Newspaper from Wednesday, December 15, 1926

OCR text: $7,500 Bond. Damon Young, former War Depart ment employe charged with disap pearing last week without making formal accounting of a SIO,OOO Christ mas fund of fellow workers, of which he was custodian, voluntarily sur rendered to the police today. In company with his attorney, Rich ard J. Quigley and Detective Jim Springman, who has been assigned to the case, Young appeared - before Judge George H. Macdonald In Po lice Court and pleaded “not guilty” to a charge of conversion after trust.

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OCR text: posal Merely Authorizes Negotiations. The Senate this afternoon passed without a record'vote the bill offered by Senator Smoot authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase all of the remaining private land in the triangle between Pennsylvania avenue and B street, the Treasury and the Capitol, for the grouping of new public buildings. The bill still'awaits action by the House and is being considered now by the House committee on public buildings and grounds.

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OCR text: The hill to create a new Public Utilities Commission for the District of Columbia became a law’ shortly be fore noon today when President Cool idge officially signed It. In affixing his signature to this act the President did so without making any comments, did he give any indication that he has in mind those whom he will appoint to the commission. Since receiving this hill a week ago the President has been repre sented as being displeased with cer tain features of it, principally the eHgtbiUty requirement of.

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OCR text: lief in God. Returns from the first 1,300 ques tionnaires counted in The Star’s poll on religious sentiment show probably that Washington is more uniformly religious than the average American city, with the comparison 1 used on returns in the national poll of which the local one is an intergral part. Washingtonians answering the questionnaires, for instance, show a 92.8 per cent belief in God, whereas the country as a whole has thus far shown an 89 per cent belief.

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OCR text: Senator-Elect and Gov. Small Both Are Silent on Plans After Watson’s Call. By the Associated Press. Senate Republican leaders today warned Frank L. Smith, Senator-elect from Illinois, not to accept the ap pointment to fill the seat left vacant by the late Senator McKinley of Illinois, if it were tendered hirn. A resolution, introduced by Senator Dill, Democrat, Washington, already is pending in the Senate which would disavow Smith as a Senator-elect.

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OCR text: Chief Executive. By the Associated Press. By unanimous vote, the House naval committee, in secret session, instruct ed Chairman Butler today to present to the President tho views of the committee on the condition of the Navy. Proposals for a naval building pro gram have been practically completed by the committee, which began con sideration of the question when it be came known that the budget had made no recommendations for an appropria tion to start construction on three light cruisers authorized by Congress. 5500,000,000 Is Estimate.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. BUCHAREST, December 15.—For saving the village of Crajowa from destruction by fire, a flock of geese condemned to slaughter for Christ mas is to live until New Year at least. At night the ow’ner was awak ened by frantic cackling. He hur ried to the poultry yard. The birds refused to be quieted. Looking in the direction in which the geese were craning their necks, the own er discovered a bright glow over a distant farmhouse. Soon flames hurst forth. The alarm w’as sounded and the building was saved.

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OCR text: Says Yaquis Were Induced to At tempt His Capture. MEXICO CITY, December 15 (A 3 ). Former President Obregon, in a state4 ment published by the newspapers to day, charges Adolfo de la Huerta, for mer provisional President, with induc ing the Yaqui Indions to revolt and attack Obregcn’s train at Vicam, State of Sonora, in an attempt to capture him when the Yaqui uprising started in September. Gen. Obregon bases his charges on I letters from San Antonio, which he also made public.

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OCR text: -PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Dec. 15. One of the most baffling questions in th6 Clara Olson murder xpystery was believed answered today. Itis this: Where did the player obtain the rougd nosed gravel sho/el which wad used to dig her shallow with . which it is believed she was beaten to death? Was Probably Stolen In the light of to day, .the answer is that he probably purloined it from the grader of a highway patrol. ’ Another angle that seemed nearer solution today was the strange, de lirious babbling of Edwin Knutson, hired band at the Albert Olson tram.

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OCR text: This it the sixth article of a series beinj sent from Los Angeles 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. §y ERNESTINE BALL LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15.-—“ Maybe the thing for ine to do is to get married J*’ . , . * , Aimee/“Sister Aimee,” is “spoofing” with me. She does it well. For a moment I took her seriously.

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OCR text: case went to the jury at 2:48 o’clock this after- ' noon - ~,. . 'From the tears and heart-*’ throbs of the ,defense, the pendulum swung sharply back to the biting accusations of the . prosecution today, in the last few minutes of the conspiracy trial of former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall and E. L. Doheny, millionaire oil operator. Former United States Ohio, special Government oil •(Continued on Rage 2.

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OCR text: THE JURY IN the District Supreme Court, which has heard the evidence in the Elk Hills oil conspiracy charges against former Secretary of the Interior Albert B.

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OCR text: Bu United Prexx CANTON. Ohio. Dec. 15.—The crime ring of Canton alleged to have plotted the murder of Don R. Mellett, crusading editor, was introduced to day to the jury hearing the murder charge against Pat McDermott. Introducing its first “surprise” witness, the prosecution . obtained from William Betzler, details of the life the defendant lived in Canton for the five days before the murder, last July 16. Betzler, over the protests of the defense, related conversations in which lie said McDermotttold him ho “had a Job on” the night Mellett was shot.

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OCR text: Wisconsin Officers Continue Work on Murder Case. Ftu United Prexx PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis., Dec. 15.—Canadian Northwest mounted police today joined in the search for Erdman Olson, 18-year-old college hoy,-wanted for the murdor of his 22-year-old sweetheart, Clara Olson. Believing that the alleged slayer may be attempting to reach relatives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, local authorities have warned the Saska toon police to watch for him.

