Higginbotham Dies After Reconciliation With Wife
E Gaston Higginbotham longtime Brooklyn politician and former City Magistrate died in St Marys Hospital Brooklyn of pneumonia after a long illness He reconciled with his wife Josephine before death and had been separated for years He had fought to keep his bench seat against William Kramer and weathered a marked political career in New York politics with ties to McLaughlin and Ho McCarren
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E. Gaston Higginbotham
St. Ma’s Hospital
Brooklyn
Josephine Higginbotham
Higginbotham
McDonough Street
Hugh McLaughlin
Patrick Ho McCarren
Higginboekcam
California
Tang Te Higginbothams
Kramer
Court of Appeals
Accuse Newspaper Union Charged With Contempt
A petition in Chicago alleges the Western Newspaper Union failed to comply with Judge Landis's antitrust decree. It seeks contempt findings against the Union and three officials for unfair reports and undercutting published rates in Ohio and Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Western Newspaper Union
K. M. Landis
Union
George A. Joslyn
H. AL. Fish
M. H. McMillan
American Press Association
Central West Publishing Company
Press Coment
Toledo
Press Association of
Grand Rapids
Ohio
Michigan
French Praise Our Navy as a Fighting Force
Paris reports in the French press that America’s potential entry with the Allies elevates the U S Navy. Naval authority Max Hauterive argues Roosevelt era reforms yield high efficiency. battleship power outmatches Germany, with strong gunnery, personnel, and arsenals. He says American force can join varied operations without hesitation.
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New York Times
Paris
America
Information Today
Max Hauterive
Roosevelt
Mahan
Mayert
Mo Hauterive
British Imports Grow in May With Record Exports
Board of Trade data show May imports into the British Isles at 71,004,400 pounds, up from 59,900,000 last year, while exports total 30,618,000 pounds, the highest monthly export value since the war began. Growth in imports stems from food, drink, and tobacco plus cotton, with declines in manufactured cotton and coal and coke.
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London
Board of Trade
British Isles
Socco
Monks Arrested in Italy Overboard Signal Plot
In Bari Italy on June 6 five Dominican monks were arrested after a military search uncovered a signaling reflector and a war map with annotations. An army lieutenant and two Carabineers forced entry to a monastery cell finding another monk with sensitive documents. Letters from Vienna were seized as authorities noted church premises require direct evidence for searches.
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Bari
Italy
Rome
Paris
Adriatic
Etters
Vienna
Gunman Sentenced to Die in Foley-Rofrano Feud Case
In a New York court, Rocco Carnivale known as Rocks Cornell faces trial for murder in the first degree as the Montimagno murder plot unfolds. Montimagno received the death sentence for the scheme, with Carnivale's trial to follow. Prosecution and defense questioned witnesses about ties to Mayor Mitchel's cabinet amid political feuds influencing the case. The prosecution opened at 10 this morning.
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Rocco Carnivale
Rocks Cornell
Davis
Surene Court
Rank Fennimore
Gaetano Montimagno
Michael Glamari
Tammany
Foley-Rofrano
Montimagno
Giamari
Talesmen
George N. Brothers
Lloyd P. Stryker
Carnivale and
Fennimore
Carnivale’s
Michael A. Rofrano
Stryker
Lost family recovered after Ellis Island ordeal
The Sammarco family from Italy reunited through Bellevue Hospital Social Service Bureau. Enrico Sammarco, a Vermont stone cutter, was released and joined his job in Barre. His wife and three year old son Bruno, delayed by scarlet fever, were misdirected and briefly detained after an accident near Forty second Street. A magistrate later discharged Mrs Sammarco as the family prepared to travel to Vermont.
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Social Service Bureau
Bellevue Hospital
Enrico Sammarce
Ellis Island
Italy
Simmarco
Bruno
Sammarco
Barre
New York
Grand Central Station
Third Avenue
Forty-second Street
Bellevue
Josephine Hill
Vermont
German officer Horn contests Vanceboro bombing indictment
Werner Horn, the German Army officer linked to the February attempt to blow up the International Bridge at Vanceboro Maine, filed a demurrer challenging the charge of transporting explosives from New York. He argues the act was an act of war and beyond U S jurisdiction and seeks to amend his habeas petition regarding domicile in Germany. Judge Morton set hearings for Wednesday.
