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...stake of cattle, poultry and ploughs in what is now Victoria. Since then Victoria has become the most thickly populated corner (1,818,080) of a Commonwealth that Britain wants to bind to herself by every possible tie of sentiment and advantage. Last week Gloucester finished a fine two-month job of binding, by sending off the first plane on the new Australia-London mail service. Aboard the plane were Gloucester's own Christmas cards to family and friends, due to reach London the day before Christmas...
...Chicago on Oct. 2, after more than two years' preparation, the U. S. Government put Samuel Insull, Samuel Insull Jr., and 15 of their associates on trial for using the mails to defraud. In the courtroom a 22-ft. bookcase held two tons of Government exhibits. Two hundred Government witnesses were summoned. Two million words of testimony were taken in the two-month trial. After the first two weeks the jury had pretty well made up its mind. And last week the trial ended. For two hours and two minutes the jurymen deliberated, and then, filing back into...
...Pittsburgh, a prisoner bargained to paint the dome of the county jail, a regular two-month job, if the warden would keep him supplied with cigarets, help him get a parole. Dispensing with scaffolding, the prisoner rigged up a sliding chair, painted the dome in three days, consumed $2.30 worth of cigarets, got the parole...
Italy's Foreign Minister was busy last week. Growing more & more nervous over his mounting influence in Austria and Hungary, Jugoslavia topped off a two-month press attack with a violent outburst against Fascist Italy and all its works. Published were entirely imaginary stories of strikes and riots in Milan and Turin in which dozens were supposed to have been killed. The semi-official Vreme of Belgrade touched the sorest spot of all with a sneering description of Italy's Wartime defeat at Caporetto and ugly references to the cowardice of the Italian army...
Died. Admiral Charles Frederick Hughes (retired), 67, onetime (1927-30) Chief of Naval Operations; after a two-month illness; in Chevy Chase...