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67 Killed When Two Flying Boxcars
 Collide and Crash in Black Forest

STUTTGART, Germany, R- Two C-119 Flying Boxcar trans ports collided in the air and crashed into the Black Forest yes terday. The US. Air Force an- nounced 67 men were killed.
 The Air Force said the death toll included the crews of the two American aircraft as well as sol dierS being transported.
 The Flying Boxcars have. a nor nal seating capacity of 67, with maximum capacity of 78.
 The planes were two of a nine plane flight which had just taken off from Echterdingen Field, near here, on a training mission with troops from the US. 7th Army aboard.
 The Air Force announcement said:
 Initial reports said that one plane developed engine trouble just after takeoff, after reaching a cruising level of 4,OOO feet. The crippled plane lost altitude mo- menarily, then pulled up abruptly across the front of another air. craft in the formation.
 "The crippled plane went down immediately. The second plane flew level for almost one minute, then went out of control and nosed into the ground"
 The announced death toll would make this the fourth worst air disaster in history. A total of 129 US. servicemen died in the fam ing wreckage of a CHA Globe master near Tokyo in 1853. In 1852 another C-124 GlobemaSter crashed on taking off from Larson Air Force Base, in Washington State, killing 87. In 1850, com mercial plane carrying soccer fans crashed at Cardiff, Wales, with death toll of 80 persons.
 Yesterdays was West Ger many's biggest postwar air disas- ter and also the biggest military death toll in an aircrash in west ern Europe.
 The Air Force said Thursdays crash occurred less than Is min utes after take-off in mid-after- noon.
 The announcement said there were AZ passengers, crew of 5 plus one loadmaster in one plane, and IA passengers, a crew of and a loadmaster in the second.
The Nome nugget., 1955-08-12
SIX KILLED ON TRAIN

KUALA LAMPUR, Malaya R- An African soldier sprayed ma chinegun bullets through.a crowd ed Singapore-bound train yester- day, killing six Asians and wounding 12 others. He then shot and killed himself.
The Nome nugget., 1955-08-12
THURSDAY BALL SCORES

1E1U Fld1A bAIsL S~OFIES
 American League Cleveland 3, Detroit l Chicago IA, Kansas City l New York 5, Boston 3
 National League St. Louis "A, Milwaukee 10 Cincinnati 6, Chicago 5
 Pacific Coast League San Francisco 2, Seattle 0 Portland 3, Hollywood 0 Oakland 10, San Diego 3 Sacramento 6, Los Angeles 5
The Nome nugget., 1955-08-12

Traces of human occupancy of Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico, date back at least 4,000 years.
The Nome nugget., 1955-08-12
American League WEDNESDAY, BASEBALL

W @1<4S A@hS4<<2A 0<@s1Gs0<ALG New York 3. Boston 2 Kansas City 5, Chicago 4 Cleveland 6, Detroit 4 Kansas City 5, Chicago 4
 National League Brooklyn 5, New York 4 St. Louis ', Milwaukee 2 Pittsburgh 2, Philadelphia 2 Cincinnati 7-6, Chicago 2-3
 Pacific Coast League San Francisco 5-13, Seattle B. Hollywood 10, Portland 3 San Diego 80, Oakland O-5
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-06-17
Heart of Compassion

