Newspaper from Thursday, November 4, 1926

OCR text: Question of Procedure for Extra Session of Upper Body Wed nesday Not Settled. Federal Judge George W. English of eastern Illinois resigned today in the face of impending impeachment proceedings. Announcement of the resignation, which was accepted, was made at the White House almost simultaneous!} with a call by the House members ap pointed to prosecute him for a meet ing to arrange plans for .his trial be fore the Senate on November 10. Impeachment of the jurist, who war appointed to office by President Wii son. was voted on April 1.

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OCR text: Finds Itself in Improved Strategic Position MV G. GOI'LD LINCOLN. Nominal Republican control of the Benate in the {seventieth Congress is fissured by an eyelash margin. Final returns show that there will be 4S Republican Senators. 47 Democratic fmi i Farmer-Labor member. Even f-hould Senator Shipstead, FarmerLabor Senator from Minnesota, vote \vith the Democrats on organization— which he is not expected to do —Vice 3’resident Dawes would cast the de ciding vote for the Republicans.

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OCR text: 435 in House and 70 of v 96 in Senate. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Although there was a much more intense fight than usual on the pro hibition Issue in some States, the gen eral statement may be made that the net change, so far as the repeal of the eighteenth amendment or the Vol stead act as a result of the elections Tuesday is concerned. Is about a stand-off between the wets and drys. Latest figures indicate that the drys will have approximately 300 votes out of 435 in the House of Rep resentatives and about 70 out of 96 in the Senate.

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OCR text: Woman Describes Appearance of Henry Stevens at Her Home Year After Murders. By the Associated Press. COURTHOUSE, Somerville, N. J., November 4.—A categoric denial that he saw any of the three defendents In De Russey’.s lane the night Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills are supposed to have been murdered was made in the HallMills murder trial today by Ralph V. M. Gorsline, vestryman in‘ Dr. Hall’s church.

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OCR text: Preparation of proposed legislation to force the street car companies of Washington to enter into a voluntary merger will be started "very soon,” it was announced today by Engineer Commissioner J. Franklin Bell, chair man of the public utilities commis sion. Th

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OCR text: By tlie Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 4.—Two jpen were arrested today charged with aiding the spectacular attempted break from the old Tombs prison yesterday in which four men were killed and three injured. They were Oscar Amberg and Robert Warner of Brooklyn. Am berg, the police said, is a relative of Hyman Amberg, alleged murderer, who shot and killed himself when escape from the high prison wallsi became impossible. The arrests were made N at their homes just before dawn.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. STOCKHOLM’, Sweden, November 4- —In the presence of the crowned heads of four nations. Princess Astrid, 20-year-old niece of King Gustave of Sweden, was married today to Crown Prince Leopold, the Belgian heir ap parent. Mayor Carl Lindhagen of Stockholm officiated at the civil ceremony, which will be followed by an ecclesiastical wedding In Brussels, the Belgian capi tal. next Wednesday. Today's ceremony was held in the National Hall of the Royal Palace at 3:40 o’clock this afternoon.

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OCR text: Special IDispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Y a -> November 4.—- John Skelton Williams, former con troller of the currency, confirmation of whose reappointment in 1919 was the cause of a fight iii the Senate, died today at his home here. Heart disease was the cause of death. Mr. Williams had been ill two days. Until Tuesday he was in robust health and active about his duties. He was president of the Rich mond Trust Company and a member of the banking and brokerage firm of John L. Williams & Sons, organized more than 60 years ago by his father. Mr.

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OCR text: COURTHOUSE, SOMERVILLE, N. J., Nov. 4. —Witness after wit ness came to the stand today and testified of having heard the shots which are believed to have killed the Rev. Edward W. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, but not one of them could say who fired the shots. The witnesses were called at the second day of tlje trial of Mrs. Frances Stev ens Hall. Henry and Willie Stevens for the Hall-Mills murder. Chief on the list was Ralph V. Gorsline, vestryman of the church of St. John the Evangelist of which Hall was pastor and Mrs. Mills a choir singer.

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OCR text: Next Week. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.—Presi dent Coolidge today accepted the resignation of Federal Judge George VV. English of Eastern district of Illinois, who was scheduled to face impeachment proceedins In the Senate next week. The Senate will meet Nov. 10, as scheduled, despite Judge English’s resignation, but it is probable the charges will be dropped in view of his resignation. Senator Norris, Re publican, Nebraska, acting chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said.

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OCR text: , Kiss. Without waiting for his wife to give him a kiss hp asked for. Patrol man Clyde Hinds, 36, killed himself at his horn a, 1239 N. Holmes Ave., this morning. 11l health and de spondency were ascribed as motives. Mrs. Hinds said her husband went to bed shortly after he came home from night duty.

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OCR text: Inches. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. Nov. 4.—Ameri can women hereafter will have stock ings that reach about eight inches above the knee; that is the new standard length announced by the United States Bureau of Standards. Scientific experiments by Govern ment experts has resulted in stand ardizing the length of all women's hosiery at 27.5 inches, from heel to top. This stocking will come eight inches above the knee of a woman five feet six inches tall and weigh ing 130 pounds, it was stated at the bureau of standards.

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OCR text: 85,000 Votes. Bu United Press COLUMBUS. Ohio, Nov. 4.—Gov ernor Vic Donahey mentioned as a possible Democratic presidential possibility was re-elected to his third term In Tuesday’s balloting. Frank Willis, ardent dry, defeated Atlee Pomerene, Democrat, by 85,000 votes. The line-up of Congressmen remained unchanged. SMITH IS 60,000~AHEAD Lms Than 400 Districts To Be Heard Front. Bv United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 4.—With ’ess than 400 election districts yet to be heard from, Frank L. Smiths plurality over George E.

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OCR text: Complaint asktn that a temporary injunction be Issued to prevent the H. H., Woodsmall Company from moving an apartment, building at Michigan and Pennsylvania Sts., in the War Memorial Plaza site, to North and Delaware Sts., was filed, in the county clerk's office today by the Carr Tire Company. Tho Carr company, located at Delaware and Michigan Sts., is an auto accessory concern. It is alleged that the Woodsmall com pany will move the building along t Michigan to Delaware, turn the Pbuildlng half Way around and pre cede north in Delaware St.

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OCR text: Bu United Press STOCKHOLM. Nov. 4 Prince Leopold of Belgium, Duke of Brabant and heir to the BeJgian throne, today was married by an anti-monarchist Socialist Lord Mayor to Princess Sophie Louise Thyra Astrid. of Sweden, niece of Kifig Gustave. The ceremony was per formed in the throne room of the Royal Palace before an assembly that Included four Kings and two Queens.

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OCR text: First steps toward a State-wide referendum on prohibitionwill be taken in the 1927 Legislature, Frank Borns,- re-elected a Marion County member of the Flouse of Representa tives, announced today. Borns said he is Investigating statutes with a view of introducing legislation to modify the Wright bone-dry act and to allelviate the aridity that is said to have pre vailed in Indiana since the 1925 Legislature adopted the Wright meas ure, the strictest State prohibition Jaw in the United States.

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OCR text: By 22,000 Votes; Watson by 13,000 less than BOO precincts yet to report Wednesday night Sen. James E Watson, Republican, held a 13,000 lead over Albert Stump, Democratic candidate for the long term In the United States Senate, and Arthur Robinson was leading his Demo cratic opponent, Evans Woolen, by 22,000 votes for the junior seat In the Senate. \ The vote on the basis of 3,010 precincts out of 3,454 showed: Watson, 443.357: Stump, 430.116. Robinson, 439,233; Woollen, 416, 524. Democratic leaders have refused td give up the race.

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