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...Charles Jaynes, pastor in Detroit of a foursquare Gospel Church affiliated with Aimee Semple McPherson's organization has a chubby 6-year-old son. Charles Jaynes Jr. eats spinach, practices on his violin, cannot read. In Shreveport, La. last Sunday night, Preacher Jaynes wiped his small moppet's nose, led him out before a good-sized congregation. Not the father but the son began beating the pulpit with a childish fist, pointing a small finger to heaven and piping in a clear treble : "Man has a two-fold nature. He is both a material and a spiritual being...
...just a nice Irish girl named Rose McConnell" when the future Kingfish met & married her. Born on a farm near Greensburg, Ind., she was taken by her parents to Louisiana at 10. Though Huey Long recorded in his autobiography that he met Rose McConnell while attending school at Shreveport and married her a year later at 19, the tale is firmly imbedded in U. S. legend of how their love began when she won a cake-baking contest which he had sponsored as a 17-year-old salesman of cottonseed oil shortening. Not until Senator Long began nursing Presidential aspirations...
There was the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, the Dictator's unofficial chaplain and national organizer of his Share-Our-Wealth Clubs. This onetime pastor of a rich Shreveport Christian Church congregation surpassed himself in a 15-minute eulogy over his dead chief's bier. It began: "Greater love hath no man. . . . The lives of great men do not end with the grave. They just begin. This place marks not the resting place of Huey P. Long, it marks only the burial ground for his body. His spirit shall never rest as long as hungry bodies cry for food...
Resolution No, 2: Let the AP undertake no activity that does not serve the entire membership. Up spoke John D. Ewing, publisher of the Shreveport (La.) Times to complain that the Dallas News and Times-Herald "come into our field every day in the year with their damn Wirephotos-using our pictures!" Defense by President Noyes: "If we are to back to real mutuality, we go back to a pony wire service for all members, because some members can't afford anything better. ' Vote: Overwhelming...
...Until recently Senator Long gave it little more attention than to have circulars mailed out to enthusiasts who sent him letters. Such organization as Part II has had has been provided by the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith. Nearly a year ago he left the First Christian Church of Shreveport to join Senator Long. A young, vigorous pulpit-pounder, he organized Share-the-Wealth Clubs far & wide on a revivalist basis. Sample of his exhortations: "They said I was run out of St. Francisville. That was a lie. I've never been run out of any town. . . . The only...