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VOL. L NO. 109.
FINAL HOME EDITION
PRICE. FIVE CENTS
Evening, except Sunday
Times
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BERLIN, Sept. 27.—</P>—
staff made no nt'™c* * the Nazi air force had
Bold to Fifeet nil rmrw^rtuH anrr»u and said th€ . •• . *
m. Oklahoma
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were
the Polish front.
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SUMMARY
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4M.000
Crash Kill* GUI
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A naval ba*e far Ru%»ia an the
Estonian ruil*
WE ffUlAt
STAY OUT/
Senator** Poll Show*
More Than Majority
Fleet Damage;
Warsaw Yields?
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private companies
••rly arrival* in-
ground* probably
Berlin Claim* Poli ah
Capital to Capitulate
But Radio Say* No
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PARIS. Sept. 27.—(/Pl-
French artillery was reported
Wednesday to have wiped out
portions of the German Sieg-
fried line lietween Merzig and
Saarbruecken as the entire
—<* Wlrvphoto
This is a scene in the hartrar of Tallinn, capital of Estonia.
The Tiny
night *but
bentrop and Field Marshal Goering,
dlf-
Rumors of Military
Alliance Persist As
Conferences Begin
In Soviet Capital
Rising temperatures were forecast
for both Wednesday night and Thurs-
dav with partly 'atoody totes and a
light breeae. Low Wednesday night
will be In ths 54-44 degree range.
The .M Inch shower that fell at
made hl* statement In Boise Citv in the panhandle eame at
.. . of ttgM r<hu to wwt
‘ New Mexico.
VSBSU4V14M1 U1MMC IU8 IWWUKIIV Ul MOl-W VIW
reepodM to queiUom on the myi- | the edge c
(The Warsaw radio, re-
turning to the air after a two-
near eastern bloc under th* guid-
ance of Turkey and Russia.
THREE—A joint German-Soviet re-
quest that Turkey act as intern*-
diary in attempts to negotiate peace
in western Europe.
(Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky
conferred tn London with Foreign
Secretary Viscount Halifax Wad nee
day and wa* understood to have de-
livered th* Soviet replie* to * num-
ber of important questions which
Britain submitted to Moscow last Sat-
la* m i ■ a ■■■ ■»» I— u^ea, Malariala
urday.
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he sailed from Southampton on the
Empress of Britain, again using the
name of Bennett Nash and again
came into the United Stales by way of
R/mirfe Point.
He was nere until October. 1434 he
said
He returned to Europe aboard the
German liner Europa
Bergdoll upset the widely pub-
Neised rterv ef the pal of gold bar-
ied in the Marvland hillside It was
“buried.’* he said, in a clasel In hl*
»^»* 11 gr*• hmm*
He had hidden it, he said, either in
I 1»1S or in 1*1*. and when he eecov-1
ered it his mother deposited It with
I the Philadelphia banking firm of
Weigand A- Co. F * ‘
' amatory of "buried gold W CIBCVL KIM
i escape from the military prison bn I
Governors island, after his conviction
i in the spring of 1420 on a charge of ;
desertion.
Military authorities believed him
when he said he had buried the gold
In an iron pot, and assigned two army
sergeant* to guard him while he went
to Maryland to recover I
stopped In Philadelphia overnight and
the next day Bentdoll escaped.
Embargo Foes
Claim 56 Votes
A <*11 ’ ,®uel i Britain Denies
Of Artillery Along
Entire Front; Foes
Rebuilding Forts
Fair Program
WEDNEADAY
Oklahoma City Day—Sigh-
ty-fi iner’t Day—Texas Day.
IM *- m. — "Americana."
and firework* spectacle before
the grandstand.
THURSDAY
Hoosier Day
l:N a. at.—Judging Hereford
cati'e- Chester White and
Berkshire swine, forage classes.
1$:M a. m. — Draft hors*
pulling contest, heavy weight
preliminaries.
Keen—Midway shows open.
1:M p. m —Judging jacks
lennet* and mules.
1:11*. m—State champion-
ship rodeo before the grand-
r stand
7:3* p. bl — “Americana.•
and fireworks spectacle before
the grandstand. »
is alive” and said the morale
of the populace waa “excel-
lent” despite a terrific Ger-
man attack. See page'2.)
