Show CHURCH MAY ELECT Methodist 1 Conference Will Hear Report of Members on Episcopacy I Des Moines la Ia May 12 Election 12 Election of fourteen now bishops and selection of seven new Episcopal residences will bo be recommended to the Methodist Episcopal Episco Episco- pal general conference tomorrow by bytho the tho committee on Episcopacy accordIng according accord accord- Ing to available information hero here to to- to night Seven of the tho new bishops will fill places of who have died and two who have retired since the 1910 con con- ference Of the other seven it was said six will be for foreign fields The seven new Episcopal residences to bo be recommended It is said will in include clude Indianapolis which will be the only new one in the tho United States The others are Mexico City Foo Chow Calcutta Singapore Paris and Copen Copen- hagen One ne reason given for the decision to recommend election of so many bishops bishops bish bish- ops Is the greater attention to be given given the foreign work As recommendations have havo been made that the three missionary bishops whose offices were abolished bo be elevated elevated ele ele- to the tho office of bishop they the number number num num- ber of bishops the conference will choose really really- will bo be seventeen Rapid exodus of negroes from the tho south to northern Industrial centers during the few years has created a condition which dole delegates atos to the tho general Episcopal conference say makes It Imperative that the church provide for adequate education of these people A memorial has been referred to the board of home missions requesting that bo be appropriated for the tho erection of a great university for ne negroes no- no groes roes In the northern o thern states status A re report report re- re port from the committee committee Is expected soon The anniversary anniversary- of the tha hoard of foreign foreign for for- eign missions was celebrated tonight the tho principal address of tho evening being delivered by Bishop R illium JK 1 Old Oldham ham of South America Bishop Oldham enjoys the distinction of having hav hav- ing been a missionary bishop having resigned that office and having been elect elected eul as a regular bishop of the lie spent four years In South America Bishop Oldham states that it Is absolutely absolutely- imperative that the Methodist Episcopal church locate two Episcopal residence in South Amer ica A feature of the program this noon In celebration of the anniversary anniversary sary of the tho Woman's Womans Foreign Missionary Mission Mission- ary society was the tho address by Dr Ir Mary Stone a Chinese woman whoso whose Influence as a medical missionary has been felt throughout China for many years |