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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1929-03-23

James Harrison, who on Wednes-
day, February 20, 1929, cut Harry
Jackson to death in a tobacco fac
tory at the Allen & Ginter branch,
pleaded guilty to first degree murder
Tuesday, March 10Th, and was sem
fenced by Judge John L. Ingram to
twenty years in the Virginia peni-
Tertiary. Jury trial was waived. The
cause of the trouble was trivial
matter. Harrison had no money
with which to employ counsel, and
Judge Ingram assigned Attorney Ed
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1929-03-23
Owners Would Not Take Risk

1t was our intention to go from
Barbados to Vera Cruz or Tampico,
Mexico, but owners of vessels and
; crews were dubious about venturing
far out to sea, because of the SUBJ
marine danger, which they believed
existed because of Germany's threats
to carry on ruthless sea warfare"
We finally persuaded the owner of a
small sailing vessel to attempt trip
to Havana, Cuba, a port which we
reached after hazardous trip, dur
ing which we were driven by a gale
and nearly wrecked. After l reached
Havana l learned from the newspa-
pers that it was the intention of Car
rama, president of Mexico, to cap
ture me if 1 sought to land either
at Vera Cruz or Tampico and turn
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1929-03-23

the pictures to Rufe Nailor. Preced-
ing the fight with Willard ! did no
serious training. / engaged in few
boxing exhibitions and did a few
"strong man" stunts, such as pull
ing against horses and permitting
horse to stand on my stomach. This
was about the extent of my train
ing.
Ito be continued)
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1929-03-23
Cabled Inquiries

lie replied that they were on the
Low l watched eagerly for their
arrival and when they did ar
- was astounded to find that
they we've blank-that they had
1aen on a spool. l cabled de-
handing an explanation and in reply
was told that the deception or mis-
take was due to Mace, the maker of
no fins. This turn of affairs en-
ragged me and l started other inqui-
ries by cable, the result of which,
among other things, brought me the
information that Curley and his as
sociates had made no move whatever
to provide for my return to the
United States. The failure of the
films to arrive had not caused me to
lose faith in my supposed friends.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1929-03-23
A Raw Deal

| tried to believe in them and to
charge the delay in the films to other
causes, but when l found that they
had not kept their word in paving
the way for me to return home, |
became not only cognizant of the
fact that l had been fiim-flammed,
but l was up against a pretty raw
deal, therefore | kept silent, but was
not inactive. Inquiring at the Of
flee of the American Express Com
pany, l learned that the film of the
Willard-Johnson fight was being
shipped to London from the United
States. i knew that some plot was
under way and l hired detectives to
trace and watch the shipment. When
it arrived l stayed close around the
express company's office, knowing
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1929-03-23
CONTINUED from Last Week.

iCOnClnQeQ 1IOlll LoSS 49,
Jack Johnson describes ms wan
derirgs over Europe and his longing
to return home after ne had left this
country to escape punishment under
the Indictment that his enemies mad
secured against him under the White
Slave Act, that is, the carrying Oh q
female from one State to another
for immoral purposes.
He says: 49,.
Definite arrangements Tor my
fight with Willard began when Jack
Cyriey came to London to talk It
over with me. The selection OF VII
lard came about in the process Oh
hunting the white hope" The re-
sr,t of the fight ended that search
which had been carried on so IN;
tenselv and bitterly that 1t mao
caused me much trouble and sorrow,
because of the persecution to when
I was subjected. On his arrival IN
London, Curley asked me If l meant
business in meeting Willard.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1929-03-23