Attack Falla. Say* CbarebiU
(In London the first lord of
BERLIN, Sept. 27.—</P)
—The German high com-
mand announced Wednes-
day night that “Warsaw
„ 1 uncondi-
tionally” and added that the
“handing over of the city
probably will occur Sep-
tember 29.”
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j rerapanied
EDITOR’* NOTE: It will b* rw-
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30 to 40 German pill boxes to w a »av*J «ktnai*b off the e®«»‘
work* were constructed too hurriedly
to stand up under heavy bombard-
m"aeperU from the front aaM th* time--that “we will never
French air farce waa pewviag a large • j while one of UR gtj]|
factor la enabHag the artillery i* * ....
were direel hit* on th* German
fortified line.
French infantry activity, these re-
port* declared, was confined to patrol
skirmishes
Long range German gun* were re-
ported to have dropped "several shell*"
on unidentified village* which pre-
viously had gone untouched.
tier on ---- — — ------
Ukraine, but are massed in
force on the Bessarabiah angle to
MOSCOW. Sept. 27.—(/Pl-
Foreign Minister Joachim von
Ribbentrop of Germany ar-
rived Wednesday for talks
with the Soviet government
amid unconfirmed reports a
Soviet-German military pact
was under consideration.
Three planes bearing the
German delegation landed at
5:45 p. m. (8:45 a. m. Okla-
homa time) from Berlin to !>•
greeted by a brass band and
an honor guard, touches that
were missing when Von Rib-
bentrop arrived August 23 to
sign the Soviet-German non-
aggression pact.
Viee-C*mmie**r Grwei* Them
Vladimir Potempkin, vice-
commissar of foreign Affairs,
headed Soviet officials welcom-
ing the Nazi party.
Von Ribbentrop smiled broad-
ly as he emerged from the plan*
to exchange “Heil Hitler” greet-
ings and handshakes with th*
staff of the German embassy.
Italian Amb***a«tor Ther*
Th* airport waa deeorated with ta-
tertwtncd Bovtot and Nasi flag*
Italian Amba**ador Augurto Rom*
waa th* only.foreign diplomat who ap-
peared for the welcome.
Th* coming of Germany’* foreign
minuter, coupled with the prmeBae tn
Moacow of th* Turkish foreign min-
uter caused diplomatic circles to
•peculate Wednesday on poaaiMs de-
velopment* rivaling tn importance th*
German-Soviet Riuslan non-aggrea-
ikm pact.
F*iand Only Official lasa*
Thew developments, said diplomata,
might include:
ONE—Signing of a Oennan-8ovi*»
military agreement v
Von Ribbentrop Arrives In
Moscow on Mystery Mission;
Nazi Planes .Bomb Warships
Articla 3
CONSERVATIVE estimate of
the taxes now baked Into each
PARIS—French dispatches I .
portions of German Siegfried Itn* Kansas City. Mo., waa killed early
wiped out aa heavy cannonading Wednesday when the car tn which
sounds along entire western front she wks riding bit a telephone pole
• nd nvertumed *
TALLINN—Estonian foreign minister
makes second trip to Moscow in
three days, appearance of planes
~ over capital raises fears.
(Other Detail*. Pag** »■ 14. II sad 14)
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Andrea Seta the Date
DEL MONTE. Calif.. Sept. «.—<*•)
—October u Is the date picked by i ; =• i« .
Andgea Leeds. Hollywood actreM. fori * a. w. *3 ■
her marriage here to Robert Stewart •!?*••• H }?
Howard, son of Charles 8. Howard, u midoistit “F. 8 n
8an FrancUco automobile man and I ■ • "> 6> 1
race horse owner. I j J. a; *?
proaches be made impregnable
A modified voluntary program of
increBAe oi tnc rrguiai <nny to
340 000 and of the national guard io
04 000 • _____
Formation of a national guard in bTOwAen and Pirmasens, where con-
Alaska and prompt strengthening of ,unt attacks and
all defenses In the northern territory, made Walshausen
Continued development of a vigorous
aeronauUcal program. *
Bremen Believed
In Soviet Port,
Says Churchill
T ONTON. Sept.
