Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1937, Page 13

TRIAL OF PORTER FORMURDER NEAR Mass of Evidence Faces Servant Accused of Slaying Woman. BY the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 6—A mass of circumstantial evidence—so much that the State contends a confession ‘would be superfluous—will face Major Green, colored porter, when he is called for trial Monday for the murder of Mrs. Mary Robinson Case, 25-year- old former Lancaster, Pa., belle. A bride who had taken up residence in New York less than a year before, she was found beaten and strangled to death in the bathtub of her apartment January 11 by her husband, Frank W. Case, who hurried home from work | when she failed to answer his tele- | phone calls. | Three days later District Attorney | Charles P. Sullivan announced he had & confession in which the porter ad- | mitted entering the apartment, bent on robbery. | Latest of the many bits of evidence | 1s the story of Green's wife, Juanita, | that Green broke a long habit by not | accompanying her home from the apartment house, where both worked, | on the day of the crime. Bloodstained trousers found in the epartment house incinerator chute | Statesman Dies ELIHU ROOT. been forced to wear heavy woolen uni- forms 1n tropical Cua and fight with black powder ammunition whose smoke revealed their positions clearly to Spanish forces using the smokeless variety. Army Staff System. Secretary Root reorganized the staff system and laid a sound groundwork of Army administration that withstood acid tests years later when submitted to the crucible of the World War. To his administration also was con= THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D..C. FEBRUARY 7 had celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Root was American Counsel in the North American fisheries arbitration of 1910. He was president in 1913 of an arbitration tribunal involving interests of Great Britain, France, Spain and Portugal in church property. He fought long &nd hard for a re- vision of the constitution of his State. He was chairman of the Judiciary | Committee of a constitutional conven=- tion in 1894 and chairman of another convention in 1915. Societies and organizations devoted to the arts and sciences, education, ! the legal profession and propaganda for peace were always asking him for time, money and effort and he gave freely of all three. He was president at various times of the American Bar Association, the Carnegic Endowment for International Peace, the American Society of International Law, the National Security League and the bar asociations of the State and of the city of New York. Honors came to him from North and South America and from Europe. He received doctorates from a dozen American colleges and universities, from Oxford University, England; Toronto and McGill in Canada, the University of Leyden in Germany, the University of Parls, the University of Buenos Aires and the University of Lima, Peru. Belgian and Greek Honors. Decorations were bestowed by Bel- gium and Greece. He was honorary president of the pan-American con- ference at Rio de Janeiro in 1906, was an honorary member of the Institute of Advocates of Brazil and of the Mex- jcan Academy of Legislation and | Jurisprudence. In 1912 he was awarded the Nobel prize, in 1924 the Theodore Roosevelt medal for administration of public office, and in 1926 the peace prize of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. He was chairman of the trustees of Hamilton College and of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. He also served on the boards of the New York Public Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Federation of Arts. In 1907 he lectured at Yale, and in 1913 at Princeton. Many of his public addresses were collected in book form, and he was the author of several works on citizenship, constitutionalism and kindred subjects. On his 80th birthday anniversary, in 1925, he received signal tribute as guest of honor at a dinner given by the Union League Club of New York. A gathering of men famous in every walk of American life turned out to testify to his services to his country and “to the cause ol internatignal Jjustice.” Charles D. Hilles, secretary to the President in the Taft administration, and later a member of the Republican National Committee, said: “An inspiring chapter in our history was about to be written when Elihu Root entered the cabinet of President McKinley. The war with Spain created unusual public problems. McKinley, Hay, Root, Knox and a few of their associates were called upon to shape a new natlonal policy, as the United States was then becoming a world power. The initial task was that of steering the Nation in international channels where the least error of judg- ment might have been disastrous. The contribution of each public man of the period is not distinguishable in the 19357—PART ONE: . composite, but Mr. Root had a leading part in extending a protecting arm and the privileges of our country's higher civilization to Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines, whose distraught people were fearful that they were merely exchanging one