Evening Star Newspaper, November 27, 1926, Page 2

DOUGHBOYS LOT | S DFFICULT ONE Infantry Chief Wants Better Food and Housing and Lighter Packs Afoot. | | Ty the Assc Like the policeman in the vid opera, the doughboy’s lot is not a happy one i the Army if his authorized spokes- | an, Maj. Gen. Robert H. Allen, chief | ntry, has painted an accurate | sicture in his annual report. s all weil for “br: Mff studies colemnly to declare that t™e man-behindthebavonet is still | the hackbore of the fighting machine, | hut these piping times of peace just | mean one Job of work after anoth-r for the foot soldier, the report sed. Disguising it under the of “fatizu 0t make iated Prese hat" very | | dis- Army | it | | name does ecasier Lot of Doughboy. If he isn't plugging heies in leaky or otherwise policing up tumble. »wn barracks, the doughboy slug- ing arougd in the dust and heat of be drill ot, or perhaps going to hool by way of variety, Gen. .\HPH{ Iated When Summer comes and | ther folks hustle off to play in the wrf or loaf in the mountains he | ns out by the thousand to fix un | fvillan military training camps with | vel and pick and hammer and then sets about teaching the oung to shoot And while he's at the job he even vete a ration “distinctly inferior” to hat provided his voung proteges in same camp, which all prompted ien, Allen to remark My oticeable that ¢ rease fust prior to the training camp riod Navy Ration Superi Nor is that all, for the report said t while Uncle Sam paid 49.7 cents d each of his Marines/last 3 cents for each saflor, cent ration was considered good enouzh for the Armv. “This discrimination flitary service ¢ * ¢ Adiscontentment,” the serve Then there's the queston of clothes. With eight or ten different shades of tssue uniforms “of exceptionally poor material, very poorly made, and all ‘hades chunging color at every wash- ng,” the doughhoy finds it difficult to ake pride efther in himself or hi rganization And finally, when the Infantry goes info action all these new-fangled ideas ahout the things he needs to fight with have imposed a load to be toted on his Munson-last brogans over any fnd of going that would make a pack ile groan ‘Barly consideration of the reduc “fon of the weight carried by the In- cantry soldier” is essential, Gen. Allen Aeclared, appending 28 other separate recommendations for correction of conditions under ‘which the backbone against the conducive general ob- | | KING IS IMPROVED, RUMANIA INSISTS, DENYING RUMORS . inued from First Page.) consequences of a return to Rumania of Prince Carol to take the throne, which he renounced last January. The National party, headed by Nich s Jorga, and the Peasant party, ‘ed by M. Lupus. which are merged with the Transylvanian Nationallst .roup, unreservedly accepted the suc sssion modification last January, by ‘which Prince Michael was put in line for the throne. But they now appear to be trying to make political capital ut of the situation by subordinating | eir adhesion to the Bratiano plan | , the granting of concessions by the | Rratianos, which would be likely to nhance the’ power and importance of parties, | monient the question of | return is in the background. | rsons are of the belief that itely will return nnd that his | instatement is more than probable, | but that he first will have to over- | me, by force or persuasion, the op- | sition of the all.powerful Bratianos is asserted Carol can only count on support_of part of the army, and that his task of obtaining the throne, | impossible, would he ex difficult generally rted looking for of the constitution ie regency, and that it tuation, rather than the that prompted Queen hort her visit to the nd return home It is asserted that aithough Gen Angelesco will go to Cherbourg to | meet the Queen vn the urrival of the teamship Berengaria nd possibly request her to hurry on to Bucharest, Afarie will remain in Paris long enough to talk with Carol, with whom ! he became reconciled before depart- ing for United States. At the | time it asserted politics was not | sed that it was merely a | between Tt v Tt is Rumania odification spect to this it all early with was s King Ma T*ni was and mother May Change Dynasty. spatches say that Marie, to udvices from Bucharest, | rity at home and will allowed to interfere in ques- | ate when she returns; that | event of -a change in the reger neil, Princess Helen, wite | Carol and mother the heir | pparent, Prince Michael, and not | Marie, will be given place on the not be tons of in the slgride wdvices wdd that it v ers of the Jugo th Rumanian solved by eliminatio lern dynasty and | W representa abian, Holdavia 1y families. some qui may b thron old Bessa A dispatch rec jucharest by t ibes the Rumanian cap! g a coup d'etat h to the London Dail arest, sent by a spe ordered there to wtion the Al desire of King Fer Ferdinand willing to rescind rrespond the suys fat 8 Drops to His Death FRED! Harris & Ewing Ph LRICK U. HANKS. SUIGIDE 1S VERDICT Banker - IN HANKS DEATH Dies After Being| Fcund Under Trestle Near Cabin John by Car Crew. Frederick assistant tr U. Hanl surer 41 years old, the American ks, of ertions In-1gecurfty and Trust Co., jumped 60 feet to the ground from trestle bridge No. 5, near Cabin John, vesterda with suci intent, a coroner’s jury sitting in the death of the banker de- the cided at George John D. Cabin morgue Heitkan, Johnson, motorman John Bridge street car, this afternoon. conductor of the who found Hanks lying under the trestle, testified thai t he had taken off his overcoat, sack coat and hat, and fold- ed them up before making the plunge. Capt. Morris Collins of the se enth precinct, who interviewed Mr. Hanks at Georgeto latter was wn Hospital on the emergency while