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A-something must have happened
to both.
Odd you think ttpay were out
together?
A-When they were both missing
both gone, there was something
t did not know wha- 20 think, but
as far as anythif1E-i11v understand
ing It was anything wrung, there
never was and never would be. Il
ne was with her, Ii was for rome
excellent reascn--thAt's positive.
Q.-The dominant thought in
your mind, the only thing &C aid
keep Rev. Hall away was some
thing i'll had befallen him?
Absolutely.
Q.--And Mrs. Mills, being away
at the same time, something had
happened7
Alt seemed so. When jim
Mills said his wife was away il
lust seemed condition.
Q.-That was on Friday morn
ing?
A.--F,ridAy morning.
Q.--You suspect Mr.. Hall and
Mrs. Mills might have gone away
A.nrNo. Absolutely no--beyond
what ! told you--to ask about this
o.-They had always been ex
trernely friendly
A.-Friendly-yes.
Saw Others. Too
ONO one else In Doctor Halls
company as much as Mrs. Millsi
Al should say he saw others
as much az he did her.
Odd not Doctor Hall receive
a great many telephone calls from
Al should say only occasion.
Did he not to your knowl.
edge call her up q great many
tifnes7
A.-No.
Q.--Dfdn't It seem that Mr.. Ran
and Mrs. Mills were extremely
friendly?
A.--No.
Ono suggestion OF improper
relations between then12
A.@-Absolutely none.
Owe have received inforn1a.
ton that you were down to camp
at Point Pleasant this SUMMER
Mrs. Hall said Doctor han and
Mrs. Mills were there and asserted
there had been no dispute.
Odd you have any dispute?
A.--NO. / WAS NOT AT THE
CAMP, only to visit there.
Odd Mrs. Mills and Doctor Hall
stay over any part Of the time?
Allie went down. think. Fri.
day or Saturday. They went on q
wednesday and Doctor Hall went
down and came back Friday or Sat.
urday and went back on Monday.
Q.--Was Mrs. Mills there7
A.-She was there during that
time.
Q-When were YOU down?
Al went down the day they
went down.
Q.-The day they went down?
A.-The day they went down.
Wednesday, and went down the fol-
lowing Wednesday and took some
OF them back.
!. Q.--How long did you stay the
first Wednesday?
Al came right back; / brought
some boys back.
Q.-@What do YOU mean bv right
back---the same day?
Ayes.
Q.--You went down the follow.
ing Wednesday and came back the
same day?
Ayes.
Nothing Tndfscreet
Q.--Didn't you see any indiscreet
A.-No. have never seen any.
thing.
Q.--Do you remember an occa.
sion about a year ago when st.
Mary's Guild invited you, and Doctor
Hall and Mrs. Mills were talking
at one side and you pointed to them
and said you did not believe you
were wanted?
A.--Never.
Odd Doctor Hall ever state to
YOU that Mr.. Mills had approached
him and Inquired about his relations
to Mrs. Mills?
A.-No.
Q.-Do YOU know whether or nos
one or vestrymen Of the church ap.
preached Doctor Hall on one occas sion
and told him he thought he was
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In a quiet voice Mrs. Hall has
told her story of her movements
and those of her brother on Thurs.
day night--the night Doctor Hall.
according to her story, left his
home.
you appreciate, Mrs. Hall, that
/ am the Assistant Prosecutor of
Mr.. Beekman, prosecutor OF Som.
erset county, said Mr.. Toolan at
the start of the examination.
There is Mr.. David and Mr..
Ferguson, who are with the Mid.
dlesex county prosecutors office.
and Mr.. Totten of the Somerset
Mr.. Sil1er of this office, who will
take down stenographically the
questions and answers we will sub.
anything you say will be volun.
tary; that we cannot compel you
to speak, and that anything that
may be revealed at this interview
may be used against you or any.
body else and that anything you
say will be voluntary. OF course,
that will be understood"
Mrs. Hall assented by nodding
her head.
TOoIan Is Vigorous
Toolan, vigorous young prosecu-
tor, ID doing all the talking. Beck.
man, who later griiled 16.year-old
Charlotte Mills, keeps quiet most
OF the time. Beekman, on visiting
Mrs. Hail, had asked her only to
send over a statement when she
had time.
Mrs. Han said DR.. Hall left home
twice on the afternoon of the day
Of his death. At o'clock, she
said, he went to meeting at
Berdino's Corners, returning about
4:30 and went out later in the
Dodge car with his niece and an
other little girl.
lie came home between six
and half past" Mrs. Hall said.
Tells Of Call
Then she tells of a telephone
call at tbs and of his departure
and of her visit to the church at,
1850 a. m. with her brother, Willie
Stevens. She has denied DIR. Hall
took the Dodge car with him when
he left the last time.
Mrs. Hall has admitted she took
no steps to give an alarm after her
husbands, disappearance except a
phone call of an anonymous nature
to the local police, having left the
rest Of the matter to her attorney.
w. e. F1orance. " W III
MRS. Edwin Carpenter was
with me all morning and went home
about / o'clock. After /, she was,
back again. l was upstairs and
she came up and she said, What
you feared has happened. HE is
DEAD. HE HAS BEEN SHOT"
Q.--At the time, Mrs. Hail. did
they tell you Mrs. Mills had also
been killed?
A.-Yes, I think Jim Mills came
up and said, "Have YOU heard any
thing?" and said mo"
Uncertain Of Time
Odd you know or did you
check up later In the day on Fri
day to find out whether Mrs. Mills
was missing?
A.--Pefhaps 1t was Friday Mr..
Mills came.
Q.-You saw him at the church
about on Friday morning and
at that time he told you Mrs. Mills
had been out all night also? Did
you send any message around to
the Mills home to find ID: whether
she was missing?
A.-After ] came back from the
station, just stopped 4. the Mills
house and I said. Have yoa heard
and he said Absolutely
nothing and / said Neither
have T.
Odd you make any reher
inquiries at the Mills homa?
A.-No!'
Q.-Did It occur to you that they
might have gone away tOgetlierT
A.-ANU!
Q.~-They were absent ahd you
feared some harm had come TO
them.
Al could think Of nothing else.
Odd the fact that he Was ah-
sent bear any relation beyond the
fact that he was to See her that
evening?
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W0 MEN TRY TO STEAL EVIDENCE IN HALI-MuIS SLAYIN
Mrs. Hall Kept Faith
In Mate, She Says

