Newspaper from Thursday, December 2, 1926

OCR text: The cold snap, which started last night, will continue through tomorrow in Washington, according to the Weather Bureau. The mercury dropped to 26 last night. Tonight or early tomorrow morning it may go a trifle lower, if the sky remains clear. If it is cloudy it will not be so cold. Tomorrow will not be quite so cold as today, and Saturday will be considerably warmer. TRY TO SAVE CREW. Coast Guard Makes Desperate Efforts to Reach Stranded Boat. CLEVELAND. December 2 OP'.— Coafct Guards at Eagle Harbor, near) Houghton.

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OCR text: ROCKVILLE. Md., December V After deliberating more than tii.ee i hours, a jury sitting in Circuit Court i here early this morning decided that Richard Henry Rule, 22, of lfi27 Six teenth street, Washington, was not justified in killing William J. Barbee, 19-year-old student, living at 1522 Vernon street, during a fight that developed from a Halloween jest, and found the youth guilty of man slaughter. Defense counsel immediately seyved ' notice they would seek a new trial ,and court was adjourned without pro nouncing sentence.

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OCR text: CALLED UNSYMPATHETIC WITH CONFERENCE WORK Andrews Invited to Address Dele gates Tomorrow—Members to Ask No Open Questions. Rev. James Empringham of Xrw Tork City, enrolled as the official rep Society-of the Episcopal Church, w,; ordered unseated as a member of

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. SOFIA. Bulgaria, December 2. One stroke of the ax brought un dreamed-of wealth to the poor lum berjack. Assen Tscholakoff. He felled a tree in the vi cinity of Tschepchapare and was setting about to cut up the roots, when his ax struck a stone slab covered with Turkish inscriptions. With difficulty he turned over the slab. Underneath it he found a treasure trove of thousands of old Turkish gold pieces. The value of the treasure is esti mated at about $450,000. The gold coins date hack to the fourteenth century.

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OCR text: Inspection of the fire protection system at the home of Washing ton, at Mount Vernon, was started today by George S. Watson, chief 'engineer of the District Fire De partment, and August Kmerich, chief of the Baltimore Fire De partment, members of a special committee of the International Association of Fire Chiefs appoint ed at the last annual convention of the organization to recommend better fire-fighting facilities at this national shrine.

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OCR text: ' The District Commissioners today referred to Corporation Counsel FranIcis H. Stephens and Auditor Daniel (J. Donovan the question raised re cently by the Board of Education as to the legal requirements concerning 1 the payment of tuition by pupils in the public schools living in the Dis trict whose parents live outside.

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OCR text: Impassable—Rhone River Rises Rapidly. B.v the Associated Press, NICE, December 2.—The famous I Riviera, where the sun is supposed to shine uninterruptedly the year 1 round, is suffering, like‘the rest of! southeastern France, from the worst i Fall season in 50 years. Two and one-half inches of rain has fallen in Nice during the past 24 hours. Floods arc raging along the coast from Marseilles to Mentone. Portions of fashionable Cannes are, Inundated. Nearby roads are swirling torrents.

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OCR text: Here From Tokio. PARIS. December 2 oP>. —Paul Claudel is “delighted’’ with his apJ pointment as French Ambassador to the United States, he has informed the foreign office. It is expected that the poet diplomat will lose no time in taking up his new post, probably going from Tokio. where he is now Ambassador, direct to the United States.

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OCR text: PRAIRIE DU CHIEN. Wis.. Dec. 2.—A body, partially identified as that of Clara Olson, missing sweet heart of Erdman Olson, Gale Col lege student, for whom a murder warrant has been Issued, was found in a corn field four miles north of Mt. Sterling, Wis.. today.

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OCR text: By International News Service OTTAWA, Can., Dec. 2. —The Province of Ontario, with more than a thousand miles of its boundary line touching the United States, to day is ‘‘wet” under government control of the sale of liquor by an overwhelmingly large majority as the result of yesterday’s general elections. Premier Howard Ferguson, leader of the victorious conservative party, Intimated that before Christmas the flow of "wet goods’’ would be started legally throughout the province.

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OCR text: By International News Service VIENNA, Dec. 2. —Wild rumors, impossible of confirmation, were rife in Vienna today concerning events transpiring in Rumania. All at tempts to establish telephonic com munication with the Rumanian capi tal were fruitless. (GUM —for Christmas shoppers. to know where they c' ' buy gifts are worth the< money and easy to locate.

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OCR text: mrs. g. w. c. McCarter LEAVING her fifth husband, who is the son of the chief de fense counsel in the Hall-Mills case. Mrs. G. W. C. McCarter, the former Baroness D’Erlanger, has sailed for Paris. Her four previous husbands were three millionaires and a baron.

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OCR text: McCarter, senior counsel for the defense, launched into a bitter attack on Mrs. Jane Gibson, the State’s star witness, when he resumed his summation at the Hall-Mitls trial today. “I hope, gentlemen of the jury,” the distingpished-looking dean of the New Jersey bar said, “that you were not fooled by the theatrical display when this ‘Pig Woman* was brought into the courtroom to testify, placed on a bed and a doctor put on one side and a nurse on the other, to take her temperature and all that Mind of nonsense.

