Newspaper from Friday, October 29, 1926

OCR text: G 0. P. Candidate Retracts Such Inference—Sees Victory in Tuesday’s Election. Correspondent of The Star. NEW YORK, October 29.—Milk, not booze, is the btg talk in the hot test gubernatorial campaign New 1 nrk has witnessed for a number of years. The Empire State just has to be wet one way or another. Following a Republican State con vention. which left the G. O. P. shrouded in gloom, amid tales of all kinds of defection on the part of dry Republicans, Representative Ogden Mills, the party's nominee for gover nor, launched his milk attack against Gov.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. s PHOENIX, Ariz., October 29.—In vestigation of senatorial election ex penditures in Western States shifted to Arizona today, with Senator W. H. King, Democrat, Utah, who has been designated to conduct the in quiry, planning to hear the first wit nesses immediately following his ar rival here late Saturday night.

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OCR text: Heart, But Facilities Are Needed, Chairman Explains. Strong Indications that the 'Public Utilities Commission may relent to some extent in its official relations with the Washington Rapid Transit Co., despite its previously avowed policy of shunning the carrier until its now questionable legal status is satisfactorily clarified, came today as the latest development in Washing ton’s public utility mix tip. Engineer Commissioner J.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. ABOARD QUERN MARIE'S SPE CIAL, TRAIN. EN ROUTE TO WINNIPEG. October 29. Queen Marie of Rumania celebrated her i fifty-first birthday today on her spe l oial train, bound from Ottawa, for Winnipeg, in restful association with her children. Princess Ileana and Prince Nicolas. The train is due in Winnipeg tomorrow night.

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OCR text: Bleeding from a gash in his throat received in an automobile crash at Randolph street and North Capitol, Francis Sheridan, 20 of 1805 North Capitol street, ran five blocks to Sib ley Hospital this afternoon and died on the operating table. Sheridan was injured when the car in which he was riding with Police man R. H. Knapp, 25, of 338 F street ■ northeast, w’as struck by a Wardman Park taxicab, driven by Charles A. Ross, 23, of 1323 Columbia road. Knapp was bruised. A woman In the taxi also was hurt.

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OCR text: Walter Reed Hospital authorities have recommended the discharge of a private serving as orderly in one of the wards who was found to have taken a small amount of narcotics and sold it. Disclosure of limited activities of this one man followed the suspicions of hospital officials that some one had reached the huge supply of narcotic drugs which is locked in a heavy safe there. The investigation was made by two agents from the narcotics squad of the Treasury Department who made a re port to Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lincoln C. Andrews.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. PIERRE. S. Dak., October 29. It will cost Judge N. D. Burch, newly appointed member of the South Dakota Supreme Court, $3,600 a year to occupy a place on the bench. Judge Burch, up to the time of the recent resignation of Judge C. H. Dillon, had been serving as Su preme Court commissioner at a salary fixed by the legislature at $6,000 a year.

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OCR text: By the Associated Pres*. BOSTON, October 29.—'“AP,” the designation that daily identifies thou sands of newspaper stories as Asso ciated Press matter, has been appro priated by the Army to typify another sort of speed. The new set of authorized abbrevi ations for the Army gives "AP” for airplane. “AS” for air service has been discarded in favor of “AC” for air corps. But “AWOL” will continue to be “absent without leave,” while “MP” still will designate the military cop who relentlessly pursues the luckless “AWOL.” Four Waive Extradition. ATLANTA.

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OCR text: By International News Service LOS ANGELES, Oct. 29. The sensational Aimee Semple McPherson case was blown wide open again here today. On the very day her attorneys rested their case, after the preliminary hearing of the evangelist, her mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, and Mrs. Lor raine Wiseman-Sielaff, all charged with conspiracy to manufacture false evidence, had dragged through ’ five weeks, the State exploded a bombshell by announcing that Kenneth G. Ormiston’s trunk had been discovered in New York.

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OCR text: The fight of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company to prevent the Public. Utilities Commis sion from reopening rate hearings •nd enforcing its order for reduc tions advanced to a new stage in District Supreme Court. Counsel for the company and for the utilities commission presented •Tyuments to Chief Justice Walter L McCoy. Arguments were on the amended motion of the Public Utilities Com mission, recently filed with the court. This would lift the.

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OCR text: DETROIT, Oct. 29.—One bandit was killed, one was wounded, a policeman was shot in the stomach, and a citizen was wounded In the leg during an attempted holdup of the Bank of Detroit. 7461 Michigan Ave., shortly before noon today. From 20 to 30 shots were fired. Three bandits took part in the holdup. One of them escaped. The dead man has not been identified. No loot was obtained. Asks Air Cops PHILADELPHIA, Oct.

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OCR text: By International News Service ABOARD QUEEN MARIE’S SPE CIAL TRAIN. Oct. 29.—King Fer dinand, of Rumania, in a message to her majesty, Queen Marie, on the occasion of her birthday, today definitely set at rest reports that he was suffering from ill health. “Marie: I send you loving birth day wishes and greetings from the royal palace, which Is white with snow,” the cablegram read.

