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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-21
TWO CARDINAL CREATED
Pope, Holds Secret Consistory ir
Lavish Vatican Palace.

BIZ United Press
ROME, June 21.-Pope Plus XXI,
CARRIED in a pure white cassock, held
a secret conststory this morning in
the lavish Hall of Consistory in the
Vatican palaces. Unbroken and re-
fined centuries of continuity. the
ceremonial was carried out in all
its medieval splendor and color.
His Holiness created two cardi-
nails: Mgr. Carlo Perosi, assessor of
the Sacred Congregation of the Holy
Office, and Mgr. Luigi Capotosti,
secretary of the Sacred Congrega-
ton of the Sacramento.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-21
RITE SEEKS MEMBERS
High Masonic Body Drive viii End
in September.

With stated meetings discontinued
for the summer, a drive to increase
the 10000 membership of Adoniram
Grand Lodge of Perfection of the
Scottish Rite will be conducted by
the State membership committee un-
til Sept. Is, it was announced today
by Fred I. Willis, acting thrice po-
tent master Senator Arthur r. Rob-
1nson is thrice potent master.
The drive will be conducted by To-
cal committees In the f1fty-nine coun-
ties in the valley of Indianapolis.
o. J. Smith Of Indianapolis Is chair,
man of the State membership COM
mittee.
j. Ralph Fenstermaker is in
charge of the Marion County cam
paign.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-21
SPEED TEST STOPPED

Nonstop speed tests are thing of
the past in Indiana. it was learned
by Marvin Alexander of RIshville
early Sunday morning when State
Motor Policeman Shields ''nabbed''
him at Cambridge City, at the be.
ginning of a record-seeking run to
Washington, d. c., and return.
Alexander paid $40 and costs for the
adventure and steered the car back
home
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-21
FOR AFTERNOON OR STREET
WEAR
Design for today is 274e.

Design for today is 274e.
A style that is being worn in town
and will be smart for country wear,
interpreted in Paris-rose printed
crepe. uses beige plain crepe for its
front shirred panel, soft girdle, lower
sleeve puffs and collar-seen in de-
sign No. 2746. The small views
show waist sections ready to be
stitched to applied front panel and
attached to waist. The collar and
explains everything in detail, and.
can be had in sizes 16, Is years, 36,
3S, 40 and AZ inches bust measure.
The 36-inch size requires 31s yards
of 40-inch material with rs yards
of 40-inch contrasting. Our patterns
are made by the leading fashion de-
signers of New York City and are
guaranteed to fit perfectly.
Every day The Times will print
on this page, pictures showing the
latest up-to-date fashions.
This is a practical service for read
ers who wish to make their own
clothes.
You may obtain this pattern by
filing out the accompanying coupon,
enclosing Is cents. coin preferred,
and mailing it to the pattern depart
ment Of The Times. Delivery is made
In about one week.
Be sure to write plainly and to in.
clude pattern number and size.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-21
DEDICATE CORNER STONE
Ceremonies Held by ST.. Paul
Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Cornerstone laying ceremonies
were held Sunday for the new
school building and hall to be.
erected by the st. Paul Evangelical
Lutheran Church, Weghorst and
Wright SITS. The Rev. H. M. Zorn,
pastor, officiated and the Rev. Paul
F. Miller Of FIT. Wayne, Ind, was
the principal speaker.
The structure will cost s65,000.
The building will be completed in
October. the Rev. Mr.. Zorn said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-21

ITO be fresh and charming every
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eapped, to wear sheerest froeks
without a second thought any day,
anywhere you can now do all.
a new way.
1t is called -KOrEx.' Ends the
insecurity of the oid-time sanitary
pad. Five times as absorbent
Deodoricss, too. And thus ends ALL
fear Of offending.
NO LAUNDRY
ms easily disposed of as piece
y of tissue. No laundry No en-
barrassmeut
You get it at any drug or depart
ment store simply By saying,
"KOTEX"; you ask for 1t without
hesitancy.
Costs only a few cents Eight IN
10 better-class women employ It.
Proves the unnecessary risk of old
ways.
x O T G K
No Laltndry-discGrd like tissue
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-06-21

