Newspaper from Monday, December 13, 1926

OCR text: JUSTICE” FROM JURY !U. S. Counsel Insists' Fall and Doheny “Conspired Corruptly'* With Federal Functions. I'harping that “a myriad of overt acts" runs through the evidence given l at the trial of Albert It. Fall and Krt ward 1,. Ilohenv, Owen .1. Roberts. special Government counsel, in his jopening argument today told the jury that the performance of a single overt fact was suflicient to sustain the Gov ernment's contention of conspiracy against the two defendants. Mr.

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OCR text: John W. Caldwell, 68. Sol diers’ Home Inmate, Tries to End Life. John W. Caldwell. 88 years old, a veteran of three wars, shot and prob ably fatally wounded himself at 10:30 o'clock this morning on the landing of an inside hallway forming a re cess just off Statuary Hull, in the Capitol. ’ Guards heard a pistol shot and rushed toward the stops, only to find a. prostrate form with a .32-caliber revolver lying by its side. The in jured man, with a bullet wound near the base of the brain, was taken to Casualty Hospital, where his death is expected.

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OCR text: Countries in Ambassadors' Council to Send Expert to Handle Prob lems Under Agreement. i * B.v ill® Associate'] Press. . GENEVA, December 13.—TnieralI lied control of Gemini n armaments is to cease January 3t next, and in its place the League of Nations, by means of commissions, will ascertain whether Germany is carrying: i out the conditions for disarmament , laid down in the Versailles treaty. This decision was reached by tbe foreign ministers in session here out side the meetings of the council of the League of Nations.

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OCR text: By the Aswv 'ated Press. PARI.S. December 13. The po lice have advised Jacques Misler to give up his radio set. Misler was loafing about his Paris fiat while it was raining hard outside. He was bored wdth everything and lonely. Finally, he says, in desperation he turned on the radio to hear what the Eiffel Tower had to offer in it.- broad cast. While listening some friends telephoned and he accepted their invitations to meet thorn at a cor ner case for a card game. Coming home two hour:? later. Misler heard voices in his apart ment.

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OCR text: The Bureau of the Budget returned i to the Public Utilities Commission tolay the bill designed to facilitate a i merger of the Washington Railway and Electric Co. and the Capital I Traction Co. The measure bore the bureau’s approval, and arrangements were made by Earl V. Fisher, cxecu tive secretary of the commission, to send it to Congress immediately. Coincident with this action.

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OCR text: delphia to Lancaster. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, December 13 - Six masked bandits with sawed-off ' shotguns held up and robbed three I wholesale jewelers of $39,280 in cash, diamonds and jewelry here today. Israel .Zieger, his son, Simon, and Jacob J. Cohen, the men robbed, were on their way to Lancaster w ith a con signment of gems for a store there. They had started under cover of dark ness, believeing it would be safer.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. AUSTIN. Tex., December 13. Characterizing officials of the Farmers National Bank at Buda. as “saps” for allowing her to rob them of neat ly SI,OOO Saturday, Miss Rebecca Bradley, 22-year-old stenographer, to day waited at her mother’s home here while the authorities sought to determine whether $5,000 bond* was sufficient for her release on a charge of robbery with firearms.

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OCR text: Reinforcements Unnecessary. Ad miral Asserts Upon His Arrival in Panama. B.v the Associated Pres®. PANAMA, December 13. —Rear .Ad miral .Julian L. Latimer. commander of the United States special service squadron in Nicaraguan waters, lias arrived here, He says it is his opinio® that it will not be necessary to in crease the American naval force in Nicaraguan waters for the protection of American lives and property. He deems the four ships there at present ' sufficient.

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OCR text: This is the fourth article of a series being sent from Loe A .tgelcs to The Washington Times by Ernestine Ball. Mrs. Ball has become an intimate friend of Aimee Semple McPherson, and is obtaining for .Times readers new disclosures about the remarkable case. By ERNESTINE BALL i LOS ANGELES, Dee. 13.—Love of woman tor man. Love that has made her leave her gods and her temples and her - homie and her chiltjren I -■ I challenged'Aimee'with that.

