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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-19
GUM NOW ENEMY OF FAC
Doctor Says Chewing Sweets Is Aid
to Calm Thought.
By Lnited Press

BIZ JnitCd Press
BIRMINGHAM. Eng, May H.
There's a reason" for chewing gum
1t appears from an article written
by DIR. w. j. Burns Selkirk, in tho
British Medical Journal.
Presumably" declares the writer,
'it Is analogous in effect to the
baby's comforter. II seems capable
of producing even the state OF mind
of the Eliminating COW and it's Bud
dhistic calm"
The doctor also suggests that gum
can be, offered as a substitute for
cigarettes to excessive smokers that
1t Is useful in curing the Chocolate
habit" and that acts as a sedative
Tor trayed nerves and insomnia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-19
One Cheering Note
BY EIdora Field,


"a tornado is a grim joker. Such
was the one that visited Indianapo-
lis.
Powerful, relentless, crushing
houses with all their contents
Uprooting great trees, swapping
telephone poles like matches, yet
Depositing a layer Of eggs. quite
unbroken on a pile of debris at the
wrecked grocery of P. J. Harmon,
1850 e. New York st.
Lifting shelves with their glass
canned goods unspilled from the
pantry walls Of r. d. Lawhorn,
2720 r. New York st., and setting
those shelves squarely onto the
dining room floor.
Bringing a brass bird cage with
It's tiny drenched occupant unhurt
and placing It quite gently on the
lawn Of the wrecked home of Philip
Roth, 31s N. Eastern Ave.
Depositing a nifty spring hat with
perky bow unscathed on the door
step OF the home Of Ralph Clark,
315 N. Eastern Ave.
Throwing a Ford touring car high
up in a tree on the lawn Of Oliver
Anderson's home at 235 Tacoma Ave.
Those were some Of the tornadoes
tricks.
At the drug store of ]. G.. Glatt,
2102 e. Washington ST., the tornado
demolished the huge plate glass win
dows, but carried a tall glass from
the soda fountain with whipped
cream and a cherry topping it, and
set it on the ledge of the window.
Mrs. John Klein, So N. keystone
Ave-. was sitting in her porch swing
when the tornado was approaching.
mot an automobile was in sight"
asserts Mrs. Klein. When she looked
out a few minutes later five auto
mobiles and truck were massed in
convention on her front lawn.
Auto Upended
The tornado took the auto Of
Charles Trabaugh, 302 N. Tacoma
Ave, gave 1t a flip and set 1t down
with wheels in the air at the home
of James Allen, who lives at 1872
N. Tacoma. 1t took the winding
stairs by which they. were about
to descend right from under the feet
of Mrs. Kate Benz and Hildegarde
Grusslap, 312 N. Eastern Ave. An
thony Simon of $40 N. Eastern Ave-.
brought them down from the second
floor by means of a stepladder.
C. P. Batten, 257 N. Eastern Ave-,
had been in a Kansas cyclone years
ago and recognized this one as 1t ap-
preached. run to the basement"
he called to his family. They es-
capped harm. but the porch OF the
house across the street cleanly cut
across the Batten living. room and
settled into the dining room.
When Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Kelly of
240 N. Temple Ave, come home
from Louisville, where they are
visiting. they viii ind the roof OF
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-19
G. 0. p. Worker Dies

BIZ Times Special
ANDERSON. Ind. May H.
Funeral arrangements were being
made today for Charles Sells. so,
prominent Republican party worker
and retired liveryman, who fell dead
with heart attack last night
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-19
EGGS LAID GENTLY BY
HOUSEKEEPING TORNADO

