The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 19, 1927, Page 1

shouts toni risa ees Warmer tonigtiy® ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1927 MANIAC’S WIFE WAS HIS FIRST VICTIM BERTAUD WILL NOT MAKE TRIP LEVINE SAYS Suctéssor Already Selected, * But His Identity Is Be- ing Kept a Secret CONTRADICTS BERTAUD Flyer Announced After Long Conference That He Would Go With Chamberlin New York, May | 19—UP)—Lioyd Bertaud definitely will not make the Paris flight_in the Bellanca mono- lane with Clarence Chamberlin, and is successor is already selected, Charles A. Levine, head of the com- pany backing the flight, told the Associated Press this afternoon. ile’s announcement followed lyon an almost night long con: Tefendtat the end. of which had said that all difficulties had been ironed out and that he would Flood Relief. Director Dears Inhabitants to Get Out of Path of Spreading Waters —Instructions Obeyed By Residents of 27 Towns Northwest of New Orleans | New Orleans, Mi new river, which y engineers estimated to be carrying much of. tne Trout = waters sphicind through the crevasses trom ihe 1 was tearing its wa: fertile farm lands of the Evangel- Ine country today, driving thou- sands trom their homes. More than 7,000 slready had been forced to flee from villages and towns in the path the river was cutting to the sea to take up temporary refuge in conccntra- tion camps, New’ Orleans, May 19.—{@)-—Resi- dents of the vast west Atchafalay basin were gathering their posses jomes because of ominous flood warnings issued by federal weather authorities and John M. Parker, state go on the flight as navigator as originally planned. Asked for Statement Levine made no statement at the time but when reports gainéd circu- lation that the situation was not quite as Bertaud believed it to be, he was asked to state definitely what the ults of the conference were. ‘taud is not going,” he replied. “That is definite. His successor has been selected but his identity will not be revealed until the plane is ready to hop off. Bertaud had said injunction pro- ceedings to prevent the Columbia from starting on its trip without him would be withdrawn. The navigator felt satisfied, he said, that he would be With Clarence D. Chamberlin when the craft hops off. A temporary injunction returnable tomorrow was obtained by Bertaud yesterday. Weather Still Stormy {Adverse weather ri acd further delayed the Bellanca flight. Stormy areas between here and the New Foundland coast also held to earth Commander Richard E. Byrd's giant Fokker monoplane America, and Captain Chrrles Lindbergh’s| Ryan monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis. The mid-Atlantic, said weather re- ports, was clear but favorable skies the entire extent of the route prob- ably would not appear before to- morrow morning. Lindbergh is ready to depart. Levine said that Frank Tichenor, publisher of an airplane. magazine, went to his house early basay, aking: with him Bertaud and G. M. Bellanca, designer of the plane. He identified Bertaud in his statement as “former- ly navigator of the plane Coiumbia.” Is Definitely Out “Tichenor came as peacemaker aoe Bellanca was neutral,” “Bertaud repudiated ‘tributed to him in the pre: tempted to conciliate me, but ia told him he was definitely o “He offered to withdraw { junction suit he started against me if I would let him:go but I rejected his offer.” Asked why he had let Bertaud’s statement that all difficulties hed been disposed of stand for eight hours before denying it, Levine said through a representative that he was not interested in any conclusions the public might draw from such action on his part. He said that he was not seeking p publicity id only made a statement at this time because he had béen asked for it. STRIKE THREAT 3 IS AVERTED ON MICHIGAN ROAD Pere Marquette Employers, Employes Arbitrate—Were to Have Struck Taday Detroit, May 19.