Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1939 — Page 4
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Army Sources Report
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00 Since War Began; 35 Planes Shot Down In Last Three days.
Is Routed
0 50 Soviet Tanks Captured
Several of the bombs failed to ex-!
plode,
The Russian airplanes also scat- |
tered propaganda pamphlets—most |
of which blew out in the Gulf of
Finland as they flew overhead. | soldier of fortune, Capt. George von |
An official announcement said a Russian three-motored bombing plane was shot down in today's raid and the crew burned to death. A total of 550 Russian planes have | been used in fighting over Finnish territory in the last two days, the Finns said. About 20 different Finnish towns were bombed. As a result of official statements today, IT am now able to give a clearer and more comprehensive picture of the strategic situation on the entire front. On the basis of Finnish dispatches, it is: On the Karelian Isthmus-—de-spite furious Soviet attacks for 6 days the front has been stabilized on the Mannerheim defense line which the Finns say is where they want it. | Red Strategy Fails |
| North of Lake Ladoga-—just north of the lake, two converging Red Army thrusts were designed to meet | but have now been crushed and the Russian forces are immobilized for the time being. Tolvajaervi (still farther north) -— Two Russian drives have been blocked about 25 miles inside the Finnish border and one Russian column—smashed in a counter attack by Finns—is retiring. At point north of Tolvajaervi, two smaller Russian thrusts failed to penetrate as far into Finland and now are halted entirely. Tisalmi—Opposite the interior town of Tisalmi, where there is an| indentation in the Finnish frontier, two converging Russian drives from each side of the point were stopped a dozen miles inside Finnish territory. Eight Separate Thrusts
Including the above mentioned sectors, there are a total of eight separate thrusts by Russians be-| tween Lake Ladoga and the Tisalmi sector and four others between Iisalmi and the Arctic coast at Petsamo. Those are in addition to the Karelian Isthmus offensive to-| ward Viborg and Helsinki | The sectors north of Tisalmi cen- | ter around Salla. A Soviet column aimed in a curve around the Salla district made the greatest progress | in miles, but now has suffered. Fin- | nish officials said, a crushing defeat and his retreating with huge losses as the Finns pursue. | A second column ordered to curve | gouth of Salla has been blocked and | thus the Soviet threat to cut ACrOSS | the middle of Finland's narrow | | “waist” to the Gulf of Bothna has | been definitely parried.
Finns in No Danger
Officials said that for the mo-| ment the Finnish positions were nowhere in danger and that most of the territory so far yielded was in line with strategic plans to gain the best. defensive positions. With the beginning of snowfall, the Finns hope for further improvement, in their fenses.
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German Bomber Shot Down in France
~keen-eyed, fine looking young fellows. Army, the fliers are on “dry” ra-| tions. No liquor whatsoever is per- | mitted them. I heard that a famous Finnish |
Hartman, whom I had known in| Spain where he organized a Foreign |
| Legion for Generalissimo Francisco |
Franco's Army, had just been
{wounded at the front—another of | {many wounds he has suffered ih
many Wars. As I visit more and more head- | quarters I am constantly impressed | by the high quality of the Finnish officers, their fine physiques and keen alertness. Many of the higher officers had | their military education in Gerduring the World War and were incorporated into the famous Jaeger Battalion which fought against the Russians on the Riga front. then returned to Finland to fight for its independence from Russia in 1918. They are still comparatively young men—in their early 40s.
Visits Wounded Russians
In a building which had been a jail I visited 32 wounded Russian
| prisoners and talked to some through
an interpreter. They ranged from a beardless youth 20 to a man 37 They were cared for by Finnish nurses in spotless white and their cots had clean sheets, pillows and | blankets. All to whom T talked said they were glad to be out of the war. Sev-| eral said they never wanted to go [back to Russia. They were surprised
| that people outside of Russia lived |
so well, they said. One voluble shoemaker from the Russian town of Twer, talked con- | vincingly. He said he and his com-
rades had argued with the commis-| | |
tacked Russia and endangered Leningrad.