As the ecclesiastical year moves into the period
that commentaries the history of the Church, un
der the guidance of the Holy Spirit, IT might be
thought that the liturgy would first concern itself
with the overwhelming majesty Of God or His in
finite wisdom, or his searching, terrible justice, as
the basis for the teaching mission OF the Church
But last week. Immediately after the coming OF the
Holy Spirit on Penteeost, mad been celebrated, the
theme Of the liturgy was the Holy Eucharist, the
Sacrament Of Love- this week ii is the Sacred
Heart Of Christ fount of mercy and compassion,
hope Of sinners For love and compassion, as taught
and exemplifed by the Savior must always char
scterize true Christianity
When the side of the crucified Savior, He
hung on The cross, opened by the lance of
soldier there poured out from His Heart IAN abund-
snce Of mercy and grace" the same Heart that is
still FOR the devout haven of rest and for the
nenitent ever-open refuge Of salvation" The Di
vine Heart burns with Socttude for the human
race and yearns to bring all men to eternal life;
the love which was made evident in the Sacrifice
Of Calvary reaches out today and always, for those
who may think themselves forgotten or unwanted-
the careless the indifferent the confirmed sinner,
no less than for the deyout
The Gospel of Sundays Mass tells us how the
Fharsees and Scrihes who were men pious and
strict in their religious practices complained that
Christ welcomes sinners and cats with them"
And he responded with the parable of the man who
has lost one Of his hundred sheep and who leaves
the nlnetynine while he searches for the one that
vas lost and how he rei0ces when he has found II,
calling upon his ncghbors 10 rejoice with him.
Even So the Savior explained Il say To you that
there will be Joy in heaven sinner who re.
pents more than ninetynine who have no need
of repentance"
This is a reminder OF the value placed upon the
human soul in Gods design, and of the great dig
nifty and worth each of us possesses in His sight
no matter how we may be despised and mstreated
by our fellow-men. II is reminder too OF the re-
spect and love We owe every one of our nighbors
thes are Gods children, objects Of His love and
sohcitnde, and can we dare 10 hate what God loves
and yearns for
This parable, expressing 50 clearly mans rela,
ton 70 The Sacred Heart explains the interest which
The Church Of Christ, in His Name, takes in sim
ners II explains why she viii not be satisfied with
The service Of those whose lives are holy and right
eous, but calls upon them TO help her bring back
The sheen gone astray; il explains why she breaches
hatred for sin but never hatred for sinners If the
Church i criticized because Of this concern for the
wandering sheep, She knows that the criticism is
only an echo 0f that which directed toward her
Master. This Man welcomes sinners and eats with
them
For she seeks to bring the sinner back where
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WASHINCTON LETTER
DO Reds Hare NeU 'Gin1n1ick

