Nazi Agent Describes Plot To Forge President Signature
In New York on October 19 a former Nazi spy Guenther Rumrich testified in federal court about forging President Roosevelt's signature on White House stationery to obtain Navy information. He recounted plans to send a forged letter to the Navy Department and discussed carrier plans with German agents. He pleaded guilty earlier and is a key government witness against others in the ring.
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New York
Roosevelt
White House
United States Navy
Guenther Gustav Rumrich
Rumrich
John C. Knox
Erich Glaser
Mitchel Pield
Johanna Hofmann
Otto Hermann Voss
Karl Schlueter
Bronx
Fraulein Hofmann
Schlueter
Enterprise
Yorktown
Carners
Hamburg
United States Navy Department
United States
Shenandoah Valley seeks to meet $1000 quota for regional ads
Shenandoah Valley Inc officials report subscriptions and memberships are within $367.50 of the $1,000 goal to advertise the Shenandoah region. Solicitation continues to reach all local businesses and individuals to fund winter and spring campaigns promoting the valley as an all year tourist destination. Advertising in northern papers and travel magazines will push the scenic route to Florida and travel plans tie to the upcoming New York World's Fair opening next spring.
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Winchester
Frederick County
Shenandoah Valley, Inc
Shenandoah Valley
Mecca
Florida
Maryland Jails Lacking Dining Tables Reform Push
Only five Maryland county jails serve meals on tables, Howard C. Hill told a welfare department report. He warned that meals in cells or corridors create unsanitary conditions and urged regional jail construction to house prisoners from small counties.
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Baltimore
State Welfare Department
Maryland
Howard C. Hill
Welfare Department
Hill
Mr Winchester Urges Paved Roads Repair Efforts
The speaker notes progress as some pavements are fixed while many remain badly in need of attention. He hopes further rebuilding occurs and mentions residents who would rather walk than ride if conditions allow. The Roanoke Times contrasts with the Richmond Times Dispatch headline Money Rebuffed Again.
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Richmond Times- Dispatch
Neck of the Woods
Roanoke Times
Large Fall Bulbs Tulips and Narcissus at Winchester Seed Co
Extra large size fall bulbs including tulips jonquils crocus hyacinths and white narcissus offered by Winchester Seed Co with catalog reference 10-19-21-1p-21.
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Winchester Seed CO
Market Street Methodist Church Offering Night
Market Street Methodist Church hosts an 8 p m offering event sponsored by the Women’s Service Guild. Community members are invited to attend and contribute to the church program.
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Market Street Methodist Church
Women’s Service Guild
Three Indicted by Grand Jury in Winchester Court
A Winchester Grand Jury returned five true bills at the October term in Corporation Court. Four indictments accuse forgery including L. K. Clendening for forging three names on checks totaling 35.64 and local merchants cashing them. Clarence Lockhart is charged with forging T. W. Lockhart for 22.50. Arthur faces one count for breaking and entering the Davis home.
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Corporation Court of Winchester
L. K. Clendening
South
Loudoun Street
Owen C. Ridenour
First National Bank of
Front Royal
D. M. Marshall
National Bank of Strasburg
Margaret M. Athey
Commercial and Savings Bank of Winchester
Clarence Lockhart
T. W. Lockhart
Commercial and Savings Bank
John N. Arthur
Clarence Hardy
Pf Mall Street
Eugene Er
Right
Leonard Miller
State seeks Coast Guard help to curb inshore menhaden fishing
In Ocean City Maryland on October 19 the State Conservation Commission asked Captain E T Crabster at the Norfolk Coast Guard base for aid in patrolling a 40 mile coastal stretch to stop menhaden trawlers from fishing inside the three mile limit. Game fishermen contend the practice spoils sport while merchants favor lifting the limit to allow inshore stopping.
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Ocean City
State Conservation Commission
Coast Guard
Norfolk
Maryland
Commission
E. T. Crabster
Decision In Steel Base Reach Reinforcement Of Wages
The National Labor Board orders Republic Steel to reinstate about 5,000 May 1937 strikers and stop interfering with labor organization. It enforces remedial pay and allows deductions for wages from government projects, with appeal likely to the U S Circuit Court.
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Washington
National Labor Board
Republic Steel Corporation
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee
Lon
Cleveland Steel Circles
U. S
National Labor Relations Board
Little Steel
Sharp Rise in Shenandoah Park Visitors
Travel through Shenandoah National Park rose 31.4 percent for the half month ending October 15, with 18,829 autos carrying 61,833 passengers, up from 14,753 autos and 47,047 passengers a year earlier. Improved weather and peak foliage boosted the park’s visitor numbers.
