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@janninereid1 I'd toss it but not only because of the mold. The block looks like low quality cheddar, wouldn't want to eat that anyway.

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Lieut. W. G. Tomlinson of the Anacostia Naval Air Station narrowly escaped death today at Hampton Roads, Va., within an hour of being named a pilot for the American Schneider Cup team. His Packard-powered Curtiss racer, rated one of the best in the field, bounced on its pontoons, rose on one wing and turned over in Little Bay. Hundreds watched from the sea wall as he climbed atop the sinking plane and waved. Unhurt, he will fly another ship tomorrow, when the Americans meet three Italian planes for the trophy.

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The Poincare cabinet won a vote of confidence from the French Chamber of Deputies, 365 to 207, as Parliament reopened in Paris today. The Chamber backed the Premier's demand for immediate debate on the 1927 budget and the postponement of all interpellations. Fifty-eight deputies had planned to question the government on Fascist outbreaks, events in China and other matters. Poincare is resolved to pass the budget before the year ends, to avoid ruinous monthly stopgap credits. The war debt question has receded into the background.

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Joseph G. Cannon, the "Uncle Joe" who ruled the House as Speaker until his power was broken in 1910, died at the stroke of noon today at his home in Danville, Ill., the brick house he built for his bride. He was 90 and had been in a coma for about 10 hours; his physician gave the cause as myocardial degeneration. Born in North Carolina, he began his House career in 1873 and served longer than any other member of Congress. This fall, for the first time since he voted for Lincoln, he missed casting a ballot.

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Washington marked the eighth anniversary of the Armistice today as Government business halted for two minutes at 11 o'clock. Throngs gathered at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington, where, for the first time, the President was absent; his wreath was laid by his aide, Capt. Leven C. Allen. The national salute of 21 guns was fired, and the four Army and Navy chaplains who led the first services for the Unknown in 1921 laid floral tokens. Mourners also paid homage at Woodrow Wilson's tomb on Mount St. Alban.

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The Swedish Academy today awarded George Bernard Shaw, the Irish-born playwright, the Nobel prize for literature for 1925. The academy postponed the 1926 award until next year. The dispatches gave no specific grounds, but the honor is generally assumed to rest on his fame as a dramatist. Shaw, who turned 70 a few months ago, has long been known as a Socialist, a pacifist and a firebrand critic of his own country, and he is thought to be among the richest literary men alive.

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President Coolidge dedicated the Liberty Memorial at Kansas City today, honoring the men of the Southwestern states who served in the World War. In his Armistice Day address, broadcast by radio, he served notice on the League powers that the United States will join the World Court only on the terms set by the Senate, or not at all, and that he has no intention of asking the Senate to change them. He backed adequate defense forces but no competitive arming. He leaves for Washington by train this afternoon.

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German Socialists have introduced a bill in the Reichstag to make the exile of former Kaiser Wilhelm permanent and to banish members of former ruling houses who endanger the republic. Speaking on the eighth anniversary of the revolution, Deputy Alwin Saenger said the ex-Kaiser's return "would be a challenge to a free people." The bill is also aimed at Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. He mocked the former German Crown Prince, who he said "howls with the gallery" at six-day bicycle races.

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Dr. George A. Reisner of Harvard has reported on the tomb of Queen Hetepheres, mother of Cheops and wife of Senefru, found at the bottom of a 100-foot shaft near the Great Pyramid at Giza. Gold hieroglyphics on a carrying chair identified her. Her first tomb at Dashur had been robbed, and her body was moved. The finds include a bed and chairs, gold cups, 28 alabaster vessels and a jewel box holding 20 silver anklets inlaid with dragonflies. The alabaster sarcophagus will likely be opened in December.

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Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior, and oil magnate Edward L. Doheny pleaded not guilty today in District Supreme Court to conspiring to defraud the Government in the 1921 lease of the Elk Hills naval oil reserve in California. The arraignment before Justice Adolph A. Hoehling took less than five minutes, and trial was set for November 22. Doheny answered first in a thin voice; Fall, in his first court appearance in five years of legal trouble, replied firmly and looked improved in health.

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A freak tornado tore through La Plata, Md., shortly before 3 o'clock this afternoon and flattened the public schoolhouse while 62 children were at their lessons, also wrecking several homes nearby. At least 14 are known dead, nearly all of them pupils, and one girl is missing. About 30 children are seriously hurt. Two teachers narrowly escaped. Soldiers from Fort Washington and the Red Cross rushed aid to the stricken town, and many of the injured were taken to Washington hospitals.

