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Commenting on the announcement Elliot Perkins '23, director of the War Service Information Bureau, emphasized that the Navy Department has rescinded its regulation disqualifying men with more than two terms of college training already behind them. Several men previously rejected as candidates and now enrolled in the College, he asserted, will be directly affected by the new ruling...
...life-like most Negroes he went right on working in the fields. But in 1925, when he was 100, James Wilson joined the Baptist ministry. He preached for 17 years. Four years ago, when he applied for an old age pension, he achieved considerable local fame-the Census Bureau announced that he was the oldest resident of the U.S. Last year he retired to his son's house at Vidalia, Ga., to read the Bible...
Died. Colonel General Alexander Sergeivich Shcherbakov, 44, massive (300 Ibs.) Communist man-of-all-political-work and longtime friend of Stalin, who was simultaneously head of the Soviet Information Bureau, member of the all-powerful Politburo, chief of the Red Army's political department, secretary of the Central Communist Party, and political boss of Moscow; of a heart ailment; in Moscow. Politico Shcherbakov's death, on the first day of European peace, was pronounced "Rus sia's greatest wartime casualty." Died. ThomasMontgomery Howell, 63, tiny, bigtime fisherman and Wall Street speculator ("the wizard of the grain...
...fair-minded news veteran who has long had the respect of Washington's critical, competitive correspondent corps. In the decades since he was graduated from the Independence (Mo.) high school with Harry Truman, Charley Ross has served 16 years as chief of the P-D's Washington bureau, handled almost every kind of story, and specialized brilliantly in political reporting...
Clearing skies predicted by the weather bureau may enable tomorrow's encounters, Lowell versus ROTC 2, and Company C against ROTC 1, to open the tournament. Monday's games include ROTC 1 and Company B, while Adams tussles with ROTC 2. The number of teams in the tourney may be decreased by the loss of Standish...