Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-23
COWLES GREETS
II COUNCIL LEADERS
Additional Officers to Receive
33d Degree Will Be Nomi-
mated This Afternoon.

Addresses of welcome to representa-
tives of other supreme councils by
Grand Comdr. John H. Cowles featured
a session this morning of the Supreme
Council of the Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite of the Seventh Jurisdic-
ton, held in the Scottish Rite Temple.
This afternoon preparations were under
way'for nominating additional members
to receive the thirty-third degree and
the degree of knight commander OF the
court of honor. The first nominations
were made yesterday.
Among representatives of other SUI
preme councils welcomed today by
Grand Comdr. Cowles were:
The Turkish Ambassador to the
United States, Ahmed Mouhtar Bey,
active member of the Supreme Councu
of Turkey; Grand Comdr. Alberto Pro
of the Supreme Council of Mexico. w.
w. Logan, active member OF the SUI
preme Council of Canada. and Carlos
Davila, new Rumanian Minister to the
United States.
The various council representatives
delivered short addresses in response
after being welcomed by Grand Comdr.
Cowles.
There will be a special dinner for
thirty-third degree Masons, including
House of the Temple Friday evening.
The council sessions will continue
through Saturday.
216 Masons Elevated.
At the executive session of the council
yesterday afternoon, 216 thirty-second
degree Masons we're elected to the thir-
ty-third degree, six of them being
credited to the District of Columbia
including Senator Arthur Capper, Kan
sas-while 473 we're elected to receive
the rank and decoration of Knight
Commander of the Court of Honor. Nine
Of the latter are also from the District.
Gen. John j. Pershing and Maj. Gen.
Amos A. Fries, retired were chosen
with Senator Capper for the unusual
distinction of being elected to receive
the thirty-third degree and the rank
and decoration of Knight Commander
of the Court of Honor at the same time.
AS a rule, four years must elapse be-
fore one who has been elected Knight
Commander of the Court of Honor may
be elected to receive the thirty-third
degree. Senator Capper introduced in
the Senate the Capper- Robson edu-
cation bill which the council supports.
The others in the District receiving
the thirty-third degree are Cephas e.
Bittinger, past potentate of Almas Tenn
pei; George B. McGinty. and James
A. Wetmore, acting supervising archi-
tect of the Treasury
Others Honored.
The others from the District made
Knights Commanders of the Court of
Honor are Charles P. Barrett, jr.;
Charles C. Coombs, Emil Fischer, Will
liam J. Hope, Bernard c. MacNeil and
John S. Tassin.
=, Manuel Louis QueZon, president of
the Philippine Senate, received the thir-
Gen. Pershing, Gen. Fries and Sen
ator Capper were nominated under
nominations at large. The last time a
Mason had both the thirty-third degree
and court of honor award conferred at
the same time was in 1923, when
Michael Hoke. surgeon in chief of the
Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled
Children, in Atlanta, Ca, was accord
ed this unusual honor.
Under the nominations at large, VIII,
liam D. Jameson, KOCH, former
Representative from Iowa and editor of
the window Seat. was elected to re-.
ceive the thirty-tf1ird degree.
Also under the nominations at large
William Bacon Pottus, head Of the
School of Languages in Peiping, China,
and William Charles White, Missionary
Bishop of the Church of England in
Kaifeng, China, were elected to receive
the rank and decoration Of Knight
Commander of the Court of Honor,
Among Those HOnored.
Among those who got the thirty
third degree were:
Maryland - Frederic Paul Adkins,
Cohn, Charles August Crate, Alfred
Edwin Booth Jones, Earle Claud Rich
ardson, all of Baltimore.
Virginia - William Francis Bowden.
Norfolk; John william EstIow, School
field; John Lockridge Manley, Lynch
burg; Joseph Augustus Ricketts,, Rich
mond; Horace Shepperson, Richmond,
and Ebert Lee Trinkle, Roanoke.
West Virginia - John Cecil Child,
Charleston; Luther Hale Clark, Kyle,
and John Adam Fora, Wheeling.
honor award included:
Virginia - Roland Bush, Newport
News; James Barclay Andrews,--R
noke; Roy Green Ashworth, Richmond;
Carlton Conway Gambler, Lyncfburg;
William Henry Crone,- jr, Portsmouth;
Lynwood Polk Harrell, Roanoke; Will
liam Emmett Link, Danville; Louis
Godfrey Mauer. Lynchburg; Carlton
Ridgway Moore, Richmond; Robert
1AhiOoh AOCNOOAy Wllldul Lee
Sterling. Portmouth; Henry Thrygood
Taylor, Richmond, and William Robert
Weisiger, Richmond
West Virginia - Thomas Leslie Bur-
dette, Charleston; Charles Welton, Col
Inns, Parkersburg; Philip Mallory Con-
ley, Charleston; Wilbur Haverfield
Cramblet, Bethany; John McLanahan
Crawford, Parkersburg; Raymond Nor
ris Davis, Huntington: David Carpbell
Garrison, Morgantown; Braxton Daven-
port Gibson, Charles Town; William
Loyal Cravatt, Charleston; Carston
Wanderlehr Hitch, Huntington: Aaron
Mckenzie Hubbard, Wheeling; Charles
Burcher johnson, Clarksburg; Joseph
Randolph Miller, Huntington; Charles
Raymond Morgan, Charleston, and
Thomas Gilmore Stricken, Ellenboro
Maryland - Thomas Stephen Cullen,
Baltimore; Frank Irwin Duncan, Luth-
erville; Sylvan Hamburger Baltimore:
James Edward Kane, Baltimore; John
Valentine Killer, Relay; Frank Mogol,
Baltimore; John Casper Pfeiffer, Frost
burg; John Simpson Taft Wilcox, Sails
bury, and Martin Wright, Baltimore.