davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
Majority of CIergymen
Slap VoIStead Law in
National Survey.
MANY FAVOR REPEAL
72.2 Per Cent Assert That
Experiment Has Not
Solved Problem.
BY JOHN NJ. GLEISSNER

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.-Pro-
hibition is a failure and the Vol
stead act should be modified in the
interest of temperance and neral
ity, in the opinion of majority
of Episcopal clergymen who replied
to a QUESTIONABLE sent out by the
Church Temperance Society.
Result of the inquiry, made in
1927, was revealed today. The So
ciety explains that the poll is not
to be regarded as an expression Of
the church or of the society itself.
"It merely attempts to give the
opinions of our clergy throughout
the Nation" says pamphlet bear
ing the title, Prohibition as We
See It."
Questionnaires were sent to 5,301
clergymen and 1880 replied.
Here are the questions asked and
the replies:
Is prohibition a success in your
locality? Total, 1905. Yes, SOL, or
27.8 per cent; no. 1904, or 72.2 per
cent.
Have we had the law long enough
for a fair trial? Total, 2,807. Yes,
1929, or 63.2 per cent; no, 1853, or
1868 per cent.
Do you believe a prohibition law
offers the best solution for the
problem OF temperance? Total,
2,244. Yes, SAB, or 21.7 per cent; no,
1901, or 1873 per cent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20

Louise Patten, 4, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Ira Patten, 305 Erie ST.,
whose mother declared the child
was kidnapped from her Sunday aft
ernoon on S. East ST., was back at
her home today.
Although the mother still insisted
that the child was kidnapped" Miss
Lolo Graham, 436 S. New Jersey ST.,
with whom the child had been, de-
clared the mother consented to take
she child to keep over night.
Mrs. Patten told police Sunday
night and still insisted today that a
"tall woman" whom she did not
know, took the child saying some
thing about taking her home"
The fact she had three other chill
dren, ages 2 to 8, with her prevent
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
TWO ILLINOIS
FL|ERS down
INFAR NORTH
HaSSeII and Aid Are Far
Overdue at Goal of Hop
in Greenland.
LAST WORD ON SUNDAY
Planes Radio Long Silent;
Hope Not Abandoned
for AviatorS.
LAST WORD ON SUNDAY

BIZ United Press
JULIANEHAAB Greenland Aug.
20.-The American plane Greater
Rockford, flying from Cochrane,
Ontario, to Mt. Evans, Greenland,
is down somewhere in the Far
North, it appeared certain today.
Bert Hassell and Parker D. Cra-
mer, making the second section OF
their projected flight from Rock
ford, Ill, to Stockholm, Sweden,
with stops at Cochrane, Mt. Evans
and Reykjavik, Iceland, left Coch-
rane at noon Saturday. Thei1 radio
kept the world advised of their
progress across the Labrador penin
sula toward Davis Strait, the 500
mile stretch of sea between North
America and their goal.
Then the signals faded out. The
last word, a faint signal, was heard
at 4 a. m. Sunday. 1t indicated
they were out over Davis Strait,
nearly one hundred miles from land.
Hours Overdue at Goal
At that time they had gone
nearly sixteen hours and were ap-
proximately 400 miles from their
goal. The location indicated by the
signal was about the position the
plane should have been in at that
hour, judging from their earlier
progress from Cochrane.
They had hoped to make the 1000
miles from Cochrane to Mt Evans
In about eighteen hours, but ap-
paFently weather conditions slowed
their speed.
The plane carried gasoline suf1-
cient to last about thirty hours. The
thirty hours expired at 6:12 p. m.
Sunday.
Hope was not abandoned, how
ever If the f1iers came down in
Davis Strait the iceberg-Strewn
stretch between North America and
Greenland, their chance of survival
was small. Their Stinson-Detroiter
was land plane and the rubber
boat they carried would be their
only hope:
Forced Landing Likely
It seemed easily possible, however,
that the fliers crossed the Strait and,
unable to locate Mt. Evans, made
a forced landing in Greenland.
The weather was good and such a
landing might have been made at
the waters edge near some native
settlement. They could also have
alighted on the Greenland ice cap,
which covers the interior, and
doubtless affords surface smooth
enough for a landing.
In either event, it might be days
or weeks before the news reached
civilization.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
Driven to Drink PoiSonS'

