Show evangeline booth elected head of salvation army 1 commander booth descendant seen dant ant of tile the founder oillie salvation army recently wits was elected head 0 that organization succeed ing general edward dward B john coin commander ma booth won over corn com iniss iloner loner mapp present chief of staff of the salvation army she blie Is 18 69 oldest daughter of wallum lara booth founder of tile tho organization awl and its ltv first licad head and for many years lias has headed tile the american branch of tho the army alamp Is 19 leader of the retona party an n the army and had ft a strong following for tile the generalship the election elec ilon took place during ft a special meeting of tho the high council in ili session in III london engla england i nd for tho the solo bole purpose of electing a sue cessor to general higgins who announced lie ho intended to retire in fit november when lie reaches 70 alio 11 0 meet meeting I 1 ng aroused afresh the serious controversial problem which confronted the council when it removed general bramwell braunwell Brain well booth on the ground of 0 poor health lie alth tho the struggle started then between bet ti the I I 1 a british Ili and american lo 10 leaders f for 1 r dominance of salvation army affairs fa I 1 ra considerable opposition developed against commander booth on the ground that lier her selection would tend to perpetuate tho the booth succession tho the council previously hail bad gone on record as as opposed to a so called dynastic rule in ili tho the salvation tion army salt sall lake tribune |