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a a THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2. 1922. 1 3 the Anvil Chorus under a spreading chestnut tree, but in Knickerbocker's busy wagon shop, the sparks fly as the boys strike--strike while the iron's hot for the tires that hold the sturdy wheels of the Knickerbocker Ice Wagons.

Some of the "boys" have been with the company for forty years-all of them for many years-with never a "strike" except the cheery chorus of the anvils. Knickerbocker wagons so seldom wear out and so seldom need repairing-the Shop at 4th and Bond Streets, Brooklyn, can usually build repair wagons for outside trade anthe same materials and workmanship as used for -at very reasonable prices. Knickerbocker ICE Company INSPECTOR HENRY AGREES TO TESTIFY IN U. S. "DRY" PROBE Police Inspector Dominick Henry, who a few days ago balked at telling the Federal Grand Jury what he is supposed to know regarding illegal traffic in liquor in the Bronx, has apparently changed his mind and is now willing to become a witness.

His counsel, George M. Curtis, today appeared at the Federal Court in Manhattan and after a conference with Maj. John Holley Clark Assistant United States District Attorney, arranged for Inspector Henry's appearance before the Grand Jury. When Inspector Henry was called on Tuesday he refused to waive immunity and was not allowed to become a witness. It is understood that the Government is anxious to get from Inspector Henry inside information regarding the Bornstein raid in the Bronx, which occurred several months ago.

An agreement was entered into yesterday, when Judge Knox dismissed the contempt proceedings against former Prohibition Director a Ralph A. Day, whereby the books and papers of R. A. Dav Co. suit and cloak makers of 136 Madison ave.

wou'd be surrendered to Major Clark. Frederick H. Henkle, bookkeeper for R. A. Dav was subpenaed to explain the entries in the books of the company.

Erasmus Hall Takes Title has fo To Site for Athletic Field Eugene W. Harter. representing Erasmus Hall School, took title today to the plot of ground which the institution recently purchased on Gravesend between Aves. and for an athletic field. The ground was sold by Thomas C.

Miller, a prominem lawyer and teacher of Erie, through his broker, Theodore B. Fox. Ver former major league The price catcher of 1405 not Gravesend ave. was made known, but Mr. Miller, who 19 interested in the development of scholastic athletics, sold the plot at much lower figure than what it is assessed for.

6 inches on Gravesend 300 The field has a frontage 01.423 feet feet deep. Now that title has been taken, work of developing the field will start immediately to have it ready by next spring. CHINA URGED TO REJECT "21 DEMANDS" TREATY Peking, 2-(By the Associated Press) of the bodying Japan's famous -one demands," is required of the Chinese Government in a bill passed by the Lower House of Parliament today. The bill directs that the treaty be rejected on the ground that it never was approved by China's Parliament and therefore is invalid. The bill provides that the Government send the original treaty, with the 21 demands, to be discussed by the present Parliament.

In Next Sunday's Eagle What sort of a man is Edward F. Cassidy, the Socialist candidate for Governor of New York State? By Frederick Boyd. Stevenson. What does The Middle West Think about Prohibition, about Europe, about the League of Nations, about our foreign debt, about Japan? By Henry Suydam Who is Mussolini and what is he doing? By George Currie What is the true character of the Omnipotent Oom, otherwise Pierre A. Bernard, founder exclusive Brae Burn Club of Nyack? By a staff writer for The Eagle.

What did The Tabby and the Tom Cat talk about on the back fence? By I. Kaufman. Why do picturesque men from all parts of the world gather around Eighteen Thousand Crosses in France? By Guy Hickok. Why did The Wild Tiger break his cage on shipboard? By Charles Mayer. Why will you be interested in Homer Balmy, Hiram Johnson, Easy Magic, J.

A. Waldron, The Psychometer, and many other live things In Next Sunday's Eagle B.R.T. REOPENS TWO BORO LINES CLOSED SINCE BIG STRIKE They Are the Park Ave. and a Part of the Old Ocean Ave. Routes.

The T. reopened today two surface lines in Brooklyn which have been closed since the big strike, the Park ave. line from Central ave. and Cooper st. to the Brooklyn Bridge, and that section of the old Ocean ave.

line from Broadway ferry to Marcy ave. and Fulton st. It will be six weeks or two months before the new Liberty ave. line, promised at the same time announcement was made of plans to reopen the other two, is put in operation, according to statements at the B. R.

T. offices today. The delay is due to the necessity for new construction. There was a big celebration to mark the inauguration of the Park ave. service.

The first cars were run last night, when the railroad operated two over the route. They left Central ave. and Cooper st. at about 5:30 and ran all the way to the Bridge terminus at Sands and Washington sts, and back to the starting point. Assemblyman Crews Assemblyman John R.

Crews, who put through the bill that made possible the restoration of service, started the first and handled the controller for a time. Others in the official party were Jared J. Chambers of the 28th Ward Taxpayers Association and Representative Lester D. Volk and Andrew M. Petersen.

Chambers was to have been the conductor on the car Crews operated, but William Seibert, superintendent of transportation for the B.R.T., decreed that no fares were to be collected, so Chambers had nothing to do. Along a large part of the route residents celebrated with tin horns, rattles and red fire. It was a day of victory for Assemblyman Crews, who had fought for two years to secure the opening of. the line. Receiver Garrison had refused to put it into operation because he said it would not pay under the transfer agreements formerly existing.

The bill Crews passed relieved the road from the necessity of giving these, and the Transit Commission agreed to allow operation without them temporarily, pending development of. the city- wide consolidation plan. The reopening of the two lines adds miles to surface car track operation in Brooklyn. No Marcy Ave. Celebration.

There was no celebration to mark the opening of the Marcy ave. line. The cars began to run at 6 o'clock this morning and are operating on an eight-minute headway in rush hours and ten minutes at other times. The new Liberty ave. line is to run from Grant and Liberty aves.

via Liberty and East New York St. station of the Eastern Parkway subJohn's pl. and Utica ave. A to Utica ave. way, absorbing the present Bergen st.

shuttle between Georgia and Grant aves. LORD BIRKENHEAD CAUSTIC IN SPEECH ON BRITISH DEBTS Says Nation Is Expected to Pay All She Owes- No One Pay Her Anything. Bristol, Nov. 2 (By the sociated Press) -The subject of England's debt to the United States and the money due to England from other countries was discussed briefly by Lord Birkenhead, the former Lord Chancellor, in speaking here today in place of Mr. Lloyd George, whose indisposition prevented him from appearing.

"Apparently the happy prospect with which we are confronted is that we are to pay every one every. thing we owe and that no one is to pay us anything that they owe he remarked caustically. Some people, declared Lord Birkenhead, said the Entente Cordiale was being endangered if Great Britain said she was going to pay her debts, and he did not see why she should forgive all those who owe her money, No Quarrel with America. "We do not think America is in danger of quarreling with her good friend, Great Britain, when she politely reminds us that we owe her a considerable sum of money, and I don't see why nations should be SO very sensitive on matters of business," he added. Lord Birkenhead paid tribute to the work of Lord 1 Balfour at the Washington Conference last winter.

"Lord Balfour," he added, ironically. "is one clever man whom this country no longer needs." The former Lord Chancellor said he did not despair of seeing an extension of the Washington Conference to the field of land armaments and aerial preparations. POLITICAL NOTES Smith Against Compulsor' Health. Executive Secretary John P. Davin, M.D., of the New York Medical Association, today warned all physicians against the circular letter which he says is being sent out accusing Al Smith of being in favor of compulsory health insurance.

"Smith is not in favor of this proposition," says Dr. Davin. "The circular letter is designed to fool physicians who know nothing of the issues of the campaign. The last. Legislature passed the SmithFearon Narcotic Bill, the most oppressive and obnoxious of all the a drug laws ever passed in this State.

The last Legislature is responsible for the Mullan-Gage law, passed at the behest of the Anti-Saloon League. Governor Miller established maternity centers and health centers, both of which medical and medical opinion in this State mere opposed to." Representative Lester D. Volk issued a blast todav against his Democratic opponent, Emanuel Celler. Alleging that somebody was supplying Celler with lots of money, he said: "In addition to chocolate. chewing gum and peppermints, he (Celler) is now distributing small bags of cocoa, cans of milk.

matches, match boxes and rulers. If elected, he will be prepared to give away free soup and free bread--as became necessary under the Cleveland Administration low tariff." Then he got real sarcastic: "Signs everywhere throughout the 10th Congress District have been heralding his appropriate name accompanying the slogan 'for light wine and ASKS FOR ANNULMENT "Because he proved to me he wasn't a man; because use he wouldn't work and because he wanted me to give him money, I wouldn't live with him," Stein Echan. 18, told Justice Lewis Fawcett in the Supreme Court yesterday when she as' ed that her marriage to Charles Eeran of 925 De Kalb be annulled. Mrs. Echan, who lives at 39 Broome st.

with her father. Louis Stein, was married on April 25 of this year in Boro Hall. Decision was reserved. Next Tuesday at 9:30 J. B.

