By ROBERT rr. ssflum.
Special Correspondent of The
Evening Sentinel.
. 1 (Copyright 1925).
. ASHINGTON. April 30. ——-“He
all sorts of "Bill" -— some call
fills “lilfild~ Bill," others ."‘Fighting
ll”‘-or “Galloping Bill" -— but
flie‘re is respect for the man in every ,
mile of them and that is why Colo-
lVVllliam J. Donovan is regarded.
‘M such a. power in the reorganized
11nd much talked about Department
at Justice today.
; Attorney General Sargent had not
‘long been at his desk when he made
up his mind that Bill Donovan, who
had come to the Department under
...jAttorney “General Stone, after the
'Daugherty regime was ended, should
be his chief/assistant. And Dono-
’:‘an. always ready and fit for any
- assignment, has slipped into his new
_I.luties as quietly and peacefully as
he went out to the world war. In
1peace ‘Wlld Bill’ is anything but
i 'wild. But when action is called for
11.4, is “Galloping Bill." always first
diver the top and always the ag-
gressive leader. ~
‘Bill Donovan is one American. who
'b‘lmk in the dark ages of 1916 fore—
'saw that America would not be able
1:0 keep out of the World war. He
ihad been to Europe. The Ameri-
cans who in those days had been to
“EurOpe. had seen the ghastly strug-
gle at close range. quickly Were con-
vinced that. this country inevitably
would be drawn in if our protesta-
tions of liberty and democracy were
to mean anything at all.
The difficulty with the Americans
,“returning from the war-torn coun-
tries was that no one on this side
. ot'tlie water could see their point
:0! view. Bill Donovan was more
1‘fortunaie in this respect. lie was
‘ commander of a cavalry troop up in
.Buffulo. N. Y. He told his comrades
[in arms of the war; told them that
two-were sure to go in and began
.trainlng for the fray. All that Don-
'ovan predicted came true and he and
the men he had trained were ready.
There were very few others ready.
.even in the regular army. The reg-
ular army explained that they had
been warned that to prepare for
, War would not be neutral. “Hill"
‘.Donovan is never neutral. He is
too vital for that. And he believes
always in being’flt. - There is noth-
ing flabby about the new chief ss-
sistant to the Attorney General of
the United States. He is hard phys-
ically and mentally. Some of the
soldiers called him "Hard Boiled"—
' that was a favorite term, but "\Vild
Bill" never asked his men to do any-
thing that he was not capable and
willing to do.
He scrambled with them over
rwalls, and fences and broken ter-
rain and when they were fatigued
' p; he Boys; of the Rainbow Div: .
‘ [1m Won _Co gresslonal M 313"
he cheerim them up,
to be men. to be hatch: and always
he made light oil the thanks ahead.
This doesn’t mean. that he is the
cheerful optimist. Far from it.
knew when things were wrong, but
he believed that the fit man could
overcome every obstacle. 1
All of . his comrades“ knew that
when "Fighting Bin," Wentto France
he would acquit himself- -w_ith honor.
They did not know. however. that
he would come back with the great-
est honor of all—the medal of val-.1~
or voted by the Congress. .
\Yet it seemed entirely natural
that he should. So today the assist-
ant to the Attorney General is' en-
titled te the privileges of the floor
or the Senate and the House of Rep
resentatlve‘s: is entitled to the salute
from a major general. Here is the
citation which ' accompanied the
medal: .
"Willem. Joseph Donovan. Colo-
nel, cavalry officers' reserve ‘corps.
then Lieutenant Colonel. 165th In-
fantry, Forty—Second Division. for
conspicuous gallantry and. intrepid!-
ty above and beyond the call of du-
‘ty, nenr’Landres and St. Georges.
France. October 14-15, 1918. ‘Colo-
nel Donovan personally led the as-
saulting wave in an attack upon a
very strongly organized position. and .
Nebraska amazed with
when our troops were suffering
heavy casualties he encouraged all
near him by his example. moving
along his inen in an exposed posi—
iion, reorganizing dccinmted plat-
oons and accompanying them for-
ward in attacks. W'hen he was
wounded in the leg by
chino gun bullet he refused to be
evacuated with his unit until it willi—
drew to a less exposed position.”
The Forty-Second was the famous
Rainbow Division. Did the Medal
of Honor make Bill Donovan "swan-
ky?” Not a bit of it. He deposit~
ed the medal with the New York
Chapter of Rainbow Division \‘etcr-
one saying:
“This medal “as truly “an by our
entire comm and. "
There you hour the index to the
character or the new power in the
Department of Justice ——- a. man. an
athlete in his days at Columbia. lini-
verslty in New York. a product of
Buffalo. a lighting lrishmsn, a ilrm
friend. a. feared foe. The Depart-
ment of Justice is fortunate to have
such a. man, especially at this tlma.
