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-r VOL. LXINO. 19,325 Entered at Portland (Oregon) Poatofflce aa Second-class Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1922 26 PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS MILLIONAIRE'S HOME HIT BY SHELL FIRE EW PARLIAMENT GALLED 81 KING STUDENT MOB RIPS VERDICT RETURNED GIRL ROBBER CAUGHT AT SECOND AND OAK TOREADOR TROUSERS i AGAINST MAYFIELD GREETS TRIPPERS SECOND LIECTEXAXT UNDER SCRUTINY AS RESUDT. SUMMARY PENALTIES DEALT TEXAS NOMINEE FOR SENATE PISTOL DRAWN" ON POLICE MAN; FUGITIVE FAINTS. TO TWO OFFENDERS. LOSES ClTRT CONTEST. ARMY OF 137,000 10 BE f ill WILLAPA HARBOR MURDER WITNESS NAMES MRS. HALL Further Cut Not Justi fied; Asserts Harding, LIMIT TO ECONOMY SEEN Present Size to Be Kept Un: less Conditions. Change. WAR EXPERIENCE GUIDE v ' ' Danger of Destroying Foundation for National Defense Is Cited by President. WASHINGTON', D. C, Oct. 26. President Harding's belief that the regular army at its present strength 12,000 officers and 125,000 men is as small as should be contem plated unless there should be a de cided change in military conditions throughout the world, is stated in a letter to Secretaary Weeks, made public today by the war department in order to correct any misappre hensions as to the size of the army, asked for in budget estimates for 1923. ' The letter was written in reply to ' a communication from Secretary Weeks, September 21, explaining to the president that while estimates for 12,000 officers and 125;000 men were being submitted, the opinion of reilitary leaders, regular, national guard, or reserve, was unchanged that the minimum force to carry out the national defense act of 1920 was 13,000 officers and 150,000 men. ' Limit to Economy Seen. In reply the president said that while he did not believe the gov ernment would be justified in ex ceeding its resources for the coming year, "there are limits in reduction beyond which we cannot "go, even in the praiseworthy cause of econ omy, without destroying the excel lent foundation now laid for our na tional defense and forfeiting the ac crued benefits of world war expe rience. Secretary Weeks' letter of Sep tember 21 and the president's reply, dated October 21, follow: "Dear Mr. President: I have this day transmitted to the director of the bureau of the budget the budget requirements of the war department for the fiscal year 1924 and feel that I would be neglecting my duty if I did not present to you certain sa lient facts in connection therewith. Estimate for 125,000 Men. "The estimate is submitted for the 125,000 enlisted men and 12,000 officers now authorized by law, and does" not express the military re quirements in order to carry out the spirit and object of the national defense act. In my opinion, and the opinion of military leaders of the regular army, national guard and organized reserves, the minimum number required to carry out the provisions of the act are 150,000 en lister men and 13,000 officers. "Within the limiting figure al lowed the war department by the bureau of the budget, namely, $312, 932,309, it is not possible to meet the absolute requirements of the mil itary organizations which are au thorized by law. However, advan tage has been taken of the authority ' of the bureau of the budget to submit as supplemental estimates those needs of the war department which were considered absolutely essential and which could not be in cluded within the limiting figure of 1312,932,309. The total of the reg ular estimates and the supplemental estimate has, however, been kept below the current appropriations. Economy Guiding Force. "The resulting figures have been submitted solely on the basis of al lowing the material plant of the army to run down temporarily, in tht- Interests of Immediate economy, with n full knowledge that this means a greater expense in future years to recover from accelerated deterioration. "Such policy could only be sup ported in the conviction of the ab solute necessity for immediate econ omy. The budget is submitted with this idea in mind and should be considered now and in the years to come in the light of these remarks. "Respectfully yours, (Signed) JOHN W. WEEKS." "My dear Mr. Secretary: I have had under advisement your letter of September 21, wherein you point out that budget requirements of the next fiscal year have