St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 25, 1916

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PRICE ONE CENT ö * — kid IN BORE a cA GORE OVERCOME Explosion of Gas in Water- a works Tunnel at Cleveland Traps 11 Workmen and AWOER LAKE RE 2 Br ‘ie es oe . i 2 Others Perish From Fumes in Futile Attempts to Res- cue Them. a 5 Superintendent, Who Heads Second Party of Searchers, Brought Out Alive, but 3 May Not Sur vive. Pulmoters Increases Fatal - ities; Ten of the Bodies Recovered. CLEVELAND. O., July 25.—Twent- ty- two men are dead and six others are expected to die as the result of an explosion of gas in a waterworks 4 tunnel five miles from shore under- neuth Lake Erie last night. | The dead include workmen who | were trapped- in the tunnel by the 7 explosion and members of two res- | gue parties who attempted to save them. — Rescuers working with oxygen helmets et 10:15 a. m. had brought eight bodies from the tunnel. No more have been found alive. The total number of bodies ' in morgues now is 10. | Of the dead 11 were in the force _ trapped by the explosion. None of these | @scaped. The first rescue party consist- dd ot seven men. Four of them perished and three were saved. The second res- cue party was made up of 11 men. Six FAIR SKIES, NO BREAK IN HIGH TEMPERATURE THE TEMPERATURES. Humidity at 7 a. m. today, 63 per cent. — — 5 ic Official fore- Cast for St. Loui e ect, Fa HA tonight and to- TS. morrow, with continued high temperature. Missouri—Gener- ally fair tonig':* and tomorrow, with continued high temperature. A Illinois — Gener- ally fair tonig?.t and tomorrow, with continued high temperature Stage of the riv- er, 16.1 feet, a rise of .1 of a foot. KANSAS CITY SALOON ON «| STATE LINE BRINGS $30,000 Tiuirsty Kansans Help Make Ls Trade Third Largest in the United States, KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 25.—Thirty thousand dollars was the price paid for P. P. Haffey’s saloon at Ninth street and State line, which has passed into the hands of Sam Josephson, who managed a saloon on the opposite corner. Haf- fey has owned the saloon for seven vears“ He worked 20 years as bartender there. Josephson had been told by the brewers that this was the third largest saloon in volume of trade in the United States. Haffey knew that he sold 8000 barrels, or approximately 3,000,000 glasses, of be there in 1915. He employed eight bar- tenders. This explains the wrice. The bar in Haffey's saloon is 76 feet long. Almost any time of day it is crowded. Haffey says the trade from the Kansas side is in a large measure responsible for the increase. 922 OUT OF 2095 ARKANSAS JULY 25.16. MAYOR VETOES BILL TO LABEL 12TH ST. BLOCK STAR SQUARE Dangerous Precedent, and Cause Endless Confusion VOTE WAS UNANIMOUS Several Aldermen Say They Be- lieve Kiel Is Right—Will Not Vote for Bill Again. Mayor Kiel today vetoed an ordinance, passed July 7, changing the name of the west half of Twelfth street, between Olive and Locust streets, from Twelfth Mreet to Star square. In his veto message the Mayor said: „J have the honor to return to you herewith without my approval board bill No. 339, entitled ‘An ordinance changing the name of the west half of Twelftt. street, between Locust street and Olive street in the city of St. Louis from Twelfth street to Star square.’ Reason for Veto. The bill, if it were allowed to become a law, would set a dangerous prece- dent, which, if followed, would result in end'ess confusion to the people of St. Louis. The measure designates the western half of Twelfth street, between Locust street and Olive street, as Star square, leaving the eastern half to be known as Twelfth street. “I believe the enactment of this ordi- nance soon would be followed by a flood of requests from business houses throughout the city for a change in the names of portions of streets in front of their establishments for advertising pur- poses. The requests could not reason- ably be denied if a similar request were granted at this time, and a deplorable situation would be the result. Therefore, believing the measure to be contrary to public policy, I am with- holding my approval from same Declares Ordinance Would Set TREATY FOR DANISH SLES LIKELY 10 G0 Io SENATE TODAY Must Have House Approval Also, Because of $25,000,000 Ap- propriation Needed. oe TO REMAIN DANES, Inhabitants of Three of the West Indies Will Not Change Allegiance. By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, July 25.