Newspaper from Monday, November 15, 1926

OCR text: When the Olbeon subcommittee of the House District committee re sumed its hearings on the, municipal administration of the District of Co lumbia today, a long list 6f projects affecting the upbuilding of the city, ‘‘all worthy of accomplishment at the very earliest date,” was submitted by the Washington Board of Trade, through J. Harry' Cunningham, presi dent.

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OCR text: SOME 15,000,000 GALLONS Prescription Consumption Rises and Number of Authorized Physi cians Is Doubled. The "good whisky” supply of the country is running so low that manu l'acture must he resumed to insure adequate s‘oc!c for legitimate medic! nal use, Gen. Lincoln C. Andrews. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, in charge of prohibition, announced this morning.

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OCR text: Prosecution Considers Taking "Pig Woman” Into Court Wednes day on Stretcher. COURTHOUSE, SOMERVILLE. N. November 15.—Mrs. Elsie Barnhardt, sister of Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills, ■ Klaln with the Rev. Edward W. Hall, said on tho witness stand today that her sister told her that she loved Mr. J tail's little finger more than her hus band's whole body. Testifying as a State’s witness at the trial of Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall find her brothers, Henry and Willie changed with Mrs. Mills’ murder, Mm Bamhardt said that Mrs.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 15.—Christ mas day, the Christmas holiday that brings thoughts of home to millions, from Queens to the humblest com moner, will find Queen Marie under her own rooftree in Bucharest in stead of on the bleak Atlantic. At the request of King Ferdinand of Rumania, his royal consort has canceled a portion of her American trip so that she and her children, Princess Ileana and Prince Nicholas, may he with their own people on De cember 25.

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OCR text: Elliot H. Goodwin, formerly vice president of the United States Cham ber of Commerce; Clarence A. Aspln wall, president of the Security Storage Co., and Evan H. Tucker, president of the Northeast Citizens’ Association, were recommended to the President today for appointment to the place on the board of District Commissioners, shortly to be made vacant by Cuno H. Rudolph. Their names were presented by a small delegation headed by Rear Admiral W. S. Rodgers, United States Navy, retired, and with Gen. John J. Pershing as a member.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. MOUNDSVILDE, W. Va., Novem ber 15.—Two miners and a boy met death, two others were seriously in jured and two of their comrades were entombed by a gas explosion early to day in the First street mine of the Glendale Gas Coal Co. here. Eleven workmen escaped the blast, which occurred in the south entry about a quarter of a mile from the shaft. They were brought to the sur face in the mine cage four hours after the explosion, apparently none the worse for their experience.

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OCR text: Judge Isaac R. Hitt in Traffic Court today ordered the personal bond taken of Francis Tompkins of 1610 Park road when he admitted speeding Saturday because he was shoeless and his feet were cold. Tompkins is a student at Mary land University and between halves at the Vlrginla-Maryland game he with other members of his class engaged in a shoe scrimmage on the playing field. Unable to find his slices at the close of the game, he admitted hurrying back to his home In this city because his feet were cold. He was arrested by Policeman W. M.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.. No vember 15.—Admitting that he forged his own parole, L. M. Carson, former Creek County School superintendent, convicted of raising a warrant, was again in jail here today. Carson was sentenced to 16 years in the State Penitentiary on a charge of raising a county school warrant from $4.05 to 5204.05. He had been transferred to the re formatory at Granite and placed In charge of the institution’s school. Four days ago a parole was re ceived bearing the signatures of the Governor and Secretary of State.

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OCR text: By International News Service —Five miners were killed and two others seriously. injured in an ex plosion of gas at the Mound shaft of the Glendale Gas Coal Company mine at Glendale, near here early today. The bodies of three were recovered. Seventeen men were in the mine at the time of the explosion. Ten escaped when • the blast shook the shaft. The dead: Walter Fogle, Rueben Kirkhart. Mike Kovack, Thomas Rogerson and J. E. Stefel. The bodies of Rogerson and Stefel have not been recovered. Janies Lemasters and H, M. Cum beridge were seriously injured.

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OCR text: DETROIT. Nov. 15.—Three r.ew arrests w r ere made here today in national counterfeit ring, uncovered by United States Secret Service agents. A total of twelve persons have been arrested. eight here, three in Poston, where the counterfeiting nlant was located and one in Pitts burgh. Twenty olh*ys are under surveillance, including women, and other arrests are expected. Secret Service operatives are keep ing the names of the three arrested' today, liut it is believed they are women who helped pass out bogus r -20 bills to merchants and bootleg gem.

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OCR text: CAar/otto MiUt charged that Robert H. McCarter, chief de fence counsel, hod talked with one of furore. Albert Butler, taxi driver, teetified that on morning bodiee Were diecovered he drove worn ag to Hall home and eaw Henry Carpender, Mre. Hall’e couein, coming out with eeveral bundlee, which he put in car, then off. John . Stillwell, who drove Dr. Hall’e hearee, -teetified he fact. Mre. Eleie Bornhardt,. Mre. Mille* eieter, teetified the elain choir einger and Dr. Hall had planned to elope. Mre.

