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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-08-03

smaller streams Of Is sections. Wa
tors from the remaining four sec
tions enter below the forks. Bu
let us come back to fish. In oul
childhood and young manhood, sein
ing was the popular way to get fish
The seine was pulled up stream
When they came to rifles the catcE
was taken out, the large ones pu1
in vessels, the small returned tt
the water. At that time there were
dams at Millgrove and Unionville
We remember the older men com
planned that on account of the dams
the fish--the really big ones couldn't
get up from the river, but now the
dams are out, seining prohibited
and not as many fish as then, and
the creeks are stocked each year
with fish from the state hatchery
Folks come for many miles to try
their luck in these waters. Many
farmers and owners of the land do
not allow fishing.
Somewhere in our writing we told
you of the churches, and that we
have five church houses, and until
only few weeks ago we had four
a meeting of the M. E. and M. p.
churches Of the United States, and
the M. e. South was held, and the
three branches voted to unite, so we
are wondering what effect that will
have on the religious life of the
township, as to the Methodist
church houses, of the three, none
are near the center of the member
ship of the combined church. Should
they close two, or even one of these
houses the matter of the cemetery
adjoining would enter in. Close the
house and it will not be long until
it will close down, with no place to
hold funerals. Some of these
churches have an endowment left
by deceased members. We hope they
get it settled without a fght-it al
ways seems bad. and sad, when
church folks fuss. Did you ever
think of it, church fight can raise
more hell in community than all
the drunkards, thieves and liars in
four communities?
(To be continued)
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-08-03
Spurrler Ridge

Chas. Hopkins and wife have been
smallpox victims for the past two
weeks. Mr.. Hopkins worked all the
time during his sickness. and his
frail wife did not suffer any during
her illenss If it is smallpox that is
causing such scare, it must be in
a very light form.
Have you heard the news? The
WPA project, widening the Spurrler
ridge highway is completed. The
stone is being spread on the road.
Work was begun on this project
December, 1898; finished July 25.
1889. From day to day no one
knew where the spade would dig, or
the ak would hew Then the shrieks
and walls of the caterpillar rent the
stiffness of the air. If We were
wishing for some calamity to befall
an enemy we would wish for them to
live on a road that is being widen
ed.
Clarence Newton has been serl-
Evening star., 1939-09-06

You make up your own rhymes, and
they range from the sublime to the
obscene. But this just isn't starting
out as a singing war. One doesn't
sing at the job of cleaning pig pen.
All day long, nearly all the Amer
leans and Canadians in London have
been trooping into the Haymarket,
short street Of closed theaters be-
tween Trafalgar Square and Picca-
dilly. There, side by side, are the
American Express and United States
Line Offices. The latter seems to
offer the best chance of getting
home any time in the near future.
All day long a crowd of from 100
to 300 was jammed in front of the
shipping line Office. The door had
been locked and only two or three
were admitted at a time. Everybody
was trying to swap tickets, even
first class, for the off-chance of a
mattress on a United States ship Of
any sort.
The sinking of the Athena was
too great a shock to the marooned
North Americans to be discussed
much. They could hardly believe it.
Evening star., 1939-09-06
Americans 10 Set Up
Ambulance Unit
ToAid French
300 From U. S. Have
Offered Services in Week
OfficioIs Soy

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, Sept. 6.-Officials Of the
French department Of the American
Legion announced last night that
since September l more than 300
Americans had offered their serv-
ices to France in her war with Ger
many.
After a meeting of the depart
ment's Executive Council, officials
said an ambulance section compris-
ing 10 cars donated by United States
citizens and manned by American
volunteers would report soon to the
French Army.
The ambulance unit is headed
by DR.. James v. Sparks, a dentist,
formerly Of Indianapolis.
It was reported over 80 per cent
of the Americans volunteering for
service were veterans of the World
War. The group also includes many
women who are organizing under
the leadership of Mrs. H. Sanua-
seymore, former resident of New
Rochelle, N. Y.
Legionnaires attending the coun-
Gil meeting include Department
Comdr. George Aubrey, formerly of
Fitchburg, Mass; Paris Post Comdr.
Julius Snowhill, formerly of Quincy,
ILL.,; James L. McCann, national ex-
ecutive committeeman for France
and native of Tuscaloosa, Ala, and
Henry Dunning, director of Fidac
and once resident of Little Rock,
Ark.
Earlier, Col Charles Sweeny, who
is organizing an American brigade"
to aid the French. said registrations
of Americans wishing to serve had
reached approximately 1000.
Col. Sweeny said he had received
telegram from a prominent
American Congressman" offering to
furnish you 1000 American volun-
teers and a company of Is men
from Texas"
Evening star., 1939-09-06
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conscious in their unaccustomed at
tire.
One slight variation from 1918 is
that, instead of spiral leggings
reaching to the knees, some COM
panies have only two or three spiral
wrappings around the ankle, making
the full long trousers baglike.
1t is the season Of pink asters
Women are selling great punches of
them on street corners. Many SOL
diers are putting these flowers in
their caps.
Spontaneous Song Lacking.
No spontaneous song, like Tip
perary," has arisen. But something
of a "Parlez Vous" song seems to be
developing out of a ditty which has
been heard in the camps of the ter
ritorials all summer-"Under the
spreading chestnut tree, here I sit
on Chamberlain's knee" and so on.
Evening star., 1939-09-06

