~, 1939---, cuts _. Partly Cloudy New York Professionals Down ,I IOWA-P&l1b elo...,. today aDd 15 Colle,laDl. 1-0 : &omwrow, ..-Ible aboweI'S In (See story. Pare t) t DatIa ..' oitlttu weIR aDd ex&reme IIIIrih &oday. I . -rer Iowa City's Morning , } N e .w spa per , . , lrt FI'VE: CENTS The A.....,....,.. Ff'1O '. IOWA CITY, IOWATHUllSOAY, AUGUST 131, 1939 Tb.A~r..... VOLUME xxxvm NUMBER 189 ferred I~RL man­ Air Lines , will be­ Northern Italy ' May Be S~ene "of :' llighting,.,.If War Comes Cantden, N. ffi cluls an- the local 4 Conditions I nllmed, r W:lshing_ Demand Shift I servcd as IrpoJ'l since OJ' Camden Toward South :--- * * * * * * * * * , .* * * ItaUan Indmlrial * * * * * - , • Regions Would Be Fuehrer Concellirates German Power In New Council Target of French B1 DREW MIDDLETON * * * *.* * * * * * *'* *** *** ......... LONDON, Aug. 30 (AP)-North­ v ern Italy. cockpit of Europe since Reich Leader Names Six-Man Ministerial Board British Government Sources Declare Diplomacy the days of the Roman empire, 'Crisis'> Cat may be the scene of some ot the, earliest decisive fighting of the \ For Defending Reich If European 'War Occurs Assumes Post At Of.'Yeek Has Left Europe's Crisis Unaltered next European war-it it comes­ T White House with a French - British army Goering Heads New I striking through the Alpine passes German Demands against the heart ot Industclal Group; Nation Takes Poland Orders Additional Mobilization ASfIINGTON, Aug. 30 (AP) Band Blaring, Reich's Liner Bremen l'S W For Free City, Italy. Early Precautions As Peace Offers Fail To Take Effect -A scrawny, black cat attracted Leaves N.Y. With Heavy Supply Cargo This is the opinion of neutral the attention of White House visi- Corridor Unchanged mllltary observers and some r~· By LOUIS P. LOCHNER WARSAW, Aug. 30 (AP) - on nazi demands for Danzig and tors. including the new British By WILLIAM S. WHITE tired Bri tish and French officers BERLIN, Aug. 31 (Thursday) Poland ordered a large scale Pomorze, the British corridor. ambassador Lord Lothian, today NEW YORK, Aug. 30 (AP) - and destroyer and convoyed across By MAX HARRELSON In London. They base it on lour (AP) - Adolf Hitler decided late "partial mobilization" tonight The near - general mobilization LONDON. Au,.' 30 (AP)- The conditions: by taking up its .station and re- With her band thumping tri- the sea. I. Ita)y wiU not remain neutral, last nigh t to concentrate in a few simultaneously with receipt 'ot order, It was estimated. would ma 'ning at the doorway to the ex- umphantIy away at German mar­ The Bremen, the Aquitania, the exchange of secret notes between reports to the foreign office that bring to well over 2,000,000 the but will enter the light on the hands all the economic. financial British Transylvania, and the Germany and Great Britain, which side of Germany. and administrative power neces­ Adolf Hitler's reply to British number of men under arms, No ecutive offices. It was immediately Ual airs; the nazi liner Bremen, went forward today with the dis­ 2. Germany's Siegfried line and sary for defending the reich in proposals for ending the European official figures were given, how­ compared with its black counter- released after a two-day deten· French liner Normandie were reo patch of an answer to Adoll Hit· crisis offered no immediate set· ever. The present total is close part, the cat which is said to visit tion by American authorities, leased late in the day by customs FI'ance's Maginot line will stale­ case the supreme call should come. ler's latest proposals, was said by mate each other along the old A short time before Great Brit· tJement. to 1.500,000. 10 Downing. .stre~l in Lond~n sped for home tonight _ carrying authorities after inspections­ diplomatic circles tonight to have A foreign office spokesman as­ Although pink mobilization pos­ much longer in the case the western front for at least a year. lI'in's latest secret crisis note was ;~l~~~~er CriSIS time comes In extraordi~arilY heavy food and ot [ailed so lar to produce anythine: serted that the fuehrer's note was ters appeared on walls with the Bremen than in the others - to perhaps longer. handed in at the reich's chancel· approaching a solution of the Eur­ 3. Germany, learing a wave of lery, the fuehrer appointed a min­ "even more bitter" than his reply large heading, "the president has Photographers made dozens of Ifuel supplies but no passengers, make certain that none carried ar­ opean cri~is. to French Premier Daladier last ordered general mobilization," a pictu:..