Quaker Hostel Opens For German Refugees in Iowa
In West Branch, fifty Quakers convert an abandoned boarding school into Scattergood hostel for refugees from greater Germany. They plan to teach English history civics economics and assist integration as they encourage refugees to resume trades. The first four arrivals include Fritz Treuer Kurt Schaefer Kurt Rosegg and Karel Gam. Reed Carey leads the national program and hostels are funded by donations from Jewish and Catholic groups with support for 10 000 refugee children. In Fayetteville Peggy Joyce Jordan 9 1 2 was killed and her brother Johnnie 7 injured when their bicycle collided with a car.
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NEA Service
West Branch
Tall Corn Country
U. S
Germany
Scattergood School
American Fricnuciety
International Service Committee
United States
University of Iowa
Scattergood
Fritz Treuer
Vienna
New York City
Iowa
Kurt Schaefer
Berlin
England
Kurt Rosegg
Sudetenland
Karel Gam
University of Pennsylvania
Hitler
Reed Carey
Philadelphia
Asheboro High School Holds Open Graduation Exercises
Asheboro May 15 The graduating class of Asheboro High School opened commencement with an eight o'clock baccalaureate sermon by Rev L R O Brien at Fayetteville Street School auditorium assisted by Dr C G Smith Rev H A Parker Dr H P Powell and Dr S W Taylor Senior Class Night follows with a pageant The Making of America and a June graduation address by Dr P E Lindley dean of High Point College Margaret Stowe salutorian and R E Mabe Jr valedictorian named for program.
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Asheboro
Asheboro High School
Fayetteville Street
L. R. O’brien
First Baptist Church
C. G. Smith
H. A. Parker
H. P. Powell
S. W. Taylor
P. E. Lindley
High Point College
Margaret Stowe
R. E. Mabe, Jr
Vacation Bible School Scheduled in Thomasville
Rev. Sam Wiley of Thomasville Presbyterian Church announced the annual Vacation Bible School will run May 29 through June 9. The camp is open to children ages 4 to 11, with faculty and assistants to be announced in the coming days.
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Thomasville
Sam Wiley
Thomasville Presbyterian Church
Wiley
Five-Year-Old Indian Girl Delivers Baby in Peru
In Lima at Pima Maternity Hospital an Indian girl believed five years old gave birth to a six-pound boy via a 35 minute Caesarean. Doctors say the girl Lina Medina is truly precocious and remains in excellent condition along with her newborn.
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Peruvian
Lima
Peru
Pima Maternity
Gerardo Lozada
Alejandro Busalleu
Lina Medina
Hipolito Larrabure
Lima Maternity Hospital
Lina
Larrabure
Pisco
Lozada
Asheboro Merchants to Close Wednesdays in Summer
Asheboro stores in the Merchants Association will close each Wednesday afternoon during June July and August according to secretary Mrs Glenn Liske. Local business hours will be shortened to midday closures to observe the summer schedule.
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Asheboro
Asheboro Merchants Association
Glenn Liske
Mortals and Immortals Theme in Christian Science Lessons
Sunday services across Christian Science Churches centered on Mortals and Immortals with the May 14 1939 lesson using II Corinthians 5 4 and Proverbs 6 9 11. The weekly Lesson Sermon also cited passages from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
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Christian Science
Tabernacle
Sluggard
Dream of Mortality Compared to Sleep
Passage notes that a mortal’s weariness pain and pleasures arise from the dream of sleep and vanish with it. It questions the reality of waking existence, arguing that a mortal man remains simply a mortal man whether dream or wakefulness.
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Mary Baker Eddy
Polio Cases速報 Decline Noted in Charleston Area
Charleston health board reports early drop in infantile paralysis cases with two new cases Sunday but believes last week marked the peak in this section. The report notes the trend as a decline in the local polio outbreak.
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Charleston
S. C
County Health Board
Sixth Grade in Tville Sets Perfect Attendance Record
Special to The Enterprise the Colonial Drive School sixth grade taught by Miss Leola Black reported 100 percent attendance for two consecutive months with the last absence on March 9. The 28 students include Dorothy Atwood Charles Allen Dorine Burton Robert Emmons Eloyee Carr Charlie Garrett Bernice Fine Brice Hicks Margaret Freedle Rufus Matthews Margie Gowley Wesley Miller Judy Henderson Ernest Myers Maxine Hilliard Leon Pierce Faye Lee Billy Roberts Cleo Merrill Truman Stoker Evelyn Nichols Ralph Stone Alliene Pierce Richard Sowers Jessie Stinson Harold Tolbert.
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Thomasville
Colonial Drive
Leola Black
Dorothy Atwood
Charles
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George Laury
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Bellevine
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T'Ville
Sunbeam
Rapiator
New York
Pittsburgh
Coal
Oil Burnere
Standard Sanitary Corpersities
Everett White
Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Circus
Ed Rooney
B. J, Bernolds Tobacco Company
Winston-Selem, MN
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