Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1941 — Page 8

FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1941

ed to work on the other copy of the majority opinion in the clerk’s office proper. As they had to go through the opinion slowly, Judge A. J. Steven son of the Appellate Court asked iff he might see the latter half and he , started reading the decision aloud.’ A group formed about him in cluding Attorney General George, Beamer, James K. Northam and Joseph Hutchinson, deputy attore ney generals; Fred Eichhorn, chaire man of the Public Service Commise sion and Harold Mull, P. 8. C. sece retary, and Samuel Haddon, Highe way Commission member. As Judge Stevenson, dressed nate tilv in a white suit with a colored shirt and white detachable collar, came to passages in the opinion particularly favorable to the Demo cratic viewpoint, he would pause and say in his dignified manner, “that’s all right, ist 't it?” The Democrats . in the p grinned after each such co Ww but not a smile creased the cot..e tenances of the Republicans in the circle. Justyas the judge was getting inte full swing, Ross Teckemeyer, deputy State Auditor and one of the State House’s staunchest Republicans, walked up. He listened until the judge reached a particularly pungent paragraph whereupon he let out a loud whistle as if to say “how can that be” and turned around and walked, out. As soon as the judge got far enough ‘along to where there was no doubt as to how sweeping the decision was, Mr. Northam started for the Governor's office at a dead run. Ask what was up by a person he ran past in the hall he shouted, “Geeminie, it goes all the way.”

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HE TTLEXAPOLIS TWEE Russian Tank Victim of German Fire. [REDS ADMIT 120MILE NAZI DRIVE

Invaders Prepare Pincer Thrusts on Moscow And Ukraine.

LONDON, June 27 (U. P.).— Radio Moscow admited today that German Panzer divisions have driven 120 miles forward into Russian territory in the opening phase of a pincers movement upon Minsk with the apparent ultimate Nazi objective a head on drive for MosCOW. Radio Moscow broadcast a special Soviet communique in which it was reported that Russian troops fell back to. new defense positions after inflicting a defeat—described as heavy—upon the Germans in the North Poland-Baltic region. The communique admitted the evacuation of Vilna, situated on the former Polish-Lithunian border, 105 miles due east of the East Prussian frontier, 85 miles northwest of the old Russian frontier and 110 miles from Minsk.

Lose Baranovichi

The Russians also yielded Baranovichi, strategic point on the highway - that leads northeast from Brest-Litovsk, skirting the northern side of the Pripet Marshes, toward Minsk. The loss of these positions now enables the Germans to attempt a pincers movement on Minsk, driving southeast from Vilna and northeast from Baranovichi which is 45 miles from the old Russian frontier and about 85 from Minsk. The communique said that Siaulai, 80 miles northeast of the East Prussian frontier city of Tilsit and about 75 miles southeast of Riga,

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Speeding up its long-rangt expansion program because of the defense emergency, the Indianapolis -Power & Light Co. revealed today that it has ordered a new 37,500 kilowatt turbo-generator for the|gh Harding St. power plant. 2 The new generator, a duplicate of one now - being installed, is to be delivered in June, 1943, by the General Electric Co. It will cost ap- - proximately $750,000. Additional| equipment and necessary building expansion will bring the total cost to around $2,000,000, H. T. Pritchard president, said. ; The Harding St. plant originally was designed to have four generating units, and started operations ‘in 1931 with two turbo-generators of 36,750 kilowatts each. The addition of the two new units will give the plant a total rated capacity of $18,500. The utility’s other plants bring the total capacity up to 184,000 kilowatts. The peak demand this year, Mr. Pritchgrd said, was 131,900 ykilowatts on June 4. However, a sizable increase in the load is expected when several new defense industries get under operation later this year. Mr. Pritchard reported that a recent survey indicated an increase of about 25 per cent in the peak - demand for power in the next 27 months. In order to reduce delays the utility plans to ask thé Office of Production Management for official priorities on the basis of Indianapolis’ importance in the defense

Democrats Grin, GOP Group Gloomy as Opinion Is Read

By EARL RICHERT

About midafternoon yesterday, Supreme Court Judges Michael L. Fansler, H. Nathan Swaim and Curtis G. Shake left their chambers on the second floor of the State House and walked down the hall toward the soft drink counter for a coke. On the way they passed a group of newspapermen leaning against the second floor bannister. The judges smiled a greeting, but they didn’t say a word. Judge Swaim didn’t even tell the boys to go on home and do their milking as he had been wont to do often during the last week. Then, the reporters knew for sure that the long expected Supreme Court decision on the G. O. P. “ripper” bills was coming. Word that the Supreme Court was about to rule spread quickly and a large crowd, including State officials, job hunters and Claypool Hotel politicians gathered. Some of them pulled up chairs and sat down in the hall outside Judge Fansler’s office. Others adopted half-reclining positions on the bannister. They wondered who was writing the opinion. Would there be a dissent? Would the Republicans get so much as a smell? The minutes ticked by. Clerks darted from one office to another. Judge Fansler, with his glasses halfway down on his nose, walked around in shirt sleeves. 1 Some of the crowd got tired and eft. And then shortly before 5 p. m. the judges went into their conference chamber and the reporters went down to the. Supreme Court

