Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1931, Page 27

CONFESSES DI TOKILL 5 N 188 Missourian Asks Governor to Arrange Life Servitude, | hut Not Hanging. Br e Associated Press. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, January 23. =A man who signed himself Henry Wadsworth has written Gov. Henry 8. Caulfield, saving he “assisted” in the| waurder of » woman and her four chil- dren near Brookfield, Mo., 42 years ago and was now willing to surrender “if you will arrange for me to serve a life m. “1 ghould be punished,” the letter,| made public yesterday by Gov. Caul-| field, said, “but do not want to be| hanged.” | State officials at first placed little credence in the letter, but reports from | Brookfield said old residents of that| vicinity recalled the crime, for which | one man was hanged. “1 assisted Joseph Howell to murder & widow and her four children, then | fire to the house and burned the | ® the letter to Gov. Caulfield | said. The writer of the letter, which| 8 postmarked St. Louis, said he had | ‘saved considerable money” and was “willing to donate it all to charity.” : Reports from Brookfield said _the slain _woman was Mrs. Minnie Hall Howell, twice convicted of murdering | her and her four children, was banged | for the crime in Trenton August 4,/ 1893. Howell, a native of Memphis, Tenn,, | taught school near Brookfield and lived at the Hall home. In January, 1889. neighbors discovered the woman's house ablaze. Before the fire had made much progress the five bodies were removed. | Apparently all had been clubbed to death. INDEPENDENT RETAIL STORES TO “COME BACK”| Head of Wholesale Concern Sees @Greater Willingness to Battle for Business in 1931. | By the Associated Press CHICAGO, January 23.—Lafrank S. Cunningham, president of Butler Bros.| wholetalers of general merchandise, said today independent retailers would re- cover in 1931 soree of the ground lost to chain stores in the last several change in the independents’ E greater willingness to battle for business instead of invoking the aid either of legislation or 'gubm: opinjon, was re- sponsible for the improved position of | the one-store dealers, he rald, and the end of 1931 should see the independent dealer in the ascendancy. AUSTRALIA CUTS WAGES | Arbitration Court Orders 10 Per Cent Reduction. MELBOURNE, Australia, January 23 () —The full arbitration court here yes- terday ordered a reduction of 10 per cent | in basic wages for the year dating from February 2 as a measure of national emergency to combat the eccnomic de- pression. | The judgement affects the Victorian, South Australian and Tasmanian Rail- way Services, the Australian Workers' Union with the exception of shearers, | whose were reduced recently, timber :&fim clerks, engineers, tram- | company made o & Sportsman Raises . . Rare Camellias at | Long Island Estate | Has 200 Plants From Orient—Importation Now Forbidden. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 23.—Americans | have been hearing a lot about camellias this Winter, but comparatively few of | them, except William R. Coe and his | friends, have ever seen one. Mr. Coe, a millicnaire sportsman, | raises them at his estate, Planting | Flelds, at Dyster Bay, Long Island. They are in bloom now. Mr. Coe began collecting camellia plants 25 years ago. He now has 200 plants, including 48 varieties, in a spe- cial greenhouse. They will be in bloom until April. The flowers resemble | gardenias, white, red, pink and mottled. | The collection is said to be the only | perfect collection of camellias in the | United States and it could not be duplicated, since Government restric- tions now prevent importing the plants. Mr. Coe's plants came from China, Japan and Java. Once camellias flourished in Southern | gardens, and it is said that some still | grow wild near Charleston, §. C. | In the meantime. to audiences that | never saw a camellia, Mary Garden in Chicago has been singing Hamilton | Forrest's opera, “Camile,” Rosa Ponselle at the Metropolitan recently appeared in “La Traviata,” and Eva Le Galliene at the Civic Repertory Theater has | ‘amile”— all taken from the story by Dumas Fils | of the young woman who always wore | a white camellia pinned to her gown. | PROTEGE MAKES GOOD Mary Garden Introduces Young Man in “Pelleas and Melisande.” CHICAGO, January 23 ().—Twen! years ago Mary Garden made her oper- | atic debut here in “Pelleas and Melis- | ande,” and last night she sang it aga'n | during the dcbut of another of her proteges, Barre Hill, aged 24, of Chicago. | Hill, who stepped in one night from a subordinate place in the ranks of the| into the place of Pelleas, | enuine success with the aud ence,” the Tribune said. The listene: acclaimed the performance a triump for both teacher and pupil. | PIE CRUST No more ‘“guess” about pie crust! 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