Newspaper from Thursday, December 23, 1926

OCR text: Gallinger Psychiatrist and Police Confer in Secret After the Interview. Dr. Knutt Houck, whose wife lias been missing since their mysterious disappearance from their homo Wednesday a week ago, was put through a severe grilling by headquar ters detectives at Gallinger Hospital today, but the result, according to de tectives, gave them little additional Information toward a solution of Mrs. Houck’s whereabouts. • Early today Dr. Houck told Dr. Grover C. Kirk, psychiatrist at Gal linger.

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OCR text: President and Mrs. Coolidge prob ably will be a part of the vast radio audience which will Join in the Nation wide chorus of Yuletide carols to be sung this Christmas eve through the medium of far-flung broadcast sta tions. It was indicated at the White House today that the presidential family is looking forward with inter est to this unusual musical event, and it is predicted that the White House radio set, in common with countless others throughout the country, will be tuned in tomorrow night on the radio choir which will lead the sing ing.

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OCR text: to Be Filled Soon. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Coolidge has at last en tered upon the task of finding two men for appointment to the newly created Public Service Commision of the District and for a third man to fill the post of people’s counsel for the new utilities-regulation group. Since signing the bill creating the new commission. President Coolidge has been too engaged with other mat ters to give any attention to making these appointments*. He sent for Samuel G.

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OCR text: District Structure. Allotment of the square directly in back of the present District Building for much-needed and new municipal structures is advocated by the Citi zens’ Advisory Council in a report made to Senator Capper, chairman of the District committee, today. The square in question is bounded by D street, Ohio avenue, Fourteenth and Thirteen-and-a-half streets, and in the program of the Public Buildings Commission it has been set aside, ftfir a general supply building for (bo Fed eral Government.

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OCR text: Skull Fracture. Fatally injured when the Auth Provision Co. truck, which he was driving, was struck and overturned by a Yellow taxicab, driven by James Henry Cheek, 52, of 3535 T street, at Maryland avenue and Third street southwest at 6:50 o'clock this morning, Lewis Leapley, 40, of 708 G street southeast, extricated from the truck by Cheek, walked half a block to the Sharon Dairy at 324 B street south i west, where he told G. \V.

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OCR text: dency Is Own View. By the Associated Press. PARIS, December 23. —Col. George Harvey today said that he was Incor rectly quoted yesterday in an inter view in the Paris edition of the New York Herald-Tribune, in which he was represented as having said that Presi dent Coolidge had told him he would run again for the presidency in 1928 if the Republican national organization and the voters wanted him to.

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OCR text: By the Associate! Pr*ss. CLEVELAND, Ohio. December 23.—Warren D. Williams, pilot of I a Cleveland-Chlcago air mail plane, saved his life today by leaping from his plane, “flying blind” in a thick fog 3 miles south of I Bowling Green, Ohio. The plane crashed a few seconds after Wil liams made his parachute leap. The plane ,vas demolished, re ports said. Williams was unhurt, except for bruises and scratches. The mail was recovered by a Bowling Green police officer and sent on to Chicago.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. SACRAMENTO, Calif., December 23.—Farmers of Glenn and Colusa Counties are hoping that some sort of a Pied Piper will precede Santa Claus in a tour of their district to exterminate thousands of rats which recently centered an In vasion in the rice-growing com munities. Norman Buhn of the State De partment of Agriculture is loading the drive by distributing neatly wrapped packages of poison meat. He declared the rodent invasion was most unusual and that a ware houseman at Williams had trapped 3.000 rats.

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OCR text: Ty Cobb in the following statement dictated to Bert Walker, sport ing editor of the Detroit Times, and special correspondent of the International News Service, tells his side of the story of the charges made against him. (Copyright, 1925, by International News Service) By TY 0088 As Told to Bert Walker -AUGUSTA, Ga., Dec. 23.—“1s there a God? Lam beginning to doubt it. I know there is no gratitude. Here I am.

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OCR text: THE TRUCK OF DEATH LOUIS P. LEPALEY, 40, of 708 G St. S. E., was mortally injured, early today, when his truck, which he was driving, overturned at Third Street and Maryland Avenue Southwest. Lepaley staggered to dairy office, asked employe, to notify Mrs. Lepa

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OCR text: MRS. GLADYS HOUGK Investigation of the disappear ance of Mrs. Gladys Houck begun by District Attorney Pey ton Gordon today. A definite clue to Mrs. Houck’s whereabouts is ex pected to develop momentarily. T. and P. Land Trust Stock Sets Record NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Texas an 1 Pacific Land Trust,, jumped 200 points today to $2,000 a share, the highest price ever paid for a share of stock on the New York stock exchange.

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OCR text: Rabies have become so prevalent throughout the State that a special meeting of the Indiana board of health has been calhd for next Wednesday, by Dr. Wil iam F. King, secretary, to discuss the advisability of placing the entire State under quarantine. Contrary to popular opinion, so cailed “dog days” of July and Au gust have mfthiug whatever to do with the increase of the-disease. More cases have been reported this month than at any time throughout the year, reports reveal. A map in Dr. King's office shows the increase.

