New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 20, 1927, Page 2

ATHEIST IS CLEARED CAP0fS WHEREABOOTS OFSTRATONATTACK .. Court Says Waste Basket Place, for “Trash” i Calvary ave thrown the letter literature ment to him by Charles the wastebasket A the opinton o Crain, who ¢ he . 'the court eald for the Advar Smith, wi American soc! nent of Atheism he magistrates’ cou ! in sp order to on by the supreme c his ball withdrawn vrit of habeas c Finds Nothing Criminal The opinlon of Justice Cra is one of 1 F Episcopa! layme said: “The petitioner was d used out thought committed to paper and mail, although penned and pos from {11-wi “The reciplent of the letter ha been sensitive, rather than senéible. | Tt should have passed to the waste basket. The statute was not enacted to salve irritated feelings. No one can make another a criminal by ae- | serting that he has been annoyed by | the receipt of euch trash. It it was mailed to obtain notoriety it has been in part successful, and the fur- ther criminal prosecution of the writer would but attain his end | without advantags to the public. | *“The writ is sustained and the pe- | titloner discharged.” In & statement last night Mr. | Smith dissented from Justice Crain's | suggestion that the letter may have been mailed “to obtein notoriety” and sald that “this preposterous prosecution was simply e publicity move on the part of Dr. Straton.” He insisted that he had not bom. barded Dr. Straton with “streams of | literature,” as the clergyman had | ‘ried to show, but eent him “only four pieces of literature in addition to replies to his own letters.” “As tar as Dr. Btraton personally is concerned,” Mr. Smith added, “we shall make no further efforts tc con- vert him to atheism. We abandon him as hopeless. We shall continue 1o keep watch over his healing ac- tivities,” Mr. Smith said he infends to =ue Dr. SBtraton after the holldays for $100,000 for defamation and for ag- \ovance and expense. He | ed hat, his letters to Dr. Straton were | “‘courteous throughout.” FEDERAL BUILDING PLANS ARE RUSHED Many of Projects Kow Under| Way Authorized in 1913 i Washington, Dsc. 20 (P—Con- | gress has made a flying start toward carrying out the administration's ! new public bullding program, «-m:n; recelved & twelve months setback when the appropriation failed in the senate fillbuster last session. Both the house and the senats already have approved and sent to the White Houss a deficlency supply bill carrylng among other items, slightly | more than $8,000,000 fer the initi-| ation of the first year's work of the | program, which utimately will pro-| vide for new post offices and feder- 1 butldings {n many cities. Practically all of the projects to be cared for under this appropri- atlon were authorized in 1913, and | sincs that time have been awalting | the attention of congress, which was diverted first by the wa The $8.000,000 appr | tation is bulldings act authorized last session In addition, the budget bureau haa recommended to congress an appro: | priation of several million dollars to start construction next year on a number of ot various Ities The appropriation aw dent Coolidge's ap available immediate s to the e bilis © appropriations of $125 fLogt $2 e total amo able during tl priated an remainder of oe appropriated in required to provide tion of various projecte The mea a8 ay day by the of the hill the The only oppos valoped to t1 gram has heo cated it e Stope Falling Hair. Cor. rects dandruff and scalp ecze- ma. Money-Back Guarantee. WhyteFox knocks pimples. Try it At Barbers and Druggists Chicago, I tectives whether they pone, the ganaster, a merely guard , Toliet last Frida lrove northward, p mother’s s soon as Cl dered the PUZZLE TO SLEUTHS Detectives Continue to Guard House Whether Gangster is in it or Not. 20 P—Chicago de- not certain today were holding Al prisone empty bouse was freed unde carrying charge at and his friends mably to his 1ome in Cicero, a subu f of Detectives Wil. E. O'Connor heard of it he rd thrown abonut t s 1o to leave. were or attempted and Joseph Salt 666 is a Prescription for Colds. Grippe, Flu’ De“gue: the American people had a right to ' certainty ~ t Bilious Fever and Malaria. It Kills the germs, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1927. ! ;HEARST INREPLY HOOVER ELIGIBLE | 2nd suppressed others, in which cass I could have bheen accused of sup- motive in endeavoring to reflect up- pression of the facts or perversion of 'on the insurgents in the senate| the tacts to snit my own prejudices | through the publication of these v, 25 to the alleged evil i illingsgate. my newspapers, but I could not see, My papers have always been in and can not now see, how denials Interviewed the senators wientioned Gult ot Banalar ENorele | sl Onalon S0 ‘Brands Nebraskan's Words as Support Their Contention New York, Dec. 20 (#—The New York World today savs friends of Herbert Hoover point to the opinfon written in 1920 by former Attorney | General George W. Wickersham to! will be an insur- [support thelr contention that Hoov- 3 urse atever seems to be |er is eligible for the presidency. have n-cw-‘\?