Study in Paul's Epistles to Corinthians at First Church
Social and Personal notes report a 3 pm Monday study in the Philathea rooms of First Church led by Miss Mamie Twitchell, with Auxiliary urging attendance. Also details a Miss Alexander hosted by Mrs. A D Brannan at Floral Wet Farms, a wedding and bridal events, Red Cross volunteer work, and a Henderson State recital by Misses Helen and Blanche Drake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Age
Mamie Twitchell
G. A. Hobbs
Henry King McHarg
W. R. Alexander
W. J. Greenwald
Henry King MecHarg, III
Guilford Webb
Memphis
Ruth Lewis
Marjory Waddle
Mary Della White
G. Metobbs
Jerry O. Trappe
Evelyn Briant
Carl Jones
Mary Lemley
Remmel Young
Fred Ellis
Hattie Anne Field
Daisy Dorothy Heard
Bess Waxer
Annie Jean Walker
S. L. Murphy
Miss Alexander
Arch Moore
Ralph Routon
Isabelle Onstead
Jett B. Graves
Ross Bright
Rose Harrie
W. A. Mudgett
Byron Andrews
Fred Formby
Formby
Rose Lee Trout
Clovis Wardlaw
Mary Lee Stodder
John W. Goodwin
Mary D
Coming and Going for Service Members and Relatives
J T Luck, musician in the Navy, visits his parents on furlough and returns to duty next Tuesday. Mrs Alvis Cochran of Los Angeles visits her aunt in Arkansas while en route home from Little Rock. Bertha Sparks plans a Texas weekend with Bryan and Houston relatives. Major James G Martin Dale serves overseas with an Army Air Corps hospital unit. Mrs Martindale and son Jud live in Little Rock as Jud attends the University of Arkansas Medical School. Mrs Paul Raley and Mrs J W Cunningham return from a two day P T A Conference in Little Rock where Paisley school won a superior rating. delegates included national president Mrs William S Hastings. Sgt Gibson Robertson of Winfield Kansas arrives tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. T. Luck
U. S. Navy
Fred Luck
Alvis Cochran
Mary Louise Walker
Los Angles
L. A. Foster
Little Rock
A. V. Walker
James G. Martindale
Army Air Corps
Paul Raley
J. W. Cunningham
Lafayette Hotel
Paisley School
William S. Hastings
Ration coupon updates and wartime travels noted
The community records ration stamp changes for April and June including Blue Red Sugar and Gasoline issues and indefinite validity. Notable visits include Pvt Clyde Robertson and Lt Jack Ambrose along with families as stationed relatives tour Hope area. Additional notes mention Sgt Elmer Purtle and Jarrell family military placements in Sardinia England and Quonset Point.
Flashes of Life and War News Across U S
New York and Brooklyn school children chant a wartime rhyme while skip rope. At Sampson Naval Training Station officials note Adolf Hitler’s 55th birthday with transfers of sailors to advanced centers. A Phenix City robbery lifts 40 000 pounds sugar and 30 000 gallons gasoline from a courthouse vault. Eko Nevada border officers create interstate deputy ships to break rustling bands crossing state lines.
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New York
Brooklyn
Sampson
N. Y
Sampson Naval Training Station
Adolph Hitler
William Hitler
Charles W. Fuhrer
W. W. Messerschmidt
Phenix
Ala
Idaho-Nevada
Tenant crowds hush as grenade scare ends without blast
Theodore Reisch found a hand grenade in a Chicago apartment basement and stayed inside as excited tenants milled outside. Police removed the pin and the device proved inert from 1918. Reisch later left the building through an unwatched door and invited onlookers to coffee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Theodore Reisch
Reisch
Ray Mack declines part time return to Indians
Cleveland report says Ray Mack, current war plant employee and Indians second baseman, will not rejoin the team on a part time basis after his selective service board ruled he would lose 2 B status despite not taking time off work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Mack
Indians
Cleveland
Wilson and the League of Nations a life and death choice
The passage recounts Old Jan and Old Man arguing that American participation could have salvaged the League of Nations. Wilson’s speeches are cited on China in 1898 and the 1919 Cheyenne warning about preserving territorial integrity. The text frames US moral strength as essential to global peace and warns of future wars if roots of conflict remain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
League of Nations
Rhodes
America
League
Old Man
China
Germany
Kiauchau Bay
United States
William McKinley
Department of State
John Hay
McKinley
Hay
Kiauchau Lay
Jan
Manchuria
Cheyenne
Churches Schedule and Revivals Amid Spring Services
Local notes list Sunday services for First Methodist on Second and Pine with morning and evening worships and youth meetings. Texas evangelist Dunn conducts Gospel meetings at Church of Christ on 5th and Grady through May 30, with no St. Mark's services due to rector’s travel.
