Newspaper from Tuesday, December 28, 1926

OCR text: Esme Howard. By tfie Associated Press. * GENEVA, December 28. —Rumors ■ published by European newspapers that Sir Eric Drummond, secretary general of the of Nations, would resign - his post include a report that he would be appointed British Ambassador at Washington to succeed Sir Esriie Howard. leaving for England after the last League meeting Sir Erie told friends that he had no inkling he would be offered another post ar.d that he had no thought of resigning as secretary general.

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OCR text: BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. t Before many days are past, friends of adequate military defense may be found marching shoulder to shoulder with advocates of stronger naval armaments. The Army establishment of the United States has been system atically “skeletonized’’ since the World War, and suffered in some re spects more severely than the Navy at the hands of the budget and of Congress.

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OCR text: Collections. By the Associated Press. Congress was asked by Secretary Mellon today to give the Treasury authority to refund $174,120,177 ille gally collected in taxes for the fiscal year 1927 and "prior” years. The money is to be refunded to about 287,000 taxpayers, in amounts ranging from 1 cent to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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OCR text: By thp Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Inri., December 28.—Facing a possible 14 years’ imprisonment for attempted bank robbery, Russell Hoffman, 20, of Indianapolis has asked to serve part of a companion’s sentence so the latter may wed. Hoffman, who has been taken to the Pendleton Reformatory, besought Judge Julian Sharpnaek of the Bartholomew Circuit Court to transfer several years of Harold Orr's 10 years to him.

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OCR text: Gale Forecast for Sandy Hook, With Heavy Bain Here Late Today or Tonight. Washington and vicinity will be caught in the fringe of a heavy storm that will sweep up the Atlantic coast toward Sandy Hook during the next 24 hours, the official weather fore caster announced today. Continued heavy rains, followed by a freezing temperature, will precede the storm, which will strike just north of Washington late tonight or early tomorrow, gaining in momentum as it shifts up the coast.

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OCR text: Russian Pishing Villages Buried by Avalanche During Pacific Storm. By the Associated Press. NIKOLAEVSK, Russia, December ' 28.—Heavy loss of life and great! property destruction have been caused in several fishing villages of this disi trlct by mountainous waves from the Pacific Ocean, which hurled tons of! ice, some blocks 10 feet thick, on the villages during a great snowstorm. Many women and children were' buried alive under great avalanches 1 of Ice and could not be dug out beI' caOSe thetr men folk were away on fishing expenditions.

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OCR text: Ex-Dictator of Greece Reported as Blaming Wife for His Present Woes. Bv Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily New.. Copyright, 1926. VIENNA, December 28.—1 t Is re ported from Athens that Gen. Panga los. former dictator of Greece, blames 1 his woes on his wife and is asking a divorce. It is generally believed that 1 his ambitious wife pushed Pangalos 1 into seeking power. Pangalos is ex peeted to be brought before a parlta ' mentary committee of 25 members in February to answer to a charge of high treason.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. MEMPHIS. Tenn.. December 28. Thirteen persons were known today to hate perished in floods in three South ern States. Approximately 4,000 per sons were homeless in Arkansas, Mis sissippi, Tennessee and Kentucky. Property damage was estimated at more than a million dollars. Six were reported dead in Arkansas, five in Mississippi and two in Tennes see as direct results of the flood. Three thousand were driven from their homes in Nashville when the Cumberland River overflowed.

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OCR text: FOHI. C. Pretending he wae the president of & chemical company, which bore his name, and cutting a wide swath while at the Hotel Mayflower in this city William B. Davis, alias V. W. Brewer, la being held by the police of Bridgeport, Conn,, for the District of Columbia authorities. Davis fled thia city while attired in a dress suit. Several complaints were lodged against Davis today.

