New Measure Aims to Modify Johnson Act on Neutrality
Senator Pittman said the administration’s neutrality bill would modify the Johnson act by allowing 90 day credits to belligerent governments while Johnson urged an amendment to avoid conflicts with the anti loan act he sponsored. Debate centers on limiting credits to belligerents to 90 days and reporting on munitions controls with Senate passage expected within weeks.
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Washington
Pittman
D-New
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Sored
Johnson
Germany
Great Britain
France
Senate
Congress
October weather praised by Ma Winchester in Old Dominion
Ma Winchester extols October's blue skies and temperate winds in praising Virginia's climate. She notes scarce severe heat, occasional moisture, and abundant blessings, comparing the state to prized crops and products while inviting readers to recognize the department's features.
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Old Dominion
President Sees No Need for Mobilizing War Plans
President Roosevelt stated at a press conference that the United States is not at war and does not intend to become involved, so there is no public interest in mobilization plans. He noted defense boards exist and periodically review aspects that fit defense goals, including the War Resources Board. He also said price investigations aim to prevent cost of living increases and stressed no thought of entering a war.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Army
Navy
War Resources Board
America
Virginia asks higher budget for motor vehicles division
The Division of Motor Vehicles asked Governor Price and the Budget Advisory Committee for 3 552 138 dollars for 1940 42 up from 1 959 700. The rise covers 117 new troopers equipment a state radio and teletype system and highway safety reorganization. Assistant director C F Joyner Jr said the division aims to bolster long term planning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Division of Motor Vehicles
Price
C. F. Joyner, Jr
Clear Driver In Road Death
Clarence Eugene Stottlemyer died when struck by a truck near Charles Town West Virginia on Wednesday evening A coroner jury in Jefferson County ruled the death unavoidable The truck driver James P Pearrell of Martinsburg was cleared of all responsibility Rites for Mr Stottlemeyer a Stephenson native are set for tomorrow at 11 from Welltown Methodist Church with Rev W O Talbert officiating Burial will follow at Mount Hebron Cemetery
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Clarence Eugene Stottlemyer
Charles Town
W. Va
Jefferson County
West Virginia
James P. Pearrell
Martinsurg
Aler
Stephenson
Welltown Methodist Church
W. O Talbert
Mount Hebron
Court Dismisses 400 Indictments in Harlan Labor Case
In Harlan Kentucky more than 400 persons charged with labor disturbances in the coal fields were dismissed in circuit court on motion of Commonwealth Attorney Daniel Boone Smith. Special Judge J. S. Foster ordered the charges dropped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harlan, Ky
Pice Aioe
Harlan Coal Fields
Harlan Circuit Court
Commonwealth
Daniel Boone Smith
J. S. Foster
Harlan
Permit values rise as Winchester hits year total of 473 005
City Manager Lee Grant reports September's end leaves total building permits for the month at 15 500 and year to date at 473 005. Permits issued include warehouses on Capper's Alley and several residential projects with values ranging from 100 to 4 500 dollars. Through nine months 1939 the year total already exceeds 1937 and 1938 figures, with May and April the top months so far.
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Winchester
Lee Grant
L. R. Dettra
Teday
Foster Denounces Soviet Axis Masking Axis Allegiances
William Z. Foster, chairman of the American Communist party, told the Dies committee that the Soviet Union is not cooperating with the Nazis. He claimed the Soviet Union stopped Hitler in the east and smashed the Fascist axis, while Dies pressed regarding a supposed Communist-Nazi alliance and the prewar partition of Poland.
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Washington
William Z. Foster
Communist Party
Dies
Soviet Union
Hitler
East
Foster
Russia
Europe
Poland
President and Glass Reconcile on Legislative Matters
A dramatic story from Washington reports President Roosevelt and Senator Glass mending their differences over national policy. They discussed neutrality act revisions and the federal versus state roles, with Glass noting a war helped restore their rapport.
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Tor
Richmond
Glass
Rinker murder trial jury weighing first degree verdict
Front Royal Va Sept 29 jurors deliberating in the charge of Lloyd Carson and Harry Rinker with first degree murder in the beating death of Reliance farmer Charles Steele. Defense and Commonwealth presented exhaustive testimony as jurors study 18 instructions amid late court schedule.
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Front Royal
Carson, Lloyd
Harry Rinker
Charles H Steele
Reliance Farmer
Philip Williams
Commonwealth
John Downing
Agein Tt Marshall
At Kedcoun, Jr
Williams
John H. Downing
Grafton Updyke
Charles A. Menefee
Updike
Carson Rinker
Menefee
W. E. Sealock
Sealock
Deputy Updike
Deputy Sealock
Rinker
Steele
Memorial Hospital
Winchester
Reliance
E. C. Stuart
Rinkers
Birth of son to Mrs. Mary Simpson and Ernest Simpson
London reports the birth of a son to Mrs. Mary Simpson wife of Ernest Simpson former husband of the Duchess of Windsor. Simpson and his present wife married in November 1937. She hails from Baltimore and was once married to Jacques Raffray.
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London
Mary Simpson
Ernest Simpson
Duchess of Windsor
Simpson
Baltimore
Jacques Raffray
Russian German peace plan faces Allied rejection
As Karl Selter arrives in Moscow to discuss Soviet sea base demands on the Estonian coast, Soviet authorities announce the sinking of a Russian freighter amid ongoing war efforts.
