Quaker Meeting At Guilford Underway
Guilford College North Carolina August meeting of Quakers opens with appointments and a talk by Robert L Simpkin a longtime China missionary Russell Branson pastor of New Garden Church provided the update on progress and speakers among the attendees
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Guilford College
N. C
Robert L. Simpkin
China
North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Quakers
Russell Branson
New Garden Church
Personal religion urged as cure for shallow faith
In a church session, Archdale Friends Church pastor Clifton Pearson urged refresh ing Christians while New Garden Church pastor Russell Branson called for deeper fellowship with God. Branson quoted Schliermacher saying religion furnishes its own values and urged believers to deepen Bible study and prayer.
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Clifton Pearson
Archdale Friends Church
Russell Branson
New Garden Church
Friends
Branson
Schliermacher
Soviet Russia gains US aid in new trade pact
The United States disclosed it has begun urgent assistance to the Soviet Union under the Russo American trade agreement. The steps include unlimited export licenses for defense supplies and exploring use of American ships to transport goods. No lease aid is involved and payment is expected from Russia. Delivery to China via Vladivostok is considered, with Japan watching closely over regional routes and potential air attacks.
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United States
Russia
Constantine Oumansky
Soviet Union
Chungking
Siberia
Japan
Thailand
Burma
Tokyo
Nichi Nichi
Pacific
Vladivostok
Religious experience deeper than intellect and morals
Branson says religious experience cannot be explained by intelligence or morals alone. He cites Rufus Jones that the soul has its own testimony to give. True religious experience carries the peace of God that passeth all understanding.
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Branson
Rufus Jones
Regulatory measure urged to curb wartime inflation
Henderson urged admin control of prices with a quasi judicial board and presidential power to designate administering entities. He cited 28 basic commodities up 50 percent since the war began and said voluntary producer agreements restrained metals but faced price risks. He noted 20 percent overall price rise and described scrap steel dealer collusion as a costly, first referral to the Justice Department.
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Henderson
Justice Department
Britain and Japan face explosive Far East standoff
Britain and the United States threaten Japan with asset freezes and fuel embargoes as warnings rise that Japan plans a bold push. Observers fear a combined attack on Southwest Asia and Siberia, with potential naval clashes in the South Pacific to secure oil and other resources.
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Thailand
Poland
Syria
Far East
United States
Great Britain
Japan
Britain
Southwest Asia
Siberia
Russia
South Pacific
Colombia Publishes Nazi Bulletins for Armed Forces
The Spanish edition circulated to Colombian forces included Nazi material. Reports note soldiers and sailors visiting the legation for bulletins. Nearby, Argentina raided a German welfare group in Parana, arresting members and dissolving the Alliance of National Youth. Bolivia expelled German Minister Wendler for alleged Nazi conspiratorial links. Paraguay’s army claimed to have crushed a plot led by marine officers inspired by totalitarian ideas.
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Legation
Parana
Alliance of National Youth
Bolivia
Ernst Wendler
CIO Leader At CIO Convention Demands Ban on Communists
Richard Frankensteen, national aviation director, said he would rather symbolize the American army than Moscow’s red flag, provoking a five minute demonstration at the CIO Automobile Workers convention. A display of soldiers, planes and tanks from Local 683 Los Angeles sparked debate about banning Communist, Nazi or Fascist sympathizers. The incident followed a June North American Aviation walkout seized by the U S Army, prompting calls to remove the exhibit but no action was taken on the ban resolutions.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Richard Frankensteen
CIO
Aviation Division
Moscow
Frankensteen
Los Angeles
North American Aviation
U. S. Army
R. J. Thomas
German drive nears key Ukrainian rail hub and Kiev area
Front reports say German forces push toward Dnepropetrovsk and by past Kiev while intensifying attacks near Smolensk. Soviet communique notes heavy all night fighting in Bel Tserkov, Korosten, and Smolensk sectors amid cautious enemy advances and by-passing Kiev rumors.
