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sure and withdrew their requests.
Their story is one of planned,
prolonged Vietminh obstruction, in
glaring violation of the Geneva
agreements.
The International Control Com.
mission was aware OF the case
all the time.
The priests were teaching the
students in the major and minor
seminaries of Vinh.
ut was impossible to live and
work any longer" one of the group
said here. I'VE were short of mon
ey to buy food, as the mission had
been impoverished by Vietminh
taxes. Even if we had money, we
were not allowed to buy enough
rice for our needs"
On March 81, %, and 20 the
priests and students asked the
Democratic Republic" (Vietminh)
authorities for permission to leave,
according to the Geneva Agree
ment. In April they appealed to
the International Commission team
in the town of Vinh, nine miles
away,
On May Is the Commission came
to hold an inquiry in the seminary
AS usual, the Vietminh knew in ad.
vance. So on the morning of May
13 they forced the rector, Father
John B. Ngoan, to come with them
to their office. They did not re.
lease him until next day,
The Commission found q cor
don of peasants" confronting
them at the seminary. These were
viefmin. militia, dressed as civ
iIians and assigned to demon
sfrate against the departure OF
fhe priests and students.
The Commission asked to inter.
view five seminarians. The five
were first searched by the Wet
mimi, no ripped their clothing to
make sure that they had no hidden
papers.
The seminarians, under question
ing, told the Commission members
what they had just experienced
One member asked where the su
perior was. He was told that the
Vietminh had taken him away
The Commission left. The per
mits were still refused.
On May 20 the Vietminh gather
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ed the four priests and promised
them plenty of food, clothing and
everything else they needed, if they
would stay. Next day they assemb-
led the students and made the
same promises. The answer on both
days was: mo thanks; we want to
goi
Then the Vietminh arrested them
all separated them and confined
them to different houses. For two
months they questioned, accused,
bullied and threatened each one
individually.
Meanwhile ff1e prisoners saw
no more Of ths Commission,
heard no more from II.
Under the terrific pressure. en-
durrI alone and in ignorance of
what the others were doing, three
priests, 19 senior seminarians and
"a Juniors withdrew their requests
to leave. They were shipped off
to Haiphong and Hanoi, on a strict
ly conducted tour"
On July is nine of the seminar
ions who had held out were re-
leased and sent across the 18th
parallel, the demarcation line, by
truck. Next day Father Ngoan and
the three remaining students were
sent across.
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To Erect New Buildings
At Storm-Hit College

WORCESTER, Mass. - CNC) -
Ground was broken here at As.
sumption College on the patronal
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standing of Christian social prin.
ciples through special activities,
study and practical projects. "
More than 10000 official charters
have been issued in school S
throughout the United States and
the Possessions.
The years theme of study is
seen by Father Apologize is an
excellent means of showing pupils
how to put Christian social and
civic principles into action He
continued:
"The theme was selected in
recognition OF fhe growing need
for awakening in pupils q more
full realization OF civic RESPONSE
biIity, so rs TO develop proper
attitudes for adult life. The en-.
tire program will emphasize how
the school 10 a community in
miniature"
Illustrating how this theme
would be implemented, he con.
tinued:
"As in the past, the Young
Catholic Messenger will cooperate
with the Commission by carrying
articles developing this program
of study. Monthly articles will COW
er such school activities as safety
patrol, the library, mission work.
school newspaper, cleanup and
paint-up.
Supplementary mat eria1 in
Treasure Chest, the Catholic pic
ture-story magazine, will consist of
series of articles illustrating how
people live in different communi.
ties of the country-a fishing vii
lage, a mining town, big city, in
the country
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Value of Actire Ciuics Clubs
Stressed by Father Applegdte

The true value of active Catholic Civics Clubs which
been established in almost all of the IS schools of the
diocese was stressed this week by Father Bennett Appega
diocesan school superintendent in letter to all principals
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THE CATHOLIC TIMES
Friday, Aug. 10, 1855

feast OF the institution for five new
building to replace those destroy.
ed in the hurricane of June. 1853.
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Parish to Be Consecrated

st. Cecilia parish will be conse.
Grated to the Immaculate Heart of
Mary, Aug. %, the feast day, in
line with the Holy Fathers Marian
year request. After the consecra.
ton, the Pilgrim Virgin Statue will
be blessed and the ceremonies will
close with Benediction.
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Reds in North Vietnam
Continue Persecution
BY Father Patrick o'connor
Society of st Columbian