tant, ground gaining counterattack
westward of Krakow toward Kato-
vice, driving a deep salient into the
German line south of Sosnowiec.
Polish horse cavalry also is credited
with powerful raids into German
territory approximately on the line
between Poznan Posen) and Ber-
lin, and into East Prussia, retiring
in both cases back across their own
borders.
military authorities. on the
best information available, be-
lieDe these noDes mean three
Uay driue to,Ddrd WdrsaU is in
progress from the north, the
northwest and the southwest.
The comparatively rapid German
ddUdnce indicates the Polish
main line OF resistance has not
yet been reached. ercept perhaps
in the south. tDhere the Polish
counterattack yesterday reoained
ground in the pital industrial
area ,Dest OF KrdkoU.)
French Front.
The French Army is completing
the process of establishing contact
with German forces all along the
Siegfried line (also known as the
Lines line and the Western
Wall'D. In many places, particu-
larly between the Rhine and Mo-
selle Rivers, this has resulted in
advances into German territory
where the main line is back of the
border.
Evening star., 1939-09-06
II Hitler Leads Army
In Poland, Allies
Held Due 10 Profit
New Verdun May Be Near
IF Fuehrer Takes Charge
As French Attack West
BY COL. FREDERICK PALMER.

By COL. FREDERICK PALMER.
NEW YORK, Sept. 6 CN.A.NA0.-
The French are attacking on the
Western front, according to reports
There Is an answer to q big ques-
ton with which we seek to pene-
trAte the fog Of contributions and
the black curtain Of censorship
Other questions may be answered
out of World War precedent and
form and study of the map.
One, bound up with the others, is
whether Chancellor Hitler, the for
mer corporal, following his troops to
the Vistula, Is actually in command
o fthe German army. Is he the
supreme strategist over his generals?
Has he played his lunches against
their professional advice? Is he
now committing the great, decisive
blunder Of his career?
Those who opposed his going into
the Rhineland, running the risk OF
attack from the then far stronger
French army, were passed into the
discard. So were those who saw
danger In the Austrian coup.
He may yet wish that he had TAX
en- a note from old Kaiser William
now listening to the radio bulletins
at Doom. The Kaiser sent Won
Hindenburg into retirement for dis
agreeing with his strategy at grand
maneuvers. But Won Hindenberg
was brought back to win Tannen-
berg and for the Eastern cam
paign that put Russia out of the
World War.
Does He Think Himself a General?
The army in which Hitler fought
as corporal was built by Bismarck
and the great elder Marshal Won
Moltke. Bismarck held the leash on
the dogs of war. He left military
plans and the fighting direction to
Won Moltke. Does Hitler, on the
prestige Of his "bloodless victories" i"
think-he has been quoted as de-
claring he is the greatest German
in all history-that he is both q
Bismarck and Won Moltke, COM
bined super-statesman and super
general?
Hitler seems utterly obsessed with
his Polish campaign, as he follows
his army, safeguarded back of the
zone of shell-flre, his location sedu.
lousy kept secret. But what doe:
he see, or what does heir-apparenI
Goering, left to hold the bag in Ber-
lin, see, as he looks Westward?
Italy not in on the side Of the
Reich. There may be one item ol
encouragement in that Italian ships
are again sailing the seas. For
under the American Neutrality Act
Mussolini, as a neutral, may receive
war material which he can pass or
through the Brenner Pass or Trieste
to his axis partner.
100000 French Troops Freed.
However, and a big however, the
British Army and Navy. after their
long preparation to that end, need
not worry about the defense OF
Gibraltar and the Suez Canal from
Italian attack. A still bigger how
ever is that France has at least
500 900 first-line troops freed from
her Italian frontier to move against
the German frontier.
And the war is only five days old
in Poland and two days old on the
Evening star., 1939-09-06
POLISH ADVANCE

