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WORLD BATTLE

ON COMMUNISM URGED BY POPE

Holy Father Appeals for Peace Among All Christian Nations. (Continued from Page One)

of the

But,

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dured at thought events in the world. 10x “Our soul rejoices in the exaltaion of the faithful who glory in Cod We suffer little in comparison the King and founder f the church . We send out to the world the Christmas message and benediction; Glory to God in the Highest and Peace on Barth to

Mankind.”

Then he took up the Spanish civil war, Christmas jovs, he said, were mingled with thoughts of the

war “with all its horror, carnage and destruction

hatred

Evil Forces at Work

It seemed in Spain evil forces were experimenting with all the destructive forces scattered throughout the world which they have at their command. “Here,” he said of the war, “is a new menace more threatening than

he said, that

ever before for the whole world and particularly for Europe and its Christian civilization “Here are signs and portents of the terrifying reality that is being whole

prepared for Europe and the rid if it does net hasten to adopt essary remedies for defense.” ded with a benediction, and at once the speech was given in Engl anslation. The translated 1 but 19 minutes to devidence of the difficulty with which the Pope spoke, taking 29 minutes to deliver the same text. Translations were given then in German, French, Spanish, Netherlands Polish and Portuguese, to reach those in countries all round the world who listened, some in the early morning, others late at night on this Christmas Eve—from Samoa. where it was only 1 a. m.. around to New Zealand where it was 11 p. m., only an hour to ‘hristmas Day

WOMAN FIGHTS PAIR ATTEMPTING HOLDUP

Flee as She Wields Bottle And Calls for Help.

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holdups were night, one by Fred

Abbott, 42, of 441 Fulton-st, filling station attendant, and the other by Mr Etta VanStan, liquor store operator at 334 Blake-st, Mrs. VanStan told police two

Negroes entered the store and ordered a quart of whisky. One drew a revolver and pointed it at her. Mrs. VanStan said she swung the whisky bottle at the nearest Negro and shouted for her husband, who was in the rear room. The two men then ran from the store. The other holdup was attempted at a filling station operated by Mr. Abbott, at 10156 E. Michigan-st. He told police he was sitting at his desk counting receipts when a Negro entered and ordered him to give up | money. |

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Abbott knocked the would-be holdup man to the floor, he said and during the fight the Negro

broke away and fled

GROCERY BURGLARY CHARGED TO SUSPECT

Ralph Morris, 34, Indianapolis, today was held on burglary charges after he is alleged to have broken into a grocery at 724 N. Senate-av,

operated by Ben Lob. Lieut. I. M. Troutman said that he saw Morris break the lock off the basement door and enter. A. H. Caine, 1001 College-av. reported theft of $45 from his apart-

ment last night. John Williams, 25, of 945 Sommer--av, insurance collector, Was | robbed of a pair of gloves and $9 by two men who accosted him in an alley between Illinois and Maplesouth of Rayv-st, he told police.

LITERARY CONTEST DEADLINE JUNE 30

entries in the Remo 50,000-lire prize the work of a foreign on progress and conquests { contemporary Italy has been set for June 30, 1937. Dr. Vincent A. Lapenta, Italian consul in Indianapolis, has announced. Application for admission are to

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be sent to the Comitato Permanente Premi San Remo at San Remo, 1 together with six copies of

work entered, Dr. Lapenta said.

TWO FAIL PHYSICAL

TESTS FOR FIREMEN

of eight fire department ap-

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pointees, selected by the merit sys- | tem, failed to pass final physical examinations, Fire Chief Fred C.

Kennedy said today. They were Harry Sanders and Delbert Harrison. _ Alternates will take their places. They are Harry F, Giezendanner, 2120 Carrollton-av, and Carl R., Fox, 1117 N. Oxford-av. The eight new members are to begin duty tomorrow. :

CRASH INJURIES FATAL

United Press FORT WAYNE, Ind, Dec. 4. — | John Williamson, 14, son of Floyd | Williamson, Latty, O. died at a | hospital here last night of injuries | received Tuesday near Paulding, O.,! when the auto the boy was driving | skidded off the road and struck a tree.

