New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 9, 1926, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 PRESIDENT URGES ELIMINATING ALL POLITIGS ON TAX Wants Non-Partisan Considera- tion of His Proposal fo Make Refund SENATOR COPELAND 0UT WITH SCATHING REBUKE New Yorker Says Coolidge Now Ad- vocates What He Himself Sug- gested and Saw Killed By Admin- istration—Washington Also Sees Senatorial Factions Lining TUp For Battle On Seating Vare. Washington, Nov. 9 (P—President Coolidge today asked for non-par- tisan consideration of his tax re- fund proposal. He made known through the White House spokes- man his desire that party lines be forgotten in consideration of the proposal by congress. Not Final Proposal 1t also was disclosed $hat the in- come tax credit plan announced yes- terday by Secretary Mellon was not the final proposal of the administra- tion. The president will conter with members of the house ways and means committee before recom- mending how the surplus should be returned to the taxpayers Would Avold Politics The White House pronouncement dld not refer directly to democratic charges that the president’s move was a political one, but it was said that Mr. Coolidge felt politics must be avoided at all hazards. If the tax credit }.coposal becomes Involved In a political controversy at the short session it will be diffi-| cult in the president's opinion to work out any relief for the tax- pavers at this time. The president thinks the best means of action by congress would | be that pursued in the last congress when a non-partisan agreement was worked out for passage of the rev- enue act. While the president has not en- | tirely accepted Mr. Mellon's propos- | al for a line of credit on next year's taxes, he does approve the idea of having the plan go into effect in some form or another nest year. In his first announcement for a | cut the president proposed an im-| mediate refund on this year's taxes, but Mr. Mellon thought that plan | too costly and cumbersome from an administrative viewpoint. As to the extent of the tax credit, | Mr. Coolidge feels this is simply a | matter of mathematics, to be con-| trolled by the amount of the surplus | which s now estimated at $250,- 000,000. On this basis Mr. Mellon yosterday said the tax credit should amount to at least 12 1-2 per cent. | Copeland’s Rebuke Atlantie City, N. Ve Senator Royal A. Cop York, In a statement here today furned his guns on the republican administration Vith a bitter denun- ciation of President Coolidge's ad-| vocacy, last night, of an additional 25 per cent tax reduction. Calls Tt Smoke Screen “President Coolidge's advocacy of an additional and immediate 25 per cent tax refund at this time is nothing less than a smoke-screen thrown up,” he declared, “to divert public attention from the over- whelming defeat suffered nationally by the republican party at the polls last Tuesday.” The New York state senator a!.flo‘ announced himself as an unquali fled supporter for Governor Alfred F. Smith, of New York, for the dem- ocratic nomination for the presiden- cy In 1928; declared that Senators- elect Vare of Pennsylvania, and Smith, of Tllinols, would never be s ated In the senate, and asserted that the results of the wet and dry referendums “was a mandate to congress which congress cannot ig- ¢ he intro- duced a bill calling for a 25 per cent reduction in taxes in addition to that already contemplated .by the admin- istration. ¥ Had a “Cat’s Fit.” “When President Coolidge, Sec- retary Mellon and Senator Smoot, chairman of the senute finance com- mittee, heard about it they had a ‘cat’s fit),” he declared. “They sald | it was an impossibility. “And now—six months later— when it is plainly scen that the peo- | ple of the country are dissatisfied with the republican administration. | President Coolidge comes out and| urges such a move. “His advocacy at this time Is| nothing more than a ghrewd polit cal move, intended {o avert public attention from the overwhelming re- | publican defeat last Tvesday. T am, of course, still in favor of such a reduction. It would be legalized larceny to keep from the people money which the government does not absolutely need in the conduct of its business. But tha adminis- tration’s urging of such a reduction no sooner than the curtain has been rung down on the election is a mere smoke-screen.” Scores Religious Prejudice “If ‘Al' Smith was aAProtestant.” Senator Copeland continued, “his| nomination as the democratic cafi- didate for the presidency in 1928 would be unanimous. That he is a Catholic should not prevent him from being the choice of his party. Rellgious objections should not and (Continued on Second Page) EW BRITAIN HERALD Says President Is Stealing