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...have spurred Ethiopian patriotism with tidings that the Italians had executed Ethiopian Coptic Bishop Petros. Just as "Gore, Western Ethiopia," was becoming an accepted date line, however, it was discovered to be a fake. Cunning correspondents in Egypt had rightly guessed that U. S. editors would prefer dispatches from the seat of the "Gore Government" to the mess of rumors about it which today is all they can genuinely...
Another Vatican Voice: A transatlantic telephone call took place between Father Coughlin and a Vatican official. If, after a private warning to Father Coughlin, it becomes necessary to transfer him to another diocese, the Holy Father would prefer to make the transfer himself rather than take any action which might reflect upon Bishop Gallagher...
...giving the tenants and sharecroppers weekly orders at community grocery stores during the winter months when gardens are impos- sible, paying doctor bills for the sick, burying the dead, as well as bailing [offenders] out of ail when necessary. These are a few items hat the social agitators prefer to leave unmentioned in their "demonstrations for the poor." . . . Miss Blagden may or may not have been a paid social agitator, but that her sole purpose in coming to another State was to hold funeral over a mythical Negro's body is absurd. ... I doubt very much if she actually...
...Hereafter, to theatres which pay $10 for the privilege of having them, children may go, unaccompanied by adults, up to 6 p. m. during school months, up to 7 p. m. in the summer. Ushers will direct them to a special section near the screen where children, unlike adults, prefer to sit. A qualified matron, licensed by the city, will see to it that they sit in their own section, behave properly while there...
...straight from jail to Bucking ham Palace, Sir Samuel declared bluntly that he would give India just so much additional freedom and no more. "If this displeases you. Mr. Gandhi," said the Secretary of State for India. "I shall not take it in the least amiss if you prefer that we do not meet again...