oc-plain-dealer 1924-05-27

GROWTH OF ANAHEIM SHOWN BY CENSUS Total in 1910 was 2,628 For Year 1920 was 5,525 Today Estimated at 12,000 Mail your Plain Desier to Eastern friends. It may bring them to Anaheim, fastest growing city in Orange County. PRICE Three Cents Per Copy $3 year in No. Orange-co. 47 KILLED BY TO Fullerton Youth Tells Police FAILED IN 2 ADDITIONAL ATTEMPTS Captured in Santa Barbara Where He Fled in Father's Auto Confession to seven burglaries Fullerton within the last few months and two additional burglars Abernathy’s Nerve Breaks in Prison Mrs. J. R. Abernathy is at Leavenworth prison, or will be there shortly, on a visit to her husband, who is ill. This report, current today, was confirmed by Mrs. Ella Joyce, mother of Mrs. Abernathy, who said Abernathy’s was a nervous trouble. Asked if the disorder was serious, Mrs. Joyce said she didn’t think so. Abernathy is in the prison hospital, she added. Up to the time of his being sentenced, the reputed ring-leader in the successful plot to rob a registered mail pouch, maintained a strong front. 4 PROMINENT MEN JAILLED AS BANDITS Tacoma Business and ciety Leaders Held for Bank Holdup SEATTLE, May 27 — men, prominent in Tacoma s and business life, were under Captured in Santa Barbara Where He Fled in Father's Auto Confession to seven burglaries Fullerton within the last few months and two additional burglary attempts, has been made to the Fullerton police by Oliver Laws, 18, captured in Santa Barbara Friday following a burglary at the R. R. Allen home 600 West Wilshire ave., Thursday night in which he was discovered and fought Mr. Allen in a hand-to-hand combat before being able to escape. After this burglary, knowing that his identity was discovered, he stole his father's car and fled Brot back to Fullerton yesterday and today he made declarations concerning his criminal career, which largely clears up the recent crime wave in Fullerton. He was arraigned this afternoon before Judge French, and held to superior court under $2000 bail. The total value of the things taken could not be given by the police today, but the articles recovered include a kodak, a revolver and shells, a knife, chain and charm. The homes burglarized were: L. E. Mayem, 226 East Whiting ave., March 6 pearl necklace and pearl sleeveholders, entered by passkey thru rear door. N. G. Lake, 417 West Amerigeave., May 17, passkey thru front door, ransacked, everything turned upside down, nothing taken. Albert Dykeman, 434 West Amerigeave., April 30, passkey thru rear door, 38-calibre pearl handle gun, part of box of shells. Kester Seldler 437 West Amerigeave., May 19, passkey thru front door house ransacked, things turned upside down looking for money, nothing taken; attempted Dykeman's house again same night, could not enter. Miller residence, $02 No. Woods ave., date unknown, entered an daytime, sapphire ring. Guy Welton, 328 West Wilshire ave., April 27, passkey thru side door, $11 cash, small kodak, two rings; kodak recovered: same night attempted $12 West Wilshire ave., but passkey would not work. R. R. Allen, $00 West Wilshire ave., May 22 thru door already unlocked, knife, chain and $50 charm, all recovered. "INACCURACIES" OF PROBE DENOUNCED 6 MEN BURN TO DEATH IN HOTEL NEWARK, N. J., May 27 — Six men were burned to death in a spectacular fire which swept the Mills hotel here today. Firemen were searching for more bodies. Fire Chief Paul Moore said the bodies were found on the third floor and that it "is probable there are more bodies on the fourth floor." One hundred men were in the building. Eight unclead men made their way to the street down fire escapes. Onlookers saw a number of men at windows in the upper stories throwing their effects to the street. When impenetrable smoke cleared away the men had disapeared they said. PEPPER PLAN FOR COURT CONSIDERED WASHINGTON, May 27.—The Pepper plan for American adherence to the world court, under conditions divorcing that tribunal from the League of Nations, was formally laid before the senate today. Senator Pepper, Rep. of Pa., author of the plan, presented the recommendation of the Republican majority to the senate foreign relations committee for American participation. Under Pepper's plan, the recommendations of President Harding and President Coolidge for American adherence to the league court with certain reservations, would be abandoned. BOY INJURED IN MOTORCYCLE SPILL AS DANDITIONS Tacoma Business and Society Leaders Helped for Bank Holdup SEATTLE, May 27 — Men prominent in Tacoma state and business life, were under rest in the