Newspaper from Tuesday, December 21, 1926

OCR text: Arrests Are Made. Police assigned to halt the Yuletide flow of liquor between Maryland and Virginia, byway of Washington, cli maxed their operations early today with a running, gun battle that re sulted in the shooting and capture of Lawton Seaybrook Wade, of Drury’s Bluff, Va., and seizure of his car and 720 quarts of liquor. Wade, police say, lost control of his speeding machine when a bullet from a police revolver fractured his left arm. The car crashed into a pillar in front of the Municipal Pish Market.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 21. —Police and firemen today continued grappling among the ice floes of the Hudson River for the bodies of 10 men be lieved missing from among more than twoscoro workmen in search of jobs who were drowned yesterday when the launch Linseed King capsized. Thirty bodies have been recovered. Relatives who visited the morgue failed to find at least 10 others they sought.

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OCR text: BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Coolidge would not oppose legislation at this session of Congress to bring about a complete reappor tionment by which the membership of the House of Representatives would be readjusted on a basis of the last decennial census of 1920. This was the impression gained by Representative McLeod of Detroit, Mich., ranking Republican member of the House committee on the census, who conferred with the President at the White House today regarding this legislation. Mr.

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OCR text: 20 Nations. By the Associated Pre*<?. KELLY FIELD. San Antonio. Tex., December 21. —Kissed by wives and mothers, and carrying the benediction of the Nation, pilots of the Army’s pan-American air argosy departed to day from Kelly Field to blaze a trail of friendship into the hearts of 20 na tionalities. The reserve plane with Maj. Gen. Mason L. Patrick was the fust to get away, taking the air at 10:51 a.m. Maj. Herbert A. Dargue, flight com mander, followed at 10:52 and the other planes went up at minute inter vals.

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OCR text: I Toward Eazing Dormitories at Station. Although the Government probably will complete the taking over of the Union Station plaza property within a few months, with funds already ap propriated, indications at the Capitol are that legislation to remove the dormitories from the plaza will not ' lie pressed at the present short ses sion. \ The Christmas recess of Congress \ begins tomorrow and when the legislators return on January 3 only two months of the session will remain. If.

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OCR text: By ttie Associated Press. VIENNA, December 21.—Santa Claus will make an unexpected visit to the exiled former Empress Zita and her children at Laqaeitio, Spain. Ilis baskets will be fll.trt wth gifts from innumerab'e Austrian monarchists, from Chancellor Sei pel down *o the poirest native candle selling women at the church doors, ma contributed gladly when told from the pulpits that the. former royal family tfas suffering actual want at the fes live season.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. DENTON, Te> . December 20. —• Attempts of two judges to occupy the same bench in District Court here have resulted in some confu sion at the bar. A. C. Owsley, elected last Novem ber over Judge W. S. Moore, who was appointed by Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson, was sworn in Friday, following a series of suits on the balloting. Owsley opened court yesterday, entered orders in a suit and left for lunch. During his absence Moore re opened court, issued instructions regarding the same case and ad journed the tribunal until Friday.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. PANAMA, December 21.—Ex pecting further fighting in Nica ragtia soon between the forces of the rival conservative and liberal governments. Rear Admiral Julian Latimer has cut short his stay here and is heading hack to Nicaraguan waters in his flagship, the TJ. S. S. Rochester. In a state ment to the press before leaving he said: “I have been in communication with vessels from Nicaraguan waters since the day I returned.

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OCR text: NEW YORK, Dec. 21. — With bail of $12,500 furnished for hint, by his wife, Wallace Mel,can ProbascO, - wealthy, elderly business man. soni in-law of the tenowned agnostic f Robert G. Ingersoll, has been re- . jinoved from the prison ward of Bellevue Hospital to the Murray Hill Sanitarium, where he is fight ing today for his life against three bullet wounds. The jwdiee say they are satisfied that the first version of the shoot ■ ing was true—that Probasco was shot by his middle aged sweet heart, Mrs. Robert H. Ingersoll, who then killed herself.

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OCR text: MICHIGAN CITY Ind., Dec. 21. A petition for a writ of habeas corpus for the removal from the State penitentiary here of D. C. Stephenson, former grand dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan, now serving a life sentence for the murder of Miss Madge Oberholtzer, Butler College co-ed, was filed in the superior court here today oy Stephenson’s attorneys. Judge Harry L. Crumpacker fixed Thursday morning for the hearing. TODAY’S SCRATCHES At Jefferson Park FIRST RACE—Eva M Jennvs Dream, Miami Triad Parchesie. SECOND RACE—Rock Sea. Sir Raluh.

