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...Wash day" followed the weekend. Busiest Reno citizens were the two judges of Washoe District Court, Thomas Francis ("Barney") Moran and Benjamin Frank-lin Curler. Judge Moran, a Scot in his 503, stoutish with thin grey hair, teaches a young men's Bible class at the Baptist church. His brother is a Roman Catholic priest. On the bench hearing divorce cases, he tilts his head back, eyes the witness under his glasses. Popular with Reno's transient colony, he likes to marry a woman to a new husband a few minutes after he has divorced her from...
...finalists, who will debate the question: Resolved. That The Briand Proposal for a Federation of European States is in the Best Interests of International Goodwill, are: R. M. Alt '32, A. A. Baillie '33, J. F. Farr '33, A. G. Malkan '33, J. J. Ryan '33, and T. I. Moran '32. The debates, which will be open to the public, will be judged by W. S. Howell, instructor in Public Speaking, Professor J. A. Mercier, and Professor A. C. Sprague...
...semi-final competition for the Pasteur Medal for debating yesterday, six men, R. M. Alt '32, A. A. Baillie '33, R. R. Daly '32, J. F. Farr '33, A. G. Malkan '33, and T. l. Moran '32, were retained for the final competition which will take place on April 23. The judges of yesterday's competition were J. A. Mereier, associate professor of French and Education, F. C. Packard '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking, and A. C. Sprague, assistant professor of English. The judges of the final competition will be W. S. Bowell, instructor in Public Speaking, Professor...
Three months ago one Joseph Hunsaker, a Green City, Mo. truck driver who likes detective fiction, saw a picture of the man accused of conducting the massacre of seven Chicago Moran gangsters on St. Valentine's day two years ago (TIME, Feb. 25, 1929). The man in the picture had a scarred lip and ruffy face. So did the stranger who lately married into the nearby Porter family, thought Joseph Hunsaker. The stranger seemed to have plenty of money, always in bills of large denominations. He never did any work, took long mysterious trips. Joseph Hunsaker took his suspicions...
...murder charges. Michigan wanted him for shooting down a St. Joseph policeman in cold blood while discussing a minor traffic accident, since which time Killer Burke had not been seen (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929). Chicago sent a earful of detectives to apprehend him for the Moran massacre, because guns found in Burke's elaborate arsenal at St. Joseph, Mich, were identified as those used in the St. Valentine's day killings. Alias Brook, alias Burchell, alias Camp, Kemp, Kemper, he is wanted in New York for the slaying of Gang King Frankie Uale in 1928, in Detroit for murdering three...