Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1926, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, TRIAL REVIVED DUAL MYSTERY [OUCHING SCENE A COBHAM LECTURES HALL JRY SPEAKS Great Tension of Families Snaps When Trio Are Cleared of Crime. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. ~It was five hours that the jury was ut in the Hall-Mills case, but it -cemed five days, weeks, years, that ve sat there in the little courtroom wvith our eyes fixed upon the door h?ux which 12 commonplace men a w gods, holding life and death in heir hands. at were they doing? What were ey thinking? What were they say- %? They ha ent back for a micro- scope, and for the pictures of De Russey’s lane and the place where the murdered bodies of Mr. Hall and Mrs. Mills were found. What did this portend? Nobody knew. Vague and unau- thentic “whispers and rumors flew about the courtroom, and we sat and waited and waited while afternoon re on to evening and evening dark- =ned Into night The three defendants «nd thelr law vers had gone—Ars 0 bear her brothers company while went through their hour of h- ne. In the courtroom the var yus members of the Carpender famil at, game to ihe last, trying to make conversation. Mrs. Henry Stevens, white and tense stlil, gave up all pre tense of belng anything but what she wes—a devoted wife, whose heart was orn_In two with ety for her be. loved husband. Through the whole trial she has heen the one most appealing figure. she was the only one who was tor tured through her love. Mrs. Hall and Willie Stevens stand alone, with no ne to whom their welfare means much. But Mr. d Mrs. Henry Stevens re a peculiarly devoted couple, and he spectacle of her sitting behind her E after day in the trial, rowing visibly thinner and more worn and nerve-wracked, has touched avery one in the courtroom. Charlotte Didn't Care. Back in the rear of the courtroom mat Chariotte Mills, the daughter of the murdered woman, a frail, pale, little creature, who said: ‘I have suffered so much that I have no hard feeling left, and I don’t care whether anvbodv is ever pun- ished for the crime or not.” But Mrs. Milis' sister said vindie- tively, “I would like to pull the rope that hangs them all.” At last the.e is a stir, a sudden flurry. a scramble for seats, as it is announced that the jury has reached & verdict. The counsel hurry in. Mrs. Stevens moves down close to the pit where her husband sits and rallies her gallant spirit for a last ordeal The judge comes In in his black robe: and then the jury are marshaled i and stand in a semicircle befors the bar. No other scene in the world is as dramatic as this, no moment 8o tense, and when the clerk asks the formal question. “Centlemen of the jury, have you agreed upon a verdict?” and the foreman responds, “We have,” nd when the clerk asks, “What is our verdict?” every heart skips a Stevens’ ruddy face, that has bianched, gets back its color. | Willie beants genially, as though he | *ould have ol ofic all along how it vould be, and Mrs. Hall's tired face changes its expressfon. ooks numb, as.if the strain under which she has kept herself had para- d every feellns. Justice Thanks Jury Then the jury is asked individual ey And they respond, ‘) 3 lia Stevens?” “What sav you of W “Not gujty.’ said Jns- tica Parker, “I thank for your | verdict. It is a true verdict.” { Tien the tension broke. Henry stevens turned and shook hands with 1is brother and opened his arms and ais w fled into them, and in a mo- ment_more they ppeared through the de that leads to the judge’'s chamt Mrs. Hall was hustled hrouzh the same dvor by one of her awvers, but before Willle followed hem he s) hands ¢ fally with 12 judces—kindly, enial to the last the Hall Mills which mora talked about, mor, more gossipped about, brought about moro r ussions than probably ¢ other murder case in the world d at its close we know ut who killed FEleanor nd . Hall than we did at the | t the State a fertune to It has cost Mrs. nd_humilia- e, and no light ever upon the mys- ing But at le: the a wean cleared The envious can no onger ck it there is one law for he poor nother for the rich, and hat 1 money can cémmit wirder with impunt Sinister ru ors have been confronted with the turned into nothingness, alloons, and the idle ievastated this coun- four years ls gossip 1t rvside for 1t it silenced Murders Still Mystery. Simpson made the best There was never ntilla of evidence to Hall and her brothers The only reason encd on them was eason to be jealous Milis the same t s a gh even that sort of a man fis iuite as likely to murder his rival as s a staid, digniied, utterly mid-Vic orfan inide ed woman who § ioted for her self-control and her re- pression In his summation Senator Simpson | wpeated over and over that frs. Hall