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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.

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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.

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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.

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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…
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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.

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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.

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London’s First Car Show?

The facilities offered by the great building and extensive grounds of the Crystal Palace have many times, since its primary employment as the domicile of the first Great International Exhibition of all Nations in 1851, been turned to good account in fostering the industries of this nation.

There exists at the moment in this country an industry—that of the manufacture of self-propelling vehicles for use upon common roads—which is scarcely yet beyond its nascent condition, but which is far more advanced, and indeed has assumed considerable magnitude, in other countries, and in regard to which proper publicity and demonstration cannot be given in this country under existing legislation, except in extensive private grounds such as those attached to the Crystal Palace.