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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-11
Fierce Fight Along
25O-Mile Polish Front
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TAey concurred that the Poles
gfavely NEEDED airplanes.
Even though the bulk Of the Polish
torces stan have not been smashed,
their plight due to the dificulty Of
obtaining the huge mass Of supplies
required for modern warfare will DO
serious over q long haul
Hitler Flies Over Front
Adolf Hitler made q long air
plane flight over thu rolish front,
going close to Warsaw and watching
severe lighting south Of the Polish
capital. The Nazis reported that
their prison camps In Poland were
crowded by tens OF thousands Of pris-
oners. including three Polish gen-
erals. and said that the German
navy, using landing parties, was bat
tering down the defenses OF Qydnia'
che Polish seaport on the Baltic.
Nazis felt confident that they
would still be able to end the Polish
fighting and turn their fun atten-
ton TO the Rhlneland front before
Britain and France can achieve any
important gains In the west. They
into the Rhineland Notifications, but
siready have sent achievements
Is long as the Poles can hold out as
an organized army In the east the
Nad military operations are neces-
sarily handicapped in the west. To
date, the Polish army has saken a
severe beating but allied experts be-
lleved that II was far from finished
even II Warsaw Is lost,
French Smash In West
Seven sundred miles away on
oermany's western front, French
troops reported that they threw back
the firsk important Nazi counter Of
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WOMAN IS GIVEN
LIFE SENTENCE

Worcester. Mass. Sept. ii.--(UP)
Mrs. Victoria Lefebvre, 53-year old
South Ashburnham housewife,
pleaded guilty to second degree muir
der today In the poison-death Of her
third husband and was sentenced to
life Imprisonment.
The grazing, bespectacled mother
of two children was to have gone on
trial next Monday for the first de-
gree murder Of her husband Florient,
So. last January 2l-three months
after their marriage. Conviction
would have carried a mandatory
penalty of death in the electric chair
His death first was attributed TO
natural causes. but an autopsy dis
closed 1t was caused by strychnine.
The couple repeatedly had quar-
relied about insurance before Lee
febvre was stricken.
Investigators charged that -FOUR
cents worth Of poison In a SatSs-
day night supper OF frankfurters
and beans was used by the bride.
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ITALY WORKS FOR
BALKANS PEACE
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Can Be Explained

"These violations can be explained
as tending to compromise the neu.
tral countries for the purpose Of In
volving them In the conflict" Gayda
said, thus establishing easier ways
to approach German territory than
through the Siegfried line, which Is
q barrier to any army not wishing
to be massacred."
Usually well-informed sources said
the press campaign was connected
closely with Italy's efforts to unite
the Balkan states In q peace bloc.
Some quarters suggested that the
integrity Of the Balkan peace or
neutrality group would be under
mined II any Of the smaller neutral
countries should become involved.
At the same time, Italians were
reminded that Italy's colonial as
pirations had not been forgotten.
Mussolinin's Milan newspaper said
under the headline, Italy and her
destiny" that the Italian people still
believe in him and are ready to fight
against the Versailles treaty.
italian Public Supports
Because today we have Mussolini
and the italian people support him
wholeheartedly," II Duce's newspa-
per said, "the Versailles treaty will
have to disappear somehow. And
1t will be due to Mussolini."
Gayda's editorial said:
"The violations Of neutral terri
tories, which are becoming charac-
teristic with the fighting on the
western front, are occurring much
too frequently. 1t has been proven
that they are not being committed
by Germany, but by Britain, and are
emphasized by ofiicial excuses.
Neutral countries on the route to
Germany have every reason to be
alarmed and should be constantly on
guard"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-11
FRANCO ORDERS
GERMANS AWAY

