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cover men, also had been employed by
the Federal Prohibition Service. but
resigned Wright said. after he had
been ordered to Porto Rico for duty.
Did any of these men have crimi-
to "X," "Y," ~" and Zero" the
four under cover men working for
Wright's outfit.
II think that Mr.. H. had gotten
into difficulties" Wright replied.
Il can't say exactly what 1t was,
but the charge was dismissed"
He added that he thought there
was an auto in a garage with liquor
in it and that ~ was part owner of
the car.
~" was taken on, Wright said.
after service in Florida, and because
he had knowledge of large shipments
into Pennsylvania from that State.
Did you catch the shipments after
that?" Reed asked.
That's the unfortunate part of 1t,
Wright replied amid laughter.
Baird Is Discussed.
The witness was cautioned once or
twice to make direct responses. but
he insisted on answering in his own
way, and the discussion finally got
around to the loaning Of f. G. Baird
to the Government by the Bessemer
and Erie Railroad to act as pro-
hibitiOn administrator at Pittsburgh,
Baird continued to draw $l2,OUO
salary from the railroad.
THAT is about as illegal PROPOSE
ton as ever came to my Afternoon.
Reed said. ut is destructive Of pub
lie Government and makes public GOV
eminent become private.
Wright dissented and also disagreed
to that conclusion as applied TO ms
own employment by the w. {. L. L.
to enforce a State law.
George Washington served as com
mander Of the Revolutionary Army
without pay" argued Wright.
II don't want to argue with you,
Reed retorted But there is a wide
gulf and O. deep sea between your
services and George Washington
Woodruff Asks Release.
AS the committee recessed, George
w. Woodruff, attorney general of
PENNSYLVANIA, asked that he be not
held here indefinitely as he had the
important matter of the Sunday open
ing of the Sesquicentennial Exposition
at Philadelphia facing him back home.
I'VE were ready TO near you ycStel
day and you We're not here" Reed re-
minded. >.
II did not get the notice to be here. y
Woodruff replied.
It was finally agreed to take his
testimony tonight so that tomorrow
the committee can hear William H.
Stayton Of Baltimore, head or the
Association Against the Prohloltlon
Amendment.
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LA TOILETTE BILL STUDIED.
Measure to Limit Expenses Sent to
Rules Subcommittee.

The proposal Of Senator La Toilette
of Wisconsin to bar from Senate
seat any person whose expenditures
in a primary campaign exceeded
S25 900 has been referred by Chairman
Curtiss Of the rules committee to a
subcommittee composed of Senator
Watson. Republican, Of Indiana, Sen
ator Hale. Republican, Of Maine and
Senator Harrison, Democrat, or Mis-
sissippi.
80 Senator La Toilette hopes to get ac-
ton at this session, so that candidates
for senatorial nominations can be put
on notice as to the amounts they can
spend. Only a majority vote or the
Senate would be necessary to adopt
the proposed rule.
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LIGHT COSTS STUDIED.
pecial Dispatch to The Star.

SDeCldI DIspdtCH 10 NIdF.
EVANSVILLE Md. June %
The Chamber of Commerce met last
night to discuss the question Of in
stallation of ornamental lights along
the State highway within the limits
of the village. G. Melvin Sharpe Of
the Potomac Electric Power Company
addressed the meeting giving esti-
mates Of the probable cost.
1t was decided that, if the cost could
he raised by public subscription. ef-
forts would be made to have the vii
lage undertake the upkeep. Mayor
Irwin Owings promised his support.
An effort is to be made to have the
roadway widened by increasing the
size of the shoulders.
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SENATE is ASKED TO PROBE
CAMPAIGN In NORTH DAKOTA

Wall Of Columbus, certified public
accountant, and Kenneth w. Gray
one of his assistants. who for years
have audited the leagues books.
DIR. Mcbride to Assist.
THE discovery will be made that
there is nothing whatever to the ad =
vantage of the foes of prohibition to
be found in the financial or political
conduct Of the Anti-Saloon League,
DR.. Russell said.
DIR. Mcbride, as well as DIR. Ernest
F. Charrington. general secretary OF
the World League, will be in Wester-
vile tomorrow, and are expected to
assist I'm the audit.
Mr.. Tweedale said he and his as
sociates were instructed to remain In
Westerville until the task had beer
completed
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THREE ESCAPE. IN WRECK.
Engine Crashes Into Caboose and
Overturns as Crew Jumps.

