France Near Break With Germany Over Alsace Lorraine Expulsion
Paris reports indicate Vice Premier Laval travels to deter a rupture with Germany amid the expulsion of more than 100,000 Alsace Lorraine residents. France protests German passes cuts and prepares for further government sessions as Petain planned to greet refugees in Lyon.
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Petain
Lyon
Vichy
France
Pierre Laval
Paris
Germany
Alsace-Lorraine
Europe
Laval
Adolf Hitler
Philippe Petain
Poland
Lorraine
Rhineland
Palatinate
Vernét-Les-Bains
Pyrenees Orientales
Phone Riley’s 1820 Fruit Cake Ingredients Sold By The Pound
An early 20th century classified snippet notes PHONE RILEYS 1820 offering fruit cake ingredients sold economical by the weight. Other items include a studio photo service and a ladies winter coat sale with references to local businesses and tire specials from Washington Garage.
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Rileys
Kate Smith Radio Hour Promotes Arizona Star at Haileys Palace
Broadcast note announces Kate Smith's Radio Hour tonight featuring film star Jean Arthur in the Plaza debut at Haeble's Palace. Also lists a kitchen special Cream fudge at 39 cents and a Teankeane dinner dessert pumpkin custard pie for six at 75 cents with a call to order early.
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Kate Smith
Arizona
Jean Arthur
Hable’s
Tributes Poured In For John R Crown Editor Of Daily News Record
Harrisonburg Virginia mourns as business firms close in tribute to John R Crown editor of the Daily News Record who died after a long illness. services at Woodbine Cemetery were led by Rev J Silor Garrison with incoming tributes praising Crown as a public servant and journalist. Pallbearers included Senator Harry F Byrd and Judge H W Bertram among others. many floral tributes and condolences poured in from officials and the public.
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Star
Harrisonburg
John R. Crown
Daily News-Record
Woodbine Cemetery
J. Silor Garrison
Crown
Harry F. Byrd
A. Willis
Robertson
John Paul
R. Gray Williams
Don W. Thomas
E. L. Klingstein
Sam Parkins
Byron Price
J. Fred Essary
Guy Mason
Frank Fuller
Ben Lamb
Charles W. Wampler
E. C. Wine
All Wilton
J. O. Stickley
Sam H. Callender
J. Zigler
J R. Breneman
Dr. Paul Bowman
Clyde Koontz
Lewis J. Miller
Russell L. Stultz
J. A. Garber
Joe .Harpine
G. F. Holsinger
Prank Lee J
A. Jones
I. D
News-Record
Virginia
Rockingham
Shenandoah Valley
Harrisonbure
Mr. Crown
Mrs Heath 70 Dies After Prolonged Illness
Mrs Marie Holm Heath 70 mother of Mrs Ian C MecCallum and Mrs Irvan Thomas OConnell died at the residence of Mrs OConnell 214 West Cork Street at 1145 last night after a long illness. She worked in Washington DC since 1894 as secretary to Admiral Sigsbee and to Admiral Francis Dickens and led suffrage work with Susan B Anthony and Anna Howard Shaw. She was active in All Souls Unitarian Church and several civic groups including the Business and Professional Women's Club and League of Women Voters. She was born Chicago Illinois May 26 1870 and survived by daughters and grandchildren. Funeral Sunday at 2 from the OConnell residence with Rev R B Nelson officiating pallbearers listed.
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Marie Holm Heath
Ian C. MecCallum
Irvan Thomas O'Connell
O'Connell
West Cork Street
Washington
D. C
Heath
Sigsbee
Francis Dickens
Susan B. Anthony
Anna Howard Shaw
All Souls’ Unitarian Church
Business and Professional Women's Club
Women’s City Club
Anthony League
League of Women Voters
California State Society
Women’s Single Tax Club
Henry M. Holm
Morrion
Sweden
Annette F. E. Lysholm
Malmo
Chicago
Til
Detroit
Enid McConkey
Beatrice Oconnell
Crawford John Callum
Spencer Heath MacCallum
Irvan
Thomas O'Connell, Jr
Charles Heath McConkey
O’conal
R. B. Nelson
Christ Episcopal Church
Tan C. MacCallum
Irvan Sy O'Connell
Emory B. Paringer
EF Harvey Keefe
Elisnor Johnson
William B. Collier
Union Thanksgiving Service Set at Braddock Street Church
The Union Thanksgiving service will be held at Braddock Street Methodist Church at 10 30 with a sermon by the Rev Ronald Wilson of the Presbyterian Church. Host pastor is Rev T M Swann. The offering goes to Winchester Memorial Hospital Woman’s Auxiliary. The program features creedal reading, pastoral prayer, responsive creed, and benediction by local clergy.
