Man Found Sneaking Near President Roosevelt Train in Florida
Secret Service and state police searched brush near Roosevelt’s special train in Florida after a man in a brown sweater and dark trousers was sighted moving toward the roadside just before the president departed for Key West by car. Police guarded the area as agents expanded the search, recalling the 1933 Miami assassination attempt.
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Florida City
Fla
Secret Service
President Roosevelt
Key West
Mr. Roosevelt
Florida
Roosevelt
Giuseppe Zangara
Miami
W. F. Cross
Anton J. Cermak
Cérmak
Pred P. Cone
World Day of Prayer Rites Planned For Friday
The World Day of Prayer service sponsored by the Federated Council of Church Women will be held at ogeene Church on Friday at 3 30 p m Miss Sophie Baker chairperson of publicity announced The 1939 theme is Let Us Put Our Love Into Deeds and Thus Make Our Love Real Since 1927 Christians in fifty countries have prayed and pledged to bear one another s burdens
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Federated Council of Church Women
Sophie Baker
Noted reflections on aging buildings and past lessons
The article muses on old timbers in demolished structures and pioneer craftsmanship. It notes a 130 year old remodeling inferred from a Forney estate sale and recalls that George Washington once lived in a building used as an office. It contrasts youth fitness with past stamina and questions modern fashion and pace of life.
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Herman Hable
Forney
George Washington
H. H
Mussolini reviews bodyguard as police tighten vigil
In Rome on February 18 Premier Mussolini reviewed the fascist elite guard in Borghese gardens marking the corps anniversary while police surround his villa area after a shooting near Via Nomentana. A demented man, Bruno Simoni, 38, was arrested.
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Rome
Mussolini
Il Duce
Bruno Simoni
Bodyguard
Borghese Gardens
Villa Forlonia
Via Nomentana
Palazzo Venezia
Ministry (of Popular Culture
Luigi Simoni
San Giorgio de Piano
Bolonga
Naples
Fire That Took Eight Is Probed
Commonwealth's Attorney William Hill opened an inquiry into a Greenwich fire that killed Ed Hansborough 40 and seven of his eight children. The newborn baby survived with Mrs Hansborough who fled the home as roof collapse trapped the others. Names of the dead include Harriet 12 and siblings Buddy Sam Molly Beulah Lena and Effie. The blaze was fueled by wood stoves and its cause remains undetermined.
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Manassas
Commonwealth
William Hill
Greenwich
Here
Ed Hansborough
Harriet
Buddy
Sam
Molly
Beulah Lena
Effie
P. W. Howard
Bad Judgment Cited In Airliner Crash Off California
The Air Safety Board pinned basic responsibility on the first pilot Captain Charles B. Stead and two Oakland dispatchers for the United Airlines crash near Point Reyes on November 29. Five people died. Stead and one passenger were rescued after a forced sea landing. The flight ran Medford Oregon to Oakland California with four passengers and a three-man crew.
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Washington
Air Safety Board
United Air Lines
Point Reyes
Calif
Charles B. Stead
Oakland
Thomas P. van Sceiver
Philip Stever Showalter
Medford
Ore
Oakland Calif
Stead
Washington Feud Flare over Inter-American Commission Choice
Miss Mary Winslow replaces Doris Stevens on the inter American Commission of Women in Washington. The change splits local feminists who backed Stevens since 1928 and risks reigniting another long-running Washington feud amid partisan lines.
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Storm Center
Washington
Mary Winslow
inter-American Commission of Women
Doris Stevens
Prices and Wages Need Adjustings
Des Moines reports at the third annual Farm Institute call for balanced price flexibility. A O Neal of the American Farm Bureau urges commodity, wage, and farm price relations to expand exchanges. O B Jesness of the University of Minnesota contrasts agricultural and industrial price flexibility amid economic depression, noting farmers and manufacturers pursue self interests.
