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Weather Forecast. Fair tonight and tomorrow.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1939
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Roosevelt Declares National Emergency Exists
German Juggernaut Crosses Vistula---Throws Polish Prisoners Behind Bars IT S TO EXPAND
pinupo-imanon g ing 1 - b. IU UAL ANY
ARMY; FIGHT IN
WEST INTENS
Navy/Marines
Will Sound Call
For Recruits
By United Press.
French Seek a
Weak Point In
Nazis' Defense
By United Press.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. Pres- BERLIN, Sept. 8.—The Ger-
ident Roosevelt today proclaimed man Army high command re-
a state of limited national emer- ported tonight that a unit of the
gency. - ____- German army had entered
The action was taken to Warsaw during the evening, ft
strengthen—United States neu- ;__
trality in the European war and mechanized units - had reached
was
announced that—German
D
to bolster national defenses with-
in the limits of peace time au-
thorizations.
— Acme Radio Telephoto —Acme Radio Telephoto
Driving toward Warsaw Poland, East Prussia Germans are shown In this censored photograph This picture shows Polish prisoners taken by Germans Jn their drive into Poland. Location of the
VE - a ‘ prison camp was censored.
crossing the river Vistula near Graudenz _____._____ _______
Haynes ‘Not Normal,’ Says U-Boat Toll
Doctor, State’s Witness Rises, Another
Family Affairs Preyed On Mind of Father
Who Slew Son, Jury Is Told
Dr. Judge Lyle, state witness in the Charles F Haynes murder
trial, testified under cross examination today that in his opinion the |
RR.veer-old fan company owner did not realize the consequence of his
act when be sent e fatal bullet into the chest of his son, David Haynes. |
In reply Defense Attorney Jesse Martin's question on whether or
____________________—------—not Haynes was temporarily insane
at the time of the shooting, Dr.
Start Survey On
Orphanage Help
City to Determine
. ’ Which Children
Warrant Muny Gifts
7
F
Lyle said:
w Family Affairs On Mind
“ There is no doubt that his fam-
Britisher Sinks
Regent Tiger Torpedo
Victim, S. S. Winkleigh
May Have Been Hit
By UNITED PRESS
ship? lost in five days of war
increased to 10, and possibly 11,
Warsaw at 7:15 p. m. Official
reports said that in a rapid ad-
vance during the afternoon Ger-
The President, will follow the man troops reached Nadarzyn,
proclamation within the next few: 12 miles southwest of Warsaw.
A Story From the Front—
Germans Point to Bodies,
Charge Polish Atrocities
Nazis Take Oechsner On Tour, Tell Him the
Mutilated Victims Were Their Countrymen
EDITOR'S NOTE: This sfory is the first received from a war
correspondent actually at the front with an army. Written by
Frederick C. Oechsner, manager of the United Press Berlin Bureau,
the dispatch was subject to strict German censorship.
By FREDERICK C. OECHSNER
United Press Correspondent
You’re Sucker
To Stock Food
At High Prices
And You Can Take
The Word of FDR: -
'There's No Shortage'
You're a sucker if you stock
hours by executive • orders, by Light troops were reported en-
virtue of authority granted in the tering Sandomir, a Polish arm-
proclamation. ament center.
| These will:
1. Make increases in Army
manpower within the authorized
peace strength by recruiting
and calling back first-line re-
serves..
2. Make similar manpower
Increases in Navy strength
within peace-time authorizations.
3. Provide increases in Ma-
i rine Corps personnel within
peace-time authorizations.
4. Provide government inves-
tigative agencies with broader
powers to combat propaganda
subversive to the U. S. form of
government and to prevent epi-
sodes such as occurred in 1914
and 1915 before America en-
tered the World War.
the pantry these days by paying
- **-*-.. .... ---------------- WITH THE GERMAN ARMY IN THE POLISH CORRIDOR, Sept hit heriseno food shortage today the s. proclamation of neutral-’
ily affairs had preyed so on of Jean Jadot: notified the Radioma V. 8. I have just come1 out of Bromberg. Poland, where buildings and no shortage In sight. 1V
his mind that he was not normal rine Corporation. New York, that are pock-marked by machine gun bullets and where lie many bodies You . , the word or Presi. '
at the time. He kept repeating the it had rescued 44 members of the of men, women and children between the ages of 14 and 70. dent Roosevelt for that
same story-about his troubles crew of the British freighter Re-T ----------lent ooseyei 1or that
over and over again."
