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he Foening Sfaf. WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1926—FORTY-SIX PAGES. PRESDENT VITES ASPRIATE T INMASSHCHLSETS Mrs. Coolidge and Executive | Occupy Adjoining Booths; Study Ballots Carefully. WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and colder with frost and freezing temperature tonight; tomor- row increasing cloudiness, rising tem- perature. Highest, 5 230 p.m. yi terday: lowest, 39, at 6:15 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system cover: every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Ney York Stock Market Closed Today Yesterday’s Circulation, 100,906 20 : Entered as - cond class matter post office Washington, S (#) Means Associated Pre: No. L1 CONCRESS CONTROL AT STAKE TODAY AS VOTERS JAM POLLS Stirring Campaign Finishes Declared to Have Overcome Pre-Election Apathy. TWO , CENTS. STAR WITNESS KEP GUARDED ON EVE OF HALL-MILLS TRIAL Another Disappears as Mrs. Gibson Is Carefully Watched at Home. Gift to Stresemann | Foe by Ex-Kaiser’s Son to Be Probed By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily ewe, ovember 2.—A new HohenZollern scandal will absorb the public attention in the next few days. Former Emperor Wil- helm’s fifth son, Prince Oscar, has just sent a gift package of cig- arettes to the house of detention for a prisoner held for a murderous attack upon Foreign Minister Stresemann. The cigarettes were accompanied by a letter, which was not espe- cially significant, but was com- promising to the prince. The correspondent learns that this document is in the hands of Herr Stresemann, and the Reichs- tag will discuss the matter. 126. by Chicago (Copyright. 1926, by | Chic President’s Train Wrecks Soldiers’ Auto; Two Escape By the Associated Pres | PRESIDENT COOLIDGE'S SPE- CIAL TRAIN, NEAR WILMING- TON, Del.,, November 2.—President Coolidge’s special train, on which he and Mrs. Coolidge are traveling to Massachusetts to vote, hit an automobile at Aberdeen, Md., cross- ing at 12:42 am. today, demolish- ing the automobile, but the occu- pants escaped uninjured. ‘They were Pvts. W. J. Held and M. Irving, U. A., stationed at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds. LABOR LANDSLIDE. ™"’ SEEN IN BRITAIN e s o sy i | Real Welcome. - {Party Gains 144 Seats as T R S s Others Lose 121—Libera Poll Is Small. nent on the personalities and is-| s that have to him in virtual-| sword puzzle campatgn. | ntrol of the Seventieth Congress r ¢ GUN' 1 of nearly two-thirds of the State | e N ER O 4| B Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. hibition is likely to figure in| LONDON, November 2.—In muniel-| Staf Correspondent of The Star. affairs tn the near future, are | pal elections held in 300 towns and| NORTHAMPTON, Mass, Novem- sl iosing |8 g _{ber 2.—Just as millions of other men issues resting upon his de- | oroughs throughout England Mon and women throughout the Nation n iday, the labor victory already is as- | PLANS TO BROAbCAST PROCEEDINGS CONTINUE EIGHT STATESVTO DECIDE STATUS OF PROHIBITION| MANY FRIENDS VISIT i THEM AT RESIDENCE | Daily RACTION MERGER HEARING CALLED Many Witnesses Expected to Be Summoned When Probe Starts Tomorrow. Gorsline Denies He Told Detective Henry Stevens Fired at His Feet Night of Murder. Democratic Leaders Maintain | Claims of Landslide, But G. 0. P. Chiefs Are Confident. By the Associated Press. SOMERVILLE, N. J., November 2. —The State's chief witness for the trial of the Hall-Mills murder case, which opens tomorrow, was under heavy guard today. Another witness had disappeared. Mrs. Jane Gibson, at first was re. ported yesterday to have disappeared, but Inspector John Underwood, chief assistant to Special Prosecutor Alex- ander Simpson in investigating the case, explains that she was removed from her home and NORTHAMPTON, Mass. vember 2 (P).--The special train bearing the DPresident and Mrs. Coolidge left Northampton on the return journey to Washington just befora noon. Only a brief stop was scheduled at Springfield. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, . are doing today, President and Mrs. Although a host of candidates and | suming the proportions of a landslide. 