Evening Star Newspaper, November 6, 1926, Page 5

RECORD THRONGS VST MU SHOW New Blooms Being Placed in, Anticipation of Great At- | tendance Tomorrow. Attendance records are being broken daily at the twenty-fifth annual free chrysanthemum show of fhe Department of Agriculture and | the receptions being held by Mr William M e, wife of the Sec- reta . the leaders in a the the eshibitio h society to m, spicuously of children, i an even larger number ¥ bi 5 Special a sre heing made to take 1nd parking space for auto- niobiles have been provided. One of the most enthusiastic visit- ors today was 1. G. Hill of Rich- mond, Ind., who was a guest of Se wrdine Dr. William 4 chief of the Bureau of Plant il is one of the big owers of the country, ¥ santhemums. ‘He \e seedlings produced by the Federal Department special- ists which he will grow on a com- mercial scale next season. Students Attend Show. More than 700 charming young women, representing every State in the Union, who are attending 11 col- es and academies in Washington scended in a tidal wave of beauty ipon the show yesterday and caused «uite a flutter during the afternoon. *I'he officials in charge have been noti- fied that delegations from more than @ dozen other schools are planning to_visit the show tomorrow. More than a score of maimed vie- tims of the war from Walter Reed Tospital among the early comers today. They took a special in- «t in the three big Japanese blooms named for the first three Americans to give their lives in the World W nd also in the mums for Gen. Pershing, Gen. Joffe, ind Queen of Belgium and sopold. New Plants to Be Placed. Nearly 100 new plants were placed oun exhibition today, replacing some of the early entrants, which had ma- hout 200 other new placed in the exhibi- tion conservatory tonight, with a ecore of gardeners working all night e the show at its best for the xpected tomMorrow. * of the new seedling pompoms were named today: Jean Campbell, a semi-double pink: Signe Goodheart, double golden v ; Mary Monica Rose, a double light pink, and Fran- double light bronze. The show will be open tomorrow from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. c ECONOMIC FUTURE OF U. S. HELD SOUND David Lawrence Declares Result of Elections Is Victory for Conservatives. -terizing Tuesday’s electionas for the conservatives, David wrence, writer of political observa- for The Star and other newspa- ed that the political out- pnservative,” while the eco- ound. d this opin- vesterday “ity, Club lunch- held in the City Club Building, street, when he spoke on “The Yolitical Outlook,” as he judges it a tour of the United States' po- al centers. instance of his impressions formed on that tour, Mr. Lawrence nid that he found a general feeling of “contentment” throughout the States visited, and that he was convinced that the feallng of the country at large for Mr. Coc re as President is not much less fervent today than it was in 1924, and“that, in his opinion, Ar. Coolidge would be elected again sw' should the presidential n be held. ition, Mr. Lawrence believes, i issue, not only in polities, He declared that against the eight- due, not to the f-ag A Yt in economi un inereast eenth amendment appetites individuals, but to the e tion that the law has created conditions that are not admirable in the minds of the people. The speaker said also that he found business men everywhere ready to ¢ fifle that gince prohibition industrial dutput has while labor turnover has and the subject is, there- nomic one wrence was_ introduced by phan, president of the City presided as toastmaster. the address by Mr. Law- ¥ Bey, vaudeville per- former, gave a demonstration of his ability for the members of the club and their guests. “WHITE LIE” IS TOLD TO KEEP DYING WISH Friends of Annie Oakley Misinform | Newspaper Men as to Real Time of Funeral. oY the siated Press. GREENVILLE, Ohio, November 6. —How triends of Annie Oakley, time chan markswoman here Wednesda eption” | to 4, who ¢ or. shortly before s d her own funeral in de- dled, plant vail and specified particularly that the servi were to be strictly private. | Mer friends promised this, and they ! kept their promise. g i Newspaper correspondents were told | that private funeral services were to | bo held this morning. Yesterday morning, however, a casket was ship- ed to a Cinclnnati crematory, com- aining the body of Annie Oakley. Inquiry developed that the funeral | had been held at the home of Mrs. Frea Grote, a friend. N ted they had an.| 1 for Saturday pur- noun posely _might be held in absolu without interfer- ence fro; us. | SAW WINDOW BARS; FLEE. | Four Prisoners Sought by Sheriff of Enox County, Ind. | VINCENN (#)~—Four pri: November 6| aped from the | Knox County Ja night by saw- | ing the bars from a window. They | are B4 Warren, charged with grand Jarceny; Amos Groomer, as Jack Hall, check for Devellem, v < prisoners ref to leave. i Sheriff's for are attempting to | Jocate the men., worn and old looking beyond hi: years, turning a frightened, baffied .