Newspaper from Tuesday, November 16, 1926

OCR text: Farmers Hardest Hit. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md.. November I*s.—Torrential rains have caused tributaries of the Potomac to overflow and the Cumberland Valley is flooded today. Bridges have been carried away, tracks washed out. highways made impassable, and wire service crippled. The damage is expected to exceed $500,000. The flood area cen ters in the valley south of here. Rain be'gan falling at about 8 o'clock last night, and at 2 o'clock this morning there was a thunderstorm, accompanied by a cloudburst.

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OCR text: in Sonth Dakota. SCOTLAND, S. D., November 16. Two persons were shot to death and three others were wounded at the John Gross farm, near here, last night by a mysterious assassin, who fired through a window with a shotgun. The dead are Robert Zwiefel, 18. and ' Mrs. John Gross, 50, wife of the owner of the farm. The wounded are Clarence Zwiefel. 15. brother of Robert: Emmanuel Gross. 25, and Mrs. Solomon Gross, 30.

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OCR text: Br the Associated Press. ■ TOULON, France, November If. , —Persistent reports are current that another plat against Premier 1 Mussolini of Italy has been dis covered. It has been learned that the I police all along the coast have r? cejved orders to be on the sharpest possible watch as a number of Spaniards and Italians belonging to anarchist organizations in New York. Geneva.

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OCR text: HAVANA. November lA. -The Cuban minister to Uruguay has* been recalled. A massage vtas sent to Montevideo ordering hi«G to em bark for home at noon today, i The aotion followed Cuba’s re quest for explanation of the i reported statement off Senor Guani. Uruguayan delegate ;to the League of Nations/ published in South American newspapers, that under the treaty! with the United States, fenerally known as the Platt amendment.

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OCR text: Santa Ysabel Mission in California Suffers $20,000 Loss. I SAN DIEGO. Calif.. November lfi G4 s ).—The famous bells of the Santa cast of a gold alloy..which made them noted for their beautiful tone, have i been stolen. I The theft was reported yesterday i at Ramona, 20 miles from the mission.! iby Indians of the Santa Ysabel Mis- < sion. wlm regard the place as a shrine. Several months ago a fire ravaged the mission, but the golden hells were , not harmed. The mission was built 150 years ago in the days of Father; Junipero. Franciscan priest.

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OCR text: Disputant Over McPherson Story Wounds ex-Policeman. I LOS ANGELES. November IS (4*). —Holding a Bible in one hand and a gun in the other, a man who had pro < nounced ideas about the merits of the ' Aimee Semple McPherson story shot i and probably fatally wounded James i Mansfield. 59. former Boston police i man. officers learned yesterday. The wounded man said he had met his assailant and another man in a park and had been shot after having engaged in an argument with them over the case.

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OCR text: Communists Establish Military ' B-ase at Singapore. BATAVIA. -lava. November 16 OP), —The East Indian Communists who carried out attacks last Friday night I at various places in western Java. during w hich a number of persons i were killed or wounded, have established a base at Singapore for arms and ammunition destined for the East J Indies. i Five hundred men, armed with rifles. 1 last night attacked the garrison at I Laboen. but were repulsed. One of the soldiers of the garrison was wounded. It is believed the attack i ing party lost heavily.

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OCR text: First-Year Men Cut Class Before Foot Ball Game—Will Be on Probation. By the Associated Pre«*. CAMBRIDGE. Mass.. November 16. —One hundred first-year men at Har vard law School, who cut the last class before the Harvard-Brown gam®, have been classed as "undesirables" by Dean Roscoe Pound, it was re vealed today.

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OCR text: It would have been possible, but highly improbable, for Detective Arthur B. Scrivener to have held the pistol that ended his life. 1 ’ •' *.f-• - r . .

