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The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-12-25
Top 1853 Events
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April
Half million persons from all
over world attended the National
Eucharistic Congress at Sydney
I Australia, marking 150th anniver.
sary of the first public Mass in
Australia In his Easter message to
the world, Pope Plus asked the
faithful to spread Christ's love in
a world still on deadly paths of
hatred"
A prisoner of war exchange in
Korea disclosed U.S.-born Bishop
Patrick J. Byrne. MN, Apostolic
Delegate to Korea, died of pneu-
monia while Red prisoner on No
yember %, 1850. Britain's beloved
Dowager Queen Mary died.
May
US. Catholic population was list
ed at 30,425,015 by the 1858 Off
cial Catholic Directory. Four Cardi-
mails, 40 Bishops were at two-day
rites in Utrecht, Holland. marking
the centenary of the Dutch Hier-
archy's reestabIishment, while TO-
900 attended Catholic Congress
in Copenhagen, Denmark, where
the Vicariate of Denmark was rails
ed to the status of diocese.
FIR. Floyd Keeler, II, a great
grandfather and former Protestant
minister, was ordained in Rich
mond, Va. Delegates to the 43rd
annual Catholic Press Association
convention in Atlantic City, NJ,
heard us. Ambassador to the UN
Henry Cabot Lodge assert the UN
owes much to the Catholic Church
and reelected FIR. Thomas A. Nee
han of Chicago, president.
June
Fr. John j. Fitzpatrick, Florida
Catholic editor, asked President
Eisenhower to seek permission of
Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito for
American physicians to examine
Cardinal Stepinac, Archbishop of
Zagreb, reported gravely i'll. Queen
Elizabeth lis coronation ceremon-
les served to recall England'S Cath
olic past.
Premier Alcide de Gasperi'S
forces won a hairline majority in
the Italian elections. Poland's Pri-
mate Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski
called on his faithful to be ready
to die in resisting state pressure,
in a strong protest against the Red
regime. Raleigh's Bishop Vincent
S. Waters ordered an end to racial
segregation in all Churches in his
North Carolina diocese.
July
With way cleared. National Cath
Ollie Welfare Conference sent two
us. physicians, John H. Lawrence,
u. of California atomic medicine
expert, and John F. Ruzic, Chicago,
to examine ailing Cardinal Stepi-
nae at Krasic, YugoSlavia. The
Booth anniversary of establishment
of Norway's Hierarchy was cele-
brated at Trondheim. A survey
showed only 594 of one-time $500
foreign missioners still in Red Chi
ma. Charges of communist infiltra-
tion in Protestant clergy ranks
were discussed by religious lead
erS, members of Congress.
Death struck down: Hilarie Bel
loo, 81, giant of Catholic literature,
at Guildford, England.
Pope Plus approved plan for
world congress of Our Lady's So
dalities in Rome in 1854. A truce
was effected in the Korean con
flict.
August
After Congress passed a com
promise bill admitting 214,000 ref
ugees to us. over three-year peri
cd, the National Catholic Resettle.
ment Council fixed a goal of 130,-
600 homejob guarantees for Cath
olic participation in program.
Yearbook of American Churches
fixed us. church membership at
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-12-25

also a member of the same parish
who was renamed viee-president of
the club.
Other officers elected were Paul
Tracey, treasurer and Jack An
glim, secretary. On the board of
trustees are prominent Catholic
men of Columbus including Bern
ard Hodapp; I. Vincent Martin;
John Murphy; George Igel, Jr.,
and John Crawford. Larry Muir
name remains as chairman of the
board. Father William E. Kap-
pes is spiritual director of the
club.
A special program saIutins
Evening star., 1953-09-02

