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About ten years ago the city of Syracuse, N. Y. became highly conscious of a lively young man named La Verne Moore. Son of a churchgoing steel mill worker named Matthew Moore, whose other offspring were two beautiful daughters and a son who lived up to his name of Harold, La Verne was nicknamed "Bull" because of his phenomenal physique, his excellence at games, his unruly disposition...
...night of Aug. 5, 1930, one Kin Hanna, owner of an inn near Jay, N. Y. had a painful experience. He and his father-in-law Matt Cobb were beaten, gagged and bound by four men who then took $750 from the till and made their getaway...
...career had been fantastic. Last month, one of the innumerable accounts of the famed Montague v. Crosby golf match finally caught the eye of someone who knew La Verne Moore and was interested in finding him. This was Police Inspector John Cosart of Troop D, Oneida, N. Y., who clipped the article, sent it to Inspector Joseph Lynch at Malone, N. Y. who sent Moore's fingerprints to Los Angeles...
Died. Howell Howard, 39, Dayton Ohio paper manufacturer and five-goal poloist; of a fractured skull and lacerations of the brain, caused when his pony fell during a Meadow Brook Club match between the Foxhunters and Narragansett, for whom Poloist Howard played No. 2; at Mineola, N. Y...
...Died. Edward Eugene Loomis, 72, longtime (1917-37) president of the Lehigh Valley R. R. Co.; at Murray Hill, N. J. Born on a farm in Herkimer County, N. Y., he entered railroading immediately after graduation. Through his handling of coal strikes, he was made senior vice president of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western in 1902; in 1917 took over the Lehigh Valley and ran it through the World War as the second largest carrier of anthracite...