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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1939
Page
1
Vatican City crowds exceed 200000 as Pope Pius XI lies in state in the Chapel of the Sacrament. Burial now moved to Tuesday night with elaborate rites planned in St Peter's grottoes. Army helps carabinieri manage worshipers in vast papal square.
Donna Camilla Ratti sister of the late Pope Pius XI was confined to her bed under a physician care after the pontiff death. She collapsed at the death bed kissed the dead pontiff and was taken to a nunnery for treatment. Count Franco Ratti the Pope's nephew remains president of the Vatican central council.
Monsignor Augustin Volosin, premier of autonomous Carpatho Ukraine, outlines a vision for a Ukrainian state. The statement frames regional autonomy and national identity within a broader European context. Volosin emphasizes self determination, security, and cultural distinctiveness of the Carpatho Ukrainian region.
Washington February 12 The Roosevelt administration outlined a peace strategy to quell a Democratic revolt in both chambers and win passage of the White House program. Key leaders will brief President Roosevelt as House Speaker Bankhead and leaders Barkley Rayburn Garner plan caucuses to unite the party. Dissidents object to appointments, foreign aid, and a new relief fund of 150 million dollars amid urging a less militant posture.
Illinois faces an unchecked influenza surge with more than 125000 ill, mostly mild chest cold cases lasting five to seven days. In Chicago over 100000 students and teachers are ill. Champaign Urbana reports 2000 cases and Peoria 5000. Some towns closed schools as a precaution.
West Virginia lawmakers shelved wage and hour legislation, with a 40 hour week and 25 cent minimum wage deemed unsuitable for state needs. The permanent registration bill faces delay, and other labor measures appear dead or postponed while miners certification shifts to the state mines department.
Generalissimo Chiang Kai shek warned that Japanese domination of Hainan would begin broader Pacific seizure threatening U S and British interests. He cited risks to Hongkong Singapore Australia and naval bases at Hawaii and Singapore and noted French Britain protests over seizure near French Indo China.
Halfway through West Virginia's legislative session lawmakers have largely stuck to serious business with only a few eccentric proposals. Delegate Jones models a 50 cent head tax on cats over eight months, with impounding duties for unpaid amounts, while cock-fighting intrigue surfaces in bids to legalize the activity and a counter resolution to force a courtroom demonstration.
Madrid reports the Spanish government calls for united resistance as Insurgents advance toward Madrid. In Perpignan a 35,000 strong government army holds high Pyrenees positions amid harsh winter, supplying troops and remaining defiant against Franco forces.
Pittsburgh report on February 12 describes the death of two of four quadruplets born to Mrs. Ralph Pennetti. The first born boy died at birth and the second boy died after being placed in an oxygen tent. The two surviving girls Geraldine and Bernadine were in good condition at the hospital.
Three thousand people escaped unharmed when part of the Duluth amphitheater roof collapsed due to snow on the roof during a hockey game. Four were injured including three boys cut by glass and a woman with an ankle injury as the front half caved in.
President Roosevelt's rearmament program faces House action Tuesday with a $300 million war planes bill, $23 million for Panama defenses, and $32.5 million for educational orders. Senate support appears likely. foreign policy controversy lingers after White House denials and a Senate committee briefing.
The U S fleet begins a three week test of Panama canal defenses from Guantanamo Cuba with an attacking white force under Admiral Kalbfus set to sail for sea rendezvous. President Roosevelt may witness portions of the simulated conflict from the Cruiser Houston as plans call for his departure from Washington.
Secretary of State Hull told the so called Fascist triangle Germany Italy and Japan that the United States will meet any attack with determined defense and resistance. He spoke from a sick bed for a World Fair radio program stressing human and property rights as the basis of international relations. He urged peaceful adjustment over armed conflict and warned the nation’s interests could be challenged while pledging peace and restraint.
George Rublee, head of the International Refugee Committee, said Hitler promised to ease bars on Jews in German trade and industry if the emigration plan is accepted. He noted a political truce pending the committee's decision and cited a likely 15 percent of capital Jews might take abroad.
Miss Laurena Murray, 22, was killed when her car left the Whitesville Madison road and went over a 40 foot embankment into a creek. Her sister Lillian, 18, suffered a broken neck and other injuries and is hospitalized in Madison with three fractured cervical vertebrae. The body was taken to Valley mortuary Whitesville. Services set for 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Baptist church Rev O E Stump officiating. Burial in Mordue cemetery. Parents Mr and Mrs J E Murray and brothers John Conway and Ashley survive.
New York February 12 AP the Twentieth Century fund reports that a small group of corporate executives collect salaries up to one thousand dollars a day and receive nearly half of profits while stockholders get less. The four year study for the monopoly committee cites 1933 executive pay around two billion dollars, five times corporate income tax.
In Indiana, Hoosiers honor Nancy Hanks Lincoln with a memorial service and wreaths on her grave near Lincolns birthplace. The state plans a 1,200 acre woodland park to recall her frontier life as Floyd I McMurray praises her influence on Lincoln and cites his remark I owe to my angel mother.
Associated Press notes memorial ceremonies nationwide commemorating Abraham Lincoln's birth. Speakers praised his humanitarian principles and urged adherence to his legacy.
The Ohio legislature faces a possible retaliatory move from West Virginia if Ohio passes a law requiring use of Ohio coal in state institutions. West Virginia's bill, introduced by House Speaker Kay Thomas, cleared the House and sits in the Senate judiciary committee with final action postponed until Ohio acts.
Nearly 1,000 lawyers were on WPA nationwide with thousands more in need of work to avert starvation, Seymour Karantman of New York told the national meeting of the lawyers guild in Chicago.
New York February 12 A remark by Col James Chaney confirms preliminary findings that technical defects were not to blame for the Mitchel Field crash after a record transcontinental flight. Pilot Lieut Benjamin Kelsey suffered only lacerations and shock and was kept in seclusion at Col Keith Simpson’s residence. An armed guard patrolled the premises as investigators weigh human fatigue amid nonstop flying.
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