Newspaper from Wednesday, December 1, 1926

OCR text: Finney Testifies He Helped Pre pare Data on Which Message to Congress Was Based. Albert B. Fall, on trial jointly with Edward L. Doheny, oil magnate, on a conspiracy charge to defraud the Government, when Secretary of the Interior, and on April 12, 1322, In formed the Chicago Bridge and Iron Works that no publicity had been given to negotiations for the construc tion of oil tanks in Hawaii because “it is no one’s business,” and furthei because the nature of the project in volved a military secret.

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OCR text: LONDON, December I.—Latest re ports state that the threatened gen eral strike against foreigners in Han kow has been set for December 4, Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Cham berlain today told the House of Com mons. With the possible exception of Han kow, Sir Austen said, there was no reason at the present time to fear for the personal safety of British sub jects in China’s treaty ports.

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OCR text: Laws Similar to Mexico’s Are Em bodied in Bill Submitted to Congress. • By the Associated Press. PANAMA, December 1. —Religious i restrictions similar In many respects i to those now in force in Mexico are called for In a bill which has been sub mitted to Congress by Liberals, who i propose the regulation of religious ' worship. ' The measure has created a deep im pression in all circles and is likelv to become the subject of heated debate both within the Chamber and among the public.

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OCR text: By Associated Press. BALTIMORE, December I. Wives unwilling to forego social life should not become mothers, in the opinion of Dr. Florence E. Hamburger, professor of education at Johns Hopkins University. Addressing the Child Study As sleation of America, she said: “The child-bearing woman can rot lead a social life and at the same time mold the character of her child.

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OCR text: Vigorous attack upon the District Commissioners for an alleged loss of i more than 1300,000 in revenue from the sale of drivers' licenses bv their I policy of failing to penalize persons who refuse to renew' their permits before July 1 next was made by Rep resentatlve Thomas L.. Blanton, Dem-, ocrat, Texas, before the Gibson subcommittee of the House District com mittee today. Mr.

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OCR text: INCREASE IS WEAPON Companies’ Plans for Service-atCost and Freedom From Expense of Laying Pavements Ignored. The Public Utilities Commission to day adopted the bill designed to in duce the Washington street car com panies to merge voluntarily. Enact ment will be sought at the coming ses sion of Congress. Stripped of Its verbiage the measure contains three rewards for the com j.antes If they consolidate, and a heavy I>enaity in the form of a 50 per cent Increase In the gross revenue tax if they fail to do so by July 1, 1928.

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OCR text: tomorrow will fly to Washington in . their “moth" plane, a tiny aircraft that weighs only 700 pounds, and has folding wings so that it may be shel tered in a country club garage. Sir Alan, hero of the 28,000-miie I flight from London to Melbourne and lack, is coming to Washington to ad dress the National Geographic Society Friday evening. He and Lady Cob ham will be met at Bolling Field by Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of i the society, and by officials of the i War Department.

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OCR text: at Shack. Ey a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE. Md., December 1— Richard Henry Rule, 22 years old, son of Henry Rule, an official of the National Capital J’ress, who is being tried before Circuit Court in the Mont gomery County courthouse on charge of murdering William J.

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OCR text: Fire early today, believed to have from a defective flue, destroyed the roof and belfry of the ,3t. Bridget’s.. School, St. Clair and 'Vest Sts., and slightly damaged the residence of Sisters of St. Francis Oldenburg Catholic order, adjoining". Total loss was estimated at $7,000. Seven sisters of the order, which owns the property, were attending chapel devotions in their residence when the fire broke out in the school, about 5:35 a. m. Warned by Charles Grant, custodian, who ran through the building crying “fire, Are,” they escaped.

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OCR text: A mixture of State and city Re publican affairs was investigated to day by the Marion County grand jury, which, for the last eight weeks, has been probing alleged political corruption and “Stephensonism” in Indiana. Presumably the jurors were con tinuing their probe into Repub lican finances, which they started Tuesday. Luminaries present as witnesses included Clayde A. Walb, Republican State chairman; Willis B. Dye of Kokomo, G. O. P. leader, who had charge of the Indiana delegation attending the inauguration of Presi dent Coolidge, and John D.

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OCR text: liu T'nited Press PHILADELPHIA, Dec. I. Whether Mrs. Emma C. Bergdoll ex pects her son, Grover, the famous draft dodger, home for Christmas dinner remained subject to contro versy today. Yesterday Mrs. Bergdoll expressed disappointment that he was not with her on Thanksgiving and indicated he would leave Germany, where he is a fugitive, within the next two weeks and return tothe United States. But later in the evening she told other inquirers that she never ex pected him to return and denied that she was planning to welcome him for the holidays.

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OCR text: Theft of eight autos and burglariz ing of four south side business places since his escape Saturday was admit ted today by Joe Case, 15, fugitive, who eluded police four days, using stolen cars, detectives said. Police conducted a city-wide search for the youth, the hunt ending in his arrost Tuesday night by Lieut. O. D. Thomas, at a rooming house on Harrison St. Case, according to Detectives Col der and Gillespie, admitted stealing twenty-three cars here since starting his career of crime.

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OCR text: Stores. Nimble-fingered crooks, who hope to prey upon the crowds of Christ mas shoppers in downtown stores this year will have to outwit women police, mingling in the throngs, if they get away with anything, Police Chief Claude F. Johnson announced today. “The eight women police, now as signed to the various transportation terminals, will be sent into the stores where, dressed as ordinary shoppers, they will cope with the pickpockets,” Johnson said.

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OCR text: Assistant City Attorney Don Rob erts today was wrathful and searched diligently for two city coun cilmen to take to task. The reason was a prank of Coun cil President Boynton J. Moore and Councilman Walter R. Dorsett. The councilmep discovered no law yers present at city hall Tuesday and wrote “For Rent” signs and hung them at the office doors of Roberts, Corporation Counsel Alvah ,J. Rucker and City Attorney John K. Ruckelshaus. J’They can’t trifle with me that way; I am liable to take a" crack at them,” Roberts said.

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OCR text: Bn United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. L—Hearing of the Great Lakes water diversion suit re-opened today before Charles E. Hughes, special master for the Supreme Court. Illinois engineers presented evi dence supporting the Chicago drain age project, which is being pr

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OCR text: /in T'nited Pr'-ss NEW ORLEANS, La., Dec. 1 J. B. Matthews, assistant, to Prohi bition Administrator O. D. Jackson, was kidnaped late yesterday by rum runners at the Biloxi (Miss.) base, according to reports here today. With Matthews is a machinist whose name has not been ascertained. Matthews and the machinist were guarding a confiscated boat when they were forced off the craft and kidnaped, accord!; , to officials here.

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OCR text: TUKIO, Japan—Baron Kogoro Takahira, former Japanese ambas sador to the United States, is dead. Baron Takahira was made ambas sador to the United States in 1900. He did a great deal toward settling the differences between Japan and the United States arising out

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OCR text: Two captains and a patrolman of the Milwaukee police department to day completed 27 years of contin uous service. They are Capt. Arnold Hensler. 55, 764 41st St.; Capt. Albert J. Murray, 56, 1319 Chestnut St., and Patrolman Albert Porgelt, GO, 1420 Chestnut St. Capt. Hensler has chirge of cen tral police station, while Capt. Mur ray is head of the police department traffic bureau.

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