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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1939
Page
3
The surrender of Warsaw ends a dramatic 20 day siege with the city in ruins and civilians pleading to fight on. Hitler justified invasion as defense of German minorities, while Allied perspectives debate the impact on future U.S. policy and anti Nazi sentiment grows amid broader war coverage.
Ostenrieder told Des Moines police he stole a 1929 Dodge in Cedar Rapids on July 25 and drove to Des Moines to help in the slaying of Harold J. Dreher. He said he, Francis P. Welsh, and a man named Slim abandoned the car in Des Moines after a robbery en route.
Authorities renewed their search for two men linked to the Harold J. Dreher slaying in Des Moines. Fred Ostenrieder, 21, charged with murder, returned to the crime scene and reenacted the events for police, shedding light on the case.
Paris dispatch reports a German army purge ordered by Hitler with Col. General Werner von Fritsch allegedly murdered by SS guards. The scheme allegedly includes executions of 30 junior officers on August 1 and special moves against senior officers, with Himmler’s purge unit active.
Twenty indictments, mostly secret, were returned by a federal grand jury after sessions begun Tuesday. Harlan Brown of Maquoketa faced illegal possession of liquor, now jailed in Linn county. George Riniker of Dubuque tied to coin counterfeiting, W P Backus of Dubuque to forgery. Henry Kassel III of Van Monde released after no bill. Sentences followed for several defendants on untaxed alcohol charges and related offenses.
London dispatch reports former British premier David Lloyd George denouncing the Polish government and defending Soviet actions in Poland. He argues Britain should not restore a regime subjugating Poles and stresses distinctions between Nazi territorial aims and Soviet moves in non Polish lands.
Moscow presses Estonia over the Pats to seize Dagoe and Oesel islands claiming Baltic security. Ribbentrop meets Molotov and Stalin in a marathon talk as Estonia protests Soviet border violations amid submarine incidents near Tallinn and the Gulf of Riga.
Cedar Rapids saw temperatures rise to 89 at 2 40 p m after a overnight low of 51. Other readings included 57 at 7 a m 73 at 10 a m and a Wednesday high of 70 from 3 to 4 p m The 7 p m reading was 56 and midnight 55 per Chambers Inskeep records.
Des Moines reached 93 degrees tying the all time Sept 28 record from 1898 as a hot wind sent temperatures to the high 90s. Weather observers anticipated a rapid drop within 24 hours.
Arthur Bugs Baer recalls past wartime practices of delivering goods on credit. He jokes about trust and payment, noting open books and the era when credit was loose and such transactions occurred despite not paying cash.
Reports in Paris diplomatic circles via Switzerland claim Nazi Soviet discussions in Moscow tilt toward the Russians. A Stockholm dispatch says Estonia accepts Soviet plans for an ice free port on the Esthenian coast per Aftonbladet.
A reader recalls seeing Ray mond Massey and Robert Gaines portray Lincoln in Abe Lincoln in Illinois. He notes Massey’s Lincoln as hesitant and self doubting while Gaines presents a firm, confident path to power, posing which is the true Lincoln and whether the Sherwood script supports either interpretation.
Berlin says Modlin fortress 14 miles northwest of Warsaw has offered to surrender 24 hours after the capitulation of Warsaw. Hitler visits Wilhelmshaven to praise submarine crews returning from enemy waters as Britain's naval forces face heavy air attacks. Churchill reports German air force strikes on British ships with several vessels damaged. Warsaw radio says armistice talks proceed and German forces advance behind the demarcation line with Warsaw potentially occupied Friday.
Four engine companies were awakened from bed at about 1 a.m. by a prank call from a hotel clerk claiming a fire. Firemen and police searched the building for Carl Misbach who had been at the hotel, but he had already left by the back door.
Mandamus suits were filed in the Missouri Supreme Court to force the acceptance of recall petitions against Mayor Bryce Smith and four Kansas City council members. The petitions claim city clerk Charles W. Regan refused to accept signatures, allegedly striking valid ones and thereby blocking a recall election. The Smith petition accuses him of misconduct and of allowing a corrupt political organization to control city business, alleging embezzlement and diversion of public funds.
Raymond J Kelly, Detroit corporation counsel, was elected national commander of the American Legion. He succeeded Stephen F Chadwick of Seattle after other contenders withdrew. Kelly has led Detroit's legal department since 1933 and studied at Notre Dame University.
The Rev Patrick McDermott of Atlantic Iowa was unanimously elected national chaplain at the American Legion convention in Chicago. Five national vice commanders were named Matthew Murphy Chicago Charles G Wesley Little Rock Ark Elwin Davis Pueblo Calif Leo F E Day Gorham NH and Joseph B Fitzgerald Chevy Chase Md They were unopposed The final session also debated veteran preference rules with a vote 810 to 623 to retain existing civil service rules rather than adopt the committee recommendation.
Owen N. Elliott and wife Mrs Elliott with Mrs N G Alcock of Iowa City reached New York by tele phone message after sailing from an Irish port. They planned a few days in the east before returning to Cedar Rapids early next week.
Washington The Senate Foreign Relations Committee reported the administration neutrality bill to the Senate after a three hour session. The vote stood 16 to 7 with some supporters planning to push the measure to the floor for debate.
Berlin report says the German agency published a alleged transcript of a telephone talk between A. J. Drexel Biddle and William C. Bullitt. The 17 September exchange during the Polish invasion urged bold diplomatic declarations and material for a neutrality bill fight.
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