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Russia Orders Army To Cross Polish Rorders
VALLEY SUNDAY
10 Cents
FINAL EDITION
TEXAS, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1939
HARLINGEN, McALLEN, BROWNSVILLE,
Vol. Ill, No. 10
WARSAW DEFIES GERMAN ULTIMATUM
I HEAVY BATTLE
WAR OPENS
TWO CONVICTS
ON WHITE
WING DOVE
FIGHT TO LAST
IS PLEDGED BY
Is Said Cause Of Action
FIGHT DECISIVE
COUPLE TRAILED
CAPITAL CITY
of
threat
take place under full observance of Russian neutrality in the present conflict.
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Germans were ’‘constantly” throw- lions of leaflets distributed
The news agency said the German
ward.
the
of
Weather
Germans announce they
Prime
Warsaw
Brit-
Weapons Seized
after
an F«g» t. C-laan 1>
100 Sailors Killed
2 30 pm. Sunday here, after storm
LAST RITES SET
was
believed to be England. ,
eers and men.
ft
A
III
THE WEATHEF
Fair
3,000 Gunners Flock
To Valley Fields
Information Lacking
At Headquarters
Policy Meeting Is Set
For Monday
Third Breaks Limb In
. High Leap
Officers Of Valley
Are Notified
FBI Take 25 Machine
Guns In Seattle
France And Germany
Open Attacks
Fire, Explosion Hits
French Vessel
As the Polish state must now be regarded as non-existent, the DNB report con-
tinued, the Soviet government arrived at the opinion that former treaties concluded
with Poland are null and void.
It said the Russian note was submi tted to all foreign missions accredited in
Moscow.
Weather for the Valley
Sunday will be cloudy,
scattered showers. There
wII be no material change
in the river during the
next 24 hours.
German
ceaseless give and take warfare.
Premier Edouard Daladicr. the
“little dictator of France,” who is
his own minister of national de-
of 1
who entered the last war as jftiv-
Govemment officials here said
they were without information.
The ultimatum said Warsaw would
with, the surernder must be
ported to the nearest German mili-
day over Polish forces,
vicinity of Lodi.
I
*
i
commander refused to receive the
German messenger or to heed the
threat that the city would be sub-
jected to bombardment if capitula-
tion was not forthcoming immedi-
hate at^*
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Batarad m aacaa* «Um aiaS aS aaataffle* to ■orttofeo, Tasaa
ESCAPEFROM
CAMERON JAIL
French Drive Ahead
Toward Forts
More Troops Arrive
To Aid Defenders
prise personal inspection
Maginot fighting zone.
'Hold To Last*
Upon being informed
SEATTLE-Twenty.five ma-
chine guns, valued at S8.000. were
seized by Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation agents and city police here
Saturday.
The arms were taken secretly to
the police headquarters basement
*ara;c and witnesses said one pack-
age of guns contained a New York
city newspaper dated April 15.
1925.
Witnesses described the weapons
as of French make, and said they
believed they had been stored here
for a considerable time.
The federal agents were said to
have dropped out of the case imme-
diately on ascertaining the guns ap-
^jrently were not intended fog ex-
All thi news of the World
and the Valley. Best Feat-
urea and World’a Best
Comics.
from the Moselle Valley southeast-
ward to Saarbruecken.
Saturday night's official general
staff communique acknowledged
for the first time that Frenc i and
German troops were in contact
SECOND WEEK OF WAR [FRUIT SEASON
BEGINS SOON
who said the attack was the "be-
ginning of an apparent German at-
tempt to take Warsaw at all costs'*
He said 200 heavy Nazi guns
were pouring shells into the capi-
tal's streets.
Through the scream of air raid
sirens, the speaker's voice eould be
heard here, saying there was con-
stant bombing by large Nazi squad-
rons.
The Warsaw station broadcasting
at 8 50 p. m said nearly all civilians
in the capital were hiding as best
they could in cellars, although
buildings were collapsing on them.
Army Breaks Through
Polish authorities in Budapest re-
THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES TODAY
............. .....
to the general staff that the Ger-
mans. as they doggedly gave
ground, blasted entire villages out
of existence in an effort to slow
the French drive through the no-
man's-land toward the Siegfried
Line.
Port Isabel Sailing
Races Are Canceled
PORT ISABEL — R W. Pitts,
Squalus Salvagers
Are Praised By FD
WASHINGTON —(A^— President
Roosevelt formally commended Sat-
urday the "devotion to duty, cour-
age. i . „“
fice” of 31 naval officers and men
BERLIN (Sunday)—UP)—
A German army ultimatum
to Warsaw to surrender
without resistance expired
some time after 3 a.m. Sun-
day but there was no im-
mediate report to Berlin as
BUDAPEST (Sunday)—i
Gp)—Between 40,000 and
50,000 Polish troops under
General Bartnowski have
joined the defenders of the
besieged Polish capital of
Warsaw, it was stated in
Polish circles here early
Sunday.
