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Forptursburr ALTMAN, Mayor Fire- Six Circle Crackers Cootiette Club—Uniforms Dupont Requested VFW passengers have more than two or- Department dinary pieces of baggage. The Armistice The Traveler's Notebook action was taken to protect against Day Ball; delays and losses and avoid conges- 50 Per Cent of Winter Residents Arriving at St. Petersburg; tion or Inconvenience and hazard Germans Defy Post Activities to others. Maryland Noted for Its Colonial a a * * Frank Topash, junior vice com- Many Churches; Now that the ban on Nazi Order to Resist Allies mander of the District of Columbia White Mountain Resorts Late sporting Enjoying Season ammunition has been lifted by IRA the resistance and the Department, Veterans of Foreign By WOLFERT, evacuation Winter residents of Peters- of WPB, hunters are cautioned to North American Newspaper Alliance. Wars, is chairman for the 8|. its type In the Nation, has been orders and has remained quietly at general learn season” which annual Armistice Ball, Novem- burg, Fla. have arrived in consid- under the control of the mountain “open dates, INSIDE CONQUERED GER- home. Day are in states. ber at the Willard with erable numbers to enter their chil- people themselves and being changed many MANY, Sept. 23.—Although there Is Among the farmers almost none 11, Hotel, sponsored by' dren in the city’s famous open-air the Asheville Chamber of Com- Throughout the nation, an esti- no militant anti-Nazi either Ida Emmert of the-Ladies’ Auxiliary apparently obeyed order, except the and merce. mate of 10 cent increase in Ach- as assistant. schools—public, private paro- Interest in the festival, since per feeling among the 50,000 German youths who were forcibly mobilized. is chial—which recently began their it was established on an interstate ing licenses reported. The mag- farmers and small-town folk we now But among the townfolk and farm- Mr. Topash announced last week nitude fall semesters basis in 1927 by Director Bascom of sport and resultant Stats govern, there is a very militant war ers it is true that an overwhelm- that plans are being completed for revenue is Virtually every school in 8t. Lamar Lunsford, has an illustrated by Pennsyl- t weariness, and it was this more than ing majority of the did not the event and chairmen brought youths appointed Petersburg is built on the "sun- Increasing number of vania which reports more than anything else that caused the peo- resist mobilization. At least they of various committees. spectators shine plan,” with all classroms each year, with this celebration 400,000 resident licenses annually, ple to break free from Nazi control. now are mobilized, and there are no top- opening onto outdoor courts, insur- ping all others, and the city of Ashe- with a no Inconsiderable number The Nazis issued a desperate ap- reliable that anti-Nazi reports any Department Comdr. Leolin H. ing a maximum of fresh air and ville took on a air from outside the State. for German to rise resistance holiday for three peal every up was apparent among Neville-Thompson, with his staff, sunlight through the fall and winter days. and defend his own home—“Make all evidence them, leading Instead to made an official visit to Federal Post months. * * * * every village a Stalingrad, every the conclusion that they are rally- last Past Comdr. Women of the Moose Monday night. St. Petersburg Junior College Hotels near the house a pillbox, every field scorched ing very violently around the Nazi White Mountains Stephen Nischka presided. opened for registration last week on in New Columbia Chapter will meet at earth.” No have become cause. Hampshire still are filled, villages new 2200 Twentieth They will make an official visit its 25-acre tract, offering the some to with street N.W. Friday Stalingrads yet, and no fields have The half of any town population capacity, leading re- tomorrow night to Front Line Post, first two years of a collegiate course, sorts their evening. become scorched earth. Some houses that did decide to go along to the maintaining entertain- and on Wednesday night to Mc- with its credits acceptable by the ment program. Ideal The Committee will are pillboxes, but they were made so last ditch with the Nazis consists weather for Friendship Kimmie Catterton Police and Fire foremost colleges and universities meet by German soldiers and not by civil- generally of youths, all Nazi sports, riding and mountain climb- Tuesday evening at the home party in of the Nation. The Junior College obtains of Mrs. ians. leaders, most Nazi Post, to participate ceremonies ing and anglers are enjoy- Wade Mitchell. party members one modern of awarding AFW citizens’ medals possesses of the most ing fly fishing, to Defied Evacuation Order. and practically everybody with any according