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Show Traffic Crashes Kill 72 in U. S. During Week End To Settle Scores Twenty five States Feel Tragedies; Weather Receives Blame By Associated Press More than 72 persons were killed in 25 states over the week end in auto accidents, many caused by slippery roads covered with snow or ice. Two army privates were drowned in a creek near Watertown, N. Y., when their car slithered down an icy hill, ripped away 40 feet of guard railing and plunged into 12 feet of water. Near Winslow, Me., one youth was killed and a companion badly hurt when their car crashed a fence and pinned them beneath it for nine hours before a passerby noticed them. At Phillipsburg, N. J., a night watchman was killed when a bus backed over him. A head on collision killed four on the Lincoln highway near Bedford, Pa., Deaths by states follow: Pennsylvania, 9; Ohio, 6; California, Massachusetts, Michigan and Texas, 5 each; Kansas, 4; Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, New Jersey and Wisconsin, 3 each; Arkansas, Connecticut, New York, North Carolina and Tennessee, 2 each; Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Kentucky, Maine, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Washington, 1 each. Benito Mussolini Mussolini Hurls Defiant Retorts At Italys CriticsSays Nation Will Settle Old and New Scores With Ethiopia University of Leipzig, GermanyFounded in 1409 when many Germans left the University of Prague. The Medical Faculty grew to importance in the 18th century; in 1706, Bohn anatomical theatre opened; in 1793 clinical methods were introduced; in 1799, surgical clinic was erected; in 1820, an eye clinic. Quintuplets First Birthday: Cecile, Yvonne, Marie, Emilie, and Annette Dionne will be one year old on May 28. At that time money held in trust for them is expected to reach 100,000, but they can not draw on it until they are eighteen.On the quintuplets first birthday, the Red Cross nurses who have been caring for them will turn over their duties to Sisters of an unnamed Roman Catholic order. Judge J. A. Valin, chairman of the quintuplets board of guardians, gave no reason for the change, but Mr. and Mrs. Oliva Dionne are known to have been dissatisfied with the working of an arrangement by which the Canadian Government assumed guardianship of their phenomenal daughters. Their personal manager, Leo Kervin, said that if the Dionnes are successful in obtaining charge of the infants they will dismiss Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, generally credited with having saved the girls lives at birth. Lusitania, May 7, 1915: Twenty years ago next Tuesday the Lusitania, fast British liner, was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland without warning by a German submarine, and sank in twenty minutes. It carried 1,144 men, women and children, including 114 American citizens, to their death. Twenty three months later, the United States entered the War. The week following the anniversary, a famous Cunard sister ship of the Lusitania, the Mauretania, will end her life in a different way. Sale of the equipment of the ship, which is to be scrapped, will begin. Hauptmann Sued: Even the bars of the death cell at the New Jersey State prison can not save Bruno Richard Hauptmann, condemned murderer of the Lindbergh baby, from litigation.Supreme Court Justice Thomas W. Trenchard last week signed an order empowering Sheriff Albert Cooper, Jr., of Mercer County, or any of his deputies, personally to serve Hauptmann with a summons and complaint in the action for legal fees instituted by his former attorney, James M. Fawcett of Brooklyn, New York. WILL ROGERS SAYS: SANTA MONICA, California. This is dispatched just before the president goes on the air tonight. I am anxious to hear the comments in the press. Even, if its good, there is plenty of em wont like it. He can speak on the Lords supper and he will get editorials against it. Never in our history was we as willing to blame somebody else for our troubles. America is just like an insane asylum, there is not a soul in it will admit they are crazy. Roosevelt being the warden at the present time, us inmates know he is the one thats cuckoo. Yours, Will Rogers. |