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Evening star., 1939-09-21
New Soviet Advances
Into Poland Reported

MOSCOW, Sept. q (R.-Soviet
Russian forces strengthened theil
hold on Eastern Poland today as
communiques reported new advances
by the Red Army along a wide front
In the north, the Soviet high COM
mand announced. Russian troops
occupied Grodno, Is miles from the
East Prussian border and 80 miles
southwest of Wilno Vilna), an
cient capital of Lithuania.
In the south Red troops were re-
ported in possession of Kovel,
Ukrainian village 100 miles north
of Lwow, Poland's third largest
city. Occupation of both Wilno and
LwoW was announced in previous
communiques.
German reports said the
Poles were still resisting in and
around Lwow)
The reported seizure of Grodno
marks a Russian advance of ap-
proximately 1875 miles into Poland.
The fortified areas of Barano-
wicze, Molodeczno and Sarny also
have fallen before the Russians, the
Soviet high command said.
Baranowicze is approximately IS
miles from the Russian frontier and
120 miles east of Bialystok, COM
munications center reported oc-
cupied by the German Army. Mo-
lodeczno, 18 miles from the Rus
sian border, is IS miles west of
Wilno, while Sarny is IS miles east
of Kovel.
Evening star., 1939-09-21
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

Armand Calinescu, Rumania s
one-eyed Premier, has had a pre-.
monition that he would meet a
tragic end ever since King Carol
asked him to become the jack-of- :
all-trades of his cabinet.
He was small, wiry and probably
the most dynamic personality in
the kingdom. He lost an eye in
his childhood and wore a black
monocle instead of the usual glass
eye.
He was an astute politician and
while a democrat at heart, the
sponsor of mi-authoritarian
form of government in his country
which he considered necessary be-
cause of the general situation in
Eastern Europe.
The assassination of Calinescu is
indicative of what may happen to
Rumania in the course of the next
few weeks. The Premier was not
antl-German. He urged his king
to maintain a strict neutral policy
and let Germany purchase everv-
thing she needed in the country on
the barter system.
But he was determined to keep
German political influence out at
any price. Calinescu told the Ger
man Minister at Bucharest frankly
that economics must be divorced
from politics and while it seemed
inevitable that his country must
enter the economic sphere of in
f1uence of the Reich. politically it
must remain an independent unit
friendly but not subjected to Ger
many. What the Germans did not
like about him was that he, unlike
Evening star., 1939-09-21
rather than the risk Of millions Of
lives In big land offensive.
German Tactics Show
Fear Of French Thrust

BASEL, Switzerland, Sept. II R).-
German batteries pounded enemy
lines of communication along the
western front today, as reports of
swift night movements by French
troops limited at plans for a major
offensive.
Swiss military observers expressed
belief that the joint French British
command now has decided on the
point to launch the first assault on
the main forts Of the Siegfried line.
Increased activity was reported
on the part of both French and
German patrols, with the primary
object Of taking prisoners and gain
ing information concerning troop
concentrations.
These reports, and the fact that
the French appeared to be consoli-
dating their positions instead of at
tempting further local advances,
increased Swiss belief a great battle
is in the making.
Behind the Siegfried line the Ger
mans were said to have stationed
AAOIOA AACo Olllto lll otIdUSklC reserve
positions, from which they can be
rushed to any part of the front
when additional strength is needed.
Throughout the night German
flares lighted up the no-mans- LAND,
where activity by sappers and dyna-
miters must precede any infantry
attack.
French reports said a number Of
German night attacks had been re-
pulsed in the vicinity of the Blies
and Med Creeks east and west of
Saarbruecken.
The French, Belgian and Swiss
press carried stories of elaborate
German military preparations along
the Belgian frontier. German
sources insisted, however, these
preparations were defensive, rather
than offensive, and were designed
to meet possible French assaults
along the Moselle River.
Evening star., 1939-09-21
This Changing World
Assossinoted Rumonion Premier
Had Premonition of Truoic End