occasioned the formulation, of the war depart ment estimate which cannot be Justified except by the absolute ne cessity for immediate economy. Army Sow at Minimum. "Although there, has been sbme Increase in the limiting sum since the date of your letter, I understand that there still must be a very ap preciable curtailment in the mJitary programme for next year. Disap pointing as such a course must be, I do not believe that we are Justified in exceeding the governmental re sources for -the coming year. Nev ertheless, there are limits inN reduc tion 'beyond which we cannot go even in the praiseworthy cause of economy, without destroying the ex cellent foundation now laid for our (Concluded aa Page 3, Column 4.) . Whether or. Not Bombardment Was Accidental Is Being In vestigated ' by General. CHICAGO, Oct 26. Lake Forest, the North shore home of many of Chicago's millionaires, was under shell fire yesterday, and today a young officer at Fort Sheridan was under a different sort of fire. Brigadier-General George V. H. Moseley, commandant at Fort Sheri dan, summoned a court of inquiry to investigate whether or not the sec ond lieutenant by accident or intent directed, the ibarrage from a 'one pounder that missed its, target Lake Michigan and shelled estates owned by Mrs.- Edith Rockefeller McCormlck, Cyrus H. McCormick j and Francis W. Farwell late yes terday. "I have suppressed the name of the second lieutenant who directed the 'bombardment,' as I don't want anybody to know that such a blun derbuss is on the muster roll of the army," General Mosley said. Four of the shells hit the Francis W. Farwell mansion. Others wrecked flowerbeds and scarred the lawns on the estates of Mrs. Mc Cormick and Cyrus H. McCormick. PERU ORDERED TO PAY Claim for Discovery of Guano De posits Is Settled. LONDON, Oct. 26. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The Peruvian gov ernment has been directed to pay $125,000 to the United States gov ernment by the international arbi tration commission, which has been sitting here to settle a long-standing dispute over guano deposits. The money will be paid to the United States on behalf of the heirs and assigns of John Celestine Landreau. The dispute originated over half a century ago and Involved claim against Peru by John Celestine Landreau, a naturalized American, who claimed compensation from Peru for the discovery of guano de posits in 1S59 and J875. POTATOES CENT POUND Carload Available at San Fran cisco With Few Buyers in Sight. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 26. Any one needing a carload of potatoes can back their truck right up to pier 26 or 27, here and take away the tubers for less than a cent a pound, aa there are approximately 75,000 sacks piled up on these piers with very few buyers in sight, com mission merchants announced today. The potatoes can be had for a cent a pound in less tha'.i carload lots. The potatoes wore sent on con signment tfi loer.l brokers from the delta regions of the state and the effort to find buyers has been dis couraging. If the potatoes are not disposed of In a week's time the only alternative is to destroy them. 132-FOOT FALL SURVIVED Climber Suffers Fractured Skull but Is Recovering. MARSHFIELD. Or., Oct. 26. (Special.) Fred Noah, 19, an expert high climber, with a careless swing of his supporting belt, threw it over the top of a fir tree which had been topped and fell 132 feet to the ground, striking in a sitting posture on the solid earth. Both pelvis bones were broken and he suffered a fractured skull, but he lost con sciousness only a moment. He is said to be recovering at Mercy hospital, North Bend. Actual measurement was made of the height of the tree from which Noah fell after a dispute arose over the distance of the plunge. DAVIS' SPEECH OPPOSED Labor Asks Secretary to Stay Out of Poindexter Campaign. SPOKANE, Wash., Oct. 26. Re quest that he cancel, his speaking dates In Washington on behalf of the candidacy for re-election of United States Senator Po'ndexter was sent to J. S. Davis, secretary of labor, by officers of the Spokane Central Labor council today, they announced, it was stated that a committee will wait on Secretary Davis on his arrival here tomorrow afternoon from Butte, and renew the request in person. The council officers took the position that Secretary Davis, who possesses a membership card of