county jail here day charged with being the bandits who, on April 14, up the Citizen's Bank of Cortes, and escaped with $23 after wounding the president the bank. The men, brot to Seattle Sheriff Matt Starwick and a tail of deputies shortly before noon today, are: Russel R. Evans 37, principal of the Self Opening Co., of Tacoma, formerly an intelligence officer in the U.S Navy. Dave W. Nadeau, 37, principal accountant and secretary of Lions club of Tacoma; Lawrence H. Lee, 45, trust city employee of Tacoma; and Warren L. Ridley, 25, Tacoma business man and brother-in-law of Nadeau. The men were arrested lowing more than a month on tensive detective work on part of the sheriff's office Tacoma, Mount Vernon, Seattle and the Tacoma police department. The investigation started with secret information which is to have thrown considerable on the robbery, was supplied Tacoma officials from an anonymous source. LOGICAL AGENT AND WIFE ON VACATION J.-M. Gunnett, ticket agent for Pickwick stage, and Mrs. Cett, left today on a ten outing. They will visit in Elsinore and then to San Diego. A trip will also be made to tura. R. E. Reed, Fullerton, serve the public during Mr. Cett's absence. ABANDONS FLIGHT PEKING, May 27.—The Freightation today announced a denomination of the plan of Cap 'D'Olsy, French filer, to continue from Shanghai to Tokyo in a nese plane, following the crash the machine in which he from Paris, due to the refusal the Tuchun of Kiangsu to pee the use of flying fields in province. "INACCURACIES" OF PROBE DENOUNCED WASHINGTON, May 27.—Attorney General Stone this afternoon took the Brookhart-Wheeler committee to task for permitting "inaccuracies" as to the workings of the department of justice to get into the official record of the investigation of the administration of former Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty. In a letter to Senator Brookhart, chairman of the committee, Stone said he feared the public was getting a "false impression," of the department and urged in fairness to himself and his assistants that such inaccuracies be corrected. He submitted a list of all assistant attorneys general and special assistants and suggested they be called as witnesses to give first hand information of action they have taken and directed this afternoon when the senate passed the Edge postal pay bill. A provision ordering wide publicity on every contribution for political purposes, was carried as a "rider" on the Edge bill, which granted a $65,000,000 increase to postal employees. The vote on the bill was 73 to 2. L.O.O.F. May 29. BUILDING PERMITS Walter Amstutz, alteration to residence at $27 So. Walnut-st. cost $200. Mrs. Margaret A. Garland, five-room bungalow at $41 No. Dickel-est. cost $2500. BOY INJURED IN MOTORCYCLE SPILL Floyd Dryer, Orange youth, is in the Corona hospital suffering with a fractured skull. Dryer and several companions were riding their motorcycles thru Santa Ana canyon when his machine turned from the pavement into the sand and skiddled. The boy was thrown from the machine, striking his head on a rock. His condition is very critical. TRIES COMEBACK LOS ANGELES, May 27.—Roscoe (Patty) Arbuckle will attempt a comeback on the vaudeville stage, starting June 8 in San Francisco, it was announced here today. The former film comedian has signed a contract for a year's tour with Pantages. He will use the same act he started his career with in Seattle 21 years ago. Legion Fife and Drum Corps Practices for Memorial Day Anabeim's Memorial Day observance this year will include playing a life and drum corps of the American Legion post, according to plans now afoot. Nine members turned out last night for the opening rehearsal at the post headquarters in the city hall basement. Others will be recruited today. The nine were: William P. Webb, Jr., chairman of the committee, which is lining up the men; Jack Hebson, Wayne Wardman, old-time drummer; M. W. Martenett Jr., L. E. Dooley, Earl Crittell; R. B. Smith, E. R. Sherman and W. C. Carle. Rehearsals will be held nightly at headquarters from now Friday. OILMAN INJURED C. Frank of Huntington Beach was brot to the sanitarium yesterday suffering from an infection in Huntington Beach fields, where he was employed a rotary helper with the Stand A piece of iron fell on his fracturing his skull. He was to be greatly improved today strong hopes are held for his recovery. Plain Dealer Classified Ads company and L.L.C. insurer FULL REPORT OF INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE—FIRST LEASED WIRE IN ANAHEIM THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer