Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1925, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, D. ¢, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1925.° PRESIDENT COOLIDGE HA! icans completed their courses at Annapolis yesterday, and their comman der. them. It is e . VIEW OF GRADUATION CEREMONIES AT NAVAL ACADEMY YESTERDAY. Twenty-three of the graduates are residents of the t of Columbia and vicinity. The 438 graduates represented every section of the United States and its insular possessions, Yesterday monies were held in the big armory of the Naval Academy. Nationa y -in-chief, the President of the United States, delivered mated that 5000 persons witnessed the graduation ceremonies and heard President Coolidge deliver hix address. HONORING THE MEMORY OF, Boy Scouts at the grave of the w Plymouth. Vermont Coolidge, LVIN COOLIDGE. JR. of the President and Mrs. Special exercises were held and the grave decorated. Wide World Photo FIRST PICTURE OF DERBY WINNER AFTER THE RACE. Manna. winner of this vear's Derby. by mounted police. MRS. CUNNINGHAM | SCHOELKOPF SEEKS HELD ON'3 COUNTS' ALLEGED GAG FUND Separate Murder Indictment Claims He Paxd New Yorkers Steve Donoghue. England's premier jockey. on The horse and rider are being escorted from the irack at Epsom Downs CopyHeht hyt™. '& 4 Photas { PROCESSION OF GRADUATES AND FACULTY AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, A new dormitory for women was dedicated at _the ingtitufion yesterday. this being the principal feature of the annual convocatien of the universi hop William Fraser McDowell delivered the address of the ceremony. National Phota GEORGETOWN PREP 250 RIFFIANS DEAD GIVES 24 DIPLOMAS FROM AERIAL FIRE Returned Against Widow for Each Child’s Death. By the Associated P CROWN POINT Ind Mrs. Anna Cunningham Gary, Ind.. widow, was Tune 4 49 years old, indicted on three first degree murder cherges yes- | erday by the Lake County grand jury. The State charges that sha slew three of her children by poison. Mrs. Cunningham. who was taken into custodv in Chicago and later con fessed. was held without bail by Judge M. 1. Smith. The indictments charge hai the mother killed Isabelle, 18; Charles, 19, and Walter, 13, upon whose deaths insurance policies were collected In her confession Mrs. Cunningham w10 she killed only the children she oved best and attemnted to kill her- self by poison so that they might join Pa in heaven.” Her husband, David Cunningham, jr., died July 2 when the family lived at Vi paraiso, Ind. After his death Mrs. Cunningham and the children moved 1o Gary Save Life of One. A third son, Harry 21 and & fourth, David, jr.. was poisoned hut his condition was discoverad in-a Chicago hospital and physicians saved his life. He has: bean slowly. improv ing. Tt was the poisoning of David. that led to Mr: . Cnnningham's arvesi and the disclosure of the mystetious | Bodies of three of ‘the chil-| deaths. dren were exhumed. Chemical analy- #i& disclosed the presence of poison. The children -whose bodies were humed and the insurance each car- ried, and for whose deaths Mrs. Cun ningham was indicied were: Isabelle aged 18, whe died December 31, 1920 insured for $350: Charles, 19, died September 21, 1922, insured for $1,000 Walter, 13, died September 26, 1923 insured for $300. Harry Cunningham was insured for $1.000, like the father. but the anthori ties found no evidence thai either of them was & polson victim. Besides David, jr.. one daughter. Mae. 19, sur vives. Attorneys for Mrs. Cunningham are expected to plead insanity in her de- dense. Tt Is belleved she will be ar raigned within two weeks, PLANE RECORD APPROVED‘;m\ Acting Secretary Davis of the | Duration Flight of Lieats. Kyle| and Schildauer Now Official. PTARI June 4 (A).—The Interna tional Aeronautic Federation has ac cepted the hyvdroalrplane duration fight record of 28 hours 35 minutes seconds, made by Lieuts. J. R Kyle and C. H. Schildauer, U. 8 N., on May 1.2, Lieuts. Kvle and Schildauer made thelr record in the naval seaplane PN-9 over a 40-mile course above the Delaware River, the two pilots and 1wo their mechaniciana relieving _each other at stated intervals. Lieut. Kyle Jost his life several days ago when his »lane crashed near Lekehursi, N. J. died in 1921, | $25,000 to Clear Wife in Gem Theft. Bv the Associated Press NEW YORK. June 4. ‘The Evening World savs tgday that @ sequel to the robbery of $285,000 worth of jewelry from Mrs. Irene Schoelkopf of Buffalo, January 1. 