Evening Star Newspaper, April 4, 1929, Page 36

§ ' S i ‘g5 | _THE ‘EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ©, THURSDAY, APRIL 4 19%. _© SOUTH CAROLINA G./0. P, [, s not ot home" s the enty answer | Senate com # Little Rock Gets y tstifod - GOES TO MADISON Wets and Drys Congentrat- ing, Following Two-to-One Baliot for Repeal. By the Associated Press. MADISON, Wis., April 4—The effort to repeal Wisconsin’s prohibition en- forcement law moved to the State Leg- islature today bearing a two-to-one in- dorsement from voters in Tuesday's election. Both those favoring re] and those oposing it concentrated ir attention on the lu:e e:ipitll. the we'.:edoe(m:;l:‘; prompt action as & resu ::fl triumph, the drys equally anxious to turn election defeat into legisiative victory. i ‘The latest returns on the referendum to repeal the State prohiibtion enforce- ment act gave: Yes, 277,404; no, 145,299. ‘The vote on legalization of 2.75 per cent beer was: Yes, 258764; no, 148,131 ‘These totals included 2,003 of the 2,759 The election was merely an expres- sion of opinion and not a mandate to the ture. Some of the wets, how- ever, said they would attempt to have any tor recalled who _voted against repeal and came from a district. :‘hl'. favored repeal in Tuesdey's elec- ion, Bills Already Introduced. Bills which would carry out the wishes of the majority of the people, as expressed in the referendum, have already been introduced by State Sen- ator Thomas M. Duncan, Milwaukee Soclalist, who was also the author of the referendums. Senator Duncan said last night he ‘was greatly pleased with the “tremen- dous victory” of the wets and predicted that it would be followed with legis- l:mncfion complying with the voters “The ature will never pass a ler bill,” countered Rev. Warren G. Jones, State superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League. “Itlooks as though ‘we carried a majority of the counties, and I look, first of all, for legislators to follow the wishes of their constituents rather than the State as a whole.” i Similar Vote in 1926, ; i ‘The vote ran much the same as in the 1926 referendum on memorializing | Congress to modify the Volstead act, although the majority was not as great as three years ago. The cities were the strongholds of the wets, while most of the rural communities voted dry. Mil- waukee County voted six to one for the | ‘wet measures, accounting for almost 70,000 of the majority gained by the anti-prohibitionists. The rural vote was curtailed, sald Mrs, Anne Warren, State president of the Women’s Christian Tfl‘?eunce Union, by storm conditions, which also played havoc with communication wires and delayed returns from many of the outlying counties. today was much discussion over the attitude of Gov. Walter J. Kohler, who would sign or veto the measures if they were passed by the Legislature. The governor took no stand WISCONSN FGHT on the referendum, but previously he had indorsed President Hoover's “con- gun'::n enforcement of prohibition by tates.” Sunday Base Ball And Young Mayor year-old - Pat L. Robinsen, city attorney, to the office of mayor, He is the youngest mayor in the country of a city in Little Rock's class. He was elected city at- torney at 23. Sunday base ball was referred to the ple of Pulaski County for decision by an act of the re- cent Legislature. The measure arely escaped 3 Harvey Parnell, who, in signing it, said he personally was op- ggsnd to Sunday base ball, but clieved it was a question for popular dec!llon. TELEPHONE CHANGES HAND SUITORS BLOW Young Men Consiaunbly Annoyed at Hartford by Losing Track of Girls. HARTFORD, Conn. (#)~—Cupld has received a staggering setback in his cam) here for more m: ‘The latest telephone directory came out with 20,000 changes in numbers. Now it has developed that many young men had an extensive acqualntance among “Mays” and “Helens” and what have you, their only clue to the girls' :::un identity being a telephone num- ‘The new directory has left these young men considerably annoyed. They have complained to the telephone com- pany. A man, they contended, should not set out to call Helen and get May. Or, even worse, call May and get a butcher shop. y romances; they claim, have been blighted. —quality from the first to the last flake. 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