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176 20 PAGES FRIDAY, DEC. 23, 1949 0 i li Leom mster Packs for Moscow Clwbby, Jolly Little Fr. Brassard Prepares for 15-Man Parish Task Frames' HI? fig 1 A3 I -J A 4 PT3 If 0 Christi (AP WirephotoX WILL LEAVE FOR TINY CHURCH IN RUSIA-Rev. Arthur O. Brassard.

-r I it i 5 i ii i By EDWARD GLYNN LEOMINSTER, Dec. 23 There's a chubby, jolly little Catholic priest with ear-splitting voice busy packing luggage in his home here today preparing to start soon on the un enviable venture of furthering religious freedom in the red shadows of the Kremlin. He is Rev. Arthur O. Brassard, 35-year-old treasurer of Assumption College in Worcester, and more recently assigned to Our Lady of Guada- loupe Church, West 14th New York city, one of Gotham's two churches for Spanish nationals.

(Globe Staff Photo by John landers) FLAMES SWEEP SUPERSTRUCTURE OF FREIGHTER FERN BAY at Army Base this morning in $500,000 fire, Fireboats fought blaze from ocean side and land apparatus from the. Army Base dock. Hot air explosions, blew off top of superstructure showering firemen and newsmen "with glass. FIVE CENTS 4 He received his visa five days ago, after a year's tribulation for our State Department, to journey to Moscow to administer the spiritual needs of the Catholics in our Embassy there. Fr, Brassard will become the only American priest in Russia, stationed in small church which many persons believe to be the last remamngatholic edifice in that country.

His flock will be one "of the tiniest in the entire Catholic realm, but his duties as a priest and a leading American in the Soviet capital's international colony will keep him constantly, in the limelight. His parish of St. Louis of France includes an estimated 15 English-speaking worshippers. Priest Continedon Page 11 JF fS A conference between opposing attorneys! The Eastern Massachusetts Railway was represented by attorneys Irving W. Sargent and Thomas Bresnahan.

Counsel: for the plaintiffs were attorneys Thomas J. Lane, Maurice S. Close and Matthew A. Gregg. Continued on Page 10 I have been abandoned to banks during the past 30 years.

That's the money the state is now going after. It is not these accounts alone, though, that Bank Commissioner Timothy Donovan would exhume. He has his mind on a far more intriguing treasure hunt the contents of all abandoned safe deposit boxes which never have been turned over to the state since the depositories were built, because the law never has provided for: it." Banks Continued on Page 5 branch- of a wide matrimonial agency. "I've been so lonely myself dur--ing the past sbc years. At times I felt like committing what loneliness does to you.

The tall, slender Count was the darling of the international set in the Bahamas in 1943 when he suddenly found himself charged with the brutal murder of his wealthy father-in-law, Sir Harry Club TT Continued Eaffe 8 Priest Pop urges lans I imploringly of our Lord; same prayer that they may be one. 'With good reason, men are anxious about the effrontery with which the united front of militant atheism" -advances, and the old que tion is now voiced aloud: why are there still separations? Why are there still schisms? When will all the forces of the spirit and of love be har-moniousl- united? Pope Continued on Page 8 they assumed he'd still be doing business at the same old stand. Said Dr. Zurrow: "We wrote a blistering letter to the phone company," It got results. Now when you dial Murray HiH 8-2551, an operator asks who you want.

If it's Dr. Zurrow, phe gives you his number. If it's Santa, the operator says matterTof-factly: "Sor-ry, Santa Claus' number has been Fin. Com. Plans Contract Probe on Disposal Job An admission by Public Works Commissioner Robert T.

Curley that he is currently negotiating a new half million dollar contract for col lection and disposal of the city's garbage and rubbish with -the de. lelion of two important clauses that have been in every similar contract since 1912 brought a promise from the Boston Finance Commission that "there will be an "We'll investigate this contract," a spokesman for the. Finance Com mission said. "It seems umfifual that the city should suddenly ex elude these clauses." Contract" Continued. on Page Jl -V4 A Unite in Solid Quartet Held in and Holdup Police Nab Group After $100 Robbery PEABODY, Dec.

23 Four Everett and Somerville youths who were arrested here early this morning after they allegedly, kidnaped a man- from Boston's Bowdoin Sq.and held up a Newburyport Turnpike diner were ordered held for the January sitting of the Essex County Grand Jury by Judge Daniel tC. Manning in Peabody District Court. The Somerville pair, Richard Barchard, 19, and Arthur M. Morel; 19, both of Holts pleaded guilty to charges of armed Tobbery and kidnaping but pleaded not guilty on another charge of using an automobile without authority. Kidnap Continued on Page 5 N.

