Hitler vows to fight on but seeks to ease European tension
Adolf Hitler in a Danzig address declares Germany will fight as long as needed and rejects world conquest. He notes talks with Russia to remove eastern Europe tension, claims no desire for Ukraine, and aims for a lasting peace with limited west aims. He also criticizes Britain’s blockade and asserts Russia and Germany will take care of their interests.
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Danzig
Germany
Reichsfuhrer
Adolf Hitler
England
France
Hitler
Britain
Poland
Soviet
Russia
Europe
Reich
Fuhrer
Hanseatic League
Long Market Square
Ukraine
Fuher
Washington
French Poilus Repel Night German Attack Near Saar
French troops repulsed a night attack east of the Saar after heavy artillery from German Siegfried line forts. Paris planned ministerial talks at the Elysee as France sought a cautious stance toward Russia and Germany.
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Paris
Siegfried Line
High Command
Saar
West Wall
Edouard Daladier
Elysee Palace
Russia
Poland
Albert Lebrun
France
Germany
U S Officials In England Are Jittery Says Shaffer
U S officials in England faced sharp critique from Van Vechten Shaffer president of the Guaranty Bank after Britain declared war on Germany. He accused ambassadors and consular staff of hysteria misinformation and inefficiency and said he would protest to the State Department and Iowa senators. He recalled aid delays for war stranded Americans including a California professor family quarantined in Bath and directed to Weston-Super-Mare evacuee point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naome Doerel
England
Atlantic
Great Britain
Germany
van Vechten Shaffer
Guaranty Bank and Trust Company
State Department
Iowa
United States
Joseph FP. Kennedy
Mr. Shaffer
G. K. Donald
Southampton
London
University of California
Bristol
Bath
Weston-Super- Mare
Warsaw
Voelkischer Beobachter
Poland
France
Courageous Sinking Blows British Carrier Toll Feared
British casualty estimates put total losses at 579 with 681 survivors after the German U boat torpedoed the carrier Courageous off the British coast. Berlin confirmed the sinking while British trawlers and merchant ships faced further attacks and coastal command air units pursued submarines.
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London
Admiralty
sky dances draw 8500 in Cedar Rapids crowds
More than 8 500 people crowded roped streets and rooftops to watch Tom and Bette Forrest perform the first sky dance in Cedar Rapids. A 60 foot pole supported the 18 inch disc while two later shows were planned for 3 pm and 8 45 pm with flood lights.
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Cedar Rapids
Tom
Bette Forrest
Tom Forrest
Iowa Theater
Urges U S Neutrality Against Lifting Embargo
A Cedar Rapids business man and World War veteran urges Americans to keep the United States neutral by opposing Congress's potential change to the neutrality act to permit arms sales to warring nations. He writes to about 250 friends nationwide, urging letters and wires to Iowa's congressional delegation and to House members in Washington.
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Cedar Rapids
United States
Congress
Should you go to college and why
A reflective piece questions if going to college is self motivated or socially driven. It asks readers to assess personal goals, abilities, time and money budgeting, work habits, independence, and readiness for college before making a decision. It also urges considering service and purpose beyond personal success.
Bridges urges long session to end war by committee
Milwaukee Wisconsin Senator H Styles Bridges of New Hampshire urged Congress to stay in session through the European war to prevent a single man from holding all decision power. He spoke Monday night noting the need for continued legislative input during wartime.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Sen. H. Styles Bridges
N. H
Congress
Local Woman On Freighter Stopped By Nazi Submarine
Edith Steele of Cedar Rapids was among 25 Americans aboard the freighter Artigas halted at sea by a German submarine. The Ar tigas then continued after radio hail from the U-boat. also aboard were Harold Wilson and family en route to Tipton Iowa.
