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As printed: QUEEN IS SPEEDING TO WASHINGTON ON HER SPECIAL TRAIN
ContextMarie is the queen of Rumania and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria; she crossed on the liner Leviathan with her son Prince Nicholas and her daughter Princess Ileana. The Battery is the southern tip of Manhattan, and lower Broadway is the street where New York greets famous visitors with showers of ticker tape from office windows.
ContextThe Rev. Dr. Edward Wheeler Hall, rector of a New Brunswick, N. J., church, and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, a singer in his choir, were found shot dead on a lane outside the city in September 1922; the case was reopened this summer and a grand jury returned murder indictments. Alexander Simpson is the special prosecutor appointed by the state to try it.
ContextD. C. Stephenson was the Indiana Ku Klux Klan leader convicted in 1925 of the murder of Madge Oberholtzer and is serving a life sentence at the state prison at Michigan City. A grand jury in Marion County, which contains Indianapolis, is hearing evidence in secret on charges of corruption in state politics.
