Nation Draft Law Enacted For 16 5 Million Registration
The first 75 000 to be drafted will enter service about a month after 16 500 000 citizens aged 21 to 35 register. Subsequent drafts plan 100 000 to 125 000 blocks, totaling 400 000 by January 1 and 900 000 in spring 1941. The law expands government power over industry and raises private pay from 21 to 30 monthly.
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Congress
Roosevelt
Western Hemisphere
United States
Hemisphere
Philippine Islands
Speaker Bankhead
House Appropriations Committee
National Guard
Nazis Admit Biggest Losses For Single Day
Berlin reports the German air force suffered 43 raider losses in a single Sunday raid on London while British planes shot down 74 Germans. The day set records for both sides with 185 German planes downed and 25 British craft lost, as raids continued on London and ports along the coast.
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Berlin
London
Britain
High Command
Bromley
Dover
Portland
Channel
Liverpool
Birmingham
Midlands
Southampton
Cast
Inventor Claims Breakthrough To Revolutionize Aviation
Hagerstown Massachusetts September 16 William R Custer 41 year old inventor says he has perfected radical changes in airplane design that could revolutionize flying after 14 years of work. He leads Aircraft Corporation a local group and kept details secret until recent weeks. The Star previews his claims to wind tunnel tests and expert assessment.
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Hagerstown
William R. Custer
Custer
Tonal Aircraft Corporation
Winchester Evening Star
Weirton Steel Stakes New Fight Over Labor Board Rule
Weirton Steel of West Virginia renewed its challenge to the National Labor Relations Board jurisdiction filing 129 typewritten pages of exceptions to a preliminary decision. The company seeks to disestablish independent unions and reinstate 17 CIO workers with back pay amid a four year, 40,000 page record of litigation.
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Pittsburgh
Weirton
W. Va
NLRB
National Labor Relations Act
Weirton Steel
Labor Board
E. T. Weir
New Deal Fee
NRA
U.S. District Court
Jalopy Derby Fire Injures Kermit Batt At Cumberland Fair
An AP dispatch from Cumberland reports jalopy derby rider Kermit Batt suffered third degree burns on his wrist arm and ankle when his car burst into flames and crashed through a fence at the Cumberland fairgrounds. Batt was thrown clear and treated at Allegany Hospital, then released. Paul Nycum won the feature race.
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Kermit Batt
Boo
Randolph, Jr
Giiuchester
Batt
Pine Motor Company
Associated Press
Cumberland
Conrad Batt
Winchester
Allegany Hospital
Paul Nycum
36000 Negroes to Be Drafted
The White House announced that 36,000 of the first 400,000 men drafted for military service would be Negro. The statement said new Negro regiments would be organized for the army and existing units expanded to full strength.
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Washington
White House
Edgar McKee Killed by Auto on Route 50 West of Gore
Homer McKee 43 of Winchester Frederick county was struck and killed Saturday night around 8 15 by a car driven by Granville H Shirley 30 of Amherst Street Winchester The victim walked from behind a truck into the path of the car returning from Capon Bridge He is survived by his wife Virgie Hoke two children Betty Jean 3 and Chester 1 and his mother Mrs Franklin McKee 82 The funeral will be at Fairview church with services by Rev Courtney Anderson Another accident near Woodstock left Mr and Mrs Columbus Fletcher injured Their car rolled over after sideswiping or skidding past a truck yielding mild concussion three ribs fractured for Mr Fletcher 75 The Fletcher daughter Miss Jessie Fletcher was discharged later read local hospital reports
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Homer McKee
West Virginia
Gore
Granville H. Shirley
Amherst Street
McKee
Rick N. McKee
W. B. Carpenter
Whitacre
Shirley
Romney
W. Va
Cumberland
Capon Bridge
Winchester
Frederick County
Virgie Hoke
August
Betty Jean
Chester
Franklin McKee
Fairview Church
Courtney Anderson
Columbus Fletcher
Woodstock
Fletcher
Jessie Fletcher
Grill Spinter in Death of Friend on Hudson Estate
Psychiatrists probed incoherent utterances of a socialite spinner in a Sunday morning attack in Westchester County New York. Miss Lottie Washington Booth, 50, NYU law graduate and patent litigation specialist, was killed. Miss Mary E. B. Jones, 44, held on homicide charges after a fatal struggle at Booth’s home.