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Edith Steele
Center Point Road NE
Philadelphia
Artigas
United Press
Steele
Cinderella
Cedar Rapids
New York City
Cunard
British Isles
Harold Wilson
Nancy
Middletown
Ohio
Tipton
Wilsons
England
Wilson
Prowler Breaks Into John L. Miller Garage
Detectives speck fingerprints after a 4 am break in at John L. Miller 1905 B avenue NE. Four cars were ransacked and flashlights taken. A billfold with fishing gear and a checkbook belonging to Anne Miller vanished. Virgil Powell and Detective L B Marshall investigated.
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Cedar Rapids
John L. Miller
Avenue
Virgil Powell
Fingerprint Bureau
L. B. Marshall
Warsaw Defense Holds As 11th Day of Siege Proceeds
Berlin reports say Polish forces still defend Warsaw on day eleven of the siege while claiming enemy army groups are breaking up. 50,000 Poles captured at the Bzura. Lwow and Lodz remain contested as civilians and diplomats face evacuation questions.
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Berlin
Warsaw
Bzura
Lodz
Lemberg
Lwow
Rumania
Edward Smigly- Rydz
Praga
Romanian Territory Penetrated by Soviet Troops
A Soviet lieutenant reports a detachment crossed into Romania at Czaleszczyki, forcing Romanian frontier guards to fall back as Russians mined the border. He says Romanian resistance was absent and Ukrainian unrest was being controlled by Soviet military police, with rising regional tension and mobilization in Romania.
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Cernautt
Rumania
Amsterdam
INS
Polish Ukraine
Rumanian
Red Army
Czaleszczyki
Dneister
Vo Ma
Russia
Balkan States
Autumn Weather Holds Pleasant Cedar Rapids Day
Cedar Rapids saw a mild day with a low of 47 at 7 a.m. rising to 80 by 2:45 p.m under fair skies. Monday peaked at 77 around 4:30 p.m. then fell to 61 by evening and 52 at midnight per Chambers Inskeep company records.
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Cedar Rapids
The
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
Little Nations Face Decision Or Speedy Erasure
By Bugs Baer. The piece argues small nations must choose quickly or be erased, likening Russia to a cat chasing a fish wagon and Poland as a soft touch, warning others to decide lest they vanish like a tick tack toe on a celluloid cuff.
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Baer
Poland
Russia
Russians and Poles clash in northeastern Poland report
Moscow dispatch received in Berlin notes fighting between Russians and Poles in northeastern Poland. It adds Russian advances near Lemberg in south central Poland as reported. further details continued on page 10.
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Berlin
INS
Poland
Moscow
Lemberg
Lwow
Roosevelt to address joint session on neutrality
President Roosevelt plans to address a joint session of Congress in person Thursday afternoon on neutrality. Stephen T Early said the message will be brief and focus mainly on revising the neutrality law and is expected to be delivered about 1 pm CST.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Stephen T Early
Early
Congress
Buffer nation between reds nazis expected
AP reports from across the Polish border say a pro German pro Russian regime may replace President Ignace Moscicki and others who fled to Romania. The new Polish state could sign peace with Germany and Soviet Russia and accept redrawn borders.
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Cernalth, Rumania
Poland
Ignace Moscicki
Josef Beck
Rumania
Germany
Soviet
Russia
Warsaw Defenders Hold Off While Baltic Naval Clash Reported
In Budapest, the German onslaught on Warsaw continues with near constant shelling leaving most buildings damaged. A Baltic Sea naval action is claimed by a British and Polish fleet to have inflicted heavy German losses, though Berlin calls the Baltic report a fairy tale.
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Budapest
Hungary
Ins
Warsaw
Baltic Sea
Baltic
Berlin
Britain clings to policy amid fears of German blitz
London reports Britain will not declare war on the Soviet Union. The government vows to protest Poland’s fate and press Hitler on a possible Western offensive while anticipating a potential German blitz against the Low Countries. Prime Minister Chamberlain to speak on Russia invasion.
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Bulletin— Paris
Russia
Poland
London
INS
Britain
West
Hitler
Paris
Netherlands
Belgium
Rhineland
Ruhr
Reich
Soviet Union
Neville Chamberlain
House of Commons
Ministry of Information
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