many of his predecessors, meant
what he said.
There is nothing particularly new
| in the assassination of a politician
in the states of the Danubian Valley
A few years ago another independ-
ent premier, George Duca, was as
sassinated. At that time the mur-
derers came out in the open; they
were the followers of Codreano, the
would-be Henlein of Rumania, who
in turn was shot last year on orders
from the Rumanian government.
Calinescu was then premier
Hitler has never forgiven Carol
for the death of his Rumanian
henchmen. 1t happened while Carol
was discussing the improvement of
Rumanian-German relations at
Berchtesgaden with the Fuehrer
Ever since the relations between the
two countries have been cool.
It seems that Hitler has paid part
of his debt to Rumania now. Ac-
cording to reports received here
there seems to be no doubt that the
pro-Nazi elements in Rumania are
behind the assassination of the Pre-
mier. For the last 10 days there
have been economic" conversations
between the two governments.
This time Germany did not send
the kindly well-mannered Herr
Wohltat to discuss the purchase of
the entire output of oil and food
stuffs in the country.
The German economic mission
was headed by the table banging,
shouting and bullying Herr Claudius.
He was not in Rumania, it was said,
to discuss but to give orders He is
reported to have gone to Bucharest
to get the Rumanians to sign on the
Evening star., 1939-09-21

dotted line the economic enslave-
ment OF the country under a regime
much more likely to take orders
from Berlin than that headed by
Calinescu. Whether the premier
showed too much stubbornness or
whether he gave the impression of
being unreliable it is not known. In
any case, he lost his life. The Ru-
manian Nazi party had been dis
banded by Calinescu and many of
its members put in jail or in con-
centration camps. But there were
still quite few at large. Only a
few months Ago group of them had
planned to blow up the royal palace
and other official buildings ard un-
der cover Of the panic thus created
start revolution which would have
ended In the establishment of pure
Nazi regime in the country. The
plot was discovered by Calinescu's
secret police.
Calinescu was convinced last win
ter that European war would
break out in the course of the year.
He was anxious to see the Ru-
manian Army better prepared and
wished to purchase war material in
this country. For this purpose he
wanted to pay of the war debt to
the United States. The attempt
failed because the debt funding COM
mission had been abrogated and
there was no congressional agency
with which the Rumanian govern
ment could discuss the matter. OF
course. the Rumanians wanted a re-
duction of their debt and possibly a
longer period of repayment.
In diplomatic quarters the assas-
sination of Calinescu is regarded as
bad omen. Spectacular develop
ments in Rumania are expected.
Evening star., 1939-09-21
Soviet Troops Near Hungarian Border Driving Refugee Horde On
to 1000 heavy bombing planes near
Aachen.

Aacnen.
Aachen, about IS miles north of
the present fighting zone and 270
airline miles from London, was pic
tured as key point Of the German
line facing neutral Belgium and the
Netherlands. The latest advices from
the Netherlands said captive bal
loons-apparently an aerial "bar-
rage"-were strung out at intervals
for 100 miles north Of Aachen, their
positions shifted each night.
British War Secretary Leslie Hore-
Belisha's flying visit to France yes
terday and the joint British French
staff talks were seen as results Of
the Aachen situation.
The Aachen concentration was re-
garded by military observers as
meaning one OF three things-that
a repetition of the 1914 strategy
might be attempted, that Aachen
merely had become transfer point
for movement of troops into the
Siegfried line or that the Germans
might try a counter blockade"
against British and French forts
through air attacks in conjunction
with submarine operations in the
English Channel.
The French appeared more con-
cerned with the third possibility. on
the ground Germany was beginning
to feel the pinch of the British
naval blockade and might be on the
verge OF a major retaliatory blow.
Three major land routes pass
through the Aachen district, para
lelilng each other until they reach
the Meuse River, where on the north
they reach Liege, Belgium. 1t was
tnere IN 1914 that Kaiser Wilhelms s
great offensive started.
Aachen also could become a spring.
board for a drive by way of the
Netherlands. The form of warfare
henceforth on the western front
undoubtedly depends on develop
ments at Aachen.
On the Rhine frontier the south
ern half of the French h-German
border, there was little activity-not
even artillery action, according to
war dispatches.
Many observers recalled that be-
lore the war started allied military
experts favored defensive" war
against Germany on land, while
counting on British French naval
forces to strangle Germany econom-
ically. These experts favored the
use OF planes, warships and radio
mlcrophones for the heavy work"
against the Nazis over a long period
Evening star., 1939-09-21
Pitifu| Plight
Of Women and
Children Reported
Retreat Described
As Parade Of
Trogic Faces
BY ELMER w. PETERSON,

Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.
MUNKACS, Hungary, Sept. al
Soviet Russian troops were reported
only Is miles from the Hungarian
border today in their sweep across
Eastern Poland, moving forward
without interruption on the heels OF
thousands of Polish soldiers and
civilians.
The miserable human flood pre-
ceding the Red army continued to
pour into Hungary, seeking sane
tuary in the Carpathian Mountains.
1t was estimated that more than 30
600 Poles had reached Hungarian
soil-and still they came.
Travelling over so miles of muddy
and rain-puddled highways and
roads branching through to three
mountain passes, witnessed the i'm
migration. Hungary was the only
southern refuge left, now that Rus
sian troops have blockaded the Ru-
manian border.
Children Pitiful Sight.
I saw small children, some half
naked and all of them hungry. Some
of them, separated from their par
ents, had been taken in hand by
Hungarian peasant women. Grown
men wept at the sight of these
youngsters trooping along in the
mud.
I saw blood-spattered trains, bull
let-torn automobiles and damaged
military trucks-Polish military me-
mentoes.
I saw women whose faces were
white with fatigue. They smiled
wanly at the thought that crossing
frontier could give so much personal
safety.
I heard young officers pleading
for some way of getting informa-
ton on the fate of their families.
In one 10-mile stretch of road
there were more than 200 trucks,
automobiles and motorcycles, all
packed to overfiowing with weary,
homeless humanity. 1t was a pa
rade of tragic faces.
Rain Came Too Late.
Three weeks ago in Warsaw I
saw the Polish Army gathering in
confident readiness to fight. Yester-
day, after a 1,500-mile roundabout
journey from the Polish capital, l
saw a part of that same army in
bedraggled retreat into a neutral
country.
There is irony in this retreat.
The rain for which the Poles prayed
has started, but too late. Now, in
stead of bolstering Polish strength.
1t adds to the general misery and
confusion.
Evening star., 1939-09-21

the other British possessions and
dominions in that part of the world
In short, the whole British empire
is on the firing line.
A significant suggestion of this
position cropped up the first of the
week when the German radio re-
peatedly made the following re-
markable assertion:
THE peoples of Africa and Asia
now dominated by England await
the day Of final settlement of their
score with the British empire"
Evening star., 1939-09-21

himself has been quietly reaching
for the Mediterranean.
The Berlin-R Rome axis also was
striking heavily at British influence
in the Near East, especially among
the Arab peoples, and in Africa.
Out in the Far East, where Eng
land has been a power for long
generations, Japan is driving hard
to oust the British from their posi-
ton of vast influence in China.
Evening star., 1939-09-21
Britain's war commitments in Eu
rope are helping Nippon.
Japan Firmer With British.

Since the Russo-German friend
ship the Muscovites have signed an
armistice with the japanese for
cessation of the fighting along the
Mongol- -Manchukuo border. This
gives Nippon still greater freedom
to deal with the British.
Anything affecting English prestige
in the Far East affects India and
Evening star., 1939-09-21

The shortest way home may be
across the middle of the block. Are
you sure you can make it?
Evening star., 1939-08-05
Five Believed Killed
In Express Highway
Tunnel Rock Fall
Four Workers Trapped
In Clearing Way for
Pennsylvania Rood
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
SOMERSET, Pa, Aug. 5.-John
Lowry, an ambulance driver, re-
ported today one man was killed and
four others were believed dead in
an accident in the Laurel Hill tun-
mel on the States $50 900, 900 express
highway near here
Mr. Lowry said the four were
trapped under fall of rock at the
base Of operations in the tunnel IS
miles west of this Western Pennsyl-
vania mountain town. He said it
was believed certain they were dead.
The victim Mr.. Lowry brought
here died in the ambulance. His
arm had been amputated in order
to remove him from the rock fall.
Identification of the dead man or
those reported caught in the rock
fall was not Immediately available.
The Laurel Hill tunnel. one Of
numerous tunnels being drilled
through the Allegheny Mountains
to carry traf1lc on the express road.
was being bored through bed rock
by the workmen.
The tunnel had been drilled dis
tance of between 800 and 900 feet
into the mountain. 1t was at this
point, the base of operations, that
the accident occurred about 7:30 am.
this morning, soon after work
started.
Coroner H. A. McMurray of West
moreland County and Father E. j.
Waters, Somerset Catholic priest,
we're summoned.
Evening star., 1939-08-05
Air Corps Officer Named
Assistant Chief Of Staff
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
In recognition of the new i'm
portance of air power, the War De-
partment announced today that an
Air Corps officer, Brig. Gen. Frank
NJ. Andrews, had been put in charge
of all Army operations and training
Gen Andrews, for four years chief
of the Mobile General Headquarters
Air Force, was named assistant chief
of staff for operations and training,
effective yesterday.
officials said Gen. Andrews was
the first air force officer to hold
such a high command post. He
succeeds Maj. Gen. Robert McC.
Beck, jr., who retires on his own
application october 81, after more
than AZ years service.
Officials noted that Gen. Malin
Craig, retiring chief of staff, urged
in his annual report closer co-ordi-
nation between air and ground
forces.
Gen. Andrews, native of Nash
vile, Tenn, is S. and has been a
flyer since the World War. He was
made commander of the General
Headquarters Air Force when the
unit was organized in 1885 and
served until last February.
Evening star., 1939-08-05
Two Years
Of GreenbeIt-