their garage resting tipsily across
their front porch and a basket of ar
! tificial flowers in a tall handled bas-
ket hanging on one Jagged beam.
New Furniture Ruined
Although Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Powell, 25S n. Eastern Ave, had
bought all new furniture and had
but recently got into their new home
they have no word OF complaint to
offer as they gaze around a complete
ly wrecked house. Through a wide
gap in a side wall. they look at
great stone, blown from some cornice
which rests squarely and neatly in
the crib of their only Child, june.
Just think" said Mrs. Powell, 81
usually have June in that little crib.
and she's sound asleep by T. I don't
know why we We're late last night"
Mrs. William Schwomeyer, 252 N.
Temple Ave, was another storm
sufferer who had narrow escape
for her life. 81 was resting on the
davenport in the dining ROOM" Mrs.
Schwomeyer said, I'D been there an
hour or so, but suddenly thought I'd
get up. only reached the door. a
moment later. when that great brick
thing came through the wall" The
chimney from the house next door
crashed the davenport.
Mrs. Ralph Lawler, 1920 r. New
York ST., possibly saved her baby's
life by falling down on II and cover.
ing its body with her own as bricks
from a falling wall came laundering
into her bedroom.
Loses House, Autos
One Of the hard sufferers from
damage of the tornado was Mrs.
Margaret Kimberlin, 20 N. Hamilton
Ave-, at whose eight-room home
there is not one whole piece of fur
niture left and whose two auto.
mobiles were completely wrecked.
1t was next door to this home that
Alvin Dremer had one ear torn off
and William Forthroff was also bad
ly injured. w. S. Smith, who lives
at 271S e. Washington ST. came
placidly home at $50 Wednesday
might to find that his houses, four
apartment building, which he owns,
and another single, which recently
came into his possession. all on the
same block of z. Washington ST.,
had been almost destroyed. The roof
of the apartment house was turned
upside down and deposited in an
alley.
1T didn't last more than a minute
the terrible roar" Ben Weaver.
2714, E. Washington ST.. said.
Sounded to me like high-powered
automobiles coming down the
street." asserted Frank Mitchell.
23S N. Eastern Ave. n
Some sound that sounded like
heavy hail. was what noticed frat"
observed Ralph Clark. 315 N. East
ern Ave. All agree that the wind
did dts work with lightning like
rapidity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-19
BLAST TOLL
43; MANAGES
WIFE BURNED
Criminals Are Made Note
Found After School
Tragedy.

BIZ United Press
BATH. Mich, May 19.-The story
OF Andrew Kehoes mad attack on
society was completed. today when
his murdered wife was found near
the ruins of their farmhouse. This
brought to forty-three deaths he
caused when he blew up the village
school with dynamite, destroyed his
own possessions and died at the
scene of his crime. Thirty-seven Of
the dead were children.
+ Criminals Made
On the Kehoe farm, nailed to the
door Of the partly burned barn, was
this note:
Criminals Are Made. Not Born. q"
Pieced together, stories seem to in.
dictate that Kehoe. a farmer. had
been brooding over financial troubles,
increased by taxation for the new
school, and he blamed the school
board. A mortgage on his property
recently had been foreclosed.
Apparently his rage turned against
the community and he decided to de-
stroy himself, his property, and in
flict the deepest wound he could on
his neighbors.
Troop to Funeral Pyre
The grief-stricken community.
with forty.three OF it's members in
hospitals, many badly injured, left
the scene of the school disaster
when Mrs. Kehoe's body was found.
All else was temporarily forgotten
IS citizens trooped out to the Kehoe
farm.
Mrs. Kehoes head had been
beaten in with a club. Her body
had been placed on u hand truck as
funeral pyre and the torch ap.
piled. Beside the charred truck and
body were the Kehoe family silver
ware and a box of money. apparent
ly indicating that he intended to
destroy with her all he had left
after financial reverses. which sent
him mad
One Cheering Note
One cheering note came from the
State capital. Governor Fred w.
Green has taken steps for Red Cross
and financial aids.
There is much justice in the
suggestion that the State should aid
this village in some material way"
the Governors note said. This is
terrible blow to any community,
and the sympathy of the State Of
Michigan goes out to the people Of
Bath"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-19
Second Section The Indianapolis Times Second Section
Parole Favored for Warren I. Moray
Acknowledgement Sargent Indicates
Desire to Follow Boards Sugges-
ton to Free Former Governor.


WASHINGTON, May 19.-The parole board has recon-
mended that Warren McCray former Governor of Indiana
paroed from Atlanta Federal Penenary Attorney General
Sargent announced today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-19
PIPE PIERCES WALL

Woman's Arm Broken While Seek
ing Son in Darkness.
A one-inch water pipe was driven
through the wall of the sitting room
of Mrs. Caroline Prang, 220 Hen
Vdricks Pl. No one was near the
wall.
Mrs. Matilda Conover, 75, same
address, was rejoicing today, al
though she received a broken arm
when she sought her son, e. F. Con-
over. who was looking for her in the
AdaSknss& Aa.a,s
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06
OLD TRAILS HIGHWAY
MEETING AT ST. Johns

A meeting of the National Old
Trails Scenic Highway association was
held Monday night in the Hotel
Barth. Tobias Younis, president, was
in charge, and Representatives were
present from all towns in the county.
Plans were discussed for advertis-
ing our scenic attractions and induc-
ing tourists to travel this route, the
least known but the best route by
long odds.
It was decided to appropriate funds
for advertising in the Tourist News,
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06
EASTERN BOOTLEGGERS
ALL DOING WELL

