Roosevelt accuses foes of systematic falsification in campaign
President Roosevelt charged his 1940 campaign opponents with a deliberate program of falsification and said he would expose misrepresentations in five pre election speeches. He noted one address might move to Baltimore to align with Willkie's schedule while also planning tours to inspect defense facilities.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Baltimore
Wendell. Willkie
Pittsburgh
APL Teacsters’ Union
Repu
Red
G. O. P. Licans
Willkie
White House
Game Commission opens deer season in Frederick county
The Game Commission grants an open deer season in Frederick county prompting hopes locals will hunt legally. Citizens urged to follow the code that bans hunting in sanctuaries and prohibits killing does to preserve future sport.
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Game Commission
Frederick County
Incendiary Bombs Blamed For Philadelphia Blasts
Two blasts at the Metropolis Printing Company plant on 803 Washington Avenue in Philadelphia were blamed on incendiary bombs by Detective William Martucci. The fires damaged the Italian district building housing several language newspapers including Il Popolo Italiano. No labor trouble or threats were found, though investigators considered a tank of cleaning fluid as a possible cause. alt text mentions Amando Forte and Reno Zuecca commenting on the incident.
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Philadelphia
William Martucci
Washington Avenue
Metropolis Printing Company
Amando Forte
Forte
Martucci
Il Popolo Italiano
Reno Zuecca
George Richardson
Incendiar Amando Forte
Wallace Visits Big Farm Areas Tour Across Western Ohio
Wallace arrives in Cincinnati to launch a pre election victory tour after warning West Virginia Democrats that a repeat of the 1932 period could let dictators advance. He criticizes financial manipulators and stock speculators and urges vigilance against invasion and panic.
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Cincinnati
A. Wallace
Ohio
West Virginia
Charles Sawyer
Roosevelt
Wallace
Parkersburg
W. Va
Europe
Charles A. Lindbergh
Catholics of Alsace Lor raine Face Cruel Persecution
Vatican radio said in an English broadcast that Catholics of Alsace Lorraine are being kept in the fire of cruel persecution. The report aired for the United States on October 18.
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Vatican City
Vatican Radio
United States
Alsace-Lorraine
No Man's Land Areas Found in Five States
Dusty files in the General Land Office show areas within Colorado Minnesota North Dakota Louisiana and South Dakota not officially part of the United States under the Louisiana Purchase rules. Only Colorado has asserted federal ownership by flag, while others have not claimed or conquered the lands.
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Eddy Gilmore
Washington
General Land Office
United States
Colorado
Land Office
Minnesota
North Dalkota
Louisiana
South Dakota
Napoleon
America
Mississippi River
Mississippi
Great Lakes
North
Sabine River
Estes Park
Mexico
Willkie Denounces Vote Buying On Missouri Visit
Wendell Willkie spoke before a Jefferson City statue, denouncing relief money for votes and promising to respect constitutional limits. He warned against duplicity and patronage while asserting every American citizen, including German descendants in Missouri, deserves full citizenship rights.
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Willkie
Missouri
Wendell L. Willkie
Thomas Jefferson
Wendell Willkie
Missouri Capiol
Jefferson City
Fair Weather Appears Probable for Mid Atlantic
Weather forecast predicts generally fair weather for five days across the Middle Atlantic states from Oct 18 to Oct 23 with showers in New York on Wednesday night. Temperatures below normal inland, frost likely interior Friday and Saturday nights, warming Sunday and Monday then turning colder Tuesday or Wednesday.
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Middle Atlantic
New York
Pennsylvania
Draft Boards Assign Numbers
Winchester and Frederick county draft boards completed listing men who registered Wednesday. Serial numbers will be assigned and registrants posted in precincts. city list at city hall to be completed tomorrow. Local boards: Winchester with Peyton J Marshall chair and John H Rosenberger secretary. members Claude R Cammer James P Reardon appeal agent George G Snarr examining physician Virginia Daugherty clerk. County board: Henry B Pitzer chair Maude Brown secretary M. C Garvin Gore F Grove White Stephens City Dr Lewis Allen Dr B B Dutton examining physician W Erle Edwards appeal agent. City hall headarters. county offices in supervisors room.
