Evening star., 1936-04-12
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Christians throughout the world
today proclaimed the resurrection of
Jesus of Nazareth with appropriate
ceremonies bringing to a close the
annual 40 days of Lenten mourning.
Contrasting with the more somber
character of the pre-Easter religious
observanceS, preparations at home
and abroad were made for joyful
Sunday holiday.
From the Vatican City. seat of the
Catholic Church. came an appeal for
world peace, addressed to all the ma
tions through the newspaper Osserva-
tore Romano. The paper lamented
that:
Our dramatic world continues to
exchange the cult of life for the cult
of fire and force.
Force, placed above the laws OF
justice. has come to be the supreme
law of history . y"
War in Africa.
Across the Mediterranean and half
of Africa armed forces of Italy's Mus
solini relentlessly pursued the appar-
emily depleted forces accompanying
Emperor Halle Selassie in Northern
Ethiopia.
At London Queen Mary expressed
the wish that all save the court
should go out of mourning for the
late King, George v, after Easter.
In Moscow Easter services were con-
Quoted last night without interference
from the government or the Com
mInist party.
The SO churches still functioning in
Moscow were crowded, with the prin-
cipal services scheduled for midnight
when there we're to be the usual pro-
cessions around the buildings after
the announcement: Christ has risen"
Fashionable New Workers, paraders
along Chicago's Michigan boulevard,
movie folk in Hollywood-in fact, per-
sons in all walks of hfe-greeted
Easter with Sunday best, hopeful that
favorable weather forecasts for the
day would be borne out.
Special services will be held aboard
all the larger warships in Uncle Sans
battle fleet, and Easter will be OBJ
served at Army posts.
Sunrise Services.
From far-fung corners of Christen-
dom came pilgrims to Jerusalem and
Palestine Huge crowds participated
in Holy Saturday professions yester-
day and awaited Easter services at
the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
and other churches in the Holy City.
In hundreds of cities and towns In
the United States, sunrise services
were planned for out of doors gather
ings.
The Oxford Group movement, per-
sons interested in a revival of doc
trines of the last century, calling for
honesty and purity in relations among
peoples, gathered for a mass demon
stration at Svendborg, Denmark.
Twenty nations were represented
among the participants. with leaders
looking for a total attendance up to
10000.
Dawn is expected to attract 10000
persons to a vast natural amphithea-
ter, % miles northwest of Lawton,
Okla, to see presented the drama of
the nativity and death of Jesus of
Nazareth.
The 500 angels" will appear upon
the mountainside at $3.50 am, de-
scending to the little stable OF Beth
lehem, where the Christ Child lies.
The mountains will echo to the notes
of 1000 voices, singing in the prelude.
Tableaux depicting the dramatic
events in the life and death of the
Nazarene Carpenter will follow. The
resurrection scene will be presented
at dawn
100000 to Attend Rites.
At Los Angeles, as dawn breaks,
100000 to 10000 Southern Cali
fornians will be at worship in open
air services.
Trumpet figures will herald the ris-
ing sun from the ocean to the desert.
From Mount Helix Amphitheater.
near San Diego, the broadcast OF the
nineteenth annual Easter sunrise serv-
ice will be picked up by six short
wave stations and relayed to other
countries, starting at 5:29 am. Paci-
fic standard tine) minute after SUM-
rise.
At Hollywood Bowl, an hours ma
tional broadcast starts at am.
Similar attendance is looked for at
Los Angeles Coliseum, where a pro-
gram sponsored by the Federation of
Church Brotherhood of California in
cludes Gov. Frank F. Merriam and
President Leo J. Muir of the Los An
geles Mormon Church.
POPE ABANDONS CUSTOM.