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August 11, 1926

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JAILS 3 SARATOGANS IN GAMING INQUIRY; Judge Commits Witnesses for Contempt for Refusing to Answer Questions.

By Special to The New York Times

Judge Heffernan sends J C Fennell, M E Byrnes and A F White, proprietors of alleged gambling places, to jail for contempt in refusing to answer questions; sends officer for Mayor Knapp when he fails to respond to subpoena; Knapp testifies he saw no gambling at suspected places; J L Sullivan, Supt of Police, says officers have brought back word that there was no gambling; others testify

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Aaron Klug

1926Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018)[โ€ ]

Sir Aaron Klug was a British biophysicist and chemist. He was a winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes.