Evening Star Newspaper, May 3, 1940, Page 17

Methodists Asked To Launch Drive For Prohibiion Anti-Saloon League Plans Crusade With $1,500,000 Budget By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May 3— The General Conference of the Methodist Church was asked today to launch a drive to arouse public demand for return to national pro- hibition as the Anti-Saloon League of America girded for a-renewed fight on liquor traffic. The recommendation to the Methodists was contained in a re- port by the Committee on the State | of the Church, headed by Dr. Ernest F. Tittle of Evanston, Ill. Delegates were asked to adopt a resolution calling on the church to “labor by genuinely educational methods” for a voting majority of citizens over the country which would “demand a prohibition and make it effective.” Ralph S. Cushman of St. Paul, Maryland School Survey Is Allowed $12,000 By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, Md, May 3—Gov. O'Conor yesterday announced that the State’s School Survey Commit- tee, created by the last Legislature, had been given $12,000 to study and report on elementary, high school and teachers’ colleges in the State. The committee, Gov. O'Conor ex- plained, is to make a comprehensive report on the educational facilities and the State's educational system to the next session of the General Assembly. Minn,, president of the Anti Saloon | § League, announced last night that | group's campaign because “the time is ripe” and said a $1,500,000-drive fund would be raised short Mra Cushman is a Methodist bishop. | The league’s Board of Directors | elected George W. Crabbe of Balti- | more, Md, executive secretary to direct activities throughout the Na- tion. He has been superintendent | of the Maryland Anti-Saloon League | for 23 years. | “The liquor interests,” Bishop | Cuskman said, “would be attacked with renewed energy. * * * | & “When prohibition was repealed we saw the futility of trying to teach the public about the evils of the liquor traffic, and we relaxed, but undoubtedly the public is now undergoing a revulsion.” Such a tendency was noted in the Methodist committee’s report which declared: | “Those who are tempted to despair of return to prohibition can | take heart from the fact that the | trend in public sentiment is in that | direction. * * * | “Society is insisting on larger con- | trol of production and will continue | 50 to insist. Many who are loud in ! their insistence that industrial pro- | ducers shall be hedged about by | legal restrictions are equally loud in their demand that in the realm of consumption the individual is to be free to do as he pleases.” Frozen Apple Slié;; Handy for Pie Making Frozen apple slices ror ple-bakers is the latest product developed at | fi the Department of Agriculture’s Frozen Pack Laboratory at Seattle, Washington, according to H. C.| Diehl, senior chemist in charge of this laboratory. | America's appetite for apple pie | has for years made the bakeries a | big market for the apple growers. | But bakers would probably be able to sell even more apple pies if they | could buy apples ready sliced and | retaining the fresh tart flavor of fruit just off the tree. Moreover, if apples could be prepared and con- | veniently packaged at the point of | origin, as frozen pie-cherries are, this would save the expense of ship- ping and storage, and make them available to the baker in a form he could use without waste. Chemists | at the Frozen Pack Laboratory re- port that if apple slices have a quick bath in hot water before | freezing the slices remain tender and do not discolor. Lewisohn Custody Suit Puts Decision Up fo Boy By the Associated Pross. NEW YORK, May 3.—A major | decision confronts 6-year-old James Elias Lewisohn today. He must choose between his moth- | er, Thelma Bowman Spear, and his | father, Writer Ludwig Lewisohn, | contestants in a custody suit brought | by the father. | Justice Aaron Levy, at the end of | yesterday's trial session, ordered | that the lad be produced in court | to express his preferences. W:V)-Aether‘l the boy’s choice will be a deciding | factor, Justice Levy did not indicate. Seeking to retain custody of the ¢hild, Miss Spear, who said she was Mr. Lewisohn’s common-law wife, wept yesterday as she identified dedications and letters from the writer which described her as “my great and only love” to whom “I owe the light and inspiration of my new and other life.” Mr. Lewisohn began the custody suit soon after his recent marriage in Baltimore to Edna Manley, a former newspaperwoman. QUALIT Alcohot 20% o Vofin’- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ‘C, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1940. Stephen Foster Paid Homage in Program 0f Music, Pageantry Farley Dedicates Stamp; Officials and Actors Join in Observance BY the Associated Press. BARDSTOWN, Ky., May 3.—Ken- tucky and the Nation paid homage today to Stephen Collins Foster, the MORE THAN A HAT—IT'S A FRIEND! Knox Vagabond The Hat that’s an all-around good fel- low! that Felt that can “take it”! is news—more casual with new wider crown. 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There, today, Louisville-born F{lm Actress Irene Dunne sang two of Foster’s songs, “Swanee River” and “Beautiful Dreamer.” And, by radio, Bing Crosby’s sing- ing of two others, “Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair” and “Oh Susanna,” rangement of Foster melodies di- rected by Leopold Stokowski were brought to the audience. Mayor J. F. Conway, Gov. Johnson and two film actors, Walter Connolly and Randolph Scott, also were on the speaking program here. Singing of “My Old Kentucky Home” by the assemblage was led by Senator and Mrs. Chandler. Farm Group Attacks Transportation Bill Representatives of more than a score of farm organizations, includ- ing the National Grange, submitted a protest to the White House yes- and_an orchestral ar- | terday against pussage of the pend- ing Wheeler-Lea bill to co-ordinate the regulstion of all forms of in- land transportation. 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