‘lug‘gh)emn;i;ns' snhaameumes in life. nwnmnoufl’ |I‘;s:i:ml‘<‘:s '»':-‘adv i“r{a!hi: work, which soon became the cover{8:30 o'clock Mrs. Hall came to him ;(m\'\“i:o:o“;s dis‘cen\inz to weep over, So 1 t in th, r | his house. . mpletely the epic of the | Fector, So life went o i husband | Mrs. Hall said, “Mr. Hall did not Above all, it was the epic of the|a scarf about her and went out, |gether and they are both dead~ t man who has not the power to hold | e asked her where she was oing | _ Later in the day he said that Mre, | more and more insoluable, for So far |in the grass at Dr. Hall's feet, but |cluse. is wifo, or the streser v e ol | 4 e arked Her e auntingly (5| Hall came to seo him again and |all of the evidence that has been |helghten the perplexity, for what sme ] He was the author of more than 60 At came to him as it came, even his {wife's unfaithfulness, without a pro-|and on that he supported himself, his |8nd suspicions—all of the things with test. 1t was kismet, and he bowed his| Wife and his two children. They ilved | Which he dared not reproach her—the DesIMO e A earoom fiat. he and the boy | things he had tried to keep from f ma“g‘“fehhlm‘ then, on the witness | Sleeping in one room and the 16-year- ! , & huddled up little figure, no| old girl and her mother in the other. | man to whom nature does 2 the ability to succeed— s .er::)n‘ort the gift of money-making, but | Night of September MILLS GI house, but who 1s despised and flouted - IN SOLVING CRIME | toierated because his slavery furnish. | submission. He lacked even the :«lh 1:12.:"“ with food and shelter and| .ourage to do that. against which James Mills set his been able to earn was $35 a week, husband who could not give her the mbhey fand (the pretty solbthies slisi] oc the ilent cliupch, She threw herselt into church for her love affair with the flirtatious | and asked if any one He replied * and the dissatisfled wife, until the|come home at all last nigl he v 16 nan Swdio 14, 1922, when |said, “Neither did Mrs. Mills s all his days for a pittance | Mills came in late to supper and supper she put on her hat and put :;l;:«: ?:ll: rl:l!h: had he:rfl anything | brought forward to conmnect Mrs. sing couple. . IThé, mnrdersd. lovers: wére: nob Hall and her brothers with the mur: found for two days and in all that time Mills never made any inquiry about his wife. He never even com- municated with her family, although they lived in the same town with him :nd hthe gmt' pe;scn he went to when ) e heard of the tragedy was Mrs. S = Hall, as it he felt that in spite of the Having accomplished thelr fell oo | MILLIONAIRE SAVANT DIPLOMAT’S SON BARRED. erence in their rank and station e they had a common bond in the grief the vicinity of their victims, yet Mrs. i and shame that ad befallen thern. Gibson avers that although she heard DIES IN TRENTON, N. J. #PES MOINES, Towa ne would think that such a terri- e —— ) Hall and Mrs. Mills at 10 o'clock, at ks eg::"d'g&};‘f qould have seared [y giclock the next morning che found | Webster Edgerly, Former Boston |ister to Finland, has been fae Ty, Yt Mrs. Hall still weeping over the body [ oy P eom g |of the husband. Nor does it seem i, for le anEweren: diieath t credible that a woman, who has slain * as Semi-Recluse. liquor drinking by students, Otis Mc- Question with T can't recsits end |chother woman in @ partloularly . (Continued_from Fourth Page) This' was the piteoun backsround | .55 Jid "o come home thet MIgh te S up and went to look for her in the story. =The most that he had ever|sori church. Al of his jealousles knowing, must have guided him to the place where he knew she and bigger alf-grow, gger than o haltErown bov.'Put| Wife Tired of Her Drudge. | her lover had kept ihelr tryels ORe His wife was pretty and young.|\hen he turned on the lights and tuf‘ednn the lawyers as if he mutely = SPS _Erew tired of her drudge of & gearched for her amidst the shadows asked them why fate should have or a part of love and xunlg’x,,ndnbll;];:_m;'figrlafls wanted. She was romantic and Says Mrs. Hall Called. could only mutely answer him that it |®Morous and predatory as such| The next morning he says that as women invariably are. he was cleaning up the church at Mrs. Hall said that her husband and he said to Mrs. Hall, “Do you think v keeps the wolf from the |his wife scolded him for it, and after have eloped?” and to this she No, I think they are to- i of who committed the crime grows | torn-up love letters and the card found der reverses all the known procedure | tham? fiction ever left behind them 8o many | singer grows. accused of doing. pose, murderers are in haste to leave the shots fired that slew the Rev. Mr. Case Still Deep Mystery. and the other to Mrs. Hall, and it is Lawyer, Lived Latter Years Suspended from classes at Drako U y ' brutal way, would go to her husband [ By the Associated Press. couldn't remember that he had ever |g few hours later and direct suspicion | TRENTON, N. J.. November 6.|before the dean to give his versi & s investigation that ;mrd g.:mu by telling mfl;‘i that she | Webster Edgerly, who institu T - slon o new that his wife was dead. Ralston Institute of Washington, plo- PN Jaxllisiv or g bothid e Th the exhibits which have been of-|neer in the circulation of bodks on |McCreery sald. uAld o he went from the stand,|fered In evidence by the prosecution |control of the will, died here yester- n. neffectual to the last.|are two handkerchiefs, one of which |day. He whs 74 years old. TR - Poor Jimmy Mills! is alleged to belong to Henry Stevens, Mr. Edgerly, who once practiced law in Boston and in Kansas, is said 1 » As the case proceeds, the question |scene of the tragedy. ' . with the | tional field, although for the last G b T ,» Daily, $1.00, §1.50, 200 v s claimed that these were found at the [to have made millions in- the educa seven years he had lived a semi-re- man or woman, committing 2 murder, | books of a sem! philosophical and sci would deliberately plant clues thut |entific character. The most famous would inevitably point suspicion at {were “Our Existence,” “Goal of Cres ation,” “Life Building” and “Immor- of criminals under such conditions. And so the mystery of who kiiled | tality.” Certainly no murderers in fact Or|the Rev. Dr. Hall and his pret'y choir | He was born in Salem, Mass., and, was graduated from Boston Univer- clues or ever tarried so long around Boy—Page Sherlock Holmes! sity. the scene of their crime as they are (Copyright. 1924 ? ) “nited States Min ndefinitely versity pending an investigation of Creery, dean of men, announced. 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