His Idea SENATOR COPELAND JERQME ST, LINE ASKS 8 CENT FARE Fred Romani, Owner, Pefitions P. U. C. for Rate Increase CLATMS IT DOES NOT PAY State Board to Receive Statistics on Income and COst of Operation to Sppport Claim He Is I0sing Mon- ey on Project. Tred Romani, owner of the Jer- ome street bus line, today asked the public utilities commission to ap- prove an increase from six to eight cents fare on his route, and a pub- lic hearing will be held at the of fice of the commission in Hartford, | November 16. The operator, through his attor- ney, will present a financial state- ment prepared by William H. Day, accountant, to prove that the line is| operating at a loss under the pres- ent fare. At the oitice of the ac- countant today it was said that Ro- mani might consider a scheme for the sale of tokens or tickets at somewhat reduced rates if purchased | in numbers and this would make the | rate less than eight cents to regu- lar patrons of the line. Romant, in company with operas tors of other lines, was before the commission last year with a request for a one cent fare increase. The commissioners ruled that in the few ases where there were accurate rec- ords, they covered a period too short to be indicative of the proportion of costs to earnings. Accountant Day ias installed a system of accounts on each line and Romani will pre- ent figures covering a one-year pe- iod when he goes before the com- ion next week. This is the largest fare increase cver sought by a local bus line, amounting as it does to 33 1-3 per cent. One cent increases have been | asked from timé to time in the past | and have, in some instances, been allowed. Pratt and Whitney Gets Two Million Contract Hartford, Nov. 9 (#—The Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co., of this city has been awardel a $2,000,000 contract |by the United States government for approximately 200 of the company's | newly developed air-cooled airplane | engines, know nas “wasp” and for a large quantity of parts. It was also learned today that a short time ago a “wasp” engine was delivered to the Ford Motor Co., at Detroit for trials in a Ford plane. engines, spare CROSSING CRASH, 5 DEAD Houston, Texas, Nov. 9 (R—Five persons wer . killed and nine injur- ed this morning when a Southern Pacific passeng r train struck a truck at a crozsing near Houston. The truck was loaded with labor- ers going en route to an oil refiner. The train operates between Houston and the Galena refinerles. Driver Stops Auto as It Is About to Pass Over Child Underneath A fatality was avoided by the narrowest of margins on Broad street: at 7:25 this morning, when Stanley Donion of 8 Put- nam strept brought his automo- bile to a stop just as the rear wheel was about to pass over Jane Lodko, aged 11, of 111 Grove street, who had fallen after slipping on the wet pave- ment. Badly frightened and bleeding from ‘a cut on the head, the girl jumped to her feet and ran away, but a school teacher brought her back to Donion, who drove her to New Britain General Hospital. Her face and head are injured but not seri- it 1s believed. Donion was driving west on Broad street at the rate of about 10 miles an hour, accord- Ing to his statement to Super- numerary Officer Walter Wag- ner. In front of property known as No. 100, the school girl dart- ed into the roadway, attempting to go from the north to the south side. John Filo of 95 Broad street witnessed the in- cident and exonerated Donion, ‘who, he said, brought his car to & stop instantaneously, NEW BRITA'™, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1926. —TWENTY PAGES. Mussolini Apc,, Parls, Nov. 9.—(P—Formal writ- ten expressions of regret for the | ant1-French incidents at Ventimig- | 1a and Benghazi were handed to the | French ambassador in Rome today | by Premler Mussolini {n the form of |an “aide memotre.” Incidents Closed The French foreign office an- nounces that, in view of this action |and the satisfactory nature of For- | elgn Minister Briand's talk with the | Itallan ambassador in Paris yester- | day, the government considers the | tncidents “closed This visibly eases the situation be- tween Paris and Rome, as the Ric- clott! Garibaldl affair, involving antl-Fascist activities on the Rivlera, and the participation of Italians in the recent unsuccesstul Catalan plot on French soil, are considered purely police matters. Apology Spontancous Mussolini's action in giving a writ- ten declaration to Ambassador Bes- nard was largely svontaneous, the French government having refrain- ed from making any pressing de- 'URGES CITY T0 SHoW . ARMISTICE DAY SPIRIT :I.egion Commander Wants Flags Flown and Crowd | at Banquet Citywide observance of Armistice Day and display of flags from