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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1927-05-12

parasite in the blood. A year ago
a French scientist claimed that
cancer is caused by mildew in the
blood. 1t also is Unbeatable and
runs in families. DR.. Geo. H. Sem
ken of N. Y, head of the cancer
research association in United
States said at convention In
Spokane last summer that cancer
runs in families like a bad thread
through a piece of fabric.
In my observation and treat
ment of cancer, / find that where
there is a great amount of inner
tied diminished resistance in the
blood. those persons are more SUD-
iect to cancer and very often some
one member will develop tuber-
culosis instead of cancer. | nave
traced cancer in different famliles
back four generations.
The sins of the fathers will be
visited on the third or fourth gen
erations, that is the Inherited al
ninished resistance. Cancer Is d
constitutional disease, it is IN the
blood and is not local disease.
Most local treatments of cancer SO
far have proven a failure. About
51s per cent are benefited by sur
gerry. The X-Ray kills cancer To-
Galley; so does radium. But an
X-Ray burn is much worse IMAM
the cancer as many doctors nave
lost their lives by X-Ray experlec
ments. Plasters or other means Oh
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1927-05-12

of cases of cancer or oncoming
cancer can be cured by correct
diet and good living habits.
To my way of thinking and by
the results / have had with DIR.
Abrams method of diagnosing and
treating cancer, he has given the
world the greatest idea for COM
batting this scourge and other So
called incurable diseases.
Inherited diminished resistancs
is the only disease transmitted
from generation to generation. In
herited diminished resistance is
the father of all diseases.
The Electronic Migratory ma
chine has been very successful in
curing the following diseases: Car
cinoma (cancer), Sarcoma, Tub
erculosis, Leucorrhea, Scrofula,
Ulcers of the stomach and uterus,
Tumors. Diabetes, Rheumatism,
many nervous disturbances, Asth-
ma. Goitre, Tonsilitis and all kinds
of skin diseases, pinlples. in fact
all diseases caused by impure
blood, no matter what the origin.
[ make my own blood tests ac-
cording to the latest technic. With
my method of blood testing 1 can
determine one to four years be-
fore cancer becomes clinical. if
there is any cancer germ in the
blood.
DIR. C. BRUNN. adv.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1927-05-12
CLASS OF So READY
FOR HIGH SCHOOL
Graduation Exercises Held This
Afternoon with Fine Pro-
gram Presented

The annual eighth grade gradu-
alton exercises were held in the
gymnasium of the high school on
Thursday afternoon. May IL. The
room was decorated very prettily
with spring flowers and green's.
The program. under the direction
of Mrs. Lydia Hess. teacher of the
eighth grade, included class songs;
recitations by Lynn Brown, Rich
ard Harrington and Lois Brue;
piano solos by John Warnock Ola
Mae Elliott and Edna Kempe; class
history by Jeanetta Peter and class
prophecy by Pauline Day. A one
act play Johns Essay" by Leland
Jones, Richard Mann, Earl Puder-
baugh, Don Abrogast, Ida Faulds,
Annie Clark, Ethel Dickinson. and
Eleanor Richards. During the read
ing of the class history film pic
lures of these pupils when they
first entered school were thrown
on the screen.
There were SO members in the
graduating class which will be-
come freshmen next year. Diplo-
mas were presented by Lee Lamp
son who represented the Kenne-
wick school board. The members
of the class were: Edith Liebel,
Joe Hatch, Stuart Morgan, John
Liebel, Jeanetta Peter. John War
mock, Kathryn Russell. Arthur
Schuster, Ethmer Coult, Leslie
Wilmert. Donald Arbogast. Thorn
as Friedman. Phillip Doan. Rich
ard Mann, Johanna Christensen
Gladys Blair, Robert Campbell,
Gerald Giard, Leslie Gilbert, Edna
Kempe, June Kramer, Harold Kulp
Boyd Rupp, Ward Rupp. Lloyd
Vinson, Bruce Williams, Dorothy
Hembree. Henry Lester. Max Nc.
Clure, Tamzel O'Keefe, Alice
Quasi, Harry Schultz. Fletche,
Love, Frieda Struve. Annie Clark
Lois Brue. Percy Erickson, Ear
Puderbaugh. Laurene Tweedt. OIL;
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1927-05-12
COOLING MOTH
COVER SPRAY
Horticulturist Hill Gives
Dates for Application
of Eradicator

