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MRS. LUNDGREN, ILL,
CARRIED INTO COURT
Ex-Nurse, Accused in Poison
Death, Eager for Decision
as Trial Opens.
KIN OF POLICE ON JURY
Jersey Officials in Attendance
to Claim Prisoner After
Verdict.

LAWRENCE, Mass, June s.-Tne jury
which will try Mrs. Bessie M. (Skeels)
Lundgren on the charge of murder for
the alleged poisoning of her patient,
Miss Florence Gay, was completed to-
day. The former nurse. emacIated after
recent illness and operation, sat
propped in pillows. Neither she nor her
counsel exercised a single challenge in
the selection of the Jury They accepted
as ono of the men who will pass juds-
ment on her life Thomas q Webb, a
brother-in-law of Chief Of Police Frank
NJ. Smith Of Andover, who arrested Mrs.
Lundgren on the murder charge.
The jury Is composed OF a coal dealer.
who is foreman shoe worker, q japi-
tor two clerks, two carpenters. a boat
builder. a shoemaker. a real estate
dealer. mill operative and a manager.
1t was obtained after examination of
forty-five talesnNn. The prosecution
challenged thirteen men.
Mrs Lundgren was carried Into the
court room on a chair from the closed
automobile in which she was taken from
her homo In Andover. Attorney-General
h c. Attwill. who Is directing the prose-
cution, called the attention OF Judge
Webster Thayer to the wan appearance
OF the defendant and raised the question
whether her condition was such that the
trial should proceed
The court called on two physicians
who have attended MIRA Lundsren 10
say whether shs was able to stand trial.
considering that she might be subjected
to extended REORGANIZATION They
decided that she was. Mrs. Lundgren
herself said she was anxious to continue.
and subsequently 1t was stated that she
would take the stand in her defence n
necessary.
Dressed In black. she was attended by
nurse through the proceedings. She
chatted with her husband. Alfred j.
Lungren OF Andover. who married her at
Brookline hospital Just before she
underwent a major operation three
months ago. Mrs. Lungren went to her
home tonight, as she Is at liberty under
nominal bonds
The jury will be taken tomorrow TO
tho Andover home OF Miss Gay, whore
Mrs. Lundsren was engaged as a nurse,
nrst for Miss Gays mother and later
for Miss Gay. The Government has
charged that Mrs Lundsren stole GER
tain articles from the Gay home. and
that she poisoned Miss Gay, who died In
December 1917.
A few weeks after this Mrs. Lundgren
went to the home of relatives at Bay
onne. N. j.. where her brother, Albert
J. Wolkins. became Ill and died. An
Indictment charging her with poisoning
him Is now outstanding. New Jersey
officials are In attendance at the pro-
ceedings here, ready to testify and to
claim the prisoner for trial in New
jersey. It is understood. II Mrs. IIund-
sren Is acquitted.
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GAVE 10 PER CENT. TO CHARITY
Frank A. Ferris I'm Will Reveals
Gifts OF Forty Years.

Frank A. Ferris, head OF the firm Of
r. A. Ferris & Co.. hams and bacon, 2s2
Mott street, who died December IL. 1918,
in his home in Montclair, N. j.. states
in his will. which was filed yesterday In
the Surrogates' Office. that he leaves
nothing to charity. as he has no "even-
Ing up 10 do after death. Explaining
this the will continues:
For forty years have devoted 10
per cent. of my gross income as a
sacred fund which was given to pub
lie. religious and charitable institutions.
In this way I have had the great Joy of
personal and continuous participation in
the needs OF these charities. 1t Is not
necessary for me, for that reason, to
make special gifts
Another portion OF the will, which dis
poses OF net estate taxable in New
York Of 336s,75T. warns his sons and
daughters TO avoid speculation in the
hope OF large gain and advises them not
TO invest in the business OF other per-
sons the money he bequeathes to them.
The estate Is equally divided among
the Rev. Walter r. Ferris OF Syracuse,
N. Y; Frank A Ferris, Montclair, N. j. ;
Amy Ferria Manhattan; Ethel r. Knapp
OF Stamford, Conn.,. Belle F. Briggs of
Brooklyn, Jeanette r. Brown OF Wash
ington. DC. and Helen Ferris of Mont
clair, N. j.
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1000 TROOPS ARRIVE
ON TWO TRANSPORTS
Col. Hopkins at Boston Tells
of Anti-Aircraft Work.