Many Suffer From Cold
“We asked him why Finland should attack now when they had lived 22 vears beside Russia in peace,” the shoemaker said. “We said Finland never had attacked Leningrad in 22 vears, s6 why now? I had never fired a gun before except twice in my life. 1 was put in the army and I with about one-| fourth of my troop was wounded in| the first attack.”
All ordinary soldiers with whom tion of four warships and three sub-
we talked said they were not mem|bers of the Communist Party and! had been told that Finland attacked the Soviet Union first. The prisoners said that Russian [losses had been heavy and that | many of them had :ffered frozen! mbs. Two of them we saw had Srna feet which may have to be amputated.
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Like the rest of the Finnish |
fighter.
Times-Acme Photo.
A German bi-motored Heinkel bomber is brought down behind the Maginot Line somewhere on the Western Front by a French Curtiss It broke into four blazing parts and was strewn over a wide area, ’
ARAUCA FIGHTS SUIT FOR LIBEL
Nazi Freighter Remains in Florida Port; British Warship Vanishes.
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (U, P).—Plans for releasing the German freighter Arauca from the $38.451 libel holding her Everglades—where she sought refuge from the pursuing British cruiser Orion Tuesday—were made today. It appeared certain, however, that stay here would be lengthy. Robert H. Givens Jr., Miami attorney, said he had been retained by the Hamburg-American line to answer the suit by which the Arauca was attached. He said he was ad|vised by the Line it wished to file! an answer to the libel and that! [there was “a valid defense against the claim.”
Meanwhile, the Orion, which had |
patrolled offshore since her quarry fled into Port Everglades, disappeared from sight. Coast Guardsmen did not know whether the Orion, which fired a shot across the | bow of the Arauca in attempting to intercept her, had given up the vigil or had merely moved bevond sighting distance, Seen early this! morning by Coast Guardsmen, the Orion was not visible at midmorning. All official sources discounted! yesterday's reports of a congrega-
marines outside the harbor.
Hint Columbus Crew
To Be Released Soon
NEW YORK, Dec. 22 (U. P.).Members oi the crew of the scuttled | German passenger liner Columbus | may be released from Ellis Island next week to seek passage out of the
Dec. 22
in Port
Among Yesterday’
| UP AND UP GOES the total of children clothed in the 10th annual | It's now 2152. contributors vesterday children; United Auto Workers, Local 226, and Auxiliary No. 20, with 10 children, and the New York Ceniral Railroad employees of InBeech Grove, and Brightwood shops, Two other departments of the
| Clothe-A-Child campaign Heavy
dianapolis,
Total of Children Clothed in 10th Annual Drive Now 2152
Capitol Motors, Auto Workers and New York Central
$ Heavy Contributors.
were the Capitol Motors,
8 children.
Real Silk Hosiery Mills, heavy con- | Employees of Century Bldg, .. tributors throughout the campaign, William John Knieper Jr came in for six more children. The [Henty C. Ballard
score.
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Capitol Motors United Auto Workers, Local 226 and Auxiliary 20 New York Central Railroad Employees of Indianapolis, Beech Grove and Brightwood Shops. . Vehicle and Inbound Dept., Railway Express Agency Employees Wadley Co. ......... Employees of Ross-Add Seal, Tne. International Association of Machinist Local 1022 Employees Indianapolis Machinery Co. . . Employees old Mill Dept. U. Tire Cb. .. Real Silk Hosiery Mills, ing Dept. ; Home Owners’ Loan Corp Employees of Challenge Gauge & Tool Co. | Northern Indiana Power | ployees eat Silk Hosiery Mills, Re-Knit Dept. Real Silk Hosiery Mills, Pairing 1. Dept, &... Mr. and Mrs. George Cunning- | ham and William J. Duncan. .