—)—A threat- ened strike on the Pere Maranetie, for this morning, was railroad officia! ls and representative: of the various uni reached a working actee- it was announced by members the federal board of mediation, who extended their aid in ironing out the differences between the two factions. A number of the matters in dis- pute were settled in a mannes mu- tually satisfactory to both sides, it was said, while others were lft tv arbitration. The details of the set- tlement were not revealed. ntatives of both pret atinfaction with the meg reached, on. Ealoa off! fials ils to eancel dispatched o: strike plans. ‘The representatives had been in conference for’ us Sent co Pega don re almost a jimously of gO ona at 6 o'clock this morning, revealed. The 4 peed, re the switchmen, e1 men, conductors, Rats telogra- I hs “cle Al: ee fee and clerks. Fargo chi a etievances of the said “si branches hi clerks had asked. ey railroad recently granted “8 increase to .conductors| rainmen, condit sending s wd demand for an increase in relief, director. Their homes from 100 to 150 miles northwest of New Orleans. r had a score of tele- tors at work urging the habitants to get out. of the path of! the spreading waters. His instruc- tions were obeyed by residents of 2 towns, none of which had a eerslds tion of more than 500. The section is on the route to the Gulf of Mex- ieo, expected to be followed by wa- ters from the Bayou des Glaises levee breaks and torrents pouring through crevasses in the Atchafalaya river ut Melville, from which 1,000 men, women and’ children have ‘de- parted. These floods converged 40 miles below Bayou des Glaises. A lake 250 miles long and from 15 to 100 miles wide was created. A sudden inundation of an addi tional portion of St. Landry parish, eral feet of water into !Beggs, Garland, Dubisson, White- ville and into the country surround- ing Bunkic, was reported. More than 5,000 persons were estimated to be in the inundated territory. Rescue workers were busy notifying them to rush to the Southern Pacific railroad line, where cars have been placed to take them out of the territory. FINE PROGRAM PREPARED FOR | | BAND CONCERT: Proceeds Will Be Used to Fi. nance Open-air Concerts During Summer the in-| An excellent program of military marches, semi-classical and solo numbers by members of the band has been prepared by R. E. Wenzel, director of ‘the Bismarck Elks band, for the concert to be given by the band tonight at the city auditorium. The vocal soloist for the affair is Mrs. John Graham, and she will be accompanied by Mrs. Ar- thur Bauer. The ‘band members have been re- hearsing faithfully for several weeks im preparation for tonight's public appearance, and those who attend are ured of a most enjoyable evening. The concert is scheduled to start ac “The proceeds of tonight's concert will be used by the Elks lodge to finance the series of open-air con- certs which the band will give dur- ing the summer months, and to fur-_ ther the welfare work being con- ducted in Bismarck by the organiza- tion, The Program ‘The following is the program’ an- nounced by Director Wenzel: Eldorado, certo,” Cn ‘Bocealari..Sam Kontos Vocal solos, selected — Mrs. Join Graham, with Mrs. Arthur Bauer as accompanist. a 4] ” by Pearl Curran. b. ia singale of amacles Inn,” an old English song. Suite, “Atlant! icoi aesaee Nocturne sud Morning 'H aan, Court Function. e By I Love Thee. Destruction of Fe ower, Sullivan Xylophone solo,’ “Moe! Stobbs... Selections from “Magic by Rombe: ag nd Mareh, “The Stars and piripes: For ever,” by Sou: Dentists Will End Convention Today . Dy May 3 19.—()—Proper ‘oayapreyy the use of green les and nd early care Fargo, N, ae demonstration, i1 Sidrens before the North Dakota ite Dental association. addres: hygiene, feature toafared thet ee Foe ty) of: addition © to Dr, ine, tt talked on. “oral: hy-| ebild health,” 5Dy._0. bi sions today and fleeing-from their: rtaud | h. are! overtures,’ rs i Laplante RESIDENTS OF ATCHAFALAYA BASIN ARE FLEEING FROM THEIR HOMES ‘Lisbon Woman Is .in Race to Head State Federation Lisbon, N. D, May 19--()—™ Albert Jones, Lisbon, today was e dorsed by women’s clubs of the fourth j district for president of the state ; federation of women's clubs. ction will be held in 