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admiralty. Wednesday asserted tn
The SI different taxes are paid by
the fanner, grain elevator, flour
mill, flour trucker, bread wrapper
and baker, some of these taxes
being rnl e<UU. persona! property 7^
taxes, sales tax on machinery, tools
anil •wrt**»kra ai • l/wnnhi Im fn4<*lr atatA
ly a program to provide raw materials
sufficient to maintain an army and
navy of 1,000.000 men for st least *
^d^«7fMor^roti;«T^ '
U king the border at the German side
..a ,u
| Wissembourg and th* town of Wl*-
i Along ’the remainder of the front,
the French reportedly consolidated
1 newly-won position* save at Zwei-
stant attacks and counterattacks
msde Walshausen creek positions.
psralleling the two lanes, a shifting
no-mans land.
Small Shower Falls
In Panhandle, Only
Clouds Promised State
. J7—Win- The first rain tn the state in
ston Churchill, first lord of the days, sprinkled the_far western
the bouse of commons that the
mysteriously missing German liner
Bremen **to believed to b* in a
north RuMlan port."
The 420 000 ooo liner sailed from
New York August M only >• hours
before German troop* started into : fk was likely.
Poland k
Since then no definite word of
her whereabouts has been received,
but there ravd been unconfirmed
reports she had reached Murmansk,
■oviet Arctic port. -
”5f.?T
of th* panhandle Tuesda;
the prospect of further *how*r* over
th* rtate wer* non* too bright Wed-
nesday. -
• Frank Whitney said a few scattered
showers may. fall but that they would
. strike such limited arena little bene-
fit llkelv
favor of neutrality legislation repeal-
ing the embargo and substituting •
mandatory •cash-and-carry" require-
ment on Mies of all goods to belliger-
ent nations. Forty-nine constitute a
senate majority.
if“ter "where •u’iS<Legion Demands I. S.
. . , of me u B army military intelligence t 1 ar ig
sia be then. staffs work in deciphering German J ake V 3St HCilSlI FCS
, ***... memage* during the World war. ... .
A't.u o«”< ihM k S‘5»Tr;.SSir"Xllw“~’ F«r National Defense
mlf,d?LA™riu w “ " y emergency and was scheduled . CH^AO9 f21-^ -.-
OUq ot It.—W. M. H. ---
Pr^otrFM at Milkmaid
Stnyt M ith Citv IComan
uVATERLOO. Iowa. Sept. J7 —(A^—
It * seven veers since Mrs Oeorge Ely
Bxfred to the city from a 8tory county.
Iola, farm but she can still show her
eqjntry sisters a few tricks about
milking cows.
Competing at the dairy cattle con-
gress her*, the Waterloo woman de-
feated nine farm gtrls and women to
win the milkmaids' contest
"fKfetofir
That’* a dramatic story, ** pag
1, ef the Warsaw radio stetie*
breadeast cd; ths stty * "last ma*”
defeaa*.
i« y. •
New* reports and pictures of the
state fair appear on page* 4 and 7.
You'll enjoy th* spectel fair **c-
Uon, too.
Of all timet, there’t a bitter
wrangle tn the V. S. war At-
partment and the story on
page t tuggestt tometUng’i
going to be done about it.
Mayb* Russia's Stalin know*, but
a* an* *Im' doc*, what his aim*
ar* in th* European muddl* De-
Witt MacKensle doe* some specu-
lating on peg* 14.
For th* first ties*. * party ef
ferei^I* iseisB^asper e^*er**po^*^le*iee
na» i<urr< inc rjoeei.y (uaraea
fried line. What they mw I* told
pat* IL •
Page 2t to filled with school
news.
ir'h '
niinisicr < *u*rn apsi uiuuuii iiiru w no *rrrsieo nun irpvin-u w*
sible Oerman-Soviei.jnilitary pact, i bus drivers had complained of being
Turkish foreign minister confer* forced off the road,
with Soviet officials, communique
accuses Estonia of harboring on- Crash Kill* Girl
identified submarine*. —
KANSAS CITY. Kan.. Sept 27 —
dispatches report (UP)—Miss Doris Cobb. 20 years old.
heavy cannonading Wednesday when the car tn which
and overturned.’
The Weather
Ualskl _______ , |
■OLBLY T*tm**W** *
... 1* 4 • n
: .....2? 4 *. m
• • m.
la.**.