5| : | | Coolidge went to the polls here and party managers Kept the Stump and ' gpno looo yoone o et gumnothy | o = s e N with campsighmotes il | SONCUY v out of sympathy |cast their ballots in the election. et might, they were out | With the government's efforts to end| It was merely as Calvin and Grace an wffort to swell the | the coal strike, town after town de-|Coolidge, residents of No. 21 Massa- lonthrd the balloting | feated the Conservative candidates |soit street, that they were handed | and returned Laborites. their individual ballots and dlrectedi hat | purnese munielpal elections held an-| to booths In the section allotted to the | re- | ually to seat onethird of the mem | voters of the second ward, their home | | i DEATH T0 ENEMIES re spurred to a_some in this direction b ions of the coun- most of apathy ttled upon large groups of the rate. nd Snow Reported. Weather ¥ follow desc weathe: The ye around tion of election are normally over ,Lake conditions urbance h; higan region M the Ontario. It produced light s from Mich- and Indiana eastward to the while ‘clearing and colder_ h: advanced to cover Ohio and Ken- tuc = izan ns have developed over Texas na and southern Mi: Alabama, and will_exte: Loui d th Atlantic States toy this morning at Ha Mont ay. New v, Canton, , Pensacola, Orleans, Corpus Savannah, hiristi and acuse, Montreal, Marquette ind Winnipeg. “learing will develop eastward over Northern sections today, while rin will cover most of the South- ern st including the Tennessee ley." 1 New places port cle in York City and some other entioned in the weather re- experiencing rain the skies luring the morning, result- speeding up of voting, which noticeably 1t while the d ws dispatches men- 1t it was snowing in Buffalo 15 well as Syracuse. All Leaders Claim Victory. from the isclosed no issued warring ct al da: > tumult of the campaign had Last-minute wders still made claim nothing short of a landslide, which them to wrest control of nate 1d the House from blicans other hand, spokesmen for party deciared such optimistic bubble with the counting of dowr control of the Senate, wtic party will_have to sea W held hy Re- ' way 36 zet a ma- e while 1l the of the m senatorial 1 in the Hard- and the House enure of offic e Coolidge tidal to this sit itept end on involving 1lso eall the seve lected are victory advanced to! { fect on the composition of Parliament ! but do indicate in an important way {which way the wind Is blowing | throughout the country. Returns received so far indicate that Labor has gained 161 seats and | The Conservatives have gained but 13 | seats and lost 87, a net loss of 72. The | Liberals gained 7 and lost 56, & net | 20ss of 49. | The results are of the utmost im- | portance in giving Labor control of [porl the strike in a more emphatic | manner than heretofore. | the cities the Labor gain is unprece- dented. In both Leeds and Sheffield, i ward. They went about marking their { ballots very seriously. Neither ap- { peared excited or in a hurry. They i appeared to read everything very care- { fully before affixing their markings. | _Of course, it is not known just how | tralian secret ballot is used, but one may be sate in guessing it was the | straight Republican ticket. They ap- | peared proud and content when they | walked from their booth and placed ; their folded papers in the box. They {than 1,000 miles to exercise their that they set an example to the peo- ple of the country not to abdicate | OF DUCE DEMANDED 50,000 Fascisti Echo Cry | Under Mussolini’s Window. ‘ Hint at Traitors. | | | | n today gave|lost only 17, a net gain of almost 150. | they voted, inasmuch as the Aus-| most of the industrial cities, which | seemed repaid for the trouble and ex-| g i will enable the town councils to sup- | pense of making a journey of more | jire Associated Presd ROME, November 2.—'Nothing In most of | rights as citizens, in the knowledge Short of death to all enemies of Benito { Mussolini will satisfy us,” is the of- ficial edict of the Fascist party, enun- { Labor victories give the Socialist par-| their sovereign rights of self-govern-'ciated by its secretary general, Signor ty control of city affairs for the first time in history. Labor won 10 new seats in Stoke- , 8 in_Birmingham, % in Man- | on-Trent, i ment. Town Gives Ardent Welcome. The President and Coolidge Mrs. ! Turati. A demand is to be made of | the council of the Fascist party Fri- ! day for putting to death not only fu- ! chester, 3 in Bristol, 6 in Liverpool, 5 | were made happy by the manner in , ture assailants of the premier, but of in Nottingham and 2 in Birkenhead. | which their town people greeted them ! the Meridian, | On the other hand, the Laborites were | upon their arrival at 4 o'clock this and Lucetti, now under arrest in con- three men, Zaniboni, Cappello | much less successful in the country | morning and the genuine friendliness nection with past plots to assassinate id 'snowing at Portland, | horoughs and in the suburbs of Lon-| displayed throughout their three-hour | 1| Tyyee. {don. As usual, in recent British elec- | tions, the Liberal party practically dis- | appears. | (Copyright. 