Four bootleggers face $2.7 million tax liens in New Orleans
Federal tax actions target four alleged bootleggers and spouses as part of a government crackdown on rum running. Liens total 2.7 million dollars for unpaid income taxes from illicit liquor sales. Walsingham, Gravelet, Battistella, and Patterson face separate claims. valuables seized include money bonds and jewels worth 80 thousand. Grand jury indictments expected early next week.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Gulf Coast
E. C. Yellowley
D. C. Lines
William Walsingham
Anton Gravelet
Walsingham
Espalande Avenue
Arthur Battistella
Alonzo Patterson
Patterson
Grand Jury
Order to Open Beach's Deposit Boxes in Chicago
Federal agents obtained an order to open safety deposit boxes connected to Col. Will Gray Beach the deposed narcotic chief. Beach and three agents were arrested recently on charges of trading narcotics for stolen merchandise. Warehouses held jewelry and valuables claimed to be given or lawfully acquired. Some boxes opened but contents not disclosed.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Will Gray Beach
Colonel Beach
British scientists dig large primitive skull near Ti berias
Near Tiberias in a cave at Abgha an excavation by the British School of Archaeology of Jerusalem revealed the front part of a primitive human skull. The skull shows supra orbital prominences and a low forehead like a chimpanzee and aligns closely with the Neanderthal European type not previously found in Asia. Professor Garstang witnessed the find with Turville Petre, formerly of Oxford, now a student at the school.
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Associated Press
Jerusalem
Tiberias
Asia
British School of Archeology
Abgha
Garstang
Turville-Petre
Oxford
Fossil Hunters Probe Ancient Bog for Prehistoric Human Traces
Royal Ontario Museum explorers dig in a Dundain bog near Saskatoon to uncover evidence of North American prehistoric man. They erected a diaphragm pump on an elevated platform to drain daily waters and found an unknown antelope species, buffalo bones, and Indian relics. The pool is thought to have once been a watering place for humans and animals.
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Associated Press
Saskatoon
Royal Ontario Museum
Dunduin
Japanese Trade Guild Proposed by Viscount Goto
Tokyo Aug. 13 Viscount Shimpei Goto proposes a Russo Japanese import and export trade guild. The body would be capitalized at 150 million yen and would handle trade with Russia through a Japanese guild and the Soviet Bureau of Trade. It would oversee concessions granted by Russia to Japan and supervise related activities.
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Assocaion Press
Tokyo
Viscount Shimpei Goto
Russia
Viscount Goto
Soviet Bureau of Trade
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