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The Nome nugget., 1925-08-01
RIFFIANS PREPARE BESEIcE THE CITY
 OF QUEzZIN
RIFFIANS DIGGING IN RATHER
 THAN MAKING OFFENSIVE MOVE

FEZ, French Morocco July 31 lP.-Abdul Krjm's offensive move asaiust Quezzin, which vas to have taken place today has evidently been abandoned or postponed according to reports which say that the Rifan troops are concentrating and constructing de fensve works as fl expecting to have resist an attack rather than to make offensive.
The Nome nugget., 1925-08-01

BERLIN. July 3l. (F)- Greater Berlin estab- Iished record for good behavior last night, not single arrest, accident suicide any other public disturbance having been reported
The Nome nugget., 1925-08-01

LONDON, July 31, U)-- The unmployment in- surance bill passed by the House of Commons after the labor motion to reject defeated by a of two hundred sixty-three to twenty-two.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-16
LONESOME FOR PET DOG,
 CRIPPLE TRIES SUICIDE
Arthur O'Brien, Familiar Figure at Fairs, Mouns Absence Of
 Canine Companion

Syracuse, \. Y. April t6..-Penni- less and dcspOndent because his little brown Eskimo dog, Babe, had been left behind in California when he started on q return trip east this spring. Arthur OBricn, a crippled vendor of lead pencils, made three unsuccessful attempts sl suicide here early today. Two attempts were made at inha'ing gas and after being locked Up in d cell at police head quarters he tried hanging from the top of his cell. A guard cut him down unconscious.
 OBrirr, for years familiar fig ure in exhibition halls at state and county fairs throughout the east, lost his legs, cut of above tho knees. in a railroad accident, He had equip ped the stumps with small wheels and by placing one arm around the dogs neck. the little animal served as his masters only means of loco motion.
 Last winter O'Brien and his dog went to California by boat. On re- turning railway companies demand ed sSS fare for the dog and unable to pay the charge. the animal was left there, Lonesome for his pet, he told police he wanted 10 die.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-16
HIGHER SALARIES FOR
 MINISTER'S ARE URGED
Methodists in Last Confer ence Find CIergymen
 Are Poorly Paid

New York, April lG.-Readjust- ment of minister's salaries was urg- ed at the 77th New York East Annu- .alConterenCe of the Methodist Epis- copal church, in a report submitted today by Rev. Abram S. Kanvan- augh, district uperintendent in Brooklyn, who made an analysis of the economic status of clergymen in his territory. The conference later empowered all other district super intendents to make similar studies in their district and to report next year.
 Mir. Kavanaugh said that as a rule ministers were poorly paid and their salaries had not risen in pro- portion to the cost of living. A S4,- 900 salary now is equivalent to one of s2,S2O in 1914, he said.
 "The pictures of ministers wives bending over washtubs and minis ters' sons kept out of college because of inadequate salaries paid minis ters, is not making for the good Of the church in general" he said.
 The conference gave the board Of trustees power to investigate group Efe insurance for ministers in the district and to take out polices If 1t deemed this advisable.
 The Revereuds John H. Bell, dis trict superintendent of New Haven, William H. Kidd. of South Connect icut and part of Manhattan, and William A. Davison, of Brooklyn, made reports concerning their dis tricts.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-16
CASE GOES TO JURY
"Lone Wolf" on Trial, Shouts That Prosecutor Is Liar--He Demands Extreme Penalty.

Boston, April 16> - The case of James E. Walthers of Richmond, Va, known as the Tone wolf' who is charged with robbing apartments occupied by women in the Back Bay district and abusing the occupants, was given to the jury today. In the trial which lasted week the defense sought to prove Walters insane.
 All through the closing argument of Dist. Attorney Thomas C. O'Bricn, Walters maintained running fire of interruptions and comments. "You'rc a liar" he shouted at one point in the district attorneys address.
 Announce 10 the wives. mothers and sisters of this community" the district attorney said in closing, That no outrager Of women when caught red-handed is going 10 hide behind the shield of insanity"
New Britain herald., 1925-04-16
Asks for Daughter.
MORE OZONE NEEDED
Many Lives Would be Saved If Home And Schools Were Properly Equipped Is Statement.

