Show BIMBA mm BLOCKED mm IN SPEECH PLAN Radical Editor Again Denied Use of Eastern Hall BROCKTON Mass Feb FebBy eb 22 By The Associated Press The Press storm that has gathered fathered about Anthony Bimba Lithuanian lecturer lecturer er or and editor of Brooklyn N Y continued to grow crow grow today as the date set for tor his trial for blasphemy came nearer Bimba who Is to face courts on Wednesday charged charred with Inc violat-Inc Ing an ancient Massachusetts stat stat- statute statute ute however will wilt not speak to- to tonight to night to-night night as had been planned Word came from Worcester where a meeting under the aus aus- aus- aus auspices auspices of that city branch of the International Defense league had been planned that it had baa been hadI In- In Indefinitely indefinitely indefinitely I definitely postponed Attempts to obtain a hall halt for the meeting met m the the same samo lack of success which I previously had characterized ef- ef efforts ct of forts to hold here and I elsewhere through the th state POLICE HALT LT MEETING In Boston Scott Nearing I and editor and a former professor In the Wharton harton School of Finance of the University of Pennsylvania was taken last night by police front from a a secret gathering gathering- ho he was addressing and then released lIe finished hi his address and the meet meet- Ing meetIng inc dispersed without disorder Nearing Nearing- spoke In front of the Paine Memorial hall hail one on of oC t tie th e four Boston halls the use of which had been for meetings In iii behalf Memorial of Bimba Dimba Paille Mentor Mentor- ial lal hall hail had been bcD engaged for Nearing but bet cit elt authorities can can- cancelled cancelled can cancelled celled authorities the permit The ties gave notice that hat any private hall hail engaged fo for a Bimba Bimbo meetinG would be condemned as a a fine tine has haz- hazard hasard haz hazard ard GETS GETS- STREET PIR Nearing then obtained police permission per to speak on the thc street providing lr lie did not block tic fic traffic The police who vIto halted the th speech were ere told this by their superiors at the station when they escorted Nearing to n II police box They Im- Im Im him address did not touch the case but was as an appeal for tor rec- rec recognItion recognition of soviet Russia Miss Alice Ston Blackwell not not- noted noted ed suffragist In a statement char char- characterized the prosecution of for blasphemy as preposterous and absolutely Indefensible On Orthe the other hand Mayor Nicholas of NewYork Boston has telephoned from front New York where he Is enjoying a brief rest commending commending- steps that have been taken to stop atop meetings meeting aim aimed ed at our institutions MORE MEETINGS PL PLANNED ED Friends of Bimba Dimba are arranging two meetings me In Brockton for to tomorrow morrow night at which Dudley Dudly I Field Malone New York Tork Vy la lawyer r I associated In the th defense defenso at the Scopes trial will speak Other halls balls having having- been closed to them Bimbas Bimba's supporters plan to 10 hold old one meeting meeting- In the in-the Labor Lyceum building and the other 1 In Lithuanian ball hall where Bimba tint first made the address which led Jail to his prosecution In this address as asI I translated for tor the th prosecution h he denied the existence of God and I predicted the red would fly on the capitol at nf nn- nn Washington |