Newspaper from Friday, December 10, 1926

OCR text: Expenditure of Bulk of $50,000,- •000 Within Time Mentioned •to Be Asked of Congress. . The Public . Buildings Commission may ask,. Congress’'to spend $34,000,- 000 out .of the-total of. $.>0,000,000 Government building -program in Washington within-tlre first two years •for reasons of • economy. Senator Smoot of Utah, -chairman of the com mission, told his colleagues in u speech in the Senate this afternoon. .

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OCR text: A series of definite recommendations to be incorporated in a permanent pro gram looking toward the establish ment of world peace and the clarifying of the relationships of the United States with foreign countries was presented this morning to the Confer ence on the Cause and Cure of War by committees.

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OCR text: House wets mustered only 12 votes today-in their attack on the $11,900,- 000 appropriation for the prohibition unit carried in the Treasury-Post Office appropriation bill, but they suc ceeded in eliminating a section of the measure under which Lincoln C. An drews would have been authorized to spend $500,000 next year for under cover agents without detailed ac counting.

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OCR text: The board of trustees of the Car negie Institution of Washington at their annual meeting today at the administration building, Sixteenth and P streets, authorized a budget of $1,630,696 for next year, of which $1 ,252,116 was set apart for research activities in varied fields of science. Included in the appropriations, aside from that for research, is a substan tial sum with which the famous non magnetic yacht Carnegie will be re conditioned for a three-year cruise, possibly to be begun in 1928.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. OSLO, Norway, December 10. — The Nobel peace prize for 1925 has I been awarded to Charles G. Dawes, I Vice President of the United States, and Sir Austen Chamberlain, British secretary of foreign affairs. This an ■ nouncement was made today at a meeting, of . the, Nobel Institute .by • Prof." Stang. . * ’.. * . • V * . It w’as -alsor-annmjncejd thatthe 1926 ■ peace-■ prize - hadbeen awarded to .Aristitie Briand, - French -.minister of foreign-affairs,, atid .to Dr„-Gustav I Stresfefiiahn, .*G6rrnari£’S foreign thin jSter.

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OCR text: Life Membership Will Be Bestowed When Explorer Speaks Tonight. When Dr. Knud Rasmussen ad dresses the National Geographic So cietv this evening at the Washington I Auditorium he also will be invested ‘ with an honorary life membership in recognition of his Arctic exploration and his contributions to the world’s knowledge of the Eskimo people. Maj. Gen. A. W. Greely, U. S. A., dean of living Arctic explorers, will make the presentation.

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OCR text: cember 10 04 5 ). Three seaplanes piloted by Spanish officers left for -Casablanca today on an attempted flight to Spanish Guinea, 2,800 miles down the western coast of Africa. The planes are piloted by Com mandant Rafael Llorente, flight leader; Capt. Antonio Llorente and Capt. Ignacio Jimenez.

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OCR text: Lops Off $450,000 Taxes. A move to have the Federal Gov ernment increase its lump-sum con tribution of $9,000,000 toward District expenses until the fiscal relations are permanently settled on a more equi table basis was initiated today by offi cials of the District. Commissioner Proctor L.

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OCR text: By GEORGB E. DURNO Owen J. Roberts, Govern ment counsel, today, under cross-examination;, tried to break down E. -L, .Poheny’s story of his SIOO,OOO loan to heny ’s weakened' physical con dition, Roberts did not dis play his usual aggressive man ner of questioning. Recalls Senate Testimony Roberts led up to the high lights of the examination gradual ly. He first questioned Doheny on his testimony before the Sen ate Commitee. 4 “Is it not a you did not know when Mr. Fw was going to resign?” asked the prosecutor.

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OCR text: This is the second article of a series being written for The Wash ington Times by Ernestine Ball. Mrs. Ball is now in Los Angeles, where she is obtaining for Times readers facts never disclosed before about the most remarkable mystery of the decade, the Aimee Semple McPherson case. By ERNESTINE BALL . LOS ANGELES, Dec. 10.—“Of course I am emotional. I want to be emotional. I hope to God I’ll never be otherwise. May Lord Jesus keep me warm and emotional. May He makes my heart burn within me.” . . Aimee Semple McPherson is speaking.

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OCR text: PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis, Dec. 10. —A sensation that may transcend all developments thus far in the weird murder of Clara Olson bobbed up today in Mason City, lowa. District Attorney John S. Earll rushed to that city to obtain an affidavit from a Ma _ son City resident that may direct suspicion to a. man other than Erdman Sanford Olson, as the slayer. The man formerly worked on a farm near that of Chris Olson, Clara’s father. His amazing declarations are said to be based on secrets told him by Clara herself, whom he professes to have known well.

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OCR text: Fortune Confers on Relief Drive Plans. William Fortune, chairman of In dianapolis chapter of the American Red Cross, today conferred with Governor Jackson over long-distance telephone on plans for a State-wide appeal for funds to aid mine blast victims at Francisco, Ind. No goal was set. Jackson was In Evans ville. Fortune said Eugene C. Foster. Indianapolis, home service director, urged a State-wide appeal for funds in his report today.

