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...judges make Reno famed for its divorces. Most petitioners prefer Judge Bartlett to Judge Thomas F. Moran, who is reputed to dig too deep into marital conditions, to quibble over the custody of children. Over 60, Judge Bartlett is happily married, the father of three daughters and a son. Short, benign, he wears his long white hair bobbed across the back, bald in front. He smokes a pipe, carries a light cane, affects black string neckties and Quakerish felt hat. He lives three blocks from the courthouse in a big rambling house, open to all, keeps no servant, is familiarly...
...March 17, 1927, five minutes before it adjourned its midnight session the Nevada Legislature passed Assembly Bill No. 195 which reduced state residence for divorce from six to three months. Last year Judges Bartlett & Moran together granted 2,071 divorces, of which only 700 went to husbands. Grounds and decrees on each: cruelty (mental) 1,268; desertion 388; non-support 376; insanity 284; adultery 54; drunkenness 24; felony conviction 3; impotency 1. Under the U. S. Constitution's faith-and-credit, Nevada divorces are recognized as legal in all states except South Carolina (no divorce law), New Jersey...
Gangs. Police further identified Zuta as the "thinker" and bookkeeper of the anti-Capone North Side Gang headed by Joe and Dominick Aiello and George ("Bugs") Moran. Police raided the luxurious home shared by the Aiello families, seized a sheaf of papers they hoped would throw light on the Lingle case. Also last week they seized two shipments of whiskey and raided several breweries as incidental results of their Zuta investigation...
Died. J. Robert ("Bob") Moran, 45, longtime night city editor of the Atlanta Constitution; at a sanitarium in Atlanta...
That the E obtained its liquor cargo at sea was obvious. As all the world knows, the ragged squadron comprising Rum Row lurks twelve miles off New York Harbor. But no one on the tug M. Moran, which towed the E, or on barge P, which was part of the tow, had seen anything untoward happen. A Federal inspector stationed on the M. Moran to see that the swill was dumped out far enough had nothing to report, but was exonerated by the harbor authorities because after the dumping he slept "as is the custom of Federal inspectors on such...