the table, said that the banker admitted he had contemplated suiclde, but added “I thought I had changed by mind. M Hanks died at 7 o'clock last night at Georgetown Hospital, after the treatment. Mr. Hanks who_lived at car crew had brought him in for 710 Ran- dolph street, according to banking as- sociates, ha. d been nervous’ prostration. He is survived T-year-old son. Officials of the and Trust Co. today voiced regret the death of declared, ago. Had Nervous f Mr. k by American suffering from his wife and a Security anks, who, they had been a_trusted employe in their institution 20 years. from a minor position to the pos | assistant treasurer about three vears He rose of ilment. Mr. Hanks, they declared, had been suffering from ner rvous prostration and on that account had been away from the bank a great deal lately. He is said to have returned every now and then in the hope he had recov- ered, but on this last oceasion he had been absent on a physician’s long walks, to his death The dec Masonic_ord Board of Tri Vuneral se Cemetery pastor of t Church, will for some weeks. orders that he took such as the one which led vesterd er and ade. rvices W he officiaty It was a sed was a member of the the Washington will be conducted iat the late residence on Monday af ernoon, with_interment in Rock Creek Rev. John Compton Metropolitan Ball, Bapti: e. THE WEATHER District ¢ colder, degrees; ton | rising temp i Maryland-Virginia — Fair and tomorrow; colder tonigh of norrow ture. Columbia lowest temperatare and 26 Fair fair with tonight slowly rising temperature tomorrow: West Virginia—Fair and colder to- night: tomorrow Increasing clou with slowly ness rising temperature. Records for 24 Hours. Thermomet ter——4 1 hm., 55 8 pm., ;12 midnight, 53; 4 a.m., 45; 8 a.m., 0; noon, 41 rometes Hizhest 420 p.m Low te at noon, temperature, vester mper: am. today ;20 8 pm., 5; 4 a.m., 29.70; 40, occurred Temperature same date last year— Highe: (Furnished and Lo 1 Today 853 pam.; 209 pumn TOmorrow 446 pam 302 pm it by Tide Tal Unit Geodetic wtide, high tid Low tide, tide, ligh t, 60; lowest, 39. bles. ed tes Survey.) 8:22 a.m 1 am. B and 9 1355 9:10 a.m > a.m The Sun and Moon Today- 448 pm Sun rose 7:0 A.m.; sun Tomorrow—-Sun rises 7:04 a.m.; sun sets 4:45 p.m. Moon sets 1:16 p. m. Automobile lamps to be lighted one- It hour af Temperatu ter re and at Falls sunset condition of today at 8 a.m condition, ~ very 2 Cleas 3 Cloudy Clear, Clov | and | Coast | thie | afternoon| Part of the price would be paid in occurred | ¢ introducing the record of a royal in- | ternational THE EVENING WHITE STARLINE SALE CONCLUDED Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. to Acquire Control of Fleet January 1. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 27.—The Royal Mail Steam cket Co. announced to- day that arrangements have been con- cluded to acquire the whole share capital of the White Star Line as of the date January 1, 1927. The International Mercantile Ma.! rine, owners of #he White Star fleet, confirmed the announcement. Trans- fer of the shares wilk not affect the continuity of the White Star Line organizza tion. P. A. Franklin, president of the International Mercantile Marine, who negotiated the deal, declined to make a statement. STOCK RISES IN NEW YORK. Price of Line Reported at About $35,000,000. NEW YORK, November 27 (®).— Wall Street is convinced that the In- Mercantile Marine has practically completed renewed nego-{ tiatigns for the sale of its Rritish registry White Star Line fleet with a | view to developing an all:American merchant” fleet. Preferred stock and 8 per cent honds of the International Mercantile Ma- /| rine, which has been operating at a! loss for vears, rose nearly 6 points| on the strength of the reports. \le price is given as approxi- | 5,000,000 for the 500,000-ton | rcludes some of the finest | and the Royal Mail| is named as buver. mately fleet, which in liners afloat, Steam Packet Co. notes or | p _and the balance by eriture of the Royal Mail. President in London. P A. 8. Franklin, president of the M. M.. is in London. Last Spring he had negotiations in | London with Furness, Withy & Co. for the sale, but the deal fell through | with the advent of the British gen- | eral strike, J. P. Morgan and Charles Steele | of the Morgan company withdrew as directors of the International Mer- cantile Marine during these negotia- tions because the London branch of | the Morgan firm was interested in the | transaction. Later they resumed their places as directors, and yester- day Mr. Steele attended an Interna- tional Mercantile Marine board meet- | ing here, at which, it was reported, the sale was decided upon. Directors sald, however, that only routine busi- ness was completed. May Bid on United States Fleet. The stockholders of the Oceanic | Steam Navigation Co., the White Star | organization, have heen notified that the line must either sell the ships or | finance an extensive building program. Among the ships of the White Star | fleet _are the Homeric, Majestic, | Olympic, Adriatic, Arabic, Baltic, | Cedric and a dozen others. The In-| ternational Mercantile Marine also | has other vessels under the British | and other flags. £ Wall Street speculation is that com- pletion of the White Star deal may be followed by a bid for the United States lines. The International Mer- cantile Marine recently bid for the | Leviathan, but the bid was rejected by the Shipping Board in the absence of a bid for the entire fleet OF SLUSH CHARGE; | ELECTION PREDICTED _(Continued from First Page.) cas debe proof must be Ball niled that “the full, clear and convineing. The proof introduced here falls far short of the standard. The claim of the complain.