Newspaper from Monday, November 22, 1926

OCR text: By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, November 22.—Presi dent Coolidge wants development of the Mississippi waterways for trans portation purposes to go on as rapidly as financial resources will permit, he •says in a letter read today at the convention of the Mississippi Valley Association. The letter follows: “Much to my regret I find It impos sible to accept your Invitation to make an address at the eighth annual con vention of the Mississippi Valley As sociation, to be held in s?t. Louis the latter part of this month.

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OCR text: Unless Congress makes specific ap propriation and changes the present statutes, Maj. James R. Rushy, after June 30, 1927, can no longer hold the dual position of disbursing officer

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OCR text: Inquiries Made Into Walsh's Radio Speech and Novel Refer ring to Harding Regime. Selection of the 13 men to consti tute the jury in the Government * case against Albert B. Fall of New Mexico, former Secretary of the In terior, and Edward L. Doheny, cC magnate of Los Angeles, charged with conspiracy to defraud the Vniteri States in connection with the lease <>f the naval oil reserve at Elk Ilili Calif., was completed at 2:30 o’clock this afternoon in Criminal Division I of the District Supreme Court.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. DOORN, Holland, November 22. Former Emperor William of Ger many is confined to his bed by a severe cold, which has settled through his body so that he cannot move. It was stated that his con dition is painful, but that he is in no immediate clanger. After a slight Indisposition, the ex-Kalser on Friday was allowed to go outdoors. Saturday he caught the cold which resulted in his pres ent Illness. Princess Hermlne, his wife, is a frequent visitor to the sick room.

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OCR text: Reports of Bad Weather in Carib bean Sea Halts Start of Nor folk-to-Canal Hop. By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va., November 22. Discouraging reports of unsettled weather in the Caribbean Sea caused postponement again today of the Navy’s non-stop flight from Hampton Roads to Panama. Lieut. Comdr. H. C. Bartlett, com manding the two PN-10 planes which will take off on the attempted 2,200mile trip, announced today that they will not begin the long hop until weather conditions in the Caribbean Sea have cleared up.

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OCR text: Federal Attorney in Illinois Orders Probe of Humored Machine Gun Assault. By the Associated Press. EAST ST. LOUIS. HI., November 22.—United States District Attorney Harold Baker today ordered an imme diate investigation of fragmentary reports that the office of Deputy United States Marshal Zach Leitsch at Harrisburg, Saline County, was machine-gunned by gangsters Satur day night and again Sunday night.

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OCR text: Fuel Delivered in English Metrop olis Now Costs About S2O a Ton. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 22.—London of late has been cooking and keeping warm partly with gas made from; American coal. This is due to the tie-, up in the British coal industry. There are 1,250,000 consumers in the London Gas Light and Coke Co. district. American gas coal delivered here costs about S2O a ton. London is using more gas now than at any other time in history.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, November 22. —Three persons were burned to death, 19 others were injured , two seriously, and a Japanese house boy is missing in a fire which early today destroyed the Rangely Apartments, a three story wooden structure at 723 AVest Third street. Police and firemen began a search of the ruins shortly after daylight for the body of the Japanese. No one re ported having seen him after the fire started at 3 a.m. and police considered it possible he may have escaped. The dead are: AV.

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OCR text: From his bed in the administration building of t>he House of David, “King*' Benjamin Purnell, the head of the Israelites, dictated the following exclusive statement to the International News Service:

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OCR text: A "hit-and-run" driver struck an elderly man and a motorcycle offi cer was seriously injured in an auto crash over the week-end. James Rhude, 74, of 420 S. Mis souri St., was injured by the auto that failed to stop, near New Bethel. Ind., Sunday. Herman Rhude. his son, also of that address, said he and bis wife took his father to New Bethel, and from there his father was to walk to his place of employ rnent on a farm. The son said he took a drive farther out on the road. Returning to the city, he saw his father lying at the roadside.

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OCR text: Asked $4,000 Monthly. Bv United Press WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Nov. 22. —Mrs. Frances Heenan Browning was awarded S3OO a week alimony and $8,500 counsel fees by Justice Morschauser in Supreme Court today in the suit for separation filed against her by Edward W. Browti ing, wealthy real estate man, and her counter-suit. Browning’s suit and the counter suit of his wife have been consoli dated so the case may be tried to gether. Browning’s young wife, the former “Peaches” Heenan, asked $4,000 a month alimony and $25,000 counsel fees.

