Fire destroys Piedmont Oil and Hugh Childress plants
A major fire at two Thomasville road plants the Piedmont Oil and Coal company and the Hugh Childress Paint and Varnish Manufacturing company began with an explosion in the paint mixing house and raged for hours. Officials estimate losses around 100000 with Gantts facing additional costs for buildings and equipment. One fireman survivor and a history of a prior blaze are noted in relation to the sites.
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Piedmont Oil and Coal Company
Hugh Childress Paint and Varnish Manufacturing Company
Thomasville Road
R. Brantt
Gantts
Childress
Oil Company
Russell Street
Ballast From Historic Ship Found At Seattle Dry Dock
An unidentified vessel tied up at a Puget Sound dry dock required ballast removal. The recovered ballast included 18th century muzzle loading cannons, World War I breech locks, cannonballs, and shells ranging from 3 to 10 inches in diameter.
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Seattle
Ins
Puget Sound
Ship Named for Towns Ties Easton Nations in War
A British town and Easton Pennsylvania share a link through H.M.S. Easton Easton Neston Eng the ship bearing their name. The ship's union jack was presented to Lieut Lawrence Savadkin of Easton after the Battle of Salerno.
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Easton, Pa
INS
Great Britain
Pennsylvania
H.M.S
Easton
Easton-Neston
Eng
Lawrence Savadkin
Salerno
Record draft board four sends off 268 registrants
The largest group from board four to depart for preinduction at Camp Croft, 268 registrants, most married with children, includes first White registrants under the new selective service plan with a 21 to 90 day leave. Ten scheduled reporters failed to appear. if not seen within five days they face district attorney investigation.
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Camp Croft
Ai Ee
Board Four
Selective Service
Roy Monroe Irwin
Raylius New
Wade Olen Pierce
Hubert Guy York
Charles Herman Stephens
William Olin Ethridge
John Raymond Tysinger
Jessie Walters Shavers
Roscoe Lester Simmons, Jr
Doug Surratt
William Augustus Rascoe, Jr
Claibourne Montgomery Gill
Billy Baxter Byrd
James Thomas Warren
Thomas DeLeppe, Jr
Howard Erving McDowell
Willis Edward Farrell
Hindu Inventors Credited With Zero Discovery
In ancient India the concept of zero emerged as a pivotal mathematical advance. Historians credit Indian scholars with developing a place value zero, enabling modern arithmetic and algebra. This breakthrough influenced later Islamic and European mathematics.
Stewardess Mrs Clara Main Heroine of Merchant Marine
The War Shipping Administration recounts the heroism of Clara Main a stewardess aboard the American Merchant Marine liner during the Pearl Harbor period. Repatriated on the SS Gripsholm Main served on the SS President Harding from Manila to China when the ship was captured in the Yellow Sea after a dive bomber demanded surrender. She suffered broken ribs during abandonment yet remained calm and steady guiding the crew under machine gun fire and bombing.
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War Shipping Administration
Clara Main
E. 176
New York City
Gripsholm
Yellow Sea
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