ILProfessor AfterAuto Crash Prof, Charles Frederick Barriason, 63, of 122 Downer Hingham, head of the Language Department at Northeastern University, collapsed and died this morning minutes after his automobile was involved in a slight collision with mm 4 DIES AT CRASH SCENE Prof. Charles F. Barnaton. another vehicle on Huntington near Forsyth st, Back Bay. Police said that Barnason's car and one operated by Robert A.

Coleron, 29, of Wiswall road, Newton Center, collided in front -of the Tufts Medical School near Northeastern University. Professor Continued on Page 8 Hyland to Return as Head of Public Works Under Hynes George G. Hyland, former Boston Public Works Commissioner, will again take over the post, associates of Mayor-Elect John B. Hynes said this afternoon. Hyland Continued on Page 8 BOSTON shopping CENTER OF tUVJLCIiLAlID Kidnaping Fatally Stricken ffi Shopping Doys 7 Befor.

I Christmas Front Against Atheism Radioman Hurt, Others Escape to Safety A roaring fire in the superstructure of the new Norwegian passenger freight ship Fernbay, caused at least $300,000 damage and imperiled the big Army Base installation in South Boston for several hours early today. A radioman suffered bums, the captain of the 8000-ton ship escaped through a porthole and Boston firefighters ducked large jagged sections of shatterproof glass while fighting the flames. Rushed to Brighton Marine Hospital was radio operator A. K. Lind.

He sustained burns on both hands trying to combat the blaze near the radio room. The skipper, Capt Arild Wergland, was asleep in his cabin when the fire was discovered. Roused by the general alarm, he found the ladder to the, bridge a mass of flames. He wriggled through a porthole and catwalked a boom ta a forward section of the ship. Land units of the Boston Fire Department prevented spread of the fire to the big Army.

Base cargo 6heds, while two fireboats. Engines 47 and pulled in close and 'shot tons of water from deck Continued on Page 11 Lifer, Given Mental Test, Wins Pardon The delayed Christmas pardon for lifer John Rea, 60, of Attleboro was approved at 1 p. m. today by Gov. Dever as the State Parole Board announced it is holding up the case of another lifer originally scheduled for release.

Gov. Dever signed Rea's papers immediately after receiving a psychiatrist's report which said a mental examination did notJgive any psychiatric reason for interfering with his pardon." The Parole Boaft announced it will not make "a special case of James Palas, 57, of New York, who was scheduled to be given a special hearing today at the State House by the board. Palas' case will await a "routine hearing" scheduled for Ja'n. 10 at the Norfolk Prison Colony where he is an inmate, the board said. Pardons Continued on Page 8 RAIN COLDER TONIGHT FAIR.

COLDER SATURDAY (Full reports on back page.) IN TONIGHT'S GLOBE Burgess 15; Serial 14 Comics 14, 15 Society 10 Cross-Word 14: Sports 6, 7 Culbertson 14 Star Gazer 14 Deaths 18 i Theatres 9 Editorial 12 Vets 12 Financial. 17, 18, Women's 15 Radio 15' 2 Scotsmen Use Same Christmas Card 17 Years PLAINFIELD. N. Dec. 23 (AP) James MacLaren and A.

J. Cave never had trouble deciding what Christmas card to send to each other they've been sending the same one back and forth for 17 years. This year it's MacLaren's turn. "A native of Scotland now living in nearby Warren Township. MacLaren bought the card for 15 cents back in 1932.

Cave lives in Red Bank, N. J. The; card has a little window in it, and each year the sender changes the cheery message in the window. The canny Scotsman several years ago thought of a way to save the cost of a stamp every other year. The two men work near each other in New York city.

Now the sender of the card each year walks to the other's office and delivers it in person. 4 Cooler Weather Comes to Hub, but No White Christmas A cool, but snowless Christmas was forecast for Boston today. A front of cold, northerly air began moving down on the city this afternoon. The record high for the day of 64 first set in 1891 was matched here before the arrival of cool weather. A squall line of rain mixed with some snow heralded the change in but the Weatherman said not enough snow' would accumulate to even approximate a "white.

Christmas." Temperatures in the low 30's are predicted for most of tomorrow. Boy, 12, Sought in Theft of $880 at Quincy Store QUINCY.Dec. 23 Police are seeking a boy about 12 to 15 years old who cut a hole in a canvas bag in Barker's stationery store, 1 Maple today and removed about $880. 'According to Edward Barker, the owner, a young boy entered tne store, and, unseen, slit the canvas bag, cutting off a padlock on it. Inside was about $880 in cash, collected from persons who pay their telephone bills in the store.