by he Daily Mirror
NEW YORK Aug 6-The rich Mrs Frances Stevens Hall
seated in the office of Assistant Prosecutor John looah
Of Middlesex County A woman friend is with her.
This is September g. 1922 On the morning OF september
bodies Of her husband the Rev. Edward W Hail. anu
his beautiful choir singer Mrs Eleanor Mills have been found
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-07-02
The Districts Tax Rate for 1927
Increased Over 1926

The tx rate upon District real and personal property for
the fiscal year 1927 viii be not less than $7b per $780, as
against the rate Of $170 the fiscal just ended
This will be in addition upon inangbles public
utilities corporations and building loan associations
gasoline and from miscellaneous sources including
fines permits, fees etc.
addition special assessments upon water mains
and and the nequtabe and unjust assessments imposed
under the Borland law.
The people Of Washington will be fortunate the 1927
rate is no larger than 75 What they must look forward
to nness there Is change in policies in Congress is
steadily increasing tax rate in future years
IN the fiscal year 1925 the tax rate was S4o per $lOO It
years great 1925 with the increasing needs Of
the city, the rate may go to So
less Congress reveses its Of holding the Federal Gov
ernments contribution to the fixed sum OF $80OOOOO each
In the next five years the Federal Government
new buildings here that viii $500o00O0 in addition to
The Governments real estate holdings in the District viii
thus grow IN value from year to year but It's proportion OF
financial upkeep Of the District will remain just the same
The huge cost Of making the District of Columbia
beautiful Federal territory has been placed squarey upon the
people Of the District Every D q properly .ney own VIII
There must halt to this unfair situation Congress
must either increase the Federal 70
public improvements here the District Commissioners will
have shut down estimates intended for general beaut
cation of this strictly Federal City.
State county and municipal taxes throughout the country,
points the reduction Of Federal taxes example Of
may done he thinks the tax burdens Of the people
everywhere may be reduced They be through methods Of
economy and care.
The President may be unndful of the way things
going here he is he might advise Congress TO deal more
fairly by Washington people.
Congress says to the people the District spend
MI the money you want in masking Federal City more
beautiful but you n have to raise what yon spend by taxes
upon yourselves Jet you make Federal Washington
magnificent city, but not going to help you out
District Commissioners will have to meet that with: We
Washington the greatest Of world cities st.
tracvenes but the job of making it does not belong
clusvey the people Of Washington We win not continue
70 increase the tar burdens Of csens 70 hold our tax
rate in the future viii have 70 cuta expenditures
IN many ways and this cmtaiment win most largely affect
pans for the greater Identification Of Washington Our e
mates in the future win be for municipal necessities only
Washington should continue to be National City, growing
"a greatness and beauty but Congress- representing the nation
must do it, rghtfu and Just duty. Il Is doing
has been doing for five six years and evidently does
intend to do unless the District Commissioners take
measures to force more liberal attitude.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-07-02
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
Gettina Apau From Yourself
RY Dr.. TRANK CRANE
Getting AlDny From

