The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 23, 1947, Page 3

oak AP N :weteatures FATALE BLIND DATE . " CARKER WOMAN PEOPLE are “just the type", according to young cartoonist Ann Roy, whe’ thinks thet if fon study so-called normal people, you will find many strange patterns. They are taken from her new ‘book of sketches, “Absolutely Normel.” Which is published-by Houghton DRMIa ‘Company. -aided’ Father Albert? STONE BY STONE: THIS WAS. ce apace INDIANS worship here—St. Joseph's Mission. AP Newstfeatures VEE. ‘N. M.—Above; the Mescalero valley of south- ern New Mexico’ towers St: Jo- seph’s Mission—an imposing structure that prompts inquiry why this Apache Indian agency _ hqadquarters has a a large |Italy’s population jumped sah cathedral. = ¢ The ‘answer ' is: ‘Father’ ‘albert | ‘ W.*Braun who built it stone by stone, beam ‘by beam in ‘about 20 ‘years. Franciscan padre and Army chaplain :t6 two :gerierations of World War soldiers, Father Al- bert began the mission as a mem- -orial to the soldier dead. The design was by W. C. Stan- ton, Philadelphia architest and friend. Occasional volunteers i Antonio Maria Leyva, aging stone mason, ‘worked on it the last 16 years of his life. But mostly it was the padre who quarried the _ rock, ~hewed the timbers and built the church, The completed super- structure was dedicated in 1939 by Bishop A. Schuler of El Paso, | ‘Texas. The windows were boarded, waiting for unsolicited funds to provide .glass when the immi- nence of World War = II called Father Albert to the colors again. He was one of the 1,600 men from New Mexico who were with the 200th Coast Artillery in the Philippines when war came. He survived Bataan and a long im- prisonment by the Japanese, and returned to find friends had sub- scribed funds for the stained glass windows. TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS (Know America) — Edward H. Foley, Jr., assistant secretary of the treasury, born in Syracuse, N. Y., 42 years ago. Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. board chairman of General Motors, born in New Haven, Conn., 72 ears ago. . Chester Beach of New York, eminent. sculptor, born .. Francisco, 66 years ago. Prof. Italy’ S Population: in San Maryland \ War Crimes Trials). ROME: — (AP). — Crowded er ‘half million. in 1 That was the margin: of bir over ‘deaths in the first:full post- war year. Tabulation of official statistics showed that 1,022,231 babies were born in 1946, against 820,591 in 1945 while only 541,629 Italians died compared with 619,949 the year before. Moreover, the _ statisticians pointed out, there. were 413,083 marriages ldst year against 304,- 998 in 1945 and 223,673 in 1944. That would mean more babies in 1947, they said and, if things kept up that way, the country’s population would reach 50,000,000 in 10 years. Poland Geis u for Growing Rapidly SZCZECIN (Stettin)—(AP).— fhe steamer Isar arrived here from the British zone of occupa- tion in Germany, bringing 44 more German war criminals for trial before Polish courts. The group included Hans Au- meier, assistant commandant of the notorious wartime’ Auschwitz extermination camp, where an estimated 4,000,000 persons, in- cluding 3,000,000 Jews, were gassed: to death. Another was Ende Von Paul, jaccused of terroristic acts against the people of Katowice during the Nazi occupation. Gov. Gives Go Sign At Hearing, ANNAPOLIS, Md. — (AP) — Governor William Preston Lane, Jr., startled every- Allison Gaw of the|one at a recent hearing when he Univ.. of Southern California, |cut through sonorous etiquette— noted professor of English, born|replete with this and “your excellency” that— in Philadelphia, 70 years ago. BURGLAR-ALARM STOLEN LONG BEACH, Calif.—Amos Heneise, city foreman, rigged up - a burglar alarm for his’ home, after being bothered by prowlers. It consisted of a shelf from his refrigerator and an electric bill. He’s now looking for a burglar- proof. alarm _because someone slit a screen and stole his shelf , he said. and the bell. _ Subscribe to The Citizen, “your excellency” to declare, “Every time I hear that title I cringe.” To prevent his becoming the Free State’s cringingest governor, then experimented with honor” and either. Finally, his Excell— Gov- ernor Lane came up with the so- lution: “Just call:me governor,” lin the constitution, and if it’s good enough for the constitution, it’s good enough for me.” easiest es neneusacintoncinigeactig manasa INDIAN BUILT BY CHAPLAIN eee i RE . speakers “your “Mister Governor,” ‘but nobody felt happy over this, “They call me governor — CATHEDRAL PADRE MISSION FATHER BRAUN, the builder. Wife, Daughter Score, So. Man Quits Bowling FULTON, Mob.. —(AP)- Tim’ © Collins had a’ good reason for running this advertisement—~ . “For sale: Bowling ball, me and shoes.” He often said if his wite and daughter ever should beat him he would give up the game. The worst happened. Collins rolled 423 for three games. The next night Mrs. Collins hit 431 and his daughter 442, Russo Shakes His Sore Arm NEWARK. — (AP) — Marius Russo, star southpaw of the pre- war New York Yankees, who has been troubled with a sore arm, is staging a comeback with the International League New- ark Bears. He hurled a four- hitter and.a six-hitter in his first two outings with the Bruins. Theological Pupil Is Collecting Dirt CHICAGO.—(AP).—Capsules of soil from all parts_of the world are being collected by Malcolm Thompson, senior student at the McCormick Theological semirary. He’s going to put them in a “pil- lar of peace and friendship”. he is planning to build. Among the specimens already. in hand are tubes of earth from gold mines in Africa and Sara- wak, from around the leaning tower of Pisa, the Sphinx and pyramids of Egypt, the Acropolis of Athens, the Alamo of Texas, the equator near Quito, Ecuador, the Antarctic, Mount Vernon and the ancient city of Carthage. “VICTIM” SAVES $23,000 PHILADELPHIA. — After he had parked his car and was walk- ing home, three men approached Harvey L. Campbell, 50. One waved a gun. Campbell whipped out a pistol of his own, wounded two of the three men and saved $8,000 in cash and $15,000 in-cer- tified checks he was carrying. Police later arrested two men aft- er they had applied for hospital treatment.