Evening Star Newspaper, July 28, 1936, Page 5

HALL-MILLS CASE STILL KEPT OPEN “Many New Facts” on Un- solved Double Slaying on File, Official Says. By the Assoctated Press. SOMERVILLE, N. J., July 28.—New Jersey prosecutors still are alert for any “break” in the unsolved Hall- Mills double slaying, for which Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall was arrested 10 years ago tonight, but later acquitted. Her brothers, Willie and Henry Btevens, who were tried with her, also were freed. The State never tried any one else for the slaying of Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, attractive choir singer, in De Bussey's lane, a lovers’ rendez- vous, Alexander Simpson, then a State Benator, who was made special deputy attorney general to prosecute the case, said at his law office in Jersey City that he was still actively, though quietly, interested in the 14-year-old crime. Has “Many New Facts.” He said he had a file on the case | and “many new facts.” He declined | to discuss the matter. Officially, he | | THE EYEI\ING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1936. Fight Eviction With “Bombs” said, he had washed his hands of the case. Prosecutor Clarkson A. Cranmer of Somerset County said recently that “the Hall-Mills case is not closed. No murder case is ever considered closed by this office until some person is con- | victed.” | Rev. Mr. Hall was rector of a fash- fonable New Brunswick church and Mrs. Mills was an attractive young ehoir singer there. | Deep in the vaults of the Somerset | County Court House lie all the exhibits | of the trial of Mrs. Hall, widow of the slain clergyman, and her brothers. Card Among Exhibits. Mrs. Toni Mazwell was evicted from her home in Queens, Long Island, for failure to pay $100 rent. out the eviction order met stiff resistance from Mrs. Mazwell and They were pelted with flour and gepper “bombs” as they worked their way through sandbag and about 50 of her neighbors. arbed-wire barricades. LANDON CONFERS WITH VANDENBERG Michigan Senator Declares Combination of Issues Could Elect Him. By the Associated Press. TOPEKA, Kans., July 28.—Senator Arthur H, Vandenberg, arriving for a campaign conference with Gov. Alf M. Landon, told a press conference today that “s combination of major group issues” would put the Repub- lican candidate in the White House. “No one issue is paramount,” Van- denberg said. “This is an interesting campaign in that it presents a series of major issues, ®ach a personal in- tense challenge to a group of the electorate.” ‘The Michigan Senator listed, as his examples of these issues, the civil service, reciprocal tariff treaties, re- lief, spending and budget balancing and the Constitution—“which to probably 5,000,000 people is the most living. vital throbbing thing since 1776.” Sees Dictator Threat. Then he added, with a reference to the Michigan governorship campaign of Frank Murphy, former Governor General of the Philippines, that “with world, the threat of potential dic- tatorship runs through this cam- Ppaign.” “It presents this idea that the Gov- ernors of the States should be chosen by the President in Washington,” Vandenburg said. “It is a demonstra- tion of the willingness of the Roosevelt *“Within reason being physical and nothing else,” he added. Former Gov. and Mrs, Gifford Pin- chot of Pennsylvania also were to be among Landon’s visitors today. Rain Cheers Governor. An overnight rain cheered the Gov- ernor, who scanned drought reports with State officials yesterday looking toward an emergency program of re- duced freight rates on live stock, feed and water shipments; continuation of the farm pond construction and well- drilling program of 1934, and borrow- ing of oil company pumps to pump water. Leslie Jensen, Republican candidate for Governor of South Dakota, who conferred with Landon yesterday, said the drought was “as serious an emer- gency as the Johnstown flood, the San Francisco earthquake, or the Pennsylvania flood last Spring.” Senator Arthur Capper telegraphed Harry L. Hopkins, Federal relief ad- ministrator, urging “immediate” al- location of Federal funds for drought relief in Kansas. Business conditions in the Mahoning Valley industrial area of Pennsylvania and Ohio, the scene selected for open- ing his Eastern presidential campaign, were surveyed by Gov. Landon yester- day with two business specialists. Confer Two Hours. For nearly two hours Col. Leonard P. Ayres, vice president of the Cleve- land Trust Co. and prominent statis- tician, and Dr. Benjamin M. Anderson, economist