Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 264, Decatur, Adams County, 7 November 1939 — Page 6

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FRENCH REPORT AIR VICTORIES French War Office Announces A’ine German Planes Shot Down I’arl*. Nov 7 'UP) The war office announcei! today that i French troop* «tIII were holding i th* Forbach • Spl«-h*ren salient. I Jo> u iu<MaiiK <hr intlustnallied Saar valley which the German* hnv«- I been shelling for five day* Th* German artillery action on th* aallrnt wa* reduced yester day It wa» announced. and ther* twill bad been no advance there by German tank* or infantrymen, alth<>Uff|i th* Germans were entrenched north ea»t and west cf| th* salient and will have to occupy It before they can resume any i of the Iron coal and steel operations In th* Saar Th* salient Is on a piece of French territory ( pit ting into Germany Th* French left the salient’s left flank exposed when th<-v Withdrew Oct 16 from the Warndt I forest. The newspaper Petit Pari : »|en said It had received many I letter* from reader* complaining Jgalnst the Frent h wiihdrawnl from ihe forest. and it evnlalned that upon the collapse of Poland French troop* had heen with drawn generally from the German territory they had gainer) In front of the Siegfried line, and kepi on Hie defensive on the French frottier, out of range of the German big guns Today'* communique announced however, that the French still held two village* and two com mandlng hills at the outskirts of th* forest, thus affordint; the For bach salient some flank protet $N> It wa* announced 'hat th* French had repulsed two raldinc parties east of Saarlouis which tad constituted the only nMahlLand action yesterday and that detat s * of the big French air vt - i u»ry yesterday would be annnum ed tonight It tad heen announced that t nine French pursuit plane* 4'nr Has fighter* taught in the I'nlted States had attacked a sinadro't of 27 German pursuit plane* ye* terday and had brought down ntn>of the German planes and driven the rest away without th* lost of a single French plan* NAZI SHIP IS • cnKTiyrtrieD FMa waoc onai been fog the purpose of perfecting f plan to imniohillae the Deutschland and ’he Admiral flcheer. another German pocket battleship which has heen repotted < rualng

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In the South Atlantic. The Inform ant said the allied naval command hud no knowledge of the present whereabouts of the Admiral Scheer although II wa* believed to be mill In the South Atlantic It wa* pointed out that a hunt for th* fieutschland and Admiral Scheer would be the logical sequence to th* lifting of th* l’niu-d State* arm* embargo, to clear the ' Atlantic shipping lane* for the -transport of million* of dollar* worth of American war supplies. There wa* considerable specsllatlM. however, a* to what tactic* the allied navies would use again*' 'these re.**..- battlr*;.;;.., which are too strong for allied cruiser* and too fast for allied battleship* They are of lO.WHt ton*, with a cruising «need of 24 knot* They carry «ix 11-htch gun*, eight 5 9 inch gun* and othsr smaller guns. They have eight torpedo tube* and carry two aircraft each, with catapult. The suggestion was that a strong 'force of British or French warwhip* j might be diverted from the North Sea or Mediterranean for action in the Atlantic. PENSION PLANS — i CONTINUAL) FKt'M PAUA ONAare neither employ** tun *m j ployers. It wa* In the form of a <-on«llt'it lona I amendment A less drastic measure received l.ti.tiH.o roelast November tat lost by ■ 255 turn margin Ih-ttliig od-l. were alum. S to I that 'h< re- ; vised amendment would lo* - to day t'ppouenl* believed how | ever, that lie defeat d>pend-<l tip on their effort* to get out 75 or pet cent of the state’s elector iff of 2 605,907 to offset the solid support of the "senior ci t lieu* Federal social security records| Hist about I.SOO.OtH) person* .>-•• r 50. of whom about (M.IHto uut-ni-ployed might qualify for the pen •101 l Th* estimated total of tax money required to pay the bill runs into astronomical figures The plan would lie financed by v three per cent gross tat on all incomes over fI.I.iUM). in addition I to a fund rslved hr •rIHr.S :•> ' cent stamp* to be affixed to each warrant every Week Th* •arrant would be redeemed at th--end of 52 week*, with the extra four cent* to pay administrative cost* o— QUEEN OF HOLLAND. CONTINUED WHOM FAQ* ONA) mediation by neutral*" I'Sopold arrived unheralded In t The Hath* last night and was recelved Immediately hy Wilhelmina crown primes* Juliana and her consort Prince Bernhard of Germany They conferred and met with their foreign minister* until 2 a m and again this morning they talked until noon. At one time •Dent watcher* In the street outaide the palace saw l-eopold in conversation with Netherlands' foreign minister Van Kleffena, pacing the floor and waving his arms emotionally. Ktnce last night crowds had Itelieved that the palace conference* portended developments of international importance (At Bru***)* court circle* «ald l-eopold’a trip with hl* foreign minister Piul-Henri spauk was In some way a counterpart of the conference held recently In Stockholm by th* King of Sweden. Norway and Denmark and the President of Finland, and their foreign miniatar* the trip wa* mainly In the spirit of the Btockhobn conference and there may be several more similar meetings soon court circle* said I - had been not even