Many of you have just finished
your calyx spray and are probably
wondering when you should get
ON YOUR first cover spray. A date
for a particular locality or orchard
can be determined best by Their
mometer on this or that particular
place. If you have temperatures
so degrees and above for two or
three nights, at dusk or later, you
may be sure that worms will be
Matching from 10 to IL days later.
Time your first cover spray So it
will Just be completed 10 or IL
days after the first warm spell.
There is no use of putting on this
cover spray any sooner than 10
days after the calyx spray. Most
of the growers completed the ca
lyx spray this week, some time
from the 9th to the 18th. As near
as can be determined for general
dates the first cover should be
completed between the 10Th and
the Oath of May. Finish it 10 days
after the caiyx spray.
The sprays for the first brood
of worms will come about the fol-
lowing dates: 1st cover May IL
to "a; End cover, June / to 5; 3rd
cover. June IL to 10; 4th cover
June 81 to 20.
Some of you will be able to con-
troll your worms with these sprays
and it will not be necessary to
spray any more during the season.
If any worms show up in your or
chards at this time it would be adj
visable to spray about the goth
or 25th Of July. These dates may
be changed some by weather con-
ditions unforeseen at this date.
The important part of this spray
program is thoroness. Spray the
top of your trees as thoro as you
spray the bottom. Spray all of the
tree, don't just spray at the apples
that you happen to see. You will
kill as many worms by spraying
the leaves as you will by spraying
the apples. 1t will take 10 to Is
gallons of spray to each tree to
thoroly cover it.
Anyone not spraying can clean
all worms from their orchard if
they will remove all apples from
the trees about the 18th of June.
Such treatment will be worth all
the sprays that will be put on next
season. If you will clean up all of
the apples there will be no worms
left in your orchard next spring.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1927-05-12

THE TRUTH ABOUT CANCER
Much has been written of late
about cancer. What is cancer!
Many years of study and investl--
cation of cancer, in Europe and
this country had convinced me
long ago, that it is humor or
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1927-05-12

Mae Elliott. Lynn Brown, Pauline
Day, Eleanor Richards. Ethel Dick
inson, Laurene McClarty. Leland
Jones, Mary Cox, Richard Herring
ton, Vina Terril, Ida Faulds. Har-
old Zinser and Frieda Mills.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1927-05-12

With Gov. Richards in the state
house in South Carolina, the con-
yersation between the Carolina ex-
ecutives, we'll wager, isn't what
it used to be.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1927-05-12
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank our many
friends and neighbors for their
Kindness and sympathy shown us
AT the time of our great sorrow
~ the loss of our beloved wife,
daughter and sister.
CHARLES E. BARTON
F. S. MCCLURE and MAX.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1927-05-12

Now the aviation endurance rec
ord comes to America. Aviation is
increasingly all right, BUT the same
old care remains, rake care
how you light"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1927-05-12
PAINT 'EM

y
: Uncle Sam has Joined the
: Kiwanis and various other
= civic bodies in their clean up
: campaign and the post office
: department is making a spe-
: cial plea to the thousands OF
= rural route patrons through
3 out the country to help with
, this campaign. 1t is request
2 ed that posts and boxes be
3 painted white, that the own
= ers names be neatly lettered
2 in black on the boxes. and at
3 corners where there are sew
3 eral boxes that a neat rack
= be erected and all the boxes
3 be fastened to this in neat
: ly spaced arrangement. The
2 post office department. has no
= funds to pay for this paint
= ing, etc.. and is relying on the
= civic pride of its rural pa
= irons to accomplish this re-
= form. A little time and effort
= will make a splendid showing
: along this line.
New Britain herald., 1927-06-02

