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About Savannah daily times. (Savannah, Ga.) 1936-???? | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1936)
DISGRUNTLED MAN SUES RAILROAD LONG ISLAND SYSTEM DE PENDANT IN SUIT OVER FARE NEW YORK, June 8 (TP)—A rockaway beach attorney named Asher Zeide has filed suit against the Long Island Railroad to collect a SSO penalty because the road charged him throe-cents-a-mile for coach tickets. Attorney Zeide said he paid 44 cents on the three cents a mile rate on June 4. That was three days after the Interstate Commerce Commis sion’s order on two-cent railroad fares throughout the East went into effect. Zeide said he had the conductor sign hie ticket stub, indicating the amount paid. This stub will be uaed, said Mr. Zeide, to collect the penalty estab lished for overcharging by railroad conductors. Supreme Court Justice George Fur man of Brooklyn has already issued a temporary injunction restraining the Long from charging its old three-cent fare. But the road hasn’t stopp'd it. Executives say they won’t stop It until they get the injunction order, signed by Judge Furman. Mean while rebellious commuters are rid ing the Long Island free —rather than pay three-cent fares. The conductors Jv»st won’t put them off. ALPHABET BABIES TRIPLETS A, B AND C ARE GIVEN REGULAR FIRST NAMES BLOOMINGTON. 111., June 8 (TP) The parents of Bloomington’s first set of triplets solved the problem of nam ing the youngsters today. The two baby boys and their sister were bom on May 30. Since then they have been known to the world as tEaby A,” “Baby B" and! “Baby O.” Their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Don Wheeler, confessed they were baffled for appropriate names. Today the youngsters bear the names of the three doctors who took oare of them. Baby “A" is new John; Baby “B’’ is Lester, and Baby “C“ is Geraldine. “GRIM REAPER’* FOILED BY PARACHUTE JUMPER GARWICK, England, June 8 (TP) —An English aviator miraculously es caped death Saturday when he stag ed a delayed parachute jump to thrill a crowd. 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Before making the oa*ar per manent the. Commission celled off a scheduled hearing on rates, declining to hear new evidence. The order af fects 26 cities and towns served by the Lone Star Oas Co., of Texas and the Community Natural Gas Co. ‘BOYS IN GRAY’ IN ANNUAL REUNION SHREVEPORT, Pa., June 8 (TP)— A handful of .grizzled “cronies” who ! fought side by side in the Confederate I Army will gather today to spin home ly yarn* wad eaehaage reminisce* of their war aggpri—sgs. The oasaeiaa will he the annual rwgitan of the Confederate vetwrpne. Death bae thinned the ranks of the, “Boy* in Oray” each year, ©aty about 20fl of those who marched back from the trenches ih ’65 attended last year’s convention. The youngest of the veterans is 87. BILL KEHOE, Manager SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1938 MASSACHUSETTS POLICE SEEK FUGITIVE TRUSTY BILLERICA, Mass., June 8 (TP) — A trusty at the million-dollar Billerica House of Correction, today is no long er a trusty. 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