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Evening star., 1923-05-06
THREE ADMIT GUILT
IN Staying OF FIVE
z
Estranged Husband, Son and
:.
Another Confess Murder of
Whole Family.
Nv the Annotated Press.

By the Associa ted Press.
IDABEL, Okla, May 5.-The mystery
surrounding the brutal killing of nve
members Of the family Of 7. n. Han
sell. a farmer. near Harworth. on the
night of April o6. was cleared when the
three slayers made clean breast OF
The affair yesterday.
The killings were planned and exc
cuted by John w. Pope. estranged hus-
band of Hansells daughter LYDIA. He
was aided by his nineteen-year-o -old son
John, Of a former marriage. and Red
Harvey, a twenty-one-year-o old youth.
Young Pope and Harvey pleaded
guilty to charges OF murder. They will
be sentenced later in district court.
The elder Pope. who Is about forty
one years old. calmly admitted In jus
iice court yesterday afternoon at his
murder that he killed his wife. He was
bound over to the district court without
bond and is expected to plead guilty.
Young Pope and Harvey told Of their
part in the staying on the stand as wit
nesses against the elder Pope.
Young Pope. who has been held in
the county Jail here since Monday. was
he principal witness At his fathers
hearing. He testified his father and
Harvey planned the killing of Mrs.
rope several Gays De1OTe II was cdTrleu
out. His father. he declares. told him
he had to help.
The young man said when his IA
ther unfolded the plans for the slay-
ing he told him he had promised
"Red" Harvey $500 to kill Mrs. Pope.
The witness related he and Harvey
had crossed the Red river from Texas
in small boat. how Harvey stole a
horse to ride out to the Hansell home
and how his father swan his horse
across the swollen river to meet them
and arrange the details.
His father gave Harvey a shotgun
and pistol and told Harvey to be
certain that young John did not get
away. the youth testified. On ar
riving at the Hansell home late on
the night of April IS the youth said
he was detailed to hold the horses.
4 few minutes after his father and
Harvey left him he heard shooting
and screams. he said. His father and
Harvey fed.
From Thursday night until Sunday
night he said he hid in the woods
without any food. Then Sunday night
ne made his way back across the Red
river and went to the home of his
grandfather. who told him that his
father and Harvey already had been
arrested and advised that he give up
and tell the whole truth.
The youth surrendered the next day.
Harvey's testimony corroborated
that of young Pope except that he
horses at the Hansell home and that
the two Popes did the killing.
The elder Pope was sworn and ad-
mitted he was guilty of shooting his
wife. He denied. however. that he
hers of the family Those killed at
the Hansell home were Hansel. his
Wife. a seven year-old son, Mrs Pope
and her infant daughter.
Evening star., 1923-05-06
MCCORMICK LISTED
PRINCIPAL SPEAKER
Senator Will Deliver Address Be.
fore National Child Labor
Conference Nav Is.

Senator Medill Mccormick, father
OF the bill for the child labor amend :
ment in the last Congress. is expected
TO be the principal speaker at the
meeting of the national child labor
committee at the Hotel Washington
on May IS. during the sessions OF the
national conference of social work.
During the conference there will
be an exhibit by the national COM
lnittee in a show window of the
Woodward & Lothrop firm, donated by
Il. e. Everett. manager of the firm
Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, president
of the y. c. Congress of Mothers and
ParentTeachers' Associations, Is CO.
operating with the committee in max
ing arrangements for the conference.
Washington's interest in the con-
gress will center around reports of
the recent local agitation concerning
compulsory education laws and the
Supreme Courts decision as to the
unconstitutionality of the minimum
wage law.
Owen r; Lovejoy.- general secretary
of the national child labor committee.
will be among the speakers at the
conference. Investigators from the
sugar beet fields Of the west are
scheduled TO give details of recent
discoveries regarding employment of
child labor in the sugar beet industry.
Evening star., 1923-05-06
III, S. AIDS CONFEDERATE VETS
PLAN TO HONOR UNION GENERAL

