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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1944
Page
17
President requests continued national prayer during wartime to support the armed forces. He asks for steadfast faith, strength for families, and daily devotion to a lengthy, righteous campaign. The address emphasizes liberation, justice, and endurance through long, hard days ahead.
A wartime prayer text emphasizes steadfast unity and resolve against aggression. It calls for divine blessing to prevail over enemies, conquer greed and racial arrogance, and lead to world peace with sister nations. The prayer ends with a confident Amen.
General Eisenhower delivers a solemn wartime prayer pledging support for human dignity and justice. He asks divine aid for soldiers to perform their duty, endure fear, and stand with comrades in the cause of freedom and mercy.
A wartime message warns that victory is not yet won and calls Americans to fund the war effort. It emphasizes duty to the living wounded and to those who died, urging tight support through buying war bonds to speed the end.
The piece appeals to readers to support the war effort at home by funding the tremendous costs of war. It emphasizes fortified coasts and mined roads in invasion areas and urges citizens to lend money to aid victory. It frames every citizen as responsible for the outcome and highlights a boy on a battlefield who may live to see final victory.
Arthur R. Bobbitt son of Mr and Mrs J H Bobbitt of Littleton received his pilot wings and a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army Air Forces at Stuttgart Army Air Field Arkansas. He had been an apprentice machinist and will attend a transition school for further combat training in larger aircraft.
Pvt Lester Gibson, younger son of Mr and Mrs W W Gibson, who joined the Marines in November 1943, has arrived safely somewhere in the Pacific according to local reports.
Fireman 2/c W D Pearce is assigned to a yard nine sweeper. Address listed as W Pearce F 2/c 275 C o Fleet Post Office New York NY.
Muscar Turner was summoned to South Hill Virginia by the death of his father Aldren W. Turner who died there Saturday. Turner 49 is survived by his wife five sons one sister and two grandchildren.
W T Mitchell 63 a Halifax County native died Sunday May 28 in Norfolk Virginia after a short illness He had moved to Norfolk last November where he worked for the Norfolk Shipbuilding and Drydock Company Funeral services were held at his Littleton home last Wednesday conducted by Rev H L Davis Survived by his wife Dora Myrick Mitchell two daughters Helen Mitchell Littleton and Mrs J M Daughtry Roanoke Rapids four sons Pfc Thomas R Mitchell San Francisco CA Pvt Willie Gray Mitchell Camp Shelby MS and First Sergeant Joe P Mitchell now in England four sisters Mrs Jack King Mrs Frank King Mrs Harvey Myrick and Mrs Henry Faucette of Littleton plus Miss Mary Lowder who left for Morehead City for a visit before summer.
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