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JANUARY 26, 1046 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA THIRTEEN THE RED HAT NOW COVERS THE WORLD The universality of the Catholic Church is clearly represented by the membership of the Completed Sacred College of Cardinals which Pope Pius XIX will bring up to its full strength of 70 when he will create and proclaim 32 new cardinals at the February con sistory Prepared by N. C. W. C. News Service, this map depicts the distribution of the Red Hat on all continents showing the number in each of the 23 countries represented in the completed college which will have 28 Italian and 42 non-Italian cardinals. MEMBERS OF AKMEI) FORCES BY THE THOUSANDS VISITED K. OF C. HOME IN ATLANTA ATLANTA, Ga.— From the final report of the Servicemen's Enter tainment Committee of Atlanta Council, No. 660, Knights of Co lumbus, it is learned that during the period from January 17, 1942 to December 22. 1945, a total at tendance of 31,581 service men and service women was recorded a* the Knights of Columbus Home on Peachtree street. Attendance of junior hostesses, young women who volunteered to assist members of the K. of C. and the Ladies Auxiliary of At lanta Council in entertaining guests in uniform reached a total of 12,961. Atlanta Council and its Auxili ary sponsored 206 consecutive Saturday night dances at entertain ments at the club, under the aus pices of the committee and the National Catholic Community Ser vice. member agency of the Uni ted Service Organizations. CHARLES F. POWERS HEADS SAVANNAH CATHOLIC CENTER SAVANNAH, Ga„ Charles F. Powers was elected president of the Catholic Community Center at tile annual meeting held on January 17, succeeding John G. Butler, who had headed the organization since its organization twenty years ago. Other officers named were Dan J. Shcenan, vice-president Corne lius A. McCarthy, secretary; and Mr. Powers, treasurer. Directors: John M. Brennan, Hugh H. Grady, C. F. Powers, A. J. Ryan, Jr., John G. Butler, lr., C. A. McCarthy, John J .Powers, James F. Glass, M. J. O'Leary, J. S. Robertson. Jr.. Dan J. Sheeham, A. J Shane A. J. Kearney, and the following by virtue of their officia 1 posi tions: L. Gordon Whelan, grand knight of Savannah Council, K. of C.; Mrs. C. R. Gannon, president, Ladies Auxiliary, A. O. H.; Mrs. H. T. Wilson, president. Catholic Women's Club, and William J. Ryan, president of the A. O. H. OFFICER FROM SAVANNAH ROSE RAPIDLY IN ARMY Best Wishes Hill’s Cafe & Soda W. Roy Blanchard AIKEN, S. C. BUICK PONTIAC OWENS MOTOR CO. SALES and SERVICE Aiken, South Carolina SAVANN/. H, Ga -Thomas Nugent McCarthy. 27. has the enviable record of having risen through the ranks from private to lieutenant colonel in the United States Army during one war. Colonel McCarthy, now on termi nal leave, recently received notice of his latest promotion from the War Department. Entering the service as a pri vate in April. 1941, he attended Of ficer Candidate School at Fort Belvoir early iri 1942 and grad- uated as a second lieutenant in the combat engineer corps. Other promotions in rapid succession brought him to his present rank. He served twenty-month overseas and has five battle stars on his European Theater operations rib bon. A graduate of Benedictine Mili tary School here. Colonel Mc Carthy is the son of Mrs. Frank McCarthy. He is a nephew of Mayor Peter Roe Nugent and of Miss Helen Roe Nugent, president of the Savar.nah-Atlanta Diocesan Council. National Council ot Catholic Women. CHRISTMAS PARTY AT ST. THOMAS VOCATIONAL SCHOOL IN SAVANNAH SAVANNA 11. Ga. —■ Three awards made each year by the Auxiliary of St. Thomas Vocation al School v.'ere presented by the Rev. Eugene J. Kearney, S. S. V.. director of ‘be