CLIFTON FORGE, Va, June 90 up.
Three men. engineer, fireman and
brakeman, escaped death yesterday
morning when the locomotive on
which they were riding crashed into
the rear of freight train near Prices
Bluff, Is miles from here They
leaped for their lives.
An instant after they left the en-.
CINE it left the tracks and overturned
derailing two cars. The caboose of
the train in front was demolished and
three other cars derailed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-29
EIGHT WORKMEN HURT
IN BLAST AT SCHOOL
Miami Building, Under Construc.
ton, Collapses When Ex-
plosion Occurs.

By the Associated Press
MIAMI, Fla, June 29.-Eight work
men. two white and six negroes, were
injured when the George Washington
School, negro, under construction,
collapsed after an explosion yester-
day.
Police and firemen searched for
other bodies at first believed under
the debris. A later check accounted
for all workmen, however None of
the injured was seriously hurt.
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CAMP is PLANNED.
Intelligence Division Personnel tc
Have Outing on Fourth.

Have Outing on Fourth.
Officers and the civilian personnel
of the military intelligence division
of the general staff, War Department
will spend the week end in camp on
the Virginia shore of the Potomac op-
posite Sycamore island and hold ap
propriate exercises on the Fourth OF
July.
Those who do not drive to the camp
from the Virginia side will be taken
across the river in steam launch.
Col. A. B. Coke and Mrs. Coke have
consented to act as chaperons for
the three days.
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AUDITORS EXAMINE BOOKS.
Senate Delegation Arrives at Head
ouarters of Anti-Sal0On League.

WESTERVILLE, Ohio. June 20 l4'.
-Rooks and correspondence or the
Anti Saloon League of America were
examined Yesterday by accountants
from the Senate campaign committee
at Washington Hicklin Yates. sec
retary to Senator Reed of Missouri,
and the accountants arrived carrier
in the day to audit the books to de-
termine the source of political cam
paign contributions and expenditures.
one of the first tasks was to obtain
the list of persons who are subscrlb-
ing $500 or more annually TO the
league.
The auditing party included Alonzo
Tweedale, certified public accountant
at Washington, auditor of the mu-
nicipal government of the District or
Columbia for Is years. and later
treasurer of the United states Ship
ping Board, and Ray l.. Whitman
one of the official reporters of the
Senate committee.
Met by DIR. Russell.
In the absence of DR.. +. Scott
Mcbride. general superintendent of
the league, the investigators were
welcomed by DIR. Howard Fl. Russell.
associate general superintendent and
founder of the league, who said that
"everything Mr.. Tweedale and his
assistants have asked for has been
cheerfully given. for, contrary to the
statements of the vets, the league
has nothir~ TO conceal"
Dr. Russell said the league had
placed at the disposal OF the in
vestigators the services of w. ID.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-29

An lola man claims discovery of
the champion pessimist. I'VE are
needing rain badly" he quotes the
pessimist, but I am afraid that If it
starts it will never stop"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-29

Only 5000 societies in this country
are engaged in purely scientific re-
search, while 10000 scientists are
working at applied science with COM
mercial concerns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-29

Since fish seek out water of vari-
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may be equipped with deep-sea Their
mometerS.
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One of the Real "ShOw Places" OH
Upper Sixteenth Street
Home Which Can be Had at Very Good Terms

DETACHED. of course. Other
wise it wouldn't be a
"show place" Tucked in
among shrubbery and small trees
which helps to make home. On a
good size lot, not cramped in.
BY very reason of its location.
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can be bought reasonably.
Has IA rooms and 4 baths
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would expect. One of the most
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10th. We could give a detailed
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GRAFT IS CHARGED
IN NORTH DAKOTA
Nye's Secretary Says 0ppo-
nent Is Being Aided by
Money of Organization.
BY the Associated Preaa.

