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...Latter-day Saints; in his native Salt Lake City. Son of an associate of Mormon Founder Joseph Smith, one of the last who saw Brigham Young, plain, gentle, white-thatched Apostle Clawson served most of a four-year Federal sentence for bigamy committed in 1883. Long an able hierarch, in his lifetime he traveled 576,000 miles on church business...
...Month ago he reportedly made a vain effort to present in person the Hearst case to George William Cardinal Mundelein. Last week, the American began a series of articles on "The Youth Problem" by well-loved Bishop Bernard J. Sheil, founder of the Catholic Youth Organization and ranking Chicago hierarch during Cardinal Mundelein's absence in Rome. Some Catholic friends of the Guild angrily assailed this kind of "scabbery," but a quiet word from Bishop Sheil's office stopped them. He I wrote the articles last summer, and Guildsmen were given to understand that he was surprised...
...Charles Edward Coughlin as a priest of the Roman Catholic Church. One is aged and ailing Pope Pius XI. The other is the bishop of Father Coughlin's own diocese, aged but spunky Michael James Gallagher. Without the explicit consent of one of these, no other Roman Catholic hierarch, be he bishop, archbishop, or cardinal, can touch a hair of the Royal Oak, Mich, radiorator's unruly head. Completely unofficial has been the bitter and well-publicized criticism of Father Coughlin by Boston's conservative old William Cardinal O'Connell (TIME...
Died. Dion O'Bannion, 32, hierarch of crooks, gangsters, gunmen, shot by three unidentified young men in his flower store, Chicago. At his interment were 26 truckloads of flowers, 1,000 automobiles, 10,000 people. His body reposed in a $10,000 coffin overlaid with gold and silver filigree, heaped with flowers said to have cost over $25,000. Largest offering of all was a seven-foot wall of carnations labeled, "To our pal-from the gang." Because the doors of the Holy Name Cathedral (where he once served as an altar boy) were closed against the funeral, "services...