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Campaigner. Near Newport, Wash., Congressional Candidate Joe Albi buttonholed a friendly farmer for his vote. "Be glad to," said the oldtimer, "only I can't vote in Washington. This here's Idaho...
Died. Marshal Louis Felix Marie Francois Franchet d'Esperey, 86, hero of World War I; near Albi, France. Early in the first Battle of the Marne, he was made commander of the French 5th Army. As commander in chief of the Allied forces in the Balkans in 1918, he moved against the Central Powers from the port of Salonika, drove Bulgaria out of the war and forced the capitulation of Turkey. Aside from Petain he was France's only living Marshal...
...last minute Spokane Club President Joe Albi called off the truck's scheduled tour, said "We know when to stop a joke," and bought $3,000 worth of defense bonds with contributions received...
...Vicomte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa was born in the little city of Albi in 1864. His father, Count Alphonse, was a former army officer, an ardent horseman, an eccentric. Each morning in the Bois de Boulogne he used to ride a brood mare to the fashionable "Cascade" restaurant, dismount, milk his horse, drink his breakfast, ride home again...
Known to few but the most alert tourists is peaceful, rose brick, medieval Albi, high-pitched above the river Tarn in southern France. News agencies turned toward Albi last week. Paris reporters trod its cobbled streets to attend and report the trial of Albi's famed "acid bandits": one Gleizes, a horse dealer, and one Aubes, a shopkeeper, accused of holding up the automobile of wealthy Mme. Holland, Albi businesswoman. Flinging vitriol in her face to blind her, they robbed her, left her in agony by the roadside. Into Albi's courtroom walked Mme. Rolland last week...