Newspaper from Saturday, December 18, 1926

OCR text: Washington will continue to put frozen cream in its breakfast coffee for the next day or so. Early this morning the mercury went down to its lowest point for the year, 10 above zero. It will be almost as cold tonight, the Weather Bureau announced, forecasting a minimum of 12 above zero. There will be little temperature increase, even under the bright sunshine of early afternoon. Warmer weather is not definitely in sight. It will continue cold tomor row, although not quite so cold as today.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 18.—Quiet reigned today in the Washington and Illinois sectors in the fight center ing abound Gov. Small’s appointment of Frank L. Smith to succeed the late Senator William B. McKinley for the four months of the short ses sion of Congress. The Senator-elect, who came to Chicago with Mrs.

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OCR text: Since Sixtieth Congress Until He Resigned. Former Representative John W. Langley of Pikesville, Ky., sentenced to a two-year term in Atlanta Peniten tiary for violatU n of the prohibition laws, was paroled today on the com pletion of 11 months of his sentence, it was announced by the Department of Justice. Langley was convicted in connection with withdrawal! of liquor from Gov ernment bonded warehouses, being charged with aiding in obtaining per mits for the illegal withdrawal of large held in Pittsburgh.

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OCR text: cellor to Give Parties Time to "Cool Off." By the Associated Press. BERLIN, December 18.—Indica tions are that the cabinet of Chan cellor Marx, which resigned yester day after a defeat in the Reichstag, will continue to guide affairs of state until the holidays are over. After passing the Social Democratic motion of non-confidence, 249 to 171, the Reichstag adjourned until January /It, and many.members left the capi ' tal to he with their families for Christmas.

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OCR text: Give Province to Bolivia Asks Plebiscite Data. By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, De cember 18. —La Nacion’s correspond ent at La Paz, Bolivia, hears that the Peruvian reply to Secretary Kel logg’s proposal in the Chilean-Peru vian controversy over Tacna and Arica will avoid any reference to the transfer of the provinces to Bolivia, as suggested by Mr. Kellogg. It wdll urge a statement from the arbiter, President Coolidge, regarding the report made by Maj. Gen.

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OCR text: The Bureau of the Budget today temporarily halted the plans of tho District Commissioners to acquire the Southern Railway Building, at Thir teenth street and Pennsylvania ave nue, for additional quarters for the Municipal Building. Brig. Gen. Herbert M. Lord, d

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. TOKIO, December 18.—A bulletin Issued by the household department at 8 o'clock tonight said the condition of Emperor Yoshihito was "virtually unchanged.” This is the first official report from the sick room since noon. Although no one outside the royal family, members of the cabinet and their attendants know what is hap pening in the carefully guarded chamber of the royal villa at Hayama, where Emperor Yoshihito is dying, the outside world today began to hear whispers of the ruler’s passing.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. BUCHAREST, Rumania, Decem ber 18.—Although it has been de cided to send King Ferdinand to Paris for radium treatment of his intestinal disorder, opposition by the Rumanian cabinet now has made it uncertain whether the trip will be. attempted. The King himself, whose desire to go to Paris for medical treat ment was largely inspired by a wish to see his son, former Prince Carol, has wavered in his determination to make the trip.

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OCR text: Former Representative John W. Langley of Kentucky was paroled from Atlanta peni tentiary today after serving one year of a three-year sen tence for conspiracy to violate the national prohibition act. Liquor Withdrawal Involved Langley was sentenced in con nection with alleged illegal with drawals of liquor from a Ken tucky warehouse.

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OCR text: Four Washingtonians today owe their lives to the sagacity of a house cat, which crawled through a flame-filled hall in the home of Alexander Solo mon, 1212 Thirteenth St*. N. W., early today, and awakened him by scratching his face. Daughter’s Body Found The cat, however, was too late to save the life of Solomon’s daughter, Blanche, who would have been seven years old tomorrow. She was cut off by the flames and was fatally burned while attempt ing to crawl through the fire to safety. Her body was found under her parents* bed.

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OCR text: The coldest weather of the winter is here but still there is no skating. The thermometer went to 10 de grees last night, and it will go, the weather man says, at least down to 12 degrees tonight. Ice on the Lin coln Memorial reflecting pool, how ever, is still too thin to permit skat ing. The same is true of pools in Rock Creek Park. By tomorrow officials of the of fice of °ublic Buildings and Public I Parks think there will be skating, provided the cold wave continues. 1 Today the Ice was a little more than an inch thick.

