Let the Wicked Forsake His Way
A biblical quotation from Isaiah 55 7 urging repentance and mercy as the path to God. It emphasizes forsaking wickedness and unrighteous thoughts to receive abundant pardon from the Lord.
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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1943
Page
4
A biblical quotation from Isaiah 55 7 urging repentance and mercy as the path to God. It emphasizes forsaking wickedness and unrighteous thoughts to receive abundant pardon from the Lord.
President Roosevelt and General Eisenhower confer on the site of ancient Carthage as they discuss high level strategy amid ruins. Reports suggest plans could impact global affairs, likening current tensions to Rome and Carthage and noting a second world war era effort to resolve modern conflicts.
Lawrence residents and alumni visited the University military building Friday night to inspect facilities. Visitors remarked the structure seems larger inside than outside and noted its careful design for its purpose. The opening signals shifts in campus attitudes toward defense and the need to train young men for potential conflict while preserving peaceful pursuits.
The article notes a readjustment of selective service methods aligned with congressional intent on pre war fathers. Kansas and other states see no immediate change, as policies already favored calling pre Pearl Harbor fathers after other classifications exhausted. In many counties, including Douglas, quotas require fathers to be called, joining those previously listed as non deferable occupations now revoked. Families express regret over congress and selective service actions.
The passage notes that delays in action may worsen public confusion as men are called to service. It stresses that past calls have nearly exhausted unmarried men with no dependents and implies further director-led adjustments won’t change this core shortage.
Allied bombers pound the German naval base at Emden in heavy air fights. The assaults yield 138 German planes and 20 Allied planes lost as attackers force a path to the objective. The pattern of costly air war in Europe continues with emphasis on ground targets and defense efforts.
The program allows households to earn meat points by saving fats and sending them for industrial use. Salvage of fats is praised as patriotic and largely voluntary. Housewives have embraced the effort, and authorities expect greater fat savings for industry while relaxing some rationing restrictions for meal planning.
The funeral for Dr Ernest Pihlblad, who served 37 years as president of Bethany College in Lindsborg, was held today. He led a notable career in Kansas education and public service, including terms as state senator and various official roles. He supported constructive state-wide movements throughout his long career.
Count Ernst zu Reventlow died at age 74 amid the collapse of the regime he helped found. Once a vehement advocate of anti semitism and a fierce German unification, he spread Nazi ideas long before Hitler rose to power and remained an uncompromising voice even as Germany faltered.
Tokyo radio nearly matched itself in announcing the sinking of the new American battleship Wisconsin in the southwest Pacific. The Wisconsin was launched only last week and is not yet in commission, suggesting further reports are expected from Japan.
DeWitt Mackenzie analyzes the Balkans where Tito and the Yugoslav Partisans surge against Nazi forces. He notes tensions with King Peter's government, Moscow's support for the partisans, and Bulgaria's anti-German shift amid Allied bombing and Hungary and Romania pressures.
Admiral Ernest J. King and Field Marshal Sir John Dill, both senior Allied officers, spent Saturday night in San Juan Puerto Rico on their way back to the United States after attending the Cairo Teheran war councils.
Mr and Mrs George Docking host a Sunday dinner for Justin Hill and Miss Margaret Seybold of Atchison. The Finesse club meets at Mrs John Brand's home for luncheon and cards. Ye Tavern hosts the B and P W Christmas party with bridge and games. Bernice Jones chairs. Robette McCoy to visit in Lawrence with Otto Fischer. Kansas Aggies routed by K A in a 27 to 13 exhibition in the auditorium. American Legion turkey shoot set for December 17 at Lawrence gun club. Rotarians from the seventeenth district convene in Kansas City with R C Manley and J Frank Jones attending. C N Phillips of Kansas City visits his parents. Miss Ella Phenicie of Tonganoxie returns home after visiting Mrs Charles Spray.
The food administration announced that sugar and flour dealers may offer those goods below cost for the first time in over a year. Miss Hazel Wilson, a teacher in Altus Oklahoma schools, is home.