Paris, Sept. li.-(UP)-General
Francisco Franco. Spanish National
list leader. Is ordering all German
civilians including mining engineers
to withdraw from the French bor-
der zone as part Of his neutrality
policy, 1t was understood today.
Marshal Henri Petain, ambassador
to Spain, was reported 10 have adj
vised Foreign Minister Georges Bon
net at O conference here this morn
ing that General Franco had given
him personal assurance that Spain
intended to preserve strict neutrality
and had pledged that Spain would
adopt a good neighbor policy toward
France.
petain was believed to have made
the same report 10 Premier Edouard
Daladier.
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German front and had made further
deep gains toward the main line Of
the Nazi weStwall.
French Strike From Air
Heavy French aerial lombard
ments at German concentra ton
points in the Saar Valley behind the
German Westwall were reported to
have slowed German action and to
have tended to disorganize troops
and supply movements toward the
front.
Fighting on the Maginot- Westwall
line had now been going on for one
week, dating from the first French
feeler shots and the small scale adj
vances Of infantry to contact the
Germans. The scale OF fighting was
now assuming larger proportions.
But 1t was insisted In French quar-
tiers that there had yet been no
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French Troops Smash
Nazi Counter Attacks
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grand scale action. The Germans
were showing stronger resistance
and evident determination to pro-
tect posts in front Of their main
line.
The Germans had counter-at-
tackled strongly but to avail, and 1t
was indicated that the French con-
tinued to hold the initiative all
along the line.
Gained, Then Lost
Informants said that In the coun-
ter-attacks which failed near the
Moselle, the Germans gained sew
eral hundred yards before the
French threw them back.
Infantry and machine gunners
advanced slowly on the sector east
of Saarbruecken, It was reported,
mopping up and consolidating
ground won by massed tanks.
Reports from the front said that
the French now menaced Blieskas-
tel, IL miles east Of Saarbruecken;
Zwiebruecken, 10 miles east Of Saar-
bruecken, and the village Of Tenn
rasse In the same area, and forced
the Germans to evacuate them.
Other Developments
As the French-feeling-out OF the
west wall continued on O constantly
widening scale, there were other de-
velopments;
/. It was said after an early
morning air alarm In Paris, starting
at 4:l0 q. m. ul:i0 p. m. EDIT Sun.
day. and ending at Sis (l2:l5 q.
m. EDIT today that raiding Ger
man planes had been driven off long
before they reached the Paris area.
2. Reliable informants said that
Premier Edouard Daladier was linz
minently preparing to reorganize
his cabinet, making Marshal Henri
Petain, s3-year-old hero Of Verdun,
his war minister and assuming the
foreign portfolio himself In place Of
Georges Bonnet, who might replace
Petain as Ambassador TO Nationalist
Spain.
3. Finance Minister Paul Reynaud,
after decreeing series Of resource
mobilizing measures including an
embargo on export Of gold and cap.
ital, told the country: II do not be-
lieve I am Understanding our adj
versary in telling you that Germany
Is already In large measure worn out
by the gigantic effort she has made
In preparing for war.
Economically and financially, Ger.
many organism Is already very vul-
nerable. On that front Germany no
longer has fresh troops. 1t Is a fact
that we are beginning the war In
economic and financial conditions
very superior to the eneny's."
4. French newspapers unanimous
ly and most firmly rejected peace
feelers put out Saturday by Field
Marshal Hermann Goering, Hitler's
official heir, In q speech to NUM-
tons workers.
High Command Communique No.
IL. issued last night, said:
"At the front, series Of methodic
al actions permitted an advance be-
tween the Saar (river) and the Vos-
ges (mountains). (This position Is on
the Saarbruecken front)
"The enemy carried out an Of
fensive move Immediately East OF
the Moselle (river) In the region
Northeast of Sierck." (This POSITION
is about 80 miles West Of Saar-
bruecken.)
The Communique disclosed also
that barrages Of mines had been laid
by the French and British navies In
the English Channel and the North
Sea.
well-informed quarters asserted
that the Germans had been counter
attacking vainly off and on for &c
hours ana, incidentally, had been
using numerous machine guns oper-
ated by remote electrical control
from their main West wall defenses
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-11
throne" in which he said that
state of war now exists"

