Newspaper from Thursday, December 9, 1926

OCR text: CALLED FRIENDLY ACT Magnate Preceded on Stand by Wife and Son Telling of Aid Given Secretary, Describing in graphic fashion the patriotic appeal made to him by the hen Rear Admiral J. K. Robison, chief of naval engineers, Edw'ard L. Do heny, co-defendant with Albert B.

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OCR text: Action to Be Taken in Massachu -9 setts Situation Also Is Undetermined. BV G. GOULD LINCOLN. War on the seating of Senators elect William S. Yu re of Pennsylvania anti Frank L. Smith of Illinois opened in the Senate today. Resolutions were offered by Senator Dill of Washington, a Democrat, di recting officials of the Senate to de cline to receive the credentials of either Vare or Smith, on the giound that, by excessive expenditures of money in their primary campaigns, they had disqualified themselves.

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OCR text: Because its antiquated equipment, dating back to the time of President Grant, is not only so out of date, but so inadequate as to “make things dangerously unsafe,” the cash room bf the United States Treasury here, which in reality is the headquarters “bank” for the richest nation in the world, W'ould be entirely remodeled with the latest banking facilities un der an appropriation reported favor ably to Congress by the House ap propriations committee.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. TIRANA, Albania, December 9. 1 The treaty of friendship and security • between Albania and Italy, subject of censure in Jugoslavia, has been rati iied by the Albanian Chamber. Alliance Plans Denied. i ’ ROME, December 9 UP).—S’emi-offl cial denial was given today to the re , port through Vienna yesterday that Premier Mussolini had suggested to I the Jugoslavian minister in Rome that Jugoslavia negotiate 4 treaty with Al bania similar to that negotiated by Italy. The premier has not even seen the Jugoslav minister, it was-stated.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. PEKING, December 9.—The popu lace of the city of Sianfu, capital of Shensi province, is resorting to canni balism to ward off starvation as the result of being besieged for months because of factional fighting. This In formation is contained in dispatches received here quoting a Chinese refu-, gee who made his way past the lines of the besieged city and entered. The streets of Sianfu are strewn with dead. The natives have been robbed of all foodstuffs by soldiers. There were 19 foreigners in the city at last reports.

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OCR text: Out of Pit. By the Associated Press. PRINCETON, Ind., December 9. Rescue crews at noon today predicted that the dead in the explosion early this morning in Francisco mine No. 2, might total 20. They based their con clusion on the fact that only one-half of the 69 men who were in the shaft when the explosion occurred had been brought to the surface. The rescue forces were adhering to the rule of their training—to disre gard the dead until all the wounded I had been removed and given medical I attention.

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OCR text: The bill authorizing the purchase of all the private land in the triangle between Pennsylvania avenue and B street for the development of public buildings was offered in the Senate today by Chairman Smoot of the Public Buildings Commission. An identical bill was introduced also in the House today by Represen tative Underhill of Massachusetts, who originally proposed the measure four years ago. The bill will be con sidered in committee next Wednesday.

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OCR text: By the Associated Pres*. HARRISBURG, Pa., December 9. Kenneth Ormiston, missing radio op erator, wanted in connection with the Airaee Semple McPherson kidnaping case in Los Angeles, left here this morning for Chicago in company with Charles Ell wood and Harry Donnelly, private detectives, of Chicago, accord ing to Chief of Police Joseph Thomp son. Ormiston, in company of the two detectives, left the Penn-Harris Ho tel, where # the trio spent the night, in an automobile.

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OCR text: * Quiz on Other States. Bu United Pro** WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—De termination of the course to be pursued in probing senatorial elec tions in Indiana, Illinois, Penn sylvania, Massachusetts and Maine, will-be settled tomorrow by the Reed special Senate investigating com mittee No decision was reached at a meeting of the committee today. The corrupt elections issue was thrown before the Senate today when Senator Bill (Demo.), Washing ton, introduced a resolution to bar Senator-elect William S.

