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Johnstown Mayor Bans Sunday Trade

Will Even Block Choir Singers to Probe “Absurdity’’ of Blue Laws.

By the Associated Press.

JOHNSTOWN. Pa January 20 —A much perturbed and a little defiant citizenry tonight faced a Sunday without movies, sodas or gasoline as Mayor Eddie McCloskey prepared to show the people just how “ridiculous’’ blue laws are anyway.

Every business house got orders from policemen today to “pull down your blinds tomorrow and keep them down” under an edict of the mayor that a blue law of 1913 will be enforced to the last letter.

The mayor said he will back up the old law so well “that the paid choir singers will not be permitted to appear in the churches.”

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New England Cities Will Be Linked by Air Route

Operating Base Already Established at Portland and Boston—Plan System of Relay Planes—Tech Professor Sees Big Increase in Commercial Flying During Coming Year

Boston, Jan. 19.—(AP)—Announcement that the leading cities of New England will be linked in a air route next summer was made today at a joint meeting of the Aero Club of New England and the Boston chapter of the National Aeronautic Association. Operating centers already have been established in Boston and Portland, Maine, it was said, and negotiations are under way for connections at Hartford, Conn.

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Labor Riots at Lawrence, Mass

Massachusetts militiamen with fixed bayonets surround a parade of peaceful strikers. The Lawrence textile strike was a strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 led by the Industrial Workers of the World.

A serious labor trouble has prevailed at Lawrence, Mass., this week, resulting from the strike of 15,000 textile workers. In changing from a 56 to a 54-hour week, the mills reduced wages accordingly. The hands wanted the full week’s pay. Now they demand an increase of 15 per cent, double pay for overtime and the abolition of the premium system. There was so much rioting that eight companies of the state militia were ordered to reinforce the police and civil officers. The state hoard of arbitration is trying to bring about a settlement, and there were indications yesterday that the troubles would soon be settled.

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U.S. Minister to Abyssinia Beaten After Auto Mishap

Knocked Down by Policeman After His Car Runs Over Woman’s Foot.

Attack on Southard Follows Protest at Arrest of Chauffeur.

Photo of Addison E. Southard

By the Associated Press.

ADDIS ABABA, Abyssinia, January 18.—Addison E. Southard, United States Minister to Abyssinia, was knocked down yesterday during an altercation with several policemen after an automobile accident.

Reports of the incident today said Mr. Southard’s car, with the Minister driving, ran over an Abyssinian woman’s foot. She was only slightly hurt, but when the car stopped and Mr. Southard was about to inquire the extent of her injuries, a native policeman ran up and arrested the Minister’s chauffeur. Southard protested and there was an argument. Several other policemen arrived and in the scuffle Southard was knocked down.

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A Modern Cannibal

This One Already Has an Auto and Now He Has Purchased a First Class Radio Set.

San Francisco. Jan. 14 (UP)—Charlie Arawngi of Suva, old time cannibal chief and the life of many a feast, is to get his entertainment hereafter by tuning in on the radio set.

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Former Grecian Monarch May Locate in Florida

New York, Jan. 12.—(AP)—George II, once king of Greece, who long has been the center of momentous poiiticat intrigues in the Balkans, may seek a haven of refuse in the United States.

For some time he has been considering buying land and building a residence for himself at the Floranda Club, north of Fort Lauderdale, on the east coast of Florida. He will not become a permanent resident, friends here say, but will use the home as a winter residence. Last night Prince Paul, his brother, who is now in Chicago, confirmed news of King George’s plans and intimated that the royal exile is tired of petty Balkan politics and would be glad to find escape from them in America.

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Hope For Two On Flight To Azores Wanes

Seaplane "Tradewind" as seen from its port side, nose-in to a dock with a rocky shore and trees behind.

Fear Mrs. Hart, MacLaren Perished in Storm.

HORTA, Azores—A strong “northeaster”, bringing stormy weather and vicious winds, whipped over these islands today while an apparently hopeless watch was kept for a man and woman who had challenged the Atlantic on a flight of 2,000 miles from Bermuda to the Azores.

Anxiety that had mounted during the hours in which Mrs. Beryl Hart and Lieut. William S. MacLaren were not heard from in their white seaplane Tradewind turned to a faint hope that they might have missed their mark, a small group of islands in the ocean, and continued to the safety of the European coast. But no word of their progress reached Paris, their ultimate destination, and ships east of the Azores had not reported sighting their plane.