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Evening star., 1926-12-07

Three hold.up men secured q little
over four hundred dollars each. The
present standard Of wages would have
enabled them to earn more in a com.
paratively short time. A robber Is
never enough Of an expert accountant
to see that he is being repaid INSULT
ciently not only for his moral sacri'
fee. but for his PERSONAL risk.
Evening star., 1926-12-07

A new Commissioner for the Dis
trict of Columbia will help to make the
wear 1927 interesting. The District of
Columbia government has rapidly ad.
vanced in public attention and is af-
fording opportunity for initiative and
originality.
Evening star., 1926-12-07

A Juror who goes to sleep during a
trial may perhaps be regarded with
sympathy. There are intellectual
strains to which, eventually. weary ma
ture must succumb.
Evening star., 1926-12-07

Withdrawal Of allied troops from
German soil will be another Of various
welcome assurances that the war Is
over. History offers many reminders
of how much more rapidly a war may
be started than finished.
Evening star., 1926-12-07

The United States Senators in most
instances do not look at all pleased
when It Is suggested that Santa Claus
may bring them a nice, new set of
rf1leS
Evening star., 1926-12-07
Self.Consideration.

From the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Abandonment Of the world revolu.
ton program may leave the Soviets
more time to think about possible
revolutions at home.
Evening star., 1926-12-07
Family Pride.

We truly love the Christmas Saint
Who comes each year.
With whiskers long and clothing
quaint,
To bring us cheer.
Yet, Santa, must gladly say,
Because It's true,
None of my relatives today
Resemble you!
Jud Tunkins says friends are people
who know each other well enough to
be aware Of what topics of converse
ton must be avoided.
1--WE invented mah-jong." said Hi
Ho, the sage Of Chinatown. I'VE next
invented gunpowder. in order to wake
up the players"
Evening star., 1926-12-07
Hail the Hero!
From the Flint Sunday Journal

From the Flint Sunday Journal.
A Frenchman who has played q COR
net for 10 years is a candidate for a
Legion Of Honor medal. He ought to
have one-if he escaped arrest all that
time.
Evening star., 1926-12-07
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20 the use for republication of all news dill
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Evening star., 1926-12-07

Congress again includes, along with
the elephant and donkey, the lame
duck as an emblem Of American states
manShip.
Evening star., 1926-12-07

It is the duty of the Speaker to say
t"rhe House viii be in order" The
prophecy is not invariably accurate.
Evening star., 1926-12-07
The Dissemblers.

From the Anaconda Standard.
In other words, the Republicans love
President Coolidge, but occasionally
good many Of them fO4 various rea-
sons take the liberty to dissemble their
love. n
Evening star., 1926-12-07
Monetary Music.

"Sing a song o. sixpence."
The ditty makes you laugh.
Today most anything will cost
Two dollars and q half
Evening star., 1926-12-07

A number of recent books warran:
the suspicion that an eminent pol
itician may be only an author in dis
guise.
Evening star., 1926-12-07
The Evening Star Newspaper Company

The Evening Star with the Sunday morn.
Ing edition. is delivered by carriers within
the city at 60 cents per month: daily only:
20 cents per month: Sundays only 70 f een.e ne
telephone Main 5000. Collection 10 made by
carrier at end of each month.
Evening star., 1926-12-07

Some men," said Uncle Eben. "hab
a way o. singin' Heaven Is My Home
dat sort o. spoils Home. Sweet Home.
right here on dis EARTH" Il.
Evening star., 1926-12-07
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHnANDER JOHNSON.
Santa Claus? Unlimited.


used to worry some, because
1 heard there was no Santa Claus;
I once thought it was understood
All need do was just be good
And wishes all would come my way
Abundantly on Christmas day.
The gentle, generous Saint would bless
My life of righteous idleness,
And benefits to me allot
For many things that Did Not.
That dream could not quite forget:
I've not completely wakened yet.
How often has my hoping turned
To favors that never earned!
And still the old Saint fingers near
AS holidays approach, each year;
Not merely one Of him we find,
But countless millions 'mongst man.
kind,
Each one resolved to do his best
To make life happier for the rest.
Go forth, o Friend, and strive anew;
Remember, Santa Claus Is YOU!
Evening star., 1926-12-07
The II. C

Don't you think the ultimate con-
sumer is entitled to aid and protec-
tion?"
I'm some instances" answered Sena-
tor Sorghum. But 50 far as prohibi.
ton enforcement Is concerned out
home, the ultimate consuper appears
to have things pretty much his own
way"
Evening star., 1926-12-07

