POPE Today in Rome Pope Pius the Eleventh was laid to his rest in a crypt beneath the floor of ft.PeterTs. The A utmost of solemnity was enacted, funereal pomp and majesty - the sombre ritual that says farewell to a Pontiff of the Churcn of Kome.^j The funeral story is accompanied by a vivid touch of contrast, the always beguiling contrast of the old and the new, the ancient and the modern. floor of St-^eter's, they made a discovery. They were digging down into the earth, when their pickaxes hit something hard - stone. They uncovered a great slab of stone, and authorities hastily sunmoned identified it as part of the pavement of the older Cathedral of St.Peter's, the one that preceded the present stupendous edifice. That first Church of St.Peter's in Rome was built sixteen centuries ago, in the reign of Constantine the Great, the first Christian Emperor. For long centuries it was the premier cathedral of the western Church. j.n the Middle Ages it fell into ruin, then the Renaissance came on, the Popes, great builders of 'While workmen were excavating the crypt beneath the the period, undertook the tasx of erecting a new St.petert They ?OPB - 2 tore div-n the old edifice, and the present cathedral took its place - the largest church on earth. But still history recalls memories of that other and very ancient St.Peter’s. And today while they were excavating a crypt for Pius the Eleventh, they found a fragment of pavement of that^ssfctlmg built in the reign of Constantine. Nov. the contrast, the new, the modern. This concerns the time-honored way of announcing the election of a new pope, white smoke rising from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel as the ballots are burned, and the public announcement by a cardinal*- 6LJ 'i* speaking from a balcony of St.Peter’s.^ that^ always a climax of drama and suspense - the vast throng waiting, as the cardinal tells thero^and the world who has been elected. This time the world will indeed be told, for the cardinal on the balcony will speak to the four corners of the earth - by radio. That’s the modern innovation - the traditional announceraentIJ » itn -a. radio broadcastl The nev. refugee plan sounds like a large and decisive undertaking. The project was announced today in London by the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees, which represents thirty-two nations. Anc the plan is said to be in accordance 'vti J&tLdL-ic with proposals made bv the Nazi government A huge corporation is to be set up^ bg^-financiers of various nations - Jewish financiers largely. This corporation -- ------------ will float a loan of fcfcroc* three hundred million dollars, this A loan to provide funds for the removal of the oppressed Jewish minority from Hitlers Germany. Refugees are to be taken out a at a yearly rate that will bring about migration of all tne German-Jews in five years. They will be settled in colonial A regions alloted by various powers. And the natural resources of these regions for Jewish immigration will be pledged as security for the international refugee loan. This Is /the plap that yas okayed todiy by th^ Refugee Committee, the plan which thereupon was communicated to/the gTaviy'-r-rarB German government, ^nd all /he :ndidations(>re that ~r T 1 / 7 L Hitler/regime wi^l accept/it, m HffFTJC-EES - 2 i I The nevr h«5ad of the Intergovernmental Refugee Commission is an Englishman, Cir Herbert Emerson. He was appointed today, succeeding the former American head, George S. Hublee^ who resigned. Under its new chieftain, the Committee is prepared to get busy on the job of forming the refugee corporation and floating the international loan. LIBYA Great Britain put in a complaint at Rome today, saying that London doesn’t like the way Rome is sending troops to Libya, It has been reported during the past couple of days that Mussolini \ has been throwing heavy reenforcements into the colony that lies next door to French Tunis. This is regarded as a prelude to a new outbreak of Italian demands on France, Today British Ambassador Lord Perth told Foreign Minister Count Ciano that London considers all those reenforcements to Libya in violation of the British-Italian agreement. Count Ciano is reported to have replied to Lord Perth that Italy has indeed been sending soldiers to Libya, but only to bring the garrison there up to sixty thousand, the normal number. And he added that this normal number was necessary, considering the way France has been sending soldiers to Tunis. 