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Winchester
Frederick County
Peyton J Marshall
John H. Rosenberger
Claude R. Cammer
James P. Reardon
George G. Snarr
Virginia Daugherty
Henry B. Pitzer
Maude Brown
M. C. Garvin
Gore
F. Grove White
Stephens City
Lewis Allen
B. B. Dutton
W. Erle Edwards
Supervisors
County wide Deer Season Approved in Frederick County
Frederick County will host a three day county wide deer season this year for the first time in 17 years after a divided vote by the State Commission on Game and Inland Fisheries. A petition with roughly a thousand signatures supported the move despite opposition from Sheriff John Bywaters and Game Warden F. W. Pingley who warned of poaching and sanctuaries at Big Survey and Myers tract.
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Frederick County
Harrisonburg
State Commission On Game and Inland Fisheries
Snow
Mr. Harrison
H. A. Snapp
Hayfield
Lee N. Whitacre
John Bywaters
F. W. Pingley
Pingley
Harrison
Game Commission
Myers
2 823 Persons Are Examined For Marriage Licenses
It was learned this afternoon that since August 1 a total of 2 823 applicants for marriage licenses have undergone examinations at Memorial Hospital as required by Virginia law. B J McCarthy, hospital administrator, said that as of October 14, 38 tests were positive indicating possible infection and had been rechecked. Results of the recheck were not available. Based on these exams, an average of nearly 19 couples are being married daily in Winchester and Frederick County.
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Memorial Hospital
Virginia
B. J. McCarthy
Winchester
Frederick County
Stephens City Librarian Annie Rives Dies at 35
Miss Annie Laurie Rives, 35, Stephens City High School librarian, died after embolism at Memorial Hospital. She collapsed at breakfast at Mrs. Julian Steele’s home where she resided. A Madison College graduate, she was the first full time librarian at Stephens City and had many friends among students. Survived by brothers and a sister, with Mrs. G L Walker serving as interim librarian.
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Annie Laurie Rives
Stephens City High School
Memorial Hospital
Dinwiddie
Miss Rives
McKenny
Sree
Madison College
Harrisonburg
Virginia
Hart
Steena
Rives
Macon Academy
G. L. Walker
Stephens City School
Former Clarke County Youth Held in Plot to Kill President
Edw. de Roulhac Blount, 30, once of Clarke county, is charged by Secret Service with openly threatening to kill President Roosevelt. He pleaded guilty in Washington and is free on a $5,000 bond. His father, Walter E. Blount, was a Berryville trial justice. Blount has been living on his yacht Sunshine tied at Washington docks after a month of surveillance.
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Corona
L. L
Vance Swift
Nellie Mallilo
Edw. Blount
Clarke
Berryville
Edward de Roulhac Blount
Clarke County
Winchester
Secret Service
Roosevelt
Washington Times-Herald
Blount
Washington
United States
N. C. Turner
Edward M. Curran
Walter E. Blount
Kackley
Blounts
Blue Ridge
Castleman’s Ferry
Edward
Census Bureau
7Th Street
Crum Will Is Put On Record In Amherst Street Trust
The will of Miss Lillie L. Crum is admitted to record with Shenandoah Valley National Bank as executor and a $30,000 official bond. It directs sale of household furniture, a dwelling and lot on Amherst Street, and sets up a trust to Shenandoah Bank and Clifford D. Grim. Two-fifths of income funds missions. the rest supports Winchester Memorial Hospital and specific bequests to named individuals and organizations.
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Lillie L. Crum
Corporation Court
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Amherst Street
Shenandoah National Bank of Winchester
Clifford D. Grim
Mount Hebron Cemetery
Margaret Keller
Nellie B. Lupton
May H. Heist
The
Society For Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Lizzie F. Dash
Mary Rogers
Virginia
Clifford Grim
Fine levied on Dijon district for sabotage in Belgium
Brussels dispatch reports German authorities imposed a 3,000,000 franc fine on the Dijon district in Liege province for alleged sabotage. The levy, about $100,000, is due November 1 and follows rising sabotage claims as Belgian refugees return from France.