FJOfTespOnuen, NCW.C News SerVlceD
SAIGON South Vietnam - One priest and IL seminar
ians out of four priests and SIS semnarans who asked
communist Vieminh for departure permits last March, have
reached South Vetnan The Others after the Vemnh had
imprisoned and browbeaten them weeks Welded
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-08-19
5Oth Wedding Anniversary

Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Powell, SAT
Seymour Ave, celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary Au-
gust II, at High Mass in Holy
Rosary Church. In the evening a
reception was held for relatives
and friends at the home.
Members of Holy Rosary parish
since its founding, Mr.. and Mrs.
Pow I'll have daughter, Mrs. Mary.
lou Glander, and son, Floyd. An.
other daughter, Sarah, is deceased
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Mrs. Howard to Attend
World Meet in Rome

Mrs. Helen T. Howard of Colum,
bus, national regent of the Daugh
tiers of Isabella, will represent the
organization at a meeting of the
World Union of Catholic Women's
Organizations In Rome, Apr. 1926
1856. Mrs. Howard will present the
Holy Father with a gift of $4,000
and a spiritual Bouquet from the
D. of /.
The announcement was made al
the organizations annual board
meeting held last week at White
Sulphur Springs, W. Va.
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Describing the Clubs as potent
aids in training boys and girls to
become alert and articulate Chris
tian citizens" Father Applegate
revealed that the 1855 theme of
study for the Civics Clubs will
be-Good Citizens Work Together,
The Clubs are sponsored by the
Commission on American Citizen
ship of The Catholic University of
America ito promote an under
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-08-19

Mrs. John Lynch has been
elected president of the altar and
rosary society of Our Lady of
Victory Church. other new off
GERS include Mrs. John Murphy,
vice-president; Mrs. Warren
sSterne, secretary; and Mrs. AL
bert Rossetti, treasurer.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-08-19
Reminded of Ban Against
Entering Beauty Contests

LAFAYETTE, La. - NC) - A
reminder that any woman or girl in
the Lafayette diocese who takes
part in a bathing revue" or bath.
ing beauty contest" shall be de.
MED the Sacraments has been is.
sued by the Chancery office here.
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WASHINGTON-NC)-A sub
committee of the House Post Of.
flee and Civil Service Committee
may look into the activities of per-
sons and organizations who send
unsolicited objects - religious or
othervise-through the mails.
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Of Interest
To Women

New officers of the st. Ladislaus
altar-rosary society installed at the
groups last meeting included Mrs.
Albert Macioce, president; Mrs.
Joseph Ardner, vice president;
Mrs. Frank Mcdonald. treasurer;
and Mrs. Joseph Bucilla, secretary.
Among the committee chairmen
appointed TO serve this year are
Mrs. Warren Marshall and Mrs. Ed
ward Horvath, sick: Mrs. Mike
Yandrich and Mrs. John Szabo, Ca
tholic charities; Mrs. Joseph Ard
ner, social activities; Mrs. Howard
White and Mrs. Richard Brooks,
publicity: Mrs. John Laraba and
Mrs. Fred Mason, membership; and
Mrs. Joseph Uersichetti, religious
activities and international rela.
tions.
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Ohio
News In Brief

CLEVELAND-The Third Order
of st. Francis here has joined
growing opposition to Sunday sales
with a poster and auto windshield
sticker campaign calling on Chris.
tians to 'stop shopping on Sun
day"
CLYDE-Construction of this
community's first Catholic school
started this week. The tWo-story
structure is scheduled for COM
pietion by mid-1956, and will
cost $4,000.
CINCINNATI - Religious in.
struction classes for retarded
children will be inaugurated this
fall at eight Catholic high schools
and academies in the Cincinnati
area. The classes will be sponsored
jointly by Catholic Federation for
Retarded Children and Catholic
Charities.
MHFORD-The Jesuit Fathers
will open a new retreat house
this fall at Milford exclusively
for young men II to Is years
old. The second of its kind in
the country, it will be the eighth
retreat house in the Cincinnati
Archdiocese.
CINCINNATI - Xavier Univer-
sity has announced receipt of a
$1,000 gift from the U. S. Steel
Corporation for unrestricted use.
Xavier was among more than 400
colleges and universities in 43
states receiving similar grants.
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Evening star., 1955-06-09
IYugosIovs FriendIier,
u. S. Envoy Reports

