Newspaper from Wednesday, October 27, 1926

OCR text: Difficulty of Pointing Weapon at Side From Distance Puts New Aspect on Case. Test made under the supervision of Coroner J. Ramsey Nevitt on the dock at the rear of the District Morgue today indicated that the pistol from which a bullet was fired into the heart of Detective Sergt. Arthur B. Scrivener early on the morning of Wednesday, October 13, was held a distance of approximately 10 inches from the body. This finding is only tentative, ac cording to Dr. Joseph D. Rogers, deputy coroner, In whose hands the post-mortem examination was placed.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, October 27.—Inves tigation of senatorial elections in three States centered at Portland, Oreg., to day, where Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon was to inquire into charges of excessive expenditures, while she inquiry at St. Louis into the Ku Klux Klan phase of the Indiana situation stood adjourned until tomorrow, when additional witnesses were to testify before Senator James A. Reed, Demo crat, Missouri, chairman of the Senate campaign funds committee.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, October 27—The St. Louis Post-Dispatch today says Wil liam F. Zumbrunn of Washington, general counsel for the Ku Klux Klan, has resigned as chief counsel for Fed eral Judge George W. English of the eastern Illinois district in his Impeach ment trial before the Senate opening November 10. E. C. Kramer of East St. Louis, member of the counsel for Judge Eng lish, said the withdrawal of Zumbrunn would “not affect the case one way or another” and, so far as he knew, the jurist would be ready to go to trial on the date set.

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OCR text: i By the Associated Press. WILMINGTON, N. C., October 27. —The Wilmington News Dispatch in i a story published here today says that conspiracy indictments against a number of persons will be sought at the November term of United States District Court here as A result of alleged disappearance of whisky im pounded when the rum ship Elma • was seized off this port several months ago.

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OCR text: The dependence of the United States Navy and the American merchant marine upon each other was empha sized today by Secretary Wilbur of the Navy in an address delivered at ceremonies on the east side of the Navy Building in observance of Navy day. Flanked by a company of Marines, the Marine Band from Quantico and scores of naval officers on duty in Washington, all in the gold-laced, col orful uniforms of their different ranks, the setting for the occasion was pic turesque.

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OCR text: Commission Gives Partial Satis faction to XT. S. View on Budgets. By the Associated Press. PARIS, October 27.—International surveillance of armaments and manu factures of war material is admissible, the League of Nations mixed com mission decided today after lengthy sittings in Paris. The commission was appointed to discuss the economic phases of the dis armament question, referred to it by the preparatory commission for the general disarmament conference.

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OCR text: Bv the Assoeiatad Press. CONSTANTINOPLE, October 27. Soviet officials here today re ceived reports from Erivan stating that more than 5,000 persons were killed or injured in the recent earth quake in Armenia. The villages of Alachkep, Yenibayazide and Dtch miazine were destroyed.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. LONDON. Octol>er 27. David Lloyd George has taken to design ing his own hats. He likes a hat with individuality. There was no hatmaker in London who could frame a hat to suit him. So he took the matter in his own hands. Now he has a perfect fit, with a bright blue soft hat. designed to stand out in 'contrast with his abundant gray looks. Even before he began having his hats made to special order, a Lloyd George tilt made an ordinary hat appear altogether different than it would on another head.

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OCR text: By International News Service FALMOUTH, Mass., Oct. 26.—Fire ,of unknown origin restroyed the home of Albert H. Washburn, Am be—a dor to Austria, today causing damage estimated at 1200,000. Ambassador Washburn’s 82-year oid father is in a critical condition from suffocation.- He was carried through the smoke-filled halls of tho mansion by Charles B. Fisher, • Caretaker. Roused from their beds by the cries of the caretaker and other employes. Ambassador Washburn and other occupants narrowly es oaped being trapped. Mrs.

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OCR text: James Francis Milla, husband of the pretty choir singer whose mutilated body was found beside that of her lover, the Rev. Edward W. Hall, four years ago outside of New Brunswick, N. J., tells his whole story for the first time. A drab,' quiet, hard-working man, he admits that life with him must have been far from exciting for his pretty romance-starved wife.

