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GENERAL NEWS OF DAY Dr Eduard Benes former president of the Czechoslovak republic has accepted an in ¬ vitation to become a visiting professor at the University of Chicago and deliver a se ¬ ries of lectures on democratic institutions Benes lectures here will be under the spon ¬ sorship of the Charles R Walgreen Founda ¬ tion Gustav Rumrich U S army deserter has confessed that he joined a Nazi spy ring to steal American defense secrets Friday night dancing parties In twelve The dances will be held in the gymnasiums from 830 p m to midnight and admission will be ten cents for each person personThirteen Thirteen type O47 airplanes are to he given to 108th Observation Squadron of the Illinois National Guard by the U S Air Corps The first of these planes arrived in Chicago Sunday SundayFour Four Germans one of them a girl secre ¬ tary nineteen years of age have been jailed in default of 15000 bail each on a charge of photographing fortifications in the vital Canal Zone in violation of the United States espionage act actDr Dr John Barrett seventyone years old credited by many with doing more than any other person of his generation to promote closer relations among the American repub ¬ lics died Sunday of bronchial pneumonia at Bellows Falls Vt I A cablegram from England brings word of the death of Sir Henry Fowler designer of the famed Royal Scot locomotives of i the London Midland and Scottish railroad I Cardinal George Mundelein archbishop of Chicago received a tumultous welcome when j legate of Pope Piux XL at the eighth Na ¬ tional Eucharistic Congress that opened Monday
