Newspaper from Sunday, December 5, 1926

OCR text: RUDOLPH IS PRAISED FOR HIS LONG SERVICE Betiring‘ Official Expresses Pleas ure at Being: Freed of Bur dens of Office. Sidney F. Taliaferro was inducted into office as District Commissioner yesterday afternoon, and in an in augural address marked by the ut most brevity pledged himself to give "earnest, ser'ous thought and con sideration ' to the problems of the municipal government. The new Commissioner took the oath of office shortly after 3 o’clock, scarcely less than 24 hours after his appointment had been announced by President Coolidge.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. A warning against “blindly deluding ourselves" on the subject of national defense is sounded by Secretary Davis of the War Department in his annual report, released for publication today. There has been only partial execu tion of the pl

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OCR text: Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur will be called to the witness stand tomorrow at the Fah-Doheny trial, now entering its third week, to answer why he sought to withhold from the record testimony concerning the Navy's "state secrets” of the Pa cific. regarded by counsel as of vital importance to the defense case. Following the guarded story of the Navy's plans to strengthen the strate gic importance of the Pearl Harbor base in national defense plans, given reluctantly yesterday by Capt. John K. Robison, U. S. N..

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OCR text: WILL BE READ TUESDAY Three Senators-Elect to Take Seats. Farm Relief and Taxes Are in Van for Consideration. The legislative wheels begin to grind again at noon tomorrow. The Sixty-ninth Congress opens its final session. The legislative grist is likely to he short, as short as this session. whi®h ends at noon March 4. House and Senate assemble at 12 o’clock. In both bodies the roll will be called to develop the necessary quorums.

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OCR text: After 36 Hours. Bv the Associated Press. NEW YORK. December o.—The hirv in the Morse mail frauds trial was discharged shortly after 1 o clock this morning, when, after deli' berating since 1 p.m. yesterday, it reported a ‘verdict of not guilty for two of the defendants and disagreement on the The jurors said the two men they had found not guilty were George W Burditt and Henry E. Boughton. but were unable to agree on the other four defendants. Rupert M. Much and Rerramin W.. Erwin A. and Harry F. Morse sons of Charles W. Morse.

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OCR text: Only Few Subjects Greet Royal Train as It Crosses Na tion to Capital.,,. By the Associated'Press. BUCHAREST, December 4.—Marie. JJtieen of Rumania, returned to her kingdom today after an absence of two months. 37 days of which were spent in the United States. The Queen re-entered her country at the little Jugoslavia frontier town of Jimbnlia about, midflight Friday and arrived at Bucharest in a special train sent down from the capital to meet her. She was greeted at the station by King Ferdinand and numerous court and government functionaries.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. LONDON’, December 4.—Winston f’hurchili, chancellor of the exchequer, the Sunday Express asserts, has authorized the British members of the League of Nations finance committee to consider the granting of war credits, possibly up to £10.000,000, to any member of the League which becomes a victim of aggression. The Express states that this Is in connection with the alleged proposal by France, Poland and Finland that the richer powers should pledge them selves beforehand to finance any member state unjustifiably attacked.

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OCR text: PART ONE—6O PAGES. General News —Local, National and Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Page 28. News of the Clubs —-Page 50. * Clubwomen of the Nation —Page 32. D. A. R. Activities—Page 33. Radio News and Programs—Pages 46. 47 and 48. Financial News—Pages 54, 55 and 56. PART TWO—IB PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. Washington and Other Society. Notes of Art and Artists —Page 4. Reviews of Winter Books—Page 4. Around the City—Page 8. Roy Scout News—Page 9. Girl Scouts—Page 9. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 14. The Starry Skies in December — Page 15.

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OCR text: By International News Service: ‘NEW ORLEANS, Dtec. 4—The phantom French rum schooner, Ar sene J., with two kidnaped prohi bition officials at>oard, has been sighted off the western coast of Cu ba in Yucatan channel, according to a radio message Saturday niglit from an unnamed ship. The rum runner, propelled only by the wind and tide, probably will reach Bluefield, Nicaragua, Monday or Tuesday. Whether the two cap tives, Ass'stant Dry Chief J. B. Mat thews and Coast Guardsman Handley are still alive was not known.

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OCR text: By GEORGE E. DURNO I. N. S. Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—The “yellow peril’* was dragged into the Fall-Doheny conspiracy case Satur day. Partially ignoring a secrecy in junction from Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, Justice A. A. Hoehling, pre siding over the trial of the former secretary of interior and the mil lionaire oil operator, forced Admiral J. K.

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OCR text: I. X. S. Staff Correspondent SOMERVILLE, N. J., Dec. 4—Mrs. Frances Hall, her two brothers, Willie and Henry Stevens and their cousin, Henry Carpender, are all "very happy”—happy because the dark cloud that has hung over their lives for four years has been lifted. They were freed Saturday by the state of New Jersey of all-charges that they participated in the murder of the Rev. Edward W. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, who were shot to death in DeRussey's lane on the night of Sept. 14, 1922. Judge Charles W.

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OCR text: PARIS, Dec. 4.—“Kiss, instead of shaking’ hands,” a group of French hygiene authorities has advised women. Kissing, they pointed out, de velops the facial muscles and im proves the contours of the face. , “Kiss an<i_grow beautiful,” the also the rolling of the eyes and other coquettish movements as beautiflers. Because of the sensitiveness of their countrymen and women on the subject of morals, the French scientists insist their names_ be kept secret. “We exercise all our -other muscles,” pointed out one doctor, seriously.

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OCR text: By International News Service: • ROME, Dec. 4.—The arch-dioce san consulters of Westminster cath edral have forwarded to the "Rota tribunal an ufianimous verdict in' favor of the annulment of the mar-, riage of Sen'. Guglielmo Marconi and the Hon. Beatrice O'Brien, it was learned on high authority tonight. The consulters found that the mar riage was in effect a trial marriage, both parties agreeing to separate i! they found the marriage unsatis factory, it is stated.

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