1MBER 3, 1939 ~ Cirwilllwti Wins Umeuled nites To Redlel's Defeat Cards, 3-1, To IOWA-V_Uled today and to­ Stretch Lead nlcht, poulbly local showers In ~ission (See Story, Pal'e 4) noriheast: warmer today. Iowa City', Morning Newspaper J. Lapp ilte New FIVE CENTS The Ae.oelated I're.. IOWA CITY, IOWA WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1939 The .uoodMed rre.. VOLUME xxxvm NUMBER 193 Church wa Ci ty MennOl\. Jrch at Clark ilIId s will be forrnalb , with services be. o'clock this rnorn. J. Lapp at Dhal!\. I preach the dedi. at 2 o'clock thl. * * * * * * * * * les will extend all * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ay from mOtnlna , . ~ a t night. Pattic!. • • program will ~ bishops and clergy districts of .the elC ecti on ot the coun'. s anes one ver arls le erection ot ,een provided *** .. *** *** *** *** *** *** *** lska District ,nce. This Lhe program of BRITISH PLANES DROP NEW PROPAGANDA BARRAGE program wlU of a district ~ at West *** *** * * * 'ABLE TO SLEEP' With Lochner* * *at Tile Front- * * * *** *** *** ~Ilmlln . The French Anti-Aircraft Batteries BERUN NOT RAIDED Reich Forces Make Liahtl1ing , paslor of ~ =ed yesterday Iowa Girl Survives will begin Sept. Fire at Supposed Army Planes' Ship Disaster Polish Civilian Snipers Are No AirpJanes ~ppear Attack; Governments Evacuate Martin, evangelUt To Bomb City "ltario, Canada, l{I tell Wing Forces CHARITON, Sept. 5 (AP) A Menace to Nazi Armies Day's Mystery­ -Mrs. Lilly Bonnett today re­ BERLIN, Sept. 5 (AP) A.nxious Buyers PoH h Army Head Tighten Grip On ceived word that her daugh· Berlin, completely dark tonight ter, Martha, 24, was rescued un­ By LOUIS P. LOCHNER Resignation Reported; ro Close North German Army Where Is Reich's injured from the torpedoed ship With the German Army of the East, Sept. 5 (AP)-A gen­ in a total blackout, had not ExhauSt Grocers' beeD. visited by hostile air­ Air RaidS Conljnue r Athenia. "Now I'll be able to eral order for the roundup of all civilian males of arms-bear­ Labor Liner, Bremen? sleep again," the mother added. planes up to 11:40 p.m. (4:40 Staple Supplies PARIS, Sept. 6 (WedneSday) ing age in sections of Polish Silesia conquered by the Ger­ BUDAPEST, Sept. 6 (Wedne.­ Mrs. Bonnett, a widOW, has mans was issued today by the military command because of p.m., CST). (AP)-Several airplanes, presum- NEW YORK, Sept. 5 (AP)-The day) (AP) - Diplomatic dll­ kept a sleepless vigil since Sun­ persistent sniping. Plnti - aircraft forces were . CRESTON, la., Sept. 5 (AP)­ ably Gcrman, flew over Paris $20,000,000 German liner Bremen, alert to repulse any attacks day night, when she first learn· An officer accom,panying me on this trip to the front ex­ Creston grocers rel?orted tonight palehes .from Wal'!l&w early toc1A,. today at 3:14 a.m. (8:14 p.nt., but there were no warnings of said the German anny after a biggest merchant marine prize now ed that the ship on which her plained that the greatest single difficulty met by the Ger­ their supply of lOO-pound sacks CST Tuesday) and were fired on daughter was returning from a approaching planes. lIrhtnin&' advance from the norib on the high seas, was still UnTe­ man army in its drive on Poland was civilian sniping. of sugar was completely ex­ by French anU-alrcraft batteries. ported tonight-a fugitive prowl­ European lour was torpedoed. (A PoUsh radio report broad­ hausted after anxious residents, was shelllnl' the city. Miss Bonnett was reported For example, he said that yesterday here in Czestochowa cast more than an hour before The Polish capital, alread1 service. The air raid siren sounded al ing furtively toward a safe har­ remembering the sugar and flour safe and uninjured in Glasgow. there was a sudden burst of gunfire from houses which cost stated 30 Polish planes had shOJ·tage of the World War, be· evacuated by the Polish govern, 1:41 a.m. (6:41 p.m., CST) send­ bor six days after leaving, New York without passengers. She is a home economics grad­ the lives of a German captain, several lieutenants, an undis­ raided Berlin.) gan lo lay in supplies. ment and forelm emba Ie and egular household ing people into their ceUars for Under normal conditions the uate at Iowa State college. closed number of privates. Sniping had been resumed this The grocers also l'eport.ed their lel'aUons, was. descrlbl'd as par· 100 for pain and the second successive night. E"'emen should have reached Bre­ morning and 30 men were conducted to the city hall-now a supply of 10-pound sacks of tlally destroyed under the heavy bombardment. The alarm was lifted at 4:13 mel'haven yesterday, but