Storm Strikes Lower Florida But In force Much Reduced
A small hurricane crossed extreme southern Florida causing little damage in Nassau and Miami. No fatalities or serious injuries were reported as warnings continued and gulf shipping was advised to use caution. Gusts up to 123 miles per hour were recorded in the Pan American area as the storm moved into the Gulf between Everglades and Fort Myers.
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Miami
Fla
Florida
Nassau
Weather Bureau
Homestead
Gulf of Mexico
Everglades
Fort Myers
Punta Gorda
Gulf
Carrabe
Dinner Key
Missionaries Honored by Grace Lutheran Church
Dr. L S Miller and wife honored by Grace Lutheran Church in Winchester. The couple have served 34 and 15 years as missionaries in Japan and will be entertained Tuesday evening at the parsonage on South Stewart Street by church members. The Milleys plan to visit Winchester off and on for two to three months, with Dr Miller off to Buffalo soon for speaking engagements.
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L. S. Miller
Japan
South Stewart Street
Grace Lutheran Church
Carl Honeycutt
Winchester advocates concentration camps to secure labor
The author argues for a system where able-bodied jobseekers who refuse to work receive relief in exchange for a set amount of labor. He notes farmers and defense industries face labor shortages and recalls 1941 when many would rather beg than work, urging respect for those who sweat to earn honest money.
Wyatt Returns for Second World Series Start
Whitlow Wyatt, the Georgian pitcher who won game two for the Dodgers, returned to the mound at Ebbets Field for a possible final stand against the Yankees. He faced Ernie Bonham on three days' rest as Brooklyn trailed by one run in the series.
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Ebbets Field
Brooklyn
Ernie Bonham
Minister Flickinger Elected Winchester Association President
At a Winchester Ministerial Association meeting Rev. S. L. Flickinger D D pastor of Centenary Reformed Church was elected president to fill the unexpired term of Rev. Charles Hume Punk who resigned. The World Week of Prayer begins the Monday after the second Sunday in January with Rev. Charles W. Sheerin D D of New York as speaker.
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Winchester
Charles W. Sheerin
D. D
New York
National Council of the Episcopal Church of the United States
Two Firms Charged With Polluting Virginia Streams
Frederick county authorities served warrants on American Alloy Company of Star Tannery and Virginia Glass Sand Corporation of Gore for polluting watercourses. They must appear for a hearing before Trial Justice A J Tavenner on Thursday October 9. Charges allege knowingly casting noxious substances into state waters destroying fish and spawn.
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Frederick County
American Alloy Company
Star Tannery
Virginia Glass Sand Corporation
Gore
F. W. Pingley
A. J. Tavenner
Virginia
Hitler to Offer a New Peace to Britain and U S
Cairo reports a coming peace offer from Hitler before year’s end. He would claim Russia exits the war and press a new continental order while pursuing reprisals against Britain for bombing Germany. British and American quarters assess the plan as likely rejected, with ongoing war.
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Cairo
Adolf Hitler
Britain
United States
Ete
Hitler
Russia
England
Germany
Trians
Navy Builds Battlewagon With Swing Music
Norfolk, Oct 6. Commander Hague installs a shipside soundtrack for the 35,000 ton battleship Alabama. Five daily phonograph concerts play classic and popular selections to thousands of workers, with orders to accommodate requests from Lily Pons to lighthearted tunes. The system burned out after hundreds of complaints before repairs could start.
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Norfolk
United States Navy
Alabama
W. McL. Hague
Norfolk Navy Yard
Hague
Lily Pons
Record High Of 96 Degrees Is Recorded Sunday
Winchester set an all time heat mark with 96 degrees at the Winchester Research Laboratory. The reading held from 2 pm for nearly three hours and dipped to 93 by 5 pm and 71 by morning. Orchardists fear crop damage as apples burn and drop while water supplies dwindle.
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Winchester
Winchester Research Laboratory
Walter Hough
Bishop Ireton Confirms Large Class at Sacred Heart
A large class was confirmed yesterday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church by Bishop Peter L. Ireton D D. A dinner followed with visiting ministers including Rt Rev Mer T E Rankin and Emmett Galligher among others. Tonight he will confirm 30 at St John s Church Front Royal and tomorrow will consecrate a newly installed altar.
