New Haven Bond Issue Blocked by Court Ruling
Massachusetts Supreme Court voided the New York New Haven and Hartford convertible bond and stock issue approved by the Public Service Commission. The ruling said the commission overstepped authority by linking stock price to a distant future and required present pricing for issued stock. Morgan Bulkeley and Gov. Walsh commented amid the decision.
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New York Times
Boston
Mass
Massachusetts Supreme Court
Public Service Commission
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
Rugg
Commission
Morgan G. Bulkeley
Connecticut
MadLeod
New Haven
Walsh
New Haven Chief Reports DOJ Talks After Court Ruling
Howard Elliott chairman of the New Haven system traveled to New York to brief the Executive Committee on negotiations with the Department of Justice and returned to Washington. He said the Massachusetts Supreme Courtdecision against the 07 million convertible bond issue may prompt financial adjustments. The ruling ends the funding pact with J P Morgan & Co for short term notes maturing mid May. Morgan & Co had severed its connection after a general agency earlier, complicating financing for the 87.1 million issue. Continued on Page 2.
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Howard Elliiott
New Haven
New York
Executive Committee
Department of Justice
Washington
Massachusetts Supreme Court
New Haven Road
J. P. Morgan & Co
Moran G. Bulkeley
F P. Morgan & Co
Morgan & Co
Thieves Barricade House in Paterson Robbery
In Paterson New Jersey on January 9 William A Arnold a retired silk manufacturer and former president of a textile firm was away from a window when three men raided his home on Derrom Avenue. The burglars escaped to a car across the Broadway Bridge into Bergen County leaving $70 cash and jewelry valued at 5000 to 10000 including a 25 diamond sunburst.
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New York Times
Paterson
N. J
William A. Arnold
American Silk Dyeing and Finishing Company
Derrom Avenue
Fast Side Park
Mrr. Arnold
Broadway Bridge
Bergen County
Hackensack
Arnolds
Macvane Blackmailer Arrested in Taranto
Innocente Cicala, Italian socialist newspaper man, was arrested in Taranto for attempting to blackmail Miss Dorothea Macvane with a demand of 2000 dollars to suppress a defamatory article. He later pleaded for pity and cited his children while denying guilt. police found papers linking him to further blackmail against a priest and to his local socialist paper.
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Marconi
New York Times
Taranto
Italy
Innocente Cicala
Dorothea Macvane
Cicala
Miss Macvane
Cleala
Landed Chicken Swindle Prompts Inquiry in New York
Absent federal rules, Abraham Lowenstein and I B Goodman with Herman Fleck urged the Agricultural Department to halt alleged live poultry fraud. They say 150 000 to 200 000 pounds of sand and stone in shippers crops are fed to starve birds before sale, inflating profits and misleads buyers.
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New York Times
Washington
New York
Agricultural Department
Greater New York Live Poultry Dealers’ Protective Association
Abraham Lowenstein
Poultry Dealers’ Protective Association
I. B. Goodman
Herman Fleck
Office of Markets Today
New York City
Duchess Anna Gould Appeals Rome Divorce Ruling
In Rome a high court appeal seeks to overturn the Rota Tribunal annulment of Duchess de Talleyrand Anna Gould’s marriage to Count Roni de Castellane. Her new counsel argues she was not properly notified of the proceedings, while opponents claim proper service via the Archbishop of Paris. The Segnatura Tribunal justices assess the case with Cardinal Martinelli sidelined by illness.
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Sernatura Tribunal
High Court
Roman Curia
Duchess de Talleyrand
Anna Gould
New York
Rota Tribunal
Roni de Castellane
Segnatura Tribunal
Paris
Vincenzo Vannutell
Aglardi
Cassetta
Gasparri
Pompeli
Martinelli
Morrow
No Pen Describes Yosemite Valley This Winter
Travel advertisement touts Yosemite Valley as unrivaled in grandeur and majesty. It invites readers to take the Gold Line via Rock Island Lines to California within three days of Chicago and St. Louis for a transcontinental pleasure journey.
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Yosemite Valley
Goldin
Rockieland
California
Chicago
St. Louis
BE. Palmer
S'way
N. Y
Woman Passes Counterfeit Fifty at Gimbels in New York
A well dressed woman attempted to pass a counterfeit fifty at Gimbels store in Manhattan. Store detective Amelia De Santis flagged the bill after warning notes from the Secret Service and Capt. John J. Henry confirmed the note was altered from a twenty to fifty. Suspect Mrs Janes Brown, 42, implicated in a wider counterfeit ring, was detained at Greenwich Street station.