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FRANCE AIDS FINNS, | DALADIER REPORTS
PARIS, Dec. 11 (U. P.).—Premier | Edouard Daladier, in a speech
The Finnish coasts were de- [punctuated by the ringing cheers have been verified.
dicated today. Some 300 of the crew's 576 members satisfied inspectors at Ellis Island yesterday that they were orinary “distressed seamen in good aith,” and entitled to the regulaaid 60 days’ liberty here in which to find passage on some outgoing ship. Their release will be efTected after all members and officers according to
scribed as heavily fortified and not of the Chamber of Deputies, an- Byron H. Uhl, District Inspector of
in danger of Soviet naval attacks, Bombing of Red Cross units, such as that which occurred yesterday in Helsinki, mave followed the ejection of Russia from the League of Na-| tions. | Finnish officers sav the Moscow Radio announced that since Russia's expulsion she no longer was bound by any international conventions. Since then, the Finns sav, there have been attacks against Red Cross hospitals. Wednesday, it was said, a big Red "Cross bus, plainly marked, was pursued for miles and machine-gunned but not hit. I saw one field hospital with a] big Red Cross flag flying which had | been narrowly missed by a bomb. | It had struck and burned a house 50 yards away.
Visits Base Hospital
Yesterday I visited an eight-story base hospital. It is one of the finest, cleanest and most modern I have seen in anv country. It had beds for 600. There were only about 450 patients. About 300 had been evacuated farther back the day before.| The hospital had undergone one air raid alarm and all walking cases| had gone to the basement, but were | stumbling back upstairs when we -arrived, It is impossible to move the bed-| ridden patients even when an alarm sounds. These constitute about 60 per ceat of the patients. About 60 per cent of the wounded were victims of artillery shells. Some had been wounded by rifle bullets, None had been gassed. In another town we visited a big military air field where many of the personnel were in air raid - trenches.
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nounced today that France was giving important military aid to Finland “and will continue to do so in defense of a heroic people.” | “We know,” said Premier Daladier, “that Poland and Finland were in heroism but unequal in methods and military operations. | Poland despite the heroism of the entire people was destroved in a few weeks by a war of movement. The heroic Finns, facing a greater menace, had fortified themselves and, behind their barrage, resist and show what a people who prefer |death to slavery can do. The occasion for M. Daladier's! speech was a special war budget of 54.937,000.,000 frans ($1,230,000,000) [to cover special war costs for the | first three months of 1940. Chamber passed the budget unanimously.
‘NEEDLE ILLNESS’ OF WOMAN PROBED
Detectives today are investigating the complaint of a 22-year-old woman that she was made ill by a | hypodermic needle which she said was jabbed in her arm Saturday by an unidentified person as she rode on a streetcar. The young woman said she became dizzy and was treated bv a physician Saturday night. Then she recovered. Yesterday, while shopping in a downtown store, she became ill again and was taken home in a taxicab. Her physician said he believed her illness vesterday was, merely a reaction from the incident Saturday.
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We met some of the Finnish pilots
The perior
| tempt,
Immigration.
The examination of all is not th
pected to be completed before %o- | night. Since the holidavs will delay | approval from Washington until Tuesday at the earliest, the rescued crew will be “Christmas guests of | the United ‘States Government,’ Mr. Uhl said.
APPEAL INDICATED BY MRS. ALDERMAN
HOLL YWOOD, Dec. Dec. 22 (U. P).Mrs. Alma Alderman is not through
from blues singer Ruth Etting for | allegedly “alienating: her ‘affections, she indicated today. She said she would appeal Su- | Court Judge Samuel R. Blake's ruling yesterday that Miss |
man, "had done nothing to “lure, incite or persuade” Alderman to abandon his second wife,
husband's | Mrs. W.
