Newspaper from Friday, October 22, 1926

OCR text: Over “Slush” Issue. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. I Special Dispatch to The Star. PITTSBURGH. Pa., October 22. Leaders of western Pennsylvania forces opposed to the Vare candidacy for the United States Senate are in possession of facts indicating that > Republican hopes of victory are far less real than pretended. The facts • seem to disclose, on the contrary, a I state of alarm in the G. O. P. high command. They reveal that Vare's hSckers apparently consider his defeat so dangerous a possibility that arrangements are in progress to avert it at all costs.

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OCR text: American Newspaper Alliance. SOTE: The following is the second of a series of articles rcrittm personally hy i)ueen Marie on the subject of her visit to Atnerica. These articles will be published in Washington exclusively in The Star. , | Subsequent articles will give her impressions of America.

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OCR text: By tne Associated Press. NEW YORK. October 22.—Six bandits early today lined up 40 guests in the Biarritz, a night club on West Fifty-fourth street, and robbed them of cash and jewelry estimated at 51,500. One of the bandits stood guard at the door with an automatic rifle while his companions collect ed the valuables. He fired a shot into the ceiling before running to the street with the others to escape in a taxicab. One of the girl entertainers of the club was knocked unconscious when she became faint and stag gered out of the line-up.

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OCR text: Extent of Loss in Provinces Dis tant From Havana Unknown. 6.500 Homeless. By the Associated Pres? HAVANA, October 22.—Belated ad vices reaching Havana today indicated that more than 650 persons perished at various places in the provinces of Havana, Matanzas, Santa Clara and Pinar del Rio in the hurricane which struck the island Wednesday morn ing. Ten municipalities were wiped out and 6.500 persons were rendered home less. It is thought the material dam age will reach nearly $100,000,000.

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OCR text: Crops in Interior Badly Damaged, Business Menaced. Is Report. BALBOA. Panama. October 22 (VP) Recent violent storms have seriously I damaged crops in the interior of the i country. Rivers are out of their banks and communication is interrupted. The towns of Lav

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OCR text: Punishment for Federal employes In Washington who fail to vote in future national and State elections was a form of political reprisal advocated consin at a Republican rally last nieht at the New Willard Hotel. The Wisconsin Senator, recently de feated for renomination, suggested a policy of demerging any eligible voter I in the Government service who neg lects to exercise his right of fran chise. Demerits for vote “slackers.” he declared, should be mad? to show , on the official rating of offending employe.

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OCR text: With the view of obtaining a site including arid adjoining Hoover Field, at the south end of Highway Bridge, for a temporary municipal airport, un til the projected airdome below Gravelly Point is available for use in about five years, the airport commit tee of the District Chapter. National Aeronautic Association, called on Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d. executive officer of the National Capital Park and Planning Commisinn, today to urge his co-operation in its plans. Col.

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OCR text: BUT DAMAGE IS SLIGHT Temblors Felt 950 Miles South of Metropolis—Oakland. San Jose and Stockton Hit. the Pre.a, SAX FRANCISCO, October 22. Three violent earthquakes rocked the central coast counties of California this morning just an hour apart. Th® first shock was at 4.36 a.m. and lasted about 20 seconds. The second was a -5:36 a m. and was much sharper, but lasted only about la seconds. The third, a lighter on®, came at 6.42. No injuries and no serious damage had he®n reported.

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OCR text: By International News Service SXN FRANCISCO, Oct. 22.—A •urv’ey with the coming of day light revealed minor damage in the downtown district of this city as a result of the earthquakes early to day. Plaster was cracked and fell to the floor in the Ferry building. Plate glass on the west side of the Palace Hotel was broken. The Lincoln Hotel, a lower Mar ket Street building, appeared slight ly out of line. Oakland reported that the clocks In the towers of the Oakland City Hal] stopped at 5:33.

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OCR text: NEW YORK. Oct 22. Cable ad vices from London to Paul Specht, the band leader, today brought the the story of a new deportation of an American subject as a result of the British labor law which preven’s American musicians from working in England longer than for three months. Al Payne, an American musican, went ,to Europe more than a year ago to visit. In England he married and his wife now has a young child. Mr. Specht in England last sum ♦ mer needed a musician and hired Payne. Up to that time. Payne's Status in England had been that of a visitor.