by the Associated Press.
Charges that "a huge slush fund
has been obtained through administra-
ton channels of support" to be used
in North Dakota to defeat Senator
Nye, a Republican, have been pre-
scented to the Senate campaign funds
committee by ID. Fl. Macarthur, secre-
tary to the Senator. The primary
is to be held tomorrow.
The charges declared the purpose
was to send to the Senate L. B.
Hanna, campaign manager Of Presi'
dent Coolidge in North Dakota in the
1924 campaign.
H0use-tO-HOuse Canvass.
Specifically. it was stated that the
fund was being used to make a house
toulouse canvass in North Dakota to
get out the vote on election day.
The friends of good government
in North Dakota will be on the alert
to secure the names Of all the can
vasserS," the statement to the com
mittee said, and to have them sent
to Washington addressed to Senator
Reed. chairman of the investigating
committee now in session.
Macarthur also told the Committee
That "a lieutenant of L. y. Hanna
| recently appeared in Washington and
is known to have conferred with the
interests now under investigation.
The last seen of him in Washington
was at the Union Station, with his
suitcase in hand. taking train for the
West"
Former Governor Takes Stump.
Another strange coincidence is the
fact that shortly after his arrival
home in North Dakota" the state
ment added. former Gov. Nestos an
nounced his support of Mr.. Hanna
and Immediately takes the stump in
his behalf.
Taken in connection with the dis
closures Of the use of money in the
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portunity.
For Details inquire
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house. but who is despised and fiouted
by his wife and daughters, and only
tolerated because his slavery furnish
ed them with food and shelter and
clothes.
This was the piteous background
against which James Mills set his
story. The most that he had ever
been able to earn was $35 week,
and on that he supported himself, his
wife and his two children. They lived
in a three-room fiat, he and the boy
sleeping in one room and the 16-year-
old girl and her mother in the other.
Wife Tired of Her Drudge.
His wife was pretty and young.
She grew tired of her drudge of a
husband who could not give her the
money and the pretty clothes she
wanted. She was romantic and
amorous and predatory as such
women invariably are.
She threw herself into church
work, which soon became the cover
for her love affair with the hirtatious
rector. So life went on in the poor
little house, with the dull husband
and the dissatisfied wife, until the
night Of September II, 1922, when
Mills came in late to supper and
his wife scolded him for it, and after
supper she put on her hat and put
q scarf about her and went out.
He asked her where she was going
and she called back tauntingly to
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him, eff you want to know, follow
me-" But he had been cowed into
submission. He lacked even the
courage to do that.
She did not como homo that night
and along toward 2 o'clock he got
up and went to look for her in the
dark church. All Of his jealousles
and suspicions-al1 Of the things with
which he dared not reproach her-the
things he had tried to keep from
knowing. must have guided him to
the place where he knew she and
her lover had kept their trysts. One
wonders what his thoughts were
when he turned on the lights and
searched for her amidst the shadows
Of the silent church.
Says Mrs. Hall Called.
The next morning he says that as
he was cleaning up the church at
$3.50 o'clock Mrs. Hall came to him
and asked If any one was sick at
his house. He replied "No." Then
Mrs. Hall said, "Mr. Hall did not
come home at all last night" He
said. Neither did Mrs. Mills" Then
he said to Mrs. Hall, do you think
they have eloped?" and to this she
replied, mo, I think they are to-
gether and they are both dead"
Later in the day he said that Mrs
Hall came to see him again and
Evening star., 1926-11-06
ECONOMIC FUTURE
OF U. S. HELD SOUND
David Lawrence Declares Result OF
Elections Is Victory for
Conservatives.

