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Comic Dictionary TECHNOLOGY The proof that nothing nowadays Is impossible, except some people. Today's Chuckle Life: Just one fool thing after Love: Just two fool things after each; other. The Outlook Monday, August 6, 1962 THE SECOND FRONT PAGE Page 3, Section A CARNIVAL DISPLAYS' CALLED PERIL TO BELIEF Clergymen Censure Faith 's Method mm BY HILEY WARD Free press Religion Writer A five-foot-six son of a Texas sharecropper preaching- Christ and cures in a tent in Highland Park, incurred the censure of Detroit -bm LU 1M! Ewing counters by saying that he emphasizes faith healing because "not many others will take "healing" as ministry. The Rev. Father Thomas Ruffin, president of the Eastern Orthodox Council of Detroit, says he has officiated at church healing services.

His church permits an anointing with oil Holy Unction be given to the sick during their lives to encourage their recovery. "The Church believes in healing by faith," he said, "but not in circus tent." Episcopal Cathedral, himself a faith healing enthusiast with a faith healing service of prayer on Wednesdays in his church (summer excepted), warned against any ministry that singles out faith healing above other traits of the Holy Spirit. He says all the gifts of the Spirit as outlined in the twelfth chapter of First Corinthians are important teaching, prophecy, interpretation included. Heresy develops, he said, when one is emphasized at the exclusion of another. land, in a boisterous combination of an oldtime revival and a faith healing service.

Ewing-, ordained in a Fort Worth, interdenominational church, operates under the name Campmeeting Revivals, and pay his hills from the "free will" offerings of his followers. It was not healing by faith the clergy resented, but the one-sided methods that relied on body chemistry and mass hysteria rather than on less sensational means, they said. The Rev. Dr. G.

Merrill aspect of suffering. THE PRIEST noted that although the tent is practical for the traveling unattached religious group, it lends any dignity to the occasion." Rabbi Richard C. Hertz, of Temple Beth El, warned against anything that appealed to "blind credulity" rather than the "worship of God through prayer and good deeds." "Any place can be a holy place," he Raid, not directing his remarks to any one group. Lenox, executive director of the Detroit and Michigan Council of Churches, warned of the damage such "carnival displays" do to faith. "There is real danger in the disappearance and the loss of faith which may be experienced when people are assured this kind of faith healing will work and then find nothing happens," he said.

A Catholic priest noted, too, that in final Extreme Unction for the dying as well as prayers for the sick the Church emphasizes the spiritual rather than the physical clergymen Sunday. For a week, "faith heal-e Gene Ewing has been laying hands on the sick and the infirm in the huge tent at 15000 Oak- Ewing Ruffin rather what goes on in the hearts of the people." THE VERY REV. John J. Weaver, dean of St. Paul's Hertz Chasin Din Muffles Sobbing Of an Ailing Hopeful at i Weaver Lenox He noted the Jews themselves once worshipped in a tent.

'Tt's not the quackery that goes on inside of a tent," he said, "that is important, but I 2 Officer Cruiser Crowded Into Oak Tree BY BARBARA STANTON Free Press Start Writer Somewhere a couple of kids are sweating. They should be. Early, Sunday they were in two cars drag-racing west on Eight Mile, in. an 85-mph Just East of Beech two car caught sight of the speedsters. They took up the Van Antwerp and his wife, Mary Frances Van Antwerp Was Part of 4His' City BY CARTER VAX LOPIK Free Press Start Writer Eugene Ignatius Van Antwerp was about as much a part of Detroit as Woodward Avenue.

He served as mayor of Detroit in 1948 and 1949. 2 Seized As Torture Bandits Chicagoans Flee Ypsilanti Crash Special to the Free Prest YPSILANTI Two men sought as Chicago's Gold Coast torture bandits were captured late Saturday after their car skidded on rain- slick M-17 just east of here and slammed into a ditch. State Police trooper Allan Seyfred, who gave chase when he spotted their car heading the wrong way, tackled Nicholas Guido, 41, of Joliet, 111., when Guido ran from the wrecked auto. GCIDO'S COMPANION, Frank Yonder, 23, of Chicago, was later flushed from a neii- by clump of weeds by trooper Duane Girard, who sped to the scene in response to a radioed call for help by Seyfred. The pair were among six persons indicted by a Cook County grand jury at Chicago on July IS on charges of armed robbery.