to the house, and apparently went di- rectly from the drug store to the rail- road station and took the train for Buffalo.
 Despite the gaps in his story, the physician convinced the police he was guitless of murder, and was allowed his liberty after some lengthy cross examination.
 He was in Albany, Oregon, when Mrs. Houck's body was found, and immedi- ately wired that he was returning to Washington to submit to further ques- tioning and assist the police in every way possible.
 "He is in poor health," stated Dr. Dean Crowell, his cousin, "but he is not now insane. He is anxious to see the mystery solved. He feels there is a stain upon his name which he does not deserve"
 AS has been stated, the police of Washington are fairly certain that what ever else happened, Dr. Houck did not kill his wife, either inside their home or outside it.
 There are number of other theories still improved, however, one being the guess of Dr. William A. White, super- intendent of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, who thinks that the doctors insanity communicated itself to his wife and caused her to destroy herself.
 Close family friends think that the young woman's mind became unhinged contemplating her husbands "peculiari- ties," and worrying lest he do himself or her or their child an injury.
 That she should disappear at the very moment his mental Arrangement became
New Britain herald., 1927-06-02

not know where his wife was, but felt sure she was alive.
 She's just gone away, and Pm glad she has," he said Shell be back. That's why she left Olie (their little boy). She wants an excuse to return" :"
 Houck said that he remembered noth- ing of events between the time he went to bed that night and the time he was arrested in Hornell.
 He averred that for weeks he had sus- pected his mind was breaking, and he feared he had hastened that result by spending many hours night studying a thought machine" invented by Count Alfred Kurzypyzki, Polish scientist.
 The police inquiry failed to weaken his story in any essential, although the authorities did establish that on the day of December 15, before he fled to Hor- nell, he wrapped up his wife's torn night gown and kimono and tried to burn them in furnace in a drug store which he patronized.
 The clerk became suspicious and res cued the garments for the police. At first the latter thought that certain dark stains on the nightgown were blood stains. but analysis proved that they were not.
 Questioned as to where he thought his wife might be, Dr. Houck once said, Look for her in the Tidal Basn."
 On another occasion he stoutly main tained that she was alive and would be dropping in on him at any moment" Again, he said, "I can't see through stone walls and hedges, can I? How do l know where she is?"
 Marguerite Wines, little housemaid
New Britain herald., 1927-06-02

On the afternoon of December IA, the doctor went through his usual routine. made several calls, received few pa- tients, made his rounds at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, to which he was attached.
 He returned in time for dinner. An other physician, Dr. Cunningham, was the guest of the Houcks that evening. and has told the police the couple quar- reled at the dinner table.
 Nothing very serious," this doctor said, and he would have dismissed the incident from his mind but for the tragedy that followed in it's wake.
 Dr. Houck has said that after the dinner guest left his wife and he contin- ued their quarrel, keeping it up until bedtime.
 He admits that he tore her nightgown off and slapped her. Then, according to the story which the police believe he tells in good faith, he took a sleeping potion and went into his own room. And four days later a telegram from Hornell, N. Y, announced that man identified by letters in his pockets as Dr. Houck had been picked up on the streets, clad only in his underwear and babbling of Allah and the Prophet in some Oriental tongue.
 An investigation showed that the phy- sician had gone from Washington to Buffalo, N. Y, and put up at a hotel there. Before he went out on the streets and got as far as Hornell, he de- stroyed all the furniture in his hotel room, smashed the window, and tore of his outer garments
 When he was taken back to Washing ton, the physician insisted that he did
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That, too, affected his mind, in the opinion of his friends. After boring over books on Confuscianism, Buddhism and the Hindu cults-particularly the latter-the physician professed to be- lieve in a kind of modified Mohammedan- ism, although most of his fellow -practi- tioners refused to take that phase of his "queerness" seriously.
 Doctors who have commented on his case do not believe that his work as an alienist has contributed to the downfall of his reason. A boyhood friend, how. ever, says he thinks constant association with crazy people did weaken the doc- tors intellect, always too delicately balanced.
 The physicians mother, Mrs Houck, is inclined to the theory that her sons mental condition caused his young wife to become deranged and drown herself.
 "Gladys loved Knute with intensity" she said, land his condition preyed upon her mind. When would find my son boring over that thought machine or studying the occult, and my daughter in-law reading up on psychiatry, would caution them both not to take life too solemnly. l tried to convince Glady,, my daughter-in-law, that it was her job to bring up the children and keep the home happy; not to try to understand the details of her husbands profession. He dominated her mind, and there is not doubt in my mind that he infected her with the germ of insanity.
New Britain herald., 1927-06-02