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OCR text: Almost imiuoUate return of the Marion County grand jury to the probe of alleged graft and corrup tion in Indiana politics was forecast today when Deputy Prosecutor Wil liam H. Sheaffer announced that the probe body will complete its Insti tutional visits and the investiga tion of jail cases within tiie next few days. Judge James A. Collins of Crim inal Court asked the jury to report on these matters by Dec. 22.

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OCR text: There comes a time in the best regulated families when father, comfortably settled for an after dinner session of the “hot stove league” or more Sedate perusal of the editorial columns, tosses his paper high in the air, grips a handful of hair and ejacu lates in desperation; “Won’t you kids ever stop that racket?” Hearken ye desperate daddies! You hold in your hand—or did before you tossed it in the air—the solution to the problem. Get the kids interested in the Tinymites—the lat est addition to The Times Family.

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OCR text: BU United Press ** PRINCETON, Ind., Dec. 9.—Thirteen are known dead and little hope is held out for rescue alive of ten others en trapped by an explosion at the Francisco mine No. 2 this afternoon. At 2 p. m. forty-eight miners had been taken from

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OCR text: Disappointment in Indiana’s re fusal to unseat Senator James E. Watson and reactionism in the last election; doubt as to whether or not the votes were honestly counted, and a crocodile tear for the political pass ing of Clyde Walb were registered by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, New York City, spokesman for American lib eralism, in an interview with The Times Wednesday night. Dr. Wise was in Indianapolis to address a ladies night gathering and Klwanis Club dinner at the Columbia Club, where he spoke on the sub ject, ‘‘ls Life Worth Living?” “Many of us,” Dr.

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OCR text: CANTON, Ohio, Dec. 9.—Just be fore the court adjourned for the noon recess today another full jury had been tentatively selected to hear the evidence against Patrick McDermott, on trial here for the mur der of a Canton newspaper editor, Don R.-Mellett, who was shot down on the nijfrit of last July 16 by un derworld assassins. With the seating of the twelfth tentative talesman. seventy-eight prospeettive jurors had been called in.

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OCR text: A breath from --sunny Florida wafted over the city hall today when Mayor Duvall signed an ordinance to transfer SI,BOO to the city plan commission to defray costs of a jun ket the commission enjoyed to the national plan convention in Miami. City Controller William C. Buser had withheld payment of members’ expenses for many months, but city council celebrated its burial of the hatchet with the plan body Monday night by adopting an ordinance for the transfer.

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OCR text: Bu United Pres* HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 9.—Ken neth G. Ormiston, the long-hunted radio operator in the Aimee Semple McPherson kidnaping case, was found here during the night, arrest ed. and today started back to Cali fornia, where he is wanted as a fugitive from justice. Ormiston was traced for weeks over the country. From one place to another. Finally last night of ficers caught up with him here in a modest apartment, where he said he had been living for some time, under an assumed name, but mak ing practically no other effort to cover his identity.

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OCR text: Trial of cases inw hich defendants plead guilty were in progress in federal court today. Everything from small fines to heavy jail sentences were being as sessed by Judge Duval West upon convictions. The heaviest fine of the morning Celso Sanchez of Hidalgo county, He was charged with possessing 36 quarts of tequila and was arrested on June 26. He waived trial by jury. He was left the alternate of serving four months in jail instead of pay ing the fine/ Charges against many were dis missed.

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OCR text: Nathaniel Hawthorne junior high school is in a triple tie with two oth er San Antonio junior high schools, Mark Twain and Thomas Nelson Page, and is unable to accept the challenge issued by Brownsville ju nior high, according to word received here by Robin Pate, local coach. Th?re are eight junior highs in San Antonio and the championship will not be decided in Class A until the Christmas holidays.

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OCR text: Three' boys have been arrested by John Armstrong, lieutenant of po lice, and placed in jail awaiting trial befort Judge Oscar C. Dancy in Juvenile court on a charge of enter ing and robbing Gareia-Gomez & C-ompany at the corner of Eleventh and Adams Streets. The • boys are charged with taking $15 out of the cash register. All three boys are said by Mr. Armstrong to have made confes sions. This makes ten boys arrested within the last week on various I charges and awaiting trial before Judge Dancy who is out of the city.

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