Evening Star Newspaper, March 26, 1929, Page 27

POPE MAY BLESS MILLION MAY 9 Pontiff Reported Going to Church of St. John Lateran on Ascension Day. By the Associated Press. ROME, March 26.—A strong report in’ circulation is that the Pope will bless 1,000,000 persons on Ascension day, May 9, from the Church of St. John eran. The first exit from the Vatican by Pius X1, breaking the 59 years of vol- untary imprisonment of the heads of Catholicism, has been a puzzle, as to time and place, which diplomats and politicians as well as courtiers of the Pope and King were interested in solv- ing. All sorts of suppositions were afloat, but so far it was only a question of guessing, since no one knew when the event would occur which will re- move the last trace of the Roman question, The Pope now is reported to have #aid, "I hope that my first visit outside the Vatican will be to St. John Lateran.” First of Christian Churches. ‘This is the first of Christian churches, having been conferred by Emperor Con- stantine on the Bishop of Rome (the Pope) as his Episcopal residence. St. Byivester, thirty-fourth in the chro- nology of the Roman Pontiffs, was sald to have dug with his own hands’ the foundation for the historic = Basilica, which is known as “the mother of all churches of the Eternal City.” Originally the Basilica was dedicated to the Holy Savior, whose feast on Ascension day this year falls on May 9. On that day the Pope would like to re- sume the habit of his predecessors by reviving the ceremony of taking pos- session of the Lateran Basilica, where before 1870 for fifteen centuries the Popes were crowned after election, Pope Pius would like also to take up again the old custom of appearing on Ascension day on the center balcony of the church to impart his benediction to the people massed in the square below, which extends as far as the other Ba- silica of Santa Groce in Gerusalemme, %0 called because it contains the por- ton of the true cross deposited there by the Empress Helena. This space is ;no‘;ar:;flthnt it has been estimated that ,000.000 persons could receive the papal benediction. £ Anxious te Visit Museum, ‘The Pope also is most anxious to visit the Missionary Museum, which he founded in the Lateran Palace to hold the objects sent to Rome by Roman tholic missions throughout the world. is exhibition has in its center the enormous hall where on February 11 Cardinal Gasparri, paesl secretary of state, and Premier Mussolini signed the treaty of conciliation between the Holy See and the Italian state. The mu- annutell, dean. of the Sacred B elli, dean of cred College, in December, 1926. o Everything possible has been done to satisfy the desire of the Pontiff, which, however, cannot be carried out unless the Lateran treaty is ratified and other sécondary but indispensable understand- ings between the two states are com- pletely agreed upon. Although the echurch of 8t. John enjoys extra territorial rights, the must cross Italian territory to go there and might be expected to be welcomed and treated as a sovereign by all Italian authorities. The ancient gorgeous caval- €ade, in the center of which the Pope used to ride a white mule in going from the Vatican to St. John, now will be Substituted for by a fleet of modeérn but Pprosaic automobiles. . PAYS MURDER PENALTY. Convicted Man Electrocuted for Slaying Woman in January. 'BELLEFONTE, Pa., March 26 (#).— Alverez Miquel, , of Pottsville, Pa,, ‘was electrocuted Rockview Peniten- Hary yesterday for the murder of Miss Louise Jacks, also of Pottsville, On the night of January 8, 1928, Migquel surrendered to the police several hours after Miss Jacks had been shot 10 death. His defense was that the girl had- been unfaithful to him and that he went to her home to get some in- surance policies which belong to him. ; According to Miquel's counsel, he was ordered from her home by another man who was present. A gun fight en- sued and the Jacks girl was killed. All this, however, was denied by the prose- cution, which contended that Miquel shot in cold blood. Two weeks ago Miquel escaped from the Schuylkill County Jail after wound- ing a guard with a pistol. State and county police, aided by bloodhounds, took up the trail in one of the most rously prosecuted man hunts Cen- tr.1 Pennsylvania has ever known. Sev- enteen hours later he was captured at Oressona, near Pottsville, but not until had State policeman with a Sunday Excursions| $3.50 Philadelphia 3 $3.25 Chester $3.00 Wilmington AND RETURN Sundays, April 7, 21 SPECIAL TRAIN hingte 7.30 AM. u“"’l.\‘x;'fi."'l::v!l ’hllld!l&hll 5 * a5 P L chester 45 5 PO wilmineton 825 PN, Pennsylvania Rvailroad Gas Pains Indigestion | Peoples Drug Stores say Pleasant to Take Elixir Must Help Poor Dis- tressed Stomachs or Money Gladly Refunded. You can be so distressed with gas and fullness that you think your heart is going to stop beating. 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TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1929. essieurs and Mesdames .+ .. how would you like to let your taste say which cigarette you will order tonight? e 7l “Fred”; the popular maitre d’hotel of THE MAYFLOWER invites his guests to compare the 4 leading cigarettes... “Tonight I would like you to try a littie idea that is both intriguing and useful. “Usually you tell me just by habit which ciga- rette to order for you. “But tonight why not forget habit and let your taste say which one you will choose?” [ ] L] ® So “Fred” of The Mayflower gave each of his dinner guests four cigarettes whose brand names had been concealed by paper ‘“masks.” No one but himself knew the identity of the four cigarettes (they were the four leading American brands). Each brand was numbered, and he merely asked his patrons to smoke the four and tell him, by number, which one most appealed to the taste. The idea was not to guess at the brand names. When the last diner had made his choice, “Fred” announced that OLD GOLD had won decisively . . . with 44 votes to 14 for the next highest brand. (See the box score.) OLD GOLD has conducted these impartial testsatthe Ambassador Hotel, New York, aboard the great French Liner “Ile de . France,” at Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and many other places of national interest « « . so that smokers everywhere may truly know which is the most appealing cigarette! And in 23 out of 26 of the public tests made to date OLD GOLD has won! Why? Because OLD GOLDS are made from the heart-leaves of the tobacco plant, silkiest and tenderest that Nature grows. To the taste, fine quality is bound to tell. OLD GOLD wins because the taste can’t say “no” to its heartleaf smoothness . . . and because it’s an obvious fact that there’s _*not a cough in a carload.” The Mayflower Hotel . . , center of Washington social and oflicial life , , » home of many noted statesmen.