Newspaper from Thursday, December 30, 1926

OCR text: BY C ONSTANTINE BROWN. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright. 102(5. LONDON, December 30. —Petra, "a rose red city, half as old as time,” full of exquisite golden ornaments and engraved precious stones, is making Tut-ankh-Amen’s splendors look like a 10-cent store objects d’art according to information which has tome into the hands Cf eminent archeologists contiected with the Brit ish museum show.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. NASHVILLE, Term., December 30. —The greatest flood since the white man came to what is now Nashville was spread over the city tods,y as the Cumberland River stood at a stage of 55.6 feet. The river, which was expected to continue its rise for the next day or two as tiie result of unprecedented rainfall here and in its upper reaches in Kentucky, covered approximately 200 city blocks today.

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OCR text: Adequate National Defense Possi -1 ble Without Causing Military Competition, He Believes. 1 > The President and Mrs. Coolidge returned to Washington at 7 :io o'clock this morning from Trenton, N. J-. where, addressing a patriotic gather ing of men and women last night celebrating the 150th anniversary of the battle of Trenton, Mr.

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OCR text: Former Interior Secretary Suffer ingFrom Pneumonia—Has Restless Night. By the Associated'Press. EL PASO, Tex., December 30. Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior, who is ill at his home here with pneumonia, suddenly took

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OCR text: liy the Associated Press. BERLIN, December 30.—Guncot ton or artificial silk may be nianu factured from the garbage of great cities, it is claimed, under a method evolved by Kurt Gerson, a Berlin engineer. It is done, he says, by sifting and subjecting all the cel lulose ingredients to a special treatment. Bv distilling the remaining refuse, such as potato peelings and pieces of wood, he claims to pro* duee tar? charcoal and acetic acid.

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OCR text: Planes Leave Tampica for Vera Cruz, as Big Crowd Views Departure. V N By tlie Associated Press > TAMPICO, Mexico, December 30. i The United States Pan-American flyers, delayed here several days be cause of engine difficult)"*, today re sumed their 20,000-mile good-will jour ney, hopping off for their next stop. ) Vera Cruz, at 11 o’clock, i The motors of the four planes hummed perfectly as the flyers, headed Iby Maj. Herbert A.

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OCR text: By the Associated Press. After a discussion of farm legisla tion with President Coolidge today, Representative, Strong, Republican, Kansas, expressed the opinion that no administration agricultural bill would be offered at this session of Congress because it might give the impression that attempts were being made to head off legislation already pending. The Kansan said he was convinced the administration would look with favor upon any farm bill which was reasonable, practical and gave prom ise of success in its operation.

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OCR text: Buiid for 1928. Charles D. Hilles. Republican national committeeman for New York. has been picked to build up again the (tarty organization in the Empire i State, which suffered a long series of ' i defeats in the last campaign, ranging from the gubernatorial and senatorial defeats down the line. It has been announced in New York by State Chairman C.eorge K. Morris that on January 1 Mr. Hides would become chairman of the executive committee of the State body, succeed-; insr the veteran William L. WartJ of Westchester County. This puts Mr.

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OCR text: MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 30. —God will be returned to science through the discovery of a new principle in the mechanistic law, Dr. Philip Northrup, professor of philosophy at Yale and one of the leading scientists in the country, de clared today before the scienti

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OCR text: By AIMEE SEMPLE McPHERSON LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30.—The absurd, insulting insinuation that I, pastor of this mighty church—that I, editor of a Christian magazine—mother of a beautiful son and a charm ing daughter—that I, stock of a Christian family who for generati

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OCR text: MEMPHIS. Tenn., Dec. 30.—Harry Cohn, president of the American Savings Bank & Trust Company, dropped dead in his office here to day. Worry over the failure of the bank was believed responsible. The bank closed its doors several weeks a.*io after a bookkeeper had disappeared and a cashier had killed himself. A shortage of |400,- 000 was revealed by bank examiners. Used car ownership la withinyour rraap. See the many attractive buys , in today's Times and Herald Classi. 1 tfldA* Ada, ....

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OCR text: Timet TTashinoton Bureau. 1322 lieu) York Avenue TUCSON, Ariz., Dec. 30.—The long dream of the Southwest of through trains frorp* Pacific coast ports to Mexico City via the west coast of Mexico will come true by March 1. H. B. Titcomb of this city, presi dent.

