Want" Ad rate* are tin* lowest in the city. Read and use Omaha lice "Want" Ads—the hec-linc to lesults. A Flyer Killed as Movie Filmed Airplane Company Official Meets Death in Scene of Gloria S»/ui»on Picture. Monterey, t'a).. March 1J.—Harvey Pugh of Berk* ley, former army a\i star, was near death today at the 13 Adobe hospital here with a frac tured skull, broken legs, a broken arm, broken yaw and several broken finger*. and arrangements were be ing made io ship the body of Chester Williams, secretary of the William* Brothers' Airplane company, to hi* home in Sin Francisco, following the crash < f a plane being piloted by Pugh over the Pebble Beach golf links. Pugh with William* as a passen ger. together rydh another plane pi loted by Marshall G. Boggs, had been soaring about over Pebble Beach as < Bonn Kwanso* and her company filmed a motion picture below Machine* in the air forming a l*a< k g round for the outdoor scapes being taken. Suddenly Pugh's airplane went into a nose dive. He endeavored to straighten it out, but was o do so and a second later it ru>„ -1 into the golf links turf. The entire company of movie actors rushed to the assistance of the stricken btrdmen and pulled them hastily from the wreckage Williams was instantly killed and Pugh was unconscious when taken from the wreckage Beaver City Man Killed in Automobile Accident Lincoln. March l’J -4 Special.)— Wilier K. Ptekaring. S$. prominent twain**** man of H**vei wa* killed in an automobile accident n? Nogale*. .\i j according to a trie grant received bole today by h*.« si* trr. Mr* I toy J Kirk. No particular* of the acc.dent w. given in the telegram Pit ker ng had gone to Nogales recently on hualnts*. lie lra><* a wife, Gail 11. hi* sister. Mr* Kirk and a brother Walter J Pickering of New York Ot> Pickering formerly lived ,\\ Lincoln and wa* a graduate of the Lnl\er *i»y of Nebraska. M«vr Launched to Heal Ohregon for Prceniml Havana Cuba. March U’ An nr KAnlMtlon having in view tho placing of Kmeterio t>c lxt (Inritn In iho presi dential chair of Mexico ha, l>een or gan i xe<l m Havana from which place all preliminaries will |>c directed Tho party Is officially named "Che N i tion«I Mexican union," and the f»l lowing officer, have been selected: l‘i e.-ident. Kineterlo li.. Ixv Gaits: vice president, General Inn.nno isor Unas; secretary, Col. lloraalo Sierra: treasurer, 1 .lent. Col. (Iraciano Velez. Mliancr Girl. 21. Killed l>\ (.1111 W liilr Kcuiovin^ Bullet Alltaia Neb.. March it tHpev ial l —Miss Hetty Naomi Hooper. “1 wax! almost inaianlly kilted at Ini ranch home near laikralde by '.he accidental discharge of a 3* caliber revolver The *h*U became cloaged and While nl tempt In* to remove II the gun was discharge,! with the iconic potnung *l her heart Her II year obi niece, Lhaic Nerrkk was the only *itue»» Hoover Selects X Men to Probe Farm Export Problems Seorelar\ of Commerce ( alls Committee to Meet March t—\11 Related to \s ricultural Industrv. Washington. March 1-.—Secretary of Commerce Hoover today named IS members of a special committee which will inquire into agricultural export problems and summoned them to meet here March 14 All of those appointed are connected wiih agricultural organizations or with allied industries or scientific work related thereo They are: W. G. Jamison. I. A. \ of A, Colorado and C. W. Hunt. 1> s Moines, all officers of the American Farm Bureau Federation; T C At kison, Washington representative of fhe National Grange Charles s. Bar rett, president of the F^rirer?' union; James F. Bell, flour miller, Minnen l>n!is: Julius Barites president Cham ber of Commerce of the 1'nited States: Geiige McFadden. cotton exporter. Philadelphia; Cu.l Williams, president Oklahoma Cotton Grower* association; Balph Merritt, president California Raisin and Rice association: Alonio K Taylor, director of the Institute of Food R> search. Stanford university, James \ Broderick, vice president Bank of Commerce. New York: Adolph Miller, member of the federal reserve bo.id. Thomas Wilson, presnb nt Amen, an Institute of Meat Backer* II c. Taylor, Department of AgTlcul-’ tine, and Julius Klein, Department of Commerce Dr. Frank M. Surface, who directed food glirvey during ihe war for the food administration, will have charge of ihe investigation, which was author* lied by ihe last congress, which ap propriated $.