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33RD YEAR, NO. 34—52 PAGES
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1939
PRICE TEN CENTS
England Plans 3-Year War French Report More Gains
FIRST UNCENSORED STORY SAYS POLES HAVE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT INVADERS
Roosevelt Plans for Emergency
Reorganization of White House Staff Is Ordered
Main Force of Army Has Not Yet Been Used
LOOKING AHEAD
Management Office Provided for Under New Law
Hyde Park, N. Y., Sept. 9. <UP)- President Roosevelt, by executive order, today streamlined the execu¬ tive department of government and provided framework ror "emer- genry management" from the White House in event of war or any other national emergency.
Acting under powers given him by Congress in the new Reorgan¬ ization Act, Mr. Roosevelt from the temporary White House here Issued an executive order molding the White House organization int» a compact machine designed to provide maximum efBcIency In handling the complex problems of administering the government at this time of war abroad. Emergency Management Office
The order carried a clause giving the President power to set up a White House office for emergency management In time of war or other emergency. The clause, pro¬ viding the framework for such a step, said there shall be within the executive office of the President "in the event of a national emer¬ gency or threat of a national emer¬ gency, such office for emergency management as the President shall determine."
"In tho time of national emerg¬ ency, domestic or foreign, the job of the Presidc^it is even more dif¬ ficult." Mr. Roosevelt said in the explanatory statement of purpose. "Ill such periods, it has always been found necessary to establish administrative machinery in addi¬ tion to that required for the nor¬ mal work of the government.
"Set up in a time of stress, these special facilities sometimes have worked at cro.is purposes both within themselves and with the regular .departments and agencies.
"In order that the nation may not again be caught unaware, ade¬ quate resources for management should be provided in advance of such periods of emergency. Al¬ though the.ie management facili¬ ties need be brought into action only when an emergency or seri¬ ous threat of emergency exists, they must function In an Integral relationship to the regular man¬ agement arms of the President." Preeldentlal Divisions
To accomplish greater co-ordina- lion and efficiency and to prepare the nation for such an emergency, Mr. Roosevelt said, he U ordering, effective next Monday, that "there •hall be within the executive of- "m of the President the following principal divisions,  namely:
"1—The White House  office.
"2—The bureau of the budget.
"3 The national resources plan- niiii? board.
*—The liaison office for person¬ nel management.
&—The office of government re¬ ports.
6 In the event of a national emergency, or threat of a national emergency, such office for emerg¬ ency management as the President "nail determine." Only Three Named
jn the first category, Mr. Roose¬ velt specified that the White House jifflcc shall consist of the presldsn- 'lai secretaries, who now are '?,tephen T. Early and Brig. Gen. Wwin M. Watson, the executive -'erk Rudolph Forster; and the (Continued on Page A-U)
Retreat of Poles Called Masterful in Face of Powerful Attack and on Advice Of British and French General Staff; Nazi Spies Efficient; Prepare Warsaw For Battle; Scenes of Besieged City And Countryside Riddled by Bombers
Editor's Note: Edward W. Seattle, United Preea corre¬ spondent who spent the early days of the war In Warsaw, reached Bucharest, Rumania, today and filed the following luicensored dispatrh on the situation in Poland. It represent!! the latest authentic Information on the status ot Poland and the Polish army.
War Flashes
Report Graf Zeppelin Sabotaged
London, Sept. 9 (UP)—The London Evening Star reported today that the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin had been sabo- tagprl and blown up at Frled- richshafen, her base.
The report recalled dispatches from Zurich on Monday saying that an explosion had been heard and a glare seen in the sky in the direction  of Friedrichshafen.
Nazis  Announce  Caaualtiea
Berlin, Sept. 9 (UP)—The high command tonight announced that CJerman casualties in Poland dur¬ ing the first six days of the war averaged    nine    killed    and    40
I   wounded   for   every   10,000   Nazi
j   troop.i participating.
I      Under the  Nazi system  of an-
\   nouncing casualties, only percent-
I   ages are given.
If the Nazis had 1,000.000 men, as some estimates have indicated in the entire Polish campaign, the percentage figures would mean that 900 had been killed and 4,000 wounded.
