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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1939
Page
5
Tokyo reports a truce on the Manchukuo Outer Mongolian frontier and a commission to delimit the boundary has been agreed. Fighting ended at 2 am Saturday Moscow time, with Russia on summer time. A significant Russian force was previously reported on the frontier.
A well informed source said negotiations that led to a Japanese Russian truce on the Outer Mongolia and Manchukuo frontier started on a German initiative. Russia named Constantin Smetanin ambassador to Japan, after serving as chargé d affaires in Tokyo during the vacancy.
The foreign office disclosed an agreement with Russia for a cease fire at 2 a.m. Moscow time and troops to hold positions as of 1 p.m. Friday. It calls for border supervision by Japanese and Russian representatives, prisoner exchanges, and a two Russian or Outer Mongolian plus two Japanese or Manchukuan delegates commission to fix the boundary.
A reader extols small towns noting richer music and sermons, wiser local editors and sound judgment than in big cities. Neighbors know each other, gossip shows life, and leaders like Lincoln rose from small towns. Democracy rests in towns, not cities. Distributed by United Feature Syndicate. Tac. DR. NEWTON.
Paris Soir said Saturday that German casualties in Poland to date reach 100000 killed or wounded, a figure approved by the censor. L Intransigeant cited unofficial reports that Allied fleets have sunk two German submarines and captured eight.
United Press report from Prison Camp Grossborn describes Polish prisoners being moved into Germany for farm labor. Officials said farmers provide clothing meals and 60 percent of current wages, while camp life features bare rooms, potatoes and cabbage meals, and delousing procedures for new arrivals.
Washington officials gauge senatorial support for repealing the neutrality act except for the munitions control board while seeking a return to international law. The move aims to renew arms sales to Britain and France, with safety concerns over the cash and carry plan and travel bans in danger zones.
London AP report says the Anglo American oil tanker Cheyenne was sunk. her crew were rescued by the Norwegian steamer Ida Bakke per the ministry of information statement issued Saturday.
The AP reports former United States senator Lawrence Yates Sherman, age 80, has died in Daytona Beach Florida. Details on birthplace and legacy were not immediately available.
Cedar Rapids banker Van Vechten Shaffer led a protest after American Ambassador Kennedy warned American travelers aboard the Cunard liner Aquitania in Southampton that ships could be sunk without warning. Shaffer and his family, slated to sail on the Mauretania, had their passages switched to the Aquitania. The warning message distressed many passengers aboard the ship.
Paul Preus and Solvient Dor rum wed in a candlelight ceremony at First Lutheran church in Decorah. A temporary candle mishap sparked a small fire an hour later. fire department extinguished the blaze with minor damage reported.
Moscow AP German ambassador Count Friedrich von der Schulenburg suggested the German liner Bremen valued at $20 million may have been captured by Britain. He urged inquiries be directed to Winston Churchill and noted American detentions of the ship while mentioning British destroyers.
London dispatch says a mysterious woman announcer from Germany urged Germans to resist the Nazi government from within the Reich. The appeal claimed to come from the general staff of the German army of freedom and urged building centers of resistance as civilians starve and trenches are dug.
An unconfirmed Casablanca dispatch said about 100 crew members were killed and around 1,000 total casualties from an explosion aboard the French mine laying cruiser Pluto while loading mines at the port near Ceuta, with additional injuries at the docks.
Cool breezes reduced the unseasonable heat in Cedar Rapids Saturday. Temperatures rose from 69 to 83 by afternoon, with Friday’s high reaching 95, the fourth straight 90-degree day. The line fell to 86 by evening and 75 at midnight per the Chambers Inskeep recorder.
Cooling breezes from the northwest move over the midwest Saturday easing a four day heat wave. Forecaster C A Donnel in Chicago says the drop will spread eastward over Illinois and the Great Lakes and southward toward Kansas Missouri and the lower Ohio valley with showers likely in most areas.
The Works Progress Administration reported a drop of 180 055 in the first week of September bringing total enrollment to 1 660 557 as of September 6. Deputy WPA commissioner Howard Hunter said project employment had risen somewhat since September 6.
German authorities announced the capture of Bialystok, a city of over 9,000 population, and the heavily fortified Przemyśl. Fighting around Lwow continued as Berlin claimed Warsaw was encircled and Polish forces in the Kutno pocket suffered heavy losses. Reports from Warsaw described disorder, starvation, and refugees on the city outskirts as Germans closed in.
The column recalls a 24 year old quip about war memories. A lady avoids admission of summer plans while leaving a cat with condensed milk and no can opener. An old joke resurfaces with comic relief.
Paris dispatch reports the largest western front battle of the European war ends in a crushing German defeat. Three German infantry waves and massed tanks fail to break French hills defenses northwest of Saarlautern. French forces hold the Saar hills and Siegfried line fortresses as heavy losses halt the German counter assault.
The vanguard of Polish diplomatic refugees crossed into Romania on advice from Warsaw as German tanks push deep into southeast Poland. President Ignacy Mościcki and officials remained at Zaleszczyki while embassies relocate toward Romania, fearing a sudden German raid on the provisional capital.
Mike Mann, an eastern Iowa representative of an Illinois gambling network, pled guilty to selling horse racing pools. He was sentenced to six months in jail, fined $400, suspended on good behavior, and ordered to abstain from Linn County.
French high command reports heavy fighting on the western front with further advances and a strong German counterattack repulsed. Official communique notes active night across multiple sectors, heavy artillery south of Saarbrucken, and some advances east of the Moselle.
The Belgian liner Alex van Opstal was sunk off Weymouth by enemy action, violating international law, says the British ministry. Forty nine survivors were landed in England with no deaths reported, while another British vessel Fanad Head was sunk and its crew rescued.
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