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EIGHTEEN THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
MAY 27. 1944
Thomas F. Walsh, KSG, of
Savannah, Dies in Asheville
Funeral Services for Former
President of Catholic Lay
men’s Association Held
From Savannah Cathedral
With His Brother, the Most
Rev. Emmet M. Walsh,
Bishop of Charleston, Of
fer the Requiem Mass
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Funeral ser
vices for Thomas F. Walsh, prom
inent attorney of Savannah, and
one of the outstanding Catholic
Laymen of Georgia, were held
from the Cathedral of St. John
the Baptist, with liis brother, the
Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, D. D.,
Bishop of Charleston, offering the
Pontifical Requiem Mass.
Officers of the Mass were the
Very Rev. Dan J. McCarthy, Vicar
General of the Diocese of Savan-
nah-Atlanta, and the Rev. Gustavo
Obrecht, S. M. A., pastor of St.
Benedict the Moor Church, dea
cons of honor; the Right Rev.
Msgr. T. James McNamara, rector
of the Cathedral of St. John the
Baptist, deacon of the Mass; the
Very Rev. Boniface Bauer, O. S.
B. , pastor of the Sacred Heart
Church. subdeacon, the Rev.
George T. Daly, of the Cathedral,
and the Rev. James H. Conlin.
chaplain of St. Joseph's Hospital,
masters of ceremony. The sermon
was delivered by the Right Rev.
Msgr. James J. May. Vicar General
of the Diocese of Charleston, who
was assistant priest during the
Mass.
Clergy attending in the sanctu
ary were the Right Rev. Msgr.
Joseph L. O’Brien, the Very Rev.
Msgr. Howard Carroll, Washing
ton, D. C., the Rev. Charles L.
Sheedy, the Rev. John J. McCar
thy, the Rev. Henry F. Wolfe, the
Rev. D. P. Lanigan, the Rev. Ed
ward Keller, the Rev. Michael
Reddin. and the Rev. W. F. Cleary
C. S. Sp., all of Charleston; the
Rev. Gerald Ernest, Cong. Oral..
Beaufort, S. C.; the Rev. John J.
Clancy, the Rev. Philip Reid, O. M.
1 , Sumter, S. C.; the Rev. Paul
Hanley Furfey, Washington, D. C.:
and the Rev. Daniel J. Bourke,
the Rev. Thomas I. Sheehan, the
Rev. John W. Dowling, the Rev.
Norbert McGowan, O. Si B.; the
Rev. Paul Milde, O. S. B.: the
Rev. Ignatius Lissner, S. M. A.;
the Rev. Adolph Gall. S. M. A.
the Rev. John Hayes, S. M. A.
the Rev. Josepli Feeley, S. M. A.
the Rev. Eugene Kearney, C. S. V..
and the Rev. Thomas Burke, C. S.
V., all of Savannah. Also occupy
ing a place in the sanctuary was
John W. Gleason, K. S G.
DIES IN ASHEVILLE
Mr. Walsh, who had been ill
for some time, died on April 27
in Asheville, N. C., where he had
gone several months ago in an ef
fort to regain his health.
He was born in Beaufort, S. C.,
A igust 22. 1875 but had lived in
Savannah most of his life, being
for many years prominent in the
religious, legal and civic life of
the community.
A graduate of the University of
South Carolina, Mr. Walsh was a
past president of the Savannah
Bar Association. One of those
most active in the founding of the
Catholic Laymen’s Association of
Georgia. Mr. Walsh served as pr es
ident of the association from 1918
to 1919, and as its treasurer from
1930 to 1941. A fourth degree
member of the Knights of Co
lumbus, he was a past grand
knight of Savannah Council, and
a past state deputy of Georgia.
He was the first president of
the Hospital Association of Sa
vannah. and was chairman of the
Savannah draft board during
World War I. A past president of
the Hibernian Society, Mr. Walsh
was the historian of that organ
ization for some years. At the
annual meeting of the society, held
on St. Patrick's Day this year,
he was elected to honorary raem-
'bership. an honor which has been
conferred on very few in the so
ciety’s long existeence.
HONORED BY HOLY SEE
In 1936, "in recognition of out
standing services" rendered the
Church, His Holiness Pope Pius
XI bestowed on Mr. Walsh the
honor of Knighthood in the Order
of St. Gregory the Great.
