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Supreme Court Justice Charles W. Parker's decision in Somerville, N.J., yesterday denying bail to Henry de la Bruyere Carpender and "Willie" Stevens, charged with the murder of the Rev. Dr. Edward W. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills, was as follows:
Pres Coolidge inspects Plattsburg camp
Bishop Diaz in statement says Catholics are prepared for long fight; ed in Imparcial asks amendments to law; statement by Sec Tejada; views of Saenz on attitude of Mexicans in U S; stores closed as result of boycott; Pope's counsel explained
An application for the release on bail of "Willie" Stevens and Henry de la Bruyere Carpender who are accused of the murder of the Rov. Edward W. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills, was denied yesterday after the State had charged that a card found at the murder scene bore a fingerprint of Stevens.
Starts taxpayer's suit to prevent vote on Craig 5c fare referendum
1926George Brecht, American-German chemist and composer (died 2008)[†]
George Brecht, born George Ellis MacDiarmid, was an American conceptual artist and avant-garde composer, as well as a professional chemist who worked as a consultant for companies including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Mobil Oil. He was a key member of, and influence on, Fluxus, the international group of avant-garde artists centred on George Maciunas, having been involved with the group from the first performances in Wiesbaden 1962 until Maciunas' death in 1978.
1926Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist and academic (died 2002)[†]
Kristen Nygaard was a Norwegian computer scientist, programming language pioneer, and politician. Internationally, Nygaard is acknowledged as the co-inventor of object-oriented programming and the programming language Simula with Ole-Johan Dahl in the 1960s. Nygaard and Dahl received the 2001 A. M. Turing Award for their contribution to computer science.