yoke for an- other. It was on Root's authority that many of his colleagues formed their judkments. Thus he went to Wash- ington in times singularly adapted to call forth his extraordinary powers, It is fortunate for the country that these exceptional circumstances caused the exercise of his rare talent for state- craft, and that he had a long and inti- mate association with highly impor- tant affairs. Few statesmen of the period from 1896 to 1913 were dis- cussed more frequently by the press and public, although he was not a magnetic speaker and although he avoided spectacularity in every form. | He had a distinct flair for solid achievements in public life, and his greatest gift was his faculty of en- forcing his own views and taking his hearers captive. He had that rare quality which William Penn called “a | public mind” and was highly admired ' in a day when the merit of the great master spirits of the country was ap- preciated.” ROOSEVELT IS INVITED TO BAR UNIT’S DINNER Garner and Supreme Court Jus- Alsc Asked Attend. tices to Invitations to attend the seven- teenth annual dinner of the Federal Bar Assoclation, February 22 at the | Mayflower Hotel have been extended to the President of the United States, the Vice President, the members of the Supreme Court, the commandant of the Marine Corps, the paymaster general, Marine Corps, and their wives. The dinner will be a celebration of the sesqui-ctentennial of the Consti= tution of the United States. Repre- sentative Sol Bloom, director genera United States Constitution Sesqui- Centennial Commission, will discuss the plans that have been made by * A—13 that commission for commemorating | this important historic event. James M. Landis, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, dean of Harvard University Law School, will also be a guest speaker. The event is under the direction of | William R. Vallance, legal adviser, Department of State. Mexico on Upggade. Mexico's factories have substantially increased their output in the last few | months. [PONTIAC | Sixes & Eights [JIMMEDIATE DELIVERY| | | WE NEED USED CARS ‘ Flood Motor Co. Direct Factory Dealer | 4221 Connecticut Ave. l Clev. 8400 711 TWELFTH ST. Always high grade, never high priced were said by a tenant to be part of a ! fided the beginnings of the Panama suit he gave Green. A blood-stained | Canal, and when the Constitution hammer and a jewelry case belonging | followed the flag into the Philippines to the slain woman's husband were | he had to draw up regulations for also in the chute. | A shirt worn by Green when ar- rested was identified as the husband's property. | An unsolved mystery is the where- abouts of Mrs. Case’s wedding ring, which police say was torn from her finger by her slayer. Conviction carries a mandatory death sentence. Root (Continued From First Page.) exercise of the virtues that make human character—mercy, compassion, knidly consideration, brotherly af- fection, sympathy with fellowmen, un- selfish willingness to sacrifice for others.” | ‘When he was 84 years old President Coolidge sent him to Geneva. The re- sult was the Root-Hurst formula, the co-author being Sir Cecil Hurst of Great Britain. That formula. promptly accepted by other signatories, but long debated in the Americate Senate, gave the United States the right to withdraw from the Court “without any imputa- tions of unfriendliness or unwilling- ness to co-operate generally for peace and good will” if, after an exchange of views. there was disagreement with the American position in object- ing to a request for an advisory opinion from the tribunal on a question in which the United States claimed in- colonial administration, something | which was new to American experi- ence. The Army also administered affairs in Cuba during the infancy of ! that republic and suppressed with 70, 000 men the Philippine insurrection. That his work was good is written in the promptness with which he was called back to Washington to be- | come Secretary of State under Roose= veit with York. Again it was his lot to reorganize a great governmental agency, and he rebuilt the consular and diplomatic services. Through them he worked more than 75 treaties. One of his achievements in this against his own desire to go on the practice of law in New | term was combating the feeling of | distrust which had been engendered iin Latin Amercia by the Panama, Puerto Rico and Cuba developments. Governments and peoples in Central and South America saw threats to their independence in the southward expansion of United States influences and Secretary Root made a long tour in which, by personal touch, he laid foundations for Pan-American under=- standing and solidarity. On the other side of the world fret- ful circum:tances in the Pacific and the Japanese immigration problem called fcr the exercise of his genius for diplomacy. The Root-Takahira pact, famed as “the gentlemen's agreement,” emerged to keep peace in the Pacific. He went from the cabinet to the Senate, to stand squarely as a cham- | pion of party regularity in the hectic It was this reservation of a virtual American veto on requests for advisory opinicns which formed the chief