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Evening star., 1927-05-19
FATE SAVES SCORES IN BLAST
WHEN MANAGES PLOT KILLS 43
Truck Load Of Explosives Failed to Go OFF
Because of Short Ciircuit-Farmer
Slew Wife, Destroyed Home.

with a time clock His plans seem.
ingly called for destructio2 Of the en-.
tire structure, with it's mi7'e than ESQ
pupils and instructors. One of the
wires he so carefully installed became
short circuited and the electric cur
rent failed to complete it's course. 1t
was this failure that prevented the
killing of more than $50 more pupils
III another part of the building.
In all there were three explosions.
The first occurred early yesterday
morning at Kehoe's home. about n
mile west of the village. destroying
the house, barn and wagonsheds. All
apparently were wired to the same
timing device.
The second blast was that ia the
school building. 1T came at 9:43 m.
only a few minutes after classes had
been assembled. The time has been
fixed definitely because all of the
clocks III the wrecked wing stopped at
that minute. The third blast came in
hehoe's automobile. in front of the
school, about 30 minutes later.
kehoe was sitting In the car.
Emery HuyCk, superintendent of
schools, was talking with him, one
FOOT on the running board. Glen O..
Smith. village postmaster. and Nelson
Continued on Page q. Column 81
Evening star., 1927-05-19
POLICE AND FIRE SQUADS
GO TO AID POISONED FOUR
Ambulance Surgeon Works for
Two Hours to Save Members
of Zeoli Family.

Two hospital ambulances, the fire
rescue squad and a patrol wagon of
police reserves rushed to the relief of
the Zeoli family when four of it's five
members were stricken with ptomaine
poisoning in their apartment at 432 NJ
street early this morning.
Samuel Zeoli, interior decorator,
father of Virginia. aged s, and Gloria,
aged 5, was the most seriously af-
tected, but is expected to recover
Mrs. Sara Zeoli, the mother, was
awakened in the night by severe pains
She tried to arouse other members of
the family, but found them suffering
likewise. Mrs. Zeoli dragged herself
from bed and staggered into the apart
ment of neighbor, who summoned
aid from Emergency Hospital. Dr. Ed
ward Krause, the ambulance surgeon.
worked for two hours to save the
family
Meanwhile the police had been mott.
fled that the family had been overcome
by gas and. sending a hurry call TO
Casualty Hospital, rushed the fire
rescue squad and reserves to the
apartment house.
Canned soup is believed by the at
tending doctors TO have poisoned the
family The youngest child. an infant,
did not partake of the soup and was
not affected.
Evening star., 1927-05-19
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BATH, Mich, May 19.-~With 81 of
its children, who yesterday ronped
through it's streets, and adults lying
still in death, this little village Of
some 800 persons was just beginning
to comprehend the full horror Of the
maniacal dynamiting yesterday of it's
consolidated school Forty-four others
were seriously injured; no one knows
the number of minor injuries.
Included in the dead is Andrew
Kehoe, revenge maddened farmer.
treasurer of the township school
board, who mined the school with
dynamite and gun powder and blew
himself into eternity after watching
the blast tear the north wing Of the
school to pieces and hurl the bodies
Of its little pupils through windows
and walls.
Only a whm of fate or accident
prevented destruction of the entire
village.
Investigation showed that Kehoe,
angeAed because Of school tax levied
against him and nursing his opposi-
ton to the erection of the building
three years ago, had carefully mined
the basement, installing an elaborate
system of electrical wiring connected
Evening star., 1927-05-19
New Chemical Test for Drunkenness
Shows All Degrees of Intoxication

of one per cent, dead drunk, More
than half of one per cent is likely to
cause death.
In standardizing the new alcohol
test a group of scientific martyrs COM
posed of physicians and interncs at
the University of Cincinnati drank
measured amounts of liquor and al
lowed the tests TO be performed on
them. The test does not reveal the
amount of alcohol imbibed but does
measure accurately the amount act
ually absorbed IN the body. One sub
iect, DIR. Bogen said, gulped down a
half pint of pure alcohol and was
only mildly intoxicated.
More than 500 drunken persons
picked up by the Cincinnati police
have been tested by DR. Bogen, and
his test data have been used in SO
traffic case trials where the severity
Of the sentence depended on whether
the subject was driving while intoXi-
Gated.
A man doesn't always show how
drunk he Is by his conversation, the
tests reveal, since some drunks be-
come more rational in their converse
ton the more they drink. Some got
their tongues badly twisted when the
tests showed less than one-tenth of
per cent, but could talk soberly
when the tests ran as high as four.
tenths,
Evening star., 1927-05-19
SURGEONS Of SOUL
Z. PREDICTED IN NEW
EPOCH OF MEDICINE
Doctors ForeSee Day When
Broken Hearts and Ills of
Mind viii Be Cured.
WOULD SAVE PSYCHIATRY
FROM FAKE "HEALERS"
Strange Cases Reported at Larg-
est Attended Session of Entire
A. M. A, Meeting,

