Sergeant and Wife Lose Two Babies After Car Deaths
South Hill Virginia Army sergeant Set. H. E. McCormick and his wife left two infants in a car while they fished. A 4 month old, Harold McCormick Jr., died at the scene. Gracie M. McCormick, 17 months, died en route to Camp Pickett hospital. Authorities said the younger child suffocated. The couple and another pair had locked the children in the car on Kerr Dam bank, with one window slightly open, and returned to find no movement from the infants. The sergeant reported the children were briefly seen active before dying. Army investigators will review the case at Camp Pickett.
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W. J. Ozlin
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Kerr Dam
Martin Durkin Speaks at Charities Convention
ST. LOUIS charit es convention delegates hear Martin Durkin former secretary of labor and head of the AFL Plumbers Union say social work preserves human dignity and trade unionism fights to protect it amid calls for positive social aid.
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ST. Louis
Martin Durkin
Durkin
AFL Plumbers Union
National Conference of Catholicharities
Submarine medical care staffed by pharmacist mates
A historical note states submarines lack onboard doctors and rely on pharmacist mates for all medical duties and emergency operations. It adds that Potosi in Bolivia was the largest city in North and South America for many years.
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South America
Potosi
Bolivia
Earliest English Newspaper Mystery Solved in New York Find
A New York rare book dealer unveils a missing issue of Corant or Weekly Newes dated Oct 9 1621, the oldest English language newspaper outside the British Museum. The piece, once forbidden for local news by James I, survived in a private Edison Dick collection and is valued at about 10000 dollars.
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London
British Museum
J. Nichols
Nehols
Ae Randall
Scribner's
Folke Dahl
Edison Dick
Randall
James I
England
Airman Sentenced to Death for Slaying on Okinawa
Airman 2 C Sherman F Gravitt 21 was condemned to death for killing 1st Lt Bernard Geller on Okinawa July 28. Gravitt used a stolen carbine and wounded an Okinawan before firing on Geller, then took the lieutenant's service revolver and wounded MP corporal Warren. Sentence subject to presidential review.
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C. Sherman F. Gravitt
Okinawa
Far East Air Forces
Philadelphia
Bernard Geller
Geller
Naha
Gravitt
Wilford Warren
South’s bold overbid yields unlikely bridge triumph
Oswald Jacoby recounts a hand where South’s jump to four spades with five-card enemy support tops a risky bid. West starts with the king of diamonds and misdefense allows South to ruff and ruff again, squeezing out three extra tricks. West fails to choose a mind-reading defense, leaving South with a dramatic, fortuitous win.
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West
Declarer
East
South of
Migrating Birds Die Colliding With Boston Buildings
Hundreds of small birds migrating south from Canada have been killed in collisions with Boston's tall buildings. The John Hancock Building, Boston's tallest, accounts for many of these deaths. An Audubon Society official notes the birds, mainly warblers and thrushes, misjudge distances and try to dodge the lit tower by flying beneath it.
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Boston
Canada
John Hancock
Audubon Society
Co op membership common among American farm families
Two thirds of farm families in the United States belong to one or more agricultural cooperatives. The data highlight the broad reach of co op networks and their role in rural economies.
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America
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