1026. by Chicago Daily News Co.) | | CAPITAL MAIL VOTE * LIGHTER THIS YEAR | Most of Ballots Sent to In- | diana, Ohio, Massachu- | setts and New York. Four States—Indiana, Ohio, Mas- sachusetts and New York—received most of the votes cast by mail from the District of Columbla, it was esti- mated today by local headquarters of the Republican and Democratic parties. Although headquarters officials of the two parties were unable to give any definite figures as to the num- ber of Washingtonians voting by mail. they estimated that the total vote will prove to be decidedly lighter than tha cast during the presidential election nd slightly lighter than the vote re- ded by mall during the congres- wnal election four years ago. Dijiiculty in ascertaining the exact number of mailed ballots, it was stated, is due largely to the fact that many of the Dballots are through sources other than the n tional_headquarters of the partie In Indiana, for example, local can- didates have mailed direct personal solicitations to voters resident in Washington, who have returned their ballots directly to the clerl. of their | ms exist are many t to the the na- home county. Other situ: in other States, while there whose votes are not brov attention of the officers tional committees. ILLNESS KEPT PRINCE ot FROM RUMANIAN TRIP. Italian Heir Planned to Head Mis- sion—Ileana Engagement Not Confirmed. | By the Assoviated Press. | of the Duke of Spoleto, was to have ! arriv- | {ing will e seats some districts | ssatistied « has the s the | hese | . Wis- | Missourt, | onta itornia ange all | way from codes to expres: | iment for suidance of in the hul (‘vm—l Both wets and drys have been ac 1 of these contests, e 5. Column 4) BUCHAREST, Rumania, November —Crown Prince Humbert, instead headed the Itallan misslon here tomorrow, the newspaper Adeverul says, in commenting on the rumor of the coming engagement of Humbert and Princess lleana. Hum. bert was obliged to forego the trip, it adds, because of ill health. , Regarding the engagement report the paper states that no confirmation can be obtained from well informed | circles in Bucharest. There are no comments on the report in the othel papers Bucharest dispatches Saturday said e Rumanian government atfached t importance to the visit of th th grea Italian m fact that the party would be received at the station by King Ferdinand, and their stay. Princess Ileana is now in the United States with her mother, Queen Marie. —_ Radio ProgramsB—Page 39. mailed | -{of the Hotel Commodore, where she on, as was shown by the | i stay in Northampton. it was raining did not lessen the ardor of the citizens. More than 1,000 Dersons were at the station to extend | a welcome and which the presidential party passed | from the station to Memorial Hall, where the President and Mrs. Coolidge voted, the curbs were thronged. Flags were displayed from windows. Many {of the children and others in the | crowds along (he route waved small flags as they cheered the return of | Northampton's distinguished son and | his wife. The crowds were greatest in The fact that building in which they votec.i It was | with some difficulty that the police held back the lines as the President automobile to the place of voting. Their progress was necessarily slow because they stopped a number of !vilh 1'7ri§n1lsvl_l‘{xigg l}!e little lane (Continued on Page 4, Golumn 4.) 'WOMAN DIES IN LEAP FROM HOTEL WINDOW { Jumps From Sixteenth Floor, Two i Weeks After Death of Her Husband. . i ! By the Associated Pross | NEW YORK, November 2.—Mrs. | Elizabeth Clark Rogers, 52 years old, | of Brookline, Mass., W instantly | killed today when she jumped or fell from a window of the sixteenth floor had been staying since Sunday. | Mrs. Rogers' husband, Dr. Isaac L. | Rogers, a physician, died of pneu- monia about two weeks ago. Mrs. Rogers was the second per- son to meet death here in a fall from a_high hotel window in two Kt Yesterday Thomas H. Carter | of Englewood, N. J., was killed when !'he jumped or fell from the fifteenth ! floor of the Hotel Roosevelt. {A. R. GOULD IS VICTOR i IN MAINE’S PRIMARY | Leads Former Governor by 3,475 | in Competition for Senator Fernald's Seat. By the Associated Prese. PORTLAND, Me. November Maine's potato- growing empire, carried its favorite son, Arthur R. Gould of Presque Isle, to victory in the four-cornered con- test for the Republican nomination for United States Senator in yester- ay's primaries. Fulton J. Redman h had no opposition for the Democratic nomination. The elec- tion on mber 29 will be to com- plete the t | M. Fernald, expiring in March, 1931. With a few small towns missing Gould had a lead of 3475 over former Gov. Percival P. Baxter of Portland. 