OCR text: to President Tommorow. The new Public Utilities Cnnnnis- } sion bill, the first piece of District legislation to be enacted in the ses1 sion of Congress that opened today,
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OCR text: Removal of Present Price Limit on Acquiring Land for City Is Advocated to Lawmakers. Enactment of legislation that will place the fiscal relations between the ►Federal and District Government on a permanent and equitable basis and a law to bring about a merger of the street railway systems is urged by the District Commissioners in they an nual report, transmitted to the Capitol today with the convening of Congees;:.
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OCR text: By the Associated Press. GENEVA, December 6-Germany will make a determined effort before her delegates leave Geneva to secure a definite agreement upon an early date for cessation of the interallied military control. This declaration was made to the Associated Press today by a membfr of the German delegation at the end of the first meeting of the forty-third session of the League of Nations Council.
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OCR text: to Probe 1921 Situation. BY J. RUSSELL KENNEDY. Bv Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily TOK.IO, December 6.—Not in 20 vears has the public here, both Jap anese and foreign, been so startled as by the reports, cabled Jiere from Washington giving details of the dis closures during the Doheny trial. The Japanese nation has been pro foundly shocked.
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OCR text: By the Associated Press. BUCHAREST, Rumania, December i 6.—King Ferdinand today underwent an operation shortly after the return I of Queen Marie from her tour of the United States. His physicians anI nounced that the operation was most successful. The operation was not a dangerous one. His physicians said the King would be able to leave his bed within a. few days.
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OCR text: By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES. December 6. —Learning as he lay on an oper ating table, ready to undergo a surgical operation that he was to bo deposed as Governor of the Province of Jujuy, Gov. Yillafane hurriedly left, the table, went to tho station and took a train for home. There is a constitution! provision I in Argentina that a governor who is without legal authorization to remain away from his post over a stated period automatically loses his position.
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OCR text: Reporting that millions bf dollars wore being expended illegally under the present system, which "tends to weaken control by law and to eneour age disregard of limitations and direc tions" by Congress, Controller GenI oral of the United States McCarl today , re
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OCR text: The Government’s oil counsel ' won another point in their long I legal battle today when the Su preme Court refused to grant Harry F. Sinclair and Albert B. i Fall any relief from the criminal proceedings pending against them. These proceedings are somewhat similar to the case against Fall and Edward L. Doheny. now on trial here, except that in the Sin clair case the lease involved is that by which the Sinclair inter ests took over Teapot Dome. When Owen J.
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OCR text: . CABIN” By E. J. RATH Author of "The Nervous Wreck," etc. Billy Traak was hired to be sick. And for a while he enjoyed the sea voyage he was taking fn place of bis old college chum. But how could he stay in that ailly wheelchair when The Girl in the Second Cab
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OCR text: Congress Si urgently re quested to enact legislation at this: session to place the fiscal reiaiSon* of the District and Federal governments on a fg anA/les-88 1 < WB **•. s 'it.' mitted today. The Commissioners also request Congress to enact legislation to bring about a merger of the street raßway systems; to repeal the Borland law relative to assessing costs of roadway paving; to au thorise the elimination of remain ing grade crossings, and to per<i mit the reconstruction of bridges to meet the conditions of modern traffic.
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OCR text: “Put 'era up!” Startled by this command at 5:15 o'clock this morning, Jacob Hinkle, 3915 Kansas Ave., was robbed by three bandits, who stole $1,250, <which he carried. Hinkle was enroute from his home to his bakery at 1323 Seventh St. N. W. . The robbery took p
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OCR text: By GEORGE R. HOLMES Congress came back to work, today—the same Congress that; was given such a shaking up! at the polls a month ago. It faces a veritable moun tain of problems, with only 12 scant Weeks in which" to solve them, and the opinion was general among
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OCR text: Another conspiracy trial, growing out of the * ‘ oil scan dals” was assured today, when the Supreme Court held that Ex-Secretary of the Albert B. Pall and iiSatry F. Sinclair, oil magnate, must stand trial on the indictment growing out of Pall’s lease of Teapot Dome to Sinclair. New Trial Looms Fall is now on trial for con spiracy in connection with the lease of Elk Hills reserve to Ed ward L. Doheny. Today’s decision means that as soon as the present trial is ended, Fall in all probability will be brought to trial again with Sin clair.
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OCR text: By International News Service BOSTON, Dec. 6. —Lydia Lind gren, grand opera star, known as the “Swedish nightingale,” whose two great fears have been death and darkness, swallowed a dose of poison in her suit at the fashion able Copeley Plaza Hotel early to day. Then, gathering her baggage and personal papers together, she tele phoned for a' taxicab. Emergency treatment adminis tered at . City Hospital by Dr. Rob ert Coleman, probably saved the life of the famous song bird. No reason was given for her taking the poison.
