New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 24, 1928, Page 3

| SHOWS BIG GAINS Steady Increase in Membership| in- America Washingten, July 24 (P—The membership of the Roman Catholic church in the United States totalled 18,604,850 persons in 1926, an in- crease of nearly 20 per cent over the total membership of ten years be- fore, which was reported as 15,721.- 815. The figures were made public today by the census bureau as a part of its regular decennial count of religious body membership. Catholic churches in 1326 num- bered 18,939 as compared with 17,- 875'in 1316. Census returns for a number of the larger Protestant denominations have been announced by the bureau | for 1926. but are still incomplete 8nd such large groupings as the Southern Baptist convention have yet be to enumerated. A total membership of 4.080,777 was reported for the Methodist Episcopal church for 1926 with 26.- 130 churches as compared with 29.- 815 churches and 3,71 85 members in 1916. The Methodist Episcopal church south had 18,096 churches and 2,487,695 members in 1926 as compared with 19,154 churches and 2,114,479 members in 1916. The northern Baptist convention in 1926 had 7,612 churches and 1.- 290,438 members against 8,148 churches and 1,232.13.5 members in 1916, The Protestant Episcopal church | for 1926 reported 7.299 churches with 1,858,966 members while in | 1916 it was credited with 7.345 churches and 1,092,821 members. The Presbyterian church in t.e| United States for 1926 reported 947 churches and 1,894,030 mem- bers, against 9.635 churches and 1.- 611,251 members in 1916. There were 6.257 Congregatiodal churches with 901,546 members in 1926 against 5563 churches and | 791.274 members in 1916. The Negro Baptist church in 1926 had 22.081 churches and 2,798,525 members while in 1316 it had 21.- 071 churches and 2933579 mem bers. The Disciples of Christ had 7,748 churches and 1,377,595 members in 1926 against a 1916 church total of 8.396 with 1,226,028 members. | All of the Protestant donomina- tions the bureau explained have a number of federated churches in| which two or more denominations | are associated. | All figures for 1926 were an- nounced as preliminary and subject | to correction. By GEORGE H. MANNING (Washington Bureauof the X. B. Herald) | 587,747 Catholics in Connecticut Washiogton, D. C., July' 24— Membership in the Roman Catholic church has increased at a greater rate fn Connecticut than in the | United States as a whole. { In tan years, the number of Cath- | @lics in Connecticut has increased from 483,834 to 557,747 a growth- of | more than 15 per cent, while the | number of Catholics in the United | States as a whole has increased not | quite 12 per cent, according to sta- tistics. made public today by the U. 8. census bureau. Total member- ship of the Roman Catholic church grew from 15,721,815 in 1916, to| 18,604,850 in 1926, when the last census of religious bodies was taken. This is an increase for the United Btates of somewhat less than 12 per cent in the membership of the Ro- man Catholic church. No other | church has as large a membership, the nearest approach being the Bap- tists of various sects, whose total | membership is 8,440,000, but all the | major Protestant churches have grown at a much higher rate than has the Roman Catholic church. The Methodist Episcopal church, | including the southern Methodists jumped from 6,089,433 in 1916 to 7.025.28¢, an increase of slightly more than 15 per cent. The Baptist churches of all kinds showed an in- | crease of more than 16 per cent in the ten years. The total member- | ship of the eight sects of the Pres- | byterians increased from 2.241,060 in 1916 to 2,625,274 in 1926, an in- | crease of more than 17 per cent. Protestant Episcopal Church Growth | The Protestant Episcopal church, which is not divided into sects, | #howed the greatest proportional in- | crease of all its membership growing ! from 1,092,821 to 1,855,966, an in- Crease of 70 per cent. The several | kinds of Lutheran churches showed an increase of 60 per cent, although | this 8 not exactly accurate, as rot | all the different branches of this church were’ reported in 1916, when the total reported membership was | 2.467,506. A more nearly complete | census showed 3,964,341 Lutherans ! in the United States in 1926. There were 301 Catholic churches in Connecticut in 1926, as compared LET'S CLEAM Yoo SUITS an arrangement with us to call regular intervals for your suits. Our modern dry-cleaning pro- cess will keep you looking well dressed. “The Bpot for Bpots” Customer's good insured against fire and thett, STAR CLEANING CO. 253 and 668 Main street 34 North St main office. Black Rock. cor. West Main Tel. 1075—1076 Ladies and _gents suits dry cleaned and pressed. $1.00 OIL COMPANIES ported on their expenditures, which aggregated $6.137,879, and 272 re- ported on the value of their church edifices, which amounted to $26,- 053.585, Of the 18.939 Catholic churches in the United States, 11,070 were in rural areas (unincorporated places of less than 2,500 population), but the value of 9.569 rural churches was only $167,524,273 out of a total of $837.206,053 given for 16.253 Catholic churches reporting on this point in the entire country. Catholic churches in the United States reported a toal expenditure for 16,816 churches amounting to $204.522.987, of which $181,734,384 was for current expenses and im. | provements, and $19,381,523 was for | benevolences and missions. NEAR AGREEMENT Standard and Sinclair Firms| Seking Combination | o | New York, July 24— —The New | York World today savs that sizne discernible in Wall street indi te | that out of the oil situation that has! d the attention of the country | the last four days may come a work- | ing combination of the Standard Oil company of Indiana and the Sin- clair Consolidated Oi! company in volving hundrede of millions of