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OCR text: Three Indiana Men Arrested —List of Customers Se cured in New York. Federal prohibition officers today were rounding up Indiana customers of a New York City whisky-by-mail house, which was raided Monday during the pre-C’hristmas clean up. Using a list of customers, which was seized, they have arrested three In diana mc>n already. Two of the defendants. Muncle business men, were granted a hear ing before United States Commis sioner Fae W. Patrick here Wednes day. They were Carl W.

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OCR text: Manchester. Bu United Prcfx NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind., Dec. 23.—Frederick Thompson, 12, and Eugene Wright, 8, both of North Manchester, were drowned in Eel River here late Wednesday when the thim ice on which they had been skating gave way. Their bodies were recovered late in the evening. ** The two lads went skating after school. They were near the center of the river where the Ice was thinnest when Eugene suddenly broke through.

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OCR text: However. Christmas Day in Indianapolis probably will be fair and cold, but there may be snow on the ground, the United States weather bureau announced today. For snow is predicted for Friday, following rain tonight. A sharp drop in temperature Friday will carry the mercury down to about 10 degrees above zero by Friday night Metero logist J. H. Armington said. While the temperature may go up a bit Christmas Day, it is expected to go down again that evening. The cold wave is coming out of the northwest, Armington stated.

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OCR text: Pluiniiff Claims. Dempsey Refused (o Pay for Tickets. Bu United Pre * LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23.—Jack Dempsey was made the defendant in a suit filed here Wednesday to re cover $1,193.69, The sum represents the cost of tickets for the Philadel phia fight Dempsey refused to pay for when he learned they were In the fifty-fourth row Instead of in the twenty-fourth. Morris Shewitt. complainant, said Dempsey had authorized him to buy the seats for friends of the then champion. He said Tex Rickard re imbursed him to the extent of $758.81.

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OCR text: One million, five hundred thousand Christmas cards! Two hundred and twenty-five thou sand parcel post packages! liig numbers? Yes, and they meun something, for the main postoffice handled 1,500,000 Christmas greeting cards Wednesday, including several hundred thousand incoming local cards, in addition to the regular dis tribution of letters. And the Illinois St. parcel post station is handling 9.000 sacks of parcel post packages dally, averag ing twenty-five t<> the sack.

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OCR text: Slayer of Boy Would Deny Confes sion, Declaring it Forced. Bu United Pren CHICAGO, Dec. 23.—Harold Cro arkln, scion of a wealthy family and confessed slayer of 6-year-old Wal ter Schmith, will repudiate his state ment to police which designated him both a murderer and degenerate, it was indicated today. Warden Edward J. Fogarty of the county jail reported today that Cro arkln constantly charges that he was forced to confess to obtain sleep, and that he will deny the confession.

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OCR text: BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 23.—The old time blue laws tl.at stern-faced colonial forefathers liked so mucii are experiencing a revival. Only a few days ago a hundred people were arrexted in a New Jer sey town for violation of a moth eaten statute about Sabbath observ ance. v A century-old law kept the Ses quicentennial Exposition at Philadel phia closed on Sunday. These laws may seem • rather harsh nowadays.

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OCR text: Berlin, Dec. 28.—<3 —The bronxe powder with hrhich she daily coated her body to do an east Indian dance at a Berlin variety house it believed to have contributed, to the death of Lueienne Condrey, Parisienne dancer, who appeared on the stage under the

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OCR text: TAMPICO. Mexico. Dec - m Vera Crux. 260 mi lei down the coast, *1 next stop for the American a good will flyers. The time of their departure is dependent upon weath , er conditions. but Major H. A. Dar

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OCR text: NEW YORK. N. Y., Dec. 23—(Jf) , —Certificates of the Texas and Pacific Land Trust touched $2.04fti in trading on the New York Stock Exchange today, a jump of 240 points from yesterday’s figure. This is the highest level ever at tained by any security list on th

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OCR text: BEAUMONT, Texas, Dec. 23.— While reports were current that the steamship Robwell, owned by W. A. Bowie, had been lost at sea, the ves sel steamed into Beaumont late last night from Tampico. Owners of the ship were unable to account for the report which found it* way to the press wires. GOES AFTER BANDITS VERNON. Dec. 23.—Sheriff W Frank Edmonson left Wednesday for Nebraska City, Nebraska, to take into custody the men he!<^ there in con at Odell.

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OCR text: TEMPLE, Dec. 23.—Buford Young said he reconstructed his radio set which picks up conversations within a radius of one half mile, but that he would not demonstrate it until af ter Christmas, when he would him self take it to Washington and show it to federal aut

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OCR text: NEW HAEVN, Conn., Dec. 23.— Innocent of any wrong doing and that he never bet on a “fixed” ball game in his life were the claim* to day of “Smokey” Joe Wood, Yale baseball coach, who has been con nected by baseball commissioner K. M. Landis with the latest scandal in'> profess1, nal baseball. Wood said that he had bet on the game played between Detroit and Cleveland oTi September 25. 1919,-but there «n no agreement as to which team should win.

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OCR text: GREENWICH. Conn., Dec. 23— Fire today burned the entire plant of Ely Court, an exclusive school for girls, with a loss estimated at $500, 000. Five buildings were destroyed. Nobody was injured. The girls were awny for the holidays.

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