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'Tills sniklag tvinung of a Red ■ Cross n-:r«a keeplag ths symbol of mercy flying Is th* keynote of th* 1*39 appeal for membership tn the American Red Cross Faced with the need for stn-ttgtbening dally Red Cro»a service* In 3 700 Chapter*, and with I'* chartered obllgatioa to I aid in »ome m*a*urs in meeting th* dlatrea* of th* men. women and j children refugee* la war torn countries a*, ue* isv soa. ta* Red Cr.iss aak* evary m tn and woman la th

th* • ii.tomary communique on L*>poM'a rlvft tier* Th* foreign office I 1 milcat. <1 tint foreign mfnUter E. N Van Kieffen* would inane a ataiement when th* conference had endI »*d Th* '«*ltlan King and foreign mlnl«t*ra had reached the palace unob«erved iaat night by autcwioj bile The conference coincided with a growing fear amoi« neutral nation* of wewtern Europe and the Baltic for their aecurlty in th* face of reporta that Cermtnv might aoon atart a major off*naiv* on her weat-i ern front. Belgium protA>t*d to Germany yeaterday. through I'a amba.nador in Berlin, againat a flight of German plane* over Belgian territory Sunday. Relgttn anti-aircraft obaeryara wee* aatd to hare Identified the planet Switzerland and Denmark reported plane*, heliered to be German, had been sighted orer thote conntrim. Denmark and Sweden were alarmed by the number of mine*, alao be'lered German, floating in their ahipplng channel* Norway had Incurred Nazi wrath by taking the American freighter City of FHnt away from the Germ>n prize crew, I r'-h-aaing the *hip U> the Americans and interning th* Germans. In the Tac* of German demands that lb* prise crew he related. Norway announced test night that the crew would he taken to the ancient Kmgtringer cattle near the Swed ish frontier on Wedn»*d»y. and kept In Internment there Some European quarters believed that Germany’* anger over the | flty of Flint Incident mis not likely I to Increase her respeet for her neutral neighbors to the west and north Furthermore, it is known ‘ Mark of Death? • wLt» flB Bl Xlfl ' 'jl/- } TzisL. ■ Johanna Fradorten. wealthy New ' York spinatar. points to engeiement ring gives bar by Jooeph Boebeeher, M. "Blusbaard 4 iu|Mt bold by pollen. AotboriUee say ho worked through “lonely heart" matrimonial bureaus, held him for questioning in several murders, as bo arrived at Now York from abroad. __

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nation, able to do so. to join as a member thia year and aupport America’s offldai voluntary relist agency. Ruskin William*, a distinguished artist. I* creator of this Ideal eon caption of th* nurse heroin* The roll call for members will be held November 11 to >0 - join thru.igt your local Chapter.*H*l| your Red Croae help *• bt coming one of the mtllflor* who wlh ->dd thefr aame* to the roil of tuercy

that the French army high command seriously consider* the possf'iility that th* German army, blocked out of France by the Maginot line, might attempt flank attacks through Holland and Belgium., or Switzerland. Holland and D-lgluni are friendly neighbor* Both hare their fortifies-' , ti<>n* centered on their eastern bord re. facing Germany, but they tiave no military alliance and Holland remained neutral while the German* Invaded Belgium in the world war Bu' neither have over-, look-*! th* possibility that this time th* German army might strike farther north and Invade them both At Stockholm. Sweden, newspaper* again protested against the lay- . mg of German mines In Swedish waters off Falsterbo at the entrance, to the Baltic. At Copenhagen, the Danish minister of Marine warned ships not to venture into Fakse bay or Drogden ~>und at sight because of mine*, drifting mines were coming ashore near to Copenhagen and explosion* were heard yesterday In the suburb of Mharlot inland as Danish patrol boats exploded them With rifle •hots At Greve Reath, on the east nest of H-ekand Island. popuL•ummer resort. Inhabitants evneuatStudent Stole Love? vLX Mrs. GMa Laag ' Wlfs or an instructor at Mnw Hopkina univomty, Baltimore. Mrs QUda Olivia Lang,- M, Above. has started suit tar MO,. 000 against a 22-year-old girt student in one of her husband's claanea Mm Lang charges the girt with alienation ot tier buabaad'e affeetfona

