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DAVENPORT, IOWA, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1927. PRICE: FIVE CENTS. nn MI 1 Ul Ml 1 Mrs William Milchrist Next President of Iowa Federation REllR'S SHIP DIVES 300 FT. FIVE DEAD IN MRS E. H.

HALL WHERE MANIAC BLAST KILLED 36 CHILDREN NEAR AIRPORT PEORIA STORM; MANYMISSING Rescuers taking bodies out of the ruins of the Bath, school in which 36 children were killed when a demented farmer, Andrew Kehoe, set off dynamite in the basement of the building. Inset are state troopers who brought out the unexploded dynamite. The farmer horrible deed was born of a mania induced by what he believed to be excessive taxes for school purposes, Presentation of this photograph in The Times today illustrates the speed with which news event are covered by the camera for readers or this newspaper. The photo was obtained through the International III ustrated News service. Dives to Death PLANE AFTER FATAL CRASH tJ 1 NEW BISHOP fir REV.

HENRY P. ROHLMAN Tb ineHure Rev. Henry P. Rohlman, pastor of the Church of the Nativity, Dubuque, whose appointment as bishop of the Catho lic diocese of Davenport was announced by Rome yesterday, will probably take place at the Cathe dral in Dubuque it was stated today. The date for the consecra tion will not be fixed until the offi cial papers are received by Father Rohlman from Rome.

ThJa will take from a month to six weeks. Father Rohlman. last evening received a telegram from the papal delegate in Washington confirming the Associated Pres report of his appointment. RILLED WIFE Death List at Bath, Michigan, Crows to Forty-two 44 ARE SERIOUSLY INJURED Investigation Shows Maniac, Disgruntled About Tax, Had Planned Killing All Pupils LANSING. MU'lu May 19.

(As-soclated Press) (iovernor Creen late today offered to pay the fit. neral expenses of school children killed at Bath yesterday whose par-enls cannot do so, BATH, May 19. (Associated Press) Mrs Andrew Kehoe, wife of the maniac who yesterday blew up the consolidated school he ae with a loss of 42 lives, his farm home and himself, as his first victim. Portions of her body were-found" today in the ashes of one of the outbuildings on the Kehoe Her skull was crushed. Mrs Lawrence Price, widow of Mrs Kehoe's uncle, who held the mortgage on Kehoe's farm, said that when she mentioned foreclosing, he declared: "Well, if I can't live in that house no one else will." All the pupil victims were of the third, fourth, fifth and uixth grades and ranged in age from six to It.

Bernice Sterling, first grade teacher, described the explosion like a terrible earth quake. Most of her pupils escaped unhurt. Outside the scene was one of horror and confusion. Children were hurled through windows and over walls to light in the yard dead, bodies were laid out in long rows, only the feet showing. Mostly, they were shabby feel, with soles worn through or shoes sizes too large.

Mothers rushed to the scene and ran frantically up and down the line of feet. A scream aud one would hug a limp form. Some of them, half crazed, clasped their dead children In their arms and ran home. Mothers whose love overcome their judgment, carried many injured to their homes, not realizing that every available physician was at the school. Ambulances took bodies to an improvised morgue in the town hall.

Women who had not found their children streamed down the road after them. Debiis ten feet deep remains In the basement today. It Is being sifted thoroughly. Air inquest is i I 4 I FIND SCHOOL BOMBER ALSO IS FORJITOR Both Unopposed in Ballots Named By Committee ACTIVE 1HCLUB WORK Graham McNamee of WEAF To Speak and Sing at Tonight's Session Mrs William Milchrist. of Sioux City, will be the next president of the Iowa Federation of Women's clubs.

8he wad virtually elected by the nominating committee of the clubs 2 a. in. today when It completed Us work without nominating a candidate to oppose her for the presidency. Mrs Milchrist has been active In the federation for many years and at present Is vice president of the organization. Mrs K.

