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PHILS HALT
ROME. FASOISTI
OATH TO DUCE SWORN TO BY
YOUTHS; MUSSOLINI VIEWS
THE EXERCISES
ROME, Mar. 27. (/P)—Rain, that
varied from a drizzle to a soaking
downpour, failed to dampen the ardor
of 80,000 youths, who were graduated
from the “avanguardisti” to the party
badge and* militiaman’s musket of the
Fascisti at the principal centers of
}x>pulation throughout Italy today.
The oath taken by the new mem
bers of the party who had reached
their 18th year, was read aloud by
the boys as follows: “I swear to ex
ecute the orders of the Duce without
discussion and serve with all my force,
if need be, with my blood, the cause
of the Fascist Revolution.” Mussoli
ni viewed the exercises held in Rome.
CHIEF OF POLICE
STRIKES BUCK HT
INVOLVED IN SLAYING OF NEGRO
PRISONER TWO AND ONE
HALF YEARS AGO
MIAMI, Florida, Mar. 27. (JP)—Chief
of Police H. Leslie Quigg moved to
~’r:ke back at the murder charges in
volving himself and six members of
his department, by challenging the
legality of the grand jury that return
ed the indictments upon which he was
arrested.
He was charged with being involved
in the slaying of a negro prisoner
two and a half years ago while the
negro was being questioned by offi
cers, and the deaths of tw^o other per.!
sons, one a prisoner, were laid to other
members of his force, also under ar-!
rest v m
■ ' BRITISH DRIVE SAID BE TO
DEPLETE OIL SUPPLY
WASHINGTON, Mar. 27. (JP)—An
investigation of the British drive to
deplete the American petroleum sup
ply while conserving their own was
forecast today as a result of publica
Y tion in Hearst newspapers of the
operations of the British-ovmed Shell
.f] Petroleum interests.
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NOTED SAN FRANCISCAN DIES
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 27. (/P)—
Charles Peter Weeks, San Francisco,
who creations in steel and stone are
found in cities throughout California, ;
was found dead in his apartment here i
yesterday. He had suffered from ill l
health for some time. i
ALASKAN PIONEERS DIES
| JUNEAU, Mar. 27* (#>)— John F. Mc
Donald, Alaska pioneer, died yester
j day, at the age of 7S. He had been to
! many stampedes, but spent the most
of his time in Juneau. He was the
first chief of the Volunteer Fire De
! partment of Seattle.
NO ONE HURT; JUDGE STATES
CROOKS CODDLED; GIVEN
FREE REIGN
CHICAGO, March 27. <£>)—’The fifth
and sixth “political bombs” since Jan
uary 26 exploded at midnight at the
home of United States Senator Chas.
Deneen, and the other was thrown in
| an attempt to assassinate Deneen’s
| candidate for State’s Attorney, Judge
I John A. Swanson of the Circuit Court.
Deneen, who attended the funeral
j of murdered Joe Esposito, had started
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back to Washington when a bomb
•
shattered the front porch of his home.
His sister and a maid were unhurt.
Twenty minutes later two men in a
car hurled a bomb directly at the au-j
tomobile in which Judge Swanson was'
driving into a garage.
The bomb missed the car and ex
ploded near the front of Swanson’s
home doing some damage. Swanson
blamed the bombing on “conditions as
they exist in Chicago. Law enforce
ment is completely broken down and
crooks and criminals are coddled and
given free reign. We can only expect (
what happened last night.”
LOIU INDORSED ,■
AT MISSOURI CONFAB <
BY STATE G. 0. P.
STRONG RESOLUTION ADOPTED
BY A VOTE OF MORE THAN
jC
TWO TO ONE I.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo., March 27. (IP)—
A strong unqualified resolution indors- J
ing Lowden for the Republican nomi- I
i
nation for President was adopted by
the Republican State Convention by
more than a two to one vote
Seven delegates-at-large were chos
en. The forces for Lowden demon
strated their strength by overwhelm
ingly defeating the amendment of a
delegate, favoring Hoover, to strike c
Lowden’s name from the resolution. I
MOTHER IS BETTER
NORTHAMPTON, March 27. {IP)—
Vfrs. Calvin Coolidge spent a half-hour
it the bedside of her mother after a
tasty trip from Washington. Her
nother seemed a little better today. I
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■ FOR TEN MONTHS
IDOL TIDED OUT
DONE WITH WOMEN WHO WISH
TO KISS HIM AND MEN WHO
SLAP HIM ON BACK
WASHINGTON, Mar. 27. (/P)—The
world’s friendship flyer is retiring to
private life. Colonel Charles A. Lind
bergh is through for 10 months. He
has been a popular idol, but flesh and
blood can stand it no longer.