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| Text of Pope’s Christmas Message

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VATICAN CITY, Dec. 24. “The text of Pope Pius XI's

Christmas message broadcast to the world today follows: If, on the numberless occasions

continually offered to us by divine providence and by love, our venerable brothers, beloved sons and those from every corner of the world who come to us, our soul rejoices with exaltation of the Father who embraces all in the heart of our Redeemer. Today more

mental principles of human society,

of the family and of the individual.

REFERS TO CIVIL WAR

Above all, we have called attention to those real remedies of truth and justice and brotherly love of which the Catholic church 1s the sole depository and the divinely constituted teacher, The sorrowful note which this year is mingled with the joys of Christmas is even more profound

‘and distressing because of the fact

than ever we feel near to and pres-

ent lege, whose venerable dean, in an elevated address on behalf of his eminent colleagues, has expressed to us their greetings and good

with our beloved sacred col- |

wishes which we value most highly. |

We feel near and present also vo our beloved Roman prelates and the great Catholic family in the radiant light of the Star of Bethlehem in this annual recurrence of the sacred season of Christmas. We are near and presen? to you and all the Catholic world in spirit in thought which, transcending time and Alpine heights and the vast expanses of ocean, rises above the universe and its tempests, even unto God. We are near His presence in our heart because the heart is not 4ivided from the mind, but rather follows it and draws from it, as vou know from daily experience, venerable brethren and beloved sons, ardor to conquer those obstacles of time and space, of the vicissitudes of human life which keep you from our presence.

MISGUIDED ENEMIES

We have spoken of the holy season of Christmas because the primary reason which makes us desire and sense so vividly your presence 1s precisely this, that we may give and exchange with you cordial good wishes for every spiritual grace, for every holy gift and for the most

precious blessing upon the recurrence of this sacred season of Christmas which may resound

throughout the ages, that hour of all graces, of all favors and all blessings so ardently looked for and so ardently prepared by the divine goodness with so profound a plan of love and mercy.

Unfortunately, against the will of God whe came to bring peace to men of good will, there contends the malevolence of many misguided enemies of that divine child who desired to become a man and dwell among us, full of grace and truth, so that of His fullness we might all receive “grace for grace”—John, first chapter, twenty-sixth verse. Hence we, on the recurrence of these holy days and almost constantly on every occasion given us | to open our heart, not only to you | but to all the great Catholic family, we have desired to unite to our

paternal

that there still rages with all its horrors of hatred, of carnage and of destruction, a civil war in Spain. There, it seems that propaganda and those evil forces of which we have spoken above have wished to make a supreme experiment of all the destructive forces scattered throughout the world which they have at their command. Here is a new menace, more pressing than ever before for the whole world and principally Europe and its Christian civilization. Here are signs of portents of terrifying reality of what is being prepared for Europe and the whole world if they do not hasten to adopt the wecessary remedies of defense. Among these, moreover, who pretend to be defenders of order against subversion, against the spread of an atheistic Communism, are many who in this defense claim for themselves leadership. We see with sor-

row not a few allowing themselves |

to be dominated and guided by false and fatal ideas, both in their choice of remedies and in the appraisal of their adversaries. False and fatal, we say: Tor, whosoever seeks to lessen or stamp out in the hearts of men, and especially in the hearts of the young, faith in Christ and his divine rev-

elation; whosoever seeks to betray |

the Church of Christ, custodian of the divine providence and by divine mandate, teacher of peoples, as the avowed enemy of national prosperity and progress, such a one is not only no builder of a prosperous future for humanity and for his own country, on the contrary he is destroying the most effective

| and most decisive means of defense

against the enemy, and even though | he knows it not is working with |

those against whom he believes and boasts he is fighting.