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Shenandoah National Park
National Park Serrce
Recount Bill Prompts Prompt Payment Premium
Frederick Md Oct 19. If Attorney General Herbert R O Conor pays the primary election recount bill by Friday he will save 127 25. If not the county board of election supervisors says the Democrat guber natorial nominee must pay 748 95 the total cost with no reductions.
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Frederic F
Herbert R. O’conor
Frederick County
Board of Election Supervisors
Nine Arabs Die In Palestine Clash In Jerusalem
In Jerusalem area fighting erupts as Coldstream Guards push rebels from the Moslem quarter of the old city. A British soldier and a policeman are wounded while troops cordon Acre and patrol routes between Haifa Nazareth and other towns to quell a large tribal uprising.
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Jerusalem
Coldstream Guards
Old City
Acre
Haifa
Nazareth
Tiberias
Safed
Palestine
Dunajska Streda
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Komarno
Nicholas Horthy
Beetle Meeting Tonight At 8 In Winchester
Citizens of Winchester and Frederick county meet this evening at 8 at the Frederick county courthouse to discuss the Japanese beetle situation. The gathering will include the Frederick County Fruitgrowers Association the Board of Supervisors the City Council local garden clubs and the State Department of Agriculture. State experts will propose control measures and a possible quarantine. Traps in Winchester caught 25 beetles last season and lead arsenate treatment of about 15 acres is suggested to last four to five years.
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Winchester
Frederick County
Frederick County Fruitgrowers Association
Board of Supervisors
State Department of Agriculture
G. T. French
Confiscation of English Papers in Berlin
Yesterdays editions of English newspapers arriving in Berlin were confiscated by authorities. Officials gave no reason, but reports suggest the action involved coverage of the New York spy trial connected to Nazis.
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Berlin
New York
Sheridan Rode Forth From Winchester 74 Years Ago
Seventy four years ago today October 19 1864 General Phil Sheridan rode from Winchester to the south as battle sounds grew louder rallying his forces to turn defeat into victory. Northern troops fled Cedar Creek encampment, Confederates looted the camp but misread the odds. Federal Wrights Sixth Corps attacked at 2 and by 3 o clock neutralized Confederate gains.
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Stirling
Winchester
Frederick County
Phil Sheridan
Vic
Gen- Seaan
Cedar Creek
Wright
Sixth Corps
Britain and France Inch Toward Separate Peace and Pact Talks
British Prime Minister Chamberlain and cabinet seek peace options and a pacific policy in Palestine while pursuing Anglo American trade talks. Paris reports preliminary talks toward a full settlement with Germany as Daladier and Welczek meet and Hitler drafts terms for air power preponderance.
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London
Neville Chamberlain
Palestine
Malcolm MacDonald
Holy Land
Munich
Hitler
Chamberlain
Alfred Duff Cooper
Admiralty
Czechoslovakia
Paris
France
Germany
Edouard Daladier
Johannes von Welczeck
Berlin
Andrew Francisco-Ponchet
Italy
Berchtesgaden
Air Pact
Europe
Russia
Cameroons
Thrice A Wife Never A Divorcee
Baltimore police held Ardella M. Fuka 25 on bigamy charges with bond set at 1000 dollars. She admitted marriages to George Fuka in 1928 Ellicott City Peter Capasko in 1934 and Charles Langerher in May at Towson while living in Maryland and Virginia. Patrolman Greiner arrested her after finding Langerher at her mother's home.
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Baltimore
Ardella M. Puka
Baltimore County
Maryland
Charles Langerher
United States Marine Corps
Japs Continue Rapid Advance Across China
Japanese troops pressed a swift southward push in China as British forces began a drive to expel Arabs from Jerusalem. Meanwhile the British cabinet convened to discuss Palestine and home defense as Czechoslovakia and Hungary deployed heavy border forces. France faced labor opposition while the Ebro front saw Spanish forces reportedly repulsed. Paris hinted at preliminary talks toward a full settlement with Germany.
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Associated Press
South China
Jerusalem
Palestine
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
France
Ebro
Paris
Germany
Dr Edwin C Yost Clinic Hours and Services
Dr Edwin C Yost announces office hours from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. including exodontia and prosthodontia. Contact number is 1422.
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Edwin C
Czech Troops Keep Posts Along Danube Amid Border Dispute
Heavy Czech forces remain posted along the Danube near Komarom awaiting the next move in the border dispute over Hungarian inhabited lands. Officials say talks will resume through diplomacy while rumors of Sudetenland concessions surface from German sources.