1923, when she was hired into a New Year partv in the New York itenderloin, has come io light with “the serviee of papers here on Frederick J. Kracke, appraiser of the port of New York, in u sult brought by Mrs. Schoelkopf's husband, C. Hugo Schoelkopf, to recover $25 000 | which he alleges was paid under | duress { Clarence E. Dill is named as co- {defendant with Kracke in the suit, | which was filed in the Supreme Court |of Erie County. The plaintiff alleges {he paid the defendants $25,000 on | their representation that Mrs. Sehoel- | kopf was said to have been implicated in the robbery by a confession which the defendants alleged had been made by Frank Carmen and that publicity |of the case against Carmen would do | her harm. The complaint states that Carmen made no’ such confession. Kracke alleged, the complaint say: | that he’ bad an -organization which wowld obtain the arrest of the thieves and return - of the jewelry without undesirable publicity Schoelkopf alleges he paid the $25. 000, but later learned the defendants claims were false. the sum paid with interest from uary 31, 1 George F. Thompson. former State | Senator of Lockport, N. Y., who rep- |resented the Schoélkopts in the nego- tiations which resulted in recovery of | | nearly all the jewelry, is the plaintiff’s | | attorney in this suit. | ARKANSAS ASKS AIR UNIT FOR ITS NATIONAL GUARD Gov. Terrell Visits Coolidge—Lack of Funds Chief Obstacle to Plan, He Says. Authority for establishment of an| air service unit in the Arkansas N tional Guard was sought todav Gov. Terrell of Arkansas, who con ferred with President Coolidge and| ar Department. | accompanied »\ Lieut. Col. Catroll Cone,r who is State auditor, and Maj. H. F. Frede man, all officérs in the milifia. After their conference with Presidént the’ delegation %ald rthey were encouraged at the outlook. and helleved a way could be worked out to give the Arkansas National Guard an aviation unit. Lack'of funds and the President’s request of | Department that expenditures for the militia be kept at a minimum, they safd, were the chief obstacles to overcome. The governor was Col. J. R. Wayne. In the event an air service unit 1.-] created it is probable it will utilize | either the Government’s aviation field {at Camp Pike or havé = base at the Jintyrnfeddate depot - near Little § the | the War | be | diers. Rock. \ HONOR MAN GETS A SWORD. Henry E. Hubbard of Bahimore, honor man in the 1925 class of the Naval Academy, receiving a sword from Secretary of the Navy Wilbur. Copyright by Underwood & U'nderwood. |WILL FILE SEPARATE |OIL, WHILE STILL UNDERGROUND, |BIG JUGOSLAV FEE FRAT SUIT ANSWERS DECLARED PROPERTY OF NO ONE He sues to recover | """ | Greenwood and Peyser to Admit T'exas Court Hollls Owner of flflul Well Can Drain | podge From Adjoining Tracts, or Stop Production of Pioneer Workings. Charges of High School Boys in Reply. EN ROUTE TO THE CEREMO! Nulton, commandant of the Naval Academy, on the way to the Armory vesterday afternoon, where the graduation exercises were held. When the suit of the high school | fraternity students againat the Board | Br the Associated Dreas | of Bducation is called tomorrow in the | AN ANTONIO, Tex District Supreme, Court Ernest Green- 7 waodl. vice president of the board, and | in the ground_is the property of no his colleague, Capt. Julius 1. Peyser | one, not even the person under whose will flle separate, Individual answers, | land it lies. according to a decision of | admitting virtually all the charges of | the Fourth Court of Civil Appeals the plaintiffs. The only charge con- | Furthermore. the owner tained in the petition of the fraternity | well has the right to use artificial boys which Capt. Peyger and Mr. means to induce a flow in his well Greenwood do not admit is contained | even to the extent of draining all the in section 12, which said the antifra. oil from under adjoining tracts and | | ternity rules of the board are “arbi. | stopping production of ploneer wells trary, capricious, unreasonable and | Which may be nearby, it was heid. diecriminatory.” They omit the word | | RADIO HUNTS IMPOSTOR. “‘capricious.’ The answers of Capt. Peyser and Bureau of Pensions Seeking Fraud | Mr. Greenwood will be flled “in | | propria persona.” and will point out that the board’s anti-fraternity rules were adopted when they were nof | members. The hoard filed suit last Suspect. Radio Is being used for the fArst time by the Bureau of Pensiops in an attempt to apprehend an alleged impostor now operating In Ohio in! |violation of Federal statutes. The individual sought is said to have been posing as an agent of the Pensions Bureau, defrauding old sol- Attempts to apprehend him were made through WHK broadcast- Running time of express trains in [ing station, at Cleveland, and the Germany is much greater than before | WLW station; 'at: Cineimnati, Mes- the war, the ride between Berlin and |sages giving his identity and warn- | Cologne now requiring two hours more | ing - veterans against -being - victim- than in 1914, 1zed were broadcast al the same time. its_answer to the week, and denied the con- tention of the plaintiffs that if ex ceeded its authority in legislating | against secret societies. -Capt. Peyser and Mr. Greenwood agreed to prepare | their dissenting answer at a confer- |ence vesterday, and théy were com- | pleted today L L June 4.—Oil | of an offset | The ruling was made yesterday In reversing a judgment of the District Court of Tarrant County. in the case | of the Texas Pacific Coal and Ojl Co against the Comanche Duke Ofl Co. The lower court Texas Pacific Co. “Tt'is well settled ‘that oil when in | its_fugutive nature ceaselessly moving | | about_in the bowels of the earth can | never be the subject of sale or barter or ownership until brought to the sur- |face and reduced to physical posses- | sion.” the court held. l RELIEF FUND VOTED. | Itish Free State to mnd £65, on Unemployed. _DUBLIN, June 4 (P).—The Trish | Eiree State Parliarhent vesterday voted | §5:000 Dounds sterting (@boirt $325,000). for agricultural and unemployment | |relief work. based upon proposals by Finance Minister =Blythe. If , the weather in Ireland continues to be as bad as it would be necessary, sald the cabinet member. His proposal was {ndorsed by a vote of 37 to 15. Three weeks more bad weather would necessitate ;no:l:manmry appropriations, he de- {clar 000 | had I’mlnd for the ! was last year more funds | Graduation Exercises Held at ‘ 300 Wounded in French Bom- Garrett Park—Several Win Honors. Scholarship honors and diplomas | were presented to 24 graduates of the Georgetown University Preparatory School at the annual commencement exercises held this afternoon at Gar- rett Park, Md Daniel W. O'Donoghue. member of | the Georgetown Law School faculty and president of the District Bar As- sociation made the address to the gra uating class, the honors being award- | ed by the Rev. Thomas A. Emmett S. J., head master of the school The George E. Hamilton medal for | general excellence among the seniors | was awarded to Daniel.D. Friary of Virginia, while the Willam Quicksall medal for the best oral examination in Shakespeare, was presented to Ray- mond G. Flannery of Pennsylvania. Other senior awafds Were as_fol- lows: Walter J.' Conrad, physics: Dan- iel D. Friary, Spanish and Raymond G. Flannery, French. Spectal honors also were awarded the undergraduates. Philip Agar of New York, won highest honors in the third year class; Thomas W. Reese of Maryland, in Sophmore A, and Charles Fish of New York, in Sophmore B. Ulrick Sloan of Ohie won hjgh honors in the first year class. Individual ~debating honors were | awarded t0 John D. Rellly of Pennsy)- | vania as a result of @n elimination | | contest. 1n the elocution contest that marked the closing exercises Valantine Reidman of New. York, won Senior henors and THomas W. Reese, was given the medal for the junior class. Brief exercises marked commence. ment day. The Rev. Charles W. Lyons, 8. J., president of Georgetown Univi was aniong those present. The By Radio 1o The Star and Chicago Dails News. | class salutory was given by Fraymond SOFJA, June 4.