Zanesville Signal, The (Newspaper) - September 15, 1939, Zanesville, Ohio Writer Foresees Greatest Period of Anarchy Since Fall of Roman Empire By CAPTAIN JOHN HOUSTON U S Marine Corps NEW which has occupied the center of the stage for nearly a week past with her dramatic tion took another bow In the today with her hint that the time has come lor the Polish Ukraine and the Polish portion of White Russia to come back to mother Russia To those familiar with Russians and Russian history this de- velopment has seemed reasonably certain since the signing of the treaty with Germany Russia's hint appeared In Pravda the Communist party's of- newspaper and thus might as well have been uttered by Stalin himself Just how these Polish provinces are to be restored to Russia was not explained Are they to be turned to the Russians by the triumphant Or are the Soviets Retting ready to take them whether the Germans like it or not Nearly everybody in Europe would like to know the answer to that one As pointed out In this column Russian mobilization gave all of Europe's foreign offices their worst case of Jitters since the non- aggression pact was signed All this week the Jitters have grown worse London Paris Berlin are all apprehensive What a change from twenty years Moscow was Ignored then It had no power Now Moscow's Mr Stalin is old man balance of power himself There arc sensational stories afloat In Paris London and lin Paris and London are hearing confidentially that Stalin has tied himself up definitely with Hitler for a monumental deal in altering maps First the two dictators arc to divide all central and eastern Europe between them while the Germans hold the allies at bay at the west wall Then when Europe is divided to act as a for and Mussolini while they pry Africa away from the French and English With Russian backing It seems strategically and tactically sible that this might be done It wouk of course mean ths dis- ruption of the British and French empires and would produce the greatest period of confusion and anarchy the world has seen since Rome foil That is the nightmare The Germans are having one of their own on the strength of a Berlin rumor that Stalin thus far has merely been leading Hitler on and now that the German army is tangled up in the Polish campaign he is getting ready to attack the Nazis from the Baltic to the Hungarian dCr You can take your pick as to which story to accept but from considerable knowledge of Russia and the Russians this writer Is regret fully obliged to believe that the former Is more likely than The reason Is that 11 Stalin opposed Germany he would have to fight and war with Germany Is the thing the Russian dictator Is most anxious to avoid since It might Well mean the end of him and of the Communist regime Watch That Is where the world's significant news U coming from In the next few days and weeks It may be news that will shake civilization News from Poland continues bad Warsaw still holds out but its last railroad has been cut No more Polish troops can escape from the trap to its west Prints the News VOL LX No 114 THE ZANESVILLE SIGNAL Tells the Truth ZANESVILLE P FRIDAY EVENING SEPT 15 1939 THREE CENTS FRENCH DRIVE ROUTS NAZES Woman Gets Appointment Bricker Names Gertrude Jones To Emmons Post rude Jones of Findlay state Re- publican committee woman today was appointed to succeed Ralph Emmons East Rochester on the civil service commission by nor Bricker At the same time Bricker an- that Miss Jones would also take over the duties of com- mission chairman replacing Carl Smith of Kenton who has been serving in that capacity Smith a Democrat still has a year to serve before his term expires Under the existing civil service Jaw Miss Jones term will run for four years salary of a year She was expected to resign immediately as committee woman to take over her new duties Em- mons term expired Aug 30 It was the first appointment of a woman to a major post since BricKer took office The chief executive had little to say to the press about his choice and seemed to know little about her ground except that she made an unsuccessful attempt in 1934 to win a seat In congress During her campaign for con- gress Miss Jones a candidate with liberal views and a constructive attitude interested in restoring the function to congress Active in Republican politics for years supporters rewarded her by electing her committee woman for the eighth district for the first time in 1928 She was re-elected every two years with the tion of the year she sought a con- gressional seat In 1932 and 1936 the new com- missioner was a from Ohio to the Republican tional convention The appointment ended Emmons long career as a member of the commission Although a can he was appointed and pointed by former Governors Vic Donahey Myers Y Cooper George White and Martin L Davey Cooper was the only Republican the four Former Pendergast Lieutenant Dies KANSAS McElroy 74 who ruled city affairs for Boss Tom Pendergast's Demo cratic machine 13 years as manager died today Ho resigned under fire last Apn nt the outset of an upheaval in city government Boss went to federal prison for tax dodging and numerous ates lost their jobs Recently McElroy was indicted hy county grand juries on charge of embezzlement and conspiracy hut the cases did not reach th stage He was too ill to to the charges but his friends as ed McElroy's city manage f would be stoutly defended Fair and Warmer Fair nnd continued warm to nisM Saturday Showers an fowler afternoon and CUT Atlanta Cloudy To Plead for Defense COL LINDBERGH Lindy to Speak On Neutrality de- bate on whether the present law is neutral or was in full swing today and Col Charles A Lindbergh was expected 0 add to it tonight in a radio talk to the nation Col Lindbergh will