1. C. Buzzell of Belfast, president of the Maine Senate, ran 7.000 behind | Baxter, and Louis A. Jacck of Lisbon Falls. fourth, ! | opposition of the Ku Kiux Klan, { which was understood to be support: ng Buzzell. 445 Ships Use Canal. AMA, November PA 2 P — Il State pro-j po: he would act as host during | Panama Canal traffic aggregated 445 jcommercial ships during October. These vessels paid tolls aggregating $1,989.338. Canal officials anticipate a record {year in tolls. The monthly averages for the 10 months of the calendar year slightly exceeded $2,000,000. ong the streets over | the vicinity of the picturesque oid i and Mrsa Coolidge walked from their | times to bow or wave or shake hands | rm of the late Senator Bert | i won in spite of the reputed ' Signor Turati thundered the Fascist party’s demand for the death of Mus- ! solini’s enemies to a crowd estimated jat 50,000 under Mussolini’s window in | Colonna Square last night. Mussolini jwas not home at the time. Black | Shirts in procession in every city and |town in Italy repeated it, and it was ! printed in large black type upon the front pages of the newspapers. ! “Yes, death! Hang all of them,” was | shouted back at Turati by the listen- {ing multitude. | Hints at Traitors in Ranks. | signor Turati discarded the possi- | bility of attacks upon the premier !having been isolated acts of individ- uals. He said that time had come when | traitors must be sought even in the {ranks of Fascismo. The sixth narrow escape of the pre- mier from death is increasing the be- lief among the people of his invul- nerability. “This is a new sign that Mussolini has God's full protection,” commented Pope Pius. Nevertheless, it is the idea of the authorities here that Italian exiles ! outside Italy will continue efforts to | assassinate the premier as the only { means to rid Italy of Fascism. | Mussolini has given the sash of the Order of St. Maurice and!St. Lazarus which was plerced by the a: bullet Sunday as it was draped across his breast to the City of Bologna to be conserved among the souvenirs of Bologna's Fascism. Reports Mussolini Protected. From Luga, Switzerland, a corre- spondent has informed the Dalily Her- ald of London that the bullet aimed at Mussolini was deflected by a jacket of hardened leather which the premier wore beneath his black shirt. Advices from Nice, France, tell of a violent anti-French demonstration in the Italian border town of Ventimig- lia. A French railroad employe and several comrades were beaten when the employe failed to uncover during the playing of the Fascist hymn. A demonstration was held in front of the French consulate, from the bal- { cony of which a Fascist made an anti- French speech. The Paris Excelsior's correspondent in Rome says the Italian ministry of the interior has ordered the prov! sional suspension of non-Fascist new: papers throughout Italy. | ATTACKER ONCE FASCIST. Youth's Father Had Foreboding Dreadful Happening. BOLOGNA, November 2 (8).—Ar nouncement was made at the prefec ture of police today that Anteo Zam- { boni, who attempted to kill Premier ! Mussolini, belonged to the Fascist | youth, but that he had not attended | the organization’s meetings for more | than a vear. It was added that Mam- molo Zamboni, father of Anteo, at one | time was connected with anarchist i circles in Bologna, but had disasso- ciated himself from any subversive | activities for years past. Anteo was a pale, fair-haired youth of 15. His father is the proprietor {of a printshop. The father used to of on the injustice of all governments. { He abandoned his revolutionary ideas | some time ago, but not until they had | penetrated the mind of Anteo, the | youngest son. The two other boys followed their | father’s example, one entering the Fascist militia and the other serving | in the army, while Anteo nursed his lidcas by the clandestine reading of | propagandist literature. | Knowing of his father's change of { heart and fearing his wrath, since the {elder Zamboni was a strict discipli- | narian, Anteo worked quietly as an as- | sistant in the printshop, not voicing | his ideas, which, however, the father suspected. Sunday night, after the tragedy, a tired-looking #@n of middle age, obvi- (Continued 0¥ Page 5, Column 2.) | discoursa lengthily to his three sons | INTERESTED LISTENERS-IN. ASTRID TRIES ON WEDDING GOWN, THEN BAKES HER PRINCE A CAKE Swedish Princess Overwhelmed by Bril- liant Preparations for Wedding Thurs- day to Leogold of Belgium. By the Associated Press. STOCKHOLM, Sweden, November 2.