Death of Alfonso XIII Ends Exiled Spanish King’s Life
Alfonso XIII died at 11 50 A M in the Grand Hotel Rome surrounded by family and priests. The former king fled Spain after the republic's rise and watched Franco’s regime. Queen Victoria and his sons Jaime and Don Juan were at the deathbed.
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Rome
Alfonso XIII
Giovannia Colazza
Alfonso
United States
Spain
Francisco Franco
Victoria
Jaime
Don Juan
Franco
Fonso
Don Gonzalo
Fall of a Bourbon: Alfonso XIII’s Heir and Tragic Loss
The text recounts Alfonso XIII’s heir Alphonse, eldest son and Prince of Asturias, dying in a 1938 Miami car crash with Mildred Gaydon, after renouncing his crown rights to wed a commoner. It notes Alfonso XII’s death six months before his birth in 1886 and the Bourbons’ fading European dynasty.
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Carinthia
Austria
Alphonse
Miami
Fla
Prince of Asturias
Mildred Gaydon
Merry Mildred
Alfonso
Alfonso XII
Europe
Heir of Gort Found Dead in Dorset Village
Lieutenant Charles Standish Vereker eldest son of Lord Gort was found dead with a service pistol in Corfe Mullen Dorset. The 29 year old officer, one of the last removed from Dunkirk, was the heir to the Gort title. His father serves as inspector general of the forces for training and aide de camp to King George VI.
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London
Charles Standish Vereker
Lord Gort
England
Dunkerque
Corfe Mullen
Dorset
George VI
Harry Hatch Named Texas Hospital Association President
Harry Hatch administrator of Northwest Texas Hospital in Amarillo will be installed president of the Texas Hospital Association in Dallas tomorrow after being elected at the 1940 convention in San Antonio. He and other Northwest Texas and St. Anthony's representatives attend the Dallas meeting. Alden B. Mills of Modern Hospital Publishing planned to accompany him to Amarillo for a Sunday visit, but the trip was postponed due to unexpected assignments.
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Harry Hatch
Northwest Texas Hospital
Amarillo
Texas Hospital Association
Dallas
Hatch
San Antonio
Northwest Texas
St. Anthony’s
Alden B. Mills
Modern Hospital Publishing Company of
Chicago
Union Men Only on Job at Camp Wallace Work Site
Galveston February 28 United Press unions rule Camp Wallace near Hitchcock requires union men or those who have applied for union membership to work on the seven million dollar military replacement center project. Judge Charles G. Dibrell upheld the agreement between the building trades council and Wohfeld Dalton Dellone, ordering the contractors to discharge non union workers in groups of at least fifty over the weekend unless they hold union permits.
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Galveston
U.P
Camp Wallace
Hitchcock
Charles G. Dibrell
Galveston Building and Construction Trades Council
Wohfeld-Dalton-Dellone
Dibrell
Sewall Meyer
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Sale of Ladies
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Levine Day Sale
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