Mrs. Margaret Mcintyre of Madi
son, Ind, announces the engagement
of her daughter, Hannah Catherin,
to Henry Hurrle, 2155 New st. The
wedding will take place in August.
Evening star., 1926-05-29

will do well to avoid rock garden
II the ground is level. A slight slope,
however. may he taken advantage of,
building above the natural grade with
soil and rock and adding apparent
height by shrub and tree planting.
Shrubs and trees are a necessary
part of the rock garden setting. The
garden made simply of stones and
flowers; without any appreciable
change in height. may have beauty
Of color and of detail. but it will lack
beauty OF form. Like any other gar
den picture, the rock garden must
have composition. 1T must not be
mere patchwork of rare Alpine
flowers. but q study in form and col
or made Of rare plants or of the
homely things we alb know. 1t may
be group Of tall cedars with wild
roses and ground jumpers in the
ledges at their feet and tiny seduns
in the smaller 'creyices. or it may be
single oak tree with close-set stems
OF dogWood trees beneath, serving as
background for rock planting Of
arabs. Japanese andromeda, yews
and columbine.
Whether the garden is in the shade
or In the bright sunlight makes little
difference. az there are types of rock
plants for either situation II the
garden is sunny, sedums. saxafrages.
pinks. allysum and forget t-me -nots
will be at home II it is in the shade.
Evening star., 1926-05-29
Landscape Planning
For the Home Owner
ny ROSE GEEELy.
Landscape Architect.

Most people want rock garden.
There are 80 man. Interesting plants
that demand it, plants that would he
lost in the perennial border bur be
come little gems of beauty against
their natural background of rocks.
On q large estate there is usually
place that suggests sock planting
Sometimes il is small path between
outcroppinC rocks: sometimes 1t is
rocky raVine in the woods with
stream running through II. Such
places are ideal, but on the small lot
The problem is more difficult.
IL the lot is in the city. with houses
close about il. and the artificial CON
ditions of city roads and Sidewalks,
with formal tree planting and open
lawns visible on every side, DO not try
10 make a naturalistic rock garden.
II win stick out like a sore thumb, and
all the beauty of its planting will be
lost IN its inconsruity TO its surround
inss. Under such conditions rock
plants should be used in walls. That
is a problem in itself, and Will be
taken up in Inother article.
If your loi is in the suburbs, how
ever. or is large enough to get away
from artificial city conditions, an IN
formal rock garden is appropriate.
First look over the ground carefully
tor any indications Of outcropping
rock. Even the smallest ledge helps
IL make an apparently natural set.
ting. If there are no ledges on the
lot and nothing to determine the loca-
lion. the owner is free to locate the
garden where he wishes.
The first necessity is to choose a
place where the rocks will appear a
Low
around them, for it is only by care
FULLY blending the surroundings to the
rugged informality OF the rocks that
\ successful result can be achieved.
The further away from the house the
rock garden can be put. the easier it
will he TO escape the architectural at
lnn:nhere of the house and to make
Evening star., 1926-05-29
MANY RETAILERS SEEK
RENTALS IN BUILDING
National Press Corporation Will
Select Store Tenants From
Long List.

Retail merchants in many lines of
business have filed applications for
the stores on the street floor of the
National Press Building, a $4,000 900
project being erected at Fourteenth
and + streets by the National Press
Building Corporation for the National
Press Club.
Inc lower interior portion of the
building will house 3.5OO.ca pacity
theater. leased from the date of com.
p'etion to the Fox Thaaters Corpora.
lion for IS years at an aggregate
rental In excess of $1,000. 900. The
upper floors will provide office rooms
Ior newspaper correspondents and
quarters Tor the National Press Club.
Al the offices of the corporate
Evening star., 1926-05-29
ferns. trilliums and columbine will

ferns. trilliums and columbine will
thrive.
Water is great asset in the rock
garden. Lucky is the man who has
the bank of a stream to plant marsh
marigOlds in the water, dog Doth Vio-
les and forSet-me-nots near the
edges and maidenhair ferns nesting
hehi'.d moss covered rocks. If there
Is no natural water, it Is often possible
TO pipe in a supply and to arrange the
stones and tree planting so skillfully
around it that the source seems to be
a spring. Even little trickle OF
water that can be turned off at will
makes a woodsy spot for the moisture
loving rock plant. One of the joys OF
rock garden is that 1t can be built
bit by bit. Start with a little garden
and You will find 1t growing. Every
walk in the woods will become a col
lecting trip. and the seed catalogues
add rarers plants for the high lights.
Evening star., 1926-05-29
Bird Seeks Warm Abode.

