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...Virginia Capes were the hurricane's next objective. Twenty-five miles off shore it swooped down upon the Old Dominion liner Madison, Norfolk-bound out of New York. A 70-ft. wave carried away the Madison's forward deck house, snapped her booms, stove in her ventilators, snatched off three lifeboats and flooded the cabins. The second mate and quartermaster were washed overside, two of the crew badly injured. Captain William Heath hove to, sent out an SOS. The 37 passengers were corralled in the main saloon at 5 a. m. To the wallowing Madison went the Coast...
Virginia Beach was ripped and torn apart by the surf. With its power turbines under water Norfolk was left in darkness, with a third of its streets flooded. The staff of the Ledger Dispatch worked in hip boots to get out their paper. In Portsmouth a child was swept to death down a sewer, three wading Negroes were electrocuted by a live wire. The hamlet of Oyster, famed duck-shooting depot, was wiped out with three dead. At Richmond the annex of the Virginia Capitol was partly unroofed. The City of Norfolk, with 40 passengers, turned out of raging Chesapeake...
...onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy's approval for each & every contract. Also announced last week was the Navy's 16-ship building program in its own yards. Brooklyn and Philadelphia each got a light cruiser order. Two destroyers each were to be built at Boston. Philadelphia, Norfolk, Puget Sound and Mare Island. Two gunboats and two submarines completed the construction list...
Harry Flood Byrd, Virginia's junior U. S. Senator, was not a candidate for his old job as Governor of the State in last week's Democratic primary. Nevertheless he found himself the major issue in a three-cornered campaign for that office. The candidates were: Norfolk's Joseph T. Deal, a onetime Representative, Louisa's W. Worth Smith Jr., a State Senator, and Tazewell's George Campbell Peery. Because Democrat Peery was favored by Senator Byrd, Messrs. Deal and Smith centred their fire on the "Byrd machine," lambasted the Senator's "boss rule...
...whether the Attorney General wished to prosecute some captured gold hoarders: they had arrested 15 gypsies, found them to have $2,000 in gold. ''No prosecution," decided the Department of Justice, but the gypsies stayed in jail, charged with stealing $7,000 from a woman in Norfolk...