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Died. William Benjamin Beauchamp, 62, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; after a lingering illness; in Richmond...
...Samuel Seabury's investigation of Manhattan's inferior courts.* She was convicted on five counts: 1) altering the stenographic record of a case appealed from her court; 2) jailing as a wayward minor on hearsay evidence a girl artist found living with a married man by a Methodist deaconess; 3) ordering special probation reports to support her convictions of prostitutes who had appealed; 4) buying stock in a bail bond concern that did business in her court; 5) exploiting her office for $1,000 from Fleischmann's yeast. Though not corrupt she was found "judicially unfit...
Biggest projected mergers among Protestants are those of the Episcopal, Methodist and Presbyterian Churches, debated last year but as yet far from actu- ality. Also projected is the union of the five most important Presbyterian and Reformed groups, but this received a set-back last month when the Dutch Reformed and Southern Presbyterian Churches announced they would hear no more...
...their church weeklies for interpretation of current news, for leadership in opinion. Church weeklies are still abundant; their aggregate circulation great. But their influence is gone; a fact of which the Evangelical Churches have become acutely aware in their fight against liquor. As far back as 1928 the Methodist Episcopal General Conference of Kansas City recognized by official resolution the need for a national newspaper of church goers. Again, three months ago, youthful Stanley Hoflund High, Methodist editor of the nondenominational Christian Herald, was quoted : "The time is overripe for the establishment of a Dry newspaper, and lots of people...
Astute cultivator of Ohio's potent Negro vote is Maurice Maschke, Republican National Committeeman and party boss of Cleveland. Fortnight ago cigar-smoking, bridge-playing Boss Maschke went to St. Paul's African Methodist Episcopal Church to help launch Negro Councilman Leroy Bundy's campaign for reelection. His wide mouth below a hawk nose stretched into a wide grin as he looked down benevolently upon 400 praying, chanting blacks. Up rose Rev. 0. A. Childress, Negro preacher, and spoke...