—Official announcement was made at the White House today that negotiations virtually have been completed for the purchase of the Danish West Indies by the United States Denmark for $25,000,000. A treaty closing the _ transaction Probably will be signed today and Bent immediately to the Senate. While details of the treaty were not given out, it is understood that the United States would come into complete possession of the islands. Word had been received from Denmark that the treaty is certain of ratification by the Danish Parliament. Senator Stone of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee saw President Wilson today, but said atterward he had not discussed pur- chase of the Danish West Indies and knew nothing of the question. It is un- derstood the Government hopes the treaty will be ratified at the present ses- sion of Congress. Status Like Porto Rico. It is assumed that the status of the islands of St. Croix, St. Thomas ard St. John, should the treaty be ratified, wil. be similar to that of Porto Rico. The new treaty is peculiar in that it will require action not only by United States and the Danish Rigsdag but by the United States House of Representa- tives as well, since it will be necessary for the House to supply the needed from | | a? ee ee Map Relation to Unite Their d States, Which May Buy Them WIDOW, 80, GIVING ESTATE. AWAY SO HEIRS WON'T FUSS Mrs. Hannah Duryee’s Latest Charity Is Building to St. Louis University. Mrs. Hannah Duryee, 80-year-old wid- ow, who yesterday deeded to St. Louis University property at Sixteenth and Poplar streets, told a Post-Dispatch re- porter today that as she cannot take DISGUISED GERMAN SPY STAYS IN TOWN CAPTURED BY FRENCH Bomb Reveals Telephone—Equipped ‘Chamber of ‘Old Peasant” and He Is Executed—Former Actor. PARIS, July 2%.—How the Germans ir the first days of the Somme offensive tried to use their old methods of es- pionage is related by a French officer | just back from the Pica~dy region. When the officer and his company entered a village from which the Ger- mans had just been driven, there emerged from the ruins of a cottage an old man in peasant's clothes. In French with a rural accent, the man said he was the only resident of the village who had remained there throughout tha German occupation. While he talked a Gepman shell ex- ploded in the cellar of his house, tore a gap in the cellar floor and revealed a secret chamber hewn in rock. In the nook was a modern telephone instru- Mrs. Elrod Durgin, Adelaide Pearson Make Every Effort to Prove His Insanity. SISTER DURGIN TRIED TO MURDER COMES TO HIS AID Will Mrs. Adelaide Pearson, 41 years old, of 2237 St. Louls avenue, sister of Charies Durgin, who murdered his wife, Bertha; in the Pontiac Hotel, Nineteenth and Market streets, July 7, MOST OF POZIERES. TAKEN BY BRITISH: FRENCH ADVANCING French Take Block of Houses South of Estrees and Eject Teutons From Trenches Near V N villers South of Somme. Italians Capture Strong Mountain Position From Austrians — Russian De- tachments Are Within Ten Miles of Erzingan. PY SNDON Site” . british troops have captured the greater part of the village of Posleres, gays the British official statement, iasued this afternoon. The Germans brought up reinforcements of infantry and guns, but the counter-attacks everywhere, ok these lost their lives and five escaped. All of the 10 bodies recovered are | members of the first and second res- cue parties. The eleven workmen originally entombed are still buried. Rescuers believe the tunnel caved in | after the explosion and the remain-. ing victims are buried under tons ot mud and may not be reached for MILITIAMEN REJECTED BY U. S. Two Regiments of qeate 601 Men Be- “ow Peace Strength After Physica] Test. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., July 2%.—Official gures issued today show that of 2095 officers and men of ‘he Arkansas Na- tional Guard who were called into Fed- appropriation of $25,000,000 to defray the expense of purchase. It is understood that the people of the Danish West Indies desire to have gone, she is going to give it all away a voice in this question of cession, and that the Government has given notice before she dies. She has succeeded 380 that before it ratifies the treaty it | far in-aiving away all but five acres of would submit the question to the peo- her 100-acre estate at Jennings, on whicn F the tsia nde she lives in two rooms. and yesterday gave himself up to police in Los Angeles, today told a Post-Dis- patch reporter she would use every ef- fort to convince the prosecuting author- | ment of German manufacture. The old peasant’ was divested of false hair and beard, and was found to be a young German who had been an actor in the Royal Theater at Berlin. He had been a student in Paris a few ities her brother is insane. years before the war. He was execut- Mrs. Pearson is one of igh . rene 0 they were asleep Inder the rules of the Board of Al- dermen, the ordinance is killed by the Mayor’s veto unless the board passes it over the veto. Nineteen of the 28 votes in the Board of Aldermen will be necessary to pass it over the veto. It Was passed originally by a vote of 28 to 0. It had been rushed through the