Priest Flies to Rangely Mass German Priests

T T > rrr t : Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations ABBOT TELLS OAOHAU HOBROR Priest Flies to Rangely Mass German Priests Contents CopTrighted by the Catholic Press Society, Ind. 1946— Permission to reproduce, Except on Heroic in Fight ‘PICIiE Benedictine Pilots Articles Otherwise Marked, given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue Plane Every Sunday DENVERCATHOLICl**” "** [I CIBmill Center in Utah Rt. Rev. Corbinian Hofmeister, A portrait of S t Frances Xav Fr. Blase Schumacher Only Padre in Two Former Gestapo Prisoner, ier Cabrini holds the place of honor States Who Takes to A ir for Paro amoni; 130 oil paintings of the Denver Visitor famous and colorful citizens of chial Work 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 Denver and Colorado that decorate The sometimes impassable roads leading to the mushrooming oil By Rev. John B. Ebel the walls of a room in the home Services, Photo Features, and Wide World Photos. (3 cents per copy) o f Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mazzulla of town of Rangely, Colo., are no problem to dbe Rev. Blase Schumacher, Arrested by the Gestapo twice, imprisoned in the dank Denver. The paintin|;s are the O.S.B., of Vernal, Utah, who cares for the Qtholics of the Rangely VOL. XUI. No. 10. d e n v A i , COLO., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1946. f 1 PER YEAR. Gestapo dungeons of Berlin in solitary confinement for a work of Herndon Davis. vicinity; for he is the "flying priest” of Colorado and Utah. After year and in the dread Dachau concentration camp for an The Mazzullas recognize Mother saying Mass at 9:30 o’clock in Vernal, Father Schumacher drives to other year, the Rt. Rev. Corbinian Hofmeister, O.S.B., Ab- Cabrini, as do other Catholics in the airport, boards a rented plane, and in 30 minutes is in Rangely, bot of St. Michael’s Abbey, Metten, Bavaria, is living proof the Denver area, as the greatest of her citizens. This first citizen of in plenty of time for the 11:30 o’clock Mass there. Fr. Maher Lowry’s 1st Civilian Chaplain of the staunch, even heroic, opposition of German Catholics the United States to be canonized The only priest in Colorado and Utah who makes use of an air to the totalitarian Nazi regime of Hitler. a saint ^rsonally founded the plane in his parochial work. Father Schumacher has been flying for There were some 450 other Gennan Catholic priests in Catholic activities at Lowry Queen of Heaven orphanage. the past two years. All, his lessons were taken in Vernal, which is a Dachau at the time of Abbot C o r------ Field, Denver, will be under the binian’s imprisonment, about 300 This painting, together with the very air-minded center, with 16 planes available at the airport. A plane supervision of a new director in others in the collection, stems from of whom, including the Abbot, is invaluable in traveling from Vernal to Rangely, 50 miles away, foe the person of the Rev. Michael A. were released by a Nazi order of Mr. Mazzulla’s interest in the his Maher (see cut), who replaces tory of Western United States. In the last 20 miles of the trip, after leaving the highway, are over a March 24, 1945, a few weeks be Capt. John J. Kick, Catholic chap fore the end of the war. The Amer selecting the characters whose por very poor road, and the distance cannot be covered in less than an hour lain who was separated from the traits were to adorn the walls of ican soldiers, however, found be and a half by automobile. service early this month. Father tween 150 i^d 200 German priests this unique picture gallery Mr. Ma- Klek had served in the capacity of zulla had the expert assistance of P A R I ^ VISITS MADE BY AIR still held in Dachau when they ar chaplain at Lowry for the past rived. Ralph Carr, former Governor of B«ides using a plane on his trim to Rangely tO' say Mass, the year. Upon leaving Lowry, he re Colorado. Benedictine also flies to Rangely and to the Gilsonite mines to the turned to the mother-house of the Dachau, «ayt Abbot Corbin Represented in the "picture Connegation of the Resurrection ian, who viiited the “ Regis southwest of Rangely to visit the Catholic families in these localities. ter” office in Denver last room” are Abraham Lincoln, who He states that he has at present no intention of buying a plane, since in Chicago to await further orders established the territory of Colo from his superiors. Sunday, was not the same in rado; William Gilpin, appointed by they are so readily available in Vertul and it