In re-direct examination. Assist-
today when the Belgian steamer
Mr. Roosevelt today
extended
City welfare authorities today the shooting
City nd “What do
began an investigation to deter-
mine the amount of financial as-
sistance the city government will
give Lena Pope Home at the be-
ginning of the next fiscal year.
Oct. 1.
Dr. Burke Brewster, health and
welfare director, and Mrs. W. H.
Davidson, child welfare supervi-
sor. called at the Camp Bowie
Blvd, orphanage this morning, to
begin a survey of children in the
home.
They were to determine which
children are to be certified as
wards of the city, and check into
the possibilities of placing young-
sters in private homes, either:
with parents, relatives or friends. |
.......,---------------------, —- are pock-marked by machine gun bullets and where lie many bodies
at the time. He kept repeating the it had rescued 44 members of the 0f men, women and children between the ages of 14 and 70.
” ~ German officers say that those persons were Germans—victims At Washington today Mr.
gent Tiger, sunk by a submarine, of Polish atrocities. I personally saw 25 mutilated bodies in a tour Roosevelt said that there is no
, The Jean Jadot did not indicate that took me 40 miles deep into the war zone, .The tour was eon- conceivable possibility of an
ant District Attorney Hendricks where the Regent Tiger went ducted by the Germans. actual shortage of foodstuffs in
Brown asked th» doctor if Haynes down, or if any other crew - - - i 6
was crazy when he appeared in members were lost or missing,
your office several hours before Winkleigh in Trouble
i Shortly after noon, the Holland-
you mean by American Line said its steamer
crazy?" asked Dr. Lyle. Statendam had radioed that it
"Did he know the difference had picked up the 37 members of
the crew of the British steamship
Winkleigh.
.There was no indication in the
between right and
wrong?’’
questioned Mr. Brown.
“I believe he did know the
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City Refugees
Dock Monday
message what had happened to
the Winkleigh. Thee Statendam
was two days out of Southamp-
ton when she made the rescue.
The number of lives lost as re-
suit of warfare on the high seas
was believed to be 148 when the
Italian freighter Castel Branco'
put into Lisbon with 23 survivors
from the British merchantman
Manaar, torpedoed by a German
submarine off Portugal.
Ships From War Zone
Bring Fort Worthers
Nearer Home Shores
.... ... 'Bremen again became a mystery
Three Fort Worth families were when Reykjavik. Iceland, dis-
jubilant today over prospects rot patches reported that — although
The survey was made necessary
bv the new municipal policy of,
paying oniv for children sent such being reunited with loved ones re-
institutions. Instead of making a turning from European tours
flat annual contribution. The early next week.
payment"likelywill be 50 Cents a Mrs R F. L. Batt, left this]
day per child.
Dr. Brewster said the-investi-daughter, Miss Margaret Batts,
gation probably would require one of seven Texas girls due in
several weeks. City Manager Halifax on the freighter City of
Rothwell, meanwhile, has prom- Monday
ised a continuation of the $400-a- Mr. and Mrs., R. E. Harding
month payment to the home un- will leave tomorrow for New
til the new system is, worked out York. Their daughter, Sue, is also
Of the 186 children in the on the City of Flint. They will
home, 119 are the city’s respon- be accompanied by Mr. and Mrs.
sibility, Mrs. Pope told City R. E. Harding Jr.,
Council Wednesday. Both Mrs. Harding and Mrs.
Batts said they understand that
'their daughters have their choice
of continuing from Halifax to
New York on the City of Flint
re
Fair
LOCAL Fair
lenightPand Satur-
day: mint m‘u m
tem per a lure
tonight near 7R de-
grees, and maxi
mum Saturday
near 95 degrees.
WEST TEXAS
Fair tonight and
Saturday: slightly
cooler In the Pan-
handle tonight.
