From this, Judge Payne entered into national politics, He was of the opinion that because the Ku Klux Klan and the Catholic Party for so mixed up in the 1924 election the chanees of Governor Smith of New York to et the Presidential nomination in 1928 were gone, Had this not happened the Democrats would have nominated him clamation, One of the strengths of the Republican party, he said, lay in the fact that they had not made pr hibition a political issue, though was generally understood that they favoured the drys.
The speaker also touched on the Red Crots Conference in Japan, He mentioned that the new Frateinity Memorial Hospital, costing GS3,- 000,000, which had come out of the funds raised by the American Red Cross following the earthquake, was nearing completion and was a last ing memorial of the help given any country in the time of disaster by the Red Cross, Anour 445 workers of the Hong Fong cotton mill (Chinese) at 1 Whashing Road struck work on Tuesday" evening and yesterday morning to protest the dismissal of tone of their number. Handbills urging the labourers to "rise and demand the reinstatement of their were distributed yester-Hcinzy of the mill,
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