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Delay Means Hitler Has Lost Advantage
Lightning War Must Be Decisive in 10 Days, Says Expert, Predicting Long Fight.
The accompanying article by a former member of the Chicago Daily News Foreign Staff gives the view on the Russo-German war of one
who has studied and written about European affairs for more than two
decades. Mr. Fodor is now a member of the faculty of the Illinois Institute of Technology. ’ :
: By M. W. FODOR Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.
ON THE BASIS of two and a half weeks of fighting, one can assert that the Russian Army has given a good account of itself. To succeed, the modern blitzkrieg must achieve decisive results within the first 10 days of the offensive. Within this period the breakthrough occyrred in Poland in September, 1939. The French Army, in May, 1940, was decisively beaten on the Meuse on the. fourth and fifth days of the German attack. When a decisive action is deiayed “longer than such a period, the action loses the advantages of a “lightning war.” The aim of the German General Staff was to annihilate the Russian Army in its initial as‘sault through encirclement. The cream of the Polish Army had thus been eliminated in Septems ber, 1939, and so was the Belgian Army (though the British Army managed to extricate itself from the German trap). ‘The Germans calculated that . once the Russian Army was an-. . nihilated, Stalin ‘would be forced Wa to make peace lest his regime M.'W. Fodor, collapse, In this case, the second ‘war front in the East would have been eliminated. . The Germans engaged Russia, among others, because the German General Staff feared that if American troops were to be landed in Europe in 1942 (which fact the German Army leaders were forced to assume in their calculations even if such a help may not be forthcoming): then Russia probably would have attacked Germany from
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Russian Army Better Than in 191} IN THE LAST WAR, Germany captured more than 3,000,000 Russian prisoners, and yet the war went on for another two years! Even German communiques do not claim more than 300,000 prisoners captured in the Russian campaign during the first two weeks. Today, Russia’s army is much larger and better equipped than it was: in 1914, If the Russians can extricate their armies from the German pincers movement, this huge army can be re- -equipped. Stalin today is better off than he was a year and a half ago. After two and a half weeks of fighting the Nazi armies have reached the Stalin Line. Before the outbreak of the war in 1939, this was to be the’
first line of Russian defense.
Also, before 1939, Stalin had to reckon with the possibility of losing the Ukraine. . He reorganized his resources in a manner that, even if the Ukraine should be lost, he would be able to exploit the other re-
- | police raid on a well-known, downtown gambling house where Thomas| # Dillon was arrested on three gams-|:
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sources of Russia.
He developed a new oil producing industry between the Volga River
: and the Urals which should supply the Russian armies with oily should
the Germans capture the Baku oil flelds. Stalin also created new industries—iron and asbestos, oil, beauxite, nickel, gold, platinum, potash and pyrites—in the Urals. 2 8 8 : #8 = =
Could Fight Without Ukraine
HERE THE RUSSIANS now have fine steel works, chemical plants and copper works. They have exploited the Kuznetz coal basin in Western Siberia, the richest coal field in the world. Even if the Ukraine is lost, Russia should be able to go on with the war for years. Germany will be forced .to fight against both Britain pnd Russia. ! Hitler's mistake was that he went to war, believing that he was fighting an ideology, and that his victory would bring a collapse of the Russian Bolshevik edifice. He did not realize that he would be fighting
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BLUE PLEDGES PADLOCKS FOR VICE CENTERS
Reveals New Cleanup Plans Following" Dillon Arrest In Club Raid.
some Indianapolis taverns where vice ‘conditions reportedly are flourishing will be started at once, Prosecutor Sherwood Blue said .today.
His announcement followed. a|
ing counts late yesterday. The place was known as the Budweiser Club in the 100 block, W. Maryland St. >. “We have been receiving complaints ‘every day that vice conditions, growing out of flagrant violations of the liquor laws, are growing worse every day and it is fime to clean up the city,” Prosecutor Blue said.