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OCR text: cago).—Nov.^a.—Queen Marie a..l' and today began preparing to sail for Europe on December 11. “Come home before Christ mas,’’ wired King .Ferdinand. Comes Here Again . The proposed, southern tour of Her Majesty, which was to in clude North Carolina and Florida was immediately dropped. After returning to Washington on November 24, the Queen will visit Atlantic City on November 26, while Princess Ileana and Prince Nicolas are seeing the Army-Navy football game in Chicago.

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OCR text: Elgin E. Groseclose, of Waurika Oklahoma, was today appointed as sistant trade commissioner to Cal cutta by the Department of Com merce. You know what your capacities are and the work for which you are best, qualified. Advertise in The Times and Herald classifi

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OCR text: London Spiritualists in * Unique Meet LONDON, Nov. 15.—1 n response tp an invitation by Arthur Conan Doyle at an Armistice service at Albert Hall. 200 Spiritualists, nearly a third of the* audience, solemnly stood as.testimony that they had been in touch with the dead. .

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OCR text: Bucharest to Work for His Return BERLIN, Nov. 15. - Quee n Marie, of Jugoslavia, daughter of Marie of Rumania, has ar rived at Bucharest to take up for her mdther the battle which the latter faces when she returns home in order to put through the restoration of Prince Carol as heir to the throne. Her fight is against a united opposition headed by former Pre mier Bratianu, the “black man of Rumania.’’ Accordng to confidential infor mation from Bucharest, the visit of the Queen of Jugoslavia has a twofold purpose.

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OCR text: John E. Corbin, Sheridan, Ind., was killed instantly today when his automobile was struck by a north bound Monon passenger train at Six ty-Third St. and the Monon tracks. The driver, It is said, was com ing from the east, and apparently was on the tracks when he saw the train. According to .the train crew he tried to bacK off tlie tracks.

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OCR text: Corporation Counsel Alvah J. Rucker, files suit in Cir cuit Court for injunction against Indianapolis power and light merger, charging:

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OCR text: (Milton C. Work, the international authority, will answer your auction bridge questions. A stamped, self-addressed envelope must accompany each request for replies. Mall your request to Work in care of The Times-) By Milton C. Work. In Inaugurating the Bridge articles, which start today and will appear in The Times daily hereafter, I wish to asssure my readers that there are now more Auction Brfdge players in the United States and Canada than ever before there were players of any one game in the whole world.

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OCR text: BLANK SUIT OR A WORTHLESS SINGLETON Many players who know the hlgh-card strength needed to justify the original bid of No Trump, do not appreciate that there are No Trump danger signals In the face of which a sound bidder would be less apt to bid No Trump than a careful engineer would to run past the red light at full speed. For Instance, a blank suit is an absolute No Trump taboo, no matter how strong the hand may be.

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OCR text: Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—Two North American storm areas, both of which may endanger shipping along the United States coast, were re ported by the weather bureau here today. A tropical disturbance of slight or moderate intensity is central east of Yucatan, but has curved north or northeast and may sweep across Florida. No strong winds have been reported to the bureau and unless the storm increases, no danger ex cept to shipping is expected.

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OCR text: Bu Tfnited Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., Nov. lfr. —A running gun battle between the Shelton and Birger gangs that oc curred on a highway between Marion and Carbondale, 111.,, Sunday, and in which an Evansville Press staff photographer had his automobile liberally perforated with machine gun and revolver bullets, was de scribed in a long-distance telephone call from Charlie Birger to the Press today. The photographer, Gustav Oetter man, escaped unhurt, despite the shower of bulle’s aboutyhim. Birger, said.

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OCR text: Bu United Press GALVESTON, Tex., Nov. 15 Lieut, and Mrs. Chester Dawson were honeymooning today following their marriage' over the Gulf of Mex ico Sunday. Dawson, an aviation officer, and Miss May Fantom of Brockton, Mass., were married in a giant Douglas plane as it circled in a driving rainstorm over the gulf. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. C. T.

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OCR text: Bu United Press BARBOURVILLE, Ky., Nov. 16. —Plunging in an automobile over a high bank into a pool of water, Mrs. Homer King and her two children drowned here today. Mrs. King lost control of the car on a slippery road. She and the children, six months and two years old, were pinned under the car. 1,000 HOMELESS AFTER FIRE Bu United Press TOKIO, Japan, Nov. 15.—A thou sand persons were homeless today after a great fire which swept be fore high winds through the su burbs.

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OCR text: United News Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Nov. 14.—^jfenry Ford was asked Saturday night in telegram sent by Col. John H. Carroll, in charge of Queen Marie’s American tour, to put a Lincoln automobile representative board the “Royal Ro umanian,” the special train which is carrying the royal party across the continent.

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OCR text: turned $6,000,000 as his year’s tax obligation. Assuming he is no worse off this year he would get back $750,000. The rebates of Henry and Edsell Ford would be $250,000

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