suit or the uSut ShVSN 'A ::
which had been carried on 50 III
tensely and bitterly that II nao
caused me much trouble ana sorrow
because of the persecution 10 wnlch
I was subjected. On his arrival IN
London. Curley asked me If meant
business in meeting Willard.
Meant Business
told him certainly did and that
he would not find it Sitficult to make
Iarr,s with me. The first nlgnt OF
Curlev's stay in London we VISITED
tha Coliseum, where Oscar and LII
lie Braton were appearing. we ana
not talk shop that night. The next
dav we went to lunch and the pre-
liuiinaries began, and IN the evening
at dinner we began to talk more
freely. l told Curley to put an the
cards on the table and to deai from
the top of the deck. had known
him for a long time. We had oeeh
close friends and had met in previous
mutually satisfactory business deals
Had Stood By Him
At one time in my life, when l
was in serious trouble, he had stood
lovallv by me. AS a result or TINS,
had the utmost confidence IN HIM.
He frankly told me that if | lost the
font to Willard could return to
the United States without being mo-
Tested. He said that | would De
able to engage in a prosperous oG-
cuoation and would gain new frlenas
and please old acquaintance, VINO
were anxious to see me comfortably
and peacefully settled down at nome:
These hints were inducements, Oh
course, but the greatest inducement
of all was the opportunity it offered
me to see my mother, for all who
know me and who have read about
me know that whatever other fail
irgs | may have had, the love =!
had for my mother was so deep ana
sincere that / would have done any
thing to end the separation between
us.
Explained Chances
After Curley had talked a while,
explaining the chances | would nave
ana mentioning my mother several
times. | became more anxious than
ever TO get back home. After that
frs, conversation with him, did not
care any more for the title OF worlds
champion than a child does for the
stick from which the lollypop has
vanished. In fact, / Gespised 1T;
Cu.ley explained that Frazee and
Weber, amusement promoters, were
associated with him in arranging
vi +. me 10 meet Willard. The fight,
he said, would be ned in Juarez,
E--..a. on villa. the revo Il iO09rv
bandit leader, who then controlled
northern Mexico would finance the
gLt.
CINE willard Championship
Cvr,ey remained in LONDON week
c ana when he departed we had
.ee a@ sn Fcreer' en-. 2s +"r - /
was concerned. which would give
H,.l. g"
n return home, He gave me SUI
f.=~ M0sey 20 i-Itl. c.ll.3pr.s,.
ten -"p mes TO A.e-' %. az "a
a.1u making ~~ep2ra.i1Q- -" '~7ir"
q he scene Of the proposed fight, |
dill 70, tell my VIE u lu5, my
nepssw, That l had agreed to lose
Tn aHt but pretended he | had
entered into the deal with the hope
aId expectation of winning.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1929-03-23

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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-01-01

themselves and for their families
yitiated by legaGzed traffic in that
drug?
A still worse assumption, one that
leads the Professor into "a crucial error"
is that liquor will let those alone who let
it alone"
No assumption has been more ablln-
dainty and eitectually disproyen in the
history of the liquor traffic. It is in the
fact that the liquor has not let alone
families and communities that let It
alone that the powers of the prOhibi-
ton movement has had its rise.
Discuss if YOU will the effects of pro-
hibition. immediate or ultimate; ques-
ton as you VIII its value and efficacy:
but let lis see clearly its real purpose
and the foundation of that purpose in
actual experience with the traffic
There IS one thing and one thing only
that establishes our own prohibihonist
convictions it is the clear perception
of the interference and tragedy mat
liquor drinking and the liquor traffic
have wrought under our own obSerVa-
ton, in the lives of those who never
sold liquor. and never drank it. and
who wished only to be let alone by it,
The rights and liberties Of these have
SaCredness that can never attach. IN
our Judgment, to any personal habit in
the use Of a drug.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-01-01
CAUGHT THE BIG MAN
Head Of Brewery Found Guilty in
Philadelphia Court

William Fisher, head of the new closed
Foch Cereal Beverage Company of Phila-
delphia, was found guilty on two counts
of illegally manufacturing and possessing
Intoxicating beverages by a jury in
Quarter Sessions Court, Philadelphia,
December 10
According to the New York Times, this
is the first time brewery president has
been convicted in Philadelphia for making
"high-poWered' beer Hitherto employ
ees have been the only ones to be found
guilty. Fishers trial followed Federal
raids on the brewery in May, 1927.
It was testified that when Fisher was
arrested in October he was found in
company with Max Bassel known as the
"beer baron Of Reading.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-01-01
(The Congreg0tionaIiSt, Dec. 20, 1929
WHAT IS PROHIBITIONS

