Drafted Men Finances May Be Protected While On Duty
The plan sponsored by Harness would let buyers negotiate auto payments due during a draftee’s 12 month period. Under present law the car owner can repossess only through courts. The House met at 11 a m to seek passage of the Burke-W conscription bill with a 60 day voluntary enlistment trial provision and penalties for manufacturers who refuse defense orders at reasonable prices.
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Harness
R-Ind
Tance
Roosevelt
The Defense Tax on Cigarettes and Rising Prices
The article questions the half cent defense tax on cigarettes and notes price discrepancies among stores. It argues small per package margins add up yearly and suggests using the extra penny for national defense, appealing to smokers as paying for armaments.
Spooners Cars To Be Checked At Shenandoah Valley Academy
Chief Hollis and Fred J. Larrick announce actions to curb trespassing on Shenandoah Valley Academy grounds. Car entries will be logged by licenser number and turned to police for prosecution. The academy posts have been set to stop unauthorized parking and petty thefts of radiators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shenandoah Valley Academy
C. W. Hollis
Fred J. Larrick
County School Board
Hollis
Lightning May Have Hit Plane In Mid Atlantic Crash
Federal investigators weigh lightning as a possible cause of the worst U S aviation disaster. Dan Beard says one American Airlines plane was struck and another may have been. witnesses near Lovettsville Virginia report a flash and a thunderous blast before the crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan Beard
Civil Aeronautics Board
Lovettsville
Pennsylvania Central Airlines
Beard
American Airlines
Jérome Lederer
CAA Safety Bureau
Tomato Crop Shortfall Warns Frederick County
Northwest Frederick county tomato farmers face serious losses this year. I Fred Stine reports a survey showing a 25 percent drop from the 1939 crop, about 15 000 bushels, with cracking fruit from heavy rains and slow maturation. Farmers are urged to harvest green before frost and store in cellars. a new packing house with a large basement aids storage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County
I. Fred Stine
Maine Prepares For Vote Polls
Maine gears up for the national election as Sept. 9 approaches. In Portland Senator Wagner denounces Roosevelt while praising Willkie and Roosevelt Jr. and in Bangor Colonel Roosevelt critiques the GOP standard bearer showing mixed reactions ahead of polls.
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Portland
Maine
Roosevelt
Col
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Wagner
Wendell Willkie
Bangor
Willkie Proposes Expanded Rural Electrification and Farm Tax Reform
In Bushville Indiana on September 7 Wendell Willkie outlined farm policy ideas to 70 farm editors. He urged expanding rural electrification with a revolving fund to spur more lines under government regulation and proposed a tax plan based on farm income rather than fixed land value, plus continued soil conservation payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bushville
Ind
Wendell L. Willkie
United States
Willkie
Willkie Pras
Mary Hardwick Advances to Semifinals at Forest Hills
England's Mary Hardwick upset Pauline Betz of Los Angeles to reach the national tennis championships semifinals at Forest Hills. Betz won the first set 7-5, but Hardwick dominated 6-1 and 6-2 in the next two sets to clinch the match.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Mary Hardwick
England
Forest Hills
Pauline Betz
Los Angeles
Lester Barlow Awarded 592719 Damages For Patents
President Roosevelt signed a measure ordering payment of 592 719 to Lester P. Barlow a Baltimore inventor in settlement of his claim that the government infringed airplane bomb patents during World War One Barlow demonstrated a new explosive to War Department officials and Congress tests at Bolling Field showed its greater power than TNT
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Lester P. Barlow
Baltimore
Barlow
War Department
Congress
Army
Bolling Field
Local Band Wins Second in Tobacco Festival Parade
Thirty-one members of the Mc Ilwee Band placed second in the feature parade of the Tobacco Festival in South Boston Virginia. They returned to Winchester with a $100 prize after a long trip that started at 4 AM and ended around 7 AM. Funds for the trip included a $50 Common Council grant and $126.50 from merchants via the Chamber of Commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McIlwee
South Boston
Winchester
Guy Lombardo
Common Council
Chamber of Commerce
Canal Walkout Spreads to Pacific Side of Panama Canal
Balboa Panama Canal workers walkout expands to Pacific side with 300 to 400 laborers refusing to check in. Earlier the strike hit the Atlantic side on Thursday and about half of the 1,200 workers remained away yesterday. Strikers demand wage increases from 18 20 cents to 30 cents for laborers and 25 045 cents for skilled workers and protest food conditions.
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Balboa
C. Z
Panama Canal
Pacific
Atlantic
For Sale 1939 Chev rolet truck 12 ft stake body
Auction style classified notice offers a 1939 134 ton Chev rolet truck with a 12 foot stake body in perfect condition. Contact phone 348-1 for details and pricing.