throne" in which he said that a
state of war now exists"
=. q state Of war with the Ger
man reich exists and has existed In
our dominion Of Canada as and from
the 10th day Of September, 1880,
the proclamation, published In the
official gazette, said.
King, in telling parliament Of the
governments plans to aid the allies
announced plans for supplies and
trained air pilots to Britain and
France and for protecting British
and French interests in the western
hemisphere.
No CONSUMPTION
He said no CONSUMPTION was con-
templated. However, volunteers be-
tween Is and Al years old are being
accepted for overseas service. No
recruiting In the United States is
planned, the government said but
officials would not say whether
Americans would be allowed to en-
list In Canadian regiments as they
did In 1914. Recruiting for foreign
armies In the United States Is pro-
hibited by President Roosevelt's
neutrality proclamation.
The adoption of Lord Tweedsmuir
speech was almost unanimous. There
were a few '.nayes," but only J. 8
wordsworth, leader Of the CO.
operative commonwealth party. rose
to his feet. Procedure required that
at least five members rise In opposl-
ton before division could be taken
As soon as King George signed the
war papers. President Roosevelt IN
Washington issued q proclamation,
that included Canada In the United
States arms embargo. from whicn
the dominion had been exempted.
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President Returns To
White House Today
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trality under international law In
the war which the president said
"unhappily exists between Germany,
on the one hand, and Canada, on
the other hand"
A third executive order instructed
government departments and agen.
Giles to enforce the neutrality act
and other regulations In the case Of
Canada,
All OF the proclamations had been
prepared and signed by Mr., Roose.
welt before he left for Hyde Park
Friday.
Extension Of the European war
TO the western hemisphere through
Canadas formal declaration height
ened interest In the conference Of
the q American republics which
meets at Panama City next week,
A United States delegation, head.
ed by undersecretary OF state sum.
ner Welles, leaves Friday for Pana.
ma City. The conference was called
under the declaration Of Lima to
solidify Pan-Ameriean policy with
regard TO the conflict In Europe.
Fears Isolationists
The sources which predicted def
initely that Mr.. Roosevelt's special
session call would be issued this
week said the delay has been large.
ly due to the administration fear OF
an isolationist filibuster.
atatR 90 tlAva lAaAape hAliAuA
was said. that the Isolationist bloc
would take advantage OF the Senate
rule OF unlimited debate 10 filibus.
ter.
The leaders, II was said, have
been considering strategy for avoid.
ing such q filibuster. The possible
ity OF invocation Of cloture-under
which the Senate would agree TO
limit debate TO q specified number
OF hours-has not been overlooked,
1t was understood.
Cloture has been invoked only
two or three times In history, and
Its first use came during the World
War.
Colleges Join In
washington, Sept. ii-tUP)-The
civil aeronautics authority today
announced approval OF the applica-
tons OF 1876 colleges and universities
for participation In the civilian pi.
lot training program.
BY Sept. 10 at least 800 institu.
tons will have been certified. the
CAA said.
Approximately 1900 new civilian
pilots will be trained during the
coming school year under the pro-
gram, authorized by the last session
OF Congress to build up the nations
reserve military aviation personnel
Coincident with the CAA's an-
nouncement, President Roosevelt
wrote the National Aeronautic As
ISOLATION that STEW detectives are
more important at the present time
to the commerce Of the United
States and to the national defense
than the continued progress OF our
aviation" The association Is open
ing air progress celebrations In ap-
proximately 1000 cities today as
part Of It's aviation education pro-
gram.
Colleges and universities approved
by the CAA for the pilot training
program include:
Maine-University of Maine, Orc.
no.
Observation-Disclosures In.
stitute Of Technology, Cambridge;
Harvard university, Cambridge;
Tufts college, Medford; Boston uni.
versity, Boston: Boston college
Chestnut Hill.
Rhode Island-Brown university
Providence; Providence college, Pro-
whence.
vermont-University Of Vermont
Burlington; Norwich university
Mortified.
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lery in the eastern Warsaw district
was bombarding western parts OF the
city. German airplanes, the COM
munique said, again bombarded
highways and railroads eastward Of
Warsaw, as we'll as the cities OF
Lwow and Lublin In the southeast,
The west station at Lwow was
destroyed, 1t was asserted.
