Evening star., 1940-05-25

Methodists Smother
Resolution 10 Aid
In Spy Hunting
Third Of Southeust's
Conferences Will Have
Change in Bishops
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
ASHEVILLE, N. c., May 25.-A
resolution favoring cooperation
with the Federal Government in
rounding up German sympathizers
and persons guilty of un-American
activities was killed by the South
eastern Jurisdictional Conference OF
the Methodist Church yesterday.
The conference also voted down
resolution by the Rev. G. Ray Jor-
dan Of Winston Salem calling for
church registration of conscientious
objectors to military service in order
to facilitate their exemption.
The resolution to cooperate in
the rounding up of pro-Germans was
supported by a number of church
leaders from Alabama and Florida,
among them the Rev. j. w. Frazier,
superintendent Of the Mobile dis
trict.
Will Set Policies Today.
A special order for today was the
hearing of the report of the Special
Committee on Jurisdictional Policies
and Objectives.
In each of the II conferences Of
the jurisdiction a basis of not less
than $40 a year for each year of
service was set as the standard for
the retired ministers for the mini
mum annuity claim.
More than one-third of the juris-
diction conferences will have new
presiding bishops for the next four
years. The conference yesterday
approved the report of the Commit
tee on Episcopacy on assignments.
In approving the report on the
assignment OF bishops, the confer
ence moved Bishop Urban v. w
Darlington from Huntington, w. Va,
to Louisville, KY; Bishop w. T.
Watkins from Atlanta to Columbia,
s. c., and Bishop Arthur j. Moore
from San Antonio, Tex, to Atlanta.
The shifting of assignments
brought the North Carolina Con-
ference, formerly under the super
vision of Bishop w. w. Peele of
Richmond, under the guidance OF
Bishop Clare Purcell of Charlotte,
who will continue in charge of the
Western North Carolina Conference.
Bishop Watkins Moved.
The South Carolina and upper
South Carolina Conferences, former
ly under the supervision Of Bishop
Purcell, will be taken over by Bishop
Watkins, who had formerly had
charge with Bishop H. M. Dobbs of
the Mississippi, Memphis and North
Mississippi Conferences.
Bishop Dobbs will retain the two
Mississippi Conferences, but the
Memphis Conference will be taken
over by Bishop j. L. Decell of Bir-
mingham, who also will retain the
Alabama and North Alabama Con-
ferences.
The North and South Georgia
Conferences, formerly under Bishop
Decell, and the Florida Conference,
formerly under Bishop Paul B. Kern,
will be taken over by Bishop Moore.
Bishop Kern will retain his assign
ment to the Tennessee, Holston
and Cuba Conferences.
Bishop Darlington, although NOV
Ing his residence to Louisville, will
retain under his supervision the
Kentucky and Louisville Confer
ences and Bishop Peele, who gives
up the North Carolina Conference,
will retain the Virginia Conference
and will, in addition, take over the
South-Central Europe Conference,
attached by the General Conference
to the Southeastern jurisdiction. In
this charge, he will work with the
advice of Bishop Moore, who for
the last six years has been in charge
Of the European. African and ORR
entail affairs Of the Methodist
Church,