May 26, 1941 archives: Persecution

Sentenced to ten months in jail were two Presbyterian missionaries in Korea, Dr. De Witt S. Lowe and the Rev. E. Otto DeCamp. The charge: removing Shinto god shrines from the homes of their servants.

Sent to a German prison was the Most Rev. Joseph Philippe, Roman Catholic Bishop of Luxembourg. His flock learned the news from Cardinal Kinsley over the British radio.

To vindicate the story of Jonah and the whale, Chicago's Pharmacology Professor Eugene Maximilian Karl Ceiling crawled through the gullet of a dead cetacean to prove it could be done. "It was a pretty slimy trip," he said last week, "but there was plenty of room." Sphere: Related Content