Newspaper from Thursday, November 25, 1926

OCR text: Be Decided Tomororw. By the Associated Press. SOMERVILLE, N. J., November 25. —When the Hall-Mills murder trial is resumed tomorrow Justice Parker is to rule whether Henry de la Bruyere < ‘arpender should he permitted to deny testimony of Mrs. Jano Gibson that he was present when the mur ders were committed four years ago. Mr. Carpender, under indictment for the murder of Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills, along with his cousins. Mrs.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. I NEW YORK, November M.—Testi mony that the mother of Consuelo Vanderbilt threatened to kill Wln throp Rutherford of New York if Con suelo eloped with him served today to intensify gossip in the social world over the annulment by the Catholic Church of Consuelo's marriage to the Duke of Marlborough. Rome dispatches to the Associated Press show that the rota tribunal, which nullified the marriage on the ground of duress, received testimony of the threat to kill. The former Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt, now Mrs. O. H. P.

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OCR text: HART4NGTON, Nebr. November 25.—Today was not just Thursday 1 for John Rex, “bread-and-water” prisoner at the county jail. Through the generosity of Judge Wilbur F. Bryant, who sentenced i him to the meager fare for cashing i a no-funds check, Rex had turkey and

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OCR text: Washington observed another Thanksgiving today in traditional { manner. President Coolidge typified I the spirit of the occasion when ho gave himself over to a day of relaxa tion, spiritual reflection and recrea tion. Arising slightly later than usual, Mr. Coolidge enjoyed a brief walk in the brisk morning air through the White House gardens and then reI turned to a steaming breakfast.

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OCR text: All Hope Abandoned for Ten Trap ped in Alberta Tunnel. COLEMAN, Alberta, November 25 C/P). —Thousands of gallons of water I todav were being poured into a mine i of the McGillivray Creek Coal and Coke Company, near here, to extinguish a fire which halted efforts to ex plore a tunnel in which 10 men were entombed by an explosion recently. No hope was held out that the men survived the blast. It will take a week to flood the mine. Frank Serik, a Russian miner, was regarded as the hero of the disaster. He led six men to safety.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. Once more the Navy has been thwarted just short of success in the effort to drive its long-distance sea planes farther than man has ever gone in such craft Without stop ping. As in the case of the late Comdr. John Rodgers’ record-breaking flight i last year with a PN-9 machine, its latest attempt with two PN-10 planes also fell short, happily, of disaster. With Colon, Canal Zone, 2,060 miles away, as their objective, the PN-10 Nos. 1 and 2, manned by brilliant crews, left Norfolk, Va., late Tuesday. Plane No.

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OCR text: Praises Red Cross Relief Work in Japanese Quake. Prince Regent today received in audi ence Judge John Barton Payne, presi d<-nt of the American Red Cross. The prince expressed profound appreoiu tion for the assistance given Japan at the time of the earthquake in 1!>23. Judge Payne was decorated with the First Class Order of the Rising Sut for the work that he did personally in this connection.

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OCR text: Shipping along the Oregon and Washi ington coast was tied up today and storm warnings were posted by the i Weather Bureau as a gale of almost) 90 miles an hour swept up from the southwest last night and continued I with increasing strength. It was ex1 peeted to become more severe as the day advanced. South of the Oregon coast the storm i tapered off yesterday into a general rain, accompanied in some places by I wind.

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OCR text: Twelve very disconsolate young men, absolute strangers to each other up to four days ago, ate Thanksgiving dinner today in »«Mi»imtown hote|, secluded from the other guests, and under the watch ful eyes of two United States deputy marshals. AU had homes wherein the tables Were loaded with tooth some, home-eooked viands, but such, and the. company of their families, had been denied them on this holiday Jof holidays, peculiarly dedicated to the fireside.

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OCR text: By JAMES I. KILGAI.LEN International Nawa Sarviaa SOMERVILLE, N. J. t Nov. 25.—Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, that proud, pale-faced, black garbed, emotionlessVoman who has been sitting day in court qttietly listening to witness»after witness tell what they knew of the Hall-Mills murder mystery, , will herself take the. witness stand tomor row or Saturday to protest her i innocence of any connection I with the crime. “Ready,’* She Says *‘l, “am ready to testify,” she said today. “I will tell the truth —that is all I can say now.” Mrs.

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OCR text: By International Newt Service NEW YORK. Nov. 25.—“Bun/’ Rodgers, notorious outlaw who has evaded the police for months, was captured early today while asleep in Jils room • in a tenement at 4274 Third Avenue. Rodgers, whose real 1 name fs John J 4 wanted by the authorities of sev eral Slates as well as by Federal ofticials. Me is charged with con nection with several murders and hold-ups. Tipped off to Rodgers’ hiding place, a large force of detectives and police swooped down upon him and had him handcuffed before he was aware of what was happening.

