Newspaper from Friday, December 31, 1926

OCR text: 13y the Associated Press. • The civil war in Nicaragua, judg ing from the latest cable advices, ap parently has progressed to a most se rious stage for the Conservative forces of President Diaz. Coupled with the news that an American censorship had been estab l

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OCR text: Has Not Made Advances to Russia This Year. By the Associated Press. A story that the United States had approached Russian Soviet officials during the past year on the subject of Russian recognition was flatly de nied today by the State Department. The department authorized the statement that no approach whatever respecting recognition has been made during the year to any Moscow offi cial.

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OCR text: and Struck at Him. The Commissioners decided today to transmit to Secretary of State Kellogg a complaint filed by Traffic Director M. O. Eld ridge against Dusham Seku litch, chief clerk of the Serbian Lega tion, who, the traffic director claimed, used abusive language and struck at him during an argument on ThirI teenth street on Christmas eve. Mr. Eldridge’s convplaint, which the Commissioners will transmit to the State Department without comment, follows: “On Friday. December 24.

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OCR text: ITALIAN PACT AT GENEVA Jugoslavia Paper Discusses Effer‘ if League Recognizes Treaty. By C'alile to The Star anil Chicago Daily New* VIENNA, December 31.—The Ah banian government is preparing t<> register the Italian treaty at Geneva, It needs the approval of the signers oj the international agreement regarding Albania in London and Paris. The Belgrade Politika, in commenting, says: "Registration gives an international [character to the pact and forces mem bers of the League to recognize the existence of the pact.

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OCR text: B.v the Associated Press. PARIS, December 31.—A Sofia dispatch to the Paris edition of the London Daily Mail says a widespread Communist plot in Bul garia, with the object of seizing' King Boris and compelling him to abdicate, has been frustrated by the police in the capital and provinces.

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OCR text: Makushin More Active About Time of Earthquake Felt in State of Washington. By the Associated Press. SEAJTTLE, December 31.—Makushin, the volcano which towers over the isolated little village of that name southwest of Dutch Harbor, Alaska, is in violent eruption. Intermittently active since its discovery by a Russian admiral more than 100 years ago, it belched fire and smoke yesterday at about the same hour an earthquake was felt in central Washington State.

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OCR text: By th ■ Associated Pres*. BERWICK, Nova Scotia. De cember 31.—A modern Enoch Ar den, who failed to steal silentl> away when he found his wife, hap pily married to another, hut in stead has taken his problem to the courts, has stirred the tranquillity of this little Annapolis Valley town. Milford Yidito of Bridgetown. Nova Scotia, who enlisted as a sol dier in the World VVar 11 years ago and was officially reported dead, has returned to find his wife married to J. Wesley I’elton and the mother of two children by her second marriage.

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OCR text: Police to Interfere With Funmak ers Only if Frolic Turns Into Rowdyism. In almost as many different ways .«« there are different moods in human nature, Washington will bid farewell to the old year and welcome to the new as time flees once more across the nocturnal meridian tonight. While pealing bells announce the passing of 1926 far and wide, the <!eI vout. will kneel, to offer prayers of thanks and hope and others will revel I j in the din of syncopating music and the raucous medley of mere noise producing instruments.

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OCR text: By International Kewe Service JERSEY CITY, Dec. 31.—Senator Alexander Simpson, who was spec ial prosecutor in ths Hall-Mllis murder trial, today denounced as “cowardly" the resolution Intro duced before the Hudson County Bar Association last night by Dis trict Court Judge Charles L. Car rick of Jersey City.

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OCR text: MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 31— A drop of human blood in the test tube of Dr. L. J. Henderson, of Harvard, has given to science its real reason for the existence of a, positive though natural God. ~

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OCR text: v “THIS 18 MY LUCKY DAY,” said Isadore Freund, Washington phimber, who headed the list of District residents receiving income tax refunds during the fiscal year ended last June. He got hack v ■ ■nil M • /■ -jF <l^^^x' & k Timet Staff Photo ISADORE FREUND Robt. Holliday, 18, Dies Os Lockjaw From Shot Explosion of a blank cartridge three days before Christmas caused the death last night in Emergency Hospital of Robert Holliday. 18 years old. of Vienna.

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OCR text: ■ Max Saltz, shoe merchant, 1210 ’ I Seventh St. N. W„ today petitioned ■ the District Supreme Court to be ad -1 lodged a voluntary* bankrupt. Represented by Attorneys Tepper > and Blanken, Saltz lists his assets at ■ $6,831 and his debts at $9,623.32. Rent your new apartment fronl th* apartnient .

