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August 21, 1939.

Hope Of Refugees

Secret British Grant To Let Him Carry On

A RECENT secrot grant of several thousands of pounds by the Lord Bald- win Refugee Fund to "Father Odo” enables the revelation 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 them to start life fresh 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 lieutenant 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 habit he wears. He is nearly buld.

Father Odo to-day travels from one European capital to an- other. Rome, the Vatican, Paris, Berne and London.

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- tera, written in childish scrawl, are

Father Odo was in London recently, He went to Marlbor-being received by young refugees ough House 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 un the Continent, but was expected in London later.

Another associate snid to him:

Girl Clown Wins Fame

BRIGHTON.

"He is a lone worker who is not MRS. ALBERTINO ADAMS, attached to any one committee.

His movements are kept secret."

His present headquarters are

at a monastery in Switzerland.

Weed Penetrates

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WINNIPEG, Man. - Proof of the tremendous strength of growing weeds was shown here

wires a piece of lumber an inch thick,

through which had grown a dande lion root, was found in a Jumber

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st in camps here. They are coded noles containing news of what is happening in Spain, and advising ugees whether it is opportune to reborn.

The matron of children's Home in the Home Countles said. In one letter I read a girl wrote: "The elimate is very hot here after England, and I don't think Grandpa would survive It."

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warned This, decoded, fugees that the Internal lius- tion in Spain was still lense, and that if they returned they would do so at the risk of their lives." Family references are the key of 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

ipath."

To a censor a commonplace Brighton to become the only incident in any child's life, but to woman clown in the world, is the refugees an indication that food carning hundreds of pounds a{is shurt. week touring the U.S.

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Her father, Joe Craafon, the old- time clown, said this recently.

The Americans had never seen woman clown before my daughter

Lulu went out there," he said,

Manganese Mines To Reopen

DENVER, Colo.

As a result of the President's sign- They like her su much thating of the strategie minerals bill, she's being invited everywhere. She negotiations are under way here for

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An appeal signed by 375 members of the staffs of British Universities has been sent to the Princ Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, urging the inclu-

alon of Mr. Winston Churchill (above) in the Government. The signatorics are drawn from 22 universities and university col- leges throughout the country and include Professors and six Heads of colleges.

Sky Pilot Really Is Pilot

BRISBANE, Austrnila.. Australia now has a "ky pilot in the real sense of the term.

'Miracle' Cure By Prayer

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Birmingham.

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 cripple.

She asked that her name should not be revealed for business rensons.

For five years she had a spinal complaint, and spent two years in a cripples' hospital.

She went to Lourdes last summer on a stretcher,

But before she went and after she returned 30 girls prayed twice a day at the YWCA, Birmingham, for her recovery.

A doctor who examined her recently declared that she was cured and that he could not ex-

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Mrs. Birale, warden of the hotel, told me "the girl, who - L a-Roman Catholle, had great faith that if we prayed for her she would recover.

played for her Inore than twice a day, nnd I am convinced that Het la prayer and prayer alune which 15 the Rev. Father Seymour, abbot has restored her health." of the Marist Fathers' monastery ot Bundaberg and pilots his own plane for all of His extensive parochial work in the north of Queensland.

Church To Be Laboratory

SYDNEY, Australia. The crypt of Saint James' church

having been unused for some time.

should have returned to Brighton the re-opening of various manganese It will be turned into a laboratory. weeks ago, but now she will not be mines. They have been closed ever back before next year.

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Boy He Saved Was His Son

A 53-YEAR-OLD

BRISTOL.

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 hir 11- year-old son.

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 the boy was carried away.

running, and

Screams for help from his com- panlons brought 20-year-old James Cudd

racing down the bank. The boy WHE

уна making a game Struggle in the water," Cudd said. "I in and brought him back to- wards the bank, when Mr. Scarle waded out towards us,

The mud was so slippery that 1 could not get a fooung and the tide was running fast against us.

"Mr. Scarle managed to give us a hand and pull us towards the side." Mr. Searle said, "I slithered down the bank and saw Mr. Cudd and sumconc clac struggling in the water,

"I could not swim, but went out towards them and just managed 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

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