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Des Moines
Farm Institute
A. O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Fedaddress
Yaa
O. B. Jesness
Division of Agricultural Economics
University of Minnesota
Ira S Capper Dies After Long Illness at 87
Ira S Capper, 87, elder brother of Lohr and E B Capper, died at Fairfax Inn where he had lived with Mrs. Harry Bowers. Bedfast for three years, he was a church member and long time B&O Railroad employee before becoming a bookkeeper at C L Robinson Ice and Cold Storage. He was born March 27, 1852, and moved to Winchester in 1873.
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Ira S. Capper
Lohr
E. B. Capper
Fairfax Inn
Harry Bowers
Malinda
Meredith Capper
Capper
Winchester
C. L. Robinson Ice and Cold Storage
Objectives OfC O C Listed By Mr McVicar
Earl Valentine states advertising must rise to boost Shenandoah Valley tourism at the Winchester Chamber of Commerce annual meeting. Charles P. McVicar lists goals including securing a combined armory auditorium in Winchester and a gym for Shenandoah Valley Academy, along with road and bridge projects and annual Route 7 38 celebrations.
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Shenandoah Valley
Earl Valentine Lexington
Shenandoah Valley, Inc
Winchester Chamber of Commerce
George Washington Hotel
Charles P. McVicar
Revenue
Winchester
Front Royal Turnpike
Riverton
Virginia
West Virginia
Berkeley Springs
Boundary Line
Harold G. Brown
David Garvin Dies Suddenly in Danville Virginia
David Garvin a native of Highview West Virginia died suddenly last night at 8 in Danville Virginia where he had lived for more than 40 years as city solicitor. He was a church and civic leader and a Mason and Kiwanis member. He served as secretary of Main Street Methodist Church and elder of the congregation. His death leaves relatives and friends shocked with few details.
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Danville
David Garvin
Highview
W. Va
Garvin
Mahlon
Mary Garvin
Masonic Fraternity
Gen Craig backs sale of planes abroad amid debate
Gen Craig, army chief of staff, testified before the senate military affairs committee in favor of President Roosevelt's policy to sell American military planes overseas. He said 300 bombers would need about eighteen months to produce and argued foreign markets would maintain factory work and prevent obsolescence while noting German pricing advantages. The hearing cited Austin's view that foreign sales could ready the U.S. aircraft industry for its broader air program.
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Washington
Malin Craig
Army
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Roosevelt
Craib
Douglas Airplane Co., Inc
Austin
Germany
Police trace 60-cent punch to Miami hardware store
Police traced the weapon used in the robbery of the Blackstone Hotel safe deposit boxes to a Miami hardware store. Bandits stole 73600 worth of cash and jewels Wednesday.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Miami
Blackstone Hotel
Gangland Raid Hits Malden Poker Game
In Malden Massachusetts on February 18 a raid on a 12 man stud poker game in a private home cellar left one man dead and another critically wounded. Three armed intruders stole an estimated five thousand dollars and fled.
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Malden
Mass
Governor James Defends Campaign Actions Before ABA Ethics Panel
Governor James of Pennsylvania testifies before the American Bar Association ethics committee regarding a complaint over his campaign conduct. He states he did not plan to resign as judge and cites precedent for running for governor without leaving the bench.
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James
Pennsylvania
Chicago
Arthur H. James
American Bar Association
Herschel W. Arant
Ohio State University Law School
Harrisburg
Thomas C Buchanan
Funeral notice for William DeSchon Argenbright
Members of Friendship Fire Co. are asked to meet at the hall Sunday at 1 30 for the funeral of the late William DeSchon Argenbright.
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William DeSchon
Senator Austin Reveals Treasury’s Word on Air Missions
Senator W. R. Austin of Vermont states after a Washington hearing that Secretary Morgenthau told the President he personally urged allowing French air missions to inspect new planes. The disclosure follows a closed Senate Military Affairs Committee session.
