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The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-01-09
Catholic Newsmen's Award
Goes To Two Californians

SAN FRANCISCO - Two San
Francisco Examiner news reporters
who stimulated public action to inn
prove housing in some OF the city's
"blighted" areas were announced
as joint winners of the Association
of Catholic NewSmen's 4th Annual
Edward V. McQuade memorial
award.
Gale Cook and Sherman Miller,
whose articles focused public at
tention on deplorable housing con
ditions and led public authority to
relieving such conditions, will
share the $500 cash award, to be
presented at the ACN award din
ner February l, at the San Fran
cisco Press and Union League club.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-01-09
Peace Prayer Recorded

LOWELL, Mass. - (NC) - ST.
Francis Seraphic Seminary here
has prepared a special commercial
recording of the Prayer of st.
Francis as part OF its Crusade
for Peace" The prayer, which be
gins. Lord, make me an inStru-
ment of Thy Peace" is set to a
musical background. The record is
being distributed by Padre Record
ings, st. Francis Seraphie Semi
nary, Lowell, Mass
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-01-09

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, - tNC)
"A tabernacle and two Commun-
ion chaliees, stolen from Our Lady
of Sorrows Church. have been
found in the yard of nearby resi-
dence.
The vessels had been thrown
there, police surmised, by the thief
who entered the church on the af-
ternoon of Dee. % and broke into
two Votive boxes. One chalice has
been damaged and will require re-
pairs. The recovered tabernacle is
intact.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-01-09
First Trappist Convent
Opened I'm West Germany

COLoGNE-NC)-The first con.
vent of Trappistine nuns in western
Germany has been established in
the district of Schleidem, Rhine.
land. The first members of the
community are four nuns from the
Dutch TrappiStine convent of Kon
inpsoord
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-01-09

DUBUQUE, la. - NC) - The
entire community of Our Lady of
New Melleray Cistercian Abbey
made an unprecedented trip to
Loras College here to attend the
formal blessing of the Rt. Rev.
Dom Vincent j. Daily, O.C.S.0., as
its sixth abbot.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-01-09

torn out of an
inside page by
a friend, and
handed TO me
two days before
Christmas
"A young Los
Angeles mother
will risk death
the day after
c h ris tmas so
that her unborn
fourth c hill d
may live. Death
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1953-01-09

For the Woman of the Year, /
nominate Mrs. Jean Garrett.
For News Story of the Year, |
nominate the following dispatch,
Evening star., 1953-01-16
Accardo Tries 10 Land
At Los Angeles, but
Gets The Buns Rush
Bv the Assoeioted Press

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 16.-Tony
Accardo, reputed kingpin of the
Chicago underworld. got the
buns rush when he tried to land
in Los Angeles early today.
Police intelligence officers, led
by 1t. w. c. Hull, met the 46-
year-old Accardo and two COM
panions, Michael Mancuso and
DR.. E. j. Chesrow. as they got
off an airliner from Chicago.
1t. Hull said a search disclosed
Accardo was carrying $1,000,
Mancuso $4,000 and DR.. Chesrow
$3.50. 1t. Hull threatened to ar
rest Accardo and Mancuso if they
didn't leave town Immediately,
"Accardo said he didn't like
the reception" 1t. Hull related.
II told him that he would get
the same kind of reception any
time he came here"
The trio caught a plane to Las
Vegas, New, an hour later.
Accardo is considered the late
AL Capone's successor as Chicago
underworld chieftain. He was
indicted by a Federal grand jury
in Washington, together with
Joe Adonis, ex-New Jersey
racketeer, for contempt of Con-
gress in refusing to answer the
Kefauver Crime Investigating
Committees questions in 1851.
Evening star., 1953-01-16
Transport Men Consider
National Policy Changes
By the Associated Press

