Many Ideas On Raising the Great Steamship Normandie
A wide World Features piece notes Navy salvage chief Commander William A. Sullivan received 1,400 letters with ideas to raise the sunken Normandie. Suggestions range from dirigibles and frozen mud to tug trains and even pipe‑driven steam to boil water inside the hull, with Sullivan saying most ideas are practical though his plan is already in motion.
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Paul J. C. Friedlander
New York
Normandie
Navy
Hudson River
Sullivan
George Washington Bridge
New Jersey
Greater New York
Battle for Egypt Deepens as Rommel Presses Matruh
War dispatches describe a third day of fierce fighting around Matruh with Axis claims of occupation and British withdrawal disputed. Rommel drives a southern flank while Crete and Greece loom as potential air targets. British and American bombers strike Rommel’s lines as heat and desert conditions strain both sides.
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Egypt
Berlin
Rome
Matruh
London
Hitler
Eith
Rommel
Strikker
Syria
Fuehrer
Crete
Near
Middle East
Libya
Bengali
Tripoli
Associated Press
Alexandria
Wrong code letter sent from Civil War era wife
A wartime telegram from Mrs Harold Humphreys to her husband claimed their son was born with the message reading all well and safe. The intended code should have said fondest love darling.
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Leicester
Eng
Harold Humphreys
Card of Thanks for Loss of Reverend I I Jenkins
We acknowledge with grateful appreciation the floral tributes condolence cards and sympathies of our many friends in the recent loss of our late father the Rev I I Jenkins and J Dallas Jenkins Family.
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Rev
I. I. Jenkins
J. Dallas Jenkins
For Rent Apartment in Piccadilly St Area
Classified item notes a rental apartment with full conveniences suitable for office use at 29 E Piccadilly St available soon. Also advertises sale of large 7 room house on a farm purchase with big basement cistern garden outbuildings and new furnace and electricity. Contact J H Lockhart at phone 6054.
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E. Piccadilly St
J. H. Lockhart
Shady Rest
Gore
Smith’s
Braddock St
Winchester
Death Removes Philip Williams in Shenandoah
Philip Williams 53 a Shenandoah County trial justice Woodstock attorney died at his Woodstock home Sunday after weeks of illness. Survived by wife three sons and three daughters. Funeral Tuesday at five from Woodstock Presbyterian Church with burial in Massanutten Cemetery.
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Woodstock
Philip Williams
Shenandoah County
Winchester
Baltimore
William and
Sallie Bird Wiliams
Shenardoah County
Fishburne Military Academy
Hampden-Sydney College
Washington and Lee University
Commonwealth
Williams
Masonic Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Presbyterian Church
John Williams
U. S. Naval Academy
William Williams
Margaret Williams
Sarah Bird Williams
Rebecca Williams
Twyman Williams
Hampden Sydney College
Clayton Williams
Washington & Lee University
Woodstock Presbyterian Church
L. B Gibbs
J. C. McMurray
Martinsburg
W. Va
Massanutten Cemetery
Fire Breaks Out Behind Leggett’s Store Garage
Police probe a garage fire behind Leggett’s Department Store where flames rose roof high from a trash pile. Firemen arrived around 7 30 and extinguished the blaze with limited damage to the adjoining structures.
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Leggett’s
Costa Rica Produces Coffee Bananas Sugar and Wood Goods
Costa Rica produces coffee and bananas along with sugar hardwoods including mahogany rubber and cacao, reflecting a diversified agricultural and natural resource sector.
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Costa Rica
Cooked Planes For American Army Are Eight Times Cheaper
Camden New Jersey June 29 A Vidal Research Corporation method cooks airplane bodies from wood and plastic rather than manufacturing them. Eugene L Vidal president says planes cost eight times faster and eight times cheaper. The process uses a wooden mold, plywood ribs, veneer layers, thermo setting glue and a pressure cooker to mold shapes.
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Jack Smith
Camden
N. J
Vidal Research Corporation
Eugene L. Vidal
Federal Bureau of Air Commerce
Vidal
Army Air Corps
Plywood formed by steam pressed molding system
Description of a process where a bag clamps onto a mold, steam and air enter the oven, applying uniform pressure to form plastic plywood on molds and seal bonds in a single operation.
V. F. W. Convention Transacts Business
Virginia veterans of foreign wars and auxiliary met in Richmond for the twentieth annual encampment business sessions Drill teams compete tonight at John Marshall High School stadium with a dance at the V. F. W. Club Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt opened the convention at the Mosque predicting a long armistice before peace and urged better understanding among nations to prevent past mistakes.
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Richmond
Virginia Department
Veterans of Foreign Wars
John Marshall High School
Richmond V. F. W
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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N. Loudoun St
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National Ave
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