President Hails New Shins Telling Blows At Menaces
President Roosevelt praised the launch of 14 cargo ships as a strong blow against Nazi threats and pledged to protect American merchantmen from torpedoes shells or bombs. He urged Americans not to bow to fear and stressed ships must sail as built urging mass production in the Maritime Commission program. The Flagship Surprise led the launch at Chester with Mrs. Walter F. George sponsoring and pigeons released announcing the event.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Atlantic
Pacific
Gulf
America
Hitler
United States
Shell
Theoo
Liber
Maritime Commission
Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Company
Chester
Walter F. George
Senator George
Georgia
Delaware River
George
Baltimore
S. S. James
Hopes To Begin On Budget Soon
W P Anderson said no committee estimates for 1942 have been submitted and budget work likely cannot start until after the council meeting on October 9. He stressed the need to begin preparation soon given limited data.
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W. P. Anderson
Finance Committee of Common Council
Fall Sports Weekend Promises Warmups and World Series Action
Winchester notes a national sports focus with warmup football games and cleared baseball fields for the World Series. The piece highlights New York area interest and broader excitement as fans anticipate crucial clashes and wartime news from Moscow Berlin and London.
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New York
Moscow
Berlin
Lon
44th Division Heads South for Buna Vista Maneuvers
Three thousand seven hundred and sixty officers and men of the 44th Division left this morning from their camp over U S Route 11 for Buna Vista to camp tonight and rest before maneuvers near Wadesboro North Carolina set to begin October 6. First vehicles of the division arrived in Winchester yesterday afternoon marking the third southern trip in the past year. The 44th established division headquarters as the 28th did on Thursday night.
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44Th Division
Buna Vista
Wadesboro
N. C
Winchester
44Th
Lt Wilbur Riley Heads Squadron Visit Arrives in Winchester
Lt Wilbur Riley recently named commanding officer of the 559th Twin Engine School Squadron at Turner Field Albany arrived in Winchester after a 442 hour flight in a BT 13. He stays with his father George Riley at 522 South Braddock, and plans to depart for Langley Field via Winchester Municipal Airport.
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Wilbur
Riley
Advanced Flying School
Turner Field
Albany
Langley Field
Web
Air Corps
Georgia
Handley '24
U. S. Air Corps
British Get Base For Repaying of Lease-Lend
Washington Sept 27 The basis for repayment under the first major lend lease agreement since the aid act was passed has been forwarded to Britain. House members said they were unaware of its terms. Dean Acheson told the appropriations subcommittee that Britain could be asked for its views on repayment terms. He noted several Latin American agreements had been concluded. The act allows the President to sell lend or lease military equipment or supplies.
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Washington
House
Dean Acheson
Great Britain
Britain
Japanese Claim Changsha Is In Their Hands
The Japanese army announced it had completely captured Changsha, though a Chinese spokesman in Chungking denied the claim and said the city remained in Chinese hands. Reports said Japanese troops had entered the suburbs from the northeast and fought near the Hunan capital, a key rice and wheat center and a Canton Hankow railway hub.
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Shanghai
Chang
Changsha
Hunan
Chungking
Youthful Killer Killed for Cigarettes Not Fear
Bernhard Sawicki, 19, convicted of murdering a park policeman, received the electric chair. He taunted the bailiff and chief prosecutor, asking for a pack of cigarets as life ended. Insanity was the defense, but prosecutors argued he knew right from wrong.
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Chicago
Bernhard
Sawicki
Park
Richard Devine
Knox Sees Nation at Threshold of World War No 2
Secretary Knox and Senator Thomas urged lifting neutrality act limits to shield US world interests. Knox said the nation stands at the threshold of World War No 2 and called for measures to protect commerce and sailors, including hunting raiders and convoying ships. He cited routes along the North Atlantic, South American coasts, and Pacific paths to Australia and India.
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Washington
Knox
Thomas
Utah
United States
Foreign Commerce Weekly
Department of Commerce
Roosevelt
Foreign Relations Committee
Europe
South America
Pacific
Australia
East Indies
India
Bermuda
Fire Department Urges 2000 Feet Additional Hose
Brady Largent, chair of the Fire Committee, says he will likely recommend purchasing 2000 feet of new hose after tests under Fire Chief Taylor Barr. Tests at Rouss Spring showed hose bursts at 300 pounds, leaving each company with 2000 feet for two 1000 foot changes. overall the four companies hold 7200 feet and more may be needed for major fires.