CHICAGO. Jan. 16.-Directors
of the Transportation Associa-
ton of America met today to
consider suggestions for changes
in the Nations transportation
policy.
Among the subjects were fair
share payments for use of such
Government-own facilities as
roads and waterways, fast action
on rate increases and the dis
puted long and short haul
clause.
Before the directors was 225-
page report that was four years
in the making. It is based on a
survey of transportation prob
lens known as the "co-operative
project"
The study was made by eight
panels representing all types of
transportation - air. highway,
pipeline. rail and water-freight
forwarders. users (shippers) and
investors.
Evening star., 1953-01-16

of 6104 Forty-fourth place, Riv-
erdale, Md.
Capt. Henry Galotta of the
Fire Department. 43, of 1912 Al
lison street NE, serious.
George Larrick. 1914 Farragut
place NE, serious.
Charles Jones, SO. of 1721
Twenty-first street NV.
William Moore, 40. of Ak Ridge
road, Greenbelt, Md.
George Gibson, 35. Of 55l5
Parkland court, Parkland VIII
lage. Md.
George Rhine. 35, of 1O2 Bran
dywine street.
Everett Hackley. Al, of 727
Hamilton street NV.
Jack Riditski, 20, of 1923 Sher-
rier place NV.
John F. Perry, 80, of 1910 Myr-
tie avenue. Takoma Park. seri-
Gus.
Norris Peterson. 35. of 70 Ell
mira street Sc.
Danny ,Breedin. 80. of 302
South Barton street. Arlington.
Glenn Starr, %, of 5513 Thir-
ty-eighth' avenue, HyattSville.
William Grigsby. As, of 101
Forester street S.W.
George Washington University
Hospital.
Robert Haupt, %, 1926 Buena
Vista terrace Sc.
Providence Hospital.
Edwin Il. Sellers, 81, 3212 Sixth
street Sc.
Walter Reed Hospital.
Pvt. Edward A. Pope, 80, of
Silver Spring, Md.
Evening star., 1953-01-16
Korea Duty Ordered
ForConvictedA AW0Ls

An Army order will send most
soldiers convicted with being alb
sent without leave to the Ko-
rean war zone by the first avail
able surface transportation"
The service. in its latest effort
to crack down on men deliber-
ately going AWOL to escape
overseas shipment, frightened up
slightly on previous order on
the subject.
The only convicted AWOLs
who won't be shipped overseas
will be men who have not COM
pleted their basic training or
otherwise are unqualified for
overseas duty.
If such a man has not COM
pleted basic training, he will
complete it. without regard for
his court-martial sentence. Then
he will be sent Immediately to
the Far East.
In cases where the court-mar-
tial has led to a soldiers conflne-
ment. the unfinished portion of
his confinement will be remit
ted "a hours after he leaves the
United States.
Evening star., 1953-01-16
1851, uncer the 13-year-old
Smith Act.

