Newspaper from Wednesday, November 17, 1926

OCR text: POLICE SUICIDE THEORY IS UPSET BY EVIDENCE Acquaintances Hold He Appeared Nervous Just Prior to Slaying; Former Fiancee Says He Told Her “Anything Might Happen” Before Wedding. "Mitt” Scrivener was murdered. After 10 minutes’ deliberation this afternoon, a month and four days after the body of Detective Sergt. Arthur B.

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OCR text: i Both Parties Hit for Alleged Be- ■ pudiation of Pledges to Be lieve Agriculture. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, November 17.—A dec laration of principles which 80 farmer organization representatives from six Southern and six Northern States came to St. Louis to evolve as the initial step of a renewed and united demand upon Congress for legislation for agricultural relief was announced today. It is a document of 8,000 words and 21 sections. Its outstanding item is hearty indorsement of the plan sponsored by Frank O.

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OCR text: By tho Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 17. Moderately cold weather In Eastern States today followed a heavy rain storm and a gale of 72 miles'an hour, which took a toll of four lives, in jured many and did considerable damage. The gale affected the section from West Virginia to Massachusetts. Six men were trapped in a coal mine at Hazleton, Ta., by the overflow of a creek. A score of small fishing craft were sunk off Provincetown, Mass.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. HONGKONG, November 17.—Twelve pirates w r ere killed, 1 was drowned and 9 captured in a desperate battle on the decks of the British steamer Sunning and a subsequent pursuit of the fleeing buccaneers, 8 miles off Hongkong, it was learned here today when the ship, badly gutted by fire and bearing gruesome marks of the encounter, was towed Into port under guard. As the captured pirates were rushed to Jail, officers of the ship told the story of the fight.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., November 17.—A pair of hose, fashlonetl of spun gold and valued at more fhan S7OO, will be presented to Qfieen Mvle of Rumania during her Jvisit to Indianapolis today. ? The hose, woven in the mil's of an Indfanapoii

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. The men who draft the bills sup plying money for the Federal Gov ernment are forglr.g far ahead in their annual race against time. The job already is so far along that Representative Martin Mad den, who presides over the House appropriations committee, said to day the whole batch of supply measures ought to be through the House by January 20.

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OCR text: Erection of a municipal grlap of buildings south of the present Iflstrlct Building to B street between} Thir teenth and Thirteen-and-a-half streets was advocated today by Districl| Audi tor Daniel J. Donovan before tKs Gib son subcommittee of the trict committee and received strong encouragement from Chairman |Jib3on and Representative Houston, tA only two members of the subcoifimitte present.

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OCR text: War Veteran Sailing Alone Across Ocean Believed Lost; NAPLES, Italy, November 17 (A *).— Capt. Terezio Fava, legless war vet eran, who left Torre del Greco, near here,’ May 8 in the cutter Stella Marls to make a single-handed trip to New York, is believed to have been lost at sea. Forty-live days after the start, Fava touched at Gibraltar and later several ships sighted him on the high seas. Finally, 10 weeks ago, the liner Dullio hailed him about 200 miles off New York. That was the last seen of him. Veteran Agent Dismissed. ST.

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OCR text: A; ■ ' *. BENTON HARBOR, Miek, Nov. 17.—King Benjamin PurBell was arrested here in a neighboring farmer and one of Israelite House of David was 7 arrested with eight of his fol lowers at midnight last night by Inspector Ira H. Mannon and 15 of his State troopers in the Administration Building of the Shiloh colony.

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OCR text: TRENTON, N. 3., Nov. 17.-Te«ti mony to indicate that reporta had long existed regarding alleged inti macy between Miss Theresa Fetzer, of 1329 Sixteenth St. N. W„ Wash ington, D. C., 2s-year-old former Bible worker of the Reformed Sev enth Day Adventist Church, and Dr. A HMiller, traveling lecturer of the cult, was presented by the defense here today before a Mercer county supreme court jury of men. Miss Fetzer, now a chiropractor, asks SIOO,OOO from the Rev. A.

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OCR text: >Br lateraafioMl News Service SHANGHAI, Nov. 17.—Miss Freda Frommel, directress of the music department of an American school here and one of the leading pianists in China, suffered serious knife wounds today when she was attack ed by a discharged Chinese servant. Miss Frommel was formerly a teacher in Washington, D. C. Miss Frommel. was alone in her residence in the French concession when she was attacked “by the ser vant. Allied with a butcher knife, the servant hacked her body, arms the woman's assistetfiw.

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OCR text: Mustering all the legal forces at his command, Alvah J. Rucker, city corporation counsel, will attempt to 1 prove to Judge Harry Chamberlin of Circuit Court this afternoon that charges made in his petion for a restraining order to prevent the public service commission from considering the proposed merger of the two In dianapolis electric utilties are true and well founded.