Cleveland, April Is. - Thousands of lives would be saved annually if homes and schools were equipped with apparatus for the circulation of ozone, an oxygen compound, E. g. Hallett. chief engineer of the St. Louis board of education, told the national warm air heating and ven- tilatlng association convention today.
 Ozone may be produced by chem ical or electrical process. he ex- plained Injected into building 10 the extent of one part to a million parts air. 1t effects about 100 per cent purincation.
 Mr. Hallett said that in five years ozone has been used in St. Louis schools. tuberculosis cases have been reduced more than so per cent. Other diseases also have been ma terialIy reduced, he declared.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-16
BODY IDENTIFIED
Remains Found in River At Middle town Those of Hartford Man Drowned Last November.

Middletown, April 16.-The body of the man found in the Connecti- cut river at Cromwell last Saturday was today identified as that of Sven Olson, of AGA Summit street, Hart ford. who was lost overheard from motor boat near the dock of tho Hartford and New York Transpor- tation Co. at Hartford November IS, 1924.
 Olson and three other men were in the motor boat when it overturn- ed, olson's body disappeared but the other three men were saved.
 A few days ago Mrs, Carl John son of 151 Asylum street, Hartford, a sister -in-law of Olson examined the clothing of the man whose body was found and thought she recog- nized part of a shirt and shoe as belonging to Olson.
 Mrs. Johnson sent the part of the shirt and the shoe to Olson's wife in Detroit by air mail and today re- ceived a telephone call from Mrs, Olson that she believed it to be the body of her husband and would leave for Middletown immediately.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-16
WHEELER BILL REJECTED IN SENATE AFTER ADVERSE COMMITTEE REPORT:
 ONLY ONE VOICE RAISED IN FAVOR
LUKEMAN SELECTED TO.
 FINISH BIG MEMORIAL
New York Sculptor Sue ceeds Borglum on Stone
 Mountain Job

Atlanta. Ga, April 16.--Augustus Lukeman of New York has been employed as the sculptor of the Stone Mountain Confederate memo- rial, 1t was announced here today by the executive committee of the organization. He succeeds Gutzon Borglum.
 The announcement was made aft CT the board of directors of the Stone Mountain Confederate Monu- mental association had ratified 8 contract with the sculptor.
 "Lukeman is a member of the National Sculpture society. He was formerly secretary and a member of the council of the society. He was formerly vice-president of the Architectural League of New York. He is member of the Virginia Historical society, a charter member of the National Arts club, and an associate of the American Institute of Arts and Letters.
 "Lukeman began his education for sculpture as boy eleven years old when he entered the studio of Launt Thompson, noted sculptor of New York, after school hours and attended art school at night He learned bronze casting and granite carving. With his earnings he paid his way through the Ma tional Academy of Design of New York and a course in architecture at Columbia university.
 When the worlds fair at Chicago was under construction MT. Luke man obtained employment in the studio of Daniel Chester Finch, the renowned sculptor who had charge of the sculpture of the fair. He rose to the position of studio fore- man for MT. French. Later he went to Paris for course in scuEp- ture in the Acole Des Beaux Arts. :"
 Among his works of sculpture to his credit are:
 Statues of William Mckinley for Adams, Mass, and Dayton, Ohio,
 Equestrian statue of Bishop Francis Asbury In Washington.
 Strass Memorial Fountain in New York.
 Memorial to the returning dough- boys in Red Hook park, Brooklyn.
 Four colossal statues In marble for the Royal Bank of Canada, Mon treal.
 Equestrian statue in bronze of Kit Carson for Trinidad, Colo.
 Equestrian statue of General Gregg. commander of the Union cavalry at Gettysburg. for Read ing. Pa.
 Statue in bronze of Franklin Pierce. fourteenth president of the United States, in front of the state capitol in New Hampshire.
 Memorial to women of the con- federacy at Raleigh, N. c.
 The announcement was made aft or the board of directors of the Stone Mountain Confedetate Monu- mental association had ratified contract with the sculptor.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-16
HALL WOULD ABOLISH < CITY MEETING BOARD
Senator Springs Surprise at Hearing on Charter >
 Changes
Special to the Herald.1