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Gimbel's
Catherine Blake
National Bank of
Capt. Henry
Greenwich Street
New York
Common Sense to Be Keynote of New Police Administration
Commissioner McKay outlines his plans and working approach as he leads the new police administration. The piece notes his emphasis on practical tactics and public service, with brief mentions of related features in tomorrow's Sunday Times.
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Commissioner McKay
Eliot
Charles W
Prince's Loss of Post Tied to Idleness and Tension
Berlin dispatch reports the Crown Prince being moved from command of the Dan a regiments to staff duty amid strained relations with generals von Mackensen and von Schmettow. Kaiser's telegram praised the prince as he departed Danzig, noting his long leaves of absence as a possible cause of friction.
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Time&s
Berlin
Danaig
Zabern
Tigliche Rundschau
Danzig
Rundschau
von Mackennin
Seventeenth Army Corps
Count von Schmettow
Life Guard
Hussar Brigade
Gens
von Mackensén
von Schmettow
Hussars
Wilhelm
German Empire
Prussia
First Life Guard Hussars
Wilhelm I. R
Mystery of a Derelict In Panama Gulf Wreck Report
The El Mundo steamship report of a derelict in the Gulf of Mexico caused confusion after a radiogram swapped Guatemala for Trottom up. Lloyd's list shows two Guatemala steamships, neither missing. Alfred Nobel sighted a burning wreck at 27.20, 85.46 with no clear crew aboard.
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New York Times
Washington
Revenue Cutter Service
Hydrographic Bureau
el Mundo
Morgan Line
Key West Naval Station
Gulf of Mexico
Guatemala
Hydrographic Office
Lloyd's
Generale Transatlantique
Slavre
Pacific Steam Navigation Company
Tampa
Fla
Jan
Alfred Nobel
Ifer
Colonel Plans River Hunt Down Davida River Expedition
Col L Roosevelt prepares to descend the Davida River with four of his own party, three Brazilians, and fifteen expedition specialists. He has telegraphed Brazilian Foreign Minister Laure Mutter that the trip has been a marvelous success so far.
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Rio DE Janeiro
L. Theodore Roosevelt
Davida River
Roosevelt
Laure Mutter
Ronsuccess
Countess De Gasquet James v Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin
In London a divorce case set for Monday concerns the marriage validity of Countess De Gasquet James and Duke Borwin of Mecklenburg Schwerin. The Austrian Countess seeks to determine whether their purported marriage was legally solemnized.
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New York
Trimis
London
Countess de Gasquet James
Duke of
Mecklenburg Schwerin
Duke Borwin
Prussia
Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Prida Blames Henry Lane Wilson for Madero Downfall
Ramon Prida former Mexican congressman at a Manhattan Club dinner accuses ex Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson of sharing guilt for the overthrow and murder of Madero and Vinue Suarez. He contrasts U S President Wilson’s stance and urges recognition of constitutional liberty amid Huerta’s despotism.
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Ramon Prida
Mexican Congress
Mexico
Huerta
Madero
Henry Lane Wilson
United States
Prida
Victor J. Dowling
Wilson
Pacific
Qource
Messrs
Vine Suarez
Cardenas
Henry Jane Wilson
Mexico City
Harvard Tech Combine Means Joint Engineering Departments
Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology announce a formal merger of engineering disciplines including mechanical, electrical, civil and sanitary, mining and metallurgy. The two schools will share technology buildings in Cambridge with Technology appointing the executive head and Harvard professors joining the Institute’s faculty. When Technology chooses its president Harvard’s president will join the selection committee.
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Poston
Tiarvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge
Harvard
President of
Technology
Corporation of ‘Technology
Committee On
Maritime listing notes drift near Sandy Hook route
The WY Marcond Wcelcel ASM with SS Lorraine operating Havre to New York was about 1% miles east of Sandy Hook at 12 10 A M. The delay is due the next afternoon as the French Line voyage proceeds.
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Marcond
Lorraine
Havre
New York
Sandy Hook
Sugar Trust Dissolution Talks Falter in Factory Negotiations
Washington reports U S Attorney General McReynolds and the American Sugar Refining Company negotiations for voluntary dissolution have been suspended likely broken off. Government demanded dissolution under Sherman act while sugar trust controls about 72 percent of refined sugar output. hearings to resume next week as trial proceeds with six months for evidence.