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Henry Ford says his five-day week is "a cold business proposition with not the slightest pretense of philanthropy" and will be permanent "no matter how many months ahead our orders are booked." In an interview at Dearborn, he denied ever promising six days' pay for five days' work, calling it six days' wages for six days' work done in five. He said the plants are making more cars than ever and cited raises for most workers, but did not deny that many weekly pay envelopes have shrunk by $2.40 to $4.40.

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Premier Mussolini today handed the French Ambassador in Rome a written note of regret over anti-French outbreaks at Ventimiglia and Benghazi. At Ventimiglia, French railway men were beaten for not baring their heads during the Fascist hymn, and a crowd demonstrated at the French consulate. At Benghazi, a Carabinieri colonel forced the French consul to hoist an Italian flag. Mussolini promised a speedy trial and strict orders against any repetition. Paris now considers the incidents closed.

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Two Army aviators, Lieut. Kenyon M. Hegardt and Lieut. H. W. Downing, were killed instantly today when their De Havilland plane crashed into a ridge of the South Mountains 15 miles west of Gettysburg, Pa. The fliers were bound from the Sesquicentennial grounds in Philadelphia to McCook Field at Dayton. Residents saw the plane circle low over their mountain homes, apparently lost in thick haze, before the 2:16 p.m. crash. Rescuers needed nearly an hour to reach the wreck, where the men were found strapped in their seats.

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The basilica of Ste. Anne de Beaupre, Quebec, a wooden structure put up to replace the famous shrine church destroyed by fire in March 1922, burned to the ground early today. Many religious relics were lost, among them a relic of Ste. Anne that had been saved from the flames in 1922. Quebec sent its entire fire-fighting force when the Redemptorist Fathers reported the blaze. Work is under way on a new church to replace the old one, long a goal of pilgrims who left their crutches there as proof of cures.

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James K. Hackett, the American actor who for years had lived in Paris, died there today of heart disease after a long illness. His wife, the former Beatrice Beckley of London, was at his bedside. Hackett was to have appeared tomorrow in a scene from "Macbeth" at a royal matinee before King George and Queen Mary, held to aid the Shakespeare theater to be rebuilt at Stratford-on-Avon. At 24 the youngest leading man on the American stage, he won fame in "The Prisoner of Zenda" and was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor.

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Miss "Bobby" Chase, a woman parachute jumper, was left dangling beneath a speeding airplane at Santa Monica, Calif., today after leaping from 800 feet, when one of her parachute ropes caught on the plane's landing gear. A second airplane came to her rescue. After she had hung in the air for two minutes, an occupant of the second plane cut the cord that held her. Her parachute then opened, and she landed safely two miles away. Hundreds of spectators watched the feat, part of an exhibition of the Byrd polar airplane.

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Two Tarahumara Indian runners, Tomas Zafiro and Leonicio San Miguel, today ran more than 62 miles from Pachuca to Mexico City in 9 hours and 37 minutes, believed to be a world record. Stopping only seconds to suck an orange or sip a native drink, they finished fresh, observers said, not even panting, often running at altitudes of a mile and a half to 2 miles. At the stadium Gov. Serrano crowned each with a crimson silk bandanna. The best previous mark, set by J. Saunders in New York in 1882, was more than half an hour slower.

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Fifteen thousand Red troops filed past Lenin's tomb in Moscow today and renewed their oath to support the Bolshevik revolution, as the Soviet Union celebrated the ninth anniversary of the October 1917 revolution. From atop the tomb, M. Kalinin and other Soviet orators urged the massed workers not to rest until all the revolution's aims were achieved. Troops showed off tanks, artillery and machine guns in Red Square, and a civilian parade five miles long wound through the streets. Many onlookers remarked on the absence of Trotsky.

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Prohibition agents who stopped the car of Charles R. Nash, assistant commissioner of internal revenue, behind a smoke screen and at gunpoint have cost their chief his job, it was learned today. Deputy administrator R. L. Livingston was forced to resign and three agents were fired. Gen. Lincoln C. Andrews said the men used "drawn revolvers" and "insulting language" and "might easily have been mistaken for bandits." The dismissed agents plan to appeal. Edmund Budnitz, the area's dry chief, also resigned today; Andrews denied any link.