Garrett Memorial Services Schedule At North Ferguson
D O Silvey pastor for Garrett Memorial on North Ferguson Street announces weekly events. Bible study at 7 00 p m preaching at 8 00 p m Monday Women s Auxiliary 2 30 p m Wednesday Teachers Meeting 7 30 p m Wednesday Prayer Service 8 00 p m.
Robison Preacher Leads Sunday Service at Morning Worship
Pastor E. J. Robison conducts Sunday school at 9 44 a m with Guy E Basve as superintendent. Morning Worship at 11 00 a m features a sermon on The Gospel Spreading. Young People’s C Y A meets at 6 45 p m with a class for every age. Sunday night evangelistic service planned.
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E. J. Robison
Guy E. .Basve
Young People's
Evangelistic -Ser
Local church services and schedules for April 23 1944
First Christian S W St John minister lists Bible School at 9 45 a m on Sunday with communion to follow and no preaching service. First Baptist pastor W R Hamilton notes Sunday School at 9 30 a m, aims for 500 attendance, morning worship at 10 50 a m with sermon on Degrees of Reward and Punishment, noon school cancelled at Guernsey High due to commencement, Baptist Training Union at 7 00 p m, evening worship at 8 00 p m with sermons on Mansions in Glory and Degrees in Hell plus questions about why send missionaries and why revivals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Methodist
Robert B. Moore
Pastor Methodist Youth Fellowship Group
Thomas Brewster
Young Peoples Meeting
C. C. Spragins
Texarkana
Arkansas Collette
First Christian
S. W. St. John
First Baptist
W. R. Hamilton
Third & Main Streets
Guernsey High School
Baptist
Baptist Training Union
Local Church Services Noted in Public Notice
The public is invited to services at First Baptist Church and Unity Missionary Baptist with details of times and pastor names. Other listings include Our Lady of Good Hope Catholic Church and First Pentecostal noting mass, worship, evangelistic service, and prayer meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Our Lady OF Good Hope Catholic Church
F. T. Dollarton
OPA increases poultry prices in April as plan outlined
The Office of Price Administration raises poultry ceilings by 1.8 cents per pound effective immediately through April. The plan adds May and June increases and extends into 1945, projecting average annual rise of about two thirds of a cent per pound, with monthly steps through 1945 and July reversion to current ceilings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Office of Price Administration
Fred M. Vinson
OPA
Pauls Appeal to Agrippa One of Worlds Greatest
Evangelist H. H. Dunn leads a Church of Christ meeting with the sermon Pauls Earnest and Sincere Desire. He recalls Paul before King Agrippa as a masterful plea who forgot self, aiming to persuade the Master. The speaker asserts Agrippas response was earnest praise. Tonight at 8 15 he will present Heartfelt Religion. Public invited. The Loire is the longest river in France. Gibraltar has belonged to the British since 1704.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of Christ
Evangelist H. H. Dunn
Paul
Agrippa
Evangelist Dunn
Loire
France
Gibraltar
Good Name And Character Highlight Rotary Talk
Rev. E. J. Robison of Hope Gospel Tabernacle spoke at the Hope Rotary Club luncheon in Hotel Barlow on the topic Personality at the Front. He urged that triumphs by others please yet we must win our own victories and that a great name comes from lived character and force. Ted Jones presided. Earl Clifton of Hope attended as a guest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope Rotary Club
Barlow
E. J. Robison
Hope Gospel Tabernacle
Guy E. Basye
Mr. Robison
Ted Jones
Earl Clifton
Hope
Arkansas league cites 262 illegal liquor stores in state
Supt Clyde Culter of the Arkansas anti-saloon league reports 262 retail and seven wholesale liquor dealers operating without state permits. He notes 702 federal retail licenses and 440 state licenses as of March 28, with seven state wholesale licenses. Revenue Commissioner Murray McLeod intends to check records if permitted, while acknowledging possible federal permits in dry counties. Local option votes in Sebastian county marked a setback for dry forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Clyde C. Culter