1928, at whi Re ¢ Mrs. J. E. Featherstone, Vall City, present executive, will be in- eligible to run again. Mrs, Jones is the ndid to head the women's organization, women of the third district having al- ready endorsed Mrs, E. O, Dickinson of Minot. INDIANAPOLIS I$ HARD HIT BY SEVERE STORM At Least 45 Persons injured —Five Lives Believed Lost at Peoria, Ill. | second candidate Indianapolis, Ind., May 19—@)— At least 45 persons injured, property damage estimated by police at $2,- 600,000, between 200 wnd 300 homes were destroyed and several buildings were wrecked, a dozen larger business buildings unroofed, and badly cri pled telephone and telegraph com- munication was the toll of a heavy wind and rain storm which struck Indianapolis and vicinty last night. Six of the injured are in a éritical condition. The storm was general over the central part of the state, sweeping in from Terre Haute on the west reaching to Richmond on the and east. The wind at times reached a veloc- ity of 80 miles an hour, according to the weather bureau. Reports of loss of life were unverified. WORST CLOUDBURST AND HAIL STORM IN_HISTORY i Peoria, Ill, May 19—()—With five lives believed lost, scores of persons missing, more than 350 home- less, and approximately a million and half dollars in property damage, {Peoria today was recovering from ene of the worss. cloudbursts wna hail storms in its. histoFy2: More shad lve and a half inches of rain fell between 2 a. m. and 5:30 p. m. Wednesday. ' PEORIA MAYOR'S SON ge 0} Aer VICTIMS: Peoria, Ill, May 19—)—Five per- sons aay e lost their lives, one of them, Walter Mueller, son of the mayor of Peoria, whenvhe and a com- {panion were caught-in a wall of water 113 feet high, in floods and rain |storms in Peoria and vicinity yes- terday. A score or more were re- ported unaccounted for. a ‘Train service in and out of Peoria demoralized today due to was! uts, and other utilities services still were crippled. The greater part of the telephone service was out of use, Young Mueller, a mine superin- tendent, and Lester Jones, were walking on the Toledo, Peoria and ; Western railway tracks when caught ‘in the flood -on Lemarsh Creek. Jones and others described it as a wall of water 13 feet which swept them into the torrent. Jones escaped although he was in a critical condi- tion today from exposure. Four other persons were believed to have lost their lives in the low- lands near here, and scores fled their homes’ in,East Peoria as the streams overflowed. The rainfall here was 6.52 inches. ee ee Weather Report Weather conditions at North Da- kota points for the 2¢ hours ending at 7 a. m, Temperature at 7 Highest yesterd: ads i m, Highest wind rai ‘Temps. Amenia .... BISMARCK Bottineau Crosby ... Devils Lake ,... Dickinson ..... ee Center ... Band Erend Forks Hettinger Jamestown ... jon. Lari mor leon sees Pembina ‘ Williston . Moorheed, “Minn, 48 WEATHER FORECAST For berg i vicinity: Show- Priday. Warmer to- r North Dakota: Showers to- night and Friday. Warmer~ east rtions tonight, . and central. GENERAL WEATHER CONDITIONS it is Ld Breet Fiaine nie ls ith the there were| narrow Dhaai’ atl boy bees a.| char 300 ‘WOMEN DIRECT WORLD'S FAIR “OPENING TODAY | Chicago Exposition Is ‘Thor- oughly Feminine’—Foreign Nations Represented TO BE OPENED BY DAWES| Each Day Given Over to Some Activity in Which Wom- en Are Prominent Chicago, May (FA woman inspired, ‘controlled und directed world’s fair, opening here today, will show the accomplishments of women in more than 100 vocations, most of which, until recently, were open only to me The fair, the third of its kind to be held in Chicago, is so thorough- ly feminine, that man’s only part was in the manual labor of decorat- ing the coliseum, where the fair will be beld, of unpacking and arranging the exhibits, and even those act ties were carried out under the di- rection of women. A woman de- aigned the floor plan, another wrote the insurance—even the broadcast- ing of events is in the hands of women, A dozen foreign countries, and every section of the United States, have sent exhibits of