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Braddock Street Methodist Church
Ronald §. Wilson
Presbyterian Church
T. M. Swann
Winchester Memorial Hospital
R. B. Nelson
Christ Episcopal, Church
L. G. Bridgers
United Brethren Church
Garland Hopkins
Market Street Methodist Church
Robert A. Whitten
Synseige Church
Ronald Wilson
Jewelry Burglary Suspect Held In Baltimore Case
Joe Thomas, described as a professional jewelry thief, is held for grand jury action in Baltimore on a $15,000 bail after pleading innocent to a $1,537 jewel theft. The Winchester burglary at the Amrod store on October 20 yielded a haul of watches rings and pins, entered via a hole from a vacant apartment above the shop.
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The
Associated Press
Star
Joe Thomas
Amrod
Baltimore
Winchester
Francis Funk Thomas
South Loudoun
Ben Mollock
Sas Wee
Loudoun Street
Strike Halting Military Works at Vultee Plant
Downey California November 15. C LO members on production lines at Vultee Aircraft Inc were ordered to walk out in the first strike at a military plane plant since the national defense emergency began. No hour was set for the walkout as negotiations over the minimum wage scale continued with a federal conciliator attempting to reach union executives. Vultee has $39 million in planes for the United States and $11 million for export on order.
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Downey
Calif
C.lo
Vultee Aircraft, Inc
National Defense
Enich
Vultee
United States
American Reporters Ban In Spain Amid Diplomatic Spat
Madrid reports American news agencies and papers including the Associated Press United Press New York Times and Chicago Tribune face a ban on sending dispatches from Spain starting Monday. The move follows Spain’s denial of visas for EFE correspondents to operate in the United States and a general prohibition on EFE establishing an office there. No timetable for departure of reporters was given.
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Madrid
Spain
Efe
United States
Foreign Service
Efe-Cifra
Associated Press
United Press
New York Times
Chicago Tribune
America
Jose Antonio Jiminez Arnau
Enrique Jiminez Arnau
Spoils Division Agreed Upon by Germany and Soviet Russia
Berlin observers say Germany and Soviet Russia appear to have agreed on postwar spheres of influence leaving Turkey as an unresolved factor. Molotov's Berlin visit signals more diplomacy with Moscow possibly meeting Axis leaders. Turkey’s stance could drive future negotiations.
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Berlin
Germany
Russia
Britain
Turkey
Vyacheslaff Molotoff
Moscow
Europe
Asia
Africa
Greece
Mediterranean
Axis
Goddess of Freedom With Dirty Face At Roosevelt Inauguration
The Goddess of Freedom statue atop the Capitol dome, Thomas Crawford’s 76 year old bronze figure, will appear dirty and tarnished amid Washington rain as inauguration approaches. Misidentified for years, many confuse the statue with Pocahontas, the Statue of Liberty, or Miss America.
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Eddy Gilmore
Washington
Roosevelt
Capitol Dome
Capitol
David Lynn
Miss Goddess of Freedom
Thomas Crawford
Capital
Congress
Milady
Italians Claim Pasha Poisoned
Italians accuse Egyptian Premier Hassan Sabry Pasha of being poisoned by a British agent after his collapse and death at the Parliament opening. Italian newspapers cite Beirut dispatches suggesting British intelligence involvement as Egypt resisted entering the war against Italy.
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Egypt
Italy
Sidi Barrani
Suspect Attacks on Gibraltar Stir Axis Attack Talk
Report from Bern notes Spanish Foreign Minister Serrano Suner’s Paris trip sparks renewed talk of an axis assault on Gibraltar. Observers link Tangier’s takeover and Franco-German talks to potential plans, with Spain seen as a key participant or transit route.