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Komarom
Hungary
Danube
Budapest
Prague
Germany
Sudetenland
Czechoslovakia
Kormarno
Farley Plans Campaign Kickoff at Philadelphia Dinner
Chairman James A. Farley will join a Democratic National Committee gun salute and speak at a $100 plate Hundred Club dinner in Philadelphia to raise funds for Pennsylvania’s Democratic campaign. The list of big gun speakers includes Wallace Ickes Cummings Barkley Hill Bankhead Rayburn with dates in Pittsburgh Reading and other sites to be announced.
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Washington
James A. Farley
Pennsylvania
Democratic National Committee
Parley
Philadelphia
Hundred Club
Democratic
Guffey
D-Pa
Harvard Cambridge split city ties over tax exempt real estate
Cambridge officials told Harvard University it had grown too rich to keep the historic partnership. The council urged Harvard to become a separate municipality paying for its own services after declaring tax exempt real estate had cut Cambridge income by hundreds of thousands. A fire in City Hall and a nearby police garage occurred during the vote, both deemed suspicious, with investigations ordered.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard University
Cambridge Council
Harvard
University
Massachusetts General Court
John J. Canney
LSU Star Bussey Denies Union Claim After Dismissal
Baton Rouge LA October 19 Young Bussey LSU brilliant half back was dismissed for breaking training rules. He said the sole reason was smoking a cigarette during the Tulane Rice game in New Orleans. He denied trying to form a football players union.
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Baton Rouge
Young _ Bussey
Louisiana State University
New Orleans
Landon Attacks Roosevelt Farm Policy In Illinois Speech
At Vienna Illinois on October 19 former Kansas governor and 1936 Republican nominee Alf Landon told a southern Illinois audience the Roosevelt farm program failed and centralized power in Washington. He warned a president unconstrained by the constitution seeks absolute rule and noted annual shifts in farm relief ideas by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace.
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Vienna
Pii
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Illinois
Washington
Landon
Wallace
Treasury position on October 17 records large deficit
Washington reports October 17 receipts of 19,233,362.82 and expenditures of 72,602,866.05 creating a daily deficit of 53,369,503.23. Gross debt stands at 38,422,312,157.13, down 7,467,669.48 from the prior day.
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Washington
The
Treasury
Women Going After The Funny Tribe, 89 000 Bought Permits
Washington report notes 89 000 women and children bought fishing licenses as more women join the sport. Acting Bureau of Fisheries head Charles E Jackson cites better gear roads and supervision, plus fashion, as motivators. He says many fish with husbands or relatives but some seek quiet fishing alone.
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Funny Tribe
Eddy Gilmore
Washington
Charles E Jackson
Bureau of Fisheries
Milady
Jackson
Airways Hero: Pilot Hissong Saves 11 in Burning Flight
Montgomery dispatch reports Pilot Dave Hissong 34 saved 11 passengers when a Houston to New York Eastern Airlines twin began burning near Montgomery. He cut fuel, steered toward a clearing, and landed despite flames and searing burns. Passengers including J Connolly and E D Rivers Jr praised his actions.
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Montgomery
Ala
the Airways
Dave Hissong
Eastern Airlines
Houston
New York
Connolly
Hearst Newspapers
E. D. Rivers, Jr
Georgia
George Stewart
Atlanta
J. H. Lotham
J. H. Bonck
New Orleans
Z. Lebenson
J. T Nix
D. Drucker
R. B. Kahle
C. R. Russell
Frank Gibbs
W. O. Foote
Montgomery Eastern Airlines
F. T Vonnegutt
Hissong
Hisong
Denver
Postmaster Timeline in Winchester and Box Service Benefits
Richard B. Milton served as Winchester's ninth postmaster from 1849 to 1853 followed by George B. Graves in 1853, Charles Chase in 1862, George W. Taylor in 1865, and Sammer R. Atwell in 1870. The article promotes owning a post office box for faster mail delivery, Sundays and holiday access, and notes a small box costs under one cent daily. it also explains privacy in advertising replies by box renters.
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Richard B. Milton
Winchester
George B. Graves
Charles Chase
George W. Taylor
Sammer R. Atwell
Antiques Auction This Week at 326 Cameron St Winchester
MILES B. DEAN presents antiques for auction at 10 A M October 25 in Winchester Virginia at 326 Cameron Street with display on October 23 and 24. Featured pieces include period items and rare collectibles awaiting bid.
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Cameron St
Winchester
Miles B. Dean
Garbage collection notice for metal cans and bottles
Public notice requires wet garbage to be placed in metal containers with covers and not mixed with bottles or other rubbish. Readers are warned that garbage will not be collected if instructions are not followed. Dated 10 19 10 6t.
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Joseph Papa
Morritown
N. J
Joseph, Jr
Mary Ellen Reardon
Elmwood Atson
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Sheridan
French
Alabama
Farley
David Hissong
Aca
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