Newspaper from Friday, December 17, 1926

OCR text: By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 17.—Cash ing in on the publicity given August Heckscher’s plan for rebuilding the East Side, a band of about 50 confi dence men and women from the West have defrauded residents of the dis trict of $500,000 obtained in payment for home improvement bonds, the Downtown Chamber of Commerce as serted today. * Harry H. Schlacht, president of the downtown organization, which is as sociated with Air.

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OCR text: By the Associate Press. VALETTA, Malta, December 17. The fourth destroyer flotilla has been ordered to China by the British admiralty. The vessels today were loading munitions and stores, with the prob ability that they would sail late in the day. The cruiser Caradoc, it was said, might accompany the flotilla. British Envoy Sees C’hen.

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OCR text: AT $10,000,000 A YEAR Committee Expected to Push Pas sage Ahead of Plan to Purchase Avenue Triangle Here. Another hundred million dollar public buildings bill was introduced in the House today by Representative Dan Reed, Republican, of New i York and a member of the House committee on public buildings and grounds. This additional $100,000,000 is for post office and other Federal build ing needs all over the country. None of it is for Washington.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 17.—Wall Street’s joy at the unexpected distri bution of a $200,000,000 melon to com mon stockholders of the United States Steel Corporation was reflected today in one of the greatest “bull” move ments in recent Stock Exchange his tory. United States Steel common, Atchison common and a handful of other high-grade industrial and rail road issues soared to the highest prices ever recorded, while dozens of others mounted to new peak prices for the year or longer on gains run ning from 1 to 25 points.

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OCR text: Justice Jennings Bailey, in Criminal Division 2, today continued until Tuesday the hearing of the motion of Harry F. Sinclair, oil magnate of New York, to quash the Indictment for al leged conspiracy against him and Al

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OCR text: jection Is Voted Arouses Speculation Here. IIY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Action on the Ashurst resolution denying Col. Frank L. Smith, who has been appointed to the Senate by Gov. Len Small of Illinois, the right to be seated, was deferred today until Col. Smith should present himself and his i credentials in the Senate. Senator Ashurst of Arizona, author of the resolution, himself asked that it go over without prejudice and lie on the table ready to be called up by him if and when Col. Smith comes to Washington to be sworn in as Sen ator.

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OCR text: Bennett Voted on 23d An niversary. By the Associated Press. The twenty-third birthday of avia tion was observed in the Senate to day with oratory and appropriate resolution. At the instance of Senator Swan son, his fellow Virginian, Lieut. Comdr. Byrd, and Floyd Bennett, Byrd’s mechanic in the North Pole flight, were added to the list of illus trious Americans deemed worthy by the Senate of a congressional medal.

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OCR text: BY P. H. WINNER. ROME, Italy, December 17 (4 s ).— Premier Mussolini has always longed to visist the United States, he told a correspondent for the Associated Press in an interview at his office in the Chigi Palace. "J have often thought of visiting America,” the Duce declared. “In fact as long as I can remember, I have always wanted to see your country. A people who built rapidly with their own hands such colossal fortunes and formidable power could not fail to attract me strongly.

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OCR text: MARION TALLEY, young Metropolitan Opera soprano, . is unperturbed by mingled acclaim and disapproval of her failure to sing at New Rochelle, N. Y.» because a |3,000 , cash guarantee was lacking. “It would have been poor . business,” says she. . -L— —« .

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OCR text: stag Vote of 249-171. Bn United Preaa BERLIN, Dec. 17.—Chancellor Wil helm Marx and his coalition cabinet resigned this evening and President Von Hindenburg accepted the resig nation. Hindenburg commissioned the cabinet, which was defeated in the Reichstag today, to continue in office provisionally. The Reichstag adjourned until Jan. 19. The vote against Marx was 249 to 171 on a Socialist motion of miscon fidence against which the National ists refused to assist in the govern ment’s defense.

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OCR text: “My boy, my boy, you are so inno cent. You do not know that the people of Indiana do not have their place of law in the Statehouse, but at Republican headquarters.” This was Isidor Wulson's state ment this morning to Deputy Coun ty Prosecutor John L. Niblack, when they met in Criminal Court. Niblack has had Wulson and Con rad Keller Center township Justices of the peace arrested for usurping public office. They married couples in violation of the municipal court law, which provides for only one justice, who is Edward L. Dietz, it is charged.

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OCR text: Increases. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 17.—The United States Senate will know today whether the contemplated fight to unseat Frank L. Smith as a Senator from Illinois must be begun imme diately or delayed until the next Congress. Smith, whose campaign expendi tureaJiave aroused a storm of indig nation in the Senate, will announce today whether Tie will accept or de cline the appointment of Governor Len Small, which gives him the seat left vacant by the death of Senator William B. McKinley.

