Borah urges voters decide wet and dry at Yale
Senator Borah told a Yale Woolsey Hall audience that modifying the Volstead Act may be possible within the Constitution and urged voters to decide the liquor question. He linked nullification to constitutional repeal and called for open negotiations leading to a public vote. Major Mills and Mrs. Peabody joined in urging enforcement and reform.
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Borah
YALE
William E. Borah
Idaho
Woolsey Hall
Yale University
Evidence of struggle at scene of murder testimony
Reports describe the murder scene struggle with state witnesses testifying. Bridgeport scenes include a man comforting his sister Mrs Lilliendaal at the trial. Other items mention an evangelist, funeral plans, a regional audition winner, and various court actions.
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Liliendahl
Finnegan
Bridgeport
New York State Federation
Merritt
Chamber of Commerce
Yale Meeting Demands Judges of Highest Type
A Yale university dry meeting at Woolsey hall adopted a resolution urging U S Senators from Connecticut to endorse only federal judges for the Second district who are learned in the law possess judicial temperament of probity and have not been tied to any political party.
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New Haven
Associated Press
Woolsey Hall
Yale University
Borah
Major Mills
U. S
Connecticut
Second District
Wets Plan $3 Million Drive to Rethink Prohibition
At a Union League Club dinner Captain William H. Slayton outlined a plan to raise 3 million dollars to gauge 27 million voters on repealing or amending the eighteenth amendment. The effort targets four years of letters and a broad campaign, with notable invitees including Nicholas Murray Butler and James A. Wadsworth.
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New York
Associated Press
Union League Club
William H. Slayton
Association Against
Slayton
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
James A. Wadsworth
U. S
United States
Walter E. Edge
New Jersey
John Philip Hil
Maryland
George W. Wightman
Suits Over S-51 Collision Dismissed in New York
In Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Campbell dismissed 33 suits by relatives of 33 men killed when submarine S-51 sank in 1925. He ruled suits must be under public pensions laws, not the Public Vessels Act, as arguments over admiralty liability involving City of Rome and Ocean Steamship Co. continued in related actions. Local man Tamer J Schofield of Bridgeport among the victims.
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New York
Associated Press
Brooklyn
Campbell
Ocean Steamship , Company
New London
Conn
City of Rome
Harold Sanders
Portsouth
Navy Yard
Fteamship Company
Doh Diehl
Rome
Fireman Edward H. Russell Dies After Long Service
Edward Henry Russell retired firefighter died this morning at his home 707 Washington Avenue after a long career starting in Bridgeport Tire department then a modern fire department. He served under Chiefs Beardeloe Coffin Mooney Jolson at Companies 1 2 and Truck 7 Norman Street. Survived by widow Grace M Clark son Ronald F Russell Akron Ohio brother William G Russell Stratford sister Mrs James Gregory Stratford. Funeral Thursday at Read Memorial Chapel at 2 30 PM.
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Edward Henry Russell
Yoann
Washington Avenue
Russell
Water Town
Bridgeport Tire Department
Ald
Chiefa Beardeloe
Coffin, Mooney and Jolson
Norman Street
Elke
Royal Order of Moose
Grace M. Clark
Ronald F Russell
Akron
Ohio
William G Russell
James Gregory
Stratford
Three Hundred Cases of Brandy Found on Italian Ship
Boston November 28 Three hundred cases of brandy and other liquors were seized aboard the Italian steamer Columbia by customs officials when she docked at the army base today. No arrests were made. The cargo was concealed in the cargo hold. The Columbia arrived from Italy via New York.
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Boston
Associated Press
Columbia
Army Base
Italy
New York
Court Won't Act in Norwalk Man's Case
The Supreme Court declined to review a dispute between Leo J. Gonch of Norwalk and Republic Storage Co of New York over a quantity of Bourbon whiskey. Gonch stored the liquor, was told it was stolen when he claimed it, sued for damages, and won a judgment later reversed by the New York Court of Appeals on the basis that prohibition laws render the whiskey nonproperty.
