Prison Terms Fixed for Four in Traffic Fraud Case
Four Syracuse defendants convicted of using the mails in a fraud scheme receive prison terms. Charles Van Buren is to serve two years eight months at Lewisburg while Frank J. Kavanaugh gets two years one month at Chillicothe. James H. Tarr is to serve one year three months at Lewisburg, Harland C. Potter six months at Broome County Jail. Fay H. Potter placed on probation. All four to remain at Wampsville pending possible appeal.
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Charles van Buren
Syracuse
Traffic Inspectors Training Corporation
Lewisberg
United States
Bert Montena
Montena
A. H. Conner
Bureau of Prisons
Federal
Chilicothe
Frank J. Kavanaugh
Cleveland
Corporation
Kavanaugh
Frederick H. Bryant
United States District Court
James H. Tarr
Marcellus
Bryant
Broome County
Harland C. Potter
Tarr
Potter
van Buren
Fay H. Potter
Wampsville
M. Leonard Shapero
Shapero
Two Drivers Injured In Early Morning Geddes Street Collision
Police say at 1 30 A M in the 300 block of South Geddes Street a taxicab driven by John R Davis pulled from the curb and began a turn when James Lyke's car struck the taxi. Davis and Lyke were cited with speeding and failure to yield respectively and Lyke received medical care.
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South Geddes Street
Pattrolmen
Martin Walsh
Joseph Viau
Leonard Barry
John R. Davis
Kimber Road
Jamesville
James Lyke
Rowland Stree
Winter Sojourners Delay City Census Figures
Winter vacationers in the South hold up Syracuse census data as district supervisor Frank W. Baker says figures cannot be released until every known person is enumerated. Daily returnees from Florida slow the count and Hancock’s residency is being checked by the census office.
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Syracuse
Frank W. Baker
Baker
Florida
Washington
Clarence E. Hancock
Hancock
Grand Jury to Hear 12 Witnesses Against Shipton
Twelve witnesses are set to testify before the May grand jury in the inquiry of grand larceny charges against Ralph K. Shipton a securities broker 52 of 102 Hampshire Load. Subpoenas were prepared for Assistant District Attorney E Canter and Deputy Attorney General Irving Lessen who will present the case. Shipton released from Syracuse General Hospital after a nervous collapse was arraigned in three courts within five days spending one night in jail.
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Shipton
Alenday
Grand Darceny
Ralph K. Shipton
Hampshire
E. Canter
Irving HH. Lessen
Shipdon
Syracuse General Hospital
Gai
Officers Reelected At Citizens Club For Eleventh Term
Augund Smingler was reelected president of the Citizens Club for an eleventh term. L. O. Metti sons was chosen as vice president with J. C. Gilbert as treasurer and William Hogan as secretary. The group held a dinner at Leotard's after the vote and presented the trustees with a trophy donated by Frank P. Malpass and Fire Chief Edward Gieselian.
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Augund Smingler
Citizens Club
L. O. Mettisons
J. C. Gilbert
William Hogan
Leotard’ S
Josuz
Low Bidder Inspecting Site for Syracuse Elevated Tracks
John Hagen president of Elmhurst Contracting Company, the low bidder for the D L & W elevated tracks project in Syracuse, visits the site to prep for start within two weeks. He cites a sound bid and solid backing, aiming to break ground soon if contract is awarded. The bid totals 2 498 146 dollars for bridges and embankments over streets between East Colvin Street and Wrest Street yards.
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John Hagen
Elmhurst Contracting Company
Syracuse
Public Service Commission
Hagen
East Colvin Street
Wrest Street
Syracuse Weekly 1849 Neutrality Mood Cited
A 1849 Syracuse Weekly Journal excerpt echoes U S neutrality aims in President Zachary Taylor's Congress message. It notes enjoying foreign trade while remaining independent and neutral amid global conflicts. The passage, printed December 26 1829, appears in an old Journal copy found by Mrs. Harold S. Knapp.
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Zachary Tayxler
Congress
Syracuse Weekly Journal
Harold S. Knapp
East Hill Road
Camillus
Herald-Journal
Oswego Boy Survives Night Trapped by Tile Debris
Seven year old Joseph Connors was found pinned between large tile slabs at a city mixing point on First Avenue in Oswego. He was missing since midnight and was rescued about 3:53 am by William Drury and Oswego police and firefighters. He arrived at Oswego Hospital in fair condition.
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Oswego
First Avenue
Joseph Connors
Charles Connors
Hilside Avenue
Oswero Hospital
Sergi
William O'Toole
William B. Drury
Fifth Avenue
Ciivy
Sergeant O'Toole
Harry Wise
Vincent Dicleco
Thomas Levere
New York City Man Held in Forgery Charge
Harry Sierd, 20, of New York City was bound over to the grand jury by Judge Homer W. Walsh in Police Court after pleading not guilty to a forgery charge. He allegedly signed the name of Samuel L. Keaplin of Albany to a check drawn on an Albany bank for 16 dollars on April 12.