Two alleged members of the bandit ring have died in Chicago-style one-way "rides." Guido and Yonder, sullen in the Washtenaw County Jail at Ann Arbor where they are held under an FBI fugitive warrant, refuse to discuss their alleged crimes. A revolver was found in the trunk of their car. Police said the car was. stolen in Toledo. THE INDICTMENT grew out of a series of robberies at the homes of wealthy Chicago families.

Suspicion centered on a beauty shop when it was learned that some member of each family had patronized it shortly before a robbery. Yonder was an employe of the Gold Coast beauty salon. Another alleged member was Leo Johnson, 22, car attendant at the salon who, police said, obtained duplicates of auto and house keys of customers while they were patronizing the salon. Johnson was shot to death in a west-side Chicago alley June 1 when other gang members apparently blamed him for an ambush into which they walked on April 29. The tip to police actually came, however, from another gang member, Herbert Kwate, 23-year-old ex-convict.

Kwate took his one-way ride the night of June 17. FURTHER INFORMATION on the gang's operations was obtained from Guido's wife, Patricia, who was seized by detectives at 3 a.m. on June 20 when they surprised her digging in the back yard of the Guido home. She unearthed a can contain ing some of the stolen jewelry. 6-Story Fall Kills Patient A man fell to his death Sun day from a sixth-floor window in Receiving Hospital.

Police said Lewis Morgan, 70, of 6191 Sixteenth, climbed out of a bathroom window, hung momentarily from the ledge, then fell to a courtyard. A patient at the hospital since July 27, Morgan under went a successful cataract op eration on Aug. 2. Burglars Take 81,200 from Bar Burglars stole $1,200 from a safe in the Green Front Bar, 4608 W. Vernor.

The theft was discovered Sunday by a janitor. Police said a rear door had been forced. pursuit. It was close for a moment, the right-hand lane alongside But then the car in the middle lane swerved to the right just a little, enough to discourage the cops from the chase. Just a little enough to send the scout car skidding crazily over the gravel shoulder and into a black oak tree.

The drag race went on. But the roar of engines couldn't fill the silence left behind. The scout car was twisted and crumpled against the base of the tree. Patrolman Donald L. Harding was dead.

Patrol man James Kirkpatrick, hurled 40 feet on impact was seriously injured. Moments later, passing mo torists called the police. HARDING, 27, lived at 19771 Denby, Redford Town ship. Kirkpatrick, 34, of 23226 Helen, Southfield, is in serious condition at Mt. Carmel Mercy Hospital, suffering from head injuries, a possible broken right arm and internal injuries.

The only witness to the ac cident was a motorist driving about a quarter mile behind the speeders. The witness said that the two speeding cars made an obvious attempt to force the scout car off the road. He said that the dragsters made no attempt to stop after the scout car skidded 150 feet into the tree. Police are withholding the name of the witness. Southfield Police Chief Milton Sackett said his department had no leads on the model or year of the speeding car.

Harding, married for four years had a daughter, Robin Elizabeth, 3. His wife, Myra, 23, was put under sedation after she heard of the accident. Harding's mother In law, Mrs. Elizabeth Dunn, said the Hardings bought a three-bedroom brick ranch home three years ago. "Don spent all his weekends and vacations making Myra's home comfortable and pleasant," she said.

"He was a wonderful guy and a wonderful husband and father. Sackett said Harding joined IBBh roar of engines. Southfield policemen in a scout with the police edging up in the hot-rodders. ft Patrolman Harding the Southfield force 18 months ago and was an "excellent police officer." He said Harding already had received one department citation, for capturing two men who broke into a Southfield bar last January. Father, Son Jailed in Shooting A father and his son surrendered at Central Station Sunday and were jailed for attempted murder, using a police revolver taken from a Fort-Green Precinct patrolman.

Held were Eugene Duckson, 55, and Eugene, 33, both of 856 Lyle. Complainants are Patrolmen Thomas O'Brien, 23, and Jack Epperson, 35, working in plainclothes. At midnight Saturday, the patrolmen sought to arrest Eugene, after he allegedly sold them a pint of whisky in front of his home. The officers were checking a report of bootlegging. A scuffle followed and the younger Duckson's screams brought his father out of the house.

The father moved in back of O'Brien, grabbed his gun and wildly fired four shots. Epperson fired four shots at the fleeing father and son. Neither was hit. nighttime noise. On the second-shift operation Garavaglia will use three cranes instead of two and 36 trucks instead of 20.