preliminary stages of legislation and her property with her and does not want her heirs to fuss ove: it’’ after she is two sisters to murder ple of the stande. It is stated further that the people] The property given away yesterday, she says, has a frontage of Ti feet and on the islands are much in favor of f the transfer to the United States, and lis worth $1000 a foot. She says she gave it for the purpose of having a hospital that the treaty is so framed that they for convalescents built. are not called on to surrender Danish allegiance—they may remain Danes in President Otting of the university said fact and in name while enjoying what- the frontage was 52% feet and that the income from the two-story building ever advantages, in a commercial way, may result from a transfer of the | would be used to help deserving poor at hospitals and clinics. islands to the United States. It is stated that formal delivery of Other Tracts Given Away. A few days ago Mrs. Duryee deeded to the territory and property ceded shall be made immediately after the pav- the Rev. Father P. J. Dunne, nead of Home, property at 22 days. 1 eral service, 922 were rejected because of failure to pass the physical examina- tions. This leaves the two regiments 691 men below minimum peace strength. HAS NEW CURE FOR INSOMNIA Austrian Physician’s Method Is a Simple Little Exercise. VIENNA, July 23.—A well-known Aus- trian physician, Dr. Ebstein, claims the discovery of a physical exercise that little attention given to it. Five Aldermen, out of 16 seen by a Post-Dispatch reporter today, stated that they would vote to sustain the Mayor’s veto. They are Aldermen Rudolph, Gregory, Richter, Reis and Baur. Aldermen Barney Schwartz and Ott» Koenig said they would vote to over- ride the Mayor’s veto. The Aldermen who stated they were undecided were Fett. Weis, Bergt, Konetzky, Wiehe, Me- Chesney, Udell, Haller and Hart. ; Revised Death List. A revised list of the dead follows: In morgue: Harry Hatcher, Toledo, gecretary International Compressed | Air and Foundation Workers’ Union; John McCormick, Richmond, L. I.; C. M. Schwind, F. E. Reep, Clarence Welsh, Archie Turnbull, G. M. Wood, Louis Zappisolli, W. Yeoman, one un- identified. In tunnel: Harry Vokes, assistant ' Superintendent; Thomas Clark, engi- | heer; Stephen Hayes, William Lahn- NEW YORK POLICE CHARGED , bers“ of Now. 14, 1891. the WITH TAKING $50,000 GRAFT Durgin’s attempt to kill his sisters was made a short time after he had shot his father. After the shooting he P osecutor Says Assessments Have fled from the city, but returned and Been Levied on Keepers of found refuge with his sisters. His trial Disorderly Houses, for the attack on his sisters resulted in NEW YORK, July %.—Fifty thousand] his being declared insane and he was dollars in graft was collected in 18 months prior to July 1 from one inspec- tion district by a coterie of officers and sent to the city santarium. Says He Was Never Normal. members of the New York Police De- partment, it is charged by Deputy As- 2 if ih Mrs. Pearson said her brother was never normal and that in his childhood he had St. Vitus dance, typhoid fever, | stein, Jack Mackey, Frank Captain, Nicola Sampilla, Patrick Kearns, J. Patton, Jack Welsh, two unidenti- led. The first rescue party accomplished nothing. The second saved one of the ‘first relief expedition. Of the eight rescu- ers who got out alive two died later. The | Others may die. Two men were so over- dome by fumes they did not go into the tunnel. Superintendent Is Brought Out. . A third rescue party entered the tunnel | &t 8:00 and brought out alive Gustav C. | Van Duzen, superintendent of water- Works construction, who had headed the _ @econd relief force. It was supposed Van Duzen had perished and he may die From his experiences. One body was also ' brought out by the third rescue party, which was headed by Thomas Z. Clancy, & stepson of Van Duzen. This was a member of tho second rescue crew. Among the dead is Harry Hatcher, Secretary of the International Com- Pressed Air and Foundation Workers’ The death of the rescuers in the first and second instances was due to the: fact that they worked without oxygen belmets, which were unavailable. That Some of those rescued afterward died _ Was due to the fact that no pulmotors Wers at hand for use in attempting to 'Tesuecitate them. This lack of rescue Apparatus was roundly condemned by the rescuers, and Mayor Harry L. Davis | today promised to conduct a rigid in- » Yestigation into this shortcoming, as well 22 into the catastrophe itself. Tue third rescue party was equipped vun helmets which had been assembled. | but nearly 11 hours had elapsed follow- ing the explosion before sufficient equip- ment to fit out the third party was at band to permit a descent into the tun- sl. rde explosion of gas occurred about | W feet from the crib in the new tunnel ich will connect with the big filtra- | tion plant recently erected on the West Cause of Explosion Uncertain. cause of the explosion has not Pet deen ascertained. It is supposed | that tome workman struck a pocket ee gas with a pick or possibly gas col- 4 lected and become ignited by an electric | Sark. The tunnel was equipped with _ thetrically driven machinery for exca- The party of 11 workmen who were Went by the explosic entered the bore at 8 o'clock last night. The work bas been carried on in three shifts. This force was in charge of Harry 1. — as shift boss. ed. intimation of the distaster came N Wunam J. Dolan, lock tender in air chamber at the entrance the dull boom of an * = 2. 8 * * \ oe tev Was thrown against the door This was about 8:3 p. m. inue. 0 or 05 fe} hv ie n — * Rig will cure insomnia. As explained in the “Physical and Diet Therapeutics Jour- nal.“ the cure consists of the simple process of grasping with both hands the head board or rail of the bed and of straining upward until the arm and rhoulder muscles are fatigued. Sleeplessness in most cases is caused by irregular blood circulation in the brain, Dr. Etstein explains. This comes to pass because of the slight difference in altitude between the head and the heart when one is lying down. By raising the arms and straining upward, the physician claims, the flow of the blood is increased, while at the same time a certain degree of fatigue aids in getting to sleep. CAN'T SPELL HOME'CITY’S NAME “Chaboygon” Best Girl Can Do, but She Gets Marriage Licenwe. A marriage license was denied to Vin- cent F. Castleman, 22 years old, and Miss Frances F. Bentz, 18, of Sheboygan, Wis., in East St. Louis, yesterday fter- noon, because the young woman couldn't spell the name of her home town. The standard of efficiency, as applied to spelling, was less severe in St. Louis and the license was granted here. Miss Bentz spelled it Chaboygon.“ a The Monday Score Home merchants’ advertis- ing carried: Post- Dispatch Alone 42 cols. Three out of all 4 of the other papers combined: 44 cols. Why’? Cireulation that clears the shelves. Average for the first 6 months 1916: Sunday only.........369,894 Daily average........213,494 First in Everything. KILLS BRIDE OF 3 MONTHS, THEN ENDS AIS OWN LIFE Kansas City Man Shoots Mate We Had Left Him Following Domestic Difficulties KANSAS CITY, July 3.—Paul Weaver, a florist’s nelper, shot and killed his bride of three months, here today, ip the laundry office in which she resumed employment after domestic difficulties had separated them. Weaver then shoi himself. His body fell upon hers. Weaver was 23 years old and his wife three years younger. Letters found in Mrs. Weaver's room „t the Young Women's Christian Association, told how different she had found Weaver after they had been married. J couldn't stick it out,’ after they had separated. CASEMENT EXECUTION ANGUST 3 Will Be Hanged Then Unless He Gets Reprieve. LONDON, July 2%.—Sir Roger Case- ment’s execution has been fixed for Aug. 8, the Daily Mail says today. Un- less granted a royal reprieve, Casement will be hanged in the yard of Pentonville Prison. she wrote WASHINGTON, July 25.—Senator Mar- tine’s resolution in benalf of Sir Roger Casement, with all the pending amend- ments and substitutes, was today sent to the Foreign Relations Committee and ef- forts to get a vote today in the Senate thus far were defeated. GEN, PERSHING SEES PAGEANT Mormons at Colonia Juarez Depict Enatry Into Mexico. FIELD HEADQUARTERS, COLONIA DUBLAN, Mexico, July A., by wireless to Columbus, N. M.—A pageant depict- ing the entry of the Mormons into Utah nearly 60 years ago and into Mexico in 1884 was presented before Gen. Per- shing and his staff today at Colonia Juarez by the Mormon colony. The band of the recently arrived Twenty-fourth Infantry assisted in the INVENTED WIRE-WOUND GUN HOBOKEN, N. J., July. %—John Hamilton Brown, inventor of the sex- mental wire-wound gun, died yester- day at his home in West Hoboken at the age of 79. His gun, a six-inch wean on, was extensively tested by the United States Government. It was constructed of serments, encased in a tensely drawn sheathing of steel wire. Its chief asset was its ability to witn- stand enormous pressures + 1 ¢* celebration. f ment by tle United States of the sum of money stipulated in the treaty, and that the cession, with the right of im- mediate possession, is to be deemed closed on the exchange of ratifications. First Negotiations in 1565. Secretary Seward began negotiations for the acquisition of the Danish West Indies in I} 5 because the naval opera- tions of the war had shown the neces- sity of a base in the West Indies. A treaty was made and ratified by Den- mark, but the United States Senate failed to act on it in proper times and it lapsed. President Wilson, in his volume of Congressional Government, written about 1883, referred to the incident as the ‘‘treaty-marring power of the Sen- ate.