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Harry Sierd
New York City
Homer W. Walsh
Siegel
Samuel L. Keaplin
Albans
Albany
Professor E Marion Johnson Joins Syracuse Journalism Faculty
E Marion Johnson former head of the University of Minnesota Journalism department will become professor of journalism at Syracuse University on July 1 He will also manage the New York Press Association Johnson has long worked with the Traffic Service Corporation in Chicago directing The Traffic World The Traffic Bulletin Earth Mover and Road Builder and more He founded the National Scholastic Press Association in 1922 and authored three manuals for the association His career began as a printer's devil on a Kansas City newspaper and included seven years in the weekly field plus daily work
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Hagen
Spi
New York Central Railroad
New York City
Long Island
Pennsylvania
Poughkeepsie
Elmhurst Farms
New York
State Commission
Rolland B. Marvin
Syracuse
E. Marion Johnson
University of Miinesota
Syracuse University
Johnson
New York Press Association
M. Lyle Spencer
Col= of
Toay
Traffic Service Corporation
Chicago
Traffic World
Traffic Bulletin
Earth Mover
Road Builder
Business Digest
National Scholastic Press Association
Association
Scholastic
United States
Junction City
Kan
Eld
Boy 11 in Hospital Again After 28 Transfusions
Bartolo DeMancell, 11, son of Mr and Mrs Anthony DeMas cel of 1105 Park Street, continues treatment for congenital aplastic anemia. He has received 28 blood transfusions and was readmitted to University Hospital after a recent relapse.
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Bartolo DeMancell
Anthony DeMascel
Park Street
Dodas
Bartolo
Unisersky Morpitel
Bartulo
Judge Walsh Sentences 3 Seized in Raid
Judge Homer Walsh in Police Court today sentenced James LaTessa 42 and Brayton Wrightmire 33 to 60 days in the Jamesville Penitentiary. Mrs Rose LaTessa 40 was fined 100 dollars or 100 days for selling alcoholic beverages without a license. The raid on 916 East Fayette Street April 6 led to 46 held for witnesses. One woman leaped from a second story window sustaining serious injuries. All others were booked. the three defendants had pleaded not guilty and were free on bail before changing to guilty yesterday.
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Jamesville
Homer
Vv. Walsh
East Fayette Street
James ‘LaTessa
Brayton Wrightmire
Rose LaTessa
Fayette
LaTessadis
Wrightmire
LaTessa
Hill Post Goes To Dr LaDu
Dr. Lucius G. Moffatt will head the School of Languages at the University of Kansas. He joins from the University of Kansas City as assistant professor of Spanish in the new year, after teaching two French books, D Alexandre le Grand and Paradis: Terrésire.
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Milan
University of Kan- Hei
G. Moffatt
Heigures
Uae
Ae ‘University
University of Kansas
City
uTope
Alexandre le Grand
Paradis
d’Alexandre
Dunbar Center Needs Finish Drive Near Goal
Dunbar Center reports $19,125.85 raised toward the $20,000 remodeling campaign. The campaign office at 264 East Onondaga Street stays open Thu Fri Sat for contributions. Nurses Alumnae Association and Women of Rotary provided notable gifts.
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Dunbar Center
New . Negro Community House
Gladys Bliss
East Onondaga Street
Nurses
New Deal Assailed By Parsons in GOP Women Talk
Assemblyman George B. Parsons assails the New Deal in a speech before Republican women at the Denison Building. He argues Washington and Albany share faults including reckless spending tax burdens and attempts to direct private industry to escape the depression.
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New Deal
Parsons
George B. Parsons
Denison
Washington
Albany
Rotary Club Host To 40 Boys and Girls
Forty boys and girls from various Southonian groups will entertain Rotary Club members at the weekly luncheon meeting in the Hotel Sonneta dotnories. The program includes music gymnastic exhibitions and other performances. Charles W. Bradlen head of Pebble FA School and chair of the edith ihegs ser'k committee oversees the event with Lone Dol Boys and Giile Weel as organizers.
Spano Receives 6.5 to 15 Years for Wife Slaying
Cortland May 9 Bar Lolo Spano, 27, was sentenced to 6.5 to 15 years in state prison after pleading guilty to first degree slaughter for strangling his wife on February 27 following a quarrel. Archie Pierce got one to two years after pleading guilty to second degree gery. Antonio Perfetti, 51, ex janitor at Cortland Normal School, was found guilty of second degree assault in the night attack on James Savage, head engineer at the school.