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Washington
Associated Press
Supreme Court
Leo J. Gonch
Republic Storage Company
New York
Sosa
Gonch
New York Court of Appeals
Supreme Act
Bodies of missing flyers found in mountain wood
In Fayette county Pennsylvania two airmen missing for three days were found dead after a heavy fog and rain. Pilot E. R. Emery of Newark Ohio and Mechanic William D. Zolman of Fredericktown Ohio died when their Douglas O-2 crashed on a mountain ridge near Burgess Field.
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Uniontown
Associated Press
Pennsylvania
Elf
E. R. Emery
Newark Ohio
William D. Zolman
Fredericktown
Ohio
Fayette County
Burgess Field
Emery
Zolman
Elde
Lick Run
Washington, D C
Columbus
Eugene Bayley
Laading Field
A. Baltz
Bayley
Chasse
Edna Millay defaults in Boston court case
Edna St Vincent Millay, poetess, was ordered defaulted in Superior court in Boston as her case linked to Sacco Vanzetti demonstrations was called before Judge Fosdick. Neither Millay nor attorney Arthur Garfield Heyes appeared, with several other similar appeals from Municipal Court convictions for rioting inciting to riot and loitering set for trial next morning.
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Boston
Associated Prose
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sacco-Vanzetti
Fosdick
Miss Millay
Arthur Garfield Heyes
New York
Pedestrian Hit and Run Kills Stamford Watchman
A speeding truck struck Morris Rosenblum, 65, night watchman at Baer Brothers, on Greenwich avenue and fled. A 13 year old girl witnessed the tragedy and later described the vehicle as it disappeared into the twilight.
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Morris Rosenblum
Hawthorne Street
Bramford
Emily Kozlowski
Brown Avenue
Rosenblum
Baer Brothers
Greenwich Avenue
Stamford City
Hosenblum
Stamford
Bridgeport Auto Seized In Prohibition Case At Portland Me
Federal Commissioner George F Gould scheduled Grand Jury inquiry for December into the Bridgeport Conn car run by Chris Corvine. The vehicle carried sixty two gallons of alcohol when stopped by prohibition agents. Walter Fowler and Albert L Gifford, both of New Bedford Mass, faced probable cause findings. Fowler claimed innocence as he and his driver were arrested amid a scheme involving transportation for Interstate commerce. Gould noted Fowler as the principal and the others as assistants. Cash bonds were posted: Fowler 1500, Gifford 700, Corvine 700. All were charged with transportation.
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Portland Me
Associated Press
George F. Gould
Chris Corvine
Bridgeport
Conn
Walter Fowler
Fowler Transportation Company
Interstate Commeree
Albert L Gitford
New Bedford
Mass
Fowler
Newburyport Maas
Portland
Corvino
Gifford
Fortsmouth
M H
Arthur England
Gould
Corvine
Ex-Wife of Three Millionaires Sentenced to San Quentin
Genevieve Paddleford, famed as the international adventuress, was convicted of shoplifting goods valued at 225 dollars and given an indeterminate sentence from one to ten years. She was transported to San Quentin by ambulance hours after sentencing amid claims of illness.
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Galinas
Cal
Associated Press
Genevieve Paddleford
Nile
San Quentin
Paddleford
International Adventuress
Henry Murphy
George E Paddleford
Los Angeles
Beard
Lucene
Switzerland
Cyn
Jury hears calm accused wife in Lillien dahl murder case
In Mays Landing New Jersey Mrs Margaret Lillien dahl enters Atlantic County courthouse with eight year old son Alfred to face charges of murdering her 69 year old husband Dr A William Lillfendent. She wears mourning, maintains poise as spectators sense drama of trial while co defendant Mrs Willia Beach arrives and leaves quietly.
