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William Graham Everson was Adjutant-General of the Indiana National Guard as well as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Muncie, Ind., when President Hoover appointed him to succeed Major-General Creed C. Hammond. In Washington Preacher Everson became a full-fledged Major-General of the Regular Army (pay and allowances: $9,700). His job: to administer the $27,000,000 per year the U. S. provides to help maintain guard units; to supply them with U. S. equipment, regular Army officers for training; to keep them up to Regular Army standards...
...service as a private in the Spanish-American War. He held pastor-ates in Indiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, Kentucky. In the World War he was a colonel of infantry on the Italian front; in 1923-24 he was the American Legion's chaplain. In 1921 he went to the First Church of Muncie, raised $350,000 for a new building, highly organized his flock, even down to an emergency blood transfusion corps. When he left Muncie, his church refused his resignation, made him pastor emeritus. His last call there was upon an indicted bootlegger. He played with the 'legger's children...
...sample Everson day: Flew from Indianapolis to Muncie (54 miles), performed a wedding and a funeral, visited five sick parishioners, gave a pint of blood to a dying boy, witnessed a major operation of a friend, edited the church's weekly bulletin, wrote a Sunday sermon, returned to Indianapolis before 8 a.m. next...
...United States," he cried, "the only place where you cannot expect to find booze is in a church basement...
...diocese of Southern Ohio found itself without a Bishop because of the resignation of Bishop Boyd Vincent, 84, and the serious illness of Bishop Coadjutor Theodore Irving. Reese, Bishop Paul Jones was called to be acting Bishop. Last week he took his post. Few Ohioans felt that the Episcopal Church and the safety of the nation were thus endangered...