the Iron Moulders' union, should not support Senator Poindexter, whose candidacy the council is opposing. MT. TACOMA RULES AGAIN Mt. Rainier "Sticker Candidate" Expunged From Map. OLYMPIA, Wash., Oct. 26. (Spe cial.) "ML Tacoma" again is bla zoned on the state department of agriculture's official map of Wash ington. Director French returned yester day from a republican campaign speaking tour, saw the work of the Mount Rainier "sticker candidate" on his favorite map, and promptly ordered the sticker expunged from the tecord. Several applications of aloohol turned the trick and today "Mt Tacoma was returned to black type glory In the center of "Mt 'Rainier National Park." - Order Dissolving Present Body Is Signed. GENERAL ELECTION ORDERED Voters to Go to vembe1,5. NOMINATION AT HAND Andrew Bonar Law Opens Cam paign by Outlining ' Policy Which Appears Negative. , BY JOHN STEELE. .,- ... (Chicago Tribune Fnreii,n v.if. (Copyrigiht. 1922. by the Chicago Tribune!) LONDON, Oct. 26. King- George today held a privy council at Sand ringham, at which he sigAed a proc lamation dissolving parliament and calling the new parliament to meet November 20. Lord Salisbury, the new lord president of the council, was the only minister present, the quorum being supplied by members of the royal household, who are privy councillors. Election, day has been fixed for November 15, which Is Wednesday. It is expected the mid week poll instead of. Saturday will favor the conservatives by making it difficult for working men and business men to vote and easy for the women, for whom Saturday is always the busiest day. Nomina tions will be made November 4. Bonar Law Opens Campaign. Andrew Bonar Law opened his campaign formally today by isseing an address to the electors, in which he outlined his policy. That policy appears clearly negative, except for election economy and his announced intention of calling immediately a British empire economic conference in London to discuss the develop ment of trade within the empire. After declaring that what was most needed was tranquillity and free scope of private enterprise, he announced a change in the policy of handling foreign affairs The cabinet secretariat which Mr Lloyd George jhad organized to carry out his personal policies, already Has been abolished and its duties trans ferred to the foreign office. The work in connection with the league of nations, which was done by the secretariat, goes to the foreign of fice, and all arrangements for fu ture international conferences, even those attended bythe premier, also go to the foreign office. No Commitments Made. Mr. Bonar Law says he Intends loyally to fulfill all foreign obliga tions which have been undertaken, but he resolutely declined to extend any commitments. He hopes Lord Curzon will complete a lasting peace in the near east. "The maintenance of our friend ship and good understandipg with the United States," said Mr. Bonar (Concluded on Page 2, Column 2.) f lis on No- t( 77 ; Ty yj : T"7 . VER SIMPLE-- 1 How.-tw, i ' . - ; Vveu-SVFt' THUNDERS TrtE BUltfcN iTWAY GOING ' . ARourm mow to reduce Jpy S ONE SHOULfcE'Y; THE. - WJy' - ' c3 vtY Pearl Buttons Cut From Garment Worn by One ; Other Is Taken Into Brush. - Franklin '-high school wsw made safe for American trousers yester day, when direct actionists among the male students seized and "kluxed" two wearers of the dis tinctly Latin sartorian innovation, the "peon pants." Full particulars were missing in one case; The wearer of the offend ing garment was seized by a group of students, taken to a nearby1 clump of brush and the toreador' trousers forcibly removed. School rumor had it that the victim did not return home until after nightfall. The other attack on the Latin garment which is winning so many followers in flipperdom occurred in the school haljs. The wearer of the peon pants was set upon by a crowd of fellow students. The wearer of the alien garb backed into a corner, drew a pocket knife and prepared to defend, his5 picturesque pants. He was seized, disarmed, thrown on the floor, and the rows of pretty pearl buttons, which extended from the knees ' to the enormous bell bottoms of the trousers, were cut away with the pocket knife which had been taken from him. The but tons were distributed to students as souvenirs. Franklin stu'dents,have determined, according to gossip, that such flip pant