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Marathon Hooky. In Brooklyn, Truant Officer Walter O'Leary hunted Hooky Player Louis F. Cianca for three years, finally found him at a blood bank. Ex-Navy Coxswain Cianca had meantime accumulated seven battle stars in the Pacific...
Better than all the speeches, flag waving and reviews which have marked the eleventh anniversary of Fascism in Italy, the trial of four men in Rome last week showed the world the stability of the Fascist regime. Leonardo Bucciglioni, Renato Cianca, Claudio Cianca and Pasquale Capasso were charged with the most serious crime in the Fascist calendar: plotting against the life of Il Duce, and exploding a terrorist bomb inside St. Peter's. Within the past decade more than one man has been tied to a chair and shot in the back for such an offense...
...prosecutor demand the same penalty, insisting that one of the real instigators of the plot was the anti-Fascist exile Professor Gaetano Salvemini of Harvard. (From his Cambridge sanctuary Professor Salvemini promptly denied complicity.) But black-shirted judges no longer fear for their regime. Conspirator Capasso was acquitted. Claudio Cianca was let off with 18 years in jail. The other two got 30 years. Great tears of thankfulness rolled down their cheeks as the three prisoners were led from their iron cage to begin sentence...
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