The day of the surgeon of souls,
who will cut malignant groWths out
of mind and memory with the scalpels
of confession and sympathy as the
present-day surgeon removes them
from the physical body, is close at
hand
This was the keynote Of the sym
postum on psychic and emotional fac
tors in diagnosis and treatment of dis.
ease held by the practice of medicine
section of the American Medical AS
sociation at the Mayflower this morn
ing. This was the largest attended
scientific meeting of the entire con-
vention, illustrating the intense inter
est of the general practitioner in the
comparatively new and mysterious
science of the interrelation Of mind
and body.
But the day was predicted when, in
many instances, the surgeon will op-
crate for a blasted ambition instead
of stomach disorder and the physician
prescribe for broken heart instead
of cardiac insufficiency. The broken
as efficiently as any other heart
malady.
Past of Race Involved.
The whole past of the individual
and of the human race itself is in
volved in this new field of medical
science, as the speakers described it
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Evening star., 1927-05-19

A new chemical quantltatlVe test
for drunkenness. which enables the
physician to tell just how badly in
ebriated a man is, was described be-
fore the pathology and physiology
section of the American Medical
Association today by DIR. Emil Bogen
of the University Of Cincinnati. The
new test is expected to prove useful
in distinguishing between persons in
jured and showing all the symptoms
Of intoXication and those actually
under the influence of alcohol.
The apparatus is simple and could
he used effectively by nurse. The
alcoholic suspect is persuaded to blow
up an ordinary football. The sample
Of his breath thus obtained is passed
through a solution Of chemical
called potassium dichromate, which
changes color from yellow to green,
depending upon how much alcohol
the breath contains.
DR. Bogen has devised a scale of
alcoholic intoXication based on the
amount Of alcohol found In the body
through this test. When the guam
titY is less than one-tenth of one per
cent, the person is dry and decent.
One to two tenths per cent is charac-
terized as delighted and devlish";
two to three tenths. "delinquet and
disgusting, three to four tenths,
dizzy and delirious Acre than hal
Evening star., 1927-05-19
as HURT IN INDIANAPOLIS.
Damage Set at $500, ,O0O-Over 200
Homes Wrecked

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May 10 up.
AT least 45 persons injured, property
damage estimated by police at ST.
100000, between 200 and 800 homes
destroyed, several buildings wrecked,
a dozen larger buildings unroofed, and
badly crippled telephone and telegraph
communication was the toll of a heavy
wind and rain storm which struck
indianapolis and vicinity last night
Six of the injured are in a critical
condition.
The storm was general over the
central part of the State, sweeping
from Terre Haute to Richmond.
The wind, which at times reached q
velocity of so miles an hour, according
TO the Weather Bureau, smashed dis.
play windows and interrupted electric
transportation.
Several buildings, including fur.
niture store, collapsed. Reports oi
loss Of life were unverified.
Rain SwelIs Streams.
4 heavy rain accompanied the
storm, the deluge swelling streams
flooding streets and easements and
stalling numerous automobiles. The
storm indirectly resulted in the death
of tire trainmen of the Big Foul
Railroad, when a freight train rar
into creek near Lafontaine after the
bridge over the stream had beer
washed away by flood waters. The
engine and six freight cars piled III
in the creek.
Two Indianapolis boys, Earl VOL
verton. II, and Roger Frey, is, Were
injured when a furniture store col
lapsed on them as they stepped into
doorway for shelter. They were buried
under the debris and were eXtricateC
when the wreckage was lacked up.
A gospel tent was lcyeled, many
persons being injured, eight severely
The Indianapolis American Associa
tion Base Ball Park was damage,
when part Of the grandstand ant
Office building were blown away Com
munication with towns to the Eas
and South of Indianapolis were Gu
off when wires failed.
Evening star., 1927-05-19
PAROLE OF M'CRAy
IS RECOMMENDED
Federal Board Urges Release
of Former Governor
of Indiana.
By the Associated Press.

