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Near the close of the fourth quarter a 30-yerd race by Baton, 1927 halfback, ended on the sophomore 35-yard mark, where two penalties in succession set them back 10 yards. An attempted field goal form the 18-yard line failed, but the game ended a minute later...
Died. Henry Luce Fuqua, 61, Governor of Louisiana since 1924; at the Executive Mansion in Baton Rouge; of internal gastric hemorrhages, suddenly. He had been a hardware merchant, cane sugar farmer, warden of the state prison. As Governor of Louisiana he had fought the Ku Klux Klan...
...Mutual Building and Loan Association Baton Rouge...
Like the brief exciting taps with which a conductor, baton against score-stand, commands attention for solemn music, certain items rat-tatted in the press last week as follows...
...rapid shifting of Italian orchestra directors the coordinating influence of Mussolini from whose dictation not even Italian artists are exempt. Arturo Toscanini, for years illustriously inseparable from La Scala in Milan, will reputedly conduct this winter at Costanza Opera in Rome. At La Scala it is whispered that the baton of Bernardino Molinari will flicker. Neapolitans, devotees of the famed San Carlos Opera will hail as their chief conductor, this winter, Tullio Serafin, long a brilliant conductor for the Metropolitan Opera of Manhattan. Pietro Mascagni will go to the Augustep, chief concert hall of Romans, it is said...