1851, under the 13-year-old
Smith Act.
Eight Others Were Indicted.
Eight other top Communists
also were indicted.
Four of them fled and still
are fugitives. They are James
E. Jackson. Sidney Stein, Fred
Fine and William Marrow.
Israel Amter, 70, and Mrs. Ma
rion Maxwell Abt Bachrach, So,
have not been tried because of
illness.
Two others-Simon w. Ger
son, 43, and Isidore Begun, 48-
won acquittal during the trial
at Judge Dimock's direction. He
did not specify his reasons.
OF the 13 on trial four are
Aperican-born and five are ma
tiveS of Russia.
The 13 are:
Alexander Bittelman, 81:
George Blake Charney, 46; Eliz-
abeth Gurley Flynn, 60; Betty
Gannett, A; Victor Jeremy
Jerome, 81; Arnold Samuel
johnson. 46; Claudia Jones, So;
Albert Francis Lannon, 43; ia
cob Mindel, 50: Pettis Perry, 81;
Alexander Leo Trachtenberg, IS;
Louis Weinstock, 48; and Will
liam Void Weinstone, SO.
Evening star., 1953-01-16
Jury Trying 13 Reds
To Make New Study
OF Key Documents
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK. Jan. l6.-The
jury pondering the fate of 13
second-string United States Com
munist Party leaders charged
with conspiracy had key docu-
ments sent in for further study
today after it failed to agree
in seven and a half hours.
Before they we're sent to a
hotel for the night, the jurors
asked that several documents
used as evidence be ready for
their examination when they re-
convened.
The deliberate pace of the
jurors was in keeping with the
tone of the whole conspiracy
trial. They got the case yester-
day after eight and a half
months of testimony and argu-
ments.
Turning the case over to the
jury. Federal Judge Edward j.
Dimock warned in q two-hour
charge:
ideas are not crimes"
Party AffiliatiOn Not Issue.
He said Communist Party
membership was not an issue.
and added that the 13 were not
charged with actually advocat-
ing overthrow of the United
States Government by force.
What the prosecution must
have proved, the judge went on,
was that they "conspired with
others" to teach and advocate
violent overthrow Of the Govern
ment-as charged. Conviction
carries a possible maximum
penalty of five years in prison
and a $4,000 fine.
The defendants-10 men and
3 women-took over the reins
of the Communist Party after
the conviction of II top Reds in
1949 on the same conspiracy
charges. They held positions
ranging from national commit
tee posts to local chairmanships
in the party.
The 13 were indicted June 20,
Evening star., 1953-01-16
List of Injured in Explosion

The list of those treated at
or admitted to hospitals for
injuries suffered in yesterdays
explosion at the Standard Tire
& Battery Co. includes the
follo,0ing:
Casualty Hospital.
Fire Chief Millard Sutton.
serious.
Inspector Ernest Bayles, 40, of
834 South Monroe street, Arling-
ton, serious.
Seventh Battalion Chief Alfred
Grunwell. 1411 Newton street
NE.
Fire Marshal R. c. Roberts,
331 First street NE.
George Talbert, 6618 Twenty
fourth avenue, Hyattsville, lacer-
| ations to left knee, ear and wrist.
Gerald Tassa, "a. of 1907
Twenty-third street Sc. burns.
R. H. Lewis, '37. of 1677 Fort
Davis drive Sc, decorations and
possible fractures.
William Z. Schaffner, 80, of
5008 Madison street, Hyattsville.
second-degree burns on head,
face and neck.
Capt. Ernest Renfro, So, Of
1909 Forty-eighth avenue Sc.
Sergt. John w. Graziani, 1857
Adams street NE.
1t. Ralph Hendrick. 46. Of
1130 Branch avenue Sc, second
degree burns, lacerationS.
Battalion Chief Carl Pool, So,
2402 North Washington boule-
ward, Arlington.
Alfred Pinkham, 33. of 3214
Chillum road. concussion, face
burns and right hip injury.
Frank G. Principe, 2911 RAM
blewood drive. District Heights.
Md.
Sergt. Ollie Watkins, IS, of
5604 Burgess drive, Chillum, Md
William E. Moore. POI Thirty
fifth street NE, head lacera-
tions.
Fire Inspector Kermit Mullins,
38, of 1914 w street Sc.
| Carroll Bonbrest, jr., 80, of
1913 Zenia street Sc.
Willie Harrison, 81. colored,
Of 1712 Lincoln road NE, bat
terry company employe.
William Oshinsky, president
of the battery firm.
Julius Sherman. a salesman.
Edward Mooney, 38, employe
of the Washington Gas Light
Co.
Rupert G. Fogle, SO, of 1903
F'ifty-sixth avenue, Hillside, Md
Henry F. Legge, Al, of 1918
Haddon drive, Takoma Park.
Allen Gately.
Charles Byram, 33, of 4016 Elm
place Sc
II. >, wilson, S5, Silver Spring
Md.
I Gallinger Hospital.
William Trollinger, of 4002 Z
street Sc.
Harry Ingram, 38, of 803:
. New Riggs road, Hytatsville, Md.
serious.
Oscar Settles, Jr., %, of 37Ot
Minnesota avenue Sc.
Lawrence Leary, 20, of 598;
Ridgecrest drive Sc.
Police Sergt. John A. Wright
of No. 8 Precinct.
Police Pvt. Virgil Bost, of No
9 Precinct.
Edward M. Clark, 4723 Homer
\ avenue. Suitland, Md.
Emergency Hospital.
Policeman Robert Allwang. 27
Evening star., 1953-01-16

