Social and Personal notices reflect May week activities
Y W A members plan church meeting and prayer at 8 p m May 9 and a Y W A picnic at Fair Park at 7 p m May 10 Joint PTA meeting at 3 30 p m May 10 at the high school Y W A members to visit the ill May 11 hosts Circle 3 of W S C S May 9 Circle 2 hosts Circle 2 W S C S May 8 Mother Daughter Banquet at the Educational Building June 6 focus week program led by Y W A members and WMU committee with readings a drama and songs at the church
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Y.W.A
P.t.a.'s
Fair Park
WMU
Henry Haynes
Jesse Brown
Laura Cooper
Martha Brown
Spirit of
Judith Joyner
June Duke
Mary Elizabeth Bright
Norma Jean Duke
Betty Coleman
Arlest Trout
Clarice Brown
McCullough
Gus Haynes
Iris Garden Club Meeting Plans June Picnic
The Iris Garden Club met with Mrs. Wingfield and Mrs. Burns as hostesses. Members discussed the June 12 picnic at the Experiment Station, elected officers for the new year, and heard programs on summer flowers pest control and the life of Luther Burbank. Mrs. Tolleson won the flower arrangement contest with first place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. O. Wingield
Herbert Burns
Iris Club
Iris Garden
FE. O. Wingfield
C. P. Tolleson
E. O. Wingfield
F. N. Porter
Bill Smith
Floyd Crank
Coming and Going in Local Society
Mrs Pauline Smith arrived Monday from Los Angeles for a visit with her sisters and relatives. Miss Clarice Cannon left Monday for a visit with relatives in Portland Arkansas. She joined Lt Thomas Cannon here for the trip. Lt Cannon has recently returned from oversea duty in the Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pauline Smith
Los Angeles
California
Herbert Griffin
Edward Schooley
Clarice Cannon
Portland
Arkansas
Thomas Cannon
Lt. Cannon
Pacific
Cousin Victoria Arrives at the American House
A detailed household scene centers on Cousin Victoria bringing volumes 76–82 of her Journal to Balmoral style residence. She disrupts routines, moves into the best room, courts the office crowd, and overrides parlor plans with lace making and journal readings. The piece ends promising continuation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
Cousin Victoria
Fish Rich Menu Features Baked Fish Molds
Fish supplies ample protein with recipes for Baked Fish Molds and Frankfurter Scallop. The guide lists ingredients for each dish, baking times, and a mustard cream accompaniment. Tomorrow’s menu includes breakfast lunch and dinner items featuring fish and frankfurter scallop.
Beattie Reports Wartime German Chaos and Escape Ordeal
In a dangerous night retreat through a German held area, the narrator recalls being among a mixed force of regulars, SS, and Luftwaffe personnel fleeing toward safety. Air attacks by Mustang fighters disrupt the convoy as guards threaten the escapee, who is sheltered by a headquarters unit led by Gen. Ottenbacher amid a jammed, improvised transport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gestapo
Berlin
Ottenbacher
Luftwafffe
Lemon Juice eRecipe Claims Quick Rheumatic Relief
An advertisement promotes Ru-Ex Compound a two week supply mixed with water and lemon juice claiming rapid relief from rheumatic arthritic and neuralgia pains. It promises money back if no improvement and cites Johnson and Grug stores and four druggists selling the product.
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Johnson and Grug
Edelweiss Pirates Rise in German City Under Nazi Rule
Kassel reports on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loose anti Nazi youth group in Germany. About 15 to 20 local members harassed the Nazis, sang mix of boogie woogie and folk tunes, and faced brutal conditions in a munitions plant with foreign slave labor. They lacked a formal leader and dispersed after their former leader was reportedly shot by Gestapo. Similar groups appeared in major cities overrun by Allied forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Stringer
Kassel
Germany
Edelweiss
Hermann Bannenberg
Party
Jugend
Heinz
Hermann
Gestapo
Cologne
All Day Gathering Planned Sunday at Forest Hill Church
Forest Hill church hosts an all day gathering on Sunday May 13 with morning services, noon dinner, and afternoon singing. Organizers invite the public to bring songbooks.
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Forest Hill Church
Forrest Hill Church
Keitel’s humiliating march to meet Zhukov in Berlin
The passage recalls General Keitel riding in a Russian staff car through central Berlin to meet Marshal Zhukov, noting the city’s ruined streets as the setting for a dramatic reversal from a previous allied victory less than four years earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keitel
Zhukov
Berlin
Hiller
Sundays in the Maquis and German tactics in war lodging
The narrator recalls Maquis fighting methods and German fifth column tactics. Supplies included sausage, cheese, brown bread, sardines, meat with needles, and watery ersatz tea at various times, described as not bad but not a frant ine fighting diet.
