Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1923, Page 40

40 PINCHOT DENIED-FUND T0 ENFORCE DRY ACT Pennsylvania Assembly Defeats Appropriation to Make Meas- ure Operative. By the Associated Press. . HARRISBURG, Pa. ‘June . 14— Although it adopted a state prohibi- tion enforcement act, the Pennsyl- vania general assembly, which last night adjourned its 1923 sessfon, de- teated legislation designed to provide Gov. Pinchot with a $250.000 appro- priation to make the measure opera- tive. ] Administration measures general- 1y tared well otherwise, the governor telling the assembly at its closing spssion that the adoption of the en- forcement act “had driven every li- censed saloon out of the state.” Laws creating a budget system and pro- vision for reorganization of the state government, also were adopted Other important legislation passed and signed by the governor were measures providing for old age pe sions, making kidnaping, which r sults’ in death first degree murd creating a state athletic commissi to regulate boxing and wrestling, creased appropr s to mothers’ pensions and Iynching law TWO-HOUR FIGHT SAVES HUGE FISH TO SCIENCE 40,000-Pound Rhynodon Typus, Recently Captured, Attacked by Ferocious Tiger Sharks. By the Associated Press MIAMI, Fla. June 15.—The 40.000- sdon typus, known afk, caught Saturday off Marathon by a party of fishermen. | was saved to science v after a two- hour fight witl 0ol of forty ug was towing . where repre- American M seum of ) ural History of New will save the monster for study classification 3 Off Key Vacas L. L. Mowb charge of towing the rhvnodon Long Key to ships ways in Key W X Where it can be taken from the water, saw a huge tiger shark coming. Two others appeared and in a few minutes the seas were alive with them, Mr Mowbray said The crew of the tug Liberty, tow- ing the monster fish, battled for two hours with the sharks. using blunted harpoons and long poles with sharp ron fastened to the ends. The sharks E leaped at the. fish. slid | ge back and ran into the fought among themselves as a tug as they for the fish The sharks were maddened by crew of e . Mowbray said. unti another. dropping e scent was | Tost. One tig red all of | twenty-five feet, Mr F. H. Limckiller. taxidermi New York Museum, is exp | start at once the work of preserving | the rhynodon and prepafing it for shipment to New York Sl COMES INTO PORT BONE DRY.! N FORK. June 15—The steam- | ship Essequibo arrived bone dry terday : whisky and champagne in Havana in order to comply with the dry ship ruling. even when a shoe becomes un- | tied. From Everrbody’s Magazine. tonments who had charge of the last rites had to fill out the regulation form, and came across the entry: of cary THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Abe Martin Says: | SLAYER EXECUTED. | James Powers, Assailant of Movie Man, Goes to Death Calmly. EDDYVILLE, Ky., June 1 ames Towers, twenty-five years old, of Covington. 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C., FRIDAY, JUNE commerclal and fraternal orders, disappointed him that he called at- tention to it “I am disappointed in the vacant|m¢ chairs,” he safd, “and there can be | lzation only one reason for it. You business men know too little the American Leglon and its power, alms and pur- | | poses. This is the first time since my tour that I have had te look at vacant chairs.” After the meeting, Loy Molumby.| «pe, state commander of the American h Lesion, blamed business men for the | hea! 15, SCANT AUDIENCE PIQUES AMERICAN LEGION HEAD Commander Owsley Confronted by “Vacant Chairs” at Reception in His Honor in Montana. By the Associated Press. | GREAT FALLS, Mont., June 15.— Vacant chairs in the half-filled ban- quet room which greeted Alvin M. Owsley, national commander of the American Legion, at a reception given in his honor by the combined civic, with the Dempse Shelby, July 4. O authorized it toastmaster of the luncheon blamed | the American Leglon members for | . not coming out in greater numbers. il Commander Owsley fssued a state- | €ach other, let's ment from Indlanapolls, May 18, criti- | awfully happy'” 19 80 | cizing Molumby for his connectio) Gibbons fight y, in his state- ‘tional organ- as in no way connected with the staging of the bout and had not ment, said that the —_— Oh, These Days! | From the Richmond Times-Dispatclh: . est, you are the light of my | he angel of my life. scant attendance and in turn the|the only woman I ever loved!" “Darling, you are the best man on | V. e And now that we've lfed pretend we 25, BRITISH BURN TOWN. JERUSAL . (Jewish Tele greph Agency detachment of | British cavalry has arrived at Met- tulah on a punitive expedition be- cause of the killing of five of the British gendarmes who had acted as| an escort to 8ir Herbert Samu, | nigh commissioner. during his | to the Jewlish colony last Sunday. 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