has tried to ruin them in adj
vance.
In other places it is asked if
we are ready to exclude Chang
Kai-Shek from talks we may have
on Formosa, who is behind the
propaganda about making For
mosa neutral, why is nothing
said any more about restoration
of Poland and other captive
countries, what is being done to
release clergymen held in jails
in Red-dominated countries?
And in this city, the Admins
tration moved quickly to frus-
trate any attempts to cut off US.
aid to communist dictator Tito
in Yugoslavia. Some members of
Congress were more than appre-
hensive when Tito entertained
and talked with fellow commun-
lists from Moscow, with results
not yet fully known. But Foreign
Operations Administrator Har-
old f. StaSsen went up on the
Hill and told a house committee
that, not only should we not stop
our aid to Tito, but we should
not impose any conditions on our
help. To do so, he declared,
would not be in the best inter
estS Of the security of the United
States"
Ironically, a report from Ma
drid arriving in this country on
the same day said the air bases
and port facilities we are being
permitted to build in Spain, for
our own use, are expected to be
in full operation within four
years. We've extended far less
aid to Franco than we have to
Tito, and we've got no bases
from Tito. He hasn't even prom
ised us anything.
Russia tried the patience, and
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ABBE PIERRE. May ~
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Austrian settlement are the very
antithesis of those which under
lie the Paris Pacts," declares the
international Red organ. The one
insures "an independent and
democratic Austria" while the
other results lin the perpetual
ton of the division of Germany"
and the making of the German
Federal Republic into party to
the Western military bloc" Or
so the comrades are told.
The Austrian treaty SIS con
dueive TO European peace"
says the Net0 Times: the Paris
Agreement creates new breed
ing ground of war" And that is
to be the extensive Red propa-
ganda not only in West Ger
many but in creating "the atmos-
phere" around the Big Four ne
gotiations
IT was in the name of peace.
that the little Baltic countries
we're taken over by the Red Ar
my, after a Soviet pledge Of their
Independence" II was in the
name of peace" that Poland and
China we're betrayed. It is in the
name of peace" that every re-
cent Soviet advance has been
made
Tito Steps into Picture
Into this drama of spreading
'neutralism", as presented by
Moscow for American defeat, now
steps the independent Com
munist Tito. The Daily Worker
and | refer TO the issue of May
31-plays up Tito's picture in
the most flattering manner, re-
joiees at the mutual understand
ing reached by Khrushchey and
him at Belgrade, and lets the
comrades know that Tito is to be
a eat's-paw for the kremlin.
Our national leaders should
now be able to see what a tragic
mistake We made in NOT break
ing off relations with Soviet Rus
Sia long ago and thereby making
all nations decide in which camp
they stood. These national lead
ers must also be aware Of our
folly in spending millions Of dol
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of Moscow. Anyone can see quite
clearly that recent Red maneu-
vers, both on the national and
International stage, have been
for the purpose of following Sta
Inns rules on "the method Of
retreat" in order to bring about
smashing victory for Moscow.
Strategy OF Retreat
The Communist vitriolic critl-
cisms of the Paris Agreement,
rearming West Germany for the
defense of Europe. show that the
United States did make some
headway in moves to protect IT.
self. Red bitterness against "the
Formosa resolution" tells the
same story. But Moscow turned
Immediately to "the strategy of
retreat" laid down by Stain in
''Foun a ions of Leninism":
THE object OF this strategy is to
gain time, to demoralize the enc
my, and To accumulate forces in
order later to assume the of
fensive."
The Austrian peace treaty,
held up for IL years by Moscow,
suddenly was permitted to be
signed by the kremlin - on con
dition of Austrias neutrality"
That this move had as its sole
purpose breaking down the Paris
Pact is now unfolded to the COM
rsdes by the New Times of May
81.
'Cordueivs 70 Peace
The methods and aims Of the
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the new strategy, of the us,
when it invited Chancellor Kon-
rad Adenauer of West Germany
to visit Soviet Russia. 1t even
timed the invitation to be re-
eeived as the Chancellor was pre-
pairing to leave for a visit to the
United States.
President Eisenhower was able
to say that he was not bit wor-
ried about this Red invitation to
Chancellor Adenauer, who has
shown staunch friendship for
the United States. But that was
compliment to Chancellor Ade-
nauer rather than to the Rus
SLAMS, or our own dealings with
the Reds.
An interesting note was struck
when an official was reported to
have said our Government felt
that an invitation from Moscow
to Chancellor Adenauer wouldn't
have been possible a few months
ago. The implication was that
something has happened since
then. To the Russians?
What has happened? Moscow
has engaged in a few actS-not
only public but actually we'll adj
vertised-that we have not been
able to interpret. They were
acts different from what we had
come to expect, but on the whole
not quite up to par for the rest
of the world. But, even with this
show of change there was no in
dication at all that basic COM
muniSt aims had changed.
1t may be that, leading us to
hope, and then making us fear
full to do anything on our part
that would disturb that hope, the
Russians have found new and
profitable form OF aggression.
tN.CC.W. News Service)
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Bob Senser