0rd P rth^dded another compiSTlnt, saying that LptfSon t likeway the Italia^nev.spapers are attacking France. To vhiff) Ciano replied that it was the fault ojK France, - infriendly Frenc^ttitude provoking It^riian journalist^ attack SPAI.I; In B.>ain Generalissmo Franco today announced his ne: t drive — v«ir. t V; to be th • final drive to end E.tani, h Civil ’Far. It will start In about three weeks, aroclaims A Franco headquarters, — and it will 1s of overwhelming power, a million men and va.t quantities of vrr materials. The main blow 'will be struck.1 n.fiftrfi& r t liadrid, but there will be other attec&e. A .Hi j*7~i u launched simultaneously — a ainst Valencia, against A1 ria. - s ’ > 1 'jwsssssssak at videjy separated points to divide Republican strength, and converge in a giant pincher operation, T: us t^rnnco publicly proclaims : is new offensive to begin in three weeks PIS T There’s a disarmament controversy in Washington - controversy about a conference. Senator King today spoke up and said? nov, is the time to call one. In this he takes issue1 with Secretary of State Hull, who has stated and restated his opinion that a world conference on disarmament would be a futile and useless thing right now - couldn’t be done, ft*p*-**•>jams uf icnna au0geohc A >i»h * '"fy<iixn?Wi i^T.*r The Secretary of State said f,No11, and nov; Senator King says "Yes”. opinior ," he/declare;d today^^the time^s^ipe international cofiferonce/t^ formulate a plaii^for rmamentX*} When fires are burning, ^ he philosophizes, "it is not a proper policy to refuse to put out the fires." The Senator said the United States should call a conference and that everybody would accept - save Germany, Italy and Japan. But these three powers would thereby be condemned by all the world and would therefore feel compelled to join - in a world move for the limitation of armaments. nKMOCRATS The Democrats in Congress had a caucus today, and proceeded, to wash some party linen. -It wup u accT'et-meefrinQy but fefrei'e piTWty -af repej»ts-- iibLou^ what A fling was taken at the Visite Ho^se, with Democratic Congressmen scolding the President for non-cooperation. He doesnft take trie Democratic lawmakers into his confidence - was the burden of the complaint. Not enough of that conradship, friendly confidence ‘ ^ ‘‘ House toward Congress. legislators v/ho are not on their toes^s^aUim/ "in- .Lr m- Congress. These were told that the Republicans freciuently ha/e an advantage, because the Democratic legions are not there, not on the job, not in their seats in the lower House when votes are taken On your toes, boys - was the gist of the admonition. Thfc Democratic leaders handed out a scolding to > ^ AUTO UNION President Homer Martin of the Auto Union won a fight in court today. He and his o-iL‘.JV>Ta are in the middle of a complicated legal battle v.ith the U.A.v". faction that wants to throw him out, faction is supported by the C.I.O. The focus of the contest A /? A is in & Plymouth loc; 1 of the Auto Workers Union. Martin threv out A the officers of the local,who were thereupon reinstated by the anti-Martin faction tn the C.I.O. Legal proceedings followed to A decide who should have custody of the funds, the property and the records of the Plymouth local. Today in Detroit a Federal Circuit 7^ htlL'vfUs Jud^e decided in favor of Martin. The Court said that group shaj£ have possession of the locals belongings - until the legal proceedings are thrashed out to the end. Jteanwhi 1 e>^IIartin came out today v.itiia i5last saying thatu-'Cbmmunlatfi is spreading IrT^the C• I-iC•, and that John^-aewis is Suraging the EetJs. LA3Oh SCHOOL Today was graduation day in one of the oddest of schools - a labor union school operated by a large employer. At San Francisco, a paraffine company v.ith fifteen hundred employees *I3hLclasses for such of its employees as A A leaders in union activities. The unions the corporation deals with are affiliated with both A. V . of L. and C.I.O. University of California taught the union leader pupils such subjects as current labor history, labor economics, trends in business and labor legislation. As practical class work, the students practiced labor negotiating, held mythical discussions between company and union officials, working out contracts, fighting out each point. One group would represent the company. A class was formed and instructors from the BMK To^ayj the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation began its biggest pay-off. The government has insured bank deposits §■ I' fc against bank failure, and today one of the largest banking institutions in New Jersey is in the hands of *4^ state A authorities for liquidation. The New Jersey Title Guarantee and Trust Company - with too much of its assets tied up in real estate. It has thirty-nine thousand depositors and twenty-five million dollars in deposits. Federal insurance covers every deposit to the amount of five thousand dollars. thousand, so the federal insurance pay-off will come pretty close to the full twenty-five million.