If. Hall of Davenport, chairman sf the Davenport con-rention and past president of the Davenport Woman's club was also nominated without opposition for the office of auditor. Other Other candidates were nominated (s follows: First vice presidentMrs Galen Tilden of, Ames. Second vice president Mrs Ku En Henely of Grinnell and Mr W. K.

G. Saunders of Emroetsburg. Recording secretary Mrs H. C. Houghton, of Red Oak and Mrs C.

W. McLaughlin of-Washington. 4 Corresponding: secretary Mrs R. H. Volland of Iowa city and Mrs Eugene Cutler of Des Moines, Treasurer Mrs William Larra-1 bee, jr.v of Clermont and Mr C.

E. Greer of Elriora. General Federation llre-4or Mrs John Fox Lake of Shenandoah, On the ballot are also the names nominated from the floor for delegates ,0 tn' biennial of the General Federation of Women's clubs in San Antonio, In 1928. Ten will be elected. The voting strength of the convention today Is 551 and with additional alternates, the total number registered la 9S1.

Mrs John Cory of Spencer, was made an honorary vice president of the federation at the meeting this morning In appreciation of over 25 years on the civics and scholarship and loan fund committees. The endorsement of Mrs Henry Taylor of Bloomfield for recording secretary of the national organization was voted. As yet, no invitation has been received for the next biennial, The following are the district chairmen, elected by their respective districts whose election will be confirmed at the. convention: District No, 1 Mrs C. D.

Raw-hauser, New London? No. 2 Mrs 12, X. Coleman. Davenport; District No. 3 Mrs C.

E. Greer, Eldora; District No. 4 Mrs Carl Reed, Cresco; No. 5 Mrs G. R.

'Wood-house, Vinton; No. 6 Mrs A. J. Decker, Newton; No. 7Dr.

Mae Habernieht, Des Moines; No. 8 Mrs C. W. Bowen, Centervlll; No. 9 Mrs Nell Bogart.

Glenwood; No. 10 Mrs Frank Davis, Marion; No. 11 Mrs 0. J. Saeouetry, Holsteln.

Notables Are Heard Addresses were given this morning by E. A. Sherman, associate I'nited States forester and by Prof. Harold I). Fish, director of William Beebe's jungle laboratory at Kartabo, British Guiana, South America, an authority on heredity about which he The addresses by Miss Grace Abbott, chief of the children's bureau, United States department of labor, and by Alfred G.

Smaltz, a former director of agricultural education for the Near East Relief, featured the afternoon session today. Graham McMamee, the popular announced of radio station WEAF of New York ill speak and sing before a capacity house tonight. Abbott Speaks "There has been a great change in attitude toward responsibility for the protection and care of children from the days when the parents had unlimited power over the (Continued on Page Two) Mexican Bandits Bury Priest and Young Girl Alive NOG ALES, May 19. (Associated Press) A delayed report to the Nogales Herald today says that bandits attacked a train 5n the Mexican state of Jalisco May IS, burying alive a priest and a youug girl from. Tepee, MUTED Witnesses Believe He Fainted While Attempting Landing CRAFT MASS OF SPLINTERS Engine Was Going Full Speed As It Nosed Way to Pasture Near Hangars Diving full speed from a height of 300 feet, Floyd W.

Ketner, 33, Moline aviator, was killed in the wreckage of his plane near the Moline air- port at 10:30 a. m. today. The plane was one which Ketner I had built. From the circumstances of the accident, those at the air- iport who witnessed it, Ray i Ketner, brother of the aviator and E.

K. (Rusty) Campbell, believe the flier fainted or suffered a heart attack. Other wise, they say, he would have shut his motor off as the plane dived. Ketner was testing a plane on which he had been at work throughout the winter. He had been up about 20 minutes, flying about 1.000 feet above the airport, when he started down to alight on the field.

