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Monday, November 8, 1926Edition: National

Newspaper from Monday, November 8, 1926

Evening Star

Washington, District of Columbia

“FALL HEBE; FACES COURT WEDNESDAY”

“Ex-Secretary of Interior Im”
“proved in Health Since”
“Last Appearance.”
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OCR text: Albert E. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior, arrived here at 10 o'clock this morning from Chicago to face arraignment in the District Supreme Court Wednesday in connection with charges of conspiracy he and Edward L. Dohenv face over the lease of oil lands. Mr. Fall was met at the station by Levi Cooke, his Washington counsel, and taken to the Wardman Park Ho tel. where he will remain throughout the hearing of the trial, which starts November 2.'. Mr. Doheny is due to arrive here tomorrow morning with his counsel.

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“PROTESTS DESCEND DYER TUITION FEES”

“School Board Gets Brunt ofj”
“Storm Over Donovan’s”
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OCR text: Non-Resident Decision. Decision of District Auditor Dono van that resident children of non resident parents must pay non-resi dent tuition fees in the local public schools has embroiled the Board of Education in a turmoil of protest from those affected, it was learned to day. Harry O. Hine, secretary of the board, today already had received 75 appeals from the ruling, and more are arriving with each mail, he says. The protests will be carried to the courts, if necessary, some of the letters as sert. Maj.

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“SENATE MAJORITY MAY UNSEAT VASE”

“Borah Contends for Primary”
“Scrutiny—Expulsion Takes”
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OCR text: Two Thirds Vote. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. In the expectation of contests over the seating of Senators.elect Vare and Smith, Rennsylvania and Illinois, re spectively, Senator Borah of Idaho has issued a statement clearly indicat ing that primary elections for nomina tions for Congress are properly part, of the elections of Senators and Rep resentatives. A decision by the Senate that the Borah contention is correct regarding the primaries would have an impor tant bearing on the Vare and Smith contests.

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“Firing Squad Faces Any Who Attempt”

“To Kill Mussolini”
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OCR text: By the Associated Press. ROME, NovSinber 8. —Further attempts to assassinate Premier Mussolini will be punishable by execution by a military firing squad, according to decrees which become effective on Thursday of this week, it is learned semi officially. Not more than three military tribunals with jurisdiction over political offenses will be created. Gen.

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“Brakeman, Who Thought j Switch Wrong, Guides”

“Fast Mail into Siding.”
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OCR text: Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN. Md.. November 8. —Fourteen persons were injured, (three seriously, when a fast mail of J the Western Maryland Railroad 1 crashed into a side tracked freight in I the west end of Thurmont. Md., at I 8:30 o'clock this morning. Officials of the railroad say the accident was caused by confusion of L. C. Vaughan, freight brakeman. who threw the switch, believing it was open. The i injured: Samuel O. Strite. Baltimore, mail (clerk, face and hands cut and injury: Ito stomach. Serious.

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“Three Bids Submitted for 1”

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OCR text: i Purchase of American Merchant Line. By the Associated Press. I Three bids, the lowest $1,000,000. were submitted to the Shipping Board today for purchase of the five ships |of the government's American Merchant Line. Two of the bidders offered also to (charter the five ships of the UnitedStates lines. They were the J. H.! Winchester Co.. New York City, and 1 William F. Kenny and associates, New York City.

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“ANGERED BY RADIO TALKS, CRIMINALS FIRE BUILDING;”

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OCR text: Explosion Precedes Blaze In New Jersey Studio Where “Crime Editorials" Were Broadcast. By the Associated Pres* EAST ORANGE, N. J., November 8-—Criminals, incensed bv a series of "crime editorials.” which were being broadcast from the radio sta tion of the Chamber of Commerce of the Oranges and Maplewood, were believed by police to have been re sponsible for an explosion, followed by fire, which yesterday caused dam age estimated at $20,000. The second .floor of the building, on which the studio was situated, was ruined. Thomas J. Burley, jr.

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“WOMAN SAVED IN MID-AIR BENEATH SPEEDING PLANE”

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OCR text: Bv the Associated Press. SANTA MONICA. Calif.. Novem ber g. —Leaping from a speeding air plane at an altitude of 800 feet, yes terday. Miss "Bobby" Chase, woman parachute jumper, became suspended i beneath the ship wffien one of the ropes of her parachute caught the plane's undergear. She was rescued bv a second airplane. After she dangled in the air for two minutes, an occupant of the sec ond plane cut the cord which held Miss Chase, the 'chute opened and she landed safely two miles away.