dress will be verboten here after. Wearers will be punished by the simple expedient 'of removal, by force, of the offending garments. "Victims will be given their choice of hunting a barrel, a clump of brush or some dark corner until night descends and hide their shame. The Hi-Yia, a live wire club of Franklin students, will discuss the peon pants menace at its next meet ing and offer some form of adequate punishment. Jefferson High School's Anti-Peon Pants society, in a formal meeting last night, decreed that in the fu ture any student appearing at the school in the offending garb will re ceive notice to change back to plain American trousers, and on failing to obey, will be deprived, by force, of his lower garments. Overalls will be furnished the victim. Faculty members were said to be in sym pathy with the movement. ONION CROP '2100 TONS Lake Labish Harvest Sufficient to Load llreight Cars. SALEM, Or., Oct. 26. (Special.) Approximately 2100 tons of onions, sufficient "to load three freight trains of 47 cars each, were har vested this year by growers in the Lake Labish district, about nine miles north of Salem. The estimated value is placed by growers at $45, 000. The quality of the onions Is said to be exceptionally good. Most of the crop was dried and under cover before the first rains came. METEOR HEATS UP LAKE Hunters Report Large Number of Dead Fish Are Found. LAKE CITY. Mich., Oct. 26. A large meteor that fell last night into a small lake near here turned the lake water warm, according to hunt ers who witnessed the meteor's fall. The hunters said a large number of dead fish were found. WHERE'S THE ECONOMY IN THAT? Injunction Suit to Keep Name Off Ballot Sustained 'by Jury on Instructions of Judge. . - ' CORSICANA, Tex., Oct. 26. The Jury which heard the injunction suit to keen the name of Earle B. May field, democratic nominee' for United States senator, off the . November general ballot, tonight returned verdict against Mr. May field oh 12 of the 21 questions propounded by Judge Scarbrough. Judge Scarbrough had Instructed the Jury to bring in a verdict against Earle B. Mayfield. He took this action following the filing of a motion by plaintiff attorneys asking the Judge to instruct tne jury to give answers negative to Mayfieldin six of the 21 questions propounded by the Judge in his charge to the Jury. The temporary injunction re straining Secretary of State Staples from placing Mr. Mayfield's name on the ballot will remain in force until the case finally is disposed of by the state supreme court, where It is now on appeal, according to a statement made by Judge Scar brough when asked by the Associ ated Press what effect a verdict un favorable to Mayfield would have. . AUSTIN, Tex., Oct. 26. The attorney-general's department today filed in the state supreme court addition al authorities on the state's conten tion that the injunction suit at Cor sicana, which seeks to bar Earle B. Mayfield's name from the No vember ballot as democratic candi date for United States senator, is without warrant at law. The higher court, which yester day was asked to abate the Corsi oana proceedings, did not convene today as expected, but requested im mediate information from the state, and this was taken to indicate pos sibility of an early ruling. KNIFE RIPS PEDESTRIAN , Man With Weapon in Hand Is Struck Down by Auto. An open Jackknife carried inhis hand cost M. W. Strause, 647 Hood street, injuries twice as serious as those received by being knocked down by an automobile at East Sec ond and Belmont streets early last night. Strause was crossing Bel mont street wheii a machine driven by James Martin, 37 East Forty-seventh street, struck him. Motorcycle Patrolmen Forken and Finn, in making an investigation, found Strause's knife lying open on. the street The impact of "the car had resulted in a severe laceration of the forehead, but the knife is be lieved to be responsible for a gash on the throat and also perhaps for a broken Jaw. Strause is expected to live. DRY TURNS' BIT WET Suggestions for Modification of Present Law to Be Made. ST. LOUIS, Oct. 26. United States Senator Selden P. Spencer today is sued a statement saying that soon he would offer "suggestions" for the modifications of the dry law, declaring it "unnecessarily harsh" In some of its provisions. Mr. Spencer -voted for the Vol stead law. Big Lumber