—Princess Astrid tried on her wed- ding gown today and found it a per- fect fit. Later she went to the kitchen of the family apartment and baked a chocolate frosted cake for the de- lectation of the Belgian Crown Prince Leopold, to whom she will be married Thursday. The cake will meet its destined fate tomorrow, when two Kings, two Queens, two Crown Princes and eight princesses will sit down to dinner in honor of Leopold and his bride. To- morrow, incidentally, is Leopold's 25th birthday, and extensive prepa- SCRIVENER CASE THEORY TESTED Detective Demonstrates Pis- tol May Be Accurately Fired With Left Hand. tions have been made for its celebra- tion. Astrid, although niece of the King of Sweden, will virtually move from apartment to palace by her marriage | to Leopold. The home of her parents, | the Duke and Duchess of Vastergot- land, in which she and her sisters have lived since childhood, is, despite its luxurfousness, in reality an apart- ment of the type famillar to Ameri- cans The 20-year-old princess, who is | known throughout Sweden as the per- | sonification of modesty, has heen | overwhelmed by the brilliant prepa- | rations for the wedding and the fuss | (Continued on Page 5, Column 6.) Freezing Weather Due Here Tonight, ays Forecaster ‘Washington _is due for a dose of freezing weather tonight, accord- ing to Forecaster Charles L. Mitch- ell of the Weather Bureau. “There’s not much news in that,” the weather expert declared. Such things are to be expected right along now. And, besides, we've had a couple of freezes already this year.” Rapid meteorological changes are taking place in this section of the country, he added, and as a result Washington may experience several kinds of weather bhefore long. Tomorrow, for instance, the skies probably will get cloudy and precipitate some rain, he says, and there won't be much of a rise in the température, either. Further North, he said, this condition will result in sno: Further tests with the pistol found at the scene of the killing of Detec- tive Arthur Scrivener last October 13 led at the District Morgue yes- v a man can hold a pistol in t hand at 10 inches range from a target and place a bullet within an inch of the center of that target. de- spite the fact that the weapon is in- verted and the thumb is used to pull the trigger. Inspector Henry G. Pratt, chief .of s, made that demonstration v, although he had never be- fore held a pistol with barrel inverted and trigger uppermost to fire with his left hand. The bullet went within three-quarters of an inch of the cen- ter of the objective. Doubt Is Dissolved. The effect of the test was, in the minds_of some investigators, to dis- solve doubt that it was possible for a man to commit suicide with a weapon held 10 inches from his heart. Since the heart presents a target of more than 2 inches, the test showed a bul- let wound three-quarters of an inch from its center would go through it. Another angle was brought to light. That was the fact that when the .38-caliber Harrington & Rich- ardson pistol, found at the death scene, was held in normal fashion, right 'side up, it left powder marks on the hand that pulled the trigger. When held in an inverted position, however, no powder marks were left. Dr. Joseph D. Rogers, deputy cor- Poner, stated that a post-mortem ex- amination of Scrivener's hands fail- ed to reveal any powder burns. Police Views Withheld. Police investigators refused to an- nounce in which way the tests sway- ed them. It was admitted, however, MRS. F. R. DICK KILLED WHEN HORSE FALLS Cousin of Late President Roosevelt Was Riding in Fox Hunt on Long Island. By the Associated Press. BROOKVILLE, Y., November 2.