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OCR text: Temperature of 26 at 7 this morn ing, only 5 degrees below normal and 13 above the mark for the same hour Thursday, found the cold wave, to a large extent, gone from Indian apolis. With the skies cloudy, however, Meteorologist J. H. Armington of the United States .Weather Bureau said the mercury today likely would not go beyond Thursday's highest, 28, recorded at 3:30 p. m. A drop in the temperature is prob able tonight. The low mark for the evening is expected to be between 15 and 20 degrees, according to Ar mington.

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OCR text: Bu United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 17. Four bandits today surrounded W. A. Green, a messenger for the Fi delity National Bank, as he started to enter the bank building, seized a satchel said by bank officials to con tain $79,000 in cash an 4 currency and escaped in an an automobile. As the robbers tied Green fired three shots at them.

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OCR text: Electrical Plant $10,329,116 Steam Heat Plants a 1,227,539 Hot Water Steam Plants 453,440 CTaypool Hotel riant 23,461 Home Brewing Cos. Plant 682,315 It would have cost $33,567,595 to reproduce on Oct. 1 the

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OCR text: “No! No! No!” whispered Harley L. Clarke, utility baron as he tugged Janies \V. Fesler’s coat tail near the close of the hearing on the utility merger, Thursday after noon. Commissioner John W. McMcCardle was announcing the fact that he believed all sides should be given ample time to study the valuation figures re leased by the commission to day.

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OCR text: Bu United Press SULLIVAN. Ind., Dec. 17—Three, year-old Alice Deckerd burned to death here Thursday night when her clothing caught fire from the open grate before which she was playing. Her mother found the child in flames sitting in the corner of the room. The body was entirely burned and the child died almost immediately. Bit t'nitert Press PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Deo. 17Four masked bandits nattily dressed, armed with sawed off shotguns today held up two employes of the F. W.

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OCR text: Health, whose ears twitch when ever he smells moneyAnyhow, he sells the sheets off the sol diers’ beds, just as was done by an official of the Veterans’ Bu reau in those good old days; and gets presents of Liberty bonds in a black bag, just as happened to another member of the Harding-Coolidge Cabinet.” Thus far Labor, which be lieves that by rewarding our friends and punishing our ene mies among the fo’ks from which these characters are drawn, everything will be made lovely.

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OCR text: AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 17.—<4*1—E. J. Crocker, state labor commissioner, resigned Friday, effective immedi ately, and his resignation was ac cepted by Governor Miriam AFer guson. This announcement was made by Gf ent Sanderford. private secretary to the governor. Governor liriam A. Ferguson re quested the resignation following a commotion 1 the labor commission er’s office. 'orraer Governor James E.

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OCR text: J.UBBOCK. Tex., Dec. 17.—(/P>— One engine was damaged and traffic disrupVd for several hours on Vhe main lin<^ of the Panhandle At Santa Fc Railway when the Clovis-Dallas , passenger train was derailed near the Slaton yards, 15 miles south of here last night, Santa Fc official! stated today. Rumors that several persons were injured were deriTed by railway men who stated that aside from inter fering with service the damage done was negligible.

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OCR text: AUSTIN. Tex., Dec. 17.—bTh— Mrs Rebecca Bradley Rogers, under bond for robbery of the Farmers’ Nation al Bank at Buda and on a charge of arson at Round Rock, visited her sick husband. Otis Rogers, Friday morning and then held a conference with her attorney, John Coffer. She continued silent, and now is being called “Mrs.

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OCR text: MEXICO CITY. Dec. 17.—<;P>— Warning that foreign companies not complying with the new oil and land law by December 31, will have “re nounced their rights and will have no redress against the Mexican govern-j nient," is given by the Minister of Indystry, Comerce and Labor. Luis Morones. in a telegram to the oil men made public today.

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OCR text: EDDYVILLE, Ky., Dec. 17.—— Roger Brannon. 22, white, of Hamil ton, Ohio, and Ram Harris, a negro, were (electrocuted at .State prison here early today. Brannon was convicted of the mur der of William Nelson Fant at Lex ington, Deceqiber 225, 1925. He went to the chair ^HJ2:42 a. m.

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OCR text: MEXICO CITY, Dec. 17.-Reports received by the War Dnpartmcnt from General Rios Zertuchc state that the Yaqui Indians lost fifteen killed and twenty-two wounded in the first formal encounter with fed eral forces. The action took place when three foraging bands came in I contact with the federal outposts. The Indians fought a rear-guard action, making three stands but b? ing unable to turn the tide against the federals. They were, however, able to recover some of their wound ed. The Indians disbanded in tiie JEWEL THIEF EXPORTED MEXICO CITY. Dec.

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