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Hanna Dealer in Your Comma nitv African. Indian Missions Grow As Reds Silence Those In China Four of the native sons and daughters of the Diocese of Columbus now serving in foreign mission fields, are finding the new year already heightened with adventure and new as signments, according to personnel messages and news received by the Diocesan Propagation of the Faith Office. Father James Kulp, diocesan di rector of the Propagation of the Faith, has received word concern ing Father Frederick Gordon. O.P.. formerly of Somerset, O., who has spent half his life in the missions of China. At present he is a member of th* Catholic mission at Fuchow in Red Chin*. Together with three other Dominicans, now under strict house and is allowed only the preaching of merely being he is arrest silent there. All communication and visiting has been denied the priests by the Red authorities and only a small trickle of financial aid reaches them. It is not known whether he is undergoing interrogations sim ilar to those vve hear so much •bout. Father Gordon made his noviti ate at St. Joseph Priory. Somer set. He was ordained in Washing ton, D.C., in June, 1925. In 1926. he was sent to the missions in Chi na where he has been ever since. Father Gordon's sister. Sister Mary Virginia, O. P., is Vicaress at St. Mary of the Springs College. WE PAY YOU 6% INTEREST Let Your Money Work For You. Offer Limited u State of Ohio. COLUMBUS DISCOUNT AND LOAN T.. RkOAH ST. Colombo.. Ohio FL. mi why pay more FOR AUTO INSURANCE? Well e*or a million mo*ori«ll •*|Oy tlm Io* cott. ocroit th*. board, nonouoitoblo protection. yeu’ro o careful driver you too eon ta*o with Form Bureau in«ur- ence. Y*u get automatic renewal. Friendly, nation wide doim »er- Vite. Why pay mere when you con get monimum protection for lett? Investigate today, call BILL RAUSCH 271 S. Broadleigh Rd. Columbus Jb I a/ I? HAVA A PAIVT MFC. COMPANY Columbus. Another sister. Sister Mary Edmund. O.P.. is a teacher at Holy Name School. Columbus. A brother. William F. Gordon, lives in Columbus at 2317 Woodward Ave. Sister Marianna Halfway around the world, in Africa, Sister Marianna, formerly of Marion. O. has been assigned to a new Maryknoll mission at Nye gina in the Tanganyika Territory. Sister Marianna, who has been in Africa since late in 1951, writes, “There are only three of us and we have plenty io do. A dispensary and native girls’ Novitiate are our two biggest undertakings.” She spoke of the first native postulant being received last vember and added: “It is a small beginning, we have great hope* for the maculate Heart Sister* of Afri- No- Sister Marianna is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Klaus of St. Mary parish. Marion. She en tered Our Lady of Maryknoll No vitiate at alley Park. Mo., in 1947 and pronounced her first vows in 1950. She received her mission crucifix in July, 1951. at Maryknoll, N.Y. Her first mission assignment, to which she went almost immedi ately, was one of the newest Mary knoil missions in Tanganyika. Brit ish East Africa. Brother Aloysiu* Nohr Another missioner well known to Columbus area residents is Brother Aloysius \ehr. S.J.. who left the Diocese eight months ago for the mission fields of India. In a letter to Father Kulp. Brother Nehr told ot an unexpected and pleasant visit to Rome. and the mem were detained months while It seems that he bens of his group in Rome for two their Superiors in out visa problems. They were able to spend most of that time sight seeing. The biggest thrill, of course, was a semi private audience with the Holy Father. India worked Finally, with their visa problems settled, the group continued its journey to India and at present Brother \ehr is studying at the ad vanced language school at Mattiah When Hindi work trict. he becomes proficient in the language, he will begin hi*, in the missions of the dis- Brother Nehr attended Si. Mary High School. Columbus, and then entered the Jesuit Novitiate of the Sacred Heart. Milford, where he professed his vows as a brother in 1950. His mother. Mrs. Albert Lines, is a resident of West Jefferson. Three brother* and three sisters are at home. Another sister. Mrs. King, resides in Blacklick, brother, Francis Nehr, lives lumbus at 1006 Oak St. Frank and a in Co Fr. Curtis Washington Father Curtis Washington. S.V.D., formerly ot SI. Cyprian parish. Co liimbus, is a missionary on West Africa s Gold Coast. Father Washington, who said his first Solemn High Mass at St. Cyprian's on July 3. 