Newspaper from Wednesday, November 24, 1926

OCR text: Wins Battle of Wits With Prose cutor Simpson Throughout His Cross-Examination. Br th<* Associated Press COURTHOUSE. SOMERVILLE. N. J.. November 24. —Defense in the Hall Mills trial today struck again at the story of Mrs. Jane Gibson, whose tes- , timony for the State placed all three of the defendants at the scene of the killing. Fred David, Middlesex County detective. said that Mrs. Gibson had said at the office of the Middlesex prosecutor in New Brunswick in 1922 that she could not identify Mrs.

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OCR text: PN-10 No. 2 Descends at Isle of Pines —Other Be lieved Near Panama. Br (he Associated Press. An exhausted oil supply forced the Navy seaplane PN-10 No. 2 to descend today at Nueva Gerona, Isle of Pines, spoiling her chances to make a non stop flight from Hampton Roads to Panama, but so far as naval officials knew, the PN-10 No. 1, her companion craft, still was in the air over the Caribbean Sea. Lieut. Comdr. H. T. Bartlett, in com mand of the PN-10 No.

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OCR text: A comparatively small fire among awnings in the storage room in the basement of the Argonne Apartments, 1629 Columbia road, at 2:45 o’ clock this morning sent thick billows of smoke through the building and scores of residents scurrjdng from their suites as fire apparatus responded to two alarms. Only two rescues were necessary. Mr. and Mrs. Sumner E. Kimball, 32 and 30 years old, respectively, choked by the smoke in their apartment on the fourth floor of an eastern wing of the building, were carried down a ladder to Columbia road by Sergt. E. A.

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OCR text: Three Mentioned for Ambassador, With Robert de Billy Lead ing Candidate. By thp Associated Press. ■ PARIS. November 24.—Nobility scorns to have first chance at the am bassadorship to the United States re linquished by Henry Berenger. Count Robert de Billy. Minister to, Rumania, remains the leading candi date. with Count Charles de. Cham brun. Minister to Greece, and Count Francois de Jean, director of Amer ican affairs at the fore'ign office, fol lowing closely. - . . The government s choice is believed to be limited to these three.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. LONDON. November 24.—The Vale of Evesham, in Worcester shire, seemingly is a healthy place in which to live. Twenty golden weddings have been celebrated in the district during November. Men of 70 years of age are con sidered voungsters. Early rising is their habit.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. AVALON. Santa Catalina Island. Calif., November 24. —Raymond Koutmey of Pasadena, marooned for three days on a ledge of a cliff 300 feet above the sea near here, was rescued yesterday after a boat crew had seen his distress signals. Koutmey was lowered by ropes to a boat at the foot of the cliff. He said he slipped over the cliff while hiking.

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OCR text: Mother Says. The marriage on May 8 last in New l’ork of former Senator Davis Elkins of West Virginia to Miss Mary Reagan of 2614 Cathedral avenue was an nounced today by the mother of Mrs. Elkins. The announcement today was the first word received in Washing ton of the marriage more than six months ago of the well known Wash ington clubman and former Senator. Mrs. Reagan left Washington today to visit her daughter in New York. Davis Elkins is a son of Stephen B.

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OCR text: When America turns tomorrow to another Thanksgiving day. expres sions of gratitude will rise from pulpit and rostrum throughout the Nation for the Divine blessings of peace and prosperity that have been bestowed upon this country in such full meas use, and the hope will be voiced, too. that during the next year these blessings may be granted with equal generosity to all of the nations o. the Since 1564 the United States has recalled at this time each year that first Thanksgiving day in 16-1.

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OCR text: International News Berrieo COURTHOUSE, SOMERVILLE, N. NoW M.—WiDit Stevens concluded his testimony in hisown behalf as a de fendant in the Hall-Mills murder trial today. He left the stand a splendid witness for himself, the prosecutor being unable to break him down on a single essential point in his testimony that he had “absolutely nothing to do” with the murder «f --the Rev. Edward W. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills.