A cOmmotion in the kitchen aroused
the Rev. and Mrs. John Hagen or
Waterville. Ohio. says the Toledo
Blade. The noise apparently came
from the interior of the kitchen ranIe.
Upon lifting the lid flicker flew out.
The bird had come down the chimney.
Evening star., 1926-05-29

mittee, who will select the store ten.
ants. The building will be ready for
occupancy the early part Of next
year.
Evening star., 1926-05-29

in the Westory Building, it was an.
nounced that the applications on file
and those arriving in the mail daily
will be turned over TO rental com.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-04
Marriages Inspired BY u
alcohol Net Subject to ia
Annulment, Court Holds

CHICAGO. Dec 3. R - Marriages
inspired by alcohol are not subject to.
annulment on that excuse, declared
Judge Joseph SABBATH of superior court
today in the hearing on the aIfnulment
suit of Mrs. Virginia Coons Meri-
wether, 1S, daughte4 of Sanford Il.
Coons. president of the Melba Manu-,
featuring company s.
The annulment was refused pending
a further hearing on the law of an
nulments. These young folks" Judge
SABBATH said, must learn they can't
get married in haste and have the mar
riage annulled at leisure. Daring
young people, getting married for no
reason. at all, must be stopped by some,
method or other"
Virginia Coons was married August
is, this year, to Ralph Ray Meri-.
wether, bank clerk. On the marriage
night, Mrs. Meriwether said in her PEI
tition asking for annulment, she and
Meriwether and two other couples were
on party and she. for the first time.
took three drinks OF gin. The next
morning, she said she was told she
had been married to MetiWether.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-04
Sir Alan Gotham, Famed
Aviator, Has Trouble In
u. S. With His Moth Plane

+ WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 R.-Sir Alan
Gotham, knighted by King George
fer blazing new air trails, encounted
real cross country troubles in flying
his tiny Moth" plane from PhiladeI-
phia to Washington today With
Lady Gotham as his passenger, the
British aviator was forced to land
on a farm Jear Belair, Md, to com,
mandeer a fl.vver and go to a nearby
village for fuel.
Within an hour after arrival here,
however, Sir Alan and Lady Cobhanl
had been received as, honor guests
at the White House. They were
rendered a luncheon by the trustees
Of the National Geographical society
and tonight Sir Alan described for
the society his flight through Africa
alluding from time to time to the
London Australian trip which won
him knignthood.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-04

on the outskirts of New Brunswick
on September 16, 1922.
Her throat had been cut and she
had been shot IN the head in three
places. There was one bullet wound
in the head of the minister, who lay
beside her. Calling cards of the
ministers and letters in which he
had declared his affection for her
Were scattered near the bodies. b.
They had been last seen alive on
the evening of September IA, 1922,
when the minister told his wife, Mrs.
Frances Stevens Hall, member of a
wealthy and aristocrat:c family, that
he was going out to straighten out
bill which Mrs. Mills had incurred
for hospital operation Mrs. Mills
leaving her home in two-family,
house on a side street, said Follow
me and find out" when her husband,
James asked where she was going.
Mrs. Hall and her brothers, will
Lam and Henry Stevens, were ques-
toned repeatedly. William, famliarly
known as Willie. made his home with
her, but spent much of his time at
fire houses. Henry, formerly an ex-
Epert marksman, was living at Laval
tlette, So miles away, where he spent
his time hunting and fishing.
Three weeks after the killings. Mrs.
lane Gibson. who raised pigs on Il
farm two miles from the crabapple
tree, announced that she had beer
riding her mule down de Russey's
lane that night, had heard shots and
It,iI Yo1 hove
jury in Novembe 1922 adjourned
without having returned indictments,
Rumors OF new evidence had be-
come an old story. after four years
and the arrest of Mrs. Hall, shortly
Ehtfore midnight. on July %, 1926
created a furor. She was charged
with the murders and held in Somer-
VILE Jail until July &c, when her
release in $4,000 bail was ordered.
On the same day State Senator Alex
.ander Simpson, of Jersey City, sharp
tongued advocate, was appointed spe"
eial deputy attorney general to con"
duct the prosecution.
Members of the Jersey City police
force were brought to Somerville to
carry on the Investigation, which had
been in the hands of the state police.
Willie Stevens and his cousin.
Henry De La. Bruyere Carpenter, a
Wall Street broker, were arrested on
August IL and denied bail. The April
grand jury was suddenly called on
Stepember 15 and the three in GUS
tody, together with Henry Stevens,
were indicted for murder in two
counts in less than ten hours.
The tr.al of Mrs. Hall and her
brothers began on November 3. Pre-
sentation of testimony was completed
at noon on December l, after the
state had called 1O1 witnesses and the
defense "a. The hearing of the
charges was filled with sharp ex.
changes among the lawyers.
The state charged that Mrs. Hall
knew of the clandestine love affail
between her husband and the sex
tons wife and that she and her refa
tives had committed the killings as
much from wounded pride as from
the enraged fury of a woman scorned.
states testimony was directed to
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-04

