OCR text: “Does the general public desire a merger of the local street car com panies?’’ “What measures should be included in a bill to be recommended to Con gress to bring about such a merger?” These two questions will be pro pounded by the Public Utilities Com mission
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OCR text: Gorsline Denies He Told Detective Henry Stevens Fired at His Feet Night of Murder, By the Associated Press. SOMERVILLE, N. J., November 2. —The State’s chief witness for the trial of the Hall-Mills murder case, which opens tomorrow, was under heavy guard today. Another witness had disappeared. Mrs. Jane Gibson, at first was re ported yesterday to have disappeared, hut Inspector John Underwood, chief assistant to Special Prosecutor Alex ander Simpson in investigating the case, explains that she was removed from her home and placed under guard. Mrs.
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OCR text: MANY FRIENDS VISIT THEM AT RESIDENCE Police Sergeant, on Duty in Neigh borhood 25 Years, Extends Real Welcome. NORTHAMPTON, Mass., No vember 2 OP). -The special train beating the President and Mrs. Coolidge left Northampton on the return journey to Washington just before noon. Only a brief stop was scheduled at Springfield. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Staff Correspondent of The Star. NORTHAMPTON, Mass., Novem i her 2. —Just as millions of other men and women throughout the Nation are doing today. President and Mrs.
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OCR text: BY JOHN GUNTHER. ' By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. LONDON, November 2.—ln municiI pal elections held in 300 towns and boroughs throughout England Mon day, the labor victory already Is as i suming the proportions of a landslide. Apparently totally out of sympathy i with the government's efforts to end i the coal strike, town after town de feated the Conservative candidates .and returned Laborites.
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OCR text: Four States —Indiana, Ohio. Mas sachusetts and New York —received most of the votes cast by mail from the District of Columbia, it was esti mated today by local headquarters of the Republican and Democratic < parties. Although headquarters officials of the two
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OCR text: Italian Heir Planned to Head Mis sion—lleana Engagement Not Confirmed. By tin* Associated Press. BUCHAREST, Rumania, November 2. —Crown Prince Humbert, instead of the Duke of Spoleto, was to have headed the Italian mission arriving here tomorrow, the newspaper Adeverul says, in commenting on the rumor of the coming engagement of Humbert and Princess Ileana. Hum bert was obliged to forego the trip, it i adds, because of ill health.
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OCR text: Washington is due for a dose of freezing weather tonight, accord ing to Forecaster Charles L. Mitch ell of the Weather Bureau. “There’s not much news in that,” the weather expert declared. Such things are to be expected right along now. And, besides, we’ve had a couple of freezes already this year." Rapid meteorological changes are taking place in this section of the country, he added, and as a result Washington may experience several kinds of weather before long.
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OCR text: By the Assoc a ted Pres*. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE S SPE CIAL TRAIN, NEAR WILMING TON, Del., November 2. —President Coolidge's special train, on which he and Mrs. Coolidge are traveling to Massachusetts to vote, hit an automobile at Aberdeen, Md., cross ing at 12:42 a.m. today, demolish ing the automobile, but the occu pants escaped uninjured. They were Pvts. \V. J. Held and M. Irving, 11. S.
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OCR text: Jumps From Sixteenth Floor, Two Weeks After Death of , Her Husband. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 2.—Mrs. I Elizabeth Clark Rogers, 52 years old, |of Brookline, Mass., was instantly I killed today when she jumped or fell t from a window of the sixteenth floor of the Hotel Commodore, where she ■ had been staying since Sunday, Mrs. Rogers’ husband, Dr. Isaac L. i Rogers, a physician, died of pneu monia about two weeks ago. Mrs.
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OCR text: Police stopped searching for 12-year-old Catherine Mowlin, missing from her home, 1228 Twelfth St., N. W., since yes terday, when it was learned she married Charles E. Martin, 31 years old, in Cumberland, Md., last night.
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OCR text: tin United Press BEREA, Ky., Nov. 2. —Three chil dren were burned to rieath in a kero sene oil blast her’e. The dead are Nelllie Harrison, 12; Susan, 17 months, and Ella Lake, grandchild of the Harrison, seven months. Three other children escaped as the result of disobeying the mother of the Harrrison children, who or dered'them indoors, while she was visiting a neighbor.
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OCR text: Hu ( nited Press CANTON, Ohio, Nov. 2. —The Don R Mellett murder mystery was nearer solution today thin at any time since the publisher’s assassina tion, according to C. B, McClintock, Stark County prosecutor. A definite link has been PestablisheU, he believes, between Nadel, Cleveland bootlegger brought here, and Louis Mazer, Ben Rudner and Patrick McDermott, the trio awaiting trial on first degree murder chaPfees.
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OCR text: The Time* will flrsh election returns upon screen across Maryland St. from The Times Bldg, this evening. Bulletin service will start shortly after 6 o'clock—as soon as the returns begin to come In. Extra editions of The Times will he published as esrly and as
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OCR text: STOCKHOLM. Nov. 2.—Royalty of Scandnavia, Belgium, Great Britain and Italy were represented here to day by four kings and others of princely and queenly rank to attend the wedding Thursday of Princess Astrid, niece of the King of Sweden, to Leopold. Duke of Rrabant. eldest son of the King and Queen of Bel gians and heir to the Belgian throne. The Kings are of Sweden, the Bel gians, Norway and Denmark. Thursday’s civil ceremony will not be sufficient''to complete the union of Astrid and Leopold to the satis faction of all concerned.
