Senate blocks Johnson bid for three day peace recess
Senator Johnson urged a three day recess to let Roosevelt push a European peace, saying the world would be gratified and Germany might accept an honorable peace. Secretary Hull said the U S had not been approached by any belligerent. Majority Leader Barkley stalled the move and Downey planned to continue his address on arms embargo.
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Washington
Senate
Johnson
D-Cole
Chamber
Roosevelt
United States
Europe
Germany
Colorado
Hull
Britain
France
Barkley
D-Ey
Downey
Shenandoah and Great Smoky Parks See Varying Attendance
October foliage in Shenandoah National Park is expected to be at its best while attendance there trails past years. Great Smoky Park welcomes more visitors, with the area offering free access. Congratulations to Berryville and Clarke County amid civic hopes for a modern armory and community building.
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Shenandoah National Park
Great Smoky National Park
Great Smoky Park
Berryville
Clarke County
Winchester
Hull Presses Trade Talks Amid War Strains
Secretary Hull pushes ahead with reciprocal trade treaty program as public hearings open for Belgium and Argentina with Chile to follow next month. War pressure tests patience and aims to maintain broad access to markets while negotiations continue.
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Andrue Berding
Washington
Hull
Belgium
Argentina
Chile
Ing
Venezusla Ey
Europe
Bootleg Coal Weighing Problem Alarms City Officials
City authorities urge caution as buyers and truck drivers may avoid city weighed deliveries of coal from West Virginia or Maryland. The fall drop in city weighed coal suggests weather or widespread ordinance evasion, with reports of bootleg coal sold by the yard and drivers guessing weight by truck capacity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sepanda
West Virginia
Maryland
Toner
Ships Clash With Planes In North Sea
British warships fought German aircraft in the northeast North Sea. A two motor German plane was damaged and forced to land off the coast near Fanoe. One crew member was injured.
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North Sea
Fanoe
Here
More Sleep For School Children In Denmark 1939 40
Copenhagen reports Denmark will give school children an extra hour of sleep for the 1939 40 term to economize electric current and coal. Schools will open at 9 a m instead of 6 8 a m starting November 1 as Denmark relies heavily on coal imports.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Burglary Probe Tied to Dies Committee Office
Washington October 9 officials of the Dies committee checked files to determine if their office was burglarized over the weekend. Dr J B Matthews said the committee room on the fifth floor of the House office building was entered and files searched. A window was broken in several washrooms. The investigation centers on a Communist party report alleging AFL opposition to recruitment and standstill in machinists in the navy yard.
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Washington
Dies Committee
J. B. Matthews
House of Representatives
Communist Party
CIO
John L. Lewis
Dies
D-Tex
Martin Chancey
AFL
William Green
Navy Yard
Patronage Log Jam Is Broken
State Republican Chairman James F. Torrance said the patronage log jam has been broken and disclosed that 4,487 jobs were handed out in the first nine months of Governor Arthur H. James administration. He noted 6,054 workers in departments under the governor have been fired or had their jobs abolished, costing $3,701,379 in savings.
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Pittsburgh
James F. Torrance
Arthur H James
Womanless Wedding at Stephens City Sees Local Cast
A community production titled Womanless Wedding features 60 actors from Stephens City. The event is slated for Tuesday October 16 at 8 15 p m with a diverse local cast participating in this themed show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Zane Hal
Stephens City
Diplomatic Offensive Is In Spotlight
The Soviet diplomatic push centers Europe as war stalls on the western front. Finland Latvia and Ionia come under Soviet sway while Finland agrees to Moscow talks. A German trade delegation urges immediate material supplies to the USSR. Turkish minister in Moscow weighs outcomes and Izvestia backs Hitler peace talks. Germany initiates repatriation of German blood minorities from eastern Europe.
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Associated Press
Germany
Hitler
Russia
Europe
Pinland
Ionia
Latvia
Finland
Moscow
Juha Kutsi Paasikivi
Sweden
Poland
Yes
Soviet Union
Turkey
Sukru Saracoglu
London
Izvestia
Adolf Hitler
Eee
France
Britain
Baltic States
Berlin
Balkans
Chrysler Shuts Dodge Division in Detroit Strike
Chrysler Corporation closed its Dodge division twenty minutes after start of operations and sent 10 000 workers home. V P in charge Herman L Weckler said union employees began a slow down after management refused to cover 64 dismissed last week. Dodge shifts planned to report for work if no further slow down. CIO UAW officials refused to recognize dismissals and ordered men to report for work.
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Detroit
Chrysler Corporation
Dodge
Herman L. Weckler
Chrysler
Weckler
CIO United Automobile Workers
Campaign to Eliminate Radio Interference in Winchester
City drives house to house survey led by John G. Miller and Douglas DuShane under city manager Grant to curb electrical interference from small devices. Dealers warned to sell only filtered devices. fines possible under the city radio interference ordinance. text to be printed in The Star.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
John G. Miller
Douglas DuShane
Grant Tolay
The
Star
Council Sets Hearing on Health Unit Plan
The Common Council president announced a special meeting tomorrow night to hear Dr. Roper of Richmond and Dr. Cook of Lexington on establishing a full time public health unit for Lexington and Rockbridge County.