■>00,000 for lls work and for the purpose of investigating condi tion* in the rubb-1 trade and other Industries where It was considered for eign influence* may have affected pi u • s against American consumers I lah Metal 'line Owner* t.raut Workers Increase Salt 1 .akr Oitv. March 1—Opera tor* of all metal mine* In 1'tah at » pcsitng notices today announcing a general wage Increase for all em ploye*. both mine and mill, of from 7 1-2 |>er cent to 13 per cent, w ith , a maximum of f>0 cents per day. The 1’tah Copper company an nouneed the Increase to their employer would bo effective Match IS. In creased prices for met a la make the wage Increase possible, mine owners said The Weather Forecast. Vein ark* Generally fair Tuesday and Wednesday; somewhat wanner M odnesday low* —Genet ally fair Tuesday and W ednesday; allgthly warmer Wednes day 11 «sii i |n lrni|»rroiiiie» * ■ mi St t p m t« •* »*. m 1! ? |t m i; T ». m AA % p mi v« * ». » * M 4 |*. **< M M »M *4 \ |» Ml IQ II. lit in f |» m <?i II m m 1 p mi f | It mats 3* 1 p to 3> Toll of Life Hea v i est i n South Nineteen Perish ^ hen Gale Sweeps Tennessee Town— Ghieago Hit by Raging Blizzard. Trains Stalled by Snow By 4 aivrrital Hen ice. Chicago, March 12,— A Co nil that ■ from wesl to cast took heavy to!! of life and property Sunday night and today. Thirty five dead and approximately 200 injured told the story in casualty figures. Sweeping out of tl ■ upper reaches 'f the Missouri valley, the storrn spread out, fan-like, until it covered the country from the Canadian border to the gulf state*.-. Tonight it was continuing in an easterly direction, bearing to the northeast. Storm warn ings were posted over the North At lantic states. Down in the southern states th» toll of life was greatest*. The little* town of Pir.son. Tenn , was literally swept away in the night. Nineteen perished and 50 buildings were wreck ed. Nearly v hundred were injured Heavy Damage in Middle west The mlddlewesr w as engulfed in sleet and snow driven before a terrifi sale that carried away telegTaph and telephone wire? stalled train* ard caused heavy damage in score* of tties and town*. In the accounts of the storm no story overshadows that of two men swept away in the Missouri river near Omaha. Harvey and Tom M- In tosh, farmei* of Mondamin. la., were caught on •in island. Their cries for help were heard on the mainland as the ice filled water rose about them. For seven hours heroic efforts were made to reach them, and failed. They clung to an ice floe and were swept town the river. For miles down the river scores of farmers and towns people wets waudnng the flood this evening, be. eying the men might be cast ashore on their ice buoy. Chirac* Hil by Storm. < jgo araggered ur i-r tfte hun: ane. Blinding snow filled the streets. The Carden Home Community church was wrecked and hundreds of build ing* damaged. Plate glass w.ndows were smashed. Fire broke out as the storm raged, destroying a six story budding in the heart of the business district. The building had been occupied 30 years ago by the old Chicago Times and was a landmark. Tero hundred tele phone operators in a Bell telephone exchange budding adjoining were in a panic. The -:tv was in darkness from mid night tint ! dawn, when high tension power rirvuits that fee-1 the street lights went down Two men w-ie found dead In the snow this morning. Train* Stalled in Snow. tiigairtic snowbanks gave sections of Iowa. Illinois and Wisconsin the appearance of the arctic regions, “We saw snowdrifts lrt and 13 feet high.' said a Chicago Northwestern radroad conductor who reached here late today from ^t. Paul. ‘ Branch line trains are stalled in snow and the whole fight is being waged to keep mam lines open " Transcontinental trains from the Pa-lfic coast fought their way imo Chi. ago hour s Lite The temperature was oni> a little below freezing and railroad di'ision superintendents le ported traffic would be normal m a few hours. Fishermen Ke*« ued. V fishing boat, with four men aboard was saved by life guards off Chics no. l-«ke Michigan was lash- l furiotislvi for 24 hours, but shipping had been warned and no loss of l.fe ha* been reported. Five lives were repot tei lost In a. cyclone near Richmond. Ky. Thi «e live* were reported lost in Ohio River* and small streams were re ported running bank full in evtry part of the countiy and danger of flood damage Increased as the w» er continued to rise tonight The property lose could not be ac curately estimated because of the great spread of the storm. Kst .mates ran as high as 4M.0M Seu'uti't' ill to Prmluoc Rain ^ ith Sami Moundsville. \V. Yn . March 1?.— V •‘or swant ami ttr.ee i < arrive ! ■it the artwx field l ore ; • prepare f the I'oniM-t of scientist* who "ill ©*t deavor to reproduce rain by dmppmc olci (rically char|*tl sand from *‘i plar.oa on the "roof of cloud* I: was said at the field that two or tts* * week* w ouiu he required before the preparation* are complete. The exp. *'iit w i* to |v ondu. e>{ by Pi of W ilder T» Hancroft of Cor •lell tint vomit v. and 1 Fra no* Wa IW of New York who will also « dear or to di**!t**te f..g Some success ha* attended simitar*experiments a Wright f ield near lYvx ton, O . but It wa* stated tha. thi* vicinity xxa* be . tet adapted. Iilalto Official RpNifin*. Peso fib March li VI len Car,” eon, state cutuuu** i otter of as . e. t ure. presen text hi* resignation to Governor Moore today and the chief executive accepted it. V *uc .-ever hs* not he n named, but v W kj'»i<- . of ttie I *• . of I,‘..the * sn o those mentioned V|r t'mnvit |i. o no reason lot In* tes.smi.vtx %