Births in Dunbar and Charleston areas announce three sons
Mr and Mrs B Landis of Dunbar welcome a son at Memorial hospital on June 30. Mr and Mrs Paul J Bradley of Virginia Avenue announce a son born June 21. Mr and Mrs John P Lair of Dunbar report a son born June 20 at Charleston General hospital. Britain rationing clothing to football teams.
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B Landis Pre
Dunbar
State ‘Memorial Hospital
Paul J. Bradley
Virginia
Bit
John P. Lair
Dun Bar
Charleston General Hospital
Britain
House Kills Wasps Army Status Bill
The House rejected General Arnold’s plan to absorb women pilots into the Army Air Corps by a 189 to 169 vote. Wasps would remain civilian with no army benefits or commissions, while critics argued this saved a costly program from full integration and warned against elevating Jacqueline Cochran to colonel.
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Washington
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Corps
House
Army
Arnold
House Military Committee
Military Establishment
Air Corps
Navy
Civil Aeronautics Authority
O'Hara
R.-Minn
Zac
D.-Cal
Jacqueline Cochran
California
Newsweek Correspondent Reported Missing After Japan Raid
War Department reports Newsweek war correspondent William Shenkel of Silver Spring Maryland missing from a B 29 raid over Japan. Shenkel age 38 observer on a plane with no report. Native of Akron Ohio married with two children joined Newsweek in 1938 after Cleveland and Akron newspaper work.
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Newsweek
Japan
New York
War Department
Wiliam Shenkel
Silver Spring
Shenkel
Isai
Akron, C
Schenkel
Statls
Cleveland
Akron Times- SS
J F Thompson Found Dead in His Home
J Ferguson Thompson prominent former real estate broker and partner in a Huntington insurance firm was found dead at his home. Coroner said he took his life with a shotgun after months of illness following a stroke. He leaves a widow.
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J. F. Thompson
Huntington
J. Ferguson Thompson
Huntington Insurance
F. X. Schuller
Thompson
Charleston Captain Boosting War Bonds Named Officer
The 28 year old Captain Chester Wysocki formerly of Charleston is boosting war bonds in England with a light bombardment group and has been named war bond officer for his squadron. He recently sold 1100 war bonds and will join the Treasury Department. His wife Mrs MacFehry K Wy socki lives at 1329 Quarter St.
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Charleston
England
Chester
De Gaulle’s Men Take Civil Posts in Normandy
Representatives of Gen. Charles de Gaulle have moved into liberated Normandy sections to control civil affairs though the U S has not recognized the provisional government. Francois Coulet arrives in Bayeux as commissioner for Rouen region and plans regional leadership with volunteers for a small territorial force.
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Don Whitehead
France
Charles de Gaulle
Normandy
United States
Francois Coulet
Corsica
Bayeux
Rouen
de Gaulle
de Gaullists
Germany
Coulet
America
Vichy
Cauley
Caulet
Mand
Ezell Awarded Air Medal Oak Leaf Cluster
Lt. Elben B. Ezell son of Mr and Mrs BH B Ezell of 1027 Valley Rd has been awarded the 4d oak leaf cluster for his Air Medal at the 15th army air force headquarters citation notes meritorious achievement in aerial flight during sustained operations against the enemy Ezell a navigator and liberator crewman based in Italy a West Virginia University graduate who entered the air forces in 1942
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Elben B. Ezell
BH. B. Ezell
Valley Rd
15Th Army Air Force Headquarters
Ezell
Italy
West Virginia University
Air Forces
Homecoming Sermon and Anniversary at Rock Creek Churches
Rev W R Moyer will preach at 2 30 p m for Moss chapel homecoming near Kenna Dunbar church holds 2 pm service Keeney s Creek Baptist at Winona marks 40th anniversary and dedication of new Sunday school rooms Rev H C Piercy and Rev Hugh D Pickett lead morning and dedicatory sermons as a program of talks singing and a basket dinner unfolds from 10 a m.
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W. R. Moyer
Calvary Methodist Church
Dunbar
Moss Chapel
Kenna
Keeney’s Creek Baptist Church
Winona
H. C. Piercy
Hugh D. Pickett
Nazarene Assembly Attended by Charleston Delegates
Charleston Nazarenes join Rev A J Frank and Mrs Lillian Smith of First Church of the Nazarene along with Rev R E Dobie and Mrs Isabel Bailey as delegates to the 11th quadrennial Church of the Nazarene assembly in Minneapolis. Mrs M R Fullerton of 11 Straughan Ct is a patient at St Francis Hospital after an appendectomy yesterday morning.
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Charleston
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