Show SOCIALIST TO TEST SPEECH GAG ORDER I 1 I i 1 Officers Arrest Thomas Thonas and Hurl Gas Bombs in Crowd TAYLORVILLE Ill May 22 p IP- IP Norman Thomas homas Socialist leader de- de cared today that his arrest on a speaking speaking speak speak- in ing platform here late yesterday was wasa a denial of ot the right of free speech He lie said he was eager to test the authority of officers who took him into temporary custody arid and dispersed dispersed dispersed dis dis- dis- dis persed with tear gas an audience he was addressing Thomas Socialist candidate for president in 1932 who was held in custody 43 minutes assailed the legality legality legality legal legal- ity of ot a 1 speech gag rule in Taylorville Taylor- Taylor ville which is the outgrowth of mine union disturbances in southern Illi I nois |