General Bartnowski led three
divisions to the relief of the capital
despite a terrific all-day air and
land bombardment by the surround-
ing German forces, it was said.
The news buoyed Polish hopes
here that the capital might yet be
saved.
houses built centurie i
cellars whirl extend two or three
levels down into the ground and
p ovide almost as “ood shelter for
trpops as afforded by modern
blockhouses of reinforced concrete
and steel.
Such close contact has been made
the border into Poland.
The agency said Soviet forces would advance simultaneously on
frontier line from Polozk in the north to Kamanez-Podolsk in the south.
The report said the advance of the Russian army into eastern Poland would
Small Craft Warning on the front it was reported, that
Is Issued For Gulf
NEW ORLEANS —oPi- The
United States Weather Bureau of-
fice here issued a small craft warn-
ing for the Texas coast, effective at
daybreak.
The advisory, timed 8 30 pm.
said a squaUy condition ab'iut 200-
250 miles off the Texas coast and
moving westward would cams''
fresh east and northeast winds rnd
LTARLINGEN—War was declared
11 in the Lower Rio Grande Valley
early Saturday morning.
Not a war of mortal combat, but
a war on the white wing dove as
the scatter-guns boomed and bang-1
ed over the entire Valley for the
first time in almost a year. An
estimated 3,000 gunners scoured the
cane and Hegira brakes for small
bits of white-tipped feather—Melo-
pella Asiatica, the white wing dove.
As dusk approached this sec-
tion. returning gun men had al-
most invariably reported bag
limits, and an abundance of the
birds. Valley Game Warden
Charles Jones estimated there are
more of the white-winged doves
In the Valley's four counties this
season than In the past four.
Willacy county appeared to be the
favorite hunting ground for nim-
rods from the Lower Valley, and
stocks of shells suffered enormous
losses Friday and before mid-
morning Saturday. Toward mid-
day a light haze from frying birds
hung over Harlingen, and toward
the dinner hour the same savory
scent permeated through Saturday
night business scuffle.
• • •
1LAANY of the sportsmen were re-
ported to have come from afar
to take the field against the white
wing, and planes dropping on to
fields at Harlingen. Brownsville
and other Valley runways, disgorg-
ed men with the strained look of
those held from their desire by
distance and time.
Several planes from Randolph
and Kelly Fields arrived at the
Harlingen airport Friday after-
noon and Saturday morning bring-
ing a number of high-ranking
army fliers. All had reported In
at their respective hotels Satur-
day night with bag limits.
At Brownsville one plane from
Barksdale Field emptied seven
sportsmen to augment.the week-
end shooters who since before dawn
had taken up positions along brush
sections against the grey whirring
shapes. Another private plane from
Houston brought three others to
the Brownsville sector.
the hour, with hundreds of 21™.™ *5re.,"otAc."pt^
thousands of French and
German troops engaged.
German troops were reported re-
BROWNSVILLE —Valley
officers Saturday night
pressed their search for a
pair of “kangaroo” convicts
who leaped over charged
wires and plummeted 25 feet
to freedom from the Cam-
eron county jail earlier in
the day.
As they raced away, they left
sprawling behind a companion
who broke his leg in their first
leap of 18 feet from the roof of the
three-story jail to the second-floor
offset according to Sheriff J. A.
Goolsby.
Charles Temple, 20. Arkansas, un-
der a ten-year sentence for forg-
ery. and Raul Garcia. 24. sentenced
to 12 years for burglary, were the
ones who escaped, and Juan Tor-
res. 19. sentenced to three years for
burglary, was the one left behind
with a broken leg, according to
Sheriff Goolsby.
Fair Is Trailed
Bloodhounds trailed the fleeing
pair to a dirt road north of Browns-
ville and stopped there, indicating,
the sheriff said, that they had been
picked up by an automobile there.
Officers scoured the area and
the sheriff covered the section by
aeroplane, but no trace of the fugi-
tives was found beyond the dead-
end at the road, investigating offi-
cers said.
Garcia stood five feet, five inches
tall, weighed 128 pounds, had brown
eyes, black hair and was wearing
dark trousers and a light shirt, the
sheriff stated. He was bare-headed.