Call <>oering's Speech "ContrBdictioii"
P«ri«, Sept. 10 fSunday) (UP) - l^rance's reaction to the speech of Field Marshal Hermann Goer- Ing of Germany was officially expressed tnday in a statement which branded the talk one of "continuous contradiction" de¬ signed to prepare the people of Germany for a "long war."
"It is curious to note that the only argument Goering used after the so-called rapid victory is a warning of a very long war. As a matter of fact, the speech In its entirety tends to prepare workers and the population for a siege and a series of privations (Continued on Page C-6)
County Jail Fugitives Are Caught
Taken after Chase over Hazleton Streets
HAD STOLEN TRUCK
Former Trustees Will Be Sent To Penitentiary
By EDWARD W. BEATTIE
Bucharest, Rumania, Sept. 9 (UP)—Poland has just beg-un to fight.
She has lost one-third of her territory and between two and six divisions of her troops were captured by the Germans in the province of Posnan.
Here, in a neutral country, I am now able to reveal that:
I.—The great mass of the Polish army has not yet been joined in battle with the Germans.
2.—That army, on advice of the British and P^ench general staffs, retreated, and in good order. jNazi Spies Active
8.—The Polish Jtovernment moved from Warsa\'^ to 'Nalec^ow, a summer resort near Lublin, but was forced to [.scatter to half a dozen points east of the Vistula when German spies found out where it was staying. United State.'? Ambassador Anthony J. Drexel Biddle went with the Polish government to Naleczow and was forced to move when the German radio blandly announced the exact house in which he was staying.
4.—Polish troops that did make contact with the German invaders made wiiat neutral military observers called a brilliant retreat over difficult terrain under almo.st constant bombardment from the air.
French Successes Exaggerated
5.—The morale of the Polish army is excellent, so far as I have been able to observe, but civilians in Poland are de- ^ luding themselves with exaggerated stories of allied successes; on the Western Front. They believe, for instance, that j French troops have crossed the Rhine, that Mainz, Frank-1 fort and Stuttgart have been evacuated; that ."iOO Polish I planes raided Berlin and "perhaps there isn't any Berlin any more."
6.—The German espionage system is functioning with great efficiency in Poland, and Adolf Hitler has poured a concentration of .armored regiments, planes and artillery against Warsaw in such numbers as has never been seen before in Eastern Europe.
Those are the high points observed in a stay In Warsaw that began before war broke out and ended late this week. Seem Ready Now to Fight
The situation in regard to the defense of Warsaw was as follows on Wednesday when I left there:
Polish  troops  had  taken  up a  defensive  line west  of the Vistula ^ River and north of the Narev River.   On Wednesday they moved their ' proclamation  allying Canada with troops to the south bank of the Narev and the east bank of the Vistula. , Great Britain  and  France  against There, apparently, they were set to fight it out with the Germans.        i "^^,J^'"^":      ,
But the retreat before the German advance Into Upper Silesia andl The state of war actually would the banks of the Rhine, we are Posnan began as early as Monday. The Silesian divisions took the worst commence when Lord Tweedsmuir going to have to fight it on the impact of the German invasion-Hitler's first quick thrust with planes,   s'Sned the proclamation which was ; banks   of   the   St.   Lawrence-and
Captured after an exciting chase at Hazleton last night at 9 oclock, two escaped county prison "trus¬ tees" have been returned to the Water street baatUe and will be sent to the Eastern Penitentiary probably by the middle of the week.
They are Frank Bosso, 24, of 378 Horton street, city, and John Natafalusy, 29, of 686 North Peace street, Hazleton.
The fugitives were sighted by Private Muro Forte of State Motor Police at the Hazleton city dump, outfitted In regulation prison garb and standing near a Glendale Dairy track which was stolen in Wilkes-Barre and used to make good their escape. He chased them over Diamond avenue, Hazleton, before affecting the capture.
Escaped Through Window
Warden William Healey of the county prison, who directed the search, was assisted by Privates David Green, V. L. Nelson, P. J. Grippi and A. V. Jones of State Motor Police; Wilkes-Barre City Detective John Burke, and Leonard Knecht and John Callahan of the prison staff. The detail had been working on the case since 2 a. m (Continued on Page A-11)
TO WIPE OUT HITLERISM; ARMIES OPENING WA Y TO ASSAULT SIEGFRIED LINE
Backed further by Prime Minister Chamberlain's indication of the gov¬ ernment' delerminalion that Hitlerism mu.st be crushed for all time, England silenced reports that it would compromise with Germany by issuing instruction to all departments to prepare for three years or more of war.
