Churchill warns Britain to hurry provisions for Mediterranean security
Former First Lord of the Admiralty urges Britain to prepare to go the whole way with the League of Nations covenant. He warns Germany's rearmament is a greater threat than the Italo Ethiopian crisis and cites 5.8 billion marks spent this year as evidence of a mobilized German war economy. Churchill says Britain has no near prospect to match Germany in air power.
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Mediterranean
Navy League
Royal Navy
En'oill
Germany
Churchill
Baltic
Winchester Urges Street Safety For Skating Children
MA Winchester cautions readers about the dangers of children roller skating in streets after a Detroit incident where a driver died of fright when youths darted into his truck’s path. He notes crowded pavements and mutual responsibility urging families to teach safety rules to prevent tragedies.
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Detroit
South Loudoun
New Gainesboro School Set to Open Monday
Frederick County announces the new Gainesboro consolidated district school will open Monday at 9 o clock. Principal Fred C Braithwaite and eight teachers will staff the all brick building on Route No 7 between Gainesboro and Cross Junction with about 400 expected enrollment. Newly arrived steel tube folding chairs for the auditorium will be used as the school adds Saturday classes later, and consideration is given to shortening Christmas break to align spring closings.
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Frederick County School Board
Gainesboro
Fred C. Braithwaite
Cross Junction
Hog prices slip in Chicago as receipts rise
Chicago dispatch reports hog prices falling below 10.00 per hundredweight for the first time since July as receipts rise. Top dropped to 5.85 with a 25 to 38 cent decline, extending October’s downturn to nearly 2.50. The drop follows marketing of new crop swine, cutting about five dollars per head on 225 pound hogs. the year’s peak near 12.35 was reached in early September.
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Chicago
Heavy Rains Block Italian Maneuvers in Africa War
Dejazmatch Nasibu from Harar Ethiopia reports heavy rains hinder large scale operations in the southern Ethiopian sector against Italian Somaliland. He says rains may persist for another fortnight, limiting Italian maneuvers to sporadic air raids and attacks on frontier posts along the Webbe Shibeli river.
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Harar
Ethiopia
Winchester Printers & Stationers Special Notice
Special notice directs readers to Announcement on Page 11. Winchester Printers and Stationers, located in the paper’s business directory, likely details services, office supply offerings, or a promotional update with customers urged to consult the specified page.
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Winchester Printers & Stationers
Winchester Junk Co. Seeks Iron and Metals for Shipping
Advertises quick shipment of iron, rags, and metals at best prices by Winchester Junk Co. Located at 13 Fairfax Lane between Main and Braddock. Includes multiple page references.
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Winchester Junk Co
Fairfax Lane
Main and
Braddock
Organ Recital at Market Street Church Features Rexroth Motz
Organization notes an organ recital at Market Street Methodist Church on October 25 at 8 p.m. A silver offering will be collected. Ralph Rexroth will be the organist with Paul Motz as baritone.
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Market St. M. E
Ralph Rexroth
Paul Motz
President Receives War Situation Briefing and Unemployment Talks
President Roosevelt, arriving from a vacation, moves to a rapid briefing on the Italo Ethiopian crisis and U.S. stance on sanctions. Secretary Hull and Mrs Roosevelt join ministers in a luncheon discussion as unemployment relief and League of Nations matters loom large for the New Deal ahead of 1936 elections.
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Washington
America
Hull
League of Nations
Italy
United States
Congress
Pope's Peace Efforts Highlighted by Vatican Press
Vatican city October 24 Observatore Romano quotes Pope Pius XII as the prince of peace urging an amicable settlement in the Italo Ethiopian conflict. The Vatican newspaper published extracts of his address to show his Holiness pressed for peace before arms clashed.
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Vatican City
Pius
Vatican
Observatore Romano
Shenandoah County Clerk Commended for Record Keeping
State Auditor L. McCarthy Downs told Shenandoah county supervisors that audit of Loy J. Coman county clerk and Circuit Court clerk at Woodstock found $95.21 excess funds on September 30. Downs praised the clerk's unusually well kept records and commended his performance.
