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November 24, 1926

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WILLIE STEVENS ON STAND DENIES MURDER; REMAINS CALM UNDER CROSS-EXAMINATION; FINGERPRINT NOT HIS, THREE TESTIFY; WITNESS A GREAT SURPRISE Weighs His Words and Speaks Clearly as He Admits Owning Pistol. EVADES SIMPSON'S TRAPS " Absolutely Nothing at All," Is Reply When Asked if He Had Anything to Do With Crime. MRS. HALL UNDER A STRAIN Defense Witness Hints That Calling Card Found at the Scene Was "Doctored." WILLIE STEVENS DENIES MURDER

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E H Schwartz granted pension by Newark Police Dept

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FALL-DOHENY JURORS HEAR CASE OUTLINED BY OPPOSING COUNSEL; Government Says It Will Prove the Oil Leases Were "Born in Fraud." HOGAN ASSAILS CHARGES Defense Attorney Declares His Clients Were Singled Out for Prosecution. UPHOLDS $100,000 AS LOAN Director of the Geological Survey Testifies He Warned Fall of Excess Oil Output. Facts in Oil Conspiracy Case as Counsel State Them

By Special to The New York Times

Testifies at trial of Govt's suit against A B Fall and E L Doheny, in connection with naval oil reserve leases

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Notable Births

Tsung-Dao Lee

1926Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)[†]

Tsung-Dao Lee was a Chinese-American physicist, known for his work on parity violation, the Lee–Yang theorem, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion (RHIC) physics, nontopological solitons, and soliton stars. He was a university professor emeritus at Columbia University in New York City, where he taught from 1953 until his retirement in 2012.