Each truck will be able to complete more round trips because of lighter traffic, according to Frank C. Skebensky, State Highway Department metropolitan district engineer. BY HILEY H. WARD Free Press Religion Writer Faith Healer Gene Ewing called on the power of God again Sunday. And he attacked the Devil.

But both were losers God and the Devil. The winner was a tired, little evangelist healer who controlled a crowd of 1,500 persons at 15000 Oakland with a shout, a whisper, and the leaping and hopping around to the beat of tambourines. ONE HUNDRED persons came down to the sawdust front of the block-long tent by stepping across mud puddles from the heavy soaking Saturday night. They responded to his call for the sick he asked for particularly those with hernia, tumors, ulcers, and the deaf. The tent rolled and heaved with, a din of "Oh, just reach out and touch the Lord as he- passes by you'll find he is not too busy to hear your cry." But the Lord was too busy, except for the all but obvious cases Saturday night.

Most pitiful unknown to the vast audiences, focusing on the hysterics of the little deep-eyed Ewing, and a few fat ladies hopping around saying they were healed of hernias and ovary ailments which nobody was going to demonstrate there was a Southfield widow, quietly sobbing in the far end of the line, almost stone deaf. "I tried so hard I prayed to God Jesus who is no respecter of persons why can't I get rid of my deafness and her sobs, were quiet, muffling her words beneath the din. SHE WAS virtually stone deaf. You could come up to her in the line from behind before the healing prayers started and holler in each ear and not get a response of any kind. With her was another matronly looking woman from Milford, clearly deaf in one ear, but not the other.

Next to them in the line were two men. One said he was deaf in one ear. Yet he could hear a near mumbled whisper from this reporter In. it as well as the other "good" WORDS FROM 'Detroit Who owns Detroit? Taxpayers, residents, civic leaders? No. said the Rev.

Robert Harvey Bodine, of Metro-, politan Methodist Church, 8000 Woodward, in his sermon Sunday. God does. "Once that is thoroughly within our thoughts and souls," he saad, "it will become the most transforming experience in the life of the City of Detroit. It is God's town. "Three-fourths of the population in the United States in our lifetime will be city dwellers and we who are interested in the religious influence and impact will find ourselves at the forefront of the greatest religious pioneering adventure.

"What happens in the cities of America will determine the total life of this na-tion. Re- 1 i hi IT i 4 Chief engineer for the Na tional Survey Service in 1926 and 1927, Van Antwerp went into business for himself in 1928. IN 1931 he ran for Common Council stfid won. And he kept on winning his seat there. Van Antwerp failed in a bid to become Wayne County Auditor in 1935 and was blocked in a 1940 attempt to become the Democratic nominee for gov ernor.

After eight consecutive council terms, Van Antwerp ran for mayor and won. He served for two years, failed in his bid for a second term, and in 1950 was returned to council where he has since served. Past national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (1938-39), Van Antwerp fought communism in City government, banned the wearing of dark glasses during council sessions "theyre as effective a disguise as a mask." And he fought for stiffer control on slum landlords, opposed taxi-dance halls, police speed traps and squirrels. BESIDES ins wife, he leaves 11 children: The Very Rev. Eugene I.

Van Antwerp, S.T.D., rector of St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore, Rev. Father George Van Antwerp, assistant pastor of Holy Trinity Parish, and Mother Rita Van Antwerp, R.S.C.J., Convent of the Sacred Heart, New York City. Also Mother Mary Dolores Van Antwerp, R.S.C.J., Convent of the Sacred Heart, Providence, R.I.; Miss Agnes Van Antwerp, of Detroit; Mrs. Joan Shannon, of Troy, N.Y.; Francis of Cheboygan; Mrs.

Lauretta Jae ger, of Atlanta, Mrs. Pauline Denton, of Detroit; Daniel of Detroit, and Maj. Anthony United States Air Force, Korea. Three brothers and two sisters survive. They are The Rev.

Father Francis Van Antwerp, pastor of St. Ambrose Parish; Arthur J. and George Mother Anna Van Antwerp, R.S.CJ., Albany, N. and Miss Cecilia Van Antwerp of Detroit. 4 'The Lord may be ear.

A second demonstrated perfect hearing, even though he said he had wax in his ears and wanted healing. These were the people in the "deaf" end of the healing line. Brother Ewing came along and talked with each per-. son, selected one of the men to "fall on the power of God" with a dozen others in front of the altar. THE EVANGELIST who belonged to a Foursquare (Aimee Semple McPherson) Church in Dallas and who was "ordained" in the independent Victory Tabernacle in Dallas selects the people in whom he perceives faith.