is much cheaper Just to 1944 as in its early years. In Father Maher is the first civilian Lincoln to be Colorado's first ter 1933, '34, and ’35, when Hit Two Franciscan Sisters, Daugh rent one as he needs it. priest to be given such a position ritorial governor; General Den ler was trying to crush oppo ters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus Father Schumacher also cares for the Catholics in Artesia, Colo., at Lowry Field. He first assumed and Mary, returned to Denver last ver; General William J. Palmer, sition within Germany, it was his duties at Lowry on Aug. 1, week from St. Louis after partici builder of the Rio Grande railroad; which he describes as a "typical boom town.” Situated Just inside the a slaughter camp, with almost when he went to work in conJunc Winfield Scott, discoverer of gold; Colorado-Utah line, Artesia is only .30 miles from Vernal, and is easily none of the inmates coming pating in special jubilee ceremonies tion with Captain Klek. Prior to h ^ in the mother-house there, the Indian, Chief Ouray; Dr. Sun accessible by the highway. For some time, he has been saying Mass in out alive. During the last years Yat Sen, founder of the Chinese this, he had served as director of of the war even tige SS troop lis t e r M. Edward celebrated the the theater in Artesia at 11:30 o’clock on the second and fourth Sundays 50th ■anniversary of her religious republic, who possibly wrote the Catholic activities at Buckley ers who were guards at the Chinese constitution while he lived of each mopth. Recently he started saying Mass in Rangely on the Field. oamp saw the end of the Nazi profession and Sister M. Generose, the 26th anniversary. Both sisters in Denver; Horace Greeley; Da first and third Sundays of the month, also at 11:30, in die home of His ypre-ordination study was regime. As a result they are located in the SL Rose Resi mon Runyan; Bonfils and Tammen, Mrs. John Purdy, a parishioner. made at the University of Dayton, treated the prisoners rel Ohio, and at Mt. St. Mary’s Sem atively well in an attempt to dence, dormitory for working girls founders of the Denver Pott; Low 30 CATHOLIC FAMILIES in Denver. ell Thomas; Bishop Joseph Mache- inary of the West in Norwood, 0. make friends for the future. beuf; Kit Carson, pioneer Western ir RANGELY DISTRICT Father Maher was ordained in Italian Saved 'The SL Louis celebration, in which 16 sisters participated, was scout, who never killed an Indian; It is estimated that there are at least 30 Catholic families in and 1927. From Hanging Buffalo Bill Cody, who killed many; around Rangely, but definite figures ate difficult to obtain, for the The last parish to which Father preceded by a retreat given by the The officials, too, were easily Rev. Thomas L. Carter, C.P., of and Lt. Zebulon Pike, after whom oil field workers are a transient population. The future of Rangely, Maher was assigned was St. Jo Pike’s peak is named. seph’s in Holly, Colo., after 15 bribed, so that many things took Louisville, Ky. Relatives of the sis says Father Schumacher, is hard to predict. It is certain that the town place in Dachau that would have ters attending the ceremonies in Fred Mazzulla is a prominent years of parish work in this state. caused convulsions in the Reichs- cluded a brother of Sister Generose, Catholic Denver attorney. His wife, will grow some more, but how much longer the drilling of new oil He comes originally from Cincin wells will continue is impossible to say. Some estimate that drilling nati, O.— (Official photo by U.S. chancellery had they been known Leo Reniger, and a sister, Mrs. is the former Josephine D’Andrea in Berlin. There was, for instance, (Turn to Page t — Column i ) A.A.F. training command) Kev. Michael A. Maher George Voellinger. Sister Edward’s o f Keewatin, Minn. the time that the Abbot and his cousin, the Rev. Marion Forst of friends saved the life o f a young (]a_thedr8l^ parish, SL Louis, par Italian lieutenant who had been ticipated in the ceremonies, and a condemned to die. Abbot Cofbin- sister, Mrs, Josephine Loire, and ian was in a barracks with two 8 brother, Joe Garthoeffner, at- otirexteGermaa friesta, 4hei famodl^tMukd. Pastor Niemollcr, and two Italians: Sister M. Edward made her final General Garibaldi, a descendant of vows in the SL Anthony mother- the famous Garibaldi who was the house in SL Louis 50 vears ago, anti-clerical hero o f the Italian and was assigned to the hospital in AnORNEY GENERAL ASSERTS unification, and a Colonel Ferrero.

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