‘n'fl! the publication of v to the interests of our gov- |The question as to whether the sec- | the eenators’ names, and T was in |, t and the welfare pf our peo- |retary of commerce meet the con- yraska regard- (N0 way adequately informed of the 1 in sustaining those prin- |stitutional requirements of 14 years probable course of the government, ind that policy I published |continuous residence in the United and as to whether It ever would ba Mexican documents, helieving | States because of his previous eo- | considered necessary or desirable by | then and b 10w that I did |journs abroad, is being discussed Ly the governument to make public the |my newspapers. The World says that to reply o senafors’ names. {the question was raised privately in vsterical and vitu- Therefore, T mentioned no in- the campaign of 1920 and Mr. Wick- statement in kind. but merely printed the ersham after reviewing the secre- sfate, however. documents deleted of names, |tary's life, held there was ample Senator Norris {s anxious left the determination of that levidence that he had not lost hi lish the truth, he might begin by portant point for the go domicile in this country. telling the truth, a thing that he ment. x x x x Some constitutional lawyers, who has distinctly ained {rom doing| “It was only when the authentle- {would not permit the use of their 1t his whole statement ity of the docume:nts becama almost |names, the World says, hold therc i facts of this whole overwhelmingly established, that ¢ is merit in the contention of thos: tter are that these Mexi- | publication began. X X X ¥ > and new members mus- |y, pelieve Secretary Hoover dis- nts are apparently quite | “[t is true, as Mr. Norris said an | [nto the camp. Last night the |q,,)ifed constitutionally to hold the and that o proof what- as [ told the committee, that T h cre Of the camp setback team | progidency. The majority, however, their | property valued at ! fo Dristol and played the|nciyqing Louls Marshall and ex- Feoneanfiilon dblars 1M ""j'”"’ of a tournament With {Governor Charles 6. Whitman, agree | T had possessed in pea ok ’l\‘l"w jr'; ':;H{' -‘ffnrr:flo‘;n; iwith Mr. Wickersham, the article s of'\ ;i‘" This makes Britatn five | o | stol at the pres- | s e e e ain supporters of the {nsurgent any superior force or effect over denials made by them under oath | before a governmental body. “Moreover, such a course would and published their explanations {n S°T2p heap ol misrepresentation and | Hysterical and Vituperative r of fact, T am an in- elf, and have always New 20 (A—W. 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V. il hold a regular meeting at the arr this evening at } ction of officers will ate have, in the om publishing te, in which case s of the 1 would cused by persons as acts as Senator Norris, of ¥ 14 fmagine that prep 1 too cowardly and too con- holdings were bencfited by losing cerned for my property interests in | the friendship and favor of ths Mexico to have revealed facts M through the medium of my new " papers, which affected the welfare of the American prople, and which xican government ey = ainly nobody hut rckass—and Senator N it least not a FIRST AIR TAXIS IN DURBAN PLAN FOR OLYMPICS tome, Dee (UP)—Doputy Tando Fermettl, president fo the Ttal- Olymiple committee, today con- d with Seeretary General Aug- |four “Moth™ airplanes. ¢ the fasclst party, to | Alr taxi work to all parts of South in 2 nation-wide organization (o Africa, aerial survey and advertis recruit material, with the co-opera- |ing by airplane are to be undertaken for next| A similar service, oquipped witl jes at Amster- | Avro-Airon machines, fs being or ! ganized at Cape Town | Similar Service to Be Extended to All Parts of South Africa Durban, South Africa, Dec. 20 (B— South Africa’s first aerial taxt serv- ice {s being started at Durban with m rty s a matter of fact ing these documents strong probability—in 1 ated in puk there the n pertie at the earl the Mexican be acquainted with would be con vernment | “In the second place, T might possible moment by | have printed somo of the documents government. x x x ¥ tion of summers Olympi 1am the uw»aoe&»swao&s»‘o@p@a.»sw@\»ma&m»ma»»»&b&mo» 008008 SSHSL LESPEEISSSO LI SSSS IS S SIS SISSSSISISSISIES S8 S, OLp GoLp’s HirsT HRISTMAS -8 of The Family Circle SEHSEMESSSHLLLELSSISEISIEIESSLESSSL SO S ISSOEESES. 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