calmly as she sat through "a days of
trial, Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall to-
night heard a. Somerset county jury
say that she and her brothers, Henry
and Willie stevens, were not guilty of
the murder of Mrs. Eleanor r. Mills.
Five hours and two minutes after
they left the court room the jurymen
returned with a verdict of acquittal.
The names of the defendants were
called one by one, Mrs. HalPs being the
last.
Her face lighted when mot guilty
was the reply of the foreman to the
question Henry Stevens?", from the
clerk of the court. There was an added
radiance when the same announcement
followed the name of William Stevens,
for willie, although older, has long
been his sisters favorite.
When she, too, was declared mot
guilty" Mrs. Halls smile faded to be
replaced by look of calm satisfac-
tion.
Four minutes after the verdicts had
been announced the court was adjourn
ed and the three defendants, surround
ed by their relatives, who mad crowded
FORWARD, IeII lne tCouIC IooiH' the
brothers to return to Jail pending a
motion for bail on a second indictment
charging the murder of the Rev. Ed
ward W., Hall, and Mrs. Hall to her
New Brunswick home.
h Mrs Hall also is under Indictment
for the murder of her husband.
Lieutenant Commander Arthur N.
carpenter, her cousin, placed his arms
about Mrs. Hall when the jury filed
in and kept her in close embrace until
she rose, to leave There was, how
ever, no apparent danger that she
would collapse.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-04
SIMPSON ACKNOWLEDGES DEFEAT

JERSEY CITY, Dec 3.-(R-senator
Alexander Simpson acknowledged the
states defeat in the Hall-Mills case
here tonight, although he was still
strong in his belief that full credit
was not given the evidence which the
state introduced. He would not COM
ment any further on procedure rela-
tive to the indictments still pending
against the defendants for the murder
of DR.. Edward Wheeler Hall, slain
with Mrs. Eleanor Mills, although he
was told that Attorney General Ed
ward l.. Katzenbacn had ruled earlier
in the afternoon that the indictments
would be dropped if an accquittal were
returned under the indictment for the
killing of Mrs. Mills,
Mrs. Jane Gibson, the star witness
for the. state, seriously i'll at q local
hospital, will not be told Immediately
of the result of the trial, doctors said,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-04
Mrs. Hall and
Brothers Not Guilty
6continued IRON page one,

Il. fs
his fruit and sandwich basket.
Before ordering the jurors brought
in, Judge Parker warned the spec
tators not to give any demonstration
and cautioned that there must he
absolute silence
Flashlights flared up like light
ring outside the courthouse as the
principals of the outstanding murder
trial in recent years left the building
after the end of the trial. The first
snowfall of the winter began falling
Just before the jurors reported their
verdict. Judge Parker had re.
manned in his chambers the entire
time the jury was deliberatlng
Charlotte Mills, daughter Of the
woman for whose death the three
defendants were being tried, was III
the court room, as was Mrs. Elsie
Barnhardt, sister of the slain woinam
Henry stevens smiled as the last
verdict was read after looking stolidly
ahead through the first two announce
ments. Willie, as usual, grinneo
broadly throughout
Most OF the testimony in the Hall.
Mills trial, which ended today after
one months march of witnesses to
and from the, stand, was based on
events of four years ago.
Mrs. Eleanor r. Mills, the pretty,
soprano in the Protestant Episcopal
church of St. John the Evangelist,
who aspired to rise above her sur
roundings and carried on a clan-
destine love affair with the rector,
the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hail. was
found slain, with him. beneath q
crabapple tree near. De, sRussey's LANG,
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-04