-es, including severaL of the The British Aquitania cast off mament capjable of use in raiding hostile world feeUng it the rights isteria 1 council of six men. head· Sources close to the British gov­ of small na tions are disregarded, ed by General Field Marshal Her­ Sunday. communique described the action ~mbas ador, stroking the animal' an hour and a halI later, her ship and shipping of other potential crnment said the situation. had The communication to Daladiel' as enactment of "additional mili­ and placing it on his shoulder. musicians silent and her windows European belligerents. None did. unucrgone no material change will not Invade France through mann Goering, his most trusted Belgium or HoUand. was interpreted by the French tary measures" and informed per­ "These black cats always bring darkened amid widespread reports The Normandie, however, was since Adolf Hitler's first note was adviser. The others: 4. Polish resistance will require premier as a point blank refusal sons . asserted that a number of pcace," he obsel'ved. that outside the harbor she ~vould under French orders to stay in­ Minister of the Interior Wilhelm \' eceived Saturday. the attention ot at least half the frick as head of the nation's ad· to negotiate directly with Poland exceptions were involved, The cal was named "Crisis." be picked up by a British cruiser defini tely in port. In this connectlon it was pointed ------------------'---------------------------------------------------- out that Prime Minister Chamber- German army tor six months or ministrative apparatus. mOre. CoL General Wilhelm Keitel as lain told parliament yesterday that the danger of war had not re­ (ndus&rlal Re,lon chief of the high command of the it ceded. "Under these conditions is armed forces. Woman . Dies As Fire Destroys Local Farm Home easy to see why the theater of Hitler WIllII1l'? Dr. Walther Funk as president war should shilt to northern ~ Some quarters gained hope from of the reichsbank and minister * * * * • • • * • • . Italy," one oUicer said. "That is reports that the German fuehrer of economics. the industrial region; the muni­ Rudolf Hess as deputy fuehrer had Indicated some willingness, Japan Fears Russian Moves RlliJl,~ of Fire In hi s communication received tions industry is centered In Tu. of the nazi party, Father Saves rin. A break through wllh the Dr. Hans - Heinrich Lammers, here last night, to negotia te dir­ ectly wlth Poland. subsequent destruction of these as liaison between the fuehrer and Toward Far'Eastern Areas plants would force Italy to cali the council. Daughter As This same note. however, was reported to have stated that Ger­ on Germany's none too extenslve Forster In Berlin .----~------------------- mili tary stores, cripple Italy's Shortly aUer this decree was many had not altered r. 'r de­ Nipponese Rl:Jsh DIS TUlilllNG House Bums mands f9r the sUl'rendtT ot Danzig fi,hting forces," a~ced , a government spokes­ and the Polish con:idor, which It is no secret that the Fl'ench man said Albert Forster, nazi dis­ Troops Tow-aid general staff has consLdered two trict leader in Danzig and the Drunken Women Taken Polish circles in London saId nul­ Manehoukllo Border Mrs. Carl Williams . lified any possibilities the otfer posslbllLtles: An Italian - German newly created chie! of state there, For Ride invasion of southern France and Burned to Death may have had. had arrived in Berlin fOr what it By RELMAN MABIN a French invasion of northern • was assumed was another import­ THOMASVILLE, ALa" Aug. Polish circles also said they TOKYO, Aug. 30 (AP) - Ja­ In Iowa City Tragedy could not accept Hitler's reported Italy, The former, reputedly the ant conference with HiUer, and 30 (AP) - A drunken woman's plan of some blackshirt strate­ possibly for instructions as to his pan's fears that Soviet Russia, shouts were disrupting church suggestion that Poland send a re­ The condition of Carl E. Wil­ presentative to Berlin lor talks. gists, has \'eceived scant encour­ futUre course toward Poland. freed from European pressure by services but she couldn't be ar· agement 11'om experienced Mar­ General Goering is chairman, rested for disturbing public war· liams, severely burned about the The British government sent a her non - aggression pact with secret reply to Hi tIer tonight after shal Pietro Badoglio, Italy's first not so much as head of the air ship - because she alrddy was face and shoulders as he carried soldier, officers here report. Germany, may seize the initiative in jail hard by the church. consultation with the French and force as he i~ in his capacity of his four·year·old daughter to safe­ The character of the lend, which Hitler's right hand man and dic- in the far east are causing a great Town Marshal O. C. Wilson Polish governments. Sources close ty from their burning :farm home to the government said it was of makes an Italian blow at southern p tator of the four year plan. flow of Japanese troops through solved the probl~m by taking France a hazardous undertaking, the prisoner for a ride - in his yesterday, remained unchanged such a nature that a further com­ Foreign Minister Joachim von Korea and north China into favors the French.