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OCR text: Bu United Preit ABOARD QUEEN MARIES SPECIAL TRAIN IN CHICAGO. Nov. 17.—Queen Marie has rushed to the defense of the American news photographers, who have literally bombarded her since her arrival In this country, declaring tjmt they and she are alike In doing no more than their duty. Her Majesty’s unique action fol lowed an assertion by Mrs. Ira NeJ son Morris Tuesday night at a mid night supper given by Mr. and Mrs. Morris, at which the wife of the former minister commented sarcast ically on the aggressiveness of the cameramen.

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OCR text: day. The conspiracy which Corporation Counsel Alvah J. Rucker charges ex isted to put the utility Interests In control of the public service com mission will be investigated by the Marion County grand jury Thurs day, Prosecutor William 11. Rjmy I announced today. Several former city officials who i served during Mayor Shank’s ad ministration, have been called before the jury. It also was earned. Remy refused to ztate just what witnesses would be called In the In vestigation of the alleged utilities conspiracy.

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OCR text: While waiting for a west bound street car at Washington St. and Capitol Ave. this morning, Talley Nlckoloff, 42, of 352 Douglas St., and his 15-year-old daughter, Vasse, were knocked down when they became confused with the heavy early morn ing traffic and stepped Into the street car’s path. Both Nlckoloff and his daughter were taken to city hospital, where It was said that the father was suffering from a possible fractured skull. One lone speeder WRa a Treated Tuesday night. Traffic police, how ever.

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OCR text: and Batter Safe. Yeggmen sawed bars covering a window at the Ed Hall Pharmacy, 2320 W. Tenth St., Tuesday night, battered the combination off a safe and obtained between S2OO and S3OO In cash. Hall discovered the theft when he opened the store today. He told police as far as he knew noth ing had been taken from the stock. A sledge hammer was used to bat ter the strong box. The O. G. Fisher garage.

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OCR text: Companion of Mt. Vernon Youth Seriously Injured. Bu United Preen MT. VERNON. Ind., Nov. 17. John Freeman, 19, was killed and Archie Blackburn, JB, seriously in jured Tuesday night when their auto collided with a car driven by Paul Pfister, Mt. Vernon attorney, on State Rd. 65, north of hr*. Pfl*ter pulled as far to one side of the road, as possible, but the car of the two youths, said to have been traveling at terrific speed, crashed into his machine. A bottle half fillled with wine was found near the boys’ auto.

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OCR text: Queens may come and Queens may go, but the National Guard goes on forever. At least, that’s the way four ex membersof the Indiana National Guard feel übout it today, wonder ing just when officialdom will set tle down from its thrill of rubbing elbows with royalty and pay off some of its bills. “For the last month we’ve been trylngto collect about S4O the guard has owed each of us for drill pav during our 1921-1924 enlistment,” de clared George W. Fife Jr., 3142 Col lege Ave., former guard corporal.

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OCR text: Automobile Struck b)r Train in W'est Terre Haute. Bu United Prem TERRE HAUTE. Ind. f Nov. 17. Leopold Feibelman, 34, a merchant of Clinton, was Instantly killed early today when his automobile was struck by a Pennsylvania Rail road passenger train in West Terre Haute. .Feibelman was returning to Clinton from a social entertainment here. He apparently did not see the warning signal at the crossing. The doad\ man Is a brother of Frederick and Eugene Feibelman, prominent department store owners here. He came from Germany three years ago.

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OCR text: Be a Misfortune? Indianapolis, Ind.. Nov. IT. tA 3 ) A pair of hose, fashioned of spun gold and valued at more than S7OO, will be presented Queen Marie of Rumania duting her visit to Indianapolis today. The hose, woven in the mills of an Indianapolis hosiery im

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OCR text: • Minneapolis, Nov. 17. —(A*) —Eightmonths-old Thdntas Ellis, one of the nine children who were fed lactic acid instead of cod liver oil through the mistake of a nurse at General hospital here October 16, died today. The child Is the second of nine babies, who were fed lactic acid ac cidentally, to die. A sixteen-day-old infant, the son Of Mr. and Mrs. An tone Laipus, died two days after the accident. The nurse who made the •mistake was discharged. Dr.

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OCR text: TheBismarck radio station, KFYR, owned and operated by Hoskins-Meyer, will broadcast the Minnesota-Michigan football game Saturday afternoon, and radio fans within listening distance of the Bismurck station are urged to tune in to the Capital City broad casters for their football “dope.” The Associated Press reporta of the game at Minneapolis, which < will be virtually a play-by-play account, will be furnished the. Hoskins-Meyer station by the Bismarck Tribune and will be put On the air from the KFYR studio.

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