Mr. Walsh is survived by his
wife, the former Miss Mary Jager;
a son, Lieut. Thomas F. Walsh.
States Army in India; two daugh
ters, Dr. Elizabeth Walsh and Mrs
John S. Gilchrist, of Washington,
D C.; Iris mother, Mrs. Wilhelmina
Walsh; five brothers, the Most Rev
Emmet M. Walsh, D. D., Bishop of
THOMAS F. WALSH
Charleston; Henry I. Walsh, Ports
mouth, Va., Loo D. Walsh, Charles
V. Walsh aid Hugh B. Walsh, of
Savannah; two sisters, Miss Ernes
tine Walsh and Mrs. E. C. Beu-
cliier, both of Savannah; an aunt.
Mrs. Bertha M. Buckley, Savannah,
and several nieces and nephews.
Members of the Savannah Bar
Association attended the funeral
in a body, and Judge John Rourke,
Jr., of the Superior Court of Chat
ham County, in announcing a re
cess of that court during the hours
of Mr. Walsh’s funeral, paid trib
ute to him as a member of the bar
lor forty-five years who had the
regard and respect not only of
his associates in the legal profes
sion, but of the people generally.
Active pallbearers were Walter
B. Murphy, Dan .1. Sheehan, Dan
iel .1. O'Connor, Walter M. Craw-
lord, William M. Sexton, John A.
Bryan, Harold B. Coolidge and
Hugh II. Grady. Honorary pall
bearers were John W. Gleason. K.
S. G., Judge John Rourke, Jr.,
Judge James _P. Houlihan, George
R. Smitii, Morris Bernstein, Jacob
Gazan, Morris Slotin, James M.
Rogers, J. Randolph Anderson,
Peter Roe Nugent, William T.
Walsh, M. C. McCarthy and Henry
M. Dunn.
Attending the funeral services,
with many of the members of the
Religious Communities in this city
were Mother M. Francis, Sister M.
Gabriel, and Sister M. Veronica,
of .the Sisters of Our Lady of
Mercy, Charleston.
Members of Savannah Council,
Knights of Columbus, assembled
at the residence to recite the Ros
ary, and attended the funeral in a
body.
A practicing attorney in Savan
nah for more than forty years.
Mi’. Walsh was at .the time of his
death a member of the firm of
Gazan, Walsh and Bernstein. He
was at one time a member of the
firm of Anderson. Cann, Cann and
Walsh, and served several terms
as an assistant district attoTTrrry
in the Federal Court.
Apostolic Delegate in
London Now Subject to
Government Regulations
B.v GEORGE BARNARD,
(Radio, N. C. W. C. News Service)
LONDON.—Communications be
tween His Excellency the Most
Rev. William Godfrey, Apostolic
Delegate to Great Britain, and the
Holy See are jiow subject to cen
sorship as a. result of the new
government regulations imposed
on members of the diplomatic
corps in London. Also, according
to these regulations, the Apostolic
Delegate cannot travel abroad,
though it is not likely he would
wish to Jo so, The Delegate has no
diplomatic status, but is entiled to
the same consideration as the rep
resentative of the Holy See with
the Polish Government in London
THE CANONIZATION of Bless
ed Margaret of Hungary, proclaim
ed in a decretal letter of His Holi
ness Pope Pins XII dated Novem
ber 13, last, Iras been published in
Vatican City.
Born in 1242, of (he Royal House
of Arpal and daughter of King
Bela IV, St. Margaret rejected
marriage and became a Dominican
nun in 1261, subjecting herself to
the most humble labors and the
most severe penaces and mortifi
cations. A number of miraculous
cures were recorded during her
lifetime. She died in 1270 and al
most immediately evidences of the
power of her intercession were
manifest.
Rev. Edw. Sellman, CM,
Conducts Novena at
Savannah Cathedral
I
(Special lo The Bulletin)
I SAVANNAH, Ga. — A solemn
j novena in honor of Our Lady of
[the Miraculous Medal was con
ducted by the Rev. ICdvvard A.
Sellman, of the Congregation of
the Missions of St. Vincent de
Paul, at (he Cathedral of St. John
the Baptist beginning on May 1
and continuing through May 9.
The novena is an invitation to
the members of the Cathedral par
ish and the other parishes in Sa
vannah to join what lias been
termed "Mary's Kneeling Army"
in a petition to God to restore
peace to (he world and (o place
His mantle of protection over lov
ed ones exposed lo, dangers of
war.
