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Died. Bishop Horace Mellard DuBose, 82, elder statesman of the Southern Methodist Church, author, editor, temperance leader; in Nashville. Vowed dry Dr. DuBose in 1932: "If the Angel Gabriel should come down and tell me that he had changed his mind on prohibition and wanted it resubmitted, I would not follow...
...drunkenness. Bailed out next afternoon he was found to be Methodist William Gilbert Gaston, field secretary of the Tennessee Anti-Saloon League. Leaguer Gaston objected that he had been framed by Wets, protested: "I would rather be dead than have such a thing occur." Militant Methodist Bishop Horace Mellard Dubose, the Tennessee League's president, regretfully proclaimed : "There is nothing we can do but sever him from the League. . . . The terrible curse of liquor . . . may lay its hands...
...elect Southern Methodist bishops henceforth for stated terms, instead of for life with retirement mandatory only on account of age (72) or infirmity. Also there are vacancies in the Methodist episcopacy: two because of death and three because of the pending retirement of three well-beloved prelates, Horace Mellard Du Bose, 75, of Nashville; Collins Denny, 79, of Richmond; and Warren A. Candler, 76, who, a member of Atlanta's Coca-Cola family, received newshawks one night last week in his oldtime white cotton nightgown. Would the conference elect five new bishops? Or for economy's sake would...