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Hudson, N. Y
Lottie Washington Booth
New York University
New York
Mary E. B. Jones
Booth
Rayburn Named Speaker of the House in a tight election
Rayburn, a 58 year old Texas Democrat, was elected speaker of the House by acclamation as William Bankhead lay in state at the rostrum. Democratic conference members indicated no immediate action would be taken.
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Washington
Bam. Rayburn
Texas
House of Representatives
William T. Bankhead
Alabama
State Funeral For Bankhead
President Roosevelt led official Washington in paying respects to Speaker William B. Bankhead at a state funeral in the House chamber. Bankhead died after an internal hemorrhage at 66, a seven year administration stalwart, with his body later sent by special train to Jasper Alabama for burial as lawmakers joined the procession south.
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Washington
Roosevelt
William B. Bankhead
House
Cap- Bankh Ital
Jasper
Ala
Bankhead
Potomac
Democrats Plan Campaign Committees and Endorsement
At a Saturday city hall meeting the City Democratic executive committee named Noble C. Pierce Fred W. Forney and O. H. Lewis to select a campaign manager. A second committee led by H. F. Byrd Jr. would raise funds for the local campaign and endorsed the ticket: President Roosevelt vice president Henry Wallace Senator H. F. Byrd and Congressman A Willis Robertson.
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Council Chamber
City Hall
City Democratic Executive Committee
Noble C. Pierce
Fred W. Forney
O. H. Lewis
C. D. Barnett
Lawrence C. Hollis
H. F. Byrd, Jr
Strother Cooper
Fred
Thank Offering Tuesday Morning at Christ Episcopal Church
The United Thank Offering will be presented tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock in Christ Episcopal Church. All women of the congregation are urged to attend and support the offering started fifty years ago by a few church women. In 1928 the Episcopal Churches worldwide gave 1,101,450.40 dollars and officials hope this year’s total reaches one million dollars at the General Convention in Kansas City next month.
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Christ Episcopal Church
Episcopal
Kansas City
Secretary Hull Replies To Willkie On Munich Pact Criticism
Secretary Hull accused Wendell Willkie of ignorance in a radio statement denying Willkie’s charge that President Roosevelt urged a Munich sellout of Czecho Slovakia. Hull said Roosevelt never telephoned Mussolini or Hitler and urged pacific settlement under the Kellogg pact with all nations at the table.
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Washington
Hull
Wendell Willkie
Roosevelt
Munich
Illinois
Willkie
Hitler
Mussolini
Czecho-Slovakia
Two Dead On Drifting Gulf of Mexico Schooner
The fishing schooner William Hays from Pensacola Florida was drifting in the Gulf of Mexico with two men dead aboard. The cutter Woodbury was dispatched from Galveston to assist. No cause of death or damage details were provided by the Halsey.
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Washington
Coast Guard
William Hays
Pensacola
Fla
Gulf of Mexico
Woodbury
Galveston
Halsey
Italian forces breach first line near Libyan frontier
Il Giornale D'Italia reports Italian forces broke through a key line of British fortifications facing Libya at Salum. British arms and desert trucks were captured in the advance. London says RAF bombed Berlin again and raids targeted enemy territory along the German, French, Dutch, and Belgian coasts.
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Rome
Salum
Il Giornale D’italia
Berlin
London
Royal Air Force
Air Ministry
Air raid toll in London area lower than opening night
The communique says last night's bombing losses in the London area were a little greater than recent raids but far below the September 7-8 opening night death toll of more than 300.
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Start London
London
Pauly Indicted On Felony Count In Mobile Case
Pauly indicted by a special Grand Jury in Corporation Court for stealing 525 dollars from multiple victims through a fraudulent automobile raffle. Trial date for Pauly not set. Other true bills include Herman Jake Smith obstruction of justice and multiple felonies for forging checks and home break ins. Foreman F L Sargent led the jury with members Ebert Larrick Willis Bell and Eddy.