SPEAKS OF CHILDREN

We have had several occasions,

| even recently, to explain what the

| Holy and Apostolic See has always

believed and what she, according

to her opportunities, has sought to ‘accomplish and to contribute—up to

sh this day, | yestertiay ‘and even up ‘to this tay. | Twliness, ‘of the faithful, stead |

| fast union of souls above the See of |

and with even greater dispositions

| tor the future—to the welfare of all

against the common enemy. It is needless to say that in such condition there is nothing more

| for us to do but renew more insist- | message of spiritual joy some ex- !ently, more paternally and more im-! pression of the bitter sorrow of our | ploringly the

invitation and the

heart caused by many pressing entreaty so frequently re- | great evils which in these days have | peated to the faithful

throughout

fallen like a scourge on humanity, the world, to all souls, particularly on civil society and on the church; |devoted to the sacred heart and to

at the same time, pointing out to |

the interests of the church, to all

(all the gravity of the perils that | bishops, to all the secular and regu-

threaten us, exhorting all to vigi- | lar clergy, to all the laity, especiallance and action and union of all [lv to those who with such enlight-

{men of good will against the prop- | 'aganda of the enemy and his con- | | stantly renewed attempts te bring !

ened faith and Christian charity labor for the interests of Christ and of souls by their active participation

| multiple forms of Catholic action. Our thought, full particularly of confidence, goes out in a special way to those heroic souls who are making an apostolate out of their daily work, even of their suffering; and more especially still to those unsullied legions which from all corners of the world send up to Heaven the perfume of their purity: we speak of these little ones who believe in Jesus and who belong to the church in a special manner precisely because they are Christ's beloved. This year, most beloved sons, the divine goodness is granting us the epportunity to contribute to prayers and werks and sacrifices of all by a personal experience of suffering, until now marvelously spared us, and for which the same divine goodness is most readily and generlcusly recompensing us with a won‘drous and a touching union of prayer which lately, from every corner of the church is incessantly being (offered up for the well being of the {common father.

for

EXPRESSES THANKS

From the fullness of our heart we take this oppertunity to thank ‘all for this manifestation of filial affection, so loving, so devoted. And ‘although what we have to suffer | is very little indeed compared to | that which, so generously and pain- | fully, people suffer in the world; | and compared to that, above all, | which He Himself, Founder and Xing.of this divine church had to | suffer for us both in soul and in | body, may He nonetheless deign to | accept our offering, which we wish | always to be in conformity to His | most holy will.

| May He accept it, we repeat, for His own glory now more than ever so impiously attacked, for thé conversion of all those who have gone astray, for peace and | for the good of the entire church, and in a particular manner for Spain, now so troubled, and for that very reason so dear to us.

With this fervent sentiment in our hearts, we make ours and we send out to the world the heavenly | message of Christmas: ‘Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace among men’ We gladly avail ourselves of this | occasion, so happily offered to us by | this annually recurring Christmas | gathering, to turn our thoughts to {all those other spiritual joys, the | full enjoyment of which the divine | benignity has prepared for us. It is for us today and none the less for all, a holy gratification and apostolic consolation to reeall, with gratitude to God and with pro- | found esteem which is due persons | and events which impress on the | pages of the year now drawing to | a close special marks of greatness

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CAUSE FOR JOY

| ‘Still present in our memory is | the sight of the senate of the | church with the entire Italian epis- | copate come to rejoice with us at | the beginning of this year of our long life during which our Lord | often makes us, in a sense, the {companions ‘of work and sorrow.’ We hear again in memory the final homage of the congress of Catholic journalists and artists of different degrees, and that solemn

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demonstration of faith and learn- | ing, of action and sacrifice, which is

offered to the admiration of pil-

grims by the Catholic press exhibi- |

tion collected from the five points of the globe. Our heart rejoices also because of two works which have taken on

new form, one in stone, the other |

in thought: We mean the new Palace of Congregations and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. (The pope recently formed a new pontificial academy of sciences, composed of distinguished men of | all countries. —Ed.). With these new events at the turn of the year are associated the centenaries of two great events of | old, which are the glory of the gospel and of the church. We mean, | as you have already anticipated, the | nineteenth centenary of the conver- | sion of St. Paul and the sixteenth | centenary of the death of St. | Sylvester, of the apostle of the Gentiles, vessel of election, sublime | and indefatigable teacher of Chris- | tian faith, Rome glories to have | heard the message alongside her | first Pontiff and to have felt the sword stroke of one of his epistles. In Sylvester, Rome admires the oracle of sanctity which freely | developed on earth under the | standard of Constantine and | leaves in the magnificent basilicas of the city testimony and the more open beginnings of our faith, | which is victory over the world. | But more still, Paul the untiring herald of peace of the world who wrote to the Corinthians of this time these profound words, “God is not the God of dissension, but of peace.”