SWinnertOn ana Joseph COlIlHS, "
name those at the moment In mind,
are necessary adjuncts to the present
general business of hasty and thought
less reading. Such as these are to OIL
set critics who sweepingly damn
like the voi1ng man out West who
raves and drivels by turn and who
should be shut up safe somewhere
with his own noise. Or that other
one who in the role Of Ell Toro paws
the ground and lashes his tail and
shakes his horns and rumbles deep
in his own insides. And not against
these alone are the constructive critics
making way in the interest Of the gen.
eral reader. It is their influence that
will in time break down the wall OF
dogma that, like religion, learning de-
veloped in it's descent to education.
The narrow say-so of narrow school,.
men has set the standard of literature
up to about this time and it has done
worse than that, for it has shut off
individual thinking on the part OF
those enjoying the blessings Of com
mon education. With such critics at
hand as George Moore and DR.. Collins
and Frank Swinnerton and William
Lyon Phelps, the hocus.pocus Of criti
cism falls away and true criticism Is
Secu W Uc IlO tLldh Pldlu
ing, than reasoned application of
means to a desired end, such as Ii
needed for the carrying out of any
project. To be sure, under this treat
ment applied in thoughtful inoepend
ence by readers many OF the ole idol:
among writer's will fall away. many
a masterpiece will lose its high estate
but many, too, will remain with the
intelligent and enthusiastic support Of
readers who are competent to judge
them and to gather the patterns oi
actual life from these creations sc
identical with themselves. AS a re
lease from the bonds Of educational
dogma, as a call to new and high in
tellectual adventure, or as golden
hours for the already learned and
wise, "Avowals" comes just now into
the hands Of general readers from the
hand OF very great writer.
Evening star., 1926-11-04
BECK TAKES STAND
| IN TRIAL OF MORSE
Former Solicitor General Ex-
plains His Services at
Fraud Trial.
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, November 4.--James
NJ. Beck. former solicitor general OF
the United States. took the stand in
the Morse stock fraud trial yester-
day to answer questions concerning
his actions while he was counsel for
the United States Steamship Co. the
principal Morse concern.
Mr.. Beck said he was retained In
1916 as counsel at salary of $4,000
payable quarterly, and that he held
that position until l-1J. AT no time
had he been consulted concerning the
organization of the steamship com
pany, he said.
He told of going to the British ad
miralty office in London with Charles
w. Morse for a consultation concern
ing purchase of ships. and said that
the only legal paper he ever prepared
for Morse was an underwriting agree
ment for the purchase of some ships.
"At the time you went to the I'D
miralty office" he was asked by Hen
ry A. Wise of defense counsel "Were
you conspiring with Morse to dH.'aud
in the sale of steamship stock?"
Special Assistant Attorney General
Dobyns objected to this question and
Judge Thacher upheld the objection
unless Mr.. Beck wished TO put Il
denial on the 9cord, which is unnec
essary."
81 do not doubt it would have been
denied" Wise replied "and If he
did not, l would deny it for him."
Evening star., 1926-11-04

writing, but it looks as if the effort
to repeal the State enforcement code
would succeed in Montana and also
in California, though the vote will be
close. California was once carried by
the drys by about $4,000, but the ad-
vantage has seemed to be with the
vets on account of the California
grape industry and the heavy vote
of the cities.
Nevada, by referendum, adopted q
resolution calling on Congress to call
q constitutional convention to con-
slider changing the eighteenth amend
ment. Nevada has been operating
without a State enforcement act, so
can hardly be considered a dry State.
The important fact to be borne in
mind is that no out-and-Out dry state
voted wet and no wet State turned
about face and voted dry. The total
vote in most States on the referendum
did not come up to the vote on candI-
dates, so that it will be difficult to
contend that the referendum is any
more of an expression of opinion on
prohibition than is the vote for candi-
dates who are either wet or dry.
1t is significant, however, that the
vets were much better organized in
this congressional election than they
have been, and that in some States.
like Montana, they put into the field
better organization work than did the
drys.
All this indicates that while pro-
hibition is live issue. the vets are
far away from any strength in the
House or Senate which could take the
first steps toward modification of the
existing situation in respect to the
manufacture or sale Of intoXicants.
Copyright. 1926l
Evening star., 1926-11-04
GORSLINE DENIES THAT HE SAW
ACCUSED AT HALL CRIME SCENE