Hartford, April 16.-Senator Ed ward r. Hall of New Britain explod- ed a bombshell at 0 meeting of the cities and boroughs committee this afternoon during discussion on charter amendments for the city of New Britain, when he introduced a resolution to abolish the city meet Ing board.
 Consideration was being given a movement to establish 50 as a quor- um for meetings of this body. Sena- tor Hall said the city has had diff ficulty in getting out 50 members in spite of the fact that the board membership is 1SS. He has been informed that, since the board takes the place of the old town meeting, a quorum of two might transact busi- ness. but this, he felt was n danger ous condition. Representative r. o. Rackliffe and B. w. filling adpoted the same stand as that Of Senator Hall. The Hall resolution will be considered In the early part of next week.
 The amendment to allow the city clerk to name his deputies without the approval of the mayor was not submitted. Mayor Paonessa was pres ent to oppose the resolution.
 All other charter amendments were adopted.
 Those who attended the hearing were: Mayor Paonessa, Judge J. H. Kirkham, Joseph D, Williams, Frank NJ. Zimmerman, Attorney D. l.. Nair, William H. Judd, w, NJ. Greenstein, A. L. Levitt, Albert 4. Greenberg, Robert Johnson.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-16
HAD BEER ON TRUCK
Bridgeport Man Arrested in Strat- ford With Wet Goods Disguised
 as Machinery.

Stratford, April 16.-Twcnty barrels of beer, camounaged as ma chinery. were seized on a truck here last night by state policemen. Henry Strendon of Bridgeport is being held on a charge of illegal transportation of liquor, while the owner of the truck a Bridgeport man is beingsought. The barrels of 26 gallons capacity each were in crates and were marked machinery, handle with care" They were consigned to the F. W. Lowe Co.,, 59 Pine street, Providence, R. l.. from the New Haven Machine Co.,, 2,24o Temple street, New Haven. . Suspicion was aroused when thc officers noticed that although the goods Were being shipped from New Haven they were being saucd towards New Haven.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-16
9PPOSE SALARY RAISE FOR SUPT. WAINWRIGHT
Dehm, Paonessa and Hall Reported Aroused by
 Increase

Claiming that the park commis- sion has increased the salary of Park Superintendent Ralph E. Wainwright in violation of the city charter and contrary to the financ- ing and salary policies of the city government, Alderman c. J. Dehm of the first ward has launched an attack on that board. and it is un- derstood that he has the backing of Mayor A. M. Paonessa and Chair man Edward r. Hall of the. board of finance and taxation.
 The first step in Alderman Dehm's drive was taken last night when he introduced resolution at the com mon council meeting requesting the ordinance committee to prepare or dinances governing the salaries of such employees of the park depart ment as should, in the committees opinion, appear on the salary list. Another resolution provided for &C., tion by the salary committee in fix ing the salary, this step being ncc- essary 10 furnish the ordinance com mittee with the data to be used In drawing the ordinances. This will bring Wainwright's salary before the council for action.
 To avoid the possibility that an- other discussion might arisc as to perintendent and fix their salaries, anccs governing day laborcrs wages, similar to the discussion held by the council several months ago, Alder man Dchm provided in his resolu- ton for ordinances only in cases where the committee felt it was practicable 10 have the names on the salary lists
 The common council has not been asked hy the park commission to approve any increase for Vain wright. Boosts made by the com mission without following this pro- codure are in nehms opinion, in violation of Section of Chapter %. reading as follows;
 Said park commissioners shall have power to employ such number of superintcndonts or assistant su- subject 10 approval of the common council K
 AldcrmaF nehm has conferred with Chairman Hall of the board of finance and taxation and was advis- cd that no provision was made in this years budget for an increase a. ,1,, =,r,-,- of .ba e,yyor,14oulp,,f The financing departments of the city government have taken a firm stand on any expenditures over and above those mentioned in the budg- cts presented 10 the board of finance before the opening of the fiscal year. This is the violation of the city's f. nancing plan which Alderman Dehm points to in his argument against the increase,
 As regards the salary policies which, Alderman Dehm claims, have also been violated, it is argued that increases are allowed only in eases where petitions have been presented at the December meeting of the common council or in cases Of emer- gency. There was no petition for a raise for Wainwright and he fails to see an emergency.
 Park Commissioner Maxwell s. Porter said today he was not aware it is necessary to secure the com mon councils consent 10 an increase.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-16
CAILLAUX AGREES
 ID JOIN CABINET
Will Take French Ministry of.
 Finance for PainleYe
BRAND ALSO INVITED
Former Premier Wanted for Post But Has Not Dccided-Financia situation in France Admittedly Bad, Caillaux Declares.
By Tho Associated Press.