will be set in the Virginia capital.
In Maryland the death of a
74-year-old farmer in his field
near Cumberland was attributed
to the heat yesterday. The VIC
tim of a heart attack probably
brought on by the heat" was
the verdict of DR.. Joseph Rose
brough, the local medical ex-
aminer reported.
Baltimore Lacks Water.
At Baltimore at least three
suburban sections were plagued
with acute water scarcities, all
though the city itself exper-
fenced temperatures five or SIX
degrees under those forecast for
yesterday afternoon.
The drought in the Washing
ton area will reach record pro-
portions for this season unless
an unexpected break occurs.
weather men said.
The parched condition of the
surrounding countryside may
affect food prices well into the
fall, according to current esti-
mates.
Fruit and late produce crops
are deteriorating daily, along
with dairy pasture lands. Pas
lures in this area are at their
lowest point since 1880.
Authorities in Virginia and
(See WEATHER. Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1953-09-02
Miracle Man Found Who Lived
At Hiroshimu A-BIust Center

jured, to stagger through the
shambles of the devastated city
to his wrecked home a mile
away.
He has been closely questioned
by the Hiroshima authorities
whom the macabre mood of
japanese pride over the magni-
tude of the disaster-are in
clined to be petulant at the dis
covery that a single person sur
vived the blast within the fatal
area of total extinction.
They have been reluctantly
persuaded that he is telling the
truth, just as the scientists of
the Atomic Bomb Casualty Com
mission, after careful examina-
tion, are perplexedly satisfied
that he is in good health.
The Hiroshima Atomic Bomb
Memorial Committee has asked
Nomura to submit a detailed ac-
count of his miraculous escape
from an experience no other liy-
ing person has shared.
Evening star., 1953-09-02
Hunt Begun for Plane Missing
With n Soldiers, ? Civilians
Aircraft Search Rugged Pacific Area;
Croft Last Heard From Over Portland

overdue at McChord with it's load
of soldiers from Fort Ord, Calf,
but the pilot made no mention
of being in trouble.
It's next scheduled report
point was at Toledo, 65 miles
north of Portland and about half
way to McChord, but no radio
contact ever was made there.
Regina Airlines officials in
Seattle said the plane would
have exhausted it's fuel supply
by 800 pm. This, and the pos
Sibility it had encountered diff
f1culty en- route to Portland, led
to the belief the plane probably
came down somewhere between
Portland and Toledo.
The area is rough, wooded and
laced with rivers. Only a short
distance to the east of the flight
course rise the ragged lofty
peaks of the Cascade Mountains.
The ceiling was 4,500 feet over
Portland when the plane last re-
ported, but declined to 1900 feet
over McChord at that time. A
few hours later the cloud layer
had dropped to 500 feet.
The public information officer
at Fort Ord Replacement Center
said the soldiers were headed for
probable overseas shipment after
reaching the air base.
Evening star., 1953-09-02
By the Associated Press

SEATTLE, Sept. 2.-Fog and
low clouds lifted today and the
Air Force sent planes aloft to
search rugged Southwest Wash
ington mountains and forests for
a missing airliner.
The military-cha plane,
carrying 81 or % soldiers and a
two-man crew, disappeared last
night on the last leg of a flight
from California to McChord Air
Force Base at Tacoma.
The Air Force said Washing
ton and Oregon wings of the
Civil Air Patrol were alerted to
join two Air Force Grumman
Albatrosses and a helicopter dis
patched to the Toledo, Wash,
area when fog and overcast
lifted, about an hour after day.
break.
McChord Air Force Base said
the first planes out reported a
4,0OO-foot ceiling, but that tops
of the towering mountains in the
area still were obscured.
The tWin-engined Regina Air
lines craft left Monterey, Calf,
at lao pm. (PST) yesterday
and last was heard from over
Portland, Greg, five hours and
48 minutes later.
1t then was eight minutes
Evening star., 1953-09-02
Noted vioIinistdnd41
Die in Mystery Crash
OF AirIiner in Alps
Orient-Bound Croft
Smushes Into Peak
After Leaving Paris
By the Associated Press

