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August 21, 1939.
Royal Monk Is Hope Of Refugees
Secret British Grant To Let Him Carry On
A RECENT secret grant of several thousands of pounds by the Lord Bald- win Refugee Fùnd to "Father Odo” enables the revolation of one of the most romantic stories about the rescue of Roman Catholics from Germany.
Father Odo, a Benedictine monk, is a cousin of Queen
Mary. He was born a duke and gave up his wealth and Children Beat
titles to enter a monastery.
Now he has become the friend of hundreds of Catholic re- fugees from Germany and Austria. He has helped thom to start life afresh in other countries.
Duke Charles Alexander of Wurtemburg, descendant of kings, became Father Odo, the monk, after the war, in which he fought for the German army as a Heutenant in the front line.
This forty-three-year-old giant-he is 6ft. 2in. tall and of great girth-is of commanding appearance even in the simple . hinbit he wears. He is nearly bald.
Father Ódo to-dny travels from one European capital to an- other. Rome, the Vatican, Paris, Berne and London.
Father Odo was in London recently. He went to Maribor ough Houre to see Queen Mary who greeted him affectionately. But, although he could visit Queen Mary, Father Odo could not stay to sleep in the soft beds of Marlborough House. He went every night to a small monastery on the outskirts of London to rest,
Father Quin of the Catholic Refugee Committee said that. Father Odo was at present on the Continent, but was expected in London later.
Another associate said to him: "He is a lone worker who is not attached to any one committee.
His movements are kept secret.”
His present headquarters are at a monastery in Switzerland.
Weed Penetrates Plank
Girl Clown Wins Fame
BRIGHTON.
MRS. ALBERTINO ADAMS,
The Censor
WHILE the best brains of
General Franco's adminis- tration are combining to pre- vent leakage of political in- formation from Spain, school- children are defeating the censor with a code they learn- ed in refugee camps in Britain..
Every week. innocent-looking let- ters, written in childish seraivi, are being received by young refugees still in camps here. They are coded notes containing news of what is happening in Spain, and advising refugees whether it is opportune to return,
"The
matron
children's of a bome in the Home Couniles said, "In one letter I read a Kiri wrote: The climate is very hot here after England, and I don't survive think Grandpa would 11.'
"This, decoded, warned re- fugees that the Internal situa- tion In Spain was still tense, and that if they returned they would do so at the risk of their lives." Family references are the key of
An appeal signed by 375 members of the staffs of British Universities has been sent to the Prime Minister Mr. Neville Chamberlain, urging the inclu- alon of Mr. Winston Churchill (above) In the Glovemment, The signatories are drawn from 22 universides and university col Jeges throughout the country and include Professors and six Heads of colleges.
Sky Pilot Really Is Pilot
BRISBANE, Australia.
'Miracle' Cure By Prayer
Birmingham.
"I AM convinced that a
miracle was worked for me by the prayers of my {friends."
Calmly, but with a ring of conviction in her voice, an at- tractive 25-years-old secretary made that statement, recently as she walked about to demons- trate that she was no longer a eripple.
She asked that her name should not be revealed for business reasons.
For five years she had a spinal complaint, and spent two years in a cripples' hospital.
on
She
went to Lourdes last summer stretcher. But
before
she went and after she returned 30 girls prayed twice a day at the Y.W.C.A. Birmingham, her
recovery,
A doctor who examined her recently declared that she was cured and that he could not ex- plain it.
Mr. Birnie, warden of the hostel, told me "the girl, who is a Roman Catholic, had great faith that if we prayed for her she would recover.
"I
for
prayed for her more than Australia now has a "sky pilot" twice a day, and I am convinced that
The woman who left be- the code. "Hence I stole some jam hind a quiet life as a cook in yesterday, and Uncle is on the war in the real sense of the term. He it is prayer and prayer alone which
path." To a censor a commonplace| Brighton to become the only indident in any child's life, but to is the Rev, Father Seymour, abbot has restored her health.” woman clown in the world, is the refugees an indication that food of the Murist Fathers' monastery at earning hundreds of pounds as short. week touring the U.S.
Her father, Joe Craston, the old- Manganese Mines
time clown, said this recently,
"The Americans had never seen
ta' woman clown before my daughter
Lulu went out there," he said.
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DENVER, Colo.
As a result of the President's sign-
Bundaberg and pilots his own plane for all of fis extensive parochial work in the north of Queensland.
Church To Be Laboratory
SYDNEY, Australin.
WINNIPEG, Man. Proof of the tremendous strength of growing weeds was shown here "They like her 50 much that ing of the strategie minerals 6, The crypt of Saint James' church when a piece of lumber an inch thick, she's bring invited everywhere. She negotiations are under way here for having been unused for some me, through which had grown n dande-should have returned to Brighton the re-opening of various manganese it will be turned into a fuboratory. lion root, was found in a lumber weeks ago, but now she will not be mines. They have been closed ever Dr. Burton Bradley and his assistants
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Boy He Saved Was His Son
BRISTOL.
A 53-YEAR-OLD man
who
could not swim slithered down an almost perpendicular mudbank and plunged in the River Avon at Bristol recently when a younger man who was rescuing a boy from drowning got into difficulties,
The elder man had just dragged the others into shallow water when he found that the boy was his 11- year-old son.
and
The boy, Fred Searle, of Bath- road, Totterdown, was playing with some other boys near Totterdown Bridge when he fell into the river.
A strong tide was running, the boy was carried away.
Screams for help from his com- panions brought 26-year-old James Cudd racing down die bank.
"The boy was
struggle in the water," Cudd said. "I dived in and brought him back to- wards the bank, when Mr. Searle waded out towards us.
was making n game
The mud was so slippery that I not get a footing and the tide was running fast against us.
"Mr. Searle managed to give us a hand and pull us towards the side." Mr. Scarly said, "I slithered down the bank and saw Mr. Cudd and someone else struggling in the waler.
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"I could not swim, but went out towards them and just munaged to grab them as they came towards me on the tide.
"I did not know until we hauled the boy up, that it was my
son."
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