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OCR text: Bu Times Special CHICAGO. Dec. 30.—1 t costs $1,434 a year to support the av erage family of 4.58 persons, the survey of 25,000 typical Ameri can homes revealed, it was de clared by Miss Ina, S. Llndman, food specialist of Ball Brothers Com “Food constitutes the largest single item in the family budget,” said Miss Lindman. “amounting to 32.8 per cent or $547.78 a year. Cloth ing ranks next In expenditure with 16.6 per cent or $238.04. Outlay for shelter totals $192 or 13.4 per cent, while $75.90, or 5.3 per cent goes for fuel and light.

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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. Joseph C. Schaf, Marott Ho tel. Otis Calvin, 1305 Splnk-Arms Hotel. William E. Webb, ISI6 W. Washington St. Herman S. Sprandel, 1135 Central Ave.

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OCR text: 6overnor Jackson's “economy pro gram” will be curtailed considerably if the budget icommittee acts favor -3 ily upon rekuests for the 1927-28 budget sent in by the various depart ments and institutions. Departments whose offices are in the Statehousc have requested the committee for in creases totalling more than $150,000, according to requests on file at the State board of accounts. Institu tions also are said to have sent in increased schedules of operation. The budget committee is busy try ing to trim these figures down to meet Jackson’s demands.

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OCR text: Assert tig that women’s organi zations In both parties now are “mere shadows," State Representa tive Ella V. Gardner of Indianapolis, told a mass meeting of women this afternoon at the Claypool, she would introduce a bill in the General As sembly to allow women equal rep resentation in party organizations. The meeting was held to protest against expulsion of Mrs. Gardner from the caueute of Marion County Republican -Representatives by legis lative lieutenants of George V. Cof fin, G. O. P. county boss, when she would not agree to unit system of voting.

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OCR text: Make It Difficult to Blow Whistle. The cop’s lips! Perhaps you laugh, but It's no laughing matter, say the cops. With wintry winds sweeping down streets, the Indianapolis traffic pol icemen encounters his annual season of torture from blowing his whistle “steen” times dally, resulting In painful cracked lips. “A cracked Up will often last all winter,” declared Traffic Officer Leo M. Troutman, a familiar figure at the Intersection of Meridian and Washington fits.' Troutman shares his period of duty with John basis.

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OCR text: Not Cause Death. 81l United Peru* WASHINGTON. Dec. 30.—The Government plans to remove all poison from industrial alcohol at an early date, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon officially announced today. Federal chemists are now w r orking on a denaturing formula which will make commercial alcohol nauseating and unpalatable but it will not be poisohous, Mellon said. 'I do not say It is excusable for the Government to allow a source of poison liquor if it can be prevented," Mellon said.

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OCR text: Captain of British Freighter Re ports Craft Not in Danger. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—The S. S. Clearton, a British freighter with forty men aboard, was drifting help lessly early today about 500 miles east of Baltimore,, according to SOS messages picked up by the Independent Wireless Company. The craft was rudderless. Captain Hick man reported at 4:49 a. m. He re ported the vessel was in no immedi ate danger and only required towage service.

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OCR text: Storm. Staff Corrc^poiMieiit The United Preos W A STUNG TON—The government • iilans to remove all poison from in (lustrial alcohol at an early date. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon officially announced today. Federal chemists now are working on a denaturing fo

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OCR text: issued Tomorrow The colored comic and magazine section of The Leader, which is usually issued on Satur day, will this week again be issued tomorrow in stead. This is because Nev/ Year’s day comes Leader will not be issued on that day.

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OCR text: Milwaukee and vicinity: Mostly tai' ' tonight and tomorrow. Not quite so ' cold tonight; somewhat colder tomorrow, ’federate to fresh west to northwest i winds. Wisconsin: Mostly fair tonight and to morrow; not quite so cold tonight in east and south portions; somewhat I colder tomorrow. 1 Temperatures: la. m., 14; 2, 17; 3, 18; i 4 18; 5, IS; 6, 20; 7, 22; 8, 23; 9, 24; 10, 27; 11, 28; noon, 33; 1 p. m.. 35. Humidity: 7 Pm., 62; 7 a. m., <6; noon, 69. Temperature 24 hours to midnight: Maximum, 16; minimum. 6; mean, 11; I normal, 23. Midnight to 10 a.

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