1949. writes: “I've just returned from a Irek of seven days over high hills and along the banks ol the mighty and wild \olta River. There is a laige the Akwaniu tube. They have a fine musical language called Twi and still air governed by age old customs. In former days, and until people. Their chiefs had refused entrance to early missioners in lhe Today things are gradually changing as Father Washington point* out: “We now have four mission* in the are* and plan* have already been made to pen etrate the strategic points, in cluding the tribe's capital city from which flows the stream ef its paganism. “One guide took me into that capital town. It was quite an ex Spring* Retempered And Rearched Broken Part* Quickly Replaced COLUMBUS AUTO SPRING CO SALKS SRRVKK S.s.t Weot Rich Street (OUMRIS OHIO CHRISTOPHER BOOKS By Father James Keller “You Car. Change The World” “Three Minutes A Day’ “Just For Today” “Al! God s Children” “Careers That Change Your World” “Government Is Your Business’ Mr. and Mrs. Patrick C. Weldon 1451 Lockbourne Road Columbus 6, Ohio PHONE GA. 9239 Subscription To Catholic Digest $3 Per Year ‘Profit* will t*o4 f*r 4«trihun»ie Cothoh* Literature! perience for the big chiefs and their people were celebrating their largest yearly festival. At the en trance to rhe capital one can see the artistically constructed and painted dominito or statue of their greatest pagan god. My white hel met and cassock caught the eye of a curious chief and he sought out my acquaintance The chief is now giving a larg^ strip of land to build a Catholic Mission.” Father Washington wa* born in Coconut Grove. Florida, in 1917. He attended St. Emma's Industrial and Agricultural Institute. Rockcastle. Va. But his heart was set on the priesthood. With the help of Mon signor Patrick Kilgallen. then pas tor of St. Cyprian parish, Colum bus, who heard of his problems, Father Washington prepared him self to enter St. Augustine Semi nary, Bay St. Louis, Miss., where he was ordained in February, 1949. His first assignment was the mis sion fields of West Africa’s Gold Coast where he has been ever since. WHO Admits International but Im- Nurses’ Group GENEVA. Switzerland—(NC)— The International Committee of Ca. tholic Nurses and Medico-Social Workers has been formally admit ted to official relations with the World Health Organization, it was announced here. The action took place at a meet ing in Geneva of the Executive Board of the United Nations spe cialized agency. It was made pos sible by the decision of the Sixth World Health Assembly last May to recognize more than a single non governmental oigani/ation working in the same field. Previous request* of the inter national organization of Catholic nurse* for official statu* with the World Health Organization had been rejected on the ground* that it was a 'confessional” group whose interests were already represented by a non-sectarian aasociation with broader mem bership*. WHO’s Executive Board recog nized and granted official standing at the same time to the Medical Women’s International Association, and the Organization for the Pro tection of the Health and Child hood of Jewish Peoples The International Committee of Catholic Nurses and Medical So rial Workers was founded at Lourdes. France, in 1933. Its mein bership includes associations, groups and individuals in Argen tina, Australia. Austria. Belgium, Brazil, anada. Ceylon. Denmark. France, Greece Italy, Lebanon. Luxembourg. Mex ico. Monaco, Zealand. Peru. Switzerland, the Vatican City. Germany. Great Britain. India. Indonesia. Ireland. Netherlands. Neu Portugal. Spain. United States and Hie International Purposes of Committee include cooperation in the moral, intellectual and pro fessional education of Catholic nurses and medical social workers, and encouragement of the devel opulent in all countries of associa tions of Catholic professional work ------------o------------------ SliHmroi'k. Glub Promiaeit Mar. 17 To Be ‘Beat Ever” Plans aie being rapidly com pleted by the Shamrock Club for the observance of St. Patrick's Day. There will be a meeting at the K. of C. hall. South Sixth St., Feb. 21. 2:30 p, in. Bill Foley chairman of the par ade committee, promises the out on March 17 will be lhe est since the organization formed. Johnny Hardgrove heads the entertainment commit tee, is preparing an interesting and diversified program following the breakfast. urn la rg was who Red Regimes Suppress News Of Pope’s Illness Many Hungarian Czech and Slo vak priests have detied lhe order of the Red authorities not to men turn ’he Popes illness in sermons, the i epotts say and have paid foi PITTSBURGH AUTO GLASS SERVICE GLASS INSTALLED IN ANY CAR OR TRUCK Complete Stock BERLIN (NC) The Iron Curtain regimes are using concern Io new censorship, threats, fines and jail sentences to keep by the faithful for the Pope’s health from leading demonstrations of solidarity with the Holy See. This fact emerges from reports reaching here nuiubei ol communist count i ie* They include Poland, Hungary Czechoslovakia Rumania and ugo alavia. he genet al tenor of lhe reports i* lhe same lhe Red rulers feat that widespread prayers by Catho lies (or the Pontiff might bring a new fervor of faith, and with i’ an increased restlessness under the communist yoke. Of Curved Windshield* Drive in Installation Service MODERN WAITING ROOM Cail Us For Appointment 324 E. 2nd Ave. