Newspaper from Friday, November 26, 1926

OCR text: An application of Harry 'Wardman for a change in the zoning of a large area between Woodley road. Twenty , eighth street, Bock Creek and Po erection of a group of five large apart ment houses at a total cost of ap proximately $5,000,000 was denied by the zoning commission today at an executive meeting in the District Building. Mr. Wardman’s plans called for an i apartment house development unique !in building construction. Each of the apartment buildings would be eight stories high, and combined would have a total of 787 apartments.

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OCR text: CHERBOURG, November 26 <A>). • Loie Fuller was angry when she dis embarked here today from the steamer Majestic with her troupe of dancers i because of American newspaper com ment regarding her friendship xvith Queen Marie of Rumania. .She insisted that there w

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OCR text: i By tin* Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 26. Two young women riding horses in Central Park yesterday escaped serious injury when their mounts crashed in a head-to-head colli sion which resulted in the death of both steeds. Miss Georgia Engelhard, 20vear-old art student, was gallop ing with friends on a bridle path in a tunnel under a bridge when Miss Tris Bernstein approached at a gallop and the two horses col lided. One was killed instantly with a broken netk and the other’s leg was broken and it had to be killed. Miss Bernstein was unhurt.

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OCR text: lying His Mother. i li.i « . 1 1 >I ■ to Tin Stmanil (Tib/ngn ltaily News Copyright. VIENNA. November -C. —The Ru manian court chamberlain, -M. An to greet Queen Marie on Sunday for I King Ferdinand and deliver a report I on the King's health and on political i developments during her absence, for the Queen is a most important per ' sonage in polities. The King, while weak from fasting, jis now gaining weight and his eondi The parliamentary vote excludes any , immediate stei>s in changing Prince t’arol’s present status.

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OCR text: President of Pittsburgh Concern Succumbs to Pneumonia at • Age of 61. By the Associated Press, i PITTSBURGH, November Lti.—YYil ham Larrimer .Jones, til. president of the Jones & Eaughlin Steel Corpora tion, died at his home here last night from pneumonia, after a brief illness. Mr. Jones had l>een head of the concern since it was formed in 19-2 through reorganization of the Jones & Eaughlin Steel Co. Following his graduation from Princeton in 1887. with a bachelor of science degree. Mr.

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OCR text: lett and his crew of three, took off tit 6:50 turn, today from Cape Francis. Siguena Bay, isle of Bines, to eom plote the flight to Colon. Canal Zone, , interrupted Wednesday morning when the plane was forced down from lack The cruiser Raleigh reported the i PN-10 No.

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OCR text: Drop—Storms Complicate Sunday Forecast. A chilling rain tonight, followed by a tirop in temperature, which will bring freezing weather tomorrow night, was foiecast today by the Weather Bureau. The storms atal variations in liaro metrical fields which affect Washing I ton from a distance, however, have presented such a complicated schedule of activity that the weather man hesi tated to predict just what sort of a Sunday the District would experience.

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OCR text: Have Carpender Deny Pig Woman’s Story. COURTHOUSE. SOMERVILLE. X. J., November 26. —Felix di Martini, employed as a private detective by Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall after the slaying of her husband and Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills, was sworn just be fore the luncheon recess in the HallMills trial today. Di Martini, who has been threatened with arrest on a warrant charging him xvith being an accessory after 1 the fact of the murder, did not begin his testimony, but was sworn that he might be placed under the protection lof the court.

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OCR text: Citing obscure legal cases nf the past, and.delving deep into the statutes governing court p r o c e d u re, opposing counsel held up the conspiracy trial of Albert B. Fail, former Secre tary of Interior, and E. L Doheny, millionaire oil op erator, for nearly the entire morning today, as they battled over the admissibility of Do heny’s own story of the slU<>. i 000 “loan” to Fall, as recited three years ago to a Senate in vestigating committee.

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OCR text: By International News Service OAKLAND. Calif., Nov. 26. Trapped in the Claremont tunnel, 15 miles from here, when a creek swollen by the. water of a cloud burst engulfed them, the bodies of ten men were still held fast far below the surface of the earth to day. One man, Stanley Secula, hearing the approach of the raging water, grasped the ladder leading out of the shaft and pulled himself to safety. His ten companions’ never had a chance. The swirling waters dosed over them before they could make a dash for the ladder.

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OCR text: Two of the most important persons connected with the famous Doheny, Pali oil conspiracy case, and yet the least mentioned, are William J. Mullin (“Big Bill"! and Edward A. Sackey. deputy United States marshals, entrusted b. Edgar C. Snyder. United States marshal, with the physical care of the members of the jury and also to prevent any one from having any cotnmunica tion with them or approaching the loom in which they make their tern porary homes during the trial.

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OCR text: ' o W GEN. UMBERTO NOBILE AT A MEETING under the auspices of the National Geo graphic Society at the Washing ton Auditorium tonight. Gen. Umberto Nobile. Italian pilot of the dirigible which flew over the North Pole, will tell of the flight,

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OCR text: “I’m not working for my health.” With this statement Ira Holmes, local attorney, withdrew today as at torney for Earl Kline k and Earl Gentry in the arson case against them. D. C. Stephenson and Fred Butler, Stephenson’s former secre tary, in Criminal Court. The charges resulted from the burning of Stephenson's Irvington home be fore he began serving a life term in Indiana State Prison for the murder of Madge Oberholtzer, In dianapolis girl. Holmes said he had not been paid his fees and that other attorneys had been retained. At the same time.