And 1T is substituting distilled,
poisonous spirits for comparatively
harmless beverages, like wine and
beer" People are driven to drink
distilled poisons." Many of the
clergy are strongly of the opinion
that the prohibition law has been a
curse, not blessing. to the poor"
DR.. Charles A. Reed, former presi-
dent of the American Medical So
ciety, is credited with the compila-
ton OF statistics showing that more
Americans have been poisoned to
death by the Volstead act than were
killed during the World war.
Prohibition is not a success from
the viewpoint of the widows and
orphans of these murdered men" ;"
says the pamphlet.
A well known rector, who formerly
believed in prohibition, is quoted as
saying, IF we deliberatel--- had set
out to increase drinking of alco-
holic beverages, we could not have
hit upon better plan than prohi-
bition"
His views and others are cited to
show that because drink is forbid
den, it is more desirable, and that
prohibition has failed in its chief
object, which was to protect the
young.
Il cannot imagine a worse condi-
ton than exists at present among
young people we are suffering
from an intolerable situation that
means further debauchery of youth
beyond anything we ever have
imagined" wrote the Rev. kirkland
Huske, Of Great Neck, L. 1.
The Rev. P. G. Powell of Boston
believes that the Volstead act has
resulted in more drinking of intoxi-
cants," especially in the case of the
juniors"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
Prohibition Branded Failure;
Dry Act Should Be Modified
EbiScObaIian RectO1:S Declare
Dry Act Hit
as Farce by
CityPaStor

CTATEMENTS from three In
- dianapolis Episcopal ministers
were obtained by The Times on
the national prohibition survey.
The majority of the local Episco-
palian pastors are out of the city
on vacation.
The Rev. Lewis Brown, st.
Paul's Church, tersely, but en-
phatically condemned prohibition.
Prohibition has not been a
benefit. 1T is an hypocritical
farce" he said.
The venerable William Burrows,
archdeacon of Indianapolis, made
this Statment:
THE failure of the enforcement
of the Volstead Act under the
Eighteenth Amendment does not
indicate the value to the people CT
this country as whole OF the cur
tailment or prohibition of indul-
gence in alcoholic beverages.
THE results that have come,
many of them good, perhaps as
many bad, are criticisms not OF
temperance nor of total absti-
nence, but of the methods under
which it is attempted to enforce
the law.
Until people of the United
States are willing to cooperate in
the ideal of personal sacrifice for
the sake of the good of all, no
real data are available for real
judgement.
Nobody is at all sure that evils
that seem conspicuous today are
the result of the attempt to en-
force prohibition. The whole ques-
ton is economic and only indi-
rectly religious and that because
religion is concerned with eco
nomic conditions"
THE national prohibition law
l. is not a success, the Rev.
II. S. Webster, 949 Ced9-' St., pas
tor of the Holy Innocents Church,
declared. His statement follows:
In my opinion the national
prohibition act as it stands is not.
and never can be, a success. 1t is
not the result of education. 1t is
not the result of an awakened
conscience on the part of our
people,
In fact, it violates the con-
sciences of very great number
of our people and because this is
true these same people have no
compunction at all in breaking
this law.
Whether a majority of the peo-
pie of the United States want this
law to remain as it is, I do not
know, but it is very evident that
a very great number do not.
"The process by which the Fed
era1 Government, and in many in
stances the local authorities, have
sought to enforce this act, has
increased the number of citizens
opposing it. This fact, together
with the added fact that the use
of liquor is not an evil in itself,
and the truth of the old adage,
the abuse of a thing argueth not
against the use thereof, convinces
me we are in need of a read
justment.
II am quite certain that any
just law, any righteous law, will
awaken q quick response Old the
part of a vast majority of our
people. But, this law is offensive
to many who are. and always
have been, total abstainers.
From the day it ceased to be a
war measure and became the child
OF political manipulation, it has
been seriously offensive to many
sober minded and thoroughly hon.
est citizens of our country and
therefore, in my opinion, is fail
ure as law"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
SKY Racers
CROSS nation
IN 10 HOURS
Art GOebeI Sets New Mark
for Nonstop Flight,
Coast to- Coast.
FAR AHEAD OF TIME
Plane Averages 142 Miles
an Hour in Los Angeles
to-NeW York Hop.
BIZ United Press