NEW YORK, June 8 (P.-
James W.. Riddleberger. United
States ambassador to Yugoslav-
ia, indicated today Yugoslav Of
.ficials are more friendly toward
America now than before their
recent meeting with Soviet lead
.ers.
Mr.. Riddleberger arrived here
by plane to report on the meet
ing to Secretary of State Dulles
i'm Washington next week.
Asked by newsmen whether he
had noticed any cooling on the
part of Yugoslav officials toward
Americans. Mr.. Riddleberger re-
piled: "On the contrary"
Evening star., 1955-06-09
Interior Lets Power Company
MAKE Rules, Chudoff Says

Mr.. Chudoff said testimony
has shown the revisionS repre-
sented the adoption, practically
verbatim" of proposed regula-
tions written by PG&E. The
revised regulations, he con-
tended, "were obviously designed
to cripple the Department of
Interior in carrying out its obli-
cations and duties under the
public power policies laid down
by Congress. :"
James D. Geissinger, former
special assistant to Mr.. Davis
and now regional solicitor for
the department at Denver. told
the subcommittee he had been
assigned to prepare a memoran-
dunn on proposed revisions in the
regulations. He conceded 10 OF
his suggestions were verbatim
from a document he said he
found in his mail box at the
department. He later was told
by Herman Kruse, identified as
a registered lobbyist for PG&E
that it had originated with the
company.
Mr.. Geissinger told the sub
committee:
"I adopted it tthe language Of
the document) if it was good
and sound. If it was incompat-
ible with the public interests, I
turned it down."
Evening star., 1955-06-09
BY the Associated Press

Contending the public power
program is "going backward
fast" Representative Chudoff
Democrat, of Pennsylvania ac-
cuses Interior Department Off
cials of "coldly and deliberately
letting a private utility write
Federal power regulations.
Mr.. Chudoff, chairman Of q
Government Operations subcom-
mittee which for three weeks
has been looking into revisions
made in some regulations last
year, set forth his criticisms in
Ia blistering statement read into
the record of the hearing yes
Iterday.
Mentioning Secretary Mckay
former Undersecretary Ralph
Tudor and Undersecretary Clar-
ence Davis, Mr.. Chudoff said
they seem to have handed the
power policy making function
of the department to Mr.. Tudor's
hometown private utility. the
Pacific Gas & Electric Co."
The regulations involved deal
with right-of-ways for power
lines. The most controversial
revision eliminated a require
ment that private lines spanning
public land transmit Federal
power whenever there is room
for it.
Evening star., 1955-06-09
British Set Limit
On Muu Muu Offe,

NAIROBI, Kenya. June 8 (P)
.-Mau Mau rebels have little
more than a month to lay down
their arms under surrender
terms offered January 18.
A colonial minister, Michael
Blundell, told the legislative
council yesterday the offer
under which the anti-white ter
rorists would not be prosecuted
but the hard core leaders woulc
be exiled-will be withdrawn
July 10.
Planes, broadcasting trucks
and pamphlets are being used to
spread the news across the COL
ony. A propaganda campaign
was organized with the aim OF
promoting a wholesale surren-
der.
Mr.. Blundell said $50 rebels,
Including 20 leaders, have given
up since January and 149 others
were killed or wounded in the
same period in operations
against the gangs.
Evening star., 1955-06-09

mates of.next years revenues in.
dicate this surplus might be
double the SIG million.
Commissioner Spencer stressed
however, that these calculation.
were based on the assumption
that the Federal payment would
be the full $40 million.
Also, he warned. the surpiuses
even if they exceed present ex-
pectations, would be insufficient
to cover pending pay raises fol
city workers.
U. S. Payment Essential
Under the Public Works Act
Mr.. Spencer said the District
was given additional taxes oi
more than $14 million a year
while the Federal payment was
increased by So million.
"These taxes are in force" he
said. THE Federal payment OF
$40 million is an essential part
Iof this program.
"If. after levying on citizens
the taxes required by this pro-
gram. the Congress does not in
tend to continue the Federal
payment on which it is prom
Used, it appears that a complete
REORGANIZATION of the District
budget would be in order"
Evening star., 1955-06-09
Couple Re-indicted
In Sons Murder

