Evening star., 1937-10-19
MASONS HONOR.
GLASS AND MARVIN.
Scottish Rite Degree Will
Be Bestowed Upon Capt.
tai Leaders.

Senator Carter Glass of Virginia
and DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president
Of the George Washington University
are among those designated today by
the Supreme Council of the Thirty
third Degree. Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of the
Southern Jurisdiction of the United
States, to receive that advanced de-
gree.
At the same time, the council an
nounced that another group. includ-
ing Senator Tom Connally Of Texas
and Chenting T. Wang, Chinese Am
bassador to the United States, had
been selected as knights commander
of the Court of Honour
The latter honor is to be bestowed
at ceremonies tomorrow night in the
House of the Temple, 1888 Sixteenth
street, while the thirty-third degree
will be conferred Friday night.
Those to receive the thirty-third
degree include James Walter Hum
phrey, Charles Marvin Jones and DR..
Marvin, all of Washington; Frank
Stetson of Chevy Chase. Md; Alex
ander Armstrong of Towson. Md;
Forrest Bramble, William F. Broening,
ST.; James w. Chapman. jr. and
Sylvan Hamburger, all of Baltimore;
Senator Glass of Lynchburg. Morris
L. Masinter of Roanoke, Robert D. M.
Ogg OF Portsmouth and Henry T.
Taylor, all of Virginia.
Knights Commander.
Those selected to become knights
commander are Marvin E. Fowler,
Hugh Kensipp. Louis Marks, George
H. Mulligan and Leonard T. Steuart.
all of Washington; Gen. Malin Craig
of Fort Myer, Va; Harry G. Hamlet
of Chevy Chase, Md; Elwood Mosier
of Towson, Md; George A. Bauer,
Louis Brandt. Peter M. Fey, David
S. Hynes, Charles A. Mcclellan and
Neal Alexander Sibley, all of Balti-
more; William D. Barnard Of Nor
folk, Grover E. Cherry Of Portmouth,
Senator Glass, Henry c. Neren, Robert
E. Paine of Roanoke. Harry H. New
ton of Alexandria, Robert Henry Pierce
of Richmond and Burr H. Wilson
of Hampton all of Virginia.
James M. Cliff, grand secretary of
the Grand Lodge of Virginia, and
Col. Theodore w. Mccullough of
Omaha, Nebr., were given the distinc-
ton of Grand Cross of the Court of
Honour.
Holding its biennial session here at
this time, the council served a buf-
fet lunch to members and guests
after the business session this morn
ing.
Tomorrow morning the Supreme
Council will meet again at 10 o'clock,
and tomorrow night there will be in
vestiture of the knight commander of
the Court of Honour by the Chesa-
peake Consistory of Baltimore.
Makes Plea for Faith.
At the ceremonies last night, at
tended by Masons and their wives,
Dr. Joseph Fort Newton of Philadel-
phia, thirty-third degree Mason, with
the Preaching Mission of the Federal
SOuAlSAl VI Siul CllCo, CdllCu Oll CllC
order for spiritual reawakening to
save the Constitution from dangers"
which threaten it.
''The thing We have most to fear
in America" he said, sis not any ism,
but the dimming down of that spir-
itual faith which gave birth to the
Constitution"
Pointing to the fact that Masons
composed majority of the constitu-
tional convention the speaker called
on Masons to render service today for
their constitution.
Representative Sol Bloom, director
general of the United States Constitu-
ton Sesquicentennial Commission,
spoke on ''Masons and the Constitu-
ton"
At the Supreme Council session yes
terday, Sovereign Grand Comdr. John
H. Cowles was honored by the gov
ernment of Ecuador, which through
its Minister, Capt. Colon Elroy Alfaro,
Minister to the United States, pre-
sented him with the decoration of "Al
Merito," for distinguished services.