women's handi- work, and illustrious women from every state have come to lend their aid. Dawes to Open Fair Vice President Charles G. Dawes formally will open the fair tonight. It will continue until May 27. Each day will be given over to some par- ticular activity in which women have distinguished themselves. Women doctors and surgeous demonstrate their capability clinics, women lawyers will conduct @ mock court, women artists, car- toonists, decorators, and designers will be seen at their work. feminine mechanic will dismantle and assemble an automobile motor in 50 minutes, a milli ill design and make hats to individual tastes, and modistes will create before the eyes of spectators the latest in feminine attire. Women aviators, will tell how to fly, and women newspaper reporters will relate their experiences. The only woman watch- maker in the world, Martha Witt- nauer of Switzerland, handicraft. Many Represented . In the foreign section, France, swe: | laud, Czecho Slovakia, Norway, S den,” Japan, and Switzerland. will exhibit work of their women, chiefly in hand loomed fabries. Helen Bennett, a Wellesley grad- uate, who taught school, ran a farm, and edited a weekly newspaper in Bouth Dakota, wrote club ieee for a Chicago daily, and directed the Chi- cago Collegiate Bureau of ah tions, founded the; women's world fair three years ago. It was the first of its kind; and since its estab- lishment other cities and other coun- tries have taken up the idea, GIRL CRIES AS STORY IS TOLD OF TRA“ EDY Witness in Spitzer Case Who Saw Boy Killed Collapses While Testifying Linton, N. D, Me to the Tribune)—A little 12-year- old gifl who saw Leroy. Vanormy, Ashley. boy, killed when the was struck by Adolph Spitzer's car, took | the stand this morning to tell. her story of the accident and then col- lapsed, weeping, to be carried from the courtroom. She was Levina Brosz of Ashley, a neighbor and playmate of the Vanormy boy, and she was called the prosecution in the trial ot pitzer, who is charged with first | degree’ manslaughter in connection | with Vanorniy’s death. Called away from school to testify, the girl took the stand and told how Sppklug ons Gem the porch of her home, she saw Spitzer's car, coming | ‘at what she aid was a terrific rate of speed, swerve from the road and run into the Vanormy boy. She was overcome when questioning began and she had to be carried from the courtroom, while the sp€ctators were visiblly affected. ° other witness, a 70-year-old man, was also affected wheat telling the story of the accident, He was Ed. Heinrich, tance away fr and and w! toward the boy. Coroner Testities John Laemmle, Mcintosh coroner, told of examining the boy's boay after the accident and said that the kub of Spitzer's it wheel had peered a hale ‘two inches across in the head. ‘This indicated to him, $Y said, that Spitzer must have been coming at a high rate of ee The boy died instantly, he said. The defense . today. continued to hammer away at the state's witnesses in an eon to prove that Spitzer the car 31 toward the he to avoid an- hs Aig Je tides ed the street, "Due none , Witnesses peg would admit that th they believed unavoidable. accident ane case ing tried bef irom packed eth o doors, with May 19—(Special who lived a short dis-| om the Vanormy home, « 0 saw Spitzer's far swerve | has a booth] ploy: at the fair, showing exhibits of her|their automobile i ioe | matey | Three Aces—With Paris the Pot | High cards in the New York-to-P; prize. Young Captain Charles Chamberlin. In them, Amer SCHLAPS IS SCHEDULED 10 HANG FRIDAY: Favorable Action By Gover- nor on Petition For Clem- ency Is Only Chance Wolf Point, Mont. May 19.