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OCR text: Republican leaders were accused today by Senator Peter G. Gerry of Rhode Island, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Committee of having created the “Coolidge prosperity" slogan by the Coue theory of repeating the same thing day by day until “it will be believed by many.” Gerry assailed Secretary Hoover for claiming that prosperity was partly due to the Cabinet, w'hich included former Attorney General Daugherty and former Secretary of the Interior Fall.

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OCR text: Rv W. K. HUTCHINSON METHODIST HOSPITAL IN DIANAPOLIS, Oct. 22.—The Senate slush fund investigation of Indiana Senatorial race reached to the hos pital bedside of Senator James Watson (R.) of Indiana today. Propped up 4n bed, his face pale and drawn, Watson denied charges that he had bartered politically with the Ku Klux Klan. His denial was made to Senator James A. Reed <D > of Missouri, SENATOR JAMES E. WATSON who brought his “one-man" slush inquiry here from Chicago to hear Watson.

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OCR text: Four tnen were injured and a score of persons miraculously avert ed injured at 7:15 o’clock this morn ing, when a bus of the Washington Railway. and Electric Company col lided with a loaded truck in a dense fog on the Bladensburg Road at South Dakota Avenue. The injured men were rushed to Casualty Hospital, where two men each had nine stitches taken in their faces. They are Howard Pool, 17, East Riverdale, Md v and Pat Adley, 50, 109 Twentieth St. N. W. The other two were treated for bruised legs and lacerations about the face.

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OCR text: The District Commissioners and most of the high officials of the District government spent another day before the Budget Bureau today preparing the District budget esti mates.

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OCR text: BULLETIN Bn United Press NEW \ORK. Oct. 22.—The weather bureau reported a tropica’ storm moving toward Bermuda today. The disturbance was about 100 miles -vest of the island. The storm will continue in a northeasterly course, caus ing shifting gales near tlie North Atlantic steamer routes, (Saturday or Sunday. HAVANA. Oct. 22.—Officials at the Presidential palace estimated 250 persons were killed in Cuba In Wednesday's hurricane and that property damage had amounted to approximately $30,000,000. Accurate statistics were still un available, however.

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OCR text: thi ted Press •SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 22.—San an cisco and cities within an area 150 miles to the south were eked by three distinct earthquakes is morning. Reports of damage to the bus!- css section of San Francisco com ig In a short time after the third ernblor indicated this city was the "nly one to suffer materially from the shocks. The damage here was slight. Windows were broken in tlie Palace Hotel, the Emporium Depart ment Store and other business houses here.

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OCR text: End Illicit Traffic to United States. /?* United Press HAVANA, Cuba, Oct. 22.—Rum and immigrant smuggling from Cuban ports lias become a precar ious occupation since the ratification of the rum and smuggling treaties between the United States and Cuba. Under the terms of the treaty Cflba is to use her police force to help pre vent illegal departure of vessels car tying immigrants and liquor.

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OCR text: ISu Timm Socvial 1 FRANKLIN, lnd., Oct. 22.—The jury deliberating; the case of Ralph Lee, Indianapolis, charged with mur dering Abner Peek, Indianapolis gro cer in a hold-up, was still out at 10a. m. today. The jury received case late Thursday afternoon and deliberated until 10 p. m. when they retired to a hotel. Deliberation was resumed this morning.

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OCR text: Senatoy James E. "Watson, giving his testimony from his room at the Methodist hospital, today denied that he had ever had any deals with Klan lead ers, and explained the friend

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OCR text: Persons who have been evading service of subpoenas to appear be fore the Mariqn County grand jury in its probe of corruption in Indiana politics while D. C. Stephenson was in power face indictment for evad ing legal processes, Deputy Prose cutor John L. Niblack announced today. # The grand jury is tired of waiting for persons to appear whom they know have been notified that they are wanted, Niblack said. lie mentioned particularly, Goorge S. Elliott, former Marion Comity Klan cyclops and his partner, Har vey Bedford, former traffic inspector.

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OCR text: Senator Arthur R. Robinson today told Senator James A. Reed that he did not know “of my own knowledge” who the Ku-Klux Klan is supporting in tlie present campaign. The phrase, * “of my own know ledge,” was added by Robinson to a standardized reply, "I don't know,” he made to nil questions Reed asked him concerning the Klan. Robinson was questioned by Senator Reed, who came to Indian apolis to continue Iris investigation of Indiana politics begun in Chi cago, Monday.