Fonous mokes-Hoeer and
many others. All the WON'T
ed shades and patterns.
Choose from flonneIs, COB
ordines and shorkskins. All
sizes.
Evening star., 1953-01-16

new foor-and the lead coach,
the one attached to the engine.
That first coach was a dinger.
The wheels were gone; re-
moved by the shock of plowing
into the station.
The front end rested on the
floor below and the rear jutted
through the stations roof.
Pulled Up At Sharp Angle.
Mr.. Swafford had had the per-
verse thing Shored up so it
wouldn't suddenly slide down.
stairs. So when he used the
crane, he had to pull the coach
up at a sharp angle.
Pull he did, and the coach
pulled, too. ripping off a good
sized chunk of what used to be
the roof between the concourse
and the tracks.
The crane was stronger than
the roof. The coach came up
stairs reluctantly, but it got up
there, and the crane herded it
out of the. building and dumped
it on the tracks.
The coach had no wheels. Mr..
Swafford had his main crane
hoist it aboard one truck, his
No. 2 crane insinuated another
truck under the other end, and
the last of the coaches rolled
away.
All that remained inside the
station was the engine-a sorry
wreck of what the day before
was a power plant worth $780,
600.
That was at 7:15 o'clock this
morning.
Wreckmaster Swafford had
been trotting up and down the
rubble course almost "a hours.
He was never off his feet all that
time, and the only food he'd had
was a sandwich and a cup of
coffee.
He didn't seem tired, though.
Looked downright jubilant. in
stead.
'The engine won't take long, ="
he said. Well turn her over,
drop her on her side and let 'em
build the temporary floor above
her Then We'll cut her apart
in sections and cart her away.
It won't interfere with the in
augural."
Evening star., 1953-01-16

Policeman Robert Allwang. 81,
Evening star., 1953-01-16
Bureau of Mines
Picks Chief Inspector
By the Assoeioted Press

ny me ASsociofed PreSs
The promotion of Harry F..
Weaver to be chief of the coal
mine inspection branch of the
Bureau of Mines was announced
yesterday by Director j. j. Forbes.
Mr.. Weaver, formerly assistant
chief of the branch, had been
acting chief since the resigna-
ton last August of M. j. Ankeny.
Evening star., 1953-01-16
Neat Job Is Done by Crews
On Wreckuqe at Union Station