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OCR text: Probably the oldest woman voter* in the city today was Mrs Minerva Morris. 338 N. Colorado Ave. Mrs. Morris who will be 100 years old in January lives with her daughter, Mrs. L. B. Me Leod, who announced that nor mother would vote the Repub lican ticket. , “You see, my father was Re publican,” said Mrs. McLeod,’* and Although he has been dead a number of years, I think mother still feels the Influence of his political views and votes accordingly.
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OCR text: With clear and cool pre vailing throughout Indiana today, between 1,000,000 and 1,250,000 1100 sier voters were expected to go to the polls in the biennial congres sional election. County officials were being elected throughout the State. Interest in the United States Sen ator race was high. Peters Enthusiastic reports from Demo cratic worker in all sections of the State were announced by R. Earl Peters, Democratic State chairman. He was enthusiastic in his forecast of a complete Democratic victory.
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OCR text: • day. , N Although the MartcVn County grand jury is not in session today because of the election. Prosecutor William H. Remy announced that he and his staff of prosecutors will work on the probe of charges of Indiana political corruption during the time when D.*C. Stephenson was in power. ftemy said there were several de tails of tiye quiz that can be looked into, alfhough\the probe body is not The grand jury will reconvene Wednesday morning. Four Witnesses Four witnesses were before the grand jury Monday. They were.
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OCR text: Somerville. SOMERVILLE. N. J.. Nov. 2. The celebrated Hail-Mills murder case at last was ready for trial to day. . Four years and eighteen days af ter the pastor of the Episcopal Church of St. John the Divine In New Brunswick was found slain with his choir singer at the scene of their illicit love meeting, the State was prepared to ask justice for the al leged slayers. The prosecution will attempt to prove that the outraged mdatives of the slips tor murdered the lovers to end the disgrace that their open af fair was bringing on the family.
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OCR text: PARIS, Nov. 2. —Col. De Port, in ventor of the famous French 75 field piece with which German drives dur ing the war repeatedly were stopped, died at Hougato. He frequently had been referred to as “the man who won the war.”
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OCR text: United Press Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON, Nov. 1—A cabinet shakeup this winter is expected by persons close to President Coolidge. Unless present signs fail, the two major cabinet chairs, state and treasury, will become vacant. Secretary Mellon, financial mon itor of the administration, is tired and is known to want to resign. Sec retary of State Kellogg has power ful enemies and only a waning strength within the Republican par ty.
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OCR text: By Vnlted Press: INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 1.—Repub lican and Democratic campaign or ganizations in Indiana today con centrated their efforts toward get ting out a large vote at the polls in the Congressional election tomo'r row. From state headquarters of both parties here instructions went out to district and county organizations to get out the vote early. The actual campaign was closed Saturday night with a final burst of oratory and politieal rallies in many centers. I Between 1,000,000 and 51,250,000 votes are expected to be cast tomor row.
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OCR text: INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 1.—Five more names today had been added to Indiana’s growing list of auto casualties as a result of accidents over the week-end. Many were in jured throughout the state. Mrs. Louise Mahoney, 27, Gary, and Mrs. Gertrude Leonard, 45, East Chicago, were killed a^id Leonard Carney, 18, and Robert Carney, 57, both of Gary, were seriously Injured when the car in which they were riding was struck by a Wabash pas senger train at East Chicago.
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OCR text: WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—The way was opened for a climax In one of the famous suits involving lease of government oil reserves Monday when Justice Hoehling of the dis trict of Columbia Supreme court ordered that trial of Former Secre tary of the Interior Albert B. Fall and Edwin L. Doheny, oil magnate, for charges of criminal conspiracy in the Elk Hills case, begin here on Nov. 22. Justice Hoehling fixed arraign ment of the two prinlcpals in the sensational case for Nov. 10, in the District Supreme court.
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OCR text: Total Total Vote at Vote at Total Regia. Regia. 3 p. m. 3p. m. Vote Ist ward lit Pet. Wm. Moore achool... 410 444 190 200 330 Ist ward 2nd Pet Little Garage 323 334 176 152 291 2nd ward let Pet. WUI School - 379 465 201 206 325 2nd ward 2nd Pet. Swimming Pool 474 . 529 175 184 271 3rd ward lat ret. High school 508 548 211 210 410 3rd ward 2nd Pet. / Richholt achool 472 547 181 184 372 4th ward Sixth St. pool hall ... 418 504 137 170 329 sth ward Soo hotel 373 623 160 160 854 6th ward Ist Pet. City hall Sit 374 170 180 267 6th ward 2nd Pet. St.
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OCR text: AS DID FAMOUS HAMON CASE 1 Fort Worth, Tex., Nov. 2—Memory of southwestern folk travels back ito the Clara Smith Hamon murder trial in Ardmqre, Oklahoma, as Rev. J. Frank Norris, famous “fighting pas tor" of the great First Baptist Church here, faces district court on the charge he slew D. E. Chipps, wealthy . Fort Worth lumberman.
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Front pages that day led with: “TRACTION MERGER HEARINGCALLED”; “STAR WITNESS KEPT GUARDED ON EVE GF HALL-MILLS TRIAL”; “Missing Girt, 12, Weds Divorced Man, 31”; “THREE CHILDREN • BiNTO DEATH”; “MELLETTDEATH NEAR SOLUTION?”; “WASHINGTON LOOKS FOR UPHEAVAL OF COOLIDGE CABINET”. Each story above is quoted from the original page.
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