Newspaper from Sunday, December 26, 1926

OCR text: By the Associated Press. CANTON, 4 Ohio, December 25.—In dictment of' additional persons in connection with the shooting last July of Don R. Mellett, Canton pub lisher, was viewed as a possibility today. Conviction yesterdayof Patrick E. McDermott on a charge of first-de ghee murder was regarded aa having increased the possibility of the in volvement of others In the crime. Indictments against Ben Rudner of Massillon and Louis Mazer of Can ton, alleged co-conspirators In Mel lett’s mufder, will stand following the conviction.

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OCR text: Farm Belief Factions Also Lining Up—Seating of Frank L. Smith Is Explosive Question. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Traveling at high speed. Congress in two weeks’ time has rolled up an impressive record of legislation. If it can maintain the same speed dur ing the two months which will re main of the present session after the Christmas holidays there seems little doubt it can conclude its work and avoid a special session of the ne.xt Congress in the Spring and Summer.

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OCR text: Daniel Kuhne, 51-year-old Prince Georges County farmer, was murdered and his house burned by his slayers in an effort to destroy evidence of their crime, it was found by a cor oner’s jury yesterday afternoon, fol lowing the discovery of the farmer’s charred body in the ruins of his home near Duley Station, 17 miles from Washington on the Robert Crain Highway early yesterday morning. The crime was committed between 8 o'clock Friday night, and early yester day morning, when Kuhne’s house was found in flames.

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OCR text: Restrictions. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, December 25. The Tampico officers of the PennMex Oil Co., one of the large foreign oil companies operating in Mexico, the newspapers say, have received instructions from Pittsburgh head quarters to accept the new petroleum and land law unconditionally and apply for concessions confirming the company’s Mexican holdings acquired before 1917. The department of industry and commerce announces that the Mar land Oil interests have accepted the new regulations.

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OCR text: By the Aeaocisted Pres*. ROCKFORD. Me., December 25. Plunging into Moosehead Lake, where , the water Is at least 100 feet deep, i when he lost his footing in an at tempt to leap a treacherous Ice kle this morning, Gtno Tlinney, world's heavyweight boxing champlon, was rescued by a human cljaln consisting of three companions ac* , companying him bn a hike to this 1 village to attend mass.

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OCR text: Vice President’s Widow Requests That $5,000 Annuity Bill Be Withdrawn in Congress. By the Associated Press. Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall does not want the $5,000 annual pension which Congress has been asked to grant the widow of the former Vice President. She has written Representative Aldrich, Republican, Rhode Island, requesting him to withdraw his bill which seeks to give her the annuity. Informing Chairman Knutson of the House pensions committee of Mrs.

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OCR text: Thrown to Edge, Where New Cable Holds. Mrs. Matson was driving west on the bridge about 11 o’clock. Street car 616 of the Capital Traction Co. was proceeding east across the bridge. In the driving rain the automobile skidded, swung its rear end toward the rear end of. the passing street car and was hit just as the car was clear ing the automobile, which sent the automobile at a right angle straight toward the railing. The left front wheel of the machine jumped the high curbing and skidded along.

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OCR text: PART ONE—36 PAGES, General News —Local, National and Foreign. Schools apd Colleges—Page 20. Maryland and Virginia News —Pages 5. 21 and 22. Spanish War Veterans —Page 27. Civilian Army News—Page 27. Radio News and Programs—Page 28. Financial News —Pages 30 and 31. Classified Advertising—Pages 32. 33 and 34. Serial, “The Girl in the Second Cabin”—Page 35. D. A. R. Activities—Page 35** PART TWO—2O PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. Washington and Other Society. Notes of Art and Artists —Page 4. Reviews of Winter Books—Page 4.

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