Show RETIREMENT OF BISHOPS IS SET ATLANTIC CITY CIT N N. J J. May 11 1 IP J The The general conference of ol the Methodist Methodist Meth Meth- odist Episcopal church today in in a compromise move enacted legislation providing a bishop shall shI retire when his seventieth birthday precedes precede the first day of June in the year in which a quadrennial general conference is i held neld Under this thi law twentythree three bishops will wi be b retired in the following follow follow- in log ing order Seven Sc at 73 seven at 72 7 four at 71 7 and five at 70 T. T S S. Brock o of Atlantic City who prop proposed ed the new re regulation said id It I will wH not compel any bishop to serve after his third seventy birthday birth birthday day he said nor will wi it compel any to retire b before forc they are 70 70 The Te passage of the legislation is i expected ex cx- to have an nn important bearing on the reassignment or transfer of existing bishops and it was said ald may influence to some extent the question queston o of whether new bishops will willbe willbe wi be elected Some delegates regarded the new retirement code as a virtually assuring the appointment of ot Bishop Edwin Hughes Hughe of Chicago to the im important fm i. i Washington D D. C C. C post to tobe tobe tobe be vacated by the retirement o of Bishop W W. F F. McDowell McDowel |