LEADING NEWSPAPER OF NORTHERN ORANGE COUNTY Anaheim, California: Tuesday, May 27, 1924 BY TORNRDO IN SOUTH Police He Committed Seven Burglars PROMINENT EN JAILED S BANDITS oma Business and Soety Leaders Held for Bank Holdup ATTLE, May 27 — Four prominent in Tacoma social business life, were under ar- Girl Dressed Like Boy Held With Men PORTLAND, Ore., May 27— A 17-year-old girl from Palo Alto acted and dressed so much like a boy tramp that the sheriff at Eugene put her in jail with the men. The girl—Dora Caldwell— was picked up in a stolen auto at Cottage Grove with Jack Williams, 17, also of Palo Alto. But the sheriff was suspicons, according to Russell Bryan, department of justice agent who brot Williams to Portland today to face a charge of auto theft. "Are you a boy?" the sheriff asked. "Yep," the supposed lad answered. But Williams' heart failed him and he told the sheriff his companion was a girl. She was removed to other quarters. STONE STOPS REPAYMENT OF TAXES Senator Shortridge Issues Vigorous Protest at Change of Ruling WASHINGTON, May 27.—Attorney General Stone today recalled the decision of former attorney MEMORI ANAHEIM, MAY 28 First call to meet a trance to cemetery, 9:46 a.m. Assembly call at Portico, 9:46 a.m. Raising of the flaScouts, 10 a.m. Invocation by Rev. singer. Reading of general Adjudant O. V. Knowlty Singing "The Star Banner" by the audience. Lincoln's Gettysburg Arnold R. EnEarl. Reading selection by Hasson. Solo by Mrs. Walter. Remarks by commanvern Hill post, G. A. R. Address by Dr. J. R. Singing by Pupils oschools. OSHER SERVICI AT 10 P.M. SEEK CLEWS IN CLOGGED SEWER CHICAGO, May 27.—Following a scurry of police officers and other officials over the arrest of a man who had given the name of George Johnson, the investigation into the murder of Robert Frank turned back into its previous narrow channels today when it was discovered that the supposed George Johnson was not the man for whom police had been searching. Efforts to hold together the cobwebby maze of clues already gathered centered mainly on the work of two gangs of men who were sent to the home of Mott Kirk Mitchell, assistant principal at Harvard school, to excavate the sewer pipe. Police said they wanted to know what blocked the pipes. Mitchell and Walter Wilson, also an instructor at the Harvard school, are under arrest. Gertrude Barker, 16, and romantic, who came from Yakima, Wash., to Chicago and here fled the restrictions imposed by a stern aunt, a convent school and man-less existence, sat in the juvenile detention home and told how she found romance in a 7-room love nest over a livery stable. The girl’s 27-year-old companion in the search for escape from the conventions, Bert Harry Jeffrey, keeper of the stables where exclusive horsemen keep their mounts, was less communicative in his cell at South Clark-st station. OF TAXES Senator Shortridge Issues Vigorous Protest at Change of Ruling WASHINGTON, May 27.—Attorney General Stone today recalled the decision of former attorney general, Daugherty, which gave refunds of income taxes to the amount of approximately $130,000,000 to the people of California under the community property tax law. This will mean that the taxpayers of California stand to lose that amount. Sen. Samuel M. Shortridge today said he will fight Stone’s decision to the umort. He said he will carry the matter to the floor of the senate if necessary and throw out all the points involved. Shortridge said the decision of Stone to cancel a decision of the former attorney general is arbitrary and not in line with the facts of the law in this specific instance. He claims that the attempts of the U.S. bureau of internal revenue to avoid making these refunds are not in line with the public policy which relates to fair treatment of citizens, especially when such attempts are contrary to legal decisions. The bureau of internal revenue has made important changes in its personnel in order to administer the decision of former attorney general Daugherty and has sent refund blanks to thousands of California income taxpayers, all of which is nullified by Stone’s decision to override Daugherty’s decision. The formal decision of the attorney general will be made public later. KEEN TRUSTEES ON TRIAL AGAIN WED. Having passed thru the ordeal of one trial, wherein the jury failed to agree on a verdict, O. C. Hardabeke, and Glenn B. Churchill, trustees of a bankrupt chain of hat stores, were today preparing to make their second bid for freedom, their trial being scheduled before Superior Judge