Newspaper from Saturday, October 30, 1926

OCR text: By the Associated Press. QUEEN MARIE'S TRAIN, EN ROUTE TO WINNIPEG, October 30. —The United States again will take up the role of host to Queen Marie and other members of the Rumanian i royal party tomorrow, to keep it throughout the remainder of the con i tinental tour except for a few hours . which will be spent in Vancouver November 5. Winnipeg, the party’s destination since If left Ottawa Thursday mid night, will be reached tonight, and St. Paul, the next American stop, will be reached Sunday afternoon.

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OCR text: A delay in the settlement of the tangle arising out of the question able legal status of the Washington Rapid Transit Co. seemed probable today with an announcement by En gineer Commissioner J. Franklin Bell, chairman of the Public Utili ties Commission. that Congress would be called upon at its forth coming session to unscramble the sit uation.

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OCR text: tion of Insuli—Presidential Hopes Before People Tuesday. By th«i Associated Press. The groat American drama, "Pol itics of 3 926," hurried today to ward its climax, with actors through cut the country concentrating their last-minute efforts upon snaring the elusive vote in the last act —Tuesday’s election, which will decide the comple tion of the Seventieth Congress.

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OCR text: A final conference and review’ of the police investigation into the death of Detective Sergt. Arthur 13. Schrivener on the morning of October 13 was , held in the office of Inspector Henry G. Pratt, chief of detectives, today. Investigators, with Deputy Coroner Rogers and Assistant Superintendent of Police Charles Evans attending, analyzed in detail the data and in formation uncovered during the probe. Capt. H. L.

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OCR text: President Coolidge today Issued a proclamation setting apart Thursday, November 25, as a day of general thanksgiving and prayer. His proc lamation in full follows: "As a Nation and as individuals we have passed another 12 months in the flavor of the Almighty. He has smiled upon our fields and they have brought forth plentifully; business has pros pered, industries have flourished, and labor haa been well employed. While sections of our country have been visited by disaster, we have been spared any great national calamity or pestilential visitation.

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OCR text: Written Exclusively for The Star and Other Members of the North American Newspaper Alliance. THE HOME OF WASHINGTON, At Mount Vernon, the committee of ladies who had come from their several States to show me over the dwelling of the one whose name lives in the heart of his country and whose fame Is treasured to the world at large, led me from room to room, explaining every detail and showing me all the mementoes which have been carefully collected, so as to reconstruct Washington’s dwelling exactly as it had been during his life.

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OCR text: llinols, Missouri and other States, while prohibition referendums were ordered in New Y’ork, Missouri, AYls consln, Colorado, Montana, Illinois. Nevada and California. Coolidge and prosperity formed the rallying cry of the Republican political organizations, with the campaign com mittees filing occasional broadsides at the opposition on what was charac terized as Democratic extravagance during and immediately after the war.

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OCR text: By the Annotated Press. BRUSSELS, Belgium, October 30. Floods, resulting from the heavy rains of the past few days, are menacing every part of Belgium and have already caused devastation in the .Charleroi region, necessitating the stoppage of many industries. The authorities of Liege fear a repe tition of the disaster of last Winter, in which the city suffered heavily, with more than 15,000 houses flooded. The Belgian floods of last Janu ary were the worst experienced in the country since 1740.

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OCR text: Husband of State Chair Singer (Copyright, 1»M, Famous Features Syndicate. Inc-> . I wonder now whether my married life with a lively* ro mantic .girl, like my wife, wasn’t doomed right from the start to unhappiness and disappointment! Of.course, when we fell in

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OCR text: Six hours after reports were received that a probe would be conducted of narcotic con ditions at Walter Reed Hos pital, Private Clyde Lyle, 24 years, of the medical service, went to bis home, kissed his wife, and drank a vial of poison.' He died a few min utes

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OCR text: ■■■ a—*..*■ awtfi a DETECTIVES HAVE just run down in New York a trunk belonging to Kenneth G. Ormiston, the radio oper* a tor of Aimee Semple McPherson’s temple, with whom it is alleged she was living during the period of her supposed captivity in Mexico. It is

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OCR text: By International Nowa Service PARIS, Oct. 30.—Talking fatigue* women lee* than it doee men, and that i» why NO HECK- / \ loh« \ 't / woman are more chatty, accord ing to a Dutch ccientiet reaiding here. The edentiet atatea that the greater the length of the vocal corda, the more energy required to produce sound, and male vocal corda are longer than thoae of the female. CHICAGO, Oct.

