Evening Star Newspaper, October 26, 1931, Page 25

VIRGINIA REPEAL FORGES CHARTERED Anti-Prohibition Organization Is Headed by Gen. Cocke of Claremont. Special Dispatch to The Star PAIRFAX, Va, October 26.—Word has been received here that the State Cérporation Commission has granted a | charter to the Virginia Association Against the Eighteenth Amendment. The incorporators are Gen. W. H. Cocke of Claremont, former superintendent of V. M Senator O'Conor Goolrick of | Fredericksburg, Senator James S. Bar- ron of Norfolk and John B. Minor of Richmond, son of the late John El Minor of the University of Virginia, | known as one of the greatest teachers @ aw in the South @en. Cocke is-president of the new | ssoctation. Other officers are Alex- | ander W. Weddell of Richmond, vice | : John B. Minor of Richmond, -treasurer. The directors, in addition to the officers, represent the 10 congressional districts of the State. ‘They are, respectively, first district, | Senator O'Conor Goolrick; second, Sen- ator James S. Barron; third, luford Seott of Richmond; fourth, Edward P. Buford of Lawrenceville: fifth, Col. A. l Oarrington of Danville; sixth, Capt. R. W. Massie of Lynchburg; seventh, | Bernard P. Chamberlain of Charlottes- vlue eighth, Thomas P. Keith of Fai ninth, George Warren of Bristo 'ath kahen D. Timberlake of Staun- Purposes Outlined. ‘The of the assoclation, as recited In the charter, are “to unite Vir- filflu in the cause of restoring and lending the principles upon which our Government was founded, whereby BOMBS THROWN IN TWO KANSAS CITY THEATERS | Patrons of Show Attack Pickets and Free-for-All Fellows. Several Arrests Made. By the Associated Press. KANBAS CITY, October 26 —Bombs were thrown in two mneighborhood motion picture theaters and one man was hurt and several ar- & union operator picket and his sup- porters. Several other theaters have been bombed since independent theater men \n!uud to continue to hire two unhm ,wn]ecua\hu for each show and began operation with non-union labor. The owners desire to engage only one oper- ator. Numerous houses have been dark | for three weeks. ‘The battle royal was staged at the | was tossed into the auditorium. No |one was injured, but men and boys at- | tacked two pickets outside, believing | them responsible. A sulphur gas bomb was thrown in- side the National Theater. A young ‘llrl fainted but was revived. e WILL HONOR ROOSEVELT |Brig. Gen. L. R. Holbrook to Deco- | rate Grave for Hoover. | _NEW YORK, October 26 (&) —Brig. | Gen. Luejus R. Holbrook, commander | of the 1st Division, United States Army, | will go to Sagamore Hil, Oyster Bay. |N. Y., tomorrow with a commemorative I'l'!Mh from President Hoover for the | grave of the late President Theodore Roosevelt. ‘The ceremony will be part of a com- memoration of Col. Roosevelt's birth- day anniversary. | e —— THE Y W8 The ur-'ou-"- 'ulhml * Our U —SERVICE” The Modernistic Wave ment to the Constitution invades the | retained rights of the people and tho Ppowers relerved to the State: this association purposes p.l of this amendment.” Gen. Cocke, in commenting upon the surps he: aims and plans of the new association, stated that the officers and directors will give thelr time and services without | ecompensation of any kind, and that there will be no membership dues re- quired of those citizens who become members. All eontributions to the soctation will be purely voluntary ai used for defraying the expenses inof dent to organizing in each voti opposed to Federal prohibition. Thz aim of our organization will be t to the polls me qualified voters I’)Ia are opposed to the interference of | the Federal Government in affairs which were intended by the authors of the Constitution and founders of our | Republic to be solely within the juris diction of the States,” says the general. *“The tendency toward centralization has made too complex the op-r-uons of the Federal Government, and has re- | sulted in emormous costs to taxpayers and loss of governmental efficiency.” Example of Failure. Gen, Cocke further says: “Prohibition 4 the outstandin, In a matter so elosely connected with | personal habits snd lives of the tes, sentiments of their cmnu cnnnot be enforced and should be d. the eighteenth Mmt u repeued the control of liquor can be determined by each State in a manner that meets with the approval of its citizens, and major portion of the intolerable condi- tions now prevailing can be corrected. “All right-thinking people believe in temperance. The advocates of prohibi- ion undoubtedly were honest in their conviction that its adoption would ad- vance the cause of morality and tem- rance. Experience has proven them be mistaken. In their zeal for pro- | hibition they were willing to attack and undermine the most important pillar of our Government—the reserved powers | those who, now recognizing the fright- ful consequences of this change in our fundamental law, desire, by repealing the eighteenth amendment, to right the | ‘wrong that has been done. —_— Refuses Baptist Mission Post. ATLANTA, Ga., October 26 () —Dr Louie D. 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