Two Held in $2,000,000 Tax Swindle Case
A federal tax fraud case nets two arrests and a broader investigation into a ring led by former deputy officials. Morria Rorenblum and Merman Selass are named as ringleaders facing multiple indictments. Prosecutors report forged documents and schemes to evade taxes, with substantial cash seizure and ongoing probes into accomplices and financial networks across districts.
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Morria Rorenblum
Parkside Court
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Tae
United States
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Rees
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Furtiers
David V. Cahill
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Sportal
Colon
Hugh
Six Firemen Hurt in Crash With Auto Truck
Six firemen were injured when a Grand Avenue auto truck collided with a fire department unit returning from Frederick Loeser & Co. blaze at Fulton Street Brooklyn. Three firefighters were seriously hurt, one driver Moore and officer Brewer among the injured. Firefighters confined the blaze to the furniture department of the five story department store destroyed by the fire. The crash occurred as the patrol unit followed Fulton Street toward Grand Avenue.
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Loeser
Herkimer Street
Frederick Loeser & Coy
Fulton Street
Brooklyn
Shelock
T Ms
Tire Patrol
Grand Avenue
Moore
Brewer
Phn
Seulier
Crious
Clubwoman Is Pledged by Wedding to Honor Son-in-Law
A Grantwood New Jersey wedding joins Mrs Uthe and her son in law in a symbolic pledge to share the same home for twenty years. The couple, described as unpretentious and fair, emphasize keeping their household together despite aging and personal reservations. The ceremony, small and simple, was announced by telephone reporters and framed as a family agreement rather than a public event.
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Genay
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Ald
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Uthe
Hip
Ithaw
Grantwoul
N. J
Marty
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Sian
Nothar-Inclaw
Maye Wylang
Homer
Atheie
Heckman City
Menares Health
New York
Chamber of Commerce
America
United States
Frank B. Willis
Ohio
Willis
Income Bureau Probes Enright Deal in Stock
Income tax investigators scrutinize the Enright stock deal and related gifts in New York politics. Officials query offshore earnings and gifts tied to Commissioner Enright, Hughes, and other city officials as part of a broader graft inquiry, with transcripts sought from the state tax panel and Meyer investigations.
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Income Bureau
Enright
Trehard Flaright
New York City
Eddie Hughes
Dominick Henry
Mylan
Ivins
Nti
Frank Wins
Wendo
Aurea
Investix
Schuyler Moyer
Allan A. Ryan
Ma Commissiones Enright
Mr. Enright
Wall Street
Henry
Hylan
Myrvins
Meyer
Allan A. Ty
Stage Folk Plan Citizens Jury To Pass On Objectionable Plays
The New York Drama League hosts a plan for voluntary censorship to avoid legislative controls. A 500 citizen jury would assess plays for decency with binding contracts among producers actors and authors. Prominent figures like Augustus Thomas George Arliss and Francis Wilson back the resolution.
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Folk Plan
Citizens’ Jury
Bulasco
New York Drama League
Drama League
Dramatisns Guild
Producing Managers Association
Actors Equity Association
Better Plays Association
Bureau of Lice
Charles G. Coburn
Owen Davis
John Emerson
Actora Equity Association
Alivaye Triad Vicorix
Augustus Thomas
George Arliss
Francis Wilson
Hearst and Hearst Murphy clash in New York Democratic split
The piece outlines a bitter Democratic contest in New York with Hearst backed by Murphy aiming to capture the state convention and governorship or sena torship. Judge Seabury leads opposition forces while Governor Smith faces pressure from party factions and upstate allies in a battle over nominations and port authority bills. In Washington Mellon warns against funding a soldiers bonus with new bonds, citing deficits and the danger to Treasury refunding.