R. Y. Williams tomorrow at 10 a.m. A new panel of jurors will be on hand tomorrow, the hat store case being their first trial. Hardabeke and Churchill are accused of obtaining money under false pretenses from purchasers of stock in the chain of hat stores, one of which was located in Anaheim. Banner: by the audience Lincoln’s Gettysburg Arnold R. EnEarl. Reading selection by Hasson. Solo by Mrs. Walter Remarks by command vern Hill post, G. A. R. Address by Dr. J. R. Singing by Pupils of schools. OSHER SERVICE AT 10 P.M. Funeral services will be conducted at Backs, Territory bell pagors, Wednesday m., for Mrs. Mary Cohen passed away yesterday. Rev. Thomas H. We have charge of the service Walter Ross will send Kindly Light” and Face.” Interment will helm cemetery in the Three daughters, M. Pember, Anaheim; Mrter, Worland, Wyo., and Roame, Long Beach, and survive. CHARGES DOCUMENTS Other women than him into the wedded life of P. Johnson, Fullerton Mrs. Sylvia Johnson, wn in a suit for divorce on in superior court, married March 3 and April 5. It was allied wife that during this doctor spent much time ouser other women with whom she declared trip to San Jose. 50 EXPLOSIONS KILAUEA VOL. 50 EXPLOSIONS IN-HONOLULU, May 27. minor explosions of Kano have been registered past 24 hours by institute observatory, one minutes. The Kilauea district by severe earthquake since today. STOP PRIZER NEW YORK, May 27. der preventing staging the Pancho Villa-Franklin at the arena of the No-Letic club was issued to preme Court Justice B. The order was asked dents of the vicinity wil ing removal of the base ground that it is a prince. NINE SEAMEN CANSO, N. S., May men went to their desi Number of Homes Taking Plain Dealer 919 Number of homes not taking Plain Dealer, but taking Bulletin 123 Number of Homes Checked to date - - 1042 WEST CENTER STREET House Number Plain Dealer 110 Plain Dealer 110 Plain Dealer 116 Plain Dealer 118* Plain Dealer 124 Plain Dealer 204 No report 208 No to paper 212 Plain Dealer 216 Bulletin 220 Plain Dealer 224 No local paper 228 Plain Dealer 302 House Number 115 Plain Dealer 119 Plain Dealer 123 Plain Dealer 125 Bulletin 201 Plain Dealer 205 Plain Dealer 211 Plain Dealer 213 Plain Dealer 217 No report 221 Vacant 225 No report 229 Bulletin 303 Plain Dealer 309 Bulletin In the 100, 200, and 300 blocks on North Resh Street, there are a total of 28 homes. The PLAIN DEALER IS TAKEN AND READ in 18 of these homes. Now read the report of the homes which the Plain Dealer does not enter: Four take the Bulletin; 1 vacant; 2 no report; 2 no local paper. In the forty-three districts checked to date there are 1042 homes in which the local papers are read, and the Plain Dealer is read in 919 out of the 1042 homes, or 88 per cent. Number of Plain Dealers taken in the 43 districts checked ... 919 Number of homes not taking Plain Dealer, but taking Bulletin 123 Total number of homes taking local papers ... 1042 Anyone interested, of course, can check up on the correctness of the above statements. WATCH THIS SPACE DAILY FIRE IN ANAHEIM aler COUNTY PROGRESS OF ANAHEIM, AS ROLD BY BUILDING Year Permits Total 1923 825 $2,369,278 1922 875 1,413,048 1921 564 3,253,878 1920 362 279,950 1919 174 464,800 Fair, moderate temperature tonight and Wednesday. Cloudy. 27th YEAR—No. 230 SOUTHERN STATES Burglaries in Last Seven Weeks MEMORIAL PROGRAM ANAHEIM, MAY 30, 1924 First call to meet at main entrance to cemetery, 9:30 a.m. Assembly call at Mausoleum Portico, 9:45 a.m. Raising of the flag by Boy Scouts, 10 a.m. Invocation by Rev. J. A. Geissinger. Reading of general orders by Adjutant O. V. Knowlton. Singing "The Star Spangled Banner" by the audience. Lincoln's Gettysburg address by Arnold R. En earl. Reading selection by Dr. D. W. Hasson. Solo by Mrs. Walter Ross. Remarks by commander of Malvern Hill post, G. A. R. Address by Dr. J. R. Schofield. Singing by Pupils of Anaheim schools. Remarks by commander of American Legion. Remkars by commander of Sons of Veterans. Singing "America" by the audience. Depositing wreaths at monument for the unknown dead. Benediction by Rev. Thomas H. Walker. Firing salute for departed comrades. Taps by the bugler. Dinner will be served to comrades of all wars and their wives by the Fullerton and Anaheim Relief Corps and Daughters of Veterans at Odd Fellows' hall, Fullerton. Dinner hour, 12 m. to 1 p.m. SECOND BIG STORM IN MONTH Much Suffering and Big Property Damage from Cyclonic Disturbance OSHER SERVICES AT 10 P. M. WED. ACED BISHOP OSHER SERVICES AT 10 P. M. WED. Funeral services will be conducted at Backs, Terry & Campbell parlors, Wednesday at 10 a.m., for Mrs. Mary Osher, who passed away yesterday afternoon. Rev. Thomas H. Walker will have charge of the services, Mrs. Walter Ross will sing "Lead Kindly Light" and "Face to Face." Interment will be at Anaheim cemetery in the family lot. Three daughters, Mrs. R. R. Pember, Anaheim; Mrs. Bell Lester, Worland, Wyo., and Mrs. G. Roame, Long Beach, and four sons survive. CHARGES DOCTOR WAS UNFAITHFUL Other women than herself came into the wedded life of Dr. Julian P. Johnson, Fullerton physician, Mrs. Sylvia Johnson, wife, alleged in a suit for divorce on file today in superior court. They were married March 3 and separated April 5. It was alleged by the wife that during this period the doctor spent much time with various other women with one of whom, she declared, he took a trip to San Jose. 50 EXPLOSIONS IN KILAUEA VOLCANO 50 EXPLOSIONS IN 12 ... $$ HONOLULU, May 27. — Fifty minor explosions of Kilauea volcano have been registered in the past 24 hours by instruments at the observatory, one lasting 11 minutes. The Kilauea district was shaken by severe earthquake shocks early today. STOP PRIZEFIGHT NEW YORK, May 27. — An order preventing staging tonight of the Pancho Villa-Frank Ash fight at the arena of the Nostrand Athletic club was issued today by Supreme Court Justice Benedict. The order was asked by residents of the vicinity who are seeking removal of the bowl on the ground that it is a public nuisance. NINE SEAMEN DEAD CANSO, N. S., May 27. — Nine men went to their deaths in the AGED BISHOP TRIED FOR HERESY CLEVELAND, May 27. — History rolled back its musty pages for centuries here in Cleveland today as a bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church, William Montgomery Brown, silver haired and feeble from his 40 odd years of teaching the Word, went on trial before a jury of his peers, charged with being a heretic and an atheist. It is the first heresy trial in the Episcopal Church since the reformation and as such it holds the undivided interest of all churchdom, irrespective of creeds. If Bishop Brown has his way, his trial will be an epocal one in the Christian religion. Before it ends he plans to compel, if possible, his fellow bishops and judges to write a new definition of heresy and to defend their own orthodoxy by giving the world their personal beliefs in such matters as the story of creation, the divinity of Christ and other miraculous stories set forth in both old and new testaments. Bishop Brown bases his defense upon two major principles: 1. That the court of nine bishops is powerless to try or condemn him, a retired bishop, under canonical law, and 2. That his alleged errors of doctrine in his book 'Communism and Christianity' are simply his interpretation of the scriptures symbolically instead of literally. It is no clash of the modernists and the fundamentalists, this trial of Bishop Brown. The modernists question only the literalness of the Virgin birth and such kindred questions. Bishop Brown goes rages. MUNIT Much Suffering and Big Property Damage from Cyclonic Disturbance ATLANTA, Ga., May 27. — Forty-seven persons were dead, more than 200 injured, many seriously, and property estimated at more than $500,000 lay strewn in ruins over sections of Alabama and Mississippi this afternoon as the result of a series of cyclonic disturbances which swept across those states last night and today. Late this afternoon reports continued to pour into Atlanta, and it was feared that the toll would be much greater. It was the second storm disaster in the south during the past month bringing the total death list up to 161 and placing the property damage at figures higher than $10,500,000. The number of deaths today by towns follows: Empire, Ala., ten; Athens, Ala., 8; Mississippi, Laurel six; Union 2; Leland 2; Johnson Station 8; Collins 2; Brewer 8. ATLANTA, Ga., May 27. — At least 36 persons lost their lives and scores are suffering from injuries as a result of a series of cyclonic disturbances which swept across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama last night and early today. Reports from the devastated sections have 11 dead in Mississippi; 17 in Alabama and eight in Louisiana. This is the second series of storms which swept over the south in the last month. On April 29, a terrific disturbance started at Texarkana and wound its path across Mississippi, Alabama Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina claiming a total of 122 lives and property damage estimated at more than $10,000,000. NEW ORLEANS, May 27. — Eight persons were killed and more than a score injured, several seriously when a tornado virtually annihilated Johnson Station, Miss., early today, according to reports reaching here. Johnson Station is 12 miles from Brookhaven, Miss., which also suffered a heavy property loss from the storm. The cyclone was said to have struck Summit, Miss., but efforts to reach that point today were futile. A special train was dispatched NEW YORK, May 27.