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TRIBUNE Published darlY, except Sunday, bJ' l'nlon-Trlb~ne f'.ubllshln, Ca. Entered as stconi• class matter at tbt po•tuffi~• ot San Diei;a, California, under the act of March a. JS79. SAN DIEGO 12, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1946

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Nearly 7000 Servicemen Seeing U. S. Land Again

'Asiatic Prelate Welcomed Here

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Steaming in past Pt. Loma this morning, the 24,000-ton transport Wakefield brought 6,653 marines, Seabees and. other veter:i,1.15 back from length¥ service in the South Pacific, Japan and North China. It was her first transpacific voyage, after making 23 round trips across the Atlantic as a troop carrier.

Bishop Seasick Capt. R. L. Daney, U.S.C.G., mas- tre of the 40,000-ton ship, said the - small, round Tien and his towering I aid, Father Vos, had occupied one . of the two remaining staterooms of · the vessel. He disclosed also that I seasickness had caused the bishop to j mis "a few' meals in the wardroom but that he had otherwise enjoyed 1 the passage. The Chinese' prelate celebrated . mass every day he was aboard ship 1· and also gave his blessing to the r~turning fighting men. He is par– ticularly fond of the marine corps. When he announced the news of his election as a cardinal, marinef who were in the Tsingtao cathedr2 stood and cheered, Father Vos re lated. Learns From Troops The bishop has also improved his , E!1glish by phrases picked up from his association with the leather– necks, said Vos. The prelate will be the overnight guest here of Bishop Buddy before flying to Chicago and thence to New ' York. The cardinal-elect was met also I at the pier by the Rev. Anthony May, mission procurator of the Society of the Divine World who flew here from the society's head– quarters at Techny, a Chicago sur– urb. He will remain with the bishop as an aid until the latter's departure from New York. . Bishop Buddy's reception party 1~cluded the Rev. Douglas Moore, his s_ecretary; Capt. William A. that the "magna cappa," or rich silken ward– robe the Chinese prelate will wear at the Vatican City ceremonies, is being tailored for him in Chicago. However, because of the post-war silk shortage, a good part of the colorful attire will be "hand-me– downs," altered from robes donated by Cardinals William O'Connell and George Mundelein. Bishop Tien's elevation to the I rank of a "prince of the church" has the drama of a rags-to-riches story. ' Maguire, 11th Naval district chap– lain, and the Rev. Albert R. O'Hara S.J., w_ho has spent nine years ii:::, the Orient and who greeted Bishop Tien in fluent Chinese. Father May disclosed

- I Born 55 years ago in Changtsiu Shantung province, he was an orph: an waif when he entered the .6ivine Wor~ society's first foreign mission. B~ptized and reared by mission- I ar~es, he began his studies for the priesthood at 15. He was ordained · a secular priest in 1918 at the age . of 2?. Eleven years later, he was : a?m1tted to the Society of the Di- 1 : v1i:ie Word, and in 1934 he was ap– ' pomted Prefect Apostolic of Yang. ; ku, becoming Catholic spiritual ; leader in the region of his birth · and pagan boyhood. The Chinese churchman was f called to Ro~e in 1939 to be con– ' secrated a bishop by Pope Pius , XII. In leaving wartime China to reach the Vatican, he traveled by ! horse cart 200 miles throuah the ~ Japanese-Chinese battle lin:s. ~ ~esides being the first non-Cau– . ca~1on ever to receive a cardinalate Bishop Tien will also become th; ~ first member to the Divine Word , order to don the red hat. Born in Shantung

Wearing his tasselled Roman hat, Bishop Thomas Tien, who is to become first of his race ever to be raised to the rank of cardinal, smiles his greeting to San Diego. He arrived with 6600 marine and navy veterans aboard the former liner Manhattan from Tsingtao, China. It is his first visit to America and when he flies to Chicago tomorrow, it will be his first plane flight. By VINCENT DUNNE Smiling and shy, the Most Rev. this morning ab&ard the transport Thomas Tien, S.V.D., Bishop of U.S:S. Wakefield. Tsingtao the little Chinese church- First of J-u~ race ever to be so · . honored. he 1s en route to Rome, man whose nse from pagan orphan where late this month he will be to a cardinal in the Roman Cath- raised to a cardinalate by Pope! olic churi:h is an ecclesiastical Alger Pius XII. story almost unprecedented in re• The bishop's traveling compan• ligious annals, arrived in San Diego .(Continu~d on Next Page, CoL 5). Chin·ese Chosen as Cardinal Visits S. D. on Way to Rome . COX'l'INUED FROM PAGE 1 on the !4-day voyage from accompanying him to Rome, the Tsmgtao were 6653 veteran mc:.Tines bishop hailed a recent pact be– of the First and Sixth divisions, and tween Chiang Kai-shek and Chi– bluejackets and coast guardsmen. nese Communist leaders as "the ·'Americans are the very kindest start of peace in China." people; I love them," he said in The Most Rev. Chardes F. Buddy his halting English. D.D., Bishop of the San Diego Speaking through the Rev. John Catholic diocese, and some of his Vos, S.V.D., his interpreter, who is 101'.S

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- party, went aboard the huge, packed former. luxury liner Mahattan to greet the Chinese prelate. The two bishops clasped hands warmly, ex– changing slight bows, while others in the reception party knelt to kiss aishop Tien's ring,