Newspaper from Tuesday, December 14, 1926

OCR text: By Radio to The Star ami Chicago Daily New#. (Copyright. 1 fi'.’ti. i HAYAMA. Japan, December 14. Six physicians pre now working hero ieally with oxygsn and by other arti ficial means to sustain the spark of life within the body of Emperor Yoshi hito, who.is critically ill of pneumonia at the Summer palace here. The morning official bulletin gave the pa tient’s temperature as 102.3 degrees Fahrenheit, pulse 118 and respira tion 26. Prince Regent Hirohito canceled en gagements ho had in Tokio and will remain at Hayama indefinitely.

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OCR text: There will be a sudden change i se!. which will send tlie tempera tore below freezing tonight—to a minimum of about 24. It may even go lower. The told is coming broadside on iho .Middle Atlantic States from the Middle West. Tt came out of Saskatche wan yesterday, spread over the northern Rocky .Mountain region, and immediately started. East. The mercury stood at 4X at noon. During the afternoon it will go 1 down a trifle even under the warm sun.

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OCR text: I Third Seriously Hurt When Car Turns Over in Florida. MIAMI. Fla., December 14 (/P). — i Two men were killed and another suffered serious injuries when the au tomobile in which they were riding !in Coral Gables today turned over I three times. Charles Stewart, driver, and an un identified companion died at a hos i pital shortly afterward, while W. J. i Wardcastle, another occupant of the I machine, was in a critical condition, i All were carpenters, in middle age, on their way to work.

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OCR text: Federal employes in the District will receive a half holiday Christ - i mas eve. ' known today that he intends to i follow the custom of permitting the employes to be excused from their work that afternoon. There will he no executive order issued, but the President will instruct depart- , ment and bureau heads to excuse all those employes whose services i will not be needed.

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OCR text: DUE TO SLUMP IN COTTON , Ministerial Body in Heated Debate i Over Proposal for Government to Enter Market. ‘ By the Associated Press. LONDON, Decemnei 14.—A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Cairo, Egypt. says the slump in cotton threatens a ministerial crisis. The correspondent says there was a four-hour heated debate in the cham ber Monday regarding the suggestion that the government enter the cotton market. He adds he understands that i the cabinet is against tho suggestion, but that a majority of the members of the chamber favor it.

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OCR text: Off Iceland. Lloyd's dispatch from Reykjavik, Ice land. says the Norwegian steamer Bal holm has been totally wrecked at Akrar, Faxe Bay. and the crew and passengers drowned. No details arc given. Huge Forest Fires Rage. NOVOROSSISK. Russia, December 14 (A*). —T

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OCR text: West Suffering From Blizzards ami Colli. ClJIi AGO', December 14 (A 3 ).— Bit- • ter Winter swept into the Eastern half of the country today from West- > ern States struggling in the grip of ' zero weather and deep-drifted snows. Swirling winds bore the cold wave J across the ' Mississippi Valley and tlung it in a broad fan that brushed the Atlantic seatxiard and reached to the Gulf Coast.

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OCR text: PAPERS WITH TREATY ■ Cuban and Costa Rican Publica tions Said to Contain Text of Pending Pact. By the Associated Press. PANAMA, December 14. —Several copies of El Heraldo de Cuba of Hat ana and of the December issue of Re portorio Americano, a Costa Rican publication, have been confiscated by the police while being distributed by f news vendors.

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OCR text: dynamite, are now made out of sawdust and common mill waste, transformed into “wood flour.” Harry H. Steidle, of the national committee on wood utilization, Depart ment of Commerce, is Busy finding new uses for sawdust*

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OCR text: A constitutional convention for In diana, or a special election for a State income tax amendment are to be among the proposals made to the coming session of the legislature by the Indiana Farm Bureau Federa tion, according to Secretary L. L. Needier. Tho federation feels that the ln cofne tax proposal is most equitable, but that it never can be passed at a regular election. It was on the bal lot at the election this fall, but failed to muster many votes.

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OCR text: Bu United Preaa WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Albert B. Fall and E. L. Doheny were pic tured today to the jury, which will decide whether they conspired to de fraud the Government, both as plot ters who indulged in “dirty busi ness’’ and tried to hide behind the United States flag, and as brilliant patriots. Owen J. Roberts, closing his argu ment for the Government, ridiculed what he termed the defense’s story that “some admiral tiptoeing arc and with a war scare in his pocket’’ went to Doheny and said, "Let’s save the country—here, take this lease.’’ Frank J.

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OCR text: Candidates Face Six Doctors at Examination. Seventy-nine young men today faced a battery of six physicians, who scanned them to determine whether they are physically fit to become city policemen. The aspirants reported at 9 a. m. at city council chamber, where they took the civil service physical exami nation. The test will continue Wednesday. The number was chosen from more than 150 persons. Many of the origi nal list were eliminated after investi gation by city detectives because of past records and because they were considered too old for service.

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OCR text: First of Year. Ground will be broken for the new Shortridge High School at ThirtyFourth and Meridian Sts. the first of the year, providing plans to he submitted to the school board to night are approved, it was announced today by Ure M. Frazer, business manager. In thd event plans are accepted, bids will be advertised Wednesday. Program for the 1927 elementary school building program will be for mulated.

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OCR text: Need olj help at Princeton, Ind., where thirty-two men in Francisco mine No. 2 perished following an explosion last week, is greater than was thought at first, it was reported today by Eugene C. Foster, director of homo service for the Indianapolis Red Cross Chapter, who lias Just re turned from tho scene of the dis aster. To date $2,701.56 has been received by the local Red Cross for relief work, but much more is needed, Wil liam Fortune, chairman, stated. lie pointed out that all relief money must come from Indiana, as other States are not aiding.

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OCR text: Praise of the work of the late Dr. Eliza A. Blaker, president of the Teachers’ College of Indianapolis, and superintendent of the Indian apolis Free Kindergarten, is con tained in resolutions of regret adopt ed by trustees of the kindergarten, Mrs. Jane Cunningham, chairman, t*aid.

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OCR text: dition to 1927 Rate. The State Supreme Court today ordered that a 4 mills increase in the 1326 city sanitary district levy be added to the 1927 levy which is pay able in 1928. Asa result of the ruling, John J. Brown, State tax board chairman, said he w'ould go before the Legis lature and ask amendment of the budget law, so as to make the levy figure advertised final. Sanitary commissioners sought in crease of the 1926 levy from .055 to .065 and the Supreme Court ordered the tax board to hold a hearing.

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OCR text: Considered. A proposal for a consolidated State poor farm, to take the place of ninety-two county infirmaries, was presented to a meeting of rep resentatives of thirty fraternal, patriotic, civic and labor organiza tions at the Denison Hotel this aft ernoon by Harry B. Dynes, Indian apolis agent of the Department of Labor. Such consolidation in all States was recommended after a suryey had been made under direction of the Federal department.

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