MILITARY opinion is that re-
ports OF French troops haUing
pushed back German forces are
of little or no importance. These
are held to be only temporary
outposts in front OF the Siegtried
line. No real test OF strength iDiH
come until this main line Is
reached, it is belieUed)
British.
British mechanical divisions re-
ported en- route to join French Army
on the Western front. Expected to
assist the poilus in feeling OUT
the Siegfried line in an effort to
locate a weak spot where an at
tack may be developed. Principal
British contribution so far is naval
blockade of Germany and prelimi-
nary air operations, including scat
tering Of propaganda and bombing
naval objectives.
ut is held that operations so
far hare not indicated iphdt iDtH
be final British strdtegicdl pldn).
Evening star., 1939-09-06

Principal military moves OF the
past "a hours on the European
battle fronts and the dctivities
considered likely to tollotD today
are outlined in this brief digest.
POLAND.
The Germans are working a giant
double pincer movement in the d.
rection OF the Polish capital, War
saw. During the past "a hours they
have made considerable advances
on three fronts:
/. On the southwestern front they
have swung the front line from
Dabrowa northeast as far as Wal
brom, pivoting on Noworodomsk.
The new front faces down the
Pilitsa River Valley toward the Wis
tula River and Warsaw.
2. On the Polish Corridor front
they have advanced across the Wis.,
tula and through Kuhn (Chelmno) {.
Here Feuhrer Hitler is reported to
have Joined his troops to lead the
advance up the valley of the Vistula
toward Warsaw.
3. On the limited front driving
south from East Prussia. The Ger
man front line of September 4, from
Mlawa to Przasnysz, facing almost
south, has been pushed forward
along the route toward Warsaw
distance of nearly IS miles to Plonsk,
from which it now is reported War
saw, 81 miles away, is being shelled.
The Poles have made one impor-
Evening star., 1939-09-06

western front. We have had a small
air raid by the British. Meanwhile,
1t appeared that there had been
some shadow-boxing and no fight
ing on the British and French side.
Hitler has dropped no bombs, in no
wise taken an offensive, as I write,
against the BriJish and French. His
policy appeared to be to clean up
the job in Poland swiftly and then
exect Anglo-French acceptance OF
the accomplished fact.
On the map, according to Ger
man reports, the Germans are
sweeping on in the encirclement OF
Warsaw. But the Polish and Anglo
French stats must be in touch
And they would ask nothing better
than that Hitler should think he
was a great general and the Ger
man Army staff should be meek
yes-men.
"A Verdun Beginning?
We have reports that the Polish
government thinks Of evacuating
Warsaw as the Polish Army falls
back to defensive positions. The
French government went to Bor-
deaux as the German drive of 1914
threatened Paris. And now we read
it takes time to inaugurate biz
army moves-that the French are
attacking just when the Poles are
digging In for the death test.
The old French spirit-always the
offensive-Toujours Iattaque! Sol
diers hold that no position is in
vulnerable. Military opinion has
been that the Germans have boasted
too much about the impregnability
of their too-hastily-built Siegfried
line.
According to reports from Paris
the French are on German soil,
cleaning up pillboxes and machine
gun nests, advancing to the north.
where the Germans have their backs
to the Rhine, and also pressing on
the south flank. We may be at the
beginning OF as great and as long
a battle as the Marne or Verdun
or the Meuse- -Argonne. And well
may Hitler in Poland, where he has
made his heavy concentrat tions, look
to the west.
Evening star., 1939-09-06
Paris
Continued From First Page.)