speak from to 10 p m EST on ca and Foreign Wars over the three major networks ng officials said the address was arranged for Lindbergh by a friend but declined to disclose his name Allies Ready To Fight Red Move on Poles Britain France Resigned to War With Russia By H R KNICKERBOCKER LONDON A Russian invasion of Poland which seemed today to be a nearer probability than at any time since signature of the Russo-German pact will automatic war between Soviet Russia and the allies I learned day on unqualified authority It was pointed out that Great Britain and France guaranteed Poland against attack from any quarter and although certainly no Russian attack was foreseen at the moment of Britain's guarantee to Poland that guarantee less holds good for Russia as well as Germany Evidence piled up today that Russia contemplates military action on a large scale in the west and that she probably intends to occupy Finland Estonia and via as well as attack Poland and afterwards Rumania This form of collusion between Hitler and Stalin had long been described here as the ultimate catastrophe but the temper of the Allies now is to let nothing be- come a catastrophe and certainly nobody will admit today that sia's entrance will mean anything more than an added burden Cheerful reference is made to the fact that Russia will be unable to supply Germany with oil be- cause last year Russia importer oil Her harvest is poor and her iron ore production barely for her own needs There is a strong chance that Russia's entry would result in Japan getting into the war on the Allied side Whatever may previously have been the feelings of the western world toward Japan it is felt her active aid could be extremely helpful Likewise it is considered certain that Russia's entry will guarantee the permanent neutrality of throughout the war and it is no longer a secret that the only re quest the Allies now have to make to Italy is that she stay neutral Find Only 25 Bodies on Sub PORTSMOUTH N Thrilling Rescue at Sea of Torpedoed Ship's Crew X Acme Thirty-seven members of the crew of the British freighter were rescued two days out of Southampton following torpedoing of their ship by a German submarine on Sept 8 Above taken from the rescue ship shows the two lifeboats as crew members were picked up at sea The landed in New York Sept 14 with the crew and Americans re- turning from war-torn Europe Polish Troops Fight Desperately To Save Industrial City of Lwow troops reinforced by heavy artillery are fighting ly in defense of Lwow Lem- messages received here German motorized day reported Formidable columns had succeeded in reaching the of Lwow Poland's most important southern Industrial center but they fell back it was reported after Polish showed they were unable to storm fortified approaches to the center of the city Dispatches Indicated however that the Lwow defenders soon would be isolated by German col- advancing to points east of the city along routes north and south of Lwow One heavily motorized German column it was reported moved in the direction of the Rumanian frontier toward a large oil refining center south of Lwow Another moved northeastward ward Rawa Ruska north of Lwow Lwow defenses it reported here have been weakened greatly by intense artillery fire which caused heavy damage throughout the city Polish sources here said that as many as 11 German motorized columns were advancing in the di- rection of striking at main Polish defenses with lightning rapidity and leaving in- detachments moving up be- hind them to mop up guerilla fighters It will be the first time the dio audience has heard the famous flier's voice since Aug 28 1931 when he spoke before an assembly of Japanese dignitaries in Tokyo Both the pro and the con of the neutrality debate were expressed last night Sen William E Borah veteran isolationist thought that any change in the present ity law whose chief feature is a mandatory embargo on the ment of arms and ammunitions to all belligerents would be tral Col Frank Chicago publisher and Republican vice presidential candidate of 1936 thought the law as it now stands is and that the embargo should be repealed Borah addressed the nation by radio Knox a public ment Opponents of the present law maintain it is tral because in prohibiting ment or war materials to all it places the United Stales indirectly on the side of in I possibility that the sea might hold d v Great and France because jhc British navy would prevent to our markets f there was no embargo N iof the embargo would be unable would be to our markets i whereas Britain and France would able Jo and thus repeal States indirectly of Britain and France reach height forever one of the 26 victims of the Squalus arose today when grim naval officials were able to find only 25 of the bodies for 115 days in the tered submarine lying in dock here None could say for sure The search still forward But of- did not deny the chance that the body of one man might have been giver up to the open sea through a hatch found open during difficult and dangerous salvage operations While naval steel workers gled to remove the victim wedged in a battery well only IS inches deep by cutting with lene torches through the plates of the battery room floor officers revealed the macabre sight that had greeted those who first ed the Squalus Twenty bodies were heaped In the after torpedo room around the foot of a ladder leading to an caps same type of hatch through which 22 men in the forward compartments made their way into a rescue bell lowered from the ship Falcon Another body tentatively as that of Alfred of I- I- 2nd class sat upright between n steel locker and a torpedo tube His station had been at a telephone connected with the control room The on th when congress rn -o