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Pope Pius XI, whose tight little temporal realm has long been considered immune from depression, last week instituted retrenchments which may eventually save him $3,000.000 per year. First step: a pay cut for 1,000 church employes in Vatican City and Rome. Salaries above 1,000 lire ($82) per month will be slashed 10%; those above 2,000 lire 15%. Thus affected will be 22 resident cardinals who get 100,000 lire per year...
...depend, must be diligently checked by expert scientists and doctors. Then, if the cause is successful elaborate ceremonies are held in St. Peter's in Rome. All this runs to money. The Roman Catholic faithful are giving sums which may eventually total as much as 1,000,000 lire ($70,000) to make a saint of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, foundress of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart,* on whose case hearings were in progress last week at Chicago. Youngest of 13 children, Frances Cabrini was born in Italy in 1850. She founded her sisterhood in 1880. Saved...
...into Fayal. Now came worse. Some say it was the House of Savoy, angered because he dared court Princess Giovanna (today Queen of Bulgaria). Some say it was Italo Balbo, jealous of de Pinedo's acclaim. Some say it was because de Pinedo "forgot" about a half-million-lire fund raised for him by Italo-Americans to buy a new plane. Italo's hero was suddenly, drastically demoted, attached ob- scurely to the embassy in Buenos Aires. There he played polo and hunted. He kept his peace with good grace until this year-the year of Balbo...
Thus began the "re-enactment"' of the first balloon ascension made 150 years ago at Annonay, France by the Brothers Montgolfier. The Montgolfiers' balloon (globe aerostatique) likewise was lifted by hot air. It carried a lire grate beneath the open mouth of the bag to maintain the hot air supply. The Bonettes were commemorating that event, but their balloon relied on its original supply of hot air. At about 3,000 ft. it struck a layer of cold air, began to shrink and descend. That should have been the signal for King Louie to jump with his chute...
Benito Mussolini sent a new seaplane to Manhattan for his messenger to fly home. Meanwhile Pinedo-worshipping Italians raised a half-million lire (about $26,000) to buy a new plane. The money, unused, was lodged in a bank...