Armies Trapped
German advices were that two
Polish armies west and south OF
Warsow had been trapped, and some
Polish divisions surrounded.
THE fate of these units of the
Polish army, with which heavy fight-
ing Is still In progress, will be de-
cided in the next few days" a for
NAL high command communique
said.
Army authorities confirmed Polish
reports that parts Of Warsaw had
been set aflre, but whereas the Poles
attributed tf fires TO German air.
plane bombs, the Germans blamed
them on Polish artillery fire.
1t was announced that Adolf Hit
Ter, acting as supreme commander
Of the German forces In Poland, had
visited the front by airplane yester-
day and had even flown close to
Warsaw. at a point where desperate
fighting Is now In progress.
Hitler With His Armies
Hitler, leaving his headquarters.
joined the German army corps OPP
Grating northward from Silesia, II
was announced, and surveyed the
territory this corps had gained in
Its advance northeastward Of the
line Observation-Disclosures Konski
south Of Warsaw.
Hitler few over battle fields of last
week, 1t was said, In a bombing
plane and then, at an altitude OF
5000 feet only, few over roads along
which the Poles had retreated.
The fuehrer's plane landed in a
field In the neighborhood Of Radon,
IS miles south Of Warsaw, and then
new on In the direction of Warsaw
TO q point. unspecified, where Polish
forces cut on from the main Polish
army were trying to break through.
the communique said. It was added
that the Poles were being subjected.
IN that sector, to a terrific fire by
artillery and to attacks by tanks.
In the afternoon. it was said, Hit
Ter returned to his headquarters,
near former Polish flying field at
which German bombing and pursuit
planes were waiting TO take on to
attack the Poles.
Polish Generals Captured
The official Nag, News Agency In
a dispatch datelined Killers head
quarters with the silesian army. as
serted that the generals command
ing the third. seventh and 10th Pol
ish divisions had been made prison.
ers during fighting In the last few
days.
THE general of the leth division
was with his troops" the dispatch
said. He had left his car when sud-
denly German armored formation
appeared and made him prisoner
along with his stan.
I'm Kielce COS miles south OF War
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NSO1tlIlueQ ITOIII EuBe ~
the war would not be over soon, was
the government announcement that
farmers could obtain as much motor
fuel and supplies for agricultural
production as they needed, and that
the government was opening cam
paign to put $50 900 more acres into
production In Northern Ireland. The
government advised all farmers to
sow as much winter wheat as they
could before the end Of october and
to plough as much grassland as pos
sible by the end Of December. Farm
ers will receive two pounds for each
new acre brought mot production,
The government sought a large In
crease in acreage devoted to oats,
barley, fax and potatoes.
Three Years Of War
Authoritative circles, to emphasize
the significance Of Saturdays COM
munique that Britain was preparing
for three years OF war, declared that
she was ready to see this war
through TO "the defeat Of Hitlerism"
Unlike the stages OF the World
War, Britain Is now undertaking
some war measures that will yield
no results for Is months.
The authoritative sources repeated
that Britain had no intention Of
even considering a truce II Ger
many offers one after she has con-
quered Poland.
The ministry Of food set maxi
mum retails prices for granulated
sugar and potatoes.
Authoritative quarters said that
Britain's flotillas OF destroyers and
light craft hunting submarines, par
ticularly around the British Isles
and the Atlantic Ocean lanes, had
been particularly active. Nothing
was said about their results In view
Of the government policy Of with
holding news Of submarine destruc-
ton In the belief that submarines
which leave Germany and are never
heard of again, weaken the morale
Of the German submarine forces.
II Ships Torpedoed
| SaSAAoA AASo oAC AAA0Wh W 4lhNc
torpedoed II British ships. The min
istry OF information announced
early today the names Of the lates,
four. They were the Regent Tiger
the Goodwin, the Rio Claro. and the
Magdapur, all freighters Of less thar
1900 tons.
The Magdapur, the largest. los,
some Of its crew, but the number Of
casualties was not given. The other
crews were saved.
The government added to 1t.
documentary case which the British,
contend demonstrates that Adolf
Hitler started the war. Foreign
Minister Lord Halifax, In a letter tc
the secretary general of the League
of Nations, officially informed the
league that on September Ger.
many committed IAN aggression
against a member of the league"
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GRANDSON OF WIN.
M'ADOO KILLED

