May Solve Mystery of Mrs. Mina Bissell
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Wife of Famous Scientist LOSTINWILDS Manchester HiAters Stnmhie On Skull In Remote Spot In Tells Little Inside Things Washington, Dec. 11.—(AP) — Wapping Between Avery Street and Ellington Road; George Otis Smith, of Maine, nomi OF NORTH, W O nated chairman of the power com To Woman Reporter. mission, testified before the Senate Find Recalls Disappearance of Wapping Woman In Interstate Commerce committee to By Lorena Hickok MENMSAVED day he had been on the side of the 1922; Remains Tally With Size of Missing Widow, power companies in a state fight New York, Dec. 11.—(AP.)—Pro over the export of power. fessor Albert Einstein may Ise the Shull Fracture May Indicate Violence. world’s- foremost mathematician, Search Cost Three Lives and He said he had advocated the ex but Frau Einstein keeps the bank port of power, not to aid the power companies but because he believed books balanced. One Member of Lost Party it best for the people of Maine. If he tried to do tnem himself, she ^ , An eight years old mystery may have been solved today with said today, he would get them all Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Mon mixed up. Dies of Starvation* Smoke finding ©f a skeleton by three Manchester hunters in Wap- tana, read a letter from Smith to The professor himself already had » pmg. The renjaihs are believed to be those of Mrs. Mina the Maine Public Utilities Commis admitted this fact to Hendrik Wil Bissell, who disappeared from her Wapping home on August sion in 1924 saying the people of Showed Pilot the Location. 14, 1922, ostensibly in the search of stray cows, and never re- Maine should be more friendly to lem van Loon, Dutch historian who the power companies. Smith said was a fellow passenger on the Bel- turaed. Foul play was feared but intensive investigation and genland which brought the Einsteins later votes had shown this opinion to White Horse, Y. widespread search only deepened the mystery. Mrs. Bissell be correct. to New York today on their way to T., Dec. 11.— California. Prof. Einstein thought (AP.) —Two men who wandered was 34 years old at the time of her disappearance and had made Questioned, Smith testified he it was a good joke. her home alone with her son, Walter Green. was in favor of regulation both by afoot two months in the frozen That of Woman ^---------------------------------------------- “BankDooks? Ach! He knows Yukon wilderness, the Federal government and the nothing of bankbooks,” said Frau have been sav- R. W. Belcher, first selectman for states of the transmission of power, ed by an airplane. the town of South Windsor, was the abouts of the woman were con whether generated from coal, oil, Einstein with an expression half cerned. amused and half dismayed. “To be Here is Albert Einstein, “the relativity man,” as he appears in the Informality of his study in Berlin. His Bob Marten of Wrangell, Alaska, first official notified that the skele or water. ton bad. been fmmd. After a close Clothing Found sure, I must handle the bank profile is shown (left) as he turns to explain a point, and at right the sweater-clad scientist is in his easy prospector, and Emil Kading, air The Only success the searching He opposed government operation books!” chair. plane mechanic, yesterday were examination, it was his. opinion that of power projects and contended the skull resembled that of a wom parties encoimtered was the finding Calls Him Professor brought to White Horse from the (t several articles of clothing said, to that state regulations of public To strangers Frau Einstein al wilds where their pilot E. J. A. an and he thought it was highly utilities has been successful, possible that the discovery will lead have been worn by Mrs. Bissell Her ways refers to her distinguished Burke, died of exposure after their led and olue bathrobe was foimd at fir st to be Questioned husband as “The Professor,” but plane became disabled. to at least partial solving of the Bissell disappearance which has one point in the woods. At another Smith was the first of the five when she speaks to him directly or Prof, Einstein in an Interview Their rescue was effected by place about a mile and a half way men nominated for the tariff com discusses him with her friends, he is been wrapped in a shroud of mys Everett Wasson, pilot, and Joe tery for eight long years. near the edge of a swamp the mission to be questioned. “Papa.” Walsh, a prospector, who sighted searphers came across a pair of Senator Wheeler read into the The thing her fellow passengers Think Skull Fractured stockings hanging on a tree. One record an excerpt from a letter writ Jests With a Hundred Reporters their signal fire last Saturday. They Selectman Belcher rad R. E. Car and those who met the Belgenland were forty miles from their plana. shoe and a cane were fotmd at still ten by Smith in 1924 to the Maine today noticed most about Frau Ein ney, of The Herald, SsCld that the another point. Public Utilities Commission ad By Howard W. Blakeslee Burke and his companions left Liard skull showed evld^ce ' of having stein was her protective attitude to- sor Einstein said. “Through your •T ^'flrst question," he went on, Post October 11 to fly back to At- Scantfly Clad vocatlng the export of power from been fractured, the bone being It was pointed out at the time New York, Dec. 11.—(AP.)—Dr. free government you have put lib “alwasrs is-fia everybody here ?’ and lin, B. C., after delivering some the state of Maine. (Continaed On Page 2.) cracked from a point above the that Mrs. Bissell often acted queerly One said Smith thought the people Albert Einstein, father of a scientific erty above the power of any tyran tlfe answer always is ‘yes.’ That is sluice boxes. ny.” right eye socket up over the top■ of - to the extent ot wandering off In the of Maine were unfriendly to the theory so complex that few human the question and answer now.” Marten and Kading said they flew the skull. If such is proved to be the woods by herself. When she was power company. beings can understand it, landed to- Many Reporters He evidenced his “relativity com into a snowstorm and turned back, case, it is possible that her death last seen, she was wearing only “Was not that a fight between the ,day in J.he United States and gave A hunored reporters and camera plex,” however, a few minutes later hoping to reach Wolfe Lake, but may have been caused by foul play. shoe. Judging from the clothing small interests and a group of the SURPLUS WHEAT to the American people by radio a men met the scientist when the Bel when he drew a German friend aside were forced to land on the Liard Medical Examiner H. J. Onder- found, it seemed probable that *ie citizens who wmited to keep the simple forceful message pleading genland reached Quarantine this from the phalanx of cameramen and River, The pontoons of the plane donk of East Haxtferd has been ^uld not have been clad in much . power in Maine?” Wheeler asked. for an end to militarism. morning. He jested with them in his whispered, “I do not see them. I feel struck a rock and were damaged. called in on the case and was con but her underwear and it was feared “It was regarded as a fight be F O R O m HUNGRY From the drawing room of the native tongue and caused many a like I am on top of a high mountain They camped near the spot for six ducting an investigation Iste this ttat death wojild result from-expos- tween the power interests of a cer- liner Belgenland he spoke in iSer- phQtq^aphff^ t^m iw a good nai^^g aj^ I do AOt look down.” days, then set out for Wolfe aftempon. y ure during toe cold nights if she titn group of dtizens,” Smith re shot mciki|(g thef gicttire . - his gray hair standing on foot ,At HUi time of Mrs. Bissell’a dis- were not found. plied. “I had no interests with the “Kill monster of ’ militarisin. laugh just as he was about to take tnr'exkl ^ aH (firectlonsi smll^tf only StgkteiT tiieYteoo swo. W^ter Green, T ^ a n t ? central power interests except I Your political and economic position a picture wt)eU he apoks. The rest of the time Wasson and.;,Walsh who were was arrie9t«d with tiSe ^One of toe first ideas expressed at believed a large inter-connected unit Senate Appomts Committee today is such that you can entirely SufTounded by a reportorial mul case on charge of to ani toe Ume was that toe pieces of could benefit the state,” Smith said.