- ant's attorney that there is common talk about the State is not proof.” The Klan is charged by Goulds supporters with an attempt to defeat him and throw the election to Red man. The organization supported an- other candidate in ghe primary, but in answer to a charge that he was a member, Gov. Brewster denied any connection with the Klan and said he had never conferred with Imperial Wizard Evans concerning prosecution of the charges. Monday’s election will be for the seat of Senator Bert M. Fernald. who died last August. Gould Railroad Builder. Backers of Gould have stressed his qualifications as a lawyer and a rail road builder. Redman has attacked his opponent’s record in connection with the building of a railread in the “anadian Province of New Brunswick, vestigation showing Gould gave former premier $100,000. Gould has contended the money was a forced political campaign contribu- tion while the presiding justice char- acterized it as a “bribe."” Redman in_a speech at Portland last night charged that President Coolidge has withdrawn his moral support of Gould, as shown by the | action of Secretary Herbert Hoover in -anceling his engagement to speak in | Portland tonight At Mr. Ball's hearing three news- paper publishers took the stand but were not permitted to testify concern- ing cost of advertisements inserted in their papers unless it could be shown the space had been contracted with Gould's knowledgze and consent. Attempts were made to show the advertisements were placed hy Frank J. Kenyon, publicity representative of uld. DENIES PART IN DISPUTE. a Messuge Signed “H. W. Evans” An- swered Charges Against Klan. The Associated Press today received a telegram from Calverton, Va., sign ed “H. W. Evans,” denying state. ments relating to the Ku Klux Klan | made in connection with the dispute | over expenditures in behalf of Arthur | R. Gould, Republican candidate for | the Senate in Maine. Hiram W.| Evans is the imperial wizard of the | Klan. | The telegram said “I have sent the following telegram | STAR, WASHINGTON, | employ [t | morning | were examining the diar | tendants are being tr | da HUTCHINSON WILL FILED. Leaves $5,000 and Other Estate to Sister, Mrs. Collins. The will of John R. Hutchinson, who died November 21, has been filed for probate. He leaves $5.000 and his household and personal effects to his sister, Mrs. Emma D. Collins. A legacy of $3,000 is given to his broth- erin-aw, Dick W. Grandstaff; $2,000 to a nephew, Charles R. Collins, and $2,000 to Estelle Clagett, if still in his A trust fund of $3,000 is provided for Eugenia Cuvillier and two similar funds of $1,000 for the benefit of Charles R. Coliins, Jr., and Lewis Cuvillier. The remaining es- tate goes to Mrs. Collins. The Wash- ngton Loan and Trust Co. is named as executor. MRS. HALL TAKES STAND; CALM AS SHE FACES JURY (Continued from Fi Timothy N. Pfeiffer, member of de- fense counsel, was on the stand. The heat of the debate grew so intense at one phase of the arguments that the jury was sent from the room. The arguments began when de- fense tried ‘to introduce letters to show that the defendants had made efforts to solve the mystery of the murders. The letters were sent State officers. After Senator Simpson had accused Senator Case of making a “stump speech” and defense had retorted that was compelled to ‘“defend itself against the calumnies of Senator Simpson,” Justice Parker restored or- der, but excluded the letters. Pfeiffer continued his testimony between shes that followed the first general outbreak of invective and accusation Di Martini Recalled. At one time, with Felix di Martini, private detective employed by the de- fense, on the stand, Senator Simpson demanded the names the witness, after investigation that cost the de- fendants more than $5,000, had “turn- ed up” as the real murderers. After another storm of argument cleared, defense counsel s | not name any one suspec selves or Di Martini, manded to do so by the court. When the sincerity of this offer, and also that of an offer to reveal to the attorney general evidence collected by defense_investigators, was challenged by Senator Simpson, defense attorneys broke in to assert “we have come com- | nearer finding the real murderers than the State has. Di Martini, recalled by request of the prosecution, offered o general de- nial of accusative questions by Sen- ator Simpson insinuating he had offered money to George Sipel, another witness, to controvert the story of Mrs. Jane Gibson. He was followed by Mrs. Henry Carpender, who said her husband, Henry Carpender, cousin of the three defendants, was in New York the day he was supposed to be in New Brunswick removing letters and papers from the Hall home and the church of which Dr. Hall was stor. John Solon of the New Jersey at- torney general’s office was called the first witness for the defense this morning. Solon produced two letters which had been written by Pfeiffer to At- torney General McCran concerning the investigation. Solon said he had searched the at- torney general's offices for other let ters written to Mr. McCran offering suggestions for the investigation, but | these could not be found. announced court this that bhandwriting experts of Henry which was presented when alled as a witness last week. A bill for $5,000 presented by Di Martini, private detective, to Mrs. Hall for his services following the double slaying, also would be studied by the handwriting experts, the pros- ecutor said. Mrs. Carpender Testifles. Mrs. Henry Carpender, whose hus. band is now in jail on an indictment similar to that on which the three de- d, was the next whitness. She testified that she took her husband to the 7:55 train for New York on Saturday, September 16, and met him at 1:20. This places Car- pender in