Final Effort Moves to End Neutrality Law Debates
In Washington on October 23 Senator Clark warned the public against war driven by sympathy and urged defense of liberties. France indicated readiness to buy in the United States if the arms embargo ends, with a fully set purchasing mission ready to cash for supplies now permitted. Administration leaders pressed for a meeting to limit further debate and seek an accord on repeal during this week.
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Washington
Clark
France
State Department
Rene de St. Quentin
Adolf A. Berle
Senate
Garner
Red Cross Drives to Expand Winchester-Frederick Membership
Roy Ryden Jr. leads about fifty volunteers for a Red Cross drive in Winchester Frederick seeking broad community membership. Dollar memberships form the main funding for relief operations, with the aim to widen the base this year as workers canvass homes, businesses, farms, and factories.
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Roy Ryden, Jr
Winchester-Frederick
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Europe
Red Records
Ryden
Relief Drive Reports Progress for Jewish Refugee Aid
Receiving reports on relief efforts show headway by workers in the drive to aid Jewish refugees. Belchie, campaign chairman, indicated noted progress and urged others to contribute via Jacob Yost. Abe Schewell chaired the launch meeting in the city.
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Belchie
Fee
Jacob Yost
Abe Schewell
Chburg
Autumn colors entice drives to national parks and forests
Mr Winchester notes a riot of color in upland forests as autumn lingers. He urges a visit to the mountains while leaves remain, highlighting 100 miles of motoring in Shenandoah National Park and fine roads through West Virginia valleys and nearby national forests rewarding travelers.
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Shenandoah National Park
West Virginia
Surplus Agency Plans 290 Carloads Of Apples For Relief
The Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation announced plans to consider for purchase 290 carloads of apples for distribution to relief clients in Virginia Pennsylvania West Virginia and Maryland over the next week. The regional committee allotted 100 cars to Virginia 90 to Pennsylvania 50 to West Virginia and 50 to Maryland with 23 cars from Frederick county Virginia. The agency expects to continue buying apples in these four states pending further notice.
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Appalachian
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
Virginia
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Maryland
Frederick County
Safe Driver Honor Roll Selections Highlight Community Honorees
Each week police officers and Special Junior Board of Trade observers pick four safe drivers. Past selections include Miss Pearson Mrs Ansel Sol Wallace Lutz Ben Gardiner W Tomlin Ma Aina Pigeytee Tomney Hazel Newlin Peyton Marshall and Robert Bywaters.
Four Perth Amboy infants die in steam-filled nursery disaster
Coroner James Flynn Jr says a radiator valve blew, filling the Perth Amboy General Hospital nursery with steam. Four newborns died, two boys and two girls, while two others were revived by three physicians. investigations continue with hospital officials and local police.
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Perth Amboy
N. J
Perth Amboy General Hospital
James Flynn
Sarah van Gelder
Flynn
Daisy McGuinness
Middlesex County
Stanley Ruszala
Edward Jankowski
Woodbridge
John Rigg
Raritan Arsenal
Apple Growers Meet to Promote Frederick County Apples
A meeting of apple growers is set for Thursday at 7 30 p m in City Hall to plan cooperation for selling Frederick County apples in Richmond during Apple Week. Andrew Bell reports Sunny South stores will back Virginia growers with ads and promotions.
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Council Chamber
Andrew Bell
Chamber of Commerce
Frederick County
Richmond
Bell
O O. E. Shell
Sunny South Company
Shell
Virginia Apple Eee
Sunny South
Virginia Department of Agriculture
State Chamber of Commerce
Virginia
Seu
Antique auction and public sale notices in Winchester and Hagerstown
Auction notices list antiques sale at 326 N Cameron street Winchester Virginia on Oct 265 at 10 am led by Miles B Dean Boyd G. Knodle. Also Knodle's Antique Sale at Company B Armory Hagerstown Oct 26 at 9 am. Public sale Oct 28 1 pm features household and kitchen furniture Alfred Hibbard 214 Sharpe St.
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N. Cameron Street
Winchester
Miles B. Dean
Boyd G
Knodle
Company B Armory
Hagerstown
Alfred Hibbard
Sharpe St
Hand of Death Fells Zane Gray Noted Novelist
ALTADENA Calif Oct 23 Zane Gray noted writer and sportsman died suddenly today at his home of a heart attack He was 64 Attending physicians cited coronary thrombosis He gained fame for colorful western novels many adapted to films His hobby was deep sea fishing and he spent years in the South Seas Grey born Jan 31 1875 Zanesville Ohio He graduated from Zanesville schools and Penn 1896 practiced dentistry 1898 1904 Then wrote Betty Zane 1904 and quickly built a vast output of popular fiction
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Altadena
Calif
Zane Gray
Grey
West
South Seas
Zanesville
Ohio
Alice Josephine Zane
Zanesvill Schools
University of Pennsylvania
New York
Betty Zane
Browder Indicted on False Passport Charge
Earl Browder, secretary of the Communist party in the United States, was indicted by a federal grand jury for false application for a passport. He was taken into custody, arraigned before Judge William Bondy, and held on $10,000 bail. The Dies Committee cited Browder traveled in Europe recently on a fictitious passport bearing a false name and he refused to disclose the alias. The indictment contains two counts alleging false passport applications and use of such passports.