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Brady Largent
Fire Committee of Common Council
Taylor Barr
Rouss Spring
Barr
Clocks To Turn Back In Virginia This Weekend
Clocks will fall back to standard time at midnight Sunday in Virginia causing a one hour change. The switch aims to improve observance and prevent power waste tied to daylight saving time.
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Virginia
Two Negroes Escape Middlesex Jail After Sheriff Attack
Two prisoners fled the Middlesex county jail after injuring Sheriff Richard B. Segar with an iron bar at 8 30 a m. Segar suffered a scalp wound needing stitches as three other inmates did not escape. Authorities sought bloodhounds and state troopers aided in the manhunt. defendants Alexander Payne 24 and James Smith 19 were identified with physical descriptions and last known locations.
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Saluda
Middlesex County
Richard B. Segar
Segar
C. W. Eastman
Alexander Payne
James Smith
Essex County
Abducted Woman Found After Week Missing in Japan
New York dispatch reports a British radio source stating Japanese police found Mrs Danville Clark, wife of the British embassy press attaché, in Pieping. Authorities planned her release from abductors.
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New York
CBS
Danville Clark
Pieping
Clark
Winchester Selectees Granted Discharges From Army
Two Winchester selectees Grant Turner Seabright and Richard Carpenter received their discharges and were placed on active reserve after enactment allowed selectees over 28 to apply. Seabright, in a machine gun company at Camp Wheeler Ga, and Carpenter, in infantry at Camp Croft, were discharged soon after the new law took effect.
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Grant Turner Seabright
Richard Carpenter
Army
Seabright
Carpenter
Camp Wheler
Hi Infantry
Camp Croft
20 City Youths To Be Inducted
Orders for induction have been mailed by the City Selective Service Board to 18 young Winchester men who are to report on Wednesday October 8. They include Marshall W Hockman Truman Lynwood Peffer Stanley Rando Timbrook Stuart Randolph Dyke John Reuben as Harry W Ebert Jr H Lee Braithwaite Joe Vincent Archie Ray Lowery Ralph A Shafer Jr Robert Christopher Goughenour Donald Eugene Dunn Ployd William Combs Arthur C McDonald Garnet Mark Bruba Foreman. On October 10 two local colored youths Rodney Washington and Archibald Cameron Burns will be sent to Roanoke for induc-
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City Selective Service Board
Winchester
Marshall W. Hockman
Truman
Lynwood Peffer
Stanley Rando Timbrook
Stuart Randolph Dyke
John Reuben
Harry W. Ebert, Jr
H Lee Braithwaite
Joe Vincent
Archie Ray Lowery
Ralph A. Shafer, Jr
Robert Christopher Goughenour
Donald Eugene Dunn
Ployd William Combs
Arthur C. McDonald
Germans claim unparalleled Kiev victory with vast prisoners
Berlin reports 665000 Russian prisoners in Kiev fighting as German high command boasts of a historic victory. Officials say almost no Soviet troops escaped, with heavy losses and large captures of tanks guns and other materiel.
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Berlin
Kiev
Soviet Union
Volga
Leningrad
Donets
Seliger Lake
Italians Put On Bread Rations
Rome reports bread will be rationed starting October 1 after Mussolini informed the cabinet that 1941 grain production is insufficient. Basic daily ration set at 200 grams with higher allotments for ordinary workers and heavy labor, as harvests lag behind forecasts and needs rise.
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Rome
Mussolini
Tr Duce
Drought Near Record Of 1930 In Frederick County
Frederick Maryland drought matches 1930 severity with springs and wells drying in northern and eastern districts. Frederick city depends on Fishing Creek with about 1.5 million gallons daily while creek flow stays near 500 thousand gallons.
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Frederick
Frederick County
Frederick City
William J. Davis
Fishing Creek
Soviets Repel Nazi Attack Near Leningrad Front Advances
Soviet troops repulsed a Nazi assault on the approaches to Leningrad while fighting along the entire front. Central front counter offensives drove Germans westward. Crimea defenders reportedly mowed down thousands at the peninsula’s approaches. Over 4 000 enemy killed, 66 aircraft and 30 tanks either captured or destroyed. Some German forces to Crimea were reported near Sevastopol as frontline forces clashed, with the battle lines showing heavy casualties and continued bombardment.