‘Worst Places to Go
“We don’t expect to rid the city of gambling but we must take steps to close up some of the worst places as fast as they spring up.” Mr. Blue said several taverns in the city have become the breeding places for crime and vice. Residents have been complaining that womeén and children are being insulted in the vicinity of some. of these taverns where the operators are violating liquor laws, he. de-
Padlock proceedings to close up
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Here he sprinkles foot powder on
Sgt Fletcher Coon (extreme right), | proves that a sergeant must be “like a mother” to hie men.
the aching feet of seven ‘of the soldiers who trudged westward from
Memphis on a “penance march” for yeo-hooing and whistling at their commanding general and a group of shorts-clad girl golfers on a Memphis golf course Sunday. The men got their foot first aid as they rested for lunch along the line of march. Left to right, they are Privates La Vern Palmer, Lute-
annies Hogezson,
Clifford Guenther; Orlyn Parker, Carl Schwirtz, F. L, McVay, Marvin Christensen and
Sergt. Coon. The “penance march” was decreased hy Gen. Ben Lear, inset.
clared. “The law abiding tavern operators have agreed to help us inthis cleanup,” he said. The Prosecutor’s office has been probing <viee conditoins in the city for several weeks and recently added an investigator from the Police Department after operating five months with only one full-time investigator.
“Avenue” Is Included
against vice will include an attempt to make a general clean-up of “hot spots” on Indiana Avenue where “crime conditions have been bad for several years.” He pointed out that the law provides that any place which becomes a general nuisance to the public can be closed by either criminal or civil action and “that means a sort of a padlock against use of a building where law violations are found.” One of the Avenue’s figures said today that “it sounds like the Fourth of July down there with the (Continued on Page Nine) °
PRODUCERS OF MILK ASk PRIGE INGREASE:
May Cause 1-Cent Jump Per Quart ‘ Here.
The State Milk Control Board will set a date at its meeting Monday for a public hearing on the petition |* of three local milk producers’ associations asking for price increases. The increases, if granted, would probably bring about a 1-cent a quart rise in the cost of milk to the consumer. Associations asking for the increase are the Independent Milk Producers’ Association Inc.; the Indianapolis Dairy Producers’ Council and the Indianapolis Dailrymen’s Co-operative, Inc. They asked that the increase be effective July 16. The petition stated that during|:
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Billeter, 47, Ave., whose
partment headquarters at 2:25 a. m Neither firemen: nor- J." H. Erbrich, company president, could determine the origin of the blaze. ’
PICKLE PLANT “FIRE HURTS 2
Firemen Abandon Roof Before . Cave-in; Damage $100,000.
A two-alarm fire today caused
$100,000 damage at the Erbrich Products Corp., 1120 E. 32d St.
Two firemen were injured, neither
seriously, as the ‘spectacular blaze attracted hundreds of persons and endangered several’ nearby hoses and some railtoad carson the pany. siding.
Other firemen escaped injury
when they abandoned the roof of the year-old cement block building sHortly before it caved in.
The. injured firemen were Ralph of 3416 Northwestern finger , was cut, and Gatland Burris, 29, of 1712 N. Me-
ridian St., cut on" the nase.
' The first alarm: came. to Fire De-
Firemen at first climbed to the
roof of the building and: poured water onto the blaze from there. After fire broke through the roof in several places, doned this position. caved in shortly afterwards. hours later the fire was brought under control.
firemen abanThe roof Four
Fire started in the rear:of the
building. A large quantity of package goods, together with pickle vats and peanut butter making machinery, were destroyed.. The mustard department and the offices, together with: records, were damaged less severely.
Seventeen fire companies were
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General Who o Disciplined Soldiers for r Whistling at Girls Fails to Arrive for Review.
By JOE COLLIER - Lieut. Gen. Ben Lear, who banished the social “yoo-hoo” from the U.S. Army—at least from the Second Field Army—failed to arrive in Indianapolis today’ for an announced inspection of the 20lst Infantry
at Ft. Harrison. Lieut. Col. Theron Methven, Commander of the:201st, an aide, some
Ss - sergeants, a: military wagon, and several’ Intetestyd civilians were
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Lear was not: there. Lower . Relief Levy May
A systematie search of the train =| supposedly ‘bringing him... from his Make’ It Possible. By NOBLE REED
Memphis, Tenn, headquarters, The prospect of a substantial re-
failed to revedl him or ‘his staff officers. So Colonel Methven assumed that someone - at Second Field Army headquarters blundered ' yesterday about the date or the time of the General's - visit here. Col. Methven proceeded back: to Ft. Harrison. The review,’ scheduled for 2 p. m. was called off.
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TAFT HINTS U, S. ®/ NOW IN IRELAND
Senate Committee to Ask Knox if Navy Has’ Fired on Germans.