BosToN. June 9.-More than 1000
troops were landed to-day from the
transports President Grant and winni-
fredian, which reached here last night
from Brest, twenty-four hours ahead of
their schedule. The winnifredian, with
third Engineers. locked first after har-
Dor receptions had been given to the
troops on both vessels
On the President Grant were detach-
ments of the Twenty-frst and b04th
Engineers, hospital and supply units,
and casuals from Massa chusetts, Penn
syivania. Ohio, New York and Oregon.
with one company made up of West
Point candidates. They were all en-
trained for Camp Devens
Among the casual officers on the Pres
ident Grant was Col Jay p. Hopkins OF
Michigan. for nearly two years chief OF
the anti-aircraft service with the ad-
vance lines OF the American Expedition
AIRY Forcee He wears Distinguished
Service Medal. Col. Hopkins paid trib-
ute 10 the marksma nship of the Ameri-
can eunners. both of the artillery and
the machine guns.
The average OF one enemy plane
brought to earth for every 1850 shots
fired was not equalled by the anti-air.
craft Of any other allied force" said Col
Hopkins, while this figure was far ex,
ceeded in excellence OF Workmanship
by several OF our individual units.
THE anti-aircraft service covered tn,
whole front of the American forces fol
protection and for offensive, and wal
made up OF approximately 10000 troops
During the two years II was engaged A
accounted officially for flfty-nine Ger
man airplsnes destroyed or captured
or this number forty-one were shot by
the machine gun branch, seventeen BY
the artillery and one was captured BY
hearchliRht troops"
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SOLDIERS FARMS ATTACKED.
Propaganda Aims to Defeat secre
tary Lanes Plan,

WASHINGTON. June s.-Efforts were
made to-day by the House Public Lands
Committee TO learn the source of propa-
ganda designed to defeat Secretary
Lanes project for farms for soldiers
and sailors
Chairman Sinnott said a series of cir
culars had been sent TO newspapers
charging that T. c. Atkeson. represent
Ing the Montreal Grange. had not re-
ceived fair hearing when he appeared
recently to present a grange resolution
in opposition to the measure.
Mr.. Atkeson was recalled and told the
committee the National Grange had
nothing to do with the propaganda, that
he had been courteously received by the
committee and that he did not know the
source or motive OF the attack.
E. Philip Rosenthal Of Portland, Ore,
opposed the bill as class legislation. He
said the Government should provide
work for soldiers in all trades.
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DEFENDANTS SAFEGUARDEp.
Mator-Gen. Alexander Testfaes m.
to Courts-MartiaI sy.tem

CHICAGO, June 9.--The present courts
martiai system OF the army safeguards
the interests OF the accused in practicaIIv
all essential particulars In the opinion
or Major-Gen. Robert Alexander, COM
mander in France OF the Seventv-sey-
enth. or Liberty" Division. He testi-
Ned here to-day when the committee on
military law and courts-martial proceed
ure OF the American Bar Association re-
sumed hearings which adjourned in
Washington several weeks ago.
Gen Alexander based his discussion
on a syllabus supporting the bill intro
duced by Senator Chamberlain OF Ore
gon, taking up Its provisions seriatum
and commenting on them In the light OF
his experiences arising from thirty-three
years service in the army in ali ranks
from private TO MajorSGeneral.
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CAPTAIN, SO, BRINGS
BACK WAR HONORS
French Motor Corps Woman
Comes to U. 8. to Fly
Across Atlantic.

