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1939-02-12 [P A-4] Chicago boarded the Italian liner connections with the Neptunla—»nd Rex about 30 minutes before sail* fo Honor Two U. S. Italian line officials said he could— Three Bombs Set Off Congress Cardinals lng time (2 p.m.) after a whirlwind the prelate will arrive in Rome in Journey from Florida, where he was on vacation. He was whisked from time to participate in the election. of On the station to the behind a The In Ship Carrying Memory Pope High Seas Bound pier balloting for a new Pope escort. police must begin not less than 15 nor Dennis Cardinal of Dougherty more than 18 days after the death Irish to Game For First lime For Election Philadelphia motored to New York, Rugby Papal of the accompanied by the Rev. Salvator pontiff. It was believed the M. and went to his cabin ceremonies would not start until Stands Are Searched for Senate and House Cardinal O'Connell Will Burgio, in the Rex immediately upon his February 28, the last day possible Explosives Before To Adopt Resolutions Leave arrival at 10:30 am. under church law, in order to give Wednesday William Cardinal O'Connell of American cardinals time to reach Start of Match And Adjourn From New York Boston is aboard the Cunard liner Rome. Brittanlc, which is scheduled to ar- The Right Rev. Stephen J. Dona- By the Associated Press. The American Congress, for the By the Associated Press. rive here Monday from Nassau, the hue, administrator of the New York LONDON, Feb. 11.—Police took first time in history, will officially NEW YORK. Feb. 11—Two of Bahamas. He has booked passage archdiocese, and the Very Rev. J special precautions against terrorists recognize tomorrow the death of a the three United States cardinals Wednesday on the Italian liner Francis McIntyre, chancellor, met today at the England-Ireland rugby supreme sovereign of the Roman were on the high seas tonight Saturnia. The Saturnia is due to Cardinal Mundelein upon his ar- match at Twickenham following ex- Catholic Church, and pay its mark bound for Rome and participation reach Gibraltar at noon February rival from Florida. bombs aboard in plosion of incendiary of respect to the late Pope Pius XI. the solemn ceremonies attend- 26, the same day the Neptunia, Mayor La Guardia today ordered steamer St. David, as it brought In both Senate and is ant the House, it upon the selection of a suc- bearing South American cardinals, all flags on city buildings at half- fans, cessor 1.000 passengers, mostly rugby planned to adopt resolutions of to the late Pope Pius XI. arrives there. staff until the mass for the late across the Irish Sea. condolence and immediately ad- George Cardinal Mundelein of If Cardinal O'Connell can make Pope is ended. ■' Three bombs were set off in the journ. The unprecedented cere- IMf. ■■■■■ third-class saloon, but caused only monies in the Senate will be direct- trifling damage. ed by Senator Wagner, Democrat, On arrival of the boat train at of New York and in the House by Paddington Station Scotland Yard Representative Shanley, Democrat, men took six men and a woman to a of Connecticut. police station for questioning as Available records at the Capitol, curb bomb- part of the campaign to dating back to 1880. show none of ing terrorism laid to the outlawed the three popes who died since Irish Republican Army. that time—Leo XIII, Pius X and At Twickenham. London suburb, PROTEST EMBARGO—Two hundred cars carried Benedict XV—was so I signs protesting the embargo against Loyalist honored. In detectives searched the stands for that period, however, j Spain in a parade here yesterday. These girls’, holding caricature masks of Mussolini, Hitler and recognition bombs before the game and required was officially taken of the death or Franco, are in front of a huge placard carried on a truck. Left to are Ruth all persons carrying bags parcels standing right, they of five secular sovereigns of foreign to submit to inspection. (Ireland ! Weiner, Virginia Sobotka and Janet Matosoff. Several members of the group visited the Senate nations — Great Britain's Queen won the 5 to 0.) game, Foreign Relations Committee office with petitions said to bear over 200.000 signatures urging Victoria, King Edward VII, King In London, river police arrested Senator George V, President Paul Doumer a abandonment of the embargo. Pittman, the chairman, was absent, and they plan to two men after receiving report of France and King Albert I of that terrorists were plotting to dyna- return later. —Associated Press Photo. Belgium. mite London Bridge over the Restored Power. Thames. Temporal demands a Palermo that blessed Peter Skegness police investigated the the post, which vigorous occupies himself chiefly established right One of the reasons advanced as 67. with the of has successors in his third fire in three weeks at a sea- person. He is problems Orientalism, perpetual to why tlie American Congress prob- A cardinal who which can well be studied in over the universal church, never side vacation camp, where damage slightly younger Sicily, primacy ably paid its respect to the known in the United States is where Palermo is. He is a famous or that the Roman is not of a was estimated at $200,000. is pontiff memory former pope In that Eugenio Pacelli. 