“ Ineffectual efforts were made to re- open the negotiations in President Grant’s administration. In 1912, soon after President Roosevelt came into of- fice, Secretary Hay took up the subject and Denmark offered the islands for $5,000,000. The United States Senate this time ratified the treaty but the Danish Senate defeated it. It was said in diplo- matic circles that German opposition, influential in the Danish Parliament, was responsible. Later judgment, how- ever, attributed the opposition to Danish aristocrats. This opposition is still said to exist, and it is raid that if the pro- posed treaty is ratified by both Govern- ments the transfer will be submitted to the people of the islands. In the first negotiations in 1865 they approved a change. U. S. WILL G VE UP GREENLAND RIGHTS FOR DANISH ISLES Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch and the New York World. (Copyright, 1916. by Press Pub. Co.) COPENHAGEN, July %.—A treaty for the purchase of the Danish West Indies by the United States has been negotia- ted between the Governments of Den mark and the United States and is to be submitted in the near future to the Senate of the United States and to the two houses of the Danish Parliament for approval, according to information gv en to the Post-Dispatch correspondent in Copenhagen by the highest official authority. if the treaty is ratified as it stands “in project form today, the Unitsd States will pay for the islands $25,000,000, and in addition will relinquish to Den- mark the rights of the United States in Greenland. Greenland is a Danish pos- session and the rights which the United States will abandon are merely rights of discovery, the scope of which is IN defined. The United States will obtain from Denmark full possession of the Islands of St. Thomas. St. John and St. Crotx | or Santa Cruz, as it is better known. the Newsboys’ and 204 South Seventh street, which she valued at $30,000 and which, she says, produces an income of $1000 a year. In the past 10 years she has given away % acres of her estate at Jennings. The land, she says, is worth from $1000 to $1500 an acre. Mrs. Duryee has been a widow for 32 years. Her husband, Abram W. Durvee, was a river captain and later in the iron business. The foundation of her estate was $6000, which her father gave her. She made real estate deals and increased it. The estate left by her husband was added to it. Ten years ago she deeded 0 acres of her Jennings estate to St. Ann’s Or- phan Asylum, for a dairy, and gave §$10,- 000 to the institution for a summer home for babies. The home was not built. Her understanding is that the money was used on the hospital at Union and Page boulevards. The ground is used for dairy purposes. Mrs. Duryee still hopes that the babies’ home will be built and says she is willing to contribute more toward its construc- tion. ! Mrs. Duryee was traveling in Florida when she became interested in a home for retired priests. On her return, sne says she called on Archbishop Glennon and offered to deed 25 acres to him if he would build such a home. She deed- ed the land, she says, but the home has not been built. The land, she savs, is rented for gardening purposes. Gave Garden to Newsboys’ Home. A year ago she deeded 15 acres, val ued by her at $15,000, to Father Dunne. for a garden for the Newsboys’ Home. This is being used for that purpose. It produces enough vegetables for the home for the entire year. Later she gave five acres to the United Workers for the Blind, but this has not been taken over. Mrs. Duryee has five acres left, on which is her five-room home. She rents three of the rooms. OIL DIVIDEND OF 100 PER CENT Standard of Ohio te Distribute Big Trofits In New Stock. NEW YORK, July %.—As a result of the enormous profits from gasoline at the current high price and the great de- mand at home and abroad for other oll products, the Standard Oi) Co. of Ohio, one of the 33 tentacles of the old trust, will declare on July 31 an extra stock dividend of 100 per cent, thereby doub- ling the company's $3,500,000 capital stock. The company has grown amazingly since the trust was dissolved. At that time the Cleveland refinery had a total daily capacity of 30) barrels of gaso- line. It le now making . barrels a day. In 1915 the company sold 0,000,000 gallons of gasoline N d sistant District Attorney James E. Smith. An investigation which already has resulted in the indictment of five po- licemen, disclosed, according to Smith, that assessments have been levied on keepers of disorderly houses in many parts of the city. Positive information, it was said, has been furnished to the District Attorney of at least 20 houses where graft was collected. EUROPE RESUMES MUNITIONS BUYING IN U. S. ON BIG SCALE Shell Orders Amounting to $33,000,000 Given—Another for $18,000,000 im Prospect. NEW YORK, July 25.