On the fiffhlin^ fronts, it appeared that several questions of tremendous import would be answered within 48 hours.
Discounting the conflicting claims as to complete or partial possession of Warsaw was the generally admitted fact that the Poles have an army in re¬ serve and available for combat. Whether or not it can be placed in position to make a real stand against the onrush of the mechanized Nazi army while the rains come to turn Polish roads into seas of mud soon will be known.
Can Keep Nazis Occupied in the East
If the Poles can do this, if they can stall what has been a sweeping con¬ quering of their country into stabilized warfare and keep a large German force occupied in the east, that situation will do much to change the picture on the Western Front, where the French continue to attack sufficiently to cause Germany to send still more reserves into the Siegfried Line.
Official French army reports also were heavy with significance, implying possible courses of action of which the world should soon be informed.
Capturing first the Warndt Forest and then a hill which dominates the Saar Valley, the French mopped up the area taken and gave every indica¬ tion of making ready to attempt crossing of the Saar River, a natural obstacle guarding this approach to the main Siegfried Line.
May Forecast Attack on Main Line
Whether these moves mean this has been selected as a point where the Allies actually will drive into the full strength of the German Westwall, whether they constitute a feint to take attention away from still another sector or, finally, whether they are merely part of a plan to prevent the Germans from concentrating their full strength in Poland soon should be made clear.
Another significant de/elopment is the announcement from Berlin that the famed Nazi air force is in action on the Western Front.
Britain Says Seas Swept of German Sliips; Close Biocicade
Canada Approaches Declaration of War
Ottawa, Sept. 9. (UP)—Canada moved another step closer to a formal declaration of war against Germany tonight as the House of Commons adopted the speech from the throne in which Governor Gen¬ eral Lord Tweedsmuir had uttered the words "a state of war now exists."
A special session of the cabinet was convened immediately. It was expected  the cainet would  Issue  a
"Yes!"  several members  cried. Isolationist Favors Action
J. T. Thopson, recognized as a confirmed isolationist, caused a surprise when he opened debate on the speech from the throne by de¬ manding immediate participation by Canada in the war.
In the Senate, the Right Hon. Arthur Meighen, conservative lead¬ er, said, "The only way to save civilization is to defeat those who would destroy it and let Britain and   France   triumph.    »
"If we  did  not win  the war  on
Will Reject All Peace Plans with Army of Nazis Holding Poland
artillery and armored  regiments, Withstood Terrific Attack
But most of the Poles withdrew in good order, keeping their units intact. It was that retreat which drew the praise of neutral military observers. They pointed out that the Poles, falling back at top speed, had  to  cross   difficult   terrain   that  has   (ew  passable  roads.    Bombs
rained  on  them  almost  constantly.   The  remarkable  thing,  according   six   days   after   Great   Britain   de- to the neutral observers, waa that the Polish retreat did not turn into ; dared war on Germany,
to   be  sent  to   him  as   soon   aa   it had been drafted by the cabinet. Two Votes Against
Only two votes were cast against adoption of the speech from the throne. The vote came on the third day of the emergency session and
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However, all of the  Poles did not get out.   Between  two and six divisions   were   cut   off   and   captured   in   Posnan   province   which   is adjacent lo the (Jerman frontier. Warsaw Populace Calm
For a city about to be besieged, Warsaw presented a strange sight on Tuesday and Wednesday. There was mudh hustle and bustle in government circles, for officialdom was preparing to leave. But that excitement had not seeped down to the average man. He reported for work, he opened up his shop and went about his normal business. Children played in the streets.
The explosions from bombs dropped by German raiders in the outskirts seemed to be getting closer to the center of the city, but no one  paid much attention to them.   No one ran for shelter unless the
air raid sirens screamed.