mercial Body, First Aid and | Patrol Service ........0L 0000 Girls of Classified Dept., Indian- | apolis Times ; Employees Karpex Mfg. Co. Employees Fountain Square Theater ... Handle Dept. E. C. Atkins Co.... Kroger Office Employees Tn Memory of Robert Leach. . Keystone Tavern Gang . A Emplgyect Hibben Hollweg Co. qe . Rubber—F, T. C. and Corny Depts, General Office Employees, Public Service Co. of Indiana | (Clothed 12 previously) New Mill Employees, U. S. & Rubber Co. | Raper Commandery No. 1 XK. T.. Beach & Arthur Employees In Memory of Mrs. Florence Moore—Employees of Columbia Club otary Christmas Cheer Committee G. M.A C.and G. E. 1. C. Corps | Tn Memory of my Aunt
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| Hosiery Mills, Ine. x WM .. | From Bakers of Colonial Bread —T & T Baking Co. .... . [Women's Club of Fletcher Trust Co.
Louise H. Stout Depts. 59 and 14 of Chevrolet | Commercial Body Co.
52 Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. Lamp Division 11 Anonymous | Student Council of Crispus At10| tucks High School ..... ve [Dodge Plant Link Belt Local 1150, S. UV. 0. C. C.1.O 8 Indiana Casualty Adjusters As- | sociation 6 In Memory of “Billie” 6 Tn Memoriam 5 Co-Operative Club of Indianapolis 5 H. L. Crawford ...... (VIPS. Gu. J. BOOMER ..\.uivetivnnann 5 Van Camp Iron Western Auto No. 1 Store Employees ..... | City Purchasing Agent” s Office. , . 4 Sigma Beta Sorority (Lambda 3| Mu Chapter) | Grandpa, Dutch and Jerry Lehr 3 G. C. Murphy—Stock Men | Ladies Auxiliary, Indianapolis 3| Railways 1070 | Kappa Gamma Alpha 3 Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Havens and | Friends 3 Stenographic Dept. Van Camp | Hardware & Iron | - - a -
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BRITISH DRIVE AWAY NAZI AIR RAIDERS
22 (U. P.).—German airplanes renewed reconnaissance thrusts at the British coastal areas today but were fought off by Royal Air Forces planes. The Firth of Forth—important
LONDON, Dec.
operations, A British fighter engaged and |
1 and two unidentified planes, believed | 1 to be German, were sighted later | 1 off the Eastern Coast. One of them, 1 apparently a Heinkel, was flying at | 1 about 22,000 feet, trailing a cloud | |of thick white smoke, 1| There was no indication whether | (it was the same plane that was] 1 chased from the Firth of Forth 1 area. | 1 Meridian Pontiac 1 Amor Et Eidelitas Club . | American Hosiery Co. 1 Boy Scouts Troops 41 and 6 ... [Lou Hitchcock 1 Hook's Drug Store Employees | Senate and Washington .. ... 1 Omega Kappa Sorority—Alpha 1| Chapter 1 Methodist Hosiptal Laboratory. . Pure: 0il Co.—Bulk Plant . N. C. Davidson 1 ts ' 1 Young People’s Class of Cum 1) berland Baptist Church Major Robert Anderson Woman's 1 Relief Corp No. 44... 1 Zone 1—Indianapolis Power & Light Co. . on Fendricks Terminal Lunch “s : U. S. Rubber Co., Dept. No. 62... 1 Mrs. Frankowitz (Clothed one | previously) ] Friends, Movie Paster Co,
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| Scottish naval base—and the Suf- | folk Coast were the main scenes or
[chased a Heinkel bomber through | , 1/|the clouds off the Firth of Forth, |
FRIDAY, DEC. 22, 1939 |
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‘KEY LARGO’ ACTOR smoke drove 40 guests from theis BURNED ED SERIOUSLY | Mr. Johnsrud, who is playing
|d'Alcala in Maxwell Anderson's
NEW YORK, Dec. 22 (U. Py. “Key Largo,” was taken to Bellevue | Harold Johnsrud, 35, playwright Hospital suffering from smoke poiand actor currently appearing on soning and from first, second and | Broadway, was critically burned to- | third degree burns on the face, chest Physicians said his conand | dition was “very serious.”
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