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...measure was rejected (97-86) but, impressed by the closeness of the vote, the Cabinet ministers dropped unofficial but important hints that so soon as the ice is out of the lakes and canals next spring, the Government will introduce laws preparatory to a national referendum on Prohibition. (Finland's present Constitution does not provide for public referenda.) Finnish observers credited this parliamentary Wetness last week to the final windup of the famed Stahlberg kidnapping case, an affair whose origin had nothing whatever to do with Prohibition. Two months ago, after frugally breakfasting on bread and butter, porridge...
Albania, four; Africa, one; Australia, two; Austria, two; Belgium, six; Brazil, four; Canada, 41; China, 56; Costa-Rica, two; Columbia, two; British Columbia, one; Cuba, five; Czecho-Slovakia, one; England, 25; Finland, one; France, ten; Germany, ten; Greece, five; Guatemala, City, one; Hawaii, ten; Ireland, two; Italy, four; Japan, ten; Korea, two; Latvia, one; Lithuania, one; Norway, one; Nova Scotia, six; Palestine, four; Panama, one; Peru, one; Phillippine Islands, one; Poland, four; Porto Rico, five; Roumania, two; Russia, six; South Africa, four; Spain, four; Sweden, three; Switzerland, six; Syria, one; British West Indies, one; Turkey, five; Venezuela, three; Yugoslavia...
Died. Aarvi Nurmi, 26, U. S. census worker, cousin of famed Runner Paavo Nurmi of Finland; found shot through the head near his home in Takoma Park, Md. Died...
...Thirteenth anniversary of Finland's independence...
Austria 158,000 6,526,661 Belgium 64,000 7,923,077 Canada 20,000 9,796,800 Czechoslovakia .... 37,000 14,523,186 Denmark 25,000 3,434,555 Finland 4,000 3,582,406 France 1,000 40,745,874 Germany 3,184,000* 62,348,782 Great Britain 2,100,000 44,173,704 Hungary 20,000 8,368,273 Italy 400,000 40,796,000 Netherlands 25,000 7,625,938 Norway 20,000 2,649,775 Poland 240,000 30,212,962 Palestine 5,000 852,268 Rumania 23,000 17,393,149 Russia...