Warren r. McCray. the Indiana
governor who resigned his office to
begin serving a penitentiary sentence,
has been recommended for parole in
August. the month in which he be-
comes eligible for clemency.
The recommendation was made by
the Federal Parole Board and sub
mitted to Attorney General Sargent,
who promised immediate considera-
ton. Inasmuch as it is seldom that
such a recommendation is overruled,
McCray is expected to gain his free
dom during the Summer.
Convicted i'm 1924.
The former governor, who was a
nationally known live stock dealer,
was convicted in 1924 in connection
with the use of the mails in obtaining
loans on cattle paper. He was found
guilty on each of 13 counts of a
Federal indictment and was sentenced
to the Atlanta penitentiary for five
years on each. The sentences were TO
have been cumulative until 10 years
were reached, after which they were
to have become concurrent. In addt-
tion a $4,000 fine was imposed.
A determined effort has been made
by McCray's former associates to OBJ
tain his release. Representations
were made TO the Department of JUS
tice that he was in i'll health, but an
investigation failed to show reasons
why he should be paroled for illness.
Numerous Appeals Made.
In addition. numerous appeals have
been made to President Coolidge and
Attorney General Sargent. asking that
clemency be extended. Petitions from
Indiana with many prominent names
have been sent to Washington in his
behalf
Attorneys for McCray. during his
trial, based their defense on lack of
intent to defraud. McCray admitted
signing the names of others to notes,
but contended that his signature as
indorser established his responsibility.
and. that he believed himself able
financially to meet all of his obliga-
tions.
Since entering the Atlanta Peniten-
tiary he has been editor of the prison
publication, Good Words. and for a
time worked on the honor farm.
Evening star., 1927-05-19
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Prediction that d tax surplus OF
$500 600 900 will be in the Treasury by
the time Congress meets in December
was made today by Senator Simmons,
North Carolina, ranking Democrat on
the Senate finance committee.
In letter to a North Carolina con.
stituent, Senator Simmons charged
the administration with collecting hun
dreds of millions of dollars out of the
people lasfs year and using 1t for pay
ing Liberty Bonds, when the holders
of the bonds were not asking pay
ment.
There should be In the Treasury
when CoIlgress meets next December
another efiormut.s surplus amounting
Evening star., 1927-05-19
DOUMERGUE ENDS VISIT.
Entrains for Dover After Cordial
Royal FareWells.

LONDON, May 19 Up).-President
Doumergue of France today concluded
his visit of state to England, where
he has been the busy recipient of MI
merous honors during the last three
days.
Accompanied by Foreign Minister
BRAND, he entrained for Dover after
cordial farewells from King George,
the Prince of Wales, Prince Henry
the Duke of Connaught and others st
the railway station.
Evening star., 1927-05-19
Half Billion Tax Surplus by December
Is Predicted by Senator Simmons

to at least $780, 100000" his letter
said. II presume that the adminis-
tration leaders will allow this to be
returned to the people in order that
the administration may have cam
paign capital in the presidential elec-
ton campaign of 1928
The constituent had written the
Senator asking his advice about re-
spending to a request for contribu-
tions from American Taxpayers
League.
"Of course, | do not know what
the league desires to raise money
for" the Senator said. in reply. If
d u IS tor the lobbying s,n |; IN
influence legislation it b highly i'm
proper
Evening star., 1927-05-19
AMBULANCE CRASH
HURTS THREE MEN
Collision Occurs With Small
Touring Car-HospitaI
Care Needed.

Three men were injured today when
| an Emergency Hospital ambulance col
lided with a small touring car at the
Eleventh street.
The victims were DR.. Millard +. Ott-
man Of the Emergency Hospital staff,
Wilbur Dettweiler, 22-year-old employe
of Thompsons Dairy, of 1926 Georgia
avenue. who was driving touring
car belonging to the dairy, and Her
bert Green of 139 p street, colored
chauffeur of the ambulance.
All three received decorations and
bruises. DetWeller, who was hurled
through the windshield of his car by
the impact, was the most seriously in
iured of the trio. He landed head-first
against the curb in front of the wash
ington Railway and Electric Co. car
barn, receiving severe cuts on the
scalp and face and bruises to the body.
He was treated at Garfield Hospital,
which overloolls the scene of the ac1
| cident.
Land on Sidewalk.
| Or. Ottman and his chauffeur We're
| taken to Emergency Hospital in a
passing automobile and treated by DR..
| Klent Stallard for cuts on the head
| and arms and for bruises about the
| body.
Both machines landed on the side
walk near the car barn after the COLI
sion, the big ambulance having its
entire radiator and hood telescopcd
against a large tree. The windshields
| of both cars were shattered and Their
| occupants subjected to showers of
| Jagged glass.
The ambulance was en- route TO Pet
/ worth in response to an emergency
call when the accident occurred. Ii
was proceeding east on Florida ave
nue. and was sounding its siren, ac-
| cording to Policeman G, Ford of No
| 8 police precinct. who made an in.
vestigation. No estimate could be OBJ
| tanned of it's speed, beyond what was
| indicated by the effects of the crash.
Unable to Stop.
Dettweiler was driving the touring
car south on Eleventh street, down
| the grade from Clifton street. lie was
unable to stop in time to avoid the
collision.
DIR. Ottman is a student inferno at
the hospital. He is a graduate of Cen
trail High School and is finishing his
medical course at George Washington
| University.
Evening star., 1927-05-19
PRESIDENT is DOCTOR.
Medical Title Is Conferred by
Famous Surgeons.

