Red Cross Handles Surgical Dressings Classes Next Week
Red Cross will conduct instruction courses for relatives of 23 nearby chapters to speed production of surgical dressings for the European war. The program begins Wednesday at Mrs. Edward B. McLean's home and runs two and a half days with chapters from Charlottesville Alexandria Arlington Fairfax Warren Fredericksburg Leesburg Lynchburg Norfolk Quantico Richmond and Roanoke participating.
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Edward B. McLean
Charlottesville
Alexandria
Arlington County
Fairfax Warren
Fredericksburg
Leesburg
Lynchburg
Norfolk
Quantico
Richmond
Roanoke
Home Agent Program Schedules Week Activities
Miss Madeline Blair oversees the schedule for October 16 to 21. Activities include 4 H Club meetings at Kernstown Whitacre and Stephens City, a Shawnee Demonstration Club exhibit prep, Middletown planning for Achievement Day, and a 4 H Farm and Home Fair at the Episcopal Parish House with exhibit judging and public hours Friday to Saturday. Winchester and Frederick County residents are invited.
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Madeline Blair
Kernstown
Whitacre
Middletown Home Demonstration Club
Home of Economics
Stephens City Home Demonstration Club
H. A. Funk
Episcopal Parish
Winchester
Frederick County
Toms Brook Man Injured In Auto Crash
Irvin Rhodes aged 45 of Toms Brook is recovering at Memorial Hospital after being struck by a car while crossing the highway. The collision occurred in Toms Brook as Arthur R. Matilack a 25 year old Viscose Corporation employee Front Royal drove the vehicle. Rhodes was hurled about 20 feet and remained unconscious on arrival. State police Sergeant C L Fuller investigated the mishap.
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Irvin Rhodes
Toms Brook
Memorial Hospital
Rhodes
D. H. Rhodes
The
Christian Church
Arthur R. Matilack
Viscose Corporation
Front Royal
C. L. Fuller
State Police
No Requests To Mediate In War From Nazis
The White House said no official Nazi mediation request had been received from Germany regarding the European war. President Roosevelt had voiced the same view, and Stephen Early noted no reply had arrived from Soviet leader Kalinin to Roosevelt’s message about Finland’s independence and Baltic peace.
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Washington
White House
Germany
Stephen Early
Roosevelt
Early
Kalinin
Soviet Russia
Finland
Baltic
Chrysler Rift S Takes A Recess
Detroit October report shows Chrysler Corporation and United Auto Workers in a week end recess over a production speed dispute. More than 50,000 employees remained unsure about returning to work as union leaders vow to press the issue despite the company’s firm opposition to a union shop.
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Detroit
Chrysler Corporation- Cio
United Auto Workers
Market quotations and livestock prices from Baltimore and Chicago
Oct 14 market notes show fruit and produce quotes with potatoes apples and sweet potatoes changing, eggs steady, butter 1 429 tubs. Livestock prices across Baltimore and Chicago with cattle hogs sheep and calves weaker or steady. US Dept of Agriculture notes and yearling prices, pork and veal ranges, and Philadelphia butter and fruit quotables.
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Baltimore
New Jersey
U. S. Dept. Agr
Chicago Livestock Chicago
Philadelphia
Apple Market Shipping Report From Winchester to Rochester
Thursday market wires show slow demand and dull trading across Winchester Martinsburg and nearby points with carloads and truckloads sold f o b at usual terms. Stayman and York apples U S No 1 21-2 inch minimum mostly 70 to 85 cents per bushel. Rochester New York region also very slow with similar terms and carload trading.
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Winchester-Martinsburg
Staymans
U. S
Yorks U. S
Rochester
N. Y
Stock Market Report Amid War Talks And Light Trading
New York Ot 14. The European war peace puzzle dominates trading with little selling pressure and overall weakness absent. About 300 000 shares traded, the lightest since hostilities began, as investors hold positions ahead of the weekend. The pound steadies after a sharp prior decline. Selected stock prices closed with modest gains and losses, showing cautious sentiment and limited commitments.
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New York
Grain futures and cash prices wobble on war news
Chicago traders paused for war developments as the grain market showed nervous price swings. Wheat slipped up to 3 percent with losses partly recouped, corn down about 5 percent before partial recovery, while oats and soybeans closed mixed with nearby months at lower quotes.
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Chicago
German Forces Massed Along Rivers In Europe War Update
Report describes heavy German troop concentration east of the Moselle and along the Rhine with limited aerial activity due to bad weather. Bridges blown by France reduce Rhine crossings while German artillery guns are mounted on river pillars. A French plane squad was shot down. both aircrew died but photos survived. Diplomats monitor potential German peace pressure after Allied refusal to negotiate.