was driven by y o Kiil Mrs. Mill But he had notht to fler the jury wvhatever. N with no proof of it could Le even prove hat 3 had ever known of her hueband's infatuation for Mrs. Mills. The !udge s rge was wonder{ully lear, Just and direct. He told the sury that, in spite of all that had been sald and written about this case, it was extremely simple. Tn a nutshell, it simply was whether the three de- tfendants had killed Mrs, Mills, or whether they had been on the scene | { 1 i | | ! | | t BY DOROTHY DIX. 1 ished who would come back ' Hail to the jaii | She | an_who had taken away | ~ . | By the Associated Press. SOMERVILLE, N. J., December 4. —Most of the testimony in the Hall- | Mills trial, which ended today after SOMERVILLE, N. J., December 4.|one month’s march of witnesses to | wife, and that she and her relatives | | and from the stand, was based on events of four years ago. { Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills, pretty so- {prano_in the Protestant Episcopal {Church of St. John the Evangelist who aspired to, rise above her sur ronndings and carrled on a clandes- tine love affair with the rector, Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall, was found i slain, with _him, beneath a crabapple tree near De Russey's lane, on the outskirts of New Brunswick, on Sep- | tember 16, 1922, Her throat had been cut and she had | been shot in the head in three places. | There was one bullet wound in the head of the minis who lay beside | her. Calling cards of the minister’s and letters in which he had declared | his affection for her iwere scattered near the bodles. Last Seen Alive. They had been last seen aiive on !the evening of September 14, 1922, | when the minister told his wife, Mrs, Frances Stevens Hall, member of a wealthy and aristocratic family, that he was going out to straighten out a bill which Mrs. Mills had incurred for a hospital operation. Mrs. Mills, leeving her home in a two-family house on a side street, said, llow me and find out,” when her husband, James, asked where she was going. M . Hall and her brothers, Willlam and Henry Stevens, were guestioned repeatedly. William, familiarly known as “Wiilie,” made his home with her, but epent much of his time at fire: Uenry, formerly an expert an, was living at Lavalette, s away, where he spent his time hunting and fishing. Three weeks after the killings Mrs. Jane Gibson, who raised pigs on a faym two miles from the crabapple | tree, announced that she had been rid- {ing her mule down De Russey's lane ‘that night, had heard shots and had seen Mrs. Hall there. The grand jury, in November, 1922, adjourned without having returned indictments. Rumors of new evidence had be- jcome an-old story after four years, |and the arrest of Mrs. Hall, shortly | before midnight on July 28, 1926, cre ated a furor. She was charged with the murders and held in Somerville jail until July 30, when her release in $15,000 bail was ordered. Simpson Takes Hold. On the same day State Senator Alexander Simpson of Jersey City. a sharp-tongued advocate, was appoint {ed special deputy attorney general to iconduct the prosecution. Members of the Jersey City brought to Somerville to carry on the Investigation, which had been in the hands of the State police. Willie Stevens and his cousin, Henry Bruyere Carpender, a Wail | Street broker, were arrested on Au igust 12 and denied bail. The Aprh |grand jury was suddenly recalled on September 15, and the three in cus |tody, together with Henry Stevens were indicted. The trial of Mrs. Hall and her | brothers began on November 3 | Presentation of testimony was com pleted at noon on December 1, afte: the State had called 101 witnesss anu |the defense 84. The hearing of the de 1n police force were | AFTER LAPSE OF FOUR YEARS Episcopal Rector and His Choir Singer Shot to Death Under Crabapple Tree Near Lovers' Lane on Sept. 14,1922. |charges was filled with sharp ex- | changes among the lawyers. The State charged that Mrs. Hall knew of the clandestine love affalr between her husband and the sexton's { had committed the killings as much | from wounded pride as from the en- raged fury of a woman scorned. | State’s testimony was directed to {show that members of the congrega- | tion carried reports to Mrs. Hall, that she communicated with her brother Henry and went to the scene with him and Willie to confront her husband mfifn letters written to him by Mrs. s. Pig Woman in Court on Cot. |, Mrs. Gibson, who had fainted on { the opening day of the trial and was | foune to be suffering from kidney dis- | ease and cancer, was brought from a | Jersey Cityt hospital to testity in a | courtroom ‘which for the time’ looked more like a clinic. From a cot placed | near the witness stand and with phy- | siclans and nurses in