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W. R. Austin
Vermont
Washington
Senate Military Affairs Committee
French Found Only Two Bombers Capable Against German
A French air mission visiting the United States to buy warplanes found only two bomber models capable of a second in the air against German aircraft. Secretary Morgenthau testified that the French sought to spend 65 million dollars for planes with six month delivery and preferred only models as good as or better than European planes. The French purchase included 100 Douglas bombers and Curtis pursuit planes.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Senate Military Committee
Europe
Curtis
Clark
D.-Mo
Trade War Averted Efforts To Ease Anglo German Trade Tensions
London reports Prime Minister Chamberlain ordered Oliver Stanley and R S Hudson to Berlin to avert an Anglo German trade war. Frank Ashton-Gwatkin heads to prepare the visit as Britain weighs opening its colonial market to Germany and ties to European markets. Germany's barter and subsidies trigger protests in Parliament as trade shrinks in January with exports down 12 percent and imports 13 percent.
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London
Chamberlain
Oliver Stanley
Board of Trade
R. S. Hudson
Germany
Hitler
Frank T. A. Ashton-Gwatkin
Foreign Office
Berlin
Federation of British Industries
Stanley
Great Britain
Reichstag
Apple Buds Show Spring Progress in Shenandoah Valley
Apple buds are swelling as a 63 degree high hints at spring in the Shenandoah Valley. Dr. W S Hough at Winchester Research Laboratory says the season is about normal and bud development is slower than last year, reducing frost risk. Farmers and orchardists advance spring work after a recent surge.
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Shenandoah Valley
Winchester Research Laboratory
W. S. Hough
Planes Bid For Mexican Government Sale
Reports from military circles say United States Canadian and German firms bid for the sale of 75 airplanes to the Mexican government, a move circulated today.
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Mexico City
United States
Sprint Farm of Clarke County For Sale Near Boyce VA
For sale a 306 acre Clarke County limestone farm near Boyce Virginia known as the Sprint Farm. Includes a six room log house with metal roof a large bank barn and other outbuildings. Possession March 1 1939. Easy terms. Offered by Farmers and Merchants National Bank and Trust Company Winchester Virginia.
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Clarke County
Sprint
Boyce
Virginia
Farmers and Merchants National Bank and Trust Company
Winchester
Roosevelt Speaks Unity of Americas Urges Democracy and Peace
In Key West Florida on February 18 President Roosevelt delivered two car talks by microphone on a cruise to the Caribbean. He voiced a shared aim to defend self governing life and to lift democracy above autocracy and reiterated the Good Neighbor policy and restraint on entangling alliances.
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Key West
Fla
Roosevelt
Americas
Caribbean
San Francisco
Washington
United States
New World
Western Hemisphere
Cabinet Discusses Spanish Refugee Issue In Paris
Paris February 18 The French cabinet debated the Spanish refugee problem as progress was reported in efforts to secure peace in Spain.
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Paris
Spain
Poland Recognizes Franco Regime as Spain's Legal Government
Warsaw reports that Poland has granted formal recognition to Franco's regime as the legal government of Spain. The move marks a diplomatic shift during the ongoing Spanish Civil War era and positions Poland among early recognizers of Madrid authorities.
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Warsaw
Poland
Franco
Spain
General Krepei resigns as Prague chief of staff
General Ludwig Jan Krepei resigned as chief of the general staff in Prague for reasons of health. President Emil Hacha accepted the resignation.
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Prague
Ludwig Jan Krepei
Emil Hacha
Battery radios at 1/3 to 1/2 off at Ward Co
Montgomery Ward & Co advertises complete battery radios with batteries, offering discounts of one third to one half off regular price. Limited quantities available, customers urged to come early.
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Montgomery Ward & CO
Income tax services offered by J H Seal Jr
State and Federal income tax reports prepared with reasonable fee by J H Seal Jr at 208 W Boscawen Street. Phone 1153. Dated 2 18 1p 2.
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J. H. Seal, Jr
W. Boscawen Street
Accountants Offer Day or Evening Bookkeeping Services
Advertises auditing balancing and write up of books both day and evening. Financial statements and income tax work emphasized with reasonable charges. Star.
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Care Star
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World Day of Prayer
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American Farm Bureau Federation
COC
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Shenandoah Val. Academy
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