GIVES BLESSING

And Sylvester, who after the long night of persecution could greet the aurora of liberty and peace invites us in this year to direct to the rulers and peoples of the earth a new and still more fervent and pressing exhortation to peace, to its maintenance where it reigns, to its re-es-tablishment where it is but a sor-

this time, alas, unfulfilled yearning. With this appeal to the world, we join today more fervently than ever our prayer to God for that tranquillity of order in which alone peace can consist, for the execution of that individual and collective justice without which no order is possible, This, our prayer, we reverently | lay before the crib of the Prince of | Peace. And so we go back again in | spirit and in heart to the cave of | Bethlehem whence we behold the | whole Catholic world, to give thanks | to that divine Infant, to that all- | knowing child, who became a child | to be more lovable and thus to draw the whole human race to Himself, | to His cross, to His blood, to His | church, to His triumph. He is today in the midst of us | and in union with Him, His vicar | extends his hand to bless you all, | beloved sons, and to invoke on all | the abundance of gifts and graces which He came to scatter as seeds | of an external and imperishable triumph on the face of the earth | for men of good will.

SANTA COMES TO POLICE

Robert Brewer is door committee chairman for the Indianap-

olis Inter-Fraternity Sorority Council Christmas dinner-dance to be held in the Columbia Club Saturday.

OTYGETSMETAL PRODUCTS PLANT

Columbus Firm to. Employ 40 Persons Here.

The V. E. Sprouse Co., Columbus, Ind., is to open a new metal products industry in the Cole Building, 730 E. Washington-st. The space was leased through W. A. Brennan, Ine., and now is being equipped. It will be in full operation by Jan. 1, plant officials saia.

Approximately 8000 square feet of space were leased. The Columbus plant of the company will continue in operation, V. E. Sprouse, owner, said. In full operation, the Indianapolis plant is to employ about 40 persons. The J. I. Holcomb Manufacturing Co., manufacturing cleaning chemicals and brushes, bought the entire block on the south side of Palmerst, extending 311 feet from Shelbyst to Barth-av and including the manufacturing plant formerly used by the Leedy Co.

The Holcomb company esgpects to | occupy the manufacturing plant by |

Feb. 1 and to tear down six residential dwellings and landscape the

| land to be used in future expansion. | LOGANSPORT WOMAN KILLED

By United Press LOGANSPORT, Ind. Dec. 24.— Mrs. Jennie Conn Burton, 76, former resident of Lucerne, was killed yesterday when struck by an automobile in Detroit.

Door Chairman RELIEF COSTS

* SHOW DECLIN OF 30 PERCENT

‘State Welfare Board Gives Report on Month

OF November.

| Asdecrease of 30 per cent in public [funds expended on relief in Indi-

lana during November over the same

| month last year was shown in sta-

tistics released by the State Welfare Board today. Officials said that while the obligations for relief have been pushed down it has not been accomplished at the expense of persons on relief. The average amount t on each ease has increased 14 per cent, they said. e number of dependent persons in November decreased nearly 40 per cent from same month in 1935.

THURSDAY, DEC. 24, 198

diana last month were $534,400.29. A year ago, $767T8498 was paid out to needy persons. The average per case was $14.77 In November of this year as compared to $1206 in November, 1985. Department statisticians explained that, while the obligations went down 30 per cent, the actual num-

ber of persons on relief decreased 389 per cent, causing the average money spent on each case to increase,

REPORTS ATRWAYS ACCORD By United Press LONDON, Dec, 24.—The Exchange Telegraph's Lisbon correspondent

reported today that an agreement ‘had been concluded by the Port. |guese government with the Imperial and Pan-American Airways for re [ular airlines between Europe and {the United States by way of Lisbon and the Azores.

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Merry hristmas

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