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Boston
Werner Horn
Canada
Vanceboro
New York
Horn
United States
Germany
Morton
German spy Rosenthal accused of passport fraud plan
Ambassador Page reports London circulation of stories that Robert Rosenthal confessed to schemes by Captain von Prieger of the German Admiralty to issue fraudulent American passports. State Department says the only verified info comes from Page, with rare prior notices from Washington.
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Washington
Ambassador Page
State Department
London
Robert Rosenthal
von Prieger
Admiralty Office
Lansing
Rosenthal
Kor
Lanning
Kahn Supports Young Artists With Donation and Plans Benefit
Otto H. Kahn gave $1 000 to the Friends of Young Artists yesterday and proposed a Metropolitan Opera House benefit. The new association will prize cash awards for painters and sculptors. Joseph H Choate and Colonel Oliver H Payne joined its advisory board. An exhibition begins June 21 at the Martrude Vanderbilt Whitney studio on West Elizabeth Street, themed Labor as set by John W Alexander.
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Otto H. Kahn
Friends of
Metropolitan Opera House
Joseph H. Choate
Oliver H. Payne
Mrartrude Vanderbilt Whitney
S Weat
Wire Tappers Dupe Case Lands Three in Jail Bail
William J. O'Reilly of Toronto identified Gondorf and Fitzgerald as swindlers who took 17400 at a fake pool room on West Forty-seventh Street. Gondorf held on 50000 bail, Fitzgerald 27500, with O'Reilly in 20000 bail after resisting testifying. Four other arrestees discharged. Gondorf faces trial for a 64000 Winnipeg case.
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William J. O’reilly
Colborne Street
Toronto
Canada
Frederick Gondorf
James Fitzgerald
Perkins
O'Reilly
Mulqueen
Fitzgerald
Gondorf
K. Henry Rosenberg
John B. Stanchfield
Duncan S. Curry
Winnipeg
O' Reilly
Forty-third Street
Broadway
West Forty-seventh Street
UC Reilly
Cornell
Yorkville Court
John Morris
Euchty-first Street
Columbus Avenue
Henry Miller
West Thirty-ninth Street
James Ryan
West Six
May commandeer spelter through London metal market
London reports the Munitions Committee plans to seize all spelter except that used for cartridge metal and to bar galvanizing uses not for Government needs. No quotations were listed as the market awaited this move amid US supply dominance. The action follows dwindling UK sources after stopping Belgian and German imports.
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New York Times
London
London Metal Exchange
Munitions Committee
United States
United Kingdom
Belgium
Germany
National Anti-Saloon League Convention Sets Atlantic City Dates
The National Convention of the Anti Saloon League of America will be held in Atlantic City from July 6 to July. The Catholic Prohibition League will meet there concurrently. League managers plan to send a three person committee to Washington to present resolutions to President Wilson that the convention is expected to adopt.
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Anti- Saloon League of American
Atlantic City
Catholic Prohibition League
Anti-Saloon League
Washington
Wilson
Sets Thief Trap by Phone in New York Saloon
Designer Michael Fenster reported a May 14 robbery of $19 and a $305 diamond ring by Frederick McGrath at his uncle's Park Avenue saloon. Detectives arrested McGrath at 213 East Forty-first after Fenster bought a pawn ticket for $15 from McGrath’s agent, ending with McGrath calling at the saloon.
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Michael Fenster
Madison Avenue
Park Avenue
104Th Street
Third Branch
Cassetti
Sommers
Frederick McGrath
East Forty-first Street
Fenster
McGrath
Paterson
Petitions stolen from Bronx political club
Patrick McMahon of the Bronx District Attorney's office reported that the Home Democratic Club at 11319 Boston Road was broke into overnight. 14 signed petitions for independent candidates for Alderman and Assemblyman were taken, along with some silver trophies, as detectives investigate.
