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'■Wednesday, January 28, 1942THE HAMMOND TIMESBOYS LEARN TOBUILD K flNSOI L COURSEVocational Students ActuallyConstruct S4,500 BungalowFanatics Obliged to Yield tc Mounting Public Resentment Stirred byGestapo ActivitiesMARENGO. 111. Jan. 28 — (U P —It doesn't take a rptort card to prove to a Marens'O father that his son i.s doing we!! in hi^h school manual training. Father ju^t drives down the street and “points with(Editor s Note: Here, in the third of a series on Nazi persecution of Jews and the Catholic church. Pierre J. Huss, for eight years chief Berlin correspondent of International News Service, tells for the first time the story of Bishop Prince von Galen and how he turned the tables on a couple of Nazi thugs who violated his mass.)By PfEKKE J. HI SS(INS Staff Correspondent)NEW YORK. Jan. 28.~-lt;INS)Bishop Galen, tirelessly activeagainst the creeping poison spread among the young by the blandishments and seductions of Rosenberg,shouted for their bishop, threatening disorders if he failed to appear.Gestapo Men Seek AdviceJ The Gestapo men were in a quandary and gifted the burdenof responsibility by putting bliu ] calls through to Gestapo headquarters in Berlin.Ten minutes later all but two of them left, and the bishop stepped to the open window to bless his flock. He told them to go home and worry none about him. as he would remain m their midst. He did not tell them that from that day on, he would be shadowed and eescorted wherever he went, under house arrest and subject to all sorts of fine annoyances in w the Gestapo excels.But the battle he fought was notfought entirely in vain. The forcesWestern Pacific Has the Worlds Deepest WaterSCHNECTADY. Nlt; UP.»then lashed the dark forces seek- anlt;j influences he and equally cour-ing to undermine* the authority of ageou# men of thc church and out_side of it unleashed swelled thepressure to such proportions thatparents and the innocent minds ofchildren.He reminded friend and foe in-IJ I I ■ , , . Hitler had to give ear andtin theside that cathedral that Chnst was en(J unbend t0 forestal, w£at be.Set among the other home.1* here ■Knew five-room bungalow'iRi(iiPpB|||^JH(H^|||^||||||ed at $4,500. It was built bv 32 j Bormann son had his hands full, manuel | training students atMarengo Community high school.I The project was the idea ofKenneth G. Walthers, manualtraining instructor. He knew students w-ere apt enough at building cabinets and furniture and decided what they really needed was greater experience in a definite vocational field —carpentry, plumbing. painting, masonary, electricity.the special protector and the eternal Savior of the young in particular. as demonstrated by Him on■■ ■ even ago. And woe to those who harmed the body or mind of thegan to look like a serious innerrift on the home front.He danced around fuehrer head-earth even two thousands years quartcr8 with fury but f|nal|y toldHimmler and Bormann to lay off,Naval battles in the western Pacific sre fought in the deepest waters in the world.Just west of Mindanao island ts Mindanao deep, the deepest underwater spot known to geologists.Here the measuring tape wentdown 34.218 feet, or nearly six andone-half miles, before it struck bottom, according to Dr. Edward S. C. Smith, professor of geology at Union college.Other deep spots in this area. Dr. Smith said, are the Tonga deep. 30.132 feet, and the Kerma-dec deep. 30.920 feet. Waters in the Northeastern Pacific average about 15,000 feet.Mighty voices from the pulpits of child, or sought with false gospels the Reich thundered their warn- )to *eac* *t astray from its Shep-ings. and pastoral letters of the j nerd.W. E. M«Cleery w*as 100 per cent for his plan to build a house and the board of education approved. Citizens of Marengo backed the proeot.When work* started, it was too late for the bovs to build the foun-dation because the hou.se wouldn't have been ready for inside work before cold weather. Professionals were caller in for the job.Work Three Hour* a DayMoney for materials- and the lot were furnished by Miss Frances Post and the house is her property. The school furnished tools and supervision. City inspectors were called upon to give their counsel in various technical phases of the construction, and plasterers put the finish on the walls. The boysdid