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April 26, 1926

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$70,076,125 A YEAR WOULD MAKE STATE DRY, SAYS BUCKNER; Gives Senate Detailed Figures for 'Reasonable' Prohibition Enforcement. $11,441,000 IN HIS DISTRICT $20,021,750 for State, He Says, if Jury Trials Are Abolished, U.S. Police Courts Set Up. ALCOHOL DIVERSION HUGE 60,000,000-Gallon Leak Into Rum Trade in Year, He Figures, and Output Is Soaring. $70,076,125 TO DRY STATE, SAYS BUCKNER

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Memorandum by U S Atty Buckner and Asst U S Atty Williams tries to show his estimate of alcohol diversion is too low

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CITY MAY PAY COST OF I.R.T. PLATFORMS ORDERED EXTENDED; McAneny Suggests Ways to Assume $12,000,000 Burden of Station Construction. SPLIT IN TRANSIT BOARD O'Ryan Doubts Legality of Order for July 1 -- Cars for Longer Trains to Cost $16,000,000. SPEEDWAYS ON LONG ISLAND Regional Plan Committee Proposes Four Express Highways to Relieve Traffic Congestion.

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Transit Comm directs I R T Co to lengthen platforms to accommodate 10-car trains; Comr McAneny suggests cost be divided between N Y C and co; Comr O'Ryan doubts legality of order to I R T to bear share of costs

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Notable Births

David Coleman

1926David Coleman, British sports commentator and television presenter (died 2013)[†]

David Robert Coleman was a British sports commentator and television presenter who worked for the BBC for 46 years. He covered eleven Summer Olympic Games from 1960 to 2000 and six FIFA World Cups from 1962 to 1982.

1926Michael Mathias Prechtl, German soldier and illustrator (died 2003)[†]

Michael Mathias Prechtl was a German artist, illustrator and cartoonist.