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Mays Landing
N. J
Margaret Lilitendahl
Atlantic County
Alfred
A. William Lillfendent
Robert H. McCarter
de Fone
Willia Beach
Likiendski
Remus Mind Claimed Diseased In Trial Ruling
In Cincinnati on November 28 a judge allowed lay testimony to establish that George Remus was mentally diseased before he shot his wife Imogene on October 6. The defense aims to show his insanity stemmed from wife misconduct with Franklin L. Dodge Jr. and seeks to introduce vast evidence of alleged madness while Remus served prison terms. A witness named Dodge was subpoenaed as a rebuttal witness.
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Cincinnati
Associated Press
George Remus
Imogene
Chester R ‘Shook
Remus
Franklin Lb. Dodge, Jr
Federal Department of Justice
Dodge
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
Shook
Ruth Snyder insanity plea delayed to save her from chair
New York November 28 Associated Press Insanity evidence was pushed by Mrs Ruth Snyder's lawyers in a last ditch bid to avert the electric chair. Chicago psychiatrist Dr Clarence J Neumann arrived as Edgar F Hazleton said that a childhood head injury left her mentally unbalanced. Hazleton noted a swelling on her head and said Snyder prefers not to be examined by an alienist. He planned to accompany Neumann to Sing Sing.
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New York
Associated Press
Ruth Snyder
Ipr
Clarence J. Neumann
Chicago
Edgar F. Hazleton
Anyder
Hazleton
Josephine Brown
Henry Judd Gray
Albert Snyder
Mra. Snyder
Mra Snyde
Court of Appeals
Banda
Neusmann
Loeb and
Leopold
Bobby Franks
Sing Sing
Neumann
Loeb-Leopold
Chi
Bridgeport Man Stands Behind Sister in Murder Trial
Sherwood Thompson of 668 Brewster Street offers steadfast support as his sister Mrs Margaret Lilliendahl faces a murder charge in the Mays Lending courtroom. Her eight year old son Alfred has been excused from school to attend the trial, while Thompson conducts media interviews defending her innocence.
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Margaret Lilliendahl
Mays Lending
Sherwood Thompson
Brewster Street
Mr. Thompson
Liliendohl
Little Alfred
The
Radio Equipment, Inc
Congress Street
Bridgeport
Alfred
New Jersey
Hle
Dr. Lilltendahl
Thompson
OIS case hearings to be hastened in DC probe
Washington dispatch reports Harry F Sinclair William J Burns and four associates cited for contempt of court in the Fall Sinclair jury surveillance scandal. DC District Attorney Gordon seeks immediate hearings despite double jeopardy claims. News notes that Justice Siddons orders earliest possible date as January 1 goal looms.
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Washington
Associated Press
Harry F. Sinclair
William J Burns
Sinclair
Gordon
Frederick L Siddons
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Widow on Trial in Lilliendahl Murder Case in New Jersey
Six witnesses testified in the Lilliendahl murder trial as prosecutors seek a first degree verdict. Margaret Lilliendahl, widow of Dr William Lilliendahl, contends two alleged black men killed her husband after abducting him from his car, while Beach and she face trial in Hammonton. Prosecutor Hinkle outlined plans to prove Beach ran from the scene and signaled his alibi while the jurors, led by a female forewoman, listened amid questions of motive, intimacy, and concealment.
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Margaret Lilttendahl
Willie Beach
A William Lilliendahl
Strugete
Sendy
Lilliendahl
Jersey
Hinkle
Dubendahl
Beach
Sian Road
Bits
Lilliendeahl
C.e
A William Lilendahl
Mander
Sad
Winnie Beach
Likendah
Besch
Urg
William Beach
Murrder Beach
Wits Beach
Aquarrel
Doctors House
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Norwalk
Edna Millay
Bridgportman
Chris Corvino
San Quentin Prison
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Vienna
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Cairo
Egypt
W. H. Howells
Howella
Alexandria
William C. Toomey
Margaret Teal
Bisckwell Island
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Jude Rules
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Mrs. Lilliendahl
OIS
Lilltendahl
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