homes and business houses is wurged in orders for the day issued today by Commander Arthur H. Petts of the American Legion. Attendance at the civic banquet in the state armory is also advocated. This departure from the customary arrangements of Armistice day cele- bration is considered more appropri- ate in Leglon circles, Commander Petts writes. Y His statement, Leglonnalres and the New Britain, read: “With all thankfullness we look back to that Armistice Day which ended the World War. We remem- ber how gladly men stood erect in | the sun once more and let their fires | shine out at night without conceal- addressed to all critizens of in a moment from a world of wom- turned back to peace with profound gratitude to the God who gave it and to the men who paid for it with their lives. In some way we lost as well as gained, on that Armistice Day. “While Armistice Day is an oc- | caston of thanksgiving for victory, we must also honor the memory of those who gave their lives in the service of our country. “It is urgently requested that the | merchants and citizens generally, | will display the flag of our country full staff all day November the eleventh, “The Eddy-Glover Post Is spon- soring the civic banquet which has | been arranged in the observance of Armistice Day, to be held at the State Armory at 7 o'clock November the eleventh. This is a departure |from the usual observance of a | parade, bonfire and dance, and is | more in the keeping of the spirit of | the day. Tt is urged as Legionnaires and citizens, that you attend this af- fair in honor of those who made the supreme sacrifice, and in gratitude for the victory that was won. “Attest, “William H. Turner, adjutant. “A. H. PETTS, L “Commander.” [ | | s <’ By And Serious =2 > French Foreign Office, in View of Comp.etely Satis- factory Nature of Italian’s Statement, is Willing to Consider Incidents Closed. ment, how the load of anxiety fell | | en’s hearts, how a war-torn world | i verted ; mands in connection with the anti- French incidents. M. Besnard called on the Italian under-secretary of foreign affairs yesterday in reference to reorgani- zatlon of police arrangements at Ventimiglia, which is a rallway sta- tion town on the Italo-French bor- der. The incldents at that place and at Benghazi, in Tripoll, closely follow- ed upon the altempted assassination of Mussolini @ week ago Sunday at Bologna. Frenchmen Beaten At Ventimiglia French railway employees were beaten by Fasclsts, who represented the Frenchmen's fallure to uncover during the play- ing of the Tascist hymn. Tater a Fascist crowd staged a demonstra- tion in front of the French consul- ate, and one man mounted the bal- cony of the consulate and from it de- livered an anti-French speech. Several Protests M. Besnard, ambassador to Ttaly, first protested to Italy agalnst the (Continued €n Page 11) JAMES €. WELCH HELD UNDER LOTTERY LAWS| State Police Arrest New | Britainite as Ticket | Distributor | Bridgeport, Conn., Nov. § (P— After two wecks of surveillance, | State Police Sergeant Frank Virelli | last night arrested James C. Welch of New Britain as the alleged head of a ring ot lottery ticket sellers who have been flooding this section of the state. Welch was released from custody last night after a real estate bond for $5,000 had been fil- ed at the home of the superior court clerk, ‘Weleh is charged with violation of chapter 6436 ot the state laws. “Welch has unloaded a large number of his ‘treasury balance’ tickets in this e¢ounty,” Assistant State’s Attorney E. Earle Garlick stated today. “He has taken con- siderable more money from Bridge- port and vicinity than has ever been returned. We have not molested the agents hired by Welch in this case as that avails little. It is the brains of the system that we are after.” Portland Doctor Freed In Automobile Fatality Middletown, Conn., Nov. 9 () — In a finding handed down today | Coroner L. A. Smith holds that Dr. | | York, all now serving terms in the th-e disappeared since the assaults| took place and who are believed by | tive information that these witnesses | been followed and threatened. | identify the prisoners as the | who WITNESSES RECANT IN SECOND TRIAL Bridgeport Garment Workers Will Not Identify Gangsters FRIGHTENED, STATE SAYS Prosecutor in Bridgeport Malntains That Friends of Convicted “Cue Thugs” Have Threatened Those Involved in Case Bridgeport, Nov. 9 (F—Garment workers who were assaulted in this city on September 30 last by New York thugs armed with sawed-off billiard cues, repudiated on the wit-" ness stand in city court today their identification of their assailants, with the result that no probable cause was found for holding the accused on two counts involving as- saults on