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“Italian Cabinet Bans “Ridiculous*’ Names for Babies”

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OCR text: ROME, November B.—" Tom. Dick and Harry" won a great victory this afternoon, when the cabinet adopted a decree forbidding the be. stowal of “ridiculous, shameful or subversive names” on babies. The decree orders registration authorities not to register names "o

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The Washington Times

Washington, District of Columbia

“School Officials Face Fund Charges”

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OCR text: District school officials and the municipal architect face a Searching investigation at the hands of the House District Sub committee, as a result of charges of irregularities in connection with the construction of the new addition to Western High School.

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“WASHINGTON TIMES”

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OCR text: Pea: Week Delivered to Your Home The Daily Times and Sunday Herald—ls Cts. The Daily Herald and the Big Sunday Herald —ls Cents. The Daily Times and the Daily and Big Sunday Herald —25 Cents. Call Main 5260 CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Delivery Guaranteed

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“SPECIAL TRAIN kin Mon”

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OCR text: tana), Nov. B.—Princess I leans of Rumania &fied the distinc tion of social'easte friend, a youthful American au tomobile salesman, “Bunny” Ayres, known as J. B. Ayree on the Ford Automobile Company payroll, who wears a raccoon coat and has a breazy way. He wan fired from the royal train for “making statements,” but the Princess believes it was because he took her out motoring and to the Washington-California football game in Seattle. “It is a shame." declared Her Highness today. “He was a.

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“’ L - NANCY HOYT”

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OCR text: CAPITAL SOCIETY was startled three years ago when Nancy Hoyt, leader of the younger social set, broke her engagement to a young British naval lieu * tenant as guests were assembling for the wedding.

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The Indianapolis Times

Indianapolis, Indiana

“HALL-HILLS HEATH LANE DESCRIBED”

“it Was a Busy Place on”
“Night of Murder, Says”
“Truck Driver.”
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OCR text: Bu United t Press SOMERVILLE, N. J., No. B.—Wil liam Garvin, a detective, testified this afternoon in the Hall-Mille trial that Ralph V. Gorsline, a vestryman in Dr. Hall’s church, had' admitted resognizing Henry Stevens, one of the defendants, in De Hussey’s lane the night of the murder. Gorsline denied he recognized any one when lie testified week. Garvin was an agent of the Burns detective service at the time of the murder.

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“BANK BANDITS GET”

“Four Lock Up Seven in”
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OCR text: Vault. Bu Vnited Prose BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. B. Four masked men held up the Se curity Trust and Savings Bank in North Birmingham today and es caped with more than $20,000 in cash and securities.. Seven bank employes were left locked in the vault. The bandits,

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“CITY HALL AT CHICAGO RAIDED”

“Follows Swoop Down on”
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OCR text: Courthouse. BU United Press CHICAGO, Ncv. B.—Federal agents who raided the Cook County court house Saturday, arresting three men and seisin j quantity of liquor, to day visited the city hall. Con Cannon, paymaster in the city controller’s office, was arrested o

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“6 FAIR BUILDINGS”

“Agriculture Board Seeks”
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OCR text: $500,000 Appropriation. Apropriations of $500,000 for im mediate use by the State board of agriculture were asked of the 1927 State Legislature in a formal re quest filed today with the budget department. With proceeds from the appropriation, indorsed by Gov ernor Jackson, the following build ings would be erected at the State fairground: Poultry building, to cost $100,000: grand stand, $250,000; horse barns, $50,000; administration building, $50,- 000; Indiana University building, $40,000, and a Red Cross building, SIO,OOO.

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“20DEGREE DROP IN MERCURY DUE”

“Snow by Tuesday Night,”
“Says Weather Bureau.”
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OCR text: Look out, Indianapolis. There's a cold snap coming. This was the word from the United States Weather Bureau today, when a 20-degree drop In temperature was predicted. Rain is expected to ar rive late this afternoon or tonight and change to snow by Tuesday eve ning as winds shift from the south to the north. A storm area now centered over Oklahoma is expected to bring the change, according to Meteorologist J. H. Armlngton. He expects the temperature to drop about 20 degrees Tuesday. The mercury at 7 a. m. stood at 47, which is 7 degrees above normal.

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“HELP FOR^CONVENTIONS”

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OCR text: Chamber of Commerce Bureau Will Provide Advance Publicity. Pre-convention publicity is anew service offered by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce convention bureau, H. L. Davis, bureau man ager, announced today. Shockley Lockridge, assistant manager, will dir

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“Owner Pays After Dog Bites Officer”

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OCR text: No dog can bite a limb of the law and get away with it, at least with out the owner paying for it. Not if Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter can help It. The judge fined 11. B. Herrick, 40, of 1138 N. Keystone Ave., $lO and costs this morning. A dog owneJ by Herrick bit Patrolman Padgett on the leg while the officer was serv ing ns guard for a Negro who said he was afraid to pass the Herrick home because the dog was vicious.

