Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1935, Page 25

ESTRANGED WIFE | HELD N SLAYG Minister’s Son Is Shot at Home After Party in Hotel Room. By the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn., November 4.— Daisy Alexander Root, pretty 30-year- | old blond, tossed on a jail cot today | facing a charge of murder for the | slaving of her husband. Brenton Root. | over the affections of a red-haired | cigarette girl. Root, 32, contract investigator for & Memphis wholesale concern and son | of a Chicago minister, was shot to . death at his home early Sunday after | & party with his wife and friends at | the hotel where the girl, Miss Lucille Underwood, 21, was employed. | Miss Underwood told officers she | once went with Root for three months, but evaded him after she learned he was married. She denied she caused the estrangement of the couple. “I didn't love him,” she said. Parents Kind to Wife. Parents of the slain man. Rev. and | Irs. Benjamin Franklin Root, were sympathetic with the wife in their grief. “We will do all we can to make her burden easier.” the mother-in-law of the prisoner said. “She hardly realized what she was doing. We don't feel | harshly toward her.” Rev. Root, rector of St. Simon's Protestant Episcopal Church in Chicago, wept and said, “I suppose this woman must be tried.” The wife was quoted by officers as | #ayving she and her husband, from whom she separated about six weeks ago, went to the hotel with three other couples and they saw Miss ‘Underwood. | “She had caused me lots of trouble,” | Mrs. Root declared. She said she resented her husband's J attentions to the girl, and left, asking | another couple to take her home. Had Been Taught to Shoot. l Patrolmen Bert Hatch and H. B. Martin quoted her as saying she got out the pistol which “Brenton had taught me to shoot.” went to his home and “killed him.” | Miss Underwood said she saw Mrs. Root for the first time at the hotel. “She told Brett, cigarette girl. why don't yc s " M called m A bed slapped Brett. He told her, keep me from buying a pack of | cigarettes from her, but you can't| stop me from loving her!'” She said she left the place after | that. NAMING OF LABOR DELEGATE DEFENDED, William Green Answers Criti-| cism on Appointment of Hutcheson. The appointment of William L.} Hutcheson, international president of the Carpenters’ union, as the delegate | of the American Federation of Labor | to Phe forthcoming International La- | bor Conference at Santiago, was de- | fended last night in a statement by William Green, president of the fed- eration. Green obviously was answering an erticle in a New York newspaper which had declared the appointment was dis- pleasing to President Roosevelt and Secretary Perkins because Hutcheson had been a Hoover supporter and had said also that it was looked upon as a slap at John Lewis, president of the miners, and a Hutcheson opponent. ! Lewis and Hutcheson recently came to blows at the federation convention in Atlantic City. | On the political angle Green, ex- | plaining the Executive Council of the federation proposed Hutcheson's ap- pointment, said: | “The officers of the American Fed- | eration of Labor never understood that | political consideration of any kind | entered into the designation of labor representatives to International Labor Organizations Conferences. Recom- mendations of workers' delegates for attendance at these have been made without regard to politics or political consideration.” Fu: Green added: “The infer- ence drawn by any one that the ap- pointment of Mr. Hutcheson to attend | the International Labor Organization | Conference could be regarded as a re- prisal against any individual or group connected with the organized labor | movement is without foundation, false in every particular and unworthy of a moment's consideration.” BELGIAN FAIR ENDS Benefits Total 30 Million—Last Night Has Gala Program. BRUSSELS, Belgium. November 4 (#).—The Belgian World Fair, viewed by 20.000.000 persons during its brief existence, closed officially yesterday. Parades, a torch light procession and fireworks marked the final festivities before the turnstiles were locked at midnight. The financial benefits to Belgium from the fair are estimated at $30,- 000.000. The larger butidings will re- main to house the annual commercial fair. 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