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Show BIEDERWOLF STIRS RED CROSS VVRATH Evang-elist's Attacks on Organization Or-ganization Arouse Resentment Resent-ment in Los Angeles. Special to' The Tribune. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11!. Bitter resentment resent-ment has been aroused among citizens of Long Beach, especially among- the thousands thou-sands supporting the Red Cross, over the attack by ICvangelist W. E. Biederwolf upon the work of that organization for including cigarettes and playing cards in comfort kits sent to the soldiers in France. Before an audience of more than 2000 people, Biederwolf assailed the Los Angeles An-geles churches in particular and the Red Cross in general for furnishing tobacco and cards to the Sammies. He said he had id ven one check to the Red Cross, but that it "would never s?t another penny of his as long as it continued to practice what he tei'meil "rotten, low-down business." busi-ness." The e a neoiist suggested that tt was now time, because of the manner in which the Red Cross was conducting itself, to put a new relief organization in the field an organization that would eliminate elim-inate cigarettes and playing carus from comfort kits. Biederwolf said lie did not want to go off "half-cocked." lie ai1 ho had heard reports regarding cards and oparettes. but had withheld all utterances until lie had made an investigation. I le had investigated, investi-gated, he said, and found the reports true. lb-1 said, furthermore, he was "ashamed and disiruste-.l tiiat any church should countenance such rotten and low-down business." He also said a number of Los Armeies churches were following the practice. prac-tice. The evangelist was engaged bv eighteen Long Beach churches to conduct a six weeks' camiaign there. The Long Bach city council of defense recently adopted a resolution of condemnation condem-nation against Biodei w uj- for I; is attack on thf Bed "ross. Following this the R''". Louis S. fkiiur.an, pastor of the First Bretln-cn church, denounced the council o; defense for its attack on Biederwolf. In a sennan Baurnjin boasted that his i nci tors were Prussian aristocrats and "had more money ihua mut. uf you ever saw " Dr. Bnuman said "the man who antawniz.es Americans of German blood fs no l"iend of the United States at this time." 1-van-elist Biederwolf is well known in S ill I a'ke where he conducted n series 01 Sensational revival services about a year l"o in a specially constructed wooden herinicle on Auerbaeh field, just north of the city anrl county building. The evangelist, who was brought here bv a number of the local churches lor a reliKlous clean-up" eainpalBn, pleached dav and night for two weeks indulgms in tirades against Salt Lake s olflcials and lie for permitting it to be "the wickedest place in the west." Alter each sermon heP took up a big .?f silver, gold and currency for the cause. |