MonSignor Higgins has as guest
colamRist this a0eek the Assist
ant Editor Of WORK.
why am | sitting here just
reading? Why don't | move my
self and do something? But
WHAT can | do?"
This was the reaction of a
young New Yorker after read
ing newspaper article about
the long battle of the water
front priest, Father John M. Cor
ridan, ST., on the New York
docks. The young New Workers.
questions, expressed in letter
TO newspaper, are typical of
those being asked by thousands
of people these days.
A slum fire cremateS a fam
ily of five. A famine in India
wipes out thousands. A group OF
strikers and n0n-strikers swing
baseball bats at each other on a
Georgia picket line. What Chris
tian can read Of such tragedies
without wondering: "How can !
help make the world the kind of
place God intended it to be-"
Front Line Not for All
The first impulse of some peo-
pie is to want to rush right out
and join Father Corridan on the
waterfront. Or else they might
yearn to distribute relief pack
ages in Wet Nam, or fight with
Able Pierre in his crusade
against slums.
A few people must, of course,
take on the front-line reform
Jobs. But this is not for the rest
of us, and we needn't have a
guilty conscience about 1T.
1t is sheer romanticism for a
father of five children to wish
he could be lay missionary to
the Mau-Maus. And it is sheer
foolishness if he feels that, in
his own back yard, he has moth
ing to contribute to bringing
Christ's peace and love to the
world.
ooh, sure" he might object,
Il realize that my wife and
can raise our youngsters to be
good Catholics, filled with love
of God and love of man. But
want to do something to see that
the world isn't in quite such
mess when the children grow
up"
He's right, of course. But to
accomplish this he doesn't have
to trot off to Wet Nam or to a
picket line in Georgia. He has
his work cut out for him-not
only in his own home. hut also
In his neighborhood, his parish.
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Inquiry Corner
Father He0Iey-

@. Could it be that there are
saints IN heuUen tUho are greater
than the ones zoe kno10 as canon
ized saints?
A. Yes. Often we can see the
working of divine Providence in
the canonization of certain saints.
Devotion to the saints is often a
response to the need Of the time
and the Church ordinarily re-
spends to the popular acceptance
of somemone extraordinarily
holy. There is no plan or
precedent in the Church
for checking all Catholics who
die in good standing" in the
Church; the growth of popular
devotion is spontaneous and the
Church simply investigates the
person so honored and loved by
the people. It is quite possible
that many great saints are I'M
known and forgotten-except in
heaven.
o. | haze heard that Canon
Lao lasts more holydGyS than lOe
keep IN the United States. What
are the ones t0e are e1cuSed
from?
A. We have six holydays of
obligation in the United States.
They are: Christmas, the Circum-
cision, the Ascension, the AS
sumption, All Saints Day and the
Immaculate Conception. On these
days W. are bound to attend Mass
and to abstain from unnecessary
serVile work. There are four 9TH
er holydays of obligation in the
universal Church from which we
are excused. They are: Epiphany,
Corpus Christi, Saint Joseph and
Saints Peter and Paul.
q. lis there any reference TO
Poatius Plate and his life after
the death OF Christ?
A. The historical evidence that
exists seems to indicate that he
found it difficult to get along
with the Jewish people and that
he was removed from office in
SO or 81 AID. He is sale to have
put down what he considered a
rebellion in Samaria with a great
deal of bloodshed and to have
been called to Rome for trial. He
was banished to Vienne in Gaul
where it is said he committed
suicide. The AbySsinian and Cop
tic churches believe that he be-
came q Christian and they honor
him as a saint
O. Is there a Saint Maurd?
A. There are several of that
name. One of the outstanding
saints of that name was a young
virgin and martyr of the early
centuries who died in Constantin-
ople. She was so popular in the
East that Julian the Apostate
desperately tried to discredit her
by saying that her cult was real
ly that of the heather goddess
Venus, disguised as a Christian
Saint. Her feast day is November
Both. The exact year of her death
and the circumstances are I'M
known,
Q. Who loas st. Joseph Bene-
dict Cottolengo? st. Benedict
Joseph Labre?
A. st. Joseph Benedict Cotto-
lengo has been called the Italian
St Vincent de Paul. He was born
in Piedmont in 1886 and died in
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-06-17
WASHINGTON LETTER

