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hnson HitsAgain at HueyMAnd CoughlinChicago, March 30 (fl3)—Gen. Johnson, barberl-tongufid chief of NR A, lashed out again tonight at Father Charles Coughlin and Huey P. Long, accusing thetrolt Driest of trying to be an erlcan Hitler and ridiculing gentleman from Louisiana purveyor of “bunk,”You have not chosen swastika,” Johnson said of Father Coughlin in pursuing his Hitler comparison. “You have u more sacred device ... no swastikas for your Nazis—but. a cross,”Of the two men he hadthe athetonight’s attack, launched over a nation-wide radio hookup, ho was “through” with his end of the flaming three-cornered controversy.Centering his fire on the priest, Johnson denounced his and ridiculed him personally,As If addressing FatherCon»■Jilin personally, Johnsoti micl“Some one sent me ayou andk, yAdolfandbed “Pled Pipers,” Johnson saidhe “preferred” Senator L Aims Fire At PriestThe general Jmplied thatwith*SURVEYT. F. Lynch DirectsOf W(Hitler) havepreached and they are as alike as peas ih a pod. As a foreign-born you could not be a president but you could be a reiehsfuehrer*—just as the Anstrian Adolf beca mea dictator of Germany,”Are you a jaek-in-the pulpit who jumps up one moment in the collar of Rome, ducks and reappears the next moment lit a necktie?” Johnson inquired after asserting;• “Photographed in the cassock j* of a Catholic priest while you said | it* and announcing from the Shrine of the Little Flower that vun were going after day before you did over the radio—‘T(Iroup of 15itthe Sun- | In you said ! m« you! lrlt;neither as the spokesman of the! l,rUnderProgramA corps of Workers will start Monday on a house-to-house surveyof ail property owners in lOscanabu,informing local residents of thebenefits now available to them asa result of the NationalHousing AH. ■■T. R Lynch will head the workers, assisted by the following men in charge of the different divisions and districts: Eobert Pearson, Haul Rademachety Peter Harkins, Arthur Deiaire, Walter J. Wilson, IJhf B. Vandervort, William M. MtCarthy, George F. Shipman, Hen I) Gagnon, Timothy Crain,Joseph Rudden, George Frteisher, llenrv Bunno and FrankCatholic church norresentative of itsing/as the rep-1 Pifollow-bititFrom tlie beginning to end hojH(*syught to pieces thepriest's ts “for this i orunion for social justice he takes, from the pennies of the I poor, much money never accurate-1 lv reported nor accounted for.” | He condemned the money sys« jtoiU embodied in the Nye-Sweeneybill advocated by the priest.Defends*; HBarueJi“If u no over flow*, this is It,IMProperties have been divided intothree general groups—residential I has referred to idt\ usseh Haruch.”monstrosityfrom the pen «f man, Johnson-plaa for which Father Coughlin ims been taking tens of the thousands pf dollars from the poor is no pluSi:Hl all.”Johnson warm ly defended Bernard Baruch, financier and friend, whom Father Coughlinas “Bernard Man-Fincome and industrial—and thehas been apportioned in various geographical districts. Wit bin a few days, all residents of Eseanalmmay expect to receive a call ironione of these representatives of the Escanaba Better'Housing Caitipaign ommittee. ftp will be prepared to information about the campaign, and the attract ive loans vhich may be secured from local financial agencies authorized by Urng i veHe denied the11bible contains any account of “Mamisseh sawing Isiah In two as he said the priest accou lit,“There is an obscure phal story to that effect,M “but consecrated priestspreach from the Aproerthe second place there la no such person in America a« Bernard Manasseh Baruch and well Fath-i t It rtf' ll I I tt b \ k 1ft f L3 it ^*ry-he said, notInFofhiv81b:cifctlwUin
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Escanaba Daily Press
Escanaba, Michigan, US
Sun, Mar 31, 1935
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