reports to who have sent the most educational buildings in the South from that section. kind of job they may have owed to parents RESORTS. The Nazis ordered all able men and is noted for its well-equipped * * the Nazis. For instance, sons and daughters into the service. * * MARYLAND. from 15 to 60 to take arms and in all the and laboratories. up library Postwar the to and German towns we have taken to projects of importance to rest be evacuated, how In the amateur With a permanent resident popu- BEAUTIFUL PASADENA INN date we have found one Nazi furthering boxing Northern New York are to be con- The ideal vacation the here reacted to this or- only more St. (pot. All land* and people of the each in lation of than 70,000, watar aporu. Excellent party leader—a man program VFW, post sidered at the annual of flthlnt. Nearby der is interesting for the light it 70-year-old Petersburg has advanced beyond the meeting •ad reasonable. Reitricted clientele. who was a “block the District will be asked to spon- the Adirondacks Resorts FRED HARPER. throws on how much control the warden,” which seasonal of its Association Royal Oak. Md just sor a boxer the of stage growth, having at is the lowest rank in the Nazi among Juveniles Deers Head Inn. Elizabethtown MD. Nazis still retain over the German party just experienced a summer almost _BRADDOCK HEIGHTS. duties, of collect- the District. Hie boy will be equip- N. Y„ next Saturday. The people. In every town we have come consisting merely as active as the winter season. meeting with proper and is one of the first real CAMP SCHLEY INN to thus far ing dues from five party members. ped paraphernalia “get-togeth- about half the popula- in The contest- Practically all of the city’s 160 ers” of Heights. Maryland. None of any rank has aided his training. hotel owners and "■casement. Newly tion—sometimes a little more and higher yet hotels and 1,200 houses managers decorated. Private ant will wear the name and the apartment of this area with those of KBraddoekatien. Fint meals. Swtmmias. self. deserted the party. Montreal •*■*» almost never less—has defied both are available to winter residents. wserts. American plan. Write er number of the post sponsoring him. and other Canadian cities since pheae 2711. Hermann Revolt Held Unlikely. The de luxe seasonal hotels, the Fleeher. myr. Vinoy beginning of the war. When we come into a town we find Park and which were oc- PINEHURST, N. C. DANCING. Soreno, * * * * the policemen and firemen have all Equality Walter Reed Post Honor trainees the cupied by military past Rock Island Rocket train gone away with the Nazis, and most' AS FLOWER SHOW OPENED—Mrs. Albert L. Smith, 207 Gran- Guard joined with the Honor Guard two winters, will be to civil- passen- opened gers of trains 501 to 510. MODERN DANDE of the postofflce, railroad and public of the United States Marine Corps ians in December. inclusive, ville drive, Silver Spring, admires E. R. Phillips’ dahlia, “Stephen are to be Classes lor Adults and Children Women's Reserve in a Gold Star issued special baggage utility employes, most of the school best dahlia at the annual flower and # * * * Fall Term Begins October 1 Foster” (right), judged David checks to be used whenever such teachers and most of the bankers memorial service for Pfc. The historic Ormond Beach Registration Now harvest show which opened yesterday at the Silver Spring Hotel, and theri employes. Until the people Oswald last Sunday at Atonement Ormond, of the Flagler system, pio- of Armory, and J. L. Bowling’s three “Carl Dahl’s” blooms (left), Lutheran Church. RESORTS. these types—particularly the | neer in the operation of resort EVELYN DAVIS which won The Star’s award in the large flowering police—desert the Nazi cause, it is sweepstakes At the last business meeting of hostelries in Florida, will open for BASTE. THE DANCE In is the basket of dahlias— U_ PLAYHOUSE plain, according to all students of class. the background “Gaiety” the post, held at 1319 K street N.W., the winter season on January 5. nig Church St, N.W. (6) Ml. AS48 » revolution, that no anti-Nazi revolu- blue-ribboij winner of Frank Goetzier. The show will close Comdr. Claude T. Reynolds obli- The Ormond again will be under RELAX AT BRYCE'S COTTAGES ~ tion is possible within Germany. tonight. —Star Staff Photo. gated the following to membership: the management of Peter P. Schutt, • **d return to work refreshed! ARLINGTON Among the people who have re- Charles M. Bailey. James H. Coch- formerly of the Casa Marina at •Ton owe tt to yourself and to your Job mained in their towns and on their to take It easy for ran, Allen A. Nichols, Charles W. Key West, which is occupied by the » weekend or a week or twol farms, it is plain they made no Otzwirk, Frang A.
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