The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 16, 1925, Page 1

iy ry eee = " “ Property Owners pn Fourth WEATHER FORECAST Unsettled to-night and Friday with possibly showers. ESTABLISHED 1873 . STREET CAR SERVICE MAY | BE HALTED. State Likely to Discontinue| Operation of Car After July First | | NO FRANCHISE GIVEN Street Want Pavement Laid Between Rails Service on the state owned street} car line, over which one car is oper- ated from Main and Fifth strects to| the capitol building, may be discon- tinued after July 1, according to some | members of the state board of ad-| ministration. The last legislature | refused to make an appropriation to! meet the defitit which will be incur- | red from operating the car this year, | and money from other departments | will need to be used if the state is to continue to operate a street: car. The state has no franchise from | the City of Bismarck to operate tne | car line, the franchise having ex- piged about two years ago. The old | franchise, which was granted many | years ago and before paving was laid | on the streets of Bismarck, contained | a provision that the state should pave between the tracks if pavement! was ever laid on the streets over| which the car line is operated. Pavement was laid by the state} between the rails on Main street and for two blocks on Fourth street but the remaining blocks on Fourth street | over which the car line is operated | have never been paved between the| tracks and no legislature has ever made an appropriation to compiece | the paving work. When the franchise with the city | expired the board of administration | made no application for a new fran- chise as the members of the board | knew that the city would demand that | the paving on Fourth street be com- pleted. The car line is being oper- ated with a special permit from the | city and this permit may be with-| drawn at any time. Propeay’ owners on Fourth street are continually bringing the paving matter before the Bismarck city commission. The property owners declare that the. state should make { good its agreement to lay the pave- | ment..and President A.P.. Lenhart and Commissioners J. A. Larson and J.-B, French of the present commis sion do not believe that the property owners should be forced to stand the | expense of paving Fourth street be-j tween the car tracks. The commis- sioners are of the opinion that the street in its present condition is a menace to auto traffic, and this p: ing matter is likely to be among the/ first important questions to come| before the new commission that takes | office next Tuesday. . Several merchants on Fourth street | and Main street object to the car line.| They declare that the operation of | the street car makes parking at the} 45 degree angle dangerous and that/ many drivers refuse to park their! cars on these streets, going else- where to trade. They suggest that sdrvice on the car line be discon-; nued or that the downtown term- | inal for the street car be at Fourth and Broadway streets. ! Members of the board of admin- istration are indifferent to what ac-| tion the city may take toward the car| line. The street car line costs the! state about $2,000 a year but they fig- ure that the money is well spent (provided the legislature _appro- priates the money) as it is a con- venience for the employes in the of-| fices at the Capitol building, who| they say would ‘be forced to. walk| back and forth to their work if ‘the! operation of the car is discontinued. It is understood that a group of Bismarck ‘business men will ask the city commissioners to hold a con- ference, with the state board of ad- ministration and the the attitude of the board on the paying on fourth! street, to fearn whether they intend| to operate the street car after July| 1 and if the down tofn terminal may | be changed to Fourth and Broadway stree! 3 It is expected that the whole mat- ter will be threshed out within the near future. HOTEL GUESTS: HONEST New York, April 16.—Ninety seven per cent of a hotel's guests are hon- est, says Wilfred P. Olson, head of the newly organized Hotel Credit Managers’ Association. From 2 per cent it is difficult to collect, bills, and 1 per cent need watching by the police, he says. |‘ Weather Report |; ° | For 24 hours ending at noon. Temperature at 7 a, m. Highest yesterday ... Lowest yesterday . Towest last night . Precipitation Es Highest wind velocity 16 WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and Vicinity. Un-| settled tonight and Friday with pos-} sibly showers. Warmer tonight. For North Dakota: Unsettled |to- night and Friday with possibly show- ers in west portion and by Friday in east portion. Warmer tonight. ‘WEATHER CONDITIONS he pre: is high over the upper Missi: ppt Valley and Great Lakes region while low presstire pre- -over the Canadian Rockies and 31) 56 . BB, Peas 125) 0) along/ the Pacific coast and South- west! Precipitation occurred in Missouri and from Montana west- ward and southwestward to the Pacific coast. .Minimum tempera- tures were below freesing in North Dakota and northern Minnesota, but chan during the past 24 hours were unimportant in all sections. - ORRIS W. ROBERTS, see Official in charge, sreonemeremes coe Former Field Marshal Von Hinden- urg has accepted the nomination of the “Empire bloc” as its candi- date for presidency of the German republic. PLANS MADE FOR JOURNEY T0 BAD LANDS Representative of National Parks Service to Make Inspection Beach, N. D., April 16.