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...snuggling him inside her lifebelt. Then a rescue ship drew alongside. The newborn child was handed up to a startled seaman. No assistance was needed for sturdy, 28-year-old Desanka Mohorovicic. She clambered up the cargo net, took a shower before she turned in. Last week, in a Norfolk, Va. hospital, she was feeling fine, getting ready to join her husband, an attache of the Yugoslav Consulate in Manhattan. Said she in her uneasy English: "Everyone was good to me." Said gallant Dr. Conly: "A brave, lovely woman...
...This year 20% of all new houses may be prefabs-against less than 1% in the 1930-40 period, 3½% last year. Close to 100 factories, from Revere, Mass, to Fresno, Calif.", are now busy turning out floor, wall and roof panels on their assembly lines. At Norfolk, Va. a single plant will turn out 5,000 houses at an expected rate...
George F. Deatherage, brawny founder of the swastika-loving Knights of the White Camellia and American Nationalist Confederation, was discovered to be working as an executive engineer on a secret Government project at the Norfolk naval base. The Navy, its attention called, found that he was "undesirable," declared that he would be "excluded from the site of Navy work...
Though momentarily expecting to be hit themselves, the freighter was not touched and despite several more attacks, the convoy arrived in Norfolk...
...Norfolk, Va., Rear Admiral Manley H. Simons told newsmen that Navy wives have received mysterious telephone calls, telling them that their husbands' bodies were on the way home from ships which had been torpedoed and sunk. Such calls, said Admiral Simons, came from enemy agents hoping to learn where U.S. ships are stationed. He advised officers' wives to pay no attention, hang up immediately...