Total federal income taxes paid by
bootleggers in New York City last
year amounted to $5 100000, Hugh Nc
Quillan, chief of the secret service
unit, attached to the internal revenue
department, revealed last week.
McQuillian said his department was
not concerned with amy law violations
except those dealing with the federal
tax" and he had given this informa-
ton to six or more prominent boot
leggerso who came to his office to
Sound him out" on the question Of
paying their 1926 income tax.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

formerly published by Mr.. Mason at
Gallup, but in future to be published
by the Winslow Mail. The sum Of
$75 per month was set aside for this
purpose. ]. L. kellogg, representing
the Winslow Mail, was at the meeting
and explained the plans of the pub
fishers in allotting space to the vari-
Gus towns on the road. Good results
are expected from this advertising
plan.-St. Johns Observer.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

through the telescope?" they asked.
What in thunder do | want to look
at the stars for?" he demanded. Il
might enjoy looking at the moon, but
/ can't get any thrill looking cit a
star"
Harry Gaisser says that Orby Med
ley, chief electrician Of the Flagstaff
branch of the Cady Lumber corpora
tion, has been shouting the word
papa" into a barrel lately so that. he
may get used to it.
Jedge Fuller says the doctah tol'
him he had too much iron in his blood
an he reckons it's because he eats SO
much pohk an it mus be pig-iron.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

Doc Pioussard was getting ready to
operate on a fellow the other day. The
fellow had just got through asking
Doc how much the operation would
cost and Doc had just got through tell
ing him that it would set him back
$40. Then the fellow wanted to know
whether the operation would be dam
gerous
Hell, mol" said Doc. "You don't
think you can buy dangerous opera
tion for $40, do you?"
Davy Joy and Joe Blumberg was a
readin' to each other outa thes paper
and Davy come acrost the word chiro-
pidist.
"Chirrupodist,D he said. .Now /
wonder what that is
w. explained Joe, "a chirrupodist
is feller what teaches kenery bird
to vistle."
Joe Tissaw says when he was kid
goin' to school it was allus hard Job
to wash his ears. But fin'ly he got
stuck on girl that set crost the aisle
from him and after that he allus made
sure that the one on her side was
clean.
Il like that handkerchiefssong, Joe
Blumberg said. Jake Bracker said he
hadn't heard it.
Sure you have" Joe said. you've
heard it lots of time
How does it go?" asks Jake.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06
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C. H. Schulz and family and Tom L..
Rees are back from Pohenix, where
they spent the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. ]. Riordan have a
new son.
David Todd, director Amherst col
lege observatory, is appointed by Dr.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

Davis to a Sour Apple Tree Joe
Times must be DANCED hard in
Flagstaff" said stRimmy' Jim Gid
dlngs, who dropped in from the range
the other day for a few hours. Il see
quite lot of the men here still have
the same wives they had last year"
Men Paul Coffin, with Charlie
Isham as referee, PLAYED game of
golluf Sunday. 'Geptin' that Paul
couldn't see the ball past his Stun
mick when it laid on the ground and
had to tee it on stump every time
to hit it, and 'ceptin' that every time
lost a ball the blame referee penalized
me one, and 'ceptin' that every time
the referee showed us how to slam
one out he slammed it into the rough
and then explained all about how he
done it and what we shouldn't do to
do the same thing, it was a scientific
game. But for Paul failing to touch
third and scratching his cue ball a
couple times, it wouldabin perfect.
Men Paul decided after the game
Sunday that the reason so many
to gollufing is that the golluf balls
can't hear.
Joe Timmons of the Los Angeles
Examiner, who left here Tuesday with
the federal advisory board for Glenn
Canyon, said it was the first time he'd
been in an automobile since he had
one turn over with him a couple or
three years ago and break his back.
He had a pretty hard time Of it for
several months, and said even the
thought of riding in an automobile
made him nervous. What must have
been his sensations when the party
reached that dangerous Dugway ap-
proach to Lees Ferry, the scariest
stretch of trail in the whole state, it
likely would take lively imagination
to realize.
One Of these English tourist fellers
happened off here the other day and
decided after while he'd get q taxi
and toodle-oo around to give some of
our scenery the once over. He picked
on Bucko sSisk and when they got
started remarked that they might as
well get acquainted with each other,
old chap, doncherknow, what? and
told Bucko his name was Brown
Forbes Brown.
Observation-Disclosures ~ Bucko asked.
Brown Forbes Brown. What's
yours, OF chappie ?"
'H-h-h-home Sweet Home" said
Bucko.
Governor Frank Emerson of Wyom-
ing, here Monday night with DR..
Works federal advisory board, had to
stand lot Of chatting from the 9TH
ers in the party because he had
brought his dress suit along. So far
he'd had no opportunity to wear it,
but the others had determined among /
themselves that Tuesday night on the
sand beach of the Colorado river at
Lees Ferry, Governor Emerson should
don his dress suit, or they would don
him with it.
Senator Waterman of Colorado, an
other member of the board, isn't i'm
terested at all in stars, at least not in
those in the armament. At Lowell
Monday night, while the
others were grouped around the big
telescope, which Dr.. ". M Slipher was
directing at various heavenly objects,
the senator was not among those
present. After long search some of
the others found him leaning against
a column of one of the buildings.
why don't you come and see the stars
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

