Election of officers at Baptist church convention
This afternoon election of officers follows a large convention session in the auditorium of the First Baptist Church. About 1800 attended the second session after the opening meeting last night, where the constitution and by laws were adopted from a committee led by Cliff W Brannon, general counsel for R G LeTourneau Inc. of Longview. The document outlines the organization's object membership and offices and standard committees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist Church
Cliff W. Brannon
R. G. LeTourneau, Inc
Longview
Brotherhood
Perry F. Webb
San Antonio
Baptist General Convention
Municipal Auditorium
Britain orders half million idle to work under wartime draft
Isaacs outlines a peacetime industrial conscription plan to register 18 to 51 year old men and 18 to 41 year old women in betting and gambling related jobs. Offenders face fines or up to three months in prison. About 500000 would be affected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaacs
Commons
Quinton Hogg
Baylor president successor names floated at convention
Lemuel Hall reports two Baylor graduates named as possible successors to Pat M. Neff: W. R. White of Austin First Baptist and Dr. John Raley president of Oklahoma Baptist University. The morning program featured Allan Shivers and Dr. J. Howard Williams among speakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lemuel Hall
Austin
Mary Hardin-Baylor College
Belton
Pat M. Neff
Baylor University
Baylor
W. R. White
First Baptist Church At
John Raley
The
Oklahoma Baptist University
Food Train Drive Gains Momentum Across Regions
A Downtown Lions Club meeting outlined final plans for the Community Chest drive. Teachers may place boxes in classrooms for voluntary student contributions while residents of Groom and Panhandle push toward a carload of wheat. Local radio programs promote Europe’s hunger relief and Armistice Day closures delayed coin totals. The Friendship Train nears a Thursday deadline as trains roll through Wyoming with dignitaries from Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming watching Cheyenne load.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lions Club
Chas. M. Rogers
Groom
Panhandle
Amarillo
Europe
KGNC
KFDA
Lon Edwards
Wyoming
Colorado
Nebraska
Cheyenne
Lee
Missions Emphasis Highlights Texas WMU Meeting
An impassioned plea for continued support of Baptist missions in east Africa opened the Texas Woman's Missionary Union sessions as about 1600 WMU members gathered at Municipal Auditorium. The program featured music, devotions, and remarks from leaders including Mrs. Earl B. Smyth and retiring WMU executive secretary treasurer Mrs. L. R. Mathis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Africa
George R. Martin
Norfolk
Texas Woman's Missionary Union
WMU
Municipal Auditorium
Mary Alice Gaston
Voice
Wayland College
John Josey
First Baptist Church of
Amarillo
Berni Marie Miles
Mary Hardin-Baylor
Belton
Giants of finance and industry visit Panhandle farmers
A Burlington 18 car streamliner arrives in Amarillo with 180 top business leaders from steel chemical petroleum creamery and finance details of soil conservation and farm prosperity to be discussed with 3 000 farmer guests. Louis Bromfield opens with a radio talk, tours of plow factories follow, and a public meeting at the high school auditorium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
Amarillo
O'Clock
West Texas
Corsicana
Louis Bromfield
East Texas
United States
Fort Worth
Denver
John McCarty
Jeoffrey Plow Co
Graham-Hoeme Plow Co
Amarillo Conservation Experiment Station
Bushland
Bromfield
Bill Gray
Denver Railway
Gray
Friends of the
See Soil Group
Armistice Day Observed Quietly in Amarillo
Armistice Day in Amarillo was marked with quiet dignity as World War I veterans gathered at the Legion Home on West Sixth for a 11 o'clock memorial and three minutes of silence. Lt. Gov. Allan Shivers urged preparedness and universal military training, with speaker Lewis Nordyke of The Globe News on Americanism. government offices closed while shops stayed open and evening festivities were planned.
