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November 30, 1926

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DOLLAR GAS VOIDED AS CONFISCATORY BY SUPREME COURT; Federal Tribunal Holds Law Fixing That Rate for New York City Is Invalid. VICTORY FOR 3 COMPANIES Return to Consolidated Found to Be Less Than 6 Per Cent., to Other Concerns Less Than 5. GAS STOCKS UP ON MARKET Millions Held in Suspense Pending Decision Now Free to Be Added to Dividends. DOLLAR GAS VOIDED AS CONFISCATORY

By Special to The New York Times

U S Supreme Court voids dollar gas law as confiscatory, in cases of Consolidated Gas Co of N Y, Brooklyn Union Gas Co and Kings Co Lighting Co; impounded funds released to be added to divds

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CHARGES JURY IS HOSTILE; They Talked to Friends, Some Slept in Court, Prosecutor Says. HEARS OF JOKES ON VERDICT Letter-Writer Tells the Court Jurors in Hotel Talked of Decision in 20 Minutes. MRS. GIBSON WAS RIDICULED Remarks Derogatory to Simpson Also Quoted -- Jurors Said to Be 11 to 1 for Acquittal. SIMPSON THREATENS TO ASK FOR MISTRIAL

By Unknown Author

Assistant Attorney General Alexander Simpson threatened last night to move for a mistrial in the Hall-Mills case. He said that his motion, if made, would allege improprieties in connection with the conduct of the jury.

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CLINGS TO FAITH IN RECTOR; Not Sure Even Now of His Intrigue, Widow Insists on Stand. DENIES SHE SAW THE CRIME Repudiates Simpson's Talk of Murder After a Quarrel Over Letters. INSISTS SHE AIDED INQUIRY Can't Recall Ever Mentioning Dead Rector's Name in Letters to Brother. MRS. HALL ENDS ORDEAL ON STAND

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Simpson theatens to ask mistrial; lr to Court alleges bias by Jury; cross-examination of Mrs Hall; J H Taylor, fingerprint expert, tells how fingerprint on calling card could have been forged; testimony by Mrs F J A Voorhees and Mrs P Bonner, Hall's sisters, and by S Burns; defense rests its case; Simpson opens rebuttal; A Hartkorn, handwriting expert, testifies; Dickman makes further identification of H de la B Carpender as man who offered him bribe; Sen Borah is reading trial news; picture of jury

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Notable Births

Teresa Gisbert

1926Teresa Gisbert Carbonell, Bolivian architect and art historian (died 2018)[†]

Teresa Gisbert Carbonell de Mesa was a Bolivian architect and art historian. She specialized in the history of the Andean region.

Richard Crenna

1926Richard Crenna, American actor, director, and producer (died 2003)[†]

Richard Donald Crenna was an American actor and television director.

Andrew Schally

1926Andrew Schally, Polish-American endocrinologist (died 2024)[†]

Andrzej Viktor "Andrew" Schally was a Polish-American endocrinologist who was a co-recipient, with Roger Guillemin and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. This award recognized his research in the discovery that the hypothalamus controls hormone production and release by the pituitary gland, which controls the regulation of other hormones in the body. Later in life, Schally utilized his knowledge of hypothalamic hormones to research possible methods for birth control and cancer treatment.