Coast Guard Vessels Added To Dry Navy Cooperation Plan
Prohibition and customs departments meet at New York Custom House to discuss interagency efforts to curb rum smuggling in New York Harbor. The Coast Guard units shift under the prohibition navy umbrella with plans for shared patrols and new fast craft to guard harbor approaches. Meanwhile arrests and a fatal shooting occur as agents confront rum runners and a river launch during a chase near the harbor.
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Coast Guard
Harber
Reisenweber's Circle Dry Law Nuisance Band Injunction
Judge Martin T. Manton in federal court granted a permanent injunction against Reisenweber's Circle restaurant, halting operations for one year under Volstead Act provisions. The decision followed government arguments that the property was implicated and that the premises could be sealed to prevent future violations or require a bond to insure enforcement.
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Restaurant Corp
Martin T. Manton
T)srret
Equity
Department of the Gov
Reisenweber
Res
Columbus Circle
Asai
Washington Sold Slave for Rum but Did He Get It
Senate questions George Washington's slave sale and rum purchase as described in his writings. Senator Watson cites a Mount Vernon letter mentioning a slave named Tom and a hogshead of molasses and rum, debating reform laws and Washington’s finances, with opinions on the era’s end of slavery and alcohol.
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Tribune
Weshington Marea
Senator Watson
Georgia
George Washington
West
India
John Thompson
Mount Vernon
Watson
Sterling
South Dakota
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Stanley
Watter
Ator Watson
Thompson
Tom Elean
Mount Verton
Willis Campbell
Myern ‘ Hy
Tenald
Eidator Watson
Fifty-Eighth Street Corporation case hones in on Redress and indictments
District Attorneys Molle ik Jr and Cyen appeared for the Fifty-eighth Street Corporation challenging government procedures in indictments. Witnesses including Tergfinstein Moe Smith and Albert Van Tassel testified about repeated liquor purchases in a restaurant. Walter Kaffenberg and others denied Volstead Act violations. A bartender was set free after a judge noted the defendant’s first-offender status and five days already served, imposing a $25 fine.
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Ator
John Molle Ik Jr
Sanford A Cyen
Essex
United States
Snowden Marshall
Pifty-eighth Street Corporation
Walter Katfenberg
Fifty-eigh Street Corporation
Reisenwaberis
Rum Runners Arrested and Fined at Ocean Wharf
Three arrests were made and 162 quarts of whisky seized when customs intervened on the British steamer Opi Long Wharf. The suspects were indicted by the Federal grand jury on liquor smuggling charges and pled guilty, then fined by Federal Judge Jorten. Later, near Lockport, law enforcement raided a farm on the Ontario road, arresting ten men and seizing whisky being moved in trucks and two pleasure vehicles, with the liquor valued in the hundreds of dollars.
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Cisis
Opi Long Wharf
Grand Jury
Jorten
Lockport
N.Y
Tigalew
Ontario
Chauffeur John Heins killed in Brooklyn truck accident
John Heins a 34 year old chauffeur of 1260 Street Brooklyn was crushed between two moving vans on Fifth Avenue near 68th Street. Heins employed by John Cerson a furniture dealer. The trucks moved in sequence as Heins started the engine and the vans collided pinning him between them.
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Sixtieth Street
Brookyn
Fifth Avenue
Sixty-eighth Street
Brooklyn
Hiiitt
John Cerson
W Heins
Diplomatic Papers Lost by Japanese Courier
Important papers from Tokyo said to be destined for the Japanese Embassy in Paris vanished after a passenger of the steamship Berengaria landed at Cherbourg. The grip reportedly contained diplomatic documents and belonged to a Japanese courier traveling to photograph exhibits at the Grand Palais.
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Paris
Tsvez
Tokio
Berengaria
Cfip Belorgine
Kitouba Daigne
Janet
Grand Palais
Ward Mystery Inquest Called Off by Weeks
The coroner's inquest into Clarence Peters's death was abandoned after District Attorney Weeks filed an affidavit indicating no further action. He claims the Walter Ward first degree murder indictment supersedes the coroner's inquiry, with Ward likely remaining jailed unless a stay or dismissal affects the case. The May grand jury may be dismissed, while Weeks eyes supplementary indictments or bail outcomes as the court heads into vacation.