to New York's Chase Na- tional Bank, sat at the desk of the Republican candidate. Later they conferred with members of his re- search staff. Landon also conferred with Lewis L. Strauss, partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and president of the Jewish Agricul- tural Society; Max Epstein, chairman of the General American Transporta- tion Corp., and J. A. Harzfeld, Kansas City attorney. Landon has chosen his birthplace, MRS. WANNAMAKER, HERE 15 YEARS, DIES Was Member of Women’s Guild of Central Union Mission. Burial in South Caro'ina. Mrs. Cornelia C. Wannamaker, 79, widow of Lawton Hayne Wannamaker. ar.,, and for the past 15 years a resident of this city, died last night after a short illness at her home, 250 Farragut street. Mrs. Wannamlker was a member of the Women's Guild of Central Union Mission and attended Zion Lutheran Church. A native of Charleston, S. C., Mrs. ‘Wannamaker lived a number of years in Orangeburg, S. C., until some time after the death of her husband. She had been living here with her daugh- ter, Miss Claudine Wannamaker. She leaves another daughter, Mrs. Harry Smoak, Orangeburg; four sons, H. H. and A. T. Wannamaker, both of Orangeburg; L. C. Wannamaker, Florence, S. C, and Sergt. P. 8 ‘Wannamaker, U. 8. A, stationed at Fort Hamilton, N. Y.; a grandson, nine granddaughters and three great- granddaughters. Funeral services were scheduled to be held at 3:30 p.m. today at Chambers’ funeral home, 1400 Chapin street. Additional services will be held at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow at Orangeburg. Burial will also be there. OUTING ARRANGED | Southeast Business Men to Hold I Picnic Tomorrow. | The Southeast Business Men's Asso- ciation will hold its eighth annual out- | machine to run the whole show. It is a species of carpet-bag government which evidences the New Deal philos- opyh to do everything for us.” Before his conference with Vanden- | berg, Landon held another morning meeting with aides on the drought sit- uation in Kansas. At a press confer- But, officers carrying —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. ence, the Governor was asked whether West Middlesex, Pa., for opening Eastern drive in late Aug?x:t '1#"1 ing and picnic tomorrow at Chapel town Nes nosr such steel, cosl and | FORL MG Mewbers hate bww ve- manufacturing centers as Pittsburgh, | f,‘;"‘"“l e e aad Youngstown, Ohio; Cleveland, Buffalo, | | cPSY/vania - avenue sothienss s N. Y. 9am Tt ” HAMILTON LEAVES CHICAGO. bus ::‘;popr::".mun Zulru b‘el‘;‘:em?;glz to travel by boat may take the steamer | RITES TOMORROW FOR MSGR. KERBY Noted Educator and Founder of Catholic Charities Dies at Home Here. Funeral services for Right Rev. Msgr. William Joseph Kerby, 66, pro- fessor of sociology at the Catholic University of America, who died yes- terday at his home, 3900 Connecticut avenue, will be held at 10 a.m. tomor- Tow In the crypt of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, on the campus of the university. Rev. Dr. Willlam Russell, a member of the faculty of Catholic University and nephew of Msgr. Kerby, will cele- brate the funeral mass. Burial will be | at Sioux City, Iowa, Friday. Msgr. Kerby, widely known as an educator, was editor of the Ecclesias- tical Review and one of the founders and long a leader of the Catholic Charities. He was secretary of the »xs A5 TEACHER TOO LENIENT Parents Complain, Say Pupils Should Be Whipped. WILKES-BARRE, Pa., July 28 (#).— Parents who complained a teacher “refused to whip our children or give them homework” will air their charges at a special meeting of the Pittston Township School Board tonight. They said such leniency retarded the educational progress of the pupils, To meet bus competition, railway freight rates in the Philippines are being reduced. " Eumpress: WORLD CRUISE National Conference of Catholic Char. ties from 1910 to 1920. Through presi. dential appointments, he was an offi; cial member of the District of Colum- | bia Board of Charities from 1920 to 1926. He had been a member of the staff at the university since 1897. He had written numerous articles on social questions for Catholic magaznes and a number of books. Among his books were “Le Socialisme Aux Etats-Unis,” ! 1897; “The Social Mission of Charity,” “Prophets of the Better | 1921, and Hope," 1922. This Summer’s season of popular f concerts in Symphony Hall, Boston, | was the most successful in history. 