Samuel Siegel and Abe| Entzweig. The three men who were picked some weeks ago by Siegel and Entz- welg as their assailants are Max Baer, 28, of 140 Lewis street, New York; Samuel Rosenberg, 23, of 980 Gates avenue, New York, and James Cortl, 29, of 666 166th street, New state prison at Wethersfield for as- saults committed in Stamford short- ly after the Bridgeport assaults. Asks Continuance Detense Attorney Henry E. Shan- non asked that all counts against Baer, Rosenberg and Cortl be drop- ped as a result of the faflure of Slegel and Entzwelg to identify the | men as thelr assailants, but Assist- | ant Prosecutor Clarence O. Lister | asked that the cases against the men | be continued on two other counts| involving alleged assaults upon Da- vid Goldstein and David Bager, who Lister to be at some place in New York. Attorney Lister wants to lo- | cate these two men in an effort to have them identify in courtgas the | three men accused of assaulting them. Continuance on these two counts was granted to December 15. In the meantime the three alleged sluggers Will be returned to Weth- ersfield. Prosecutor Lister sald in court: “There has come to me authorita- are being threatened and Intimidat- ed and ‘hat attempts are belng | made to ‘purchase’ them. They are absolutely frightened to death, here land in New York city. I have re- Girl With Broken Back Remains Near Death MISS LEONA SMITH The condition of Miss Leona | Smith, 17 year old Maple street girl, | who received a broken back in an accident in Winsted Sunday evening, remained unchanged today, it was stated at the Litchfield county hos- | pital. Miss Smith has been hover- | ing between life and death since she | was admitted to the institution. She | is the daughter of Mrs. Pearl V.| Smith, Miss Smith was injured when a| motoreycle, upon the rear seat of | which she was riding, skidded in the car tracks in Winsted and threw her to the pavement. CITY PARKING SPACE | . BELIEVED NECESSARY Common Council Com-| | ceived informatfon that they have Up | to half an hour before court open-| | ed this morning they were ready to| men | assaulted them. Yet on the| witness stand they say they cannot identify the men. They say one thing outside of court and another thing in court. I feel that théy should be given an opportunity, however, to do just what they have done—place themselves publicly on | ccord as failing to identify their as- | ailants despite the fact that they| had identified the men to the polic as the ones who had beaten them. Philip D. Woodbridge of Portland was not criminally responsible for | the death here on October 21 of | Mrs. Bertha M. Barry of this city. | Mrs. Barry was struck by Dr. Wood- | bridge's automobile on the night of October 20. { The coroner’s fnvestigation, the | finding says, failed to disclose the | identity of the operator of another | automobile that ran over Mrs. Bar- | 1y after she had been struck by the | doctor’s car. Tho accident occurred fn the eve- | ning ‘as Mrs. Barry was crossin Main street and as she was about to board a trolley car. She had an um- | brella raised and apparently did not see the approaching automobile. Dr. Woodbridge. claims the woman stepped directly in front of his ma- chine and that as he went to her| assistance, another automobile pass- ed over her legs. SAYS HUSBAND T00K AUTO, WIFE BRINGS $600 SUIT | Anna Moquin Declares Ernest D. Maquin Tgnores Demands to Return Car Anna .\Io.quln. through Nair and Nair, has broughg suit for $600 dam- ages against her husband, Ernest D. Moquin, alleging that the defendant took possession of her automobile without, her knowledge and has re- |tused to give 1t up on demana. | Deputy Sheriff Martin H. Horwitz served the papers and the writ s returnable in the court of common pleas, Hartford, the first Tuesday of | December. | | |New Haven Arson Case Ends, Accused Is Jailed New Haven, Nov. 9 (P —Changing his plea to nolo contendere after most of the state's case, charging him with arson, had been placed be- fore the jury, Angelo Gulisano, for- |mer Washington avenue music store proprietor, was sentenced today to one year in jail by Judge Edwin C. Dickinson. Joseph Gulisano, a brother and Antonio de Nicola, their brother-in-law, each charged with a similar offense, were given nolles. The fire which occurred on Sep- tember 25, 1925, did damage of sev- eral thousand dollars to the bufld- ing, driving ten families to the street. Engineer to Check Up Again On | Spire of Congregatifl Church | Vincent Barry, to determine wheth- | | Data Secured Will Be Com- | pared With Figures on| File Since Inspection| Made Last Year. An inspection of the Center Con- gregational church spire will be made by the building commission with its consulting