Allee Votes for Himself for Governor Maybe Voters Won't Know It, but Mr. Allee Is Running in That Blank Space on Ballot. Joseph B. Allee, real estate man, and frequent talker at public hearings, invites all and sundry to take snapshots of him as he votes for himself for Governor in the polling place at Reid and Lexington aves. next Tuesday morning.

Right on the eve of election Mr. Allee threw a tremendous scare into all the other candidates for Governor, especially Joseph Cassidy, nominee of the Socialist-Farmer-Labor party, by announcing that he was going a to run independently against them all--and' maybe beat them. Of course it was too late for Mr. Allee to get formally nominated by a convention or have his name printed on the ballots, but there is a blank space under the group of Gubernatorial aspirants and Mr. Allee thought it a shame it shouldn't be used.

So he has invited all his friends to write in his name. Mr. Allee says he is going to do it himself, so if any one else does he won't teel so lonely. The law says all such written in names must be counted, too. It doesn't provide that the voter must have his picture "took" while depositing the ballot.

But most prominent men who run for office, like Mr. Hughes, Mr. Cox and Mr. Bryan, have theirs snapped, and Mr. Allee is endeavoring to follow in their footsteps.

He wrote a little note to the City Editor of the Eagle to-day announcing his plans and telling just how a wideawake reporter will be able to find him at the ballot box--if he will lie in wait for him next Tuesday morning about 9:30 o'clock. It will be a rare picture, fact it may be the picture of the only vote cast thus next Tuesday. But Mr. Allee is running a regular campaign--press agent stunts 'n everything. In fact, if the Sunday papers want it---well, let Mr.

Allee's campaign committee describe it themselves. Quoting from page paragraph 2 of their letter: "Arrangements will be made if possible to provide for your Sunday edition a photograph of Mr. Allee in intimate relations with a team of oxen, faithfully reminiscent of youthful toil on his grandfather's farm in Connecticut in a section hallowed to all true Americans by his forefathers' sturdy resistance to King George's ruthless Redcoats." least, such was the announcement The Eagle received today. CRAIG SAYS MILLER LIES ABOUT COST OF CITY GOVERNMENT Comptroller Craig issued a statement today claiming for himself the credit of reducing the 1922 State tax by $11,600,000 which Governor Miller. in a speech in the Bronx on Tuesday night, said was due to the economy policy of the State administration.

He declared that this was not an economy by the coduction, but "a submission to a lawful demand made by the Controller of New York City." The Controller characterizes as a "lie" the assertion of Governor MilJer that the cost of the local government in York City has gone up $70,000,000 down two years. As to this he says that "a lie. stuck to is as good as the truth." Mr. Craig points out that he has been referred to by the Governor as an "unimpeachable witness" who could, if he wanted to. corroborate the Governor's statement regarding the State tax and the enormous increase in the cost of the local government during the past two years.

Controller that the increase of $70,000,000 for the maintains, cost of the local government, but is due to mandatory legislation, and declares that on the contrary the cost of the local government here has been materially decreased. He charges the Governor with "striking a blow at the heart of education," by signing a "sneak bill" under which the direct tax to pay school teachers' salaries was reduced by two-thirds-or 000,000. NEWS BRIEF'S Magistrate Fish in the Traffic Court yesterday sentenced Jack Newberg, 244 Rivington to five days in jail for speeding as a second offender. He was served with a summons for going 30 miles an hour. Samuel Kaufman, 496 Thatford was fmed $50 for speeding.