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OCR text: Starts on Last Flight NEW YORK, Dec.. 21.—The Jyse-i phine Ford, the airplane in which: commander Richard E. By id flew over the North Pole, was on its ‘ last flight today. With Floyd Q. Bennett, who took par; in the polar flight, at the con trols, the plane started for Detroit,! where it will be put away in Henry Ford’s transportation museum. A stop will be made in Cleveland. where Commander Byrd will be picked up. The flight to Detroit * will be resumed tomorrow.

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OCR text: of Bartholomew. Keeping its future Investments under cover, the Marion County grand jury, investigating alleged political graft and corruption in In diana politics, broke recent prece dent and reconvened this afternoon. No witnesses appeared before the body in its graft probe, although it previously was announced that sev eral persons had been subpoenaed. An effort was made this morning to get some person as a witness, hut this failed. Deputy Prosecutor W. H.

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OCR text: 150 of 220 Zoning Requests Are Granted. The city board of zoning appeals approved 150 out of 220 requests for rezoning during the past year, ac cording to the annual report of the board and the city plan commission prepared today by Macklin Mack, secretary. Major activities of the plan com mission were described as “continu ation of surveys and studies of the proper development of thoroughfare and the preparations of maps, charts and traffic counts, study of street oar rerouting and a survey of Sixteenth St.

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OCR text: “It would be a travesty on justice if any judge in Indiana should release Stephenson from the penitentary on any plea that a ministerial act of a clerk of court was at fault. “God forbid that Indiana should be further blackened before the Nation by any such act.” This is the statement of Judge Charles E. Cox, one of the attorneys who prosecuted Stephenson and assisted in convicting him of the brutal murder of Madge Oberholtzer. “I can not believe that there is any danger of any such action,” continued Judge Cox.

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OCR text: Old-fashioned seplling, perennial bono of contention betweene business men and their stenographers, was the nemesis of most of the fifty-eight men who took the police civil service examination Saturday, commissioners said today. A few applicants scored marks of 98.6, 98 and other high figures. Tewtn comparatively simple words were given the police applicants. Poor Old Alibi Poor old “alibi” had perhaps the greatest number of alibis for the proper spelling. It was spelled allibuy, allibi, alabye, aliby, albay, alybi and allibie.

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OCR text: The movement to modify the Wright bone-dry law, started by Representative Frank Borns, Republican, of Indian apolis, received strong Demo cratic support at a caucus Monday. “I am coming with a man •lnto from people I represent to modify the Wright law,” said Representative it. Curtis Ben nett of Dillsboro.

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OCR text: Prohibition Chief Andrews Makes Forecast for 1927. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 21.—The year of 1927 will be the driest since the advent of prohibition in 1918, Gen. Lincoln C. Andrews, assistant sec retary of the treasury in charge of prohibition enforcement, said here.

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OCR text: Bu United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 21.—The names of Ty Cobb and Trls Speaker, two of the “grand old men of organized baseball, ” were Involved In a sen sational baseballl scandal made pub lic this afternoon by Commissioner K. M. Landis. Landis issued a fifty-page type written statement going Into the details of charges that Cobb and Speaker, together with Joe Wood, conspired with gamblers In connec tion with a Detroit-Cleveland game, Sept. 25. 1919.

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OCR text: Couldn’t Endure Stepmother, She Tells Policemen. Juvenile court authorities today investigated the case of a 9-year-old girl, who ran away from home and was found by police at 1:35 a. m. today. She wqs taken to the Detention Home. She stated she ran away because she could not endure a step mother. She said her sister, 12, ran away some time ago for the same reason. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m. y ... 34.10 a. m 33 7 a. m 34 11 a. m 33 8 a. 32 12 (noon) .... 34 9 a. m 33 1 p.

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OCR text: Kovno, Lithuania, Dec. 21-y-(A*) — Augustine Valdemaras, premier in the government formed after Fri day’s coup d'etat, charged in hn in terview today that extremists, sup ported by the late government, bad openly prepared io aelze power, which would have given a pretext for Polish intervention. Morever, he declared, the government had openly favored the bolaheviatf.

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