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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1941
Page
3
A letter argues claims of a coddled American defense force are propaganda. It cites ongoing gear shortages from lend-lease but notes rigorous training in camps. The piece highlights Third Infantry Division drills at Fort Lewis Washington before breakfast.
An overview from the National Defense Reporter describes daily prebreakfast drills by 15 000 soldiers, from cargo nets to trenches, and questions whether mass tank training and equipment will match American factory output. It notes Britain’s longer tank crew training and warns of limited public critique among enlisted men, citing a MacDill Field paper joke about termites destroying wooden guns.
A roundup of real estate transfers includes George Habib to Mary Habib a lot with improvements on Brooks street. D N Mohler as special commissioner to C G Gay parts of lots 1 and 2 in block 135 Kanawha City. Ww C Parsons to Gilby Parsons six acres at Brown's Crock Jefferson district. Fred H Smith and wife to Coy Nichols a track Elk district. Federal Building and Development Co to Roy F Maynor and wife lot 617 Baltimore Estates Jefferson district. W C Jackson and wife to D Moses and wife a tract Elk district. Hunter Ross Taylor and wife to Vincent Barazzone and wife lot 62 Country Club Acres Jefferson district. Marion A Smith and wife to Ivan A Shiffmer and wife lot 334 section 2 Belle. L E Bennett and wife to Margaret West lot 65 Bowman Land Co addition South Charleston. Dunbar Improvement Co to Greenlee Brothers Inc lot 9 block 25 Dunbar. Anna Carrier et al to Sidney O Pauley 19 acres Alum Creek Jefferson district. Cherrington Corp to Ruth R Copenhaver lot 269 block P Edgewood addition. George H Echols and wife to William Francis Brown and wife lot 98 Country Club Acres Jefferson district.
CHICAGO December 2 Lee Feiss of New Martinsville West Virginia earned a second place ribbon in the national 4 H health contest held with the international livestock exposition.
The War Department weighs a citizen group request from Jefferson County to approve a new munitions depot on local land. Opponents warned fertile farmland would be lost. a Pennsylvania site has since been designated.
Pennsylvania Central Airlines will move its headquarters from Pittsburgh to Washington early next year. Officials led by President C Bedell Monro announced the transfer, with about 600 employees in Pittsburgh and other terminals reassigned to the new National airport in Washington.
A declaration of intention to become a U S citizen was filed yesterday in district federal court by George Kingsley Hughes of South Charleston. Born at Courtright Ontario Canada, he came to this country May 10 1921.
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