engineer, W. or alleged unsafe conditions report- ed last year have been aggravated. The steeple was under surveillance last year shortly after the North & | Judd factory disaster had centered | the building department’s attentions on several alleged dangerous condi- tions in construction. An engineer's | report showed the steeple, which is at the corner of Main and Church | streets, is leaning, but further study indicated that the condition had been extended over a period of years, | and apparently has not been great- | ly aggravated in recent years. Nota- tlops were made on conditions found in the first inspection and they will be compared with the new report. * = THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Rain tonight and probably Wednesday morning; colder tonight; much colder Wed- nesday and Wednesday night. | Central GOLD WAVE ISDUEIN | EAST WITHIN 36 HOURS mittee Approvees of Buying Sites | The parking problem is one of the most important with which munici- palities have to deal and it is time the city of New Britain became ac. tive toward its solution by provid- ing large spaces for the accommoda- tion of motorists, S. M. Davidson, local merchant, told the special com- mon council committee appointed to lcok into the advisability of provid- ing such a space, at the initial meet- ing last evening at the mayor's of- ifice. He said the city should obtain, by purchase or condemnation, at | least one sizeable place in the north cnd and another in the south end and maintain them for the accommoda- tion of local motorists who come into | the business district and residents of Weather Bureau Sends Out Warnings—Snow. | and Sleet in Kansas ] (P)—Much | t must be Washington, Nov. 9 colder weather in the | looked for in the next 36 hours. | A disturbance moving northeast- | ward to the lower St. Lawrence val- | ley will bring snow flurries tonight | in the upper Ohio valley and the | lower lake region if the weather | bureau's prediction holds good. ! In the wake of the disturbance | the thermometer will drop decidedly in all sections between the Missi sippt river and the Atlantic coast. Cold wave warnings are out for | western Kentucky, northwestern Tennessee. Frost is probably from Mississlppi eastward to extreme | northern Florida. | The weather bureau today issued | the following storm warning: | Southwest storm warnings dis- played 10 a. m. Delaware breakwa- ter to Eastport, Maine. Disturbance of wide extent central over Indiana moving northeastward with increas- | ing intensity will be, attended by | strong southeast and south winds | probably reaching gale force and | shifting to west northwest tonight | or Wednesday morning.” | Kansas City, Nov. 9 (P)—A cold wave accompanied by rain, sleet and | snow flurries today moved into the | Mississippi valley region | from the southwest states where | general clear skies prevailed after | two days of unscttled weather. | Originating in Canada, the storm | swept western ana and Dakotas | and settled over Nebraska and | Kansas where shifting winds yester- | day sent low clouds over Missouri, | Oklahoma and northern Texas. | Temperatures were dropping early | this morning in castern Missour! and | northern Arka , changing a driz- | zling rain to sleet at some points. | Although the storm caused only | slight damages in Kansas and Okla- | homa, a three inch snow fall fn| western and southern Kansas yes- terday delayed trains. Snow plows were sent to Mineola, Kansas, to re- lease two transcontinental trains on the Rock Island lines, which were reported stalled in decp cuts. The Santa Fee and Union Pacifilc lines also had trouble in southern Kansas, but all railroads reported normal schedules this morning. N S | introduced the { New Britain rearby places who trade in New Brit- ain. Tt is not enough to leaso spaces, he said, because eventually the growth of the city will demand that all centrally located property be utilized _ for business. He doubted that any merchant on Main street would seriously object to an increase ir. taxes because of the establishment of parking places. Personally he | would not consider an increase of | $500 per year in his taxes unreason- ‘ able because there is no question | that the accommodation and con- venience of the public at large de- | mand that the situation caused by | lack of parking space be met. | W. S. Warner, who resolution for ap- pointment of the special committee, | said available parking space is rapidly disappearing and he believes should take steps to overcome the stuation that is fast Councilman becoming serious. It 1s impossible to | & find parking space about the r‘unt"ri ot the street on Saturday night, and at other times, especially in the afternoon and