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clerk’s office on the first floor, the office where the opinion gould be filed. State officials, leaving the State House at the end of the day’s work, came by to see if the opinion had come down yet. Informed that it was due, most of them stayed around. Then at 5:30 the Supreme Court messenger brought down the opinion. He had hardly got his bundle unwrapped before it was known that it was a four-to-one decision. That was enough for most of the spectators. They knew that meant a Democratic victory and several of them ran for telephones to notify friends. There were only two copies of the T70-page opinion available to the eight reporters who were on the job, and to facilitate matters one of the reporters started reading excerpts from the majority opinion to the other reporters in an adjoining office. State House workers crowded about to hear the opinion and before long the small windowless room where the reporters were working was packed. Press association reporters start-

Somewhere on Russo-German Front—While German soldiers wait on either side for the crew to appear and surrender, a Russian tank, victim of a German attack, blazes fiercely, says the German censorapproved caption on this picture flashed to New York from Berlin. The German caption does not specify

at what point along the great battlefront this incident took place. » ” »

Russians Fall Back 120 Miles; Hitler Thrusts Toward Moscow! F Germans st Knockout Red Army to Seize

(Continued from Page One) Details of the Central Front adWealth, Experts Say. (Continued from Page One)

vance as well as of less furious fighting on the northern Baltic and The western border reThe Ger-

did in Belgium, France and Jugoslavia. These sources claimed that some Soviet army corps had been cut off from communication with neighboring corps and with Moscow. If confirmed, this would mean the first vital step toward creating chaos such as wrecked the Allied defenses in France.

the southern Bessarabian flanks were still withheld by the German High Command, but the daily communique from Adolf Hitler's Headquarters said that “decisive” results would soon be announced.

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The German panzer columns, aided by the Luftwaffe’s dive bombers, have thrust deep wedges into the Russian front, it was added, emphasizing that the main purpose of the Nazi offensive is to destroy the Red Army as a military force rather

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Comparison of the German and Soviet communiques left no doubt that the Nazi mechanized forces had made important advances but left uncertain the exact position of the fighting front and the ability of the Germans to maintain their columns against Russian counterattacks. The Red Army officially reported it had the upper hand in fighting on the Luck Front, guarding Kiev, but said that furious tank and mechanized, battles were still in progress in the Minsk sector. German parachute and fifth column tactics, however, have failed completely in Russia, the Red Army asserted in a dispatch published by the Government newspaper Izvestia. The newspaper said that all German parachutists had been wiped out. A dispatch from Sweden, presumably influenced by Nazi propaganda, said that the newspaper Aftonbladet reported rumors of a possible Soviet government move from Moscow to Sverdlovsk in the Ural Mountains, and that thousands of persons had been arrested in a “big anti-Soviet” plot in Moscow. Dispatches direct from Moscow indicated that the city was calm. Hungary Enters War Hitler's campaign—not yet officially recognized by Berlin—to enlist other European countries in a war against Bolshevism brought Hungary into the war today and resulted in a defiant attitude on the part of the official Falangist press in Spain toward Britain. The newspaper said that Spain would send volunteers to fight against Russia and would bring in oil imports by sea, regardless of Britain's attitude. Britain meanwhile protested strongly to Sweden against permitting Nazi troops to cross from Norway to Finland, which was virtually at war with the Soviets. Rumania, Italy and Slovakia also are actively at war on the German side. The air war on the Western Front: continued, with British planes again raiding the German bases on the French Coast, while Royal Air Force craft were reported by Cairo to have hit at least three enemy ships of 20,000 tons each in attacking a convoy off Italy on Thursday. The war focussed, however, on the Eastern Front where the Germans had advanced almost to or into the pre-war Russian territory.