Devon. Pa, Sept. li.-(UP)-Clay.
ton Plat, Sd. 20-year old socialite
grandson Of former U. 8. Senator
william Gibbs McAdoo Of California
was shot and killed last night in
the kitchen Of the family's luxurious
home.
Cayton Plat. Jr.. his father said
he had been examining q loaded
rifle. holding It on his knee.
HE pressed the trigger with his
toe and fell over" Police Chisf
Charles Clemson Of Wiilistown
township quoted the father.
Police said his parents were sep
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Quires that all department bud
. gets be submitted 10 the mayor on
or before September 18th instead
Of October LIST, as heretofore.
As I understand the sentiment OF
the taxpayers, they expect there
will be q lower tax rate In 1910
with no reduction in services
rendered or civic improvements
made. It, therefore, win be neces-
sary that you make every attempt
to reduce the budget appropriation
requested to Q minimum amount
and one which will be considerably
less than last year.
] request your cooperation In
meeting this public demand
which you and I, as public serv-
ants must consider.
Sincerely yours.
PATRICK M. PERRIELLO,
Mayor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-11

BUCHAREST: Rumania doubles
defense forces, fearing danger OF
being drawn into war II Hungary
and Bulgaria attempt 70 regain
territory lost by them 10 Rumania
after l9l4-l9lS hostilities; Ru-
manians watch Soviet military
activities apprehensiveIy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-11

Washington: President returns
from Hyde park to assume per-
sonal command Of neutrality,
plans special session Of congress
70 revise neutrality law; president
extends arms embargo to Canada.
Administrator intenstfies efforts
to prevent food price rises and 70
discourage profiteering.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-11

fensive In the RhinelAnd, Reports
from the front said there had been
hand 10 hand fighting with hayonets
along the Sireck- Saarburg road.
The French advance into position
for an attack on the main NaEi west
wall fortlfications In the Rhkieland
felt Its way deeper into German ter
rltory last Of Saarbruecken and for
the first time Germany admitted
fighting on her own ground, al
though the Berlin communicate said
the French lost many dead" and
that four Allied planes were shot
down.
Nasl Steam Roller Halted
Thus, after II days Of war In Eu-
rope, the German plan for a light
ming war to crush Poland and quick
peace with Britain and France on
the basis Of that triumph was not
vet realized and the Nazi steam roll.
Ter appeared to have lost some OF
its momentum In the east. Both
Britain and France through official
acts and through the press turned
down any suggestion OF peace and
prepared by financial and economic
mobiliza ton for war to end wheth-
er 1t Is three or ten years.
In that situation, perhaps the
most significant immediate develop
ment outside Of German declara-
tions that the Polish armies were
trapped and near a final defeat
came from Soviet Russia,
At Moscow, the newspaper Pravda
reflected official opinion in an ar"
ticle saying that Poland was defeat
ed, Therefore, the article said, the
Russian call for reservists and the
strengthening Of western frontier
defenses was designed to protect
Russia against retreating Polish
forces.
Italy's Position
Italy, too, took the position IN
agreement with Berlin that the Pol
ish conquest was an assured tri-
umph. The Fascist press strongly
backed up Premier Benito Musso.
linrs campaign TO form strong
peace bloc In the Balkans, designed
10 keep the small countries out OF
the conflict and thus permit Ger
many to clear up the eastern front
and shift more than q million men
to the west against Britain and
France.
The French ambassador TO Rome,
Andre Francois Poncet, reported TO
his government that the chances OF
Italy remaining neutral were good
and and that such a prospect would
favor the Allied powers. Spain, TOO,
acted TO strengthen her neutrality
by ordering Germans out OF the
French frontier zone.
Britain Clamps Down
On the high seas, Great Britain
clamped down harder against Ger
many, reporting over the weekend
that German shipping had practical
ly been swept from the sea lanes ex-
cept across the Baltic to Scandi-
navia.
The British cabinet, making plans
for at least htree years OF war,
frightened It's control over almost
over every phase of life, seeking to
ensure supplies for farmers, urging
an increase In wheat production, and
setting maximum retail prices for
certain foods.
With II British ships lost to Ger
man summaries, the government also
speeded up Its plans for convoy sys-
TENS and worked with the French
navy to 10 yniines around the Ger
man coast.
In Paris, the government Issued a
series Of DEGREES regulating national
finance and economy and Finance
Minister Paul Reynaud declared that
Germany was worn out" economic
ally even before the war started.
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OTTAWA: with Canada for.
mally ut war with Germany. par
lament receives war budget; heavy
taxation increases anticipated,
plans for CONSUMPTION not yet ad-
vanced.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-11

arated. The mother, the former
Harriet F. McAdoo. daughter OF the
former senator. lives at nearpy
Whitemarsh.