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C. R. Anderson
Common Council
Roper
Richmond
Robert Cook
Lexington
Rockbridge Coun
Cook
Forney Named to By-Law Committee of Virginia Firemen
R B Barker secretary of the Virginia State Firemen Association informs Fred Forney of Friendship Fire Company of his appointment to the By-Law Committee. Also named are Chief C C Campbell of Luray and E F Trainham of Bristol for the next annual convention. Other committees include executive legislative and music. Mrs Eugene Dabney, president of the New Market Ladies Auxiliary, reports 37 charter members now 53.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. B. Barker
Virginia State Firemen’s Association
Fred Forney
Friendship Fire Company
Forney
C. C Campbell
Luray
E. F Trainham
Bristol
Eugene Dabney
Ladies’ Auxiliary
New Market
Fourteen Carloads Of Apples Allocated In Three Counties
Walker Bond announces four teen carloads of apples allocated for purchase by the FSCC in Frederick Shenandoah and Clarke counties this week. Nine carloads will be bought in Frederick, three in Shenandoah and two in Clarke, based on average county production. A detailed story on the purchase plan appears elsewhere in this issue.
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FSCC
Frederick
Shenandoah
Clarke Counties
Walker Bond
Frederick County
Shenandoah County
Clarke County
The
Star
Nazis Believe War End Just Around Corner
Berlin reports reflect Nazi optimism that Poland’s resistance would end soon and European hostilities might end. They point to Hitler’s openness to peace and a possible Roosevelt mediation, while Washington signals readiness to aid in settlement.
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Berlin
Germany
East
Adolf Hitler
Roosevelt
Europe
Washington
United States
Nazis Plan to Repatriate Germans Across Europe
Dispatches report a German plan to pay expenses for resettling Germans from Poland and Czechoslovakia into western regions. Soviet Russia allegedly offered to admit Czechs and Slovaks willing to emigrate to Russian farms or industries. Census figures estimate German populations in Romania, Hungary, and Yugoslavia at several hundred thousand.
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Tnd
Germany
Garyas
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Soviet Russia
Rumania
Transylvania
Banat
Bukovina
Bessarabia
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Bucharest
Italy
Refugees Slow To Return Home
The American Liner Acadia, sent to Europe to repatriate war refugees, is delayed at Cobh Ireland due to a passenger shortage. The ship, equipped for 678 passengers, had only 197 aboard when leaving Southampton October 6 and will sail today or tomorrow depending on demand. It will not be convoyed. The U S Lines chartered five ships none of which are full. The Acadia, 6185 tons, is chartered from the Eastern Steamship Lines and usually serves East Coast trade.
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New York
Europe
Cobh
Ireland
United States
Line
Southampton
Acadia
U. S
Eastern Steamship Lines
Supreme Court Takes Up AFL CIO Labor Act Interpretations
The Supreme Court agreed today to review three disputes between the American Federation of Labor and the CIO over how the National Labor Relations Act should be interpreted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Supreme Court
American Federation of Labor
CIO
Fall bulbs tulips hyacinths crocus jonquils narcissus
Winchester Seed Co lists fall bulb varieties including tulips hyacinths crocus jonquils and narcissus with large size. Dates 10-9 12 13 18-1p-41 appear as catalog codes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Seed CO
British And French In Accord For War Conduct
AP dispatch notes complete UK French agreement on future war conduct. Moscow to start materials exchange with Germany immediately. Finland to send envoy, new Lithuanian pact expected, Berlin and Paris report German moves, Sweden names Finnish rep, Britain and France maintain unity amid peace speech debates.
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Moscow
Finland
Hitler
Mrs. Rachel McMichael dies in Virginia hospital
Mrs. Rachel Crockett McMichael 41 of Round Hill Loudoun county Va died from pneumonia after a week as a Memorial Hospital patient She is survived by husband Samuel G McMichael mother Mrs Catherine Crockett and children from a former marriage William G Smith and Thomas Crockett Smith Also listed are brothers and sisters Funeral services set for October 11 at Questover with Rev Samuel Moore and Rev E D Vau officiating Burial at Questover.
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Berryville
Rachel Crockett McMichael
Samuel G. McMichael
Round Hill
Loudoun County
Memorial Hospital
Catherine Cox Crockett
Salem
Thomas 8. Crockett
Questover
Clarke County
Here
Columbus
R. O. McCormick
Charles Town
Otis L. Williams
Washington
Richard Larrick
Purcellville
Louis and
Edward Allen
Rippon
W. Va
Carlton Monroe
Real War Front News Is Scarce
London reports little actual war news with an air ministry communique stating British planes shot down one of two German flying boats over the North Sea. An eye witness in France described British observation planes over the Siegfried Line taking low height photos while being fired upon once. The 6873 ton freighter Binnendijk sank off Weymouth after an explosion as British troop movements toward France continue amid peace talk.
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London
Air Ministry
North Sea
France
Siegfried Line
Britain
Binnendijk
New York
Amsterdam
Weymouth
England
Britain and France in complete accord on war aims
Prime Minister Chamberlain told the House of Commons that Britain and France are in complete accord on their purposes for entering the European war and that any specific war aims will be stated only by agreement between the two governments. He noted that the aims include crushing Hitlerism and freeing Europe from aggression with Poland and Czechoslovakia mentioned.
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London
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Britain
France
Arthur Henderson
Leg Fracture After Crossing Street
William Briscoe was struck by an automobile Saturday night while crossing Cork street near Friendship Hall. He sustained a fractured leg and other injuries not believed serious and is at Memorial Hospital in satisfactory condition. Noel S. Roberts of Ridgeway West Virginia, driver of the car, is bonded $50 for a hearing. Officers found no tire marks. indications point to a moderate speed and a slight dent in the car’s front grill.
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William Briscoe
Cork Street
Friendship Hall
Memorial Hospital
Noel S. Roberts
Ridgeway
W. Va
Safe Driver Honor Roll
The Junior Board of Trade selects members for its Safe Driver Honor Roll from police-recommended nominees. The process recognizes individuals for demonstrated safe driving during the past week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Trade
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