Through the aid Of the War De.
partment; Charles Hall Of Bay Min
nette. Ala, a veteran of the Confed-
crate army. probably will be able to
carry out his plan Of laying q wreath
on the grave of Gen. E: r. g. Candy
Of the Union Army, for having saved
him and his brothers and sisters from
starvation after the capture of Fort
Blakely, Ala, I'm April, 1865.
Hall recently wrote President Hard
ing that the Union commander per-
sonally saw that the Hall family was
provided with food. after some of the
soldiers tried to prevent It.. He said
he had never forgotten the incident,
and now, In his closing days, desired
to show his gratitude by placing a
wreath on the grave Of his penefac-
tor, regardless Of how far away 1t
might be located.
So far the War Department has
rot been able to locate the grave,
but expects to do So In q few days.
1t is believed that Gen. Candy was
Evening star., 1923-05-06

buried In Indiana. probably at
CrawfordvilIe. The commanding Of
flcer at Fort Benjamin Harrison. near
Indianapolis, has been instructed to
investigate and have the grave iden-
titled, II possible, that Mr.. Hall ma y
execute his plan.
Records Of the department show
that Gen. Candy was a valiant SOL
dier and had done consid erable fight
inE. He was brevetted for ga1Iantry
at Contreras, Chuiubusco, Valverde
and the City Of Mexico in the Mex
lean war. and at Fort BlakeIy and
Mobile, Ala, In the civil war. Suisse
Quentiy he served in several cam
paigns against hostile Indians in the
far west, until he was treacherously
slain BIZ Capt Jacks band OF Modocs
near Bremmers Ranch. Eiskiyou
county, Calf, April IL. 1873. Nexo-
tiations for peace were under way
at tho time and Gen. Candy and
three peace commissioners were
lured to Capt. Jacks camp to con-
clude the arrangements. They were
massAcred as soon as they arrived.
Tho event created intense excitemen
Evening star., 1923-05-06
BERRY FARM FACES
CHARGE OF PEONAGE
U. s. Warrant Issued for louisiana
Grower-Kept Workers by
Force, Reports Say.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS. La. May "a
federal warrant for the arrest of
Benjamin kinchen of Independence.
one of the largest strawberry growers
Of Tangipahoa parish. La. charging
him with peonage as a result of re-
ports received here by United States
District Attorney Burns. is expected
to be served today.
deputy United States marshal and
Department of Justice agents, who
left here last night for Independence,
in the heart of the strawberry section
of Louisiana. also were instructed to
arrest negro woman who, ii is al
legged. enticed berry pickers to the
parish with PROMISES of transporta-
Evening star., 1923-05-06

bring all the pickers in Kinchen's
fields to New Orleans for questioning.
The federal authoriti2s were told
yesterday by Arthur Johnson. son of
Emma Johnson. negro woman, that
he had received word from his mother
that she and her daughters of Plea
yune, Miss. were held by kinchen
I'm q state OF Involuntary servitude."
being compelled to work long hours
with an inadequate supply of food
and given dirty living quarters.
Mr.. Burns stated he had ordered a
sweeping investigation of the Kin
chen case an dsimilar complaints
which had been reported to his Office
recently:
Evening star., 1923-05-06
G. U. RESERVE OFFICERS
CORPS TO Be INSPECTED
War Department Appoints Com
mittee to Examine Students
at Varsity Field.

Inspection Of the Georgetown Uni.
versity Reserve Ofacers' Training
Corps will be made by a committee
appointed by the War Department to-
morrow and Tuesday, with drills both
afternoons at Varsity Field, frem
to o'clock.
Drilling, tent pitching. bayonet ex.
hibitions and machine gun drills will
be given by the four companies, com
prising 600 students. under the lead
ership of Cadet Maj. Thomas f.
Fitzgerald.
The committee will examine the
student soldiers as to theory. tactical
ability. etc. The members Of the in.
spectins committee. as yet unan-
nounced, will be received by Presi-
o'clock tomorrow morning
Evening star., 1923-05-06
ASKS LIMITED DIVORCE.