President Coolidge was made fci.
low of the International Post -Gradu.
ate Medical Association of North
America today, He is. consequently.
entitled to use the title of doctor of
medicine.
DR.. Charles Mayo, famous surgeon
Of Rochester, Mimi. and DR. William
g. Peck of Freeport, H.. president
and dicetor, respectively, of the clinic,
presented the diploma to Mr.. Coolidge
at the White House.
Upon leaving. DR.. Mayo remarked
that the President was looking fine
and undoubtedly was in excellent
health.
Evening star., 1927-05-19
Argentina Plans
Law to Give Trade
To Buyer Nations

By Cahe to The Star and Chicago DALI
News. Copyright. 1877,
BUENOS AIRES. May 19.-Pres-
ident Alvear is preparing to pre-
sent bill TO Congress converting
into law the spirit behind the Ar
gentina Rural Society's motto,
Buy from those who buy from us"
Although the President did not
mention the United States. it is the
United States alone against which
the Rural Society and the newspa-
pers are directing their campaign,
Evening star., 1927-05-19
Anti-Sal0on League Meets.

Meantime the Anti-Saloon League,
most ardent champion of Haynes,
gathered in secret session with rumors
of battle emanating from the star
chamber sessions Of the executive
committee. No official word was forth.
coming, but there We're unofficial re-
ports that Wayne +. Wheeler, the
leagues general counsel, went into the
session angry over the rejection of
Haynes, and ready to open war on
the administration unless something
changed his mind. Many other dry
organizations vigorously opposed
Haynes and his methods, which have
proved unsatisfactory to Secretary
Mellon and Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury Andrews.
Many candidates have bebbed up
from time to time in the long-drawn.
out fight over the commissionership
of the new Prohibition Bureau.
Haynes was given the acting commits.
sionership just prior to Melons sail
ing for Europe Easter, as a stop-GGp
in the fight. Senator's Fess and Will
lis of Ohio valiantly battled for
Haynes, both at the Treasury and at
the White H0uSe
Evening star., 1927-05-19
Soviet Note Received.

LONDON. May 10 LP).-Soviet Rus.
sia s note of protest against the Brit.
ish raid on Soviet House, in London
was received at the foreign Office and
laid before the cabinet in Downing
street today.
Evening star., 1927-05-19
MELLON TO NAME
DRY CHIEF At ONCE
Appointment Expected Within
"a Hours-Anti- ti-SaIoon
League Meets.

Secretary Mellon hopes to settle the
long pending fight over prohibition
commissioner within the next "a
hours, it was indicated today at the
Treasury.
With Acting Prohibition Commits
sioner Roy A Haynes having been
eliminated by the administration sew.
eral days ago, it was understood one
of the most likely candidates today
was DIR. James M. Doran, head Of the
technical division of the Prohibition
Bureau.
Secretary Mellon. however, was non
committal, denying that any decision
had been reached in the matter of
commissioner.
Evening star., 1927-05-19
Opposed by Hotel Occupants.

OF the property owners and tenants
interviewed on Thirteenth street, IA
objected to the widening, while 8
voted in favor of it. In one piece of
property carrying three numbers in
the block and which is i'll the category
of a residence hotel. there are 20 occu-
pants who by their long residence
there felt qualified to speak as perma'
nent residents. They are bitterly op-
posed to the change and have notified
the owner that they will seek other
quarters if the street is widened.
Should these persons be counted in the
poll, then the sentiment against the
Continued on Page 4, Column 81
Evening star., 1927-05-19
45 HURT, : MISSING,
MANY HOMELESS|N
MIDWEST STORMS
$4,000,000 Property DAM
aged. Communication Grip
pied by Wind and Rain.
INDIANAPOLIS AND PEORIA
FILLED WITH WRECKAGE
Buildings Unroofed, Easements
Flooded, Windows Smashed, Sew
eral Believed Dead.
b. thn Assatlatea Press.