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Patrick McMahon
Bronx
McMahon
Non-Union Girl Attacked At Berlin Waist Strike Site
Mrs Josephine Tramantha of 336 Sixth Street a non union worker for Berlin Waist Company was attacked as she left the plant at 122 West Twenty seventh Street during a strike Police arrested Esther Schmuckler and Mollie Sugarman of Brooklyn and Rutgers Street respectively both former firm employees They were bail bound for Special Sessions in West Twenty- first Street Night Court.
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Josephine Tramantha
Sixth Street
Berlin Waist Company
West Twenty-seventh Street
New Hat
West
Livermore Cleared From Bankruptcy By Federal Judge Hand
Jesse L. Livermore, who once amassed a fortune amid speculation in stocks and commodities, was discharged yesterday from bankruptcy by Judge Hand. He listed assets of $102,474, with liabilities to brokerage houses largely satisfied by prior payments of commissions. None of his creditors objected to the discharge.
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Jesse L. Livermore
Hand
Columbia Students Help Nab Wilmington Fugitive on Broadway
Columbia University students aided Detectives Quinn and Foley of the Fourth Branch Detective Bureau in arresting James Hill, 24, a Wilmington penitentiary escapee, on Broadway at 106th Street. Hill admitted his identity after being chased by detectives who recognized him from photographs. The students halted the fugitive as he fled.
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Columbia
Columbia University
Quinn and Foley
James Hill
Wilmington
N. C
106Th Street
Hill
Rupert Hughes Named Foreman of Westchester Grand Jury
Special to The New York Times Rupert Hughes the writer was sworn in as Foreman of the Westchester County Grand Jury today by Judge Platt in White Plains Bedford resident Hughes marks his first service on a grand jury Several Black Hand cases will come before the panel.
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Rupert Hughes
New York Times
White Plains
N. Y
Westchester County Grand Jury
Platt
Hughes
Bedford
Firm Accuses Ex-Employee Of Brooklyn Theft
George H. Deshon aged 47 of 110 Fort Greene Place Brooklyn was arrested at the Long Island Railroad Station after detectives traced alleged stolen goods valued at 150 from Fulton Street firm where he formerly served as head salesman earning 10000 a year until eight months ago. The complaint alleges goods were sold at cut rates to Black Drug Company at 225 Livingston Street. Deshon, held at Poplar Street Station, is due for arraignment at Adams Street Court.
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George H. Deshon
Fort Greene Place
Brooklyn
Poplar Street
Deshon
Eason
Carney
Poison in Deathhouse foiled suicides at Sing Sing
Two gunmen sentenced to die at Sing Sing were found with poison in their cells the night before execution. Catholic chaplain Father Cashin spoke with Lefty Louie and Gyp the Blood, who admitted plans to end their lives with pills. Wives of the four gunmen visited them the day prior to executions.
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Herman Rosenthal
Sing Sing
William Cashin
Lefty Louie
Gyp
Father Cashin
Lefty
Gyp the Blood
Enial
Whitey Lewis
Cornell Man in Jail for Forgery Charge
Paul V. Blackburn of Lakewood Ohio was held for the September Grand Jury on a second degree forgery charge. Bail set at 500 dollars. He is the second Cornell student arrested for check forgery in a month. He confessed to passing several bad checks to finance his college costs after failing to win a university competition.
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New York Times
Ithaca
Paul V. Blackburn
Lakewood
Ohio
Cornell
Bau
Blackburn
Auto Truck Kills Boy Crossing Queensboro Bridge
Vedea Eraldo a 16 year old of 425 East Fifty first Street Manhattan died after being struck by a Guggenheimer and Bloch truck on the Queensboro Bridge yesterday afternoon He had fallen from his bicycle and suffered a crushed chest and skull and jaw fractures before reaching St John s Hospital Long Island City The fatal collision was reported to have involved a mobile truck from Guggenheimer and Bloch.
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Bay
Sridge
Queensboro Bridge
Vedea Eraldo
East Fifty-first Street
Manhattan
St. John’s Hospital
Long Island City
Guggenheimer & Bloch
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Spelter
Britain
Boston Road
Waistmaker
Livermore
Higgins & Seiter
WM. Blau
WM. S. Anthes
Mgr
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