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DENY POPE PIUS ILLNESS VATICAN CITY, Italy, Dec. 19. Over the objection of his personal physician, Pope Pius won permission to officiate tomorrow at the inauguration of a new holy year, thus disposing of a report he had suffered an alarming new heart attack. The pontiff will set in motion the new year of prayer and devotion with a benediction at St. Peters Church. He will also celebrate a special mass tomorrow at the Cathedral of St. John j Lateran on the occasion of the fiftieth year of his priesthood. Anxiety over the health of the eighty-one year old pontiff had been felt because of his exertion in speaking fifty minutes at the opening of the pontificial academy of sciences yesterday. Although the report of a new heart attack was denied, it was admitted by high Vatican authorities that the Pope was so exhausted that his physician, Dr. Aminta Milani, felt it advisable to sleep in the same chamber with him last night,