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Allan Shivers
Texas
Shivers
Amarillo
No Man's Land
Legion
West Sixth
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Legion Home
Europe
Fifth Army
Italy
15Th Corps
France
Germany
America
Lewis Nordyke
Globe News
DAV
VFW
Weather Forecast for Amarillo and Nearby Regions
Fair today and tonight with rising temperatures. High 54 and low 28. Tomorrow's high 59. West Texas mostly cloudy and colder this afternoon, warmer tomorrow in the Panhandle and South Plains. New Mexico fair this afternoon and tonight, partly cloudy tomorrow. Temperatures rise tonight and in the north this afternoon. cooler in the northeast late tomorrow. 24 hour high 42 low 18 noon 48.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
Still Deadlocked as Four Power Deputies Meet in London
Four power foreign ministers' deputies wrap up a fourth London meeting still divided on committee and subcommittee membership for drafting a German peace treaty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
China next aid program outlined by Marshall
Secretary of State Marshall told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Congress will be asked to provide 60 million dollars for China before July 1, in addition to 2.597 billion for Europe and occupation costs. He noted inflation and rehabilitation needs in China and said total foreign aid could reach 2.657 billion through mid 1947.
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Washington
Marshall
Congress
China
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Brewster
Maine
Europe
Smith
New Jersey
Republican
Austria
France
Italy
Lovett
Umbarger Priest John Krukkert Dies After Long Pastoral Work
The Rev John Herman Krukkert born in 1890 in Holland died early this morning in Umbarger at St Anthony hospital. Ordained in 1920 at Fribourg University he served Dallas diocese then Amarillo after 1927 building numerous churches including St Johns Borger St Teresa Panhandle St Marys Joyten and Sacred Heart Aspermont among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Herman Krukkert
St. Mary’s Catholic
Umbarger
St. Anthony's Hospital
Holland
Pather Krukkert
Fribourgh University
Switzerland
Dallas
St. Patrick’s
Panhandle
Father Krukkert
St. Francis
Amarillo
St. John’s
Borger
St. Teresa
St. Alice
Plainview
St. Mary
Reuther Landslide Wins In UAW Election
In Atlantic City on November 1 Walter P. Reuther was reelected UAW CIO president on an anti Communist platform. His wide margin indicated a sweep of other top offices and as many as 14 to 18 seats on the executive board at the 11th convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reuther
Atlantic City
Walter P. Reuther
United Auto Workers (Cio
Dday
Markets Closed in Armistice Observance Across North America
Markets across the United States and Canada closed for Armistice Day honoring the end of World War I. London exchanges remained open. Owens Furniture Co. remodels showroom at 905 Baylor with savings up to Sdqr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Canada
London
Owens Furniture Co
Baylor
Soviet Los Alamos rumors swirl as Molotov signals caveat
The piece surveys how rumors of a Soviet atomic bomb spread from Paris reports to Molotov’s Moscow speech. It notes scientists doubt Russia has yet completed a bomb, predicting 1950 or later, while propagandists push speculative claims. Dr. Brandao describes Stalin’s enduring influence and Brazil-Russia tensions as diplomats watch the atom rumor cycle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Stockholm
Mario de Pimentel Brandao
Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Brandao
Russia
Stalin
Red Square
Sochi
Black Sea
Labor Party
House of Commons
Brandau
Afghanistan
Paris
Viacheslav M. Molotov
Molotov
Daily Worker
New York
US Communist Party
Hope
Los Alamos
L'Intransigeant
Prague
John Grigg
Irkutsk
M. L. E. Oliphant
Britain
United States
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Globe
Abeokuta
Nigeria
West Africa
Baptist General Convention of Texas
Elizabeth Truly
Ballinger
Carol Leight Humphries
Baptist City Mission Worker
Mary Lou Dunn
Church Library
Baptist Book Store
Dunn
Miss Truly
Neff
J. Howard Williams
Williams
General Convention
Thomas J. Pitts
Odessa
State Brotherhood
Troy V. Campbell
Houston
Dr. Williams
Don O. Covington
Trinity Baptist Church
Port Arthur
Frank V. Houston
Beaumont
Bredahl Petersen
Copenhagen
Denmark
Baptist World Alliance
A. R. Wisenbaker
el Paso
God
L. H. Tapscott
Tapscott
Neely-Greenhill -Lowndes—Insurance
City Shoe Shop
Taylor
Globe Business
India
Ing
Amarillo Garden Club
John Snider
Bulletins
MANUI
Bucharest
Juliu Manui
Romanian National Peasant Party
By Harrison Salisbury
By Mats Lundquist
Brazil
Dr. Brandao
Rio de Janeiro
Friedrich von Paulus
Stalingrad
Ukraine
Russell Stationery Co
Herberg Bros
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