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They Slept There. In Fredericksburg, Va., boyhood home of George Washington, police arrested on various charges Clarence Wills Washington, Robert Thomas Washington, and William Washington, the last from Washington...
...special trains, will detrain some 50,000 men at Manhattan, has appealed to their mothers and sweethearts not to stand around in the already crowded station. Longest haul: a three-train caravan from California's Fort Ord via Southern Pacific to Chicago. Lightest bottleneck: the two-track Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac, which is the only link between three Southern roads at Richmond and the Northern roads at Washington. Shuttling more than 150 loaded specials to the already crowded Washington gateway in four days, R.F. & P. train crews will earn juicy overtime checks...
...floor. The tenth stood before an open hatch in the side of the plane. A little older than the others, he was the sergeant and jump-master; he would be the first through the hatch. Now, while the plane rushed toward the spot chosen for this practice jump near Fredericksburg, his hands were raised above his head, gripping a cable which ran the length of the cabin...
...174th Infantry went a telegram to Isolationist Senator Burton K. Wheeler, protesting extension of the National Guard's year of service. At week's end Major General Clifford Powell announced that this breach of military discipline had been forgiven. Next day the 44th passed through Fredericksburg, Va. From the trucks showered penciled notes-more protest. Sample text: "One year's enough. Send this to your newspaper. . . . Why not take a vote among the National Guard...
...Sunday, the 44th rested, prowled the Virginia towns, roamed through Fredericksburg's National Military Cemetery, where 15,000 Civil War soldiers (12,000 marked "unknown") lie under prim headstones. But there was no day of rest for the officer responsible for the maneuver: Major General Lesley James McNair, Chief of Staff of the Army's General Headquarters. He headed back to Washington, got busy again in his office, overlooking the campus-like lawn of the Army War College on the Potomac...