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Posted inDaily News Sports

Risko Defeats Berlenbach In Bout Last Night

Former Baker Has Good Chance Now To Handle Dough Of Much Better Class

NEW YORK, March 20.—Johnny Risko of Cleveland, who pulled his hands out of the dough pan and pushed them into a pair of boxing gloves not so long ago, today has a good chance to put his hands on dough of another kind.

The former baker last night battered the light heavyweight boxing champion, Paul Berlenbach almost into insensibility in a 10-round scuffle at Madison Square Garden. No championship was at stake, but Berlenbach was trying his art on the heavyweight ranks for the first time with the intention of reaching for Jack Dempsey’s crown.

Berlenbach lasted through the fight with difficulty. He hit the canvas in the first and second rounds but held his feet for the remainder of the bout, a very weary man. Often he scored to his adversary’s head but there was no damage.

A pile-driving left was flung at Berlenbach time and again and several times it landed, carrying everything before it. But after the flurry of the opening rounds it lost its direction.

Berlenbach, by state commission rules, had to make the weight of his class. He weighed 174 1/2 and Risko 190.

The Key West Citizen, Key West, FL, March 20, 1926

Posted inDaily News

Snowmobile Wins Over Sleigh in Race After Rum Runners

St. Albans, Vt., Mar. 18.—(AP)—A race between rum runners in a sleigh and border patrolmen in a snowmobile ended today in victory for the snowmobile, a hard but bloodless fight and capture of the liquor traffickers. The sleigh contained 144 quarts of liquor.

For miles Officers Palmer and Salvas chased the light racing sleigh, occupied by three men and drawn by a valuable blooded horse, through the deep, snows in the wilderness north of here. When they caught up the men leaped from the sleigh while two engaged in a combat with their would-be captors the third fled. One of the patrolmen chased him for two and a half miles and brought him back after a tussle.

Posted inDaily News

Wets Continue 5 to 1 Lead

NEW YORK. March 18.—The newspaper polls on prohibition continue to attract an increasing number of votes daily as the largest unofficial referendum ever taken on a public question approaches its close.

With the climax of the balloting set for Saturday, reports to the United Press today showed that within 24 hours 416,591 votes had been cast in the polls being conducted by more than 400 newspapers throughout the country.

Posted inMaritime & Naval History US Civil War

March 18, 1863 – War News

Stirring news may be expected from the lower Mississippi, by the way of New Orleans, shortly. Correspondents at that city state that preparations have been made for an immediate attack on Port Hudson, troops and munitions having already been moved in that direction. The attack is to be made by land and by water. General Banks commanding in person. He left New Orleans for Baton Rouge on the 7th instant, in company with General Grover.

A skirmish occurred near Bolivar, Tennessee, on Monday, the 9th instant, in which the Confederates were defeated, and eighteen taken prisoners. The official report of General Rosecrans of the recent scouting expedition states that one hundred and fourteen prisoners were taken.

Posted inDaily News

French Stomach Craves Liquor Against American Owner’s Will

Ex-Soldier Declares He Acquired Gallic Appetite With New Set of Digestive Paraphernalia, and Can’t Stay Sober in Spite of Inhibitions.

LOS ANGELES, Calif., March 17—Local physicians have become intensely interested in the strange case of Victor Murdock, former soldier, who claims a French stomach which he secured as the result of an operation following serious injury in the World War has given him a desire for liquor.

They have asked Murdock to enter a hospital, where he can lie carefully observed and possibly treated so that he will have less trouble in living with his “light wines” digestive organ in this Volsteadian country.

Posted inDaily News

Denied Piccolo Solos

Bandmaster Adams asks us to state that he regrets that owing to not having the instruments with them it will not be practicable for the band to render the piccolo…
Posted inDaily News Politics

Mussolini Will Select Own Chamber in 1929

Italy Will Have No Election Until Then, When an All-Fascist Group Will Be Named.

By the Associated Press.

CREMONA, Italy. March 12.—Italy will not have political elections until 1929, when an all-Fascist Chamber of Deputies will be elected. This announcement is made by Secretary Farinacci of the Fascist party. The present chamber, he said, has carried out its work so well that it will be continued until 1929.

Posted inDaily News

Wife Seeks More Table Money from Hubby, Camden, N. J.

Camden, N. J., Mar. 9.—(AP)—Suit to force a husband to pay more “table money” for his board was argued today in the chancery court here. The case was regarded as without precedent in this tribunal.

Mrs. Aida O. Smith, Palmyra, N. J., complainant in the suit, testified she demanded a minimum of $20 weekly from her husband, Walter E. Smith, a druggist, employed at Roebling, N. J. The husband testified his wife threatened to consider him “only a boarder” if he fell below her minimum. Smith declared his wife owned their home and possessed property.