With the clearness, directness, and
kindness, that are characteristic of the
gregationalist'S editor, he points out
the failure" of Professor Niebuhr to
state accurately in an article in the Ne1D
Republic October 24), the underlying
motive and the practical purpose exem-
plified in the prohibition movement"
The criticism reads:
When, in this representation, prohibl-
ton is set forth as an expression Of
Puritan effort to regulate the morals Of
others and to interfere with matters
that primarily relate to personal habit,
we challenge that representation, as
much of our, own convictions as out of
lifelong, intimate and wide acquaint-
ance with prohibitionists and their
specific aims.
If prohibition were an effort to sup
press the rights of individuals in mat
ters OF relatively harmless personal
habit, it would not have leg to stand
on. II personal habits of liquor
drinking were confined in their effects
only to personal drinkers, no matter
how serious those effects, many of us
would still question the occasion or
right to interfere with those habits by
laW-for there is a respectable body of
Puritan opinion and political philoso-
ply that would go far toward recog-
MIXING the right of men to go to he'll in
their own way. But when liquor drink
ing, and the traffic back of it, begin to
create he'll for other people, and for
the Puritan himself, the whole problem
assumes a different aspect
The real factor in the liquor problem
cas- 1t asserts itself in the mind of the
prohibitionist," says The Congregation
GItSt is "the social nuisance"
And here we mean not only the social
evils associated with the legalized liquor
traffic, but the social nuisance of the
traffic itself. By what right must those
who do not wish to partake of a drug,
which both moralists and science con-
denim. have the environment OF life for
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-01-01

Truly no man ever gave more gener-
ously of time and money and service to
the cause Of prohibition than Emil Louis
Hohenthal. His contributions to world
wide prohibition. which must eventually
come to pass, of course is beyond COM
putation, but none who knew him and
knew the work he accomplished will deny
him a liberal share in the credit for that
victory which must come.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-01-01
What the Current Magazines Are Saying About Prohibition
and Law Enforcement
(Reviewed by Emma L. Transeam

the old method of educating that we
abandoned when we started out to
celebrate the miracle. There wasn't
any miracle. There never is. There is
only the long, slow process Of changing
mems minds And the principle value
of the dry law is that now we can carry
on that process with the law on our
side, where fornerly-under the license
systematic law was on the side. of the
liquor interests.
abandoned" is rather too strong a
term to apply to the whole country, but it
will call attention to a relaxation which
S now in process of being corrected.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-01-01
PROMINENT IN SONS OF
TEMPERANCE

N January, 1887, Hohenthal joined the
Sons of Temperance in South NIanches-
ter, and served in the various chairs OF
that order including Worthy Patriarch
and Trustee He was initiated into the
Grand Division of Connecticut in 1887
and became Grand Worthy Patriarch
which office he held for several terms In
1892 he was initiated into the National
Division of North America. He served as
Most Worthy Patriarch Q916-1922) be-
ing the only person ever elected to that
Office for a third term. While holding
that office he Travelled thousands Of miles
and visited every Grand Division in his
Jurisdiction In 1920 and 1922 he paid
fraternal visits to the National Division
Of Great Britain and Ireland and at its
sessions held in Derby and Preston, Eng
land MIR. Hohenthal was particularly in
terested in the prohibition movement In
Europe, especially in Germany and he
contributed literally all his time and
money with the furthering OF that cause
IL that country.
-Ia has been for many years member
Of the Prohibition National COMMITTEES
from his state, serving as secretary OF
that committee and is a member of the
National Executive Committee He was
elected on prohibition ticket to several
municipal Offices in his home town and
was candidate for Congressman, United
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-01-01
ACTIVE OVER SEAS

Hohenthal attended several Of the In
ternational Congresses Against Alcohol
ism as a delegate, either by appointment
Of the Governor of Connecticut or as
representative of the Sons of Temper
ance. President Harding appointed him
as a delegate from the United States to
The Congresses held as Lausanne, Switz-
erland In 1922 and 1923 and 1925 he
spent about five months OF each year
visiting about dozen Central European
countries and delivering hundreds OF adj
dresses as representative of the Inter
national Reform Bureau promoting pro-
hibition and organizing the temperance
workers for an aggressive campaign.
During the World War Hohenthal was
chairman of the Selective Service Board
for the Fourth Senatorial District Of
Connecticut which had a total registra-
tic nof 10,G24 men. lie served for five
years in the Connecticut National Guard,
retiring with the rank of Sergeant.
At the time of his death he was an &C
tive worker in the Center Congregational
Church, Manchester, although his earlier
affiliations in New York City were with
German and English Methodist Episcopal
churches.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-01-01
E. |. C. HOHENTHAL DIES SUDDENLY
Prominent Worker in Temperance
Reform Dies Suddenly While at
Work for the Cause He Served

