City to advertise bids for garbage collection amid contract notice
R C Clem gives 60 day notice ending current refuse contract as City Council authorizes City Manager to seek bids for next year. A tentative $500 offer may buy the old garbage truck body, which cost $1,000 and has seen little use since new collection plan adopted. Sealed bids will be opened in about two weeks.
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City Manor
R. C. Clem
Field
Collecof
Percy Miller
PWA
Lawrence Hollis
Allen Hawthorne
Special Armory Committee
R. Frank Barr
Kern Street
John Rosenberger
North Loudoun Street
L. W. Hannum
Montague Avenue
Emmett Henry
Solenberger
Glaize
McCormac
Kent Street
Paul Hartman
A.M. Field
Japanese Haul American Seamen
Twelve United States seamen boarded a Japanese army plane in Shanghai to be flown from the Monocacy near Kiukiang up the Yangtze River. The same plane carried 12 replacements from Shanghai to Kiukiang as Japan asserts the river is unsafe for Monocacy.
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Shanghai
United States
States
Kiukiang
Yangtze River
Yangtze
Japan
Congratulatory Note From Senator Harrison
Gulfport Mississippi September 14 major Pat Harrison chairman of the Senate committee today directed Millard E Tydings of Maryland to send his heartiest congratulations on a remarkable and deserved victory.
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Gulfport
Miss
Pat Harrison
Senate
Ce Committee
Bible School Planned to Extend Over Three Years
A non denominational Bible school will open in the city offering weekly Friday classes from 7 30 to 8 45 pm at the Berryville Avenue Brethren Church under Rev Norman H Uphouse. The program covers nine subject areas over three years with no tuition. Registrations set for Friday September 23 at the Brethren Church.
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Berryville Avenue
Philadelphia School of the Bible
Baltimore School of the Bible
Bible Institute
Uphouse
Brethren Church
Ladies Bowling League Formed At Health Center
A new six team ladies bowling league by Winchester Knitting Mill employees will bowl this winter at the Health Center alley. Captains include Lula Haymaker Rollins Jandy Carpenter Mildred Strode Boo Tavs Pearl Martin and Lola Dolphin with Opal Buckley presiding.
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Knitting Mill
Health Center Alley
Jack Zimmerman
Winchester Knitting
Rollins
Jandy Carpenter
Tillie Koontz
Madge Burch
Ivah Massie
Mildred Strode
Margaret Baylis
Katye Slonaker
Vernie Taylor
Boo Tavs
Maud Hollar
Lucille Kiracofe
Colleen Massie
Martha Pine
Pearl Martin
Opal Buckley
Evelyn Richards
Margaret Fauver
Lola Dolphin
Trene Childress
Loma Cunningham
Ola Dolphin
Council Votes To Seek Armory Grant
The council discussed applying for a $27,000 federal grant to build an armory, weighing bond issues against using surplus funds and considering several site options. Plans by architect Ian MacCallum set estimated costs between 50 000 and 60 000, with the Rouss Springs site favored to minimize expenses.
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Ian MacCallum
Hawthorne
Ladies Bowling League Set To Open Friday
The Health Center hosts the third bowling deal Friday evening with teams from Handley Nurses Berryville Junior Women's Club Boyce Cammers Piccadilly Shop Girls Athletic Association Beta Sigma Phi Hershey and The Star Office to compete for the trophy. Mrs Jenni e Lind Cather is president with Tillie Line secretary and Frances Van Devanter treasurer. All games start promptly and late players will be penalized.
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Hershey
Evening Star
Winchester
Little Theatre
Zeropak
Handley, Nurses
Berryville Junior Women’s Club
Boyce, Cammers
Piccadilly’Shop
Girls’ Athletic Association
Beta Sigma Phi
Star Office
Jennie Lind Cather
Tillie Line
Frances van Devanter
Boyce
Landon Urges GOP to End Southern Discrimination
Alfred M. Landon, Republican nominee in 1936, urged the party to abandon discriminatory southern policies and attacked the Democratic Party for purging thinkers. Speaking in Little Rock after the biennial convention, he called for voting the Republican ticket as a protest against one man one party rule. He did not specify which policies he meant.
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Little Rock
Ark
Alfred M. Landon
South
Landon
White House
Texans Endorse John N Garner For Presidency
Texas Democrats at Beaumont convention endorsed vice president John N Garner for the 1940 presidential nomination. The 1300 delegates roared for Garner and Roosevelt, rejected Governor W Lee O Daniel's abolition of the poll tax plank, and backed an old age pension plank from his supporters.
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Beaumont
Tex
Texas
John N. Garner
Roosevelt
W. Lee Ddaniel
O’daniel
Legation Builds Bomb Proof Shelter in Prague Wing
Washington reports the American legation in Prague is constructing a bomb proof cement and steel shelter under a wing. Authorized by the State Department after Czech approval, the shelter replaces a wine cellar during partial reconstruction with a $600 appropriation.
