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Married. Edward Lee Cannon of Washington, son of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; to Miss Elizabeth Roberts of New Bern, N. C.; at New Bern...
...while intoxicated the automobile of James Thomas Heflin, junior-junior, that is, to the senior Senator from Alabama. Junior Heflin was also lodged in jail, charged with drunkenness, with violating the state prohibition law. Results: Heflin Jr. received a visit from the pastor of St. Paul's' Methodist Episcopal Church of Columbus, Ga., the Rev. Marvin H. Heflin, brother of James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin Senior. It was junior Heflin's third conspicuous episode of the kind in six months (TIME, 2 refs. July 1). Released on bond, he said he was "worried over his rundown physique...
...last week, when Evangelist McPherson sought a California charter for a $1,500,000 hotel corporation, nothing she has attempted is so pretentious as the Apostolic Church of Zion. Bankrupt in 1907 on the death of First Prophet John Alexander Dowie (who stoutly insisted that the devil was a Methodist), Zion City has regained its solvency under rising real estate values and the shrewd rule of Overseer Voliva. Tall, stern-faced, he runs the city of 6,300 on a communal plan, renting the land under 1,100-year leases and controlling the few industries. A feature of his realm...
Crescendo of that Hooverizing speech was: "There are 2,000 pastors here. You have in your churches more than 600,000 members of the Methodist Church in Ohio alone. That is enough to swing the election. The 600,000 have friends in other States. Write to them. Every day and every ounce of your energy are needed to rouse the friends of Prohibition...
Last week God failed to preserve other Methodist lots on the opposite side of the street. These and the house on them were the property of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The government wanted the site for the new home of the Supreme Court of the U. S. A federal board condemned it and Bishop Cannon was obliged to sell. His Virginia admirers in 1925 had given him this $12,500 abode believing he had pauperized himself in the cause of Prohibition. In Washington he lived at the Driscoll Hotel, on the opposite side...