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Seebues
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Vley Geougiariy Teu
Seatesdas Ogiinet
Willam Ry Wesses
Dude Seahury
Phite
Inder Seahury
Jovernie Alfred Fi Swith
Tatemany
Judge Seabury
New York
Hearst
Iyertin
Democratic Party
Teuda
Nana Murphy
Murphy
New York City
Lucal
Menre
Hearst-Murphy
National Republican Genet
Smith
Wis
Misty
Preserit Cherie
Mewist
Mewrst
William Chareh Osborn
George St. Vanemee
Wilson
Sidge Seabury
Port Authority Commission
Iller
Irendy
Tammiany
Walker
Roylan
Downing
Cotiilo
Donohue
Hearst-Hylan
Port Authority
Albany
Hylan
Tammandefist
Nt Mellon
Turdens
Mellon
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Sven
Packing House Workers Vote on Strike End
Omaha dispatch reports 1500 packinghouse strikers will vote Thursday on whether the nationwide walkout will end. A letter from Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Hutcher Workmen headquarters in Chicago was read at the meeting. Present at the gathering were several local leaders and supporters.
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Omaha
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Hutcher
Chicago
Livreton
Moral Trusteeship Speech Calls for China Exports Curbed
United States and allied powers push a plan at the Washington conference to curb arms and war material exports to China and to establish a global framework under which nations will restrain their nationals. The resolution covers concessions, settlements, and leased territories in China and invites adherence from treaty powers.
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Washington
Jaly
China
United States of America
Papal conclave prep scence in Rome and Vatican
Report details Vatican measures for the papal conclave starting February 2. Temporary apartments for cardinals and staff, with kitchens and six days’ provisions, telephones being installed, and limited outside contact via rota boxes. Debate grows between reconciliation and conservative camps led by Cardinals Muffi and Merry del Val. The Italian government weighs official condolences and political influence as the conclave approaches.
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Yorke Fridane
Rome
Vatican
Benedict XV
Pontin
Muffi
Merry del Val
Cone
Pope Benedict
Bonomi
Chamber of Deputies
Cardinal Vannutelli
Sacred College
Cardinal Gaspari
Carter backs limited military cuts amid naval debate
President Carter signals willingness to modestly trim forces but rejects drastic reductions. He supports tightening army and navy numbers only slightly, sees naval disarmament as settling some disputes, and notes current ship projects Colorado and Washington near completion with limited extra funding required. The fight in Congress over budgets and arms limits intensifies as 1915 program remnants remain.
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Carter
Washington
Noticy
Little Army
Capitol Hill
White Mouse
Harding
Congress
Colorado
German Skeptic Casts Doubt on Synthetic Gold Scheme
Berlin report says Professor Irving Fisher of Yale debunked a claimed process to turn iron into gold. Fisher spoke after investigations and interviews in Berlin with the alleged inventor and officials. He warned investors away, noting no solid proof and citing prior wartime aims to produce gold by other means as impractical.
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New Yorks Tribune
Berlin
Germany
Trast
Irving Fisher
Yale University
Trofessor
Fisher
Reichsbank
Werr Havenstein
London
Harding Blocks drastic Army and Navy cuts
President Harding cautions against drastic reductions in military spending citing wholesale cuts as unwise. He warns such moves could weaken national defense and provoke international instability while urging measured reductions aligned with fiscal prudence.
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Harding
Five White and Two Black Lynching Suspects Get Life Sentences
Oklahoma City report states three white and two black defendants, Lee Whitley Polk Elmert Yearta Robert Allen Nathan Butler, all tied to the Jake Brooks lynching, pleaded guilty before Judge James I. Phelps and received life terms. Whitley and Yearta are Pack Plant workers union members, Polk a strike sympathizer, Allen a cousin of the victim. judge warns of electric chair for conduct.
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Oklahoma City
Jake Brooks
James I. Phelps
Lee Whi
Charles Polk
Elmert Yearta
Robert Allen
Nathan Butler
Whitley
Yearta
Butcher Workmen's Union
Polk
Allen
B. E. Wood
Phelps
Purpose Announced to Encourage Stable Government in Siberia
The United States pledges to support a stable government in Siberia and avoid interference in Russia's internal affairs while Japan is pressed to withdraw troops. The press conference reveals American efforts to coordinate a moral trusteeship among allied powers, aiming to respect Russia's sovereignty and territorial integrity amid claims by Far Eastern authorities and Japanese discord.
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Thomas Steep
Washington
America
Pew
Siberia
Japan
Far
Chita
Pri- Amur
Vladivostok
Siberian
Hughen
Pacific
United States
Hughes
Baron Shidehara
Saghalin Valand
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Tokio
Supialin
Nico Alevsk
Nicolaievsk
Hugh
Mr. Hughes
Russia
Sibeia
United States of America
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