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...Oakland, Calif, hotel room one morning last week Aimee Semple McPherson, the most spectacular U.S. evangelist since Billy Sunday, died gasping in the arms of her son Rolf-a bottle of sleeping pills on the bed table beside her. Though tired and ill, she had come up from Los Angeles to conduct a series of four revival meetings and dedicate a new church of her Foursquare Gospel (which now has 400 branches and 195 missions). On the evening of the day she died, she was to have preached on "The Story of My Life...
Soldiers will be sent first to "separation centers." Five have already been set up (Fort Dix, N.J., Fort McPherson, Ga., Fort Sheridan, Ill., Fort Sam Houston, Tex., Presidio of Monterey, Calif.) There G.I. Joe will get a physical examination, and medical treatment if he needs it. Finally discharged, he will get the money owed him plus travel pay, with the advice to lose no time in buying his ticket...
Last week Justice Dennistoun swore in Missouri-born Ewen Alexander McPherson, 65, as the new Chief Justice succeeding James Emile Prendergast, 86. Justice Dennistoun used the occasion to rip into the Free Press. He roared that its editorial was "as treacherous as the attack made by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor. It can be compared only to a raid on a hospital ship flying the Red Cross or a mercy ship with all lights burning and no means of defense available...
Matthew P. Doherty, Jr., Horold L. Harvey, Leon C. Hartstone, Herbert Jaques, Arthur W. Lucht, James R. McPherson, Lawrence Munson, Charles O. Porter, and Harold N. Warsawer...
...major, sank a transport and shot down three Zeros, but had to make a forced landing in a water-covered ricefield with two motors shot out. He and his crew, three of whom were wounded, returned three weeks later by boat, oxcart, automobile, train and plane. Captain Clarence E. McPherson, later killed in Australia, once landed on an airdrome before he knew the Japs had seized it, but realized his mistake before the Japs did. The 19th's best-beloved character, a Portuguese-accented master sergeant named Louis ("Soup") Silva, now buried in an Australian grave, shot down three...