bare rier to American adherence to the court. The Root-Hurst formula broke down European resistance to this res- | ervation, but the opponent of the| World Court idea in this country ar- gued that the withdrawal clause nul- | lified the veto power. Mr. Root ccm- batted this viewpoint in a special ! hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in January, 1931 For more than threc hours on that occasicn he talked to the committee, expounding the circumstances leading up to acceptance of the formula by other powers. At times he pcunded the conference table with a vigorous fist as he stressed the part that the court could play in preserving world peace. It was remarked that his men- tality was as quick and his voice even stronger than in his own days in the Benate, 16 years before. Mr. Root heiped to organize this World Court, having been a member | of the International Commission of Jurists which, upon invitation of the Council of the League of Nations had | reported the plan for that tribunal. | The scheme was adopted in 1921. Age | caused him even then to decline a | place on its bench after seven nations had ncminated him for the post. He was given credit, too, for many of the ideas embodied in the earlier Court of Arbitration at The Hague, ideas which were developed by him when, as Secretary of State, he made over the fabric of American treaty re- lationships to accord with his convic- tion that among nations, as among Teasonable men, law could be made to govern. Because of his part in this world development ne was named in 1910 as a member of the arbitration tribunal. ‘These world-wide recognitions of | his talents crowned a public career | which started with his appointment as a Federal district attorney by Presi- dent Arthur in 1883. But after two years in that office he went back to private practice and he had only a meager background of public service | when, in 1899, he was called to Wash- Ington by President McKinley to be | Becretary of War. This was on the heels of the Span- | Ish-American conflict and he found | the United States Army reflecting the effects of the scandals which followed criticisms of its administration in 1898, “Embalmed beef” aromas hung over the department, to say nothing of popular indignation over the fact that American regulars and volunteers had days of the Bull Moose movement. Wielding the gavel over the Re- publican National Convention at Chi- cago, he held the party unwaveringly to a course that meant defeat in the three-cornered battle of 1912. At the end of his Senate term Mr. Root again sought retirement. But with the World War came a new duty, this time under a Democratic administration, when President Wilson made him head of a special diplomatic mission to the ephemeral Kerensky regime in Russia. After the war Mr. Root was con- cerned in the fight for American membership in the League of Na- tions, trying his best to persuade the “die hards” in the Senate to accept compromises which he was sure would safeguard this country from entangling Europeal. alliances. In 1921 President Harding named him as one of the American delegates to the Washington Arms Conference. | There he led the fight against use of poison gases and the right of sub- marines to attack merchant vessels without warning. He engaged in the legal fight against the Volstead act, arguing, albeit unsuccessfully, in the Supreme Court against the constitutionality of that law. He maintained that Con- | gress had not the right, under the eighteenth amendment, to limit the alcoholic content of beverages to one- half of 1 per cent. Native of New York. Elihu Root was born in Clinton, Oneida County, N. Y., February 15, 1845. He was graduated in 1864 from Hamilton College, where his father, Oren Root, was for many years a professor of mathematics. After leaving college, Mr. Root taught school for a year at Rome Academy. He went to the University of the City of New York the follow- ing year to study law and became a | graduate of the law school in 1867, and was promptly admitted to the bar. Mr. Root’s first public office of importance was United States attor- ney for the southern district of New York, to which he was appointed by President Arthur in 1883. He served until 1885. He was delegate to the State Constitutional Convention in 1894, and chairman of the Judiciary Committee of that convention. On January 8, 1878, he married | Clara Wales of New York. To them were born a daughter, Edith, who became the wife of U. S. Grant, 3d, and two sons, Elihy, jr, and Edward Wales. Mrs. Root died in June, 1928, five months after she and Mr. Root Group No. 1 The Burton Sofa A charming roll-back English medel that invites to luxurious com- fort; tailored in handsome figured linen and genuine down- filled cushions. Regular Price $205. February Sale_ $s165 Cocktail Table A Chippendale motif of the cluster leg design; geruine Hon- duras mahogany construction. End Table Also'of the Chippendale school in genuine Honduras mghogany; Top inlaid with leather. Price $25, Feb- ruary Sale____. Reg. $21-25 Group No. 2 Cavalier Sofa fitted with convenient shelf in base. 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