—An order preventing staging tonight of the Pancho Villa-Frank Ash fight at the arena of the Nostrand Athletic club was issued today by Supreme Court Justice Benedict. The order was asked by residents of the vicinity who are seeking removal of the bowl on the ground that it is a public nuisance. NINE SEAMEN DEAD CANSO, N. S., May 27.—Nine men went to their deaths in the caulon of seas when the steam trawler Mikado was wrecked Sunday night on Cape Fouchu Reef. Seven survivors of the Mikado have arrived here, bringing with them the body of one of their companions who died after being rescued. PHELAN HONORED LOS ANGELES, May 27.—Jas. D. Phelan of San Francisco, former U. S. senator from California, will place the name of William Gibbs McAdoo before the New York Democratic convention for the presidential nomination, Mr. McAdoo announced here today. G. O. P. Lacks Leadership Declares Chauncey Depew (Copyright, 1924, by I. N. S.) WASHINGTON, May 27—Holding with Omar that the "moving finger writes and having written, moves on," with man's memory unable to bring back a slight picture of it, unless he be a personal witness to the scene, Chauncey M. Depew, the nation's oldest statesman, is here to view at least a part of the passing political show of 1924. Other parts he will see at Cleveland, where he expects to celebrate 60 years' attendance of Republican conventions. He has not missed one since 1864 when he voted for the nomination of Lincoln. Despite his 90 years, Depew, both mentally and physically active, is stirring new impressions and confirming old ones for future reflection. Republicans are greatly lacking in forceful leadership; Democrats are not blest with insurgents; Borah is the most outstanding example of statesmanship produced by congress in a generation and 1924 is a Republican year. These are a few of the impressions of the man who declined the secretaryship of state in Benjamin Harrison's cabinet, and who himself received 99 votes for the Republican presidential nomination at the convention of 1885. "Times have changed since my days in the senate," he began. "What the Republicans need is leadership; Democrats have them beaten in this respect. In my day when you heard men like Hanna, Aldrich and Hale expounding party doctrines and explaining the need for supporting administration ministers, you thrilled at it. You felt a joy in following you were a leader yourself." I. O. O. F. May 29. NEW ORLEANS, May 27.—Eight persons were killed and more than a score injured, several seriously when a tornado virtually annihilated Johnson Station, Miss., early today, according to reports reaching here. Johnson Station is 12 miles from Brookhaven, Miss., which also suffered a heavy property loss from the storm. The cyclone was said to have struck Summit, Miss., but efforts to reach that point today were futile. A special train was dispatched from Johnson Station to Brookhaven with the dead and injured. Great property damage was suffered through the Brookhaven district where small rural communities were swept clean of buildings. More than 15 residences at Johnson Station were wrecked. Besides the dead and injured, a half dozen have been reported missing. Red Cross workers were being rushed to the scene today. YICKSBURG, Miss, May 27.—Reports reaching here today stated that three persons lost their lives late yesterday when a terrific wind storm swept through Leland, Miss. Several others were injured three of whom are expected to die. The dead and injured are all negroes. Tenant houses on the plantation of W.B. Swain, three miles east of Leland were torn to pieces. Seventeen negroes were injured and physicians said three of them may die. Four others have been reported missing. Owners of plantations in this section suffered heavy loss of cattle. The violent wind storm was accompanied by cloudbursts which left the stricken district a sea of muddy water. Rains were continuing today. 8 DEAD AT BREWER, MISS. BREWER, Miss., May 27.—Eight persons were instantly killed and 2d injured during a cyclone which struck this city early today. Property damage was estimated at $350,000. (Continued on Page Two)