NICE, France, Sept. 2.-An
Orient-bound French airliner
crashed in flames late last night
on the side of a 10,000-foot AL
pine peak. killing Frances most
famous violinist, Jacques Thi-
baud, and Al other persons.
The giant ur-engined Air
France plane was on a regularly
scheduled flight to Saigon and
Hong Kong when it smashed
near the towering summit of
Mount Genet, in Southeast
France 100 miles north of this
Riviera resort.
Rescue workers who reached
the scene after toiling more than
five hours up the steep mountain
slopes reported there were no
survivors among the 33 pas
sengerS and nine crew members.
Wreckage' was scattered over
1900 feet of the mountain side.
Cause Is Mystery.
Air France officials could give
no cause for the crash, which
occurred an hour and half
after the big plane left Paris
Orly Field. They said messages
from the pilot had reported all
was we'll and weather good.
Rescue crews reported the
temperature on the mountain
side was below freezing but the
weather otherwise was perfect.
Airline officials said the pas
sengers included four Indo-
Chinese, one Swiss and a man
believed to be German. The
rest apparently were French.
Among the passengers were a
baby and four other children.
With Mr.. Thibaud were his
daughter Suzanne and his ac-
companist, Rene Herbin. They
were en- route to Japan for con-
certS.
I'd Great ViOIinist to Die.
Mr.. Thibaud was the second
great French violinist killed in
recent years in an Air France
crash. The brilliant young wom-
an player Ginette Neveu died in
1949 when another French liner
crashed into a mountain in the
Azores while enroute to the
United States.
Evening star., 1953-09-02
By Richord Hughes
North American Newspaper Alliance,

TOKYO, Sept 2.-The Atomic
Bomb Casualty Commission has
announced the discovery of a
miracle: A 55-year-old worker
named Eiichi Nomura who sur
vived the atomic bomb at Hiro-
shima, though he was only 100
yards distant from the center of
the blast.
1t had been believed previously
that no human being or any liv-
ing thing within a radius of 300
yards of the blast survived or left
any remains behind.
Now Nomura has disclosed that
he was in the basement vault of
a three -storied building 100 yards
from the blast when the first
atomic bomb exploded just eight
years ago.
The building was obliterated,
but Nomura escaped and
emerged, dazed and slightly in
Evening star., 1953-09-02
Wartime Security
Measures Ordered
For Printing Office
Action Is Temporary,
Follows Mccarthy Probe
Of Reds in Government
BY the Associated Press

The Government Printing
Office, a prime target of Senator
Mccarthy, Republican, of Wis
consin on grounds that Reds
may have had access there to
official secrets. went back on a
wartime security basis today.
Public Printer Raymond Blat-
tenberger said this is temporary,
pending completion of two sep
arate surveys of secrecy precau-
tions at the plant where some
confidential documents are
printed for other Government
agencies.
The return to wartime restric-
tions means nobody will be
allowed in the GPO except on
official business. All employees
will have to wear badges with
their pictures on them. Visitors
will be required to wear special
badges and be accompanied by
an escort.
Security Aide Named.
Mr.. Blattenberger also an
nounced he is naming full
time security officer responsible
both for physical and personnel
security. He tapped Earl Un-
derwood, assistant production
manager, for the job. In the
past, plant security has been
handled by one man and per-
sonnel security by another, on
part-t time basis.
Senator Mccarthy, as head
of the Senate Investigations
subcommittee, has charged
there is evidence that Commu-
nists and an organized gam
bling ring have been operating
in the printing plant. He told
MIR. Blattenberger at a hearing
last week that the combination
represented the greatest possible
threat to national security.
Mr.. Blattenberger agreed there
was a threat and that security
wasn't all it should be.
IS Questionable Cases.
Senator Mccarthy limited, too,
that Deputy Public Printer Philip
L. Cole ought to be deposed as
personnel security officer for
GPO. That apparently has been
done through the Underwood ap-
pointment.
GPO has had IS cases of
questionable loyalty on the part
of employees come up since 1947
and Is have been disposed Of.
Mr.. Blattenberger said he has set
up a special committee to re-
consider under the Eisenhower
administrations new security
program all the loyalty cases of
employees still on the rolls.
This will be done, Mr.. Blat-
tenberger said, by persons who
had no connection with the old
loyalty program that operated
under the Truman administra-
ton. A
Evening star., 1953-09-02
100 P0Ws Return:
Is Who Admitted
Germ War Expected
Corporal Accused as
Betruyer Missing
From Hospital
BY the Associated Press