Germans Bomber Assault Pounds London in Evening Raid
London sea floods with German air waves as 50 dive bombers attack in groups of 10 amid anti air bursts near the AP building. A second alarm sounded at 8 32 p m as bombs shook the metropolis and smoke rolled from the east.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Associated Press
Thames
Charing Cross
Sapee
Joint Parley To Be Monday On Clearbrook School
Fred J. Larrick, chairman of the Frederick County School Board, says a definite proposal will be submitted to the Board of Supervisors Monday regarding the elementary school at Clearbrook. The joint session with supervisors was agreed after funds now available fall short of estimated costs. Construction start date is uncertain due to delays and rising building material costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred J. Larrick
Frederick County
Four Are Killed In Two Mishaps
Four Baltimore men died in two separate auto accidents near the Baltimore county Carroll county line and Halethorpe. Three victims perished when a car failed to turn at a bridge abutment and plunged into the Patapsco River. The fourth man, Clinton King 22, died in a collision with a guard rail near Halethorpe and another occupant Spencer Oldham was hospitalized in serious condition. Identifications tentatively include Carl F. Holland Victor Depaula and Robert A. Ernest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Baltimore County
Carroll County
Patapsci River
Carl F. Holland
Victor Depaula
Robert A. Ernest
Spencer Oldham
University Hospital
Clinton King
Halethorpe
Treasury Receipts and Expenditures Report for Sept 5
Treasury figures show receipts of 26,259,105.51 dollars and expenditures of 29,912,598.40 dollars for September 5. The gross debt stands at 43,911,630,751.39 dollars, an increase of 541,032.95 dollars from the previous day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
the Treasury
Governor Price to address Presbyterian Men’s Club meeting
Governor James H. Price will speak to the Men’s Club of the Presbyterian Church Thursday evening October 3 at 6 o’clock. The event marks the club’s first official meeting with more than 250 members expected. The club, open to all city churches and non members, is led by T. Russell Cather and others.
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James H. Price
Old Dominion
Presbyterian Church
George Snarr
Gov. Price
Ginter Park Presbyterian Church
Richmond
T. Russell Cather
Leonard B. Sirbaugh
Sam McCarty
Dr. Snarr
Fred Glaize
Clifford Grim
Capon River
Countess Babs Completes Finger-Printing Under New Law
Los Angeles reports Countess Barbara Hutton von Haugwit-Breenlow has fulfilled alien registration finger printing. She is ill with influenza at her Beverley Hills home and registered with her 4 year old son Lance. The countess renounced citizenship in December 1937 after marrying Danish Count Haugwitz-Reventlow and is now in divorce proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Barbara Hutton von Haugwit-Breenlow
Beverley Hills
Lance
Court Haugwitz-Reventlow
Campaign Strategy Outlined by Virginia Democrats
Virginia Democratic campaign manager L Preston Collins outlined strategy to Young Democratic Clubs at the ninth annual convention in Richmond. He stressed Roosevelt era foreign policy, rearmament in 1933, and social gains for democracy preservation. Frank Daniel and Horace Edwards spoke as leaders discussed a unified Democratic ticket with Daniel likely chair and candidates listed for officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
L. Preston Collins
Marion
Virginia
Collins
Roosevelt
Horace H. Edwards
State Central Democratic Committee
Franklin Daniel
Lynchburg
House of Delegates
Daniel
Walter Young
Alexandria
Ted Bauserman
Woodstock
E. A. Sullivan
Henrico
William Sclater
Garland Moss
Chase City
Margaret Banks
Orange
Carol II flees to Switzerland as Antonescu seizes control
Abdicated King Carol II of Romania crossed into Yugoslavia en route to Switzerland amid Romanian conflicts. General Ion Antonescu declared the abdication a move to avert civil war and asserted his regime would punish disturbances. Police rounded up enemies of the Iron Guard as tension rose across Bucharest.
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Michael
Carol of
Romania
Bucharest
Carol
Marie
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Carol II of
Switzerland
Velika Kikinda
Rumania
Ion Antonescu
Carol II
Antonescu
Mihai
Black Sea
Mme
Magda Lupescu
Mme. Lupescu
Constanta
Helen
Dresden
Germany
Tageblatt
Iron Guard
Allgiance Antonescu
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Universul
Deeing
Lupescu
Torunca Vermi
Armand Calinescu
Iron
American Sailors Parade With Brazilian Forces
Four hundred sailors and marines from the US cruisers Quincy and Wichita joined a Brazilian parade in Rio de Janeiro celebrating Brazil’s 118th independence anniversary. The goodwill tour featured U S servicemen marching alongside Brazilian troops in a colorful display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
United States
Quincy
Wichita
Portugal
Fall parade chills through Shenandoah Valley hot day
Mellwee Municipal Band endured a very warm Tobacco Festival parade in South Boston as Dick Eddy recalled. Friendship ambulance praised by Mrs. Stuart Whetzel after a Clearbrook wreck, with seven minutes from call to arrival. Local characters Brownie the fox terrier and Helen Gordon win Kodak prize in Brucetown contest.
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Winchester
Shenandoah Valley
Mellwee
South Boston
Dick Eddy
Friendship Ambulance
Stuart Whetzel
Clearbrook
Whetzel
Friendship
Lester Forney
Helen Gordon
A. H. Gordon
Brucetown
Helen
$317 000 School To Be Dedicated
Dedication of the new $317,000 Front Royal school is set for 3 o clock Sunday afternoon. Speakers include Congressman A Willis Robertson and Dr Sidney B Hall state superintendent of public instruction. G Tyler Miller Warren Rand Division Superintendent will preside. The Warren-Ranock County High School Band will give a 2:30 concert.
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Front Royal
A. Willis Robertson
Sidney B. Hall
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
G. Tyler Miller
Warren-Ranoch Division
Superin
Wa: County
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Canada
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U. S. Army
Spooners
Miss Betz
Lester Barlow
Canal
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Preston Collins
Horace Edwards
Calinescu
Frank Swimley
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