Mrs. Ethel Carrigan has filed suit
for a limited divorce from Charles A.
Carrigan, a grocer at $40 10th street
southeast. She charges cruelty and
says last Wednesday she found let
ter containing endearing terms ad-
dressed to her husband from another
woman. He has threatened her life,
she states. They were married April
2, 1917. Attorneys Foster Wood and
J. B. Adams appear fer the wife.
Evening star., 1923-05-06

\ world congress of master print
ers is to be held in Gothenburg,
Sweden. this summer.
Evening star., 1923-05-06

throughout the country and resulted
In the punishment OF the offending
Indians.
Evening star., 1923-05-06

music. The French military attarhe.
Jean j: Lahat, reviewed the com
panies last week
Evening star., 1923-05-06

A student band OF thirty pieces,
Madden, drum major, will provide
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-03-31
Our Population On The Jump

II He Geological Congress which met in ! Canada states that
L the United States is the worlds chief source of coal snnnIv
being accredited a supply of 1854, 600, 100000 metric tons. Can.
ada comes next with 1,234,000, 100000 tons; China and Germany
following IN turn, with the United Kingdom winding I'D in last
place with l9o,OUo000,0O0 metric tons. When we come to thinking
IN trlllons the mind grows wabbly, but when we visualize the
coal bins OF the folks IN this county and realize the way the peo-
pie have been either frozen or exploited despite this / 234,000-
000,00O tons we DOM feel so delighted that America stands first
in possession of the black diamonds.
The relative figures show plain as a pikestaff that something is
radically wrong not only with our economic system, but with
the economic system of the entire world. While Americans
were suffering from biting cold and could not obtain fuel all
winter our railroads were busy carrying coal to Canada which
istration failed to check extorhonate prices and # comnieta1v
collapsed in distribution that was anywhere near adequate. The
result IS a permanently higher level of coal cost for the con-
sumer.
With furnaces about closing and spring buds appearing coal
dealers already are warning US that prices next year will be
about the same as they are now. True we know-or rather we
are advlsed-there will be no strike, but what does that matter
where profits are involyedP
The dear old public must nav throuoh the nose inct tho con
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-03-31
PREPARATIONS

There is but one way to stabil-
ize the worlds currency and
bring commercial progress. That
is to fix definitely and finally the
indemnity that Germany is to
pay. That Indemnity when
fixed should be underwritten.
And when underwritten it would
become valuable commercial pa
per throughout the world.
As an illustration: Suppose they
say that Germany shall pay twenty
billion svfd dollars, which would be
a very reasonable amount. Germany
could pay that amount, but she
should be given sixty Or eighty
years in which to pay it. Suppose
we say eighty years. Then. she
would have to pay $250,0O0,000 a
year.
If you fix the note at twenty bill
lion dollars, turn the note over and
let England and America endorse it.
then 1t becomes worth face value
throughout the world and would be
a good investment for any individ-
ual or for any country. America
could afford with England to guar
antee the payment of $3.50, 10000
per year to France and Belgium.
Looked at from a selfish stand
point, it would be worth CONNER
cially a thousand times that amount
of money to America and England.
Fix the amount definitely and finally.
Give Germany eighty years in which
to pay it, endorse her note for that
amount, underwrite her securities.
and let her begin to reconstruct her
commercial institutions and to en-
ter the marts of the world.
This is a plain, simple, common
sense method of establishing COM
mercial peace. progress and prosper
ity. Away with the selfish Pharisees
who refuse to adopt this policy. Put
it into effect. Let America take her
place IS the leader of the world,
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-03-31
Now We Are Thinking in Trillions

IT HE National Bureau of Economic Research shows that on
L January, 1923, the population of the United States stood
at 100000, a gain of approximately four and a half million
since the last census was taken. At the present rate of growth
the population in the 1890 census will pass the 120OO0O06 mark
The probability is that our population is even greater than
officially set down. In a great many states births and deaths are
births and deaths escape being recorded. 1t is safe to assume
that the unrecorded population lies in remote country districts.
How puny seem the great cities of America when one consid-
es that a majority Of the known population plus one hundred
per cent of the unrecorded population lives and finds its being
in the villages OF 5000 population and less, and on the farms.
What a sleeping giant is this wonderful country America-what
a market for the ABSORPTION of American manufactures. a mar
kt practically untapped. The blase smile of the city cave
dweler serve only to prove his provincIalism in the light of
facts. Country America feeds him and his few millions. country
America forms the backbone of his nation, it makes and unmakes
the government under which he lives, it is the great hearted sim
pie strong big brother that looks upon his idiocyncracies with
tolerant understanding.
Possibly it inspired that American term "Poor Fish"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-03-31
GOVERNMENT E

