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Show NAMES I in the news . . . C Gov. Culbert Olson of California told President Roosevelt that "progressive "pro-gressive democracy" in his state "demanded a third-term nomination." nomina-tion." Roosevelt third-termites won a 3 to 1 victory in the California Democratic primary, to Olson's delight de-light C The Pope, addressing 5,000 pil-grims pil-grims in Vatican City, in large part newlyweds, feared the war would spread, and advocated peace by prayer. He added that the world was "poisoned by disloyalty." ft Henry Dixon Cowell, internationally international-ly famous pianist, got out of St. Quentin jail in sunny California.' The modernistic composer served only three and a half years of a 15-year 15-year sentence. Cowell was paroled. His was said to be a "morals offense." of-fense." ft Unknown Soldiers & Sufferers in Berlin were running out of tobacco, beer, wine. Customers stood in line, angry women were "downge-turned," "downge-turned," and tobacco retailers were cut to a third of their wholesale whole-sale purchases. Berliners have been allowed 10 cigarettes and two cigars, per man, per day. ft King Carol of Rumania seized all Polish gold now deposited in the Rumanian Ru-manian national bank. This, said Carol's mouthpiece, was to pay off Polish debts to Rumania, and to help support Polish refugees in Carol's Car-ol's kingdom. Poles in other lands were enraged. ft Wendell Willkie, Republican presidential pres-idential (outside) possibility, received re-ceived a gold medal from the National Na-tional Institute of Social Sciences in New York. James West, Boy Scouts chief executive, and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Woman Suffrage association as-sociation chief, also were "in the gold." Willkie made a speech declaring de-claring we should help the allies every way. short of entering the war. He said America ought to hand a "brass-knuckle" to the democ-racies. democ-racies. One critic answered tha' perhaps Hitler already had handec the democracies a "Mickey Finn." |