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Show METHODIST BISHOP IS DEAD ON COAST LOS ANGELES, March S. Bit.hop James U. Bashford, for many years a j i prominent figure in the Methodist Enio- I , copal church, died today at a sanitarium near here after an illness of many months. Bishop Bashford was born in Favettc, Wis.. May L'9, 1 SMS. He represented tho Methodist church on the world commission commis-sion on faith and order and also was n member of the. continuation committee for China. For fifteen years he was president of the Ohio Wesleyan university univer-sity at Delaware, Ohio. Since IDfM he had spent much of his time tn China. |