The World Temperance reform move
ment and particularly the movement IN
the United States, lost one of its most
prominent and efficient advocates in the
death of Emil Louis George Hohenthal,
which occurred December 8, in Indian
apolis, Indiana Mr.. HohenthaPs devotion
to the cause he loved and faithfully
served for more THAR rOrty years was Of
that quality and intensity that never per-
mitted him to count the cost.
His death came as q distinct shock and
surprise to his friends, but that he died
while in the discharge of the duties con-
nected to his prohibition labors coca
stoned no surprise. He was taken Ill on
the train enroute from ST. Louis where
he had been on a mission in behalf of the
prohibition cause. He was returning
from St. Louis with Washington, d. c.,
as his destination, where he was expect
ing to participate the following day in
the deliberations of the Legislative Con-
ference and the National Temperance
Council His sudden passing cast gloom
over these two organizations, composed
of representatives from the various tenn
perance organizations OF the United
States Instead of hearing his wise coun-
Gil, his words of cheer and encourage
ment, the two organizations in joint ses-
sions conducted a memorial service to
this great temperance warrior at which
DR.. D Lee ColVin, q close friend and as
Sociate of Mr. Hohenthal Of many years
standing, and Clinton Howard paid fitting
tribute to his memory.
The Standard Encyclopedia Of the Al
cohol Problem is authority for the fol-
lowing facts relative to Mr.. Hohenthal's
temperance activities:
Mr. Hohenthal was born in New York
City October Is, 1854 When he was
eleven years of age his father died,
leaving the family in straitened circum-
stances, and two years later young
Hohenthal was obliged to quit school, to
support his mother and five sisters He
began work in tailoring shop, remaining
there until he was eighteen years old
when he was apprenticed to carpenter.
After serving his full apprenticeship he
followed his trade for twenty-five years.
In 1913, at the solicitation OF the prohi-
bition party leaders. he gave up his bust
ness in order to devote his entire time to
the cause Of total abstinence and prohi-
bition IN 1886 he removed to South
Manchester, Connecticut, where he has
ever since resided In 1887 he entered
business for himself as builder and con-
tractor, and followed this line success
fully for more than sixteen years.
I1ohenthal became a total abstainer
from alcohol and tobacco at the age OF
eighteen He attended his first prohi-
bition meeting in October, 1885, and soon
after joined the prohibition party with
which he was actively affiliated until
his death.
PROMINENT IN SONS OF
TEMPERANCE
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-01-01
(The Christian Century, Dec. Is, 1929
GETTING READY FOR MIR. HOOVER
(EditoriaD

\ 1 "
GETTING READY FOR MIR. HOOVER
(EditoriaD
After listing a number of expectations
as to what Mr.. Hoover will do in the mat
ter of the enforcement Of prohibition, the
editor turns his attention to what the
people will do; cites the wide republiCa-
ton that has been given, by many papers,
to Horace Taft's letter to the New York
Times on the responsibility of the people;
and follows with this reference:
On November 80, there appeared in
the Chicago Daily NelOS, a dispatch
from it's special Washington cores
pondent, Mr.. David Lawrence, in which
it was reported that official social cir
cles in the national capital are rapidly
going dry. The cocktails are diSap-
pearing. Before long, according to Mr..
Lawrence, it will be necessary for per-
sons with thirst to secure invitations
to functions on the inviolate soil OF the
foreign embassies and legations if they
wish to flavor their social adventures
with alcohol And even some of the
ambassadors, if Mr.. Lawrence is to be
believed, are on the verge OF making
their embassies dry!
What do these things mean? We
hope that they are more than straws in
cate that the public opinion throughout
the nation is on the verge Of adopting
new attitudes toward this whole ques-
ton. Since it has become clear that
prohibition is the desired policy of the
majority of the people of the United
States, good patriotism requires that
the public will, as expressed in the dry
law shall be observed.
THE MIRACLES THAT DON'T HAPPEN
Commenting on the foregoing editorial,
a reader in the same publication makes
this penetrating remark:
The day the Eighteenth Amendments
was adopted we drys took it for granted
that a miracle had happened.
Then we woke up. We found that the
country had not gone dry at all. Laws
had been enacted making 1t Illegal to
engage In the liquor traffic, either as
manufacturer, purveyor, or consumer,
but that did not mean the end of the
liquor business; not by quite a margin.
It made the business Illegal, and gave
us this advantage In fighting 1t. So we
turned to insisting on its ilegaHty, and
crying that 1t must be suppressed.
which was probably very natural, but
not as effective as might have been de-
sired.
Now it is beginning to dawn on u
that what the dry law needs. If 1t is to
become fully effective, is the support Of
a general public opinion. Our support
VIII be obtained emily by going back ta
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-01-01