downright insanity is coincidence that adds to the strangeness of the situation.
 While convinced that Dr. Houck is telling asamuch of the truth as he can comprehend or remember, the authori- ties do not for minute suppose that the story he gives them is complete.
 They do not believe that after the ''little tiff" with his wife he went di-- rectly to his room
 A bitter quarrel that was grayer than an ordinary family row preceded her disappearance, they are satisfied, and re- peated attempts have been made to direct the physicians mind back to that midnight scene and what it led to.
 When Mrs. Houck's body was found it was fully clothed, so that after the bedroom quarrel, in the course of which, he admits, he tore the nightgown of her, she dressed carefully and completely.
 Dr. Whites interesting theory that Houck communicated his mental trouble to his wife is holding the attention of the members of the medical profession, and he is being supported by men who can speak with authority.
 Doctors must admit the possibility of such thing" he says. Mrs. Houck was worried over her husband, because of his peculiar actions, and because he had had mental episode some months before. She knew that he was facing another breakdown, and probably anx- iety, fear and dread broke down her own morale and eventually upset her reason.
 There is no other reason why she should arise in the middle of the night, leave her baby son with man who was temporarily insane, and throw herself in the river"
 Other acquaiptances of Dr. and Mrs. Houck guardedly advance the theory that the tiff" which he remembers may have been followed by a more serious quarrel, in the course of which he either injured or affronted his spirited wife so N>SP'y eHoI olc UeSdIle urea or 0ef burdens and took her life.
 The condition of the body seems to dispose of the idea that she was strangled or beaten to death and carried to the river. She was a sturdy young woman, and athletic, and the sort to make stout fight for life if attacked.
 The thought machine" already re- ferred to earlier in the story is a pecu- liar rectangular board device which the inventor, Count Kurzypyski, says can be operated according to certain mystic formulae so as to disclose the innermost secrets of the one who has mastered it's use.
 Not taken too seriously by other Washington scientists, the thing seemed to fascinate Dr. Houck. After hard day at his practice, he would lock him. self in his room at night and study the device until nearly daybreak, although his wife constantly objected and told him he was courting disaster.
 In addition to taxing his brain with the combinations of the thought ma. chine, Houck has been studying Oriental religions and philosophies, and was reckoned an amateur authority on them.
New Britain herald., 1927-06-02

employed by the Houcks, has told the police that she was in the house the day before the disap- pearance, and also on the morning after.
 "When 1 went to the house on the morning of Decem- Der 15," she said, "Dr. Houck was sit- ting there alone. He looked as if he had been crying.
 "I went into the kitchen and was cleaning up when the doctor came rushing in, grabbed a wastepaper basket and ran downstairs with it. He looked strange and seemed to be in a terrible hurry"
 In the wastebas- ket, it was ascer- tained by the police, were the nightgown and kimono that the husband of the miss ing woman tried to burn in tn, drug store furnace.
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New Britain herald., 1927-06-02