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OCR text: U. S. Prepares New Communication Over I.a nd and T)il Laws. Bn United Press WASHINGTON. Oct. 22.—The State department is preparing a note to the Mexican government, protest ing alleged retroatlve and confisca tory provisions of tlie Mexican land and oil laws, which is sharper in tone than previous communications. No reference is made to the MexicanCatholic dispute. Though President Coolldge is hold ing out against a belligerent atti tude toward Mexico, the <*iew note will make concessions to the firmer policy advocated by American Am bassador James R.

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OCR text: WASHINGTON', Oct. 21. — The government has'filed suit in the fed eral court at Boston against the American Bosch Magneto Co., and former government officials, seeking return of nearly $6,000,000 which It claims is due from fraudulent sale and seizure of the Bosch Magneto Co., during the war by the alien property custodian. Among the 22 defendants named in the suit, which results from a lengthy investigation by the depart ment of justice, are A. Mitchell Pal mer, former alien property custo dian, Francis P.

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OCR text: ALGOXIA, Oct. 21— Members of the Hope Methodist church of Algonia were considering legal ac tion against state game wardens church banquet and the seizure of the food—pheasants. The officers entered in the midst of the feast and after seiz ing the fowls threatened to arrest the Rev. Allen Wood, pastor. Under the Iowa state law the sale of pheasants is prohibited Mr. Allen declared that they had been donated by farmers and the county attorney had given his consent for the banquet.

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OCR text: United News Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—Repub lican candidates are to get help from the administration after all. President Coolidge and his advisors have decided to issue an American manifesto, defending the Republi can protective tariff doctrine as the administration’s official comment on the manifesto of the international bankers. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon discussed the tentative contents of this impending utterance with the President Thursday.

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OCR text: as Magruder, of the Philadelphia navy yard. A, Vacant Chair The party passed into the dining room without Nicholas and the queen sat down in the middle table. Mayor Kendrick sat on her left and on his left sat Princess Ileana. Mrs. Ken drick sat at the right of Marie. On her right was a vacant chair. A murmer of subdued speculation arose in the lobby and it was heightened by the hasty entrance of a page tvho whispered to Col. Vincent A. Carroll, causing Colonel Carroll to beg permission to leave the table. He hastened to the elevator.

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OCR text: ATLANTIC CITY, Oct. 21— Beer is illegal under the Volstead act, but when it is ordered and delivered it must be paid for. Joseph Tindaro of Atlantic City hailed into court, did i>ot deny that he received from Joseph Martino 35 barrels of beer, but he sought to avoid paying for the beer on the ground that the illegality of the goods made the transaction Illegit imate.

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OCR text: OSSINING, N. Y., Oct. 21—The flag over Sing Sing prison has been lowered to half mast as a tribute to the prison’s former warden, Thomas "Mott Osborne, •who died suddenly early Thursday. It was Osborne who first instituted reforms at Sing Sing, which led to such criticism that he finally resign ed. Prisoners sent floral tributes to the home of the dead prison reform er at Auburn, N.

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OCR text: By O. A. ROSEXHACEB (I. X. S. Staff Correspondent) MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 21.—Frank Lloyd Wright, famous Chicago ar chitect and internationally known, for whom Wisconsin authorities have been conducting a search that ex tended all over the United States, into Canada and Mexico, was in the county jail here today awaiting the arrival of Baraboo, (Wis.) officers who will return Wright to that city fo fane various charges lodged against him by Wisconsin courts.

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OCR text: When Debs left Woodstock jail he carried in his pocket a testi monial from the inmates, as fol lows “We. the undersigned, inmates of Woodstock jail, desire to convey to yon our heartfelt thanks and grati tude for the many acts of kind ness and sympathy shown to us by you during your incarceration in this institution. “We selfishly regret your depar ture from here into the outer world and scenes of labor.

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OCR text: Bl WILLIAM H. HENRI National Executive Secretary. The death of Debs is an in ternational event. Hundreds are mourning their incomi)arable loss. Millions are in tears of gratitude for a life-time of heroic defense of the lowly. The fair visions, the daunt less courage, the lofty cour age, the lofty ideals, the unconquerable devotion of their fallen leader, have been a steady inspiration for half a century to hosts of men and women who toiled in all lands.

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