—(P) rnor Erickson acts favor. petition ‘for clemeni Ferdinand Schlap, 18-year-old hand, will be hanged here tomorr for the killing of Ludmilla ¢ who, with her ae Antone, slain here May 1, Schlap scores will arrive i Helena this afternoon to pre boy’s case to the governor. The Geislers were Schl He confessed he and some they kept in the house. Schlap formerly lived North Dakota. (OFFER OF JOB rm W er, were coveted money at Ashi CAUSES DEATH St. Paul Girl, Given Chance at Teaching Position, Dies From Excitement St. Paul, May 19,--()—An offer of, 4 new position is believed to have resulted in excitement which caused the death of Miss Bernice Rice, year old primary teacher at a school, Miss Rice, who died last night, re- ceived an. offer of a position as! teacher at Winona State Teachers: college where she graduated a yeur ago, and was greatly excited over the prospect, uccording to friends. She returned home apparently in good health in the afternoon but later collupyed. | - Fargo Is Re Is Ready For 20 eal Convention of Lions, Fargo, N. D., May 19.—4)-—Repre- sentatives of the 36 Lions clubs of thé fifth district will arrive in Fargo tonight for the annual district con- vention which will be held here Fri- day and Saturday. Convention com- mittees of the Fargo club have com- pleted all arrangements for the con- vention. Registration of _ members will begin here at 10a. m. Friday. —_—_—__ + Last Minute Bulletins acwiies Ariz., May 19.—(P)— sotayed, report to the Nogales fiersia today says that bandits attacked a train in the Mexican state of Jalisco May 16, burying alive a priest and 2° young’ girl «rom Tepec. aeerlene. pe Ores, Ma: late | last’ Marine, announced cnet the steamship Indiana Harbor was sending out distress signals from a point 10 miles south of Point Groda, south of Eureka, Calif, where she ts aground. She was bound from San. Francisco = ed Perlene: Lv) steamship i ‘miles north of Tadiana Harbor, went to her assistance. *a\raulgee. Okla, May 19.—(#) Matthew Kimes and his bandit band who held up re Beggs beaks Se = SEM penn and escaped with $i Wizseias. have been Cg pe Quay, ta Pawnee of more than ‘itige and officers.’ Ge earning in. é p tclepnong aera Jones — t was leading the posse, pacers eliaty ‘THE LAST TIME - ‘ever. ask another woman to me as long as I live.” a 19.) ‘elegraph ‘aris flight, game these—friendly gu dindbergh (left), Commander Ric! 's hope fur the non-stop trans-Atl fi lant. Marilyn Miller and Jack Pickford Seek Divorce in Par May 19. ~(A» nusical comedy star, Pickford, mot seek Marilyn Pickford who ad for Fr ; that his wife, in Chicago, would sail shortly. He would follow. her time later and would be petitione the grounds of ine “We tried a | Pickford admitted, divoree, but we we were’ temperamentally Ifor cach other and decide SEVEN LIVES ARE LOST IN a more tribunal divorce on unsuited to quit.” ‘Slide’ Dam, Formed in June, 1925, Breal Inundating | Gros Ventre Valley { Idaho Falls, Idaho, May 19—()— Nature has restored the, topography of the Upper Gros Ventre river valley to a semblance of its original appear- as flood wat “slide” dam cont jto menace several communitie The “slide” dam, ¢ Sheep Mountain shifted in June, 1925, to send of rocks, dirt. and tr Gros Ventre river, collap: day to send a wall of wate {: ttled vinley. created by the natural proximately 100,000 water. Kelly, little northwestern Wyoming community where about 75 persons lived, was inundated virtually witu- out warning. Although the death} revealed today |leased by a when across the dd yester- down the The lake of acre feet list stood at eight, others were unac- | counted for. i Continuing its race down the val- | jley, the flodd struck Wson, ‘miles below Kelly, within two 2 but no lives were lost at Wilson, as residents had been warned to fle The Sheep Mountain slide followed | a series of earthquakes that caused | considerable damage in northwestern Wyoming and Montana, ‘The slide and avalanche created a dam near half a mile across and about 300 fect in height. This formed a lake about | seven'miles long, a mile in width, and | 250 feet in depth at some point ‘Oil Company « Granted. | Stock Selling Permit, Authority to Ar $20,000 of stock thas been granted by the state secur- ‘company of Plentywood, Montana. Sales may bo made-only to persons who already are stockholders in the company, however. The company, needs the money to finish the work of sink’ which already is being drilled, the commission wns told, Stainless Steel For ' Automobiles Forecast Milwaukee, May 19.