consider German Area Evacuated evacuation of the area opposite Vail on the frontier of Germany and the Netherlands began today It was believed that evacuation of Aix-La-Chapelle Aachen im- portant industrial city just south of the Maastricht area of Holland is imminent Recent reports have indicated an intensification of aerial activities in the Aachen area Editor's The Maastricht district of Holland is the lying area of the Netherlands and was reported to have been favored by the Germans as the most strategic spot for a thrust against France and England Evacuation of German districts opposite it might fore- shadow intensive German military activity in this area as well as a protective measure against allied air Nazis Wreck Many Cities German air force has launched ment of open towns in Poland in a campaign assuming the ter of systematic destruction of all built-up areas unconnected with military operations the Polish government charged today Assertion that I Hitler had threat to wreck Today's Rival War Claims Mrs Fink to Take Stand Late Today Defense ney Ben H requested Judge A V Bauman today to hold made good his vengeance Jupon the civilian population for the of snipers in occupied areas was made in an nique broadcast by the Polish tele- graphic agency in Warsaw The communique reached don coincident with reports of new advances by the German army the Soviet frontier and inous indications that the Polish lines had crumbled with widespread over an extensive area east of the Vistula river a Saturday special session first decree murder trial BY UNITED PRESS Today's rival claims in the European claim troops filtered into advance works before German east of Saarbruecken despite 36 hours f intense artillery fire by Nazis at- tack in force may be in gress against Germans in erck sector as French ably seek weak spot in wall advancing east of Saar river French take first German prisoners British troops reported en- tering France by tens of sands their equipment and training hailed as superior to all others French and British s q u a d r ons start big scale hunt for freighters or tankers believed to be supply ships for German French say Germans started war with 30 submarines at sea and now have than 23 radio claims Poles still hold Warsaw and hating inflicted heavy losses on Germans both renew charges that man planes bomb tants Germany High command says Germans from north en- tered fortified zone of gateway to tral Poland 120 miles east of Warsaw and 140 miles from Soviet border and Mew up parts of the Germans reported approaching eastern suburb of saw from north east and Nazi forces said to penetrated southeast of Lwow cutting Poles off from manian com- mand minimizes west front tion asserting that German artillery fire repulsed ers south of Germans Rip Up Railroad As They Retreat toward Siegfried Line Fear French Attack on Base at Trier Germans Continue to Gain in Poland Britain and France Foresee War With Russia J troops were reported today to 1 je retreating slowly down the Moselle valley in the face of f tf French pressure v Unofficial French advices said the Germans were 3 ng their advance positions before the Siegfried line ripping up railroad tracks which follow the course of The Germans apparently feared French attack in force toward heir base at Trier which is only few thousand yards in front of he Siegfried line French forces fiercely t defenses today attacks from three ides it was reported while an of- northeast of the frontier own of Sierck carried them closer o the important German base of frier Saarbruecken major goal of the operations lies m Germany's rich Saar valley The general staff reported a ocal offensive toward Trier had established strong positions near the junction of the French man and Luxemburg borders Trier lies about 25 miles within The communique also indicated the French line facing v en was moving slowly toward the rich prize despite strong enemy reactions notably by his J The advance in the Sierck gion the communique said the French assured positions after five days of fighting touched off in that sector by a German sive movement Violence of the combat caused Luxembourg authorities to remove residents from the border region close by although the fighting was said to have been confined strictly to German soil The French were reported to have fallen back about 500 yards at one point in the battle when heavy artillery poured shells onto their advancing lines Later how ever the French regained the same ground and pushed on for an undisclosed distance 0 Warsaw Is Near Collapse BRUSSELS INS by shot and shell hard-pressed for food and carrying on life in the midst of the shambles of war the city ol held out today with a courage almost unparalleled in History The correspondent of the sels newspaper Independence Beige who succeeded in remaining in Warsaw long after most for- eigners had been compelled to leave flashed a graphic picture of the situation there in a dispatch reaching Brussels this afternoon There is not a single street left in the city which does not bear the traces of war he said Throughout the length and breadth of the beautiful capital long the pride of central Europe not a single thoroughfare stands untouched The streets are choked with de- rubble and mortar of shattered buildings Even tures six stories in heighth have collapsed under the constant rain of mammoth shells and exploding aerial bombs The population somehow or er has become inured to war's rors the correspondent said ly they thread their way through the debris to picking paths their destinations of safety through streets torn up into gaping holes Few of them bother to look any more at the destruction wrought on such a wholesale scale about hem Cafes remain open and in these the inhabitants