The German official radio
broke into its program tonight
and said that Warsaw had fallen.
this country. He said that the
| DROMBERG is a shattered shell of a city. Most of the big bridges Government must do Its best to
6 leading into it were dynamited and the explosions broke windows prevent the people from becom-
in houses for blocks.
| There must have been bloody street fighting in the suburbs. The
fronts of houses - were riddled by bullets, fired when the Germans
fought their way into the city and the Poles resisted from windows that there will be no repetition of - |
and doors, wartime food profiteering such as
German headquarters gave me an escort to a section of the that which boomed the cost of
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ing excited about a situation
which does not exist.
Mr. Roosevelt assured the public
living in 1917 and 1918
He said that although the
Bremen Still Mystery
Whereabouts of the $20,000,000
North German Lloyd superliner
French Hammer
At Saar Line
First Big Battle On
Western Front Is
Developing at Spot
By RALPH HEINZEN
United Pr ess Correspondent
PARIS, Sept. 8. A series of
local operations on the Saar
refuge in Iceland waters the Bre- front widened today into the first
five German ships have found
England Seizes
6000 As Spies
Scotland Yard Works
Fast and Completes
Its Biggest Manhunt
By WEBB MILLER
United Press Correspondent.
LONDON, Sept. 8. Secret
agents of Scotland Yard and the
_____.... naval and military intelligence
men was not among them, big battle of the French-German departments have arrested more
„. . Possibility that the Bremen was phase of the war. j th an 6000 men and women as
afternoon for New York City, to hiding in an isolated IcelandFrench war communique No. 9. suspected enemy agents in the
await the arrival there of her fjord and that her presence had issued by the general staff at biggest spy hunt ever held it
not been made known to Reykja-11:50 a. m. (4:50 a. m. Fort was disclosed today,
vik authorities still remained, Worth time) said: | _______
prices of foodstuffs may he on
the rise these prices will not go
through the roof.
Sure, prices are going up on
Fort Worth counters. Specula-
tors are upsetting markets and
trying to turn war shortage fears
into huge profits.
But Mrs. Housewife still holds
| the purse-strings the most ef-
fective weapon against profiteer-
ing.
She Plays Into Their Hands
. If she buys large quantities of
sugar, canned fruits, flour and
dried beans, she's playing into
profiteers' hands.
If she buys only for tomorrow
or next week's needs, she beats
them at their own game. Ex-
perts agree that the consumer can
control the price simply by let-
William 9. Morrison, food min- ting the demand fall back to nor-
"We were able to achieve locallister announced that food ration-imal
New York Aug. 30 without pas- advances of variable importance, ing will have to be, put into ef- These rising prices are as un-
sengers, cargo or mail. substantially improving the con-fect, although probably not for popular with the retailers
Other merchant shins had not ditions of our advance at certain severalweeks. Morrison
however. The Bremen sailed from
sengers, cargo or mail. .
Other merchant ships had not ditions of our advance at certain several weeks. Morrison said
had the Bremen’s luck this week, ' points," there is a good food supply at
and in addition to the 10 sunk,
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and
wholesalers as with consumers.
But when brokers, manufactur-
COULD SOMEBODY
HAVE SWIPED FDR'S
EMERGENCY DOCUMENT
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.—
For five minutes today the
proclamation by which Pres-
ident Roosevelt declared a
state of limited emergency
was lost.
It required the combined
efforts of the Executive, .Jus-
tice and State Departments
| to find it.
to
While more than 100 cor-
respondents fidgeted at a
press conference, President
Roosevelt searched his waste
basket, his desk, his pockets
and the briefcase of Attor-
ney General Frank Murphy
looking for an official copy
of the proclamation.
The President said it had
been on his desk three min-
utes before the press confer-
ence began and someone who
had been conferring with him
must have carried it away.
While correspondents wait-
I ed tensely, an aide telephoned
the State Department, and an
official copy of the docu-
ment was rushed to the
President’s desk.
or by train. “Relief ships are being
sent from New York to Halifax,
but only the survivors of the for-
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Fall 17 Years Ago Is
Blamed In Death Today
Mrs. Mattle Rebecca Oakley, 83.
mother of six Fort Worthers, died
Probe Shows Torpedo
Sank the S. S. Athenia
By United Press:
WASHINGTON. Sept 8. Asst.