signal.
Attack in Northeast.
French attacks last night were re-
ported officially to be concentrated
on the Northeast frontier, where
the German Saar Basin lies between
the Rhine and Moselle Rivers.
That l00-mile front is the most
accessible to French forces, with no
river barrier in the no-man's land
between Frances Maginot line and
Germany's Siegfried line.
CA German radio report said
today the German mining cities
of Eschweiler and Itolberg, near
Aachen (Aix-la -Chapelle) had
been bombed from the air.
In the third day of operations,
today's communique was the first
to announce gains. Previous cau-
tious communiques said simply a
campaign had begun and was pro-
ceeding normally" with contact"
with German forces in the area be-
tween the Rhine and Moselle.
The French public already had
been warned by last nights COM
munique that permanent fortifica-
tions" line the front, lest hopes be
raised too high by the reported
local advances"
Outer Posts Believed Taken.
The local gains were INTERPRETED
by military observers to mean that
French infantrymen under covering
artillery fire by 75-millimeter guns
had succeeded in crossing the from
tier at several points, taking outly-
ing concrete blockhouses.
There was no indication yet of i'm
portant gains or general offensive,
but the French pressure apparently
was increasing in the campaign to
force Germany to draw her strength
away from Poland.
Artillery Busy in South.
While pressure was increased on
the northern German flank, artil-
lery fire apparently was concen-
trated on the southern flank, where
the Burgundy Gate passage between
the Vosges Mountains and the Alps
lead to the German Black Forest.
In the northern sector, military
observers said, there were advanced
German machine gun posts and
plllboxes which had to be silenced
by picked squads in order to permit
larger operations without the great
losses which an assault, without this
preparatory work, would entail.
Semi-oficial sources said the
French were trying to soften the
southern flank while northern forces
cleared out the advanced German
posts on hills and in valleys near
Luxembourg.
The French general staff was
faced with the job of delivering
a jolt sufficient to force the Nazis
to withdraw substantial portion
of their army now invading Poland,
Frances ally.
Confined to Weak Spot.
With French operations appar-
emily confined to artillery fire and
the work OF the suicide squad" be-
tween the lines, French sources en-
phasized no major moves had been
attempted.
Official sources acknowledged
most of the activity was confined to
the area where the French believe
the Siegfried line is weaker than
the Maginot-between the Rhine
and the Moselle.
The Maginot Notifications take
an almost right angle turn from
the north near Strasbourg and run
northwestward toward Thionville
and to point near the junction
Of the French, German and Luxem-
burg borders.
Evening star., 1939-09-06
Spain Notifies France
She Is Staying Neutral
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, Sept. 6.--France has been
receiving what it considers cheering
reports from other nations which
they feared might be inclined to Join
Germany in a war.
Spain notified the foreign min
lstry yesterday she was remaining
neutral. Italy has been maintaining
normal relations with France. Rus
sla also has kept clear of the strife.
Turkey, which is linked to France
by mutual assistance pact, also has
Kept clear of the conflict, but sources
close to the foreign ministry said
this was to be expected. Under the
terms Of the pact, 1t was pointed out,
Turkey would intervene only in the
event OF war In the Mediterranean
or Balkans.
Evening star., 1939-09-06
French Workers Get
Orders to Quit Britain
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASs0cfated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 6.-Groups of
French workmen gathered at the
French consulate today to receive
orders for their return to France.
They were the advance contingent
OF all Frenchmen of mobilization age
called from England.
Evening star., 1939-09-06

Brazil is aiding its railways to
avert a financial crisis.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-11-30
Fairfax, St. Peter
BOWlers Defeated

Redwood Falls kegglers defeat
ed Fairfax and st. Peter fiveS in
extra-curricular activities here
this week and a Redwood pick
up team plans to bowl Fairfax
again Friday night.
Last Friday Redwood won from
Fairfax by 10 pins in three
game match, Bob Baldwin, Lloyd
Melges, Louis Polaczyk, Warren
Boys, Dale Raglan ard D. Conley
of Renville representing Redwood
Falls. The Fairfax challengers
were headed by AL Bartell, man.
ager of the bowling alley there.
The Reds piled up 131 more
naples than st. Peter bowlers
here Sunday, L. j. Kise, Douglas
Kisc, Boys, Don Peterson and J..
T. Murdoch forming the home
team. Boys scored a 229 and D.
Kise a 201 for high scores of the
match.
E. A. johnson is in the money
at the New Ulm Straightaway
bowling tournament underway
last week and this. He and DR..
M. P. Feigal played Sunday,
Johnson scoring 472 and $50 in
two three-game tries and Feigal
tallying 496 and AIT.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-11-30
Belview Aces Lead
In Checker League

With three matches in the Red
wood county checker league COM
pleted, the Belview Aces are at
the top of the standings. They won
al! three tits. The Redwood
Knights have won two, lost none
and Redwood Falls has taken one
match.
Milroy lost the only match it
played, Wabasso's number team
won one and lost two and Wa
basso Number lost three. The
Belview Kings dropped two.
Redwood Falls meets the Bel
view Kings there Friday night.
Games scheduled for Monday are:
Milroy at Wabasso Number l.;
Redwood Knights at Wabasso
Number 2 and Redwood Falls at
Belview Aces Ga postponed
game).
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-11-30
The Delhi schedule:
NIGHT TENNIS
DISCUSSED BY
ENTHUSIASTS

