Show PASTOR IGNORES REQUEST TO QUIT S By Special News Service NEW YORK July 28 When When the board of ot trustees and nine of ot the fourteen other officers of the Arlington Avenue Presbyterian church in East Orange Orang N. N J. J wrote a letter to Rev Dr Thomas W. W Smith a month ago asking him to resign the they wasted a perfectly good postage stamp Dr Smith didn't reply to the letter It has taken a a. long time for the news to circulate In East Orange because most of those who signed their names to the letter to Dr Smith have gone gone away for tor their summer vacations Stephen L. L Wyman president of ot the board of trustees admitted yesterday that the officers were at odds with the pastor and confirmed the report that a letter had been written and disregarded He insisted He-insisted insisted that the congregation con con- gregat on was virtually unanimous in desiring a new preacher and added that others of ot the officers would have signed the letter If they had been in town when It was sent I |