States Senator, ana Governor. He was
associated with a number of prohibition
and temperance organizations and was
International secretary for Europe for
the international Reform Federation of
the United States.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-01-01
(Cu7Tent History, December, 1929
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
OF 1923
Can EditoriaI and Several Articlesl

Can Editorial and Several Articles
A thorough analysis Of the issues,
forces results and interpretations Of ne
November election, by people best quail
fed for their several parts is here pre-
scented.
The editorial is a plain statement Of
the outcome. the factors II The result and
the Republican gains in Congress. A
sketch of Mr. Hoover by Dr. Ray Lyman
Wilbur, who has known him intimately
for SO years, is not only a VerifiCati0n OF
the national estimate OF The man of our
choice for President, but gratifying
revelation Of Herbert Hooyer'S estimate
of his fellow countrymen. In telling Oi
the Food Administration during the war,
DR.. Wilbur says: Mr. Hoover knew the
fundamental idealiSm of cur people, the
devotion Of the American woman to a
cause, the romantic urge of the American
boy and girl for service and sacrifice.
His faith in human nature to 0e-
have at its best for a high cause, all
helped him to judge our people correct
~"
Most Of the writer's on other phases Of
the election discuss its meaning as
referendum on prohibition. Alfred Bush
nell Hart, says:
1.-THE friends of National Prohibition
seem to have had the advantage in The
election. Insofar as it was referendum
on the question, shall the national con-
troll of the liquor traffic be continued
The ayes seem to have it by a consider
able though not precisely ascertainable
majority"
Mr. Fabian Franklin thinks the vote
was not genuine referendum on progli-
bition because of the knowledge that a
4iot dot
a change could accomplish nothing in the
way of bringing it about"
Accordingly" he says, ct seems clear
that all those who wish to lift that issue
into a place befitting its importance
should bestir themselves about some
means Of obtaining genuine referendum
upon it by the people"
DR.. Cannon portrays the "jockeyi0g'
resorted to by the Smith element to keep
prohibition the leading issue by playing
other issues and influences against It,
and ends with the Reputation of tie
proposition to place the National Gov
eminent in the hands of the representa-
tives of the wet sidewalks Of our cities
aided and abetted in this instance b. a
selfish, so-called liberal element Of high
society"
A Catholic view, by DR.. John A. Ryan,
gives "snobbishneSs" a leading place, but
widespread and profound Importance
to the religious factor, without which
Governor Smith would not have been
defeated"
Rev Patrick Callahan also thinks that
religious prejudice was undoubtedly an
active influence almost everywhere, but,
ITO those who, like myself, have for
many years advocated acceptance of pro-
hibition as the normal condition Of So
ciety in an age and a country like ours,
the Democratic nominee Was at a disad-
vantage from the start"
New Britain herald., 1929-02-08
Methodists Adopt
 $l,ll6.MO Budget

Chicago. Feb. 6 R-A 31,116,000 budget for the fiscal year ls2s-30 was adopted yesterday at the clos ing session of the board of educa- tion of the Methodist Episcopal church. Of that amount, 3s67,b26 will be used for general purposes of the board and. $14s,476 will 20 to the theological schools.
 Appropriation of Ss10,276 for the year for loans to students by the board was reported.
 This is an increase of S76.000 over the amount three years ago and Is the largest amount devoted to student loans by any religious denomination.
 In the last b6 years. the church has loaned more than 35,ooo, 900 to students.
 A committee was named to con- duct an inventory of the church,s 136 schools colleges and univer- sities over the nation for . detailed status of educational enterprises sponsored by the church, to guide the future program.