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“PRINCE, BRIDE KISS”

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OCR text: Astrid and Husband Re-United Again. ANTWERP, Belgium, Nov. B. Several women and children were In jured today during the popular dem onstration of welcome to Princess Astrid, who arrived from Sweden to day to be married again to her hus band, Prince Leopold of the Belgians, whom she had not seen since the eyening of their first wedding day last week. The royal couple em braced and exchanged kisses. The crowd broke the police cordon which protected the departure cf the royal party from the town hall.

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“Shoot Tame Ducks; Land in Jail”

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OCR text: Hunters, he careful when you go gunning for ducks. See that you don't shoot some that are being fattened to decorate some one’s table. Four youthful hunters started out Saturday after ducks and when they saw a group of them swimming in the Canal >at Seventeenth St., opened fi/re. Mrs. Mattie Lytle, 1931 Br'gh ton Blvd., who owned the ducks called police and had Thomas Barnes, 17, Negro, 437 W. Thirteenth St., arrested for shooting Inside the city limits. The three other boys were take* to the Detention Home.

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Front page of The Indianapolis Times, Monday, November 8, 1926
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South Bend News Times

South Bend, Indiana
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The Milwaukee Leader

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

“QUEEN’S TRAIN HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF”

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OCR text: BY JOHN MONTGOMERY. Staff Correspondent The United Press ABOARD QUEEN MARIE'S SPE CIAL TRAIN IN NORTHERN MONTANA—A queen today travels across the wilds of the Rocky moun tains beset by more intrigue than surrounded her at any time during her court life. Half the occupants of her train are not speaking to the other half except for a frigid nod when pro priety demands. Out of a mael strom of tangled hatred has come the nucleus of two separate and distinct parties' opposing each other at every turn. Carroll vs. Fuller. One faction supports John H.

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“Break Up Filling Station Bandit Gang”

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OCR text: OMAHA, Neb.—With the arrest of Martin Christ Aide, New Ulm, Minn., 20, and Lyle W. Rickards, 29, Clear Lake, la., police declared to day they have broken up the gang of filling station bandits who have been operating in Nebraska towns for the past month. Able and Rick ards have confessed to a dozen rob beries, implicating G.

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“Says Mate Drinks , Raves About Home”

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OCR text: Walter A. Raisch, vice-president, Siebers-Raisch Cotton works, is ac cused of having drunk moonshine to excess, in the divorce petition his wife, Louise, filed in circuit court today. She claims that when her hus band is intoxicated he begins to rave about the house and threatens to commit suicide.

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“Thwarting Lynching”

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OCR text: HOUSTON, Tex.—Medals were awarded to four Texas sheriffs and a constable who have saved Negroes from mobs. The awards were made by the commission of inter-racial co-operation. Sheriff Hilton of Orange, Tex., was cited for standing off a mob for three consecutive days and nights to prevent a lynching. Constable Carter of Tarrant county persuaded a mob to sur render a man afterwards found in nocent. Sheriff Schuyler Marshall. Jr., of Dallas, defeated for re-election last Tuesday, repulsed a mob which stormed the county jail.

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The Montgomery Advertiser

Montgomery, Alabama
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The Bismarck Tribune

Bismarck, North Dakota

“Proposed Increase in Freight Rates on Grain Suspended”

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OCR text: Washington, Nov. B—OP)—Ati in crease in rates on grain from west ern North Dakota to Chicago and St. Louis over the Northern Pacific cail road was suspended by the Interstate Commerce Commission today until March 8, 1887. The commission will investigate the justice of the in creases which were to have become effective today. Illustrating the effect of the now. schedule, the commission said that the present rate to Bt.

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“Ctr Mississippi Valley. Temperaturea”

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OCR text: ave fallen during the past 48 hours from the Mississippi Valley westward to the Pacific Coast ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Official in charge.

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Brownsville Herald

Brownsville, Texas

“CAMERON COUNTY is patting it”

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OCR text: self on the back, according to Coun ty Judge Oscar C. Dancy. Whe# the state was asked to re mit a portion of the county’s taxes for a period of 25 years, the county assured legislators at Austin that in creased values as a result of flood protection, would begin returning the amount to the state in five years. Cameron county already has start ed returns to tlfc state, the copnty judge says. And it’s only, two years •ince the promise was made, instead of five years.

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Questions from readers

What happened on Monday, November 8, 1926?

Front pages that day led with: “FALL HEBE; FACES COURT WEDNESDAY”; “PROTESTS DESCEND DYER TUITION FEES”; “School Officials Face Fund Charges”; “WASHINGTON TIMES”; “HALL-HILLS HEATH LANE DESCRIBED”; “BANK BANDITS GET”. Each story above is quoted from the original page.

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