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Command by Tradition. Commander of the Negro camp at Great Lakes is tall, amiable Lieut. Commander Daniel W. Armstrong, whose family tradition fits him for the job. His father, a brigadier general at 26, commanded Negro troops in the Civil War, later founded Virginia's Hampton Institute (vocational training) for Negroes...
...departure from the usual run of the mill intramural meets medals and prizes were given out last week to the following men for their showing: Jack and Bill Fisher and Hampton in the hammer, Capole and Schneider in the high jump, Garland and Chilcott in the discus, Shaw and Burrowes in the pole vault, Bingham, Wheeler and Clark in the 300, MacCoubrey and Young in the 100, Blatt in the 600, and Andrews and Murch in the distance...
Jack and Bill Fisher, as expected, came through with a first and second in the hammer, with a winning throw of 154 feet 6 1/2 inches; Freshman Wade Hampton took third. Pete Garland took first in the high jump, with Freshmen George Capeloe, and Bob Schneider in second and third...
High behind the thronging shipyards, docks and naval works of Hampton Roads, Va. stands a bleak hillside cemetery. In the yellow Virginia soil, in row on row of new-heaped graves (already there are over 50), lie the bodies of German U-boat crews...
...There are very serious local shortages. Worst of these are in Portland, Me.; Hartford; Buffalo; Baltimore; Washington, D.C.; Hampton Roads, Va.; Charleston, S.C.; Mobile, Ala.; Rockford, Beloit area, Rock Island, and Moline, Ill.; Davenport, Iowa; Seattle-Tacoma; Portland, Ore.; Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Diego. And shortages are already on the horizon in such key cities as Detroit, Akron, Wichita, Milwaukee and Philadelphia. Both WPB and WMC are now committed to a policy of "bringing work to the labor, not labor to the work...