LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 December 1930, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS

CAPONE METHODS. CALIFORNIA INVADED. LOS ANGELES, November 19. The newspapers announce that “Scarface” A 1 Capone is visiting California and inaugurating gangster methods in his fight against California wine producers. Capone issued orders recently, according to the story related with much detail by leading western papers, that the grape concentrates manufactured by the fruit industries of California shall be excluded from Chicago and New York because they are making tremendous inroads against Capone’s beer. The Fresno newspaper, the “Bee,” claims to have definite knowledge that the edict has gone forth, and that death will be the price of disobedience. SILENCE OF DEATH.

SOLEMNITY OF “SWEEP” DRAW

LONDON, November 17

Pretty Irish girls in stockinged feet danced among the 1,200,000 counterfoils of the Irish sweepstake on the Manchester November Handicap, The white slips, separated from each other, were scattered broadcast and fell like snowflakes on the floor of the Dublin Mansion House.

Attractive nurses gathered them up and placed them in a cylinder, resembling a huge boiler, surmounted by an Irish harp. The crowd ceased its shufflings when the cylinder began to revolve, and the drawing began. While the thousand spectators held their breaths, Paddy, Jackie, Peter, and Willie, four blind orphan boys from St. Joseph’s home, decided who should share the £409,000 prizes.

The silence was like the silence of death as Jackie and Peter were guided to the two drums which were turned electrically. Paddy put his hand through a porthole and drew the number slips. Willie drew the horses from the smaller drum. An official, with a rich Irish brogue, announced each horse and its number as they were drawn.

Huge crowds had gathered outside the Dublin Mansion House. Under protection of a police escort the counterfoils had been taken from the safe deposit and conveyed to the Mansion House.

The total subscriptions amounted to £658,009. The prize fund came to £409,000. The chief prizes were, approximately :—First horse, £204,000; second, £81,000: third, £40,000. Starters will divide £49,000; and non-starters £24,000.

.Canadians, South Africans, Americans and even a Burmese drew horses.

GIRL TURNS OSTRICH. CONSCIENCE SHOULD PRICK 1 BERLIN, November 20. “Safeties first,” said a 23-year-old girl, as she started on an attempt at suicide. Then she swallowed, in the following order, 45 safety-pins, 23 ordinary pins, 25 needles, three teaspoons, and a fruit knife, for dessert, one pencil, six hairpins, seven pieces of glass, and one tie pin. When she had finished her meal, she was taken to hospital, where an immediate operation saved her life. The girl promised never again ,to emulate the ostrich.

DESERTER MONK

PASSIONATE LOVE OF MUSIC;

HOLLYWOOD, November, 20

A scant 15 months ago Father Francesco Magliocco intoned High Mass from the altar of New York’s greatest Italian church, Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Mass over, he quietly folded away his priestly vestments and vanished. With him vanished a tall and slender beauty of his choir, the brunette Antoinette Motta.

To-day in the white glare of a Hollywood studio the mystery of the vanished priest and the beautiful choir singer was solved. Father Magliocco was revealed as a musical director, who has been a Hollywood cinema sensation for the last few months. The man the movie world knew as Francesco Magli, inspired composer of the score for a forthcoming music drama, husband of the brunette Signora Anoinette Magli, and father of an infant child, admitted that he was the former priest. When Father Magliocco disappeared it was reported that he had cjuarrelled with the diocesan authorities over their failure to appoint him as musical director of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. "I did not quit the Church because of the love of a woman,” he cried, excitedly, "I left because I bad reached the conviction that it was all wrong for me to follow a priestly life. I love music; I wanted to devote my entire time to it. As last T could stand it no longer. Now I am free, free; and for the first time in my life T am happy.” WOMAN INDICTED. CAST FROM POLITICS. LONDON, November 17. "Women are not (rood at the "tough stuff”; therefore, they are useless in politics,” is the decision of the National Socialist party in Denmark. “They lack the brutality necessary to do anything effective.” Consequently, the party aims at excluding women from public life altogether.

There is worse than that. Their participation in politics has demoralised the men, who are becoming more and more effemminate. Tho only remedy is to cast out tho women.