Newspaper from Wednesday, October 20, 1926

OCR text: Planned to Quit Year Ago. But Remained Until Fight in Con gress Over Local Government and Feiining Was Finally Clear ed Up. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Cuno M. Rudolph, rounding out 1m third term as District Commissioner and now the chairman of the Board of Commissioners, has asked Presi dent Coolidgc to relieve him of his duties and to accept his resignation.

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OCR text: Schools to Be Closed in Miami. Prisoners Released From Jail. Key West in Path. Bx the Associated Press. HAVANA, Cuba, October 20. — Havana was struck by the West In dian hurricane early today, the wind velocity reaching from 120 to 130 miles an hour. The streets were flooded and littered with debris of all kinds. The storm left Cuba headed northeast and it was indicated that the storm was traveling at about 10 miles an hour toward Key West. It was believed that it will take about eight hours for the storm to get to Key West.

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OCR text: The City of Calcutta, modern ark, bringing more than 1,000 wild animals from East Africa to the WashI ington Zoo, will reach Boston some time Sunday, a day ahead of her scheduled time. This news was contained in a radio message to the Smithsonian today i sent from Midatlantic by Dr. William I M. Mann, superintendent of the Zoo, who was in charge of the Smithson ian-Chrysler expedition to the Tan ganyika. province, a veritable Eden of wild creatures. Dr.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. BON DON, October 20.—The im perial conference began its first busi ness session this morning at No. 10 Downing street with a frank discus sion of foreign affairs —so frank, in fact, that it was held in camera. Sir Austen Chamberlain, the for eign secretary, was to make an ex haustive review which, it was under stood, would be in part a defense of the Bocarno treaty to which some of the dominion delegates are opposed. Will Be Kept Secret.

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OCR text: By the Associated Frees. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Oc tober 20. —Steps have been taken to exhume the body of Mrs. Eleanor It. Mills, buried here, chiefly that In vestigators may view again the choir singer's slashed throat. There was also a prospect today that the body of Dr. Edward Wheeler Hall, who was slain with Mrs. Mills, would be removed a second time from a Brooklyn grave in the renewed search for evidence. Dr.

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OCR text: Administration. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. TOPEKA, Ivans., October 20. —-No signs of revolt against the Republican party are discernible in Kansas, and if there is a little coolness toward the administration because of its opposi tion to the McNary-Haugen farm re lief bill, by many degrees it lacks the proportions of a revolt. Indeed, Kansas apparently pre sents another political paradox in a year which is full of them.

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OCR text: By the Associated I’resa. PEORIA, 111., October 20.—Per simmons laid a trail that led to a jail cell for Andrew Bentley, 21vear-old negro, arrested at Canton, 111., as th>* attacker of numerous women. Brought to Peoria be cause of fear of threats of lynching at Canton, Bentley was said by the police to have confessed assaulting seven women and to have admit ted the slaying of Oliver Wysong, 81, husband of one of the victims. The persimmon trail started at the home of Mrs. H. G. Hirschley, wife of a physician, where there Ms a persimmon tree.

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OCR text: Is “Disappointed”—Amundsen Glad People Are “Sensible.” By Radio to The Star and Chicago Daily News. OSLO, Norway, October 20.—Pro hibition’s spreading defeat astonishes all circles. Premier Lykke expresses himself ns “very satisfied.” “The Storting will be presented a bill abolishing prohibition. Now all citizens, knowing their responsibility, must unite to fight the illegal liquor trade.” the premier said. “That is i not the least result.

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OCR text: Cuno 11. Rudolph, president of the Board of District Com missioners, today tendered his resignation to President Cool idge. The President accepted the resignation, to take ‘ effect at his pleasure. He requested that the Commissioner hold his post for the present. The resigna tion probably will not become effective until the President has been able to find a suitable successor.

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OCR text: ‘Under no circumstances” will Emma Goldman, now Mrs. James Colton, a British subject, be pct mitted to re-enter the United States, it was announced by the Bureau of Immigration today. Mrs. Colton landed in Montreal yesterday. She was deported seven years ago on charges that she advocated the overthrow of the U. S. Government by force. After spending several years in Russia, she went to England and there married a Scottish miner. Two Veterinarians Killed MONTREAL, Oct. 20.—Two vet erinary surgeohs, Dr. Honorius Aubry and Dr. E. M.

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OCR text: By International News Service BELGRADE, Oct. 20.—Miss Mary Landon Baker, of Chicago, whose romances have interested the world ever since she kept Alister McCor mick, of Chicago, waiting at the church, has again disappointed a waiting world. Miss Baker returned to Belgrade today after an absence of several days, only to deny reports that she had eloped with M. Puritch, former Serbian consul general in Chicago. The return of Miss Baker to Bel grade was a solitary one, but sho had hardly settled at her hotel before M.

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OCR text: By International News Service CHICAGO, Oct. 20. “Barely alive.” This was the bulletin which came from the sick room of Eugene V. Debs, Socialist leader, at the Lind lahr Sanitarium shortly after 9:30 a. m. today. Debs, the bulletin said, had not re gained consciousness. His tempera ture at that time was 100.5 and at tending physicians declared the aged man could not possibly survive the day. Watching at his bedside are his wife, Mrs. Katherine Debs, and two sisters, Mrs. C. O. Mail loux, of New York, and Mrs. John Heinl, of Terre Haute, Ind.