—Carl Olsen, of the Pleasant Valley Ranch, “Bad Lands Bill’ McCarthy, of the old “Dude” ranch, and George Gardner of the “Blkhorn” ranch, all old timers of the Bad Lands, were in Beach | Friday in consultation with Pre dent Cushing of the proposed Roose- velt park gommission, in relation to the coming visit of a representative of the National Parks Service of Washington, which department has charge of all the national parks in the country. It is expected that Mr. Torrey will be here about the mid- dle: of June. From the number of requests for accommodations in the party it is judged at this time that said party to accompany Mr. Torrey will reach fifty people. Four governors, several congressmen, representative ‘men of the Twin Cities, and newspaper men are expected to be in the party, which will assemble at the Pleasant Valley ranch from train and auto, where a jeurtain raiser in the afternoon or eve- ning will be put on by “Bill” McCar- th men. t morning saddle horses and other conveyances will be taken to the petrified forest on the west side of the river, and to the wonderful scenery on the east side to the north- east, returning to the ranch for the night. Next day the same means of travel (horses and buckboards only can be used owing to the lack | of good roads, as none of the trip will be made out of the Little Missouri val- ley), will he resumed by the guests, accompanied by a “chuck” wagon, cooks, horse wranglers and “plunder” wagon, down the river to the Elkhorn ranch’ at George Gardner's place. where a real wild west show by ail the combined forces in the cowboy line in the Bad Lands will be staged. This show will be a public affair and undoubtedly hundreds will flock to see itas Messrs. McCarthy and Gard- ner will have all the outfit there they will use at the Mandan fair, they having the contract for the rodeo to be held there late in June. This will perhaps be the last big show of the kind put on in this sec- tion -of the country and will be well worth anybody’s going to see. After the show the trip will be re- sumed down the river to the big bend, the party camping out as they would on a round-up, and roughing it as in the old days. The return trip will be made by an- other route, but still remaining in the Bad Lands, and over a section few, aside from the residents of that locality, have ever seen, but which contains the most rugged part of the park region. Resuming autos’ at the Pleasant Valley ranch, the trip will be contin- ued south to the Maltese Cross ranch of Theodore Roosevelt and to the “Dude” ranch, where “Bill” McCarthy will have an entertainment. It is ex- pected the Marmarth contingent, if they pave not joined the party sooner, will he: west up with the trippers and show them the many wild and beautiful points of interest between the Maltese Cross ranch and Mar- marth. The Marmarth business men will entertain the party at that point. The trip will cover from four to five days, and will be full of interest from start to finish. It will be a large party to~ handle but the conferees felt that it could be done, but that the guests on the teip proper would have to be confined to those only who receive invitations, which will .be urfique and in the nature of a souve- nir of the experience. There will be no objections to others going along if they provide their own convey- ances, blankets agd chuck, but it is impossible for the park’ association to care for a multitude, not only he- cause of the cost, but because the means of conveyance will be taxed to the utmost to' care for the invited guests. extended A general invitation is everybody .to take in the show at the Elkhorn ranch, and it is hoped many will avail themselves of this oppor- tunity to see the West as it was when Teddy Roosevelt was a part of it, and honeymooned in-the midst of that wild country. ‘SPARKPLUG TURKEY New York, April 16—The turke: doesn’t care much what he eats. .