The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-17

against the prosecutions. He said that because am free as an American citizen to speak, I have a solemn obligation to express my- self when the liberties of others are jeopardized.r
 Alfred E. Smith Heard
 Alfred E. Smith, speaking for the Catholic laity, said: We all know that the German officials can stop this cruel assault on their own people and on civilization at large at any time they want to do it." He said that while Nazi officials blamed mobs for the outbreaks against Jews, that if the mob should turn on the officials, the army would shoot the rioters.
 Another protest against the "cam- paign of madness and destruction was made by the Brooklyn church and Mission Federation, represent- ing $50 churches in the borough.
 An anti-Nazi crowd of 5000 de1m- onstrated in Columbus Circle last night.
 Three thousand Columbia Univer- sity students signed a letter to President Roosevelt, composed by Prof. Harold 0. Urey, Nobel prize winner in chemistry, advocating an open protest to the NaM government following the precedent set by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1904 with respect to a similar situation in Czarist Russia" Many faculty members signed the letter.
 At New York University, 500 stu- dents rallied in the auditorium and speakers called on the government to find a haven for Jewish refugees.
 Leaders of Sport World
 Leaders of the sports world were flooding the office of Jeremiah T. Mahoney, one of the governors of the Amateur Athletic Union, with letters of protest against the Nazis. Among the senders were Commo- dore Ernest Lee Jahncke of New Or- leans, former assistant secretary of the navy and former member of the international Olympic committed; Glenn s. (Pop) Warner, football coach at Temple University; Adam Walsh, football coach of Bowdoin College; Brother Peter of St. Louis, president of St. Stanislaus' College and head of the Southern Associa- tion of the Amateur Athletic Union.
 Thirty-six authors sent joint telegram to President Roosevelt urging that i've rise in protest against the prosecutions" They ir- cluded Pearl Buck, Van Wyck Brooks, Marc Connolly, Edna Ferber, Dashiel Hammett, George s. Kauf- man, Oliver LaFarge, Eugene O Neill, Clifford Odets, Dorothy Park CT, Murdock Pemberton, George Selders. John Steinbeck, Robert Sherwood and Thornton Wilder.
 Back Up President
 At Atlantic City, N. J., Senator William H. Smathers, Democrat New Jersey, said: T hope all civil- ized nations of the world will fol- low President Roosevelt's lead by re- calling their representatives from Germany.
 At Memphis, Tenn, Senator Pat Harrison, D., Miss, said he was op- posed to severance of diplmoatic re- lations with Germany but approved of President Roosevelt's having re- called Ambassador Hugh Wilson.
 At Indianapolis, Stephen F. Chad wick, national commander of the American Legion, praised President Roosevelt's denunciation of the prosecutions, but added: "We have expressed ourselves in opposition to the conduct of our foreign affairs by town meeting or popular referen- dunn. Our very patience, our sol- emn silence, as our chosen officials speak, should serve to dignify and make more forceful their serious expressions of our national thought"
 Other Protests
 Dr. Edward J. Mccormick, grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, denounced the Nazis and asked the 500,000 lodge members to do likewise.
 Frank Ritchie, executive director of the American Committee for Christian German Refugees, said almost half the victims of Nazi prosecutions were Christians.
 The "unspeakable persecution" were denounced by more than 100 bishops, ministers and laymen of the Methodist Episcopal church at the annual meeting of the board of foreign missions.
 The national board of the Young Women's Christian association ap- pealed to 1000 local Y. w. c. A, units to maintain tolerant spirit William w. Hinckley, chairman of the American Youth Congress, said President Roosevelt should de- clare a boycott against German goods.
 Other protests came from the colored social workers of New York state, the Teachers Alliance of New York city, the International Workers