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OCR text: This is the second of a series of articles on conditions surround ing lunacy proceedings and policies in Washington. This series is the result of several weeks’ investigation by a member of The Times staff. Malinna Greycroft had an attack of what you might call acute blues. The doctors diagndsed it as anxious melancholia. It is not as insignificant as it sounds. Twenty-five per cent of such cases end in death. Eight per cent develop a condition of permanent dementia. Sixty-six per cent recover com pletely—if taken in time.

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OCR text: CHICAGO, Dec. 18.—Hysterical with remorse which fol lowed toon after he had mistreated six-year-old Walter Schmith, a mental defective, entered a confessional in St. Vincent’s Catholic Church here and poured into the ears of Father L. J. Sweeney details of the crime. The child died early today as a result of his injuries. Ab soon as the confession was'* ’ „ . ~ ~ , ... " „,. _ , 1 . in the Catholic Church. Neverthetnade, father Sweeney rushed to lef)8 t)| j g wag a Ber j OUß cr ime. Some consult father C. J.

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OCR text: Reported 111. Bu United Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Dec. 18. —With “Queen” Mary Purnell but no “King” Ben present, the legaldif ficulties besetting the Israelite House of David of Benton Harbor, Mich., in Federal Court, were argued here today before Judge Fred M. Ray mond. Illness prevented the presence of “King” Ben, H. T. Dewhirst, attor ney and member of Purnell's cult, explained to the United Press. He was assisted by William J.

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OCR text: The Marion County grand jury's quiz into alleged political graft and corruption in Indiana will be re sumed in earnest Monday, it was announced today. Several witnesses are expected to be called during the next week. Wednesday the grand jurors must go before Criminal Judge James A. Collins and present the report on their visit to county institutions and all remaining jail cases, in which indictments may be returned. Report of the body on the graft Prosecutor William / H. Remy de clared that if there are any indict quiz still be made before Jan. 1.

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OCR text: Nine Witnesses Called to Aid Murder Defendant. Bu United Press CANTON, Ohio, Dec. 18.—The de fense today began its efforts to bat ter down the case built up by the State against Pat McDermott, on trial charged with murdering Don R. Mellett, militant editor. Nine witnesses were called to re fute damaging testimony against McDermott, first of three men to be tried for the assassination.

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OCR text: Ru United Preen CHICAGO, Dec. 18. SenatorDesignate Frank L. Smith, who the Senate is expected to return to his home in Dwight, 111., today without making a statement regarding the course he will follow to obtain his seat. Smith, appointed to fill the uncx pired term of the late Senator Wil liam B. McKinley, was ready to an nounce his plan yesterday if the Sen ate had either defeated or passed the Ashurst resolution, which would deny him the right to take oath.

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OCR text: " Concluded in Criminal Court. An example of speedy execution of justice was concluded in Criminal Court this morning when four youths, arrested Monday night, re ceived sentences of ten years each in the Indiana State Reformatory on burglary and auto banditry charges. The four, Vincent Perdiew, 21; of 2010 Jones St.; Oscar Barn hill 19, of 556 S. Drover St.; Wesley Bailey, 19, of 514 S. Dro ver St., and Marlon Bolling, 19, of 548 S. Drover St., pleaded guilty be fore Judge James A.

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OCR text: Indiana Limestone Would Be I,'sed In Proposed New York Tower. NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—An office building rising 110 stories until its flagpole is 1,208 feet above the street, will be built next year in the Times Square district, according to plans submitted by John A. Larkin, president of the corporation propos ing the vast structure. Total cost is estimated at $22,500,000, of which $4,500,000 is estimated value of the site.

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OCR text: 1 Bu United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 18.— A white-iced birthday cake, with the names of two children in pink let ters. slightly soiled by soot, but oth jerwise undamaged, lay ironically on a charred table in a ruined home here today, but one of the children was dead and the other badly burned. The second girl and other members of the family were'saved from death by a pet cat, which clawed Meyer Rosenblatt, 20, uncle of the girls, until he awakened to find the home on fire. Rosenblatt, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Solomon, parents of the girls, and Mr. and Mrs.

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OCR text: Indianapolis will pay about one third more for its holiday liquor this year than it did last. And it will be an alcoholic Christ ■as and New Year's. ' This was what a survey of the outskirts of the Indianapolis bootleg world showed today. For Indianapolis has a bootleg world in spite oC the efforts of po lice, the sheriff, Federal prohibition forces and the Anti-Saloon League.

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