Father Sellman is a member of
that distinguished congregation of
pulpit orators, founded in Paris,
France, in 1625, by St. Vincent de
Paul, and known generally as the
Vincentian or Lazarist Fathers.
The name Lazarist is derived from
lire Priory of St. Lazare in Paris,
where St. Vincent de Paul dwelt
and where he established his great
wor k of charity.
AT USO-NCCS CLUB IN COLUMBIA—Before tire United Service
Organizations started the members of St. Peter’s parish in Co
lumbia, S. C., had already begun to operate a recreational center for 1
service men in that area. The club is now operated by the National
Catholic Community Service, with Dan Shanahan as director, and the
swimming pool, pictured above is one of its greatest attractions during
the summer months. The Very Rev. Martin C. Murphy, moderator of
the club, has been its guiding'spirit and inspiration from the begin
ning.
Stalin Should Act Rather Than Promise,
Is Reply to Protestations From Moscow
In the United States the Vincen
tians are represented in the Arch
diocese of New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Washington, Los
Angeles, Detroit, New Orleans and
San Anlonio, and in the Dioceses
of Brooklyn, Buffalo, Columbus,
Lansing, Mobile, Raleigh, Scran
ton, Trenton, Amarillo, Dallas,
Denver, Kansas City, Natchez, Pe
oria, Erie, Hartford, and Spring-
field, Mass,
They conduct universities,
colleges, high schools and semi
naries, maintain houses of study
and novitiates, and also do paro
chial and mission work.
Father Sellman came to Savan
nah after concluding successful
missions, retreats and novenas in
many of the larger parishes along
the Atlantic seaboard.
Mrs. Alfred E. Smith
Dies in New York
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK, N. Y. — A Solemn
Mass of Requiem for the repose of
lire soul of Mis. Alfred E. Smith,
wife of the former Governor of
New York, who died here on May
4, was offer ed in St. Patrick’s Ca
thedral by the Most Rev. Francis
J. Spellman, Archbishop of New
York.
Mrs. Smith was 65 years old.
Death came unexpectedly and
neither the former governor nor
any of her five children could
reach the hospital in time for the
end.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith were mar
ried 44 years ago. He was then an
employe of the Commission of Ju
rors on the East Side of New
York and his wife, the former
Catherine A. Dunn, had completed
her studies at St. Augustine’s
Academy in the Bronx. The cere
mony was performed in St. Ari-
gustine’s Church. Describing their
early years together, Mrs. Smith,
in an interview following her
husband's election as Governor of
New York, said:
“We had three rooms, two flights
up. You could get a flat' then for
$10 w $15 a month. A1 gave me
all the money he made, keeping
only lunch money and enough for
an occasional cigar. Not until Ar
thur, our fourth child, was born,
did we have more than barely
enough to live on. Until that time
I had done all my own housework,
cooking, sewing, washing. Later
we moved to a nicer apartment
and I had the washing sent out. A
woman came in once a week to do
the heavy cleaning.”
Even after her husband’s rise
in the political world and during
bis campaign for tire Presidency
of lire United States in 1928, Mrs.
Smith's interests centered in her
home, although she occasionally
accompanied lrer husband on cam
paign trips. She was deeply devot
ed to her religion and her family,
in 1925 she made a holy year
pilgrimage to Rome with a daugh
ter and was received by Pope Pius
XI. Again in 1937 she and the
former Governor’ were received in
private audience by the Holy Fa-
I her.
fn addition to her husband, now
president of lire Empire Stale
Building, Mrs. Smith is survived
by five children: Alfred E. Smith,
Jr., an Army captain slalioned in
Illinois; Arthur W. Smith of Rye,
N. Y.; Walter J. Smith and Mrs.
John A. Warner of New York City,
and Mrs. Francis J. Quiliinan of
Rye. There are 14 grandchildren.
(B.v N. C. W. C. News Service)
While Secretary of Slate Cor
dell Hull announced, in reply to
si Congressional request for in
formation, that the Government
of Soviet Russia had financed the
trip of - the Rev. Stanislaus
Orlemanski to Moscow, there was
prompt retort to a radio address
by the American priest, beamed to
Poland, in which he affirmed that
Josef Slalin, Soviet ruler, would
in the future be found to be a
good friend of the Catholic
Church.
