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August 21, 1939.
Royal Monk
Monk Is Hope Of Refugees
Secret British Grant To Let Him Carry On
RECENT secret grant of several thousands of pounds by the Lord Bald. win Refugee Fund to "Father Odo" enablos 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
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 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 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 wenry. He is nearly bald.
Father Odo to-day travels from one European capital to on- other. Rome, the Vatican, Paris, Berne and London.
Father Odo was in London recently. He went to Marlbor 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 on the Continent, but was expected in London Inter.
Girl Clown Wins Fame
MRS.
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Beat Children
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 scrawl, are being received by young refugees still in campa here. They are coded notes containing news of what happening in Spain, and advising refugees whether it is opportune to return.
Another associate said to him: "He is a lone worker who is not MRS. ALBERTINO ADAMS, attached to any one committee, ¦ MI"
the woman who left be-the His movements are kept sceret." His present headquarters are at a monastery in Switzerland.
Weed Penetrates Plank
WINNIPEG, Man. Proof of the tremendous strength of growing weeds was shown here when a piece of lumber na inch thick, through which had grown a dande lion root, was found 17 a lumber yard.
The matron of a children's home In the Home Counties nalil. "In one letter I read a girl wrote: The climate is very hot here after England, and don't think Grandpa would survive
UFS
An appeal nigned by 375 members of the staffs of British Universities has been sent to the
Minister, Prime
Mr. Neville Chamberlain, urging the incia- sion of Mr. Winston Churchill (above) the Government. The signatories are drawn from 22 universities and university col-
throughout the country leges and include Professors and six Heads of colleges.
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BRISBANE, Australia.
"This, decoded, warned re- fugees that the internal altua- on in Spain was still tense, and that if they returned they would do so at the risk of their lives." Family reterences are the key of
rode.
"Hence
1 stole some jain yesterday, and Uncle is on the war-1 ihind a quiet life as a cook in oth" To a cechsor a commonplace in the real sense of the term.
woman clown in the world, is the refugees an indication that food of the Marist Fathers' monastery at earning hundreds of pounds as short. week touring the US.
Her father, Joe Craston, the old Manganese Mines
time clown, sald this recently.
"The Americans had never seen in woman clown before my daughter ¡Lulu went out there," he said.
They like her
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DENVER, Colo.
As a result of the President's sign-
'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 ́nt- tractivo 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' reasons.
For five years she had *pinal complaint, and spent two years in a cripples' hospita).
She went to Lourdes last summer on a stretcher.
But before she went and after she returncil 30 girls proyed 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.
M. Birnle, warden of the hostel, told me "the girl, who is a Roman Catholle, kad great faith that if we prayed for her she would recover.
for
"I prayed for her more than Australia now has a "sky pilot" twice a day, and I am convinced that licit is prayer and prayer alone which
abbot has restored her health."
Bundaberg and pilots his own plane for all of his extensive parochial work in the north of Queensland.
Church To Be Laboratory
SYDNEY, Australia.
thaking of the strategic minerals bill) The crypt of Saint James' church she's being invited everywhere. She negotiations are under way here for 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 Dr. Burton Bradley and his assistants back before next year,
since the World War.
will use it for making blood tests.
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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 diMculties.
The elder man had just drapped the others into shallow water when he found that the boy was his 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 running, and the boy was carried away,
Screams for help from his com- puntons brought 26-year-old James Cudd racing down the bank.
"The boy was making a game struggle in the water," Cudd said. "I dived 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 footing and the tide was running fast against us.
"Mr. Scarle managed give us a hand and pull us towards the side." Mr. Searle said, "I slithered down the bank and saw Mr. Cudd and someone elsc struggling in the
nter.
"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 I was my
son."
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