Indictments charging Anna
Edith Vaughn and her estranged
husband. Lloyd, with murder oi
their two infant sons were
among II true bills returned by
the Prince Georges County grand
Jury yesterday.
The couple previously had
been indicted by the jury, but
the original indictments were
dismissed in Circuit Court be-
cause they lacked sufficient de-
tail to specify the alleged crimes
States Attorney Blair H
Smith, revealed after the day
long jury session that Lloyd
Vaughn has been reported by
doctors at the Brownsville State
Mental Hospital as legally sane
and able to stand trial.
The jury will not meet today
but will reconvene tomorrow for
what probably will be its last
session for this term.
Evening star., 1955-06-09
Humphrey Hits
|ParIey Doubts
By the Associated Press

Senator Humphrey. Democrat
lof Minnesota. said today the Eli
|senhower Administrations ap-
Iproach to Big Four talks is
marked by doubts. fears and
|hesitations that a great Nation
like ours should not exhibit"
Senator Humphrey and Sena-
tor Capehart. Republican, Of In
diana, Foreign Relations Com
Imittee members, in separate in
|terviews urged President Eisen-
hover and Secretary Of State
Dulles to set forth a clear and
complete agenda for the pro-
jected summit" meeting.
Russia must be confronted
with promises Stain made to the
United States and Britain at the
Big Three wartime Yalta con-
ference, the Senators said.
Cites Yalta Pledges
1--WE got promises and agree
|ments from Russia at Yalta that
we should now insist on holding
them to-" Senator Capehart
said.
Senator Humphrey attributed
largely to domestic politics" the
doubts and fears" he said have
been repeatedly expressed by
Mr.. Eisenhower and Mr.. Dulles
about possible gains from the
Evening star., 1955-06-09
IMenon in Cunudu
IOn WAY to U. S.

OTTAWA, June 9 (Pl.-V. K.
Krishna Menon, chief foreign
affairs adviser to Prime Minister
Nehru Of India, arrived from
London today for consultations
with Canada's Prime Minister
Louis st. Laurent and Foreign
Secretary Lester B. Pearson.
Mr.. Menon conferred with
Prime Minister Eden and Foreign
Secretary Harold Macmillan in
London and will meet President
Eisenhower in Washington Tues
day to present a personal report
on his recent talks in Peiping
with Premier Chou En-lai of
Red China.
Mr.. Menon's visit to Peiping
was aimed at relieving tensions
in the Far East, but he told re-
Iporters during a brief stopover
in Montreal that India is not a
mediator.
1--WE happen to have friends
on all sides-happily-and we
are in q position to talk to other
people," he said.
Evening star., 1955-06-09
Baltimore Slayer
To Hang Tonight

BALTIMORE. June 8 R.-
William C. Thomas. 80, is sched-
uled to hang after midnight to-
night for the rape. robbery and
murder of Miss Della Honey
man, owner of a neighborhood
grocery store in Baltimore.
Thomas, colored, was con-
victed in May, 1854. The Su-
'preme bench last October de-
MED a motion for a new trial
The hanging sentence was i'm
posed October 8 and affirmed
by the Court Of Appeals In An
napolis March Is.
Gov. McKeldin said today he
did not intend to commute the
sentence.
81 have found no mitigating
circumstances in the trial rec
ord. the psychiatric reports, or
in the information and argu-
ments presented to me by coun-
sci to justify communication" he
declared.
Evening star., 1955-06-09
Continued From First Page

Continued From First Page
sensation during political cam
paign."
The witness. who was solicit
tor general in the Truman adj
ministration, made the first ma
jor legal challenge on the va
lidity of Mr.. Eisenhower's ex-
ecutive order 10450 which set
up the security program.
He said the program lis in
direct violation of the intent Of
Congress" and is inconsistent
with important provisions of the
act" which is its legal founda-
tion--public law 1888 of 1850.
Challenges Validity
For this reason. he added,
''there is substantial ground upon
which to doubt the validity Of
the entire executive order"
Mr.. Perlman cited House and
Senate committee reports on the
bill which later became PL 1873.
These reports stated that the
legislation was aimed at ridding
the government of security risks
and had nothing to do with
loyalty cases.
He noted that the law gave the
heads of few sensitive agencies
the power to dismiss summarily
any employe thought to be a
danger to the national security
and that the President was
authorized to add other agencies
later on if he deemed it advisable
In the national interest.
"It seems beyond dispute,
Evening star., 1955-06-09