attendance, she i told her story, placing Mre. Hall and | | Henry and “Willie Stevens at the jscene. This was the first time she [ had accused Henry Stevens When attendants were covering her iface preparatory to carrying her { th: ugh aisles of peeple to the waiting ambulance she tore away the sheet, and raising on one arm, pointed at the defendants and screamed: “l've {told the truth, so help me God, and | you know it.” The jury had just been taken from the room. Three fingerprint experts testified ]\fnr the State that one of the marks {on a calling card, said to have been found four years ago near the minis- ter’s feet, was that of Willle Stevent. Other witnesses to!d of having seen Henry Stevens in New Brunswick on the day after the killings and of sus- picious and incriminating acts by the defendants. All three of the defendants went to | the stand to deny the charges against | them and stuck to their stories under | cross-examination. Mrs. Hall was sub- | Jected to a merciless attack by the special prosecutor, who sought to {plumb all her emotions with his re- | peated reference to the husband who, e said, had been untrue to her. Insists He Was True. She maintained that she had had complete confidence in him, that his devotion to her had never changed and that, even in the face of his love letters to Mrs. Mills, which had been read into the record, together with those he received from the chorister, she was not certain that he had been guilty of anything wrong. ‘The defense of Henry Stevens was based on an alibi, while fingerprint experts called by the defense nted to eight places in which the disputed Stevens' finger. It was charged that the fingerprint | had been an “afterthought,” placed on the card this Summer. Witnesses were produced to tear down and deny the circumstantial evidence which the State had presented, and in its sum- ming up the defense pointed an ac cusing finger at the meek James Milis. On December 1, when all testimony nad been submitted, Simpson made an unsuccessful metion for a mistrial. e charged that the jury had decided o acquit on the second day of the rial, that several members had been sleep during the trial sessions and hat they had been improperly zuarded. |ALL HALL MURDER - INDICTMENTS ARE QUASHED BY COURT (Continued from First Page) POLICEMAN WINS FIRE RESCUE PALM AT EARLY-HOUR BLAZE | ___(Continued from First Fage) out not only New Jersey, but the United States. We shall not he able personaliy to acknowiedge the many kind letters we have received, but we chall appreciats it if tho press will give this word of thanks to their writers.” : Mre. Hall went to her home in New Brunswick and found many friends and neighbors awalting to congratu late her. 1 am =0 happy, o happy. tell you how happy I am, from the steps of her home. The verdict leaves the sl Rev. Mr. Hall and Mrs. deserted farm outside New Brunswick on the night of Septembor 14, 1922, as great . mystery as ever. The State’ case was built endrely on circumstan- tial evidence, with the exception of the eyewitness story of Mrs. Gibson. Her testimony was bitterly attacked by the | defen Big Expense to Newspapers. | Some 11,000,000 words were wired to newspapers during the trial. The recor contains 1,110,000 words, covering 5,500 pages. A total of 178 witnesses testified, 102 for the | State and 76 for the defense, and total | cost .of the trial is estimated as high 1 cannot she sald ng of the Miils on @ nosphers has |as $1,000,000. The cost to the county | |is cstimated at $100,000 to $300,000. | When the jury was discharged and | returned to the hotel, John W. Young, a juror, who was openly attacked by Senator Simpson in his summation, | engaged in an argument with Gilbert | Van Doren, proprietor of the hotel, | who made an affidavit for the State | charging Improprieties on the part of | the jurors. Bystanders prevented a | fiet fight. The verdi “A terrible mis- carriage of justi in the opinion of | Charlotte Mills, daughter of the slain | woman | James Mills, her father, has re- tained a lawyer. His explanation is: “The defense, in its addresses to the | jury, charged me with the crime.” FEAR FOR “PIG WOMAN.” | Physicians Keep Jury’s Verdict From Mrs. Gibson. i | JERSEY CITY, N. J., December 4 | (#)—Mrs. Jane Gibson, who gave | the most mccusing testimony against |the acquitted Hall defendants, had | not been apprised of the verdict to- newspaper in more than a week, it was stated at Jersey City Hospital, where she has been {ll for rearly a | month, and news of the “not guiity"” | verdict was beiig withheld from her in fear that the excitement might | cause a relapse. Deaths Reported. o7 BTSRRI, S T MATDAER: Bt 815 ven . B at the time she was killed, or if moyfflf‘?‘.