New York at the time the State alleges he took papers from the Haull home. Mrs, Carpender said she and her husband spent the following day at the shore and that her husband did not go to the Hall home on that day. he was not cross-examined. Simpson announced that he wanted to question Felix di Martini further and the detective was recalled. “Did vou ever see this letter of George Sipel?” Simpson asked, read ing: ‘Our country doctor has a story wfloat of having seen Henry Stevens Simpson Stevens, he was | in New Brunswick on the night of the killings.” Was that shown to “Yes,” said DI Martini. “Did you ask Sipel for an explana- tion sked Simpson. “I only saw him with reference to you | compensation.” “Did you ask for the name of the doctor? “Why not, If you were actually try- Ing to solve the case?” “When he asked to be compensated {1 thought it better for Pfeiffer to go. “Did you ever pay or offer Sipel any compensation?"’ asked Case. Pfeiffer was sworn next. Says He Hired Di Martini. Pfeiffer gaid_he was employ Mrs. Hall on September 26, 1922, v& after the slaying. He sald that he employed Di Martini, and that the detective worked under his directions, being employed to find out who com- mitted the murder. “Did you ever have any knowledge of the existence of Mrs. Mary Dema- rest?” asked Case, referring to a State witness who said Di Martin{ had offered her a $2,500 bribe to “keep quiet™ about what she claimed to | know. never heard of Mrs. Demarest until 1926, answered Pfeiffer. Regarding Sipel's letters, Pfeiffer said he sent Di Martiny to thank Sipel for whatever help he had been o Mrs. Hall by telling his story at he original grand jury investigation, and to explain to Sipel that Mrs. Hall could pay him nothing, because it might be misconstrued. “We never pald anything to Mr. Sipel nor anyone else,” said Pfeiffer, referring to Witnesses. “But you did to Di Martini, Justice Parker. The question was modified to exclude money paid By put in to those employed to work on the | D. C, SATU then | SHOP-EARLY IDEA CROWDS' STORES for Survey Shows Rush Christmas Presents Is Well Under Way. The Christmas shopping season was on in earnest in Washington today. A survey of the down-town stores by Edward D. Shaw, secretary of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Asso- clation, shows that the “shop early” {movement has proved highly popular {to the purchasing public, he said. This, Mr. Shaw added, corresponds with re- ports from other cities, where tie Christmas shopping season was for mally opened the day after Thanl giving. Heretofore the merchants here have taithfully expounded the plea to “shop early,” but they have failed to put their full Yuletide stocks on d a result, the usual last- min- marked the week before | Christmas. This year, however, those who heeded the ‘“shop early” plea found complete Christmas stock oc- cupying the counters exerywhere. * “The great trouble with™ the shop- early campaign in previous vears was the fact that the stores were not full | prepared to meet the public’'s early | season demand,” Mr. Shaw explained. | “The stores got in a habit of waiting until the big Christmas rush_started. Surveys by our State and National retail associations last year proved to us that thousands of people liked the idea of making their gift pur- hases in November or early in De- cember. “Those employed in the stores are particularly gratified by the new twist in the Christmas shopping season, for { formerly it meant long hours behind the counter; of dealing with harassed customers whose nerves likewise were frazzled. “Washington merchants, who this year are watching with satisfaction the demand on the part of the people for an early opportunity to make their Christmas selections, plan next year to open their Christmas stocks even earlier.” ute rush | sald he had written the attorney gen- eral and which were reported missing from Trenton files. He also had copies of McCran's replies. “Are you going to offer these in evi- dence?"” the court asked. “Yes," said Case. 1 shall oppose them declarations,” Simpson ann Arguing for the admission letters, Case said: “One of the attacks made by the State on the defendunts was that they did nothing to help the authoritie nor to apprehend the perpretrators of this terrible crime. The State has attempted to besmirch the characters of the defendants by saying that they dragged a red herring across the trail of the investigation. We seek to introduce these letters to show that we sought to reopen the investigation ourselves.” Simpson Interrupted with the charge that Case was trying to “throw a smoke screen” about the trial, and accused the defense counsel of ‘“‘mak ing a stump speech.” Case objected strenuously to this. The argument grew more heated, until finally Judge serving runced of the the courtroom. Case then asserted that the situa tion making it necessary for the de fense to prove that it sought to s0lv the crime was created by the State itself, and, therefore, the defense had a right to introduce the letters to “re lieve itself of the ‘onus’ placed on it by the State.” “The letters will be excluded,” an nounced Justice Parker. The jury was brought cross-examination begun. “Were you in the Hall home fre- quently four years ago?’ Simpson asked. “Yes."” “You say you were trying to find the murderers?” That's a fact.” Did you offer any rewar “I did not.” Questioned About Inquiry. “Was Di_Martini sum_ than $5,090?" “He was not." “Why, if you were trying to find the murderer, did you advise your clients to pay $5,090 for Di Martini, whose work brought no results? Why didn’t you offer a reward? Did he find the real murderers?”’ | “He came nearer finding the guilty than you did.” “Who did he turn murderers? back paid a greater up as the real court commands me.” The question was excluded. Answer Stricken Out. After Pfelffer had declared he was still anxious to solve thé mystery Simpson asked him why he had not “looked into” Sipel's letter referring to the county doctor having heard that Henry Stevens was in New Brunswick on the night of the Killings. Pfeiffel sald he didn’t bother because he knew Henry Stevens had a ‘“perfect alibi,” but his answer was stricken out. Pfeiffer sald that he advised Mrs. Hall not to talk to newspaper men .because he was averse to “trying cases in the newspapers” and said he had refused Charlotte Mills, daugh- ter of the slain woman, permission to talk with Mrs. Hall because she was employed by a newspaper at the time in 1922 that she sought to interview Mrs. Hall. Pfeiffer was asked if he knew that the original grand jury investigation was “practically a trial behind closed doors,” that jurors had been selected to prevent an indictment being re- turned and that the “star witnes: Mrs. Gibson, was the last witness called. Objections by defense pre- cluded answers to_these questions on the ground that Pfeiffer was not in the grand jury room and could not know what transpired there. Denies Seeing Hall's Watch. “You never saw Dr. Hall's watch at any time?” Simpson asked. Pfeiffer said. His_cuff buttons?” “No." These articles were never found, although Dr. Hall was known to have worn them when he kept his last tryst with Mrs. Mills. Senator Simpson asked: “Did Mrs. Hall tell you, after ker {1922 interview with newspaper men, that she knew her husband carried RDAY. NOVEMBER 27, Parker ordered the jury taken from | and | “I decline to name them unless:the | 1926. HALL TRIAL SGENE IS MOST DRAMATIC Figures at Murder Hearing Offer Sharp Contrast in Little Court. BY DOROTHY DIX. Special Dispatch to The Star. SOMERVILLE, N. J., November 27. —A dreary, dull day at the Hail-Mills trial, with the defense picking up the loose threads of their case and trying to weave it into a cable strong enough for Mrs. Hall and her two brothers to walk over to freedom. The first witness on the stand was Henry Carpender, who was only per- mitted to say that he did not see either one of his three cousins who are on trial either an the day of the mur- der or the day thereafter. . The de- fense had hoped to get in his alibl that at the time of the tragedy he was dining with friends, but the court barred this out. Most of the morning was taken up by Senator Simpson’s cross-examina- tion of the fingerprint experts from the Army and Navy departments and the New York Bureau of Intelligence. All of them asserted that the finger. print on the card found at Mr. Hail's feet was not the fingerprint of Willie Stevens, and they all declared with one voice that finger-printing is an exact science and not a matter of opinion. Then came Mr. Sipel, a neighbor of Jane Gibson’s, who told that Mrs. Gibson said to him that she would like him to say that he was coming through De Russ lane and he saw an sutomobile witlh two men and a woman in it, and that he also saw a woman riding on @ horse or a mule. He said she told him to say that he had quite a sum of money in his pocket and when he saw these people he turned back, and that she further told him that he wouldn't have to identify any of them. He sald she told him she had gotten money from the newspaper people and she would give him $100 if he would tell this story. Letters Damage Story. The effect of Mr. Sipel’s story, how ever, was considerably damaged by the fact that he had written Mrs. Hall three letters, in which he had dunned her for money for the time that he claimed to have lost in going before the grand jury to tell this story. ! Then came Di Martini, the dark and swarthy Italian detective who has flitted like a sinister shadow through all the trial. He is the man who has been accused of trying to bribe Mrs. | Demarest and of manufacturing senti- ment in favor of Mrs. Hall and her brothers. Di Martini denied indig nantly having attempted to bribe any body or threaten anybody, and of even having seen Mrs. Demarest or Mrs. Gibson. In fact, Mr. Di Martini seemed to have detected nothing in the 120 days in which he was on the case, and for which he drew down the munificent sum of $5,0 No wonder every small boy cherishes a secret yearning to be a sleuth. | After Di. Martini came Detective Ellis Parker, who went to see Jane | Gibson, who told him that she had gotten $700 from the newspapers. And he also examined the famous card with a magnifying slass and saw no fingerprints or smudges upon it Neighbors Tell About “Jane.” And after him ghbors of the pig woman, who all stified that Jane Gibson's name was not “Truthful Jame,” and that they had a poor opinfon of her veracity So the tedious, dull day dragged nd one fell to watching the ama of the courtroom that is s the same, vet always chang. The judges on the bench—the old judge and the young one. It is pretty to see them confer together and how deferentially the black head hends tc ward the white one—the old judge, so patient, so painstaking. Several times when there have been shy and fright- ened witnesses on the stand, so over- awed they could scarcely speak above {a whisper, he has left his chair and gome and stood behind them, looking, in his flowing black silk robes as he was outlined against the white wall, like the very spirit and substance of justice itself. The jury. A composite photograph of them would show a middle-aged man, just beginning to turn bald out, well fed and prosperous looking: ensible, hard-headed, horse-sense sort of a man who would not be stan peded by eloquence nor carried aw by his emotions, but who would turn things over in his mind and come to a slow decision, from