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OCR text: By GEORGE E. DURNO The general policy of pre paring against possible inva sion from the Pacific was im portant at the time E. L. Do heny, millionaire oil operator, contracted to build a huge oil storage plant at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, “and it is important now.” Capt. J. K. Robison, U. S. N.. retired, made this statement to-; day on the witness stand in the conspiracy trial of Doheny and former Secretary of the In terior Albert B. Fall, in de fense of the Pearl Harbor con tract which the Government is attacking as tainted with fraud.
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OCR text: ALBERT B. FALL if* COPYRIGHT BY HARRIS A KWING HARRY F. SINCLAIR THK SUPREME COURT today decided that former Secretary of the Interior .Albert B. Fall and Harry F. Sinclair, oil millionaire, must stand trial on the Teapot Dome oil lease conspiracy charges. Fall now is being tried with Ed ward L.
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OCR text: Bu United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 6.—-Caught in a bewildering blizzard of politics and legislation, the Sixty-Ninth Con gress ushered In Us final three months' session here today with ac customed ceremonies. Flurries of perplexing questions of taxation, prohibition, radio, farm re lief policies and presidential aspira tions swept about the Capitol like yesterday's sleet and snow.
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OCR text: Bu United Press ST. PAUL, Minn.. Dec. 6.—Bur glars blew two safes In a depart ment store here ana escaped early today with $50,000 in Christmas re ceipts. The robbery was discovered when the watchman failed to make his cus tomary rounds. He said he had been han
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OCR text: Bu United Press GARY, Ind., Dec. 6.—Alex Bank ski, 65, was found frozen to death in his box board shack on the banks of the Little Calumet River, near here Sunday, winter's first vic tim in this vicinity. The body was found by a friend. Authorities believe Bankskl died Thursday night. Bankskl, a mg picker, lived alone in his flimsy little shack. His body was but/ partially clad when found.
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OCR text: * Acting upon a letter from Gov ernor William J. Feilds of Ken tucy, Secretary of State Frederick Schortemeier has suggested that a conference be held In Louisville, Ky., either Dec. 30 or Jan. i2, in an effort to get Kentucky to join other Middle Western States In settling the “border warfare” on automobile li censes.
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OCR text: A committee to prepare resolutions dealing with efforts of the organiza tion to push the passage ot/the bar her license law in the coming Legis lature was appointed at the opening of the first annual convention of the Associated Master Barbers of Indi ana at the Severin this morning. The law provides for the national licensing of barbers and will be pro posed before the Legislatures of all States, declared L. E. Mcllvain, gen eral secretary of the Associated Bar bers of America. Dr, P. Montford of Des Moines, lowa, gave a.
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OCR text: for Time to Strike. Bu United Press TUCSON. Ariz.. Dec. 6.—Adolfo de la Huerta, one time provisional president of Mexico, asserted here today he was "marking time” for an opportunity to go into Mexico and assume charge of an uprising. Although the Mexican consu
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OCR text: William Anderson Bitten While Scuffling With Owner. William Anderson, 50, of the Craig Hotel, said today any one he scuf fles with in the future will not be the owner of a dog. While scuffling with Strader Young, 440% E. Washington St., at the Young home Sunday
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OCR text: Bu Times Rnecial WARSAW, Ind.', Dec. 6.—The Kosciusko County grand jury may investigate the mysterious poisoning of thirteen school children at Mt. Tabor school, Prosecutor Morrison Rockhill Intimated today. Rockhlll has secured school rec ords and is making an Intensive check to see if any of the pupils or their parents have any enemies. One incident being investigated is the entering of the sehoolhouse last October. School books were ma liciously torn up. The children, who recovered, Were poisoned when they drank water from a well at the sehoolhouse.
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OCR text: Bu United Press HENDERSON, Ky„ Dec. 6—Ed ward Powell, 50, farmer, was ar rested here on charges of murder ing Elmer Yates, 22. Powell was re leased under SI,OOO bond. Police an nounced that Powell and Mrs. Yates admitted being/ “friendly.” Charred remains of Ya
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OCR text: After 14 years of bickering and stalling, the common council late today is expected to pass Milwau kee’s latest street renaming ordi A poll of the council shows that the opposition has been reduced to only seven votes and 13 are needed to block the measure. The
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OCR text: LEAVENWORTH. Kansas. Dec. 6. ——Captain J. T. Taylor. 85, grandson of General William Henry Harrison and last surviving officer of the wartime staff of General Wil liam TSherman, died last night at the national military home here. For Brownsville and the Lower Rio Grande Valley: Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and Tuesday, possibly with showers; not much change in temperature. For East Texas: Occasional rains tonight and Tuesday; warmer in northwest portion tonight, and in west and north portions Tuesday.
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Front pages that day led with: “UTILITIES BOARD \ BILE ADVANCES”; “EQUITABLE FISCAL • RELATIONS ARE AIM OF COMMISSIONERS”; “FAIR FISCAL PLAN IST URGED”; “3 BANDITS “STICK-UP" HER FOR MO”; “CONGRESS OPENS TO LEGISLATIVE, POLITICAL MAZE”; “STORE BANDITS . TAKE SSOfIOO”. Each story above is quoted from the original page.
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