63. who. as papal theologian and jurist, a quiet worker, the successor of blessed Peter in period, is that between 1871 and secretary of state, occupies a posi- unlike Cardinal Ascalesi at Naples, this same primacy—let him be 1929, the spiritual head of tlie Cardinals tion of such importance that almost who is one of the most noted orators anathema.” Roman Catholic Church exercised automatically he must be consid- in the church in Italy. Cardinal The placing of ihe election of no sovereign power. It was not until ^Continued From First ! Page ered a likely choice for the high post. Ascalesi is very popular with his the Pope in the hands of the cardi- 1929, it was pointed out, that the Cardinal Pacelli visited the United flock beciHise of his easy accessi- nals was a gradual evolution. St. Italian government, through the the Vatican than at today any papal States in the fall of 1936, spent a bility. He has been at Naples since Cornelius was elected the 21st Pope Lateran treaties approved by Pre- election since 1878, when the Cardi- 1923. day in Washington, was the guest in 251 AD. by the comprovincial mier Mussolini, restored the tem- nals chose as the successor of Pius of the President and toured the Cardinal Schuster Now 59. bishops, the clergy and the people poral power of the pope, ex- IX the Giocchino papal camerlenga, country by air. Ildefonso Schuster, archbishop of ! of Rome. In 824 Lothair the Holy tinguished in 1871, and created the Vincenzo Raffaele who Luigi Pecci, Milan, a northern diocese, now is Roman Emperor extracted an oath state of the Vatican City of which XIII. Then the Has Shown Ability Already. j became Leo Pope re- from the Romans that none should Pope Pius XI became the He is papal camerlengo, the same 59. He has been leading the sovereign had but recently been shorn of his be named without the ruler. position held by Leo XIII before ligious life since he was 11, when Pope per- temporal authority. Italy was a mission of his ambassador. Senator his election. He has already shown his mother entrusted him to the Wagner’s resolution of new united nation. The nationalist the 13th the choice condolence has his ability in dealing with the Ger- j Benedictines. In 1918 he became By century not been completed. leaders wanted the Italian govern- the Benedictine of with the cardinals. But the one to be mans. of his tri- abbott of Abbey generally lay offered in the of One diplomatic ment to dominate the selection St. Paul, in the of The secrecy which is practiced to- House umphs was the negotiation of a neighborhood by Representative Shanley Pius' follower. But, just in time to in the dates from reads as concordat between Protestant Prus- Rome. The abbey was subject to no day balloting follows: distract official attention from the had the Council of of 1274. which "Be it sia and the Holy See, in 1929. His bishop's authority. The abbott Lyons resolved, that the House of election. King Victor Emmanuel died issued the decree ''Tibi of elevation to a cardinalate was in great authority, which Schuster periculum.” Representatives the United and war broke out between Russia he came 1 This that the elec- States has reward for this work. He was made wielded so well that under provided during learned with the pro- and Turkey. of Benedict XV. tion the cardinals should be se- foundest of sorrow and nuncio to the new German republic the notice Pope shock of In the of the political atmosphere in 1920. Pius XI summoned him to Closeness to the papal throne cluded from the world under death of His Holiness. Pope will the Cardinals feel that the 1939, Rome in 1930. brought him many duties immedi- stringent regulations till they had Pius XI, supreme spiritual sovereign next successor in the See of St. Peter XI fulfilled their of of the Pacelli has been a tireless worker ately involving the Vatican. Pius duty providing Roman Catholic Church and should possess the qualities of pru- found him as valuable as had Bene- the world with a the Vicar of Christ. for world peace. He never ceased to | supreme pastor.
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