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Show Air Crackles With Vireless Near Deer Kick Italian Sailors Vent Violent Objections Ob-jections to Being Deprived of Wine Ration NEW YORK, American alcoholic aridity caused a terrible storm in mid-ocean mid-ocean today. Torrents of Italian Idioms and thundering comments on near beer drenched the ether with such a wireless wire-less tnesssge as no ons ever received before. It made the well known tempest tem-pest in a teapot look trifling. Tho radio disturbance emanated from the steamer Vlndobona. which recently left this port and It ended In the offices of the ship's agents here. These stents, when the Italian crew complained that its win ration had become exhausted, provided the beat available substitute before the ship sailed. "Never again!" crackled over the wireless aiter the sailors progressed 00 miles with nothing but near beer snJ water to quench their thirst. "We pledge ourselves never to return to America while Us laws agalnat good wine remain In force. We will see no crew ever brlnss the Vlndobona back to meet the horrora we have met. var again'" i . The ships agents hoped the crew meant what It said. When the sailors were here, the agrnta explained, they demanded shore leavea. theatre tickets, tick-ets, newspaiMTS In three language delivered on deck, and new cloihea to wear while on leave. Then, after they bad been at sea two days, furred th skipper lo put lack, claiming that th ship was leaking. leak-ing. When they returned they complained com-plained that their win was gone. Thumbs went down on all talk of supplying liquids compatible with change In th constitution. Finally, th crew grudgingly accepted 1!0 canes of near beer snd sailed once more. |