The Mikado Opened on Japanese Soil Roiling World View
Our Daily Bread discusses Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado opening in Japan, noting the clash of culture and religion with politics. It argues for reconciliation between science and religion in guiding world affairs and praises signs from the London World Council of Churches led by John Foster Dulles toward joint Protestant and Catholic action for peace.
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Tokyo
Alorday
Charles Darwin
Dayton
Tem
World Council of Churches
London
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
Sf Ereed
Ibal
Klan Said Using Organizations to Aid Group
New York August 12 Pie The Ku Klux Klan is operating in many states through front organizations such as veterans and women’s groups. Daniel Duke assistant attorney general of Georgia and special prosecutor in Georgia’s attempt to revoke the Klan’s charter said he found photographs and literature linking bandsmen and Klansmen. He noted the Klan claims to be out of existence yet uses same meeting places and symbols. He cited figures claiming millions spent annually on sports in the United States and noted anglers’ expenditures.
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New York
Pie- the! Ku Klux Klab
Marty Stytes
Daniel Duke
Georgia
Duke
Ku Klux Klan
Flying Club to Breakfast in Hope Sunday
The Arkansas Private Flyer's Association, about 12 to 14 members with 25 people, will fly to Hope Sunday for breakfast. New officers were elected in Little Rock, and Ed Linzey, the new vice president, will lead the delegation. Planes arrive around 9:30 a.m., and locals are asked to provide transportation for pilots and guests.
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Arkansas Private Flyer's Association
Hope
Little Rock
Ed Linzey
Leether and Oys
Reakfaet
Swedes Seek Explanation for Mysterious Rocket
Stockholm reports a mystery rocket visible over southern Sweden causing public panic. Defense officials say preliminary probes are inconclusive and citizens demand identification of the country behind the man made meteors. Dagens Nyheter described a torpedo shaped, heat emitting, silent object moving northwest to southeast at high altitude.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Dagens Nybheler
OPA Raises Metal Household Furniture Prices
The Office of Price Administration boosted metal household furniture prices by nine percent with manufacturers seeing seven percent. Consumers will face an additional two percent, while prior two percent absorption by resellers is now banned. The rise reflects higher wages and materials costs since 1941.
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Washington
UPI
OPA
Battle Over Jewish Refugees in Haifa Port
In Haifa riots erupted as British troops tried to push hundreds of Jewish refugees into barbwire pens for deportation to Cyprus. A woman was killed and many wounded as Jews fought marines and police near the port while thousands were ordered to stay indoors under curfew.
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Eliav Simon
Haifa
Cyprus
Hadar Haeszmel
Voice Vl
Israel
Henrietta Szotd
Palestine
Henrietta Szold
Soul
Iheir Ald
Yagour
Brit
House of Horror Nursing Home in Indianapolis Reopens
Indianapolis authorities reopen a nursing home after proprietor Margaret Colgin posts bond. Prosecutors seek injunction to bar operation without license, with possible daily arrests if unlicensed. Officers report patients chained in rooms including a 24 year old woman. others restrained behind locked doors as they search the house.
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Indianapolis
Sherwood Blue
Margaret Colgin
Dagouty
North Side
Colvin
Blue
Drummer Is Off Beat At Ardmore Gospel Sing
Ardmore Oklahoma Aug 13 During a Carter county gospel service Waier L Sloan a music lover sat enjoying hymns. Above the instruments he heard a man keeping time with a heavy tool. Investigating he found a boy removing a window frame and hammering bricks in four four time.
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Ardmore
Qkia
Carter County
Waier L. Sloan
Sloan
Novelist H G Wells Dies in London at 79
London August 13 H G Wells British novelist scientist and social critic died today at his London residence aged nearly 80 after years of diabetes and recent complications He wrote more than 70 works including The Time Machine The War of the Worlds and The Outline of History His death closes a prolific career marked by sharp social commentary and science fiction milestones
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London
H. G. Wells
Eric
Wells
Herbert George Wells
Nit
Britling
Tony Bungay
Kipps
George Bernard Shaw
Hughes Leaves Hospital Without Permission
Hollywood August 13 Howard Hughes famed aviator and movie producer left Good Samaritan Hospital without consulting doctors or officials. Hospital staff said they did not know his whereabouts after arranging to leave while convalescing at a friend's home following a serious airplane crash a month earlier.