| broken up sparkplug recently was found in a bird here, in addition -te 11 kinds of mineral substances, ) , BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSRAY, APRIL 16, 1925 IN BANK CASE Dismissal of - Indictments Charging Embezzlement Causes Surprise ' CAMPAIGN ISSUE OF Many Ask If Court. Action Was Prosecution of Persecution in Grand Forks Tues of fcur indictments charging embez: zlement against F. W. Cathro, L. P. McAneney and N, G. Eggen, in con- nection with transactions which pre- ceded the closing of the Scandina- vian-American bank at Fargo in Feb- ruary, 1921, has brought the wrath of many political leaders down on the attorney general’s office and the question of whether the dndictments were prosecution or persecution is being asked. The four indictments against Cathro, McAneney and Eggen were dismissed by Judge W. J. Kneeshaw on motion of George A. Bangs, who represented the state. The indict- ments were returned by a ty grand jury in the fall of 192 deait with the alleged transfer of funds from the Bank of North Dako- ta to the Svandinavian-American bank just before tie latter closed. Mr. Cathro was manager of the Bank of North Dakota at the time, and Mr. McAneney director of credits. M Eggen was cashier of the Scandin: vian-American bank. The four indictments which were dismissed charged four seperate em- bezzlements, two of $2,500 each and two of $71,715 each. Political observers were surprised at the dismissal of the indictments. Much time and money was spent in securing*evidence to obtain the in- dictments and the present state ad- ministration made the case one of its chief issues in the campaign last year. At the time the indictments against him were returned Mr. 'Mc- Aneney held a government position in Washington that paid him $6,000 a year and he was forced to resign the position when he was indicted. The state moved to dismiss the in- dictments, according to the attorney general's office, for the reason that material witnesses are absent from the state and there appears no pros- pect of getting them to retifrn to tes- tify in the near future, The dismissal of the indictments marks a definate period in the litiga- tion connected with the closing of the Scandinavian-American bank of Fargo which has been pending in one form or another for the last four years, The bank which has been a finan- cial and political storm center through its relations with the Non- partisan league, was finally closed in February, 1921, In the spring of 1922, Attorney General Shafer had a grand jury called in Cass county af- ter several attempts to bring officers of the bank and others to trial in the ordinary way had failed. This grand jury returned a number of indictments, but these were subse- quently dismissed on legal grounds. In November, 1923, another grand jury was summoned in Cass county. This body returned indictments against Cathro, McAneney and Ha- gen, and also against H. J. Hagen, former president of the Scan vian-American bank; J. J. Hastings, / former vice president; P. W. Sher- man, former cashier; and F. ©, Hea- ton, former assistant cashier. Several ef the cases against the four last named came to trial in Grand Forks before Judge Kneeshaw in the spring of 1924. In the case of Sherman the jury returned a verdict of not quilty on the recommendation of Judge Kneeshaw, and Hastings was also acquitted. Hagen was found guilty of accepting deposits while his bank was insolvent, and Heaton of making false entries on the books of the bank. Both were sentenced to prison terms. Both Hagen and Heaton filed ap- fart, In fas moved peals to the state supreme,c regard to Hagen the state for a dismissal of the appeal and this will come up for argument at the May term of the supreme court. In Heaton’s. case, Mr. Bangs said the state had just, received a transcfipt of the testimony. LUTHER COLLEGE BAND TO PLAY ’ HERE JUNE 15 The well-known Luther Collega Band, of Decorah, Iowa, will give a concert in Bismarck on June 15, Spencer Boise chairman of the Band ommittee of the Association , of Commerce, under whose auspices’ the band is coming, announced yester- jay. The concert will be given at the City Auditorium, and proceeds will be used for the purchase of uniforms and additional instruments for the local city \band. . The Luther College Band comprises over sixty pieces, and has recently completed a tour through the west. Catholic Assn. Names Bismarck Woman Director —_— (By The Associated Press) St, Cloud, Minn., April 16.—Dele- gates f the convention of the Cath- gic Hospital Association of Minne- ta and North Dakota, selected Ro- chester, Minn. a8 the next conven- tion city, it was announced this noon, The board of directors selected in cludes: Mother’ Boniface ‘of Bis- marck, Mother Grace Aurelia of St. Paul, Mother Salome of Jamestown, and Sister Julietta, past president, St, Cloud, MODERN FAGIN ARRESTED IN SOUTH DAKOTA Police Declare Sioux Falls Man Teaches Children How To Steal Sioux Falls, modern Fagin’ has been found in Sioux Falls, police said, following the arrest yesterday of Chester Gib- son, alleged instructor and leader of, a band of juvenile criminals. According to the police Gibson taught minors how to enter and rob 3. tures, The boys under his tutelage, the police said, would bring their loot to him and he would dispose of it, retaining a part of the sales price for himself und giving a part of it to the boy With Gibson’s arrest, police be- lieve they have broken up a gang of boys which has been responsible for ja series of petty thefts. | One of the boys, an alleged student of Gibson, is now in the county jail. | Others are expected to be arsested and brought before the juvenile | court in Sioux Falls. ‘YOUTH DIES _ FROM BURNS AT JAMESTOWN Five Year Old ‘Lad Sustains Fatal Injuries When Gasoline Explodes (By The Associated Press) Jamestown, April 16.