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...Holy See last week gave to the Roman Catholic diocese of Salt Lake, Utah a new bishop, Rev. James E. Kearney, 48, pastor-organizer in 1928 of the Church of St. Francis Xavier in The Bronx. Iowa-born, Bishop-elect Kearney studied at Teachers College in Manhattan and Catholic University in Washington. He is diocesan superintendent of Bronx schools, lecturer at Good Counsel College in White Plains. In Utah he will succeed another onetime Bronx pastor, Most Rev. John Joseph Mitty, 48, who was appointed last February to be Coadjutor Archbishop of San Francisco (TIME...
...American prelates, Quebec's Arch bishop Jean Marie Rodrigue Villeneuve. successor to the late Felix Raymond Marie Cardinal Rouleau; and busy 71-year-old Archbishop Edward Joseph Hanna of San Francisco, who got for his coadjutor Salt Lake's Mitty, now replaced by The Bronx's Kearney...
...huge circle about the mooring mast at Camp Kearney, near San Diego, Calif., ten thousand people assembled one morning last week to watch the U. S. S. Akron dock for refueling after a turbulent transcontinental passage. Poking through a gradually lifting fog, the great ship dipped slowly three times, three times was whisked up by rising strata of warm air before the ground crews could grab the spider lines from rings on two dangling cables. The fourth time the crowd cheered as the crew caught hold, started to tug the Akron's tossing silver nose toward the stub mast...
Delays, however, ate into the ship's food & fuel, forced her to dock at Camp Kearney. Before the Akron cruised leisurely on up to Sunnyvale, Calif., 24 of the crew were sent ahead by plane. In maneuvering at Camp Kearney 33% of the helium had been valved. At Sunnyvale the Akron was forced by atmospheric conditions to meander over San Francisco Bay all day before docking...
Scapedeath. At Camp Kearney, Calif, last week the plane of Lieut. Apollo Soucek, U. S. N., world's unofficial altitude champion (43,166 ft.), collided with another in midair. As Lieut. Soucek jumped, his parachute fouled the falling wreck. Frantically he jerked at the shrouds, pulled them clear barely 200 ft. above the ground, suffered only a sprained back...