Naval Attache Hitchcock in Lon-
don today reported through Am-
Artillery Hurls Shells | present but it must be conserved, ers and canners tack on A dollar
Fresh German divisions were although he promised ample ra- or two to the prices they must
thrown into action on the Saar tions. | pay, they are forced to pass the
price boost along to the con-
sumer. ..
River sector, where French pres- It was disclosed that the master
sure continued under protective of the Badminton Hunt had de-
shelling of big caliber artillery in stroyed its valuable pack of
the Maginot Line, hounds, so that they would not
The battle was fought chiefly consume food which might be 1914 and 1915?" asks Mrs. House-
by infantry, supported by hun-needed by the population. Anyone wife.
dreds of tanks on both sides, in who understands what the hounds
Surplus Worries Government
“What about high prices
in
the wooded hills which
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circle mean to the English gentry will
appreciate the significance of
that.
Food prices in this country did
not jump then. Taking pre-war
1913 as normal, prices averaged
By JOE ALEX MORRIS
United Press Foreign News Editor.
Germany fought on two fronts
today and on the seas.
The French army, seeking s
weak spot in the Nazi fortifica-
tions along the Rhine, widened lo-w
cal operations on the Saar Front
into a tank and infantry battle
through the woods encircling Saar-
bruecken. Short French advances
were announced in Paris.
The British Navy and Royal Air
Force patrolled the seas in pur-
suit of German submarines.—:-----1
Polish Army Rallies.
. The Polish Army rallied for its
first real stand against the Nazi
armed forces now less than 30
miles from the capital on the north
and about 25 miles away .on the
southwest.
German headquarters announce-
ments indicated that there had
been little change in the lines
north of Warsaw for two days, but
from the south the Germans had
rushed up past Lodz.
The Nazis appeared to be delay-
ing a final closing of the vice on
Warsaw until their communication
lines and materials had been given
time to catch up with the dash of
the mechanized army across the
Polish plains.
Claim Premature
Today's official statements from
Berlin indicated that announce-
ity to include the Union of South
Africa.......-.....---------------
He explained that since he is-
sued the original neutrality proc-
lamations this Government has
been informed that South Africa
has declared a state of war with
Germany.
No Wartime Basis
It was made clear that the proc-
lamation of limited emergency'
does not contemplate putting
either the national defenses or the
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ment yesterday that the advance
Nazi guard was only 21 miles from
Warsaw either had been premature
or the Poles had recovered some
ground..
The Nazis have moved down
from East Prussia and up from
Silesia until the Polish capital has
been caught in the jaws of a vise
When and if the jaws close, the
long loop of Polish territory
stretching from Warsaw to Posen
will be surrounded and the defend-
ing army will be forced to fall
back inside a more easily defended
The German high command sale
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Fort Worther Resident
Of Past 47 Years Dies
Mrs. Betty May Read Dixon, a
Fort Worth’s Oldest
Rail Engineer Dies
Fort Worth’s oldest railroac
engineer, Fred Wohlenberg, 81
|died at 9:30 a. m. today at his
home, 920 Bessie, after a heart
attack.
Mr. Wohlenberg, a native oS
Oberg, Germany, near Berlin,
came to Texas in 1875, went to
resident of Fort Worth 47 years,
died at 7:25 a. rn today at her
heme, 2520 Hemphill.
torneys thumbed their lawbooks Mrs. Dixon had been in falling
health for more than a year. She
was $ member of the Methodist
102 in 1914 and 101 in 1915. The
high prices came later
Federal and state district at-
work for the Texas & Pacific
Railroad in 1880 and ran its crack
passenger trains for 45 years be-
for# his retirement about 10 years
The Ministry of Information an-
nounced that the unemployment
assistance board has been empow-
n Athenia I (Turn to Page 61
the S S Athenia, carrying Ameri- Seven indictments, each charge -
can passengers, was sunk by aing theft over $50, were returned! -
torpedo. . by the county grand jury today Feed Company Boosts
The report was released shortly against Charles R. Schroeder, 1319 Wages For Employes
.E. Allen, a former assistant sales- YY For EmPI97®”
after President Roosevelt said it manager for a large department The Fort Worth Feed A Fuel
would be given out without com-store.