People ot many races crowded the American consulate, which had the foresight to accumulate one of the few sizeable stocks of gasoline. Diplomats  of other nations  and  prominent Poles  begged  for a gallon of gasoline. No Centralised Government
The government moved out and U. S. Ambassador Biddle went with it to the summer resort of Naleczow. But Biddle had been in that town only 42 hours when the German radio announced he was there and named the exact house in which he was staying. That caused the Polish government to move again—this time to half a dozen scat¬ tered places.   Today there is no centralized Polish government.
One of the la.st government officials to leave Warsaw was Marshal Edward Smygly-Ridz, chief of Poland's armed forces.
Officials at  the  British  and  French embassies  left first,  for  they (Continued on Page A-8)
Earlier, Prime Minister Macken¬ zie King told the house that if it approved the speech which Lord Tweedsmuir had delivered on Tliuraday, "the government will is¬ sue a formal declaration of war between Canada and the German Reich".
Formal approval of the speech from the throne by commons is virtually  assured,  it  was  believed.
Today's session debated the sub¬ ject of approving the message from the throne, and there were some  dissenting speeches.
Maxine Raymond, leader of the French-Canadian faction, speaking in French, pleaded that "one hun¬ dred per cent Canadians refrain from taking any part in the war."
"Why should we fight?" Ray¬ mond asked. "Canadian territory Is neither attacked nor menaced. There was no act of aggression against England, for England had declared war on Germany . . , when England protects the sea, she pro¬ tects herself against famine. When did England ever fight for us?— never."
"Are we obliged to fight each time Britain derides to fight?" Raymond  continued.
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So far as reporting the war in Europe is concerned, the Sun¬ day Independent is trying to be careful. However, it still feels responsible for warning its read¬ ers also to be careful.
Censorship like nothing ever known before is in force. Some nations learned their lesson In the last war and now, some also being dictatorships, have gone the whole distance in an effort to keep silent all news which does not give them all the   best  of it.
However, no dictatorship, no censorship, no power can keep the news services of the United States from getting some news and it will be up to the pub¬ lishers and the readers to use their own judgment on what to   believe.
The Sunday Independent pledges that it will not risk its reputation as an honest news¬ paper in an effort to gain sensa¬ tionalism.
It feels also that it will be greatly aided by ita usage of the United Press, to which the New York Times quickly turned last week to assure itself of complete  coverage in Europe.
By CLIFFORD L. DAY
London, Sept. 9. (UP)—Great Britain ordered preparations for a three-year war if necessary to¬ night after an authorized spokes¬ man had said the government would reject any Nazi peace sug¬ gestions based on a German vic¬ tory over Poland.
¦The ministry of information announced that instructions had been given all departments to plan on the assumption that the Europ¬ ean conflict would last three years or   more.    The   ministry   also   de
Nazis Report Polisli Army Is Trapped; Claim Warsaw
Smashing Gains Are Announced; Cut off Route To Rumania
Fighting on Western Front Grows Bitter; Hill Gained
French Communique Says 22 Villages Are Mopped up; New Taxes Levied
By RALPH HEEVZEN
Paris, Sept. 10 (Sunday). (By transatlantic telephone). (UP) — Fighting on the Western Front became increasingly bitter today as the Germans threw fresh troopa into the battle to keep attacking French  forces  from  crossing  th«
By JOSEPH W. GRIGO JR.
Berlin, Sunday, Sept. 10. (UP) —The Nazi high command an¬ nounced today that German troops had smashed across the Bug River at two points in a drivie to trap Polish forces in the Warsaw
sector and that enemy resistance ^
in  the   Polish  capital  was  being I Saar  River  in  their  advance  oa eliminated. 1 the Sieg:fri'ed Line.
Nazi military experts, asserting ! The tempo of the fighting wai that the main Polish armies were reported to have increased to • caught in a trap between the Bug marked extent a few hours after and   Vistula  rivers,   said   that  the ; an official army communique her*
clariT'that^Britain'T campaign "to [ f.".".°1"'Ll"l^".'..'r*f_"'.i'l* ,?.!™!" ' I?!/""°""!*.'^ _*"?'"y ''°^"l"' »t- cut   off   Germany's   overseas   sup¬ plies was now "virtually complete" except   for   the   Baltic   routes   to Scandinavia. To Crush Hitlerism
troops   had   overrun   the   last   line ; tacks and had praised one French on which it had been believed the   division   for   "brilliant   action"   in Poles might defend  their position,   advancing  on  an  important  hill. Cutting off Retreat More Nasi Belnforcemente
The   communique   issued   by   the ;     j.j^^     German Prime  Minister  Chamberlain,  at   ^''«^ conimand just after midnight i thrown   into the same  time,  indicated the gov- i ^^"^ '^*' i''%,?"*u      " had been
¦ crossed   at   Wyszkow   and   Brok.