—Mrs. Fairman R. Dick, the former vs Roosevelt, a cousin of the late President, was killed today when she was thrown from her horse dur- ing a fox hunt. Mrs. Dick was a_painter as well as soclety woman. She was a_daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Ellis Roosevelt, and was married to Mr. Dick in 1913, He is a member of Roosevelt & Son, a banking firm in the downtown financial district. The accident occurred shortly be- fore 11 o'clock, near the country es- tate of George F. Brewster. Mrs. Dick’s mourt caught its knee under a rall in a jump and landed on top of her. The hunt is a popular soclal affair regularly staged by the Meadow- brook Hunt Club of Long Island. that, regardless of the case they are investigating, the tests had some effect in proving that a suicide could bhe committed by a man with a pistol held 10 inches from him in his left hand. No decision has been made by the police as yet regarding an exhuma- tion, the opinion prevailing that such a step should not be taken until they are assured of its absolute necessity. They stated that they had not vet reached this stage of assurance. The | blurred finger prints on the pistol made it a matter of speculation as to the good which could be done by com- paring the prints of Scrivener's left hand, which had never been photo- graphed, with the print on the pistol. TInquest Again Postponed. The inquest has again been post- poned. ' Instead of being held next Monday, it will be opened on Novem- ber 16, it was announced last night. Originally it was to have been held yesterday The ‘delay is to allow fullest investigation of every possible angle of the case. Authentic Associated Press sively from that station. Two Quakes Shake Manila. MANILA, November 2 (#). — Two earthquakes in quick succession shook Manila today. No damage was reported but many persons rushed from buildings, which swayed per- ceptibly. “Does the general public desire a merger of the local street car com- panies?” “What measures should be included in a bill to be recommended to Con- gress to bring about such a merger?” These two questions will be pro- pounded by the Public Utilities Com- mission at an informal public hearing in the boardroom of the District Build- ing tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock on the proposal to ask Congress to enact a law “to compel the traction companies to enter a voluntary mer- ger.” A number of suggestions already have been made to the commission to induce the street car companies to| unite. These include an increased tax. ation on gross receipts, an annual franchise tax, compulsory issuance of universal transfers, rerouting and other types of unified service, if the companies do not merge, according to an approved plan, by 2 certain time; or redlction of tax burdens, assurance of monopoly and revocation of regula- | tions compelling companies to furnish crossing policemen and pave slree!s! on rights of way if they consent to merge. Officials of the traction companies and representatives of varfous civie or- ganizations are expected to attend the hearing. Utilities Commission offic have prepared to hear more than a score of witnesses MAIL BANDITS FLEE INRAIN OF BULLETS Louisiana Posse Pursues Outlaws After Robbery of Rural Carrier. 7 the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, Two unmasked b November ndits held up a rural mail carrier at St. Rose, near here, early today and escaped in an auto. mobile with a mail pouch. The con- tents of the pouch were not made known, but it was believed to have contained the pay roll for an ofl re- finery at Harahan, near the scene of the holdup. The pouch, which had been thrown off of a passing train, was believed to have contained very little money. The rural driver, after picking up the pouch, was held up at @ lonely spot along the road. Harahan and officer. handits as they drove place. Instead of stopping, the men fired a volley at the officers and drove past at terrific speed. Piling into auto mobiles, a hastily assembled pos gave chase, firing at the bandits 3 rleans police were notified and reserves m four precinct sta tions were detailed to guard roads en- tering the city. As the bandits neared the residen- tial sections, however, their automo bile outdistanced that of their pur-. suers and they disappeared in the maze of streets. G. 0. P. WINS FIRST TOWN Mashpee, on Cape Cod, Votes for Butler and Fuller. BOSTON, pee, on Cape Cod, the first Max chusetts town to report in toda election, went heavily The vote for United States Senator was Willlam M. Butler, Republica David I. Walsh, Demoerat, 127 * The vote for governor was: Alvan T. Fuller, Republican, 57: William Al Gaston, Democrat, 5. accosted the through that Tonight’s Election Returns To Be Broadcast Over WMAL (2939 Meters) From the Newsroom of he Foening Staf bulletins will be interspersed in the regular program from 7 until 10 o'clock, and from 10 o'clock until midnight The Star’s election returns will have the air exclu- Will P. Kennedy of The Star's staff will be the announcer. Stereopticon bulletins will be shown also on screens on the Pennsylvania avenue front of The Evening Star Building. He telephoned | November 2 ®).