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Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations Contents Copyrighted by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1947— Permission to Reproduce, Except on Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue. Three Checks for $5,000 Each DENVER CATHaiC Spark Loretto Heights Campaign REGISTER + + + ■+ + ‘Dig Push’ to Start The’ National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service Supplies The Denver Catholic Register. We Have Also the International News Service (Wire and Mail), a Large Special Service, Seven Smaller Services, NCWC and Religious News Photos. Price of paper 3 cents a copy. Sunday on Parishos’ VOL. XLIII. No. 22. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1948. SI PER YEAR. DENVER VISIT BY FR. SUAREZ EXPECTED Work for Donations Three checks for $5,000 each received in the past week gave a big impetus to the Loretto Heights college half-million- General of Dominicans Missed dollar campaign. They were received from the El Pomar foundation through Mrs. Spencer Penrose, from the Louis D. Beaumont trust through Alfred Triefus, vice president and general manager of the Denver May company; and from a Death From Reds by 3 Minutes donor who insisted on remaining anonymous. The total of advance contributions reached $144,320 as workers prepared A priest who escaped death by only three minutes when Reds raided his convent in for the “ big push” in the parish solicitation part of the cam Spain, now the 80th Master General of the Dominican order, is expected to visit Denver paign opening this Slinday. in the near future. He is the Most Rev. Emmanuel Suarez, O.P., who is now on a tour of The El Pomar foundation, es-l------------------------------------------------- - U. S. Dominican houses. tablished by the late Spencer Pen Father Suarez, one of the rose, has made many contributions Father Barrett world's best known authorities on to Catholic educational and chari .Construction Begins the canon law of the Church, Meeting Sunday table institutions. taught Archbishop Urban J. Vehr The Louis D. Beaumont trust Probably Will of Denver when the latter was a was established in 1933 for chari On $1,500,000 graduate student at the Collegio To Open Program table and educational purposes by .Angelico in Rome. the late Mr. Beaumont, one of the Be Transferred It was in the Civil war in founders of the May company, several years before he died. For Hospital in Spring Spain that the Dominican barely For Mission Week A chronic laryngitic condition escaped with his life. He and a A $5,000 CHECK for the Loretto Joseph J. Walsh and Thomas Tynan, co-chairmen many years it has contributed an The 24th annual observance of probably will make necessary the Grand Junction. — Rcpresenta- companion had left the convent Heights building drive is changing hands for the campaign; and Alfred Triefus, general nually more than $10,000 to Den transfer of the Rev. Thomas J. tivea of the U. S. Public Health grounds in disguise after receiving Mission week in the schools of in the picture above. Left to right are the Rev. manager for the May company, who is presenting ver charitable and educational in the Archdiocese of Denver under Barrett, C.M., from St. Thomas’ Service and of the Colorado state an urgent call from a distressed Elmer Kolka, major gifts chairman of the Loretto the campaign workers a check for $5,000, a gift stitutions. When Mr. Beaumont the auspices of the local confer seminary, Denver. Father Barrett, board of health met at St. Mary's part of the city. Three minutes Heights college building fund campaign; Judge from the Louis D. Beaumont tru.st. • died, his will provided for a sub who ha^ been director of music at hospital in the pa.st week with rep later he brushed past a Commu ence of the Catholic Students’ stantial bequest to St. Joseph’s Mission Crusade will be ushered in St. Thomas’ since 1940, left this resentatives from the board of nist band on the way. to his con- hospital in Denver. with a quarterly meeting of the week for treatment in Chicago. control of the Sisters of Charity The gift to the Heights cam Denver conference of the Cru March of Dimes Announcement of a new appoint 'of Leavenworth, Kans.; the admin paign was accompanied by a letter sade at St. Mary’s academy at 10 Indian Reservation Shanty ment will probably be made when istrative staff and medical staff of from the trustees of the estate, the second semester of seminary this Sunday. The schools Nathan Dauby, Morton J. May, St. Mary’s hospital; and J. K. participating in the observance [nobles Hospital studies begins next month. Monroe, Denver architect, to com and Nathan