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. UNiv.rsity 4136 Word Received Of Former Columbusites’ Activities In Foreign Mission Fields it How would you like to be caught in the middle of two dis patches. one from Rome, the other from China? The world office of The Society for the Propogation of the Faith in Rome asked us how much we could send Io the persecuted missionaries in China? The same day a dispatch from China brought a typical story sionaries suffer under the Com munists. This priest was inter rogated for sixty hours or two and one half days, continuously. Refusing to deny his faith, dur ing the day his eyes were turned to the sun. and at night he was forced to face a bright light. Communist judges sat behind him. each spending three hours harassing him with questions. During those sixty hours, he had to kneel ipright. The first twen ty hours were spent answering questions: fatigue made the faces of the judges swim before his eyes. The next twenty hours he was made to copy out every page of an anti-Catholic paper. After copying ten pages, he look a match and burned them. The Communists however kept one sheet and told him that he had “signed a confession against lhe Church.’* ol what our mis- twenty hours, he no to answer or write, repeat phrases after The priest began to The next longer had but the lose has Communists shouted and jumped with such diabolical glee that they brought the priest bark to his and the not merely judges. his nund, and asked Goo abandoned me? Why The senses. Memory then failed all he could remember were first words “Hail Mary,” but the rest. What stands between these two dispatches from Rome and from China? YOU, our beloved read ers. And how? By sacrifice. Sac rifice is the treasure that reliev es the pain of suffering mission ed because it purchases the marvelous medicine of the grace of God. Mere money won’t do that but sacrifice is a differ ent kind of coin. Sacrifice has the ingredient of love and self denial. from a their defiance with heavy lines and ev en imprisonment. Report* o. these fines and ar rests come from Szombathely and halocsa in Hungary, Ruzomberok in Slovakia, and a number of par ishes in the Czech lands. A severe censorship has report edly been imposed upon all mail by the Bishops to then clergy in Po land. Hungary and Czechoslovakia in an effort to stop news about lhe Popes sickness from reaching the priests. High-ranking communist offi cial* in Hungary and Czechoslo vakia have warned the Hierarchy that the Popo's health is not the concern of th* “working classes,” report* say. The Bishops Seere told they must not under any cir cumstance* ask Catholic* to say special prayer* for th* Pontiff, bocause “preoccupation with event* in the Vatican” would re sult in decreased production. EBNER Coal and Supply Co. HARDWARE A COAL JE. 5407 1I4Z D**aao Ctlembe*. O. "Ebner's Quality Coal" —..........1...... ............ ■■■............. Scouts Attend Communion Breakfast 1 "*f W Boy Scout Troop 56 and Cub Scout Pack 25 celebrated Scout Sunday with a Communion breakfast at Corpus Christi church, Columbus. The Scout* attended seven o'clock Mass, received Communion in a body and then, with leaders and den mothers, attended a hem and egg breakfast in the church social hall. During Benediction service* in the afternoon, they reaffirmed th* Cub Scout promise and the Scout Oath. They were addressed by Father Peter Grabaskas of Holy Spirit parish. Cub awards were presented to 36 cub* by Father Omer Schroeder, assistant pastor of Corpus Christi parish. Scoutmaster Ed Hueckel later conducted a tenderfoot investiture service for ten new scout*. God Love You---------- Typical Story Of Red Brutality In China In Bishop Fu ton J. Sheen Maybe you will sacrifice 60 cents or 60 hours of your salary, or some old gold or jewels. Send it to us and we will' send it to the Holy Father. He knows far better than any of us how to aid the mis sionaries and China and the rest of the world. If you are praying for a special intention and are receiving no answer maybe its because you are only asking. Do something! Give up a $2 luxury, and send us your request for a World Mis sion Rosary on which to pray for some lost soul in Africa or Alaska. Give up $5 worth of cigarettes, cocktails or desserts and send us your request for a sterling sil ver God Ixive You medal. Give up $10 worth of taxi rides, new clothes, or restaurant dining and send your request for a gold filled God Ixive You medal. When you want something for yourself do something for someone else, if only to make yourself worthy of the gift you ask from God. GOD LOVE YOU to Anon, for $10. “I promised I would send to the Missions if I was a habit for ... to C. M. “Enclosed for the Holy Father’s which I earned from work.” ... to F. M. “I this successful in hreakin, one year, is $10.70 Missions overtime am sendin, each time I get a bit on the quick tempered side.” ... to M.E.K. “Enclosed is $3. the equivalent to the amount saved in the past three months by omitting a roll during coffee break.’” ... to P.J.T. “Enclosed is* a week's sal ary from my new position which I wish to give in thanksgiving to the Blessed Mother.” ... to Anon, for $5. “I saved this from the premium money won at the County Fair.” to P.C. “Enclosed is $15 to fulfill a promise made last summer to donate the tips of my best day to the missions, if I made my tuition for the com ing school year. God in His goodness saw fit that my goal fie reached.” 