show that members of the congrega-
ton carried reports to Mrs. Hall, that
she commun: Gated with her brother;
Henry, and went to the scene With
him and Willie, to confront her hus"
band with letters written to him by
Mrs. Mills.
Mrs Gibson, who was found to be
suffering from kidney disease and
cancer, was brought from a Jersey
City hospital to testify. From a cot
placed near the witness stand, with
physicians and nurses in attendance.
she told ner story placing Mrs. Hall,
Henry and willie Stevens at the
scene. This was the first time she
had accused Henry Stevens.
When attendants were covering her
face preparatory to carrying her
through aisles of people to the wait
ing ambulance, she tore away the
sheet, and raising on one arm, pointed
at the defendants and screamed;
"I've told the truth, so help me God.
and you know it, The jury had
just been taken from the room. Three
fingerprint experts testified for the
state that one of the marks on CALI
ing card, SAID to have been found
four years ago, near the minister
feet, was that of Willie Stevens.
. Other witnesses told of having seen
the day after the Killings ami of
suspicious and discriminating acts by
the defendants.
All three. of the defendants went
to the stand to deny the charges
against them and stuck to their
stories under cross, examination. Mrs
Hall was subjected to a merciless at
tack by the special prosecutor, who
sought to plumb all her emotions
with his repeated reference to the
husband, who, he said, had been un-
true to her. She maintained that
she had had complete confidence in
him, that his devotion to her had
never changed and that even in the
face of his love letters to Mrs. Mills
which had been read into the record
together with those he had received
from the chorister, she was not cer-
tain that he had been guilty of any
thing wrong.
The defense of Henry stevens was
based on an alibi, while f.ngerprint
experts called by the defense pointed
to eight places in which the dis
puted marks on the calling card did
not correspond with the print Of
Willie Stevens finger. 1t was
charged that the finger print had
been an "afterthought" placed Oh
the card this summer. Witnesses
were produced to tear down and deny
the circumstantial evidence which the
state had presented and in its sum-
ming UP the defense. pointed an ac-
cusing finger at the meek James
Mills.
On December I, when all testimony
had been submitted Simpson made
an unsuccessful motion for mis-
trial. He charged that the jury had
decided to acquit on the second day
of the trial, that several members had
Seen asleep during the trial sessions
and that they had been improperly
guarded. ... ..........
MRS. HALL CALM
SOJERVIT Il "a N i Dec 3-(P1-AS
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-04
HE1REss aU1ErLY MARRIED.

PHILADELPHIA Dec. 3.--LP9-Alex-
ander D. Thayer of Chestnut Hill and
Miss Marjorie Bourne, co-heiress to a
$4O,OOO,OOO estate. slipped away today
and were quietly married. Their en-
gagement was recently announced.
Obtaining marriage license at the
Montgomery court house. Norristown,
Pa, the pair went Immediately to the
Protestant Episcopal Church of the
Messiah, Gwinedd valley, near here,
and were married by the Rev. William
C. Patterson, rector The bride is the
daughter of the late Commodore Fred
erick c. Bourne, former president of
the Singer Sewing Machine company.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-04
MucH NEWS on CASE

COURT HOUSE, soMERVILLE, N.
j., Dec. s. R - The Western Union
company reports that more
than eleven million words have been
sent from here in newspaper reports
of the Hall-Mills case. This does not
include the thousands of words sent
by press associations over their own
leased wires
The official record of the testimony
makes 5,475 pages of double spaced
matter.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-04
LEWIS DOUGLAS CAMPAIGN
EXPENSE REPORTED AS $3,1

WASHINGTON, Dec R).-Mrs.i
John w. Langley, of Kentucky, re-
ported to the house today that she
spent only $9s> to gain the seat in
congress held by her husband be-
fore he was convicted of prohibition
law violations.
Today was the last for the filing
of reports and it brought in all but
few of the outstanding campaign
expenditure statements. Outlays re-
ported by house candidates included:
Douglas, Arizona, $S,117.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-04
WILL FLY no CUBA

MEXICO CITY, Dec. 3.-(Special to
The Dispatch) Mexican army aviators.
with the assistance of the government,
are to undertake a flight from Mexico
to Cuba in hydroplanes The flight
will be made with Puerto, Mexico, as
a base and will have stops at Laguna
del Carmen and Progresso from which
port the last hop will be made. Major
Pablo L. Sidar is planning an airplane
tour of the republic for the purpose of
laying out new air routes.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-04
Ambassador Sheffield and applauded
his remarks enthusiastically. .......
Mrs. Reed Will Undergo
More Hard Grilling
Continued IRON Page oneJ

Laney, chief of defense counsel, in
his opening statement to the jury.
She said under questioning by
Laney that Reed had struck her hus-
band when the latter had found the
jeweler at their automobile camp
cottage July II, and that Lane did
not fire un.il Reed had attacked him.
She sobbed repeatedly as the de-
fense lawyers questions unraveled
her story of the allegedly Illicit
love affair.
Indications were tonight that the
case will no. be given to the jury
before Monday. s
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-04
pR1zE cATrLE AUor1oNED

CHICAGO, Dec. s. up - Moist eyes
were in evidence as cattle, fed and
cared for by farm boys and girls of
the country were auctioned off at the
Livestock exposition to-
day. Although most of the young peo-
pie were busy preparing to leave for
home, a few fingered to see how their
pets Jared.