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Bern
Switzerland
Ramon Serrano Suner
Paris
Gibraltar
Mediterranean
Spain
France
Adolf Hitler
Francisco Franco
Tangier
Morocco
Strait of Gibraltar
Atlantic
Serrano Suner
Charles de Gaulle
Libreville
Little
Rio Muni
Maxine Weygand
French North Africa
Spanish Morocco
Next To Last Confederate Veteran Dies At Richmond Home
John Shaw, 105, the next to last Confederate veteran at the Soldiers' Home in Richmond, Va., died in his sleep after a brief illness. Blizzard, 98, remains as the last survivor. The Confederate flag flies at half staff in his honor as the body lies in state at Joseph W. Blythe Funeral Home with funeral services set for 2 p.m. tomorrow and burial in Hollywood Cemetery Soldiers' Section.
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Richmond
John Shaw
John W. Blizzard
Joseph W. Blilye
Soldiers
Hollywood Cemetery
Questionnaires Mailed to Registrants 151 to 200
Henry Pitzer, chairman of the Frederick County Selective Service Board, announced that questionnaires have been mailed to registrants in the order group from 151 to 200.
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Henry Pitzer
Frederick County’ Selective Service Board
German Night Bombers Hit Coventry in Massive Raid
A British communique reports about a raid by some 500 German bombers on Coventry in the English Midlands. The attack left about 1,000 killed or wounded and Coventry’s 14th century cathedral among the ruins as the city lay in smouldering rubble. Berlin boasted of an ocean of flames and claimed the raid was a retaliation for Munich.
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Coventry
Berlin
Hitler
Munich
Three Children Confess To Purse Theft In Winchester
Mrs. J O Rathbone of Long Branch Clarke County reported a missing $60 purse at McCrory store in Winchester. Police learned three boys under 10 confessed to stealing. $39.75 plus $3 in small bills were recovered after one boy paid for a matinee ticket with a $10 bill at Capitol Theatre.
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J. O. Rathbone
Longbranch
Clarke County
New York
Winchester
Capitol Theatre
Colleen Hoover
Rain totals rise in Winchester as October nears end
1.25 inches of rain fell in Winchester in the 24 hours to 8 am, bringing October total to 3.87 inches and year to date to 30.97 inches. West Virginia saw its first general snow, with depths from half to four inches, deepest in Wood, Pleasant, Preston, Tucker, Randolph, Pendleton and Pocahontas counties. Travel was possible with cinder crews at work since midnight.
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Winchester
Virginia
West Virginia
Charleston
W. Va
Wood
Pleasant
Preston
Tucker
Randolph
Pendleton
Pocahontas
Snow Flurries Possible in Middle Atlantic Forecast
Weather forecast for November 15 to 20 shows below normal temperatures early, warming later. Snow flurries are expected in the mountains at the period's start with light precipitation in northern sections toward the end.
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Washington
Middle Atlantic States
London Bombardment Report Describes Severe City Devastation
Observers called the raid the worst attack on any British city since the siege of Britain began. The London ministry of home security said extensive damage and many destroyed buildings including the cathedral, with 20 great fires reported in the city. Berlin faced RAF raids causing fires and casualties, while London bombed routes from Stavanger to Lorient and multiple airdromes. The attack was described as a monster raid with tremendous devastation on a major English industrial center near London.
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London
Britain
London Ministry of Home Security
Morris
Bristol
Rover and Motor Works
Berlin
Air Ministry
Stavanger
Norway
Lorient
Hiser
Tion
England
Lo 4
Blount Receives Prison Term for Threat to Roosevelt
Edward De Roulhac Blount was convicted of threatening the life of President Roosevelt and received a two to six year federal prison sentence. Justice F Dickinson Letts called the punishment an example to others, noting the offense was more grievous in difficult times. Secret Service agents testified to threatening, obscene remarks aimed at the President.
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Washington
Edward de Roulhac Blount
Roosevelt
F. Dickinson Letts
Secret Service
Blount
Clarke County
National Guard Infantry
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