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OCR text: The House Judiciary Committee’s carpet, mute witness to the sensational dose of the tot-? peaehment proceedings against former Commissioner Frederick spouess, witn an Rankin and i x for many months the spots remained there. They were removed this week when the c>rpet war cleaned./ under which 47,000,000 gallons of ■ alcohol were denatured this year, , the Treasury has substituted alde -1 hoi, a non-poisonous element, for pyridine, a poison, although the wood alcohol content was increased from 2 to 4 per cent.

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OCR text: day by Washington detectives to come here and assist, in--#® investigation "which has just about exhausted every Detective Benjamin Kuehling has written a letter to Capt.- B. E. Clarke, of the Canton

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OCR text: MACON, Ga.. Dec. 31.—The hang ing of Wade Johnson. Milledgeville youth scheduled to die on the gal lows at noon today was halted at the eleventh hour by an appeal to the Federal couts. Federal Judge Tilson Issued a writ of habeas corpus, on the ap peal of defense attorneys, and the “last legal hanging*’ In Georgia will be postponed until the circuit court of appeals at New Orleans renders a decision on the merits of the writ. A snort representation of Waehtns ton's beet apartments tor rent is found In the Classified Ad's of < today’s Times .

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OCR text: Definite progress in the plan of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon to eliminate the ftse of poison as a denaturing ele ment in industrial alcohol was disclosed at the Treasury to day. Ten new denaturing formulas, none of which con tain wood alcohol, or other dangerous poisons, were being prepared by William V. Lin der, chief chemist of the In ternal Revenue Bureau. Some Poisons Changed Linder indicated that these for muli would be tested and if they prove successful will be substi tuted for those containing wood alcohol. In the revised formula No.

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OCR text: Bu United Press • WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—The “critical situation” between the United States and which Secretary of State Kellogg described in his lest note of protest over the Mexican alien oil laws, became dan gerously acute today, in the opinion of informed officials. The protested laws become effec tive at midnight tonight.

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OCR text: of Duvall. M. E. Foley, attorney, has been appointed to succeed Frank Driver, cashier of the Citizens State Bank, as a member of the park board by Mayor Duvall. Driver, the mayor’s brother-in-law, resigned to devote more time to his work at the bank, he said. Foley is a member of the Indiana State Prison board of trus tees. Driver has served but a short time on the board, having been appointed as Democratic member to succeed Albert M. Maguire.

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OCR text: ing the rest of his life there for the murder of Madge Ober holtzer, 28, of Indianapolis. Meanwhile, his attorneys were to confer at the office here of Lawyer Lloyd O. Hill, regarded as Stephenson’s personal rep resentative, upon whether or not to appeal to Sup

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OCR text: Marlon 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 Spink-Arms Hotel. William E. Webb, 1816 W. Washington St. Herman S. Sprandel, 1135 Central Ave.

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OCR text: f Bu United Press I BLUEFIELDS, Nicaragua, Dec. ■L—Two hundred and eighty men killed and many wounded in Hhe fierce three-day battle between ■Conservative and Liberal troops at ■Laguna Las Perlas, eye-witnesses ar riving here reported today. ■ The Liberal forces, fighting undei ■the colors of Dr. Juan B. Casa, who Bis recognized by Mexico as president ■of Nicaragua, were victorious in the ■fighting, which terminated Carly this ■week with the retreat of the troops of ■president Adolpho Diaz, whose re ■gime is recognized by the United W States.

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OCR text: Supreme Court Clerk Tunis Over Duties to Republican. Today the last Democratic office at the Statehouse will be turned over to the Republicans when Supreme Court Clerk Zachariah H. i Dungan turns over his keys of office L to Charles L. Biederwolf. Dungan, k who was elected four years ago, ■ was defeated by Biederwolf with the Bydumph of the Republican party this his four years service, I Dungan and his "official family” I have made an enviable record of p service to the public..

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OCR text: Only perishable parcel post and special delivery mail will be delivered Saturday, Year’s day, it was announced today by Robert H. Bryson, postmaster. There will be no carrier delivery, and the holi day schedule of collections will be observed. All departments o

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OCR text: “Peg” Hamilton, 107 W. Mer rill St., one-legged crossing watchman at Georgia and West Sts., was lopesome today. Hamilton appeared at his cabin without “Pete”—his faith ful dog. Removal of “Pete” by Dr. Michael J. McGinty ended a close companionship of seven years, Hamilton said. The dog was a victim of the rabies, prevalent for several weeks, and had to be killed. "More than fifty folks this morning asked me ‘where's Pete?’ ” said Hamilton.

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OCR text: Radio publicity for the North Da kota Federation of Women’s clubs will begin next Tuesday evening, January 4, at 7 o’clock when a pro gram will be broadcast from KFJM University of North Dakota Station the publicity department of the fed eration has announced. i Greetings from Mrs. John Emerson Featherstone, state president, now in Washington, will bp read by Mrs. E. C. Haas renson, Grand Forks, and Pres ident Thomas Lane of the University will speak.

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