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OCR text: fix I vited Press BLNTON HARBOR, Mich., Nov. 22. —In an emphatically worded statement “to the public press," counsel for “King" Benjamin Pur nell of the House of David today de nied any attempts had been made to “intimidate” State witnesses in cases pending against Purnell and asserted “counsel for the respondent are not going to permit threats of prosecution to deter them from dis charging their full duty." OPPOSE BUSIN ESS ZONE School Board Fights Project on East Side.

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OCR text: Bn United Press WASHINGTON. Nov. 22.—Com mander Harold T. Bartlett and an In trepid crew of seven were ready to day to hop off In two PN-10 sea planes for a record nonstop flight from Hampton Roads to Panama, if weather conditions permit, the Navy Department was informed by radio. Final tents given machines yester day afternoon proved satisfactory.

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OCR text: Wounds Sister. Bu I nited Press BRIDGETON, N. J., Nov. 22. Ltnwood Ware, 22, opened fire with an automatic pistol at a group seat ed around the breakfast table <n his parents' home today, killing two and perhaps fatally wounding a third. He then fled the house, but was captured, without resistance, a few blocks away. The dead: William Candy and wife, both aged 66, who boarded with Ware’s parents. Mrs.

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OCR text: Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nov. 22. Fire swept the Rangely Apts, here early today, causing panic among seventy guests and talking a toll of at least five lives. The blaze was discovered shortly after 3 a. m. by Officer E. J. Coltas, who entered the building and spread the alarm. Dressed only in night clothing, the occupants of the build ing rushed frantically to fire escapes and other exits. Several persons were hurt jumping from their windows to the ground be low. PUBLISHER FALLS DEAD Apoplexy Ends Life of C. P. J. Mooney at Memphis, Tenn.

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OCR text: Here in 1923 Asa result of the decision today of the United States Supreme Court sustaining the $19,000,000 valuation of the Indianapolis Water Company allowed by Federal Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger, present water rates in Indianapolis will continue. After the Indiana public service commission late in 1923 granted the company a $15,260,400 rate-making valuation, the company appealed to Federal Court on grounds that the resultant rates were confiscatory. Judge Geiger was named special Judge to hear the case.

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OCR text: There is a bullet hole in the wall of the lobby of the Indiana National Bank, Virginia Ave. and Pennsyl vania St., today. The bullet was from a gun kept at the bank as a guard against bandits. But, as far as is known, there has been no bandit in the bank recently.

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OCR text: HAZLETON, Pa., Nov. 21.— Entombed five days In tne Tom hicken colliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal Co., six miners are believed to have perished. Diamond drills penetrated Sun day to an abandoned breast of the collitffry where the victims might have taken refuge follow ing the sudden flood which en trapped them, but there was no response to the signals of the rescue crew.

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OCR text: SAN ANGELO. Tex.. Nov. 22.—</**)— R. A. Halbert. 77 years old. of Cole Sunday night as the result of injuries sustained about a month ago in a fall from a pecan tree. A message to his brothers. B. M. and R. H.. here, related his death. Mr. Halbert was oftimes referred to as the Burbank of Texas by rea son of his plant propagation wort, the perfection of the Halbert pecan and the Halbert melon. One of his latest works was the propagation of the English walnut to the native wal nuts of Texas.

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OCR text: DENISON, Tex.. Nov. 22.—(A*)—Mrs. Dewel Ball, 18, died at her home north of Hagerman last night from injuries received when a horse drawing the buggy in which she and her husbnad were riding, ran away. The buggy was overturned and Mrs. Ball was thrown beneath the horse, its hoofs striking her head. She w*as rushed home but died within a few minutes. Mr.

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OCR text: BRIDGETON. N. J.. Nov. 22.—UP)— Mr. and Mrs. William Gandy, of this city, were shot and instantly killed today by Linwood Ware. 22, their nephew, who also shot and seriously wounded his sister, Mrs. Madeline Maxwell. 26. Mrs. Maxwell is reported dying in the hospital here. Mr. and Mrs. Gandy and Mrs. Maxwell lived with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ware, parents of Linwood. While the family was "aitting at breakfast, the youth entered with an automatic pistol. He opened fire on his aunt and uncle and then shot his sister.

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