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OCR text: Bu Timex Special WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Thom as H. Adams, Vincennes publisher, today has an appointment with At torney General Sargent at which he will demand that the Department of Justice announce its findings in the State highway matters and reopen the probe of the Squibb liquor scandal. Earlier in the day be was in con ference with Postmaster General Harry New and Oscar Luhring, former Indiana Congressman, now legal adviser to the criminal investi gation department of the attorney general’s office.

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OCR text: Opposing the closing of Oriental St., ’a delegation of Southeastern Civic Improvement Club members will appear before the board of works this afternoon. The board has requested City At torney John K. Ruckelsliaus to pre pare a legal opinion whether they may alter the track elevation con tract to permit closing the street near the Ford Motor Company plant on E. Washington and Oriental Sts. Ruckelshaus expected to complete his opinion late today. Merle N. A. Walker, attorney, has been employed to represent the club.

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OCR text: Bu United Prexx WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Closing arguments in the Fall-Doheny oil trial were wound up today, prepara tory to giving the case to the jury this afternoon. A friend of President Harding, from hs own State of Ohio, former Senator Atlee Pomerene, furnished the rlnal prosecution stroke with a passionate statement that Harding's message to the Sen ate in June, 1922, approving the Pearl Harbor-Elk Hills contract and lease v -s issued without knowledge of the SIOO,OOO loan made by E. L.

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OCR text: With the expected retirement of Mrs. Maude Hobson as city Inspec tor of weights and measures, an other opportunity for a relative of Mayor Duvall to hold v a high efty office is possible. Politicians today believe Roy C. Spillman, Mrs. Hobson’s chief as sistant, who is a nephew of the mayor, had an excellent opportunity to succeed her. That Mrs. Hobson will yield her position to become chief deputy of Center Township Trustee Mrs. Rob ert Harding was considered as set tled. Numerous relatives of Duvall now are holding municipal positions.

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OCR text: $25,000 Suit Charges Alienation. Bu Timex Special MARTINSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 15. Trial of a $25,000 alienation suit filed by Mrs. Allen Morgan, 19, of Indian apolis against her father-in-law, Dr. Benjamin Morgan, superintendent of the Julietta Hospital for the In sane, was under way in Circuit Court here today, with a score or more prominent Indianapolis citi zen* subpoenaed as witnesses. Mrs.

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OCR text: Timex Waxhjnnton Bureau, fXtt .Vein York A Venn* WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Presi dent Coolidge today nominated A. O. Meloy, bailiff of Superior Court Four at Indianapolis, to be United States Marshal for Indiana, succeeding Linus P. Meredith. Meloy was backed by George V. Coffin, Marion County Republican chairman, arid Senator Arthur R. Robinson, Senator James E. Watson having sidetracked Meredith after the Squibb liquor scandal at the In dianapolis Federal Bldg.

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OCR text: (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 14.— D C. Stephenson, once the power behind-the-throne in the ku klux klan, and alleged manipulator of state and national politics, is seek ing his freedom. Jailed for life, after a sensational trial for the murder of a Butler college co-ed, Miss Madge Ober holtzer, “Steve” immediately through his attorneys, made preparations to appeal and seek reversal.

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OCR text: Accused Prohi Director Takes Witness Stand in Own Defense. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 14—Col. Ned M. Green, deposed prohibition back at his accusers. Charged with diverting govern ment-seized liquor for Ills own use. the former officer took the stand Monday in his own defenle and made a sweeping denial of the charges lodged against him. He admitted taking bottles of tiquor from the prohibition enforce ment offices at various times,.but the liquor he took was never dispensed to his friends, as charged, according to Green.

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OCR text: OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Dec. 14.;—Unaware that officers sought her on a charge of having murdered her husband, Mrs. Edith M. Bishop attractive 38 year old widow of Luther Bishop, Oklahoma’s murder ed criminal investigator, was arrest ed in the doorway of^ her home early Tuesday night as she returned from a shopping tour. As she stepped in the doorway, her arms full of Christmas packages, two officers who had awaited her return served the warrant charging her with murdering her husband as he slept In their home on the morn ing of Dec. 5. .. Mrs.

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OCR text: WASHINGTON—Two of the ma rine planes, piloted by noncommis sioned officers, en route from Quan tico, Va., to San Diego, were forced to abandon the second leg of their transcontinental flight when they crashed respectively at Fabens, Tex., and Tusco'n, Ariz., according to dispatches to the navy depart ment today. No one was injured. The other marine planes, with the exception of two which landed at Lordsburg, N.

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OCR text: COURTHOUSE, CANTON, O.— The prosecution’s long heralded “mystery” witness, William Betzler, testifying today in the trial of Pat McDermott for the murder of Don R. Mellett, gave the first intimate details of the famed underw’orld of Canton held responsible for the killing of the crusading editor.

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OCR text: As Ice Fails to Hold i Michael Ciganek, 95 52nd St., was • taken to the Emergency hospital date yesterday after breaking Through the ice while skating at 129th St. and Hopkins road. He plunged into water one foot ideep. i Five others sought treatment for frost

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OCR text: TOKIO —The condition of Em peror Yoshihito of Japan, critically 11l of pneumonia, was reported slightly improved today. He is tak ing food through a tube. His tem perature was 36.4 centigrade, pulse 98. American Ambassador Charles McVeagh called at the imperial

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OCR text: Frostbite One ease of frostbite was reported at Emergency hospital today. John Shemunatz, 16, 349 13th St., ap plied at the hospital for treatment for a frozen left ear.

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OCR text: SAN ANTONIO, Tex.. Dec. 15.— i/Pi—Ed iJLjtle, 31, of San Antonio was killed and Carlos Warden, se riously injured, in an automobile ac cident which climaxed a duck hunt at Medina lake late Tuesday. Their automobile skidded and overturned.

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