BIZ UHited Press
CURTISS FIELD, L. l., Aug. 2O.-
Racing through the sky at an aver
age speed OF approximately 14O
miles an hour, Arthur Goebel and
Harry Tucker today set a new rec
ord for a nonstop ailplane flight
across the United States.
They left Los Angeles, Cal, Sun
day at 1910 p. m. and arrived at
this flying field at 11O8 a. m. today,
an elapsed time of 18 hours and 5s
minutes.
The aviators' flying time was at
least three hours better than they
had anticipated when they started
out. In Los Angeles Goebel said
he hoped to complete the coast-to-
coast flight in twenty-one hours.
Second Nonstop Flight
Although airplanes have flown
across both the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans, only one before had a plane
spanned the breadth of the United
States in singlehop. That flight,
made by Lieutenants James A. Mac
Ready and Oakley Kelly, Dayton,
Ohio, Army fliers, on May 2 and 3,
in 1924. required 26 hours and so
minutes.
Goebel said the flight was made
as a preparation for the forthcom-
ing transcontinental derby, sched-
uled to start from Roosevelt field
on Sept. IL.
1--WE flew at a fairly high alti-
tude all the way" the pilot said,
10000 feet over the mountains and
1000 or 5000 feet over level coun-
try"
To complete the flight in record
time Goebel sent his all-white
monoplane through the air at an av-
erage speed of approximately 142
miles an hour.
Ahead of Schedule
When the plane left Los Angeles
it carried $50 gallons of gasoline
and twenty-five gallons of oil, maxi
mum capacity for its tanks. The
plane wasp motor develops 400 horse
power.
Watchers at this landing field had
no difficulty discerning the white
plane as it came racing out of the
West. They could scarcely believe
their eyes, however, as Goebel and
Tucker, the Santa Monica sports
man, had not been expected until
after noon at the earliest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
Held Wrong in Principle

"These reveal" says the pamphlet,
''that the majority hold that prohi-
bition is wrong in principle and con-
trary to Scripture, and for that rea-
son contend that even if 100 per cent
of enforcement could be obtained
prohibition still would be a failure.
The Church Temperance Society
which conducted the survey, was or
ganized in 1879, and was chartered
to teach temperance lin all things
James Empringham conducted It's
first prohibition survey in 1925, but
did not participate in the present
one, because other activities required
all his time.
BY it's constitution, the presiding
bishop of the church is president
of the society, according to the
pamphlet, and every bishop is ex-
oficio vice president. AS a result OF
the society'S investigation of 1925
into prohibition, it passed a reSolu-
ton favoring modification of the
Volstead law
The pamphlet contains an intro
ductory note by Empringham, which
says, What we have today is not
prohibition, but the liquor traffic
under new and worse conditions
The people do not wal4t the sacred
reptile killed, therefore, it should
be Gagged and controlled.
"The Anti-Saloon League and the
Church Temperance Society have
one object. Both are fighting to de-
crease the flow of strong drink
and to sweep intemperance from the
face of the earth. We have triec
coercion and it failed. Now let uc
get together and devise some better
plan to accomplish our common pur-
pose."
The publication committee in
cludes ten pastors and three laymen
The pastors are John w. Gill. James
B. Werner, Charles A. Livingston
William P. Taylor, Philip W
Fauntleroy, j. H. Dodshcn. Alber
e. Ribourg. The laymen are c. 7
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
HOW MAD YOUTH!

public treating syb Thone badly
l. the Boston devoted con-
page space pictures her and reca OF her madcap
socially prominent
of Sybn Thorne
When the brought beautiful love for SOL
took him and Sybn
dislusioned
eligible bachelor fell in love With her.
and to father, Sybn accepted him.
Havana to quiet her
sgvngS marrying Craig On hpboad she met
Richard Eusts
Eusis SPELL Syb made the mistake OF her e modern
Biblical allegory
"They they shall the Whirwind"
S a powerful by Eleanor Early 1t is
snatng story so-caed modern youth" that while not over
looking faults, pass and handcaps
Whrlwnd" begins Thursday Aug 23 in The Indianapolis Times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
SHIPS HALT FOR DOG

Delay Sailing as Volunteers Work
Three Hours to Rescue Chow.
BD United Press
BOSTON, Aug. 20.-Volunteers
worked for more than three hours
here to rescue "Chincko" a small
chow dog, from the waters of Boston
harbor.
The dog tumbled overheard while
trying to follow its mistress onto the
Nantasket steamer Mayflower. That
vessel was delayed 20 minutes and
the East Boston ferryboat Ashburn-
ham was held up for five minutes
by rescue attempts
The dog swan to a wharf and
was rescued.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20

