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...tapped telephone conversations. After Nardone was sentenced to three years in prison and his companions to a year and a day each, they appealed their convictions on the ground that Section 605 of the Federal Communications Act of 1934 forbids any person not authorized by the sender to intercept or divulge telephone messages. Denied new trials by a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, they got them last week when Justice Roberts' majority decision held that "to recite the contents of the message in testimony before a court is to divulge the message," that the Act applied to "Federal...
...this season, it will automatically go to the opposing team at the, spot where it was kicked, thus obviating future controversies such as that which Yale's Larry Kelley provoked last year by "unintentionally" kicking a fumbled ball to Navy's 3-yd. line. Players trying to intercept forward passes this year will not have interference called for bodily contact, "no matter how severe...
...streaked for Fort Loudon yelling for help. Commandant Grant obliged by making prisoners of eight Black Boys. The remainder called at the fort to demand their comrades be turned loose. Refused, Smith ordered an attack. The Black Boys blazed away all night, then slipped away and waited to intercept any messengers sent out. After more than 16 had been collected the commandant accepted an exchange of prisoners. The authorities called for court-martials but quieted down when it was learned that the whole frontier was in cahoots with the Black Boys...
...Maybach-Zeppelin automobile. On their last night in Paris they got home to their hotel toward dawn, were off next day for The Netherlands in their Maybach without realizing what was in the rumble seat. As the great car shot across France, frantic telephone calls from Paris strove to intercept it and at the frontier barrier Her Royal Highness learned that her sleepy Dutch maid had bundled into the rumble $10,000 worth of gowns which had come to her "on approval" and which she had intended to leave behind to be sent back to the shops. Chuckling, the Crown...
...Hours by Air (Paramount). Rocketing from Newark to San Francisco in a bullet-nosed Boeing are an heiress (Joan Bennett) rushing to intercept her sister's marriage to a cad; the cad's brother (Fred Keating); a bad little boy, his water pistol and his caretaker (Zasu Pitts); the customary gangster, the sleuth trailing him; a transport pilot (Fred MacMurray) returning to duty from a canceled vacation...