12 noon
« o n . g g damaged He saio one Lserman
NwiSS Report Heavy plane was shot down, another
* I r* • ' badlv damaged and a third cap-
Attavk on frencn turf(j with the crew when
Basel. Switaerland. Sept. 27 —(A’i forced to alight. See page IB >
“IU. U»
sembourg, near the Up of the elbow in part of the North sea”.
one .lrpl.no corner
•embourg sector, apparently was de- ahich has been destroyed, sev-
_ . _ . .----- i . _ —--—*
one battleship Our airplanes
sustained no loiaes "
Another Carrier Saak?
In Berlin thi* was interpreted to ■
mean that a second British aircraft
carrier—the Courageous, sunk Sep-
tember 17. being the first—had been
destroyed But the communique did
not name the British vessel. It did
sav the vessel was ‘hit by a heavy
bo°lb ' Ul!! m"n “ ”•* ■ERLli-LcX.m
sunk, officials Mid
•' "Battleships, airplane carrier. cruU-
_ __ T were in the British
unit attacked, the communique as-
serted.
The high command later
British assertions that the German
raiders had nrtswd their mark. The
air force command Mid one 500-kllo-
gram 1,102-pound) bomb, among
others., had struck a British aircraft
carrier aquarely and that two 240-kilo-
gram bomb* had hit * battleship near
her prow and amidship
"Th* effeet ef the** heavy bomb*
require, n* farther explsnatlan."
the command mM. *<idlng the a«-
•erUM that all German plane, re-
turned to tbeic baae* after th*
attack. * » '
The Wbtmw garrison'* offer to
yield, the supreme command declared,
came—in the twentieth day of th*
Polish capital's siege-"under th*
thrust’’ of German asMuita which
Tuesday carried "the first line of
fortresaps in the north and the sec-
ond li«* fortrenses tn the south."
Negotiator Appelated '
The Polish commander, th* com-
munique Mid. "thu forenoon offered
to surrender th* city and Uw military •,
force,” and the chief of th* German
army commissioned Gen Johannes
von Bla«kowiu to conduct negoti-
ations for th* capitulation.
It was presumed here that these
negotiation* were still in progress
Armored unit* of the German army
reached toe suburbs of WaraaR Sep-
tember a. but It was not until Septem-
ber 11 that the city was encircled,
making its defense seemingly hope-
lesa.
Oklahoma City Times
Paid Circulation Greater Than Any Other Evening Newapapcr Published In Oklahoma t
iBvealne Mltlee «f Th* OaUy OtlabMMn.) Knitred st Um Oklahoia C|y. Oklatewa sostotn** as ****n4 els** wall ewtter unMr Um ast ef Marek 2 1»1»
FORTY-EIGHT PAGES—500 N. BROADWAY, OKLAHOMA CITY, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1939
Hidden Taxes [Secret V. S.
Visits Bared
By Bergdoll
HEW YORK. Sept. •?.—<A-
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll.
World war draft dodger, testified
Wednesday that he returned to
the United States twice from his
self-imposed exile In Germany
and recovered $105,000 In gold he
had hidden before his arrest.
Bergdoll went on trial before a
general court martial on charges Of
desertion and escape I romps’ military
prison. The court consists of 11 high
ranking army officer*
Bergdoll Mid hi, first trip back
to the United State* wa* in ISIS
when he returned, by way ef Mon-
treal. under the name ef Jaeeph A.
Mann, a hotel perter.
. He entered the United State*
through the Rouse* Point. N. Y. im-
migration station, stayed overnight in
Trenton. N. JM and went to Philadel-
phia the next day
He hid himself in the home of his
mother. Mr*. Emma Bergdoll. he Mid.
and returned to Germany on the
Wh^n he left here to g* back t*
Germany Bergdoll Mid. he used the
name ef Bennett Na»h—the name
he uwd when he returned «olun-
tarlly ta,t May to wrrender to the
Military authorities. ' _
lD 9eY>b^r' 1,28'■Bcr<d^>!L western front blazed with
heavy cannonading.
