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As printed: 18 Trains Here With Klansmen for Big Parade at 3 P. M.
ContextThe Ku Klux Klan, revived in 1915 and at its greatest national strength this decade, opens a three-day 'Klonvocation' in Washington with a march down Pennsylvania Avenue at 3 this afternoon. Headquarters had claimed 250,000 marchers; last year police counted between 40,000 and 50,000, and this morning the special trains are running well below last August's fifty-four.
ContextA bomb was thrown at Benito Mussolini's automobile in Rome on Saturday without injuring him, the latest of several attempts on his life this year. Two hundred people are now under arrest, the director general of police and the chief of police have resigned, and investigators say the plot was hatched among Italian expatriates in France.
As printed: CONVICT CONFESSES DROVE MURDER CAR OF HALL-MILLS CASE
ContextThe Rev. Edward W. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, a singer in his choir, were found shot dead near New Brunswick in September 1922; nobody was ever convicted, and New Jersey reopened the case this summer. Now a burglar in the Illinois State prison at Joliet says he was paid $300 to drive the car that night — though San Francisco police records place him in a cell there at the time.
ContextEquinoctial storms have battered the middle of the country for two weeks, drowning Indiana and Illinois earlier this month; the rains have now moved west. Fourteen inches have fallen on southeastern Kansas, the Cottonwood, Verdigris and Neosho Rivers have swamped a belt some 25 miles wide and 60 miles long, and the Neosho is still rising toward the record mark of the last great flood.
The Klan's three-day Klonvocation goes on in Washington, and at Somerville the vestryman Ralph Gorsline and choir singer Catherine Rastall are to post bonds for their appearance before the grand jury.