—John, five year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank LaFond, died early this morning from burns ‘received yesterday — while spending the afternoon at the Steve Calvelage Farm, just south of the edge of the city. John, who had been playing with jfive other children left them and went to a small wash shed where he crawled upon a washing machine and took down a can of gasoline, He was standing near a small laundry stove and it is thought the partially ex- tinguished fire ignited the oil. When discovered by the other children John was a living torch. He was badly burned arotnd the face and ears and his hands and feet. The child is a grand nephew of Mrs. W. E. Breen of Bismarck, who is ex- pected ih Jamestown today. John’s less than two years, His uncle, Dan Mason, died ten months ago today s, LaFond’s mother, M son, died in August, | senior, died last summer. The accident occurred about six last evening. The boy's uncle, Philip | Mason, Jr., and his father are fire- pened until they arrived at the scene of the fire to answer the call. SORLIE NAMES HIGHWAYBOARD Moe and Hardt Appointed Members of Commission I, J. Moe of Valley City and-Her- man Hardt. of Napoleon were ap- pointed’ members of the state high- commission by Governor A. G. late yesterday. They succeed Ormanzo A. Brown of Dickinson and J. R, Poupore of Grand Forks. Mr. Moe is an active member of the North Dakota Good Roads :asso- ciation and has long been active in the good roads movement in the state. Mr. Hardt is a pioneer of Lo- gan county and ig a former member of the state highway commission. Both men took a leading part in the investigation of the highway de- partment by the last legislature. They stand for a new deal in the department ang for the operation of the department on a business basis. RALPH CURRY GIVES UNIQUE PLAN IN ARTICLE Grand Forks, N, D., April 16—“The Scholastic Editor”, national journal Curry, book at the state university. Mr. Curry’s article deals with a unique the city, which has been carried out Grand Forks. the university and, besides serving editor-in-chief of the year book, ‘The Dakotah”, is a member of the Dakota Daily Student staff and ,of Sigma Delta Chi professional jour- nalism society. RUSSELL SCOTT GRANTED NINETY DAY REPRIEVE . (By The Associated Press) Springfield, Ill., ernor. Small this morning granted \ to save him from hanging tomorrow. fe ‘TWAS 188 IN 8) JADE Allahabad, India, April 16,—What/| its present progress there T. F.| surplus of laborers within a few The state free employment] is the hottest day on record? Hayes, well known Britisher here, ys that during the summer of 1917, at a place called Samarri potamia, the thermomet way hed 138 tempera: Idegrees tor a fort in a rail- S. D, April 16—A| Trial | April 16—Gov- | orders remaining to be filled. Russell Scott a ninety day reprieve | entire state, according to information degrees:} The Young Australia le says the|erranged for a six months’ European around ‘188}tour at a minimum expense for boys SEN. WHEELER FACES COURT IN OIL CASE of Montana Senator Opens This Morning in Great Falls buildings and jather criminal fea-!41, WITNESSES CALLED Charge Covers - Accepting Money for Prosecuting Claim While Solon (Ry The Associated Press) Great Falls, Mont., April 16.—The trial of Senator Burton K. Wheeler on an indictment charging that he accepted a fee for prosecuting oil ease applications before the depart- ment of the interior, after being elected to the Senate, started here at ten o'clock today before Federal Judge Frank E. Dietrich. Calling of the great roll of the special venire of 120 men was begun at once, There was no room in the court for spectators ‘because the venire occupied practically the en- tire space. More than half of the venire men sought to evade service when asked by Judge Dietrich if they wished to ibe released. Five were excused on technical grounds. Most of the ven- ire was drawn from northern and eastern Montana. The 41 witnesses subpoenaed for ‘both sides in the case, the special venire of 120 citizens from which the jary will be drawn, and all the at- torneys in the case are here. Sen- ator Wheeler's defense counsel was in conference last night with S. C. Ford, W. F. O'Leary and James H. Baldwin, other defense attorneys and but one defense matter remained to be settled when they had finished. That was the question of whether Blair Coan, former employe of the Republican National committee, should be called as a defense wit- ness. Coan testified in the senate inves- tigation of the Wheeler case that he had been ordered to Great Falls by George B. Lockwood, then secretary of the Republican