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Congressmen In Near Fist Fight

Mills and Rankin Separated by Action of Colleagues

SCRAP OVER IMPEACHMENT

Kentucky Democrat Calls New York Republican “Dirty Contemptible Scoundrel”—Vote On English Probably Tomorrow.

Washington April 1 (AP)—A near fist fight on the house floor resulted today from an argument between representative Mills, republican, of New York, and Representative Rankin, democrat, Mississippi over procedure in the impeachment case against Federal Judge English of Illinois.

Calls Harsh Name

After Mr. Rankin had demanded that a quorum be present when debate was resumed, Mr. Mills walked to the democratic side of the house, apparently to urge the Mississippian to withdraw his motion, but Rankin met him half way on the double quick. Other members, convinced that a physical encounter was threatened, kept them apart.

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Airship “Norge” Nearly Ready For Flight Over Pole

Oslo, Norway, March 28—(AP)—Preparations for the Amundsen-Ellsworth Polar Flight in May are nearing the final stage. On a hill just outside Oslo a mooring mast nearly one hundred feet high has been erected for the airship “Norge,” in which the flight is to be made. The dirigible, constructed in Italy, is now being inspected by Captain Roald Amundsen, who arrived in Rome for that purpose last Friday, it will soon be brought from Rome to Oslo.

The auxiliary vessel “Hobby,” which was used in the Polar flight of 1925, has left Trondhjem for Svalbardi (the new Norwegian name for Spitzbergen), with equipment or the expedition, consisting of material for the mooring mast at King’s Bay and hydrogen for the airship. A hangar has already been completed at King’s Bay.

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Turks Urge Women Not To Walk Like Males

CONSTANTINOPLE—Turkish women are exhorted by the Constantinople daily, “The Republic,” not to adopt amidst all their new western practices, the Anglo-Saxon woman’s “soldierly stride.’’ The sheet devoted to women, a recent innovation of this newspaper, lays down the following rules as to the proper method of walking for the ladylike:

“Do not drag your set, but slide them gently along the pavement. Do not waddle from side to side or move your shoulders or swing your arms. Take short, dainty steps —a long stride is unlovely in women— and above all, don’t rush. Keep your eyes on a high point directly ahead of you and appear to see nothihg.”

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Risko Defeats Berlenbach In Bout Last Night

Former Baker Has Good Chance Now To Handle Dough Of Much Better Class

NEW YORK, March 20.—Johnny Risko of Cleveland, who pulled his hands out of the dough pan and pushed them into a pair of boxing gloves not so long ago, today has a good chance to put his hands on dough of another kind.

The former baker last night battered the light heavyweight boxing champion, Paul Berlenbach almost into insensibility in a 10-round scuffle at Madison Square Garden. No championship was at stake, but Berlenbach was trying his art on the heavyweight ranks for the first time with the intention of reaching for Jack Dempsey’s crown.

Berlenbach lasted through the fight with difficulty. He hit the canvas in the first and second rounds but held his feet for the remainder of the bout, a very weary man. Often he scored to his adversary’s head but there was no damage.

A pile-driving left was flung at Berlenbach time and again and several times it landed, carrying everything before it. But after the flurry of the opening rounds it lost its direction.

Berlenbach, by state commission rules, had to make the weight of his class. He weighed 174 1/2 and Risko 190.

The Key West Citizen, Key West, FL, March 20, 1926

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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.