—Mash. | Republican. ! placed under guard. Mrs. Gibson, known as the woman,” has sald that on the n of the murder four years ago she was | riding her mule in search of thieves and witnessed the crime. declares that she recognized at the scene Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, the clergyman’s widow; Willie Ste- vens, her brother, who with Henry Stevens, goes to trial with her to- day for the murder of Mrs. Mills, and Henry de la Bruyere Carpender, a ¢ousin of Mrs. Hall. The witness who vanished is Rev | Paul Hamborsky, who is | Florida. He informed the prosecuti that Rev. Mr. Hall told him a few days before the murder: “Henry Ste- vens has threatened my life. “pig Tongue Not Dr. Otto Schultz of the D district attorney’s office, who per formed autopsies on the hodies recent- Iy, has found there is no foundation {for rumors that Mrs. Mills' tongue Was cut out. | Ralph V. Gorsline, vestrvman of ! Dr. Hall's church, denies charges of I Mr. Simpson that he told a detective {he was confronted by Henry Stevens | on the night of the murder and told {to “get to hell out of here” after two | shots were fired at his feet. In mak- ing_the denial Gorsline remarked: “There-will be a day of reckoning after the trial.” WOR intends to broades having set_up a transmitte ters near the courthouse. | Following are the chief figures in the tragedy: 1 Whegler Iall. rector of the Church of St. John the st, in New Brunswick. He in with Mrs. Mills September and their bodie e found s later. There a_bullet hole in his head rried Frances Stevens, 18 when he was Three Wounds in Head. Mrs. Eleanor Rhinehardt Mills, 33, lstatn with Dr. Hall; leader of Dn Hall's choir and wife of James Mills, itor of Dr. Hall's church and ischool. She had twe children, Ch lotte, now 19, and Daniel, now 12 Love letters from her to Dr. Hall were scattered over their bodles e three bullet holes in her d ad cut. Mrs. now 59, widow of Dr. descended from jan old New England family from | which she inherited $300,000. She ! denifed all knowledge of th w t the trial, in quar- Frances § H Hall, love affalr between her husband and Mrs. Mills, jand repeatedly stated she welcomed investigation. Since indictment she { has been out on bail Henry Stevens, 58, brother of Mrs | Hall, formerly a small arms expert, good-natured. ev with an inheritance retired to his home jat Lavalette, N. J., several years ago |to devote his time to hunting and ! fishi He claims as an alibi that {he was fishing on the night of the murde He was a last Sey tember and _indicted by the same grand jury that indicted his sister. i F ! willie { ward of Mrs, rest and indictment his time to being an man in New Brunswick $260,000 and lived with his sister. | Fingerprints said to be his were ! found on rd at the feet of Mr. | Hall. | "Henry de la Bruyere « a cousin of Mrs fortune of $1 Wall Street broker. He c was at dinner | with friends on the night of the mur- indicted with his cousins, for trial later Gibson, the a ! *d man, jof $175.000, wh gerprints on Card. Stevens, 52, brother and Hall, who until his ar- devoted most of honorary fire- He inherited pender, 53, 10 built a tate’s chief was formerly a cireus Alses pis: he claims 1 the murder while in search of ecorn . Sh rider, and now to have witnes: riding mule thieves. Ralph V. M. Gorsline, vestryman in 1 Dr. Hall's church, who was with Miss | Catherine Rastall, a member of the { choir led by Mrs. Mills, in De Rus isey's lane near the scene of the murder when it was committed. Their | presence in the lane was not revealed { until four_years after the crime. | James Mlills, husband of the mur- dered choir singer, who denies that he knew of his wife's love affair. He jwas sexton of Dr. Hall's church. His {daughter, Charlotte, wa. in high | school four yvears ago and is now working. RUMA&IAN KING BETTER. Ferdinand’s Health Greatly Im- proved, Dispatches Say. By A. R. DECKER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News VIENNA, November 2.—Dispatches from Bucharest state that the health of King Ferdinand of Rumania has improved greatly and add that Queen Marfe has no Intention of altering {u‘rxher the plans of her American rip. The Queen has invited a number of rominent Americans to visit Ru- iulnm. and become better acquainted Kith the country. (Copyright, 1926. by Chicago Daily News Co.)