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OCR text: By International News Service PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis., Dec. 13.—Suspicion of com plicity in the slaying of Clara Olson, 22 turned again today toward the household of Erd man Olson, 16, her sweetheart (not a relative), following damaging admission by Edwin Knutson, a farmhand.

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OCR text: A story of months of unsuccessChristmas approaching bringing only blank despair, was told to police today by Roy Sylvester Preb bits. 22. of 1312 Sixth St. S. W., arrested late labt night after ho had attempted to hold up the night clerk of the Plaza Hotel. Prebbes, who said ne had former ly worked in the parcel post de-, partment of Union Station, told police he had lost his job four months ago and that all efforts to obtain employment were unavailing. Last night he took a small auto matic revolver and entered the Plaza Hotel. J. Frank O’Brien, 28.

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OCR text: Hung up the baby's stocking! ’ Be sure you don't forget; For the dear little dimpled darling ’ Has never seen Christmas yet.

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OCR text: to Bedside. Bv Timet BveeinX _ ANDERSON, Ind., Dec. 13.—Ed Toner, editor of the Anderson Her ald and twice candidate for the Re publican nomination for Governor, is seriously ill at his home here. Miss Jane Toner, his daughter, has returned from an eastern school and William, a son, has been re called from Europe. Toner is one of the best known editors In the State. He came to Anderson as a reporter on the Herald in 1896. Six years later, he and another employe, Charles Neff, purchased the paper and have been operating it every since.

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OCR text: Governor Jackson today lssutod an official proclamation calling upon the people of the State to aid tha Red Cross In Its drive to raise $60,000 for relief of Princeton mine disaster suffered. Contributions already total $1,508. Indianapolis chapter Red Cross of ficials announced. Principal donors were: Kingan & Cos., $250, and Larz Whitcomb, Tyler L. Andrews, J. K. Lilly, Arthur V. Brown and William Fortune, SIOO each. According to Red Cross officials, over sixty families are in need of immediate relief.

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OCR text: Bv Timet Koeeial BLOOMFIELD, Ind., Dec. 13. Coroners of two counties today were investigating what is believed to have been the murder of Otis Ca hall, 55, farmer. The body of Cahall, missing since Sept. 5, was found on a farm near Worthington Sunday afternoon. The skull was reported crushed. Cahall, a bachelor, who lived in Owen County, near the Green, was last seen alive with Samuel Sills, and Russell Gravemeier. After Cra hall’s disapearance, both were ques tioned but were released.

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OCR text: Specific details of a proposal to re duce the city's light bill from $400,000 to $250,000 annually were expected to day when Harley L. Clarke, Chicago utilities magnate, was to appear be fore the board of works. Clarke, listed as a stockholder of the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company, is appearing before the board as representative of the sup posedly rival company, the Mer chants Heat and Light Company, which has the city lighting contract.

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OCR text: County Treasurer Edward Ram say was temporarily enjoined, in an order given today by Special Judge Lew Wallace In Circuit Court, from using for his private benefit interest on Barrett law funds. The decision, predicted Saturday, constituted a victory for Corpora tion Counsel Alvah J, Rucker, who is suing not only to prevent Ram say from using interest from the funds, but also to collect more than SBOO,OOO from former treasur ers and their heirs, which, it is alleged, they seured na interest on such Barrett law money.

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OCR text: Oolitic. Bv Times Special BEDFORD, Ind., Dec. 13.—Cause of an explosion which set fire to and destroyed tlie three-story storeroom of the Indiana Limestone Company at Oolitic, near here, Sunday after noon was sought today. Loss was estimated at SIOO,OOO. The explosion occurred in the elec tric repair shop, where a quantity of varnish was stored.

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OCR text: Bv United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—The Government won a string of victories in the Fall-Doheny oil conspiracy trial today when Justice Hoehling rejected the defense request for a directed verdict of acquittal of the defendants, and then overruled twenty-two of forty-eight defense re quests for special instructions to the jury. Three other defense requests for the picturesque oil millllonaire, E. L. Doheny, and his friend, former Secretary Albert Fall, were deferred.