Paul O'dell, air mail clerk, and others who were watching him said he evidently misjudged the distance and rose again. A few minutes later, while turning a half mile south of the airport, the plane waft seen to point downward from a height of 300 feet. The roar of the motor was plainly audible to the spectators. In the twinkling of an eye, the machine had buried itself In the ground with a tremendous crash that threw parts of the plane more than 100 feet. Lands In Fastnre The machine crashed In a pasture on which there is considerable water.

O'Dell and the others ran through the water and lifted Ketner from the splintered plane. His neck and back were fractured and his body was mangled. Ketner had spent much time building the plane. He owned a private hangar at the Moline airport and was operating as the Ketner Aircraft Co. Last fall he tried out the plane and decided the wings were not of the right construction.

The plane flew but not to Ketner's satisfaction. began experimenting with the wings and today's flight was the first since he had made the change The body was removed to the Es-terdahl funeral home in Moline and an inquest wa called for this, afternoon. Ketner, It was learned late today, was in negotiation with a Moline manufacturing concern in regard to the turning out in quantity of the plane he had designed. Heart Weak Supporting the theory that Ketner fainted in the air is the belief of his brother and that he suffered the recurrence of an attack of the heart from which he had suffered (Continued on Page Twenty-five) BERTAUDOUTOF NEW YORK, May 19. (Associated Press) Lloyd Bertaud will definitely not" make the Paris flight in the Bellanca monoplane with Clarence Chamberlin, and his successor is already selected, Charles A.

Levin head of the company backing the flight, said today. The announcement came some time after an almost night long conference at the end of which Bertaud said that difficulties had been ironed out and that ha would participate as originally planned. "Bertaud Is not going." Levine said. "That is definite. His successor has been selected, but his identity will not be revealed unul the place is ready to hop off." Try Out -America" This morning the Cilact Fokker "America." in which Ryrd, Noville and Acosta will fnr Paris, was put into the air.

Because of adverse the Tight was merely a 15 minute speed and instrument trial. Both the "Columbia" and Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis," remained in their hangars, Lindbergh being ready to I-ave upon the weather man signal, FLIGHT TO PARIS ANNOUNCES LEVI Communication With Outlying Districts Is Shut Off MAYOR'S SONJSES LIFE Railroad Transportation at Standstill Storm in Indianapolis Injures 45 PEORIA, 111., May 19. (Associated Press) With five Uvea believed lost, scores of persons missing, more than 350 homeless and approximately a million and half dollars In property damage, Peoria today wag recovering from one of the worst cloudburst and hail storms in its history. More than 5', inches of rain fell between 2 a.

and 5:30 p. Wednesday. East Peoria Hard Hit Telephone communication ith all outlying districts is demoralized and reports or damage from all rural quarters is unavailable. East Peoria s'eemed the hardest hit. Four are believed dead and most of the missing persons are in that district.

The main thoroughfares of the suburb are shattered and strewn with wrecked automobiles and debris. Two schoolhouses are badly damaged, recently installed costly fire department demolished, and all the large manufacturing companies plants are flooded. In Peoria, water was running in both the bluff and downtown streets as high 88 five feet. Many employes waded to their homes through water almost hip deep. Thousands of basements were flooded.

Hall Causes Damage Hall as large as hen eggs fell during the afternoon causing enormous damage to green houses and residential windows. Tops of automobiles were ripped by the large stones. Railroad transportation was practically at a standstill early today. Bus lines in many directions were tied up. Concrete bridges were washed out on three hard roads.

"Water covers the Peoria-Canton and Peoria-Pekin hard roads. At Canton. 111., 30 miles southwest, three and one-half inches of rain fell in a short period of time. Canton today 1b without water, hea or power and is isolated from the outside world. Business is at a standstill.

Damage ls estimated at from $75,000 to 150000 in this area. At Pekin more than $50,000 damage was done when a wind of cy- (Continued on Page Three) AS SEW ORLEANS, May 19(As. soeinted Fres) A new river, which army engineers estimated to be carrying much of the fleod streaming through the Rayon Des 4lalsf Crevasses was tearing' its way throngh the ETangeline county today, drhlng thousands from their homes. than 7,000 already had been forced to flee from vll-laces in the path the river was cutting to the sea. NEW ORLEANS.