Forty years ago reports note an Episcopal church sacred concert and a visit by Rev R A Schwegler of Ottawa to preach at First Baptist. The fourth annual banquet of the engineering school occurred at Eldridge hall for 225 guests with a six course meal at 9 pm. Judge J W Green hosted the Kansas football team at his Tennessee Street home. The first basketball game of the season was set against William Jewell College. River fill work paused due to a storm as the University thermometer read 20 degrees at 2 pm.
Marvin H. McIntyre, longtime secretary to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, died at age 65 in Washington. A native of Kentucky, he served as Roosevelt’s publicity representative in 1920 and was his secretary from 1933 until the president left office, after a career in public relations and journalism.
Liberty Memorial High School recalls former students in the armed forces. Principal Ralph Graber prepared a Christmas greeting sent to over 800 service members. Iva Belle Harper chairs a committee arranging letters from English classes about school activities.
In California a towman towed a Marine Maj. s car from a crash but discovered later the vehicle belonged to Leslie Ralphs of Los Angeles. In Kansas City Ludwick Graves left the maternity ward to return home, joking about hospital beds.
Colonel Neel Kearby, a Texas flier, is limited to two flights weekly by his commander. He enjoys inviting veteran pilots on hunting trips and jokes about hunting, noting a season’s bag of sixteen Japanese planes. The item closes with a note on ancient Greek knowledge of fossils.
Major Charles H. Pruden Jr. released a report from Maj. Gen. Campbell Jr. showing the Ordnance Department reduced the Army Supply Program costs by 2.7 billion dollars and overall costs by 3.047 billion. Civilian payrolls dropped from 5,914 to 3,272 in Washington and nationwide from 226,346 to 189,235, freeing workers for other war tasks.
Kansas labor department says retail food prices increased 0.5 percent in November from October and were 5.1 percent higher than a year ago. Potatoes rose 5.4 percent. bananas prunes roast beef butter and eggs up while oranges fell 11.1 percent. sirloin and round steak declined slightly. Germans told to evacuate Vienna to East Prussia ahead of possible Allied air strikes per Social Democrat reports.
Seaman Glenn Harrison arrived home Monday for a visit with his mother Mrs Theodore Harrison. Dr A J Wise traveled to Memorial hospital in Lawrence on a professional visit. The Reading club plans its annual Christmas dinner at the College Cafe Pine Room next Wednesday at 6 PM. W J Adriance bought the Hostetter interest in Hostetter Implement Co Wellsville and will rename it Adriance Truck and Tractor Co. The Adriance family will stay in Baldwin for now awaiting a new home in Wellsville. Mrs John W Heaton and son,
Jimmie and another relative have light flu. Mrs Olive Crawford of Kansas City visited Baldwin for the Baker Housemother's club luncheon and stayed at the Tri Delta house. Dr Charles W Bailey and Mrs Bailey marked their sixty sixth wedding anniversary at home on South 8th Street with granddaughter Mrs Chester Gates Jr as guest. Bailey turns 96 February 12 and remains active, while Mrs Bailey suffers arthritis and is largely homebound.
The last Noble Grands of the Rebekah lodge held their annual Christmas party at Mrs. Simpson Taylor’s home on South 8th Street with Mrs. Walter Kennedy as hostess. Miss Katherine Kelley presented nativity shadow pictures, and readings and carols followed the gift exchange. Out of town guests included Mrs. Virginia Hargett and others from Lawrence and Tulsa.
Mrs Tetterby withdraws in fear as Redlaw, a chemist and professor, appears seeking to forget his past and to erase others memories. The stranger guides his steps to Denham, a student lodging in the house, and an unsettling exchange unfolds as the family reacts to the visitor.
The Baker chapter of Kap pa Sigma lists pallbearers including Judge John R. James C Kimball W Robert Evans and Wo Ralph Warner for the funeral service.
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