Dispatches said the Ger-
mans answered the bombard- has capitulated
ment with an intense coun-
terfire on French advance
positions in1' the Saar and
Paltinate areas to protect
Nazi troops working fever-
ishly to rebuild shattered
blockhouses. Germany’s supreme com-
Msny Fill Bese* !■ z*n* maud declared Wednesday
• A communique issued Wednes- that Warsaw's defenders had
day morning by the general offered to surrender and that
I “suc-
cessfully attacked” several
British warships in the North
Aircraft, Believed Russian, Appear Twice In
Day as Leaders Go to Moscow Parley
TALLINN. Estonia. Sept. 27 —<*)—Residents of the Estonian TWO—Formation of a new Baikan-
the admiralty. Winston Church- capital, already worried by developments from the Bovlet-Oerman
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Mid to be massing behind the lines as ^ad attacked British naval ves- warplanes which they believed were Russian.
fast a* Uwy could be transferred from [ Jn North sea Tuesday it was the second such occurrence in 24 hours.
» Three fighting plane* flew over
Tallinn Tuesday and two more ap-
peared Wednesday, this time flying
scarcely 1.000 feet above the rooftope.
Fareigw Minister tUrl Seller. ae«
by Pref. Juri Ulwets.
president ef Ik* chamber ef depu-
Ue*. and Pref. Antonia, FMp. tarmsr
fereign mintater, went to Meeeew
Wedneaday in rowweeUe. with new to
.Kr*pG*r**' « .u- elude requests for clarification of the
whito tn> natnra nt th* fiaw nm. I — T..._ . tOWBTd Poland <nd
eastern Europe.) 7.
The purpose of the visit of the Ger-
. man foreign minister. Joachim voo
Ribbentrop, said Tass. official Rus-
sian new* agency, was to discuM
"problem* connected with develop-
XTATURE’S first law—self
preservation—works on
nations the same as it does
on individuals,
a a s
tirlTNESS Stalin as nurse. Tur-
** key is at hla knee. Little
Greece, baby Yugoslavia, nerv-
ous Bulgaria and the Hungarian
and Rumanian brats are being
soothed, while big boy Mussolini
frets about the villain Hitler
leering in through the window
on ttu%. European family scene
piBBENTROP rushes to Mos- '
** cow. perhaps to talk about
the Polish buffer state perhaps A
to find out about this new deal bread approximate* 20 per-
In the Balkans, which may have cent of its selling price,
been cooked up without Berlin’s
knowledge or approval.
* * •.
TF Stalin's aim Is to be top dog
* over there. It is as natural
for him to make a deal to keep Bn(j trucks, automobile truck state
Hitler out of the Balkans as It license taxes, state and federal tn-
profit* tax *nd undistributed prof-
its tax. occupation tax. *tate fran-
chise tax. gasoline taxes and elec-
Beaalaa prepeaala. I -
While the nature of the new pro- ^tTtutude
posal* was not known, dispatches
from Moscow said there ws* ronsid-
crable *i>ecul*tloti there on the pos-
sibility that Russia may have made
strong demands for maritime rights.
A comumnique issued there accused , ,
Estonia of harboring unidentified sub- ' Problems connected
marines and giving an unMtisfac-
| tory" explanaUon for the recent
escape of an interned Polish subma-
rine.
Belter went to Moscow Sunday and
returned home suddenly after only 15; with the presence
hours in the Soviet capital. Back tn - ■ - ■
Tallinn be conferred with Pre*. Kon-
*B»Th« Anortatnf Pm*« ; stantin Paets and Gen. Johan Lai-;
-----: --------/ reports WarMW doner, commander-tn-chief of the
defenders have offered to surrender i army,
and Nad air force "successfully at- - -
tacked" British warship* in North HELSINKI Finland. Sept. 27 —
tea. 1 • “
BsIonian official sources Mid Wed-
denied LONDON—Churchill says no British neaday Russia had demanded priority
ship* were damaged in attack by 20 in um of Estonian porta and perml*-
Naxl planes tn North sea: report* on? slon to establish a naval base on her
attacker captured, one downed, one coast,
damaged; British income tax to be —♦— —
raised to is percent later to 37 $ Chandler Man Charged
percent, for war eoat*. . . j ■ • ”
BUDAPEST—Warsaw radio My. "w, Wj||uDrunken Driving
will never surrender" in broadcast • Arrested by highway patrolmen
describing terrific German attack I Tuesday night in Edmond. Joseph
on burning Polito capital. 1 Norvell Bybee. Chandler, was char«*l
Wedneaday with driving an autornc- ’ . -
MOSCOW—Visit of German foreign bile while drunk The highway patrol- *n P*rt
minister causes speculation on poe- j men who arrested him reported two. negotiations.