ernment's determination to crush Hitlerism by declaring that he looked forward to "relief of the Czech people from foreign domin¬ ation."
divisions     wera
the   struggle   for   tha
rich Saar industrial basin and th«
Nazi   forces   w^re   reported   to  k«
Wyszkow is 50 miles and Brok 80   resistiny.   .h»   K'.!„^'^ J • miles    northeast    of    the    Polish   'T'n.^   'm^,!!""?^   f"^*
capital. Thus the German troops can now drive southward behind the defenders of Warsaw, the Ntuis
getically all along the line.
The action was centered on a wooded 1,000-foot hiil dominating the Saar Valley between tha Warndt Forest, in French hands, and Saarbrucken.
German guns from the Siegfried Line pounded the sector and thera
was ready for an "honorable" peace as a result of having crushed Poland.
Britain,   the   spokesman   said   in   ¦" » '^'''^e on the San River, reply,   refuses   to   negotiate   with ': Warsaw Called Useless Germany until the German  forces      These  developments,  Nazis  held, are   entirely   withdrawn    from   '5"PP<"'tsd Marshal Hermann Goer-
Poland.     This   was    described Britain's   minimum   condition   for cessation   of  hostilities  in  Europe,
ing's statement that the Polish de¬ feat would be complete within a week.   The Polish position at War-
Coincidentally with a statement I said. by   the   ministry   of   information      The  communique  also said  that that  German  merchant  ships  had   Germans   were   engaged   in   heavy been practically driven off the high ' fishting    near    Radom,    south    of ;
seas,   an   official   spokesman   took   Warsaw,   seeking   to   cut   off   thei ,   j-    ., 	
cognizance of the speech of Nazi I Polish retreat in that sector toward i *" ^^^''^ Indication of determina- Marshai Hermann Goering to Ger-! the Vistula. I h,?)'?.,. t"..,"'!   French    from
man workers saying that the Reich i     Still further south, in the Beskids j building   a   bridgehead  across   tha
sector, the  communique said, Ger-1     ri/
man   troops  had  occupied   Krosno      f^," '^'"K the Warndt Forest, and Buklo and reached Kolbuszowa   "'""=';   they   found   to   be   heavily
mined, the French proceeded to mop up 22 abandoned villages, It was reported. The troops followed closely behind tanks in this action, it was said. Whole Area Mined
The mine fields in the forest con¬ stituted the outer protection of ths Siegfried   Line   in   this   sector   six miles   from   the   Saar   River   and fighting outside or inside the capi- ' 12 miles  from the French  fontler. tai. )-   Mines   had   been    placed   under
president of Czechoslovakia, broad- W*" ^^e crossing of the Bug ' roads and bridgeheads to exploda ened that position to include the R'ver, the fate of Warsaw became ' when tanks rolled over them. Czechs by saying: ja side issue in  the opinion of the | Seemingly   inviting   shelters   wera
"We   look   forward   through   the  N"*^' strategists. | found to be mine traps,
triumph ef the principle for which ' Goering, designated as successor German air forces as well u We have taken up arms to the '° Adolf Hitler when the Fuehrer ' artillery became increasing activa. relief of the Czech people from ^'^^' declared that Germany would Nazi pursuit planes for the first foreign   domination." soon be able to throw 70 divisions   time   appeared   to   oppose   French
The ministry of information said   (about 1,050,000 more men> against \ reconnaissance   planes   which   flew (Continued on Page C-6) (Continued on Page A-2) 1 (Continued on Page A-10)
The   British   and   French   press, ' s**'   '^ey   said,   has   become   "im- i as   well   as   official   sources,   pre- i Possible" from a military viewpoint, i viously  had   taken   the  same  atti-   regardless    of    whether    there    is \ tude  and  Chamberlain   in  a  mes¬ sage    to    Eduard    Benes,    former