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a THE LINCOLN STAR- FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1929. DAUGHTERS OF BURNHAM WANT BODY EXHUMED Deaths of Slot Machine Manufacturer and Wife May Be Connected. Fear, Blackmail, Sinister Suggestion Serve to Deepen Mystery. CHICAGO, Feb. 8- 4P) -Pingers of fear, blurred by blackmail and stained with sinister suggestion, had left their smudgy whorls on the Burnham death mystery today.

No matter where it turned, the official inquiry into Mrs. Selma Burnham's death ten days ago followed which trail the of dread wealthy and widow distrust lived under following the death last July of her husband, Sanford A. Burnham, slot machine manufacturer. Even Burnham's death, with no thought for six months but that it was from natural causes, was drawn into the state's attorney's investigation. Burnham's daughters, Mrs.

Sidney W. Ballard of Detroit and Mrs. G. Howard Gowen, both the wives of physicians, made a formal request last night for exhumation of their father's body. A statement by Dr.

Gowen was one reason given by Henry E. Ayers, assistant state's attorney in charge of the inquiry. for believing exhumation advisable. Dr. Gowen arrived at the hospital operating room just AS an operation WAS being completed upon, Burnham the day before he died.

"I asked Mrs. Burnham why she didn't let me know her husband was 111," Dr. Gowen said. "Her answer was: Oh, I suppose you think I killed Previous statements by persons close to the Burnham household had recited the same fear by Mrs. Burnham that she might be blamed for her husbanus death.

Riley In Power. Further details of the part played Burnham affairs by Edward T. Riley, who assumed management of Mrs. Burnham's business interests last fall, were given by Mrs. Roland Collins of Palo Alto, 8 sister of the dead woman.

She visited Mrs. Burnham "while Riley was in power," she said. Mrs. Collins declared Riley was constantly warning Mrs. Burnham that her fortune was in danger, and that mysterious persons were at work to obtain her money.

Riley, she said, ordered all locks at the Burnham house changed, and he himself changed the combination of the vault the company offices on several occasions, changing it twice in one night, according to Mrs. Collins story. She said Riley is an alias, and that when he first met Mrs. Burnham in May, 1928, he described himself as "a soldier of fortune" a "government spy." Mrs. Burnham was despondent at the time, her sister said, her husband having been sued for $250,000 for alienation of fections by a Chicago physician.

She was en route to Cuba to complete the sale of slot machines to be used in Cuban gambling resorts. When Mrs. Collins visited her sister last November she said she found Mrs. Burnham suspicious of Riley. It was shortly afterward that the widow turned over 55 per cent of to the Riley, slot with machine the added company holdings stipulation that he was to have the entire estate when she died.

Mrs. Burnham went so far as to (engage a private detective agency to investigate Riley, her sister said. The agency was to turn Mrs. Elizabeth Lass Is Taken By Death MRS. ELIZABETH LASS.

Lincoln resident for over thirty years and 8. member of Electa chapter No. 8, 0. E. 8., who died Wednesday.

Funeral services will be Saturday afternoon at the First Baptist church. Interment will be in Wyuka. over its files of the case to the investigators today. Find No Will. Disposition of Mrs.

Burnham's estate has encountered difficulties through failure of her effects to reveal a will. A law firm said such a will had been drawn, and produced a copy of it. A will signed in 1920 by both Mr. and Mrs. Burnham provided she was to inherit her husband's estate in the event he was the first to die, and that upon her death it was to go to her stepdaughters, Mrs.

Ballard and Mrs. Gowen. In an effort to get to the bottom of hints of blackmail, authorities learned that Burnham was twice married, that he had been sued for alienation and that he once was arrested on serious charges involving a young woman who died before the birth of her child. Investigators said that Burnham had lost large sums gambling during his life time and that his wilow, too, frequented Chicago and suburban gambling houses. H.