He tries to have in hia selection all the various diseases and disorders represented in the line-up. One of the two men who could hear very well to begin with was brought forward. He told this reporter he was healed and went away rejoicing. THE REAL tragedy of the sawdust was not seen the heartbroken women, still deaf. Worldly dressed teen-agers, in tight pants and dove-tailed haircuts, slipped into the meeting and began to move chairs unreligiously.

He broke the spell to glare at them sternly "We can't let them come in here with beer THE PULPIT Is Owned Mr. Bodine Mr. Sperka ligiously, if it doesn't happen here, it will not happen." THE REV. Father Leo Sabourin, of St. Linus Roman Catholic Church, Dearborn, said in his Sunday sermon: "Parents share the grave SMid God-given responsibility to instruct their children concerning sex and purity according to the needs of their age.

"Parents must give their children the protection of adequate knowledge, sound -if jrj working on them cans and shorts and not enough clothes to muzzle a shotgun we're glad to have you. But this is church and want you to behave in it." A near riot started when Highland Park fire inspector Charles Lurtz took a man out for smoking in the tent and ended up in a hassle with him in which a half-dozen teens joined in before police broke it up. A child jumped to his feet and a mother guided him around the mud puddles as the youngster vomited up and down the aisle on the way out. Across the street in the fresh air, a picket marched a symbol to Ewing of the Devil. Jack Emery, 21, of 35 Charlotte, a radio parts salesman, dressed in funeral black suit, carried a four-sided box sign with mottos like: "Faith Healing Is a Cruel Delusion If Faith Heals, Why Hospitals?" He was down on all religion and said he would not mind picketing a cathedral, too.

EWING CALLED out to the young man, who marched slowly, and solemnly, that when he drew his last breath he would wish he were on this side of the street. Ewing led one heavy-set lady to the front, announced that she had a $300 hearing aid in her purse and had been cured of deafness in one ear. V5 by God? Christian principles and constant good example to meet certain modern distorted views of sex and morals. If parents do not do this for their children, someone else will, or already has the wrong way." RABBI Joshua Sperka, of Young Israel of Greenfield, Oak Park, said in his Sabbath sermon: "Commandments are meant to refine us and to accustom us to discipline and obedience. In this training ground of overcoming desire we learn to subject man's will to a Divine Will.

"Jewish law which provides for the discipline of man's passions, appetites and actions leads to personal holiness. 'Sanctify yourselves and be ye holy, for I am holy' (Leviticus A direct descendent of the sturdy Dutch pioneers who settled in upper New York State in the seventeenth century. Van Antwerp was born in Detroit on July 26, 1889. HIS PARENTS were Eugene C. Van Antwerp and the former Cecilia M.

Renaud, both members of old Detroit families. A devout Roman Catholic, Van Antwerp was graduated from SS. Peter and Paul Parochial School and the University of Detroit. Van Antwerp and his wife, the former Mary Frances Mc-Devitt, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary a little more than a year ago. They were married in Odessa, June 21, 1911, while Van Antwerp, a civil engineer, was teaching English and mathe matics at Gonzaga University.

There are 11 children and 36 grandchildren. Two of Van Antwerp's sons became priests and two of his daughters entered an order of his church. A part of Detroit and a part of Michigan, Van Antwerp had a feeling for hard history. But over the years he also ac quired a fund of historical trivia. "HIS KNOWLEDGE of en gineering history was little short of remarkable," said for mer Councilman Del.

A. Smith, a friend for nearly 50 years. Despite his years in city government, Van Antwerp never became a politician. He was a bluff and outspoken engineer and his own temper was so excitable that he was incapable of becoming calculating or subtle. After stints at teaching and farming he was even a Detroit policeman for a while Van Antwerp worked at civil engineering for railroads.

When World War I came along. Van Antwerp was among the first 30,000 members of the American Expeditionary Force landed in France. He returned to the United States a captain and to the civilian railroad business with the Grand Trunk. i NIGHT SHIFT ADDED Excavation Speedup On Couzens Is OlCd The State Highway Department announced a plan Sunday to reduce traffic jams on James Couzens Highway by permitting the contractor to complete four months of ex cavating in 40 working days. The excavating in the center of James Couzens from Meyers to Seven Mile consists of cubic yards enough to fill the City-County Building.

A night shift, from 7:30 p.m. to 4:30 a.m., will be added Monday. The Garavaglia Construction Co. is putting special mufflers on all cranes, bulldozers and trucks to reduce.