MAX-NA \VINS STAKES.
NEVVMARKET, England. Apt-u
30.——.\iannu. won the 2.000 guinea
stakes here yesterday afternoon and
paid bets at 100 to 8. St. Bacon was
second and OoJah, third.
King George's entry. Kunny Mode.
failed to plucé. The King and Queen
Mary attended the races.
he thumped 1
his own chest and told. the others
a. ma- '
He‘.
.. cmcso‘o; mu ‘ ses... 1: amus-
lng chapter is being added to the
history tot American crime by the
,parallel cases of three women—hone
irom Ohio, one from ‘Illiuoil and
the other from Nebraska-who have
recently confessed Wholesale poise
onlng of their kin. -
Mrs. David Cunningham of "Chi-
cagotadmits that she killed her
husband and tour'c‘hildren. A .ri‘tth
child, also poisonedpmay llVe.
Mrs- Martha Wise. 'Medlna. 0.,
widow ,solved the mystery ofl-the
poisoning of 18 yersons. three ‘ of
whom died trom the effects, by con-
iessing that she fed them arsenic.
\lrs. Emmanuel Sorenson- has all
her culm-
ncss as she awaits trial on the
charge of killing eight persons. in—
cluding her first husband and three
of her own children.
In all three cases the murders
were committed over long periods.
Husband Poisoned um .
The Cunningham: lived on a farm
at lluchlcy Corners. Ind. In 1919 the
father died there. His death was
much the same in circumstances as
those; that followed—intense stom-
ach pains. a sudden attack and sev-
eral,days of illness. She collected
the $1.000 insurance and the family
moved to Gary; A year later a
daughter. lsabelle. 28. died. She had
been insured for $1. 000 1m live
weeks before her death.
Harry. 2:.- wss the next victim.
He died in 1921,1ess than a year
after he had been insured for only
$830. In 1923 the youngest.son. Weir
ter. 13 died. His insurance amounb
ed to only 8180.
When the last of tfhe boys, Da-
\id. .lr., was seized with a sudden
attack and taken to a hospital. an.
thoritles began to investigate the
series of deaths in the Cunningham
family. The bodies were exhumed.
their organs tested. and Mrs. Cun-
ningham arrested. Her contessioned.
Blaine: "the Devil."
Mrs. Martha Wise declares that
"the devil .made her" poison to
death her mother, Mrs. Sophie Hez-
el: her uncle. Fred Gienke. Sn, and
his wife. Lily. and cause the illness
of 13 other relatives and friends. On
three occasions she put arsenic into
the pails from which lhe'Hasels and
the Gienkes. living in semrate‘housv
cs. drew their water {or cooking.
The case of Mrs. Soreuson is more
sensational than either of the other
two. Because "they bothered me,"
she decided to kill them. Her vic-
tims were two children of her first
husband's sister. her first husband.
her ilrst' husband's mother. one of
her children by her first marriage.
two of her children by her second
marriage. and the baby of a relative
by marriage.
All or the women are declared by
alienists to be mentally deficient. all.
they say. being sufferers from as.
mentia praecox, the brain ailment .
which allowed Loch and Leopold,
highly educated and wealthy Chi-
cago youths. to murder the Franks
boy without a shudder. .
Mrs. 'Wlse is (I and the mother or
tour children, none of whom 'she
attempted to poison: Mauser-each»
is 23.3113. Cunningham is‘ in her
fifties.
. Women Greatest Poisoners.
Although women are less addict~
ed than men to crime. in all assas-
sinations by "poison the percentage
of women criminals ‘is’ ' extremely
high. 'a. hhenomenon explained.
psychologist say. by the fact that
they control the household kitchen-
Excluding the Borgia family. the
most celebrated polsoner in history
happens to have been a woman. His-
lorinns are still busy with her. This
is the Marquise do Brindeviilers. who.
with the notorious.
poisoned her father and two broth-
rm to get their. fortunes. She also
administered. on several mesons.
doses of arsenic to her‘deughter and
hushmd. but always changed her
mini; about killing them. and gave
them timely nndidotes.
Auto Deal In Accldeulsl.
“’ATERBURY. April 30.—Cor0°
tier John T. Monmnl, in a finding is-
sued yesterday. finds that the death
of Mrs. Louise Pierce of Meriden.
who died‘xarch 29. after the our in
which she 'wnsyriding‘with her hue-
band left the road and turned over.
was not caused by the‘eriminul neg-
ligence of any person. Pierce claims
he was dazzled by the lights of an
approaching. unidentified car. He
turned oft the road and his‘car hit
large rocks causing the automobile
to i H [Ti over.
Who Will Be Hostess During Von Hindenburg’ s Regime?