evening, motorlsts éesiring to patronize the mercantile establishments or attend to busin in the banks and other business houses are obliged to leave their cars some distance from the city or take | the alternative of riding around Main street in the hope that a space | may be found along the curb. Councilman Warner said the eity | property on Washington Place might | be combined with nearby property on Washington street and space pro- vided for a sizeable number of cars. | There is a large space between and Main streets, behind the school property, which might be utilized, and he also mentloned the space in the rear of the New Britain Trust | Co. property on West Main street. He said the city charter does not al- | low a venture such as he has in| mind but he favors discussing it| with a view towards obtaining the necessary authority if the proposal | 1s considered to have sufficient merit to warrant its adoMion. The parking charga and gasoline con- cession price could be worked out when the proper time arrives. Alderman W. H. Judd sald a| municipal parking place, to be worth | while, must be central. Motorists want to park as near as possible to the places where they do their busi- | mosphere I almost forgot that I was | after the murders and said he had | into my eyes. | true; | recognized | night; 1f he actually confessed that | 21 HOUSING UNITS IN {of approximately the samo size as (Continued on Page 18); Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending Nov. 6th ... 14,127 PRICE THREE CENTS TWO FINGERPRINT EXPERTS CERTAIN IN' LINKING WILLIE STEVENS WITH HALL'S BODY GARVIN TESTIMONY | THRILLS MILLS GIRL (harlotte Alfected by Identifica- tion of Ralph Gorsline SAW DEFENDANT IN LANE Charlotte Tries to Keep Mind Un- prejudiced While Reporting Trial —Expresses Profound Admiration For Prosecutor Simpson. BY CHARLOTTE MILILS (Copyright, 1928, Famous Features Syndicate, Inc.) Somerville, N. J.,, Nov. 9.—I won- der, it today's session of the court will provide so dramatic a moment as yesterday's when Detective Gar- vin identified Ralph Gorsline as the man who came to him four years ago and confessed he saw | Henry Stevens in De Russy's lane | the night my mother and Dr. Hall were murdered. For a moment in that tense at- so vitally concerned in the case. It | was as it I were watching a play on the stage and when Mr. Garvin pointed his finger at Ralph Gorsline, my heart jumped within me and a little shiver ran up my back. Mr. Garvin was telling his story about how a man came to him just seen Henry Stevens in the lane that night, and how Henry Stevens had fired two shots and told him in pro- fane language to go away. This man told Mr. Garvin what he had seen and said he had to confess because his conscience worried him. Yesterday when Mr. Garvin was on the stand Senator Simpson order- ed that Ralph Gorsline be brought forward. “Is this the man,” he demanded. Everybody eased forward fn their chairs. My heart was pounding furiously. “That's the man,” cried the de- | tective, I was so thrilled that tears came | Then a feeling of resentment and | bitterness filled me. It all this is| it Ralph Gorsline saw and Henry Stevens that fact to a private detective; then why didn’t he come forward like a man and tell what he knew. That would have saved me all these four long years of doubts and (Continued on Page 17) OIX TENEMENT BLOCK Several Families Living in | Cellar, Building Board Learns | The building commission \\i]l! make an inspection Friday at one of | the Mary Wisk buildings on Grove street, where Inspector A. N. Ruther- ford reports, six families are living in the cellar with none Lut board partitions, Conditions at the building were described as little short of squalld. No permit has been issued for the changes which made possible the in- stallation of these additional tene- ments, which make the building one of 21 housing units. The structure is an ordinary tenement building. The commissioners considered re- questing the h th department to sist in a drive against this un- wholesome housing condition, but it | was found on perusal of the law that the powers of the bullding depart- ment are sufficiently “road to handle the situation alone. Sever other b ' “'ngs in this dis- | trict will be subjected to the board's scrutiny 17 the possibllity of ~im- ilar bans. The commissioners have heen told | the families residing in the cellar | (Continued on Page 17) N TO AOT AS JUDGE DECIDING WHO OWNS IT If a certain hen to which John Blair of 53 Belmont street and his neighbor, Carmelo Scollo, im ownership, leaves the lat- ter's flock and goes to the for- mer's yard, Blair can have it, but if she remains with Scollo's feathery cackles she will he held to know her master and