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DIOGESE SELECTS PARLEY DELEGATES Episcopalians Elect Officers! ; and Pick 1929 Meeting Place. Easd Br a Staft Correspondent of The Star. LAUREL, Md. May 24.—Rearrang-| ing its previous program and compress- | ing two days’ work in one, the thirty- | third annual convention of the Episco- | pal diocese of Washintgon. which met here yesterday in St. Philip's p: hall, picked its delegates to the general convention, which will convene in Wash- | ington in October, elected men to other offices finished up its business last night e convention accepted the invita- | tion of Dr. George F. Dudley of St. Stephen's and the Church of the In-| carnation, Washington, to hold its 1929 sessions -t his church. | The convention not only re-elected | Arthur S. Browne, Washington patent attorney and chancellor of the diocese since 1914, as chancellor, but elected him as one of its lay_deputies to the | general convention. ~Browne has at- tended every general convention since 1898 as a lay deputy. These clerical deputies will represent the diocese of Washington at the gen- eral convention: Very Rev. G. C. F. Bratenahl, dean of Washington Cathe- dral; Dr. Robert Johnston, Dr. Z. B. Phillips, and Dr. Dudley. The . con- vention chose these ‘alternates: Dr. C. Ernest Smith, Rev. T. W. Cooke, Rev. M. F. Minnick of Rockville, Md., and Dr. Herbert Scott Smith. Name Lay Delegates. The convention elected these lay deputies to the General Convention: Hugh T. Nelson, secretary of the Gen- eral Convention committee; Mr. Browne, Dr, W. Sinclair Bowen and H. L. Rust, treasurer of the diocese. Alternates chosen were: Melville Church. Henry L. Bryan, D. M. Lee and E. L. Stock. To the executive council the conven- tion elected these clergymen and lay- men: Rev. Mr. Cooke, Rev. Calvert E. Buck; Dr. Johnston, Dr. Franklin J. Bohanan, Dr. Phillips, Dean Bratenahl, Mr. Nelson, Byron S. Adams, Henry P. Blair, Harry K. Boss, Stephen E. Kramer and Dr. Bowen. Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington, who presided at the convention sessions, appointed to the executive council: Dr. Herbert Scott Smith, Rev. Thomas J. Brown, Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune and Edward L. Stock. For the archdeaconry of south- ern Maryland Rev. William H. Heitham and Willlam E. Duvall were chosen. The northern Maryland archdeaconry has not yet made its selections. On the standing committee the'con- vention placed Dr. Dudley, Rev. Jc Fletcher, Rev. H. Allen Griffith, Herbert Scott Smith, Dr. William C. Rives, Dr. Marcus Benjamin and ‘Dr. H. M. Bowen of Aquasco, Md. ‘Women Serve Luncheon. Luncheon was served by the women of St. Phll!ps Church and Rev. H. A ‘Woolfall, the rector, greeted the dele- gates. At the afternoon session yor James P. Curley 6f Laurel éxtended the welcome of the community to the visi- tors. Mr. Nelson laid before the convention the tentative plans for the general con- vention, pointing out that preconven- tion meetings will Inclugle assembling of the Daughters of the King, deaconesses, St. Barnabas Guild for Nurses, the Church Periodical Club and the Girls’ Friendly Society. On Wedneldly October 10,'the open- ing dey of the convention, Mr. Nelson said, corporate communion for ‘the House of Bishops and the House of Deputies will be held at the Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G street, to be fol lowed by breakfast at the City Club. The fl session of the House of ties will be held at the same hour at Memorial Continental Hall. In the evening from 8:30 to 11 o'clock & re- ception to the bishops and guests and \STANLEY-CRANDALL'S THEATERS There Is a Mistake in | Listing of Shows at Stanley-Crandall’s Neighborhood Houses | These Are the Correcl Llsungs 18th and . AMBASSADOR . 'i %%. TODAY ~— HAKOL) L DAY, 75 MABOLD LLOYD 1 AVOY in “A PovE. vrup | | TOpAY.-BI AMERICAN in heir wives will be held at the bish cesidence at Mount St. Alban. On Thursday, October ‘11, the tiien- nial corporate communion and united thank offering of the women: of the church, ‘which is expected to-reach $1.- 000,000, will ‘be held at the Church of the Epiphany at 7:30 am. Communion at St. John's. On Priday, October 12, corporate com= munion will be held in St. John's Church, Sixteenth and 'H streets, at 7:30 am,, and study classes will be held at the Y. W. C. A, Building, at Seventeenth and K streets. A joint session of the House of Bishops and the House of Deputies will be held in Memorial Con- tinental Hall. At 8 o'clock in the eve- ning n general réception to all the delegates of the convention will be held in the Pan-American Building. On Saturday, October 13, the national conference . of deaconesses’ corporate communion’ will be conducted by Right Rev. Philip M. Rhinelandet at the chapel of the House of Mercy." At 2:30 |in the afternoon the delegates will be taken on a trip to Mount Vernon. On Sunday, October 14, the birthday thank offering _will be held in the Church of the Epiphany, with an ad- dress by the Bishop of Mexico. On Monday. October 15, a joint ses- sion of the House of Bishops and the | House of Deputies will be held in Me- morial Continental Hall. On the evening of Tuesday, October 16, the American Church Institute mass meeting will be held in Memorial Con- tinental Hall at 8 o'clock and at the same hour A& mass meeting on rural work will be held in St. John’s Church, Sixteenth and H streets, with an address by Secretary Jardine. Green to Speak. On the evening of Wednesday, Oc tober 17, the department of Christian social service will hold a mass meeting in Memorial - Continental Hall at 8 o'clock and will hear addresses by Wil- liam R. Green, president of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, and Char'es M. 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Following Mr. Willlams' remarks the meeting voted that the president of each soefal agency be requested to ap- point two members of its board to act as a committee in' co-operation with [the committee of civic and business leaders. Mrs. O'Connor announced that the general committee of the civic and busi- ness_groups ‘appointed at the meeting on Tuesday 1s to have its first meeting today for formal organization. GG PR Courtesy at Any Cost. N EW ROADS’ BECOMMENDED Special Dispatch to The Star, LURAY, Va., May 24.--Twelve miles of feeder roads in Page County to be taken into the State highway system have been recommended by the Page County board of supervisors. ‘The roads comprise three sections in Marksville, Luray and Springfield dis- tricts. 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