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WATT eRe oe eonee ei esis Node Se ter tpt ee abate ai Mlle RM ‘|Health Commissioner's Withdrawal Strips Group of All City Officials’ © Health Commissioner Fronczak, ‘| following the example set by other i| city: department heads, today re- :} signed from the Niagara Frontier | ;| Defense -| stripped the organization of all its Committee and thus city-administration membership.’. Dr. Fronczak made known his : decision to leave the organization ‘{in the following statement: “Due to the hectic conditions in these chaotic times, I am severing my connection with a number of non-official organizations, includ- ing the Niagara Frontier Defense Committee.” Caught in the middle of a city- wide controversy because of its consideration of a resolution advo- cating an immediate declaration of war against Germany, the Niagara Frontier Defense Committee today delayed preparation of.a substitute resolution until pubXec reaction has shown what its peicies should be. McCleth Resigns Chairman Chauncey J. Hamlin, who sponsored the pro-war resolu- tion, is convinced that public dis- cussion of the question was “tend- ing to clarify the situation.” Meanwhile, following action by Mayor Holling, Fire Commissioner Castimore and Public Works Com- missioner Louis A. Harding, Police Commissioner McClellan ane nounced his resignation from the committee. However, Chairman . Hamlin said his organization would continue as an unofficial body. “We are no longer responsible for the defense of Buffalo,” Mr. Hamlin explained. “The official defense council, appointed by May-. or Holling, now has charge of that. It will be our duty to see that the ‘|defense council operates and ac- tually does something.” . -The latest attack on the com- mittee for its consideration of. the Hamlin resolution came from C, S. Farrar, 29 Oakland pl. ~ “Untimely, Unthoygatful” “You\, have subversively and _ openly éommitted yourself to the - promotion of American interven- tion into foreign wars,” Mr. Farrar . rote Mr. Har Hamlin. _ 6S- B07 oA ‘such ‘a: contention, I submit to the : legality of your premises But inas-' much as you support skch a,con- : [Reon the. rola, of your. -|a sermon by the Rt. Rev. Henry ‘half free.” turned over to the tredSurer, Marc W. Comstock, for office and other incidental expenses. acerca “As an! individual supporting duties, I am move’ ‘to.con- demn your utterances.”. 03 ; Mr, ‘Farrar continued that the . statement was “both untimely, and * unthoughtful.” : . “will history justify your con- tentions?” he asked. “Or are you — being led along by some tinkling - and shadowy illusion that you are. the almighty seer and omniscient - dictator of men’s minds?”: ’ Mr.'Farrar said he made -his. statement to Mr. Hamlin “entirely on my own and-not at the instiga- tion of anyone.or any organiza- tion,” Warned of Appeasement Chairman Hamlin announced that he had replied to protests from the Women’s Christian Temperance Union by sending them copies of Wise Hobson, Episcopal bishop of Southern Ohio. Bishop Hobson warned the United States to “shun the road to appeasement and to realize that man cannot exist half slave and A similar letter was sent to Mrs, George W. Thorn of the Erie Coun- ty W. Cc. T. U., who had framed the organization’s original letter to Mr. Hamlin. Mr. Hamlin said he had received letters from persons willing to fill vacancies resulting from with- drawais from his group. He $Jso has received some addi- tional cash contributions Aoward the orghnization’s support Aince the controversy arose. The/money is ‘Buffale Evening News Buffalo, New York December 7, 1940