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OCR text: Assailant. Police today were without clews in their hunt for a Negro bandit who attacked Miss Cecil Hudson, •2810 N. Olney St., on TwentySeventh St., near Olney, Wednesday night. Miss Hudson is suffering with a skull concussion.. The Negro stepped from an alley and demanded her purse as she was walking toward her home, she Baid. When she hesitated about complying the bandit struck her on the head, grabbed at the purse and ran. Miss Hudson was found un conscious on the sidewalk. Her purse was lying near.

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OCR text: CHICAGO, 111., Dec. 2. Relief from the cold which has gripped the Middle West during the past forty-eight hours, was promised by the weather bureau in its forecast today. The promise came on the heels of frigid weather which has sent the thermometer as low as 20 degrees below zero in some places. According to the weather bureau, the cold wave is traveling east and will have cleared the Mississippi Val ley region by tomorrow. .COLDEST IN THIRTY YEARS Pittsburgh Reports Temperature of 20 Above Zero. PITTSBURGH, Dec.

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OCR text: Widower of Slain. SOMERVILLE, N. J., Dec. 2. Perjury, injustice and persecution were charged against the State to day as the defense in the HallMills case, summing up, attacked the whole fabric of the prosecu tion's case as a monstrous plot con cocted for gain or the hope of polit ical ascendahcy. Robert H. McCarter, chief of de fense counsel, in a masterly address to the jury, hinted in plain terms that Alexander Simpson, special prosecutor appointed by Governor Moore, should be disbarred.

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OCR text: WASHINGTON. Dec. 2.—The FallDoheny conspiracy trial defense to day began its effort to acquit the Elk Hills oil lease principals by placing the stamp of disapproval of the law and Government experts on their transactions. Following closing of the presecu tion against former Secretary of In terior Albert Fall and Edward L Doheny, defense attorneys placed the records of the defendants before the youthful jury. Fall “had the beginning of an Abraham Lincoln," Defense Attor ney W. J.

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OCR text: Found Near Home of Sweet heart’s Father. PRAIRIE DU CHIEN. Wis„ Dec. 2.—The body of Clara Olson, miss ing planter's daughter, has been found near the home of Albert Ol son, father of the girl's sweetheart, Erdman Olson. The girl has been missing since September, when she -left her father’s home in the middle of the night.

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OCR text: Wee Willie’s making out a list, And writing down each thing. The scribbling tells just what he wants 01’ Santa Claus to bring.

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OCR text: The Times again will provide readers with the opportunity to be Santa Claus Helpers this Christmas. Arrangements whereby The Times will obtain through the Christmas clearing house descriptions of the circumstances and needs of worthy families have been com pleted. These families will be identified by number only, the name and address being disclosed to Times readers who call The Times and ask for a family to aid. Each year The Times has operated the Santa Claus helper club the number of families provided for has increased materially.

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OCR text: If you want to wear toy handcuffs stay off the streets. This warning was issued by police today after a youth, 16, was found wearing toy handcuffs, and seized by a citizen. The citizen who called police be lieved the youth was Joe Cafee, 15, fugitive from Indiana Boys’ School, who eluded police four days.

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OCR text: MEXICO CITY. Dec. 2.—(/Ph-As sistant Master Mechanic Santillan was shot dead last night; in the de pot of the National Railway at Rin con hy a labor union representative while he was attempting to report the names of men who were refus ing to work owing to a boycott called by the mechanics' union in all the shops of the railway workers.

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OCR text: Brownsville funeral services for Capt. E. L. Reed, constable for precinct 2, who died yesterday morn ing, were conducted from the family home here yesterdav evening and the body taken to Waco for inter The services were conducted by Rev. O. C. Crow of the Methodist church. Active pallbearers were Judge George B. Brown, W. T. Vann, CW. Colgin, Tony Miltenberger Fred Kowalski and Will Mason. Accompanying the body to Waco were the widow, her daughter, Mrs. C. A. Jamison of Houston, and her son and his wife of San Benito, Mr. and Mrs. E. D.

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OCR text: TORONTO, Dec. 2.—(/P)—The prov ince of Ontario, dry for ten years, has gone wit. In elections held yester day throughout the province for the 112 seats in the legislature at least eighty members, pledged to support Premier G. Howard Ferguson’s policy for government control of the sale of spirits aid beer, were elected. Only one remote constituency remained to be heard from. On the liquor issue, Ferguson, con servative, can count on the support of four indt pendent lioeral leaders, who broke away fnm W. E. N.

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OCR text: NEW YORK. N. Y.. Dec. 2.—— Articles of arbitration were signed today by L. R. Gwyn, vice president of the American Railway Express Company, and union representatives covering a ware dispute, under nego tiation since October. 1925, affecting 65,000 express emplo

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