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Newspaper
Catholic Telegraph Register
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1945
Page
13
The piece discusses a rising crime wave across the United States with estimates on age groups involved and calls for evaluating crime prevention methods. It notes limited data from Fall 1945 and questions the effectiveness of spending on recreation and education to reduce crime while prisons remain crowded.
The Home Missioners of America opened a fifth rural mission center in Norton Virginia led by Fathers Edward Smith and Joseph W Dean and Brother Vincent Wilmes. The center serves six western counties in Virginia with Bishop John J Swint approving the setup. Most residents are miners and Catholics are few, with two churches in Norton and Appalachia about 11 miles apart.
The St Martin’s Chapel in Springfield reports 55 baptisms since the mission began in June 1943. Archdiocesan leaders emphasize concern for the Colored community’s spiritual life and invite all Colored people to join Catholic teaching. Nine Colored parishes exist in the region, with St Martin’s pastor noting harmonious White-Colored cooperation and active participation in services. The column also notes an $18.80 stamp donation from Estelle Fell for mission work.
Members of the St. Louis Catholic Society Group IAL MEN will meet at the Plaza Hotel on Thursday 20 at 12 30 pm. The program includes a review of Thomas More by James Ell of Cincinnati. Brendan F. Brown of Cincinnati will preside. The meeting is tied to the American Bar convention December 17 to 19 in progress.
St. Louis church gains a modern pipe organ next month from St. Anthony's monastery Mt Airy. The transfer to downtown St. Louis church will reuse a reed organ in the church and allow richer music under Monsignor John E Kuhn with George Witte as organist and choir director. The project involves Alfred Morrison Cincinnati organ technician and August Wittrock, a local piano repairman and Mass server.
The Newman Club at Miami University unveiled its mixed choir at the 11 o'clock Mass in St. Mary’s Church led by Martin Liesenfeld and James Quinn with organ by George Britton. The revived club now has about 150 members including Catholic students and Navy personnel.
The annual St Nicholas donations for St Francis Hospital Cincinnati are observed this week. St Anthony Aid Society sponsors the drive appealing for cash food linens and canned goods for the Little Sisters of the Francis. Donations go to the society at Queen City Avenue hospital. Call WA 6679 to arrange pickup.
Dayton de Paul Council advances a postwar program focusing on job placement for high school boys, boarding for orphans, and juvenile aid. An innovation at the Montgomery County Fair featured a Catholic information booth run by the Legion of Mary, drawing hundreds of non Catholics and distributing literature with minimal discard. The Rev. Roger E. Griese praised the venture as a sound spiritual investment aiding church outreach and understanding. Dayton hosts nine St Vincent de Paul conferences in local parishes with plans to organize more next year.
A community campaign collects canned milk and food to support starving families in Wyoming. Local organizers urge residents to donate at churches and food banks, with Pastor Walsh leading efforts and promoting weekday drives.
Miesburg will host a midnight Mass at James' church as part of a regional food drive. Archdiocesan officials announce 60 720 cans of milk toward a 225 ton quota, with milk the sole food type due to shortages of other canned goods.
John P. Hickey of 6223 Bona Vista Place Cincinnati donated a collection valued at 2000 dollars to Our Lady of Cincinnati college. The extensive set includes over 100 books with a detailed index and many items on Cincinnati history. Special volumes cover maps and related topics.
The Catholic Position radio program on WKRC set for Sunday December 2 was canceled after the script on the rights of labor was deemed controversial. WKRC officials, Archdiocese Chancellor Monsignor Issenmann, and Father Albin Ratermann issued statements defending or explaining the decision.
Father John E. Duffy, linked to the Cincinnati Catholic Students' Mission Crusade, arrived in Kunming China after two and a half years in a camp and nine months of harsh living conditions. A survivor of the Bataan Death March, he earned the Purple Heart during the war. Additional details mention his association with the 301st Group and the 30let ADG base in Peoria.
Official December 1945 letter notes station earlier favoring Fathers Flanertke to air Saturday at 4:30 but cites pastoral duties and other engagements. Public deserves the archbishopry view of the facts.
Daily noonday Mass began at Patterson Field on December 9 to serve the many civilian employees during lunch hour. Major C. H. Logue, a Cleveland native and recent Middle East service veteran, serves as chaplain, taking over from Major Francis C. Frechette who is reassigned to Buckley Field, Denver.
Mother Francis Sullivan, a renowned Religious of the Sacred Heart, died December 4 at Villa Duchesne in Clayton Missouri. She spent years as mother superior at Clifton Cincinnati from 1928 to 1935 and later served in the Colored missions in New Orleans and Grand Cateau Louisiana.
Most Rev. William T. Mulloy urged rural mission work to parish priests and sisters, calling the country parish vital to faith development and leadership in rural communities. He noted his farm roots in Walsh county North Dakota and linked wartime sacrifice to the Rural Life movement's ideals.
A Cincinnati man, Pfc. William Schroeder, writes of witnessing a sudden Lourdes cure of a paralyzed woman in Lourdes France. He describes watching her stand and move after a priest perform healing rites at the Lourdes shrine, noting the dramatic change witnessed by many.
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