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...three ecstatic hours the people of Upshur County, W. Va., believed another miracle in the mines had occurred. How else could 12 men trapped underground, in an airless mine shaft, survive for almost two days? ?We?re just completely overjoyed,? said Lynette Roby, a resident of Sago, W. Va. She waited at 1:30 a.m. on a muddy road in the rain to catch a glimpse of the rescued miners through ambulance windows...
Hero's Fate. In Washington, Secretary of War Spencer flew into a rage, was assured by Navy Secretary Abel Upshur that justice would be done. As the details leaked out, Author James Fenimore Cooper denounced Mackenzie's "terrible transaction." The Navy promptly began a drawn-out court-martial at Brooklyn Navy Yard, eventually exonerated Mackenzie and set him free to continue his career (he died five years later...
...Navy thinks commercial lines can carry passengers cheaper. The Navy recently signed a $1,000,000 contract with U.S. Lines to carry armed-forces dependents on the luxury liners United States and America during the next five months. Yet the Government keeps right on building more Navy transports. The Upshur, last of three 17,600-ton ships which were started by the American President Lines and then taken over by the Navy, will be commissioned in December. Total cost of the three ships: $64.4 million...
Died. Marine Corps Captain Charles William ("Charlie") Paddock, 42, track star dubbed the onetime "world's fastest human" in the '20s, peacetime manager of California newspapers; in the crash of a Navy plane; near Sitka, Alaska. (Killed in the same crash: Marine Corps Major General William Peterkin Upshur, 61, commander of the Marine Corps Department of the Pacific...
...Other V.M.I, alumni: Lieut. General George H. Brett, head of the Caribbean Defense Com mand; Major General Thomas T. Handy, Chief of the General Staff's Operations Division; Major General William P. Upshur, Commanding Gen eral of the Marines' Department of the Pacific; four more major generals; 18 brigadiers. Lieut. General Patton started at V.M.I., finished at West Point...