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OCR text: By International News Service NEW BRUNSWICK. N. J., Oct. 20. —r. John L. Suyden, Middlesex county physician, announced today that he can not consider exhum ation of the body of Mrs. Eleanor Mille without a court order. Special Prosecutor Alexander (Continued on

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OCR text: By JEAN ELIOT Democratic forms, typical of America, contrasted with the ceremonials of courts last evening when the President and Mrs. Coolidge entertained Her Majesty the Queen of Rumania.

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OCR text: By JOHN B. HERFORD Berlin Correspondent oF the London Statist, Foremost Financial Paper in Europe. Written Expremly For Universal Service (Copyright, 192®, by. Universal Service) BERLIN, Oct. 20.—The following statement by Thomas W. Lamont, now the most active of J. P. Morgan & Co.’s partners in international finance, has been received here by eminent German financiers by cable. Its great importance is that it indicates the plans fully of the international bankers as to war debt settlements.

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OCR text: Queen Marie of Rumania said farewell to Washington today, after a stay of less than 40 hours. She took her leave somewhat regretfully, but not without a word •of praise for the hospitality of the Capital City and for the loveliness of the surrounding countryside.

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OCR text: Headed by Miss Cora Steele, Terre Haute, chairman of the executive \ committee, the vanguard of teach ers from throughout the State began arriving here today to attend the seventy-third annual meeting sis the Indiana State Teachers' Associa tion. Sectional meetings will begin Thursday morning and the first general session is to be held at Cadle Tabernacle, Thursday night. The meeting will continue throughout Friday and Saturday. Many of the first teachers to arrive spent this afternoon in visit ing the Indianapolis public schools.

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OCR text: Reduction of one cent in Marion County’s 30-cent tax levy was made today by the State board of tax com missioners. The cut was accom plished by a one-half-cent reduction in the gravel road repair fund and one-quarter-cent each in the bond fund and general fund. Setting of the rate at 29 cents followed hearing on a complaint against the levy by the Indiana Tax payers’ League. With this reduction the tax rate will be 3 cents lower than the pres ent rate of 32 cents.

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OCR text: Bn United Press CHICAGO. Oct. 20. Senatoi James A. Reed, chairman of the Sen ate campaign fund committee, today ordered an investigation of the poli tics in the State of Washington. On receipt of a telegram from Sam uel R. Summer, chairman of the*Re publican State central committee of Washington State, Reed announced that he would wire Senator McNary of Oregon, who Is In Portland, ask Ing him to hold the Washington In vestlgation in Portland.

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OCR text: Stays in Hotel So “Peaches” Papers Can’t Be Served. Bn United Press NEW YORK. Oct. 20.—Attorneys for Mrs .Edward W. Browning found difficulty today in serving notice of the suit for separation by “Peaches’ "on her wealthy husband. The real estate man remained in a Newark <N. J.) hotel and showed no intention of coming out of retire ment.

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OCR text: Bu United Press MONTGOMERY, Ala., Oct. 20. Frank XV. Browder, 84, wealthy -retired cotton dealer, was killed today when an unidentified air-, plane swung from the skies and the propeller struck him as he walked along the road. The airplane swung back into the s

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OCR text: . Hurrying to the bedside of his father, believed near death at his home, twelve miles south of Green field, Albert Brooks, 45, of 2705 W. Washington St„ drove his car over the curb into a brick post to avert a collision at E. Washington St. and Kenyon Ave. today. , v - Brooks was cut and bruised. His wife, Maude, suffered body bruires, and his sister. Miss Hattie Brocks, 30, of 1108 College Ave., sustained a fractured right hip and seyere cuts and bruises. She was taken to city hospital. A machine in front of Brooks, driven by Harry Nolenf*"f!i6 N.

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OCR text: General. Editor Thomas H. Adams’ request that Senator James E. Watson urge a Federal investigation of alleged corruption \n Indiana politics has been turned over to the office of At torney General John G. Sargent by Watson, the Senator Informed Adams In a letter this morning.

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OCR text: Mystery woman, said to be im portant witness, .appears before grand jury. ' Miss Margaret Reynolds, former stenographer of Stephenson, ques tioned by grand jury. Deputy Prosecutors XV. H. Sheaffer and John L. Niblack, re turn from southern Indiana trip without trace of L. G. Julian, for mer associate of Stephenson, supposed to know whereabouts of missing documents. Another mystery woman held the center of the stage today in the Marion Courtly grand jury investiga tion of charges of political corrup tion in Indiana while D. C. Stephen son was in power.

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OCR text: PARENT IS GIVEN ' LOGANSPORT, Ind., Oct. 19 — Mrs. Sarah Cohee, 53, was under sentence here today in Circuit court upon conviction on charges of cruelty to her 15-year-old stepson, John Cohee. la' addition to the 30 day Jail sentence she was assessed a fine of $50 and costs. The sentence In Circuit court affirmed a City court sentence imposed three weeks ago which Mrs. Cohee appealed. She entred a plea of not guilty in Circuit court after the appeal from the low er court.

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OCR text: WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Oct. ID.— “Peaches” Heenan Browning has won the first point In a race between the girl bridg and her midle aged realtor husband, Edward W. Brown ing for a separation. The girl]s moth er has been substituted fCr^ N. Otis Rockwood, of Poughkeepsie, as Peaches’s guardian. The order was signed here today by Supreme Court Justice Joseph Morschauser, upon petition of attor neys for Mrs. Browning. “I am satisfied that the Infant's interests will be protected by the the substitution.

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