1O1E time ago wrote an article about book which
man who had lost his hearing told Of the strange,
- silent world which the deaf inhabit.
Among the letters received relative one from
woman ia Brooklyn N T. part Of which quoted below:
due operation my drums were broken. TO lose
hearing in adult life requires great Inward ADJUST
ment In fact the struggle SO hard at times that one loses
faith in everything.
Yet to shout from the house tops is Of avail Self
pity makes dscouragng to concentrate upon
self just walking farther the channel of snIlennes
Therefore there but to chooseo to get
away from self, if that is humanity possible. !"
There thousands of brave heroic people like this
who carrying trying to make the best Of life
twisted askeW by misfortune They raise the total Of
human heroism in the world
For when sickness action sudden handicaps tumble
the dreams of lifetime about personss prime just to
make the best of life is in itself to be heroic.
There times such people when getting away from
themselves is necessary part Of life.
How to do it in the right way is the problem.
The other day called upon young man who had been
sick in bed for years Lying his back unable to
hold book, he got away from himself by having map
hung string over his bed.
He memorized the of the States and the countries
and their position in relation to each other and made trips
in his imagination.
He also had lists hung the string and had learned all
of the American Presidents in order and said he would
be the only the world who could all of the Vice
Presidents.
He had discovered of the best ways of answering the
problem Of how to get away from yourself
Methods which enrich your mental spiritual
and those which the activity benefits others the most
effective.
For in losing yourself in self-betterment in social
service and kindred activities you not only occupy your
mind but also reap the feeling of doing something worth
Copyright 1895 by Mcclure. Newspaper syndicate
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-07-02
SOCIAL ENERGY

THE reason why things that
j. formerly seemed as impos-
sfole as miracles have suddenly
become every day accomplish
ments Is not merely that sciences
has enormously advanced, but it
lis that t.le energy Of the human
race has been consolidated BY
unity Of thought and action.
This is mainly due to the agencies
that within but a few years past
have perfected the mental in
accommodation Of all man
kind.
when Lieutenant Byrd bravely
flew straight to the North Pole
over the desoIate icy waste OF the
unexplored Arctic Ocean, the $50
cial energy OF civilized human
ity sustained him. He became a
splendid illustration OF the prin-
ciple of that energy. He repre-
scented and embodied 1t. His
triumph was, in analysis the re-
suit of mass action. He won the
pole, overcoming the fear OF the
unknown by virtue Of the strength
impaired to him from the mental
unity Of mankind at his back.
The world was watching him
and wished INN
to succeed. That sympathy ana
wish. known to him, brought to
his attention every day by RADIO
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By Garrett P. Seryiss.

world, and fitted out, for just
that purpose. They possessed
the personal organization best
suited to respond to the master
wish running through the great
mass of their fellows. This does
not belittle the great man as
such. He is no less the leader
because he derives strength from
the accordant current of popular
desire or ambition. Without him
the desired end would not be
attained.
The principle is seen at work
In the advancement of knowl-
edge. Scientific workers are slim
ulated by the worldwide ex-
tension of research. As history
runs, 1t is not so long ago since
Japan was entirely outside the
circle of Western science; now
she has many profound inVesti
gators who stand in the front
line with their occidental contem-
poraries, and increase the social
energy of the whole race Of man
kind.
Energy Reacting
This combined energy reacting
upon individuals gains immense
ly from publicity. 1t is not only
that thus knowledge is spread
faster and wider, but that
achievement is stimulated and
sustained. The means and meth
DDS Of publicity have been so
rapidly and enormously expanded
In our day, and we have called
into play so many natural ener-
gies and SO many hitherto un-
attempted ways of universal COM.
munication, that the result ii.
most amounts to a revolution,
and the world seems at one
stroke to have gained a unity
and a consequent total energy
transcending anything that could
have been imagined as possible
in the time Nof our fathers. 1t
is incumbent upon us to see that
this gain of human power is
utilized only in constructive
work.
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D'AnnunziO's Latest
It Will Have "a Kick. ;"