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Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Peter L. Ireton
D. D
Richmond
R. E. Hannon
Sacred Heart Church
Mer. T. E. Rankin
Alexandria
Emmett Galligher
Staunton
Thomas Healey
Harpers Ferry
James Whitfield
Pete Strahan
Mt. Myer
Edwin Lee
Arlington
Joseph Fettig
Winchester
Bishop Ireton
George Gore
Clarke County
Ireton
St. John’s Catholic Church
Front Royal
Probable Naval Battle Off Brazilian Coast Reports Unverified
Unverified reports along the coast between Maceio and Maragogi indicate four vessels may have engaged in a weekend naval battle off the Brazilian coast with one possibly sunk. Reports say bodies were washed ashore at Barra Grande but confirmation is lacking.
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Maceio
Brazil
Here
Maragogy
Barra Grande
Atlantic Battle Enters Critical Phase With U-boat Onslaught
From Reykjavik on September 28 a delayed report notes a renewed German U-boat campaign against North Atlantic supply lines. The push targets crippled British war effort, backed by American produced materiel, and concerns British and U S naval officers and merchants despite summer complacency in London.
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Reyjavik
Iceland
North Atlantic
London
United States
Measure To Halt Inflation Offered To House
Washington October 6 Congress was offered a broad price control plan to cap rents wages defense profits and agricultural prices. Rep Gore D Tenn leads the measure proposing a base period October 6 12 and creating an emergency inflation control office with ceilings on wholesale prices and defense contract profits set to return excess profits to the government. The plan runs until June 30 1943 and exempts agriculture from ceiling if parity is met.
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Washington
Congress
Rep
Gore
D-Tenn
House Banking and Currency Committee
Leon Henderson
Office of Price Administration
Bernard M. Baruch
War Industries Board
Henderson
Office of Emergency
Light Apple Crop In English Orchards
A prominent orchardist received a notice from W B Anderson and Sons Ltd stating English apple crops are about one third of normal due to droughty weather and a heavy June drop. The letter notes rumors of apples being prioritized for shipping and suggests imports would go to the Ministry of Food, with a note of limited home grown apples arriving since September 15.
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W. B. Anderson
W. B. Anderson & Sons, Ltd
Carlisle
Liverpool
Glasgow
Ministry of Food
Public Sale of Household Goods in Cameron Street
Public sale of household goods scheduled for Saturday at 10 a m. at 312 S Cameron listing items likely from a local resident. The sale appears in a small classifieds notice with a start time and address.
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S. Cameron
Leaders To Meet With President Over Neutrality Revamp
Hyde Park reports a White House briefing that Secretary Hull Vice President Wallace five senators and two House members will meet President Roosevelt in Washington to decide on revising the neutrality act The aim is to choose between scrapping the law or modifying it to arm American merchantmen and allow vessels into combat zones with a ban lifting for current restrictions Senate participants include Barkley Connally George McNary and Austin with varied positions on arming and zone access.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
White House
Hull
Wallace
House
Roosevelt
Washington
Tomorne
Barkley
Dky
Connally
D-Tex
Foreign Relations Committee
George
Dga
McNary
R-Ore
Austin
Rvt
Senate
Tribute to Brandeis as Court Opens Historic Term
The Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Stone with new associate justices Byrnes and Jackson, opened a historic term after the death of Louis D. Brandeis. The session honored Brandeis, who died the night before, with a brief tribute and adjournment in his memory.
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Supreme Court
James F. Byrnes
Robert H. Jackson
Washington
Harlan F. Stone
James J. Byrnes
Louis D. Brandeis
Stone
Justice Brandeis
Rt 50 Surface Work To Begin In A Few Days
Echols Brothers of Staunton will start surfacing Route 50 east of Winchester midweek. Base stone and macadam will be laid from the Route 50 Route 12 junction south of Boyce toward Winchester. Local labor will be used through the Piccadilly street Employment office and currently employed workers will not be hired for the job.
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Echols Brothers
Staunton
Winchester
Boyce
Piccadilly Street
Franco Receives U S Ambassador for Talks in Madrid
Generalissimo Francisco Franco met with United States Ambassador Alexander Weddell in Madrid for discussions on matters of interest to both governments. No details of the conversation were released.