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Speelat
Stod . Cortland
Bar Lolo
Barney” Spano
Tca
William JW
Slaughter
Archie Pierce
Africa
Hey
Gery
Anthonio Perfetti
Cortland Normal School
James Savage
Record Class On Campus To Be Graduated
The 1940 graduation list includes Roger Mabie of Port Ewen and Miss Vivian Lynaugh of White Plains as marshals. William H. Powers of General Electric will be the principal speaker at the 69th commencement at Archbold Stadium. Names of valedictorian and salutatorian are Harry Pierce of Utica and Samuel Jacobs of Amsterdam respectively.
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Ung
Indusry
General
Rolly. Rubenstein
Robert
IV Namirnis Wilson
Midland “Avenue
Hannabélle
Comstock Avenue
Shirley Cohen
Genesee Park Drive
Epidemic Gastroenteritis Strikes Canastota Villages
In Madison County Canastota about 200 persons are ill with gastroenteritis. Health officials from State and local authorities investigate cause. Dr. Richard B. Cuthbert says water or milk supplies are not linked. The disease is highly contagious and linked to a respiratory germ. He attributes many cases to a spring cold.
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Canastota
Madison County
Richard B. Cuthbert
Lenox
Cuthbert
500th Anniversary Of Printing Observed
A meeting attended by 200 persons was held at Beauchamp Branch as Syracuse Public Library observes the 500th anniversary of printing. Dr KR W G Vail discussed printing history and Prof Bentley Rank showed a film on Goudy type. A closing exhibit will open May 8 with 30 books chosen by the Institute of Graphic Arts.
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Beauchamp
Syracuse Public Library
KR. W. G. Vail
Bentley Rank
School of Journalism
Syracuse University
The
Institute of Graphic Arts
Will case raises six probate questions in surrogates court
Judge Sadler finds six questions about Nora Galven's will, including signing, declaration, witnesses, sound mind, freedom from restraint, and absence of fraud or undue influence, all answered affirmatively. Timothy J. Enright represented Mr Hungerford.
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Sadler
Nora‘ Galven
Timothy J. Enright
Hungerford
Episcopal Convention Selects Lay Deputies and Debates Canons
The Episcopal convention elected two lay deputies from the diocese and discussed marriage canon changes. Bishop Huntington warned unity requires maintaining faith order, while a proposal to liberalize remarriage rules remains under study. The social relations committee urged leaving the canons unchanged for now.
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Ember
St Ses Paul
Behm
Wilson’ E. Tanner
Trinity
Binhamton
Harold
Sawyer
Grace
Epee Uticarte
Yd Se “ Charters
Emmanuel the Norwich
Andy
Marridge
Edward J. Huntington
Coley
Episcopal Church
Panul S. Oliver
Zion’s Church
Rome
St Brigid's Church Sets Annual May Card Party
The St Brigid's Church May card party will be held tomorrow evening in the church auditorium at Willis Avenue and Herkimer Street. The committee promises it will be the largest card party of the year.
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St. Brigid’s Church
St Brigid's Church
Church Mamnasium
Willis Avenue
Herkimer Stree
Woollcott to Leave Syracuse Hospital for Vermont Estate
Author actor Alexander Woollcott recovering from a heart attack will depart General Hospital of Syracuse with Dr Albert Getman’s care. He plans to travel by automobile to his Maxhell Island estate on Lake Bomoseen Vermont tomorrow.
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Alexander Woollcott
Hamilton College
Albert AL Getman
General Hospital of
Syracuse
Maxhell Island
Lake Bomoseen
Way
Chicago
Woollcott
Gaer Hospital
German
Vermont
Ato Mobile
Washbobl Island
Aga Merleing Place
Ssuminen
Helen Flees Sind Thep Pashan
Charles Mackrether
The
Mare Brothers
Derekhy Parker
Lynn Fontatine
Aleed Laut
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Louis F. Lemp
Louis F.lemp
Genesee ST
Carol
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Sutland
Tals
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E. I. du Pont. de Nemours, Inc
Pivex
Silverlux Screen
GE Lyon
Oak Frangis Hendricks
Dora Leveret
Lydia Z
Lewisburg
Chillcethe
Broome
Geddes Street
Lee J
Syracuse Weekly
U.S
Oswego Boy
WN. Y
RE. M. Johnson
Hill
LaDu
Romance
Rotary Club
Spano
Aire
Paul
Mole
Catne
Arlolo Southy State Street
Sheaffer
Waterman
Esterbrook
Kirtland's
S. Sakna SJ
Merchants National Banc & Trl
TCO
Warren Street
Jewelers Opticians
M. Lemp
N. Salina
Charles &Lowenstein
Optometrist In Charge
Chesterfield
W. 0Th St
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