Congressman Bacharach has sent to
The Pleasantville Press Office a con
signment of Government seeds for dis
tribution to citizens of P~leasantville
and vicinity. There are only yegeta-
Bile seeds left. The supply is quite
limited, so that those desiring them
must apply early. The seeds viii be
issued only to adults.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-03-31

1T is high time" ssid the militant
reformer on the plL irm. that we
had a moral awakening in this town.
Let us arise in our ID WIT. Let u
our loins. Let US take off our
coats. Let US bare our arms. Let
US"
Hold on, nowi" exclaimed a tall,
thin woman near the platform. IF
this is to be a moral awakening, don't
you dare to propose our taking off
another thing"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-03-31
DEAFNESS

is often caused by an infamed condition
of the mucous lining of the Eustachian
Tube. When this tube is inflamed you
have a rumbling Jul or imperfect
hearing. Unless the Inflammation can
De nearing IA DE de-
stroyed forever.
do what we claim for it-rid your system
of Catarrh or Deafness caused by
catarrh. HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE
has been successful in the treatment Of
Catarrh for over Forty Years.
Sold by all druggists.
F. ]. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-03-31
FIGURE 1T YOURSELF.

Nobody ever added UP
The value of a smile;
We know how much a dollars worth,
And how much is a mile;
know the distance to the sun,
The size and weight of earth,
But no n here can tell us just
How much a smile is worth.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-03-31
BETTER PAY

During the war it was COMMON to
enlist for a dollar a year. Now the
Department of Justice has six of these
indicted for stealing as many millions.
George Adams says it shows the gov
eminent had better paid the less pa
triotic.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-06-09

pnone. eeNy reports on the effect
Of weather ON crops and highways,
and other information issued by the
weather bureau are also disseminated
by these stations.
The weather bureau does not own
or operate any wireless equipment.
The radio distribution work is accom-
plished through plants operated by
other government agencies, by cor
poratlons and by private individuals,
ana without expense to the weather
bureau. An exclusive wave length az
1875 meters has been assigned by the
bureau of navigation, Department Of
Commerce, Tor the hroadcastIng OF
weather forecasts and market reports.
No station can use this wave length
unless specifically licensed 10 do so.
To avoid unnecessary crowdlng of the
afr and Interference with schedules
only two stations are licensed to
broadcast in any city or community.
This limits the number that would
otherwise gladly cooperate in the
work. There are at present about 400
licensed broadcasting stations In the
United States.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-06-09
HELPED BY RADIO
BroadCaSting OF Weather lnfor-
nation Aids All.
Farmers In Particular Have Been
Benefited by Recent Advances
Made In the Science.

The marvellous advance In radio
telephony which makes IL possible for
anyone to receive messages IN spoken
words, without having to learn
telegraph.c code, has enormously In
creased the broadcastlng of weather
information during the past year, not
only TO farmers all over the interior
Of the United States but to aviators
and ships al sea, both on the oceans,
the Gulf Of Mexico and on the Great
Lakes.
To receive radiotelephone messages
requires only limited equipment,
simple and inexpensive. Thousands
OF farmers have installed receiving
apparatus recently, with the result
that the Isolated rural home Is. brought
instantly In touch with the many
kinds Of information, instruction and
information that are being broadcast
continually.
Weather information thus reaches
the farmer as promptly and effectively
MS any urban business man. Farm op-
erations are absolutely dependent for
success upon Il knowledge Of weather
conditions, and the protection Of crops
from disaster due to frost, drought,
storms and other weather phenomena
is only possible II adequate warnings
are received In time. Heretofore
large number Of the farmers of the
country were SO located that they
could not be supplied by newspapers
or telegraph with the daily forecasts
and warnings of the weather bureau
OF the United States Department Of
Agriculture IN time TO be of service
to them. Radlotelephony has changed
all this. Also the number of brOHd-
casting stations has increased 10 meet
the needs Of those equipped 10 receive
the messages. A year ago daily state
forecasts were being broadcast from
II radio stations In only states. ana
chiefly by autobiography. which few
were able to take advantage Of Last
July there were % stations in %
states broadcastIng daily weather
forecasts and warnings By radio'ele-
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-06-09
rhe Rare Albino.

