Newspaper from Sunday, December 19, 1926

OCR text: Friends of Navy Want Money for Vessels Already Authorized Before Planning More. BT G. GOULD LINCOLN. With startling suddenness Chair man Butler of the House naval af fairs committee yesterday introduced a bill authorizing the const miction of 10 new light cruisers, 10,000 tons each. He followed it up with an assertion that the proposed authorization was In harmony with the plans of the President for national defense.

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OCR text: More than 93 out of every 100 Washingtonians are believers in God, it is shown by the poll of religious sen timent completed yesterday by The Star as part of a national census on this subject. A total of 2,527 ballots reached the office before the close, of the balloting at noon yesterday. Os this number 2,360 professed a belief in God; 165 denied God and 12 left the voting space for this question blank.

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OCR text: One bandit was shot to death in a duel with his prospective victim, who was s< ’•iously wounded, and three per sons were robbed in a series of five holdups in various sections of the city last night and early this morning. The dead bandit, who was killed by William Robb, colored, of 2624 Ontario road during an attempted holdup on Seaton street west of Seventeenth street, is an unidentified colored man. Robb, who is in a serioij* condition at Emergency Hospital, is employed as a chauffeur by. former Commissioner Thilman Hendrick.

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OCR text: Will Return to Normal for Season. Slight moderation in the cold snap, which tumbled the thermometer to its lowest level of the season, is prom ised today by the Weather Bureau. The cold wave will begin to dissi pate slowly this morning and within the rfext 36 hours the Weather Bu reau expects a return to the Decem ber normal. The weather today will be cold and crisp, however, but the mercury probably will climb past the freezing point and that will be a ma terial improvement over yesterday, when it reached a maximum of 24.

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OCR text: PART ONE—6O PAGES. General New-s —Local, National and Foreign. # Schools and Colleges—Page 22. News of the Clubs—Page 30. Girl Scouts —Page 31. At the Community Centers —Page 36. Clubwomen of the Nation —Page 37. Civilian Army News—Page 38. Around the City—Page 49. Serial, “The Girl in the Second Cabin” —Page 50. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 51. Y. W. C. A. N«ws —Page 51. Radio News and Programs—Pages 55, 56 and 57. Boy Scout News—Page 57. Veterans of the Great War—Page 59. Army and Navy News —Page 60. PART TWO—I 6 PAGES.

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OCR text: By the'Associated Press. NEW YORK. December 18. —Top heavy campaign funds and all the evils that attend them w'ere laid at the door of the direct primary system tonight by Vice President Dawes, who argued in an after-dinner speech here for a return to the old methods of choosing political nominees by con vention.

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OCR text: 111 New Duties and Powers Set Forth, and Further Data Prom ised to Explain Them. The much-discussed "home rule” hill for the District of Columbia was in troduced in the House late yesterday by Representative frank R. Reid. Re publican. of Illinois, a member of the House District committee and of the special Gibson subcommittee of seven members directed to make a system atic study of the municipal admin istration.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. The* Coast Guard schooner Lincoln was destroyed by fire with a loss of six lives yesterday several miles southwest of Cape Lookout Lightship, off the coast of North Carolina, the Navy Department was advised by the Coast Guard cutter Modoc. Two of the crew were rescued. One of those reported dead is Olaf Hansen, 30 years old a chief motor machinist’s mate, w'hose home is at 1308 Sixth street southwest. A message from the British steamer Defender, intercepted by the Modoc, said she had picked up Gordon J.

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