Cbaracterizing Tuesdays election as
, l,ictorv for the conservatives, David
Lawrence, writer of political observa-
tions for The Star and other neWspa'
uers declared that the political out
look is conservative" while the eco
nonic future is sound.
Mr.. Lawrence expressed this opln-
.on Yesterday at the City Club lunch
CON held in the City Club Building,
1920 G. street. when he spoke on Ine
Political Outlook" as he Judges II
after a tour of the United States po-
litical centers.
formed on that tour, Mr.. Lawrence
said that he found general feeling or
s.contentment" throughout the States
visited. and that he was convinced
that the feeling Of the country at
large for Mr.. Coolidge as President IS
not much less fervent today than II
was in 1924, and that, in his opinion
AIR. Coolidge would be elected again
tomorrow should the presidential
campaign be held.
Prohibition, Mr.. Lawrence believes.
l. a growing issue. not only in politics,
Iut in economics. He declared that
AN increased feeling against the eight
eenth amendment is due, not to the
appetites of individuals, but to the
realization that the law has created
conditions that are not admirable IN
the minds of the people. The speaker
said also that he found business men
everywhere ready to concede that
since prohibition industrial output has
increased while labor turnover has
been less. and the subject is, there
fore. an economic one.
Mr.. Lawrence was introduced by
Anton Stephan, president of the City
Club, who presided as POSTMASTER
Following the address by Mr.. Law
renee, Rahman Bey, vaudeville per
former, gave a demonstration of his
ability for the members of the club
and their guests.
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asked him II he had heard anything
about the missing couple.
The murdered lovers were not
found for two days and in all that
time Mills never made any inquiry
about his wife. He never even COM
municated with her family, although
they lived in the same town with him
and the first person he went to when
he heard of the tragedy was Mrs.
Hall, as if he felt that in spite Of the
difference in their rank and station
they had common bond in the grief
and shame that had befallen them.
One would think that such q terri
BILE catastrophe would have scared
|, its every detail into his memory. yet
four years appear to have wiped
many of the particulars from his
mind, for he answered question after
question with II can't recalr' and
couldn't remember that he had ever
said at a previous investigation that
Mrs. Hall said that her husband and
Mrs. Mills were both dead.
And so he went from the stand,
futile and Intellectual to the last.
Poor Jimmy Mills!
Case Still Deep Mystery.
AS the case proceeds, the question
of who committed the crime grows
more and more insoluable, for so far
all of the evidence that has been
Evening star., 1926-11-06
RECORD THRONCS
VISIT MUM SHOW
New Blooms Being Placed in
Anticipation of Great At
tendance Tomorrow.

Attendance records are being
broken daily at the twenty-nttn
annual free chrysanthemum snow OF
the Department Of Agriculture and
the receptions being held by Mrs
William NJ. Jardine, wife of the Sec
retary. are bringing the leaders in al
the sets Of Washington society to
the exhibition greenhouse. at -Four
teenth and r streets northwest.
There were 1884 persons at the
show yesterday and the STEADY
throng today, made up very con
snicuousIv of children, indicates that
an even larger number will view the
blooms today. Special arrangements
are being made to take care OF a
record crowd tomorrow. Additional
ushers and parking space for auto
mobiles have been provided.
One of the most enthusiastic Visit
ors today was +. G.. Hill OF Rlch'
mond, Ind, who was a guest OF Sec
retary Jardine and DIR. William A
Taylor, chief of the Bureau of Plant
Industry. Mr.. Hill is one of the big
commercial growers of the country,
specializing in chrysanthemums. lie
selected IA of the seedlings produced
by the Federal Department special
lists which he will grow on COM
mercial scale next season.
Students Attend Show.
More than 700 charming young
women, representing every State In
the Union, who are attending IL col
leCes and academies in Washington
descended in q tidal wave of beauty
upon the show yesterday and caused
quite a fiutter during the afternoon.
THE officials in charge have been noti-
fed that daIapa tions from moro than
g. dozen other schools are planning
TO visit the show tomorrow.
More than q score Of MANNED vic.
Tins of the war from Walter Reed
Hospital were among the early
Comers today. They took a special in
ferest in the three big Japanese
blooms named for the first three
F.. Americans to give their lives In the
World War. and also in the NUNS
named for Gen. Pershing, Gen. Joffe,
the King and Queen Of Belgium and
Prince Leopold.
New Plants to Be Placed.
Nearly 100 new plants were placed
on exhibition today, replacing some
of the early entrants, which had ma
tured or wilted. About 200 other new
plants will be placed in the exhibi-
ton conservatory tonight, with a
score of gardeners working all night
10 have the show at it's best for the
throng expected tomorrow.
Four of the new seeding pompoms
were named today: Jean Campbell, a
semi-double pink; Signe Goodheart,
double golden yellow; Mary Monica
Rose. a double light pink, and Fran
ces. a semi-double light bronze.
The show will be open tomorrow
from 8 am. until 9 pm.
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brought forward to connect Mrs
Hall and her brothers with the mur-