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Brussels
Berlin
Dijon
Liege
Belgium
France
Civilian deaths and injuries in September air raids
The Ministry of Home Security reports that in September 6 954 civilians were killed and 10 615 seriously injured in air raids on the United Kingdom.
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London
Ministry of Home Security
United Kingdom
Roosevelt outlines priority defense orders over private industry
President Roosevelt stated on October 18 that he plans arrangements giving defense orders from private industry priority over all others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Serrano Suner Assumes Foreign Office Post
Ramon Serrano Suner takes charge of Spain's foreign office signaling acceptance of the new order. He pledges to guide policy and manage relations amid shifting governmental alignment.
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Madrid
Ramon Serrano Suner
Foreign Office
Oes
Japs Attack Hong Kong Shanghai Port Termini S Outline
Japanese naval aircraft attacked Kanking in southwestern China near the Burma road terminus, the first action linked to the road re opening as announced by the South China fleet headquarters in Hong Kong.
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Hong Kong
Kanking
China
Burma Road
Admits No Comment On German Radio Report
London dispatch notes the admiralty declined to comment on a German radio claim from Algeciras Spain that the British battleship Barham was apparently heavily damaged and dry docked at Gibraltar. Officials warned such reports serve German aims to mislead and probe for locations.
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London
Admiralty
Algeciras
Spain
Barham
Gibraltar
Conclave Debates Liberalized Remarriage Canon
The House of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church approved a revised canon allowing remarriage blessings a year after a second wedding. It preserves prohibition on clergy marrying divorced persons, leaving such marriages to civil or other faith clerics. Deputies expected rejection.
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Kansas City
House of Bishops
Portestant Episcopal Church
House of Deputies
Cameron J. Davis
Buffalo
N. Y
Prominent county Democrat. daughter wears We Want Willkie button
At the Stephens City Student Fair last night Charles Bauserman and Anton J. Schier won prizes. Bauserman, a Stephens City High School alumnus, received a cake baked by home economics students. Schier, who recently moved from Ohio near Middletown, received an 18 pound Tom prize. Large crowds attended as prize exhibits moved to Winchester for display at the Shenandoah Valley Nation.
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Stephens City
Charles Bauserman
Anton J. Schier
Bauserman
Stephens City High School
Schier
Middletown
Ohio
Tom
Wineer
Shenandoah Valley Nation
RAF Bombers Given Praise For Heroism
London reports Nazi raiders renewed attacks on the capital as the Luftwaffe carried out the forty second consecutive night of air raids. An intense anti aircraft barrage roared over the city despite mist and a chill northeast wind.
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Strait of Dover
Luftwaff
Britain says Nazi invasion plan halted by RAF and sea battle
British reports say German destroyers and a flotilla attacked from Land's End toward the west coast but were repelled by a superior Royal Navy force 100 miles southwest of Land's End. RAF strikes on September 16 halted embarkations and wrecked invasion barges at Hamburg and Boulogne.
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Associated Press
Great Britain
England
London Air Ministry
Simul
Hitler
Bri
Atlantic
Land’s End
New York
French
Adolf Hitler
RAF
Hamburg
Wilhelmshaven
Antwerp
Flushingstead
Dunkerque
Calais
Boulogne
le Havre
France
I Ministry
Demming to Speak at Armel School Friday Night
Public invited to hear W. C. Demming at Armel School on October 18 at 8 p m. The notice is signed by J. Fred Thwaite, chairman, as part of a political advertisement.
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Armel
W. C. Demming
J. Fred Thwaite
Cider Notice for Sweet. Cider at L Hudson VA
Daily custom cider work offered by L Hudson in Virginia. Contact via phone 118w2.10-18-ip- for orders and details.
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L. Hudson
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Eaen
Joe
Jeffer
Eee
Shenandoah County
Stephens
Britain
Crum
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