By Tho Associated Press.
 Paris, April 1G.-Ex. Premier Paul Painleye, attempting tho task of forming a cabinet in succession to the Herriot ministry, was able only to report progress and not the definite conclusion of his task when he visited President Doumergue at the Palace of the Elysee this after noon.
 If q cabinet is formed 1t will not be before tonight" he said on leaving the palace, "I still have everything to do, but one may have everything to do and yet do it quick ly.
 ''I shall try to form ministry to- night and have 1t published in the Journal Officiel tomorrow"
 Caillaux Accepts
 NJ. Caillaux has definitely accepted CTS conference, stated that if Pain leve cabinet, Caillaux's secretary an- nounced In the lobby of the cham Der of deputies this afternoon.
 Caillaux, upon leaving the bank ers' conference, stated that If Pain leve formed a cabinet he would &C., cept the portfolio of finance.
 Caillaux had conferred for an hour at the ministry of finance with M. Robineau, governor of the Bank of France. Then he received rep resentatives of the principal French banks, afterward announcing his &C., ceptance Of the cabinet post.
 Briand Invited
 M. Briand admitted today that he had been asked to take office in the Painleve cabinet but as yet had not accepted, althought he asserted that he was not averse to collaborating with Painleve and was desirous that a cabinet be formed as quickly as possible.
 My definite acceptance depends upon an examination of certain points. notably. what the proposed program will be and how other portfolios are to be distributed" said Briand.
 Situation Serious
 Calllaux this afternoon told the radical-socialist group that he con- sidered the situation of the treasury serious, but was convinced he could bring 1t to q normal status by ap- propriate measures.
 The group unanimously voted confidence in Caillaux as a "finan- cial restorer."
 Caillaux was chairman of the "a radical-socialist group until his wife shot and killed Gaston Calmette Calmette, editor of Figaro, early in 1914, when the newspapers were at tacking him politically and had threatened revelations regarding his personal affairs. Madame Caillaux was acquitted after a sensational trial.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-16
ON TRIAL FLIGHT
Aircraft Los Angeles Leaves Lake hurst This Morning for Aerial Spin Over New York City.

Lakehurst, N. J., April 16.-The dirigible Los Angeles left the naval air station with Commander Jacob H. Klein, Jr., in charge, who prom ised he would bring her over New York city before her return here. The flight is for testing preparatory to a second cruise to Bermuda the end of this week, where the moor ing ship '. s. s. Patoka now is sta tioned for reception of the Los An geles.
 The dirlgibe had her regular crew quota of SS men aboard and also carried six army officer ob- servers,
New Britain herald., 1925-04-16
By The Associated Press.


 Grown Point, Ind, April 16.-Calm and unmoved, Mrs. Anna Cunning ham, 49, confessed last night that she gave poison to three of the five members of her family whose mys- terious deaths within six years led to an investigation resulting in a murder charge against her.
 Her desire to join in Heaven" her husband, prompted Mrs. Gun ningham to take poison herself and administered it to Isabelle, IS, Charles. 19, and Walter, 13, she said. These three she killed because she loved them best, the mother told authorities. She spared Mae, 19, sur- viving daughter. because she disIiked her she said.
 Denies Other Charges.
 Mrs. Cunningham denied that she had poisoned her husband who died first or Harry, another son, in whose exhumed body coroner's chemists found arsenic. She admitted giving poison to David, the last son, now in critical condition in Chicago hospital.
 She Always Recovered
 Each time she administered the arsenic in bread and butter she took a similar dose herself, and after the death of Walter she added tea spoon of iodine, but always recover ed.
 The confession of the woman, who had remained unshaken under the questioning in Chicago of Prescott tors Robert E. Grove and John 8. Sbarbaro was obtained by Sheriff Benjamin H. Strong and Miss Mau- seen Mckernan, Chicago newspaper reporter.
 After she had recovered from a state of. coma yesterday into which she lapsed early Tuesday, Mrs. Cum pingham admitted to Miss McKern- an that she' might have placed some arsenic in the food of David by mis- take, but was unshaken in her denial that she has poisoned any members of her family.
 She permitted the reporter to ap- ply cold congresses to her head and loosen her clothing, appearing moro interested in changing her best black silk dress for an apron than In her subsequent cold blooded recital of the deaths.
 Asks for Daughter.
 Suddenly she asked that her daughter Mae be sent for and that she be removed from her cell be- cause of the presence there of sever al women prisoners. Dlsregarding the daughters frantic plea for her to remain silent Mrs. Cunningham
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New Britain herald., 1925-04-16
Judiciary M e m b e rs Feel Present Laws Powerful Enough To Enforce Liquor Regu- lations.
No Information as to Pos sibility of New Substi- ute Bill But Some Feel That One Is Desirable.