MFRS. MARY SHEEHY, SO, Of
I'VE 832 Chadwick ST., believed
to be the oldest living person in
Indianapolis, took her first air.
plane ride Sunday and liked it.
She was accompanied on the
trip by her youngest and only
living child, James f. Sheehy, "a,
same address.
Mrs. Sheehy and her son were
taken to Hoosier airport, Kess-
Ter Blvd. and Lafayette Pike, Sun
day afternoon by Dan M: Pierce,
1872 w. Twenty-Seventh ST., an
ardent aviation enthusiast. They
rode fr1-ari- open cockpit Travel Air
biplane. piloted by Harold G.
Brooks, Hoosier airport secretary
treasurer.
Mrs. Sheehy walked briskly to the
plane and entered it with no more
than the usual assistance.
During the fight, Brooks said,
she demonstrated that the fem
inine sex never loses its desire to
appear neat, by trying to keep
her hair from becoming disar-
ranged by the wind.
n
"XXTELL, how did you like The
w ride?" Brooks asked after
the trip.
Il was just crazy about it," Mrs.
Sheehy told him. She said she
hoped to make another trip soon
and fly at a much greater altitude
than the 1000 feet at which the
trip Sunday was made. She was
was half an hour Sunday.
Mrs. Sheehy is the second Oldest
person carried in an airplane by
Brooks. In 1919 he took Jack Hig-
gins. then 101 years old, for ride
at Wabash, Ind.
Mrs. Sheehy told Brooks she
came to Indianapolis when there
were only four houses in the city
and she took great pleasure in
flying over the city and noticing
the marked changes since that
time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
Little Known Here

indianapolis police learned little
about Shannon. He formerly re-
sided in an apartment building at
1929 N. Alabama st.
Detectives sent to that address
learned that he and his wife moved
there shortly after Aug. l. A fam
lily by the name of Murray recon-
mended the Shannons to the apart.
ment, they learned. Both couples
were said to have moved here from
Detroit Neither were at home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
Search Is Ordered

BU United Press
WASHINGTON, Aug 20.-The
Coast Guard cutter Marion, recent
ly on iceberg observation work be-
tween Labrador and Greenland, was
ordered today to search for Bert
Hassell and the Greater Rockford
plane, unheard from in their f1igh
to Greenland.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
Taxi Fight May Be Fatal

GARY, Ind, Aug. 2O-M. A. Da-
Wis, 25, probably will die of a bullet
wound inflicted by John Kinealy,
taxi driver and former policeman,
the result of fight between the
two in Kinealy's cab, which dashed
over curbing while the two were
in combat. Kinealy told police Da-
Wis was drunk and started the
trouble.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
Hunt Lost Hurricane

BU JNffed Press
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2O.-The
weather bureau, looking for "lost"
hurricane, asked vessels today for
reports on conditions between lati-
tudes % and q and Longitudes 81
and 98. This includes large sec
ton of the Gulf of Mexico, together
with the coast formed by southern
Texas and northeast Mexico.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
YEGGS DROP MONEY BAG
Leave Loot When Blast Brings Po-
lice, Make Escape.

BIZ United Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. co.
After searching the Union Cloth
ing Company building for an hour
and half, police failed to find any
trace of the four men who, accord
ing to a night watchman, blew a safe
in the building this morning.
A passing fireman heard the blast
and called police, firenen and men,
bers of the American Legion, who
are holding their State convention
here.
The night watchman, who was
found unconscious, said four armed
men handcuffed him to a post. A
satchel filled with money was found
on the first floor of the building.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
U. S. ENGINEER SLAIN

American Consul Reports Murder In
Trinidad, Mexico.
BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.-The
murder of Henry Schmitt, an Amer
lean mining engineer, in Trinidad,
state of Durango Mexico, was re-
ported to the State Department to-
day by Consul William I. jackson
at Torreon.
According to Jackson's telegram,
Schmitt was attacked and killed
Saturday by two unidentified per-
sons at Travador mine, Trinidad, 40
miles southwest of Torreon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
Viscount Haldane Dead

BU United Press
PERTH, Scotland, Aug. 20.-Vis-
count Haldane, former lord high
chancellor of England, one time
secretary of the state of war, died
at his home Sunday after a few
weeks illness. He was 70 years old
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
GREECE BACKS PREMIER

