Summer Socials and Birthday Party Gather at Local Home
The scene centers on a Methodist gathering hosted on a bright lawn with guests listed by name and role. An out of door party celebrated Miss Eva Cooper's 16th birthday with games, cake, and punch. Attendees include Eva Cooper and numerous Misses and couples, while others report recent vacations and visits from relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eva Cooper
Miss Cooper
Tom Cooper
Swartz
Eloise Yeats
Marcell Parnelle
Louisé ‘Cooper
Frances Cooper
Estelle Garr
Dorothy Cooper
Thelman Adams
Bobby Dumas
Harold Parnelle
J. T. Parnelle
Bo Cagle
James Cooper
Ed Cagle
Billy Cagle
W. M. Beckley
Harold Hudson
Theo Musick
New Pattern No 8014 For Fall Frock Sizes 36 to 52
The News Star World Today pattern 8014 offers a low neck fall dress with a soft bodice and raised waistline for larger figures. It calls for 42 3 yards of 36 inch fabric for size 38 with short sleeves and provides mailing details for order plus a Fashion Book preview.
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News-Star— World Today
106Th Avenue
New York
N. Y
Rice brothers to perform at Central Grammar Friday
Local 901 Painters auxiliary presents the Rice brothers of KWKH at Central Grammar School Friday. Public invited. Includes notes on several local residents traveling for revival meetings and vacations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rice Brothers of Kwkh
Central Grammar School
Painters Auxiliary No. 64
Visitors and social notes span Pennsylvania and New York
Guests including Miss Virginia Furbish of Memphis and Miss Opal Curry with Miss Sue Hamer and Miss Lavania Taylor returned from Shreveport. T. R. Moore was seen in the region and Mr and Mrs Baskin Wright hosted. An outing at the Washington Youree Zephyr room featured Sterling Young's orchestra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Furbish
Memphis, Tenn
Baskin ‘Wright
Opal Curry
Sue Hamer
Lavania Taylor
Shreveport
Washington- Youree Hotel
Sterling Young
Mudhole War Weighs On Frontline Soldiers In Rain and Shellfire
In a field report from the front, soldiers endure constant rain as anti tank guns and artillery hammer their positions. Weidlich recalls bunking in a barn under renewed Soviet fire that kills two comrades while others tend soaked gear and boots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
Weidlich
Thoughtful Debate on Punishing War Leaders Aftermath
The author weighs how to handle wartime leaders like Hitler and Mussolini if captured. Options include public execution or confinement, noting risks to civilization, international law, and public sentiment. The piece questions where to imprison Hitler and suggests public shaming for Mussolini as a possible remedy.
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Europe
Paris
Hitler
Key West
Washington, D. C
Chicago
Mussolini
Army maneuver patients flood Lagarde General Hospital
More than 100 patients from maneuver areas were brought to Lagarde General Hospital in New Orleans for treatment. Colonel Wilfred C. Boyles announced the latest arrivals, including 43 patients sent in two cars from a Lake Charles hospital, moving troops south and west of Alexandria.
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New Orleans
Army
Lagarde General
Blossoms in the Dust Opens at Paramount for Three Days
Walter Pidgeon co stars with Greer Garson in Blossoms in the Dust opening today at the Paramount for a three day engagement. The film is shown in Technicolor and features Garson with striking red hair and green eyes while Pidgeon is pictured in a scene in a lion's cage.
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Walter Pidgeon
Greer Garson
Paramount Theater
Lions
Pat Lion
Greer Garsons
Local births include Talton Dillard and Ramsey family previews
Birth notices from Jonesboro and nearby areas report William Hilton Talton born August 14 to Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Talton and additional births. H. B. Dean and J. M. Dillard announce newborns, with several August 12 to 14 entries for Baragona Ramsey Mathews Miller families in the region.
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B. L. Talton
Olive Street
William Hilton
H. B. Dean
Wood Street
Vaughan-Wright-Bendel Clinic
Charles Joseph, Jr
Hodge Clinic
Charles J. Baragona
Elizabeth Ann
A. N. Ramsey
Jonesboro
Aswell Mathews
Baton Rouge
Gilbert's Condition Unchanged After Shooting Incident
Oliver Gilbert, about 50, was released on 750 bond after a quarrel led to a shooting at his father Oliver Gilbert senior in Union Parish. The elder man remained in unchanged condition at St Francis sanitarium with a shattered hip from a squirrel shot, witnesses include the elder’s wife and mother.
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Oliver Gilbert
Marion
St. Francis Sanitarium
Gilbert
Edmund Gilbert
J. B. Hester
Union Parish
Unionn
Hester
Unicon Saw Smill
Generals Forget to Stay Behind Lines at Camp Polk Maneuvers
At Camp Polk Louisiana on August 20 generals Patton and Krueger were amid mock war games. Patton reportedly escaped capture by hopping into a parked tank and taking two infantry companies as prisoners. Separately Liverpool workers reporting for duty without gas masks face pay docking for the lapse.
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Camp Polk
George S. Patton
Third Army
Walter Krueger
Patton
Roosevelt to visit Hyde Park with Duke of Kent
The White House said President Roosevelt will likely depart late tomorrow for a weekend at Hyde Park New York hosting the Duke of Kent brother of King George while he tours Canada. The duke will return to Washington Monday and then visit Norfolk and Baltimore defense plants.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N. Y
Duke of Kent
George of England
Canada
Norfolk
Baltimore
Blitz Defense for Blitzkrieg Shown in First Full Dress
The Third Army under Lieutenant General Walter Krueger demonstrated a new integrated anti-tank group hailed as blitz defense for the blitzkrieg. Observers including Lesley McNair saw the action amid heavy smoke, with a 35 mile front and near rout of the Red forces. a critique will review the first phase Thursday before the second phase starts Sunday.
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Lesley McNair
Army
Walter Krueger
Third Army
Krueger
Russia Finland quibble over diplomats amid wartime exchanges
In Ankara Aug 19 after two months of conflict Soviet Russia and Finland quarrel over exchange of diplomatic representatives. Eleven Finnish women held in railcars north of the border were released. Twenty Finns including the minister to Moscow remain detained. About sixteen Russians in Finland are detained in Yugoslavia. Finland seeks release of 20 Finnish doctors technicians and farmers held in Soviet territory since the 1939 40 war.
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Ankara
Turkey
Russia
Finland
Moscow
Yugoslavia
Snowflake Arizona Named for Founders Flake and Snow
Snowflake in Arizona earned its name from founder William J. Flake and his friend Erastus Snow. The town’s origin ties directly to the two men who helped establish the settlement and its identity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snowflake, Ariz
William J. Flake
Erastus Snow
Dallas evangelist leads revival at Central Baptist Church
Dr. R. L. Holmes of Dallas conducts nightly revival meetings at Central Baptist Church located at 3400 Lee Avenue.
Texas Evangelist Leads Revival Here
Daily and nightly revival services are held at Central Baptist church 3400 Lee avenue led by Dr. R. L. Holmes evangelist from Dallas Texas. Services run each morning at 7 45 oclock and evenings from 9 to 10. D. D. Cantrell is pastor. This week is young peoples week with youth in charge daily. Meetings continue through August 31.
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R. L. Holmes
Dallas
Tex
Central Baptist Church
Lee Avenue
D. D. Cantrell
Lynchburg Fire Plugs Marked by Chief Evans
In Lynchburg Virginia fire plugs bear painted marks by Fire Chief Marvin Evans to indicate which outlets can supply one two or three hose lines.
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Lynchburg
Buddy
Marvin Evans
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