meeting which the West has
proposed be held at Geneva in
lmid-July.
Senator Humphrey said the
administration is carefully lay
ing the groundwork in case
things don't go well. They can
lexonerate themselves by saying
we told you so.'"
Calls Leaders Scared"
He said. too. Mr.. Eisenhower
and Mr.. Dulles appear scared
to face up to the questions that
need to be and must be dis
cusSed," and he continued:
1--WE must seize the initiative
on this conference and we must
go into it loaded down with good
ideas throughly thought out.
OF course we should alert peo-
pie to the possibility that the
conference may fail. But we
should not allow pessimisn to
throw q blanket of doubt over
the whole conference.
Senator Capehart said agree
ments made by Russia at the
Yalta and other wartime con-
ference must now be honored
by Russia" including those for
free elections in the satellite
states.
Evening star., 1955-06-09

lion Federal payment as author
lied last year in the Public
Works Revenue Act.
District officials won a declara-
ton from Senator Beall, Re-
publican. of Maryland, an ex-
offcio member of the ap-
preparations subcommittee, that
the $40 million was definitely
promised" by Congress when 1t
enacted the $305 million-10 year
public works program.
Congress, he said, is almost
honor bound to pay the $40 mil
lion.
Speedup of ReasSeSSment
Meanwhile, District officials are
bowling to demands of the Ra-
baut subcommittee of the House
for a speedup in the reassess-
ment of all of the District tax
able real estate.
Commissioner Samuel Spencer
ANNOUNCED that the city heads
were working on an equalization
program and would submit rec
concentrations "at an early date. >
Schuyler Lowe, director of gen.
eral administration, said the
plan, still in the draft stage. calls
for an outlay of about 100000
to expand the assessing staff SC
the job can be completed in three
years.
The House subcommittee had
sharply protested that the earlier
District plans would drag the re-
assessing out over 10 years.
Will Write Manual
District finance officers are
planning to hire an appraisal
firm to write a new assessment
manuel to provide uniform
standards. Then, District as
SCISSORS plus IS temporary field
workers. would tackle the job
of writing descriptions Of every
piece of taxable real estate in
the District on which current
valuations would be placed.
James L. Martin. District A.
nance officer, said the review
should be made for the purpose
of equalizing assessments on
similar properties but he voiced
doubt that it would result in
any material" increase in rev.
enueS. ttg.
The Commissioners are ask
ing the Senate to restore $6.5
million of the $8.5 million in cuts
made by the House. They also
are asking new item of $685.
720. This includes $4,000 for
the registration of voters here
next year for official primaries
in pending legisla-
tion-for the election Of District
delegates to the political con-
ventions.
These changes would bring
the total of the bill to $l73.4
million-$l.9 million less tEan
the Commissioners original
budget.
Such q bill would leave sur
pluses totaling SIS million. Mr..
Spencer said unofficial new esti-
Evening star., 1955-06-09
PerIn1on Hits Plan
For Security Study

therefore" Mr.. Perlman asserted,
that % the act Of 1880 con-
templated the continuance of
the loyalty program and not
its abolition: 90 the congress
sional committees envisioned q
security risk as not one involv-
ing disloyalty. and believed it
/ impossible to treat security risks
and disloyal employees in the
same manner; and that CD it
was intended that the sensitive
agencies should be limited in
number, and that person found
to be a security risk in sensi-
tive agency should be available
for employment in a non-sensi-
tive agency"
Combines All "Risks"
The Eisenhower progr q m,
which superseded the Truman
loyalty setup in May. 1858, COM
bines loyalty and security dis
missals. All employees removed
under its provisions are labeled
security risks.
Mr.. Perlman used a variety of
epithets and caustic language in
describing the employees security
program.
He said 1t ''has been disas-
trous to the morale of the Gov
ernment service; that it had
injured the whole Nation: that
discrimination, misery and in
justice" had been imposed by
irresponsible, ignorant and
foolish public officials"