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Show E!Tfl lG On Passengers on Steamer Say He, With Others, Refused to Honor National Anthem. WASHINGTON, June 15. -Protest against admission to the United States of the Most Rev. Daniel J. Mannix, archbishop of Melbourne, has been filed with the state department by Marcelllus Parsons of New York and several others who, with the archbishop, archbish-op, were passengers on the American steamer Ventura, which recently arrived ar-rived at San Francisco. The protest, which was referred bv the state department today to the bu-! reau of Immigration, was said bv officials offi-cials to declare that Archbi3hop" Man-nix Man-nix refused to stand when the Ventura's Ven-tura's band played the British and American national anthems in Honolulu Hono-lulu harbor. Immigration officials refused to comment on the protest beyond stating that it should be referred to them for investigation. The archbishop on his arrival at1 San Francisco last week said he had come to the United States to make a series of lectures. The National Catholic Welfare council, coun-cil, in a statement commenting on the protest, made public a radio message sent by Archbishop Mannlx to Vicar Goneral Ryan of San Francisco as convincing con-vincing proof of Archbishop Mannlx's respecj l'or the United States and for the United States flag. The message, said by the council to have been sent several days before the archbishop reached San lranclsco, read: "Thanks for hospitality. I eagerly awaited my first opportunity of saluting salut-ing the American ilag on American soli." oo |