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New York Times
Washington
General McReynolds
American Sugar Refining Company
Department of Justice
Sugar Trust
New York
Wickersham
McReynolds
American Telephone & Telegraph Company
National Sugar Refining Company of New Jersey
Great Western Sugar Company
Henry O. Havemeyer
National Sugar Refining Company
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company
Continental Sugar Company
Wilson B. Brice
Snowden TH. Marshall
Federal
Opin Roas
James M. Beck
President Wilson Praises Business Shifts in South
In Gulfport Mississippi on January day President Wilson voiced satisfaction that U S business interests were adapting to new laws and changing times. He met a Mississippi Legislature committee but declined to extend his visit, saying his anti trust message and Washington schedule demanded focus.
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Gulfport
Miss
Wilson
Mississippi
Washington
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Morgan Company
American liner Philadelphia runs aground near Plymouth
The American liner Philadelphia en route from New York to Plymouth Cherbourg and Southampton went aground at Rame Head in dense fog near Plymouth. Capt Mills reported the ship afloat soon after and anchored 1.4 miles off. Passengers were discharged and the vessel proceeded to Cherbourg.
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London
Philadelphia
New York
Plymouth
Cherbourg
Southampton
Rame Head
Eddystone
American Line
Mills
Hilary Cove
Uner
Seek Another Famous Will Washington
State Senator R Ewell Thomson of Virginia discusses recovering Martha Washington's will said to be in J P Morgan's possession and alleges Morgan may also hold George Mason's original will. He vows to compel disclosure and notes a suspect who stole both documents from Parsfax Court House.
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Washington
R. Ewell Thomson
Virginia
Martha Washington
J. P. Morgan
Morgan
George Mason
Patrfax Court House
Burke En Route to Colon on Isthmian Duty
John Burke of the Isthmian Commissary Department sails from New Orleans for the Isthmus and will reach Colon on Monday. Col. Goethals has not received reports from agents abroad, but they may be on the way. The Panama Journal outlines favors shown by the Commissary Department to army officials in liquor purchases at cost and cites a Dec. 27 New Orleans Times-Democrat article claiming illegal sales without a license if it were a private company.
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NEW York Times
Panama
John Burke
Isthmian Commissary Department
New Orleans
Isthmus
Colon
Col. Goethals
Panama Journal
Commissary Department
New Orleans Times- Democrat
Fire in Guggenheim Home Sparks Quick Evacuation
Fire discovered in a storeroom atop M. Robert Guggenheim’s brownstone at 14 East Ninety-second Street. Mrs Guggenheim and a servant moved two children from their third floor bedrooms to a neighbor’s home while the firemen fought the blaze. Damage described as small.
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M. Robert Guggeenheim
Ninety-second Street
Chicago Endures Remarkable Dark Spell With Brief Sunshine
Chicago residents faced an unusual weather pattern as today yielded only sixteen minutes of sun. The city, having experienced more gloom than in recent years, sees widespread impact from the prolonged overcast skies on florists, nurserymen, and ill residents. The Weather Bureau notes 242 hours of sunshine since November 1.
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Chicago
Weather Bureau
Girl Drops 1000 Feet in Martin Parachute Test
Miss Tiny Broadwick, an eighteen year old parachute jumper, leaped from Glenn L. Martin's biplane at 1000 feet. The canvas life vest opened the parachute and she landed safely. The device includes a rip cord and back pack chute designed to deploy automatically.
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New York Times
Los Angeles
Cal
Glenn L. Martin
Tiny Broadwick
Martin
Gangs Battle Ended in Fatal Shootout Outside Dance Hall
In a bloody exchange outside a St Mark's Place hall, Frederick Straus, 95 Longwood Ave Bronx, longtime City Court clerk, was killed as guests at a ball for the Teutonia Lodge of the Odd Fellows fled. Police found five revolvers, a box of floor badges bearing gang names, and suspected links to the Trigger Sirocco faction and Jimmy Kelly amid hints of Dopey Benny's involvement.
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St. Mark’s Place
Harry Lenny
Tommy Dyke
Frederick Straus
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St. Mark's Place
Teutonia Lodge of the Odd Fellows
Frank Dell
Ife
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Grand Lodge
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Lst
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Chick" Trigger
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Nick Vacarel
Paul
Paul Kelly
Philadelphia
Dopey
Benny
St Mark's Place
Samuel Lipsig
Bir St. Mark's Place
David
Cooper Tnion
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James M. Forskine
Thomas V. Gilroy, Jr
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