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Bishop-elect Spellman will be consecrated in St. Peter's Sept. 8 by Cardinal Pacelli-first U. S. prelate so to be honored. He succeeds to the post of Auxiliary Bishop John Bertram Peterson, who last month became Bishop of Manchester, N. H. He is not entitled to automatic succession to the archbishopric of Boston. For that, his appointment as Bishop Coadjutor would be necessary.* Boston was pleased last week to get Monsignor Spellman, rating him a balanced blend of spirituality and practicality, resembling more Boston's late benign Archbishop John Joseph Williams, loved by Catholics...
Lizard-Eaters- Two months ago Capt. Hans Bertram, 27, and Mechanic Adolph Klaussmann took off from Koepang. Timor Island, for Darwin, Australia, 500 mi. south. In their Junkers seaplane Atlantis they had left Germany three months prior, on a tour to boost German trade. From Koepang they never reached Darwin. For weeks flyers and foot parties searched the bush of Australia's north coast. Last month some black natives found the abandoned plane, and Capt. Bertram's cigaret case and a handkerchief, on the beach near Drysdale Mission, 100 mi. northwest of Wyndham. Australian officials continued searching, dubiously...
...Remscheid, Prussia, Capt. Bertram's home, his mother had turned grey, his grandmother had died of grief...
...malfeasance in office after an investigation into city purchasing methods begun last year (TIME, July 6). The trial was held at Butler, Pa., a change of venue having been granted the defendant because of high feeling about the case in Pittsburgh. Also convicted was onetime City Supplies Director Bertram L. Succop. Wartime infantry colonel, whom Mayor Kline dismissed when the investigation began but whose testimony at the trial exonerated the Mayor from "conspiracy" and "evil intent...
...quite frank we are a bit disappointed. Did the mob surge into sacred dormitory corridors causing shrieks and terror as it passed? Not exactly. Stray delegations wandered about on the first floor, and even a trifle abashed walked out; only the noble contingent which had penetrated Bertram swept off with the dinner gong and the keys. Did they get invited to have some ice cream and did they yelp in answer "we want beer." Not quite, except that the inspiring slogan actually did rend the night air. From the safe vantage point of upstairs windows someone did hazard that...