Italien sailors indicted for sabotaging freighters
Norfolk May 6 Fifteen Italian merchant marine officers and men including four captains were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of sabotage aboard freighters in Hampton Roads before seizure by the government on March 30 The indicted captains were Paul Stefano Eutece Antonis Rozeta Domenico Belgrano and Guido Ravasini The chief engineer was Guiseppe Tomarchi aboard a Belana freighter N7229 not yet tried.
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Norfolk
Hampton Roads
Paul Stefano Eutece
Sah
Antonis Rozeta
Guidonia
Domenico Belgrano
Givan
Guido Ravasini
Laconia
Guiseppe Tomarchi
No. Ee
Eee
Shina & Tee Tae
Ex Police Scorned Trooper Jailed For Larceny
Former Maryland state trooper Al Albert F. Anderson was convicted of stealing a valve grinding machine worth 190 dollars from a wrecked truck near Unionville. He was sentenced to three years in the house of correction. a charge of receiving stolen goods was dismissed.
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Frederick
al Albert F. Anderson
House of Correction
Arthur D. Willard
Frederick County
Anderson
Unionville
Willard
Maryland
Road and Bridge Contracts Awarded by State Highway Dept
The State Highway Department announced contracts totaling 725,062.06. Awards were based on low bids from April 22. Route 50 in Frederick County includes 0.54 mile waterbound macadam near the West Virginia line to Nelson H. Clark & Sons Inc Luray for 11,657.50. Route 250 in Augusta County covers 1.2 miles waterbound macadam near Waynesboro to Echols Bros. Inc Staunton for 108,927.61.
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Richmond
State Highway Department
Frederick County
West Virginia Line
Nelson H.clark & Sons, Inc
Luray
Augusta County
Waynesboro
Echols Bros. Inc
Staunton
Attendance at American on Parks Last Year
The 1946 attendance figure recorded as five million four hundred thirty three thousand seven hundred ninety one.
British Report on Air Activities in Greece Six Months
The Air Ministry reported that Royal Air Force operations in Greece destroyed about 300 Axis warplanes in the air and damaged many more on the ground and in the air. One RAF squadron reportedly accounted for 100 Axis planes amid difficult winter weather and inadequate bases.
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London
Air Ministry
Greece
Europe
Sarah Earnhardt's Nationality Revealed in Riddle
Her parents were Jewish, of French Dutch descent, hinting Sarah Earnhardt's heritage as a mixed Jewish and European lineage rather than a single nationality.
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Sarah Earnhardt
Shortage of Veterinarians Threatens Virginia Disease Control
RICHMOND May 6 Dr H C Givens state veterinarian says the induction of practicing veterinarians into military service threatens to handicap Virginia's animal disease control program. He notes several Virginia veterinarians have been called into training and urges veterinary students be deferred under the Selective Service System to avert a potential shortage of trained animal doctors.
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Richmond
H. C. Givens
Virginia
Givens
Warns Against Undue Expansion Of Hog Production
Blacksburg May 6 An advance in hog prices and the government market support until July 1 1943 raise Virginia interest in hog production but extension service animal husbandman G C Herring warns against undue expansion He urges farmers stay within carrying capacity use efficient production raise more pigs per litter prevent parasites optimize feeding and carry hogs to heavier weights He also covers feed comparisons barley wheat rye corn and tankage mint milk supplements and grinding values for efficient market hog rations with emphasis on self feeders and balanced minerals.
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Blacksburg
Virginia
G. C. Herring
Extension Service Animal Husbandman
Pulitzer Prize Winner Plans More Writing at Goucher
Ola Elizabeth Winslow, a professor at Goucher College, won a Pulitzer for biography of Jonathan and plans to follow with early New England religious history. She expressed a love of writing and accepted the award after a photographer photographed her on campus steps.
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Baltimore
Ola Elizabeth Winslow
Jonathan
England
New England
Winslow
Goucher College
Miss
Milas Winslow
Itzer Prize
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Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation, Inc
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Halifax
James H. Price
J. W. Arthur
Betty
J. V. Arthur
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Winchester
Arthur C. Ridgely White
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
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