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OCR text: AN APPEAL FOR SUPPORT for the Girl Scout nrganlzaiitott throughout the United States was broadcast over the radio last Bight by Miss Evelina Gleaves. lIHS Briinoiit Rd. N. W., the local scout director, in connection with the celebration of Girl Scout

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OCR text: Hu United Preen MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.. Oct. 30— Frank Lloyd Wright, international ly known architect, was held to the Federal grand Jury today on a charge of violating the Mann act. Bond of $5,000, which Wright was required to give after his arrest, was not changed H(T United States Com missioner Howard S. Abbott, and the architect was released pending hear ing later for himself and Mme. Olga Mllanoff on a conspiracy charge. Witnesses summoned by the Gov ernment. testified that Wright and Mme.

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OCR text: Four of Them. WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—Eight States will have referendums on pro hibition Tuesday, in connection with the congressional election. * Referendums to repeal State pro hibition enforcement laws will h# staged in Colorado, California, Mon tana and Missouri. A prorf>sal to legalize 2:75, per cent beer rs up In Wisconsin. A plan to chtinge the definition of intoxicating liquor in the Volstead act is at stake in New York and Illinois.

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OCR text: Strikes Workman. I Crashing against a scaffold, a 900pound stone today caused serious In jury to Pearl McCord, 38. of 308 N. New Jersey St., a.nd resulted in the collapse of a derrick which was be ing used in an attempt to set the stone in the entrance to the addition to School No. 9. Davidson and Ver mont Sts. McCord. Harry Wilson. 30., Pine St. and English Ave.. and Thomas I Mattingly. 50. of 19 X. Oriental St., were on the scaffold as the derrick swung the stone preparatory to its being placed by the three.

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OCR text: at Frolic and Dance. Merrymakers will throng the Ex position building, at State fair ground tonight at the close of the second Indianapolis Radio Exposi tion. A record attendance is expected Halloween frolic and dancing until midnight will feature the climax of the show. Dealers will keep their exhibits open until midnight, and ex pect to sell a record number of radio cabinets and accessories. Prizes for masked persons attend ing the (felehration tonight have been offered by the management. Many are expected to arrive at the show after other parties.

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OCR text: Shaft. WILKESBARRE, Pa., Oct. SO A terrific explosion of gas today In stantly snuffed out the 11/cs of nine men and wrought destruction and great damage in No. 94 tunnel of No. 7 colliery of the Susquehanna Collieries Compuny at Nanticoke, near here. Four of the victims are members of one family.

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OCR text: —Questioned. Three men and a woman, arrested in Atlanta. Qa., Monday, in connec tion with the $31,000 hold-up of the West Indianapolis branch of the Union Trust Company, today were lodged in city prison here. They are under indictment on charges of lianditry and grand larceny. The four, guarded by detectives in charge of Inspector Claude Wor ley, were sneaked into Indianapo lis in an automobile after they had been removed from the train ate Shelbyville. Police Chief Claude F. Johnson met the party and helped escort 6iem into the city.

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OCR text: Life Boats. Bu United Press HALIFAX. N. S.. Oct. 30.—With six persons aboard and high seas hammering her, the Canadian steam er Torhamvan was on the rocks off Ferryland. on the Newfoundland const, early today. Twenty-five per sons. including some passengers, had reached shore safely in lifeboats. The Torhamvan, bound from St. Johns. Newfoundland, for Halifax, ran on the rocks In a dense fog FYi day night.

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OCR text: Threatened Mellett. Bu United Pres* CANTON. Ohio, Oct. 30.—Pat McDermott, elusive key-man in the Don R. Mellett murder investigation today was identified as the man who threatened the life of the Canton was shot down for His activities against the underworld. Six former friends and relatives established the identification. C. B. MeClintock. county prosecutor said in repeating his threat that tnless Pat makes r, belated confession he will be brought to trial immediately on the first degree murder indict ments. Mrs. Lloyd Mellett.

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OCR text: SAJN FRANCISCO, Oct. 29.—Re ligious fanatics are blamed by po lice for the third mysterious bomb ing of the Church of St.’s Peter and Paul, a new and Imposing structure in the Italian quarter of San (Fran cisco. Following two similar dynamitlngs this year, a bomb was exploded In the church Friday. Placed at the church entrance the dynamite tore down two 18 foot oak doors, blasted a hole through to the basement and shattered marble slabs of the vesti bule. None of the six priests sleeping in the building was Injured.

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OCR text: Statements of Funds Collected. BY PAUL R. MALLON. Staff Correspondent The United Press WASHINGTON—NationaI organ izations of the Republican and Democratic parties have spent near ly $714,000 on the campaign for con trol of congress. Statements of money raised which will be used liefore the final bills are met, follow: Republican. National committee $244,068 Congressional committee .... 200.150 Senatorial committee 95,088 Total $539,30G Democrats. National committee $ 35,138 Congressional committee ....

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