Albert Gottlieb, 179 Beach 84th paid $75 for speeding as a second offender. Assemblyman John R. Cross ran the first car over the Park ave. trolley line, which resumed service last night. Anna Gaskin, who says she is social service' worker in the employ of the city, and lives in Elmhurst, L.

on Saturday night attended a party at 2489 2d Manhattan. When she left the party she missed $300 from her handbag and she accused Mrs. Elizabeth Bautelpochter, in the theft. Mrs. Bautelpochter.

in the Harlem Court yesterday, was held in $1,500 bail for an examination Friday. Leon E. Thompson, aged 32. of 50 Wicks Yonkers, was arrested last. night by Detective Brickley, of the Poplar Street station.

charged with the larceny of $300, the property of Guy Branch, of 264 West 38th Manhattan. It is alleged that he cashed a check for the amount stated, at the office of the Title Guarantee Company at 175 Remsen st. He has been indicated and will be arraigned tomorrow in the County Court for pleading. Magistrate Geismar in the Fifth Avenue Court today threw out three alleged liquor violation cases because the complaints were improperly made. The men discharged are: John Jenson, 38.

16 Conover John Rogenkamp, 636 5th and James Kennedy, 4901 Fifth ave. Voted for Greeley, Crowded Out of Al Smith Meeting Thomas D. McElhenie, Brooklynite, of 266 Ryerson tried unsuccessfully to get into the Academy to hear Al Smith last night. "Of course," he wrote The Eagle today, "I could not get my nose inside, SO I amused myself quizzing a few officers: and citizens as to whether there was any other man there besides myself who had voted for Horace Greeley." J. H.

WALSH GETS DIVORCE. James H. Walsh of 95 Utica ave. was granted a divorce from his wife Elizabeth Walsh by Justice Fawcett in the Supreme Court yesterday. wasn't and BROOKLYN COURTS SUPREME COURT, TRIAL TERM.

Day calendar, Nov. 3. Part Callaghan. J. The name of counsel to try the case must be handed to the calendar clerk when the case appears on the Reserve Calendar.

No case will be held or passed for engagement eL counsel whose name is not with the clerk. Simpson Union Ferry Co. balance of the day calendar stands over to Monday, Nov. 6. I'ghest number reached in regular order, 4025.

ELI W. WEAVER DIES; STARTED MANY BOYS IN BUSINESS WORLD Veteran B. H. S. Teacher, Father of Vocational Guidance System -Lost Two Sons in War.

Eli Witwer Weaver, one of the bestknown educators in the city; "father" of the vocational guidance system in the public schools and who for 18. years until his retirement on March 1. 1919. was a teacher of mathematics in Boys High School, died last night at his home, 25 Jefferson ave. He had been ill for two weeks of pernicious anemia and apparently had been gaining in strength until the past few days.

lie was 60 years old in August, Rarely has a school teacher taken the interest in his students that was manifested by Mr. Weaver. He not only guided them in their efforts to secure employment, but also carefully watched their progress in order to see Eli W. Weaver. that they did not get into business ruts.

Thousands of his pupils today owe their progress to his skillful aid. It was his outstanding purpose in life to gee that the boys and girls he came in contact with got a good start in life. An outgrowth of his work was the formation of the Students' Employment Committee of the High School Teachers' Association. Mr. Weaver came from an old Pennsylvania.

Dutch family and was born at Churchtown, on Aug. 5, 1862, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Weaver. He was graduated from the Pennsylvania State Normal School and New York University and first entered educational work in the South.

He was for a short time Superintendent of Schools at Paris, Bellevue and Carollton. Ky. He came to New York in 1900 and shortly afterwards was appointed assistant teacher of mathe. matics in Boys High School. He spent his entire career as a New York City teacher in this school.

Since his retirement three years ago, Mr. Weaver devoted most of his time to vocational guidance work And leetured at the Teacher's College in Columbia University on this subject. He also lectured for the Y. M. C.

and wrote a number of books on the subject, among them being: "Building a Career." "Profitable Vocations for Boys," "Profitable Vocations for Girls," and "Medicine As A Profession." His health was affected somewhat by the loss of two of his sons, who were in the service during the World War. One son, Luther O. Weaver, was one of the first Brooklyn lads to die in the war, being a victim of the sinking of the U. S. patrol boat.

Alcedo, sunk on Nov. 5, 1917. The other son, Lt. John H. Weaver, who was in the Naval aviation service during the war, was injured in an airplane accident at the Marine Corps station, Paris Island.