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OCR text: Dick Miller’s all-State Indiana High School football selections appear in The Times sport section today. Miller, keen analysts of football ability, widely known foot ball official and former coach, travelled 3,500 miles up and down Indiana during the football season to observe teams in action. His selections this year represent, to an unusual degree, judgment based upon actual observation of men on the field. The all-State college teams picked by Miller several weeks ago have been highly commended by men who know football.

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OCR text: As From Minnesota Found beside the Milwaukee road tracks, south of the North Milwau kee station, last night, the body of a man, evidently killed when struck by a train, was identified today by Coroner Henry Qrundman. From cards found in his pocket it was learned that he was J. E. Rynkowski, 42, whose home was given as 864 East Broadway, Winona, Minn. He carried a card issued by Local No.

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OCR text: BENTON, 11l. —Climaxed by the murder of Mayor Joe Adams of West City, southern Illinois gang warfare, which has raged for months in half a dozen counties of this section, to day sent law-abiding citizens into a state of expectancy—awaiting what they fear will be the bloodiest fight ing yet manifest. Mayor Adams was killed in the doorway of his home yesterday when two men called him out and in plain sight of half dozen witnesses shot him down.

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OCR text: PITTSBURGH, Pa—The under world of the borough of Wilmer ding has voiced its disapproval of the activities of its “raiding con stable” by murdering him. Harry J. Davenport. 58, chief of the Westinghouse Airbrake Co.’s po lice force of 100 men, and a consta ble of Wilmerding, was Shot and killed at midnight in front of bis home.

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OCR text: A resident of the United States since March 15, 1880, Mrs. Pauline Dumke, a native of Germany, to day appeared before Federal Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger to apply for naturalization. Mrs. Dumke was 1 year old at the time she became a resident of this country. She is employed as a maid in the home of Mrs. Lillian Vau Scojr, 545 Terrace Ave., widow of A. T. Van Scoy, former International Har vester Co.

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OCR text: Before Storm. Facing the prospect of a 40-mile gale and zero weather, crews of Pere Marquette carferries 18, 20 and 22, and the tug, Conrad Starke, are to undertake the huge task of trans ferring 22 freight cars loaded with merchandise, from carferry 18, which hit the rocks off Fox Point in a heavy fog at 1:30 a. m. today. A coast guard crew is standing by, ready to aid the crew of 45 men aboard the ferry. Wireless reports from the ship were that the engine room was flooded.

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OCR text: HOUSTON, Te,x, Dec. 13.—(An - Mary Eloisc Buchanan. 10, third vic tim of an alcohol explosion in her home last Wednesday, died Sunday. The girl, her brother Charles, 4, and Erline Madeline Owens, 5, wrere burned when a can of alcohol explod ed while the children were trying to light a fife in the kitchen stove at the Buchanan home.

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OCR text: TEXARKANA. Texas, Dec. IS.—***! —Mrs. W. T. Russell, 66. was accidentally shot and killed late Sunday afternoon by her husband. 76, at their home near Mount Pleasant Texas. The aged man had been sit ting at a window with a .32 calibre target rifle in his hands shooting at some woodoeckers that had been injuring his fruit trees. When he started to put the gun .away, he stumbled over n rug in the room, the rifle discharging. v-. H"«|e* Rtruck Mrs. Russell in' the heart. She died instantly. jS .

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OCR text: Indictments naming four teen Willacy county residents, among them Sheriff Raymond Teller, County Attorney R. F. Robinson, and other officials, were turned in by the grand

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OCR text: CORPUS CHBIRTI. Texas. Dec. 13. (A*>—Trial of Frank H. Bonner. 28. San Antonio radio engineer, charged with the slaying of J. ABarnes. 47, and his son Jessie, 7, victims of the three year old Corpus Christi bomb mystery, today was set by District Judge A. W. Cunningham for Janu i ary .1. The judge ordered a special venire of 108 men. Bonner came into the courtroom accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Dor othy Bonner, who is the daughter and sister of the victims. “Not guiltv," he pleaded in tone barely audible beyond the railing. Mrs.

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