Senate Defeats Move To Split Neutrality Bill Shipping Provisions
In Washington the Senate rejected a motion to separate shipping restrictions from the arms embargo repeal in the neutrality bill. Senator Tobey urged two bills one for the embargo repeal and one restricting American shipping to belligerents, while leaders offered mixed views on whether the vote signaled strength for the broader measure.
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Washington
Senate
Barkley
Borah
Idaho
Tobey
RNH
Foreign Relations Committee
Roosevelt
U. S
Congress
Frederick and Clarke County fairs highlight agricultural exhibit
Frederick County students invite visitors to Stephens City for the tenth annual fair with pumpkins and exhibits. Clarke County plans a two day fair at Boyce showcasing top displays and proud exhibitors from Middletown and surrounding counties.
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Frederick County Agriculture
Stephens City
Middletown
Clarke County
Boyce
Table Tennis At Old Mill Oct 10 Evening Event
Local notice advertises a table tennis event at The Old Mill on Tuesday October 10 at 8 p m with a single inviting line seeking a good home for a person or item referenced cryptically in the text.
Mrs Roosevelt Birthday Plans Include Quiet Dinner
Mrs Roosevelt will have a 21 candle birthday cake and will host a luncheon for Madame Peter, the Swiss envoy's wife, marking a restrained White House social season this winter due to the President's workload.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Madame Peter
Ite House
Roosevelts Deny Red Ties to White House Tea Guests
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt says she knew of no reason Communists should not have been invited to tea at the White House and disputes testimony labeling Hinckley and other guests as Communists. She says she has since met people active in movements who are not Communists.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dies Committee
Dies
William Hinckley
American Youth Congress
White House
Lee
New York
Young Communist League
Goff
Roosevelt
Hinckley
Joseph Cadden
Congress
Tde
Finns Urged to Leave Viipuri Amid Warnings
Minister of the Interior Urho Kekkonen announced in a broadcast that Finns should depart Viipuri promptly. A Finnish mission was en route to Moscow, invited by the Soviet Union, with expected arrival in the Soviet capital tomorrow. Viipuri, a Gulf of Finland port, lies near Kronstadt where large Russian forces are stationed on Baltic frontiers.
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Viipuri
Urho Kekkomen
Moscow
Gulf of Finland
Fo Ee
Kronstadt
Baltic States
Lewis Urges Social Legislation At CIO Convention
John L. Lewis opened the CIO national convention urging liberal social legislation as the best weapon against a supposed reaction of Congress. He attacked the National Labor Relations Act administration as biased toward labor, while not signaling a move to revise the act or unite with AFL leaders. Unemployment was spotlighted as a democracy challenge in his program.
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San Franciscco
Congress
CIO
John L. Lewis
Lewis
National Labor Relations Act
AFL and
Industry
Labor Board
AFL
Roosevelt
Shaffer To Attend Dinner At Liberty Hall In Frederick
Republican State Senate candidate William Shaffer will be guest of honor at a dinner in Liberty Hall Thursday at 6 30 p m. Frederick county leaders including Clarence Robinson will preside and participate. Shaffer, a Shenandoah county poultryman, opposes Democrat Burr Harrison of Winchester in the November election.
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William Shaffer
State Senate
Twenty-fifth
Liberty Hall
Clarence Robinson
Frederick County
Shaffer
Shenandoah County
Burr P. Harrison
Winchester
German leader vows to fight if peace rejected in Europe
Berlin reports Hitler warns Britain and France over peace terms and opens a Nazi winter campaign as two more classes of reservists are called up. Stockholm notes Finland seeks talks in Moscow and Sweden tightens defenses while Russian naval buildup in the Baltic underscores Soviet dominance. Tallinn cites authoritative sources.
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Berlin
Hitler
Fuehrer
Stockholm
Finland
Moscow
Sweden
Womanless Wedding at Hall with 60 Actors
A womanless wedding show starring 60 actors from Stephens City takes the stage at Sarah Zane Hall on Tuesday October 16 at 8 15 p m. The event features a full cast and lighthearted comedy for local audiences.
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Sarah Zane Hall
Stephens City
October Heat Continues with 91 Degree Day in Winchester
October heat persists with a 90 to 91 degree temperature arc in Winchester as residents endure a tenth day of unseasonably warm weather. The official 2 PM reading hit 90 degrees, matching yesterday's hour and approaching the October high of 91 set in 1938, prompting summer attire to return and thoughts of swimming and fishing.
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Winchester
Herbert Larrick
England States Resolve to Stop Hitler War Aim
An English letter from Mrs. J H K Park in the Lake District expresses firm English resolve to see the war through with Hitler as the chief issue. Written September 5, it notes initial despair giving way to determination and a belief that Hitler must be stopped.
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J. H. K. Park
Craiglea
Lake District
England
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
AFL Withholds Endorsement At Roosevelt New Deal Vote
The AFL convention voted non concurrence to a blanket endorsement of President Roosevelt and the New Deal. The resolutions committee findings were upheld as delegates avoided a full endorsement, noting no distinction between congressional and administrative action in the Connecticut proposal and opposing conservatives of both parties.
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Cincinnati
American Federation of Labor
Roosevelt
Connecticut
AFL
William Green
National Labor Relations Board
Germans Claim Six Hits On British Cruiser Off Norway
Berlin reports Nazi warplanes scored six hits on a British cruiser off the west coast of Norway yesterday. The German high command says six heavy bombs struck but notes German planes were forced to make emergency landings on Danish soil. It does not state whether the cruiser was hit by defensive fire.
