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...latest episode in Federal liquor suppression. Agreed: the Black Duck was a rumrunner with 500 cases aboard; her stern was peppered with bullets from C. G. 290. Coast Guard claim: a siren first warned the Black Duck to stop; she tried to escape; a one-pound shot failed to halt her; machine gun fire was a last resort; the Black Duck either veered her course or rose on a wave crest to catch the full volley of lead...
Claim of the Black Duck's lone survivor: no warnings to halt were given; the crew "didn't have a chance...
...Senate tariff war came to a complete halt last week. Feeling fatigued and futile, the warriors voted a truce (adjournment) before beginning the long winter campaign (regular session?see p. 12). Only half of the salients mapped during the summer by the House had been fought over by the Senate. And whenever the Senate does finish fighting, the whole war must be refought in House-Senate conferences. Legislative forecasters declared no tariff bill would reach the President until next March?14 months after it was started by the House Ways & Means Committee...
Finally, with another swarming week-end at hand, William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, twice a visitor to the grave, decided to call a halt. Announced his secretary, Monsignor Francis A. Burke: "The situation at the cemetery in Maiden has become such that an investigation is being made into the whole question which has developed there during the past month." Added Monsignor Burke: The gates of the cemetery would remain closed except for funerals until further notice. Iron workers under the direction of the Cardinal's brother Edward, who is superintendent of the cemetery, fixed stout extra braces...
Father Power died at 25, of phthisis, some 60 years ago. About 30 years later rumor crept about that his grave held miraculous powers of healing. Fortnight ago the rumors grew and flew. From Boston, from all New.England, from the outer-States and Canada came the sick, the halt, the blind, the faithful, the curious; also quick-lunch vendors, souvenir postcard hawkers, trinket peddlers, troublemakers. From dawn to dusk, day after day, the slow-shuffling queue wound through the cemetery to the silent grave, heaped with flowers, surrounded with guttering vigil lights. Boston's Irish Catholic Mayor-elect James Michael...