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From this group, 11 men are going to the Naval Reserve Midshipman School at Columbia University, two are moving to the Supply School at Wellesley, 25 are going to Norfolk to await orders to Midshipman School, and a large group of premeds will be ordered to Naval hospitals to serve as orderlies until the Medical School term starts in January...
...student officers hall from indoctrination schools located at Princeton, Tucson, Arizona, Norfolk, Virginia, and from Ft. Schyller, New York. They will be run through a battery of physical exams and at 1400 tomorrow they will be addressed in the Music Building by Lieut. Commander M. E. Paradise, Officer in Charge. Naval Communications School. Classes for this group that will be known as Company Easy will begin Monday...
Across an open space at the bustling Norfolk Naval Air Station moved a truck with six small trailers, each carrying four depth charges ready to be loaded into the waiting anti-submarine patrol planes. Suddenly a little blaze sprang up on one of the trailers. A station fire engine dashed up in a brave, hopeless effort to halt the fire. But before it could go into action the 24 cordite-loaded charges exploded like a salvo of blockbusters in a blinding flash and shattering concussion. The toll: 25 dead*; 249 injured. The blast and fire wrecked a hangar and eight...
...Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch "froze" its total circulation, will accept no new customers...
...Sweyn Forkbeard I, King of Denmark, made his third invasion of England, 930 years ago, he arrived on the River Humber with his son Canute, conquered the country and was accepted as king. Before he could be crowned, according to one legend, Sweyn was stabbed to death at Thetford, Norfolk, by patriots of the ancient Anglo-Saxon "underground." Canute* got the throne...