|ed several house* after mine exploalosa had sbattc-ed windows. Al Aurich. Rwltterland. the army Istnff announced that a foreign plane I passed over several village* on the upper and middle Basle district, dropping many leaflet* printed io French and obviously meant for French soldiers to Influence them against Great Britain Folic* confiscated many leaflet*. Il was believed that the plane was ioet In a fog and the pilot thought be wa* over France. HAYS RED ARMY 'CONTINUBD ON PAOB glXt the square were mare than 1.000-000 000 civilians shouting antiwar slogans and carrying tanner* with caricatures of British and French "war aggressor* * Voroahllov said: “W* have u<> unemployment; no crisis Out troops aro In Latvia. Lithuania and Fsthonla for th* security of these countries and that of th* soviet union, not to Interfere with the Internal affair* of these sovereign states." He tailed the red army “invincible" and wa* applauded thunderously "The largest powers of Kurop* and Asia are involved in war; attempting to solve the unsolvable problems of capitalism by war; but the soviet union has been spared war due to Its Mcceaaful peace policy." he »ald. Burlier. In his order of the day to the army. Voroshilov had announced that Itussla wa* "alert and invincible" and he denounced : Great Britain and France for "Instigating' the war In Nurope —-- — V. J. BORMANN CnNTINVBD PrtON PAUg ONA, tonal Broadcasting company President Roosevelt and Raymond J. Kelly, national commander of the American ia*gk>n. will be among the celebrities to take part In th* program. ——————A GIVE RESULTS CONTINCKV Flti»S* PAQB ON«t Roy Bchwartx. Sugar beets 2 flrat. Elmer Nuaa- . baum. second. Dwight Roth; third, Milo Nussbaum Others exhibiting: Dalll* Jean Wall hl*. Robart (Joels and Donald Grote. Sugar beets 1- first. Robert Railing Sugar beet* 4 first. Alvin Nussbaum Sugar beet* 5 Frederick St ham-

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- erloh. The afternoon meeting started r at 1 SO t<nd wa» In charge of > Elmer Nnssbaum Th* tn*ting was • opened with community singing. , after which a corn judging contest , was held The follow trig teams - were entered Kirkland 4-H chib, i'DeWitt Williamson and Don Arnold Monroe 4-H clttb. Alvin NussI baum. Millard Bchwartt and Milo I , Nussbaum Prebb- 4-H club. Paul . Eugene Gerber. Dulil* Walchle and M.-Ivln Werling I'nlon 4-H club. Rotart Railing. Ralph Grote and I>lmer Thieme The Preble team ;waa th* winning team with Pau! I Eugene Gerber the high man. A demonstration wa* also given by Reuben Nussbaum, who la a I member of th* Monroe township 4-H Sodhuater* club His demonstration was on “Barrel typ* hog seifeeder " Warsaw Grand Jury IndictK Younx Killer Warsaw. Ind. Nov 7- <U.B — Prosecutor Jacob Koontg announced today that Frank Potta. IT-year-cdd confessed slayer of Mrs Florence potter. 42. Warsaw widow would be arraigned on a first degree murder charge as Mam as the court schedule permitted possibly today A special grand jury returned the murder mdicttneiil against Pott* late yesterday after his Mexican President ” BL *. SO General Manuel Avila Camaehc tabov*) unanimously nominated foi ths presidency of Mexico is a former war minister. He represents ths dominant revolutionary party.

Nazis Frisk Captured 3 ■ w* fl ~sacra®*. I ’ I B |EKw?I j Those French soldiers were captured by Cermax the Western FmL 8s far, most of the war's activity tata3 tratod in small raids for prisoners, with hope of gvtusg

' seven page confession wa* read I to th* jurors. COUNTY BOARD ■ 1 - (CONTINUAL) ON PAOB PIX) I two tracts tn Blue Gr**k and French townships and th* placing <M light and power lines on the other videos the road a* nought In a petition presented hy th* REMC. —o ■ SENIOR CIsASS 'OONTINUKD raos rant; <»na> Jean Zimmerman Carolyn Dwyer, th* school teacher Maxhte Hilton V’s Rarta Barbara Duh* Tickets for the event will soon Igo on sale They ar* to I • sold 1 by members of the class aid at i the door on th* night of th per- , formance. o .VeMeh Are Warned Os Tropical Storm Washington. Nov 7- <U.R) — ; Vessels along th* Atlantic sea hoard were cautioned by the weather bureau today about a "1-- - JLif.. ■

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