dol- lars in capital holdings of the two corporations, to take much part in the speaking DISSENSIONS IN G.0.P.ARE AIRED Georgia State Tangle Now Thrown Into Court Atlanta, Ga., July 24 (®—Disse sion within Georgia republican ran which was passed over to the na- tional executive committee for se tlement during the Kansas City con- | vention, today was also under scru- | tiny of Fulton county superior court by virtue of injunction proceedings. The tangle was thrown into court | vesterday when B. J. Cofer, Ablany, Ga. negro editor. obtained a tem. porary injunction which deprived a called meeting of the ‘state execu- tive committee” of the right to rans- act party business Cofer charged that the meeting | ad been called for the purpose of naming presidential electors to ap- pear on the party ticket in Novem. | ber. and therefore was illegal he- cause there was no national com mitteeman pending decision of the national executive committee Hearing July 28 It Defendants who were ordered to | appear for a hearing on July 23| were Ben J. Davis, negro. former national committeeman; Roscoe Pickett, chairman of the state cen- tral committee; J. T. Rose. collr tor of internal revenue for Georgia: | John W. Martin, treasurer of the central committee; Clint W. Hager. For this reason, chieftains are rounding their | heaviest oratorical guns to offset the ! expected fire from Governor Smith. the democratic nominee. | Under the present plans. Senator |Curtis, of Kansas, republican vice presidential candidate, will be used lin the oratorical offensive on both the eastern and middle western | |fronts. Cabinet officers and others |high in the republican organization | e enlisting also for duty in the September and October drives. 24 Night Clubs Are Padlocked in Brooklyn New York, July 24 (P—Tuwenty- four restaurants and night clubs in anhattan and Brooklyn have been ordered padiocked by Federal | 1udges for violations of the Volstead act. Ten others were ordered to post bonds to guarantee obedience to the law | Of the fourteen closed in Man- | hattan, seven were padlocked for one vear and seven for six months The laces were closed for per < months, Personal in) tained 1 campaign. rs nd selling employes of the 14 Man- all of which are pretentious of the orts. The gray fox is much less swift than the red fox: it differs also in immportant structural characters and unlike all other foxes, is an expert climber. 2 RIVER STEAMERS WILL RACE AGAIN Two Packets at Cincinnati Await Cincinrati Betsy Ann a | Ohio river pack | day awaiting ¢ will send them along the Ohio that will r river” was in Veteran river 1 the first official r when Cincinnati wa the west and the practical way It will be ¢ from the wheelers ch carrving fre [ new country dreds are e the shores in a As the two s the river bulent stage along the main str butaries had its banks and the speed of the cur- | rent was censtantly increasing iwas expected to hetter chor. AT“ml[; CH”R[;H with 261 in 1316. 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Watson, Albany negro who con- Indiana | ' 30q againat Davis for the post of |ant step to free itself from depend- and the Sinclair Consolidated Oil corporation. i 1f this contemplated doubling of | capacity presages a combination be-' twaen Col. Robert W. Stewart, chair- | man of the hoard of the Standard of | Indiana, and Harry F. Sinclair, | | head of the Sinclair company, said the World it means that the Stand- | ard of Indiana is taking an import. | ence upon Rockefeller subsidiaries John D. Rockefeller, Jr., largest in- | dividual stockholder in the Standard | of India, has been trying to force Col. Stewart from the chairmanship since the latter's refusal last winter to anewer certain questions before | the senate Teapot Dome committee, | LIFE IS THREATENED Senator Heflin Fxercises Extu'ma‘ Caution When He Asks to Have | His Bed Repaired in Hotel. | Asbury Park, N. J., July 24 (UP) | —Senator Thomas J. Heflin of Ala- bama, making a speaking tour against Governor Smith, dislodged three slats in his bed and called the hotel office to have them replaced. | “Send a trustworthy man,” the senator told the office. An assistant treasurer of the hotel appeared. “How do I know you are the man sent up by the clerk? My life has been threatened in letters from Catholicts and I do not intend to take chances wtih you, sir. I'm going to lock this door a minute now and telephone the clerk and if he fdenti- fies yvou properly, I'll let you in," Heflin said He locked the door, called the of- fice and received the assistant treas- urer's description. Then he opened the door slightly, carefully inspected the treasurcr and finally admitted him. The assistant treasurer could not repair the bed himself and | called & carpenter. The Alabaman went through a similar inspection with the carpenter | and finally the bed was repaired. | national committeeman at Kans: City. Pickett, who with several others left the meeting when court papers were served, announced that Ben Davis, the spended” national committeeman. had approacied him about a meeting Saturday. but that he had given a non-commital a swer. Apprised that a meeting w called without his consent for yes- terday, he appeared and declared it adjourned, he explained “Davis insisted that the gathering was the state eexcutive committee named at the state convention prior to the Kansas City convention and had the right to choose electors Pickett said, adding that “in my opinion, only the state republican central committee of 72 can do this. Watson Supporter Cofer, instigator of the court aetion, was a lieutenant of Joe Wat- ' son in the Kansas City battle for leadership between Watson and Ben Davis, then accredited national com- mitteeman. The work of the Kan- sas City convention was held up for 15 minutes for a roll call, but to no avail. 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