29 PORTS MADEIRA | STRAITS GIBRALTAR | SIAM SPAIN | JAVA RIVIERA | BAU ITALY | PHILIPPINES GREECE | CHINA PALESTINE | JAPAN EGYPT | HAWAIl INDIA | CALIFORNIA CEYLON | PANAMA 125 DAYS From New York January 9, 1937 . : Fares from $2300 (with bath from $3990), including standard shore programme. See your #travel CHICAGO, July 28 ) —John | Potomac at Water and L streets south- | There lies the card which was care- fully propped against the foot of the dead man, his own calling card to expedite identification. There lie the love letters exchenged between the| pastor and the choir singer. There, too, lie gruesome exhibits, such as the death mask of Mrs. Mills’ | mutilated face. Somerset County spent $45,000 to try the case in 1926, four years after the killings. That was a lot of money for a county like Somerset. It showed up in the tax bills. | Much of it was spent by a special | prosecutor and detectives from out- | side the county, and the citizens felt | the burden the more keenly for this reason. In 1926 the county felt a little above | the case that gripped the attention of the rest of the Nation. Today it feels little sentiment toward reopen- ing it. | RILEY FUNERAL HELD Coal Company Official Buried in Rock Creek Cemetery. Funeral services for Wallace W. Riley, 53, office manager of the | coal sales department of the Griffith | Consumers Co., who died Saturday | night at his home, 1218 Taylor street northeast, were held at 9 a.m. today in | St. Anthony’s Catholic Church, after brief services at the residence. Burial was in Rock Creek Cemetery. Mr. Riley had been identified with | the coal business here many years. | He was a native of Montgomery County, Md., and was educated in the | District public schools. | | charges that Key withheld evidence, | W.P. A, (Continued Prom First Page.) Postmaster General Farley, as he dis- cussed relief matters frequently in the past. He completely exonerated State Di- rector Key in the Oklahoma charges by explaining he was satisfied Key had no definite knowledge of the various acts perpetrated. Joseph R. Cannon, State investi- | gator, who had resigned after making previously had been demoted on or- ders from Washington, Williams said. He added that Cannon undoubtedly | was embittered for this reason. Reports from Oklahoma had stated Director Key was about to submit his resignation on his arrival today for a | conference with W. P. A. officials. | This report proved unfounded. Wil- | liams said the supposed tender of res- ignation was neither made nor dis- cussed and that Key was returning to Oklahoma in & day or so to continue his duties. Employes’ Testimony. “One of the good things about this Oklahoma investigation,” Williams said today, “is the fact that so many employes were willing to jeopardize | their own jobs by volunteering infor- | mation. That was one of the rea-| sons the investigation has been so thorough.” J Williams previously had stated that | employes who had revealed informa- | tion against the seven dismissed offi- cials would be protected in their jobs he planned to see Cal Ward, regional director of Rexford G. Tugwell’s Re- Hamilton, chairman of the Republican west, leaving at the same hour. | as he did in the other cases,” Wil- | about these new cases until a full re- | disclosed that Oklahoma had been al- | men, who are expected to start work | New York. in so far as it is humanly possible to do so. “I told Key we had some other cases under investigation and had directed our investigator in Oklahoma to pro- ceed with them in the same manner settlement Administration, who Wi expected in Topeka. “I am always glad to see him” Landon replied. No State Money for Drought. In response to further questions, he | | said there was no State money to spend for drought relief and that such tasks | as drought and flood relief, under the | Kansas constitution, fell upon the | | counties. | | “Then any funds for drought relief would have to be Federal money?” he was asked. “Oh, yes” Landon replied. “Any funds we have are for administrative purposes.” Vandenberg. talking to reporters at | his hotel, said he was ready to do “any- thing anybody wants me to do” in me; Republican campaign “within reason.” liams said. “I am not ready to say anything port has been made.” After leaving Williams' office, Key loted an additional quota of drought- destitute farmers for employment in the relief program. He did not state the number. Oklahoma's quota at present is 55,000 Monday on projects which have already been approved. BUS FARES SLASHED No matter where you want to go in the U Eastern is by far the cheapest first-class way to travel. 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