Pythian convention opens with Ward Owens address
About 300 delegates attended the convention in Roanoke with Dr Ward Owens of Calvary Baptist Church urging the order to pursue ethical living. President Charles D Fox Sr presided as Welcomes were given and Rajah Temple Band performed. Owens urged war temperance home security and religious experience as key issues. Delegates toured city and county with a luncheon hosted by the Pythian Sisters at the Hotel Roanoke.
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Ward
Owens
Calvary Baptist Church
Charles D. Fox, Sr
Washington
Roanoke
Rajah Temple Band
Clifton Woodrum
Virginia
Pythian Bisters
Lutherans Hear About Communism from Knuble
At Columbus on October 15 delegates to the Lutheran Church elected Dr. F H Knuble to lead the church for two years amid warnings about atheistic Communism. The New York leader has guided the church since its formation in the early days.
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Columbus
F. H. Knuble
Breutheran Church
Knuble
New York
Typhoon Toll Rises in Philippines To 646 Dead
Heavy storm toll climbs as official counts show 646 dead and 1,045 missing amid floods and wind across northern Luzon provinces reported Friday through Sunday.
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Manila
Luzon
Mrs Hoover Re-elected Leader Of Girl Scouts
Mrs Herbert Hoover wife of the former President was reelected president of the Girl Scouts of America at the twenty second annual national convention. Mrs Benjamin Harrison widow of President Harrison was named an honorary vice president.
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Herbert Hoover
Girl Scouts of America Today
Benjamin Harrison
Harrison
Tugwell Book Removed From Approved Texts List
Henry Ridgely, president of the Delaware State Board of Education, announced that the board struck from its approved textbooks the work Our Economic Society and its Problems by Rexford Tugwell and Howard G. Hill.
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Wilmington
Del
Henry Ridgely
State Board of Education
Our Economic Society
Rexford G. Tugwell
Howard G. Hill
University of Chicago
Club Leader Dies
P J Mercer Barnett 53 a Birmingham businessman and former Kiwanis International president died here last night. He led the organization in 1921 and held high civic roles in Birmingham.
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Birmingham
Ala
P—J. Mercer Barnett
Kiwanis International
Barnes Divorces Publisher Over Desertion
Binnie Barnes, English film actress, files for divorce from Samuel Joseph, London publisher, on grounds of desertion after his departure. The case notes the couple’s separation occurred previously with a pending divorce filing.
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Los Angeles
Binnie Barnes
Samuel Joseph
London
Notable Buffalo Social Leader Files Divorce Suit
Mrs Gretchen Wettlaufer Field of Buffalo New York filed for divorce from Maurice Goddard Field of Cos Cob Connecticut in Reno Nevada District Court charging cruelty in a contemporary civil action.
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Reno, Nev
Gretchen Wettlaufer Field
Buffalo
N. Y
Maurice Goddard Field
Cos Cob, Conn
Heiress Dorise Cromwell gives $5,000 to Arkansas fund
Little Rock Arkansas October 15 with state headquarters for the National Democratic fund reporting Dorise Cromwell heiress to the Duke fortune contributed five thousand dollars to Arkansas quota of the national fund.
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Little Rock
Ark
National Democratic Eee Fund
Dorise Cromwell
North Carolina
Duke
National Fund
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