IRISH FREE STATE: Happy House painters

Grey Dublin shone in brilliant color to two happy housepainters last week. From New York arrived Housepainter Henry Frank to receive a £30,000 prize from the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes (see p. 17). Pleased indeed was he to learn that the fall of the dollar since the drawing had made his prize worth $20,000 more than he had expected. Gratefully he handed a check for £1,000 to Sir Joseph Glynn, president of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, for Dublin's paupers.

Same day Dublin's Dail took pity upon Housepainter Peadar Cearnaigh (Peter Kearney). Inflamed...

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