The "anthro- pometer" or thought ma chine" to which Dr.. Houek had been giving m uch study and which was suspected of b being o n C cause of the sudden loss of rationality that prevented his recalling any. thing to help explain his wife's isap. pearence and su b SC gu nt
 death
New Britain herald., 1927-06-02

help him and confound his enemies, and otherwise conducting himself like de- mented man.
 A week or two ago the body of Mrs Houck was taken from a quiet backwater of the Potomac River.
 And there the reader has all the known ingredients that went to the mak- ing of this bizarre death mystery which has baffled the police of half dozen cities.
 What happened in the Houck home at No. 3127 St. Nicholas Avenue, s. E., Washington, on the night of Decem- Der 14?
 The police, after interrogating the physician, do not pretend to know, and when they ask Houck, he mumbles mean ingless phrases which do not help at all.
 Did Mrs. Houck, healthy, wholesome and reasonably happy young matron. hurl herself to death in the muddy waters of the Potomac?
 Was she driven to suicide by some secret fear of her husband, or by some outrageous injury he visited upon her which the world will never know!
 Was she lured to the Potomac and pushed in?
 Was she killed elsewhere and carried through the night to the river brink?
 What transpired in that final inter- view with her cratic husband that was followed by death and his loss of nationality?
 A coroner's jury has declined to fix responsibility for her death, and Dis trict Attorney Peyton Gordon has re- fused to order the husband held.
 Houck at times seemA to realize that his wife is dead and his little son il motherless, but at times he seems to have the delusion that she still lives.
 In his most rational statements he has said his mind "went blank" after an al- tercation with Mrs. Houck, and he re- members nothing until he was taken into custody at Hornell, N. Y, four days later.
 In moments when his reason wanders he talks of Allah, Oriental religions and his profession.
 Houck was rsted one of the ablest and most promising young alienists and psychiatrists in Washington, and his wife was also interested in that branch of medical science, having studied it to make herself . fitting intellectual com panion for her husband.
 For some months before she disap- peared and he went crazy, older men had been warning him that he was working too hard and was courting physical or mental breakdown.
 He acted in 8 strange manner at times, and his wife, while not welcoming comment on his condition, admitted to family friends that she was worried.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-05

him employs him as her guide.
The prince falls in love with her
but here the action is at fault, for
it seems that Gail is angry with
the prince in the afternoon and in
the evening agrees to marry him.
Then, too, according to all ira
dition of the films the prince should
be a very romantic sort Of person,
but Dantarini is more matter-of fact
than the go-getter American lover.
Tullio CaFminati as Prince Danta-
RIM fails in his effort to show emo7
ton, except when he is worried that
his wife cares for a fellow who has
followed her all over Europe. This
is his real bit of acting.
The daughter Of the steel king
demands her own way and gets it,
In this part Florence Vidor is good.
She makes Gail a spoiled girl and
puts life into her acting. She is the
one who arranges the marriage and
she is the one who tries to make
the motto on the princes ring belle
itself.
The picture has scenic value, for
many of the scenes show the canals
for which the city is famous. How
ever, the majority Of the "shots" are
taken in the castle OF the prince and
in the hotel where Gail lived when
she met the prince.
Honeymoon Hate" Is ono of these
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-05
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-05

which is full of those sweet orchestral
tricks that makes it gorgeous mu-
steal gingerbread as done by Davis
and his men. Davis has done some
thing to his orchestra. He must
have added some new talent or his
men are becoming a solid unit,
splendidly individualized, but all the
time under the control of the con-
ductor. And in speaking Of hits
"Shadowland," the Publix pres
entation this week, is easily the
snappiest and most novel stage
revue yet seen at the Indiana.
There is going to be lot of talk
over the floating piano. And when
they get all steamed up about the
novelty, they will get their breath
and begin talking about the Foster
girls and their work in an aerial
ballet. Here is four-buck revue
stuff and no kidding. Just exactly
what 1 would expect in either the
Greenwich Village Follies or the
other Follies. And by the way,
John Murray Anderson staged
"Shadowland."
And the revue has the good sing
ing of s. ella Power: the doll dance
Of Idren the knockout souse dance