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New York
Earlwder
Comunist Party
United States
Browder
William Bondy
Dies Committee
Europe
To Consolidate One Home Front In Germany
Berlin reports Nazi party aims to unify the home front after western war phase. High command notes no major activity on the western front with brief daily communique. A tri motor British plane was sighted near Aachen and reconnaissance over the Belgian front.
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Berlin
Germany
Nazi Party
West
High Command
Britain
France
Konzen
Aachen
Federal Court Hearing Opens For Forsythe
Forsythe mayor of Front Royal goes on trial in the Western District of Virginia charged with conspiracy to influence witnesses before a federal grand jury. Also charged are Edith Boyd Steve Jackson Banks Eloise Jackson. A 40 member grand jury is seated with opening statements likely today.
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The
Star
Harrisonburg
J. Frank Forsythe
Front Royal
Western District of Virginia
Edith Boyd
Steve Jackson Banks
Eloise Jackson
Jackson
Lazarus Jackson
Forsythe
Genevieve Payne
Shenandoah National Park
Abingdon
Veniremen
Aubrey Weaver
Elliott Marshall
William Armstrong
Front
Royal
John Paul
Leslie F. Bowen
Charles H. Boyd
O. R. Bowen
Steve Jackson
Stephens City to seek special bond election for water supply
A Stephens City committee hired James P. Reardon to prepare a petition asking a Frederick County judge to call a bond election for a $9,000 water supply project. The council also authorized a group including Bean and Hartley to proceed, aiming to hold the vote with the general election and avoid extra costs after the last 1938 bond election.
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James P. Reardon
Stephens City
Winchester
Philip Williams
Frederick
Oe. Bean
J Bean
Sonn
France Aided By Flooded Rivers
Early winter floods aid France in the war against Germany as fronts stabilize near positions from the war's outbreak. France hints at guerrilla tactics to sap German morale while avoiding large troop sacrifices. A war ministry notice offers increased leave: 10 days per four months, plus extra days for decorations or family deaths or births, with eight days for troops behind the lines. Withdrawal across the border remains a threat from three sides.
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Paris
France
Germany
War Ministry
Japan plans talks with Grew on mutual problems
Tokyo reports the foreign office plans a series of conferences with United States Ambassador Joseph C. Grew to discuss mutual issues. Japan says the burden of reaching an arrangement is shared and notes Grew’s speech has met with mixed reactions from officials and public opinion.
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Tokyo
Japanese Foreign Office
United States
Joseph C. Grew
Japan
Grew
American-Japan Society
Ey Kichisaburo Nomura
Ian
Planes Attack German U Boats In North Sea and Atlantic
London dispatch says British warplanes attacked two German U boats, one in the North Sea and the other in the Atlantic far from bases. After the attacks the pilots circled the area and nothing more was seen of the submarines.
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London
Air Ministry
North Sea
Atlantic
Tardy Hail Sets All Time Record
A severe late storm hit areas including Ridge West Virginia and Apple Pie Ridge in Frederick County. Hail lasting two to three minutes damaged some apples and was reported as the largest hail event since September 29 1939. Thunder and lightning accompanied the storm with heavy evening showers east of Winchester.
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Ridge
W. Va
Apple Pie Ridge
Frederick County
Star
Clearbrook
Winchester
Stoves For Sale By Robert H. Bullett
An advertisement for new and used stoves wood and coal offered by Robert H. Bullett at 427 N Cameron. The copy claims the stoves burn everybody's coal and wood.
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Robert H. Bullett
N. Cameron
British naval claims on submarine attacks and air raids
London reports German submarine attacks again increased losses but are small versus 1917. Two British ships sunk with at least 14 missing and 30 survivors. Whitemantle and Sea Venture details given. German air raids claim about 16 planes lost. only ship hit was Southampton by a non exploding bomb.
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London
Germany
Whitemantle
North Sea
Sea Venture
Dover Navigation Company of
Scapa Flow
Firth of Forth
Southampton
Rosyth
Bageant Withdraws Candidacy From Stonewall District Board
L. Bageant, who had announced as an independent candidate for the Stonewall district Board of Supervisors, says he must withdraw due to illness in his family. H. C. Light remains the Democratic candidate in Stonewall district.
Uneventful Voyage Across Atlantic Clears 341 Passengers
New York dispatch reports 341 passengers on a voyage that zigzagged across the Atlantic without naval convoy. Passengers describe the trip as uneventful with no incidents.
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New York
Bee
Atlantic
Finnish delegates return for more talks as Soviet mission reaches Lithuania
Highlights from war reporting note Finnish delegates reenter negotiations on Soviet demands while a Soviet military mission arrives in Lithuania. In London aid raid warnings appear near the Firth of Forth and French floods shield remaining German soil near Saarbruecken as the western front stays quiet. Tokyo reports the foreign minister to hold talks.
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The
Associated Press
Moscow
Lithuania
London
Firth of Forth
Paris
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Louis F. Guerre
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Earle K. Long
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Ellison
Richard W Leche
Long
Westwall
Warndt
Saarbruecken
Bageant
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