Arkansas Anti-Saloon League
Arkansas
Murray B. McLeod
Arkansas Revenue Commissioner
League
McLeod
Coulter
Sebastian
Patton Transferred to European Front in World War II
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr arrives in the European theater for duty after commanding the Seventh Army in Sicily. His career includes Casablanca landings in 1942 and the Tunisian campaign, with a past personnel incident noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
George S. Patton Jr
Seventh Army
Sicily
Cairo
Middle East
Balkans
Patton
Casablanca
el Guetar
Tunisia
Second Army
Omar N. Bradley
Tunis
Bizerte
Postwar plans for Arkansas colleges spark enrollment projections
In Little Rock on April 21 educators from Arkansas colleges forecast a postwar rise in higher education enrollments. Dean E C Holz of the University of Arkansas College of Education predicted a 40 percent surge over prewar peaks and warned of faculty shortages. The council also backed raising the state sales tax to three percent for school funding, citing Arkansas tax burdens as comparatively light versus other states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Arkansas
E. C. Holtz
University of Arkansas College of Education
America
Holz
Council On Education of the
Arkansas Education Association
Ralph B. Jones
Council
Nebraska
Jones
Butter Ration Value Cut Possible to 12 Points
Washington April 21 informed sources say the office of price administration will cut butter ration points from 16 to 12 next week. The move comes as the OPA also announces a 50 percent lamb ration reduction effective Sunday April 30 due to drought threatening lamb flocks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Richest Ever All-America Golf Tourney Planned
Chicago April 21 1944 sponsor George S May says the All-America golf tournament featuring open amateur and women's divisions will offer a total of 42500 in war bonds. The event at Tom O Shanter Country Club runs August 24 to 27 with 72 holes of medal play and first prize of 13466 67 in war bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
George S. May
Tom O'Shanter Country Club
May
Misaddressed Mail Abroad Reaches Fifteen Percent Weekly
A historical note reports that fifteen percent of international mail is misaddressed weekly. The statistic highlights ongoing postal challenges in routing letters to overseas destinations efficiently.
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Ethington-Taylor
Billie Jean Taylor
Mary Ann Taylor
el Monte
Calif
Harry Rae Ethington
Nora Iuongtan
Little Stone
Alhambra
S. J. Kennedy
Alhambra Presbyterian Church
Otis Taylor
Mary Taylor
Perry Ethington
Burton Taylor
Red Cross
Carter Johnson
Leo, Robins
Lacey Hannah
Harry J. Lemsey
W. K. Lemsey
A. Brown
Lynn Ross
W. Y. Foster
I. M. Queen
Albert Jewell
Ira Yocum
O. A. Williams
Miles Laha
Edwin Ward
T. S. McDavitt
Steve Carrigan
E. M. McConnell
Rialto
Gene Autrey
the Phantom
Sgt
Gibson Robertson
Winfield, Kansas
Richard Nidrewe
Granger - O'Shea
Barry
Trudy Marshall
Som Levene
Charles Russell
Lucky Cowboy
Hope and
Ozan
Pvt
Clyde Robertson
Eginman
Arizona
Jack Ambrose
Ardmore, Okla
Mrs. Ambrose
H. C. Whitworth
G. L. Purtle
San Antonio
Texas
Elmer Purtle
Brooke General Hospital
G. H. Jarrell
James
Navy
Quonset Point
R. L
Malcolm
Army Air Forces
T. J. Mathews
Pfe
Carl Johnson
Joe Osborn
Allen Johnson
Pfe. Johnson
Army Air Base
Ardmore
Okla
Man of the Hour
D. Lusk
Adamstan, Sone
AEA Service, Inc
Oolan
Paris
Qld
News of the Churches
First Presbyterian
Carl Bruner
Grady Streets
St. Mark's
Mena
By Hershberger
OY Nee
Service
First Baptist Church
Unity Missionary Baptist
South Elm St
Doyle M. Ingram
First Pentecostal
Ferguson Streets
A. D. Hunter
Fulton
Izard
Hot Springs
Clark
Lawrence
Pike
Columbia
Grant
Cleburne
Faulkner
Howard and
Johnson
Batesville
Sam M. Yancey
Fayetteville
Europe
Harry W. Shiver
Ward's
Ward & Son
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