10 Anon. 11 years old. “Enclosed is SI two weeks allowance. It is my hope that God will help me with my mid term exams and other problems (such as the dev il) that come with life.” ... to I..A R.. 11 years old. “14ist spring my uncle gave me a very tiny pig he thought would die anyway. 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The act authorizes the admission of 214,000 refugees, escapees and expellees into this country as non quota immigrants over a three-year period. One of the principal differ ences between the 1953 act and the displaced persons program inaug uiated in 1948 affects sponsorship. Under the 1953 Act. each refugee must have an individual sponsor. Under the DP program, approved voluntary agencies were permitted to bring refugees into the country under a blanket assurance for indi viduals. The Lutheran World Relief has been one of the major voluntary agencies engaged in relief pro grams from refugees and other needy in Europe, the Near and Far Dr. Empie told the convention there have been proposals that vol untary agencies should go "on a sitdown strike’ in an etiort to bring about amended legislation in Congress. He added that there are others who insist that the agencies should carry on as well as they can under the present regulations. At the conclusion of discussion, the council voted an $84,000 budget to cover a six-month trial period to determine what the council could do in promoting a resettlement program under the present act. $16.50. half of the money 1 re ceived when I sold him.’’ Cut out this column, pin your sacrifice to it and mail it to the Most Reverend Fulton J. Sheen, National Director of The Society for the Propagation of the Faith, 109 East 38th Street, New \ork 16x. New York, or your Diocesan Director Father James Kulp, 246 East Town Street, Columbus, 15, Ohio. CLASSIFIED SECTION Send Sd» O. Automobile Dealers McDaniels A our Pontiac-CadilUc Dealer Manoo’* Oldoxt D«al»r*hp ISIS. 309 W. Center Dial 2-3134 BANKING SERVICE Complete Banking Service The Campbell National Bank Phone 77 ......... LaRue. Ohio Member Federal Deposit Ins. Corp. Dry Cleaners HARRAMAN DRY CLEANERS 288 E. 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Monsignor Varga revealed to re porters here some details of the unsuccessful plot before he gave the day’s invocation in the U.S. Senate. He had been invited t^ give the invocation as a way of marking the fifth anniversary of the sentencing of the Cardinal Primate of Hungary. Monsignor Varga related that three separate groups made un coordinated efforts to free the Car dinal in the spring of 1949. The Cardinal was then held in a pris on hospital in Koebanya, a suburb of Budapest. Th* Monsignor said th* sen sational attempt failed because the communists got wind of it and moved the Cardinal to a dif ferent prison. Involved in the liberation attempt were Hungari ans, Poles and Americans. Some of them had wartime under ground experience, he said, gave no names. He the Monsignor Varga ascribed failure of the attempt to the that “too many groups-’ were work ing at it and their efforts were not coordinated. He disclosed that they had gotten as far as getting planes “to Europe from the United States” to fly the Cardinal out of the country. The plot was discover ed in the last month of prepara tion. fact Cardinal Moved Monsignor Varga stated that ever since then the Cardinal has been moved about constantly being kept in one particular place of confinement for only a short time. “Not even some of the leading communists now know where the Cardinal is kept,” the Monsignor explained. In addition to stalling any further liberation attempts, he said, 1he moving about of the cardi nal is also designed to prevent any possible pilgrimages by the faith ful to his place of confinement. Monsignor Varga stated that he had heard indirectly from Cardinal Mindszenty within th* past month. Aside from hi* long time thyroid ailment, the Cardi nal's health is now normal, the Monsignor said. The Cardinal is at present being moved about from place to place in the Tatra mountains, and is oc casionally permitted to see his aged mother and his confessor in the prison at Vacz, the Monsignor stat ed. In his invocation in the Senate, ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT For Reconversion Large Stock Motor* and Controls Infra-Red Systems Electric Power Equipment Co. S? K CHESTNUT ST. MARION 5HG°ZS These business firms deserve your patronage. Use this section as a guide when buying. Monsignor Varga said: “In our prayer we join the im ploring millions whose silent invo cations rise to Thee from the dark dungeons of the Iron Curtain, from the most obscure corners of the slave camps, and from the horror chambers of the secret police. Hear these prayers. O Lord, and deliver them from evil. “O Lord give Thou hast given servant, Cardinal defied the tyrant’s wrath until con demned to prison five years ago to day. 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