Newspaper from Monday, December 27, 1926

OCR text: Case May Be Laid Before Post Office or Justice Departments. No Appointments Are Made. The two central figures in base ball s latest scandal—Tyrus Raymond Cobb, late manager of the Detroit team, and Tris Speaker formerly pilot of the Cleveland Indians —were due

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 27. —Rev. John Nevin Sayre, Episcopalian, min ister and brother-in-law of Mrs. Jes sie Woodrow Wilson Sayre, has writ ten to Secretary of War Davis com plaining that Army officers are harassing: opponents of compulsory military training: in colleges, and I seeking to deprive them of their right i of free speech. I Mr. Sayre specifically charges Lieut. I Col.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. BLYTHEVILLE, Ark., December 27.—Local police were engaged today in running down the clue they appear to have establishing the identity of a woman who passed through Blythe ville Thursday of last week en route from Cairo, 111., to Springfield, Mo., answering almost in detail the de scription of Mrs. Gladys W. Houck of Washington, D. C., who is the ob ject of a nation-wide search. The woman arrived here on an in terstate bus and stopped only to take another car to Jonesboro.

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OCR text: BY JUNIUS B. WOOD. By Radio to The Star and Chieasro Daily News. Copyright, 1920. REVAL, Esthonia, December 27. Mrs. Hallie F. Flannigan, associate professor at Vassar, where she is the director of the experimental theater, and who is now studying the Euro pean stage under a traveling scholar ship given by the Guggenheim Foundation of New York, has ar rived here after the weirdest experi ence which has befallen any recent visitor to temperamental Russia.

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OCR text: Barbee Wins Rockville Motion. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., December 27. A new trial was granted today to Richard H. Rule, convicted recently of the killing of William J. Barbee, jr., at a club near Burnt Mills, Md., Halloween night. Judge! Worthington and Peter an nounced their agreement following several conferences and Rule was al lowed $5,000 bail. The case will be docketed again, as if it had not been tried, and a date set.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. BERLIN, December 27.—The Montag: Morgen today publishes a sensational article claiming to have discovered that the arrest of two Germans, Dr. Goldman and Herr Dietz, several months ago at Elberfeld on a charge of revealing military secrets, was really be cause they attempted to sell an ar tillery invention declined by the German government to the Ameri can embassy. Col. Arthur L. Conger, military attache at the American embassy, today informed the Associated Press that no such offer had ever been received.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. DES MOINES, lowa, December 27.—Sherman Dougherty, 38, whose 30-day sentence for intoxication had been commuted Christmas so that he might enjoy freedom over the holiday, died yesterday after drinking poison liquor. F. G. Pearson was another vic tim of poison Christmas liquor.

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OCR text: Stark County Alone Said to Have Spent $20,000 to Convict McDermott of Murder. By the Associated Press. i CANTON, Ohio, December 27. While passing of sentence on Patrick Eugene McDermott, convicted of the murder of Don R. Mellett, is held up pending the filing of a motion by de sense counsel for a new trial, Prose cutor C. B.

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OCR text: CHICAGO, Dee. 27.—“.1 owed the lady a favor. She asked me to kill Him, and so I did.” Such, in effect,'was the admission, according to police inves tigators, of Loren Patrick, under arrest here today charged with the murder of William Lindstrom.

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OCR text: “Who’s Who” in the Business. Commercial and Profess ional Life of Wash ington ? , See “Who’s Who” in Today's Times and Herald Classified Section:

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OCR text: Defendant in Mellett Murder Remains Silent in Face of Life Term. Bu United Press CANTON, Ohio, Dec. 27.—Pros pects of life inside walls of the Ohio penitentiary have failed to loosen the tongue of Pat McDermott, con vlcted of the assasination of Don R. Mellett, editor of the Canton Daily News. McDermott remained In his col! here today while his attorneys pre pared to file a formal motion for a new trial* The motion will be ruled on Wednesday by Judge E. W. Diehl in Common Pleas Coui .

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OCR text: Revive Victim. Bu United Press LA GRANGE, Ind., Dec. 27. Miles Emmons, a Michigan man, was drowned in Pigeon River, near here when he fell from a bridge into the water. While attempting to revive Em mons, Daniel Garlets, 70, wns stricken with heart disease and

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OCR text: cation. Hu United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 27.—Wets are planning their biggest Con gressional demonstration since the start of prohibition, as soon as Con gress reconvenes after the holidays. A mass meeting of wet Senators to which eighteen are expected to be in vited will be arranged simultaneous ly with a display of fireworks on tho floor. Invitations to the first wet bloc assembly in the Upper House are now being arranged by Senator Edge, Republican, New Jersey, who hitherto has acted as unofficial lead er of the unorganized wet sympathiz-. era.

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OCR text: (Raymond Fortune, 17, of 745 Luett St., held in city prison today on a burglary charge, also Is suspected by police of betng a hold-up man. lie was seen to enter through a window the house of Louis Moller, 1431 W. Twenty-Sixth St., by Mrs. John So renson, living across the street. She called police. Lieut. Fred Winkler and squad found Fortune hiding in the basement. A sweater he was wearing was recognized by Mrs. So renson as one stolen from her home recently. Fortune admitted the bur glary and several others, police say.

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OCR text: Not General. ' Bu United Press MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 27. The average college student of today Is a serious thinker, and stories of student debauchery, drinking and petting, while true in isolated in stances, are not typical of college life, A. R. Elliott, New York, execu tive secretary of the National Stu dent Conference, which opens here tomorrow, laid the United Press to day Three thousand students, including representatives of thirty-four foreign nations, will gather for the confer ence, which will discuss problems of modern youth.

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OCR text: The fight Is over, the victory is won, and the postoffice department triumphantly rests In its laurels to day, after handling the flood of the Christmas mail rush. Nearly five and one-half million greeting CArds, both Incoming and out going, were handled by the local office and about two million parcel post packages went through the dis tributing channels last week, accord ing to Postmaster Robery H. Bryson. “We swept the floor at 12:12.

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OCR text: With a 12-year-old boy dead, the first toasting victim of the season, police this afternoon blocked off streets in various parts of the city for the exclusive use of coasters. Tho streets were picked by Re roation Director Jesse P. McClure, after a trip over the city to see what streets were being used sty coasting. Automobile traffic will be barred from the streets designated for coast ing. Other streets probably will bo added later, McClure said. Those already picked: Park Ave., Thirty-Fourth to Thirty-Eighth Sts.

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OCR text: Bu United Press JEFFERSONVILLE. Ind.. Dec. 27. —County authorities today are In vestigating the killing of Herman Roth, 20, Louisville, and the wound ing of two other youths at the Maplewood Inn, near here Sunday. A warrant, charging Tohn Staeb ler, L'6, Louisville musician, with murder, has oeen sworn out by Grover C. Todd, Clark County prose cutor, who is making an effort to lo cate Staebler, said Dy his father to be under the care of a doctor. William Elliott, 21, Louisville, Is the third youth wounded.

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OCR text: Minot, N. 1)., Dec. 27 DP) a son, which has been named Abel. The father and mother are ring-tailed monkeys in the loeal zoo.

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