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DNB
Ukraine
Red Army
Kiev
Khelm
Novizhev
iKhelm
Leningrad
Moscow
London
Dnepropetrovsk
Dnieper
Bel Tserkov
Korosten
Frontiers Skirmishes Quietas Two Weeks. Dairen In Armored Camp
Reports from Dairen describe the port as an armed camp with Japanese troops heavy artillery and large quantities of munitions moving into Manchukuo to reinforce troops along the Siberian border. Foreigners note blackouts tightened controls and orders to paint windows black while travel permits to North China are temporarily suspended. A British battleship sighting in the Gulf of Siam remained unconfirmed.
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Port Arthur
Yellow Sea
Manchukuo
Siberian
Japan
North China
Gulf of Siam
Warsgite
Saigon
Gulf
Brief Freedom For Escapees
Three short term prisoners escaped from Caldwell County jail on the fourth floor last night but were recaptured within hours. Sam Laney Clyde Church and Roy Davis, all in their late teens to mid twenties, escaped by sawing bars and using the elevator or roof routes. Church suffered injuries from a fall but was treated and jailed again.
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Lenoir
Caldwell County
Court House
Sam Laney
Clyde Church
Roy Davis
Laney
Davis
Church
Italians Claim British Attacks At Tobruk Blocked
Rome reports Italian high command says German troops repelled fierce British assaults on Tobruk Libya, with heavy losses for the attackers and many taken prisoner. It also notes a British tanker of 11,600 tons was sunk by an Italian submarine and another submarine claimed a Sunderland flying boat was shot down with crew captured.
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Rome
Tobruk
Libya
Mediterranean
Publisher is Appointed Senator by Gov Maybank
Columbia S C Aug 5 Roger C Peace Greenville News Piedmont publisher was named United States senator from South Carolina by Governor Burnet R Maybank to serve until December 8 when the elected successor takes over to finish the term of Supreme Court Justice James F Byrnes expiring in 1943 Peace succeeds Alva Lumpkin who died last Friday in Washington after relinquishing a federal judgeship to accept the appointment July 10 from Maybank.
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Columbia
S. C
Roger C. Peace
Prisher
Greenville News-Piedmont
United States
South Carolina
Burnet R. Maybank
Supreme Court
James F. Byrnes
Peace
Alva Lumpkin
Washington
Maybank
Suez Raid Kills Ninety as Luftwaffe Strikes
An Egyptian communique reports ninety killed and 106 injured in a Luftwaffe air raid on the Suez Canal area. The German high command said planes attacked British bases after destroying 18,000 tons of British merchant ships in the Suez roadstead the night prior.
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Cairo
Egypt
Suez Canal
Suez
Marriage Aid Claim Attributed To Dr Boris Sokoloff
A Russian scientist, Dr Boris Sokoloff, is quoted as saying any girl can marry any man worldwide by repeatedly telling him you are so wonderful. The remark appears as a popular marriage tip attributed to him.
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Boris Sokoloff
Senate plan backed by Roosevelt seeks higher taxes and fewer exemptions
President Roosevelt urged Ways and Means Committee to cut personal exemptions from 800 to 750 for single filers and from 2000 to 1500 for married couples. The House-passed bill would raise taxes across income groups with new surtaxes starting at five percent and a top rate up to 75 percent on the wealthy, plus higher corporation taxes and about 40 new or raised excises including a $5 annual car use tax and a 5 percent monthly telephone levy.
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George
Roosevelt
Ways and Means
Additio
Husband shoots wife over visit to relatives in Spartanburg
Mrs Grace Jennings Grubb 27 is in critical condition at Woodruff Hospital after a morning shooting at a peach packing shed in Cashville. her husband Belton Grubbs is jailed in Spartanburg County. officers say she told investigators he became angry when she refused to visit a relative with him last night.
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Spartanburg
S. C
Grace — Jennings Grubb
Woodruf Hospital
Belton Grubbs
Cashville
Joe Bailey
M. D. Putmah
Woodruff
J. B. Stabler
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