DR.. Hall, who had married woman
of wealth and refinement and had
suffered the usual result-a cold and
cheerless home" The intimacy be-
tween pastor and choirster grew to
be more than spiritual. he said, and
in time became notorious.
Love letters exchanged by DR.. Hall
and Mrs. Mills came into Mrs. Halls
possession, Simpson asserted.
On the murder night, he continued,
Mrs. Hall overheard a telephone con-
versation in which her husband made
an appointment to meet Mrs. Mills
in De Russey's Lane, where their
bodies were found.
She then communicated with her
brother Henry at his home in Lava
lette, N. j., he said, and her brother
Willie, and with them drove to the
lane to confront DR.. Hall and Mrs.
Mills and show them the letters that
she had obtained. There they became
involved in a quarrel and the murder
was committed
Evening star., 1926-11-04

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by the Senate, however. their success
sors will he Republican appointees by
Republican governors of both States
until special elections can he held
As both Illinois and Pennsylvania are
ovei'W h"lmingly Republican, the spe
cial elections. if they be necessary
cou'd scarcely upset the indicated po-
htical complexion of the Senate in the
10th Congress.
Dry leaders are we'll satisfied with
the defeat of George Z. Brennan. wet
Oemocrauc candidate for the Senate
IN Illinois. They are not particu-
iarlv interested in the fate of Col.
smith whom they used as a club to
beat Brennan
Leaders Must Take Stand.
Republican leaders in The Senate
and the administration will soner or
later have 10 take a stand for or
against the seating Of the Senator
elect from Pennsylvania and Illinois,
whose right to be seated viii he chal-
Ienged because Of large expenditures
IN their primary campaigns and
ple9sin" prospect. with the national
elections onlv 4 few laDs ahead
In administrat; circles the fact
that III" EepuhIcans retain control
of both houses of Congress is regard :
"a with satisfaction. although the de-
feat of Senator Butler Of Massa-
"huse+ts and senator Wadsworth of
New York are bitter pills to swallow.
The feeling exists in official CIRCLES
that the country. tallinG II ly and
large, IS still satisfied with Rcpub-
Mean rule. There is considerable con.
:denco in the Republican prospects
FOR 1925
So far as President Coolidge is CON
t>prned If he decides to become n can.
didate for another term. his chances
for nomination and election are held
10 be bright.
Butler Defeat Discounted.
President Coolidre's political for
tunes never Yet have been decided by
the defeat OF members of his own
party for other offices and the failure
of Senator Butler To he elected in
Mass" Chu~PttS. although indOrSed by
Coolidge, is discounted here as a re-
election Of the actual Coolidge strength
Reports received here from the Re
publican congressional campaign com
HAit'eH in Chicago give the following
- u. -,.'on nf House election results
-; Republicans sure: 100 Democrats
sure. 10 La Toilette Republicans ir
Wisconsin. | Socialist. | NOn.PartiSar
Republican, North Dakota; Farmer
Labor. Minnesota. and 5 seats still IN
doubt OF which the Republicans be
lleve they Will win ,.
Evening star., 1926-11-04
TOMBS FIGHT PUTS
TWO UNDER ARREST
JUST BEFORE DAWN

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fee, on the eighth floor Of a nearby
building.
Automatic rifles, resembling ma.
chine guns, which release 20 bullets at
one pull of the trigger. were used by
| the police, who took up positions in
buildings nearby.
The prisoners realized they were
doomed when they failed to get the
| kays to the gate, and finally turned
| their guns on themselves. Before
he shot himself, Amberg waved to the
crowds on nearby fire escapes and
laughed
Three other prisoners reported sick
with GlatZ, Amberg and McKenna,
but were not removed from their cells
at the same time. They are thought
| to have been implicated. Search Of
them and of the entire prison failed
to disclose other hidden arms
Throughout the fighting Thomas NJ.
Kelly, a laborer, lay in a narrow ditch
he was digging across the prison yard.
Both police and prisoners fired upon
him, but he escaped with only q cut
shoe lace, nicked by bullet.
Smith Orders Sing Sing Guard.
1Of. CIlltIIl ldSl ulSill OiueI 6u lWO
State troopers, armed with rifles, to
be stationed outside the walls Of S.ng
Sing prison as a precaution against
prison riot similar to the one that
broke out in Tombs prison.
The governor explained that news
such as the outbreak in Tombs gen
orally eXcites convicts in other
prisons He also declared Warden
Lew.s f. Lawes should be provided
with machine gun equipment for Sing
Sing as he had requested
The attempted Tombs escape result
ed in the first riot call sounded in
many years in New York. All avail
able reserves from police headquar-
ters, three blocks away, were rushed
to the prison and motor cycle police
from all over Manhattan roared
across the city to the scene of the
battle. Among the first to arrive was
the emergency squad from head
quarters, picked men armed with
small arms, rifles, shot guns and gas
bombs.
Evening star., 1926-11-04
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crab apple tree, testified that Wis
iting card of DIR. Halls which was of
fered in evidence was seen by him
propped against the slain rector's left
foot. Senator Simpson said he would
offer proof by two experts to show the
card bore the fingerprints of Willie
Stevens left index finger.
Jury Selected Quickly.
The jury, without a woman member,
was selected within an hour and a
half. The foreman is teamster. There
are six farmers, two clerks. a superin-
tendent, a mason and blacksmith sit
ting with him. Senator Simpsons
opening address required but 20 min
uteS.
In it he said the State would show
that Mrs. Mills was a good woman
whose interest, after her husband be-
came "cold' to her. was centered in
her two children. She turned to re-
ligion for solace, he said, and met
Evening star., 1926-11-04