* Rars Were Broken
7"emple is five feet, eight inches
tall, weighs 145 pounds, has grey
eyes, brown hair and was wearing
dark trousers and a light shirt. He
■Iso was bare-headed. Both of the
men were convicted at the pres-
ent term of criminal district court
here and had been in jail a rela-
tively short time, the sheriff said.
The men made their break be-
tween 8 and 9:30 am. according to
the sheriff's calculations.
They broke off an iron bar in
•n old cell on the third floor and
climbed above to a skylight. The
fugitives used the bar to snap two
padlocks holding the skylight closed
the sheriff said. Nine men in the
enclosure had an opportunity to go
out, it was stated, but only Garcia.
Torres and Temple gambled on the
long jumps.
High Leaps Made
Gaining the roof, the tno leaped
18 feet to the second floor offset,
■nd Torres broke his leg and was
left sprawling behind. The remain-
ing pair then leaped 15 feet fur-
ther downward to reach the top of
the jail laundry, part of whifth
serves as the jail wall on the alley-
side.
The men then were confronted
with charged electric wires and
alarms running along the jail wall.
These wires, bent inward toward
the jail enclosure stand about three
(Centtnato an Page t. Cal. >)
Hamlets Are Cleared
Small crossroads hamlets
Lieutenants H. B Wright and W. F. | been cleared of all civilians for
already
was be- mander in Warsaw saying resistance
ing waged along a 40 mile front was useless and that the Germans
were out of patience because of
h.r. w.™, th* »outh and "P°rt advan"« in Vosges foothills. Canada declares war
on Germany, following Great Britain by exactly a week. Germans and
'Resistance Useless’
DNB said the German commander
sent a message to the Polish com-
if any. for the first period which
is to be designated.
The shippers committee is not
yet organized and will elect offic-
ers just prior to going into joint
session with the growers committee.
Although a marketing policy for
the season must be outlined ac-
cording to terms of the marketing
agreements under which regulations
Germans reported plunging deeper into heart of Poland but giving
ground to French troops on western front. Germans announce they are change, Jn condltjoni justifying
.. change in policy. Such factors as
a freeze, hurricane and a change
in economic conditions might each
be sufficient to cause abandon-
ment or change in regulations.
It is likely that the first regula- ported a Polish army of unannounc-
, hoped that
i "general rain” and his reinforce-
ments of mud might yet come soon
enough to check the heavily motor-
ized invaders.
Attack Is Described
The all-day attack on Warsaw wai
described late Saturday night by a
! son and grade and size regulations. Polish government radio announcer
■ A a . • • a a. _ A A _ _ ____A i. _ .
treating and methodically destroy-
ing small villages as they aban- noOn dropped leaflets warning the
doned them. civilian population of the Polish I
French observers reported back capital to get out.
-------. . .. .. . .. ~ The Qerman terms specified that
the military command of Warsaw
had 12 hours to give up. and then
rather ambiguously stated that ci-
vilians would have 12 hours to
escape in the event the Polish mill-
j tary stood pat
Battle Is Decisive The terms to the Warsaw* civilian
The general staff announced the population were set forth in mil-
Germans were "constantly” throw- lions of leaflets distributed over
ing reinforcements into the battle, the city by German planes late
which was swinging into its de- Saturday,
cisive stage Saturday night after
tw’o weeks of preliminary skirm'sh-
ing.
This "battle of the Saar'
ter promotion and three citations
for valor under fire, started for the
front without previous announce-
ment
Accompanied By General
He was accompanied only oy Gen- Polish “tr^" within“‘i? must
render in 12 hours.
Negotiator Refused
2 In case the order is complied
with, the surernder must be re-
tary commander.
3. In the event this command
j the no-man's-land separating the
front lines almost had disappeared.
In some cases, lines were said to
overlap with advance posts pushed
forward between two similar enemy
positions so hat they overlooked
each other.
Private H. W. Truesdale. (
fliers from Houston were ueiie irwguiuw
Meador, Frank Liddell and Paul ! French and
Kayser.
Unfortunate* who were forced
to pursue their livelihood Satur-
day were set to take to the fields
early Sunday, perhaps to get back
with the limit in time for rhureh,
■nd maybe not. Melopelia, how-
ever. expected no peace, at all
events.
A large group of oil men from
several states were reported to have
flown to McAllen for the first day's
hunting. ‘ .----------------- ---------,
J *te soldier and_fought die . entire attack on the Polish capital might
** * 1 “ * soon after that hour Sunday
Poland’s Gold Said
Shipped To England
BUCHAREST -(AV- Half of the
Bank of Poland s gold was report-
. ed authoritatively Saturday to have
skill, initiative and aelf-sacri- be n shipped by a British steamer French Morocco, last Tuesday.
from Constanza. chief Rumanian
, Black Sea port. It's destination M Pluton's normal crew of 400 offi-
PARIS— 6F\-At least 100 French
sailo.s Saturday night were re-
ported to have been killed in an
explosion and fire which swept the
cruiser Pluton, a main unit in skipper of the Laguna Sailing Club,
France's minelaying fleet. I announced cancellation Saturday
It was believed possible the final night of sailing races scheduled for
toll might be twice that number.
