Local Colored News Highlights Community Activities
The St John Missionary Society installed officers led by Lillian Carter and Mary Turner with Pinkie Smith and Mary Robinson among other roles. Straton High School band hosts ministerial event January 23 1942 with new Girls Octet and other acts. Clef Club to meet at Stratton High School for practice Thursday. Death notices: Elizabeth Adams and Rosa Anderson reported. Mission Circle meets at Mrs J B Early home this afternoon. Junior League to meet Friday January 23 at 8 PM. Sunday School program planned February 1 at Central Street Baptist with Rev Lee R Robinson preaching. Iroquois Women Hour program list includes readings and solos. Anjean Services held Sunday. church meeting January 31. Continued on Page 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. John Missionary Society
Lillian Carter
Lena Shepard
Pinkie Smith
Bessie Pollard
Mary Turner
Mary Robinson
Lottie Clay
White Cross
Mattie Jackson
Eva Holland
McAlpin
Elizabeth Adams
Winding Gulf
Rosa Anderson
North Beckley
Circle
Mission Circle No. 2
The
Dorcas Missionary Society
Ing
Dixon
Solo
M. Morgan
Reading
Margareta Finney
A. Byrd
G. V. Joyce
Williams
Memmy Bers
Navy and Army recruitments surge with multiple enlistments
Petty Officer John McDorman announced that Dillard Williams Jr will go to Charleston for final Navy enlistment, while James Edward Collins and Alexander Piotrowski were accepted for Navy enlistment. Marine Corps applicants included Mitchell Roth and Harry Drewry Arthur, with Carl Richmond set to process tomorrow. Draft Board notices restrict releases for voluntary service as branches push to meet enlistment goals amid a midweek recruiting pause.
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John McDorman
Naval Recruiting Office
Dillard Williams, Jr
Charleston
Navy
James Edward Collins
Slab Fork
Alexander Piotrowski
Lochgelly
M. F. Waczula
Marine Corps
I Mitchell Roth
Beckley
Harry Drewry Arthur
Kilsythe
Waczula
Carl Richmond
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service Organization
W. A. Saunders
West Virginia
Lay
John An, Jr
Saunders
Anthony
Sunders
Say Saunders
Board No. 3
Marines
Army
Army Medical Board
No. 1
B. P. Delass
McAlphin
Ned H. Fuson
J. Euson
Princewick
H. N. Kidwell
Granaview
W. M Jenkins
Besoco
Rudolf Linek
Glen Delman Hammon
Linek
Fair Corps
Jury verdicts and sentences on reckless driving cases
Jurors continued from page one to verdicts on reckless driving. One defendant received 60 days in jail, a $25 fine, and probation after the sentence was suspended. Obie Bragg faced six months in jail, $50 fine, and costs with sentence suspended and placed on probation. Charles Austin’s case involving his wife was postponed to the next term due to ill health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Obie Bragg
Charles Austin
Homma's Geneva and Tokyo Military Roles Through 1938
The text notes a Japanese officer who represented the army at the 1931 Geneva disarmament conference after a prior London attache post. He led Tokyo's public relations bureau in the war office for two years after Geneva, and in 1937 joined Prince Chichibu's London suite. In 1938 he became director of the second bureau of Japan's general staff, equivalent to G-2 intelligence in the U.S. system.
