French Claim German Units Losing Ground In Battle of the Saar
Paris reports the western front crisis escalating as hundreds of thousands of French and German troops clash across a 40 mile front from the Moselle to Saarbruecken. German forces are said to be retreating while destroying villages to slow the French advance toward the Siegfried line. Premier Daladier travels to the front amid intensifying fighting and Allied support discussions.
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H. Taylor Henry Paris
Srani
Biel
No- Man‘s-Land
Siegfried Line
Saar
Moselle
Saarbruecken
Eeonard Dalacdier
France
National Defense
Paris
Siegfried
Maginot
Morello Villey
Britain
Chamberlain
Supreme War Council
Poulan
Germ
Nied
Germany
Copperhead Bites Women At Revival In Knoxville
Two women were bitten by a copperhead during a Church of God revival led by Rev. George Monnlay in Pineville Kentucky. Mrs Winnie M Johnson of Rhode Island was treated at a hospital. Mrs Alva Worver, 48, refused medical care, saying her faith would protect her. Both bites occurred on the hands as the reptile was handled during the service.
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Copperhead
Knoxville
Church of God
George Monnlay
Pineville
Winnie M. Johnson
Alva Worver
Baruch urges stronger U S forces to deter invasion
Bernard Baruch argues the United States remains seriously unprepared and must build a stronger army, navy, and air force to deter any possible combination of powers that could attack on both oceans. He warns the one ocean navy is no longer sufficient defense.
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New York
United States
Europe
Asia
Bernard M. Baruch
Baruch
Washington
Roosevelt
War Industries Board
America
Ian
Pershing
Drum
Barucil
Poland declares contacts remade amid border war fronts
Cernauti Ruminti Sept 16 Polish authorities announced contacts reestablished between Polish forces fighting Gortmanny on separate fronts near Zalessenyla and across the Rumini border. Ambassador Ant hony of Biddle set up temporary headquarters with refugee diplomats to survey the situation while Polish refugees remain on the frontier.
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Cernauti
Ruminti
Gortmanny
Elty
Zalessenyla
Witsberg
Cor- Heull
Uitad
Anthony
Biddle
Jala
Warsaw
Polina
Rumotlin
Johnson to Face Trial in Shooting
Okvey Johnson a 27 year old mill worker from Wingsport is to stand trial in Sullivan circuit court next Tuesday on felonious assault with intent to murder charges tied to the June 16 shooting of Dr W B Payne. Johnson was moved from the state gum for the criminalyine gane in Nashville to Bristol to await grand jury action.
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Okey Johnson
Sullivan Circuit Court
W. B. Payne
Johnson
Bristol
Mitum
State “Asylum For
Knoxville
Okvey Johnson
Wingsport
Sullivan
Nashville
Roby Milam
Blountville
T. A. Dodson
Payne
Community Hospital
Dr. Payne
Polish Troops Rush To Aid Warsaw Defenders
Polish forces under General Bartanowski join three relief divisions near Warsaw amid ten day bombardment by German troops. Berlin claimed military targets only, while Polish reports say 100000 German casualties and ongoing attempts to encircle the capital from north and south.
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Robert B. Parker
Budapest
Bartnowski
Warsaw
Wilny
Poland
Legation
Kukesebas
Skutno
Ggouth
Britain U S trade likely to suffer says State Dept officials
Washington analysts assess six months of the Anglo American trade agreement noting a rise in U S manufactured exports to Britain and a fall in British farm product imports. They say the figures signal potential shifts in trade patterns under the pact concluded last November and view the period as an indicator of future effects amid price and cotton market influences.
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Washington
State Department
Great Britain
Americas
United States
Hull
United Kingdom
Russia With New Pact Plays Safe
Soviet Russia signs an armistice with Japan ending four months of border fighting along the 1000 mile frontier between Soviet Outer Mongolia and Manchukuo. The move, viewed in Moscow as securing frontiers, prompts speculation of a possible Russian Japanese nonaggression pact and shifts the balance in East Asia.
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Moscow
Russia
Germany
Japan
Europe
Soviet
Premieriareign
Vyacheslaff Malotoff
Sunk & Pack
Asia
United States
London
East
Expec Aclion
China
Kaptain
Wss
Wwa
Explosion rocks air ministry in Berlin during blackout
Berlin reports an explosion hit the air ministry on Leipzigerstrasse amid a blackout. Firemen closed the area as the propaganda ministry noted the blast but gave no immediate cause or injuries. An investigation is under way and those responsible are being sought. Meanwhile in Washington Senator Clark signaled that the warring issue in Congress over repealing the arms embargo hinges on whether the U.S. should take sides in Europe.
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Berlin
Air Ministry
Leipzigerstrasse
Propaganda Ministry
Washington
Clark
D-Mo
Missouri
Borah
Idaho
Nye
Former Kaiser's Grandson Slain in Poland War
BERLIN September 16. A grandson of former Kaiser Wilhelm II Prince Oskar von Prussia aged 24 was listed as killed in action in Poland. He led an attack as a lieutenant in the List infantry regiment. His mother is Princess Ina Bassewald, his father Prince Oskar, and his brother Prince Buchard serves on the Polish front. A Hohenzollern spokesman said eight princes were in active service but did not name locations.
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Berlin
Kaiser Wilhelm— Prings Oskar
Prussia
Hohenzollern
Oskar
Poland
List
Nation estimates 200 billion loss from idle labor and machinery
The National Resources Committee reports the US lost about 200 billion in goods and services during the depression due to idle workers and unused capital. It notes price controls and production limits shifted open markets, with potential housing and industrial rebuilding if resources were redirected. It rejects shared wealth and stresses targeted income changes to alter spending patterns.
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Washington
National Resources Committee
Besk
British Convoy Pressed as U-Boat Attacks Rise
London reports British convoy shipping to service after enemy strikes sink 21 ships totaling 843 tons in the first two weeks of the war. Royal Navy planes and destroyers patrol around the UK as authorities claim several U boats destroyed, while Belgium accuses Germany of sinking the Belgian motorship Alex Tan Gopstal off Weymouth.
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Middleton
London
British Admiralty
United Kingdom
Ly’s
Britain
Germany
Alex Tan Qopstal
Weymouth
Brussels
Soviet Move Across Polish Frontier Warned by Moscow
Moscow informed the Polish ambassador that Soviet troops would cross the Soviet Polish border at 4 am local time, advancing along the entire frontier to steady eastern Poland. Berlin reports say Warsaw faced a German ultimatum with 32 hours to surrender, amid leaflets warning civilians to evacuate.
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Sunsag
DNB
Moscow
Russia
Poland
Pojozk
Kamanea- Podolsk
Warsaw
Sejms
Wien
Inter Villangs
Spolses
Pavienen
Warsi
Gereraan
Ubout
Sve
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