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Daily News from New York, New York • 322

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DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1934 jail The NEWS in TABLOID -AND INDEX- ALDERMEN SMASH TIGER RULE; SHOCK KILLS BRONX BOSS By DICK LEE. WHEN Tammany's control of the Board of Aldermen NEW YORK AND VICINITY Five Japanese held in Jer sey spy scare. Page 2. held ith an iron grip since the five boroughs were combined I 1896 was overthrown by a coalition ol rusion and Ke- By ji'lia McCarthy. FIVE picture-taking Japanese, all representatives of the Japanese Governmt nt Railways, were held by Kearny, N.

police for more than eleven nours yesteraay, aiier cwa HARRISON Tiger district leader dies as Tammany is outvoted in Board of Aldermen. Page 2. Former reporter held as news stand grafter. Page 2. Walker's nephew held for Grand Jury in assault on night club hostess.

Page 3. Heywood Broun reveals Ruth Hale divorced him in Mexico last Fall. Page 3. Workings of Exclusion Act separate new citizen and his Oriental wife. Page 8.

LaGuardia protests Albany menaces chances for PWA loan. Page 9. Mayor appoints George V. McLaughlin to Triboro Bridge Authority. Page 10.

Four little Lavertys hike to town to find daddy Page 18. Jury quickly convicts man of threatening woman in vice squad trial. Page 32. Bail jumping of Irving Bitz causes legal tempest "between bay vwrr 75,, wf w9 atr John S. McGinley elected 1o succeed the late Alford J.

Williams as 'NEWS map Stall Artim Bourne I Map locates spot (A) on Lincoln Highway where the five picture-taking Japanese were mrremtej yesterday. It it less than a quarter of mile from shipyards at Kearny, N. in which two S. cruisers are under construction. Alderman holds a victory feast with his wite at their Kiveroaie, 2s.

home. His election, overthrowing Tammany control of board, resulted in death of Augustus Pierce from heart disease. covery Party forces yesterday, Augustus Pierce, 64, Tammany" leader in the 8th Assembly District of the Bronx, died from a heart attack in a doorway of the packed room. The organization's crushing de-'S- DAILY ALMANAC WEDNFSPA.T. JAN.

17. (Eastern Standard Time) workers saw them with eight cameras in the vicinity a shipyard where two United States Navy cruisers are un- feat, unexpected in the Aldermanic chamber, where it apparently had local Partly cloudy and Trie i-irrunistanres suggested 1 e-ponage. bt police could hold colder today. th, five for only a minor violation sTAT5rtw cay of the Mare motor vehicle law. ri, partly cloudy 10-After a Iontr conference of police morrow.

District Attorney and Justice May. Page 41. Two ace detectives ordered to get Dutch Schultz, "wherever he is. UNITED STATES. Chicago Dr.

Alice Wyne-koop collapses in court when bloodstained clothes of slain Rheta are shown. Page 3. Washington, D. C. Airmail probers hear of youth's $40 investment that grew to $5,000,000.

Page 3. Huntsville, Tex. Barrow, desperado, shoots two prison guards and rescues pal and four convicts. Page 9. Albany McElligott approved as both Fire Commissioner and Chief.

Page 10. Chicago. Long drawn-out battle seen in Touhy trial over jury selection. Page 11. Washington, D.

C. Senate THK BAKUMETEB (' or vrith I part merit of Justice officials, who nucr openly entered the ease, it nas leaned that the Federal espionage law contains no jeTiaky for the taking of pictures in any fort, r.avy yard or other (internment property. Sunrise, 7:1 A. sunset. I.

M. moon A. M. sets. 7:46 P.

morning star, Jupiter; evening Mar, Mars; 1st niar-ter. 22.1: full moon. News Stand Graft Holds Ex-Reporter With dramatic suddenness, the news stand racket inquiry swung from words to action yesterday when a former newspaper reporter was arrested on charges of shaking down a stand applicant for Summoned ostensibly as a witness, John Sheehan former political reporter employed by several New York newspapers but now a press agent, was grabbed in the corridor of the Department of Licenses at 6 Reade as he waited his turn on the witness stand. The finger -was placed upon Sheehan by Benjamin Sandlofer, brother of a newsdealer at 571 E. Pictures are Seized.

TEMPERATURES IN NEW YORK. -MAXIM! 2 P. 4 MIXIMTM, 7 A. 32 To cnvict under the Espionage act, the Government must prove 4B win ni -i Til A A that such pictures were actually 2 a m. a.

m. p. turned over to a foreign Govern- nient. Military and naval author- .4. m.

