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“Little Italy” Gang Kills 41st Victim

Slaying Follows U. S. Raids on Chicago “Bad Lands.” Deportations Asked.

CHICAGO, February 24. —As immigration inspectors prepared deportation proceedings against a dozen aliens taken in raids on “Little Italy” and planned to renew their round-up next week, a man, identified as Baldelli, the Eagle, was found shot to death in an alley today.

He was the forty-first victim of gang warfare in recent years.

The man had been shot and apparently carried to the spot in an automobile. In his clothing was found a notice that his application to be a policeman had been filed.

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Three Drowned in Schooner’s Wreck

18 Others Saved as Vessel Grounds Off Mass. Coast

OWN FAULT OF VICTIMS

Those Who Lost Lives Returned To Ship To Get Belongings—Another Daring Sea Rescue Reported

Gloucester, Mass., Feb. 10 (AP)—Three members of the fishing schooner Ralph Brown‘s crew lost their lives today when the vessel was driven ashore in the blizzard off Briar Neck. Eighteen others, including the captain, reached shore safely. Although all suffered from exposure and cold.

Had Returned To Boat

The three men who lost their lives were drowned after they, with other members of the crew, had gone back to the schooner to get their clothes and other belongings after she had been washed to tho shore. The others managed to get off before a huge wave struck the 100 foot craft and drove her farther out to sea, but the victims found themselves helpless as the ship was battered by the roaring breakers. The vessel was pounded to pieces.

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Chinese Women Soldiers Killed in Battle

Die Bravely in Defense of Town

Entire Unit Is Annihilated By Vicious Japanese Onslaught

By EDNA LEE BOOKER

SHANGHAI, Feb. 10 (I.N.S.). —A fighting unit of 24 Chinese women soldiers was destroyed in a brave defense of the village of Woosung when it was invaded by Japanese forces two days ago, it was revealed today.

The modem Amazons, armed with old-fashioned rifles and long bayonets, had been guarding the road on the outskirts of the village, according to Carl Lemcke and Harvey Duncan, American business men who encountered them Monday.

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Mussolini’s Threat Causes Consternation Among German People

Berlin, Feb. 7—(AP)—Official quarters decline for the present to discuss the speech of Benito Mussolini, the Italian premier, the complete text of which has not yet reached Berlin. Undeniably, however, Mussolini’s words have caused general consternation, and it is hinted that no other statesman since the war has presumed to address a message of such a tone to another country with which it was on a foot of normal relations.

The address is considered a most untimely obstacle to calmer judgment respecting the mutual interests of Germany and Italy, to which the federal government has recently given much attention.

Though Mussolini’s threatening speech is considered unjustified, it is not denied that it was inspired by the speech of Premier Held before the Bavarian diet.

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Britishers Acclaim Liner Roosevelt In Rescue Of Antinoe Crew

Plymouth, England. Jan. 31.—(AP)—British conservatism went by the boards when the storm-battered United States liner President Roosevelt entered Plymouth Sound at 10 o’clock this morning carrying 25 members of the crew of the British freighter Antinoe, whose lives the Americans saved after a four days’ battle in mid-ocean.

The whistle and sirens of hundreds of ships and factories greeted the men whose valor transcended national lines and has focused the eyes of the world on Captain Fried and his gallant crew. Their work of mercy succeeded, though it cost the lives of two gallant rescuers.

“Well done,” was the signal hoisted on two tenders which steamed out to meet the Roosevelt coming in with empty davits, indicating the position of the lifeboats which had been battered to pieces in the cruel sea through which the Roosevelt‘s men sought to reach the Antinoe crew clinging to the sinking freighter.

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Submarine Disabled Off Florida Coast

T-3 Anchored Six Miles Out—Relief Boat Ordered to Tow Craft to Port.

By the Associated Press.

KEY WEST, Fla., January 30.

The submarine T-3 was reported late tonight as anchored off the Florida coast near where she was disabled today when trouble developed in her fuel line and caused an exhaustion of the oil supply.

The submarine T-3, commanded by Lieut. J. P. Compton, has run out of oil off Florida and is in need of assistance, the Navy Department was informed in a message last night from the commandant of the seventh naval district at Key West.

The first message received said the T-3 was off Bethel Buoy, with her lubricating oil system leaking badly and her supply low. An effort was being made to reach Miami. A later message said:

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Breaks Into Basement of Bank of England

Intruder Makes History by Entering Impregnable Financial Institution.

By the Associated Press.

LONDON, January 30.—The bank of England, hither-to considered impregnable as the Rock of Gibraltar and absolutely burglar-proof, was broken into some time after midnight on Saturday.

History of a sort was made in Police Court today when Timothy Phillips was arraigned on a charge of “breaking and entering the premises of the Bank of England with intent to commit a felony.”

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Rescue of 54 Men Thwarted By Gale

Two Freighters Sinking. Boats Standing by Helpless in Heavy Storm.

By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. January 27.—The fate of 54 men, members of the crews of the British freighters Antinoe and Laristan, which have been in distress in a storm at sea for three days, was still In doubt today.

Six men of the were rescued yesterday by the German liner Bremen, leaving 24 aboard. The United States liner President Roosevelt, which has lost two of its crew in efforts to aid the Antinoe, was still standing by today.

Five of the dozen passenger liners that have been battling toward Atlantic ports front one to two days late in the teeth of the storm reached port yesterday. They were the Transylvania, Duilio, Giuseppe Verdi, Mount Royal and Regina.