In the news, Thursday, September 21, 1939

________

SEP 20      INDEX      SEP 22

________

________

from Spokane Daily Chronicle

Final Empire Edition
p. 3
ENDEAVOR SOCIETY WILL HAVE PARTY
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hardt are the parents of a girl, Shirley Ann, born this week at Gibson Hospital.

Inland Edition
p. 2
KERMIT ROOSEVELT WOULD AID BRITISH
Kermit Roosevelt was reported today to have offered his services to the British government and expressed willingness to become a naturalized British subject in order to take an official war-time post in London.  It was reported that Winston Churchill, first lord of the admiralty, had found an official post for Roosevelt--son of Theodore Roosevelt--in one of the war-time ministries.

Fireside Edition
p. 1

ROOSEVELT URGES REPEAL OF EMBARGO
Declares Provisions Are Dangerous to Security

Assassination of Rumanian Premier Gives a New Twist to the War Picture
Calinescu Is Slain by Iron Guard Group in Bucharest

Rescue at Sea. Cameraman Catches Aerial Rescue of Crew on British Freighter Sunk by Submarine

Wirephoto: A British Royal Air Force flying patrol boat circles the sinking British freighter Kensington Court as a lifeboat (left) with the freighter's crew of 34 pulls away from the stricken ship. Two such flying boats picked up all the men. British authorities said it was the first case where an entire crew had been rescued in this manner. The Kensington Court, the British government said, had sent out an SOS after having been attacked by a submarine somewhere in the Atlantic.

RUSSIANS-NAZIS SCOUR POLAND

Son of Germany's War Ace Is Slain
Captain Barcon von Richtofen, 29, son of Baron Manfred von Richtofen, most famous German World War ace, has been shot down and killed in an air battle.

p. 2
JEWS OF POLAND FIND NO HAVEN

p. 4
NOT MUCH BETTER THAN NOTHING

Would Repeal of Neutrality Law Bolster Third Term Plan?


Spokane Weekly Chronicle
p. 1
VARNER HANDED PRISON SENTENCE
Howard C. Varner, former postmaster at Electric City, near Grand Coulee Dam, pleaded guilty in federal court here today to charges of embezzling postoffice funds.

p. 2
CONCRETE POUR RECORD BROKEN
The concrete production record, considered by engineers to be the outstanding mark of them all -- 11,072 cubic yards a day for six consecutive months, set by the MWAK company -- was shattered this week by Consolidated Builders, Inc.

p. 3
REMOVE TIMBER FROM DAM AREA

p. 6
Waterfall at Dam Eighty Feet High

p. 8
FRANK A. BANKS RETURNING SOON TO COULEE POST
Grave diggers are setting some kind of a speed record in removing the remains of Indians and white people from within the 151-mile reservoir above the dam.

Miss Tarvin to Be Bride Next Spring
George Raymond Jeffers, 36, Coulee City, was jailed here on a charge of petty larceny by check.

HOWELLS ACQUIRE ELMER CITY HOUSE
Sam Seaton is remodeling his home.
Henry Taschereau is building living quarters at the Seaton service station, which he manages.

________