WASHINGTON, July 10 (U. P). —Senator Rebert A. Taft (R. O., quoting “reliable authority,” charged in the Senate today that the United: States is constructing a naval air base for Great Britain in Northern Ireland (Ulster).
Senator Taft criticized the. occupation - of Iceland, by ‘American troops, and declared thatthe United States could send. troops to Ireland, Scetland, England or Portugal on the same justification that’was used to occupy Iceland. ‘ “These countries are no. further away than Iceland,” Senator Taft said, “and now we have to defend our troops in Iceland. : Weeks ago I
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STALLED: ITLER THROWS IN NEW TROOPS
Wounded in Single Battle, ,
Syrian Armistice Keeps Up Raids.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS £ United Press Foreign News Editor i
Germany hurled powerful reinforcements into the sece ond wave of blitzkrieg offensive against Russia’s main dee i |fense line today, but the Red Army was reported: turning |the enemy. back with severe losses or counter-attacking strongly on the main fronts defending Moscow, Leningrad
Bloody battles in which at least two German divisions were crushed are exacting a tremendous toll on the strength of the invader, the Russian Army newspaper Red Star said in reporting that 7000 Germans were killed or wounded and 1500 surrendered in a single clash. Berlin asserted that the advance on the Eastern Front
was continuing without inter ji ruption, although no details were made public, and the
pro-Nazi. Stockholm news
paper Aftonbladet said street fight= ing was in progress in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. On other fronts, the Royal Ae Force kept up its relentless off Roh Tall andr aa c y and in occupied tory, bombing war industries ab Aachen, Osnabruk and elsew and the British advance contin in ‘Syria pending acceptance of armistics by the defenders. # In air war over the Eastern the Germans claimed to have down or destroyed 110 te ‘aire planes and to be pounding at Russian communications rear lines. The Russians, shooting down 38 German planes one air battle and said the Red Force destroyed about 100 enemy tanks, On the Fronts ; The fighting fronts as reported by both sides were: .
CENTRAL (MOSCOW) FRONT. Moscow said the Red Army had counter-attacked in the = Le Polotsk’ and Borisov sectors, inflicting severe defeats on the enemy apd _ crushing two.enemy divisions, The Germans said nothing specific. = BALTIC (LENINGRAD) FRONT —Red Army was reported hurling back heavy German thrusts in the Ostrov sector, The Germans
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The Colonel said he'd get the matstraightened out. The General’ Was There It was General Lear «who, last Sunday, bawled out -a unit of 350 soldiers at Memphis for yoo-hooing at some shorts-clad girls on a golf course, The General was there, too, in mufti, an@ he received a barrage of cat calls when he remonstrated with the soldiers. So he ordered them to march 15 miles in the hot sun as discipline for the incident. Promptly, Rep.. Paul H. Kilday (D. Tex.), a member of the House Military ‘Affairs Committee, wired General Lear a. scathing telegram demanding to know whether the solders’ activities “came to your attention while in the field with our troops on important ‘maneuvers or
duction in’ Marion County property taxes for 1942 was: seen’ today - ‘by County officials. = Most of the reduction‘is expected to be .made in poor relief rates throughout the county which in past several years have been: the biggest levies in the entire property tax structure. Records at the. County ’Auditor’s office this week showed that direct relief expenditures in most! town-
cut in half during the: last year.: The tax rate tor in Center Township (Indianapolis) for 1941 was 40 cents per $100 worth of property. On the basis of the present decline in relief spending, county officials’ predicted that‘ Center Township’s ‘levy will be reduced at least 10 cents. The total rate for Center
United States’ was constructing a
ships, including: Center, had: been/
naval air base for Great Britain in
‘Northern. Ireland.”
Taft made his charges a’ tow minutes- after the Senate Naval Affairs ‘Committee voted to call Secretary of Navy. Frank Knox and Admiral Harold R. Stark, chief of naval operations, to . discuss reports that American naval patrol boats have shot at German submarines in the Atlantic, Committee Chairman David I. Walsh * (D. Mass.) said Sec
invited - to appear at an ‘executive session tomorrow. Their appearance was requested by a resolution offered by Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.), after newspaper columnists ‘had reported a United States : destroyer had dropped a depth bomb at a German‘ submarine.
ving captured the fortified city of Salla’ Just the : present Soviet, frontier, claimed advances of as much as 37 miles in unspecified sectors but failed to give any significant details. The Russians said nothing regarding the front general ly but reported throwing back specific enemy attacks and said an entire Finnish company deserted.