S. in August, 1920, while awaiting his discharge, and died a few days later. Mr. Weaver is survived by his wife. Susan E.

Oberlin, whom he married in 1887, four daughters, Amy. Elizabeth, Mary and Mrs. Bertha Liebensperger. and three sons, Paul. Ernest and James Weaver, and seven brothers and two sisters.

He was an elder in the Classon Avenue Presbyterian Church, where his funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. R. M. Huston, Saturday, afternoon at 3 o'clock. The interment will be in Greenwood Ceretery.

G. 0. VICTORIES IN WEST WILL NOT HELP MR. HARDING Continued From Page. 1.

nonconformist candidates, some: of whom at least are bound to win, is Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana, whose course will go along with the Administration AS long as it suits his own purposes. Practically all of these candidates are opposed to the League of Nations, opposed American participation in European affairs, opposed to ship subsidy, opposed or indifferent to the new tariff, and in favor of a downright slashing in taxation. Those who remember how the Farm Bloc in Congress forced President Harding to postpone revenue legislation to pass an emergency tariff in the first months of his Administration, and how at other points the Farm Bloc has held up legislation while its particular interests were taken care of are not very optimistic about the immediate prospects, especially--and here is the precise point--if these Republican candidates, all or in part. should win.

Some of them are bound to win, and others have more than a fighting chance. When Congress reassembles in sne. cia! session this month to take up the ship subsidy legislation. it is expected that a first -class fight will ensue. The shin subside business is perhaps closer to Mr.

Harding's heart than anv other single legislative item in his program. Chairman Lasker of the Shipping Board has reported a favorable change in sentiment. but there many Re- publicans who are unable to see it. League Specter Mar Rise Again. It is further probable that the Senate.

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MRS. HALL INNOCENT, IS BELIEF OF SOME REPORTERS AT QUIZ Continued From Page. 1. comfort, one leg crossed over the other, her hands in her lap, merely turning her head toward each one of her questioners before she made reply. She had known the interview was coming and had plenty of time to steel herself for the ordeal.

And to her it must have been an ordeal far above the ordinary. Her husband had been foully murdered, his dead body found side by side with his choir singer. She was to be asked about that in a manner which would recall all the details of the tragedy to her mind. In addition to this she is a proud woman. It is a dominant trait of her character.

Publicity, anything that savors of notoriety, has always been repugnant to her. She has shrunk from it all her life. Now, for an hour. the innermost recesses of her mind were to be probed, things she would rather have kept from the public eye were to form the basis of questions which must have been extremely repellant to a woman of her nature Ordeal? Few women have ever gone through such an one. Sharp Cross- Examination.

The questions were about evenly divided between the representatives of the evening newspaper men and the chosen representative of the morning men. side she was in the hands of an entirely friendly and sympathetic questioner. He was The Eagle reporter, who has believed in her innocence from the first. On the other hand she was obliged to face a questioner, skilled in sharp cross examination, who at best was a doubter. One series of questions were put to her gently, politely.

The other set were put with a greater degree of insistence and not so sympathetically. Her attorney did not know what questions were to be put to her. He showed a supreme confidence in her in leaving her entirely alone for an hour. 'The interview began at about 1:45. A promise was exacted that 110 newspaperman should leave the room until her lawyer, Timothy N.

Pfeiffer, returned. At 2:30. to the minute, he appeared and told the evening newspapermen they might leave. The inquisition had been conducted in A quiet, orderly manner. each interrogator following his line of questions to the end and then wait.ing on the other.

Two' stenographers from New York, whose services had been especially arranged for by a morning newspaperman, took the questions and answers in relays, seated at her elbow at the library table. At frequent intervals one relieved the other and the stenographic notes were taken into the parlor where multigraphing machines had been set up and where the notes were dictated to fast typists. React on Among Reporters. What was the reaction to this remarkable interviw among the 20 newspaper men and women who were privileged to be present? Some emerged declaring their firm belief in her innocence. One of the keenest morning newspapermen on the job remarked with conviction.

"She is 100 percent innocent!" His opinion was echoed by about a third of those present. Apparently she had won some converts A and the atmosphere of uncertainty and doubt thrown about Mrs. Gibson's eyewitness store had helped her not a little. Others were cynical. They said sho was cold-blooded.