VenizelOS Party Sweeps Elections
After Bitter Campaign.
BIZ United Press
ATHENS, Aug. 20. - Premier
Eleutherious Venizelos today appar-
emily had won a great tribute from
the Greek nation, through the Sun
day parliamentary elections.
Indications were that a majority
of the Venizelos party had been
elected to parliament. thus assuring
the recently returned premier of
control of the government. His op-
position had been bitter and the
campaign was furious.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
SHIP ON ROCKS; 5 LOST

Twenty Rescued When Steamer
Goes Aground.
BIZ United Press
SANTIAGO, Chile, Aug. 20.-Five
lives were lost when the small
steamer, Miraf1ores, went aground
at the mouth ,of the Maullin River
ON Friday, it was announced Off
cially today. The dead included an
infant The remainder Of the twenty
aboard escaped. The vessel was re-
ported to be total loss.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
WARE REPORTED BETTER
Senator Elect Gaining Strength
After Stroke of Paralysis.

After Stroke of Paralysis.
By United Press
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Aug. 20.
The condition of Senator Elect
William S. Ware of Philadelphia,
who was stricken with paralysis at
his summer home at Chelsea, near
here, Aug. 1, was reported improved
today.
"Mr. Ware is better" DR.. John j.
Shaw, one of his physicians said.
"He is stronger and gaining strength
daily. Conditions are clearing up
gradually"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
Six Die in Bush Crash

bW DWIttU PfCS8
COLOGNE, Germany, Aug. 20.-
Six persons were killed today and
fifty injured in a collision between
street car and a sightseeing bus.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20
Wrong in Principle and
Contrary to Scripture,
Pastors Say.
YOUTH OF NATION HURT
John BarIeyCorn ReignS
Under Worse Conditions,
View of Clergy.

many "are convinced that it is
teaching the rising generation to
drink"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-20

Emmett Jr., A. H. Dawson and T.
Emmanuel. w. w. Bellinger is
president of the society.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-20

seed and MOVERS on the SCHOOL
lawn.
The Parent-TeacherS met We'd
nesday. S. E. Perkins, president of
the Nature Club, spoke. The 8-B
girls sang a group of spring songs
assisted by the following boys who
whistled the accompaniment: Dali
las Orange, Dale Jones, Harold
Bartholomew, Andrew Brown, Roy
Lee and William Seasel. Miss
Pearl Lloyd, music instructor, di-
rected them. Paul Miller, building
mathematics teacher, sang Roses
of Picardy."
Arnold Kelly brought collec-
ton of garter and garden snakes,
plants, rocks and moss to school
for nature study. He had collected
them on a Boy Scout hike.
The 7-B boys have elected James
Hurley captain of their baseball
team. They held their first game
at Greer Place Park, April 9.
Baseball teams have been organ
lied in the seventh and eighth
grades. Herbert Dunlop is captain
of team seven and Robert Dennis
captain of team eight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-20
SCHOOL BEGINS
ANNUAL CUSTOM
FOR ARBOR DAY
Washington Pupils Join in
Planting Fir Tree on
Campus.

The George Washington High
School today established an annual
tradition Of planting a fir tree on
the campus on Arbor Day. The
first planting ceremony was held
at 1920 a. m. under auspices. Of the
Washingtonians senior girls club.
Dean Stanley Coulter of Purdue
University spoke on Arbor Day.
Mrs. Norman Schneider, accom-
panied by Ross Campbell, sang
Trees" by Joyce Kilmer. Miss
Thelma Ogden, club president, pre-
sented the organ fund check to the
school which was accepted by Wall
ter Gingery, principal.
Following the indoor program,
students and faculty assembled on
the grounds. Louis Ruf1y, president
of the Minute Men Club, composed
of senior boys, placed the tree.
Miss Ogden and Helen Mary Nc
Leod, vice president of the club, put
the first dirt at the base. The pro-
gram ended with singing the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-20
Girl Reserves
at Washington
to Stage Play

Irene CASTOR QefD will play the
lead in 1.-THE Modern Cinderella"
to be presented by the Girl Re
serve Club of Washington High
School April 81, in Hollenbeck
Hall, Y. w. G. A. building. The
proceeds of the play will be used
to send members for session at the
"Y" Camp Delight and to buy
books for the Washington school
library. Mildred Carlson GighD is
the stage manager and director.
Other members of the cast are
Mary Worrell, Sara Babe, Shirley
High, Alice Timmons, frankie
Bauman, Irene Wilkerson, Ellen
Grenard, Juanita Hunt, Helen
Francis Starr, Anna Vielhaber,
Margaret Vielhaber, jeanette Ar
mold and Thelma Flack.