-The explosion was understood1 warnings were posted along the
to have occurred off Casa Blanca. | Texas coast.
Storm center is some 200 miles
Two hundred would be half the out. according to announcement re-
ceived here, and small craft warn-
‘ infs have been issued.
Nine German divisions (approximately 100.000 men) are shifted from
Warsaw battle to other fronts. Warsaw radio says. French report their
advance units enter suburbs of Saarbruecken on western front
mans announce L------ ----------- ...
troops advancing rapidly on Lwow <Lemberg), Ukrainian capital
WEDNESDAY
Germans announced Warsaw is encircled and Polish army is
retreating eastward; that Nazi troops continue push toward Lwow
and that Modiln. northern keystone to defense of Warsaw. is sur-
rounded. French form new war cabinet, say several hundred thou-
aaid British troops arrive in France and that the Follus move about
a mile further Into Nasi territory. Germany publishes contra-
band law aa “defense” against British "blockade." President Roose-
velt calls congress into special session for September 21.
THURSDAY
OKLAHOMA: Fair, cooler in east
and south portions Sunday; Monday-
fair and warmer.
EAST TEXAS: Partly cloudy in
north, showers in south portion
Sunday and probably Monday.
Fresh east and southeast winds on
the coast with occasional squalls.
WEST TEXAS: Partly cloudy
Sunday and Monday, warmer in
west and north portions Monday.
NEW MEXICO: Partly cloudy
Sunday and Monday; warmer west
■nd north portions Sunday and
southeast portion Monday.
ARIZONA: Generally fair with
little change in temperature Sun-
day and Monday.
innocent citizens and that it had
good reason to suspect that “irre-
guns in a sp°nsibl« Polish leadership” had
i tions will be made to cover only ed strength had arrived in Warsaw
the first few weeks of the season Sunday after breaking through
German force* in Pomerania and
immediately reinforced Warsaw'!
defenders.
The battered capita! was said to
be lacking adequate water and food
supplies in the ninth day of the
German siege
The announcer said streets were
((•allaer* «■ Pag* f, Calaain B)
Populace I s Warned Bombs
'oBTUNE Coming If Demand Refused
german army Protection Of Interests
ORDERS CITY
TO SURRENDER
I Upon being informed that the
German army had given the War-
saw populace 12 hours in which to
leave the city, under threat ui
the entire “destroying” it. Poles here said that
Warsaw would hold out "to the
last man. woman and child.”
Poles here pointed out the city
already had been subjected to a
ten-day bombardment and still w*a*
holding out.
The Germans have maintained
they were bombing military ob-
jectives only. The ultimatum meant
that the entire capital would be
subject to attack if the order were
not complied with.
Towns Bombed Heavily
Many Polish towns were bombed
heavily Saturday. Polish advice*
received here said. These included
i Wilno, in northwest Poland.
It was said at the Polish legation
that German losses so far have
totaled at least 100.000 dead and
wounded.
The army of Genera! Kutrezebai
at Kutno. 75 mile* west of Warsaw,
on Saturday repulsed 17 attacks
which were aimed at uniting Ger-
man force* trying tn close In on
Warsaw from the north and south,
the legation announced.
The Poles, pleased at the stub-
born resistance of the defender* of
Warsaw and Kutno,
being made by the various handlers L
I MOSCOW (S u n d ay)-(AP)- Soviet Rus-
sia has decided to send her army across the
Polish frontier Sunday and to occupy the
Polish Ukraine and White Russia.
According to DNB, the Soviet govern-
ment presented the Polish Ambassador a
note saying that Russia, in its own interest
as well as the interest of White Russian and
Ukrainian minorities in Poland, had been
eral J. P. O. De Camp, head of the
military cabinet, and their military
aides.
Advancing French units reported
the German destruction of villages
was being carried out so systematic-
ally that even cellar* were being
filled and the ground levelled.
In this area, typical oid-world i* not obeyed, the civil population is |
ago have given 12 hours to leave th* city I
- - of the road* in the direction of,
Siedlce and Garwolin.
After 12 hours, the leaflets said,
the entire city of Warsaw* will be
regarded a* war area.