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OCR text: By MARGERY REX ' SOMERSET COUNTY COURTHOUSE, SOMERVILLE, Nov. 16,—Mrs. Hall i» vivacious today, chatting brightly with Mrsi Edwin Carpendcr. * Willie is gloomy, .but sports a new hair cut, his wild bush having been ptuned to a modest crop.

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OCR text: Bit United Press —- DANVILLE, 111., Nov. 16. on a hill, overlooking the city in hich he began his rise to fame more ftfian three-score years ago, the body of Joseph Gurney Cannon will be laid in its final resting place this afternoon. ' The funeral of the man who served for forty-six years in the House of Representatives, eight of which he was Speaker, will be Aiarked by simplicity.

OCR text from The Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, page 1. See the original page. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.

OCR text: By/. Milton C. Work Do*Not Bid a No Trump Initially Unless You Have a No Trump Distribution. By that I mean size up your thirteen cards and be sure that a No Trump is your wisest declaration in view of the distribution of your cards into suits. The ideal distribution for a No Trump is 4-3-3-S; that is, four cards in one suit and three cards in each of the other three suits. Yesterday I called a blank suit or a worthless a Trump taboo; a red signal announcing such imminent and serious danger tjiat it should stopjthe declaration from being made.

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OCR text: Bu United Press CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 16.—Un heralded opposition to the city’s ■ plans for Queen Marie of Rou manian visit here next Monday kept civic circles in a turmoil to r day following a near riot in the council chambers. Dimitri D. Dimancesoo. Rouman lan consul here, is ‘disgusted with the" whole affair” and has resigned his post. Trouble reached a climax last night when Mayor Marshall threatened to have Councilman Peter Witt forcibly ejected from the council chamber when Witt at tempted to read a protest against the Queen’s reception.

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OCR text: Two. Times Washinntan Bureau. 1322 A etc York A venue WASHINGTON, Nov. J6.—The present enormous flood of buying “on time” is a menace to the country and will cause or hasten an economic crash unless it is stemmed, Senator Couzens, of Michigan, back in ftigton for the winter, said today. The buying power of the country has reached its limit as a result of high pressure sales methods and mortgages of people’s incomes for a year or two years in the future to buy luxuries, Couzens added.

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OCR text: Bii United Press NEW ORLEANS. La., Nov. 16. One man was killed and four others seriously injured early today at Delacroix Island, forty miles south of New Orleans, in a gun battle between trappers and deputy sheriffs. The trappers had been enjoined by the civil court here from trapping in that section and the deputies sought to enforce the court’s order. The four wounded were taken to a New Orleans hospital, aniinc shortly before noon. Their cona.

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OCR text: Lawrence Lyons, former Republic an Sfate chairman, today admitted over long distance telephone from his home at Brook, Ind., that in 1924 he talked with Harry Reid, president of tho Interstate Public Service Cor i poration, about a contribution to the Republican campaign fund from the Insull utility interest.

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OCR text: On’y Living Occupant of Auto Is Gravely Injured. Biir United Press CAMDEN, N. J., Nov. 16.—Four persons were instantly killed and an 8-year-old girl critically injured when an automobile in which they w’ere riding was struck by an elec tric train of the West Jersey & Sea shore Railroad in Gloucester' Mon day evening. The occupants were residents of Gloucester. The dead are Frederick Schoettle, I 37; Mrs. Florence Schoettle, 32, who was driving the car; Mrs. Edna Hickson, 26, and Thomas W. Ayres, J 56. .

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OCR text: 5 p. m. Queen Marie and party arrives at Union Station and is greeted by reception committee, ineluding Governor and mayor. Band will p’ay Roumanian anthem. 5:15 p. ni. Royai party parades in automobiles, going east on Jack son PI. to Meridian St. to Mon ument Circle. Queeu will place wreath on south steps of Mon ument and Col. Oran Perry will receive the token on behalf of i soldier and sailor dead. Christ Church chimes will play. 5:45 p. m. Parade resumed up N. Meridiait St. to St.

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