& Seammy, 74, United States nad knowle f &, The three abso. | Home Hosbital iz P oo atl tharges, and 1t rested | s BTl Frocet Morl, 73, the Arcadis. 14ih with the State to hey had ""gaie js Nigree, 67. Ridee road. o 1‘)“'””' Then he | JPMICAE. S “T.‘r:mth_.‘.m}.r gininously diseusse it Pt aaetts ML 50, And the Jury brought Inia wardiotf, Soeass Elsteis Xudd. o < ,£ “Not guilty | " Morrie Libos. 52, Emerse And so ends the Hall-Mills case. | !;":g’:,,%}"""-'- 85 1 1nd who murdered the couple who Zaberh Shaw. were found dead under the crabapple 3 +ree we shall bly never know. sm. tCobyrieht. 1926 - day. She has not been allewed to read a | liceman Dorrenbacher ran to the cor- | row, his heart thumping in hopeful | rushed to the house. { As a matter of routine he kicked in the door and made ready to effect a | | stairway rescue. The stairway was | filled with smoke and flames,” fortu- | nately for Tom's aspirations. was but one alternative—leaping. Policeman Morrow withdrew and |braced himself beneath the second- | story window for the supreme oppor- tunity. A colored woman, Mrs. Eliza- heth Banks, and her two children, 6 d 7 years of age, appeared at the window. “Leap,” shouted Morror. | | A form flashed through the inter | vening space. It was that of the | younger chiid. It landed plump in | the policeman’s arms and was eased | to the ground. Orders Second Jump. “Leap some more,” commanded Morrow. | Another small form dropped to | safety, under guidanoe of the mother. “Keep on leaping,” yelled Morrow, | noting that his comrade was arriv- | ing back in time to confirm things. The mother raised herself doubt- fully to the sill, murmured a prayer | and jumped as directed. A third time | tho prowess of the policeman stood | him in good stead. “Any more leapers up there?” mn- quired Morrow eagerly. Thers was none. Morrow step) aside, his duty done, and let the fire men have their way. They extin- | guished the fire before it had done more than $50 damage. Policeman Morrow’s feat was re- ported to Capt. Headley by his admir- ing colleague, Dorrenbacher, and Capt. Headley today was writing an official commendation for the officer’s record. Tom’s reputation now ls officlally established. And his fame {s growing by leaps | and bounds, as it were. e ! | SWiSS GROUP ELECTS. Gruetli Verein Holds Sixty-Sev- enth Annual Meeting. Swiss citizens and direct descend- ants, members of the Washington Gruetli Vereln, met Thursday night | in their sixty-seventh annual meeting, | elected officers and reviewed the prog- | | ress of the club during the past year. | Godfrey L. Munter was re-elected | president. Other officers elected were: | John Gutman, vice president; J. Ben- jamin Egloff, secretary; George W. Kreis, financial secretary; Leon | Chatelain, treasurer; Xavier Borruat, | | librarian, and John Flortn, sergeant- | at-arms. | WINTER RATES TO CALIFORNIA The Washington-Sunset Route is the | most economical and comfortable way to | | go. Tourist sleeping cars daily from Washington to California without change | via New Orleans, Houston, San Antonio, El Paso. Write today for illustrated book- ; | let “C”, time tables and fares. | G. V. McAst, Passenger Agent | WASHINGTON-SUNSET ROUTE, 11810 B Sa, KW, Waskingsen, DG marks on the calling card did not cor- had ONAFRICAN FLIGHTS, Noted British Aviator Who; Made London-to-Australia Trip Speaks Here. Speeding through dust storms and | blazing heat of mid-Africa, engag- ing a thousand natives to tramp down an airdrome so they could take off after a heavy rain, circling around the misty, rainbow grandeur of Vie- torla Falls, peering from the aif into the 1,300-foot hole #t Kimberley where prospectors once scooped up dlamonds—these and an amazing variety of other experiénces were rec- counted and shown in air ph3.o- graphs by Sir Alan Cobham when D. At Western Tonight he lectured last evening before msm-I - bers of tne National Geographic Ho- clety at the Washington Auditorium. Sir Alan explained that his Lon- | Wéstérn studen don-to-Cairo mghted rs: u?d"m‘teen SI;“ interm ate air routes to test his|tion in the school auditorium tonight. {machine and engihe in & tropical to survey for future plane travel, monsoon period, and to demorscra‘e the sound possibilities of -aerial travel in places where easy com- munication had not hitherto been possible. Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the National Geographi: Society, ‘n had traveled more than 500,000 miles all told, in the air. Cites Exploring Possibilities. The aviator pointed out the ex- ploration possibilities of the airplane and compared his own flight of three days to the source of the Nile as compared with the three years it took the first white man to sen the area. The trip to Cape Town and back was made in an airplane which al- Rangoon, and the same plane later was used in the speaker's historic flight from England to Australia and return. “This Indicates that the life of an airplane is much longer than the lay- man commonly believes,” he said., An air-cooled engine was used in the; flight; but the weight saved by that was somewhat offset by the quantity of drinking water that had to be taken in the event of a desert landing. Motion Pictures Shown. Motlon pictures started with the Pyramids and the Sphinx, then hav- ing “its toe nalls manicured, thence up the ‘“vegetation river’ the Nile running like a silver ribbon though its center, past the barren Val- ley of the Kings and Luxor where, he whimsically remarked, ‘“they had a rain _once—I think it was 10 years ago.” “Fuzzy Wuzzy” of Sudan fighting fame was caught at one landing, and the camera recorded native women so anxious to scrub the plane that they to be restrained lest they injured; it. A “sheik” of the desert was not all that motion picture attendance would lead one to hope for; but the; dance of native blacks was a most realistic exhibition of what would be called the “Charleston.” In contrast to the ancient native ox- driven irrigation wheels was the mighty Assuan dam, built by & Scotchman with an ambition to con- struct something else as enduring as the Pyramids, and the water pouring through the sluices at the rate of 40 tons a second with such force that a “water cushion” has to be provided ! lest the base of the giant structure be worn away. Views of Uganda. Uganda, where the natives grow their own cotton, and an upper Nile dam which will irrigate cotton land: Rhodesia with its 16-foot ant hill | used as bunkers on golf courses; Pre- | toria with its parliament house, re-| puted to be the finest building in the | Southern Hem sphere, and some of the most remarkable pictures ever taken on land or air of the Victoria Falls, showing the plane plunging in and out of the mighty columns of spray, and | ner fire alarm box and Policeman Mor. | chasing the rainbows that form above it, were other views caught on the | anticipation of dreams to be fulfilled, remarkable flight and shown last | evening. In Uganda the natives have made considerable progress in mechanical ways, the pictures showed, though their enthusiasm sometimes leads to There | curious results—such as that of the ! boy with a bicyele equipped with three | motor horns and four bells. 250 IN OPERETTA. ‘Wother Goose Affair Given by Pea- ‘body School Pupils. ‘More than 250 children took part in | the ““Mother Goose” operetta given by | the Peabody School in the Eastern High School auditorium last night. The program was repeated this aft- ernoon. Gordon Wood and Charlotte Ham- mond sang the leading roles. The Boys' Glee Club, conducted by 8. J. Jackson, rendered several numbers. The seventh and eighth grade puplls gave a wand drill exhibition. The entertainment was held for the benefit of the school fund. Miss Ger- trude Young, principal; Mrs. J. M. introducing him, said that Sir Alan|world féecérd corn crop on 10 acres, "“g Archeology League, ride early this morning. a man is being sought. Cain, Miss Bessie Harrison and Miss Bessle Wood were in charge. Mrs. Laura Ward directed the orchestra. UOOTR——— Belgrade s to have a new broad- casting station with jclent power to be heard in all parts of Jugosiavia. MISS BEVERLY RITTENHOUSE, = , who is ‘réa:.t in lossom,” & m omedy, will be given qu:hul pcmenl:- BREAKS CORN RECORD. COLUMBUS, Ohto, December 4 (A).—Ira Marshall, Hardin County farmer, who last year produced a this yeat bettered his own fécord by producing 1,686.8 bushels of shelled corn on 10 acres. This was officlally announced to- dny at Ohio State University after a check-up at Marshall's farm. ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES. TONIGHT. The Federation of Citizens’ Asso- ciations will meet, 8 o'clock, in hoard |ready had flown from London to{room of the District Building. Biological Soclety of Washington will meet, 8 o'clock, in assembly hall of the Cosmos Club. Speakers: H. D. Fish of the University of Pitts- burgh and Glen C. Leach, Bureau of Fisheries. Both lectures illustrated. Avukah, the American Student Zionist Federation, will give a dance 5’!' et(rlw Arlington Hotel. Friends in- Dr. George Horton, United States counsul general, retired, will give an fllustrated lecture on “Twenty Years in Classic Lands” before the Art and 19068 Florida avenue, 8:30 o’cloc] “The Menace of Materialism” will be subject of a lecture by Viétor Russell of Texas, 8:16 o'clock, at League for Larger Life meeting, 1628 K street. Admission free. Executive committe of Anti-Cigar- ette Alllance will meet, 7:30 o'clock, at 1628 K street. $1,500 Watch Stolen. A diamond-studded Swiss watch, said to be more than 300 years old and valued at $1,500, was stolen