With several hundred military Ameri-
cans who returned from France yester-
day by the French liner La Savoie was
Capt. Richard Peters, 90, retired lawyer,
living at the Knickerbocker Club, who
suspects he was the Oldest American Of
ficer in the fighting line in France. He
was with the Twenty-eixth Division and
served as liaison officer between his own
command and the French. He wears the
Croix de Gucrre with two stars for gal
lantry at Chateau Thierry and st. Mi
hiei. Capt. Robert Goclet of this city,
who Is in tho Intelligence Service in
Paris. returned to accompany a Danish
mission through the United States.
young woman in the uniform of
the French Motor Corps. who says she
Is of mingled French and British ances-
try. also said she had come here to ac-
quire more experience In aviation so she
might eventually, perhaps late this sum-
mer, fly across the Atlantic, She Is
Miss Edna Nicou Of Paris. Just out of
her teens. and wears the Croix de
GLerre conferred for heroism as an
ambulance driver. She has had expert
as an observer and photographer and
piIoted French machine on the French
aviation training grounds. She says
she escaped from q convent at the be-
ginning OF the war and went into the
ambulance service.
Other passengers by the Savoie were
Msr. Francis J. Kelly of Chicago, who
has been three months on the other side
as an oficer OF the Church Exterio
Society. and who said the Italians were
making game of US because OF the pro-
hibition amendment, and Frank Simonds
back from his third trip to the war zone,
who said It was the opinion OF the we'll
Informed in France that the Germans
would refuse to sign the peace treaty
until the Allies convinced them that they
would use force II necessary to get the
signatures.
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FORD JURORS HEAR
OF BORDER CRIMES
German Guns and Munitions
Seized From Mexicans Are
Shown in Court.
RAIDERS PLOTTED WAR
Planned to Take Texas and
Other States, Setting Up
New Government.
Special DespotcA to THE SEN

MOUNT CLEMENS Mich, June 9.-Grew-
some tales of horror and outrage along
the Texas-Mexico border were to-day
told by ranchmen and de putty sheriffs
OF that locality in the ."ord-Chicago
Tribune libel suit upon the opening Of
the nth week of the trial.
The Tribune attorneys seek TO prove
those atrocities could have been avoided
had troops been sent to the border sooner
alleges, constantly worked to prevent
troops being sent. thereby contributing
to the cause Of anarchy.
Tho picturesque feature of the day was
the appearance on the stand of T. 8.
Maysneld of Pharr, Tex. He wore the
ine moleskin suit OF the high grade COW
boy, with wide sombrero and high en-
broidered boots with his trousers tucked
into them. He modestly admitted that
he was able TO take care of himself upon
all occasions. and that the Mexicans
knew him. He guessed" that he was
quick with his trigger finger and had
killed Mexicans, but just how many he
would not say.
He told Of capturing Bascilo Ramus. a
famous bandit, from whom he took maps
and papers describing the plans to invade
the United States for tho contemplated
retaking Of Texas, New Mexico. Arizona
and other territory.
These papers were turned over to
the military authorities and stops were
taken eventually to block the plan OF
the raiders. The maps showed tho ter
ritory to be covered in these operations
and the lands II was expected to re-
cover were set forth in what he termed
the plan Of San Diego This plot
contemplated setting up a new govern
n:ent In the territory seized under a flag
OF its own and had the backing OF
many influential Mexicans. The "San
Diego plan" actually amounted to q
war against the United States and was
not merely for the purpose OF robbery
Upon cross-examination Mr.. Mays
field was asked II he had como to Mt.
Clemons prepared to testify the border
raids were instigated and encouraged
by Germany. He expected to 80 testify.
he said. and It developed that he had
brought with him a trunk Allied with
German-made guns taken from Mexican
prisoners. These were sent for, taken
n rom the heavy trunk by Maysfeld. and
shown to the attorneys and jurymen
Some had notches on the stocks and
bore German monographs carved in with
q knife. Each gun carried its own grew
some history. Maysfield produced
German-made cartridges. captured in the
original packages, and also a German
Iron Cross. which was taken from n dead
bandit.
Thomas ]. Alexander. postmaster OF
Sebastian. Tex. told of a raid by four
teen Mexicans in which his store and
post office were looted, and a father and
sen were killed.
Marcus Hines, a customs officer at
rod 10
'thrillers" in which he participated, in
one OF them four Americans being killed
and seventeen wounded. The whole Of
the year 1916 was spent by Mr.. Hines
In the saddle chasing Mexican raiders
and bandits.
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green. Team workers wear q smaller
button with the face OF Boy Scout and
suitably inscribed.
To-day there will be q meeting at the
Sub-Treasury at noon. From noon TO
p. NJ. there will be meetings at Penn
sylvania Station, Grand Central, Pub
lie Library. Madison Square and Union
Square AT o'clock the parade will
start and at 8 o'clock there will be a
musical festival in the Mall in Central
Park. There will also be outdoor meet
ings this evening In Longacre Square, at
Ninety sixth street and Broadway, at
10th street and Seventh avenue, at I81st
street and st. Nicholas avenue and at
Columbus Circle.
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RUTGERS TO GIVE DEGREES.
Secretary Houston Among Those {,
Receive Honors.
Special DespafcA to The suS