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Washington
Sept
Legation
Prague
Czechoslovakia
State Department
National Interest on FDR Liberal Test Sends Ite
Senator Carl Hayden of Arizona led in incomplete returns as South Carolina faced a dramatic ballot-box seizure by National Guardsmen under Gov. Olin D. Johnston. The day featured GOP and Democratic contests across New Hampshire Vermont Colorado and Arizona with a mix of renomination results and close races.
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Carl Hayden
Arizona
House
South Carolina
John C. Taylor
Butler B. Hare
G. Heyward Mahon
Joseph R. Bryson
National Guardsmen
Olin D. Johnston
Charleston County
Wyndham M. Manning
Burnet R. Maybank
Charleston
New Hampshire
John L. Sullivan
Franr
S P. Murphy
Shire
Vermont
George D. Aiken
Murphy
Michigan
Frank D. Fitzgerald
Frank Murphy
Colorado
Teller Ammons
George J
Secretary of States
James H. Kerby
Jerrie W. Lee
Nazi Press Reports Sudeten Unrest and Germany’s Watchful Stance
Berlin officials denied foreign mobilization rumors as Goebbels briefed editors. Nazi outlets blamed Czechoslovakia for martial law in Sudeten towns while Hitler pledged aid to Sudeten Germans seeking self determination. Berlin papers warned Western democracies of the tense crisis.
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Nuremberg
Czechoslovakia
Berlin
New York
Sudeten
Prague
Fuehrer
Munich
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Europe
DNB
Hitler
Voelkischer Beobatcher
Germany
Nurnberg
Konrad Henlein
Berliner Boersen Zeitung
Nervousness Felt by German Firms Over Czech Crisis
Berlin reports general anxiety among foreign business firms over the Czech crisis. Two British concerns sent all British employees to England, with German staff remaining. Some French residents in Germany also left. Officials denied reports of a Hitler military leaders conference at Berchtesgaden, saying Hitler was not there and was believed en route to Berlin from Munich.
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Berlin
Germany
England
Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Bavarian
Munich
Rop
James Seeks Liberal Votes in Pennsylvania Campaign Tour
Judge Arthur H. James campaigned in Venango and Clarion counties appealing to liberal Democrats as he urged voters to back his governorship bid. He told a Punxsutawney rally that real Democrats are realizing Harrisburg leaders have sold the party to the New Deal and Jefferson’s memory warrants independence and liberty.
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Oil City
Arthur H. James
Venango
Clarion
Pun Xsutawney
Barclay Square
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Thomas Jefferson
Prayer meeting at Lutheran church on North Washington
The regular weekly prayer service of the Lutheran Church of Our Saviour will be held this evening at 7 45 at the church on North Washington street. Rev C W Lowe will speak on The Approach To The Temple. All invited to attend.
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Lutheran Church of Our Saviour
North Washington Street
C. W. Lowe
Temple
Baptist Revival Announced at First Church
The Rev. Dr. T. Ryland Sanford of Luray Virginia will preach a series of evangelistic services at First Baptist Church starting Sunday evening September 18. Services will be at 745 each evening next week and ongoing. prior prayer meetings will be held at 745 tonight at six city homes with local leaders and music coordinators named.
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T. Ryland Sanford
Luray
First Baptist Church
E.T. Clark
Ervices
Edmonia Haddox
North Braddock Street
E. T. Clark
Eulalia Nalley
GR. Haines
le Csster Street
Dun
J. Hawthorne
Radar
Lillian Oy
Mattie Hook
National Avenue
B. E. Russell
J. P. Essex
Sudeten Negotiations Break Off Amid Martial Law
Sudeten negotiations collapse as two communities Komoten and Grasslitz are cited. Soldiers and special police maintain order in ten frontier districts with reports to the capital indicating effective control. Government radio declares “All quiet throughout the Republic.”
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Sudeten
Komoten
Grasslitz
Republic
Czecho- Slovakia
Adolf Hitler
Amil Roxta
Arthur J
United States
Krofta
War Department
City Manager to Attend National Conference in Boston
Arthur M. Fiel received permission to attend the City Managers Association conference in Boston September 26 to 2. The council unanimously approved a 90 trip cost funded by the city.
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Arthur M. Fiel
City Managers Association
Boston
Mass
Allen Hawthorne
Baptist Choir Rehearsals Announced for Firr Church
The Junior Choir of Firr Baptist Church will rehearse tomorrow at 4 30 PM and asks all members to attend. The Senior Choir also meets tomorrow at 7 PM in the church.
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Firr
Baptist Church
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