. As these things were taking
place, Father Orlemanski, a priest
of the Diocese of Springfiled,
Mass., was reported to have start
ed on his return journey to the
United States. Meanwhile the Rl.
Rev. Msgr. Boleslaus Bojanowski.
pastor of St. Mary, Church, Wor
cester, Mass., also a priest of the
Springfield Diocese, said of the
priests’ journey; "Father Orlcman-
ski’s mission is lo convert lire six
million Americans who are of
Polish origin to Russia's program
for Poland.”
‘FURNISHED
TRANSPORTATION’
Secretary Hull, in reply to a
letter he received from Represen
tative John Lesinski, of Michigan,
made known that the Soviet
Government had "furnished the
transportaiton” for Father Orle
manski and Prof. Oscar Lange, of I
the University of Chicago, and
said: "On the basis of the fact
that they were officially invited
by a friendly Allied power to make
this trip, passports were issued
to them valid for their journey
to Moscow."
Commenting on this informa
tion, Representative Lesinski said:
“The man who pays the fidlcr al
ways calls the tune and it is quite
obvious in this case that he is
Joe Stalin."
Replying to Father Orlemanski’s
prediction that Premier Stalin
would be found in the future lo be
a “good friend of the Catholic
Church”, the Rev. James M. Law
ler, assistant general secretary of
the National Catholic Welfare Con
ference, issued the following
statement:
“Father Stanislaus Orlemanski,
American priest now in Russia
at the invitation of the Soviet
government, is reported to have
•said this, in a special radio br oad
cast to Poland:
“ ‘I will also make the follow
ing historic statement: That fu-
lure events will prove Slalin is
very friendly to the Roman Catho
lic Church’-
PROMISE TERMED VAGUE
“The vagueness of the promise
implied in the words ‘future
events’, leaves us unconvinced. We
recall other Soviet promises—the
signature of Litvinof affixed in
January, 1942, to the Atlantic
Charter; the various treaty pledges
made by the Russian Govern
ment lo guarantee the Polislr bor
ders.
“This is a time for action, rather
than promises, for tangible proof
rather than indefinite hints as lo
‘future events’.
"If General Stalin would con
vince the world of Soviet friend
liness toward the Roman Catholic
Church, a suggestion would be
the sincere interpretation and ef
fective application of Article 124
of the USSR constitution* pledging
complete religious freedom, in
cluding freedom of worship and
Ireedom of religious teaching in
all the territories of the Soviet
Union. Another suggestion in
dicative of good faith, would he
the immediate release of scorcos of
Polish Catholic priests now held
captive in Soviet prison camps.
"Until such a time comes, the
world, vieiwing the militant
atheism of the Soviet government
for years must be cautious in esti
mating such statement as Father
Orlemanski’s.”
CATHOLIC CHINESE COUPLE
AMONG FIRST BAPTIZED IN
I RESNO, NOW IN U. S ARMY
FRESNO, Cal.—The first Cath
olic Chinese families of the hresno
Diocese are now represented by
an officer and bis wife, both iii
active service.
| Mrs. Hilda Lee Fong, whose hus
band is with the U. 9. Army forces
in China, has joined the ait-WAC
and reported for basic training at
Des Moines. A native of Fresno and
a graduate of local schools. Mrs.
Fong was in the first Chinese bap
tismal group in this city and is a
charter parishioner of St. Ger
trude’s Parish. She was also presi
dent of the Chinese Catholic
Youth Association. Her- husband.
Col. Edward Fong, has been with
the medical forces in China since
last spring. Her brother, Col.
Harding Lee, is with the signal
corps in India. She also lias three
cousins in the army overseas.
A PASTORAL signed by all the
Archbishops and Bishops of Mex
ico announces the consecration "of
our beloved Country io the Im
maculate Heart of Mary,” as a
“new and fervent homage of love
and gratitude” to the Mother oi
God, and also to obtain “through a
Christian solidarity with all those
ho are suffering so intensely, in
creased fortitude and counsel for
them in their sorr ows, and for the
whole wor ld the inestimable boon
of true peace.’’
JAPANESE POLICE have elos
ed the Catholic University of
Peiping and arrested seven mem
bers of the faculty, according to
an English-language broadcast by
the Chungking (China) radio,
beamed to North America and
heard by United States Govern
ment monitors.
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Our Best Wishes
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432 Main Street
Columbia, South Carolina