Loeser. will carry on their own pro PREPARATIONS PUSHED Father Barrett, a native of Chi plete plans for the construction of grams of study, prayer, and sac Is Converted Into Chapel cago, where he was born Feb. 4, a 160-bed hospital to serve Grand To Care for Polio AT'TOP SPEED rifice for the missions through ^ With the announcement of the 1911, came to Denver from St. Junction and the surounding com the week, which will be climaxed Mary’s seminary in Perryvflle, Mo. munity, The government will par Charles James Fox, who will be gift, the work of preparation for by the three Crusaders’ Masses the drive in the parishes was at He was ordained May 30, 1937, ticipate in financing the $1,500,- celebrated simultaneously in the By Manual Labor of Priest eight years old next month, hopes at Perryville after taking his phi 000 structure. top speed. Pastors of parishes and Cathedral, Loyola, and Holy Ghost to enter Cathedral school in Den their campaign workers were at losophy course at De Paul univer- By K en Carmichael Work will begin on the building churches at 10 o’clock Friday, ver soon. He was stricken by polio tending instruction meetings sity, Chicago, and his theological in the late spring, and it is esti Jan. 30. in the summer of 1946 when he was throughout the archdiocese, map .studies at the Pcrriwille seminary mated it will take about 18 months The Ute Indians of the Towaoc reservation in the south The students of St. Thomas’ only six years old. He was very ping plans and outlining their in of the Congregation of the Mis- to complete construction. west corner of Colorado now have their own— and first— seminary, Regis and Loretto ill, and for a time it was feared dividual drives so they would cor The new St. Mary hospital will Heights colleges will attend the church, thanks to the Rev. Francis Papesh, who built the that Charles would have some pa relate with the general over-all A musician of unusual ability, be erected on the elevation over Mass in the Cathedral; members church with his own hands. All the manual labor, with the ralysis. Fortunately, however, he campaign. the priest studied organ under looking the city at Seventh and of the senior and junior high made a complete recovery. The starting gun for the big Dean Fossler and Dean Arthur Patterson streets, one and a quar school clas.ses will attend the Mass exception of a little help in pouring concrete, was done by th^ priest without any assistance. Charles now wants to thank jump-off will be fired Sunday by Becker, doctor of music at Da ter miles north of the business sec in the Holy Ghost church, and Denver’s March of Dime givers for Archbishop Urban J. Vehr, with Paul university; voice under Mad Father Papesh, who is pastor of tion o f Grand Junction. high school sophomores and fresh making it possible for him to have the reading in each parish of the ame Maria Kurenko, famed-Rus The building, a four-story, T- men will attend the Mass in Loy St. Margaret Mary’s, Cortez, was the wonderful care that resulted sian prima donna; and Gregorian placed in charge, by Bishop Joseph Archbishop’s letter at all the shaped brick structure, will face ola. Moody Succeeds in his recovery. Masses and the distribution to the chant at the Piu-s X school of chant Sunday’s conference meeting at C. Willging, of the spiritual wel .southeast and thereby permit sun parishes of campaign literature. under Mother Stevens. His musi St. Mary’s academy will be fea fare of the Ute Indians of the Charles’ mother, his grandpar shine in every room at some time The beginning dinner for the par cianship was reflected in the sem tured by awards to close the Towaoc reservation, which is in ents, and his little five-year-old during the day. Curry in NCCS ish committee workers will be held inary choir, which, under his direc record-breaking Holy Childhood the extreme southwestern part of brother, Gordon, all of whom be Careful scientific planning as long to the Holy Ghost parish, are Monday, Jan. 26, at 6:30 p.m., in tion, became one of the city’s Christmas seal campaign under the state, 15 miles west of Cortez sures the Western slope of a thor Fatker Emmanuel Suarez also deeply grateful to the Na leading singing groups. the direction of the Crusaders and some 30 miles west of the Mesa the Lincoln room at the Shirley- oughly modern hospital. In the Post in Denver tional Foundation for Infantile Pa vent— and seeking him. When told from St. Thomas’ seminary, an Verde National park. Savoy hotel. Pastors throughout In 1945 the organization was planning, provisions are being ralysis. They believe that it was Denver will exchange pulpits this that he had left, the soldiers en nouncement of results of the cam John C.