—Extended negoti-D. Flannery snd the valedictory ad- v H. Percival Dodge, Ameri- 'dress by Daniel D. Friary. Minister to Belgrade, have re- it ot -G the Jugo- slav government of the exorbitant| The graduates were: Claud .. Bru- price charged for the visa of Ameri-|latour of New York; Noel Cortez. Phil-| |can passports. Jugoslavia specifies, |ippine Istands; Walker Joseph Conrad. |however. "that the loosening of Te- | Pennsylvania: John Philip Dailv, New strictions is only temporary, pending | York: Richard Caleb English, iliinois; | definite agreement with Washing- Raymond G. Flannery, Permsyivania: Henry Ignatius Fox, Pennsylvania; Daniel Dunn Friary, Virginia; Julius Aloysius Helde, New - York; Charles George Herbermann, New Jersey; John Keeting, jr., Maryland; Waiter Aloysius Kelly, New Jersey; Kenton Sinclair Kilmer, New York: Anthomy James Maucier, New York: Robert Em- mett McDonald, New York: Davis Bd- | ward McNulty, Tlinois: Lewis Rogers ' Nash. Nebraska: Willlam Manning | O'Brien, Utah; John Edward Powell, Tlinots: William Henry Powell, INi- | nois; Joseph Daniel Purcell, Tilinois; |John Peier Reiss, Wisconsin; George Hamfeldt Rice, Pennsylvania. and Jo- | | seph Franeis sumv.n Pennsylvania. Obregon's Auomy Keld MEXICO CITY, June 4 (#).—Ignacio Ramos Praslow, consulting attorney Dramatic Beadings From WCAP.|Ramos Prasiow. cone Obregon, Caleb O’Connor will give a series of | bee: dramatic readings for the radio au- dience tomorrow night. through -sta- tlon WCAP. President Coolidge and Admiral FOR U. S. VISAS CUT| Secures Modification. | Other Balkan States Have Exorbitant Charges. BY JUNIUS B. WOOD. | | |ations {can sulted in modification by n So far the State Department has taken no action in cases of other Balkan nations whose exploitation of American travelers is the worst in | the world. ‘While American’ and HBuropean |countries permit unlimited entry, de- |parture and re-entry during a vear lin return for a $10 ‘visa, Jugoslavia, {Rumania and Bulgaria permit only {a single entry for a higher fee. Jugo- {slavia eharges $14, Rumania $12 and | {Bulgaria $11.25. Greece charges $14 |and the traveler must pa¥ every time ihe crosses the border. |” In comparison with these charges, Turkey charges only $2. | (Covyright. 1825. by Chicago Daily News Co.) ry . Senor Praslow has petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus. bardment—Sharp Skirmish- ing Reported Today. Br the Assocrate ¥EZ, French Morocco An official communique today announced that the Rifflan losses from French aerial bombardments’ May 21 and were 250 killed and 300 wounded The communique stated there he; been sharp skirmishing in the central sector today, with attacking Riffians repulsed. Abd-el-Krim was reported to be urg ing vdrions tribesmen who have not heretofors been fighting organize against the French SEEKS TO EXTEND FRONT. Press June ¢ to | Abd-el-Krim, Growing Wary, Reverts to Guerilla War. PARIS, June 4 (®.—Firmly by the French in the center, Abd- el-Krim is seeking to extend his front to the east, according to the latest advices from French head Moroceo. an chlet has heen made wary by his defeats when attacking in force, however, and is reverting to guerilla’ warfare and . his previous tactics of filtering berween the French outposts Meanwhile active preparations are being made by Marshal Lyautey. the governor general of French Morecco and the government in Paris to puf 2 definite end to the Riffian activ ities. Foreign Minister Briand had a long talk with the Spanish Ambassador yesterday and it is .understood the Madrid government agreed to estab lish @ strict watch along the Riff coast.for the purpose of diminishing e arms.smuggling operations which now are proceeding on a large scale. Furthermore ji is-said 10 be prob Able that the Spanish military directo. rate will undertake to sign no jrangement with Abd-el-Krim sc long as he continnes to fight the French It was learned that Foreign Min ister Briand will continue daily con ferences with the Spanish Ambassa dor regarding Franco-Spanish co-op eration. Premier Painleve told today that the war _situation In Morocco is stationary. He said there are only minor engagements, and that the morale of the French troops is excellent, despits the efforts of Com munists to cause sedition DR. SCHULTZ CHOSEN. Carnegie smmm Becomes ciate at Eopun-, BALTIMORE, June 4 (#).—Dr. Jlos eph 8. Ames, acting president of the Johns Hopkins .University, yesterday announced - the. appointment as asso- ciate profe of -physical anthro- volu'y at the nltl'.llunn of Dr. Adolph = mu:?t. Hl; uloc:zlehol the partms em| n the Car negie Institute of Washington since 1916, He ia regarded asx one of the world’s foremost umhmpq)o‘uu held the cabinet Asso-