organization, while the grand jury that indicted Wheeler was in session. Coan told the senate investigators that he was assigned by Lockwood to investigate Wheeler, and, “another senator” with a view to obtaining publicity material for use death is the fifth in the family in’ in political campaigns. The government has failed to sub- poena Coan and the defense a days ago took up the question of call- i $23,| ing him as a witness for the Wheeler while two brothers of Mr. Mason,; side. Senator Wheeler was indicted April 8, 1924, by a grand jury here on a charge of accepting $4,000.00 from Campbell for prosecuting his oil and men and did not know what had hap-| gas permit claims before the depart- ment of the interior. The govern- ment alleges that Senator Wheeler did this after being elected to the senate, which is a violation of the federal laws.. The accused senator will take the stand himself and tell his story of the facts involved in the grand jury probe. A short trial is predicted, but the time for making up the jury has heen estimated at from one to three days. TAYLOR RENAMED HEAD OF FISH AND GAME BOARD Minnewaukan, N. D., April 16.— Thé North Dakota game and fish commission, in’ session here, organ- ized for the coming two year period by re-electing W. C. Taylor of La- Moure, as president; M. A, Hoghaug of Devils Lake, vice president; Dr. H, L, Rice of Beach, secretary; W. E. Byerly of Velva, chief warden of the First district; H. A. Brown of Coop- erstown, chief warden of the Second district; William Schull of St. John, statewide deputy of the First dis- trict; Burnie Maurek of Fargo, state- wide deputy warden in the Second district; and Alf Eastgate of Botti- neau, deputy fish and game commis- sioner. BISMARCK GIRL WINS HONORS IN ESSAY CONTEST Miss Helen Crawford of Bismarck, for school publications, carries in its] daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Craw- April issue an article by Ralph B.| ford, won second prize in a national of Jamestown, N. D., who is|€88ay ‘contest conducted by the na- editor-in-chief of the current year| tional organization of the American gion. Miss Crawford is a pupil at the plan of coaperation between year| University of North Dakota and the book editors and the business man of| medal, which has been received by Legion officers here, willbe sent to for three years at the university and|the Grand Forks Legion post, which will be asked to present the medal Mr. Curry is a junior student at|to Miss Crawford. Labor Situation Easier Over State, Officials Say The labor situation in Bismarck and vicinity is much better than it wag a week ago, according to Herman A. Brocopp who is in charge of the state free employment bufeau here Many laborers have applied for work this week and there are few unfilled The situation is easier over the reaching the office of the state agr: culture and labor commission. I believed that with seeding con! aning a We offices, however will remain open in Meso-| during the entire month. between the. ages of 14 and 17, | -éistant inthe department, GOVERNOR’S SO Hal Donahey, son of Governor Vic delinquency charge in pr« 15, of Zanesville, O., for an automo girl to Columbus where. sie rema several FORMER KLAN LEADER MUST STAND TRIAL: (By Th ted Pr Indianapo April tions to quash five indictments re- turned against D.C. Stephenson, former grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, charging him with an attack on Miss Madge Oberhaltzer, were overruled today by Judge James A. Collins in criminal court and Steph- enson, through his attorney, entered a plea of not guilty LEGION POST PREPARES FOR | BIG CAMPAIGN Endowment Fund Drive Here To Be Conducted on May 7, 8 and 9 Dates for the intensive drive in North Dakota to raise $25,000 of the $5,000,000 American Legion endow- ment fund have been announced as May 7, 8 and 9 and officers of the Bismarck post are making plans for the campaign in this city. The Bis- marck quota will be announced this) 4 week, Committees to have charge of the drive here will be appointed within the near future by Warren, commander of the Bismarck post. As the campaign for the fund is not wholly a Legion affair Mr. Warren will name several men and women outside the Legion on the committees. are being made to urge every resident of the cj even the school children, to contribute and it is ex- pected that the Bismarck post will be able to raise its quota, which will be less than $2,000, the three days of the drive. The American Legion: fund of $5,- 000,000 is to be a perpetual trust, from which only the income shall be used as the financial.backbone of the rehabilitation and child welfare work of the Legion. The portion of the in- come expended for rehabilitation work will be used to make certain for disabled soldiers physical, mental and vocational restoration, both by insuring the proper application in every instance of the generous pro- vision made by the nation through governmental agencies, and by sup- plementing such provision where ne- cessary to. give just relief to them and their dependents. That portion of the income expend- ed for child welfare will be used to carry on relief work for the care education and training of orphan children of all cx-service persons. “U” STUDENTS APPRECIATE ART Grand Forks, N. D., April 16.