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OCR text: NEW INFORMATION concerning the time of the dis appearance of Mrs. Gladys W. Houck from her home was unearthed by District Attorney Gordon yesterday, when he questioned Miss Margaret Wines, 14-year-old nurse girl in the Houck home. Miss Wines is shown here with

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OCR text: Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker hath been advised by certain of their friends in Congress to file $1,000, 0W damage suits against Judge KenesaW Mountain Landis and the American League because of their being (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.)

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OCR text: PORT HURON. Mich.. Dec. 28. Several firemen were slightly in jured by falling glass and embers when fire today destroyed the south wing of the Federal Com mercial and Savings Bank at an estimated loss of glO<LO< Tour opportunity to ront that naw apartment for tho Now Tear la NOW. Read the beet selection of available Washington Apartments today in The Timee.

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OCR text: To Death From Hotel NEW YORR, Dec. 28.—George Edenholfer. of 2430 Joseph Campau Ave., Detroit. Mich., committed sui cide today by leaping from a sixth floor window of the Abdingdon Square Hotel. He was identified by letters found on his person. He, left no message explaining his act.

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OCR text: The girl left home before noon yesterday saying she was going to a hospital to have an infected foot treated. She did not return during the afternoon, but put in an appearance about 7 o’clock last evening. She would not re veal the purpose of her visit, say fag she did not intend to stay, but was going out again. Left Without Hat In an effort to keep her in the house her father grabbed her hat, but Dena, undeterred, went out again and has not been heard frpm since. Her sister, Elizabeth.

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OCR text: To Act on Debt to U. S. PARTS, Dec. 28.—Premier Poin care, leaving the cabinet today, stated that he would request the chamber of deputies to consider the Mellon-Berenger debt settlement plan “as soon as the parliamentary - commissions have their reports ready.

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OCR text: Daring the past two weeks, the detectives have learned much about the family life of Dr. Knute H. Houck and his wife, but nothing that fa any way ex plains the young wife’s strange disappearance. \ Last night. Detective Benjamin Ku eh ling received a long-distance telephone cal! from Clarke, of the Cantow. Captain Clarke is a brother-in-law of the misaing woman. He wanted to know whether Ruehling had received further word from Blytheville, Ark., where Mrs. Houck was reported seen last Thursday.

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OCR text: Cleveland Foreman. • Twenty-two Federal grand jurors convened in special session today to conduct the present term of busi ness following the session last fall. Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell, ap pointed William O. Cleveland, of Hagerstown, foreman. The other grand jurors are: Wil liam A. Beach, New Albany; Kenneth H. Blackledge, Kokomo; Otto Bleeke, Decatur; Frank P. Brockman, Colum bus; Luke Cochran, Newberry; Clar ence A. Cook, State agent of the Fidelity-Phoenix Fire Insurance Company, 3248 Washington Blvd., Indianapolis; Arthur B.

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OCR text: Witness Accuses Former Editor at Evansville. Bu United Preen EVANSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 28. Testifying at the trial of A. E. San ders, former Evansville newspaper man, charged with compounding prosecutions, Hugh Fields in Cir cuit Court hero late yesterday charged Sanders extorted SSO from him and other bootleggers to “fix” Federal officials at Indianapolis. "Sanders told me it would take a lot of money to fix the Federal fel lows at Indianapolis,” Fields testi fied.

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OCR text: Marion County grand jurors who returned a no indictment report in the probe of alleged graft and corruption in Indiana politics, after eleven weeks in vestigation, to Criminal Court Judge James A. Collins Monday afternoon, were: Wilson Furnas, foreman, Bridgeport. Joseeph C. Schaf, Marott Ho tel. Otis Calvin, 1305 Spink-Arms Hotel. William E. Webb, 1816 W. Washington St. Herman S. Sprandel, 1135 Central Ave.

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OCR text: Possibility that an effort will ho made by promoters of the proposed merger of the two local electric util ities to proceed with the merger on a lower capitalisation than the $55,- 000,000 asked in the petition before the public service commission ap peared today. Some of the opponents of the merger said they would not oppose the consolidation on the basis of a lower capitalization and Norman E. Perry, Indianapolis Light and Heat Company president, indicated he would ask Harley L.