brought forward to connect Mrs.
Hall and her brothers with the muir
der reverses all the known procedure
Of criminals under such conditions.
Certainly no murderers in fact or
fiction ever left behind them so many
clues or ever tarried so long around
the scene of their crime as they are
accused of doing.
Having accomplished their fell pur-
pose, murderers are in haste to leave
the vicinity Of their victims, yet Mrs.
Gibson AYERS that although she heard
the shots fired that slew the Rev. Mr..
Hall and Mrs. Mills at 10 O'Clock, at
2 o'clock the next morning she found
Mrs. Hall still weeping over the body
Of the husband. Nor does it seem
credible that a woman, who has slain
another woman in a particularly
brutal way, would go to her. husband
q few hours later and direct suspicion
toward herself by telling him that she
knew that his wife was dead.
In the exhibits which have been Of
fered in evidence by the prosecution
are two handkerchiefs. one of which
is alleged to belong to Henry Stevens.
and the other to Mrs. Hall. and 1t Is
claimed that these were found at the
scene of the tragedy. These, with the
torn-up love letters and the card found
in the grass at DR.. Halls feet, but
heighten the perpleXity, for what sane
Evening star., 1926-11-06
DIPLOMATS SON BARRED.

DES MONIES, Iowa. November :
R).-Paul Pearson. only son of DIR.
Alfred ]. Pearson, United States Min
lister to Finland, has been indefinitely
suspended from classes at Drake Uni.
versity pending an investigation of
liquor drinking by students, Otis Nc
Creery, dean of men. announced.
Pearson. a law student. will appear
before the dean to give his version
of an alleged drinking party. which
1t is claimed took place recently, MIR.
McCreery said.
Evening star., 1926-11-06
s'WHlTE LIE" IS TOLD
TO KEEP DYING WISH
Friends of Annie Oakley Misinform
Newspaper Men as to Real
Time of Funeral.
O. Ahn ssncintel Press.

81 the Associated Press.
GREENNILLE. Ohio, November ..
How friends of Annie Oakley, one
time champion markswoman OF the
world, who died here Wednesday. CON
spired to practice a white deception
IN order to keep a promise to the
dying woman was revealed last night.
Annie Oakley, in private life Mrs.
Frank Butler. shortly before she
died, planned her own funeral in de-
tail and specified particularly that the
services were to be strictly private.
Her friends promised this, and they
kept their promise.
Newspaper correspondents were told
that private funeral services were to
be held this morning. Yesterday
morning, however, a caSket was ship
ped to a Cincinnati Crematory, con-
tanning the body of Annie Oakley.
Inquiry developed that the funeral
had been held at the home OF Mrs.
Fred Grote, friend.
Friends admitted they had an
nounced the funeral for Saturday pur-
posely in order that it might be held
in absolute privacy without interfer-
ence from the curious.
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N1ontlnued from Fourth Page.)
what came to him as it came. even his
wife's unfaithfulness, without a pro-
test, 1t was kismet, and he bowed his
head before it,
Picture him, then, on the witness
stand, a huddled up little figure. no
digger than half-grown boy, but
worn and old looking beyond his
years, turning a frightened. baff1ed
face on the lawyers as if he muteIv
asked them why fate should have
cast him for part in this melodrama
OF love and lust and blood. And they
could only mutely answer him that it
just happens so sometimes in life.
The story that he told in his
monotonous passionless way was q
thing for the discerning to weep over.
IL was so completely the epic of the
man to whom nature does not give
the ability to succeed-the man who
mas not the gift of money making. but
who tolls all his days for pittance
that barely keeps the wolf from the
door.
Above all, it was the epic of the
man who has not the power to hold
his wife, or the strength to rule his
Evening star., 1926-11-06

man or woman. committing murder,
would deliberately plant clues that
would inevitably point suspicion at
them?
And so the mystery Of who killed
the Rev. DR.. Hall and his pretty choir
singer grows.
Boy-Page Sherlock Holmes!
tCopyrght. 1929
Evening star., 1926-11-06
MILLIONAIRE SAVANT
DIES IN TRENTON, N. J.
Webster Edgerly, Former Boston
Lawyer, Lived Latter Years
as Semi-Recluse.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TRENTON, N. J., November g.
Webster Edgerly, who instituted the
Ralston Institute Of Washington, pio
neer in the circulation Of books on
control of the will, died here yester.
day. He wAs "a years old.
Mr.. Edgerly, who once practiced
law in Boston and in Kansas. is said
to have made millions in the educa-
tional field although for the last
seven years he had lived a semi-re'
cluSe.
He was the author of more than SO