Barker told police that the youth may have been the same one who had purchased a pack ot razor blades earlier. He was described as between 12 and 15 years old; five feet, five inches tall; stocky build, well dressed, wearing a brown tweed topcoat. He has light-brown hair. Senate Prober Says Coffee Prices to Be High Several Years CARACAS, Venezuela, Dec. 23 (UP) Senator Guy M.

Gillette, of Iowa, chairman of the Sen ate Agriculture subcommittee which investigated high coffee prices in the United States, said today that coffee prices probably would remain high for several' years. Gillette discounted reports that price rigging by producing sent the price soaring. But he said that both Brazilian exporters and United States importers had taken advantage of recent crop losses in Brazil and Central America to corner the market. The Senator added that coffee prices now had entered a period of readjustment but would remain high tot years; i $18,000 Settlement in Boy Injuries Suit This coming Holy Yearthe Pontiff said.J'must be decisive, especially for the longed-for religious renewal of the modern world." that this Holy Year could' welcome also to the great return to the one true church, awaited over the centuries, of so many who, though believing in Jesus Christ, are for various reasons separated from her," he said. "With unspeakable groanings, the spirit, who is in the hearts of good people, today cries out LAWRENCE, Dec.

23 A suit for personal injuries suffered more than four years ago, brought by Medley Cyr of 394 Howell st. in behalf of his son Donald, 9, against the Eastern Massachusetts Railway Company, was settled out of court for $18,000 The settlement, reputedly one cf the largest out of court settlements ever paid in Essex county, was reached today at a Taken Oat but, 0, Doctor! State Left in Safe Deposit Boxes VATICAN CITY, Dec. 23 (AP) Pope Pius XII appealed today to all who believe in Jesus Christ to unite under the Roman Catholic Church a solid front against militant advances of atheism. The Pope's address, his annual Christmas message, was addressed to the whole world on the eve of the 1950 Holy Year. There seemed little doubt that the address was an invitation to all those professing Protestant faiths to join with the Church of Rome.

Santa's Phone NEW YORK, Dec. 23 (AP) Dr. Herman B. Zurrow thought he was going nuts when little voices started coming over his office telephone. They kept asking for Santa Claus.

"It began six weeks ago," said the 58th st. physician, still a little shaken today. "We began getting two or three calls a day, and children voices would ask for Santa. We' thought it was a gag at first." But it was, no gag when the calls zoomed up to- 400 a day, "Little. voices at all hours, of the day and night," said Dr.

Zurrow, his voice hoarse at the memory. "I thought we'd go crazy." But a checkup convinced the The Editions of The Evening Globe Will Be Omitted Monday, Dec. 26 Christmas Holiday Readers Place your orders now for the Globe- of Monday morning. Newdealers Send in your orders for the Globs of Monday morning. i 14 By JOSEPH F.

DINNEEN There is no bank job less inspiring than being bookkeeper for a company of ghosts the wraiths and missing persons who disappear into a business spirit world at the rate of 350 a year in this state and stay there to plague and whiten the hairs of bank auditors and examiners. The affairs of the careless, the forgetful and the imprudent must be given perpetual care by business men and machines. More than $6,000,000 doctor his sanity wasn't tottering. Last year a toy shop hired a Santa Claus to talk to kids. They put in a special phone for him and the number was Murray Hill 8-2551.

This year the shop dropped the idea. So the telephone company assigned Murray Hill 8-2551 to Dr. Zurrow. Then the phone company forgot all about it. Not so the kids.

They knew where Santa was last year. With childish faith, Christmas Sales in Boston Stores Top All Records With an extra shopping day tomorrow, Christmas sales of Boston department stores are "almost sure" to break all. records, 'the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston stated today. Already the stores have topped all previous sales in the amount of merchandise sold and, based on dollar values, are neck and neck with last year's, all-time record. Shopping Continued on Page 8 Tropical Results DAILY DOUBLE for THIRD RACE $1900.

allowance. 2 year-olds, 6 furlongs. Opal Blossom, 120. Ch'ch 5.30 3.10 2.90 Dalpsrk. 115.

Williams. a no 2 on feefifofum. 102. Flutie. 5.70 Tims.

1:11 1-5. Everness. Notme, Kest-Jess Waves, Campaigner also ran. Continued en Page, Lonely de Marigny Plans "Club" for Kindred Hearts HOLLYWOOD. Dec.

23 (UP) Coont Alfred de Marigny, acquitted after a sensational murder trial in the Bahamas six years ago. said today he is going to operate a film colony lonely -hearts club. "You eee I know what it means ift be lonely," the handsome 39-year-old playboy said in a suave continental accent He glanced wistfully out the window of the half-finished Vine-st. office where will manage the Hollywood.