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Intellectual Scum

Sixty thousand copies of the May edition of the American Mercury, the monthly magazine edited by H. L. Mencken, were destroyed early Saturday morning on the order of the editor because they contained an article entitled “Sex and the Co-Ed,” purporting to be an expose of collegiate undergraduate life, it was learned this week.

This number of copies had been run from the presses of the Hudson Craftsman, Camden, N. J., which prints the magazine, when a man, reported to be Mencken himself, rushed into the pressroom and ordered the machine stopped.

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Daring Colored Girl Aviator Meets Death In Jacksonville

Bessie Coleman standing on the wing of her biplane.

Jacksonville, Fla. May 1—Miss Bessie Coleman, the daring and accomplished colored aviatrix, was instantly killed when losing control of her plane, it turned over two thousand feet in the air. and she, together with D. W. Wills, white, her publicity director, were dashed to death, while making a practice flight preparatory to an exhibition she was to hold here Saturday under the auspices of the Negro Welfare League of this city.

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London Dazed By Big Strike; Hikes To Work

LONDON —The largest city in the world awoke today to find itself as helpless as any little roadside hamlet.

Confident yesterday that there would be an 11th hour settlement of the general strike, London seemed really amazed today to find its transportation facilities at a standstill.

starting at 4 and 5 a. m., workers of all ages and walks of life began trudging toward their daily tasks in the city.

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Awful Accident And Loss Of Life At Yarmouth

Upwards of 100 Lives Lost

On Friday, an accident of a most frightful nature occurred at Yarmouth, which has plunged many families into the deepest distress. It appears that the clown of the circus was about to take his benefit, and that, in order to draw the public to the circus, he adopted the same thing as the late Mr. Usher did here, in London, viz., being drawn upon the river by geese. Upon the occasion, some hundreds of people had congregated upon the suspension bridge, when suddenly an awful crash took place, and all were precipitated into the water. Up to nine o’clock on Friday night, 57 lifeless bodies had been taken up

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British Strike May Affect Big Tourist Service On Atlantic

New York, May 3.—(AP)—Disruption of what promises to be a record trans-Atlantic tourist service may result if the general strike in England, scheduled to go into effect at midnight, extends through the month of May, shipping line officials and representatives of British seamen said here tonight.

Estimates of the number of tourists going to Europe this summer based on advance bookings, reach as high as a half million persons.

Bookings have been so heavy that several of the larger lines are already sailing ships on an average of one a day.

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Fatal Colliery Explosion

An explosion of fire-damp took place in a colliery at Pemberton, near Wigan, on Friday evening last, by which no less than ten lives have been sacrificed, and six other colliers have been placed on beds of suffering, with scarcely a possibility of recovery.

The colliery is that called Norley-hall, and is worked by the executors of the late Mr. Danglish, of Pemberton. The coal-bed is one of considerable extent, and belongs partly to Reece Bevan, Esq., and partly to the estate of the late Duke of Bridgwater; but Mr. Daglish had power only to take the coal to the boundaries of Mr. Bevan’s estate.

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Serious Insubordination on American Clipper

LONDON, April 24—The American clipper-ship Sovereign of the Seas, Warner, of New York, from Melbourne, reports that a serious affray occurred on board during the passage from Melbourne, arising from the insubordination of some of the crew, who are at present confined on board in irons.

On the 17th March, the ship on the Equator, long. 32, a quarrel took place between two of the steerage passengers, of whom there were seventy-six on board, and one of the crew. The mate interfered, and ordered the seaman on deck, but he refused, and became abusive, when he was put into irons by direction of the captain. After the lapse of about fifteen or twenty minutes, all the crew mustered aft, and demanded of the captain the immediate release of the man, an Englishman, or they said they would take the ship from him, amid loud murmurings and threats. Previously, it should be mentioned, reports had reached the captain of a contemplated attack to seize the ship.

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Airplane Able To Fly To Moon, Says Inventor

Italian Claims Craft Would Go on Indefinitely After Leaving Earth’s Atmosphere.

By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.

ROME. April 27.—An airplane which its inventor claims can fly to the moon has been designed by an engineer named Gussalli at Brescia. The principle involved is entirely different from that of the air propeller.

Gussalli’s machine will make use of exhaust gas exploded violently against the fans of a turbine revolving 16,000 times per minute. The reaction against this explosion is calculated to make the plane move independently of a propeller.