featuring monastery produce queur that he has invented
made of cherries The Associated Press says the Pope has
dorsed DAnnunzos invention and has said Il will allow
yon ten monks picked from the thinnet in all Italy This
humorousy said based DAnnunos objection to priests
~ monks that are fat He says they should be thin
Saint Francis to prove their pey which is preposerous
he good ChrtTeux and Benedictne monks who made the
best houeurs in all Europe, not thin
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-07-02
BY ELSIE ROBINSON


all the mending of stockings and
tidying of room and running Of
errands-EACH ONE OF THESE
FAVoRS WAS A DEBT IN.
CURED. Each favor accepted
put Claire under obligation to the
one rendering the service. Each
favor gave the one granting that
favor the right to dictate, advise
and interfere.
Claire's family treat her as If
she belonged to them, because
she has really let herself belong
to them. They've all had a hand
in making her life. They still
make life for her--they still make
ease and comfort and rest and
convenience which she enjoys.
They put their time and love and
thought and anxiety into Claire's
life and she accepts it. Her life
is really mortgaged to them;
naturally they feel they have a
right to oversee their own prop
erty.
Claires slavery" is the story
of most human slavery. We be-
come slaves because we like many
of the conditions which slaves
enjoy. We do not see that by
accepting those conditions we put
our liberty in hook. Love is the
most ruthless creditor in the
world when once you have ac-
copied his services.
Then, does this mean that we
should all stand alone?
Not is not possible for any
of us to stand really alone. We
must all depend to a certain ex-
tent on other people. But we
need not give them a mortgage
on our growth while we do so.
BY standing on our own hind
legs-by facing disagreeable re-
sponsibilities. and doing our own
irritating or disheartening chores,
we retain the right to boss our
own lives and mold our own des.
TIMES. Otherwise, we let the other
chap in on the deal,
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heavens, aren't families terrible!
Particularly ii you're the young
est
Claire doesn't tell all the story.
She doesn't tell how the Young
est has been coddled and served
since she was a baby as well as
bossed and advised. She doesn't
tell how, even yet. her mother
and sister do her mending, tidy
up her room, perform all her
small chores and tiresome duties.
She doesn't cell how her older
brother sees that she has all the
little luxuries her salary will not
cover. She does not tell how
they all smooth the way for ther
so constantly, always taking her
side" always protecting her SEN
sitiveness against hurt.
She doesn't tell these things be-
cause she doesn't think of them.
She has always taken such SER
vice for granted, she does not
dream that other lives are not so
served. She honestly feels that
the family are indebted to her,
instead of she to them, because
she Stands for all their fussi-
ness
I'm just giving up my life to
satisfy their whims, Cert" she
walls. I'll never amount to- any
thing because they'll never let
me. Once l had as much ambi-
ton and initiative as. any other
girl. but they've simply crushed
it in me. II / ever suggested
doing anything the least bit out
OF the ordinary it precipitated a
family conference. Everybody had
to have their fingers in the pie.
1 got SO sick of 1t finally, that
l just quit trying to do anything.
Wouldn't 1t get your goat, Gert?"
Cert opines that it would get
her goat. All the other Girl
Friends agree with her. They,
too, have blasted lives due to
the family's Interference. They,
too, could have been world heaters
II the family had only left them
alone.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-07-02
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland
Isn't Man Wonderful!

Isn't Man WOnder1uI
ISN'T man wonderful?
i He can tell you the shortest
route to the North Pole and just
where to find the Balkans on
the map-but he can't tell you
where he left the garden rake
or hid the box of tacks.
He can remember the names of
all the ancient deities and most
of the French kings-but he
can't remember what his vie
sent him to the grocer's for,
nor where she said she'd left
the key, nor even the color OF
her eyes.
He can sail ships through the
air and under the water-but
he has not yet learned to walk
across q freshly waxed floor
without losing his balance, nor
how to hold baby without
breaking its neck.
He can tell you how the water
power of Niagara could be har-
messed and used for a thousand
gigantic enterprises-but he can't
take a shower bath without soak.
ing the floor, nor spray the gar
den without soaking himself.
He can lift a fifty pound weight
and heave it--but he can't lift
his own shoes and carry them
as far az the clothes closet.
He can splice o rope, put a tent
together, put . tire en an auto
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mobile. and make his own radio
set-but he can't sew a button
on his trousers without shedding
blood and wrath.
He can explain exactly how
Congress and the American people
should handle the. Prohibition
Question, the foreign debt. and
the World Court situation-but
he can't handle his own four
year-old son, nor make his two
by-four wife treat him with the
proper respect.
He can figure out just how
many cigarette coupons. laid end
to end. 1t would take to reach
from the earth to Mars-but he
c,'ot reach M to take down the
winter draperies without miscal-
ulating his aim and knocking
over the Chinese vase.
He can tell you how Ford
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-07-02
Sacrificing to Science
That Need Not Worry Us