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OCR text: VIOLET GIBSON THE COURTS OF ROME will try the Hon. Violet Gibson, on charges of attempting the assassi nation of Premier Mussolini last spring, according to announce t meat by the pubic prosecutor.

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OCR text: Importance of an American mer chant marine was brought home to day to inland Indianapolis in a Navy Day, address by Rear Admiral John Halligan Jr., before the Kiwanis Club at its weekly luncheon at the Clay pool. “Our inland territory produces a large proportion of the world's food and indust-ial products,” Halligan declared. "We can and do produce much more than our people can use. We must either dispose of the sur plus in foreign markets or restrict our output.” He urged the im portance of an adequate merchant marine to the end.

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OCR text: Safety. * Bv United Press h’laiuOb, lad., Oct. 27. —Richard. 6 months, and Phyliss Jane. 18 months, child!en of Mr. and Mrs. 1 Richard Lakey, were burned to death today in a fire which destroyed the home of their iKirents. Two other children. Margaret, 6, and Caroline Lee, 8, were burned se verely, but were dragged fror.i the blazing home by their mother. They will recover. The cause of the fire was un known. Mrs. Lakey was at the home of a neighbor when alarmed by shouts from neighbors who discov ered the fire.

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OCR text: dered in Home. Bv United Press TOLEDO, Oct. 27. —Toledo citizens were amiing'themselves today to aid in the search for a maniac ‘‘slugger’’ following the second slaying of a woman within twenty-fqur hours. A “slugger” is believed responsible for the deaths of four women and the beating of seven others within a yea r. Mrs. Mary Aiden, 47, was found shot and/beaten to death in her home Tuesday night. The scene of the latest crime was near where the body of Miss Lily Croy, 26 years old, a school tehcher, was found early Tuesday.

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OCR text: Conferences Held. Completion of plans for the merger of the Merchants Heat and Light Company and the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company appeared near this afternoon when representa tives of the two companies conferred with the public service commission. At the conference were Carl Mote, attorney representing Samuel Insull, Chicago utility “czar," who controls the Merchants company, and Nor man A. Perry, president Indianapolis Light and Heat Company, and his attorney, Charles N. Thompson. Mote so conferred the com mission this morning.

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OCR text: Who Arrested Her. Bv United Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 27.—A romance that began six months ago when he is said to have arrestdd her on a traffic violation charge ended in the marriage of Traffic Officer Sidney C. Holder and Mrs. W. F. Aldrich, widow of ex-Congress man Aldrich and said to be one of the wealthiest women in Alabama Eluding friends, the couple went directly from the home of the Rev. J. A. Bryan, who performed the ceremony, to the terminal station and boarded a waiting train for New York on which a drawing room had already been reserved.

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OCR text: Rejects Plan to Make St. I/nils largest City. ST. LOUIS. Mo., Oct. 27 Merger of St. Louis with St. Louis County was overwhelmingly defeated by voters in the county, although the project was favored seven to one in the city. Had the proposition been adopted, it

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OCR text: Police Probe Conditions at Ft. Dm Moines. > Bv United Press I?ES MOINES, lowa, Oct. 27. Barrtfck “love nests" at Ft. Des Moines were under the searchlight of police investigation today follow ing stories by two minor girls that the military reservation was fre quently used for “wild parties.” Two soldiers were held by police as a result of the charges of the ( two girls that they had attended all night parties in the barracks and at a house near the fort. SNAP IS BROKEN Waslrngton Says Higher Tempera tures on Way. Bv United Press WASHINGTON; Oct.

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OCR text: Bv Times Special LOGANSPORT, Ind., Oct. 27.—P0 lice today were Investigating the mysterious shooting of Mrs. Goldie Huggins, 42, believed to be recov ering in Cass County Hospital. Tuesday afternoon Glenn DePoy, 26, and his sister, Gladys, 22, at tempted to persuade their father, Harry DePoy, 50, to break off an alleged clandestine love affair with Mrs. Huggins. The children and the father went to the woman's apart ment. According to the children, DePoy refused to break off with Mrs.

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