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...Edwin DuBose Mouzon of Charlotte, N. C., led the Southerners. The Methodist Protestants were headed by their president, Dr. John Calvin Broomfield of Pittsburgh. Also on hand to help along the cause of church peace & unity were such irenic Southern Bishops as John Monroe Moore of Dallas, William Newman Ainsworth of Macon, Arthur James Moore of San Francisco, Paul Bentley Kern of Greensboro, such irenic Northern Bishops as Frederick DeLand Leete of Omaha and Edwin Holt Hughes of Washington...
...Among the 85: Southern Methodist Bishops William Newman Ainsworth, Hiram Abiff Boaz, Hoyt McWhorter Dobbs, Arthur James Moore, John Monroe Moore, A. Frank Smith; Presbyterians William Hiram Foulkes of Newark, N. J., Joseph Richard Sizoo of Washington, D. C.; Congregationalists S. Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn, James Gordon Gilkey of Springfield, Mass.; Methodists Ralph Eugene Diffendorfer and Ralph Washington Sockman of Manhattan; President Ivan Lee Holt of the Federal Council of Churches...
...Michigan was stirred last week when Edward H. Williams, new Wayne County auditor, lashed out hotly with the charge that at a training school for mental defectives near Detroit trickery was used to enforce the State sterilization law. Cried he: ''Mrs. Ainsworth violated all sense of justice and decency. . . . The father [ of a 19-year old] was violently opposed to having his boy subjected to this mutilation. She tricked the father into signing a consent order on the pretext that he was signing his son's release from the Wayne County Training School." Other cases which horrified...
...newspaper reports of how the Bishop courted his traveling secretary, Mrs. Helen Hawley McCallum, whom he married (his second wife) in London last July and took to Brazil for a honeymoon. The Ministers demanded the Church equivalent of a grand jury investigation of Bishop Cannon. Perforce Bishop William Neuman Ainsworth of Birmingham, Ala., ruling Bishop of the Church, was obliged to hold a hearing. Bishop Cannon delayed action from September when the charges were filed, until last week because his arthritis became worse and worse. He has spent most of the past three months in hospitals. Last week, when...
This grand jury met in Washington's Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church. Chambered with them were the four accusing ministers; Bishop Ainsworth and two other bishops who helped him umpire the proceedings, Bishop Cannon, Professor James Cannon III, Duke University religious historian,? and a friend. Brought in by the prosecution were a detective, a Hearst reporter, a school executive, quantities of documents...