State Capitol, Hartford, April 16.-- The Wheeler bill, so-called after Chief Justice George w. Wheeler of the supreme court of errors who sponsored 1t, drawn by committee of the states attorneys as a medium through which to obtain greater power to enforce the 18th amend ment in Connecticut adversely re- ported by the committee on the judiciary to the senate today. was. rejected by acceptance of the com mittee report. Action was by voice vote and only one mo" was heard.
 Present Laws Enough
 The Wheeler bill was heard Tues day afternoon. The hearing was the liveliest and best attended one on any bill this session. Senator Shaw who is acting senate leader in absence of Senator Cronin said the committee had given the bill "care- full consideration" The conclusion had been reached, he said, that the hAii 'ONih bpL LNl p III ldN ment as much as its proponents thought. He said it was felt that penalties were ample under the present law and there was power enough in the present law for a stricter enforcement by the states attorneys. The committee could not see wherein the bill would assist in securing that which the states att torney's wanted. That was his per- soaal opinion as well.
 Cooperation is Best
 Senator Shaw alluded to some of the claims made at the hearing in behalf of the bill and said that it was stated as fact that peoHe are reacting against attempts to enforce the 18th amendment. He said that the federal government is attempt ing enforcement and with the state and federal governments working together the committee felt that much more would be accomplished than has already been done.
 Mrs. Merritt asked Senator Shaw if any substitute bill was 10 be put in to clarify the present law and give the states attorneys powers they asked for to enforce the prohi- bition law.
 Knows of No Substitute
 Senator Shaw said he could not answer that question. He knew that some members of tho committee felt that some changes should be made in the present law but he was un- able to say whether or not the min ority could get the majority to put in bill making changes.
 Mrs. Merritt said she regretted the explanation of Senator Shaw was not more definite. Sha felt that c]arifcation of the present law was needed and that it should be done and hoped that the committee would feel that way. The bill was then rejected.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-16
PROTEST SHIP SALES

Washington, April 16.-Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine senate. has protested to the War De- partment against the sale by the United Sates Shipping Board of the five president ships of the trans-At- lantic fleet to the Dollar Steamship Company.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-16
EX-COp ARRESTED
Peter Doran, Once Member of Hart ford Department, Is Under Arrest in Newark, N, J.

Hartford, April 16.-Peter Doran, former police officer in the Hart ford department is under arrest in Newark. N. J., being held for the local police on charges of burglary and violation of his parole. It is alleged that since his release from the Connecticut state prison at Wethersheld in June, 1924, Doran broke into the Electrical Supplies store here.
 Doran was sentenced to prison in September 1922 for from two to seven years when he was convicted of breaking into house on Pros pect avenue and stealing $1,0O0 worth of liquor from a closet in the cellar,
New Britain herald., 1925-04-16
Canadian Financier Is
 Named in Divorce Suit

London, April 16,-A divorce pc tition by the Marquis of Queensbury naming Sir James H. Dunn. a Can adian financler, as correspondent. ap- peared in the list of COS undefended petitions to be heard during the coming court sessions which was published today. Lady Dunn also filed a petition. which likewise was nndetended.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-16
Illuminating Gas Kills
 Three in One Family

Fall River. April l6.-Thres deaths in one family from illuminate ing gas poisoning were discovered here today when the bodies of Jo- seph Talbot his wife and their five year old son, Henry were found in a bed in their home Gas was pour ing from three cocks In gas stoys which the authorities believe had ac- cidontally been left open.
New Britain herald., 1925-04-16
Makes Admission That
 Sounds Like Frame-TTp

Little Rock. Ark, April 16.-wal- lace Davis, former attorney general of Arkansas. today admitted on the witness stand in United States dis trict court that he had placed $7S.- coo worth of bonds, lost from the Rondout mail robbery In a roadside mall box from which they were re- covered by Ira Ross, a post office in- Snectnr
New Britain herald., 1925-04-16
Troy Conference Votes
 For UnificatiOn Plan

North Adams, Mass, April 16- The Troy conference Of the Metho- dist Episcopal church in annual sos- son here, today approved the propo- sition Of the general conference for unifcation of the Methodist Episco- ral churches north and south. | he vote in favor of unihcatlon was 136 to 3.