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Berlin
Norway
Man Who Killed 300 Felons Dead
New York, Oct 10. Robert G. Elliott, longtime executioner for five eastern states, died at 65 in Richmond Hill Queens from coronary embolism after ill health since May. He oversaw more than 300 executions including Hauptmann Sacco and Vanzetti, and Judd Gray. Elliott, staunch opponent of legalized killing, had kept his work private and showed signs of strain before his illness.
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New York
Robert G. Elliott
Richmond Hill
Queens
Robert G. Elliott, Jr
Bruno Richard
Hauptmann
Sacco
Vanzetti
Massachusetts
Eliott
Elliott
Judd Gray
Pop
Sleeping Girl Awakens Yet Brain Remains Severely Damaged
ERIE PA Oct 10 Dr H B Emerson child specialist reported six year old Yarrington who awoke after four years of sleeping but has a brain so scarred she will be practically dead mentally. The child grows and body functions normally but brain tissue inflammation left her brain scarred at its base and its functions have ceased.
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Erie
H. B. Emerson
Yarrington
Maxine
Seven Children and Two Women Die in Toronto Train Crash
A Canadian Pacific Railway train struck an automobile at a crossing west of Toronto killing seven school children and two women. The dead include Mrs Gordon Brown Mrs H H Davis and her daughters Verna and Gladys plus Joyce Boyce and two Tibando brothers. Mrs Brown was driving the children to a local school near Islington when the collision occurred.
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Toronto
Canadien Press
Canadian Pacific Railway
Gordon Brown
H. H. Davis
Verna
Gladys
Tibando
Joyce Boyce
Toys Arriving From Germany
A Holland American line freighter Boschdijk arrived with 1,200 tons of German made toys. An official said the toys were shipped from the Reich to the Netherlands in 20 freight cars after the war began for the Christmas export trade.
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New York
Germany
Boschdjk
Reich
Netherlands
Daladier Rejects Hitler Peace Offer As Ruse And Violence
Paris reports Premier Daladier in a radio address denounces Hitler's peace proposal as a ruse backed by violence. He says France fights for lasting security, denounces German territorial demands, warns against demobilization, and pledges continued resistance until a real peace is secured.
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Paris
Daladier
Hitler
Germany
France
Versailles
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Former Austrian Leader Has His Property Seized
Berlin reports Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg exiled Austrian leader and Heimwehr head was stripped of German citizenship and had property confiscated. The Official Gazette listed 156 disfranchised individuals, most Jews. he is in France and sought to form an Austrian brigade for Germany. The proposal was put under advisement by the surete nationale.
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Berlin
Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg
Austria
Heimwehr
France
Surete Nationale
Germany
Militiamen to Attend Drills Twice a Week
The War Departments expanded army training plans require more than 200000 National Guard officers and men to drill twice weekly. Guardsmen will also participate in weekend field exercises to build large unit commands. Division commanders and reservists will rotate in command of regular units during winter maneuvers in the south and west, a shift likely to prompt legal changes to increase drill limits from 60 annually.
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Washington
National Guard
War Department
Congress
Chamberlain delays Commons speech amid peace overture talks
London reports Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain postponed his Commons address from Wednesday to Thursday to respond to Hitler's peace overtures. Sir John Simon said the delay followed consultations with Dominion governments. Lloyd George plans a peace conference. Air Minister Kingsley Wood announced the RAF mapped the Siegfried Line and counted 72 submarine sightings and 34 attacks in four weeks, with modern British planes outperforming German counterparts.
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London
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Hitler
John Simon
Exchequer
Commons
David Lloyd George
Britain
Council For Peace and Reconstruction
Lloyd George
John
Kingsley Wood
Royal Air Force
Siegfried Line
Germany
Kingsley
Dispute Spreads At Chrysler Plants
Detroit reports a widening Chrysler strike as the CIO United Auto Workers expansion closes a third plant. About 2,000 workers at the Kercheval unit are sent home after a walkout on the arm rest assembly line and conveyor leaders.
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Detroit
Chrysler Corporation
CIO
United Automobile Workers
Kercheval
William Marshall
Uaw-Cio
Chrysler
Richmond Damsels Respond to West Virginia Youth SOS
A Piedmont West Virginia youth sought marriage help from Frederick Circuit Court Clerk Julian W. Baker. Five letters arrived, four from Richmond and one from Madison College, with one widow candidate seeking background details. Baker planned to forward letters to the hopeful groom unless postage costs rise, possibly sending them by express.
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Richmond
Winchester
Piedmont
W. Va
Julian W. Baker
Prederick Circuit Court
Madison College
Harrisonburg
Baker
Hitler vows Germany will not kneel to any power
Berlin dispatch quotes Adolf Hitler asserting that Germany will fight to the end if needed and that no power on earth will force it to its knees. He opened the Nazi winter relief drive urging unity and pledging effort to boost Red Cross relief amid war.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Reichsfuerer
Reich
Puehrer
Poland
Fuehrer
Reichstag
Red Cross
Hitler
Eeene
Taxed Enough For Good Roads Says AASHO Leader
Richmond Virginia October 10 42 W M Mack president of the American Association of State Highway Officials declares motorists are already taxed to fund roads and that funds have been diverted to other uses delaying replacements of all and bridges with free replacements Mack chief engineer of the roadway state
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Richmond
W. M. Mack
American Association of State Highway Officials
Free Mack
Mason Taxi Service Shifts Hours Tonight
Mason taxi dispatch announces phone contact Ens 5 10 6 1p 4 for tonight service. No further details provided in readable text.
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Mason Taxi
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