PANMUNJOM, Sept. 2.-An-
other 100 happy Americans rolled
through Freedom Gate today,
bringing to more than 5000 the
number of United States soldiers
freed by the Communists as the
Korean war prisoner exchange
neared an end.
These other developments
highlighted the 29th day of Op-
Grafton Big Switch:
l. A returning officer said IS
Americans who confessed" to
List of Prisoners Returned in 18th
Exchange. Page AS
Lieutenant Leorns He Won Medal of
Honor Poee AS
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germ warfare charges under re-
lentless Red pressure would be
repatriated soon. He said the
men. mostly officers, were at
Kaesong, the Communist hold
ing point north of Panmunjom,
and all expect to be repatriated.
2. The sixth troopship carry
ing liberated Americans sailed
for the United States from
Inchon on Korea's west coast.
With 440 men aboard, the
transport Gen. Black is due in
San Francisco about Sept. Is.
Alleged Traitor Vanishes.
8. An American corporal, said
to be marked for death by other
returning prisoners because he
betrayed them to the Reds, was
reported to have disappeared
from a Tokyo army hospital.
The soldier, identified only as
"Slick," was freed three weeks
ago and had been sent as a
medical case to the hospital.
Army authorities confirmed to-
day that "Slick" had been absent
without leave for five days. They
said military policemen had been
O1uC1 Gu W dIICOU 11lIl1.
The soldier originally was
scheduled to return TO the United
States on a troopship leaving In
chon. Threatened there by other
prisoners, "Slick" asked to see an
Army chaplain, who called in
medical officers. The corporal
was flown to Tokyo as a medical
case. Army authorities said he
got pass from the hospital and
disappeared August 20.
Interview Rigging Charged.
4. The U. N. Command, in an
unusual announcement, accused
the Communists of rigging
interviews between allied POWs
and visiting Red Cross teams.
The announcement quoted a re-
turned Australian officer as say
ing the Reds told him that he
would not be repatriated unless
he gave proper answers" to Red
Cross workers.
A1AAAAAAAS d11O dPpdI CIlb1y III
good health, Al officers and SO
sergeantS made up the 100
Americans returned Wednesday.
They brought to 3,027 the num-
ber of Americans freed so far.
The Reds held up delivery of
the Americans until after $50
South Koreans were returned.
In all, the Communists turned
back 100 Americans and 200
South Koreans Wednesday and
promised to deliver Thursday SO
Americans. 200 Koreans, 5 Brit
ish and 6 Canadians,
Including Wednesdays deliv-
cry, 11,716 allied prisoners have
been freed. Before the exchange
started, the Reds said they held
1872 POWs. but have since in
dicated they would return more
than that number.
Evening star., 1953-09-02
Customers Happy
Over TV Discount War

VOLATILE BUSINESS-The Gus
TONERS ore getting along fine in
Woshineton's current discount war
omone television and appliance deal.
ers. but the deolers oren't enjoying il.
Stoff Writer Francis oousIos surveys
the situotion in q story on pose A-28.
FILM CAREER-An Army corporoI
from Washington hos crashed the
movies os on extra in on American
film being mode in West Germany.
This and other news Of Washington
oreo servicemen will. be found in
Here and Abroad" on Pose BIS.
UPSWlNG IN cRIME?-Thot's whot
FBI Director J. Edsor Hoover predicts
en- the bosis Of the increase in young
people who might commit crimes ond
the growing number Of old people
who might be their potential victims.
His disturbing onoIysis will be found
on pose A-l2.
Evening star., 1953-09-02
Wainwright's S Condition
Worse, Hospital Says
BY the Assoeietsd Press