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Richmond
L. McCarthy Downs
Board of Supervisors
Shenandoah County
Loy J. Coman
Woodstock
Downs
Masked man assault prompts Baltimore search
Towson Maryland October 24 police launched an intensive manhunt for a black masked assailant who held up a 22 year old mother at pistol point and attacked her He allegedly threatened to kill her four year old child if she reported the incident and the woman remains under physician care.
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Towson
Baltimore County
Twelve Fishing Boats Missing off Southeast Alaska Coast
Twelve fishing boats were reported missing after a storm off the southeastern Alaskan coast. Coast guard and lighthouse service crews searched. three boats were known to have foundered near Coronation Island with two crew rescued and the third crew’s fate undetermined.
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KETC
Alaska
Alaskan
Coast Guard
Lighthouse Service
Coronation Island
Brandisi
Italy
Charles Kingsford-Smith
Kingstown
St. Vincent
Sofia
Macedonia
Ketchikan
Winchester Apology Clears Mistaken Visitor Case
A BrCmIne RS citizen of Winchester apologized publicly for a street incident that morning when a New Jersey visitor, parked by a crowded curb, faced unprovoked abuse from a passerby. The Jersey man, visiting Woodstock Va to see his ill son, thanked the speaker for the apology and praised Shenandoah Valley courtesy shown during prior visits.
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New Jersey
Woodstock
Winchester
Jersey
Shenandoah Valley
Pitts To Play Pro Football For New Rochelle Bulldogs
OSSINING N Y Oct 24 Alabama Pitts who gained fame during imprisonment in Sing Sing signed a contract to play in the backfield of the New Rochelle pro football Bulldogs for eight games this fall He will debut against a professional team in Reading Pennsylvania Sunday afternoon.
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Ossining
Alabama Pitts
Sing Sing
New Rochelle
Reading
Milk Delivery Cost Criticised by NRA Consumer Division
Washington Oct 24 the consumers division of NRA criticized the high cost of distributing milk in a study led by Walton H Hamilton director of the division and adviser to the President on consumer problems. The report discusses an absolute fiction as part of its analysis.
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Washington
Consumers’ Divison
NRA
Walton H. Hamilton
Four Sentences Form 11 Years In Court For Forgery And Robbery
Judge Philip Williams sentenced four men to terms totaling eleven years in Corporation Court. D. W. Colvin received one year for forging a $22.20 check drawn on the Commercial and Savings Bank. Army Carter, colored, got two years for robbery and gun use. Lewis Robinson, colored, drew four years for breaking and entering Mrs. R. T. Barton’s home. Harry Greenwalt received four years for breaking into several city locations after parole was violated in Pennsylvania. His theft spree followed a parole breach and a liquor-fueled wander from Pottsville toward Waynesboro.
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Philip Williams
D. W. Colvin
T. F. Bryant
Carter
Harry Ford
Pottsville
Waynesboro, Pa
Fascist Groups Hit by Laval Decree Strengthens Police
Paris October 24 Premier Laval’s decree laws take effect to curb clashes between rightist and leftist groups. Mobile police rise by 5 000 bringing total force to 20 000 to deter riots agitators peace disturbances and illicit bearers of arms under the new measures.
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Paris
Laval
France
Coast Guard Aids Distressed Ship Off La Jolla
SAN DIEGO Calif Oct 24 The coast guard cutter Perseus sped to aid a ship reported in distress about two miles off La Jolla after residents reported a vessel sending red flares at regular intervals.
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San Diego
Calif
Coast Guard
Perseus
la Jolla
Seventeen Flood Victims Recovered in Struma Valley
Sofia Bulgaria October 24 rescue workers recovered 17 bodies of flood victims in the Struma River Valley Macedonia. Many people remain missing after a cloudburst flooded mountain streams. Bridges were wrecked and roads washed out by the swollen torrents.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Struma
Macedonia
Italy Presses for Answer on Peace Plan in Italo Ethiopian Crisis
Paris reports Mussolini pressing Laval for France to accept Italy's peace terms and seeks Britain's position. Haile Selassie reportedly rejects any solution short of Italian withdrawal.