The final paragraph said the 12-
hour notice began with their dis-
tribution.
German military headquarters
said a negotiator was sent to the
Polish lines Saturday with a request
that he be taken to the commander
of Warsaw's defense.
The German officer found a
Polish infantry commander who
forwarded the German request to
SAN ANTONIO —(An— Funeral i the city,
services for Col. Joseph Andrew* After a wait of an hour and a
Robertson. 93. assistant secretary of half, it was reported, the answer
- thundersqualls la to tonqpit and state under President Wilson, will was received that the request was who salvaged the sunken submarine
'^tJkmdMP. ibe held Sunday. Injected. fienudus. *
BASEL, Switzerland
—The German high
command on the western
front Sunday abruptly
changed its tactics from
static defense of its Sieg-
fried Line and was report-
ed to have launched a
series of violent attacks
on French positions in
four main sectors.
PARIS —The Euro- ?° what happened at the Pol-
pean war’s first real grand capital,
scale battle on the western
front appeared Saturday
night to be developing by be regarded as a war area if the-------------
meaning that the city would be |
bombarded -hlLAtUllci?- and the air j __ - ■: - 0-
Leafleta Dropped Forced to issue orders for the army to cross
German fliers during th* after- ■ - a
WESLACO — Signs of the near
approach of the new citrus season
were to be seen in the setting of
a meeting to consider grade and
size regulations, announcement that
official testing of grapefruit and
oranges for maturity would begin
■ October 1 and in the preparation
h*in<r hv th» varinn, handlers
for the coming deal.
SUNDAY
Germany launches counterattack on western front to halt invad-
ing French forces who, thus checked in northern end. shift attack to
It was reported here the Warsaw
Poles fight bitterly for possession of Warsaw. Polish capital. Germany
reports capture of Lodz, Polish textile center 80 miles south of Warsaw*.
MONDAY
Stubborn Polish army halts German advance on Warsaw In
battle raging from the capital's gates to a point SO miles west-
Warsaw radio says many houses are aflame and women
and children killed and wounded. German bombers active all
Fuehrer Hitler file* to battle area in
British troops land In France.
TUESDAY
Polish defenders again turn back German attackers at Warsaw.
The Growers Industry Committee
r and Shippers Marketing Committee
—------ erT will hold a joint meeting at 2 p m.
Polish resistance blasted in axi . Wednesday to consider the matter
* * of a marketing policy for the sea-
suddenly Saturday to make a sur- leaflets showered from planes.
The civilians were told they had
12 hours to get out on two roads
He left for the front in 3 mill- which the German army indicated
tary automobile on what, so far as and agreed to protect
is known, was his first inspection The planes started dropping the
the battlefront. The prenve.*, leaflets at 3:10 p. m therefore it
• w as presumed a smashing German
four years, winning promotion af- start
morning.
The leaflets said the following
demands had been made on the
military commander of Warsaw:
1. All parts of Warsaw and all
t sur-
A MONG these sportsmen who took
to the air in quest of the native
game bird were Major Lester Mait-
land. pilot of the famed "Bird of
Paradise” in the 1927 army flight
from San Francisco to Honolulu: 1 ,
Col. J. C. McDonald. Barksdale alon« the entire front*
Field third attack group command-
er; Captain White. Medical Corps;
Miller; Sergeant L. M. Snyder and days, and many of them already command was reluctant to endanger |
Civilian had been pounded almost beyond
e Gene recognition by shells from both
failed to inform the citizens of the
urgency of the situation.
Time Limit Set
So it was decided, DNB said, to
fense and foreign affairs, left Paris inform the Warsaw population by
are issued, the policy need not be
adhered to in the event that there
have severed communications between Lublin and Lwow. southeast of
and that Gdynia, Polands only seaport, has fallen Prime *
Minister Chamberlain tells House of Commons Britain would claim
right to take “appropriate action" if Germany bombs civilians. Brit-
ain loses her 18th ship to German submarines or mines.
FRIDAY
Britain announce* she has destroyed “a number of I’ bowU
French report new gains on western front aa Germans tell of
further gains In Poland. Unofficial estimates in Mo^ow are that
about l.ftM.999 recruits are being called to the colors under regular
annual draft Unofficial talk of peace move* heard in Berlin.
SATURDAY
Germany throws additional divisions against Kutno in effort tn
I crush Polish "lost army," tightens ring of steel around Warsaw and
presses towards Lwow. First grand scale battle on western front
appears developing hourly with hundreds of thousand* of French and
German* engaged. Britain presses convoy* into service for merchant
shipping; reports 21 British ships totaling 122.843 tons sunk in first
tw’o weeks of war . __
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