the rest.The class was divided into two groups of 16 boys each. One group worked three hours in the morning: the other three hours in the afternoon. All received regular school credit for their work.aged and suffering Cardinal Faul-haber in Munich and Prince Conrad Preysing. Bishop of Berlin, spread the tide of indignation throughout the land.But an even doughtier warrior of the church arose to the forefront and led the battle against the Nazis with hitherto unprecedented vigor.That was Count August Clemens von Galen, bishop of the ancient Westphalian town of Muenster.He had watched with heavy heart as his beloved city and flock suffered terribly under the hail of British bombs which began on the memoriable night of July 6 in 1941, continuing incessantly for sometime. after which Muenster could be classified as practically in ruins.It was up to the end of 1941 oneof the worst blitzed cities in Ger- ! proceed.”Heckler*It was at this point, as people who were there told nfe, that the S. S. man of Himmler’s Gestapo and his companion stood up and both stamped into the middle of the broad aisle. They clicked their heels for all to hear, raised right arms above the level of their eyes in Nazi salute, and both said loud- j the** v»,;, ly: “Heil Hitler!H *The congregation sat in stony silence. They tell me Prince von Galen, six-foot German patriot and able servant of God, looked with quiet tolerance at the two in the aisle facing him and waned for them to speak. The expression on his face clearly said:“My poor friends, why must you wait .so long to muster the courage to carry out your orders? PleaseOn July 12. according to a letter which Bishop Count Galen sent to me and to Louis Lochner of the Associated Press in Berlin, the secret state police (Gestapo descended on cloisters and convents Muenster and various churchBerate BishopBut they did not march forwardtherewith suspending for the present the Nazi onslaught against the Catholic church.But those of us who know our Berlin and the wild men in the Nazi party are not fooled. Nor have the undaunted bishops of Germany been fooled by the let-up.Viewed a% a Truce It is nothing but a truce, a breathing space to the next move, for in the minds and pockets ofrests like an embedded rock that Rosenberg plan for a National Church of Greater Germany, be it Protestant or Catholic, but stripped under all circumstances of outside ramifications and of the gospels and preachings injurious to Naziism and its doctrines. There can be no compromise or half-way solution there.Bormann naturally was sore of heart when the bake was slapped on his crusade against the Catholic church, although there was some consolation in the fact that no high command came for the reopeningments or move on short notice into crowded quarters assigned to them with other Jewish families.After a while, they couldn't even go out after 8 p. m. They had to register themselves and every stitch they owned anew and in itemized detail with the police.Two Stepsamazingnew pepvitality better looks! vRestore vital digestive juices in the M stomach . . . energise your bodywith rich, red blood. Here's howfto arrest him. had the Oatholic orders nndl i*0nVent-sdifferent orders. The one ho had 1^ had closed, or the restoration ofinstood up first started straight before him and shouted:“You preach here in a language of hidden meanings, aimed to stirorders to confiscate all in favor of j the minds of these Germans against {^ interfered withNazi district leaders. They claimed (the government. You talk of homeand the family and children andcall on us to follow the exampleof one who is told of as a manwithout a family of his own, abachelor wandering from one placethf. next but never settled longS.S.Sthe buildings were needed to house families left homeless by the bombings.The bishop enclosed a copy of the telegram of protest he had sent* ----1- « _ i_ L ^that property to the rightful owners.Nor was there anv indication that his drive against the Jews wouldHe sat in the Kaiserehof hotel bar and drank great gulps of champagne, mulling the whole thing over in his head.Yes. the Catholics had stopped him again, but the Jews hadn’t a ghost of a chance. 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Hammond Times
Hammond, Indiana, US
Wed, Jan 28, 1942
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