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Delegates to Continue ‘Casting Votes Until | Varooics Are Filled |

Conference Begins Plenary Sessions After

Banquet; Committee

By EMMA RIVERS MILNER, Times Church Editor You will see a novel way of conducting an election if you attend

the North Central Jurisdictional : Delegates of the conference

this afternoon for four new bishops in the Roberts Park Methodist i different from anything political| # conventions are able to demonstrate. Interest runs high, to fever

Church. And the voting will be

heat. The conference began its ple-| nary sessions this morning in the] church following the opening] banquet last night in the Scottish Rite Cathedral. It will close Sunday with the consecration of the four new bishops.

: Bishop Lowe to Speak At a popular meeting at 8

o'clock tonight in the church, | Gov. Robert D. Blue of Iowa wh Bishop Lowe will give the EPIs-| sounded a i ° o

copal address as the representa-| tive of the College of "Bishops of the North Central jurisdiction. He will retire during this conference.

The episcopacy eommittee of the conference went into closed] session today in the neighboring! Second Presbyterian Church, They will elect a chairman who later will start the conference voting for the four bishops. The committee also will determine how many votes, that is centage, a be elected. No nominations will be made, and the voting will resolve itself | into a weeding out or sifting] down process. Herein it differs, from elections held by'\most or-| ganizations.

Brings Flood of Names The first ballot usually brings!

a candidate must poll to|

a flood of names of candidates, cational program, precluding the possibility of the'President Wells made a plea for

clection of any one man. The) delegates simply go on casting their ballots until enough votes are given to one man for him to be elected. This will continue here until] four bishops are named. They will’ ill vacancies in the council of bishops vacated by the retirement of Bishop Lowe, Bishop Raymond J. Wade, Detroit, and Bishop H. Lester Smith of Colum‘A successor to Bishop Schuyler E. Girth of Madison, Wis, who was killed in an air-

plane crash in China, will make

the fourth. Bishop Lowe opened the conference this morning with" devotions, a memorial service and Holy Communion for delegates. The official organization of the conference and the appointment of delegates for work in standing committees followed. 1200 in Attendance Twelve hundred of the genial,

handshaking Methodists sat vein, he said “It down to the banquet last night in

what per-|

to Pick Chairman

Methodist Conference sessions. were expecting to start balloting

hops, governors of Indiana and Iowa, laymen of great importance, college presidents, and the Mayor of the city all were there. A spirit of fellowship pre-| vailed—definitely in the Method-| ist tradition. | Bishop Lowe presided and in- | troduced guests, The chief address was made by

solemn warning {against communism, He sees the {nations in the grip of a great struggle for supremacy over] {men’s minds. Against ideas, guns and the atomic bomb make no, | defense, he said. Truth is the| joniy telling ally in the conflict, he said. Gov. Blue urged the church and| the state to inform our people, to lift the veil of ignorance |which blinds their vision, espe- | clally that of the young. “It is only when Christian peo- | ple awake that we will drive communism out,” he explained. “The [UN cannot succeed without a united church. Freedom and | Christianity are inseparable,

Wells Also Speaks President Herman B Wells of

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AT THE SPEAKERS' TABLE —Bishop Raymond Wade. of Detroit and Mrs. Wade, left, chat with President Clyde Wildman of Depauw university, right, and Mrs. Wildman, beside him at the dinner of the North Central Jurisdictional Conference in the Scottish Rite Cathedral.

{Indiana University, a Methodist| F5g {layman just back from Germany| g&

where he gave counsel in the edualdo spoke:

|better equipment and higher sallaries for teachers in Methodist {Colleges and for greater support {for the Wesley Foundations of {state universities. He talked only (briefly about his sojourn in Eu(rope. Mrs. Charles Omaha, Neb, who wilh give the Woman's Night address tomorrow in the church, last night set high ideals for the conference. She expressed the hope that delegates would return home with |fresh ideas and new religious inspiration. Group Singing She is a member of the executive committee of the board of missions and church extension and chairman of the national committee of the Wesleyan Service Guild. The fourth speaker was lay-

humorous, but in a more serious

the Scottish Rite Cathedral. Farm the service of Christ.”

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‘Holy Land Divisions

CAIRO, July 7 (UP)—Count Folke Bernadotte demanded final decisions today on an extension of the Palestine truce which already was crumbling with a pitched battle reported south of Haifa and a United Nations observer. killed in a mine explosion. The 28-day truce expires Friday. Both sides were girding for renewed fighting. Count Berna- | dotte, United Nations mediator {who negotiated the truce, was shuttling between the Arabs and Jews in hope of getting a new, | lease on the uneasy | Tel Aviv dispatches reported

bloody struggle going on around]

{ Tireh on the Haifa-Tel Aviv highway. The armistice restrictions apparently had been cast aside.