T. FOLSOM HEADS WELFARE SOCIETY Board of Directors Reports Big Increase In Relief Work Last Month. H. T. Folsom was elected president of the board of directors of the Social Welfare society at the monthly meeting Thursday.

Mr. Folsom has been a member of the board since 1922, and was vice-president for two years. Other officers elected are: Mrs. Nathan first vicepresident; Joseph Gilbert, second vice-president; and G. O.

Smith, treasurer. These officers will constitute the executive committee. Mrs. Frank Williams was elected as the representative of the American Association for Organizing Family Social work and Dr. I.

C. Munger, as representative from the Social Welfare society to the Central Council of Social Agencies. Mrs. Robert Ferguson and Mrs. J.

F. Thompson were appointed members of the board for 8 two year term to succeed Edwin Walt and Oak Davis, who resigned. In addition to routine business, the board considered the great increase in families under the care of the organization and the abnormal rise in relief due to the The Month In The Skies February: Cloudy Planets The planet, Jupiter, as seen bands of clouds spun in this shape By ROBERT H. BAKER. (Professor of Astronomy, University of Illinois) URBANA, Feb.

8 (P) -The evening sky in February unusually brilliant by the presence of the three brightest planets. At nightfall they are high above the horizon, Venus in the southwest, Jupiter in the south and Mars farther east, easily recognized because of its red color. Jupiter and Venus are cloudy planets. The clouds are in bands parallel to their equator; their tops, which we see, are brilliant in the sunlight. Each planet has 8 broad band around its equator, where the updraft is great and many clouds form.

It is bordered by dark belts of descending cloud destroying currents. Other bright and dark bands occur in higher latitudes. This upside-down view of the weather in other worlds is certainly novel: it is something like the telescopic view an inhabitant of another plant would have of our weather. He would see the earth 38 a belted planet and not very much 1 of its surface. We are unable to see anything at all of the surface of Jupiter and Venus.

Doubtless they are there beneath the clouds. Remarkably clear photographs of the clouds which envelope these planets were recently mada with the extreme weather conditions, illness and unemployment. The following letter was drawn up by the board and sent to Charles Stuart, chairman of the budget committee of the Community Chest, acquainting the committee with the conditions and the necessity of overdrawing on the monthly estimates of the Social Welfare society budget: "The board of directors of the Social budget committee the the "The Welfare society wishes to call your tention to its abnormal Increase to re Hef during January. This has obviously been due to the unusual weather conditions combined with the aftermath of the influenza epidemic and unemployment. This condition is not eased by the fact that the county note has from no socal reports worker.

that "You will our our expenditures for January, 1929, are $3.857.14 as against $2.983.18 for the same month in 1928. This increase found almost entirely in relief which varied from $1,616,70 In January, 1928. to 475,91 in the same month for 1929. The number of relief receiving familles energy has been devoted to a search for creased by thirty-five over relief last year resources and solution of the and the average amount of given from wage $8.50 to $13.00 per family per month. earner's problems in relief receiving have used the utmost care in keep- Iller.

The will continue to be their ing relief to a minimum and at the same main work during February and condition long time have tried to follow the committee's 88 the present abnormal Instructions to care for the suffering dur- vails. ing these severe days. Within the time "We are submitting this report that allotted the visitors per family, consid- the committee may be fully aware of the ering that there are three, and total facts and realize that one-sixth of yearof 296 frmilles received attention during ly grant to the Social Welfare society has the month, the visitors have looked toward been spent. May we also assure you that the family's independence and rehabilita- we shall continue to use every resource tO tion as the goal. For the most part their keep our expenditures within your grant." Wards NATION NATION WIDE ID WINTER SALE WIDE EVENT A EVENT February Price Cutting Sale A Companion Event to Our Mid- Sale Women's Coats Less Than Half Price---Final Cut Many coats are offered in this drastic price-cut due to care, of rich velvet-soft cuffs low for this price suede.

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