Lutheran Women Pick Officers at Virginia Synod Meet
Mrs. B. D. Castor of Luray was reelected president of the Lutheran Women's Missionary Society at the 58th annual Virginia Synod convention held at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Wytheville. Mrs. Clyde Griffith Shenandoah was elected vice president and Miss Madge Snider Marion recording secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Konnarock
A. K. Hewitt
Brotherhood of the Synod
Miller Ritchie
Salem
Luther League
Edith Richardson
Marion
Griffith
Margaret Fisher
Irene Mason
Hugh J. Rhyne
WPA to Tackle Mosquito Post in Virginia
Virginia WPA approves four projects including an $8,825 mosquito control effort at Quantico and Fort Belvoir. Additional projects fund sewer upgrades in Waynesboro for 3,419 dollars, a lice station and city clerk’s office in Petersburg for 1,656 dollars, and sidewalks in Coeburn Wise County for 3,623 dollars.
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Richmond
WPA
Virginia
Quantico
Fort Belvoir
Hampton Roads
Waynesboro
Implice
Petersburg
Coeburn
Wise County
German Army Presses Squeeze Toward Odessa and Nikolaev
The high command claimed Red Army defenses in Ukraine were collapsing as German and Romanian forces pushed to the Black Sea between Odessa and the Bug estuary. Luftwaffe strikes destroyed transports near Odessa and Nikolaev, with several ships damaged.
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Dniester
Dnieper
Ukraine
Red Army
Black Sea
Luftwaffe
Odessa
Bug
Adolph Hitler
Nikolaev
Gulf of Finland
Gomel
DNB
Flanders
Greece
Budget Hearings Set for Virginia State Agencies
Richmond Aug 14 Dr Rowland A Egger director of the division of the budget said the governors advisory committee on the budget would visit state institutions outside Richmond in mid September to gather budgetary needs for a biennium starting next July committee members include Senators Aubrey G Weaver John S Battle and William D Medley and Delegates Frank Moore L Gordon White and William N Neff hearings for state departments will be held in October with the budget for the 1942 General Assembly to be prepared in January Colgate W Darden Jr Norfolk Democratic gubernatorial nominee would attend the hearings at the capitol at the invitation of Governor Price
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Rowland A. Egger
Aubrey G. Weaver
Front Royal
John S. Battle
Charlottesvile
William D. Medley
Arlington
Frank Moore
Lexington
L. Gordon White
Albemarle
William N. Neff
Abingdon
General Assembly
Colgate W. Darden, Jr
Norfolk
Capitol
Price
State Institutions To Be Visited
The Labor Board ordered Covington Weaving Company to stop questioning employees about CIO Textile Workers Union of America Local 330 membership or any labor groups. It held the questions effectively conducted an open election, destroying election secrecy and intruding on workers’ union activity protected by the Wagner Act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Labor Board
Covington Weaving Company
Burlington Mills Corporation
Covington
CIO Textile Workers Union of America
NLRB
Wakeman Accepts Another Position
Truman J. Wakeman, longtime vocational agriculture teacher at River School in Montgomery County, accepts a similar post at Christiansburg. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Wakeman of Middletown. T. J. Sheritz, formerly at Strasburg, will succeed Wakeman at Riner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman J. Wakeman
the River School
Montgomery County
Christiansburg
P. H. Wakeman
Middletown
T. J. Sheritz
Strasburg
Mr. Wakeman
Riner
Body of Crozet To Be Removed To Lexington
Judge Willis D. Miller grants Virginia Military Institute permission to move Colonel Claudius Crozet’s remains from Richmond to a memorial site at VMI in Lexington. The French founder died in 1864 and was buried in Shockoe cemetery, where his grave remains unmarked. The inscription will honor Agathe Adele and Alfred Crozet alongside Crozet’s own remains.
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Richmond
Willis D. Miller
Law Ana Equity Court
Virginia Military Institute
Claudius Crozet
Institute
Lexington
Crozet
Napoleon
Chesterfield County
Midlothian
Shockoe
Colonel
Iter
Miller
Colonel Crozet
Court Allows Colonels Crozet Burial Move To Lexington
Judge Miller approves the removal of Colonel Claudius Crozet’s body from an unnamed location to the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington. The decision, issued after referrals to Commissioner William E. Crawford, sets December 1, 1942 as the deadline for the physical transfer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colonel Crozet
Lexington
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Vamed Hie Face
Kelleay Co
UN Age
Copr
RAF
Hero
Douglas R. Bader
R.A.F
Germany
Bader
Wakeman
Board of Visitors
The
Haldeman’s Creamery
Pol
Americas
Ste
Cke
Kes
Safeway
Julia Lee Wright
Chuck
Sarewal
Pierre Orestine
Iene
Krey
Happy Valley
Briggs
Winchester
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