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Hollywood
Howard Hughes
Allanderidgiis
Good Samaritan Hospital
Hughes
Puerto Rico
United States
Molotov accuses powers of seeking Mediterranean monopoly
Paris dispatch reports Foreign Minister Molotov indirectly accuses the United States and Britain of pursuing foreign economic dominance in Italy at the Mediterranean's expense. He characterizes Italian policy as imperialistic, condemns de Gasperi, and defends Italy's future as a Mediterranean power within the postwar order. The session follows a fierce debate over the Italian treaty and Trieste's status.
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A. H
Shackford
Paris
V. M. Molotov
Russia
United States
Great Britain
Mediterranean
France
Italy
Molotov
Andrei Vishinsky
James F. Byrnes
Alcide de Gasperl
Aly
de Gasperi
de Guasperi
Trieste
Premier Wiile
Adriatic
Byrnes
Vishinsky
Blantengudy Lorenza Taezaz
Ethiopie
Eas
Constantin Tsaldaris
Greece
Alcide de Gesperi
Maly
Axis
Burege
Muselem
Enlistments in US Army at Hempstead Hope's Recruiting Station
Dorsey W. Edwards of Fulham Arkansas and Ray W. Byers of Washington Arkansas enlisted in the Regular Army as unassigned recruits at Camp Joseph T. Robinson Terrell Ray Franks, formerly of Hope now Los Angeles, enlisted in August per Sgt R G Hyle of Hope recruiting station.
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Dorsey William Edwards
Fulton
Arkansas
Ray, W. Byers
Washington
R. G. Hyle Vo ‘Hope
Dorsey W. Edwards
Guernsey High School
Ray W. Byers
Joseph T. Robinson
Terrell Ray Franks
Clifton Franks
Hope
Los Angeles
California
R. G. Hyle
Army
Lighter Hope Polls Show Slower Runoff Voter Turnout
At 1 pm Hope voters lagged runoff totals from two weeks earlier with about 844 ballots cast versus 916 previously. Despite the dip organizers expect turnout to match last election. The Star invites all to its election party with results flashed on screen and a 9:30 pm pantomime by Peter Paul at the New theater. Equipment provided by Cobb-Tooley Radio. heavy screen by Rialto and New theaters.
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Peter Paul
New
Cobb-Tooley Radio Company
Rialta
Piast Aa Mar
Wife Gives Up Honor to Save Husband
Mrs. Doris Murray testified to free her husband Donald Murray after he was accused of murdering his lover. A jury of eight women and four men acquitted him after 43 minutes of deliberation. Murray remained pokerfaced as the verdict was read, then shook hands with jurors and thanked them. She said she had felt hatred but declared love for her husband in the end.
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John RA
Chicago
UPI
Doris Murray
Donald Murray
Pest
Murray
Mar ‘Caradian’ Army
Fletcher
Red Hot State Campaigns End Today
Arkansas Democrats vote in the last of four summer primaries for state district and county offices. Veterans groups press plans to pursue election irregularities in Independence County while four candidates sue to invalidate July 30 ballots in Hot Springs wards and absentee boxes. Dr. W. H. Abington resigns from the Beebe seat amid a veteran challenge in the House race. Polls run 7 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. with races for attorney general, Supreme Court associate justice, and treasurer.
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All the Rock
Arkansas
Batesville
W. H. Abiegton
Beebe
House of Representatives
Supreme Court
Abington
White County
Ben Laney
Mussolini's Body Recovered From Certosa Convent
Milan dispatch reports Benito Mussolini's body, exhumed on April 22 by Fascist sympathizers, found last night in the Certosa convent at Pavia. A 20-year-old fascist, Antonio Parozzi, confessed leading to the recovery. Police plan to hold the body in Milan pending Rome instructions, with Father Enrico Lucen and Father Lamberto of Certosa named in custody.
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Milan
Benito Mussolini
Certosa
Pavia
Antonio Parozzi
Rome
Marco
Domenico Leccisi
Democratic Fascist Party
Enrico Ucen
Lamberto
Certoya
Alverta Parim
Angelicum
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