Nazis Push 80 Miles

This represented an inciated advance of nearly 80 miles in a single day and a push of possibly 200 miles from the point at which the Germans obtained their initial break-through at the fortress of

Brest-Litovsk. The estimate of an indicated onedey advance of 75 or 80 miles was based upon the Russian war communique. Whereas yesterday it placed the scene of fighting in the vicinity of Baronowitze, today’s communique specified Minsk, 80 miles deeper inside Russia. Unless the Red Army succeeds in slowing down the German advance, the Nazi columns will be able to push ahead to the vicinity of Moscow within 10 days of the start of their attack. The distance from Minsk to Moscow is about 350 miles, most of it across broad, open country of the type best suited to the slashing mechanized maneuvers in which the Wehrmacht specializes. There is some evidence that the German drive straight for Moscow has been foreseen to some extent by] the Russians. This would explain] the extensive precautions taken in Moscow by the United States Embassy which has evacuated all American citizens from the Russian capital with the exception of the Embassy staff and American newspaper correspondents. :

mans are aiming for this Volga area. The first few days and weeks may be slow, and the Germans were probably delayed several days because of rains. The Germans probably fully anticipated the Russian counter-at-tacks in Bessarabia and will benefit by this advance information. The Russians are powerful fighters on the defense. They will take up fixed lines behind the Trivers, which run north and south. But they are inherently weak on the offense.

Munitions Plants Moved

The Germans will try to outflank them, get behind the lines, and drive the Russians into concentrations that can be more easily disorganized by bombing and mechanized attack. For some time, the Russians have been moving their vital munitions industries back from their western frontier in anticipation of a possible attack. There is also oil available near the mouth of the Volga. Oil, industries, and grain are undoubtedly subsidiary objectives of the Nazis now, but their main concern is to break the main Russian army.

If they take the oil fields now without crushing the Red Army, they could not hold them. If they destroy the army, they get the oil fields anyhow. The Urals are now the industrial area. After this comes Siberia with the 5000 mile trans-Siberian railroad. . Anybody that can take and hold this railroad has Siberia.

Both Well Equipped

Both Germany and Russia are well equipped but the Germans have the system and skill to maintain equipment. The best Russian strategy in the west was to withdraw to a line running north and south through Moscow. They could have dropped back with their flanks to the mouth of the Volga River in the south and near the Arctic port of Archangel in the north.

If the Russians withdraw toward.

the Urals they would give up twothirds of the important part of their country and much of its population, but they would still have industrial facilities. If they don’t withdraw, they are likely to lose all of it anyhow.

: 4000 Russian Planes

The Russian air force on the immediate front is 4000 planes against Germany’s 6000. The Nazis probably have another 6000 available in Germany, France, and elsewhere. The Russian planes are as good in type as the German, but have not been kept up. The Russians are fine fliers, but they have ‘not yet been tried for fighting ability. The Germans excell in replacements of pars and production, The German claims of having probably eliminated a large part of Russian aviation are probably true. Both Russians and Germans have large parachute forces. The Germans recently ordered 30,000 parachutes in France for delivery Aug. 1. They used 20,000 parachutists in Crete. The total Russian forces—European and Far Eastern—are estimated at 118 infantry divisions, 23 cavalry divisions, 48 tank brigades or 24 divisions, and 15 air divisions, a total of 2,765,400 men. The flow of munitions from Russia to China will now cease because of Russia’s preoccupation at home. But a Russian-Japanese war is not likely now because of Japan's commitments in China. The Japanese have 11 divisions in Manchuria. The Russians have 52 divisions in the East and they are excellent fighting men. But if the Germans defeat the main concentrated Russian army in Western Europe and drive on across Siberia they would be within 30 miles of American Alaska outpost

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capital city of Latvia. These losses appeared to give the Germans virtual control of Lithuania, westernmost of the group of three Baltic States taken over by Russia last summer.

Take Slice of Old Poland

The Germans also have won a thick slice of former Polish territory and appear rapidly to be approaching the Russian frontiers as they existed prior to the German attack on Poland in September, It appeared to military observers here that the Russians are now falling back in the northeastern sector upon the old fortifications system of the Stalin line which was built in White Russia to protect Minsk. This view appeared to be confirmed by the radio Morcow report that German air forces had repeatedly attacked Borisov, Borbruisk, and Mogilev, White Russian cities where it was presumed that the Russians have concentrated powerful forces for the battle of Minsk. Fighting in the Brody, Luck and Skuleni areas is developing from a Nazi attempt to crack through Russian defenses and drive toward Kiev, capital of the rich Ukraine. It appeared that the Germans have made less progress in this direction than in their Minsk-Moscow thrust.

NAME L. E. HOFFMAN COUNTY AGENT HEAD

Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 27.—The retirement of Thomas A. Coleman as associdbe director of agricultural extension at Purdue University was announced today by President E. C. Elliott. Mr. Coleman, state leader of Indiana county agents since this work was started in 1913, has been granted a year’s leave of absence, after which he will retire formally. He will be succeeded July 1 by L. E. Hoffman, associate leader of county agents, who will become acting associate director of extension and state leader of county agent work. Mr. Coleman plans to return to his Rush County farm next week. He has been active in Hoosier farm affairs 40 years, and is a past district governor of Kiwanis. Mr. Hoffman, a Purdue graduate of 1918, served two years as Jay County agricultural agent, then was called to the university as assistant state leader of agents. i

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