Old warships to be targets in moving target drills
Washington reports plans by the Navy to use obsolete battleships as moving targets for gunnery drills. Ships such as Iowa Indiana and Massachusetts could be steered by distant control systems while a smoke screen simulates destroyer fire.
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Washington
Navy Department
Bureau of Ordnance
Department
Texas
San Marcos
Tangier
Chesapeake Bay
Iowa
Indiana
Massachusetts
Two More U S Ships Launched by Japs
Two ocean going steamships built for the United States Shipping Board have been launched in Japanese yards. The Eastern Trade is a 13 000 ton steamer and the Eastern Glade a 400 foot long steel cargo ship. A furlong joke ends with a punchline about a man not taking a furlough. The choir at Baughman Memorial Methodist church plans a Christmas cantata titled The Holy City.
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Tokio
United States Shipping Board
New Cumberland, Pa
Baughman Memorial Methodist Church
Holy City
Pape's Cold Compound Promises Quick Relief
Sages of the head, stops nose running, relieves the headache, dullness, feverishness, sneezing, soreness and stiffness. Pape's Cold Compound is the quickest, surest relief known and costs only a few cents at drug stores. It acts without assistance, tastes nice, no quinine.
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Pape
Trial of Detzer Expected to Reveal Army Sensa
New York headlines report Captain Karl W. Detzer facing a court martial at Governor's Island over alleged torture and coercion of prisoners in Le Mans France during 1918. Over 100 witnesses from France and across the U S testifying as details emerge.
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Detzer
New York
Smith
Governor's Island
Baker
France
Union
Karl W. Detzer
Fort Wayne
Ind
308Th Military Police Company
le Mang
U. S. Madden
Pittsburgh
John E. Madden
Kentucky
Frank L. Hoyt
Madden
Judge Advocate’s Department
Marcello Gonzales
110Th Machine Gun Battalion
William E. Kelly
le Mans
Costa Rica May Now Be Recognized
Washington, Dec. 10. The State Department recommends recognizing the present Costa Rican government led by Aguilar de Barquero who returned the constitution after Tinoco fled.
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Costa Rica
Washington
State Department
Wilson
Aguilar of
Barquero
Tinoco
Aguilar
British official aims to spur flying cooperation with US
London reports Major General Sir F H Sykes seeks full Britain US co operation on flying matters during his US visit. He notes the international air convention lacks US and Japan but Britain plans to back enterprise with a £64,000 prize program for small, large, and amphibious aircraft. The Air Ministry Civil Aviation Department will guide industry, open international links, and establish routes and landing stations.
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London
F. H. Skyles
Great Britain
United States
America
John W. Davis
Sykes
General Sykes
Japan
Britain
France
British Isles
Civil Aviation Department
Air Ministry
Lost Episcopalians Rejoin After Ads Spark Return
Miss Elizabeth Matthews of Glen Dale Ohio originated ads for church members missing from parishes. When the Episcopal Church League for the isolated began as a national movement she became secretary in the Southern Ohio diocese. Her Lost-5,000 Episcopalians ad ran in Columbus papers and more than 5,000 lax members returned to the fold.
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Elizabeth Matthews
Glendale
Ohio
Episcopal Church League For the
Columbus
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