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Moscow
Leningrad
Russia
Red Army
Crimea
Black Sea
London
Sevastopol
Dnieper
Perekop
Sivash Sea
Iran
Caucasus
Kiev
Oesel
Riga Bay
Gulf of Finland
Smolensk
Kharkov
Donets River
Britain
Archibald P. Wavell
India
T. Novikov
Teheran
Wevell
Claude J. E. Auchinleck
Middle East
Churchill
John G. Dill
Six Crewmen Of Vessel Rescued In Caribbean Sinking
The Navy rescued six of Libby Maine's crew in the Caribbean near Puerto Rico with 25 still missing. Third Mate Francis Holmes and James Moore were pulled from a raft by a destroyer at 1 am, later four more survivors were found in heavy seas. Survivors described a crewman washed from a raft, and searchers continued with destroyers and planes. The Libby Maine had a crew of 31.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
Navy
Libby Maine
Caribbean
Francis Holmes
James Moore
Seattle
Moore
von Libby Maine
British Women Born in 1914 Registered for War Work
London and September 27 British women born in 1914 the first World War year were registered today for war work. They form the seventh age group to sign up since compulsory registration began last April.
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London
Last convoy clears city after 44th Division stay
Early this morning the last truck of the 44th Division convoy left Winchester and reported an all clear via a field radio at the South Loudoun filling station. Nearby, the Izaak Walton League secured new filters at the Virginia Tannery in Luray to curb tannery discharge blamed for killing trout and fish downstream.
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44Th Division
Signal Corps
Loudoun Street
Warren County
Izaak Walton League
Webb Midgette
Virginia
Luray
Hawksbill Creek
South Branch
Britain may send force from India to aid Russia
London reports signs Britain plans to deploy troops from India and the Middle East to help Russia defend the Caucasus as German pressure grows on the Crimea and Leningrad fronts. Observers cite Wavell Auchinleck and other top officials meeting in London and Tehran with Churchill and Dill.
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London
Britain
India
Middle East
Russia
Caucasus
Oliver Lyttleton
Churchill
Bandar Shapur
Labor Meeting at National Fruit Co
All employees are invited to a labor meeting at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Ameri Legion Building located at 211 North Main. The session aims to organize workers and discuss collective action.
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All Employees
National Fruit Co
Ameri Legion
N. Main
aSsa Douglas
Household sale of late Mrs Rhoda C Anderson page 2
Notice of sale of household effects from the estate of Rhoda C Anderson. Auction to be held at 10 a m on the premises with items including furniture, china, linens, silverware and decorative objects. Terms cash. Proceeds for estate debts and distribution. Sold by executor under authority of court in the county.
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Rhoda C. Anderson
Public Sale Of Farm At Gore On October 3 4
The Isaiah C Roe Farm 225 acres two miles north of Gore will be sold at the courthouse noon Saturday October 4. Public sale includes livestock machinery chickens corn and hay at the Opequon Road. Conducted by C R Loy.
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Isaiah C. Roe
Gore
Court House
Opequon
Seney Road
C. R- Loy
Sugar Corn Patch on Whittier Ave Noted for Sale
Sugar corn patch on Whittier Avenue open from 2 to 5 p m E S T suitable for storage local notice indicates available produce and schedule for today in this patch listing
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Whittier Ave
Notice to creditors of the Strother estate
All persons indebted to or having claims against the estate of Shepherd Strother must settle with the undersigned Shenandoah National Express of Estate Strother. The notice appears to be dated September 16 1920 and references a sequence of docket or page numbers 9 16 20 27 1p 31.
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Shepherd Strother
Shenandoah Ae
Strother
Notice to Fruit Growers
National Fruit Product Co Inc announces new intake rules for apples. Only apples already purchased will be accepted until further notice. No apples received at 4 pm on Saturdays or after 7 pm on weekdays.
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National Fruit Product Co., Inc
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Windsor
Duke of Windsor
England
Arthur Capper
Kansas
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Duke
National Press Club
Buena Vista
W. O. Riley
Morton Anderson
Hart, Mich
Devine
Senator Thomas
H. W. Williamson
West Point
Aks
Richmond
Col
Marion S. Battle
Division of Motor Vehicles
Smith
Payne
Tappanhannock
Indiantown Gap
Fort Dix
N. J
Labor Meeting
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