—()—"Stain- s steel” thet will provide automu- biles that shine like mirrors is fore. jcast by W. nman, Cleveland, Ohio, national ‘secretary of the Amer- | ican Society for Steel Treating, which will open ‘its annual convention here ‘today. Not only the automobile, but the airplane, and steel beams and pillars} in buildings, furniture, and other ob- Jeets, may in the future be made of the /chronium mirror steel, Mr. Eisen- man said. The chronium steel is an alloy, of fan weight and marvelous strength. .. The steel men are going to bend their efforts to produce still stronger and lighter alloys for the airplane and steel alloys for motorcar bearings which will reduce vibration, according to Mr. Eisenman. A LITTLE FOOLISF “Don't yous think he’s crazy, get- tin, nia not sri, cptimentally antic hop pri IDAHO FLOOD ance ata cost of seven lives, it was} tics us {ities commission to the Red Top Oil, PRICE FIVE CENTS PORTIONS OF BODY FOUND IN RUINS OF FARM | Crushed Skull Leads Police to amblers ard with . Byrd fate for the “same (center), and Clarence | » finds promise of tul- BANKERS WILL MEET IN CITY ON THURSDAY Financiers to Next Week Annual Meeting of 3b nent banker: of t East Slope Gather Here For Discussio: common and attend the The meeting will be held at. the A on of Commerce chambers il be called to order at 10:1 or Ey Vater: will give the! invecation, A short bus will be held, followed |p B. E. Groom of the mittee. KE, A. Ripley member of the agricultural credit corporation, is to lead a of banking problems. Attorney or will talk on “W Banker” and this will be followed by a discussion of service and exchange charges, Dakota Counties to Report Reports are to be given by coun lows: Grant county, J. ( McLean county, C, 0. Morton county, Mercer county, Roy leigh county, J, P, Db. Si Wagner; ert; Bur idder {| Michael Tschida of Glen Ullin is | to lead a discussion on | lfidence a Bank Asse ;committees and election officers gram. evening jelub. A dinner is to be held in the} at the Bismarck Country | inson May Retiring officers of the East Slope | group The Roy rt, Hazen; G, A.| Hubbell Ullin and P. J, Rauseh, Ket ‘ing officers of the souri Slope group are R. J. jist of Scranton, preside 0: | Torkelson, South’ Heart, ident, and William Kre der, secretary-treasure |Gas Station ‘Being Built at Corner of | _ Eighth and Main) Construction of a gasoline filling jstation at the corner of Eighth) Istreet and Main avenue has been| started by W. F. Wherland and 0. A. Engebretson. The sta {built on the site former! occupied | by the Lockwood Accessory company. Miesen Will Speak H at Three e Meetings) v pres- ach of Ree- To organize. junior clubs, County | cil’ Agent A. R. Miesen will speak at] three meetings tomorrow . inorthern part of the county | Mr. Miesen will speak to school | lchildren at Baldwin tomorrow morn- | j ing; to students at Wing tomorrow noon, where he will assist in the | organization of a girls’ sewing club, | and to the Driscoll Parent-Teacher association tomgrrow night. Two new junior clubs were recently organized at Sterling. in the i \3 Illinois Youths Held at Rapid City Rapid City, 8. D., May 19.—()— Preliminary hearing for Lawrence Arnold,. John Brady and Russel Olander, all about 20 years old, giv- ing thelr residence at. Ci wis sat for late toda are charged with highway In addition, charges of assaulti Rapid City’ girl, have been against Arnold and Olander. also are said tobe wanted in Fargo, The three were arrested et Pastas Monday evening. il | Kehoe, Watson; | school building. f ri-county, J.) hag been fixed definitely because all |of the clocks in the wrecked wing um held ap-! will complete the afternoon's pro- | te? | Emory Other meetings to be held in this} schools, was talking with him, one ion of the state include one at| foot on the running board. { Smith, village postmaster, und Nel- len Ellyn, fi. ne hres hi ae | stidonte tn Evglish unk |Site wane samen 9.000 tod, Fifty years ago there were only 71, Think He Killed Her Be- fore Setting Fire |PLAN GROUP FUNERAL | Michigan Town in Mourning —tTragedy Touches Virtu- ally Every Home Mich, May 19.