‘Sistie’ Dall To Wed Today

PHOENIX, Ariz, July 7 (UP) —To millions of Americans it seems only yesterday that she was “Sistie” Dall, darling of the White House, but the grand-

Franklin D. Roosevelt was scheduled to be married today. She will wed Van H. Seagraves, 25, Portland, Ore. Among those here fer the ceremony was Mrs.

of the President.

Mrs. John Boettiger, was for Mrs. Roosevelt, althoug know. the President's widow as other than Mrs, Heanor Roose-

daughter of the late President glum, France and England. He

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Widow

The bride, like her own mother, night, beginning Friday, in or-

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WEDNESDAY, JULY , 1048

Methodists May Begin Balloting Today o> 4 New Bish

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Annual Carmelite Novena

To Open Tomorrow Nig Rev. Fr. Francis Corley, S. G., to Conduct

Outdoor Devotions at

The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Raymond R. Noll tomorrow" annual

will open the 10th of tei

" Pastors of the various Catholic churches of the city will take part id the services each Bight when their respective choirs will sing,” The Schola Cantorum of the Cathedral will give the music on the Siosing | night, and the Cofine1/lumbians of the Knights of Columbus, tomorrow night. The St. Thomas Aquinas Church Choir will sing Friday night. Father Corley's subjects in order are: “Mary, t* Mother of God”; “The Mother of God, the Mother of Men”; “The Mother of God and Sinners”; “The Mother of God and the Family”; “The Mother of God and Our Country” “The Mother of God and Peace”; “Prayer to the Mother of God”; “Sons of the Mother of God,” and “The Mother of God and the ure. ” Noted Editor, Author The guest speaker, Father Corley, a Jesuit priest, was formerly on the staff of the New York weekly, America, and associate editor of The Modern Schoolman. He is editor of Social Order, the publication of the Institute of Social Order with which he is now connected. In his present capacity, Father Corley traveled extensively abroad last summer, making a survey of religious and social conditions in various European countries, including . Bel-

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is the author of several books and has contributed to various periodicals. He has recently issued a very interesting study on family allowances, a topic in which ‘he has specialized. Pastors who will assist each

they minister follow: The Rev.

Monastery is Corey, 8 a Sat o returned Social conditions abroad,’ will conduct tr

Monastery

at's novena devotions on

the Cold’ Spring \d Paul Cathedral Road,

—_— The formed St. Michael the Arch angel Parish; The Rev. Fr, Berp. ard Strange, St. Rita's Church; The Very Rew Msgr. Bernarg Sheridan, St. John’s Church; The Rev. Fr. Edward Bockhold, Holy Trinity Chufch; The Rev. Fr, James Moore, Our Lady of Lourdes Church; The Very Rey. Msgr. Clement Bosler, St. Joan of Arc Church. The Rev. Fr. Francis Early and the Rev, Fr, Matthew Herold will assist Arch. bishop Schulte at benediction on the closing night when all pres. ent will hold lighted candles. Flood Lights Provided The nuns have provided flood lights and a public address sys. tem so that all the worshipers will be able to both see and hear proceedings. An altar will be set up on the cliff within view of the whole congregation. Special bus service will be extended by In. dianapolis Railways ‘throughout the novena.

| Dies in Funeral Pyre

Car After Lover's Spat

DETROIT, July 7 (UP)—Leo Dixon, 42, soaked his auto with gasoline to make a funeral pyre for himself in front of his girl friend's home after a front-porch quarrel, police said today. Mr. Dixon died in the flaming car and Emma Balog, 35, suffered chest and hand burns when she tried to save him.

Safety Unit to Meet

A dinner meeting will be held by the Fleet Division of the Indianapolis Safety Council at 6:20 p. m. July 14 in the Riviera Club. Bert A. Gwynn, local district manager for Shell Oil Co., will show colored motion pictures of his trips through northern Canada and Lower California. M. D. Jaimet, Indiana. Bell Telephone

F. Thomas Finneran, newly-

velt. Present also was Curtis (Buzz) | Dall Boettiger, brother of the

Oliver W. Purdy, 15, of 3110, bride and the’ “Buzzy” of their| was] lchildhood days

in the White {House from 1933 to 1935.

Clem Williams, 27, of 412 E. Morris St., reported to police today that his billfold was stolen from him for the fourth tire

Burglars who last night broke] wile taking a shower at his| A $100

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