New BRUNSWICK, n. J.. June O.
David F. Houston. Secretary OF Agri-
culture. and MaJor-Gen. William weIgel
Of the United States Army, who COM
nanded the Eighty eighth Division, are
among those who will receive honorary
degrees at the 153d commencement of
Rutgers College here tomorrow. Secre-
tary Houston will receive an LII. D. and
Gen. Weigel an NJ. Sc.
Others upon whom degrees will be
conferred include: Doctor OF music, Ar
thur G. Woodruff. for twenty-fve>years
director Of the University Glee Club, of
New York; doctor of science. Leut-Col
Walter A. Sherwood. NJ. D.. OF the elias
OF 1896; Frank r. Van Horn, Phi. D., Of
the class Of 1892, professor in the Case
School of Applied Science; Louis F.
Bishop, NJ. D.. of the class of 1885, of
New York: doctor OF laws. Alan H.
Strong of the class OF 1874. general
counsel Of the Pennsylvania Railroad :
Robert C. Pruyn of the class Of 1859. Of
Albany. n. y; doctor OF divinity, the
Rev. Samuel NJ Zwemer, missionary
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EUR0PE'S SLAYER GUILTY.
Man Who Killed jazz Hand Leade,
Sent to Priaon.

BOSTON. June s.-Herbert Wright, a
drummer In a negro military band who
stabbed his leader, Lieut. James r.
(Jim) Europe, the Jazz band leader, dur
Ing concert here a month ago. pleaded
guilty TO manslaughter to-day and was
sentenced to q term OF ten to fifteen
years in State prison
Wright had been indicted for murder
in the first degree and was to have been
tried to-day, but physicians appointed
by the court reported he was mentally
deficient and the lesser pleading was &C.
cepted.
The sun., 1919-06-10
synagoEue Gets 100000.

More than $4,000 of the $4,000
building fund which the Institutional
Synagogue at 112 West 116th street
hopes to raise before Friday has been
subscribed. according to an announce
ment made yesterday. The money will
be used to purchase and reconstruct the
building at 81 to <3 West 116th street,
which will be used to combine the Joint
work of the synagogue, Talmud Torah
and the Young Mems Hebrew Associa-
ton. The city has been divided into
districts and will be thoroughly can
vassed.
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skinner Estate Goes to Rela tfves.
Special Despatch TO THB Sun

NEWPORT, June 9.-The will CT Miss
Helen Skinner. long n summer resident
was probated here to-day. and letters
testamentary were granted to Mary F.
Rives OF Washington. Ethel Rhinelander
King OF Newport and Fred w. Rhinelan-
der of New York The will divides the
estate among the following nephews and
nieces: Frederick w. Rhinelander, Mary
F. Rives. Frances Morgan Jones, Ethel
Rhinelander King. T. N. Rhinelander
and Philip NJ. Rhinelander.
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Striking weavers Reject oner.

SPRINGFIELD. Mass. June 9.-The
striking weavers and loomfxers of the
Hodges Fibre Carpet Company rejected
to-day compromise offer Of Is per
cent wage Increase with a reduction
from fifty-four TO weight hours a
week. The strikers demand 20 per cent.
wage increase
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Coolidge hacks suns' Efforts.

BosroE, June Gov. Coolidge trans
miSed to the General Court to-day the
official notification OF the proposal by
Congress for woman suffrage amend
ment. In statement to the press the
Governor expressed the hope that the
amendment would be ratified
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dutchman would say, "It's a long lane
wat don't turn around
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dutchman would say, ''It's long lane
wat don't turn around.
IA va m @ m
The state of Ohio has entered into
the food probe down in Cincinnati.
Inspectors are visiting cold storage
plants and are finding food stuff that
has been in the cold storage plants
so long that much of it has spoiled.
The inspection by the grand jury of
Hamilton county was brought about
by a water melon grower from the
south, who showed up the workings
of the comission men that are robing.
the people with their unreasonable
high prices. 1t wouldn't do any harm
to the public to do little investigat-
ing around our court house square
market, Tuesdays, Thursday and Sat
urday mornings. Instead of being
retail market where people can buy
at reasonable profit to the grower,
it appears to have matured into one
big wholesale trust and the people of
Hamilton are being taxed to the limit
with these high prices AS soon as
the grand jury in Cincinnati started
the probing of the water melon game,
car loads that were sidetracked to
hold up the high prices were cut loose
and the market became so flooded that
large truck loads were brought to this
city and the result was that the prices
dropped Immediately. Cantalopes
also droped to about onelhalf the
price that was charged last week.
Let's do a little investigating our
selves and find out if the farmer who
comes to our city are wholesaleing in
stead of retailing. We understand
that it is unlawful to wholesale or our
market.
"a pa ~ Fa Ea
There are a few, just a very few,
machinists in Hamilton who ought to
be ashamed that they are enjoying the
splendid working conditions and they
ought to be ashamed to accept the
good wages which they are drawing
as the result of the efforts of the or
ganization which they refuse to join
and assist in its maintenance. Some
of these fellows are always ready to
stand around and say WE'RE going
to get this, and WE got that but they
are never ready to say who the we're
and the we are who got it for them.
In fact there are few of this class
who are ready to knock the organiza-
tion which has been getting them all
these good things. When their hours
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NATIONAL.

The Hamilton Machine Tool Com
pany sent representative to the Ma
chinists' Union headquarters to seek
informatiop as to how a settlement of
the strike could be brought about. He
was given the necessary information
and told that they would have to
meet committee Of the union. The
union got their committee together
and then received word from the com
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The Mooney Strike Fails;
The Main Issue Remains.

When, in the Atlantic City conven-
ton, the American Federation of La
Dor refused to contenance a general
strike for Tom Mooney, it became
certain that there would be no strike.
Proponents of the strike, for the
most part, not liking the predicament
they found themselves in, maintained
to the last that there would be strike
There was no strike at all-not even
a tiny, little bit of one.
There never has been a more COM
plete failure of plan doomed from
the start to fail.
There never was a better example
of laundering. The time has not ar
rived when a handful of extremists
can make the whole American labor
movement lose its head.
The American Federation of Labor
is not something with which to play
dramatic tricks. 1t is not circus or
ganization. The Mooney strike fiasco,
let us hope, has made that very clear
to some persons who seemed to think
otherwise prior to July4.
But the failure of the impossible
general strike does not remove the
Mooney issue. The general strike was
simply wrong way to get something
that in justice Tom Mooney should
have-a new and fair trial
May new trial for Mooney be not
long delayed.
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any that they would not meet the

pany that they would not meet the
committee
The strike at this plant has been
going on since March 4th and up to
this time every old scheme possible
has been launched by the company to
break the strike but without success.
Farmers have been imported here
from Hamilton County to take the
places of the striking machinists and
professional strike breakers also have
been on the job, but the machinists are
still out and expect to do so until the
Hamilton Machine Tool Company
sees fit to deal fairly with their for
mer employees.
We are told that the stock holders
held meeting a few days ago and
since the meeting the general man
ager of the concern is not with them
any longer, likewise two of their
trusted witnesses in the late injunc-
tion case have also departed. 1t ap-
pears that the company is not having
the smooth sailing so expected under
the non-union method.
The spirit shown by this firm to-
wards their former employees has
been everything but businesslike and
if continued might put the firm back
in the old rut similar to that period
before the war contracts were secured
Machinists who worked in this plant
in the early days of the war state
that they worked for this company
five or six weeks without drawing any
pay in order to give the firm start
Forcing the men on strike immediate
ly after the armistice was signed
shows how well they appreciated wha
the men did for them Heap mucl
gratitude.
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That was good work on the part of
the city council last week when it in
creased the pay of the employees in
the public service department. The
only mistake that council made in this
connection was that it didn't go
hardly far enough with the increases
to the laborers. But half loaf is
better than none and the increases
made are much appreciated by all
those who benefit thereby. However
it is never too late to do good, and
council should at its earliest oppor-
tunity bring up the salaries of all city
employees to not less than so cents per
hour.
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RETAIL CLERKS GAIN

Chicago About 300 clerks en-
ployed in mems stores in the outlying
districts have secured recognition of
the Retail Clerks union, a 54-hour
week and 20 per cent wage increase.
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are shortened and their pay envelopes
fattened they readily accept without
a thought or word of praise or credit
for those WHO get it for them. Well,
this class never did know the meaning
of the word, gratitude, nor they never
will
If you want to enjoy a good clean
smoke see to it that the label is on
the box or the can and then you will
be sure you have got what you want.
NC pa m "a E
Maybe you don't know it but the
primaries are quietly slipping up and
while there isn't much noise being
made there is a whole lot of pussy
footing being done.
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