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...Clarence True Wilson, Methodist moralist, and in less generous vein Dr. Francis Scott McBride for the Anti-Saloon League, promised to cooperate. Not so Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole, the bustling matriarch of the W. C. T. U., whose plan is to find horrid examples of what 3.2% beer can do and use them to club down Repeal in perhaps 16 states, three more than enough to kill it.* She replied to Crusader Clark: "I assume you wired me for publicity purposes...
...civil indictment and Methodist church trial of Rev. G. Lemuel Conway of Muncie, Ind. on a charge of attempting to rape an 18-year-old parishioner named Helen Huffman (TIME. Feb. 6, et seq.): acquittal in a circuit court jury trial. Ten farmers, a teacher and a salesman heard testimony by Miss Huffman, Mrs. Conway, a neighbor, and a woman who told how Miss Huffman had twice before accused men of attacking her. Mr. Conway appealed to his church on the strength of his civil acquittal, but the original church sentence-suspension from his pulpit for one year-was upheld...
When Roman Catholic churchmen take part in worldly affairs they usually do so unobtrusively, reversing the tactics used such persons as Los Angeles' loud Methodist "Bob" Shuler on the radio and Virginia's astute Methodist James Cannon Jr. on the stump and in the newspapers. Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin of Detroit is a blaring Roman Catholic exception. His voice as blatant as Preacher Shuler's, his words as un-clerical as Bishop Cannon's, he is known to large sections of the U.S. as a rousing, throbbing radiorator on the "Catholic Charrch" and, more lately...
...listened to the radio talks of Rev. Dr. Fulton John Sheen who conducts the Catholic Hour, explains Church doctrine and practice to listeners. They became interested, were introduced to Dr. Sheen. Almost at once they were ready for conversion. Dr. Sheen instructed them for three months. Son of a Methodist minister but no church member, Colonel Mann received his first Holy Communion last week with tears streaming down his cheeks...
...news of bygone weeks, herewith sequels from last week's news: ¶To the secular indictment of Rev. G. Lemuel Conway, 55, Methodist Episcopal minister of Muncie, Ind., for attempted rape of 18-year-old Helen Huffman (TIME, Feb. 6) : a church trial, with a jury of twelve ministers presided over by Bishop Edgar Blake of Detroit. Preacher Conway was found guilty of "imprudent ministerial conduct," suspended for one year-a penalty which churchmen considered light...