Trophies won in tournaments
last summer were presented at a
dinner meeting of the Redwood
Falls Tennis Maintenance group
in the Legion hall here Friday
evening.
Dorothea Birkholz, women's
champion, Joe Armstrong, mems
singles titlist and Arthur Seifert
and Dick Carlson, winning doub-
les team, received the bronze fig
ures, with Alden Sheffield, group
secretary, making awards. Z.
Prospects for securing lights for
night matches on Memorial Field
courts next year were discussed
by the ~ group members attend
ing. Seifert is president; Lorna
Bake, vice president and Carl
SON, treasurer. So. - ~.
Mrs. L. A. Cheney served the
dinner -. ~. r e. L.. 49,. 1.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-11-30
DISHPAN BANDIT
NEW IN ANNALS
OF COUNTY CRIME

Dishpan Bandits" have re-
placed the Cream Can gang"
in Redwood county.
Thieves broke into the
"Ruder" schOOlhOuse in dist
rfct So a mile west and two
and One-half miles north of
Redwood Falls Sunday night
and carried away LOCO
pounds of coal briquets-us-
ing a dishpan.
Sheriff L. j. Kise who
busted off the pan for finger
prints, says he has an idea of
the thief. Members of the
school board report four or
i've break-ins at the build
ing since spring.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-11-30
A. Palmer
Funeral Held
at Seaforth
WAS Sc; RESIDENT OF
COUNTY SINCE 1915;
BORN IN SWEDEN

August p. Palmer, Sc, died at
S p. m. Friday at his farm home
in Sheridan township after an i'll
ness of four years and was buried
at Redwood Falls cemetery Mon
day afternoon following funeral
services at the Seaforth Presby-
terrain church.
Rev. Robert Alexander of the
Vesta and Seaforth churches con-
Quoted the rites and pallbearers
were Harold and Merle Siegfried,
Arthur Palmer, Harlan Hummer
koch, Edward Corcoran Jr. and
Charles Bryan.
Born November 13, 1853 in
Wimmerby, Sweden, the son of
Lieutenant P. A. and Anna Pal
mer, he was baptised and COLI
firmed in the Lutheran church in
that country. He came to the
United States in 1865 ard lived
at Joliet, Illinois, until 1888.
Then he moved to Fonda, Iowa,
where he resided until moving to
the Redwood Falls community in
1915. y
June Is, 1890 he married Chris
tine L. Munson at Pocahontas,
Iowa and she, with eight children,
survive him. One daughter, Rose,
preceded him in death.
Children are Mrs. John Juer-
gems and Walter A. Palmer of
Redwood Falls, Mrs. j. H. Sieg-
fried of Delhi, Virgil c.. Palmer
and Arthur c. Palmer of Cotton
wood, Mrs. N. P. Bronser of Fon-
da, Iowa and Myrtle Palmer and
Mrs. Lester Campbell of Des
Moines There are Is grandchil-
dren and one great-grandchild, a
sister, Mrs. Anna Swanson of Mo-
line, Illinois and brother, Oscar
Palmer of Los Angeles.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-11-30
MINNEsoTAl/l)
Squads Pared I'd +&%34AtYefs

state department, preliminary
games will be played by second
squad which in the past has been
known as the Victory Five" and
may again earn that title.
Games with the second squads
of other schools have been ar
ranged as prelims, except for the
Hutchinson and White Bear Lake
encounters, too far away to war
rant transporting such a large
squad.
So far the first string includes
13 men while the Victory Five
is in reality the untried. ten-un-
tried this season. Coach Wallace
Zimmerman, who reduced the
squad from 35 to % last week,
says there may be more shifts and
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-11-30
WABASSO WINS
OVER BELVIEW

Belview-Eight players divided
scoring honors for Wabasso Fri
day night as the Rabbits defeat
ed Belview High school 26 to IL
to open the season here.
Hoppenrath led the Belview
scoring with two from the floor
while Peterson, Albu, Morris and
Schoer each got one. Sinclair top
ped the visitors with six points,
followed by Fox with five, SINE
TAX with four, Martinson and A..
Fischer with three, Berg and
Dahmes with two and C. Fischer
with one.
The Belview seconds downed
the WabaSso seconds 13 to IL.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-11-30
Vesta, Wanda, Milroy
Unbeaten i'm League

Vesta and Lucan, with two VIC
tories each, lead the Bi-County
whist league after two evenings
of competition. Vesta defeated
Wood Lake 80 to 20 and Lucan
downed Wanda 80 to 20 while
Milroy outplayed Echo 81 to 81.
Milroy is unbeaten but has
played but one match while Echo
has won one and lost one and
Wanda and Wood Lake have yet
to enter the win column. Seaforth
and Lamberton have dropped out
of the league.