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Karl Selter
Moscow
Russia
Reds
Three Norwegian Freighters Sunk in North Sea
OSLO reports three Norwegian freighters sunk in the North Sea over the past day. All crews were saved. two ships were torpedoed, one hit a mine. Takstans 1830 tons torpedoed off Marstein. Jern 1200 tons torpedoed near Kristiansand. Salaas 2000 tons mined. Cargo included woodpulp for two ships.
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Oslo
Norway
North Sea
Marstein
Kristiansand
Caledonia
Germany
Briton Tells of Blasting U-Boat
London reports reveal a Royal Air Force pilot credited with destroying a submarine. The reconnaissance log notes an oil trail on the Atlantic patrol and bombs dropped ahead and across the oil patches. The oil gushed to the surface and a wider trail moved forward.
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London
Royal Air Force
Information Ministry
Romania strengthens Bessarabia border with mobile corps
Bucharest reports a border defense shift as Romania replaces the Fifth Army Corps with the more mobile Second Corps at the Bessarabian frontier. The region, 17 146 miles, was acquired from Russia after World War I, and Russians call it occupied territory.
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Bucharest
Rumania
Bessarabia
Russia
Black Sea
Sale at Noon Saturday at 26 Valley Avenue
At noon Saturday September 30 a property former owner Mary C. Rhyan will be sold in front of Court House. The lot fronts two streets and lies near Schools. The listing notes the exact address 26 Valley Avenue and references a public sale location.
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Mary C. Rhyan
Valley Avenue
Court House
British Insist Raid Repulsed
LONDON reports two German air raid attempts on the coast repulsed by Royal Air Force fighters. For a second day the British press agency said RAF planes foiled a German air attack across the North Sea with no bombers penetrating defenses. BERLIN announced five of six British planes bound for a German naval unit off Helgoland were shot down by German pursuers.
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London
British Press Association
Royal Airforce
North Sea
Berlin
High Command
Helgoland
Parisians Take To Bomb Cellars
Parisians ducked into air raid shelters as a false alarm sounded when an American envoy William C Bullitt was stopped by police and sheltered in a refuge on the road. The alert at 11:22 am caused by a Paris plane, first since Sept. 11, was cleared at 11:55 am.
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Paris
William C Bullitt
Bullitt
Chantilly
Dissidents Form Their Own Church in New Jersey
In Scullville New Jersey on September 29 a group dissatisfied with the merger of the Methodist Protestant and Methodist Episcopal churches into the United Methodist Church formed the Eastern Methodist Protestant Church as a separate denomination.
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Scullville
N J
Methodist Protestant
Methodist Episcopal Churches
United Methodist Church
Eastern Methodist Protestant Church
Britain weighs Soviet German end the war proposals
London Sept 29 AP Britain’s inner cabinet studied the Soviet Russian German peace maneuver and spurned Poland’s partition as the price of peace. Britain and France reviewed Russia’s veiled threat to join the European war unless the proposal is adopted.
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Fred Vanderschmidt
London
Britain
Poland
France
Russia
International Threat of War Summary
Soviet Russia and Germany sign multiple agreements pledging cooperation for peace or war and plan expanded economic ties to supply Germany with Russian materials. Russia Estonia extend deals giving Moscow influence over the North Baltic region while Warsaw occupation is delayed to October 2. Three Norwegian freighters sunk with two torpedoed and one hit a mine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spear Hudson
Britain
Germany
Russia
Poland
Moscow
Berlin
Estonia
Baltic
Further Boost For U S Army Enlisted Strength Sought
Chairman May of the House military affairs committee said after a White House confer that a further increase in army enlisted strength would likely be sought in the January Congress session. He noted the President has ordered the army increased to 227 000. full peacetime strength is 280 000.
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Washington
May
D-ay
House Military Affairs Committee
White House
Congress
Clarke Company 16 Enlisted Increase Authorized
Berryville Va Sept 29 Captain Rice W Levi commanding officer Headquarters Company 91st Infantry Brigade announced orders from the National Guard Bureau to increase enlisted personnel by 16 men bringing the company total to 42 from 26. The increase must be obtained without delay.
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Berryville
Rice W. Levi
91St Infantry Brigade
National Guard Bureau
Polish army formed in France naming Sikorski head
Wartime bulletins report General Wladislaw Sikorski named head of a Polish army being formed in France to fight with French and British troops against Germany. In London the RAF attacked the German fleet at Helgoland and some planes have not yet returned.
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Paris
Wladislaw Sikorski
Poland
France
Germany
London
Royal Air Force
Helgoland
Hitler forms Fuehrer escort battalion for eastern front tour
Berlin dispatch reports Adolf Hitler established a Fuehrer escort battalion. The unit will guard him on his eastern front tour and provide continuous protection for his railway train headquarters.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Baltic Asea Pact Sparks Baltic States Alarm
Sept 29 report from Helsinki notes Soviet Russia and Estonia sign a mutual assistance pact over the Baltic region. The move sends a wave of apprehension through Latvia Lithuania and Estonia as fears of aggression rise.
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Helsinki
Finland
Russia
Estonia
Baltic States
French Advance Pushes to Moselle Outskirts
Paris dispatches report a French advance along the Moselle river’s eastern bank reaching about 1500 yards beyond Besch and Borg, placing frontline positions near the German villages on the edge of the zone.
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Paris
Moselle
Besch
Borg
Poles March Out in War Front Report
Reports describe Polish units marching out of a war front near Berlin as tensions rise. No further details on dates or units are provided in the fragment.
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Warsaw
Berlin
Diamond and platinum watch on platinum band
A diamond and platinum watch is described with a platinum band adorned by small diamonds. The item emphasizes precious metal and gem details suitable for a catalog or sale listing.
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Halifax
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House of Commons
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Western Front
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