—Uni-, versity students, or rather a good share of them, are appreciative of art, and desire to qwn specimens of good art, according to officials of the University of North Dakota's art de- partment, who for the last three weeks have conducted an exhibit and sale of Japanese prints at the insti- tution, The prints which have been offered for sale are of an excellent quality, ing to Elvin Amundson, an as- nd the extreme’ toderateness of their prices has enabled many students to acquire Wopd specimens for their art collec- ions. f MILLION FOR CATHEDRAL London,.. April 16.—The London Times fund for . restoration of the famous St. Pau! cathedral has passed the $1,000,000 mark. Experts deny that the structure is in danger of collapsitg, but say extensive re- pairs must be made soen. ate-court after he had taken Lillian Vogel, bile ride. Young Donahey took the} ined at the home of a FACES COURT | Donahey of Columbus, 0., faced a} 1 da JOECAILLAUX | ALWAYS COMES, | BACK SMILING | French Political Chieftain | Refuses to Stay Down; Tells Plain Truths BY MILTON BRONNER NEA Service Writer hondon, April 16.—Joseph Cail-| Haux is the French politician with; nine lives. There have been enough| ‘things in his career to have smashed ja dozen politicians, but he always manages to come back gmiling. In| the first’ place, he has a first class| brain and, in the next place, he seems| to be the only one willing to tell the French some plain home truths. Thas, the other day, he wrote: | “The financial‘ pharmacopea is! more limited than people imagine. It/ is in vain that one will seek there | an elixir which will pring a rapid! recovery in health. On the shelves} one finds only two medicaments, | simple, but painful to absorb. And ithey produce results only if the pa-| tient follows a severé regime. These caments are Work and, Economy.” | dose of Walter, she added a teaspoo! THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [on | PRICE FIVE CENTS MOTHER CONFESSES THREE MURDERS FOR PRESIDENT N.D. LEADERS FLAY ACTION - GARY WOMAN GAVE POISON T0 CHILDREN Denies Responsibility For Death of Her Husband, First to Die SPARED ONE DAUGHTER Says Love Prompted Her To Administer Arsenic To Victims (By The Associated Press) Crown Point, Ind., April 16.—Calm and unmoved Mrs. Anna Cunningham, 49, confessed last night that she gave poison to three of the five members of her family, whose mysterious deaths within six years led to an in- vestigation resulting in a murder charge against her. The victims, Isabelle, 18, Charles 19, and Walter, 13, she said she had kill- ed because she loved them best. She believed she was going to die and wanted to take them with her and that for the same reason she had given poison to David, the last son, now in a critical condition in a Chi- cago hospital. She denied that she had poisoned her husband, the first to die, or Harry, another son, in whose exhumed body coroner's chem- ist found arsenic. She spared May, 19, surviving daughter, because she disliked her, she said. Each time she administered the arsenic in bread and butter she took a similar dose herself, and after the ful of iodine for herself, but alwa: recovered. The desire to “join in heaven her husband and take with her her best loved child” had prompt- ed her to administer the death po- tion to Isabel, the first victim who died December 31, 1920. The confession of the woman who thad remained unshaken under ques- tioning in Chicago of prosecutors Robert E. Crowe and John S, Shar- baro, who had obtained admissions of guilt from Nathan Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb, was obtained by sheriff Benjamin H. Strong and Miss Maureen McKernen, Chicago newspa- per reporter. During yesterday, af- ter she had recovered from a state of coma into which she lapsed carly Tuesday, Mrs. Cunningham talked to Miss McKernen and admitted that she might have placed some arsenic lin the food of David by mistake, but was stolid in her denial that she had poisoned any members of her family, She permitted the reporter to apply cold compresses to her head and 1c92- en her clothing, appearing more in- terested in changing her best black silk dress for an apron than in her subsequent cold blooded recital of the deaths. Suddenly she asked that her daugh- ter, May, be sent for, and that she be removed from her cell because of the presence there of several women pri- soners. Disregarding the.girl’s fran- tic screams to remain sileut, she d2- tailed her story to Sheriff Strong and later to an official court reporter. The girl refused to remain and listen to the account of the death of her brother and was taken away. She also declined