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Sept. g.
The condition Of Gen. Jonathan
Wainwright, who was not ex-
pected to live through last night,
was described by Brooke Army
Hospital attendants as worse to-
day.
Reports last night from the
hospital said Gen. Wainwright
had suffered another cerebral
thrombosis"
Evening star., 1953-09-02
Mercury Heads
For 1907 Again.;
Tomorrow, Too
Record Heat Boxes
Fields and Pastures:
Humidity Lower

The desert-like heat pushed
the mercury toward the 100 de.
gree mark for the fifth day run.
ming today while the Washing
ton area baked in a drought now
II days old.
The forecast called for the
same hot, dry weather today and
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Weather Pictures. Poee All
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tomorrow, although the long,
range prediction holds out the
slim possibility of some relief by
Friday or Saturday,
Temperatures were expected to
mount to 100 degrees this after
noon, one point higher than yes
terday's maximum. The high
yesterday set a new record here
for September /.
BY l pm. the mercury had
risen to "a, APPOINT jump since
noon.
The repeated weather pattern
probably will result in the early
release today of thousands of
Government workers in tenn
porary buildings and offices not
air conditioned.
More than $4,000 employees
were allowed to leave work
yesterday between / and 4:3O
pm.
Humidity Lower.
The humidity an important
factor in estimating the discom-
fort level in the various Offices.
was running somewhat lower to-
day than yesterday.
At least one person was seri-
ously affected by the heat here
yesterday, and seven others re-
quired hospital treatment.
Meanwhile, temperatures of
100 or more were expected again
today in the less mountainous
sections of Maryland and Vir-
ginia.
Richmond was prepared for its
fifth day of heat of 100 or more.
If the mercury performs as an
ticipated, new all-time record
Evening star., 1953-09-02
Freak Wind Hits
Fairfax Area, Lifts
Plane Atop Barn

A strictly local, tornado
like storm struck a small
flying field this morning
near Arcola road and Route
No. so about 16 miles west
of Fairfax. Va.
The freak wind overturned
several light planes staked
down on the field and lifted
another to the roof of a
nearby barn. At least one
bar in the neighborhood was
demolished.
The winds were attended
by a brief but violent down.
pour, residents said-prob-
ably the only one in Virginia
or surrounding States.
Evening star., 1953-09-02
Heat Sears Two birds ofU.S.,
Costing Millions in Crop Loss
Livestock Prices Plunge as Pastures
And Grains Wither in Long Drought

