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¶ Passage of a resolution "that no conference shall hereafter meet except in cities where there is no segregation of special racial groups, no discrimination in hotels, elevators and restaurants, and where there have been specific instructions ... to treat the representatives of every race with equality and courtesy." The conference had received reports that some of Atlantic City's boardwalk hotels refused to receive Negro bishops and delegates. The resolution was passed despite warnings of many delegates that it would be a blow to efforts of the church to reunite with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Southern Methodists told the delegates that ten years of missionary work among the Negroes in the Congo had brought him great joy.
¶ Announcement of the retirement of Bishops Anderson, McDowell and Charles Edward Locke (St. Paul).
* In 1913 the Brewers' Association "blacklisted" for refusing to support it or for contributing to the Anti-Saloon League the following industries: U.S. Steel Corp., Pennsylvania Railroad Co., Western Union Telegraph Co., S.S. Kresge Co., Wanamaker's, Hershey Chocolate Corp. Industrialist Henry Ford is still one of Prohibition's most ardent supporters, Industrialist Pierce Samuel du Pont one of its keenest foes.
-In 1913 the Brewers' Association "blacklisted" for refusing to support it or for contributing to the Anti-Saloon League the following industries: U. S. Steel Corp., Pennsylvania Railroad Co., Western Union Telegraph Co., S. S. Kresge Co., Wanamaker's, Hershey Chocolate Corp. Industrialist Henry Ford is still one of Prohibition's most ardent supporters, Industrialist Pierre Samuel du Pont one of its keenest foes.