Indictments Allege
bassador Joseph P. Kennedy that Merchandise Thefts
here today in search of legal
early today at the home of a
daughter, Mrs. E. A. Backus, 3103
Eighth Ave., after a long illness.
COMPARATIVE TEMPERATURES. She had never recovered from a
YearAgo Yes day Today fractured hip which she suffered
83 in 1922, relatives recall.
Also surviving are six sons, ment, because comment was un-
M. W. Oakley, Nederland; I. E. necessary
Oakley, Chattanooga, Tenn., and |
H. D., S. H. Charley and Matt Hitchcock reported that the tor-
Oakley, all of Fort Worth; an-pedo struck the Athenia on the
other daughter, Mrs. Gus Sutton, port side, slightly abaft midships,
Fort Worth; 42 grandchildren and and that the explosion trapped
28 great-grandchildren. passengers in the dining room,
Funeral services will be con- causing them to be drowned below
. ducted ••10:30 s. m. tomorrow decks. >
Barometric Pressure: 29.39.1
' weapons for Use against
profiteering, as grocery
salers and distributors
food
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" from Phillips Funeral Home Rur-l The report did not establish the
_" ial will be in Mt Olivet Ceme-nationality of the submarine which
Sun rises tomorrow s O’ sets 6:45. terv ,: fired the torpedo
.... bills allege theft of $1153 a 20 per cent wage increase for
worth of merchandise, mostly lum- its employes, effective this week,
ber and auto supplies; during Ap- "We are - trying20o keep the
ril. May and June this year, salaries of our 22 employes in
Among 18 other indictments re- line with the increasing prices of
ported to Judge Willis McGregor commodities," said L. G. Alread,
were the following: president and general manager.
B. F. Laughlin Jr, drunk driving A brother, P. F. Allread, an-
Aug. 22 on Camp Bowie Blvd. noun red a salary boost yesterday
Harmon Williams, failure to stop for the P F. Allread Grocery,
and render aid Aug. 16 after his 216 B. Belknop. The two broth-
auto allegedly struck Albert Hart, ers spell their least names differ
4012 Medford Rd. ently
The
iover an lipset market and blamed
the current upsurge of prices on
Co., 201 Calhoun, today announced three factors
An “hysteria" of buying on
the part of the public, which
has ignored the basic fact that
America has an abundance of
food supplies.,
A wave of war speculative
purchases, creating an unjusti-
fiable demand not based nh ac-
tual consumption needs or on
market conditions. —
A condition in many factories
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ago.
He and Mrs. Wohlenberg, who
was Miss Mary Smith of Handley,
married and established their
Survivors are two daughters, home at their present address al-
most half a century ago.
Services will be arranged by
Secrest-Crowder Funeral Home
following word from a daughter in
Church and the Eastern Star or-
der. 5
Mrs. Lem Arnold, San Angelo,
and Mrs. Oliver Gordon. Port Ar-
thur; three sons, L. L. Dixon, Dal-
las; Lester and J. K. Dixon, both
of Fort Worth; four sisters, Mrs.
J. H. Sheffield, Mrs. Maude Wil-
liams, both of Bangs; Mrs. C. N.
Nunn, Oklahoma City, and Mrs.
B. H. Wilson, Cleburne: three
I brothers, J, W. Read, Silsbee; ,1.
R Read, Bangs, and A. E Read
of Fort Worth; six grandchildren
and three great-granchildren.
i The body is at Gause-Ware Fu-
neral Home _______
California.
Survivors are Mrs. Wohlenberg:
three children, Charles H. Woh-
lenberg. El Paso; Harold Wohlen-
' berg Liberal, Kas., and Mrs. Mar-
garet H Cox, Glendale, Calif.:
and a sister and two brothers,
Mrs. Louise Koeneke, Streator, .
1 III.; Charley Wohlenberg, Tula-
rosa, N M., and Ernest Wohlen-, j
berg Blairston Mo --------
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