Show BISHOP DEFENDS I ACT ACS' I IN Ill T SIGN SIGNING G f LETTER TO WILSON Tr I I Newport R. R I I. I March C Bishop Bisho Bishop p l James D. D Wol Wolf Perry of the Episcopal 1 diocese of Rhode Rhodo Island un under er cross cross- examination toda today b by Judge c before naval board o of oC t Inquiry investigating In tho the work o of the tin I Ina na navy vice squad In the Newport dis distract I tract said the letter of or protest addressed addressed ad ad- I dressed b by a number of or ministers t to I President Wilson lIson was not written tt t in 10 inthe n I the spirits of oC Acts 1637 IGi 1 At yesterdays yesterday's hearings the Rev Re i i Stanley C. C Hughes chairman of the ministers' ministers committee which requested t I the Inquiry testified that In a letter to Bishop Parr Parry he had mentioned th the e case of ot the Rev He Samuel Kent I who was acquitted of or vice charges and had quoted Acts 1637 1631 relating 1 to tho the false falso imprisonment of St. St PaulI PauJI PaulI Paul I I know the spirit in which I signed it It Bishop Perr Perry said discussing th the e o I letter It was to protect the tho liber- liber 1 ties tics of or American citizens citizens and the standard stan stan- dard breI which I felt fell the President would woul d hold bold himself r responsible to preserve t j |