—Europe has resumed munitions buying in this country on an increased scale. The American Locomotive Co. has closed ar order for eight-inch shells for Great Britain, aggregating about $15,000,000 in value, and the Ameri- car Car and Foundry Co. has closed an order for 9.2-inch shells, amount- ing to $18,000,000 in value. The American Steel Foundries is negoti- ating for an $18,000,000 order. ARMY CUT BY TUBERCULOSIS France, Up to April 1, Has Retired 116,000 Men With the Disease. NEW YORK, July 2%.—Tuberculosis has caused the discharge of 116,000 sol- diers from the French army up to April 1 of this year, according to figures brought here by William P. Hollings- worth, vice president of the American War Relief Clearing House for France and her allies. Hollingsworth, who has just returned from Paris, said that he received this information from the French Govern- ment. 4 ENGLISH IN PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS Will Be Sele Language for Primary Grades tn Chicago. CHICAGO, July %.—English is to be the only language taught in the pri- mary grades of the parochial schools of the Catholic archdiocese of Chicago, it was announced today. The change will become effective Sept. | and will affect about 125,000 school children. In the local parochial schools, o of them, 10 languages are taught. Free Band Concerts Tonight. Poepping’s Band at Carondelet Park, 7 to $:30 o'clock. Bauer's Band at Hyde Park, 7 to 3:0 o'clock. ** Dance Tonight. inquiries. ing his wife, this idea. his surrender. himself up. murder charge dition. No Reason for Murder. Durgin said he had no reason for kill- but that the impulse seized him while he was sitting in the room and watching her as she siept. At one stage of his flight, he said, he thought of killing himself, but gave up He told of taking his wife's wedding ring from her finger after shoot- ing her and of cutting off a lock of her hair and pinning it to her photograph. The picture with the lock of hair at- tached was found in his pocket after Up te Cireulit Attorney. Police Chief Young today said that when Durgin is brought back to St. Louis he will be placed in jail on a It will then be the province of the Circuit Attorney to de- cide whether he shall be tried on that charge or be subjected to a sanity in- quiry. The Chief said it was probable the State Lunacy Commission would be asked to pass on Durgin's mental con- coal from Southern | At Dakota Park, 7:30 to 9:80 o'clock. Ceal Rate te Stand, WASHINGTON, July &.—The state Commerce Commission today d clined to disturb rates on bituminous Iliinola, Western Kentucky and Northwestern Alabama to Memphis, Tens, and dismissed ta- complaint of Alabama coal operator tha: ‘fhe adjustment . mem scarlet fever and rheumatism. He first showed indications of a homicidal ten- dency five months after his mother’s death in 1887, when he shot his father in the neck in a quarrel about a sew- ing machine. After he was declared in- sane, following his attack on his sis- ters, he was for nearly 2 years a pa- talent at the city sanitarium. Durgin, after his surrender to the Los Angeles police yesterday, confessed the murder of his wife. In a rambling and, at times, fitghty statement, he said that after shooting his wife while she slept he went to Indianapolis and there took a train for the West. On arriving at Los Angeles, he said, he did not know what city he was in until he made In his rambling statement Durgin said that while he was traveling across the country and after hie arrival in Los Angeles the spirit of his siain wife ap- peared to him and urged him to give The Los Angeles police knew nothing of the murder, before Durgin surren- dered to them. Though Mra. Durgin was killed three weeks ago, the St. Louis po- lice had not sent out circulars to the police of other cities. The explanation made at the police headquarters Was that the engraver had not finished the cut for a picture of Durgin which was te be printed on the circular. Inter- ö 2 lh 10 i te j taf : —' i Tee ee as 4 SR LOM nL Pe hy Ra Te aa f i b | 10 1 f 1 z i | | “nr | — Bo mom 8 = ay sea aioe ay sham Mi te te, ead <3 - ahs Paes i i | The official French statement of last night sald: “South of the Somme a minor opera- tion enabled us to capture this morning an enemy battery south of the village + Lorme, already cited six times in army orders, ts again cited because of & series of bombardments carried out S¥ him on stations held by the enemy.” The German official report of yes- terday contained an admission that troops from the Verdun frent ary POLIERES CUT OFF BY CURTAIN . 8 * * * Pe — = N = i — a 1 1 Be al ; * * 5 * le | . 1 * — = N K 7 — ~ * . em ae r pt 1 ot D * n . 6 a ’ **