They stressed her apparent lack of emotion and expressed their incredulity over her statements that she still believed in her husband in the face of the love letters which she still refuses to accept as genuine. They said they did not see how it was possible that she could have remained ignorant of the rector's attachment for Mrs. Mills or of Mrs. Mills for the rector. They gagged at her statement of an enduring faith in the man who was found on the golden rod field of the Phillips farm shot to death.

beside him the other woman shot four times, her throat cut from ear to ear, a batch of ardent missives scattered between them. Contrast With First Interview. There was one man there who had interviewed her twice--the first time as the representative of all the newspapermen. He alone had been privileged to witness her reactions a week after the crime had been committed and seven weeks after the murder. That first time the writer saw a differ.

ent woman. It was a woman who answered very much as she did yesterday the half dozen questions put to her but who seemed on the verge of collapse. Behind her pince-nez glasses there was the dew of tears. Mrs. Hall does not carry her emoon her sleeve, say her friends.

When she weeps, she weeps in seclusion. James Mills, himself a strangely unemotional person. told the writer that when Mrs. Hail came to him on the morning after her husband's disappearance, seeking news of him, she wept. I believe her story as I have believed it from the first.

It is not SO much anything she has said as a mysterious "hunch" which often comes to a newspaperman that this woman is clear. She may be hiding something out of her old love for her husband, out of pride. perhaps, but not guilty knowledge of the crime. When she says she is holding back "absolutely and that she has "absolutely no idea nor have I had' as to the motive or the perpetrator of the crime, she says so directly, incisively and with apparent sincerity. It was her manner yesterday when she was asked, "You are today without any direct knowledge that might clear up the crime?" and her answer when she replied squarely, "I have absolutely no which prompted the interrogator to thank her for her directness.

Touch on Every Angle of the Case. Reporters are often wrong in their opinions and the keen man of Essex County with an uncanny faculty of sifting the wheat from the chaff. of finding weak spots in statements. may think differently. And if there are weak spots in that interview the quiet, suave prosecutor of Essex County with a Statewide reputation 0.9 a will find them without a doubt.

If Mrs. Hall ever gets as far as the witness stand and is asked to tell her story in court it should prove a most dramatic meeting of two striking per-the keen old nan with the penetrating eyes peering sharply over the quarter moon lenses of his glasses and the widow who never wavered in the face of questions touching on every angle of the murder, her relaa tions with her husband, with Mrs. Mills, her movements on the night of the disappearance of her husband and Mrs. Mills and other questions touching intimate phases of her family life. She entered the room.

where the newspapermen had ranged themselves on chairs and lounges, with a quick step. She is slightly stoop shouldered. Her thick hair rises in pompadour style from a high broad forehead. Her face is long and her lips thin. Her jaws are broad and firm.

She has one little physical characteristic which is manifest often. Her eyelids droop over her eves when she answers a question. Her friends say that it is an old habit. Is 47, but Looks Older. She is 47 years old.

Her hair is thickly sprinkled with gray and this makes her look somewhat oider. She wore a blacks crepe de chine gown cut square at the neck and on one hand was a wedding ring and outside it a ring with three diamonds, perhaps her engagement ring. She wore no other ornaments. stockings were black and her shoes trim low -cut black shoes. Yesterday she sat in a strong light which fell upon her from one of the library winwows.

A newspaperman arose and lowered the shade a trifle as she seated herself in a rocker imno mediately facing the phalanx of press representatives. Except for a slight movement of her hands reposing in her lap she gave no sign of her feelings as the questions were put to her without al break. Through the open doorway in a rear room- -it is a splendid house of hardwood floors, of paintings, of rich mirrors, but furnished in exquisite tastethe figure of Louise Geist, who overheard Rector Hall's les. telephone conversation on the night he disappeared, could be seen flitting about. That call was from Mrs.

Mills, and Hall was heard to reply: "That's bad," and to speak of going to the church a little later. Mrs. Hall said yesterday she did not hear that converration. "They told me it was from Mrs. Mills, but I only know that from the outside," was her statement.

Shows No Bitterness. One thing was noticeable in the in terview. At no time did she show the slightest trace of bitterness either toward her dead husband or toward Mrs. Milis. "What is your feeling toward Mrs.