an offer to remain in |the jail near her mother during the night and went to an adjoining ho- tel. | Like the United States, Turkey! | an immigration problem. But} junlike the United States, Turkey's | ‘immigration is that of ‘Turks wis! ing; ,; to come ‘back to Turkey, It's anoth- | er one of the aftermaths of the chain} has) t | of wars with which the world been curs As a result of the war in which Turkey licked G thousands of Greeks have left ec! Minor to settle in Grecian territory. And thousands of Turks have left Greece to settle in Turkey. And now a new migration has commenced. A considerable portion of old Mace donia has been given to Jugosiavia. | The Serbs and Turks have always been hostile. Therefore, the Turks are anxious to get out from under Serbian rule. But Turkey will only allow 30,000 of them to come in a} year. It provides them with land! and seed credits, but expects them | to build their own homes and secure their own necessary capital, M. Dellac is a member of the | French Chamber of Deputies. More- over he is quite an obscure member. But not so long ago the House suf- fered a long speech from him and | nobody objected, although he drooled and droned along for an hour. And ‘the reason for his immunity is pe-! culiarly French. He has a voice ex- actly like that of M. Doumergue,! president of the French republic! | “You can't expect us to be dis- courteous to the voice of the presi- dent, can you?” asked a prominent deputy irritably. Imagine some hay- seed congressman taking up an hour's time of the House of Representatives | because he had a down-east accent | cane, like that of President Cool- } idge! 1 Despite all the talk about Eng- land's slowness in providing, houses for her population, acres upon acres of ‘small homes have ‘been added to the territory that is incorporated in the city of London. these houses have gardens in front and in back. But the evil thing for England is that all of them are built for the middle class. Here in London you find no suburban districts, such as we have at home, where sturdy workmen are housed with their fami- time. And that is one of the reasons why the British workman is a, dis- satisfied man. His hunger for a home of his own is hardly ever ap- peat What happily for us is take en as a matter of course, is over here considered almost a miracle. The British worker who owns a real home and a garden, is the exception rath- & than the pale It erhaps ‘ex- plains: some of the trou! bBritain of Aoday. ae And most of |'$2. lies and which they are buying on| I Only when she was asked to sign the transcribed confession at 2:45 a. m. today, did Mrs: Cunningham be- tray any emotion. Then she broke down and sobbed. Brooding over the death of the father, David, senior, while the fam- ily resided on a farm near Valparai- so, Indiana, Mrs. Cunningham's sign- ed confession said, she determined “to join him in heaven and take with her their best loved child, Isabelle.” As much poison as lay on the end of a table knife was sptead on bread and covered with butter and fed to the girl who died December 31, 1920. The next to die was Harry, 21, Oct- ober 13, 1921. He had suffered from an inherited disease, she said. She denied poisoniftg him, even after be- ing told that poison sufficient to have caused death had been found in his body. i Charles, 19, who died September 21, 1922, also suffered from the inherited ailment, according to a physician's examination. During his illness she poisoned: him, however, the confes- sion said. Another decision to join her hus- band and dead children prompted this administration of the poison. Again she took a dose of the poison but recovered, The last child to die was Walter, 13, September 26, 1923. His body was exhumed with that of Harry last Monday and in the formal murder charge filed against her yesterday, she was held responsible for his leath. He was in bed with a slight illness, when, she said, she gave him one of the poisoned bread and butter sandwiches. The death of Walter, youngest in the family, had haunted her she said, before making her statement. At the time she gave him the sandwich, she took the usual dose of arsenic and added a teaspoonful of iodine, but only made herself iil. Isabelle carri: $1,000 in ance, the confession said. Harry hed I'$2.500, Charle ,, and Walter, $230. All the insurance money had been spent, most of it in Bh yelelane and funeral bills. Dr. A. A. Watts of Gary, Ind., whose” certificates of death in each of the five cases at- tributed them to iliocolitis in the case of David, senior, meningitis in elle's, peritonitis in Charles’, and endocarditis, in. Walter's, was paid about $1,000, she said. 3 A package of poison, bought for twenty-five cents before the death of Isabelle, sufficed tor all the doses, she said. Y Dr. W. F, Houk, deputy coroner, present when she told her story, said she gave no indications to him of insanity. The family was known as peeuliar - (Continued on page three! insur-