BY thr Associated Press,
PEORIA, ILL.,. May 19.-F'iVe per
sons may have lost their lives in floods
an. rain in Peoria and vicinity late
yesterday.
Three hundred and fifty are home
less. and damage is estimated at a
million and a half dollars.
Train service in and out of Peoria
was demoralized today due to wash
outs and other utilities services still
were crippled The greater part of
the telephone service was said to be
out of use.
Walter Mueller, son Of the mayor of
Peoria, mine superintendent. and
Lester Jones were walking on the
Toledo, Peoria e Western Railway
tracks when caught in the flood waters
of lie Marsh Creek. Jones and
others described it as a wall of water
13 feet high which swept them into
the torrent. Jones escaped and said
he did not see Mueller again.
Searchers otday We're dragging LIE
Marsh Creek and the Illinois River
into which it empties.
Four other persons were believed TO
have lost their lives in the lowlands
near here, and scores fed from their
homes in East Peoria as the streams
overfowed. The rainfall here was
$50 inches.
River Rises Again.
The river. which was receding be-
fore the storm and stood at 1874 feet,
had risen a foot and today stood at
1875 feet.
No bodies have YET been recovered
and authorities are checking the list
of missing.
East Peoria bore the brunt of the
storm. Four of the believed dead and
most of the missing p rsons resided
in that section. Two schoolhouses
were badly damaged.
In Peoria water ran through down
town streets five feet deep. Many
persons waded TO their homes through
water almost hip deep. Thousands of
Easements were flooded.
Hail as large as hens eggs fell
during the afternoon, causing damage
10 greenhouses and windows. Rail.
road transportation was practically at
standstill today. Bus lines in
many directions were tied up. Con-
crete bridges were washed out on
many hard roads.
AT Pekin more than $4,000 dam
age was done when a wind of cy-
clonic proportions swept through the
city.
Evening star., 1927-05-19
TumuIty Opposes Widening.

The canvass of Connecticut avenue
along the stretch selected for widen
ing showed that, with the exception of
Joseph Tumulty, secretary to the late
President Wilson, who owns two
pieces Of business property, the own
ers of business property favor the
widening of the streets regardless of
the destruction of the trees. Tenants
of these business properties, excluding
one, also want the street widened.
There were several business firms,
however forced by policy to be non
committal, but the private express
sions of the arrangements were III
favor of the widening.
Only five of the occupants of the
residences along the thoroughfare
voiced their opposition to the widen
ing, principally because it will result
in the loss of the shade trees. There
we're several who did not object SO
strenuously to the cutting of the
trees al they did to the fact that the
widening of the street will bring more
automobiles to park in front of their
homes.
Evening star., 1927-05-19
DOran Has Held Dry Posts.

DR.. Doran. now being groomed for
the post, it is understood, unless
something serious happens the last
minute to upset the whole Mellon
plan, would bring to the commission
ership a record hard for the Anti
Saloon League to oppose. lie is the
son of a Methodist minister. has been
in the Internal Revenue Bureau since
1911, has been in responsible posts in
the old prohibition unit. and new
Prohibition Bureau ever since national
prohibition was enacted, and is init
mately acquainted with the whole rast
history and administration of the
movement.
He is we'll liked by all who have
worked with him.
Reports of serious considera tions
were current today, however, which
might upset the tentative selection of
DIR. Doran. Whether this had to do
with the Anti-Saloon League rumors
of war on the administration was not
divulged. Secretary Mellon said he
had no appointment to meet with any
Of the leaders of the league.
Evening star., 1927-05-19
Plan Fight on Candidates.

Plans to prevent the nomination of
a wet candidate for President also
were under discussion today by the
executive committee of the Anti
Saloon League.
The committee, consisting of IS
members, met in secret session with
Mr.. Wheeler. Mr.. Wheeler has a pro-
gram to throw the consolidated
strength of the dry forces against any
wet candidate, regardless of his poll.
tics.
While the committee will oppose
any one it considers wet, 1t does not
plan to indorse any particular dry
candidate, An attack is expected to
be made on Nicholas Murray Butler,
Gov Smith Of New York. Senator
Reed, Missouri and Gov. Ritchie of
Maryland.