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Ted Pauly
Corporation Court
James P. Reardon
Pauly
M. M. Bailey
R. L. Bullitt
H. R. Kern, Jr
Roy Cather
Jack Brandon
Pensylvania
Herman Jake Smith
Oma Butsler
Benjamin Kendall
Charles W. High
W. O. Richards
National Fruit Plant
Arthur Nicholson
A. C. Oates
F. L. Sargent
Harry Ebert
Emory Larrick
Harry H. Willis
William H. Bell
Warren J. S. Eddy
Niven to Wed Primula Rollo in Noted British Star Match
London reports the engagement of British film star David Niven to Miss Primula Rollo daughter of Flight Lieutenant William Rollo and Lady Kathleen. Niven left a Hollywood salary to serve in the army where he is now a captain in a rifle brigade.
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London
David Niven
Primula Rollo
William Rollo
Kathleen Rollo
Niven
Hollywood
Pilot from LSU flees to Roanoke and Charlotte en route to Atlanta
Wortley F. Rudd, LSU flying instructor and brother of Palace Theatre manager Ashton C. Rudd, departed from the municipal airport about 9 a.m. aboard a new Piper cub trainer bound for Roanoke and Charlotte before joining his wife and child in Atlanta en route to Baton Rouge. Lieut. J. F. Bukman and Instructor William Dugan, also tied to the university, stopped in Winchester while ferrying planes. An air marking crew painted a guide on the Gas Company holding tank, 75 feet high and 66 feet wide, featuring a large yellow circle with an arrow toward the field, showing 3 miles distance and a north indicator.
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Wortley F. Rudd
Louisiana State University
Ashton C. Rudd
Palace
Roanoke
Charlotte
N. C
Atlanta
Baton Rouge
Lieut. J. F. Bukman
William Dugan
Eee
Winchester
Uisiana
State Corporation Commission
Goering Flies Over London in JU-88 Escort
BERLIN reports Reich marshal Hermann Goering flew a JU-88 over London last night accompanied by two escort fighters. He returned to Normandy near an unnamed village and said the air force is a strong weapon and decisive in Poland Norway and likely in the war with England.
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Berlin
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
London
Junkers
Goering
Normandy
France
Poland
Norway
England
Richtofen Circus
Horticulturists Form Auxiliary Section in Virginia
T. J. Andrews president of the Virginia State Horticultural Society announces a committee to organize a Ladies' Auxiliary. The first meeting is Wednesday December 4 at 10 am at the George Washington Hotel in Winchester. Mrs. G. Dayton Hodges presides with Miss Janet Cameron and Mrs. Dorothy W. Lewis assisting. Members named include Mrs. H. Clay DeGrange Mrs. Walker Bond Mrs. Wyatt H. Richard Mrs. Peyton Marshall Mrs. L. O. Dick and Mrs. Ralph Dorsey.
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T. J. Andrews
Virginia State Horticultural Society
George Washington Hotel
Winchester
G. Dayton Hodges
Staunton
Janet Cameron
Dorothy W. Lewis
Ap Plachain Apples
Andrews
H. Clay DeGrange
Walker Bond
Wyatt H. Richard
Peyton Marshall
City
L. O. Dick
Clearbrook
Ralph Dorsey
Berryville
Dixie News Ice Cream Bar Grand Opening Acknowledgment
We thank the people of Winchester and vicinity for their support at our Grand Opening of the Ice Cream Bar and Luncheonette Counter. We pledge to provide high grade merchandise and courteous service at The Dixie News Co., Shenandoah Valley's largest and most complete newsstand.
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Winchester
Dixie News Coo
Shenandoah Valley
Correction: Men Wanted to Cut Corn at 25 Cent Shock
James P. Reardon notes a correction in the notice about corn cutting availability paying 25 cents per shock. The item lists men wanted and specifies earnings per shock.
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James P. Reardon
Dover and London Endure Prolonged WWII Air Raids
German pilots pressed a long range raid over Dover and London, with sirens sounding three times before noon. Dover streets endured shelling injuring 11, while London faced heavy bombing from 2:10 p m. to 4:00 p m. EST. Despite fierce anti-aircraft fire, British fighters reportedly turned back a bomber formation and claimed a major RAF victory with 185 German planes shot down in the night attack.
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Associated Press
London
Dover
Britain
Hitler
Channel
Royal Air Force Liie
Student Discovers A New Comet In Cygnus
Harvard Observatory announces a new comet sighting by graduate student L. B. Cunningham in Cambridge Massachusetts. The object, located in Cygnus, was found on a patrol plate photographed September 5 and visible on clear nights with a strong telescope.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard Observatory
Constellation
Cygnus
L. B Cunningham
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