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Paris
Rome
London
Mussolini
Tf Duce
Great Britain
Libya
Pierre Laval
France
Italy
Vittorio Cerrutti
Laval
L Juce
George Clerk
Mediterranean
Lini
George Russell Clerk
Ethiopia
Britain
League of Nations
Jockey Saunders Held in Slaying Probe After Derby Winner
Upon arrival from Baltimore authorities held Willie Smoky Saunders for questioning in the death of Evelyn Sliwinski, 24. Police broadcast a warrant for Tony Sani, 26, an exercise boy and former jockey, said to have been with Saunders before the party that followed her death.
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Baltimore
Louisville
Willie Smoky” Saunders
Omaha
Evelyn Sliwinski
Tony Sani
Saunders
Mrs. J. W. Kern Injured In Auto Crash on Fort Loudoun Hill
Slippery highways caused multiple near misses and a crash on Loudoun street. J. W. Kern and wife Mrs. Kern were injured. she suffered a sprained ankle and bruises, a cut on the forehead, while he had minor scratches. The car sustained heavy damage and was towed to a garage.
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Fort Loudoun
Loudoun Street
J. W. Kern
Kern
Butler's Packing House Offers Baskets and Oil Paper
Butler's Packing House advertises baskets and oil paper for sale. Date reference 10-23-1p-31 appears in the listing, indicating a catalog or notice number for the item sale.
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Butler’s Packing House
Indict Saunders As Accessory In Woman's Murder
LOUISVILLE Ky Oct 24 Indictments charging Jockey Willie Smoky Saunders with being an accessory to murder and Walter Schaeffer race track exercise boy with the murder of Mrs Evelyn Sliwinski were voted by the county grand jury here today The joint indictment follows hours after it began investigating the auto ride death of the Louisville married woman whose battered body was found on the Ohio river road at about 3 am last Sunday The jury heard testimony of Mrs Agatha Mackinson the other party girl on the fatal ride which climaxed a night of drinking and merrymaking here
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Louisville
Willie
Smoky) Saunders
Walter Schaeffer
Evelyn Sliwinski
Ohio River
Agatha Mackinson
City Manager Field to Return Home Tomorrow
City Manager Arthur M. Field, away in Knoxville attending the International Association of City Managers sessions, is expected to return tomorrow. He participated in several discussions and was the principal speaker at one meeting.
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Arthur M. Field
Knoxville
Tenn
International Association of City Managers
Mr. Field
Sewing Room Project Transferred to WPA
It was announced today that the sewing room project is moved from VERA to the WPA setup and there is more than 2700 dollars available for the project. Details of the new arrangement were not available today.
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VERA
WPA
Beer Not Bad It’s Company Beer Not Bad Its Company
Los Angeles health officer Dr George Parrish told the United States Brewers Association that beer is not harmful and has merit as a drink and food. He noted it shares blame with spirits for disgraceful incidents but said the criticism is undeserved.
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Los Angeles
George Parrish
United States Brewers' Association
Parrish
Heflin Will Be Buried Tomorrow
Joseph Heflin, 62, who died in Memorial Hospital yesterday, will be buried tomorrow morning in Green Hill Cemetery, Berryville. Funeral services will be held at 10 o'clock tomorrow from J. H. Enders Funeral Home in Berryville, with burial to follow.
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Joseph Heflin
Memorial Hospital
Green Hill Cemetery
Berryville
J. H. Enders
Film Colony Menaced by Brush Fire at Malibu Beach
Exclusive report from Los Angeles describes a million dollar brush fire threatening Malibu Beach, a premier motion picture area. Wind shifts fueled spreading flames, jeopardizing property and homes while crews battled hotspots and evacuations. Earthquake earlier disrupted transmission and roads, with widespread damage tallied in the millions and crops hit by wind.
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Los Angeles
California
Malibu
San Diego
Pavedena
M Beach
Craes
Henher
Riverside
Orange
San Fernando
Anteles County
Balibu Beach
Arch Jones
Land Company
Louisvile murder case heads grand jury
Domestic brief reports Willie Smoky Saunders, a nationally known jock, facing a murder count before a Louisville grand jury. Also notes President Roosevelt returning from vacation and addressing Italo Ethiopian tensions, along with various city and regional updates.
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