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OCR text: Bu i'nited Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—The "million dollar” Fall-Doheny staff of lawyers attempted today to shut out of the oil conspiracy trial the most sensational developments of the Senate oil investigation. Justice Adolph Hoehling heard three hours' argument on the Gov ernment attempt to place in evidence the conflicting stories told thV Walsh Senate committee by the two defendants, former Secretary of In terior Albert B. Fail and E.> L.

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OCR text: Suit. CLEVELAND. Ohio, Nov. 26. State Senator George Bender was awarded $25,000 today in a $50,000 damage suit brought by him against Prohibition Inspector W. J. Patrick and East Cleveland State dry raiders. Bender charged that Patrick and raiders entered his home Aug. 19, 1925, armed with a search warrant based on an anonymous note.

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OCR text: An investigation into the low tax ation worth of the two local electric Utilities, compared to the valuation which they seek for stock issuanae purchases under their proposed merger, will he made by city coun cil, Boynton J. Moore, president of that body, announced today, Moore also asserted he favors looking into the taxes of the In dianapolis Water Company, which the "Supreme Court of the United (States recently decided has a valua tion of $19,000,000. Taxes are paid pn a much lower figure, the council head said he understood.

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OCR text: Station. LEBANON, Ind., Nov. 26.—Two bandits, believed to bo the same men who held up a filling station at Martinsville Wednesday, early to day held up a Standard Oil station here and escaped with $l6O. The hold-up occurred within three doors of the police station. The bandits drove up Just as the filling station man opened up for business. They stuck a gun in his ribs and forced him to open the safe.

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OCR text: HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 52 10 a. m 50 8 a. m..>... 51 12 (noon) 40 9 a. m 52 1 p. m 39 Winter again. This was the word of the United State weather bureau today when a prediction was sent out for a temper ature drop of nearly 30 degrees by Saturday morning. The mercury, *vhich registered 51 at 7 a. m., de scended to 40 at noon and, according to the bureau, will stand between 20 and 25 degrees by Saturday. Rain, which marred Thanksgiving day here, probably will change to snow by night and winds will in crease.

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OCR text: Supporters of tho candidacy of State Senator James J. Nejdl of Whiting for re-election as president pro tern, of the State Senate, today declared they have mustered thirty four of the \fifty senators in his be half. Friends of Nejdl also declared that for the first time the Whiting man will have the unanimous sup port of the Lake County delegation. A slightly embarrassing factor is the candidacy of Representative Thomas M. Grant, also of Lake County, for speaker of the House of Representatives.

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OCR text: #slifirtrdge Students Urged by Teach er to Enter Competition. Bhortridge High School students today were urged by Miss Grace (Shoup, Shortridge teacher, to enter the “Ben Hur" film essay contest /conducted by English’s in coopera tion with The rffdianapolis Times. Twenty contest winners will have an opportunity to see the great film free of charge. Manuscript relative to the Roman galley scene in the picture must be submitted to the Ben-Hur Editor of The Times be fore 8 a. m.

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OCR text: mier Mussolini. ROME, Nov. 25.—Premier Mus solini is planning, a conquest of the Atlantic ocean. Within 18 months the Italian dic tator believes two Italian ships— the Rex and the Dux—will set a new speed record between Europe and the United States by spanning the Atlanticin four days. The two ships, Mussolini declared, will revolutionize the construction of mercantile and naval vessels.

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OCR text: Gas Filled Basement, i Prompt discovery of his uncon scious body by his wife Thursday evening probably saved the life of Rene Van Oodigan, 51, 1617 S. Franklin street, who was overcome by gas in the basement of his home. Mr. Van Oodigan smelled gas es caping from a heater in the base ment a few minutes before 7 o’clock. He went to investigate and repair the leak if possible. Several minutes passed and as the upper portion of the house con tinued to fill with fumes, Mrs. Van Oodigan became alarmed and went into the basement.

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OCR text: CHICAGO, Nov. 25—The bullets of gangland whisMed across the south side Thursday as two of the O’Don nell clan and one of their opponents ■were wounded in a fierce grudge battle. Seated in a sedan parked across the street from a poolroom where the grudge was born, Thomas O’Con nell and Clarence Barrett fired sev eral shotgun volleys at Charles and Thomas O’Donnell,- while Fred Bei glebeck, more intrepid, stood out side the machine with his sawed-off shotgun pumping havoc into his ene mies. When the smoke of battle had cleared, Beiglebeck.

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OCR text: “The fact that the Western Union Telegraph Company found it neces sary, because of climatic conditions, to remove its relay offices from Brownsville to McAllen, is no re flection on the advantages of Browns ville or on the energy of the Browns ville Chamber of Commerce,” it was declared today by James F. Wilson of Dalas, district commercial superin tendent.. “Fogs that hover near the coast, such as that of this morning which put our wires out of commission un til nearly 11 o’clock, were the chief reason for this Removal.

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OCR text: NEW YORK. N. Y., Nov. 26 —f/P>T Certificates of the Texas Pacific Land Trust, which controls extensive acreage in Texas adjacent to dis tricts where important increases in oil production are being reported, scored a spectacular advance of 135 points today on the New York stock exchange, to a record high of $1,065 a certificate. There are 19,290 cer tificates outstanding.

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OCR text: SOMERVILLE. N. J.. Nov. 2fi.—«P> private detective by Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall after the slaying of her husband and Mr*. Eleanor R. Mills, was sworn just before the luncheon recess in the HallMills trial today. ODD FELLOWS IN SESSION LAREDO, Tex., Nov. 26.—f/PV—The Southwestern Texas Odd Fellows As gates, including Rebekahs, will begin a two day session here this after noon at the Elks Hall. J. N. Wor sham of this erty is president of the association. BANK FAILS TO OPEN KERENS. Tex., Nov.

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