District Ex tends Warm Welcome. PROSPERITY IS OBSERVED Oyster:Growing Industry on Bay Is Unique. CITIES ARE HOSPITABLE Sonth Bend, Raymond, Dryad, Doty, Francis and Lebam Vis ited by Portland Party. RAYMOND, Wash., Oct. 26. (Spe cial.) Portland trade excursionists came down' to where the west ends today and found a welcome even warmer than where that hospitable region begins. South Bend, Ray mond, Dryad, Doty, Frances and Lebam extended the glad hand in royal fashion. The trippers came again within sound of saws eating j their way through giant logs. There aid u nuns vn v iiiaya ufti uvt ...... others were passed on the way In. Yesterday the country visited was farther from the forests. Its pros perity was more agricultural. Totiay the visitor ran the curious name of Pe Ell to its source. It has puzzled many a traveler. A railroader ex plained that when the Northern Pa cific line was building, engineers marked a stake with the letters "P. L.," meaning point of location, and unimaginative settlers adopted it for the town's christening. The party found a cousin of the Gould family, headed by the great Jay Gould, keeping store there. Lebam's Origin Interesting. . Lebam had a more human note in its naming. The town is a long way from the courts where ' Na poleon ruled, yet there was a cer tain kinship between an .early set tler at Lebam and the little cor poral, for history tells that Na poleon divorced Josephine when she failed to present him with a son. The- pioneer of Lebam' wished ar dently for a daughter, the legend runs. Sturdy sons he had in plenty, and finally, to his great Joy, a girl was born. The countryside rejoiced at his good fortune, and when the child was christened Mabel, the neighbors named the town Lebam, which is Mabel spelled backward. Nothing has interested the trade trippers more than visits to in dustries. In Olympia they inspected a - co-operative veneer factory of large proportions, where workmen own the store and share' the profits, the only hired man being the man ager. Failure was predicted for it, but it is apparently a success and is running 24 hours a day. Ready-Cuts Are Exported. A Tumwater ready-cut house factory ts shipping its product to far-away Spain , and another plant of the kind is sending homes to Japan. At Chehalis is one of seven co-operative plants of the United Dairy Association of Washington where butter is made on a large I scale, as well as cheese, and the skim milk left from butter-making is, powdered, forming the basis for malted milk. A steady, market has been found in Japan, where the frugal people mix the powder with water and use It for food. ,, Today the party found an unique industry at South Bend, where oys ter companies carry on salt water farming, planting spat brought from Long Island sound. New York, on 2000 acres of Wlllapa bay. The eed is brought in carloads, each holding 600 bushels and as a bushel holds as many as 1800 baby oysters, this is perhaps the biggest coloniza tion project the northwest knows. The tides cover and nourish the tiny bivalves, their only enemy being the starfish, until they reach maturity at three and four years, when they are marketed as Toke Points. . One may tell the age of the oyster by counting the rings on his shell. As temperature of Willapa harbor water is different from Long Island sound, the imported shellfish do not propagate here but new seed is sown every year. South Bend I Host. South Bend entertained the party with a luncheon at its commercial club home, a cozy place that cost $18,000 and is all paid for, Ben Kre mal, head of -the organization, pre siding, and Edward Connor, W. P. Cressy, and Dr. G. A. Tripp bidding the visitors welcome. For Portland, Tommy Luke was chairman, cordial responses being made by Marshall N. Dana, George H. Young, George Graysbn and D. G. Cruikshank. Raymond's live-wire business men's association gathered the trav elers into Its comfortable quarters tonight for a welcome and there were talks of a heartening nature In which mutual aims and good fel lowship mingled pleasantly. This section of Washington, always close to Portland in a trade way as well as by location, is much Interested in a first-class loop highway through the north beach section via Ilwaco and eastward to the Pacific high way, a development that will be of ' great benefit to Portland business. Attempt to Escape in Taxlcab