WASHINGTON - There is
growing feeling here, throughout
the country and abroad that the
West is engaged in appeasement
of Soviet Russia and Red China.
And it is feared that the Reds
have brought this about through
the use of a new "gimmick"
which provides them with an
other way of gaining their long
time detectives.
One local newspaper has said
flatly that it is the policy of the
us. government not to say or do
anything in the next few months
that might disturb relations with
Moscow and Peiping.
At the same time, questions
are being asked in other coun-
tries of the West. For example,
a paper in Canada inquiries:
why are the tyrants of atheistic.
communism given an aura of
honesty, while their criminal tac-
tics for Subyersion and their
hands bloodstained with count
less murders are overlooked"
There has been a noticeable
tendency here to see hope in
Russian actions, when actually
we have no solid reason for doing
so. The proposal of Soviet Rus
Sia regarding disarmament has
been applauded, despite the fact
that Moscow rejected inspection
and other requisites that we hold
to be basic. We made much of
the Austrian treaty, although the
Reds made very harsh economic
demands on the AuStrians, and
still may have something up their
sleeves. We have optimistically
supported the Big Four talks,
while Russia has extracted propa-
ganda from them and apparently
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1955-06-17
LOUIS +. BUDENZ
MOscO1U Cat 's-PalU Tito

lars to build up Tito, in order
that he may now be a disease
carrier of ''neutralism."
It must be remembered that it
was ]. Edgar Hoover, Director of
the Federal Bureau Of Inyestiga-
tion, who warned Congress in his
yearly report that eternal vigi-
lance against Subversion" is made
more necessary with the world
wide rise of 'neutralism' and the
intensified Soviet propaganda
program of peaceful coexist-
ence.'" This statement aroused
the ire of the Communist con-
spiracy here, and was denounc-
ed in Political Affairs for Feb
ruary.
Most Potent Weapon
Just as our internal security
system, therefore, has new
strain put upon it, the Commun-
lists report new successes in their
attempts to Scuttle that system.
When under fire for subversion,
the Reds resorted to method
of retreat" in appealing to the
Fifth Amendment. The example
had been set for them by the
chief Soviet espionage agent in
f.sxf h#n xxfh
rected Whitaker Chambers and
Alger Hiss and who was known
under many names, including j.
Peters and Alexander Stephens.
In the Hiss case, when appear
ing before the House Committee
on Un-American Activities, this
Moscow agent pleaded the Fifth
Amendment. The rest of the
Communists thereafter followed
his lead.
Now. the Daily Worker of May
% rejoices at the United States
Supreme Court decision which,
the Red organ implies, will per
nit Communists to plead the
Fifth Amendment at random
thus shutting off valuable secur-
ity information from the nation.
In the same issue. the assault
on Government 'informers" is
intensified. even TO the extent Of
assaihng the Rosenberg inform
ers.'
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What Can I DO?

his office or factory, in all the
areas of his life.
Teamwork Needed
In most cases God does not call
people to leave their normal en-
vironment to carry on His work.
They can do so just where they
are.
Why are there so few who do?
For at least two reasons.
First of all, we often make The
mistake of acting as lone wolves.
One person, with his own wits
and his own two hands, can do
much~-in a Hollywood movie.
But in real life you need team.
SO when someone asks "What
can | do?" the first part of the
answer is simply: join some kind
of group. 1t may be parish or
ganization such as the st. Vim
cent de Paul Society or the Chris
tian Family Movement, or an
extra-parochial one such as the
Catholic Interracial Council or
the Association of Catholic Trade
UnioniSts.
In and through such groups,
you can multiply your effective
ness, gain personal strength to
carry on in moments of discour-
agement, and learn of dozens OF
practical ways TO help
Expressing Christian Love
The second big mistake we fire.
quently make is that we look on
ly for big, exciting things to
do. True, somebody has to testi-
fly on Capitol Hill; somebody has
to do battle with gangsters. But
generally the works of love and
peace are much more prosaic,
much less apt to. make the head
fines. In the concrete, this may
mean something simple - such
as calling up a dozen friends TO
attend community council
meeting. Or serving on COM
mittee to welcome newcomers
into the parish. Or volunteering
TO be a shop steward-the most
thankless job in a union. Or act
ing as program chairman for 4
chamber of commerce meeting.
So to the question What can
! do?" | would reply with an
other: Where will you be tomor-
row." All too often Catholics
are known simply by the fact
that they don't eat meat on Fri
days. But every day presents us
with opportunities for acts of
service - ways Of expressing the
Christian love which. above ali
else. should distinguish Us AZ
Catholics. You never know what
the alitfle things" viii lead to.