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NEWS BRIEFS
German Cardinal
To Visit In 1960
BOSTON (NC) — His Emi
nence Joseph Cardinal Wendel,
Archbishop of Munich and
Freising, is scheduled to come
to the United States in the
spring of 1959 to discuss Ameri
can participation in the Inter
national Eucharistic Congress in
Munich in 1960.
COLOMBIAN
PRESIDENT
IS SWORN IN
BOGATA, Colombia, (NC) —
Alberto Lleras Camargo was in
augurated President of Colom
bia here as high Church and
State dignitaries looked on the
ceremony formally beginning a
12-year truce between the na
tion’s major political factions.
His Eminence Crisanto Cardi
nal Luque, Archbishop of Bo
gota, occupied a major place in
the ceremony in Colombia’s
capitol.
Honored By
kalian Government
BOLOGNA, Italy, (NC)—The
Italian government has decorat
ed one of the consulting doctors
who treated His Holiness Pope
Pius XII during the Pontiff’s
grave illness in December, 1954.
Italian President Giovanni
Gronchi cited Doctor Anthony
Gasbarrini, as an “honorary
doctor” of the Italian state for
his “enlightened contributions
to the most complex problems of
medical pathology and care . .
APPOINTED
UNIVERSITY
PRESIDENT
Rev. Arno Gustin, O.S.B., has
been named president of St.
John’s University, Collegeville,
Minn. He succeeds the Abbot in
this post, Rt. Rev. Baldwin
Dwerschak, O.S.B., who will oc
cupy the newly created post of
Chancellor.
FOUR BISHOPS
AT FUNERAL
FOR CHAPLAIN
NEW YORK (NC) — Requiem
Mass was offered in Holy Cross
church here for Msgr. Martin J.
O’Connell, 53, chaplain of the
New York Police Department.
Present were more than 2,000
persons, including Auxiliary
Bishops Edward V. Dargin, John
M. Fearns, Joseph F. Flannelly
and Philip J. Furlong of New
York.
Also in attendance were .May
or Robert F. Wagner of New
York, Police Commissioner Ste
phen P. Kennedy and an honor
guard of 500 policemen.
Bible Scholar
Receives Honor
From Pontiff
NEWARK, N. J. (NC) — A
well known Bible scholar was
among n group of 11 priests and
one layman of the Newark arch
diocese honored by His Holiness
Pope Pius XII, Archbishop
Thomas A. Boland of Newark,
announced here.
Mrs. John J. Dougherty, pro
fessor of Sacred Scripture at Im
maculate Conception Seminary,
Darlington. N. J., was named a
domestic prelate with the title
Right Reverend Monsignor.
Bishop Sheen
Gives Communion
To Princess
BRUSSELS, Belgium, (NC)—
Auxiliary Bishop Fulton J.
Sheen of New York gave First
Communion to Princess Marie
Christine, daughter of King
Leopold III of Belgium, here.
Bishop Sheen administered the
sacrament to the Princess while
he was a guest of the Royal
Family of Belgium during the
International Catholic Days held
at the Brussels International Ex
position.
FATHER KELLER
TO PREACH AT
15TH LABOR MASS
CHICAGO, ILL., (NC) — Fa
ther James Keller, M. M.,
founder and director of the
Christophers, will preach the
sermon at the 15th annual
Labor Day Mass to be offered
here in Holy Name Cathedral
on September 1.
Approximately 1,500 persons
are expected to attend the Mass,
arranged for annually by the
Catholic Council on Working
Life.
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until they are harnessed to in
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lax Kram
Reported Back
in Business
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
MIAMI, Fla., — Max Kram,
whose money-making religious
trinket enterprises have been in
and out of the news frequent
ly since 1955 is back in business
again under the name “Relig
ious Products of America.”
Mr. Kram, who declared him
self bankrupt in 1957, is now
offering to Catholics through
the mail a small, plastic four-
inch high ,statue of the Blessed-
Virgin Mary containing a mag
net which enables it to stick to
automobile dashboards.
“The Magnet Auto Compan
ion,” as Mr. Kram calls it, is ac
companied by a notice which
reads: “If this meets with your
approval please insert $1 and
mail in enclosed envelope.” Re
plies are adressed to P. O. Box
344 at the Biscayne Annex of
the Miami Post Office, the same
postoffice box which Mr. Kram
has used since 1956.
Mr. Kram originally began
operations under the title “Re
ligious Products of America.” In
1956 he was forced out of busi
ness by a fraud order issued by
the U. S. Post Office Depart
ment. Soon after a Federal Dis
trict Judge upheld the Post Of
fice ruling on June 12, 1956, Mr.
Kram organized the new busi
ness and operated until 1957
DOMINICAN
REPUBLIC
VICARIATE
VATICAN CITY (Radio, NC)
—By a decree of the Sacred
Consistorial Congregation, His
Holiness Pope Pius XII has
erected a military vicariate in
the Dominican Republic.
The decree names Archbishop
Ricardo Pittini, S.D.B., of Ciu
dad Trujillo as military vicar
and provides that in the future
the post will always be held
by the archbishop of that See.
when he filed a petition of bank
ruptcy.
Until recently nothing has
been heard from Mr. Kram, who
has been known to send out as
many as 1,125,000 mail pieces a
year. The fact that the notices
now read “Religious Products of
America doing business as a
private enterprise’ ’apparently
Keeps Mr. Kram out of the
clutches of the law.
His son, Murray Kram, who
conducted an unsolicited mail
order business for crucifixes and
medals in Pittsburgh, Pa., added
one line to his printed sales
notice which said the dollar re
quested was “for the benefit of
Murray Kram.”
Local postal authorities say
that they are at a loss to find
any method of stopping the op
erations of Mi. Kram and added
that “thousands of devout Cath
olics believe they are doing
something for the Church when
they shell out a dollar for one
of these 10 or 15 cent plastic sta
tues.”
Postal authorities have re
peatedly emphasized that no
person is under obligation to ac
cept any unsocilited articles or
to mail a contribution.
Savannah Services "
For Miss O'Gorman
SAVANNAH — Funeral serv
ices for Miss Georgia O’Gorman
were held August 7th at the
Sacred Heart Church.
Survivors are a brother, John
F. O’Gorman, Ludlow, Mass.,
and two nephews, and three
nieces.
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