Telephones, Radio

A recent present to Pope Pius XI from potent International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. was a complete telephone system for the new Papal State.

At the Vatican last week papal dignitaries claimed that with 800 telephones and 500 citizens the Papal State now has more telephones per capita than any other nation. In His Holiness' private study, they announced, electricians will soon set up a solid gold telephone of more than usual size, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, emblazoned with the papal arms on a great gold disc.

Vatican report also said that the private radio broadcaster now being installed for the Pope will be one of the most powerful on earth, raising hopes that people will hear the voice of the Supreme Pontiff when his station is dedicated June 29.

Signer Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of transmission without wires and a devout Catholic, is daily supervising installation of the papal radio apparatus in a special one-story building from which sprout antennae 180 ft. high (but not higher than the dome of St. Peter's, 435 ft.).

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