Elks Celebrate U S Flag Birthday Amid War Time Speech
The Charleston Elks Lodge honored the U S flag with a Flag Day event featuring Raymond Kenny director of the state department of public assistance. He urged that victory in war must be matched by a lasting peace to protect freedom and international stability. Kenny highlighted state wartime efforts including navy recruitment and civil defense volunteers. A pantomime on the history of the flag closed the program.
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United States
Charleston Lodge of Elks
Raymond Kenny
State Department of Public Assistance
Kenny
Roosevelt
Navy
West Virginia
Red Cross
The
Elks
Emmons Promoted to Major General in Roosevelt Move
Washington reports Lt. Gen. Delos C. Emmons of Huntington West Virginia, Hawaii commander, among 10 high ranking officers promoted by President Roosevelt. Emmons, then temporary lieutenant general, was nominated to the permanent rank of major general two grades up.
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Washington
Delos C. Emmons
Huntington
W. Va
Roosevelt
Emmons
Daily Quiz Questions from The Gazette
The Gazette presents a mixed quiz on wartime history and general knowledge. Questions cover Manila Bay forts surrendered to Japan, gasoline rationing causes in the eastern states, meanings of yard bird, an American general’s death in Australia, chives as a term, Cardinal Mercier’s citizenship, a baseball record by a pitcher, Syria’s Turkish past, Ursa Minor’s notable star, and Bermuda’s capital.
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U. S
Manila Bay
Australia
Cardinal Mercier
Boston
Syria
Hamilton
Bermuda
Bamas
Trinidad
Judge Sets 48 Docketed Cases for June-July Common Pleas
Common Pleas Judge L. E. Given docketed 48 original jurisdiction law cases for trial at the June term. Trials begin June 29 and run through July 23 with chancery matters heard this week and next. The calendar lists numerous civil actions across July with defendants including Columbian Carbon Co, Atlantic Greyhound Corp, Charleston Laundry Co, New York Central Railroad Co, United Fuel Gas Co, Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co., Kanawha Valley Hospital, and others, across dates from June 28 to July 28.
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Common Pleas
L. E. Given
Given
C. E. Dillon
D. Hill, Jr
Bart Honaker
S. B. Tressier
Moses G. Kravitz
Charles W. Gentry
Bradie Hager
Hill
Elvin Howard
T. F. Pritchard & Co
Atlantic Greyhound Corporation
Caril Shibley
Ameen Joseph
Garland Thomas
Mountain Truckers, Inc
J. W. Smith
Mount Truckers, Inc
Fred Harrison
Charles Howard
Laura Mae Hawkins
Edgardb. Sims
Eleanor Lege
Ray Martin
R. W. Wood
Raymond Whitlock
Curtis Hall
Charleston Transit Co
Lillian G. Nelson
Charleston Laundry Co
L. C. Nelson
Henry Alfred Day, Jr
New York Central Railroad Co
Halford Walls
L. Washington
Mary King
United Fuel Gas Co
Lena Melton
Mt. State Hospital
Robert Lee Damron
Mable Bibb
Greyhound and Carolina Line Convergence Ordered
The Office of Defense Transportation requires Atlantic Greyhound of Charleston and Carolina Coach of Raleigh to consolidate operations. From June 20 both lines must honor each other's tickets on shared routes and divert traffic to relieve overloads. They serve Charlotte Lexington Greensboro Durham Raleigh Fayetteville and Norfolk Suffolk Portsmouth Emporia Petersburg Martinsville Danville Richmond.
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Washington
Atlantic Greyhound Corporation
Charleston
W. WI
Carolina Coach Company
Raleigh
N. C
Office of Defense Transportation
Charlotte
Lexington
Greensboro
Durham
Fayetteville
North
Carolina
Norfolk
Suffolk
iPortsmouth
Emporia
Petersburg
Martinsville
Danville
Richmond
Virginia
Medals Delivered to Tokyo by Bomb Ceremony
New details reveal that two Japanese medals awarded to Master Rigger Henry Wornstein of Lake View, N Y, and Shipwright John B Laurey of Brooklyn, were attached to a 500 pound bomb and delivered to Tokyo on 18 April 1942 by Lt Ted Lawson. Laurey, who volunteered at Pearl Harbor, was later returned to the emperor.
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John B. Laurey
Emperor of Japan
New York
Henry Wornstein
Lakeview
N. Y
Brooklyn
Connecticut
U. S
Japan
Warmstein
Laurey
Navy
Knox
Bureau of Ordnance
3Rd Naval District
the Navy
Rigger
H. Vormstein
Navy Yard
Commandant
New York Navy Yard
War Department
Secretary of War
Tokyo
Ted W. Lawson
U. S. Army
Frank Knox
Pearl Harbor
Moundsville Man Named to War Production Board Panel
Washington June 15. F. S. Earnshaw of Moundsville West Virginia was named today as a member of the advisors committee for the porcelain enameled utensil industry created by the division of porcelain operations War Production Board.
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Washington
F. S. Earnshaw
Moundsville
W. Va
Division of Porcelain Operations
War Production Board
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Huntingtonian
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