Bingham Bulletin | 1927-09-08 | Page 1 | Wayne B. Wheeler, Prohibition Chief Dies in Hospital

Wayne B. Wheeler, Prohibition Chief Dies in Hospital Wayne B. Wheeler, Ohio lawyer, and for more than 30 yeara a leader in the forcei against the liquor traffic, died in a Battle Creek, Michigan sanitarium san-itarium thia week, following a few days' illness. Wheeler's death followed that of his wife, who was fatally burned a few weeks ago. The tragic death of Mrs. Wheeler was also the cause for the death of her aged father. Admirers of Mr. Wheeler, who was general counsel for the anti-saloon league, declare that few individual personages attracted to themselves such universal recognition through conscientious adherence to principles 'and convictions than Wayne B. Wheeler. Wheel-er. For more than 80- years he has worked for the passage of a national law which would free the nation from what ha termed the "grip" of intoxicating intoxi-cating liquors, and since the last decade de-cade of the nineteenth century all his energies had been expended toward that end. Mr. Wheeler is credited with having hav-ing engineered the passage of the Volstead Act in Congress, prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors.