Congress Weighs Expanding Neutrality Act Powers
Congressional leaders debate arming American merchant ships and easing shipping restrictions under the neutrality act. Senators Bridges and Connally signal openness to broader changes if President Roosevelt endorses them, while House opposition centers on scrapping ship provisions. A new lease lend package of nearly six billion dollars looms, delaying any neutrality push.
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Pchairman Connally
D-Tex
Arming Hill
Bridges
Power Bridges
Senate
Congress
Roosevelt
Daylight Saving Time Spurs Electric Use Rise in Harrisonburg
Dispatches from Harrisonburg report electrical consumption climbed 108 600 kilo watt hours or about seven percent during daylight saving time compared with the previous year when time did not change. Louis Armentrout, superintendent of the electric department, cannot explain the increase though he cites possible causes such as higher business activity and more evening lighting. The rise challenges the intended conservation purpose of daylight saving time amid defense needs.
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Harrisonburg
Louis Armentrout
Ideal Weather Sets Stage for Dodgers Yankees World Series Game
In New York, a crowd of about 60,000 watched the Dodgers and Yankees in Game Two. Chandler, one of the majors’ top pitchers, faced strong Dodger hitters as the series resumed with tight defense and early runs. The game featured key moments including Keller scoring on a throw and Reiser and Dimaggio contributing in the early innings.
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Stadium
New York
Brooklyn Dodgers
New York Yankees
Dodger
Dodgers
Chandler
Aes Caane Dodgers
Walker
Herman
Reiser
Yankees
Sturm
Rolfe
Henrich
Dimaggio
Reese
Camilli
Medwick
Lavagetto
Keller
Dickey
Gordon
Rizzuto
Owen
Wyatt
Yankees Camilli
Keiser
Shallow Rooted Trees Suffer From Drought Weak growth noted in apple trees due to dry weather
A report from Winchester Research Laboratory notes shallow-rooted apple trees show wilting linked to sustained drought. Local observers recall past drought impacts and compare current conditions with years ago. A light morning shower, about .35 inches from a thunder shower on September 10, is described.
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Winchest Research Laboratory
Bombing plane makes emergency landing in hay field
A large Canadian twin engine bomber with bombs aboard landed in a near field near Greenland New Hampshire after a mission over the Atlantic. Four Canadian crewmen were not hurt and gave little detail saying they were off track. Local residents reported the crew appeared young and exhausted.
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Greenland
N. H
Atlantic
Raymond J. Cash
Portsmouth Mavy Yard
Associated Press
New Brunswick Line
Maine
Portsmouth
Portsmouth Navy Yard
United States Navy
Cape Cod
Cash
Food Garden Exhibit Draws Hundreds to Winchester
Garden Clubs of Winchester and allied groups display hundreds of jars of preserved foods in the former Groves Brothers store at Piccadilly and Loudoun. The exhibit promotes school meal programs in Frederick and Clarke counties and features food preservation methods, rural school dioramas, and a Clarke County Red Cross canteen booth.
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Groves Brothers
Piccadilly
Loudoun
Imof Gayee
Frederick
Clarke County
Winchester
Red Cross
Frederick County
Christ Church
Clarke County Red Cross
Dodgers Yankees scorecard fragment in innings
Baseball score snippet shows Dodgers vs Yankees with partial inning runs and final tallies. Dodgers 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 score 3 5 0. Yankees 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 score 2 8 1.
Frederick County Traffic Safety Poor In Virginia Ranking
Frederick county ranks 55th among Virginia counties for three year auto fatalities 1937-39 with 1940 moving to 63rd. Clarke County stands 45th 1937-39 and 70th in 1940. Winchester. Suffolk and Staunton top the list. Charlottesville Fredericksburg and Martinsville also appear.
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Frederick County
Virginia
Division of Motor Vehicles
Clarke County
Frederick’s
Clarke
Winch
Winchester
Suffolk
Staunton
Charlottesville
Fredericksburg
Martinsville
Virginia Department of Highways
Frederick
Death Sentence Given Colette
Colette, 21 year old Frenchman, sentenced to death by a Paris state tribunal for the attempted assassination of Pierre Laval and Marcel Deat on August 28. The verdict gave no execution date. Laval and Deat, allied with Germany, were wounded. Laval is recovering at his estate near Vichy and Deat was discharged from a Versailles hospital. Colette had enlisted in the Legion to gain a chance to kill Laval.
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Vichy
France
Paul Colette
Paris
Pierre Laval
Marcel Deat
Laval
Dent
Germany
Colette
Versailles
Russia
Legion
Lava
Growers Consider Stepping Up Apple Quotations
Fruit growers and distributors from five states met in Chambersburg Pennsylvania to discuss increasing apple marketing to offset losses from recent wind storms. Attendees from New York stores and Pennsylvania Maryland Virginia and West Virginia planned to address market quotes and defense strategies amid storm damage.
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Chambersburg
New York
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
R. Miller
Ap- Apps Inc
Martinsbane
Lionel Newes
Berks-Lehigh Mountain
Sale of Household Effects for Late Rhoda C. Anderson
Household goods from the estate of Rhoda C. Anderson will be sold at 19 West Cork Street at 10 o clock Monday October 6. The sale includes various items to be disposed of by court order. Proceeds benefit the estate and potential buyers will participate in the bidding.
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Rhoda C. Anderson
Cork St
Zane Fire Co. Monthly Meeting Notice
Zane Fire Co. of er announces its monthly meeting will be held Friday evening October 3 at 8 p.m. All members are requested to attend. TORYN M. CRAB (10-2-1p-2t) a.
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Zane Fire CO
Toryn M. Crab
Airliner Skids Into Gully After Landings In Rain
A Pennsylvania Central Airlines plane from Pittsburgh to Birmingham slid off a Morgantown runway in heavy rain and plunged into a gully. No serious injuries among 19 passengers and 3 crew. captain Russell Wright and first officer Robert Binninger among crew. Read list of those aboard including several Pittsburgh and Detroiter residents and PCA staff.
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Morgantown
W. Va
Pittsburgh
Birmingham
Ala
Russell Wright
Pennsylvania Central Airlines
Chattanooga
Tenn
A. P. Martin
PCA
F. Deville
Robert Binninger
Jean Purucker
Opening of Warren Bridge Marks Local Ceremony
Brief Exercises mark the opening of a 2200 foot bridge over the South Branch Shenandoah in Front Royal Virginia. State Senator A G Weaver snipped the ribbon as Warren county officials and community groups joined a procession. The bridge, built by George F Hazelwood Co of Cumberland MD, replaces an 1894 two lane structure slated for removal.
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Front Royal
Shemandoeh River
A. G. Weaver
Warren County
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Happy Creek
Reports Convoy's Route Altered
Rome Oct. 2 Stefani said the British convoy planned to move eastward through the Mediterranean but instead took the south Atlantic route around Africa due to a reported failure of a prior convoy to pass Sicily last weekend.
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Rome
Stefani
Mediterranean
Africa
Sicily
Connally urges neutrality act repeal for freedom of seas
At the American Bankers Association convention Senator Tom Connally of Texas defended freedom of the seas and urged amending the neutrality act to allow armed merchant ships and entry into war zones. He warned the act infringed U.S. rights under international law and linked totalitarian threats to liberty. Keenekoe named president of Security Bank of Ponca City.
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Chicago
American Bankers’ Association
Tom Connally
Texas
Association
H. W. Koeneke
Ponca City
Okla
P. D. Houston
Nashville
Tenn
Koeneke
Security Bank of
Oct
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Connaly
United States
Cormally
Troopers Reconnoiter for Army Maneuvers in Carolinas
MORVEN North Carolina October 2 scores of scout cars with Army 29th division officers departed to reconnoiter several square miles northeast of Morven where the division from Maryland Virginia District of Columbia and western Pennsylvania will begin a two month field maneuvers period. Lieut Gen Hugh A Drum commander first army called 15000 officers to a Monroe conference where final instructions were expected before maneuvers begin as headquarters had issued a full week schedule of activity.
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Morven
N.C
North Carolina
Maryland
Virginia
District of Columbia
Monroe
N. C
Nazi Reprisals Rise in Hungary Belgium and Czechoslovakia
Associated Press reports wave of executions and public hangings across Nazi occupied Europe. In Hungary Belgium and Bohemia Moravia more than 100 people executed in days, including two retired generals, as uprisings and resistance spread from Greece to the Balkans.
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Hungary
Belgium
Czecho- Slovakia
Berlin
Associated Press
Europe
Greece
Paris
Prague
Germany
Budapest
Yugoslavia
Elias
Alois Elias
Bohemia-Moravia
Adolf Hitler
Dienst Aus Deutschland
Macedonia
Czechoslovakia
Russia
Red
Ukraine
London
Crimea
Black Sea
Dneiper
Donets River
Leningrad
High Command
Swiss Telegraphic Agency
Banat
Bohemia-Morvia
Slovakia
Norway
Balkans
Mussolini
President Roosevelts Russia faith remarks face critic
Critics charged President Roosevelt's claim that the Russian constitution guarantees religious freedom is untrue and misleading. Bishop Raymond J Wade of the Detroit Area Methodist Conference said printed constitutions are worthless without real life support.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Raymond J. Wade
Detroit
Telegraph Firms May Be Merged
A Senate Interstate Commerce sub committee urged Congress to allow merging of American telegraph firms as one entity and international carriers as a separate entity. The report warns the Postal Telegraph Company is in imminent financial danger with less than 750000 dollars remaining of a five million loan.
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Washington
Senate Interstate Commerce
Congress
Postallegraph
Staples Named President of National Attorneys General
Abram P. Staples the attorney general of Virginia was elected president of the National Association of Attorneys- Generals at its annual convention tied to the American Bar Association meeting held in Indianapolis on October 2.
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Indianapolis
Abram P. Staples
Virginia
National Association of Attorneys-Generals
American Bar Association
Clarabelle and Buster End Up Cleaned for Penn Valley Ducks
Kansas City October report describes Clarabelle and Buster the ducks exposed to fuel oil in a storm sewer spill. Park workers tried carbon tetrachloride and a commercial solvent. Clarabelle and Buster suffered staining and fumes but later eyeing recovery, while other ducks await cleaning.
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Kansas City
Clarabelle
Buster
Penn Valley Lake
Weatherford
Gilbert
Rouss Fire Co Notice Announces October Monthly Meeting
The Charley Rouss Fire Co regular monthly meeting is set for Friday evening October 3 at 8 p m. All members are urged to attend as stated by President Weaver.
Friendship Fire Company Meeting Notice
The Friendship Fire Company announces its regular monthly meeting for Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. All members are requested to attend. WM. ARGENBRIGHT, Captain.
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The
Friendship Fire Company
WM. Argenbright
Roe Farm 225 Acres to be Sold at Gore Courthouse
The Isaiah C Roe Farm comprising 225 acres two miles north of Gore will be offered at public sale in front of the Court House at noon on Saturday October 4. The sale notice appears in the local listing with the parcel location and timing.
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Isaiah C Roe
Gore
Court House
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