■ ■ ■ ting 'J'
Nazis Are Divided
On Buffer State
BERLIN. Sept $7.—(jpv—The ques-
tion of »nether Poland would survive
as an independent state or disappear
from the European map occupied
diplomatic quarter* Tuesday as Ger-
many's foreign Minister. Joachim von
Ribbentrop, departed for Moscow.
The German policy toward final
partition of Poland wa* decided, ok-
•ervera believed, at a conference Tues-
day night oT Fuehrer Hitler. Von Rib-
^A.ae^^, *M*d MamKaI flee.laa
Informed quarter* said
(erence* of opinion Had i
Germany regarding Um PoUeb ettu-
auoak ■
A strong
Goering, it
la for the Balkans to try to keep come taxes.
from being overrun So the con- * "*
versationg to maintain the
status quo across the road to uicity taxes. The railroad* carrying
Bagdad make sense In several grain, flour, etc., and which some
directions politicians take great delight tn
• a a ' abusing without any just reason
RED troops not only occupy ™
Rumania's northern fron- ,t*te« federal taxes, and many
tier on what was the Polish other taxes.
All of the above taxes are paid by
- —___-__________w____ you- th*J' ,re lnclu<,ed in the price
vHa niucir <aa which slice was bread. If you pay 10 cents for a
the Black sea. wmen slice was gbout 3 c<nU
iO goes to the tax collectors!
-a k
ment* In Poland "
Timing Is Mgnifleawt
Moscow observers .thought it signif-
icant. however, that Von Ribbentrop
should time his journey to coincide
1 12_ 1 of the Turkish
foreign minister. Sukru Baracoglu
Recalling his first visit here Augwt
their non-aggreeaioa pact, these ob-
server* were prepared for fresh sur-
prises.
The presence in Moscow of the
—Usually reliable observer* close to Turkish foreign minister led some
-------- — ■ . . quarter* to believe that Russia might
be seeking an important agreement
concerning the Turkish -con trolled
Dardanelles, the entrance to the
Black aea Passage through the Dar-
danelle* is vital to Prance and Great
Britain abould they need to go to the
assistance of Rumania.
It wm learned that the Japanese
ambaaaador. Shlgenori Togo, had con-
ferred Tuesday night with Premler-
Fbretgn Commiamr Moiotoff Thia lent
credence to reports Japan ta playing
the Moscow
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not name the British vessel,
my the vessel was
t ‘ ‘
sunk, officials Mid.
The German*. Mid to be Installed •
firmly in i—.—— L__
of, Altenstaat. a town which sprawls
acroM the frontier, apparently struck
through the French aide between Fort
reported succeaa. and said the
night had been “calm.”
The communique made men-
tion. however, of "enemy artil- sea.
lery fire on our rear lines In the ('
region of Wisaembourg." [
The Merzig-Saarbruecken sec- dav j~pM declared at 2:15
it. They tor extenda along a 25-mlle front • 7.15 . — • •----
at the northern end of the P’ m’ 1 ao * ----?
French-German frontier, where, rditob’8 note: it win be ro-
French sources said, there were auputchM Taewtay mm
ef Norway ki_ wkiek waisksre tram
^meteiaaeUea with sirptaae*
overhead. The Norwegian wary mM
Wedneaday. however, that thia wae
Narwegtaa navy practice.
MOSCOW. Sept. 27.—(IIP)—The Soviet gov-
ernment said Wednesday (hut a Soviet freighter.
Mettalist, Mas sunk near Narva bay off the Estho-
nian coast, by an unidentified submarine. The an-
nouncement said thet 19 of the Mettalist crew were
saved but five were missing
Serious developments between Esthonia and
the Soviets were feared b> diplomatic circles be-
cause earlier Russia had rejected as “unsatisfac-
tory” the Esthonian explanation of its attitude
toward refugee Polish submarines in the Baltic.
