Evening Star Newspaper, October 15, 1928, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 15 1928. BISHOPS To STUDY FLYNN. ONCE SECRET SERVICE HEAD. DIES OF HEART DISEASE } Siam Studies Australia. Impressed with what he learned re- garding the public service department while on a_visit to_Australia, His Royal Highness Prince Purachatra of Siam | tralia to study its methods. The com- mission is making an investigation of the savings bank systems and account- ing methods used in such departments as the general post office and railways. Prince Purachatra intends to install the has sent a delegation of officials to Aus- methods in his own country. NEAR EAST RELIEF Committee Officials to Ex- plain Situation at Dinner- Conference Tonight. Problems of Near East Relief will be Riscussed at a dinner-conference at 6 o'clock tonight at the Willard Hotel, to be attended by 24 bishops of the Epis- copal Church and other guests at the ' General Episcopal Convention here. The dinner will be under auspices of the T ecclesiastical relations committee of the church. Bishop Frederick W. Reese, chairman ©of the committee, will preside. Nationial Near East Relief off from New York, headed by Dr. James L. Barton. *chairman of the national mittee of the relief organ present. Dr. Barton situation in the Near East Bishop Rees, in inviting guests to the dinner, stated: “This committee, among its other duties, must take co; ance of il appeals in behalf of charities in Europe and the Near East made to our church people. The unfortunate his- tory of the Near Eastern countries has placed Near East relief in the foremost | utilized his contacts to obtain an in- wof these charities. “The officers of Near East Relief rec-|in 1897 he joined the secret service he ognize that our church is in a position to_sppreciate, as none other can. the spiritual as well as physi remnents of these martyred races, and 3ook to us for leadership in the program toward the spiritual stability of these peoples which it is hoped to put in op- | ®|he headed the Bureau of Inv al needs of the | head of the Pittsburgh division and a [Noted Detective Ran Down ‘ Many Spy Cases Dur- : ing War. Beginning as Plumber, He Rose Rapidy Through High Police Jobs. By the Associated Prers | LARCHMONT, N. Y., October 15.— William James Flynn, for years the sis_of counterfeiters, spies, anar- and other offenders against the Federal Government, died yesterday after two wecks’ illness with heart dis- ease. | From 1897 to 1918 he was a member | of the sceret service, the last four years as its chief. During one war year he was in charge of protecting th | Nation’s railroads and from 1919 to 1921 | gation of the Department of Justice. { Began as Plumber. He was born November 18, 1867, in |New York. At the age of 26 he for- sook the plumbers’ trade because he | found it too dull and became a keeper in the Ludlow street jail, where all Federal prisoners were then held. He sight into the criminal mind, and when | achieved quick success. Within two_vears he was put at the year later was removed to New York, |in chargs of the Eastern division, re- maining for 11 years. 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He will outline that religious education in the Near East has been at low ebb ex- cept in the few missionary schools and colleges and the moral forces have been disintegrated or paralyzed. Rev. Dr. William C. Emhardt, execu-| tive of the ecclesiastical relations com- mittee and field secretary of foreign ' misisons of the Episcopal Church, who has studied Near East Relief work, will speak. Charles V. Vickery, general sec- retary of the Near East Relief, and John R. Voris, associate general secretary, both of New York, will speak also. LORD BIRKENHEAD LURED TO BUSINESS PURSUITS Becretary of State for India Re- signs to Take Up Commercial Activities in London. Br the Associated Press. LONDON, October 15.—Commerce lured Lord Birkenhead, secretary of | state for India since 1924, from the cabinet. Lord Birkenhead's resignation to take | ip commercial activities in London will become effective as soon as it is ac- +cepted by King George. 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