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Motion Pictures of Little Traveled Land Are Seen
Great temples with roofs of solid gold, a huge lake of solid salt, weirdly impressive rituals of a barbaric religion, strange people and animals—these were some of the wonder of Tibet shown by motion pictures In the Italian room of The Olympic Hotel Tuesday night.
GUNS BLAZE, DOZEN HURT IN KKK RIOT
Police of Three Towns Unable to Restore Order in Massachusetts Battle
STATE TROOPS CALLED
Band of Klansmen Besieged in Cellar, Rescued From Mob of 500 Rioters
West Wood, Mass., Aug. 3. (AP)—Injury to a dozen or more persons, the wrecking of a farm house in the Islington district here, and the arrest of three men for carrying concealed weapons was the aftermath of the Ku Klux Klan’s first attempt to hold a meeting in the district since the state police stopped supplying guards for Klan gatherings.
Mob of Five Hundred
The meeting in a field of the Boston, Providence highway here yesterday, ended in a riot which the police of three towns were unable to quell. A mob of 500 anti-Klan sympathizers and three score Klansmen staged a pitched battle with fists, rocks and brick bats. Although fire arms were in evidence, no shots were fired.
Klansmen Escape
Most of the Klansmen escaped in their cars, but a few were bottled up on the south Stephen Illisleey where they huddled in the cellar while every window and much of the furniture disintegrated under a hail of rocks from the outside. Among those injured by flying missiles were Bernice Lee and May Wheeler of Waltham.
CHIEF JAILED AND GANG HALTED
Captain Hanson Says “All Is Tight” in Del Rio District.
A large smuggling ring with headquarters at Monterey, and operating solely for the purpose of smuggling aliens into this country, is believed to have been broken up with the arrest at Del Rio of a man who is believed to be the head of the smugglers, according to Captain W. H. Hanson, head of the immigration forces of this district, who returned from Del Rio Saturday.
With the co-operation and in company with Felix Salinas, inspector of immigration in Nuevo Laredo, Captain Hanson made a thorough inspection of border immigration work in the vicinity of Del Rio and Eagle Pass.
The Douglas world cruiser Chicago, flagship of the Army Air Service world flight, which has been sitting in a hangar at McCook Field. Dayton, Ohio, since last November, awaiting final disposition, will be placed in the aircraft building of the Smithsonian Institution in a short time, it was announced today by the War Department.
The decision to bring the Chicago here was made final by Acting Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis, who wrote Dr. Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the institution, yesterday that he had instructed the chief of Air Service “to take the necessary steps to have the Chicago brought to Washington and turned over to you. for the purpose of placing it in the exhibit of the Smithsonian Institution.”
At the Army Air Service it was said the Supply Division already had received instructions to prepare the Chicago for shipment to Washington by rail. The suggestion had been made that Capt. Lowell H. Smith, leader of the flight and pilot of the plane, fly it to Washington, but the Air Service did not wish to take the risk with such a historic and famous plane. Its exposure to all sorts of weather and salt water on the globe flight may have caused a structural weakness in some isolated place, which, it was argued, might fall when the plane was off the ground.
Seventy-Year-Old Fighter Holds 40 Policemen At Bay For Two Hours—Throws Tear Bombs Back At Officers—Finally Dies After Ten Bullet Wounds.
By The Associated Press.
Philadelphia. July 31—Riddled by ten bullets after he had held 40 policemen at bay for two hours in his home last night. Joseph Marino, nearly 70 years old, died early today. Marino became incensed at missing a favorite pipe, his wife said, and chased her to the street with a revolver, firing wildly.
He retreated as police arrived, and barricaded himself in a pool room in the basement of his house. With half a dozen weapons he kept up a rain of bullets at all who approached.
HOTEL CLERK IS ALSO KILLED IN BOLD ROBBERY ON GOLD COAST
Death Penalty Will Be Asked by Crowe for Pair Captured After Spectacular Holdup.
CHICAGO, July 30.—(By The Associated Press.)—In movie thriller style, a robber crew, masked and bristling with pistols and shotguns, invaded the exclusive Drake hotel In Chicago’s “Gold Coast” at tea time yesterday, enacting scenes of killing and sanguinary gun fighting that extended subsequently for an hour over northside boulevards.
When the spectacular affair was over, of five robbers, two were dead and one captured; a hotel clerk had been killed; two women Imd been injured: two robbers had escaped with $10,000 and as a finality early today, one of the escaped holdup men was found and the one previously arrested confessed fully.
The robbery was staged within a stone’s throw of tho residential mansions of Chicago’s 400, while hundreds of guests thronged the lobbies and heavy traffic crowded adjacent Michigan Avenue. A dozen policemen were within call.
Waterville Sewer Overloaded, Damage to Stocks in Basements—Old Orchard Amusement Booth Carried Away by Wind—Man Badly Hurt at Manchester, N. H.—Houses, Barns and Factories Hit by Lightning in Granite State
Waterville, Me., July 22—(AP)—Following several hours of heavy rain, the most severe thunderstorm of the season occurred here tonight, causing such a flood of water that the city sewers were overloaded and some of the store basements filled to a depth of several feet, damaging considerable stocks. Several hens were drowned in the western part of the city. Rainfall of 2.13 inches in three hours broke all local records.
Big Booth Carried Off
Old Orchard, Me., July 22— (AP)—A ten by forty foot amusement booth on the ocean pier here was picked up and hurled bodily into the water by the high wind during a severe thunderstorm today. Jack Bennett, the owner, was not in the booth at the time. His stock of curios, valued at several hundred dollars, was destroyed.
South Bend. Ind. July 15—(AP)—The avowed intention of Rev. Wilson Culp of South Bend to bring an end to his career of elopments and devote the rest of his life to his wife and nine children has evidently been cast aside, as he has again disappeared. Mrs. Dorothy Culp his sister-in-law, of Napanee, Ind., is also missing.
Germans Break Up Meeting of Congress in Austria
INNSBRUCK. Austria, July14 (AP).—A meeting of a women’s congress was broken up here last evening by interruptions caused by several hundred German Nationalist students, who whistled, stamped their feet and shouted jeering remarks whenever French or English women began to speak.