{Wife Died in May, 1921
-j——Has Sister Who Is
74—Also 2 Daugh-
ters
13ERLIN. Apr. 30.—-The question
381 to who will fill the role of hos-
tess in the German White House
firing the incumbency of President
on Hindenburg is causing much
fieculation among members of Ber-
s society.
on Hindenbuig’s wife. nho “as
Wild Von Sperilng. died in May
3.921., since which time the Hanover
ehold of the Field Muishall has
conducted by a housekeeper.
.‘President-eiect has a. sister,
Ida. butshe is seventy four
, aid. only recently passed
a. serious operation and her
.not of the best.
Regular Duties.
'xecutive office. Among the
duties of the first lady of
laud are the making of provi-
. 310:- receptions and dinners to
‘ ioz‘natic corps, members of
cabinet. and parliament. men or
e.” learning. art, or finance
dutinguished visitors from
a quite out of the question
ulein Ida. should attempt to
lace by her brother's side.
. likely first lady is his
din-law. Margaret, nee Bar-
on’ Marenholtz. who is dos--
as one of the most beautiful
' S the German nobility.
,, es. ,Margaret married
Marshal iVon Hindenburg's
wn Oscar. who is a captain
3%” . hen Reichswehr and who
war- was attached to the
my headquarters as an ad-
79sec:- and his wife, with
dugnters, respectively
ne. have been living at
be near the Field Mar-
will probably move to Ber-
Latest Photo of Von H indenburg
of Germany, to reach this wintry
W“. , .
tors, and Generals who fought under
Field Marshal Von Hinden‘burg or
'a'll joining in deluglug he pres’ii
dent-elect Iwith congratulatory mes;
Little Debate on Meas-
ure Which Adds Fri-
gay Night to Use of
STATE antral. Berliord. Ap-
ril so-rn contrast with the long
Viind lively debuie in the House last
week, the Senate yesterday. after
explanation by senator Pollen of
the ash and game committee and
brief questioning by several other
senators. adopted the shed bill in
concurrence with .the House amend-
ment which added Friday night to
the four days on which shad nets
might be used. Sena-tor Pierson
thanked Senator Pelton "tor the
change of heart of the committee"
in adding Friday to the list of
days.
Senator Pelton explained as an
interesting feature of the bill that
it does away with fixed shad ncls.
He said that the evil of the fixed
net was that it held shad until they
died and roe in dead temale shod
could not be used for artificial pro-
pagation while with the swinging
net roe shed were taken and the
ripe roe could be used for propngn-
lion purposes. The bill the senator
thought, was a good measure in an
' extort to stock waters with shad.
Other .Bills.
adopted bills incorporating the
Law: the City Guaranty and Secur-
ity Company;
ate existence of the Watson Trust
Senators E. F. Hall and Ander-
risen, with Senate Clerk Baker at-
tended the tuners! of Assistant
Senate Clerk Nowicki at New Brit-
ain prior to the session yesterday.
Chaplain Aver referred 10 Boys
' -Week in his prayer. and asked for ’
" Divine guidance for all those who
The latest photo of field lint-shill You mam
simwshunmm;nm_
1 boys and girls.
are email this week in directing
the sétivlties and energies of both
A labor bill reported would
mend Section 6305 and provide
that: no public restaurant. cafe.
dining room. barber shop,. hair.
dressing or manicuring establish-
ment. or photograph gallery. shall
‘rmaecdiwith the labor
. With little lessor time the Senate
“airfield County. Mortgage and Title - ,
Company; the Hartford College of 7
revising the corpor- "
Company and amending its charter; 1‘,
the Mortgage Bond and ‘Title Corn»
puny. I
Enforcement: of this
$5; continuing for two years the
committee; former Senator J. H.
MacDonald, of New Haven. Repre-
sentative J. H. Hill at Shelton and
Representative Averill of Brsniord.
as a. committee to investigate the
present ballot system. and making
an appropriation at $50.000 for
maintenance of normal trade
schools by the state board of edu-
cation: providing a. method of us-
sessing, abutting property owners in
“alter-bury for the costs of putting
in sewers: placing collection and
disposal of garbage in Weierbury
under the public worksdepsrtment:
determining the boundaries of ‘the
Naugstuc-k river within the Wster-
bury limits; creating a issuers and
engineers fund in Stamford. Es-
tablishing in Waterqu two sink-
ing funds to pay the city's indebt-
ounces.“
The Judiciary committee report-
ed favorably a. bill to give the motor
Salute-C rolx.‘
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Size 27x54
SMYRNA BUGS
srucmL $2.98
HEATHERDOXW
WOOL RU GS
Plain Colors—Size
SPECIAL $250
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BOSTON BAG
15 inch; Black Enamel
SPECIAL" . 98c
Margaretfiifiord l
{Chosen Miss Stamford:
STAMFORD. April 30.—
Miss Margaret Estelle Redford.
