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Catholic Student Groups De
cry “Sex Propaganda” in
Public Press.
Revolting against public exploitation
of nudity, the Sodality Union of Wash
ington, representing Catholic college
and high school students, pledged
their support yesterday afternoon to
extend the principles of the Legion of
Decency to the printed pages.
Resolutions calling upon students to
combat subtle "sex propaganda" and
the "exploitation of youth” in salaci
ous periodicals were indorsed at a
conference at Georgetown University
which was addressed by the Right
Rev. John M. McNamara, auxiliary
bishop of Washington. About 100
young men and women delegates from
all the Sodalities in the District par
ticipated.
The local Sodalists were said to be
the first in the country to respond to
call issued recently by the Catholic
Press Conference to wage the same
kind of campaign against indecency
in the printed page as the legion has
conducted for years against the films
and stage. John W. Nurre, prefect of
the resident students’ Sodality at
Georgetown College directed the stu
dent conference.
“Atheistic Communism.'
The Sodality Union also urged Cath
olic youth to combat the propaganda
of "atheist Communism" by leading
•’exhortable lives" to support Christian
Influences.
Resolutions supporting the Legion
of Decency were proposed by Miss
Viviian Wilson of Dunbarton College
and Clarence Duby. prefect of the
non-resident students of the George
town Sodality.
The local Sodality Union did not
confine its criticism to certain types
of illustrated magazines and those
specializing in "sex appeal” and other
forms of youth exploitation, but at
tached a share of the blame to "sen
sational" newspapers of the secular
press.
While not blaming all the daily pa
pers, one of the resolutions expressed
the opinion that many had been made
the "victims" of "hypocritical propa
gandists.” These propagandists, the
resolution stated, sought to "destroy
all human and Christian decency" In
the disguise of such methods as youth
"reforms.”
Members of the sodalities were
called upon to exercise "constant vigi
lance” to counteract statements re
flecting on the general conduct of
youth. In another resolution the
youths were reminded that an “ex
hortatory life was the basis for all
sodalists who realize they cannot get
anywhere with a program for decency
wuthout deciding to clean up their own
homes first.”
Spanish Situation Discussed.
The Rev. Francis P. LeBuffe, S. J.,
of New York, Sodality organizer for
the Eastern States, spoke on the Span
ish situation and Communistic influ
ences. He claimed the secular press
"has been fooled” with respect to the
real issue in Spain, and many editors,
he said, have admitted it. “This
trickery was due to the masterly pro
paganda sent out by the Communists
in Madrid.” he charged.
Bishop McNamara, who pronounced
the benediction at the close of the
all-day conference, made no men
tion of the Legion of Decency cam
paign, but called for "more vocal ex
pression of religion on the part of
young people.” He emphasized that
Catholic education aimed to teach stu
dents “to know and to do correctly.”
The Sodality conference, which was
organized by the Georgetown Sodality
of Our Lady, which is observing its
127th anniversary this year, was the
first of two sessions that will be held
during the academic year. Following
the meeting the'visiting students were
entertained at a tea dance and re
ception in the Copley Lounge.
ROME-BERLIN AXIS
HELD NO ALLIANCE
London Economist Assistant
Editor Joins German in Doubts
on Dictators' Link. •
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Dec. 4 —A German
told the Foreign Policy Association
today that the "Rome-Berlin axis”
was not an alliance, and a Eriton
asserted it was only a "diplomatic
bluff.”
The speakers were Rudolf Kirch
er, editor in chief of the Frankfurter
Zeitung, and Graham Hutton, as
sistant editor of the London Econo
mist.
“In Germany,” said Kircher, ”we
prefer to speak of a German-Italian
co-operation and of parallelism of
interests. * * * We never dream of
making it an alliance because we
do not believe in alliances. * * * We
want to gain in the diplomatic field
but we do not want to fight again
in a war. • • • This Berlin-Roman
axis does not mean war; it means
peaee and is destined to lead us to
peace.”
8aid Hutton: “Despite Signor Mus
solini's bellicose threats, I cannot
conceive how the Rome-Berlin axis
could ever really function in a war.
• * * First, Germany does not want,
nor does she need, ever to be in
volved militarily on the side of Italy.
• * * Second, * * * a Rome-Berlin
military axis * * * implies general war
in Europe. Now both the Italian and
German military authorities realize
• * • that they cannot win a general
European war.”
S0NDERLAND HONORED
Maj. Gen. A. H. Sunderland, chief
of Coast Artillery, will be guest of
honor at the annual meeting and
atag dinher of the Washington Chap
ter, Coast Artillery Association, at
7:15 p.m. Tuesday at the Army and
Navy Country Club.
Officers will be elected. Lt. Col.
Leroy 6. Mann at present heads the
group. Capt. Lyman E. Morris is
president of the Washington Coast
Artillery Club.
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Train Kills Lineman.
By the Associated Press.
VAN BIBBER, Md., Dec. 4.—Neal
Davis, 45, Baltimore telegraph line
man, was killed Instantly today when
the handcar he was riding was struck
by a southbound Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad express near here. Coroner
James Landers said no inquest was
k
Will Discuss Housing.
Nathan Straus, administrator of
the United States Housing Authority,
will discuss the national housing pro
gram at a luncheon Thursday at
12:30 p m. at the National Press Club.
New Life Begins With SHave
Left: Don Rogers, 32-year-old Texan who crawled into a
culvert at San Jose, Calif., to await death, took a new lease on
life after sheriff’s deputies rescued him and gave him a bath
and dinner. The transformation to a man looking for work
was completed when he rvas given a shave.
Right: Rogers eating his first full meal in 85 days at the
county jail after he was rescued.—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
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Circuit Judge Calls Grand
Jury to Investigate in
Kansas City.
By the Auoclftted Preu.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 4—Circuit
Judge Ben Terte called a grand Jury
to Investigate a jury summons service
scandal, disclosure of which caused
him to exclaim:
“It’s awful, it’s rotten, it’s terrible:
it reflects on every one.”
Three men have been sentenced to
jail for contempt, three others ar
rested and two sheriff's deputies dis
charged since a routine checlc of jur
ors’ names and addresses by a Kansas
City Star reporter disclosed an exten
sive barter in summonses.
The disclosure resulted in a second
mistrial for rotund Willie Luggs,
Northside police character, who was
convicted yesterday at his third trial
for possessing burglary tools and sen
tenced to two years in prison. It was
the first conviction for Lugge, whose
10-year record showed 37 arrests and
only one sentence—that on a guiltj
plea in Federal Court.
An investigation after discovery ol
an imposter on the second Lugge jurj
disclosed other cases in which Jurors
bought their summonses for $1 to
serve under false names for $3 a day.
Judge Terte quoted four of the
“ghost” Jurors as relating they bought
the summonses from an ex-convict
known as "Frenchy.” The Judge said
a ponderous deputy sheriff told him he
had hired “Frenchy” to do his' “leg
work" in serving papers because ol
the officer’s difficulty in getting in
and out of cars.
Judge Terte said the grand Jury,
called for next Wednesday, also “will
be charged to dig into all law viola
tions.”
CANADA MOVES CATTLE
FROM DROUGHT AREAS
Between 12,000 and 15,000 Taken
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CALGARY, Alberta (/P).—Between
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been moved from Alberta drought
areas this year under the federal*
feeder-freight program, It was esti
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Under the plan the government re
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freight charges on cattle moved from
the dry areas to other Alberta dls
I tricts or outside the province.
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