He is through with crowds thronged
with women who want to kiss him and
men w'ho slap him on the back. He
has had enough of the hurrah and
flap-doodle of good-will flights. His
hand is tired with the signing of au
tographs and he is sick of having
cameras snapping in his face for close
ups every few minutes.
NVE EVIDENTLY SAID SOME
THING ABOUT AL FOR AL
SEEMS PEEVED
ALBANY, March 27. (/P)—Governor !
3mith, in a letter to Senator Nye, sug-!
nested the Senator apologize publicly!
or his alleged statements made on the ’
loor of the Senate regarding cam- j
>aign funds received by the Governor |
rom Sinclair.
“It is an insult to the public intelli-1
jence for you to suggest that, in order j
or you to accomplish proper purposes
jefore the Senate Committee, it be
lomes necessary for me to submit
vithout resentment to the false and
mjust statement from you made in
his misstatement. You admitted you
nade it and you publicly stated I had
lemonstrated its falsity. The next
dep for you to take is a letter of
pology and not a tirade of abuse.”
1STLY PHOTOGRAPHS
EXHIBITED MUTILATED
BODY Mill PARKER
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 27. (jp)—Be
muse he distributed ghastly photo
graphs of the mutilated body of Mari
,n Parker, kidnaping victim, Jack
Curza, a chauffeur, was sentenced to
erve 180 days in jail. He was con
icted on charges of criminal libel,
outraging public decency, and inde
ent exposure of pictures. Five others
crested with Kurza, are awaiting
jparate trials.
ANOTHER ALASKAN PASSES
! JUNEAU, Mar. 27. (/P)—W. L. El
' well, connected with the Juneau Cold
Storage company for many years, a
former resident of Tacoma where his
wife and daughter reside, died Sunday,
lie was 78 years of age and a promi
nent Mason.
RENO, ESCAPES FURTHER INUN
DATION; CENTRAL CALIFOR
NIA AND NEVADA
SAN FRANCISCO, March 27. (£>)—
The flood menace in central Califor
nia and western nevada became some
what less potent as receeding waters
in many rivers left vistas of wreckage
and partly inundated homes.
The report that several persons in
the northern Sacramento district rae
unaccounted for has started an inves
tigation. Reno, which was threaten
ed in the early hours by new rise in
the river, apparently escaped further
inundation as the stream receeded.
LATOUCHE SAILS NORTH
SEATTLE, March 27. (£>)—'The S.
S. Latouche sails today for Kodiak
with a full cargo of cannery supplies.
TU1EY FAILS TD
IAME OPPONENT US
| 11COOE REQUIRES
SIX MONTHS SINCE* CHAMPION
DEFENDED TITLE; SHOW
DOWN UNDER WAY
I NEW YORK, Mar. 27. (£>)—'The
' showdown between the New York
Boxing Commission and Gene Tunney,
heavyweight champion, will come on
today, when the commission considers
1 wliat to do with the heavy king for
falling to accept one or more of the
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flock of title challengers on file here.
All of the storm hinges on the fact
that it has been six months since Tun
ney last defended his heavywegiht
title and, under the New York code,
the champion must name his oppo
nent. The commission holds that he
should have done so last week.
ARIZONA DEMOCRATS
■ FAVORABLE IL SMITH
j PHOENIX, Ariz„ March 27. (/P)—
Democrats, thru, the State Central
| Committee, have been named as rep
resentatives to ;he Democratic Nation
al Convention. The 121 delegates were
uninstructed, but avowedly are favora
ble to the candidacy of Smith.
Land grants issued in King James' time in Massachusetts cot*
onists may be revived to threaten titles to property near Sudbury,
Mass., around the historic Wayside Inn (above), lately purchased
by Henry Ford (left). Some descendents of the original propriet
ors have questioned the titles, while another group, headed by Har*
vey N. Fairbanks (right), purposes to seek a court ruling on the
right of the present generation to rivive the old claim®.