Red armies advance into Poland and threaten Lwow area
Soviet and German forces push along a 500 mile front from Latvia to Romania as Red Army captures towns near Wilno Baranowicze Dubno Tarnopol and Tarnopole. German raids and Polish resistance accompany the rapid eastward assault amid armistice headlines.
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Latvia
Rumania
Glebokie
Wilno
Baranowicze
Dubno
Lwow
Tarnopol
Wlodzimierz
Tarnopole
Russia
Japan
Outer Mongolia
Manchouguo
Plans for Fourth Polish Partition Reveal Nazi Soviet Accord
The Soviet Union and Germany outline a six point plan to redraw eastern Europe and crush Poland as they advance with no hostilities. A buffer state near central Poland and frontier lines from East Prussia to Romania are shown, while Britain and France face renewed pressure and probing neutrality.
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Joe Alex Morris
United Press
Soviet
Russia
Germany
Poland
Berlin
Moscow
Europe
Vistula
Izvestia
Brest-Litovsk
Lwow
Romania
Warsaw
Great Britain
France
Rumania
Esthenia
Latvia
Lithuania
Ukraine
Pravda
Courageous sunk by submarine in World War I action
The British aircraft carrier Courageous is reported lost after submarine attack. Survivors were picked up by destroyers and merchant ships. the 22,500 ton vessel had a crew of 1,216 and could carry 48 aircraft. The loss marks the first official British warship sunk in the war.
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London
Courageous
Admiralty
Ilanes Fighting Ships
Royal Airforce
Glorious
Eagle
Pacific
Europe
Major Hears Russians Against Nazis in Poland
Major William H. Colbern U S military attache reported in Cernauti Romania that a Soviet tank commander in Poland told him the Russians are against the Germans. He observed an 11 ton tank column near Horodenka and noted cordial talks with the Polish troops who fraternized and shared cigarettes.
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Colbern
Tri-State Fair Opened With Crowds At Amarillo Grounds
Ray Pinkney as president of The Tri-State Fair opened the seventeenth annual exposition at 10 AM as thousands crowded the grounds. A varied program included speeches by Wes Izzard and Nellie Granger, Braniff airliners in salute, and Beutler Brothers rodeo set to start. Gates were 15 cents, with daily parades and shows planned through the week.
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Ray Pinkney
Mason King
Wilbur Hawk Memorial Hall
KGNC
Shamrock
Glenn A. Truax
Wellington
White Deer
Bill” Beechler
Amarillo
Panhandle
Bill Walker
Wes Izzard
Nellie Granger
TWA
Braniff
Beutler Brothers’ Rodeo
Sheesley
Iowa
Agricultural Department
Milton Cox
Association
U. S. Ambassador to Poland to France
Secretary of State Cordell Hull announced that J Anthony Biddle the U S ambassador to Poland will likely travel to France for the present Biddle has departed Poland This note recalls trench warfare beginning on the Western Front and German bombardment of Reims 25 years ago today September 18 1914
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Washington
U.R
Cordell Hull
J. Anthony Biddle
U. S
Poland
France
Biddle
Western Front
Reims
Cathedral
German peace plan seen after Polish front collapse
Albion Ross reports from Amsterdam that Germany aims to seek peace with Britain and France after defeating Poland. Berlin sources expect Mussolini to press London and Paris with a demand for settlement while Italy gains military leverage and Japan may back the plan, using a go-between to open negotiations.
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United Press
Amsterdam
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France
Great Britain
Poland
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Josef Stalin
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London
Paris
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Reich
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Russia
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East Asia
Stalin
Smith and Sadler Protest Federal Oil Control Plan
Texas Railroad Commission leaders Lon A. Smith and Jerry Sadler head to Washington to challenge Interior Secretary Ickes over federal oil control. They propose ending exemptions from Saturday Sunday field closings and adjust field production rules to keep Texas output near the federal demand.
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Sadler
Austin
O.R
Lon A. Smith
Jerry Sadler
Texas Railroad Commission
Washington, D. C
Harold Ickes
Smith
Federal Secretary of Interior
Texas
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Aban
Doned
East Texas
Texas Oil
German Reserves Pour Into Siegfried Line
Paris reports thousands of German reserves flooding toward the Siegfried line to bolster defense as France and Britain vow to crush Hitlerism. German troop movements suggest a potential collapse of Polish resistance on the eastern front while Saar valley fighting and forts around Saarbrucken and Saarlouis intensify the western front confrontation.
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Paris
Siegfried Line
Germany
Iti
Russia
Poland
France
West Wall
Saar
Saarquemines
Melzig
Luxembourg
Saarbruecken
Saarlautern
Saar Valley
Polish Silesia
Comintern unlikely to be abolished amid Axis diplomacy
Inform ed quarters in Moscow say the Comintern is not a formal Soviet body and is quiescent. Observers expect it to align with Soviet Germany rapprochement and not hinder Soviet relations with Japan Italy or Germany. Practical factors like Soviet China policy likely decide future axis cooperation.
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U.P
Comintern
Communist International
Germany
Soviet Union
iGermany
Italy
Japan
Hungary
Spain
Manchukuo
Rome-Berlin
Communist Party
Russia
China
Lithuania Orders Partial Mobilization on Polish Frontier
The Lithuanian government announced partial mobilization to strengthen forces on the Polish frontier to disarm Polish troops retreating into Lithuania. In France, Martin Thelen, 44, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a military court for espionage in the Maginot line region.
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London
U.P
Ministry of Information
Lithuania
Nancy
France
Martin Thelen
Maginot Line
Two Rumanian Towns Blasted by Foreign Bombers
Report from Bucharest says two unnamed military aircraft over Romania dropped bombs on Christiateh killing six and setting fires. A separate attack by another unknown foreign plane killed three in Cotringen. Soviet raids hit Sniatyn railway station in Poland while nearly 500 Polish planes sought refuge in Romania and were interned. Four Romanian bombers arrived with wounded crews needing hospital care.
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Cernauti
Rumania
Poland
Zaleszcyki
Sniatyn
Kuty
Zalesczyki
Smiatyn
Ignace Moscicki
Jozef Beck
Red Army
Romania
Crisceatec
Kotringeni
Moscicki
Beck
Russia
Bucharest
Christiateh
Cotringen
Cristiateh
Russia's Poland Occupation Shakes Europe and Alliances
Russia moves into eastern Poland to protect its peoples, while Britain and France weigh Russia's neutrality claim. The touchy question splits the Allies on whether Moscow seeks withdrawal or signals a German/Russian partition of Poland. Hungary, the Balkans, and Turkey add to the wary balance as See MacKenie Page 5.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Russia
Poland
Soviet Union
Moscow
Europe
Paris
London
Germany
England
France
Hungary
Balkans
Turkey
Britain
Macken
Amarillo Area Weather: Fair Skies Through Tuesday
Fair tonight and Tuesday with warmer conditions on Tuesday. West Texas and New Mexico see generally fair weather with little temperature change. Extremes: 55 to 84 degrees in the past 24 hours. noon temperature 82. Insurance note mentions Neely-Greenhill Agey.
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