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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1921
Page
8
Dr. Haller Henkel, a longtime Staunton physician and brother of Mrs. C W Heater, died at his Staunton home after two years of declining health. He was sixty nine. Survived by three sisters Julia Miller New Market, Ida M Henkel Ri Va, and Mrs Charles H Headburg. Funeral services were held in Staunton Wednesday.
Harry A. Larlee of Perth, a World War veteran, died at the Soldiers' Reestablishment Hospital in Fredericktown after 34 inches of gauze was left in his abdomen following an operation for appendicitis in Portland, Oregon a year earlier. Surgeons later removed the gauze, but he did not rally.
Senate approves a House resolution to set army strength at 175000 mounts and halt recruiting until that size is reached. The bill moves to the White House, with Secretary Baker expected to back presidential approval.
The Shipping Board will investigate the contract between International Mercantile Marine Company and American corporations and the British government. Vice chairman Frederick Thompson said the inquiry, set for next Thursday, centers on the significance for the American merchant marine’s establishment and permanence.
Hog Island, the world famed shipyard in Philadelphia, sends its last vessel the army transport Aisne on a trial run off the Delaware capes. The yard will deliver to the Emergency Fleet Corporation next Thursday and cease ship building. Early next month the yard will be turned over to the United States Shipping Board by the American International Ship Building Corporation.
The house and lot on South Brad dock street, heirs of the late Capt. John Ford, were sold today at public auction. Mr. Charles Igphack became the purchaser.
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