In the struggle for life among crea-
lures of the wild, the nlbnos have
very poor chance Of existence. They
are handicapped by their defective
eyeslght and their conspicuous APP
pcar0nce, and II Is seldom that they
reach maturity Now and again. how
ever, in different parts Of the globe.
exceptions are recorded and quite re-
Gently the London Geological society
has been fortunate in securing pure
alblno monkey captured nj Morogoro,
Tanganyika Territory. The ordinary
monkey Of this species is greenish In
color, with Sooty-black face and hands,
and ha2elbrown eyes. In the white
specimen the hair IL snowy white, the
naked hands and feet are pale flesh
color airl the eyes plnkish, with the
Iris family blue. The alblno Is the
result Of o congenltal deficiency Of
colorng matter in animals. persons or
plants. Among persons the albno was
first observed by the Portuguese In
certain West African negroes.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-06-09
gotten.

gotten.
1t was Thomas Paine who first used
the words that now echo over the
whole world, THE United States of
America"
For he had wonderful power OF
building phrases, Of shaping swift,
sharp sentences that should pierce duh
ears and dead hearts and make them
throb and thrill and work and live. He
began his first Crisis paper, These
are the times that try mems souls"
and few words have been oftener or
more aptly repeated.
He had surprising, startling vigor
of intense, direct utterance that made
the most inert feel that he must do
something. And, of course, he some
times oyershOt himself, let the fury of
his pen betray him into violence and
insult. England? He was said to hate
England. He did not hate England.
but he did hate some English ways of
doing things. 1T was equally as much
from her manners as from her injustice
that she lost the colonies" he remarks
shrewdly. King George? He was a
royal brute" which dlsposes of him,
Tories? Every Tory is a coward"
But, human nature being what 1t is,
1t must be admitted that even these
extravagances added to the effect of
Paine's pamphlets And the effect was
enormous. Common Sense" was sold
by the hundred thousand. Every liv-
ing man in America in 1910, who could
read read Common Sense" wrote
Theodore Parker.
Even the judicious Trevelyan is
hurried into superlatives on the sub
Ject: 1T would be difficult TO name
any human composition which has had
an effect at once so instant, so ex-
tended. and so lasting"
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-06-09
consldArad Miracle

A Milan widow, seemingly dead, re-
turned 10 life mOmentarily amid the
candles and flowers of her funeral
service, which was attended by numer-
GUS friends She had what the mu-
nicipal doctor called fatal attack of
heart disease. Her friends arranged
for the funeral the following morning,
banking the main room In the house
with flowers and placing long candles
about the bier. The clergy Officiated
and the hearse was waiting outside
when friend in giving the woman
parting kiss discovered that the fore
head was warm and then saw that the
arms were flexible and moved. The
hearse was pressed into service to
bring medical aid, and when the doctor
began working over the body warmth
and color returned, but his efforts
were only temporarily successful The
doctors decided that 1t was a case Of
retarded cyanosis, but the relatives be-
1eve 1t was q miracle.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-06-09

comfort AHA no glory, writes Gamauei
Bradford in Harpers Magazine. In
1774 he came TO America, at the
prompting of Franklin, and made his
pen vigorous agent in the American
Revolution. He returned to England,
wrote THE Rights of Man. and stirred
up this world, went to France, mingled
in the French Revolution, as a mem
Der Of the convention, was shut up In
prison by fiercer rebels than himself
and there wrote The Age of Reason, "
and stirred 90 the other world.
Monroe got Inn out of his difficulties,
he was reinstated In the convention.
but achieved little further in France.
In 1902 he returned TO America, found
himself, to his surprise and disgust,
at odds with American responsibility,
and died in 1909, practically unfriended
and forlorn. though by no means for
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-06-09

The value Of the bean crop In the
United States Is about $1O0,000,OOO.
The Egyptians sometimes used
stones 80 feet in length in their
masonry
Eight popes have been named Ur.
ban, The first Of them holding that
position from 222 to $50.
The longest wave measured by OIL
GERS Of the United States hydrognphic
service Hus half a mile, and It did not
spend itself for twenty-three seconds.
The colleges Of this country hays
expended on each engineering gradu.
ate from $500 to 5000 above an fees
received.
Private Raymond O. Coulter, aeod
twenty-five, u Mount Sterling nl
member Of the United Suites Marine
corps. IS known as the wonder shot of
the world. Coulter holds a rifle record
Of 20G out Of 300.