Shreveport Man Drowns While Swimming Near Fulton
W. J. Ourrio eighteen of 2716 Carol Street Shreveport La drowned while swimming in the Red River a quarter mile from Fulton at 7:30 Tuesday night Sheriff Frank J Hill reported. Ourrio and two Western Union Telegraph company linemen W L Spires and B B Badell had arrived in Fulton with foreman B B Moses from Dallas for work. Currie drowned but his body was not found and Fulton residents searched the river to day. Currie’s father was notified and arrived from Shreveport early today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. Ourrio
Carol Street
Shreveport
Red River
Fulton
Frank J. Hill
Ourrio
Western Union Telegraph Company
W. L. Spires
B. B. Badell
B. B. Moses
Dallas
Sheriff Hill
Sgt
Herald Porterfield
Arkansas State Police
Currie
Infant Health Course to Be Held Monday in Hope
The Arkansas State Board of Health sponsors an all day conference on nursing care of premature infants at First Christian Church in Hope on Monday May 14. Public health nurses hospital staff and aides invited. Demonstrations cover incubator setup bed making handwashing diapering bathing cord dressings feeding followed by a quiz and Q&A.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas State Board of Health
First Christian Church
Hope
State Board of Health
Margaret S. Vaughan
Ethelle Reeves
Lila Sallee
Rea McCormick
Child Welfare Division
State Department of Public Welfare
Inez Gartrell Turner
Miller
Nevada
Lafayette
Hempstead
Columbia
Howard and Clark
Capitals of Europe Rejoice Over Victory
London and Moscow celebrate V E day as Paris Brussels Amsterdam and Oslo mark peace. Churchill appears at Whitehall with a warning to Japan. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth greet crowds at Buckingham Palace as bonfires light Hampstead Heath's decoy village.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward J. Kennedy
London
Moscow
Paris
Brussels
Amsterdam
Copenhagen
Oslo
Nor Way
Churchill
Ministry of Health
Whitehall
British Empire
Buckingham Palace
King George
Queen Elizabeth
Elizabeth
Margaret
Hampstead Heath
Graveyard Cleaning at Bright Star Cemetery
A cemetery cleanup is planned at Bright Star Cemetery on Friday May 18. Interested families should bring tools and lunch with them to help clear and tidy the grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bright Star Cemetery
Marriage advice from Dorothy Dix column
A Dorothy Dix advice column addresses views on marriage from a reader who loves outdoor pursuits, arguing marriage can be rewarding despite fears. The column counsels against marrying a drunkard, warns of a man valuing his sister over a partner, and notes a long engagement with a widower is unwise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Dix
The
Bell Syndicate
Truman Signs Extension of Draft Law
President Truman signed a bill extending the Selective Service act for one year or until the war ends, with reluctance and emphasis on necessity for fighting Japan. The measure bars 18 year olds from combat until six months of training, allows training abroad, and does not require releasing current combat troops.
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Washington
Truman
Japan
Navy
Congress
War and Navy Departments
House
Senate
Pacific
Peace in Europe sparks calls for godly reconciliation
A religious reflection celebrates the end of European hostilities and urges true peace through faith in Christ. The piece contrasts secular peace with peace with God and urges readers to live godly lives, restore homes, and spread righteousness worldwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
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Azelea Garden Club
Syd McMath
J. W. Branch
R. L. Broach
the Hope High School
J. M. Houston
R. E. Cain
W.S.C.S
First Methodist Church
O. A. Graves
China
R. T. White
E. P. Stewart
Sam Womack
Leland Womack
Leon Bundy
A. D. Middlebrooks
W. C. Miller
France
First Baptist
Moroline
Richard Wagner
Leipzig
EOE Ety
Rial
Marjorie Reynolds
Charles Ruggles
Fay Painter
Fred Brady
Helen Broderick
Arthur Lake
Balmoral
Dash
Hiram
R. F
Gaynor Maddox
NEA
Pbs
Talbots
Beattie
Gen. Keitel
Lalla Mary Goggans
U.S. Children’s Bureau
St. Joseph Aspirin
Hall’s Hat Shop
2Nd St
Dorothy DIX
Mryna
Jyansen Lloves
Fabrica
Hansén
Talbot
Immanuel
Wayman D. Miller
Church of Christ
5Th and
Grady Streets Hope, Arkansas
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