May Associated Frcssi Residents of the vast west Atchafalaya basin were gathering their possessions today and fleeing from their homes because of ominous flood warnings issued by federal weather authorities and John M. Tarker, state relief director. Their homes are from 100 to 150 miles northwest 'of New Orleans. Mr Parker had a score of telephone operators at work urging the inhabitants to get out of the. path of the spreading His instructions were obeyed by residents of 27 towns, none of which had a population of more than 500.

The section is on the route of the Gulf of Mexico expected to be followed by waters from the Bayou des Glaises levee hreaks and torrents pouring through crevasses In the Atchafalaya river at Melville, from which 1,000 women, men and children have departed. These floods converged forty miles helow Bayou des Glaises. A lake 250 miles long VACATE 27 TOWNS LOUISIANA WATER RUSHES KETNER'S 2X1 A i rr, 'j; 1 i FLOYD KETNER Parts of Ketner'B plane were strewn about the water-soaked pasture of P. T. Crockett, near the Moline airport, as a result of his fatal crash today.

The photo shows the smashed fuselage. The tail went Into a creek. "0 feet away. The plane spun around with its nose as a pivot after striking the ground. The shows the spot from which Ketner's body was lifted after the crash.

Marilyn and Jack to Be Divorced; Off to Paris to Obtain Their Decree LOS ANGELES, May 19. (Associated Press) Marilyn Miller, musical comedy star and her husband, Jack Pickford, motion picture actor, will seek a divorce in Paris early in June, Pickford admitted here last i I Pickford revealed that nis wtte, wno now is wumu au for France shortly. He said he would follow her abroad a short time later and a Paris tribunal would be petitioned for a divorce on the grounds of incompatibility. Both will appear at the proceedings, he said, so that Miss Miller will not be forced to establish, a residence In France. He said his wife will be represented in the French courts by Dudley Field Malone of New York.

"We tried a year's separation." Pickford admitted, "in order to avoid a divorce, but we finally-decided that we were temperamentally unsuited for each other and decided to quit." prohibition. It voted, 80 to 63. late yesterday for a state-wide referendum on repeal of the state prohibition enforcement laws. Including the search and seizure act. Rail Lines Washed Out GALESBURG, 111., May 19.

(Associated Press) Washouts on both the Peoria and London Mills branches of the Burlington railway prevented trains from running today. Spoon river was receding after rising rapidly during the night. Thousands of acres of corn land are flooded. POTTSVILLE. Pa.

Three coal miners were killed and 12 others escaped uninjured in an explosion iof dynamite late last night in the Bell colliery near Tamaqua, '1 THE WEATHER Davenport, May 19. nrpcBHt Till M. Friday For Pavprmort. Rix-k iKland. Mfilin and vli-intty Mostly cloudy tonight and Friday, proba bly showers.

Warm er Friday. For lows Motlv lolmidy tonifthr amit rial v. urobnhlv lshowrs. Warmer lii w-st portion tonleht and In a and a 1 Portion I Friday. 1 jjU'y ciouny tonight Warmer arm proha-narilier hltf hower.

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Copyright, Mo-Naught Syndicate Pinedo Forced Itonn FATHER POINT. Quebec, May 19. (Associated Press) Commander De Pinedo, Italian aviator, alighted in Riiuonski harbor this afternoon while attempting to fly from Quebec to Shippegan Island, N. B. The weather waajoggy.

LIQUOR ACT REPEAL IS SPRINGFIELD, 111., May 19. (Associated Press) The Weber-O'Grady liquor law repeal hill was reported to the senate today and referred to the committee on license and miscellaneous business. Senator Adolph Marks, Chicago, is chairman of the committee. The Illinois house of represonta- tives for the second time this sea lifts turned thumba dowa on PLACED BEFORE SENATE OF ILLINOIS (Continued oa Page Three). (Continued on Page.