their judgment. In the middle ages
we know how to make excuses and
to give our fellow creatures the ben
eft of the doubt.
In the briefest speech 1 have ever
heard prosecutor make Senator
Simpson laid the bare bones of his
case before the jury. charging Mrs.
Hall and her brothers with having
killed Mrs. Mills and DR.. Hall and de-
claring that the fingerprints found on
the card at the preachers foot were
those of Willie Stevens.
And with that mystery tingling in
the air the curtain went down on the
first act of the great Hall-Mills drama.
LCanI..;cht lOR
Evening star., 1926-11-04
RELIGIOUS REBEL BAND
BEATEN, MEXICO REPORTS
Ten Said to Have Been Killed and
Families Captured-Leader
Escapes.

By the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, November Am
nouncement was made at the presi-
Dental office today that a rebel band,
Knights of Columbus in the State of
Durango" has been defeated at Ar
royo de Aqua by federal soldiers.
Ten members of the band were
killed and several of their families
captured. Gurrola escaped, accom-
panied by 10 of his followers.
The announcement asserts that Cur
rola revolted a month ago in protest
against the governments religious
laws.
Evening star., 1926-11-04
Beauty Parlor Strike Ends.

CHICAGO, November @.-The
threatened strike of 1000 feminine
beauty parlor operators has been
called off as a result of recognition as
members of the Journeymen Barbers'
Union and wage increases to &C perm
anent union scale.
Evening star., 1926-11-04
HIGHT HOST TO CLUBMEN
Riding and Hunt Committee Dimes
at Willard.

A complimentary luncheon was
given to members OF the executive
committee of the Riding and Hunt
Club at the Willard Hotel this aft
ernoon by Frank :. Hight.
Those who attended We're Rear Ad-
miral Cary T. Grayson. president of
the club; Col. Henry {. Whitehead,
Mai Charles L. Scott, Wilton j. Lam
bert. Thomas Bones and Melvin c.
AAzen
Evening star., 1926-11-04
DEPS RITES SUNDAY.
Socialist Leader to Be Buried by
Masons.

Memorial services for the late Eu-
gene V Debs. five times presidential
nominee of the Socialist party, and
leader of the great railroad strike in
1899. will be held in the Ma sonic Tenn
pie Sunday afternoon, November 2S,
at 2:30.
Arrangements are in the hands of
the Socialist party, League for Indus
trial Democracy and Workmans Cir
Gle. Among the speakers are some of
the leaders of the Socialist party in
New York City.
Evening star., 1926-11-04
WOMEN'S MOODS VARY AT TRIAL
FROM SELF-CONTROL TO TEARS
Mrs. Hall Amazingly Calm and Distin-
guished Looking Slain Choir Singers
Daughter Picture of Anguish.

