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This is by no means the first time that Dr. Straton has captured the limelight by attacking VICE. When a pastor in Norfolk, Va., in 1917, he said that Norfolk was full of bawdy houses and blamed local officials. He wrote a book ($1 per copy) entitled Scarlet Sins of Norfolk, was sued for libel, was hailed before a Grand Jury where he confessed that it was all based on what "somebody" had told him. The commotion began when Dr. Straton tried in vain to get a pardon for a Baptist friend who had been convicted of boot-leggery...
with dragnet apparatus. Salvage Director arrives within 24 hours after the disaster by train and airplane from Norfolk, Va. Name: Captain Ernest J. Kind, commanding officer of the U. S. S. Wright, subordinate to Rear Admiral Frank H. Brumby...
From Fort Eustis, Va., to Fort Story, near Norfolk, Va., an armament train carried the 52nd Railway Artillery Regiment with 8-inch rifles, 12-inch mortars, ammunition cars. A battalion of the 12th Coast Artillery also mobilized at Fort Story together with submarine minelayers, a searchlight platoon, an ordnance company and weather men. Great 16-inch coast guns were unlimbered in their seaside pits and tilted at the far horizon. Then, as the attacking "fleet" steamed near in the defenders' fancy, shore guns of all sizes roared, bombs burst in midsea, aircraft towered and circled to observe and report...
...Arthur J. Morris, lawyer of Norfolk, Va., founded the first "Morris Plan" bank there. It loaned money at 7% interest to honest employed persons. Borrowers repaid loans by monthly installments. Now there exist "Morris Plan" banks in 109 cities. They have injured the usury business...
...Pennsylvania would take the Lehigh Valley, the Chicago & Eastern Illinois or Chicago & Alton, trackage rights along Lake Erie, the Norfolk & Western, use of the Virginian...