which he would not be easily shaken. Lawyers Plentiful. The lawyers—dozens of them, it seems to the onlooker—ail busy with i | | | I ame a long line of | 3 Me: along, little dr alw ing. side huddling together for conferences every now and then, as they do on the foot ball field. Like Napoleon, Senator Simpson might almost say, “I am the state, so completely does he dominate the prosecution. A little man, meticu lously dressed, brilliant, dynamic, witty, with a_tongue that stings like a whiplash. Next to him, Prosecutor Bergen, a handsome, brownish-look 2 handsome, dark giant of a man. At the defense table Senator Case, slim and urbane, a Bomerset man among Somerset people; Mr. McCar- ter, gray and elderly, slow and pro- found; Mr. Pfeiffer, with a face that looks like the pictures of Savonarol: Mr. Neilson is never still, but roams around like the Wandering Jew. Back of them the defendants. Mrs. Hall, always dressed in black, sitting calm and dignified and still between her two brothers. Sometimes there is | the fourth prisoner, Henry Carpender. | And back of them the family—Com: | mander Carpender, Mrs. Henry Car- | pender, Mrs. Edwin Carpender and Mrs. Henry Stevens. A fine-looking | family group—the men all handsome, | upstanding fellows; the women good {looking, middle aged, handsomely dressed in dark clothes, but with no fluffery, no jewelry, no bobbed hair, no rouge or lipstick. 300 Newspaper Folk. In the three rows beyond the railing that shuts in the bar are the news- paper folk—100 of them, mostly voung men and woinen, full of “pep,” full of { enthusiasm, keen as mustard, sending to the four corners of the world their | impressions, writing the thing as they | see it for the good of things as they are. Here and there an old-timer— piles and piles of papers, and each | ing voung man; Detective Underwood, | Arrested as Plotter RICCIOTTI GARIBALDI, A grandson of the great Italian libera- tor, who was arrested in France for participation in the recent Catalan Spanish revolt plot. MANY OIL GROUPS BOW 70 MEXICD Embassy Reports Law Pro- vision Fought by U. S. Accepted by Others. By the Associated Press. Conditions imposed by the Mexican oil and land laws, to which the State Departmént has taken vigorous ex- coption, have been accepted, the Mexican embassy has been advised, by all British oil interests in that country, together with an important Dutch company, La Corona, and “some American and other corpors tions.” The new laws, embodying the na- tionalization policy- of the Mexican government, provide that forelgn holders of oil, mineral and similar properties must, by January 1, sign agreements not to claim the cu tomary protection of their own go ernments for property rights or for- feit their properties to the state, even though obtained legally prior to en- actment of the statutes. . Balks on Point. is the point at which the tates Government has balked, that American citizens can- ! not, under any_circumstances, waive | their right of Government protection |and contending that the meaning of the new laws is that the Mexican ment claims a right to “con- unqualified ownerships into ‘This United holdin: | govern | vert | terms for years by the simple device | | of requiring the existing titles to be | exchanged for concessions of limited | duration, “In these circumstances,” the State Department wrote in a note to Mexi- dated July 31, “American nation- who have made investments in xico in reliance upon | titles should be obliged to file applica- | tions virtually surrendering the vested rights and to accept in lieu thereof concessions of manifestly less !s(-npn- and value.” | Others Accept Terms. | Despite this situation, which affects | other nationals as well as Americans, telegrams received by the embassy | say that*Harry Hadfield Hallat, act- |ing for the Compania Mexicana de Petroleo, which embraces ofl interests in that country, has filed papers complying with the law. The | holdings represented by this company | amount to 200,000,000 acres. Less ex- { tensive rights are ned, ap | parently, in_the action de. | seribed in the mes as having | been taken by the Dutch, “American and other corporations.” Meanwhile, an echo of the concern | which has been felt here for some | time over bolshevistic tendencies in | Mexico, particularly as they enter into the international affairs of oth& | Central American nations, has come | from the office of Representative Boy- | 1an, Democt New York, who has announced that he intends to seek ac- [tion at the approaching session of Congress on his resolution calling for | severance of relations with the Calles | zovernment. Fecling that Mexico is “drifting towards communism and bolshevism.” he contends that “dip- | lomatic relations should be _discon- tinued until Mexico amends her con- i ‘r'(lnl(lnn of 191 E | 00M MANAGER IS SHOT IN HOLD-UP | |LUNCHR | Fleeing Man Nearly Runs Into Four Policemen; Victim in Critical Condition. i Albert Gattas, night manager of a | lunchroom at ' 117 Four-and-a-half treet, was shot twice early today as he grappled with an armed negro | robber. He was wounded in the | abdomen and in the left arm. | Four policemen at & nearby patrol box with a prisoner heard the shots |and ran toward the restaurant. The | negro was captured as he started to | fice. He almost ran into the police. men before seeing them. At the fifth precinct he gave the name of Ira Ralph Gray, 36 vears | bury street, Baltimor 'he devil must have got in me,” he told the polie He also told them, the police say, that he is a rum run ner, with a regular route into Wash- ington from Maryland. Gattas is in | a critical condition at Emergency Hos- | pital. He was taken entirely by sur- |prise. The first he knew of Gray's | presence