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Madrid
Spain
Francisco Franco
United States
Alexander Weddell
Curtin Heads Labor Cabinet as Defense Coordinator
Canberra report says John Curtin formed a new commonwealth cabinet with himself as prime minister and minister for defense coordination, outlining a broader leadership role for his government.
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Canberra
Australia
John Curtin
Wreckage of missing B-18 bomber sighted near San Francisco Peaks
Wreckage of a twin-motored B-18 Army bomber, missing since Thursday night with six officers and men aboard, was sighted today on San Francisco peaks north of Flagstaff, Ariz., the Tucson air base reported.
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Tucson
Ariz
San Francisco Peaks
Flagstaff
Judge Dismisses MONOPOLY Suit Against Aluminum Company of America
Federal Judge Caffey ruled the government failed to prove monopoly charges against Aluminum Company of America and 48 co defendants and that the government is entitled to no relief in the anti trust suit seeking dissolution.
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New York
Caffey
Aluminum Company of America
Special Jury To Investigate Bayliss Death
A special grand jury will convene in Frederick Circuit Court at 10 AM Wednesday to review the manslaughter case of Willis H. Craker 23 of Corry Pennsylvania in the Bayliss death on U S Route 11 near Bartonsville. Craker is jailed awaiting trial.
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Frederick
Willis H. Craker
Corry
Philip Bayliss
Roy Bayliss
Kernstown
Craker
Bartonsville
Robert Collier
Court of Trial
A. J. Tavenner
Collier
Commonwealth
Joe
Eunice Funk
E. G. Brumback
Sam Boyd
Harry Knight
Joe V. Taylor
T. S. Cooper
F. B. Or
J. O. Chamberain
Two French Freighters Torpedoed in Mediterranean
Vichy reports that two French freighters were torpedoed in the Mediterranean by British war vessels. The navy ministry announced the losses tonight.
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Vichy
Navy Ministry
Mediterranean
Stop signs set at Double Tollgate to curb accidents
After a series of severe wrecks at the Double Tollgate intersection, the highway department placed Stop signs on the Front Royal turnpike and the Stephens City White Post road. White Post’s historic post near Greenway Court was damaged by a truck while Coast Artillery units camped at Winchester armory en route to Allentown. Turner A. Slaughter of Front Royal caught a 4 pound 9 ounce smallmouth bass.
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Highway Department
Front Royal Turnpike
Stephens City
White Post Road
White Post
Greenway Court
Lord Fairfax
Allentown
198Th Coast Artillery
Winchester
Turner A. Slaughter
Front Royal
McIntosh
Riverton Junction
South Branch
German Offensive Reported on Eastern Front Subduing Leningrad
London authorities report a vast new German offensive across the eastern front with Leningrad siege activity waning and Moscow seen as a possible principal objective. Berlin offered no clear goal while commentators describe a campaign on a scale resembling a new opening.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Leningrad
Germany
Russia
Britain
London
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Dienst Aus Deutschland
Roslavl
North Africa
Tobruk
Suez
Hitler
End of War Prisoner Exchange Reaches Agreement
London reports a radio exchange between Britain and Germany ends their dispute over first prisoner transfers. Hospital ships with POWs civilians and German personnel are to depart Newhaven and Dieppe tomorrow with timing and counts to be announced via the same wavelength. The German message confirms the move and Britain acknowledges.
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London
Britain
Germany
Calais
England
Newhaven Harbor
Dieppe
France
Uniforms for Harrisonburg and Charles Town Trips Issued
Uniforms for the Harrisonburg and Charles Town trips will be issued to members on Wednesday evening October 8 from 7:30 to 9. Uniform Committee.
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ROUSS
Harrisonburg
Charles
Household effects of Rhoda C to be sold
Rhoda C. estate items will be sold at No 19 West Cork Street at 10 o clock Monday October 6. Auction notice lists sale of household effects to be auctioned by private sale listing.
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Rhoda C
W. Cork
Tober
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Louis Brandeis
Bulletins
Weddell
Franco
Uncle Sam
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