Greenbelt, Md, the made
to-order suburban community
in which the Federal Govern
ment is making one of the
most interesting economic
and sociological experiments
of the decade, soon will be
two years old.
How Is this model COM
munity faring? Will it ever
pay for itself, as its creators
hoped? What kind of per-
sons live there, and what do
they think of what is going
on about them? These and
other matters pertaining to
this nearby "city of the fu-
ture" are discussed in a series
Of six daily articles beginning
In The Star tomorrow.
Evening star., 1939-08-05
Hague for Third Term
II President Wants Il
BY the Associated Press.


JERSEY CITY. N. j., Aug. S.
Mayor Hague is 100 per cent" be-
hind President Roosevelt for third
term 'if he wants it," a City Hall
source close to the State Democratic
leader and vice chairman of the
Democratic National Committee has
announced
If the President decides not to
run, the spokesman said, Mr.. Hague
will back delegates to the 1910 DEM
ocratic National Convention who can
be counted on to support any presi-
dental candidate supported by Mr.
Roosevelt.
Mr.. Hague fought die-hard bat
tie against the nomination of Mr..
Roosevelt at the 1882 convention,
terming him the weakest candi-
date the party could nominate. At
that turbulent session he led the
forces backing former Gov. Alfred E.
Smith of New York.
Once the selection was made, how
ever, Mr.. Hague, always stanch
party man, put his State wide ma
chine into high gear, and Mr.. Roose-
velt carried New Jersey. He did it
again in 1896.
Evening star., 1939-08-05
Race for Governor
Holds Interest as
Kentucky Votes
Brown and Johnson,
Cooper and swope
In Primary Contests
yy the Associated Press.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Aug. S.
Speech voters ventured
pollward under generally fair skies
today to have the last word in Ken
tucky's 1899 primaries.
Involved we're nominations to the
governorship and seven other State
Offices, all 100 Statehouse seats, half
the 36 State Senate posts, host of
local offices-and little in the way of
attention-arresting issues.
The spotlight rested on the guber-
material primaries. where interest
centered on former United States
Representative John Young Brown
and 1t. Gov Keen johnson in the
Democrotic ranks and John Sher-
man Cooper and Circuit Judge King
Swope in the Republican section.
Absence of outstanding issues led
to predictions the Democratic vote
would fall below the State primary
record of more than Sis 1000 set last
summer when Senate Majority
Leader Alben w. Barkley and Gov.
A. B. Chandler battled on largely
national lines for senatorial nomina-
ton.
Republicans, however, after their
most spirited campaign since 1927,
expected to poll far more than the
approximately $4,000 votes drawn by
the party's perfunctory 1888 sena-
torial primary.
In Harlan County, some of the
1900 National Guardsmen sent in
by Gov. Chandler to protect" miners
wishing to return to work during
the labor contract stalemate were
still on duty. Mr.. Brown charged
they were kept in Harlan to steal
the election" but Gov. Chandler
said the troops presence had no
connection with the primaries.
The polls opened at 6 am. in all
120 counties for 10 hours of voting.
Tabulations were scheduled for 5
pm. to midnight, with resumption
at 8 am. Monday. Several days
were expected to be required for
completing the count.
Evening star., 1939-08-05
Tradition Defied
BY Woterspout;
Homes DAMAGED
By the Associated Press.