States prospective corn yield by
at least Is per cent. Corn dam
age also was reported in Illinois,
South Dakota, Nebraska. Kan
sas. Indiana and Ohio.
West Virginia is suffering the
worst drought since the early
1930s. Agriculture Commissioner
j. B. Mclaughlin said the corn
crop is ruined" and there is
little hope for wheat, rye and
barley crops next spring. Cattle
prices were so per cent lower
than last year.
= Southwestern Missouri was re-
ported suffering its worst drought
on record and for the State the
summer has been the hottest and
driest since the record-breaking
year of 1886. Pastures were re-
ported virtually "non-existent"
in Missouri.
L. c. Carpenter, Missouri agri-
culture commissioner, said the
big losers from the drought
would be livestock raisers. He
said rain must come in quantity
by mid-September if any fall
pasture or small grains can be
planted.
Crops have been damaged and
pastures burned in Kentucky
with conditions more critical in
Western Kentucky. Senator
Cooper, Republican, of Kentucky
said he would ask the Depart
ment of Agriculture to declare
West Kentucky a drought dis
aster area.
The hot weather has caused a
marked deterioration in corn in
Nebraska. Agriculture author
tiles said corn is now too far
damaged for improvement even
if there is rain.
All crops in New Jersey are in
danger. the State Agriculture
Department said. Pastures are
dry and cattle are being fed on
grain concentrates. Tempera-
lures have been 80 or above for
the past nine days and were
above 100 four straight days.
In Kansas, corn, sorghum and
soybeans have been damaged by
heat and dry weather. Some
corn is being cut for silage and
soybeans for hay. Dry pastures
and stockwater shortage have
boosted the marketing of cattle.
There has been only light rain
since August Is.
Illinois Losses High.
Corn and soybeans have been
scorched and pastures burned
out in Illinois with the loss ex-
pected to run into the millions.
One f1ve-county area in North
western Illinois is believed to
have suffered damage of nearly
$13 million in its corn crop alone.
Most of the State has had no
heavy rain since August 16.
Flowing for winter wheat has
been virtually halted in Indiana
because of the dry soil. Corn and
soybeans have been damaged and
dry pastures have forced farmers
to market cattle early.
In New York State, the pro-
longed hot weather has ripened
fruits and vegetables prema-
turely, cluttering the markets and
forcing prices down. Pastures
are dry in dairy areas. Many up
State communities reported water
shortages. The States highest |
temperature during the heat |
wave was 100 at Poughkeepsie |
and at La Guardia field in New !
York City. The top reading yes
terday was SO at Poughkeepsie.
Drought losses in Massachu-
tSee DROUGHT, Page A-3O |
Evening star., 1953-09-02
Big ThreeAsk
Soviet 10 Join
German Farley
ToIks Are Proposed
TO Restore Unity,
Finish Austrian Pact
BY the Assoeiofed Press

LONDON, Sept. 2.-The Big
Three allies called on Russia to-
day to join an early four-power
conference of foreign ministers
on the future of Germany and
Austria.
Identical notes were sent by
the United States, Britain and
France suggesting the high-level
talks to work out:
/. Arrangements for holding
free German-wide elections as an
essential first step toward restor-
ing German unity and agree
ing on a final German peace
settlement.
2. Final agreement on the
long promised Austrian treaty
of independence which Russia
has been stalling.
ALI German Idea Rejected.
Informants said the allied
notes rejected Soviet Russia s
proposal to set up a provisional
alderman government which
would participate in a German
peace conference to be held
within six months. The Soviets
suggested also that free German
wide elections should follow the
peace conference.
The American, British and
French notes made it clear that
the allies believe the Soviet pro-
posals for holding elections after
a peace settlement put the cart
before the horse.
Qn Paris today, a French
Foreign Office spokesman said
"the French government was
careful to avoid all useless
discussion and argument" with
Russia, feeling that the prob
lens to be settled should
only be discussed when the
ministers get together"
(In Washington, a State De-
partment spokesman said Am
bassador Charles E. Bohlen de-
livered the American note in
Moscow at 6 am. today, Wash
ington time. Under agreement
with the British and French,
the text will not be released
for publication until 1880 p.m.)
Lugano Suggested Site.
The informants said the allies
the ministers meet
about mid-October in Switzer-
land. The lakeside town of Lu-
gano near the Italian-Swiss from
tier is understood to have been
suggested.
The allies were answering a
series of Soviet communications
on Germany and Austria re-
ceived during August.
1ue Call lOf 1Our-pOWer talks
comes only four days before West
Germany goes to the polls in a
vital general election.
The Russian proposals on Ger
many were generally inter-
preted by Western diplomats as
designed in part to influence vot-
ing in the West German elec-
tions against the parties behind
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.
AS for Austria, the Russians
last week end turned down an in
to sit in on a lower level
conference of four-power deputy
foreign ministers to draft a
treaty.