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First effort to put U. P. & L. into receivership was last autumn when a group of creditors filed a reorganization petition at Freeport, 111. The company denied insolvency (which it did again last week) and had the case transferred to Chicago. Judge Holly then denied ex-President Clarke the right to intervene except as a creditor, which he did in a new action filed in Virginia, where U. P. & L. is incorporated...
Died. Herbert Schussler Billerbeck (Herb Williams), 52, plaintive oldtime comedian; of pneumonia; in Freeport, N. Y. For 25 years in his standard act he sported sickly yellow button-shoes on the wrong feet, yanked ham sandwiches, beer, a cat from his piano, broke baseball bats over the heads of heckling bandsmen...
...John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's Freeport Texas reported semi-annual income of $1,014,000 as against $550,000 in the initial half of last year...
Down a back road near Freeport, Ohio, trudged a ragged, squint-eyed old man. His son was a cripple. He had sold his horse to buy bread. He now had nothing left but a dilapidated farm, a bank book showing 50,000 devaluated marks tied up in his native Germany. Into a WPAgency he trudged, gave his name as Karl Goering, shruggingly remarked that he is a cousin of peacocky No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Göring...
...Freeport Texas...