of Warsaw trate to discuss the latest news from the front and pick whatever solace they can from of newspapers The old folks left in Warsaw hardly bother any more to seek the city's shelters ing air raids They stand in disordered streets instead ing enemy planes dodging anti- aircraft guns and unloading their bombs at intervals Funeral processions through the streets are almost continuous with the of battle a few miles away sounding a sombre counter- point to the slow of the carriage horses This sound of battle is never ab- sent The Germans however are believed merely to be awaiting ad- reinforcements to open up a new push on Warsaw When they do come in full force they will find what can only be called a scratch army defending the city Day laborers women and old men many of them Jews comprise this defense rear guard of a Polish Pomeranian army which is said to have slashed 4 its way through the encircling Germans Germans Push Eastward Temperatures Here Again Top 90 Mark In the The Polish forces hopelessly j September heat records of Velma outnumbered fell back steadily to take a licking today as Fink so she might tell ward the east The German high again zoomed into the of the submarine His earphones imon did not rule on day were clamped to his head Commander B request immediately The brunet without Interruption her story of command announced penetration the death of her son jof the small but historically im- j Haldon Dewey explained that he wished to avoid piecemeal testimony from Mrs Fink who be said could not be called to the witness stand until late The last heat described probably for is the last Polish outpost before the swampy low lands of the i sng to predictions high command announced today that German troops from the north had pushed into the heavily fortified zone at gateway to East Poland and had blown up parts of Its fortifications The great citadel there however was still held by the enemy The communique said that mans had approached Praga a suburb of Warsaw from the north cast and that they had beaten back another attempt by a very strong and fighting Polish force rounded in the vicinity of Kutno 60 miles west of Warsaw to break through to the southeast The fortified zone of commands the main routes to the cast the marshes and the Russian border It Is the cap- ital of the province of bordering Russia It is at the tion of the and Bug rivers on the royal canal linking the Vistula and Dnieper rivers It has been a junction for railways from Warsaw Kiev Moscow and East Prussia The population of 30.000 is more than half Jewish it has been decreased by more than a half by wars between 1914 and 1920 It was there early in 1918 that two historic treaties were one between the central powers and the Ukrainian lic the other by the central crs and Soviet Russia which ended Russia's fighting on the allies side Warsaw is 120 miles west of Russia 140 miles east The German communique On Sept 14 the southern group of the German cast army crossed the road mid- way between the San and BUR Gdynia Polish Baltic port Is in our hands Turn to Page Eight marshes along the Polish border Heavy was reported 15 miles east of O plains continues McTi ot thr high alone n over the central tnr IV the c It 15 I ot M IN- Atlantic to Page President Defines Territorial Waters WASHINGTON today de- fined Ibc territorial of the States far at American in- require them to KO they reach lo Rhine Ibe rf conference Mr replied curtly Vie lunc and a Ve the and saKaC efforts said trapped in the intention and Despite the hot weather the football season is with hich school the relatively quirk and So swiftly water in upon them that not one had time to reach for tbc lall of which still remained today in their the walls of the torpedo room I Mrs Fink and she had bought to the TO for the baby BEATS Hunt on to defeat Donald MeNcill ol Oklahoma City in their final match of the National Tennis The championships They were at n the third scl to East Prussian forces were en- here reaching Afternoon in the gaged in the movement Into 1 The spot in the state was while in the south Van where the official mans thrust their way Toward climbed to 105 de- and between Records exceeding 100 de- Lwow and Lubin after alv at the former city and at Springfield fo Britain's war legislation it was an- that Prime Minister Chamberlain would deliver his third statement on the progress of hostilities when the house re- convenes next Wednesday The house passed a wartime con- trol of employment through third reading Hunt wiir play Bobby jBuc rivers the had baches and private M L SL tomorrow's to make last stand of cooL through sharp curbs te to prevent Conclusion of this maneuver Schools here were dismissed will that the main Vody of Thursday afternoon because Polish still in action may be of the blistering heat and many encircled within the triangle youngsters availed themselves of bv the Vistula San and opportunity to visit bathing Britain Calls More Troops The second batch of British army conscripts under the conscription act of last spring was called up today British reports meanwhile an unceasing of seas to enforce naval and economic warfare against Germany In the of commons which met for slightly more hour to discuss minor than points an of work from ing men away from vital war in- The southern army command authorized Uie Information that the new militiamen had reported to more than a dozen reception The first disclosure of a war prize cargo involving an American freighter The Warrior of was made yesterday A lic notice said about 5500 tons cf phosphate had been taken from The Warrior and was being by order of the marshal of Uw admiralty No details were of or how the cargo was seized The Export Association In New York said the shipment Tarn