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OCR text: Husband of Slain Choir Singer (Copyright. l»t«. Fmmmm Featam Syndicate, Inc.) The Rev, Edward Wheeler Hall came to New Brunswick in 1911, succeeding the Rev. Dutton Dale as pastor of St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church. Shortly after he came here he married Frances Noel Stevens. We all liked Mr. Hall. I always thought he was a splendid man.

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OCR text: By International News Service BORDEAUX, Franco, Oct. 29. Nineteen Jiff erent vintagee of wine were oerved at a bangact given here fok a group of newo* C'.'W M— l—'"—» ' . . [SHMI whir paper men visiting the wine growing region. Fourteen of the wines were red and five were white. By International News Service SANTIAGO, Chile, Oct. 29. After hearing the claims of an inventor that he had perfected a poisonous gas capable of vs> r -.

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OCR text: r Treasury, has requested Col. L. G. Nutt, of the narcotic di vision, for an investigation of reports that narcotics are being “illegally” used in Raed Hospital. H. Keith Weeks, assistant to General Andrews, said to day that Col. Ntftt had re ported that information had some to-him of illegal‘use of narcotics in the hospital. Gen eral Andrews in turn asked for more complete information. '9 Probe Is Secret Colonel Nutt would not disclose today any of the results of his Investigation, pending his report to.

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OCR text: Fire on Three. Bu United Press N DETROIT, Oct. 29.—A guard perched in a concealed cage and two passing patrolmen frustrated a hold up of a branch of the Bank of De trolt today. One bandit was killed Three bandits, one armed with a sawed-off shotgun, entered the bsnk while a fourth remained in an auto The guard opened fire, (Privirig them to the sidewalk, where they met Patrolmen Frank Dom becky and William Gadde, who had been summoned by a newsbby.

OCR text from The Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, page 1. See the original page. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.

OCR text: Recalls Deeds of Former • Mayor. Tribute to the forty year* of ac tive citizenship of Charles A. Book waiter. twice mayor an<% civic lead er, yvas paid by the Rev. O. W. Flfer, Central Avenue M. E. Church pas tor, this afternoon at funeral serv ices at the residence, 3650 WashingBurial was in Crown Hill cemetery. "For forty year* Mr. Bookwalter had been one of the foremost of dis tinguished and useful citizensHe is one of the products of this State, which has made it great *nd so en viable," said Dr. Fifer.

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OCR text: With the transcript of evidence in the appeal of D. C. Stephenson's murder case on file with the clerk of the State Supreme Court, at torneys for the ex-Klan dragon will seek to have him released on bail, it was learned today. Thomas Miller of Muncle, who was in Indianapolis Thursday, said he was planning a request for ball for *ls client. Miller did pot state definitely what .his course of action would be. According to Prosecutor William H. Remy, Stephenson cannot be ad mitted to ball at this time.

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OCR text: Bv United Press ABOARD QUEEN MARIE’S SPECIAL . TRAIN IN CANADA. Oct. 29.—Just as any other thought ful husband. King Ferdinand of Roumania today cabled felicitations to Queen Marie on her fifty-first birthday. ■* The birthday greeting follows: i "Send you loving birthday wishes and greetings from Slania. which is white wiih snow Have had some days perfect rest. Feeling so well, that I am going down town Sunday. We are all extremely interested in the news from your journey and I am utterly pleased at your success. I hope your cold is gone.

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OCR text: “Not giving out any Information." That was the laconic response from Room 360. Methodist Hospital, when an Indianapolis Times reporter called there today to ascertain ’the condition of Mrs. Vivian T. Wheat craft. Republican State vice chair man; who hn remained in that roorp since Wednesday night. Mr. Wheatcraft came' from St. Louis, where, according to relatives and her physician, she was unable because of illness to testify before Senator James A.

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OCR text: Bu Unit'd Press MARRAKECH. Morocco. Oct. 29-—The sultan of Morocco was jubilant after his wedding and that of his three sons and a daughter yesterday, He,rode joyously on his bicy cle into the palace grounds and announced an offer of anew costume to any of his slaves who desired to marry immedi ately.

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OCR text: Out of the mass of ten days of testimony in Senator James A. Reed’s inquiry into Indiana politics, ended Thursday evening at St. Louis, today stood one bit of testimony as the most startling of all the startling evidence introduced: This was the testimony of William M. Rogers, former employe of the city building department and former Ku-Klux Klan organizer, that Sena tor James E.

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OCR text: M Bert Thurman, appointee of Senator James E. Watson to the post of Indiana collector of Internal reve nue. today made public a statement by Ra.ph K. Kane on Senator James A. Reed's investigation of Indiana politics. Kane is assisting Prosecutor Wil liam H. Remy In the grand jury in vestigation of charges of political corruption In Indiana, while D. C. Stephenson was in power Kane’s statement: “I have read the testimony Intro duced before Senator Reed's commit tee. as published in the newspapers.

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OCR text: layor A. P. Lenhart will welcome the queen in behalf of the city. Mrs. Sortie and Mrs. Lenhart will also be in the party which greets the queen. Major Harold Sorenson and a guard of honor from the Bismarck company of the National Guard will attend the governor. Major Sorenson will serve us udjutant general and aide in the absence of Adjutant Gen eral G. A.

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