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...Reynaud was allowed to leave his Vals-les-Bains prison under heavy guard to visit his ailing 94-year-old mother for a few hours. ∙∙ Dr. Alexis Carrel, last reported detained in Occupied France, is now reported by Vichy to be studying malnutrition in Belgium. ∙∙ Salvationist General Evangeline Booth's niece, Colonel Mary Booth, was found in a detention camp in southern Germany...
Fifty years a Salvationist this week was Alexander Martin Damon, the only U. S.-born officer ever to become a territorial commander with the rank of commissioner, second highest rank in the Salvation Army. Commissioner Damon commands the Army's biggest single province, the Eastern Territory (New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Ohio). He and his wife, who heads the district's Home League, are one of the few Army couples to be paid as much as $30 a week for their joint work. Many an archbishop supervises a smaller domain than Commissioner Damon...
...Soon Salvationist Damon switched to soul-saving. His steady rise to the Eastern commissionership in 1935 paralleled the Army's own growth in the U. S.. Commissioner Damon, with piercing blue eyes, shock of white hair and resonant voice, played a leading role in that change. Since 1893 he has traveled 1,099,787 miles, spoken at countless thousands of meetings, made thousands of converts. Last month 900 sinners came forward at his meetings...
Bandsman Burtenshaw dedicated himself to the drum when he was three. In June 1890, before he was eight, he joined a Salvationist band at England's breezy Channel resort, Brighton. In 1911, Founder Booth sent Brigadier Burtenshaw to the U. S. to organize other Army bands. From behind his drum he has led bands ever since, has a healthy contempt for cockatoo drum majors who simply strut...
Truly international, the Army uses native-born recruits whenever possible. Another source of Army strength, which shocked the Victorians, is that women have absolute parity of privilege, position and dignity. Militant is the Army's terminology. A convert is a "prisoner of war," a service "company meeting," a Salvationist's death "promotion to Glory...