The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-08
Support Pledged at Session
of Association; Bishop
Visits Jackson.
HEARD IN 2 CHURCHES
Congregations Cheer Lead
er of State Dry League
at Services.
Comments of City Pastors On
Page IL

Methodist ministers of Indian
apolis today joined in the fight to
save DR.. Edward S. Shumaker, In
diana Anti-Saloon superintendent,
from the sixty-day State farm
sentence imposed on him for con-
tempt by the Indiana Supreme
Court.
A resolution supporting Shumaker
and pledging aid in his fight on the
court decision was voted unanimous
ly by the Indianapolis Methodist
Ministers Association, meeting at
the Roberts Park M. E. Church.
A committee of five was named
to recommend further steps. Men,
bers of the committee are the Revs.
j. w .McFall, o. w. Fifer, G. P.
Gibbs, r. A. Ragsdale and c M.
Kroft.
Vote Him Confidence
The resolution, adopted on motion
of Mr.. Fifer, pastor of the Central
Avenue M. E. Church, read:
I'VE renew our unqualified conf
6ence in and support of DR.. E. S..
Shumaker as superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon League of Indiana and
as a man of unquestioned integrity
and honor.
1--WE commend the dissenting
opinion of Judges Martin and Gem
mill, containing, in our opinion, the
truer ideals of justice and freedom
of comment upon all public ques-
tions and conduct of public officials
and urge that all citizens read and
consider this opinion.
\ I'VE pledge ourselves to support
, of any possible effort to appeal from
the sentence imposed or to secure
its reversal"
Bishop Visits Jackson
Bishop H. H. Fout, of the United
Brethren Church and president Of
the Indiana AAnti-Saloon League,
called on Governor Jackson today
in behalf of Shumaker.
Whether he succeeded in winning
a promise from the Governor that
Shumaker would be given executive
dlemendy if sent to serve the sixty
day sentence, was not announced.
The Governor admitted the
bishops visit was in connection with
the Shumaker case. The bishop is
q close personal friend of Jackson.
GAS long us I am doing Gods
work I cannot fail eve nthough I
do serve sentence at State Farm
as a common prisoner"
This was the only reference made
by Shumaker in two public appear
ances Sunday to the Indiana Su-
preme Court action.
. Shumaker, charged with contempt
Tor criticism of the court IN his
1925 report to league trustees, was
sentenced Saturday and released on
$1,000 bond, pending hearing Aug.
18, on plea for arrest of Judgment.
Sunday morning he delivered a
sermon at the Methodist Church
at Spencer, Ind, and Sunday night
he and H. w. Baldridge, also a
league speaker, presented their
dramatic debate" at the Methodist
Church at Freedom, near Spencer.
rhe debate is copyright league
propaganda.
. At Spencer the sentenced Anti
Saloon chief made no reference to
his case. The Rev. Allen Ken
worthy. a retired minister, presided
and he told of the $3.50 check sent
by James I. Barnes, former Logans-
port mayor, to pay Shumaker's fine.
This brought a tremendous ovation
and a vote of confidence was passed
overwhelmingly.
Makes Brief Comment
At night the congregation insisted
on hearing about his work, and 1t
was then that Shumaker commented
on his sentence.
The Northwest Indiana Methodist
Conference. lauded Shumaker and
condemned the Supreme Courts ac-
ton in a resolution Sunday at
Lafayette.
Sixty ministers offered to serve
one day each of his sixty-day In
diana Farm term and raised $50 to-
ward paying his fine.
James Bingham, ST., Shumaker's
attorney, announced today that he
is studying the StUmaker case in
an effort to determine whether it is
possible to appeal the State Su-
preme Courts decision to the
United States Supreme Court.
Several other legal remedies other
than a motion for arrest of judg-
ment must be exhausted before the
State body before the Federal ap-
peal can be made, he said.