The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-17

Of sleep over c long period.
 The priest remained in Cleveland overnight on his physicians' advice and returned to Detroit by train this morning.
 Were HIs obJectives
 But his strength carried him to the objectiVeB set for the convention which met here Friday. PauSing Of. ten to boo and jcer President RooSe. Veit and others who have oppoBed the priests legislative program, tho Coughlin convention performed the tasks assigned to it,
 1. Elected Father Coughlin pres. ident Of NUsJ.
 2. Endorsed Lemke for president Of the United States.
 3. Organized on c permanent ba' Sis.
 {. Began to raise funds for the priests campaign broadcaStg.
 More than 5000 delegates gather. cd here and are scattering today to being the presidential and congress- Sion&i campaigns with Q door bell ringing crusade back home.
 Real Work Ahead
 They are working in behalf Of Lemke and his running mate, Thomas c. 0'Brien, of Boston, and some 300 congregational candidates Of mixed political parties who will have been endorsed by NUSj before election day on November 3. Ad. dressing 26,000 shouting, cheering and jeering men and women who follow the radio preceptS of Social justice, Lemke and O'Brien joined the priest in yesterdays stadium spectacle to pitch the campaign on q note of America First, and down with the international bankers. The central point Of their program iS substitution of c government central bank for the Federal Reserve banks. They assert that i4 states are certain to be for Lemke. The states listed by Lemke or the priest aS having already deserted the ma. jor parties are: Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, California, oregon, Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island and Oklahoma. The last IB the only one on which the candidate and his chief packer do not agree. Lemkc does not claim Oklahoma. Father Coughlin says he should.
 Priest IS Taken Fl
 The priest was nughed and em. phatic, 36 minutes Of his 46.minute speech well delivered to an enthu. SiaStic audience, when he paused suddenly and said to the stadium crowd: You must pardon me. l have been II all night. am not able to proceed any further"
 He was aided from the platform to his automobile and Gped to hotel, where Q physician prescribed complete rest. AS part Of his work here he had arraigned President Roosevelt as communistically minded man who would destroy the nation. "The communists" he con. tinued, hate the constitution. The socialists would amend 1t to nothing, The republicans and democrats will not admit that congress alone has the constitutional right to coin money. I challenge all of them to make the pledge make-that I pledge myself to every word of the constitution"
 Troubles of Townsend
 The troubles of Dr. TownSend's pensioners probably will be more lasting than Father Coughlin's in- disposition. Today'S proceedings re. quired the doctor to resume an &C., count of his organizations income and it's expenditures begun last month and interrupted once by the elderly economists effort to walk out of the proceedings.
 His records shows that from the inception of his organization to June 90, l036, Oarp took in e983,- l3l.S2 and spend So63. 3.276.36 leaving balance of $20,o56.47, which had been depleted to about 9i2,000 when suit for an accounting was brought here. Father Coughlin's aggregate income is slightly less than S700,000.
 Catholic Laymen
 Boston, Aug. 17-CU.P)-A Cath. olic laymen's movement to discour- age participation of clergymen in politics has curbed activities of the Rev. Charles E. Coughiin. according to special Assistant U. S. Attorney General Joseph A. Conry of Boston.
 Citing Coughlin's statement at his Cleveland convention that he would abandon "rabble rousting" tactics as one effect of the laymen's move ment, Conry said he hoped that Father Coughlin is as sincere in his apology to Governor Smith as he was in his apology to President Roosevelt"
 Arrives In Detroit
 Detroit, Aug. 17.-(UP).-Fathe Charles E. Coughlin. who suffered