Two Warplane Flights Stir
Estonia's Fear of Soviet Aims
111, .said that 30 German planes conquest of Poland, were startled Wedneaday by appearance of
German troop*K meanwhile.
fast ee Uwy £ould be transferred from j ln the North sea Tuesday
but that no British ships were
damaged He said one German
(Related New* an Pag* IS)
WASHINGTON. Sept. 27—<UP)-
Admlnistratlon leader* Wednesday
claimed 54 assured senate votes-■
seven more than a majority—for Preai-
dent Rooeevelt a arm embargo repeal
program
An informal poll conducted by a
. . - »*nator high in White House coun-
* e * Ayrshire and Holstein cattle was in cU1 flowed 51 Democrats. 4 Republlc-
FpHIS brings us back to the old full ’’J’U. m «• judging of Junior j au and 1 Independent on record in
argument of pan-Oerman-
ism versus pan-Slaviam. Would
world polity be any better off
under Slav supremacy iti Eu-
rope and Asia than It would be fireworks display begins at 7:30 p. m.
? I; Feature of the morning entertain-
»hat i ment on the grounds wa* the draft
horse pulling contest which attracted
more than 2.000 person*. '
ably strong Germany in Europe jj § (;()<|e Expert
to protect Europe from the Slavs 1
If the democratic allies succeed In w orld w ar Dies
in their war of attrition and re- new york, BepL 27.-^4n—Dr
duce Germany to her condition Charles J. Mendelsohn. M year* old.
of the U 8. army military Intelligence
staff's work in deciphering German
code message* during the World war.
1 <
taken from old Russia after the
Great war. Rumania might be
glad to give that up. also to _
£2 ‘2>D2SS Hometowners
°"“r “ Jam Fair On
Hometown Day
"Why this Is Just fine and dandy ‘ J
for youf We are working out a ^a,h<r^w^*,,low1nd
deal through which you can get hnmn w>d-
from n^ntralg hPiiVy bCIOTP ITOOH WPG
^hP .hJh ^ XXmlte thJ n'«»*y f°r triple-honor day
with which to checkmate tne ' u„__ ■>_<_
British blockade!" I of the Oklahoma State Fair.
. . • ], The day was art artde to honor
fjruTi w tiaIv wants to avoid and Texans, while it was also
U7HILB waiy wants to ayoia to ^.rtenta ef Oklahoma
’• going to war. she cannot be city.
considered as leu than a friendly n a holiday In most public of-
neutral to Germany Therefore rice* and many
Italy will be for piping supplies trom noon on u
out through thia new bloc of by night
neutrality. * * * Bailey to Speak
»us>r RtAiin who La" «7-0*> attended the fair
rpHAT ought to suit Stalin, who Oklahoma aty w
x gets further penetration of m i*2g when tl.iao went through
pan-Slavism, and sees Gentiany , the turnstile*.
being helped IntO^a position to Joe Bailey jr, Texas congressman
prolong the war and bleed her-
■elf more completely toward ex- WM to ipMx before the grand-
haustion, when Stalin would be mnd Bl < jo p. m.
stronger in the llvertock bams Judging of
Ayrtoire and Holstein cattle was ta ci showed 5f Democrat* "4 "Republic-
1 livestock.
Falling Cantesl Fepulsr
The fourth round of the state
championship rodeo »tarted at 2 p. m .
and another American* show and
under German domination? It,
hasn't been so long ago t_—
-''Britain was arguing that It is
necessary to maintain a reason-
wu- ‘ Besides one airplane carrier
. 1 -.kl-k Un. kann Hhgtrnvpd
WIMWW* • MW-vwwea* wgejr—- w—--—- (
signed to flank French force* tn the era| severe hits were scored on
Vosges forest west of the Wiaeembourg - -*—*----
fort, where the advance German fort*
of Fiahbach and Ludwigswinkel were
reported cut off from main line forti-
fications protecting the Pirmasens
Landau road
The Freaeh terras were reported
ta have withdrawn Is the Hill ef
Pigeon,. Juat weal sf the ehy. and
the fort, leaving their pnlreto in
nrecarteua paaseaslan ef St- Fanl
castle at the bend ef the Mllent
north ef Wteefmbeerg.
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