1 p. p. m. n. v.

p. ittes. however, may prosecute for 11 u. p. tnoffi-tal 4 4 p.

p. trespass when pictures are taken a. The late Augustus Pierce Dropped dead in City Halt. a commanding majority, resulted in fortified zones without author- por twenty-four hours ended at 5 p'. M.

iiation. Jan. 16: The pictures taken by the live Mtan temperature. "9: normal. "1: Japanese are now in the hands of im-e Jan.

1. Tre- 1 1 i-ijviTatton. n'tie; excess since Jan. 1. the Kearny police and are to oe 4J inch developed tomorrow.

A.M. P.M. It is relieved they will show Parometer 3 16 FCene? rw on Lincoln Highwav. Xo. 25 i Humidity 7b 2s the State route, but Key road! in 173d Bronx.

Sandlofer said he had been introduced to the erstwhile reporter by David Deutsch, an assistant in the Bronx Motor Vehicle Bureau. "Sheehan told me he could go to former License Commissioner James Geraghty and get me any license I wanted on the Concourse for Sandlofer declared. Hyman Sandlofer, ar other broth-(Continued on page 6, eol. i) Irom a fight to elect a successor to the late Alford J. Williams, vet-teran member from the 32d Bronx District, who died in December.

Blow to Curry. It was the heaviest blow John F. Curry and the other Hall leaders, who are working desperately to put the Tiger's lair in order once more, could have suffered at this time, for many veteran Tam- (Continued on page No. 1 of the federal military system ff roads, besides scenes of the highway bridge structures in the Hackensack meadows. Whether pictures the shipyard or the cruisers were snapped was not Vnnwn.

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aUd 4 hours (jufvrnctt Inrnrtsattea t'ditetf State Coast and CcMtrtie Sn ui; Etm Handard lime. committee queries legality of gold program. Page 14. Berkeley, Cal. Scientists develop new ray, more powerful than radium.

Page 18. Los Angeles. Mae West testifies she feared for fate of face at holdup. Page 36. Los Angeles.

Ten women on jury to try Mdivani princes in oil fraud. Page 38. FOREIGN. Berlin Arrest of a uniformed Nazi storm trooper demanded by U. S.

in beating of American citizen. Page 3. Bombay, India. One thousand reported killed in earthquake. Page 6.

Berlin Nazi Government's labor law outlaws strikes and lockouts. Page 14. Moscow Soviet fears war with Japan. Page 41. Paris.

Neither France nor Italy will permit seizure of Danube power by Nazis, Paul-Boncour declares. SPORTS Released to Consul. THIS DAY IN HISTORY Xlmi Beniamm Franklin. American phl-! lo9opher. etali-snmn.

diplomat and author, bo-ti at BiiMon. f3S9. Sovereignty of Panish West In- dies leompnsinc the inland ot St. Thoma, I St. John and St Croix passe under L'ntt ed Static control.

Fren. steamer Channia, formerly the komrm Wilbeimina. strikes mine and 1 sinks id Straits of Nessina; 4tl0 lives U-st. LOCAL ABC URGES DRINKING AT BARS 19U A NUARY 1914 aaar mt" nmaai hmh tWmit sraT While the men were released in custody of Japanese Vice Consul Takio Ninomiya of New York, their cameras, four still and four movie cameras, were confiscated by police. The five Japanese are: Shizuo Abe.

of W. 110th Pt hydraulic engineer of the Japanese Government Railways in Tokyo. He arrived in San Francisco Nov. 8. on the Tatsuta Jlara.

Benzio Nizhimara. 40. mechanical engineer, who arrived on the rame ship and lives at the same address. Eisaburo Tujii, SO, of 605 W. 113th an electrical engineer employed by the Japanese Government.

Yasunori Ohtane. f05 W. 113th assistant superintendent of (Cnimutd yaye cL S) J4 15 IB 17 8 13 20 22 23 24 25 26 27 Is 29 30 31 thority declared that all its functions as performed at present could be handled by the State board. If this is to continue, the members declared, the city board should be abolished altogether and the taxpayer given the benefit of the considerable saving. The local liquor controllers, who have appealed to the Legislature for complete divorce from the Mul-rconey hierarchy, declared they wanted the sole right to promulgate rules for drinking in New (Cont inued on pagt coL 1) r- In a startling document which urged rescinding of the rule prohibiting liquor drinking at bars, the New York City Alcoholic Beverage Control Board yesterday demanded more power, more pay, or the abolition of the board.

The stand of the city board was proclaimed when the State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board requested its ideas on new liquor legislation. The recommendations were forwarded by James C. Quinn. local chairman. Mincing no words, the local au-; i i 1 Giants announce plan to take thirty-twro plaj'ers to Miami Beach Training Camp.

Page 42. Americans defeat Rangers, 2 1, in Garden. Page 42. New Haven a 1 Daily News urges reappointment of Reggie Root as football coach. Page 43.

1934 FEBRUARY 1934 um) mur mi nt-tsM' tirurt.

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