Mills?" was the pertinent question. With no change of expression or voice she replied, "I de not know what to say." "Do you feel at all inimical toward her?" "I have no vindictive feeling." Nor could the newspapermen 111- cover anything to show that she had ever had a difference of opinion, a quarrel with Mrs. Mills over her band. had put a spy to watch them had ever spoken with her husband over his attentions to the other woman or the other woman's attentions to her. She had not the slightest suspicion of their relations she insisted.

The high lights of that interview were as follows: She maintains her absolute belief in the integrity of her husband. She utterly refuses to accept the evidence of the ardent love notes as conclusive. Neither the letters nor the diary interest her. She was shown a facsimile of her husband's signature in the prosecutor's office and her comment was that it looked like his but she could not guarantee its genuineness. She says she never saw the diary or anv love letters.

She saw two letters from Mrs. to her husband last summer but they simply described church work. Willing to Face Mrs. Gibson. She knows of no enemies her husband had.

She is willing to confront Mrs. Gibson if the prosecutor desires. She never fired nor handled fire. arms and her husband had no gun. She thinks the murderer is not safe person to be at large but she does not want to see anyone punished.

She says she is up against a biank wall 90 far as any idea of a soltition of the crime is concerned. made a. rejoinder out of the ordinary. It was when this question to her: "Suppose you had known that the relations between your husband and Mrs. Mills were intimate, what would you have "What a strange question!" she replied wonderingly, in her well-modulated voice.

"Of course I should have spoken to him." It was just after she had made her reply about the blank wall and the statement that she had no idea what to think that this question followed: mean your feelings. I mean about the whole thing, all of these complications and the insinuations of the people that you are guilty. You must realize that lot of people say so? Without changing her posture without a rising inflection in he voice she replied evenly: "It seems to me most mysterious that any one should think such things. cannot understand it, of course." When the hour was up she departed as quietly as she had entered, with the quick, nervous step. She had passed through the ordeal wit flying colors.

She is a wonde woman. MRS. HALL WRON SAYS MILLS DEN TWO STATEMENTS New Brunswick. N. Nov.

2- James Mills, husband of the slain choir singer. was one of those who read the accounts of the interview with Mrs. Hall and who, today, found himself in disagreement with certain points her story. Here are the points variance: of Mrs. Hall.

asked yesterday if she had said to, Mills on the Friday morning following the disappearance of Hall and Mrs. Mills, think it 1S foul play," declared that she did not remember making any such statement. Mills is positive she did. Mrs. Hall said she saw Mills twice that Friday -once at the church between 7 and 9 o'clock and once at his home when she asked if there was any news.

She did not remember that Mills went to her house 011 Friday night and talked to her for ten minutes as he says he did. Mills today repeated a statement he made sometime ago to an Eagle reporter, that he saw Mrs. Hall four times that day. Mills shifts a lot in his opinions. First he said he did not believe there was anything wrong between his wife and Hall.

then, after reading the letters he declared that "they certainly made a sucker out of me' and now he is back to the point where he sees nothing more serious in their relations than a "friendship of the mind." He declared that he is not vindictive either, echoing Mrs. Hall's remark of yesterday, but he adds: want to see the murderer Whoever it was, certainy. Got me in an awful iam. All these theories about robbery and blackmail are all rot. I think it was jealousy and that her throat was cut in spite against her singing." Somerville.

N. Nov. 2 (By the Associated Press) -The prediction that presentation of evidence in the Hall- Mills murder case would begin Saturday, was freely made today In official circles, although definite all nouncement was lacking. It was learned that Sheriff Conklin had bee notified to be prepared to call the Somerset County Grand Judy together in a hugry. No notices, however, yet have been sent jurors.

The opinion prevailed here that the State would try to dispose of technicalities Saturday, and Monday would seek an indictment. TO HEAR CALDER, COPELAND The League of Women Voters of the 4th A. D. will hold a non-partisan mass meeting tonight at the Eastern District Y. M.

A. U. S. Senator Calder. G.

0. I'. candidate for reelection, and Dr. Royal S. Copeland, Democratic nominee for the Senate, will be the principal speakers.

Others will be Supreme Court. District Attorney. Congress, Senate and Assembly nominess of both parties, and Mrs. George Notman, Brooklyn Boro chairman of the League. Miss Mary Garrett Hay, city chairman, will pre side..