gandy-dancers move in to put
things right. They were moving
in much of the time. AS Mr..
Swafford said, I'VE have to build
a. whole new railroad for the
wreck train" to let the crane
snuggle up to its target.
Getting rid of the cars that
were whole took hours.
Meanwhile. Mr.. Swafford's S
other accomplices were concerned
elsewhere.
Roof and Floor ShOred.
The weakened concourse roof
had to be shored up. So did it's
weakened floor. Carpenters
hammered 12-by-12's into place
and cross-braced them. The
stationmaster's Office, borne away
by the engine, was replaced, this
time temporarily of wood. Trucks
arrived bearing beams and planks
and siding and had to be
unloaded.
Potomac Electric Power Co.
technicians wrestled snakes of
high-voltage line out of cracked
conduits and struggled restoring
them to operation.
1T may sound like an easy job.
but it amt" a workman said.
The outside coaches departed
about eight hours after the
smash-up.
Then the really tough part
began.
A strong-arm regiment of
maintenance-of-way men laid
steel to let the crane cars get
near No. 1865, the last coach to
breech the building.
No. 1865 was stubborn.
She tilted precariously, listing
into the aisle. She had about As
degrees between her long axis
and where she should have been
aiming. and she was part way on
the concrete dock. What's more,
she had a car coupled in front.
1t took about six hours to wax
her out of the station.
Some 80 feet of canopy were
cut away so cranes could work
without knocking either people
or neighboring canopies off the
loading platforms.
And then, when the crane
urged her to advance, the car
Topped against another canopy.
It was cut free with blow torches.
And so she left the station,
screeching over the concrete
ard dragging with her the coach
that had plunged underground,
alongside the engine.
Car Taken Away.
The crews persuaded her rear
wheels onto the rails and took
her away.
Her departure left the way
open for replacement of the
track to where the track is sup
posed to end. 1t wasn't any
easier than the other track
projects.
But it was completed and the
big hook rolled forward and
plucked up the cable which had
been fastened to 8665's late fol-
lower
The follower. another 85-foot
coach, had suffered amputation
of it's wheels. Mr.. SWafford pre-
scribed a poultice of rails. The
rails were applied to the coach's
underside, the crane took a deep
breath and snaked the car the
rest OF the way up out of the
hole in the floor.
But it wasn't right. The cal
wouldn't slide properly. The
! grease-covered gangs had tc
shore her up on one side anC
push on the other. At last she
surrendered.
| That left two cars-the en-
| gine. doomed to remain until
/ she's sliced apart beneath the
Evening star., 1953-01-16
Investigators 10 Quiz
Building Occupants
In Blast Injuring 81

Investigators today turned to
questioning building occupants
in search for cause of the fire
and explosion which injured at
least 81 persons at the Standard
Tire & Battery Co., yesterday.
Virtually all the injured were
flremen. including Chief Millard
Sutton, who remained in serious
condition at Casualty Hospital.
The floor -buckling blast pro-
duced the highest single-flre
casualty list in the history of
the Fire Department. Damage
to the building and it's contents
will exceed 100000, the owners
said today.
The explosion, at 1927 pm,
roared out of what firemen were
considering a routine, smolder-
ing fire in the basement of the
battery and electrical appliance
shop at Tenth and H streets NE.
Flung Through Plate Glass.
When it came, it flung, fire.
men through the plate glass
store front and buried others up
to their necks in the basement
debris.
Devotion to duty was COM
monplace. Rescue f1remen. many
of them with injuries and blood
streaming from their cut faces,
turned back into the wreckage
to help free others.
Chief Sutton. crushed against
q door frame and then plunged
into the basement when the five
inch concrete floor buckled, was
pulled out by Marine T/Sergt.
Eugene Graham, 33, of 4451 C
street Sc, who was nearby when
the blast came.
:: Sergt. Graham, member of the
Marine Band. reached through
the cracked floor while a fireman
held onto his legs and pulled the
injured chief out by the feet.
"OAhC hCIS + dCC 0ulLs
The investigation today will
send homicide squad detectives
and representatives of the fire
marshal's Office out to question
employees of the store who were
in the basement when the first
wisp of smoke appeared.
The first alarm was telephoned
in at 1905 pm. But within 10
minutes. heavy black smoke bill
lowed through the basement and
employees dropped their fire
fighting efforts to flee. The
blaze appeared to have started
in section of stored auto tires.
First f1remen on the scene had
cut two holes through the floor
and were working on a third
when the blast came, according
to Deputy Fire Marshal Roy
Warf1eld.
Back Draft Possible.
He said he could give no spe-
cif1c cause of the explosion until
the investigation is completed.
He theorized that a back draft
could have touched off the blast
"a reaction produced when new
oxygen gets into a smoke-and-
gas-flled space.
Other firemen said it could
have come from a ruptured gas
main. 1t tossed firemen as far
as 40 feet. They fell like flies"
one Mortified witness reported.
Ambulances which had been
back in service only a few hours
after the train accident at Union
Station, rushed to the scene.
Fire equipment from nearby
Maryland and Virginia, which
had also answered the Union
Station call, were back in Wash
ington. Fire trucks not in use
were pressed into service to
transport the injured to hospi-
falS
Evening star., 1953-01-16
Superior Has Deep Bottom