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Moselle
Rhine
Mulhouse
Mullheim
Cormar
Friedburg
Hagennau
Rastatt
Strasbourg
Grmany
France
Britain
Hitler
Royal Oak Sinks Submarines Quoted Unlucky Day For U-boats
Reports claim the sinking of three German U boats and a glare of morale for Britain after Jutland and Royal Oak line up in the fleet. British observers say Britain ready for Hitler’s next move as Poland’s three destroyers join the Royal Navy against submarines.
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Admiralty
Jutland
Royal Oak
Germany
Britain
Adolf Hitler
Chamberlain
France
Rines
London
Hitler
Poland
Grain and market prices from Baltimore and Winchester reports
Baltimore and Winchester grain markets list prices for WHEAT CORN OATS and soybeans. No. 2 red winter wheat at 94 percent spot, corn 63 cents per bushel, with bid ranges for various grades and seeds. Other commodities include barley malting timothy seed and flaxseed with nominal ranges.
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Chicago
Rey
Allike
Baltimore Grain
Baltimore
Winchester
Gainesboro High elects Nath aniel Smith as senior class president
Nathaniel Smith is elected president of Gainesboro High School senior class for the coming year with Glenn Wisfcarver as vice president and Bessie Ruble as secretary treasurer. Class members include Curtis Braithwaite Edith Braithwaite Robert Hughes Catherine Shade Marguerite Wisecarver Virginia Kern Lowie Franks Vaida Michael Sidney Secrist. The class bought rings and held a game carnival that netted $20 while two F F A members built 20 by 30 foot building under roof and Curtis Braithwaite built 43 houses for his flock.
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Nathaniel Smith
Gainesboro High School
Glenn Wisfcarver
Bessie Ruble
Curtis
Edith Braithwaite
Robert Hughes
Catherine Shade
Marguerite Wisecarver
Virginia Kern
Lowie Franks
Vaida Michael
Sidney Secrist
Gainesboro
Robert Dailey
Curtis Braithwaite
Long Missing Man Returns After 13 Years Apart
Pittsburgh story tells how James E. Shannon, 65, reappeared after leaving in 1926 for a foundry job. Mrs. Shannon, his wife of 11 children, learned he was alive via a midnight call from Oakland to Pittsburgh. He had amnesia after his son died and decades passed before federal records traced his path to home.
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Pittsburgh
James E. Shannon
Shannon
Bert
Cleveland
Oakland
Cal
Foundry
Consolidation of Two Committees on Power Policy
President Roosevelt announced the merger of the National Defense Power Committee led by Louis Johnson with the National Power Policy Committee headed by Harold Ickes. The joint panel will craft a national power policy addressing defense needs and peacetime requirements across departments to coordinate federal power development.
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Washington
Roosevelt
National Defense Power Committee
Louis Johnson
National Power Policy Committee
Ickes
Interior Department
Johnson
Tommies Bearin To Go Into War
A World War I article describes officers and men moving toward war with a new sense of unity. It notes caste tensions fading and soldiers feeling joined with their leaders in the conflict. The piece follows a troopship journey to France amid darkness and smoky passageways.
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France
Americans In Soviet Police Accused Of Spying
Testimony before a congressional inquiry alleges the Communist party ran covert “shop nuclei” in U S industries to siphon information to Ogpu. Maurice L Kalkin said a unit monitored naval data in Brooklyn Navy Yard for years and most members did not know reports reached Russia. Police funding claims tied to furriers union and Arnold Rothstein loan prompted NYPD scrutiny.
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United States
Ogpu
Maurice L. Kalkin
Brooklyn
N. Y
Navy Yard
Dies
D-Tex
Malkin
Russia
Furriers
Furriers’ Union
New York
Arnold Rothstein
Lewis J. Valentine
Michael Murphy
Washington
Joseph E. Corrti
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Red Cross
Harris Tweed
H. C. Sheetz & Son
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John Deere
Harrows
Lupton Orchard Service Co
George W. Kurtz
Farmers & Merchants
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Chrysler
Gann
Arthur
General Insurance Insurance
Bell Phone
Rouss Ave
Virginia
McIntosh
Comb
U.S
U. S. No
Apple
Stock Market Report
al Chem
Am Can
Am Rad
AT T
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J Manville
Kennecott
M Ward
Nail Dairy
NYC
Packard
Penney (Jc
Republic Steel
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SO of NJ
Texas Corp
Union Pac
US Steel
Va-Car Chem
Va-Car Pad
Western Union
Woolworth
Tim McCoy
Dr. MI Land
I . Ee Ae Rinehart
Melville Cooper Peterson
J. M. Kerrigan
America
Rhodes Drug CO
Hansbrough
Carter
Insurance and Investments
Certified Public Accountants
TAX Counsellors
AUDIT
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Rouss Avenue
Richmond, VA
State Planters Bank
E. Water St
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Jockey
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