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FREDONIA WOMAN INVITED j H TO CHRISTEN DESTROYER imonIN HONOR OF HER FATHER Iwith_ ! to p]Fredonia, Sept. 23 (JP)—Miss Kath- Italy erine Cushing, daughter of a distin- phas guished American naval officer, has ried accepted the Navy Department’s invitation to christen a destroyer to be launched in Puget Sound, Decem-ber 31st. solinThe new ship will be named Cush- ] ing in honor of her father, the late Commander William Barker Cush- ^on ing who received the thanks of Pres- ^e ^ident Lincoln and the Congress for ky ablowing up the Confederate ram Al- Pla f bemarle in the Roanoke River in Oc-tober, 1864. ^Miss Cushing will be accompanied c to the West Coast by her sister, Miss |oma Marie Cushing. The latter christened *s P° the first destroyer named after Com-mander Cushing in 1915 at Quincy,Mass.whicand
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Salamanca Cattaraugus Republican
Salamanca, New York, US
Wed, Sep 25, 1935
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