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FASCIST VICTORY IVEEPING IN ITALY &1 Opposition Parties Com-I bined Beaten Almost | Four to One. i ted Press. i April 7.—The overwhelming | ROME The Fun Shop Condueted by Maxson Foxhall Judell The Spinster's Song of Leap Year. BY GEORGE S. CHAPPELL. Four vears ago when leap year came My mood was very high and mighty. And those who sought to change my name 1 treated in a manner flighty, Suitors, you see, T had a plenty Way back in good old twenty. Now four more years have ambled by nineteen- And while I'm not yet ol* ~r crone swept | like, ntary | 1 realize cach day that T Grow slightly more austere and bone- ner in which the fas vesterday's parlian is indicated in the pilation of returns which fascist party 336 of the s Fifteen the fascisti oppositi in on latest Tike. | And though my pep is still unjaded of gave the 95,941 for all the fth “Jovous hope. my thrilling, maidens heartstrings i | When may propose aties more And grab_the first from o that defeat for returns other prov- i Cetediion a chance to do it, all the demonsrat mple parties n may find oman's love steel and yet b Milan, | appointed at the temper. uth the | st vote. Abruzzi polled their la Home Fires. Old_ Joshua, Rastus o | thrashing h Majority in Tilan, observing Milan, wh < a mnoted ist stronghold, however, the fas- i polled a cle majority over| other parties * remainder of votes being s ists. defeat War Bonomi m Milan 3 it was thought his personal fol- | trouble.” fliciently large to as u if the rest ur‘ reated e all_man fowls out all flown u the od among so- muni Catholics. of former Minister of e wd ¢ that hens always r own home (0 To0s ;o rise Rastus, came as su | o —JOHN PHILIP SOUSA. ing was Cows That Weep. returns it ap- i Sad music should be was the | tle just before neither | of the cows il played to cat- truthfully “lough nder.” Give us cows that we rty D W B SCHAPHORST. fascist p Many Preferential Votes. all t numbers of | allowed by | Milan: Gabriello | He Who Gets Slapped. and De Stefani, in} 1,00 1o vou beliece in Kissing? ut Emelia Dorothy—Oh, let's not_be theoretical the = INEZ BLACK. | as-| “I haven't the heart to take it” said @ bridge friend as he discarded a club.” 1t appears certain that s drew preferential Mussolin fas- alist van- cvery thing to the | tickets | wecordin ppositio replied confide: < occurre during the e rrel at Avellino, which arose snsions. from Minor strect fights { i labria, but d with un-} @ usual calm, TRACE HAND OF FATE | IN SUBMARINE LOSSES Japanese Navy Personnel Supersti- | tion Makes Assignments NOT SO GREEN AFTER ALL It love marry siterforee. With On ti:c Shore. “How sweet it would be to live Unpopular. Cerrespondence of the TOK I« ssociated Prees 0.—With all Japan rs of submarine anese navy as a nking of submarine cers and forty men interesting superstition has srown up in the service has | come to light Submarine fighting craft (Copyright, 1924, Reproduction Marriage Licenses. lrcenses have been issued to the SeRult o the 13 with four an . except h Jkeda, who had an almo pe. Submarine ree months later whils tied up to « buoy, by 5 no lives were lost. bmarine 44 is to be al officers plus 44 caual ) have gone dow What fate is in | LAST CHANCE FOR THE BOOKS !5 OFF PAUL PEARLMAN 1711 G St. N.W. tizured out that Numbers ey are aski tore for Submarine new type vessel | designed to make a spe over a ¥ hundred sold Just what does it take to convince you of VALUE? If we mever said another thing about a BDoriEmH HOME At 36th and R Sts. N.W. than that, the logic of that little story of Lin- coln’s should convince you. 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TABLE TO WASH [T FOR Special Dispatch to The Star. PHILADEPHIA, Pa., CONSIDERS THE PUTILITY OF WASHING IN GENERAL AND PARENTS IN PARTICUIAR| of house policeman. climbing alleged sneak thief more adventur- ous than any movie actor in the art and who arrested him after a 1924. FUGITIVE CAPTURED IN HUMAN FLY CHASE Philadelphia Policeman Wall of Hotel in Pursuit of Alleged Thief. mustache, Patrolman Henry inquired quietly: “Where is this man? An ‘instant later there was a crash and a howl and James Storey, a negro. twenty-four years old, fleeing from Patrolman Henry, slid into the crowd after the trip down the stair- case Henry gave a sprightly imitation of a flying tackle and landed squarely on the man’s chest. His club was not needed to subdue was too frightened to resist. T IwsA Tough One! Why do the toughest | Climbs April T.—An an agile the captive, who | H - | l Douglas Fairbanks leap to fame, fur- nished residents of the Hotel Coving- ton here with thrills galore. Shortly after 8 o'clock Saturday night a woman lying in a sick bed in one of the third floor apartments faw a man’'s form flit by the window ! opening on the fire escape. | "Her screams brought an elevator > operator and two bellboys to her troom and Patrolman Henry was i called. Drawing his gun, the patrolman climbed along the narrow window | ledge of the ground floor, pulled him- | self to the slanting roof of the Kitchen and made his way up to a | poreh on the third floor. From there | i he climbed to a fire escape just in| time to see a form dart through an{ open window on the fifth floor. | Henry followed and found himsclf in a corridor. | Meanwhile, in the lobby, several men | were discussing where to look for the | intruder. Suddenly the door was flung open and a short but military-looking man walked in. 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