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Clarence Peters
Yeetening
Frederick E. Weeks
Westchester County
Pitegerald
Weeks
Walter &. Ward
Megee
Fitzgerald
J. P. Hinck
Henry Trier
White Priine
Ward
Wardsuet
Allan R Campbell
Juatien Morehauser
Marsthourer
George 5
Prisoner in Special Term Feels Strain From Imprisonment
Reports say he is beginning to feel the effects of confinement, showing signs of mental disturbance. He requested kitchen access at White Plains jail. the request was granted. Ward has been visited by the prison doctor. if other efforts fail, an attest may allow him some liberty due to daily impairment.
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White Plains
Aged Slayer Breaks Down When Told He Must Die
Rossi, aged sixty six, the oldest inmate to face the electric chair in the state, breaks down after Governor Miller refuses to commute his sentence for the shooting of Anthony Orlando in Tuckahoe. He has internal injuries and ailments that may require escorting to execution.
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Michael Rossi
Rossi
Govrnor
Anthony Orlando
Tuckahoe
Ite
Doyle seen by Tingley denies spirits claim
Katherine Singily, president of Theosophical University at Point Loma, states Doyle did not see spirits, while a party member asserts he believed he had seen abused souls. The Homeric docked last night as Tingley and riders head to San Francisco exploring the case with a board of inquiry.
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Theosophical University
Point Loma
Calif
Sir Arthur Conan Doyte
Tingley
San Francisco
Lucy G. Good
Margaret Stacley
London
Filie Island
Mme
Tingiey
Board of Inquiry
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Pacific Highway Association
Marshal Jofre
Shanghai
France
Verdun
Biniie
Hill
Seattle
Ths Pier
Four men held after Bronx bank holdup fails to reveal cache
Four men arrested in Mount Vernon after a Bronx Brantsional Bank messenger was robbed of 4400 were taken to the scene at 138th Street and Willow Avenue to reveal a loot hiding place in a lumberyard near the Grand Concourse. Four hours passed with no cache found. The Bronx Grand Jury indicted four for robbery in the first degree. The men were arraigned in Morrenin Court. De Lucca admitted planning and rehearsing the robbery and hiding the loot in a lumberyard. One suspect claimed two men vanished with the money. A witness who saw the digging was discharged for lack of evidence. Bank messenger James McCarry died from a gunfire wound. Alfred Costinie faced homicide charges. The four bandits were held without bail for a hearing.
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138Th Street
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Morrennin Court
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Ite
Marreslero ‘Tuelle
117Th
Teldo Bruno
110Th Street
John Cito
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de Lucca
Alfreda May
Wittens
James McCarry
Bal Fase 150Th Street
Alfred Costinie
Lees d Avenue
McCormick Threatens To Sue On Grand Story
Chicago June 28 Harold F Ste Cormick head of the executive committee of the Inter Company demands libel damages from any paper that reports he bought a grand owned by another man to graft into his body.
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Chicago
Harold F Ste-Cormick
Inter Company
McCormick Denies Abuse Claims in Libel Suit
In a Memorial Hospital statement Mr. McCormick rejected rumors he exploited a man’s illness for gain. He outlined possible additional suits alleging telephone tapping trespass on his premises and property, insisting the accusations are false and noting media publication varied.
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McCormick
Memorial Hospital
Victor D. Teapinasse
Storm floods Lakewood. lighting out of commission
A severe thunderstorm flooded caverns and put Lakewood lighting out of commission this afternoon. The business section and residential areas were affected as some callas were hanged feet in depth. Many electric light and telegraph poles and trees were blown down. Nearby, a train robbery was reported in St Louis involving Morris Shindersman, a Chicago diamond broker, claiming $66,000 in diamonds and jewelry stolen en route to Mexico.
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St.louis
Morris Shindersman
Chicago
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Mexico
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