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j 1 GENERAL NEWS OF THE DAY J The French police claimed -to have unmasked an important nest of spies in Paris with the arrest of a German, Edward Bern-hueber, who they said frequented political circles posing as an apostle of Franco-German rapprochement. They said he had his mail addressed under the name of Britz to the flat of an American friend whose name was not disclosed. Fear that two vessels had sunk in the ter-1 rific windstorm of Monday and Tuesday was expressed as the result of the finding of wreckage and the lack of reports from the boats. The storm drove the freighter Volusia aground in Delaware Bay, tore up breakwaters, threatened thousands of resort cottages, and tore a great hole in the copper roof of the Criminal Courts building in New York. The possibility of another England to Australia air race was foreshadowed by R. L. Butler, premier of South Australia, who is in London in connection with the silver jubilee of King George. Rear Admiral John Downes arrived in Chicago Wednesday to assume command of the Great Lakes naval training base, one of his duties as new commandant of the ninth naval district. Six former officials of the Trustees System Service Corporation of Chicago, a small-loan organization with thirty-one subsidiary companies in ten states, which crashed to the tune of 0,000,000 in 1932, were indicted by the federal grand jury Wednesday on fifteen counts each on charges of using the mails to defraud. The three per cent sales tax for Illinois .met with rebuff when the. Homer-Hopkins combination drive for passage of this measure was blocked in both houses of the legislature Wednesday. General Hermann Wilhelm Goering, premier of Prussia and reich air minister, was married Wednesday in Berlin to Frau Emmy Sonneman, tall blonde actress. Hitler acted as best man. Cuban police have revealed one of the biggest kidnaping cases on record when 00,-000 was paid for the release of Eutimo Falla Bonnet, Cuban capitalist.