Pipe Cummings, the Crane man who
drops in here every week or so, says
the worst wreck he ever was in was
one time he was being shaved by a
woman barber and a mouse ran across
the floor.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Wilson are visit
ing their grandmother, Miss Ella
Reed.-W Winslow Mail.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06
CHEERFUL CHIRPS
(BY DEL.
Mostly those
along and is grabbed off
(BY del. !.

happened to be born on holidays.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

DR.. Percival Lowell has induced the
railroad to grant stopovers in Flag
staff on through tickets.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

QlVOTce on the ground OF his Wlfe,S eX-
travagance. He told the Judge how
she asked him for money, beginning
the first of the week, and always by
the end of the week increasing the
demand. The judge wanted to know
what she did with all the money.
81 Dunno the Scotchman said 81
haven't give her any,
Rev. E. L. Freeland says he's run
across good many instances in which
parents chose remarkable names for
their offspring. In two or three cases
the names evidently had been chosen
from labels on drugstore bottles. He
recalls two babies christened EPSON
and Sulphuric.
One Episcopal minister was called
upon to christen twins and the mother
informed him they were to be Benzine
and Tartaric. He protested that they
were no kind of names and that it
wasn't fair to the children to have to
bear them. sI'm going to christen
one John and the other James," he
said.
The mother reluctantly agreed. But
after the ceremony was over, she in
formed the minister:
ITS all right, sir, all right. But
one of them kids is a GIRL
Vic Watson is reminded of a Scotch
man who bet quarter on a 10 to one
shot, and won. He was paid off in
quarters. AS he picked each up, he bit
it.
What's that for?" the bookmaker
demanded. "Do you think / gave you
phoney money? ?"
NO" said the Scotchman. 'Im
only maxim sure I'm not gettin' the
one gave ye."
It's something of a coincidence,
Carter Joy says, that both George
Washington and Abraham Lincoln
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

G. w, Jake, formerly of Oakland
Calf, then of Williams, is now cashier
at the Santa Fe depot here.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

H. E. Campbell and F. S. Breen at
tending the Shrine convention in Los
Angeles this week.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

Frank Beasley and bride arrive
from Los Angeles, where they had
been since their marriage last month.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

IVY, it goes, Well Hankacheff
Davis to a Sour Apple Tree" Joe
said.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

Percival Lowell, professor of astron-
onay at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and director and owner Of
Lowell observatory at Flagstaff, to
head the Lowell expedition to the
Andes for observing Mars this sum-
mer.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

Times must be DANCED hard in
Flagstaff" said "Rimmyn Jim Gid
dings, who dropped in from the range
the other day for few hours. Il see
quite lot of the men here still have
the same wives they had last year."
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06
COUNTY CHRONOLOGY

Compiled from the Files Of The
Coconino Sun, Twenty Years
Ago This Week.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-10-06
DRY CRUSADER
GONE; JAILED

Harry T. whelan, attorney for
two alleged bootleggers, today is
still looking for . missing informer
whom he believes would have helped
clear his clients in Police Court yes
terday.
Despite every legal move he could
make, he was unable to locate the
missing 'dry informer" and his two
clients were convicted.
Harry N. Douthitt. field secretary
of the Citizens Service Association,
Washington's organization Of "dry
crusaders" was called in as q de-
Tense witness in a liquor case for
probably the first time In his
career.
Although he was put through a
stiff cross-examination by Mr. Whe-
Ian and Assistant District Attorney
Ray Neudecker, he stoutly main
tanned that he did not know where
Stanley Hough. the mystery man."
was.
Policemen NJ. A. Anderson and
raul Tobin, OF the Sixth precinct,
who in company with Hough, se-
cured the evidence at 1207Is Thif-
tieth St. N, W., testified that they
had me Hough in the office Of the
association at 1920 M st. N. W.,
and that Hough had driven them
TO the alleged speakeasy in Dout-
hits car.
Douthitt testified, under further
cross-examination, that the asso-
citation did not furnish automobiles
or money to the police for liquor
raids because they were not financed
to do so, but that his personal car
was always at the service Of the
police department for such pur-
poses.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-10-06
Senator Curtis Looms
AS Dark Horse Candidate

A new Republican "dark horse"
fitted across the Presidential hori.
son today with reports indicating
q spreading boom in the West for
Senator Charles Curtis Of Kansas.
Curtis was described as a ''Presi-
Dental dark horse, who will bear
watching at the convention" by
Senator Charles H. Waterman R),
of Colorado, who came to the Capt.
tai after spending the summer tour
ing the West. Waterman reported
"more sentiment" for Secretary Of
Commerce Herbert Hoover than for
any other candidate, but repeated
that Curtis win bear watching"
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