When flying explorers supposed to be lost in the Arctic
regions other fiers eager to look for them.
The houghless think shame to lose valuable lives in
scientific conquest Of the Arctic regions.
They forget how gaiy the world sacrificed twenty millions
Of lives including eight ten millions dead of Spanish inu
enza ali because Serbian shot Austrian prince and
the armed nations the chance that they waiting for
would stop deliberate International murder, they
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-07-02

made his fortune, and how the
government could save millions
of dollars-but he can't, for the
life OF him, tell you what he did
with the last ten dollars his
wife let him have out of his pay
envelope.
He can do his own cooking.
make his own beds end live
on canned milk and corned beef
for weeks, when he's out samp-
ing--but he can't pour his own
coffee, pick up his own clothes
or eat beef stew two days
succession, without feeling like
a martyr. when he gets back
home.
Man is a dynamo Of energy.
a mine OF information, marvel
of establishment, the SOU ~
efficiency-and the most help
less creature on earthl
Isn't man WONDERFUL
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-07-02
First Loathe, Then Pity, Etc.
AID Snma Other THINGS
And Some Other Things.

You know about vice. and how get used it. having
recited in infancy:
Vice Is q monster Of so frightful nlien
As, to BE hated, needs but to Be seen;
Yet TOD oft, familiar UOith her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
That what people to be doing with the modern,
Of loose morals Once the Aldermen passed
law York forbidding to smoke in public Now
they say Have cigarette, lady So with other things
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-07-02
CUSTOM AT
NUPTIALS
Mrs. Cornelius BeeckmanI
nEAR MRS. BEEcKMAN:

Mrs. Cornelius BeeckmanI
nEAR MRS. BEEcKMAN:
II lis it proper to have
matron Of honor as well as q
maid of honor?
2-If so, which should choose
"a younger married sister or a
very dear friend? / should like
to have both attend me.
3-If my sister acts as matron
Of honor, is it correct to have
her husband as best man, since
my fiance has no very close
friend?
My fiance has only one
brother, who is married. Should
he be one of the bridegroom's
attendants? VERY ANXIOUS.
Yes.
2-Usually the bride chooses a
sister for her maid yof honor or
matron of honor. Why not have
both, one as maid of honor and
one as rnatron of honor, or, II
both are married, have two
matrons Of honor.
8 and THE choosing of the
best man Is the privilege Of the
bridegroom. The bridegroom usu-
ally chooses his brother-wi1y
doesn't your fiance invite his
brother to be his best man? This
would be the best taste and &C.
cording to the usual form. 1t is
correct to have your sisters hus-
band as the best. man, but it
would not be according to the
usual custom, when the groom
has a brother. / should think
that the brldegroom's brother
would be expected to be invited to
be his brothers chief attendant.
nEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ Please inform me whether
1t Is proper, when addressing
wedding invitation to a young
lady and her fiance, to address
the outer envelope-"Miss Mary
/, Doe and fiance," and II not,
what is the correct form. H.
It is not correct to address the
wedding invitation In the man.
ner that you have Indicated.
The invitations should not be
sent together; one should be sent
to Miss Mary Doe and Q separate
one TO her fiance.
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"WHTT s CAN'T : J

w T II e Y
leave me alone?"
snorts Claire to
her Girl Friend.
They're always
meddling in my
affairs. / can't
do the least little
thing without hav-
ing the whole
family advise and
warn me. Honest,
Cert, they act as
IL / was six, In
9 t e a d of 26.
Sometimes / get
so furious I vow
I'll leave home
and take a room
somewhere. But
I'd really hate
to do that for of
course I'm awful.
ly fond of Moth
or and Dad and
Pnoa NJ .J0o Rnt