NEW YORK ASKS
DRY REFERENDUM
OF LEGISLATURE
(F?y Associated Press)
ALBANY, N. Y„ April 7—The an
nual battle of the wets and the drys
over a state wide prohibition enforce
ment bill is being waged in the New
York legislature.
Both sides claim victory. The wets
insist the Wales-Jenks prohibition
measure will be defeated in the sen
ate if it passes in the assembly. The
drys, while admitting their prospects
are not particularly bright in the up
per house, claim when the time comes
enough Republican senators will vote
for the measure to insure its passage.
But the wets have a trump card up
their sleeve in the person of Governor
Alfred E. Smith. Should the dry bill
pass both houses. Governor Smith is
certain to veto it. He has stated re
peatedly the state has enough law
now and needs enforcement instead of
new laws.
The wets are said to be rallying to
the support of the Karle bill, because
they believe the sentiment among the
voters is against an enforcement mea
sure.
Senator Karle insists that his mea
sure has an excellent chance of being
passed by the legislature. It would
submit the question at a special elec
tion next month.
Lieut. Governor Seymour Lowman,
regarded as the spokesman for the
drys, says every Republican member
of the senate and assembly should
vote for a prohibition enforcement act
to carry out the pledges made by the
Republican party in the campaign last
fall.
Vatican Admits Public
to View Noted Treasures
ROME, Apr. 7.—Priceless art
Treasures connected with the history
thru the ages ol Saint Peter’s, the
mother church of Christendom, hith
erto jealously guarded in the im
penetrable chambers or' tlie Vatican,
now may be examined by visitors
to Rome, thanks to the opening to
the public several days aeo ot' the
Museum Petriano.
Among the treasures are many as
sociated with the old basilica which
was destroyed on orders of Pope Ju
lius II in 1505 to make way for the
construction, started April IS, 1506,
of the present church. There are
models in wood by Michelangelo and
Sangallo, the statue of Sixtus IV done
by Pollaiolo. the huge statues of St.
Peter and St. Paul done on orders
from Pope Pius II by Paolo Romano,
the magnificent sculptures carried
out for the tomb of Pius II by Mino
da Fiesole and Giovanni Dalmata, one
of the angles of the famous Giotto
mosiac, and countless other remark
able works.
Jewish Bequest Expended
To Educate Arab Children
J ER C SALEM. Apr, 7.—A farm
school for Arab boys and a high
school for Jewish children will soon
be established at Tulkarem and Jeru
salem, respectively, with the funds
of the $500,000 bequest of the late
Sir Ellis Kadoorie, a Jewish philan
thropist of Shanghai. Both schools
will bear the name of the donor,
who bequeathed one-third of his es
tate to the British government to be
spent by it on the provision of
schools in Palestine or Mesopotamia.
Although several of the other be
quests of the will were for insti
tutions for the benefit of Jews, no
such provision was made with re
gard to this particular gift. The
British government accepted the be
quest, and decided that the funds
be spent in Palestine. In view of
the terms of the will, it has not felt
itself justified in limiting the ex
penditure to schools for the Jewish
population exclusively.
Nicholas Longworth has made
good in his own right, in spite of
his handicap of being Roosevelt’s
son-inlaw. His election as speak
er, following his satisfactory ser
vice as Republican floor leader in
the house, gives him high prestige,
not to mention his recent acquisi
tion of a baby daughter.
Irish Autos Multiply
DUBLIN, Apr. 7.—Northern Ire
land is proud of its development of
motor traffic. In the past two years
the number of motor vehicles li
censed in the six Ulster counties has
risen from 17,200 to 26,000, of which
about 2,000 are heavy lorries. There
is now a motor for every 58 people
in the six counties, as against one
for every 67 in Great Britain.
AMERICAN MAGNATES
PURSUE INVASION OF
BRITISH FILM FIELD
, (By Associated Press)
LONDON, Apr. 7.—The moaning
and wringing of hands over the sad
state of the British moving picture
film business waxes louder day by
' day. Perhaps the public cares, but
| it shows no inclination to cease
crowding into the hundreds of Brit
ish theaters where American films
are run off almost exclusively, year
in and year out.
The British film makers cast many
an envious eye at Hollywood, and
they lift their voices, fervently hop
ing to catch the ears of both gov
ernment and the people, and protest
that even England’s own dominions
and colonies are being Americanized
by the subtle propaganda contained
in the eelluloidal products of the
studios of California and New York.
Lest their arguments fall on deaf
ears, trade, the very life blood of
the empire, is brought into play. It
would seem that trade has broken
itself of the habit of following flags;
these days it follows the film. There
is a very active campaign on to
have the Baldwin government slap
a heavy tax on foreign films, and
i help the tottering movie magnates
of this country until their business
grows up and becomes steady on its
feet. The government has so far
kept silent upon its intentions, if
any, as regards the movies.
Meanwhile dollar-laden magnates of
the movies breeze in from Broadway,
one after another, anil whizz around
the British Isles, building up de
fenses against competition from oth
er sources and bolstering their Eng
lish business. Some of them have
even gone so far as to begin build
ing or buying large theaters of their
own in the precincts of Piccadilly
Circus.
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Freedom Turned Down
for Joys of Life In Jail
(By Associated Press I
ROME, Apr. 7.—The incorrigibilty
anti contempt for the police which
made Silvio Visconti a thorn in the
side of the authorities a half century
ago, when he was a member of the
famous Cipriano La Gala bandit
band, stood him in good stead re
cently when he again, at the age of
94, found himself at odds with the
forces of law and order.
Informed by the wardens of the
Portici prison in Naples, where he
had been incarcerated for 45 years,
that he was free, he insisted that he
wanted to spend the rest of his days
in jail. Despite the aged man’s
protests, two caribineers took him
to his native village, Gissuni-Vallepi
ana. But Silvio knew they could j
not keep him out of jail if he broke
his good conduct parole, so he walk
ed back the 300 miles to Naples, an
heroic task for a man of his age, sat
down in front of the prison gate and
howled until the wardens were forc
ed to admit him.
Some careless woman dropped
her wooden leg with shoe and stock
| ing in the road near St. Louis, where
! it was found by a taxi-driver. She
has probably missed it by this time.
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