was at the growled com- mand, “Throw ‘em up and gimme your bucks.” ‘The policemen who captured Gray | were Sergt. J. H. Davis, Pvts. S. F. Goggin, A. B. Baker and P. W. Nichol- |son, Detectives H. K. Wilson and B. C. Kuehling questioned Gray- HONOR HENRY LANSBURGH unqualified | all British | old, 1713 Press- | 19 CLOSED BANKS PLAN REOPENING Patrons of lowa Institutions Aiding Move to Stop With- drawals of Deposits. By the Associated Press. DES MOINES, November :7 “Business as Usual” sign was cealed again today in Palo Alto Kossuth Counties, while officers s patrons of the 19 banks which w voluntarily closed yesterday cont' ued the drive to reorganize and open the institutions within days. The banks locked their de agreement to protect depositor against what were termed unwarra: ed withdrawals. Business men and farmers united in the campaign of vi & positors of the closed banks. obt ing waivers of the right to with their money until assets can be itably liquidated. The waivers the holders of 75 per cent of the t deposits will permit a bank to for business under the Towa law. Banking conditions in the State a whole are better than in six ve and “purely local’ circumstanc: caused the 19 banks to close in P'a Alto and Kossuth Counties, L. A. A drews, State superintendent of bhar ing, declared. HOEHLING TO BLAZE TRAIL IN OIL TRIAL BY DOHENY DECISION (Continued from First Page.) s ha e ( raised, because no person giving test mony hefore @ committee of Congres has subsequently been indicted, anc an effort made by the prosecution t use his testimony in a criminal tria Justice Hoehling has no precedents t guide him in reference to the use of such testimony and by his declsio must blaze the trail. Counsel for Doheny and Fall rely o1 the wording of the statute that i testimony given before a committee of Congress may be used in a crimina case. They assert this statement i allembracing, with the sole excen tion of u prosecution for pel against a witness making false state ments_before such committee. The claim Doheny was sworn and gave hi- testimony and such testimony may not be used against him. Government counsel take a different view of the statute and regard it a~ granting a personal immunity to the witness when required to testify, but not as covering volunteered stats ments. As it is a personal priviles« they contend, the witness may waive his immunity and testify or he mus claim his immunity if he is to be pr tected by the enactment. May Complicate U. S. Task. The effect of the decision should be adverse to the Government woul be to make it more difficult for the prosecution to prove that Dx made the loan of §100,000 to Fal { The Government has evidence that the Harris ranch was purchased by Fall for $91,500 after he had said he did not have the money. They will als show by witnesses from Blair & Co lof New York that $100,000 was wit! {drawn from the private account Edward L. Doheny, jr. This leave: a gap as to the receipt of the money by Fall, which was expected to b filled through the testimony of D« |heny before the Senate committe: |that he had made the loan to hi | old-time friend. What effect will the decision hav on future investigations by Congres should Justice Hoehling hold with th Government? Attorney Levi 1 Cooke, for Mr. Fall, claimed that a1 adoption of the Government's intr pretation would hamper Congress i future investigations, because wi nesses would be inclined to be le frank if they knew that no immunit attached to their statements befor the committee. Trouble Seen in Future. Attorney Roberts in the cours: his argument yesterday pointed that if the court should hold t munity attached to volunteers apy ing before congressional committ then persons who feared that evidence would be disclosed against them wouls rush to the committee hearings make statements in the hope of ward ing off possible prosecution. The two defendants spent the morning and planned to utliz the greater part of the afternoon anu tomorrow in consultation with thei counsel. These conferences, it was explained, involve a continuous rect tion of the defense case, but serve to meet any new facts that ma be developed from the Governmept tactical moves. Mr. Roberts left for Philadelphi. { this morning, to return tomorrow ning, and former Senator Pomeren. was in conference with Senator Smoot of Utah at the latter's office. Se Smoot accompanied Senator Len of Wisconsin to Wardman Park Hotel in December, 1923, where they re celved from Mr. Fall the declaration that Mr. McLean had louned him the $100,000 with which he bought ranch adfoining his own at Three Rivers, N. Mex The jury, meanwhile, is taking the pite offered from court attendance in good humor and apparently wit an air of relief. While still chaffing somewhat over their enforced inca ceration, they are more or less re signed to a situation which it is nov too late to alter. Have Stimulating Walk. This morning their routine broken pleasantly by an hour's b walk after breakfast at the James Hotel, in the custody of thel iwo constant guardians, Deput | Marshals Edward J Sackey ana ! Willlam Mullin. They appeared o enjoy the brief experience of touchin elbows with the public again. Whils the file of jurors, two abreast, strod: through the downtown section the attracted some attention, though mos pedestrians ignored them in passing Back in their quarters in the cour house they whiled away the time u: til their next meal, which furnishes the only regular break in their dall routine. Tomorrow they will be given th treat of another two-hour bus ride about the city. Those who prefer the phonograph and censored Sunda newspapers may remain in thel on a correspondence with Mrs. Mills?”" | men and women who have seen a “Not the kind of