Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1928, Page 26

o8 POLITICAL CONVICT - FLEES SLE PRSON _Hcad of Italian Free Masonry Accomplishes Difficult at. Br the Asociatee Press MENTON, France, March 22.—In- € rmation from Italy says that Domizio Torrigiani, head of Italian Free Ma- sonry, has accomplishea the difficult feaat of escaping from the Lipari Islands. Torrigiani, who was condemned to fve vears' confinement on the islands last April as an enemy of the Mussolini administration, is beiieved to be in Cor- acs Al ships except police vessels are barred to the islands and it took four months for Torrigiani to effect his escape. Loval Masons are understood to have aided him in getting away The police vessels call at the islands once a week with food and drink for the prisoners. who exist in medieval conditions. Many of the cells are under water at high tide and the prisoners are obliged to bail water out of them for three hours through an upper win- dow 1o keep the elves from drowning RUFFO FAILS TO SING: SUIT IS THREATENED RBaritone Makes Good on Statement That He Would Not Appear in Philadelphia. Rr the Asso Prese PHILADELPHIA. March Ruffo. operatic baritone. made threst not to take part in the Pennsy vania Grand Opera’s performance *La Gioconda” last night and did not appesr. His place was taken by Joseph Royer. regular baritone of the company. The opera company advertised Ruffo fn the part of Barnaba, but the the st Puesday mght sent telegrams to new pepers here esserting his contract with > companvy had expired. Officials of the y. claiming tq Bave paid him $2.500 to sing in last might's performance. threaten to bring Jega! action against Rufto for breach contract AVALANCHE TRAPS 13. Soldiers Unable to Rescue Victims | of Alpine<Landslide. SALZBURG, Austria, March 22 () Thirteen members of an Alpine club at- | tempting to descend on skis from Kolm | Peak of Sonnblick Range, behind the valley of Gastein, were caught by an avalanche last evening. Four others in the party succeeded in extricating them- selves. The run was attempted in a blinding snowstorm. which was so severe that a party of 35 soldiers, who were practicing maneuvers on skis near where the catastrophe occurred, were unable to aid the buried Alpinists. The soldiers | received the signals of distress from the four club members who dug their way out of the avalanche, but could not ap- proach the place closely enough to ef- = tect rescues of the others. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. THUKSDAY. MARCH WALES THROWN HEAVILY IN STEEPLECHASE RACE Prince Escapes Hurt When Somer- saulted Over Mount's Head. Speetators Alarmed. By the Associated Prese RISELEY, England, March A breath-taking acrobatic feat starring the Prince of Wales wes presented to the spectators at the Oal Hunt Point-to-Point races vesterday, when the royal rider somersaulted from the saddle of his favorite mount, De Gomme. Holding the spotlight in an inter- regimental challenge cup race of the brigade of guards by leading the field of 25 over the first seven fence the | He salled over the hor prince met disaster at a stream jump | which came next. De Gomme, which carried Wales to victory in the St. David's Cup March 1, floundered hoavily as he finished the jump, and the prince, still eclutching ihe reins, which broke, loft the saddle. head, turned a circus flip in the air and landed more or less gracefully squarely on his fee ambling from the path of the horses, which thundered on, led by the rideriess Do Gomme, the prince waved and thouted to his frightened friends that he was entirely unhurt Returning to the paddock in an auto: mabile, the prince admitted “It was brute of a jump.” but refused to take his mishap ‘as serio throng, which wait B of as the excited his appearance PRIMARY TEST PLANNED. | Colored Voters to Ask Writ Against | Richmond Democrats. | RICHMOND, Va. 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