Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-03-17 | Page 5 | Thousands Hear Pleas to Block Soviet Activity

JH THOUSANDS HEAR HAR PLEAS PlAS J TO Bl BLOCK CK S Followers of All Faiths Attend Meetings of Protest NEW YORK TORE March 17 AP AP Thousands of or persons persona of oC all aU religious reli rell- faiths gathered In cathedrals churches church synagogues and meeting halls yesterday to pray for Cor time the end nd of or religious lous pcr persecution In Russia While hile speakers i at the protest services services ser ser- I vices Ices were d denouncing o ng attacks on rell religion lon b by the Got o et ct government l reds eds held a 3 counter demonstration demon- demon in n Bronx coliseum Monsignor M. M 1 T r La Lavelle velie rector of DC St. St Patricks Patrick's Roman Romon Catholic cathedral sold said In a s sermon rmon that the Soviet Jet action Wll was wor worse o than the time theRoman theRoman Roman persecution of oC early ChrisI Christians Christians Chris Chris- and was only comparable to time the orgies of ot the French revolution re I tion MANNING LEADER Bishop William T. T Manning Protestant Protestant Protestant Pro Pro- Episcopal led leti special services services ser ser- vices for tot all protestant tant denominations in tho the Cathedral of oC St. St John tho the Divine In addition to Bl BI Bishop ho hop Manning lannS tho the speakers at nt the cathedral cathedral cathe cathe- dral were tho the Rev Dr William B B. Millar secretarY ot or the Greater New York Federation of oC Churches the thc TIe Rev Dr Raymond L L. For Forman man pastor of St. St Pauls Paul's Methodist Episcopal Episcopal Episcopal Epis Epis- copal church and the TIe Rev Henry Henr Howard pastor of ot the Fifth Avenue Avenue Ave Ave- nue nuo l Presbyterian church Bishop Manning said it ft was the openly avowed purpose c of ot tho the Soviet So Soviet So- So viet government to extirpate religion rell- rell glen gion from fromm the lives li of oC the whole Russian people Three detectives walked with Ui Bishop hop Manning in tho the processional and remained close throughout tho the service A detail of or police was stationed about the thc cathedral ral Senator Fess of or Ohio at a 3 meeting of tho the Jewish American congress In Town Hall Hlll Ho He said that only aroused public opinion could defeat time the sinister purpose o of winning youth to anti FISH ASSAILS REDS Representative o Hamilton Fish Jr of New York at the town hall haJi meeting demanded a t. t more moro militant policy on the thc part parl of tho the government government govern govern- ment against the time activities of oC com com- communists communists in the tho United States Stales At the tho counter demonstration of or ortho tho communists W William Z Foster and other speakers derided Christianity Chris Chrls- and attacked the talc pope Mussolini Mussolini Mus Mus- capitalism and Police ComI Commissioner Commissioner Com Com- missioner Grover A. A Whalen A force of or police was t on hand I to prevent pre any attempt to hold a parade