likewise her place, Blair will re- linquish all claim on her, accord- ing to an agreement reached be- tween the dispwnts, Officer Clarence Kumm réports. Blair complained to the officer last night that Scollo has one of his hens, but Scollo insisted that he had bought 15 hens recently and has only those which are rightfully his. Blair made the proposition which Scollo, being possessed of a strain of sporting blood, readily accepted. Faurot and Schwartz Both Say They Found Likeness of His Finger on Card Found at Scene of Murder. One Witness Also Saw, Hoof Prints Where Mrs. Gibson Is Expected to Testify She Hitched Her Mule. HAVE LIFE SIZED MODEL OF MRS. MILLS Courthouse, Somerville, N. J., Nov, 9 (M—With only two witnesses !en: tifying, the question of a calling card of the Rev. Edward W. Hall, found near his body, was the basis for practically the entire discussion of the morning session of the Hall« Mills case today. Is Willie’s Print. Two of the state's expert fingefs print witnesses, Joseph A. Faurot, of New York, and Edward Schwarts of Newark, repeated that a finger- print on the card is that of Willie Stevens, a defendant in the case with his sister, Mrs, Frances Steve ens Hall, and brother, Henry Stevens, Condition of Card The defense, by emphasizing the history of the card befors it ‘was submitted to the finger-print pro- cesses, left an impression that it will claim that the card was not in the best repair and not altogether in condition to be finger-printed with the best results. : Schwartz was permitted to qualify in a measure as an authority of sorts on hoof prints as well as fine ger prints. As a surveyor he vise ited the scene of the slaying of Mr. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor R, Mills, and was permitted to say after objection by the defense counsel that he saw what appeared to be hoof prints near |a tree. The defense objection was based on the fact that the visit of Schwartz was four days after the commission of the murders, The state expects Mrs. Jane Gib- on to testify when she recovers rom an illness now keeping her in a Jersey City hospital, that she tled her mule to a tree at this spot. Faurot had not completed his tes= timony at the luncheon recess. Have Model of Mrs. Mills The prosecution revealed during the recess that a life size figure of Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills will be brought into court today or tomorrow to be | paced in the position the state eo: tends she occupied when shé met death, a part of the slain ‘Woman's neck, in x sealed glass case will also be brought to court, it was said. These exhibits will be used dure ing the examination of Dr, Otto Fr‘)\lultzo. New York physiclan, whe performed an auto, of Mrs. Mills. T Attacks Fingey ts, The defense todayq::unuad its effort to tear down the fingerprint evidence Introduced by the prosecu- ;]Ilm to link Willie Stevens, one of h m:s.flxree defendants, with the slay« Overcast skies, part of the time, somewhat the size that each morning Zather outside the court house doors in the hope of gaining admission. The small courtroom was not big enough to hold all those who even today sought to get seats to the biggest event this small town has witnessed in years. Mrs. Hall and her brothers, Willia and Henry Stevens, the defendants, - arrived in court several minutes be« fore it resumed. Mrs, Hall wors black as usual, as the only lighter touch to her clothing being a smalf white collar. For days she has worn the same hat and coat, and appar- ently the same dress. Although Wil« lie and Henry Stevens are in faff vending the trial, they apparently are paying strict attention to their l.‘\.um!ry. appearing each morning wearing newly starched collars and looking as though they had come di- rectly from their homes, Want Fresh Prints, Robert McCarter, senior defense counsel, continuing his cross-exame ination of Edward Schwartz, finger~ print expert of the Jersey City police department, in a few questions drew from the witness the statement that detectives in secking {o apprehand criminals by fingerprints always tried to get to the scenes of crimes as soon as possible to get finger~ prints while they wera fresh. Yesterday the defense attorney had brought out, through Schwarts and another fingerprint expert, that the alleged fingerprints of Willie Stevens, on a calling card found at the scene of the slaying of the Rev, Mr. Hall and Mrs. Mills, had been kept several months in a desk. Later taken to the office of the New York city newspaper, Mirror, and finally turned over to the inve whose work resulted in the present trial, Dethods Followed. “When you get fingerprints, d&e you hurry them to the office and with rain falling today reduced of the crowd,