DUTLUTH.-Although the sur
face of Lake Superior is 602 feet
above sea level, much of its bot
tom is far below sea level, depth
Soundings show.
Evening star., 1953-01-16
$4,000 Miles of Hot Docs

NEW YORK.-It is estimated
that about 6,314,000,00O hot dogs
are eaten each year in the
United States. That's about
,48. 900 miles of hot dogs.
Evening star., 1953-10-28

metz worked took out many
patents on his ideas, but the
scientist objected to being called
an inventor
st am only an engineer" he
deelared.
Despite his modest outlook,
1876 patents were granted in the
name of Steinmetz. Many of
these had to do with the al
ternating electric current.
Steinmetz was a pioneer in the
field of the alternating current.
He could see that this current
would perform work which was
out of the range of direct electric
current. Time and again he
talked on the subject at meet
ings of engineers and electrical
experts. These men were slow in
grasping his meaning.
To promote the idea Of the al
ternating current, SteinmetZ
wrote several books, among them
texts for college students. He
joined the teaching sta1 Of Vn-
Evening star., 1953-10-28
Uncle Ruy's Corner

A young man, Charles w.
Wood, set out to be a newspaper
reporter. One of his early inter-
views was with a famous Scien-
tist-Charles SteinmetZ-and he
later made this statement:
81 was afraid of his knowl-
edge, afraid of the big head
which had solved a thousand
mysteries"
The young fellow said to Stein
metz:
"I hope my questions don't
seem foolish to you."
There are no foolish ques-
tions," the scientist replied with
Evening star., 1953-10-28
BY Romon Coffmon

ion College in Schenectady, and
gave as much of his time as he
could to helping students learn
secrets OF electricity.
Steinmetz grew famous among
scientists and electrical engi-
neers, but the general public
would have heard little about
him while he was alive had It
not been for his ''man-made
lightning" While he was solv-
ing problems of how to keep
electric power lines from being
hurt by strokes of lightning.
Steinmetz produced d powerful
laboratory lightning"
The small man with a big
brain. the thinker with little
wealth but a kindly heart, died
at the age Of So. Behind him he
left a gain in knowledge, and
the memory of an eager. helpful
soul.
II you want q free copy Of ths
work" send 8 self addressed skamped
envelope 70 Unelo Rav. IA oarO u
The 6eaa.
Evening star., 1953-10-28
Answer TO POSTSCRTPT
Famous Fables
BV & < Edonr

ERROR: Jimmy Dykes,
peppery manager of the Phil
adelphia Athletics, is a vet
eran umpire-baiter. Several
years ago, he was operated
on for gallstones. A short
time after, during a close
game. he came flying out of
the dugout to hurl epithets
at the plate umpire.
The latter listened patti
emily until Dykes had fin
ished his TRADE. Then, in
his gentlest voice, he in
quired:
Jimmy, weren't you re-
Gently operated on for gall
stones?"
That's right"
"Well, it wasn't the stones
they should have removed"
roared the umpire. giving
him the thumb, lit was your
gall"
PENSION: When Supreme
Court Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes reached 80, his pen
sion was cut by Congress.
This saddened Holmes some
what and he conf1ded his
anxiety to his friends.
1T shouldn't be too seri-
Gus" consoled one friend.
You still have your salary
from the Court"
"Oh, I'm not worried about
making ends meet" replied
Holmes. Its just that I
won't be able to lay aside as
much as usual for my old
age"
Evening star., 1953-10-28

a smile. ''No man really becomes
a fool until he stops asking Ques-
tions."
The reply Of SteinmetZ may be
a comfort to many Of us. Per-
haps we ask too many questions
at times, but it Il better to ask
too many than none at all.
The company for which Stem