- biggest pay-off, which I Most of the deposits in the New Jersey bank are under five began today. SAN FRANCISCO. San Francisco is west, but it was more than that today. The city on the Golden Gate was the old wild west. They opened their fifty million dollar exposition, and did it by reverting to the days of fForty-Nine. Everywhere San Francisco took on the appearance of a mining town, people dressed in the togs of gold rush days and store fronts.disguisited as shacks of a gold camp. Signs hung out with old wild west advertising. One reading - red eye fifteen cents - black eye free. They had a huge parade and then the gate on Treasure Island was unlocked with a key weighing a pound and a half, studded with jewels worth gi&fcyxx thirty-five thousand dollars. A treasure xey unlocking Treasure Islandl HINES The Hines trial in New York spouted with some lively argument today. Prosecutor Tom Dewey hammered away at A defense witness - former New fork Police Commissioner Bolan. The one-time boss of the New York cops denied that he had ever had policemen transferred at the request of Tammany Leader James J. Hines - the prosecutor contending that Hines had cops broken when they started bearing down on Dutch Schultz and his policy racket. The case of one particular officer of the lav. was emphasized, v.ith Bolan denying that this policeman had been transferred at the request of Hines. The former Police Commissioner explained it this way - the cop was having domestic trouble, his wife complaining that he was going around with other women, and she was raising Cain. Did the officer fail to support his wife? Not at all - the maintenance he offered her was so generous, it was suspicious - hov could a cop agree to pay his wife so much? Moreover, the policeman reported for duty euch day in a different suit of clothes - too many suits of clothes. "I drew ray ov.n conclusions from that," said the former head of the New York police HINES _ 2 p* he hah the patrolman transferred. A ^ -^***^0 -£ em District Attorney Dewey thundered at the witness. with questions intimating that Bolan had got his job as Police Commissioner through the influence of the then Tammany Leader, John J* Curry. He lashed at the witness with querries concerning the underworld career of Gangster Dutch Schultz during the time when Bolan was Commissioner. The witness answered that at that time Dutch Schultz did not amount to so much, was just a small -£Jk~ time gyp. He seh he heard of the mobster considered the Dutch Schultz exploits mostly newspaper t 1L. The argument between Prosecutor and witness waxed hot and heavy, with Defense Attorney Lloyd Stry er roaring into the argument with demands a mistrial. Trice he demanded a mistrial, but the judge turned him down. In the previous Hines trial, Stryker made banner headlines by demar/-ixig a mistrial - an"' getting it. DOMESTIC HereTs one for the home and happiness column. At New |ritain, Connecticut, Stanley Andrukiewicz, who is eighteen years old, played his radio long and loud — too long and loud for his mother, Mrs. Andrukiewicz. To stop it, she took one of the tubes out of the radio set and hid it. That irked young Andrukiewicz and he retaliated by hiding his motherT s false teeth. As a result of the m ensuing argument, days in jail. the judge today gave A /4 mmm VLDDING £t. Valentine’s Day is a good, time to announce a wedding, so today we hear about the marriage of a farmer and his wife. This matrimonial topic comes under the heading of journalism, a merger of two of the largest agricultural papers in the United States. One - the FARM JOURNAL. The other - the rural publication called the FARMER’S WIFE* They’re not a young couple, the groom is sixty-two years old, the bride is forty-two. They’re a large couple. The FARM JOURNAL has a circulation of a million and four hundred thousand, while the circulation of the FARMER’S WIFE is a million and two hundred thousand. Together, they make the largest agricultural magazine that has ever existed. The name of this largest publication Is - the FARM JOURNAL AND THE FARMER’S V,rIFE. Hi Ho the Merry-0, The Farmer takes a Wife. <2 h JI »*i.