Is Frustrated; Prisoner Con- . fesses Hold-Cp. Second and Oak streets was the scene of a fiery demonstration last night when Helen Burgoyne, 22, was apprehended in front of the central police station by Motorcycle Patrolman Hayes and Frank Mon toya, 21-year-old Filipino, whom she held up and robbed on Davis street, near' First. Immediately after the hold-up the girl leaped into a taxlcab. Montoya hailed a traffic police man, who happened to be nearby, and both gave pursuit. At Second and Oak, in full sight of a score of uniformed officers, the girl jumped from the ta'xicab, ran across Second street until Hayes caught her by the arm and then whirled and pushed a .32-caliber automatic pistol in his face. Before the officer had a chance to do anything the girl. collapsed and was carried into the station. In Captain 'Inskeep's office she recov ered from her fainting spell and her tears long enough to attempt to lay her hands on the Filipino, but was restrained by a dozen startled offi cers, and then lapsed . again into tears. Montoya told the officers that the girl, whom he met the night before, spoke to him on Davis street be tween Third and Fourth. They walked, he said, down Davis to First street, when she pulled a pistol and asked for his money, $6, which he Immediately handed over to her. The girl then ran, he said, to a taxicab and attempted to escape. Morfcoya met the motorcycle patrol man and the two set out after the taxicab, overhauling it at Second and Oak. The girl admitted holding him up, but declared .that an improper pro posal accompanied by an offer of a small sum Incited her to relieve the little fellow of all his money. Montoya is employed at 825 East Twenty-ninth street North. The girl said she was married, but would not tell where she lives. She was held on a charge of assault and robbery and being armed with a dangerous weapon. The . Filipino remained in custody as a material witness. The girl told Lieutenant Thatcher that she was a buckaroo from Bend. LONG SENTENCE WANTED Prisoner Who Got Only 90 Days Is Disappointed. TACOMA, V&sh., Oct. 26. F. F. Osgood, 45, who voluntarily sur rendered to the police and pleaded guilty to passing bad checks, today objected when Judge E. J. Hackett sentenced him to only 90 days in Jail. - "Aw, judge, can't you make it ten years?" he asked. Then he asked for two years. Osgood later explained that a long term In Jail would please him, be cause he is tired buffeting the hard ships imposed by "a cold, cruel world." INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Highest temperature, SS degrees; lowest, 52; rain. TODAY'S Occasional rain; southerly winds. Foreign. America wanted at place session. Page 3. New parliament called by King George. . Page 1. National. Army of 137,000 to be minimum. Page 1. Democrats spend 1100.000 in campaign. Page 2. Domestic. Erratio artillery fire htts millionaire's home. Page 1. Washington's beauty Impresses Doyle party. Page 8. Stillman makes rr.ove to re-opn divorce sase. Page 3. Earle B. Mayfield. democratic nominee for senate in Tens, loses place on ballot Page 1. Murder witness accuses rector's widow and her brother. Page 1. Wets gain upper hand lit New York. Page 2. , Pacific Northwest. Kelso bank cases called In Tacoma. I-age 4, New party formed in Pierce county. Page T. Governor defends highway commission's record.- Page 4. Wlllapaharbor greets tradesmen. Page 1. Sports. Twenty-two Idaho players start Oregon trip. Page 13. Hjelte will play center for Aggies. Page 14. Double J. romps away with Jeffs, 6 to 3. Page 15. Eleven of Chicago is mystery, team. Page 14. Commercial and Marine. Advance m refined sugar market Is re- rumed., Page 24. Nearly all classes of bonds under pres sure. Page 25. Columbia-Pacific company gets two more steamers. Page 12. Pressure lacking In grain market. Page 24. Method of supervising sale of rail bonds argued. Page 24. Reaction in stocks believed near end. Page 25. Portland and Vicinity. Colonel Bush, Andrew Gump's manager, admits his man will win. Page 17. Bend white slaver sentenced to three years. Page 26. Girl robber caught at Second and Oak, Page 1. Loss following rate rise claimed by phons company. Page 17. t,.' R. Kaylor. land operator, arrested on charges of treud. Page 18. I. W. W. emergency eaid to be passed. Page 7. Guards ' to watch Portland schoola Page IS. v. Student mob rips "toreador trousers" from one offender; takes other into brush. Page 1. Union Pacific to move to new quar ters. Page 10. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 18. Entrance of Milwaukee road Into Port land depends upon railway grouping. Page 13. Goddess - of health rules exposition. Page 18. Rector's Widow and Her Brother Accused. CLIMAX NEARS RAPIDLY Other Important Evidence Is Gathered. DEATH . FARM SEARCHED Witness Goes Over Ground Where She Said She Saw Pair on Murder Night. NEW BRUNSWICK. N. J.. Oct. 2. (By the Associated Press.) Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, widow of the slain rector of the Protestant Epis copal church of St. John the Evange-' list, and her brother, Henry Stevens. , have been named in the sworn state ment of "Mrs. Jane Gibson, self- styled eyewitness of the double slaying of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Rinehardt Mills on the night of September 14, last. This announcement was not made by the authorities, but became' known tonight through the Issuance of a statement by Mrs. Hall's at torney, Timothy N. Pfeiffer, denying the facts of Mrs. Gibson's account and declaring that neither the rec tor's widow nor her brother were on the Phillips farm on the night of the double slaying. One Maid Reported Out. "Mrs. Gibson'B statements are con trary to the facts," Mr. Pfeiffer said. "Mrs. Hall was in her home all evening. Barbara Tough, one of the maids was out that night and Louisa Geist, the other maid' was on the back stoop. There was no one else but a little 7-year-old niece In the house with Mrs. Hall. But there may have been one visitor. "Henry Stevens' identification as one of the quartet seen on the farm is also contrary to fact. Henry was at Lavallette, N. J., all that night." Mrs. Gibson, in her statement it was known, declared that she had seen four persons on the night of the murders under the crabapple tree, where two days later the bodies of the rector and the choir singer were found. y Murder Declared Seen. Mrs. Gibson also said in her state ment that she-heard the man, whom she alleged she saw fire a series of shots at the rector and the choir singer, addressed by his companion. . The cries of Mrs. Mills, which Mrs. Gibson aeclared "still ring in my ears at night," had hardly echoed, the woman farmer said, when the second woman in the quartet screamed In a terrified tone "Oh, Henry." No hint of wTien tne climax, cul minating in arrests, might be ex pected was given by Special Deputy Attorney-General A. Mott. " Other Evidence Is Held. Admitting the importance of the story told by Mrs. Gibson, he pro fessed to have other information on which he could act, independent of her affidavit. He' admitted that Mrs. Gibson's identification, generally speaking, would afford sufficient ground for an arrest. Sergeant Lang of the state police. State Detective Mason and a county detective visited the Phillips farm again today, going carefully over the ground mentioned in Mrs. Gib- . son's story. Mrs. Gibson, who retired from the thrills of a circus ring to raise pigs, introduced herself unobtrusively into the case when Clifford Hayes, a youth, was arrested. Story Told AuthoTitte. Keeping silence It ,is set forth, because of the financial Influence of persons whom her story would implicate, she nevertheless went to the authorities with her story when she found Hayes falsely accused. At that time, it was learned to day, she was brushed aside in the excitement ' of the arrest. When that trail proved a blind alley, someone remembered the "pig woman," as Mrs. Gibson is known throughout the countryside. Detectives went to her humble little home for the preservation of which she had been straining every nerve to meet mortgage engage ments. It was then reported that the authorities had located a woman who had Deen an eyewitness of the double murder, but it was not until Tuesday that her name became known.. Scene I Re-enacted. At that time it was learned that she had identified the woman with the murderer and had heard her cry out the murder's name. She had met the woman Some time ago at a rummage sale. She told newspapermen that she did not know the murderer at the time but that she since had met him again in the prosecutor's office and recognized him. It was learned today, that Sirs. Gibson had re-enacted for de- (Conciuded on Pag 3, Column X-i i