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London
Geneva
War Office
Tokyo
Prince Chichibu
Japan
Homma
General Staff
Long List of Ladies Named in Charity Society Roster
A lengthy roster lists numerous women and groups including Beckley Hebrew Sisterhood Syrian Club Ladies of Eunice and Syrian Society, with many Mrs entries and several Misses. The compilation names Mrs. Herbert Cohen and dozens of others, reflecting a social or charitable society event or donor list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adam Brown
A. C. Lilly
Robert Thomson
W. T. Tabor
Lanier File
Eliza Perkins
J. F. Houchins
Charles Giglia
T. C. Moorefield
Charlie Moore
Frank Dunbar
Violet Hall
Frank Moten
E. C. Via
H. P. Wills
Ethel Dunn
Virginia McBrayer
Emory Quesenberry
L. EF. Scholl
Virginia Bitzer
Kate Wray
van der Volgen
Clarence Potter
Louis Veid
Irle Fink
Betty Barrett
Christina Bakalis
Hubert Harshbarger
Hannah Higgins
Arlena Miller
J. H. Jarrett
R. C. Crawford
C. M. Draper
George Jones
Harvey Davis
Hobart Hood
Don Donley
Betty Jones
George Bowman
Lord
Tommy Roberts
Clyde Cox
Mary Goldsmith
Molly McCreery
Wayne Prince
Alice Beard
Arlene Lilly
R. T. Bair
Harry Hall
E. E. Potter
E. E. Potter, Mary Margaret Hill, Mrs. E. F. Cooper
C. Muller
H. F Thomasson
Mable Riffe
E. FE. Shrewsberry
Beckley Hebrew Sisterhood
R. K. Rubush
James Hewitt
Robert Fergerson
Aden Brown
Lucy Sue Bowers
Edna Williams
Josephine Gridelli
Ethelyn Meador
O. F Cain
Mary Demming
Harriett Williams
T. S. Rice
D. Arnstein
Joana Morrison
Hattie Hurt
L. Stover
Price Caffee
J. C. Mabe
Warren Thornhill
Ida M. O'Dell
M. C. Dumany
Mary Walling
Rippetoe
Mitchell
Ada Henderson
A. Mickael
French Lucas
Haye Underwood
Eunice
Ildon Rohrer
David Jones
Tommy Blankenship
Woody Bolen
J. M. Cannoy
Stan Underwood
Esther Farley
Clifford Richmond
Ada Lilly
O. B. Harris
J M. Collins
Keith Bobbett
J. F. Maddy
Audrey Wilburn
W. Gaston Caperton
S. Austin Caperton
F. W. Rucker
James Hornbeck
Ernest Martin
C. L. Nolan
J. F. Hoffman
John Turner
Gladys Holiday
D. P. Gadd
W. T Tabor
F. Barrett
Daily Crossword And Cryptoquote Teaser In Paper
The page features a large cryptogram puzzle section with a cryptoquote and a list of crossword clues abbreviated by numbers. It includes a sample quote, a cryptogram line, and a note that yesterday's answer was a Collins quotation about thinking and feeling.
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Collins
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Charles Rogers Died Yesterday in Montgomery
Charles H. Rogers, 63, of New York state, died yesterday of a heart attack at Hubbard Hospital in Montgomery Alabama. He had come to Harper to construct the Virginian station there and married Bertie M. Harper. Funeral services were set for this afternoon at White Hall Chapel in Montgomery. Survived by his widow, two sons Lieutenant Arthur H. Rogers and Major Henry H. Rogers, and two daughters Mrs Porter Anderson and Mrs Herbert Jackson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles H. Rogers
New York State
Hubbard Hospital
Montgomery
Alabama
Rogers
Harper
Bertie M. Harper
Henry H. Harper
White Hall Chapel
Arthur H. Rogers
Army Air Corps
Puerto Rico
Henry H. Rogers
Fort Benning
Georgia
Porter Anderson
Herbert Jackson
Raleigh
North Carolina
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Parent-Teacher Association of
the Wells Elementary School
Elizabeth Lewis
J. W. Haynes
Ministre
Stratton
Stratton High School
Alice Brown
Jane Taylor
Sidney Dickason
Thornton Lawson
Mrs
Jeff Davis
Clef Club
J. B. Early
Ruth Wright
Central Street Baptist Church
Evelyn Hayes
Vera Huffman
Lee R. Robinson
C. D.trent
Charles Jones
Bernice Hill Henry
Dorothy White Evans
M. Wyche Capel
Charlie Neal
Chrystal
Block
Lillie B. Cousins
Evelyn Neal
Walter Dobbs
East Park
Daily Crossword
ACROS
Sym
Lairs
Little
Cage
Cornucopia
Specter
Asegeprins
Narrow Lane
Young Eagle
Blue
Afresh
Vocal Sound
French River
Andy
Bibo
Moon Mullens
By Willard
Lord Plushbottom
U.S
Moon
Little Annie Rooney
Wilson
Special Agent X-9
Nancy
Brandon Wall
MR. Oliver
RobeRt Storm
Bill
Dick Tracy
Chester Gould
Blondie
By Dick Young
Thimble Theater
Popeye
Oscar
Charles Rogers
Harper Station
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