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OCR text: Highly confidential docu menta of a most sensational character, bearing upon Ameri ca’s relations with Japan, have been subpoenaed in the Fall

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OCR text: II 'WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—With Secretary of the Navy Wilbur sub poenaed to furnish the Fall-Doheny oil conspiracy trial with information on the Japanese "war scare” of 192122, a predecessor of Wilbur —Josephus Daniels, naval secretary under President Wilson —appeared today to testify for the prosecution as to Gov ernment oil policy before 1921. Secretary Wilbur will not appear personally as a witness unless he is specifically ordered to do so, he said this morning.

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OCR text: Fortified by encouragement of “many Republicans,” the Democratic State organization is proceeding with its investigation of alleged frauds in the recent senatorial election, State Chairman R. Earl Peters said today. Peters arrived here today from his home in Ft. Wayne to spend the day in conference with, investigators and prominent Democratic leaders.

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OCR text: Former employes of the Indian apolsi Street Railway Company, who declare they are still out on strike which started July 5, charged the company is planning - to seek a fare increase to 10 cents from the public service commission, in a resolution made public today. Charging the company is willing to grant increases to present em ployes in order to use that as the basis of its plea for a fare increase, the strikers offered to return to work at the present wage scale if their seniority rights are restored.

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OCR text: Business Man Sees Youths Who Were Sentenced. Memories of a wave of safe crack ing in the city a few years ago were recalled by Harry Gomf, president of the Lindeman Wood Finish Com pany, 1602 W. Washington St., Tues day night. Gomf called police after he saw some young men, whom he recog nized as the ones who had been sen tenced for the safe jobs, peering in windows of stores and filling stations and his place of business. They now are out of prison. They had robbed the safe at his office before being sentenced. Police found no trace of them.

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OCR text: PARIS, Nov. 24. —Several persons were reported killed and their homes destroyed today by a landslide which overwhelmed the village of La Ro quebllliers, thirty miles from Nice. Troops were ordered to La Roque

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OCR text: Valued at $3,000 Taken. Four youths are held today in con nection with the theft of an auto, firearms and ammunition, valued at Detectives Hynes and >Dugan found the machine, property of James G. Hyner, 5220 Guilford Ave., mired in mud near the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Hyner, Remington Arms Company *• representative, parked the car at Meridian and Ver mont Sts. Sunday while attending church. William Crail. 15, of 3660 W. Ver mont St., said to have admitted the theft. was charged with auto theft.

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OCR text: Mrs. Flora M. Rauh, 3101 N. Meridian St. today told police she had been made the victim in an ancient “trick” of thieves. \ She called a cleaning shop asking that they call for a dress valued at $75. Soon a Negro came to the door and took the dress. Later repre sentatives of the cleaning shop arrived, revealing the first caller was a thief. Dresses and tabla linens valued at SIOO were stolen from Miss Mamie Shannon, 1851 Boulevard PI. Wallace Mullin, of the Capitol Garage, 329 W. Market St. reported, thefts of toots valued at SIOO.

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OCR text: A story told by a 17-year-old In diandpolis girl to secure food and shelter at Newcastle, Ind., was proven false today by Detectives Gaughan and Everson, who have been Investigating. Five weeks ago the girl ran away from home and, turning up at New castle, enlisted the sympathies of persons there by saying she had been drugged and held prisoner in a “dope den” in N. Capitol Ave. She said she was later taken to the country and escaped.

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OCR text: SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Nov. 23. —The affairs of the prominent Burch family of New York were even more enlarged today as the re sult of the arrest here Monday of Capt. Arnoldo Marson, Italian war hero and former executive of the New York Edison Co. He is charged with the violation of the Mann act. His companion, Mrs. Isabelle Keyes Burch, is held as a material witness. The apprehension of the couple here disclosed the garbled status of the Burch marital affairs.

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