school, at the an nual Christmas party for the boys. The prize or the best all-around boy was won by Louis Stemberg- cr: John Cannon won .1 e prize for the most cooperative boy. and Charles Poole and Panes Martin won the prizes as the neatest boys. Present on the occasion were the lit. Rev. Msgr. T. James Mc Namara. the Very Rev. Boniface Bauer. O. S. B., and the Rev. Nor- bert McGowan. O. S. B. Special guests we a Joseph Ruskin and Kimball Hardin, two St. Thomas boys who have just returned af ter . three years in service over seas. The program was under the di rer* ion of Mrs. Joseph E. Kelly. Brother Mull';;/. C. S. V.. and Brother Marsolais, C. S. V., and those who uirtk-ipatod .were Lu- 1 cius Bultman, Robert Thomas, Eu- ! gene Busby. Charles Poole. James I Martin and Robert McGee, witfr members of St. Thomas ADDRESSES MEETING OF PAItENT-TEACHERS CHARLESTON, S. C. — Miss Rose Marie Kelly, superintendent of the child welfare division of the Charleston County Department of Public Welfare, was the guest speaker at a recent meeting of the St Andrew’s Parish Parent-Teach er Association, her topic being “Child Welfare.” Miss Kelly came to Charleston in November, 1942. Prior to that she was with the South Carolina Department of Public Welfare from 1937 to 1942, and witti the children’s division of the Catholic Charities and Emergency Relief in Baltimore. She received her (rain ing at the School of Social Ser vice of (he Catholic University ol America. ALEX H. ROBERTS DIES IN AUGUSTA AUGUSTA, Ga. — Alexander Henry Roberts, u life-long resi gn. of Augusta, died on Decem ber 20, after a brief illness. Fun eral services were held from St. trick’s Church, the Rev. J. Joseph Malloy officiating. Mr. Roberts had been connected with the Southern Railway here i ' more than thirty-five y->ars as claim clerk. He was member of Patrick Walsh Council, Knights of Columbus Survivors include a brother, D. A. Roberts: a sister. Miss JVlaizie oberts; an aunt, Viss Emma A. Simon, all of Augusta, and several cju -ins. DEATH IN TOLEDO OF FORMER AUGUSTAN AUGUSTA, Ga. — Mis. Gene vieve Daly O’Connor, former Au gustan. died on January 2 at her home In Toledo. Ohio. Mrs. O'Connor, wife of the late John J. O’Connor, was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Janies Daly, prominent residents of Au gusta generations ago. She is sur vived by four daughters, Mrs. Wal ter C. McCauley, Sister John Joseph, O. P., Miss Geneviye O'Connor and Miss Margaret O’Connor, all of Toledo; four sons, P. J. O’Connor. James D. O'Con nor, Bernard O'Connor and Law rence O’Connor, and a sister, Mrs Frank Bohlcr, of Augusta. JAMES FOX DIES IN CHARLESTON CHARLESTON, S. C.—tames W. Fox, retired en.loye of the Clyde Line Steamship Company, c -d on Docemb r 28, funeral services being held from the Ca thedral of St. John the Bap. ;t. Mr. Fox was born m Charles ton, January 13, 1869, Ihe son of Vt illiam Fox and Mrs. Bridget Coffey Fox, both of Ireland. He is survived by a daughter, Miss Elizabeth Fox, of Charleston; two' sons, Charles L. Fox, of Charles ton; and James B. Fox, of Carls- tjjde, N. J.; and three grandchil dren. * , . : : choir. Best Wishes W. J. PLATT & COMPANY THE REXALL STORE Everything in Drug* Call Phone 7 :> Aiken, S. C. .sT. MARY’S CHURCH, AIKEN Si. Mary's Help of Christian* Church iu Aiken, South Carolina, serves a parish which celebrated it* Diamond Jubilee four years ago. The present church, pictured above, was dedicated in 1905. The Rev. George Lewis Smith, is the present; pastor, with the Rev. Francis Winum, Cong. Oral, assistant pastor. St.I Gerard’s Colored Mission in Aiken, established several years ago, i* charge of the Redcmptorist Fathers, with the Rev. John C. KappeL C. SS R., as the priest in charge. S M IS 1