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OCR text: Times Wnshinnton Bureau, 1322 Jieic York Arenue Dec. 10.—George Foland of Cro\|n Point, Ind., Rechairman of the Tenth district will receive his reward for the Huge Lake County vote which re-elected Senator James E. Watson. Foland today was recommended to President CooQdge for customs collector of the Indiana district. There had been some question as to whether he could be named collector, not being a resident of the district, but this has been cleared up la his favor. The present collector Will resign Jan.

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OCR text: Bv United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—Aroused by the possibility that election issues may usurp the attention of this Congress and force an extra session, Republican Senate leaders eet out today to quell what they term the rising political agitation of Demo crats. Senator Curtis, Republican floor leader, made known that he will move to sidetrack the two Dill reso lutlons designed to bar Senators-elect Vare (Rep.), Pennsylvania, and Smith (Rep.), Illinois, from present ing their credentials.

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OCR text: In an effort to halt merger of the two Indianapolis light cormpanies, Corporation Counsel Alvah J. Rucker will seek action in the State Su preme Court, he announced today. Rucker will appeal to that body from a decision of Circuit Court Judge Harry O. Chamberlin late Thursday, that he has no Jurisdic tion to grant an injunction to pre vent the commission from hearing the merger petition.

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OCR text: Group—3ll. United Press Dec. 10.—Ameri ca's active prohibition enforcement fenny and dry navy now number more than 18.000 employes. It was learned at the Treasury today. The Federal prohibition unit has '4,527 employes and the Coast Guard 9,193 officers and enlisted men. In addition to this force. Immigration inspectors, customs officials and other Government law officers co operate with the dry organization. Connecticut and eastern New York have more dry agents than any other prohibition district, with 808 persons on the roster.

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OCR text: Bv United Press _ MINNEAPOLIS. Minn., Dec. 10.— The annulment of the marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt and the Duke of Marlborough is to be investigated by the Federal Council of Churches, It was learned today. The largest and most '-lfluentlal interdenominationa

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OCR text: B United Press ALMA, Ga., Dec. 10.—Authori ties were convinced today that Erd man Olson, wanted in Wisconsin for the murder of his sweetheart, Clara Olson, is in the Alma County Jail. A Wisconsin detective was ex pected here to identify the youth arrested last Monday, who denies he is Olson, and says he is John Pitt man of Baltimore, Md. The latest of several alibis by “Pittman” is that he was in Jail at Westchester, N.

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OCR text: in Indiana, $76.99 Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 10-—New England—President Coolidge’s home section— Is the thriftiest section of the country. Per capita savings deposits there were $484.82 on June 30, 1926, Con troller of the Currency Mclntosh said to Congress today In This annual report. Massachusetts led with a per cap ita of $534.62. while Vermont. Cool ldge’s home State, ran a close sec ond with $511.39* The Middle West ern States had less savings than any other section.

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OCR text: NEW YORK, Dec. 9.-—Automo biles that will run 50 miles on five cents worth of almost any kind of i fuel oil and no gasoline were pre dicted as a development of the next five years by members of the Ameri can Society of Engineers in session here Thursday. Diesel engine designers, it was claimed, are upon the verge of a long-contemplated development by which they expect to put gasoline filling stations in the same limbo with livery stables.

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OCR text: Federal court was recessed in Brownsville this morning by Judge Duval West until Monday morning gen where he will visit his son, Duval West, Jr., before returning to his home in San Antonio. Court was recessed without fur ther reports having been made by the grand jury which has not return ed an indictment in a day and a half. It cannot report during the absence of a judge and no indictments can be returned until the arrival here on Monday of Judge J. C. Hutcheson of Houston. Judge West has been sitting on the bench here ir.

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OCR text: WASH INTON. P. C., Dec. 10.—fi'P*— The world’s gold stock stands at $9,509,793,000 of which the United States has $4,108,696,000, or almost half. Comptroller of tne Currency Mc Intosh disclosed in his annual report to congress today. ' -Great Britain and France

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OCR text: FORT WORTH, Tsn«s.N>cc. 10 — M*)—Alleging that house ran over him, U. G. Reed, today filed a 15,000 damage suit against G. W. Bird in district court. The petition explains that Bird is a house mover and Reed was his employe on September 20. On that date, Reed a

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OCR text: Dr. W. J. Vinsant of San Benito was elected president of the Cam eron County Medical Society at the business meeting following a ban quet in El Jardin hotel Thursday evening. Dr. J. Garitty Church ot Brownsville was elected vice-presi* dent and Dr. J. A. Crockett of H«i» 1 ingen and Dr. C. M. Cash of San Benito were elected secretary and treasurer, respectively. A program was also given during the evening. Dr. W. E. Nesbit of San Benito gave a talk on "Heart Failure in So-called Acute Indi gestion-" Dr. J.

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