Chinese Drive Jap Outposts To Relieve Hongkong Siege
Chinese forces reported to have captured Japanese outposts along the Canton Kowloon railway to ease pressure on Hongkong. Other units attacked Swatow and north of Canton while Japanese troops abandoned five districts in Shansi to bolster new Pacific fronts. London dispatches note Hong Kong defenders still dueling artillery across the strait and facing supply challenges with 1,500 civilians to feed.
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Chungking
China
Canton-Kowloon
Hongkong
Point
Shumehun
Swatow
Kwantung Province
Canton
Shansi
Pacific
Tatung
Gar
Free China
Dlepatches
London
Small Manufacturers View OPM Defense Train Exhibit
The eight car traveling exhibit toured by Charleston with samples of about 21 000 items used by the army navy and air force. Officials from state county and federal levels boarded after a Chamber breakfast at the Daniel Boone hotel. The train headed to Lynchburg Virginia then to Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. C.duncan
Duncan Box Lumeber Company
Huntington
V. . Mohier
J. J. Reich
Reich-Huntington Iron Works
Army
Navy
Air Force
Charleston Chamber of Commerce
Daniel Boone Hotel
Charles E. Hodges
Chamber
Charleston
Lynchburg
Washington
Gazette
OPM
Government
Defense
Blackburn
Army Bomber Crashes Killing Six Fliers Near Los Angeles
Six Army Air Corps fliers were killed when an Martin bomber crashed and exploded on the Muroc dry lake bombing range 68 miles north of Los Angeles. The crash occurred as another Army plane with Maj. Gen. Herbert A. Dargue was reported missing near Palmdale.
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Los Angeles
Army Air Corps
Martin
Muree Dry Lake
Sheriff's Office
Washington
Herbert A. Dargue
Northeast
Air Corps
Palmdale
Muroc
Sheriffs Office
Jits Lancaster
Lancaster
Marchfield
Riverside
Dargue
Pritchard Nominated For Realtors President
N. W. Pritchard was nominated for president of the Charleston Board of Realtors at the weekly luncheon in the Ruffner hotel. T. E. Drape was named for vice president and George E. Thom for secretary treasurer with L. KR. Pelzel and W. T. Judy as directors. All nominations were unopposed and a formal election will occur at the December luncheon meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. W. Pritchard
Charleston
Christmas pardons may go to three prisoners
Gov. Neely said Christmas pardons or paroles may be granted to three convicts, including 28 year old Gibson who attempted to escape with 26 others while being returned to Moundsville. Gibson was charged with killing Philip Ketchum, the warden's son, and wounding guard Orville Metz. Gibson later hanged himself in his cell.
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Brown Gibson
State Penitentiary
Neely
Tion H. Clare Hess
Gibson
Moundsville
Philip Ketchum
M. £. Ketchum
Orville Metz
Kanawha County
Sh. H. Whitten
Charles Fowler
Kanawaa
Claude Inge
Raleigh County
Howard Williams
Conn
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OPM Defense
West Virginia
Lucien Lelong
Wits Bk
Castel
Pritchard
Realtors
Withrow
Pat B. Withrow, Jr
Union Mission
Abney Park
Aus
R. Johnson
Beauregard
Sreres Wa
Gusrentesd
Emart Accessacien
Sante
Star Brands
Amite
Levin
Soni Tome Bs
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