| figure is one-half so dramatic as this
quiet lady.
| A little behind this group sits a
woman with soft, dark fur muffled
about her face, charming face, which,
unlike the others, looks frankly sad
and disturbed. Mrs. Henry Stevens is
obviously making no effort to pretend
i that she is not utterly weary and
| sickened of a hateful and distasteful
| business. She beStowS the most fleet
! Ing of smiles on her husbands counsel,
and then sits motionless, eyes rested
on her gray gloved hands.
Figures That Stand Out.
The clerk of the court raises his
hand for silence and cries, Hear ye!'
yes, hear We, hear ye-the greatest
criminal trial of this century has
commenced.
OF the figures that pass now before
us-the vanguard of that army of
! witnesses that is to pass in review be-
| fore the curtain falls-several will
| 'inger in our memories. John S.
| Dickson, the neat sandy haired ac-
countant sticking quietly but reso-
| lutely to his tale of how that STUN
'oline figure that he identified as Willie
Stevens came shuffline and peerin"
at his screen door at half past 8
! on the night Of the murder, trying to
, find his sister. whom he had left at
the Parker Home for the Aged, op-
| posite De RuSSev lane. If we are to
believe the quiet concise Mr.. Dick
son. continually mostening his lips.
hut otherwise undisturbed. Willie
Stevens alibi of being home in bed
that night is rudelv shattered.
Charlotte Dickson. his wife. with
dark eyes swapping behind low-rinmed
snectacles. is even moro emnhatic
ehe is unalterablv convinced that the
figure that she came from her kitchen
70 investigate that evening was Willie
Stevens. She is lavish as to details
about bow ties. cold clammy hands.
wing collars and open-faced gold
watches. Her increasing decision
| undor cross-eXamination caused what
Judge Parker chara cteriZnd as undue
hilarity among the spectators.
Picture of Charlotte Mills.
But undoubtedly the figure that will
1ngfr longest in the minds of those
in the courthouse this first day was
he slim, gayly clad figure of the mur-
dered womans daughter, Charlotte
Mills, clad in the briefest and bright
| est of rose flannel dress. with a vivid
Green velvet. Tragica1ly young. under
the powder and pertness and sophisti-
| cation, she sits weeping, weeping
quietly and steadily while the counsel
| for the defense and prosecutor and
the Judge indulge in endless and acri-
mOniouS argument as to the relevancy
of much of her testimony.
Small and dropping. her voice so
'ow-pitched that it is almost inaudible,
we who watched saw the tears wash
away everything ugly and hard and
contemplate and leave only a lonely
| and terrified child, who had lost her
mother and found a strange and ter
rible world. Long after we have for
| gotten everything else about that first
memorable day,-We will see that small
| distraught face with it's rowing eyes
and trembling lips. and we will re.
| member Charlotte Mills.
Evening star., 1926-11-04
Chief Characters Enter.

NnIeI
Perched even higher than the babies,
on a shield brave with stars and
stripes. crouches the American eagle,
! looking at once severe and exalted. 1t
is all very eaSSuring-surelV under
such august patronage nothing less
than Justice can be done in this place.
And the little door at the back of the
courtroom is opening, and the chief
characters in this most arreSting OF
dramas make their quiet and unhurried
entry. A little group of pale. self-pos-
Sessed men and women, taking their
seats in the corner of the crowded
courtroom, as calmly as though they
were gathered about a tea table in a
corner of some tranquil drawing room.
The women, Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Henry Ste
vens, Mrs. Edwin Carpenter, are all
dressed in dark clothes with furs and
small close hats. There is a CLINT of
silver in Mrs. Stevens hat, of gold in
Mrs Carpenters. of large pearl pin
in Mrs. Halls. Willie Stevens smiles
gcnially and spontaneously at the i'm
pressively groomed group of counsel
that greet him.
Throughout the day he is to mani
fest none of the famed eccentricity-
there's only an expression of blank
surprise in the prominent eyes bulg-
ing slightly behind the thick glasses.
His heavy eyebrows are raised almost
constantly, giving him an expression
of perpetual strained bewilderment
at the turn of affairs that has plung-
ed him INTO this amazing predicament.
Henry Stevens Smiles.
Henry Stevens looks brisk and self,
controlled, but obviously and deeply
annoyed. He smiles, however, con
tinuously enough and then. abruptly
forgets to smile. 1t requires more
philosophy and fortitude than the best
of US possess, perhaps, to smile with
much conviction into those circling
rows of eager, inquisitive, inSensitive
faces.
In one way at least. possibly in
more ways than one, Frances Stevens
Hall is a much maligned woman. The
photographers have done her Scant
Justice. She is very far from the
stolid, heavy, dowdy woman that they
have consistently shown us. She
looks noticeably we'll groomed and
distinguished. The quiet face under
the dark hat brim fs white to the
bone. but even to unobservant eyes
It is full of character.
The pale lips are perfectly steadv.
She does not take the trouble to smile.
but more than once they curve a little.
rather pleasantly ironic. She gaZeS
about her with level eyes and a curl
Gus air of detachment deliberately and
profoundly undra matte. and yet in all
this hall crowded with melodrama no