since she German commandery - as among those believed guilty of Reich Reveals flour was dwindling, and price is said to have a.m. (9;13 p.m., CST). sailed her wireless has been silent participation. incl'eases were reported because While the Gennan forces were British Fleet reported to be shelling the city and the petlUon Planes cro sin I' the border from lest she betray her whereabouts. of the sudden demand. ltitf is still COIl· They also reported. hundreds heavily, airplanes conducted con­ Germany ordinarily are allotted Because it is regarded as un­ We followed them to the city hall. Directly outside it I Capture Of I. likely now that she wo'uld trf to Sinks Another of telephone calls inquiring tinual raids. haU an hour to reach Paris. These saw a German soldier keeping*** guard under a big tree. The The I'overnrnent was said to Burest of Cedar planes appeared an hour and a run the British naval blockade, about staple prices. action. shipping men here believe the 51,- protruding boots of a German lieutenant, a straw mat Polish Cities ha.ve fled to L u b lin, 90 miles half after the alarm first was southeast of War aw. given. 656-ton ship might be heading for German Boat thrown Ofer the body and a scabbard and blade lying crossed a country likely to rema.in neutral. over the mat, spoke in eloquent language of death. Vncon/ll'med reports received Many had. emetl'ed from their Katowice, Chrozow Italy Reaffirms bere early this mornln... said l\1ar­ reful'es, when they beard the hum Like another North German I then was told that this lieutenant was shot during the Lloyd liner, the Columbus, it was Government Iml»oses shal Edward Smlgly·Rydz, head of the pIa.nes and the popping of previous night as he worked at his desk close to a window. Taken in Drive ot tbe Polish army, had otrered the French guns. The sky was thought the Bremen might head Further Restrictions I came here as the first and only correspondent at present Her Neutrality tor Verac,'uz, Mexico. Toward Krakow his resl,nat10n to Pre Ident Icnace (ou- pierced by flares sent aloft. In Time of Crisis permitted at the front by the selection of three American MOlIclckl. No explosions were beard In news organizations in Berlin, who acted on the invitation of Diplomatic dllqlatchcll said thai MELVIN K. WHITELEATHER Air Raid Shelters Ibe center of the city. It was . ~ONDON, Sep~ . 5 (AP)-Brit· German authorities to permit a neutral American newspaper­ all Americans already had left I BERI,IN, Sept. 5 (AP) - The r nat learned Immediately whether Ish waIplane~ laId down another man to see what was geinll' ~ War811w by the time or the attack u.s. Adopts I G 'nmm high command today an­ Tak n Down; Liner &~ bombs had been dropped In except an offlcl.al or the Amerlcau ,ell twlns - barrage of propagahda leafle.is . I flew in a military plane to Oppeln and thence traveled nounced the capture of the rich tbe suburbs. over Germany today, and the Bnt· d '1' h PI'· h b d C To Leave for U. embassy lett behind to protect t. ish fleet sent another German un er ml Itary escort across teo IS ( or er to zes- Polish industrial cities of Kalo­ r. Wallpaper. Searchlight r I n gin, Paris Neutrality property of the American J'OVf!J'Jl' 'ooms wiD be freighter to the bottom. tochowa. wice and Chrozow in a drive to­ ROME, Sept. 5 (AP) - Pre­ men&. slabbed the skies. Persons watch­ ward Poland's historic ancient :e new. Inf for the planes said they were The ministry of information dis- I saw the famous Black Madonna iln Jasnagora monas­ miel' Mussolini gave a new indi­ The diplomatic reports said the Tight Arms Embargo closed tonight that a second flight tery in Czestochowa. The monastery and cathedral have capital of Krakow, and declared cation that he was not thinking Germans early today were less ullable to see tbem because of "the foe, partly retreating in dis­ jhelr high allUude but they Goes Into'Effect; of British planes was made over not been harmed. of going to war at present as tha.n 50 miles from the capital t order, was badly shattered." and mo\linl' rapidly through a Rent\ thought they heard them plainly. German territory to tell th'e Ger- workmen today began taking 3 Acts Proclaimed man people that the war is not Capture and retention of the down air raid shelters which had broken Polish front. against them but against their nazi In an interview Father Norbert Motylewski declared: two cities would give Germany been erected hastily a week ago . The dispatches sunetted that WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (AP)­ 'The miracle-working*** image of the Czestochowa virgin leadership.