CRISFIELD, Md, Aug. 5.-A
swirling waterspout defied tradition
during sudden downpour yester-
day, swept inland from the POGO
moke River and caused slight dam
age to several homes in Birdtown,
small river-bordering village miles
from here.
The spout, one of several that
lifted off the river within 80 min
utes, disregarded the custom of
waterspouts, which usually stick to
water, and swerved suddenly toward
shore.
A number of windows were
broken and several homes were
splattered with marshland mud,
carried along by the twisting tunnel
of water.
Allen Parks, a crabber on the
river in 28-foot boat, narrowly
escaped injury when the storm
broke. His boat was whirled around,
he said, but did not overturn.
Evening star., 1939-08-05
Senator Guffey Sued
For SANDER by
Marquis Chi|ds
Writer Seeks $l00, 900
Over Charge Concerning
Oil Deal Article

Senator Joseph F. Guffey, Demo-
crat. of PENNSYLVANIA. was named
defendant in a 100000 slander suit
filed in District Court today by Mar
quis w. Childs. Washington corre-
spondent for the St. Louis Post
Dispatch.
The suit accuses the Senator of
intimating the newspaperman had
written a story in the interests of
persons other than his employer and
for outside" compensation.
The story in question, Mr.. Childs
related in his suit, was written on
June Is, 1889, and contained the fol-
lowing paragraph:
wv. r. Davis. the free-lance oil
operator who put over barter deals
with Germany for oil from expropri-
ated American wells now held by the
Mexican government. had the aid
and advice of powerful figures in the
Washington scene, including Senator
Joseph F. Guffey, member of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
the Post-Dispatch has learned. ."
On July %, 1899, Senator Guffey,
according to the slander action,
made "the following false. scandalous
defamatory. malicious SANDER:
II tmeaning the SenatoD know
that he (meaning the correspondent
got paid for that"
In his suit, Mr.. Childs stated that
the Senator meant thereby that he
had received compensation for writ
ing the article for some one other
than his employer.
Senator Guffey's alleged SANDER
Gus statement, Mr.. Childs charges,
was not made on the floor of the
Senate and was uttered in the pres
ence of others ''and by reason there
of greatly injured Childs' name and
reputation in the conduct and ex-
ecution of his profession"
The suit. in two counts asking
$4,000 each. was filed through At
torneys William E. Leahy and Will
liam G. Hughes jr.
Evening star., 1939-08-05
Dewey Sued Over House
Used in Hines Probe
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WHITE PLAINS. N. Y, Aug. S.
Manhattan District Attorney Thom-
as E. Dewey and two assistants have
been sued for $11, 1858 damages by
the woman who rented to the prose-
cutor a house he used as a gang
sters' "hideaway"
Before the opening of the second
conspiracy trial of iTammany Leader
James j. Hines, the three leading
States witnesses-J. Richard Dixie)
Davis, George Weinberg and Harry
Schoenhaus-were quartered there
The plaintiff, Mrs Willetha F.
Chappell of Bronxville, said Mr..
Dewey's agent had told her the
house would be occupied by re-
spectacle family.
She said the suicide in the house
of Weinberg-sick and worried, he
shot himself to death-had caused
substantial impairment" to the
value of the property.
The suit also charged fraud, de-
ceit, conspiracy, non-payment Of
rent and water bills, destruction of
furnishings and 'irreparable dam
age" to the reputation of the dwell
ing.
Evening star., 1939-08-05
Tennis Ball Pellets
Give French Police
Explosion Scare
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LILLE, France, Aug. 5.-The
mystery of 600 rubber balls
found on a highway leading
from the Belgian frontier was
solved today after police dis
covered they were only tennis
balls without their canvas COW
ers which had rolled off a truck
during routine shipment from
Lille to Paris.
Detectives had announced
after cutting open some of the
balls and finding in them two
pellets filled with yellowand
ivory-colored corrosive liquids
that the chemicals were similar
in some respects to explosives
used by Irish Republican Army
terrorists in England.
A representative of the man
ufacturers, however, explained
that the pellets were designed
to melt with the heat and form
a gas which give the tennis
balls more bounce.