correspondence hundred murder trials, who wrote the vou think. Just about church affairs,” | bizarre cvidence in the Thaw trial Preiffer replied. who heard Grace Brown's pathetic Mrs. Annie Bading, stenographerlove letters read in court, who could for Ellis Parker. Burgen County de-[tell you a thousand inside stories of tective, who was an investigator of ;the Patrick trial, of the Becker trial. the case, followed Pfeiffer on the and who vears hence will talk of this case. | Pfeiffer said that he had offered his services both to Prosecutor Stricker of Middlesex County, and to Special | Prosecutor Mott, four years ago, and that when Stricker asked for the op- portunity of questioning Mrs. Hall, | he had offered to absent himself dur- fation of the throne if It <hows signs of hecoming a worthy The correspondent adds | writ his father, | on to visit him, but |} his wife, Princess leave Rumania. the Secretary of State, Augusta, Me.: ‘The Associated Press today quotes Frederick W. Hinckley as y- |ing 1 had conferred with the Gover- nor of Maine and Mr. DeForest Per- kins concerning political imbroglio in your State. I have never met the quarters. There will be no oppor tunity, however, for church attend ance. Since the marshals are ende | oring to avoid criticism, it 1s thought advisable to permit any the jurors to go to public services And as no one is permitted to enter | Friends to Place Wreath on His | Grave Tomorrow. A wreath will be placed on the grave of Henry Lansburgh in Rock Creek Cemetery tomorrow afternoon ne i ches received in Lon-} « report a serious dy- | asty crisis in Rumanfa and say that a portion of the arfy and the Peas supporti the return | ese dispatehes quote ru ng civil war with the various parties wccumulating arms ind ammunition for the conflict. Allj he dispatches received ffom London assert that Ferdinand’s condition zrave. | A dispatch to the Associated Press | San Huron nd:anapol Jacksonv:) Kansas Qmaha Philadelphia 3 Phoenix wttsbureh 1land Me Antonio 3 ‘rom the steamship Berengaria. how- ' San Dieko Queen Marie has received | nal message from her hus- and to the effect that he is fecling nd is recovering. nd y S, Francisco & Lows st Seattle Paul Shokcane WasH. U “loudy Cloudy Cloudy Clear Clouar Cloudy Cloud: o Rain Gear 50w & Brclonas Rain” Bain ! Clouds | | street northwest, reported last night Governor of Maine and have never | consulted with any one concerning political matters in Maine. Hence, the statement Is entirely without foundation in fact. The governor| will support this statement. I ask| that you write it into the record.’” | Thieves Take Strong Box. | Mrs. Theresa Cady, 1467 Irving that some one had entered her apart- ment yesterday and had stolen a $5 bill and a strong box containing & will a certificate of deposit for $300, a deed to a lot at Mount Olivet Cemetery and (hree life 1nsurance polick ing the questioning. Offered to Waive Immunity. “Did Mrs. Hall offer to waive im munity and appear before the grand v of 19227 Case asked. Yes, on the last day of the jury session she was here in Somerville all day waiting to be called, but she was not questioned. Pfeiffer testified that after the grand jury of 1922 had failed to return an indictment he entered into correspond- ence with the late Attorney General icCran and plaged, what evidence he had before him. = duced copies The defense of a number of which Pfeiffer berp stand. She testified that in 1923 she | mysterious murder. went with Parker to the Mills home| Then comes the audience, that and that in an interview with Parker, | strange agglomeration of human b Mills _said he (Mrs. “ Mills) said jings from every walk in life, drawn something about jealousy, and I|togsther by a commonty in a strange made a hell of a house for her, and | tragedy; Judy O'Grady and the colon- she was not that kind of a woman.” | el's lady, sisters in their curiosity and Mrs. Bading said Mills went to the | their desire to see and hear those who vestry of Dr. Hall's church and that |are standing in the baletul limelight. on the pastor’s desk he saw clippings| All day long they sit on the hard from the New York World about a(and uncomfortable courthouse chairs. divorce and that he carried these to|Some bring their lunch, afraiq to his home. She also testified that |leave their places even for a few min- Mills had told Parker that he noticed ' utes. They lean forward, straining three letters in Mrs. Mills pocket the | every nerve to hear the mumbled re- night before the slaving. Mills, testi- | sponses by the witnesses, and they tying for the State, gave contradictory | laugh in strarige places through sheer evidence on these ‘m'\ bysteria becaus: their nerves are {at 3 o'clock by friends from Almas | Temple of the Mystic Shrine, headed by Seton Kent and Harry Bedell. Mr. Lansburgh was a potentate of Almas Temple. The ceremony will mark the first anniversary of his death. strung up almost to the breaking place. The witnesses, some complacent | some surly, some intelligent, some | stupid and dumb, some honest, some palpably lying. They come and go and add their little bit of grist to the slow-moving wheel that is trying to grind out justice. (Copyrix 106, the jury's quarters except officials of | the “marshal’s office, of course 1o clergy can visit them there. Bibles have been supplied along with other reading matter. Former Secretary Fall, one of the twpd defendants in the case, spent his sixty-fifth birthday in court vester. day. Despite the tremendous strain of the conspiracy trial, Mr. Fall | bearing up cheerfully under the « deal. France has started an extensive velopment of the upper Rhine betweern Strasbourg and Bale for power and navigation purposes, the <cheme ¢ cost nearly §10,000,000.