»_ pretty :0 year old brunette, of To-
BRIDGEPORT. April :0.——Morris
and Bertha Yudaln. husband and
wife. proprietors of the Outlet store.
New Canaan. were named defend-
ant indwo common court actions
started in Common Pleas court and
one in Superior court yesterday.
Jacb \i’eissman of Stamford brings
suit in Superior court to recover a.
loan of 81.700. The Till Shoe com-
pany sues for $109. and the Rubin
Shoe company. New York. sues for
$151.50 in Common Pleas court.
Asking permission to foreclose an
311.000 mortgage hold on the prop-
erty of the Bmxllllan Rubber Cement
company. Springdale. Stanton-d.
George D. Zahn. trustee. at New
York. brought suit in Superior court
today.
James J. Bax-net of Port Chester.
N Y.. brought suit against the Mir-
ror-scope company of America. lo-
cated in Greenwich. in Superior
court. asking damages of 53.000 for
alleged failure of the defendant to
meet an obligation for that amount.
Benjamin Butler Davenport and
Lenin P. Devenport at Stamford,
filed suit in Superior court against
Allen M. Cristy and Leonard P.
Crisscy oi Jamestown. N. Y; asking
the court to set at rm" several ones-1
tlons concerning title to 78 acres of
land in, flew Canaan.
vehicle commander power to re-
fund registration fees whenever I.
motorist is entitled to the same.
This session sunny special bills have
been considered to make refund:
for various centre. A tenets! law
will save labor at nature sessions.
1 LOCAL MEN'gcli'lCONTRAC'l'
The three largest items on the ad-
dition to the South Nor-walk Trust
co. have gone to local firms.
Mattieilo & Lasprogate have been
handling the construction for the
past tire weeks. Today it was an-
.nouneed that Nelson M. White has - ’
been gijen the plumbing cunmufi.
electric work will be done *
‘As can seem spawns musr co.
mIlIlOOK "e
be the four windows for the savings
department. ~
:.In the rear Will be the Safe. De.
posit Vault. coupon booths. a dorm
mlttee room, and a: book vault and
sound profit room for the would:-
The main ,lobbeg'counter screen
I Winn 11:11:):er '
keneke, was named Miss Stamford?
last night at the State Armory by
Miss Ruth Malcolmson, the winner
of last year's Atlantic city beauty
pageant. when out of a large num-
ber of beauty candidates she
chosen as America's prize beauty.
Miss Redford who was presented
last night with a silver loving cup
by Miss America is a typical Ameri-
can girl and is well known in Stam-
ford social circles where she has a
large host of’ (fiends.
Her younger sister. Elizabeth
Redford. who is 18. was unanimous-
ly chosen the second best of Siam-
!ord's bevy of beauties. She was
“(15'
given a bounce.
award.
Dancirc "EL .
sylvania . .-
tour‘ing lit-2 _.
colmson are} hit ..
joyed L} 1%.
present.
had bobil
‘ ‘0 Wu?“
. her on e‘
d hair.
A Cough Iacmvdy “idle:
Many Cv
some ore 0'
which are -1. 0‘. to tz’n‘
of opiates. . of 12a
substitutes 1:;l‘c- exer
FOLEY’S Hi‘in-JY AXE fr.
POUND.
gredient is pi -
carton.
taking When you 21‘
clings to ‘he i.
and young. You 2‘.
not try ii'.‘ i”: f. -
son Pencil Cunt—exit.
..
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TWENTY MILLION PEOPLE LABO
. .Do you lmow that this vast army of pcoplcaro engaged
3’ lguring‘ wlihpennndpencll—forwhu?
Merely (0 man ..
Think of this excessive me of human endeavor doing a '
the old way. when there is a machine “‘illlin the radii!
whidn does the work accurately in less than half th time.
The minis; Gsleulator is .. small. porlahlc mm
odds. mum-Mani! divides.
It is now is as
7W at profession-l and hairless men. mum of whom
sent us voluntary letters or conunendation about in
service It calculates accurately, and prow< lllc assure ..
quickly till]: a machine filling for several hundred dollars
yet it retails tor only $15.00.
Tea 0" “use devices as! less than the price or one a w ..
m whine. and will do twenty times as muth work. a
Calculator is shipped In a neat, attraclhe vol-inn. will! is!
W m its opentions. and accompanied by I ~-
mus which milieu replacement. should the machine gel
of order within lire years. When you have (he Calculator .
We its elm yet speedy and neutron: Opt‘l’flliOlL.
willwonderhowmerergotuongwlthom it.
Call Mrs. Dean
Royal James Hotel
. for Demonstration
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