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OCR text: Parlors and Meet With Success A corpse, several bottles of em balming fluid and seventy-five gal lons of bootleg wine greeted Feder. 1 prohibition agents Monday evening when they raided the undertaking establishment of Charles Stevens, 35. 2831 W. Tenth St. Under the direction of A. R. Har ris, deputy prohibition administrator eight of the Federal men entered Stevens' tailor shop, adjoining his undertaking parlors, armed, With a search warrant. Placing Steven* under arrest, they searched the tailor shop, the undertaking parlors and garage.

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OCR text: Bii United Prree WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—Ameri can forces are not molesting revo lutionary leaders in Nicaragua, President Coolidge declared today througrh his spokesman, and they will not violate the American policy of neutrality. The Marines were landed on the Nicaraguan coast solely to protect American lives and property, the spokesman said. The spokesman explained that it was “almost always necessary” for American forces to land in danger zones in Central American revolu tions.

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OCR text: Another May Die in La Porte Auto , Crash. LA PORTE, Tnd., Dec. 28.—One student of Taylor University, Up land, Ind., was killed and four oth ers were Injured, one seriously, when an automobile they were in left the road near here early today. Laverne Bachtel, 19, Waterloo. lowa, died in a hospital here, and Edward Anderson, 22, also of 'Water loo, is near death. Morris Jones and Hazel Chamber lain, both of Spencer. lowa, and Kenneth Hoover of Waterloo were injured and are in a hospitalGer trude Jackspn of Spencer was un hurt.

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OCR text: Revaluation of Land to Be Dis cussed at Conference. Annual tax meeting at the State house under auspices of the State tax board will be held Monday and Tuesday, rather than later In the week, as originally planned, Chair man John J. Brown announced to day. The meeting is to be in the House of Representatives, and it was decided to hold it a day earlier so that 'time will be given to get the House in shape for the Legislature, which convenes Jan. 6. The meet ing will be attended by county and township tax officers.

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OCR text: NIKOLAEVSK, Russia, Dec. 28.— Heavy loss of life and great property destruction have been caus ed in several fishing villages of this district by mountainous waves from the Pacific ocean which hurled tons of ice. some blocks ten feet thick, on the villages during a great snow storm. Many women and children were buried alive under great avalanches of ice and could not be dug out be cause their men folk were away on fishing expeditions. Heavy snow storms have covered communities and Nikolaevsk can be reached only by courriers on skis.

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OCR text: EL FASO. Tex.. Dec. 28.—Al bert B. Fall, former secretary of the interior, who way stricken with pneumonia upon his arrival from Washington here Sunday, awoke this morning to tell members of his fam ily. "I feel better.” He rested well during the night and seemed much improved at 9 a. m., according to his daughter, Mrs. C. C. Chase. Mr.

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OCR text: WASHINGTON, I). C., Dec. 28.— (A*)—Some of the nation's celebrities are included in the tax refunds pro posed to congress today by Secretary Mellon. John D. Rockefeller, Sr., received a refund of $76,475, find William G. McAdoo $7,711. Others on the list includ

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OCR text: Cars loaded in the Lower Rio Grande Valley on Saturday and Sunday and forwarded from Harlin gen Sunday and Monday by freight, . according to a regular report issued by the Gulf Coast Lines: Mixed vegetables — La Feria I, Mercedes 2, Wpalaco 7, Alamo 1, Pharr 1, San Benito 15. Beets and carrots—Mercedes 3, Donna 2. Beets—La Feria 1, Weslaco 1. Spinach—Weslaco 1. Tomatoes—Mercedes 1, Donna 1. Val Verde 1. Cabbage—Harlingen 3. La Feria 3, Mercedes 1. Weslaco 2, Donna 2, Alamo 1, San Benito 1, Spiderweb railway points—4. Fruit—Harlingen 1,.

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