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Show CASEYS FACE HOT SESSION Supreme Knight Flaherty Denies Fund Charge at Convention ATLANTIC C ITT, N J.. August 1 Supreme Knight James a. Flaherty In his opening address at the 40th annual an-nual convention of the Knights ot I Columbus today denied thai a single . cnt of the war fund oi the Knights of Columbus was being used In the' American history movement of t lie. I order or In its Italian welfare work 'I condemn most emphatically,'4 he ill. 'The vicious and Insidious prop-1 Uganda which alleges that the h i fund of the Knlphts of Columbus lsj I being put to use in the historical and Italian welfare work of the organization organiza-tion Not one penny of the knights of Columbus war fund has beon devoted devot-ed to these or ansr" other movements not directly related to the welfare of the American service man.'' A 1,1, STATICS It KPR1CSKTKI) Delegates repr. senting 800,000 members mem-bers of the order from every state in the union and the provinc ea of Canada as well as Mexico, Cuba, the Philip-1 pines. Hawaii. Alaska. Panama and Porto Hb o are in attendance. Mr Flaherty In his review and pros-', pectus of the annum program of tho, order placed th. Kn.ghts of Columbus Amen,. i, i (ilstorj movement as the most effective of the man) peace time patriotic work' undertaken by tho Knighu H. reported that the Knlghis of Cor iambus progra mtn expend the $7,000,-1 Q4W balance of lt war n.nd on ad loa-J tlonaJ and hospitalization work hud progressed to such an exi- nt that the1 knlghis durinc th. peat 1 g months rendered service In .tcj hospitals to more th..n :T,.(i00 men; that they had' graduatod 7.0 000 fro,,, their ev'emr.g schools, provided 3f,0oo free courses in their new national correspondence school at .New Ho-.en and paid the way1 of BOO veterans In 40 colleges for an-Other an-Other .vc.ir The colleges Include Kuch Institutions OS Yale, George-town and! Notre I):ime he W KM FIGHT BEGUN He stated that Pope p)Us XI had reaffirmed re-affirmed the request of the late Pope Benedict rhat the Knights maintain welfare worh In Home The supreme council, he Bald; had voted 11,000,000 to do this pecm; messages from the pope to the convention will be den-red b) Kduard L, Hearn. Knights of Columbus European commissioner. Every delegate here received a letter let-ter signed by one nundred "representative "representa-tive Catholic citizens" of Boston calU tnn upon the .,rder to disavow the at t.8tk,-.m:lrl'' by SuPrm Knight James A Mahertv upon thf supreme curl 01 Massachusetts In connection wlm the Pelletier case Eleven resolutions will he offered to the convention demanding de-manding that the order repudiate the utterances of the supreme knight |