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OCR text: r ■ ■ ...■■■■l GOV., NELLIE T. ROSS ■h?* ’.git 1 ■ Im'.!, ■<3♦-■ '■ '■■■•.■•. ■ o fl fl I ' 'W ? • fl GOV. MIRIAM A. FERGUSON ONLY NINE convicts have been pardoned by Gov. Nellie T. Ross, of Wyoming, since January, 1925, when she took office. On the other hand. Gov. “Ma” Ferguson, of Texas, has pardoned 2,711.

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OCR text: Home. fill ' ll l*fit Press MIT NCI E, lad., Nov. 25.—Muncie police today investigated the attempt made last night on the life of George A. Dale, Muncie editor, whose Week ly newspaper has carried on an at tack against alleged corruption in Muncie and Delaware County. A bullet was fired through the front window of the Dale home The editor was downtown at the time, but a daughter had just left the room as the shot crashed through the glass.

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OCR text: NEW YORK, Nov. 25—John ,T. Rodgers, leader of a gang 1 of bank and mall robbers, whom the police of half a dozen eastern cities charge with numerous big robberies und crimes of violence, was cap tured today in the Bronx, New York City, police here announced. Rodgers is an escaped convict from tho Auburn, N. Y., peniten tiary, having made Ills last escape while being returned to that prison. Ho was a friend of Gerald Chap man in the days when that famous bandit was operating throughout the East.

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OCR text: Association Members liCarn Official . Missing Witli $200,000. tin Uniteil Press CHICAGO, Nov. 25.—A gloomy Thanksgiving faced several hundred members of the Friendship Building and Loan Association today when it was announced that Albert J. Gal listed. until recently secretary of the association iis short more than $200,- 000 in his accounts. Police are searching for Gallistel on charges of embezzlement. Gallistel, before his disappearance is reported to have arranged to make good about half the loss through assignment of his real and personal property.

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OCR text: to Cost $33,000,000 Blf 1 United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—Prohi bition enforcement during the next fiscal year, beginning July 1, 4927, will cost more than $33,000,000, it was learned at the Treasury today. Assistant Secretary of the Treas ury Andrews has asked the House Jfppropriations Committee fpr $13,- 000,000 for the Federal prohibition unit and the Coast Guard wants about $20,000,000 for its anti-smug gling activities. TWENTY BODIES FOUND NICE. NOv.

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OCR text: tin United Press WASHINGTON. Nov. 16.—Queen Marie of Roumania had a satisfac tory trip, according to John H. Car roll, who managed the transport*- tion on the transcontinental Amer ican journey. Carroll, said upon his return here today, that he would write a com plete report on the trip, to all the railroads which carried Mario about at reduced rates.

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OCR text: Amid prayers and thankfulness* and hymns of praise Indianapolis citizens today observed the annual feast of Thanksgiving. Tables ladened with traditional turkeys, pumpkin pies, plum puddings and other seasonable delicacies awaited the return of the church-goers, who went forth' by the hundreds this morning to join in union church services to thank a bountiful provP dence. Tonight other special services have been arranged by various churches throughout the city. The holiday spirit is also to be ex pressed at parties and dances.

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OCR text: Rain and Colder Weather by Friday Night, Says Bureau^ Turkey day in Indianapolis dawned in semi-darkness and clouds hung heavy over the'dlty, bringing intermittent showers. Temperature rose and the predic tion of the weather bureau here was warmer 4nd unsettled tonight, with rain to be followed by colder weathqr by Friday night.

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OCR text: Bn United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—YV ith the youthful Fall-Doheny conspiracy trial jury locked away from their families on Thanksgiving, defense counsel in the holiday recess planned today to knock out the prosecution’s principal piece of evidence tomorrow on a technicality. A transcript of E. L.

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OCR text: to Reach Accord on Relations. MEXICO CITT, Nov. 24. — One more effort by United States Ambas sador Sheffield to reach accord with Mexico over the oil and land laws will precede probable American sev erance of relations with this country, semi-official observors admitted to day.

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OCR text: DENVER, Colo., Nov. 24.—Doug las Fairbanks, and his wife, the for mer Mary Piekford, were here Wed nesday to attend the funeral of John Fairbanks, the actor's brother, who died in Hollywood several days ago. John Fairbanks had been manager of the Fairbanks Pictures corpora tion.

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