from Mrs. Bena Hawley, 606 Massachusetts avenue, by a companion on an auto She gave a name to the police and SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1928 FLUSVERUM BOAT NOBLE THREATENS 5 KEENLY SOUGHT T0 REVEAL THIGS American Consuls Watch Says Amundsen Did Nothing and Italians Prepared for Caribbean Ports for Ap- pearance of Arsene. The elusivé French rum runner a fugitive frem justice somewhars at 8ea, with two kidnaped Federal officers aboard, 18 being sought by consuls at ports in the en- tire Carribbeari Sea aréa, in accord- ance with Instructions broadcast by the Btate Department. Ever since the ship steamed calml; gway Tuesday, taking with it J. B. Mathews, assistant prohibition ad- ministrator at New Orleans, and Coast Giardsman Handley of Biloxi, Miss., who had been left on board as guards while Const Guard vessels which had seized the ship left ¢ ob- tain fuel, it has eburted the myriad lanes of the sea and evaded recapture. So H. €. Anslinger, chief of the Buréau of Foréign Control' of the prohibition service, asked the co- operation of the State Department in the search for the doughty rum run- ner, with the result that a general alarm has been broadeast for the runaway, and Coast Guard ships in- structed to crulse in search of the fiaughty French boat. No harm is bélleved to have be- fallen the prisoners of the rum runners. CHILDREN WILL CAROL. Christmas Songs Will Be Rendered at Friendship House. A hundred children of Southeast Washington are invited to take part in the singing of Christmas carols at Friendship House, 326 Virginia ave. nue southeast, tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, it was announced today by Miss Lydia A. H. Burklin, head resi- dent. The singing, which will be under the direction of Miss Carrie Brightwell, is to be repeated each Sunday affernoon during the Yuletide season. Another featuré will be the telling of a children's story by Miss Ellen M. Dashiell of the Renshaw School of Expression. Announcement also is made that a tea will be given at the house by the Nursery Ald Association Monday aft- ernoon at 3:30 o'clock, to which all remm interestéd in child welfare are nvited. A playlet, entitled ‘Mother Goose's Convention,” to be presented members. In a speech theater here, Nobile was quoted as told. ed lectures. part in the flight. Polar Air Dash. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 4.—Gen. Umberto Nobile threatens to | what he has not told before” about ™ the flight of the dirigible Norge over the North Pole, in consequence of a | reopening of a quarrel with Roald Amundsen and Lincoln over the leadership of the flight. Amundsen has cabled from New York to the Aero Club of Norway re- questing that his and Ellsworth's names be withdrawn as honorary ‘The message “Indignantly protests” that Nobile is in this coun- try making gross thereby ridiculing the name of Nor- way, in & lecture tour with the con sent of the club. however, that he knew nothing of the cablegram, Amundsen. but will back Gives Italians Credit. November 15, at saying that the idea of a flight over the North Pole in an ltalian dirigible originated with the Italians, and that Premier Mussolini ordered last Sum- p mer's successful flight over the Poie., Cross, which can be had in tin Nobile, who is at the Ritz Carlton Hetel, displayed a copy of his speech | in support of his claim that it was| The text shows that e asserted Amundsen arrived at the same idea as the Italians independent- ly, but later, and that Nobile stressed the contributions of Amundsen and Ellsworth to the expedition’s success. “It is possible,” he said when in- formed of the resignations, “that I shall tell what T have rot previously Roald Amundsen had no part in the preparations for the flight. And he did nothing on the flight itself. ectly fair. Shows Laudatory Letter. After he and I signed our contract he came over to America and deliver- He was gone for six months, during which time I was in Rome getting ready for the flight.” As to his lecture, Nobile says the only change he will make in it is to cease being silent as to Amundsen’s He has an English translation of a letter of thanks he | says Dr. Ralph Thommesen, president of the Aero Club, sent to the Italian government in which Gen. Nobile is credited with having made the flight possibl “tell | Christmas, 1926 Shop Early—Mail Early For Better Service Ellsworth misstatements, Ellsworth saye, up to dissolve 2 Aspirin” in four ta water, and gargle th Repeat in two hou by the Saturday Afternoon Play Club under the direction of Miss Brightwell, will be a feature of the tea party. Twenty children are to take part. Births Reported. PR TR e e et ROy TR £ gy, '1::'&;%'! .:L.’!x.fl.“i&?"@an‘:”m. 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