—(P)— ndrew Kehoe, wife of the maniac who yesterday blew up the consolidated school here with a loss of 41 lives, his farm home and himself, was the first victim of his fury, it was established today, sortions of her body were found in the ashes of ane ~ of the outbuildings on the Kehoe farm. Her skull was crushed, seading to the belief, Kehog kill- ed her before casting her body into the building to be burned. The discovery was made by Roy Cole, a deputy sheriff, Bath, Michigan, May 19~ | With 36 of its children, who day romped through its streets, five adults lying still in deat , this little village of some 300 persons was just beginning today to comprehend the ‘full horror of the maniacal vnamiting of its school. Forty-four others were serious|: injured; no one knows the number of .minor in- Jiuries, * Included in the dead is revenge-maddened treasurer of the township board, who mined the school with ynamite and gunpowder and blew himself into eternity after watching the blast tear the north wing of the school to pieces and hurl the bodies Bath, M (P) Andrew farmer, school | of its little pupils through windows and walls. Only a whim of fate or accident prevented destruction of the entire village. One Wire Short Circuited Investigation showed that Kehoe, because of a school tax against him and nursing his epposition to the erection of the building three years ago, had cai fully mined the basement, i: rs wine elaborate system of electrical wir- ing connected with a time clock, His plans seemingly called for destruc- } tion of the entire structure, with its y] more than 260 pupils and instructors, One of the wires he so stalled became short | the electric impulse failed to com- plete its course. It was this failure that prevented the killing of more than 160 other pupils in another part of the building. In all there were three explosions. The first occurred early yesterday morning at Kehoe’s home, about a mile west of the village, destroying the house, barn and wagon sheds. Al! apparently were wired to the same timing device. The second blast s that in the It came about 9:43 y., only;a few minutes after sses had been assembled. The time stopped at that minute. The third blast came in Kehoe's automobile in front of the school about 30 minutes Men Blown to Bits Kehoo was sitting in the car. E, Huyck, superintendent of Glenn O. son MeFarran, an aged man, were standing on the side walk a few feet away. Suddenly a terrific blast came from the machine. The bodies of Kehoe and Huyek were blown. to bits. MeFarran was killed outright and Smith so badly injured that he died in a hospital shortly afterward. There are two versions of the ex- plosion in Kehoe’s car. One wes that | he fired a rifle into a loud of powdery; in the tonneau; the other that he § off the blast by touching a button in * an electric current while sitting in the car, ‘ Besides Kehoe, Huyck. Smith and McFarran, the other adult killed was Hazel Wetherbee, an instructor. A state investigation was’ under way to determine whether Kehoe was j alone in'the crime, and also the ion is being | source of the large quantity of ex- plosive, MAN BECOMES DEMENTED Pore SCHOOL TAX LEVY Bath, Mich., of the May 19.—@) — One- fourth children of this | village are dead, as many are maimed, and the hand of tragedy has reached into virtually every one of the hun- dred homes of the community ax a result of a carefully devised plot of a demented farmer. Among: the: 41 victims of the blast- ing of the village school house yester- day was the trator of the tragedy, Andrew hoe, 45-year-old farmer, who was known as a man of’ brilliance in the community, but whose mind had been diverted to schemes of revenge against the school board because of anger over a school tax levied against him. Kehoe who were killed, 35 were poste in the school which was wrecked by the Kroger of dyna- mite, sane: 40 others were injr Of the hundred and some odd fam- ilies of the commi the: none who had relative or | was rie tae of the ihe sree) oa and seu! ny for iy acl