SOUTHERN (KIEV) FRONT-—-The Russians reported a ‘massed
retary | Germ 1 poor relief alonefKnox and Admiral Stark would be an assault in the Novograd
Volynsk region, just inside the Ukraine border on the road to Kiev, but said the Red Army was holding there and in Bessarabia the Gers mans made no speéific claims. The German offensive,
ized buffer states seized by Russia, Was now up against the main Rus-
Russians imbued with patriotism—very old-fashioned, but eternal, Ruscalled to the fire and they stretched |, oo 00 “ihe golf course.” Col. Knox already has denied that
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sian love of the Russian soil and “Holy ‘Mather Russia.”
i : Charley Beaven 'Just Went
And:Lost' in the Semi-Finals
By RICHARD LEWIS Times Special Writer = * WILDWOOD, N. J. July 10— Charles Beaven was eliminated in the semi-finals of the National Marbles Tournament today. He dropped four games behind his opponents, Charles Diak of Canton, O.; Eugene Novisky of Cleveland, and Gerald Robinson of Scranton,
Phe reversal of fortunes for the tiny Indianapolis champion whose spectacular shooting yesterday
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brought him within reach of the national crown drew “ohs” amd “ahs” of sympathy from Charley's volunteer rooters. It might ‘have: béen one of the breaks of the game or that his game was off this’ morning. Charles summed it up this way: “I guess I just went and lost,” and he took off his little jockey cap, scratched his head, and smiled. Charles and his escort, the Rev. Fr, Bernard Gerdon of St. Rita's Parish, will visit Washington tomorrow on ‘his way home. Maybe ' you think this game of marbles is just a back lot kid’s game too juvenile for adults to appreciate. But when a boy from your home town beats a path for himself to the
‘JI National Marbles Tournament and
begins to dispose of all the competition in sight, you get excited. You didn't think it could happen and neither did: your boy. . Every time he knuckles down on the beach and that shooter flashes toward the center of the ring, you
find . yourself mumbling a little : And if he ‘hits. a marble | out of the ring, you, are babbling
prayer.
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the past two weeks, manufacturing groups have been “suddenly and rapidly” advancing prices with the result that a 1arge number are selling to the manufacturers, so that Indianapolis milk supply may be “seriously jeopardized.”
YOUTHFUL BURGLARY
NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind, July 10 (U. P.).—Courtney Bowman’ dJr., 16, South Bend, was shot and killed and his companion arrested early today after they burglarized a grocery store ‘and ice cream parlor ‘here, police announced. Jess Huffman, night patrolman; spotted the pair cruising in‘an automobile, reportedly stolen, and ordered them to halt. When he attempted to search their car, Huffman said, Bowman slugged him with a club fastened to his wrist.
Bowman then fled, and Huffman followed him, oD Deas hing to halt. When Bowman failed to heed the officer’s warning, Be fired at the youth, Bowman dra + himself another block afters was dead when we, coroner police said. v
WASHING ve i le: tary b deer proved a supplemen u # Sells of $4.700:000,000 for the i
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14 hose lines. Tank cars on the siding. were scorched but were not ignited, and- no damage was done to any other neighborhood structure.
Mr. Erbrich said the company,
which specializes , in pickles, mustard, peanut butter and vinegar, employs about 60 persons and that the loss is covered by insurance.
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' FREE FRENCH LOSE 1200 - NDON, July -10 (U. P.).—Eree
Fo casualties in -the Syrian campaign total between 1200 and 1300 men to date, headquarters of Gen. Charles de “Gaulle reported today. © i
Inquest Sef in Drowning;
General Lear. replied: “The mis- [$3 (Continued on Page Nine)
TAFT BILL. LOWERS PENALTY ON WHEAT
WASHINGTON, July 10 (U. P.). —Senator Robert A. Taft (R. O.) today. introduced a bill’ to reduce the penalty under the’ wheat marketing quotd law. from 49 to 15 cents. Senator Taft said that much wheat had been planted before the higher penalty was adopted on May 26. As
a result, he said he had received numerous protests from farmers.
2 Pals of Victim Missing
The body of Robert McClure, 19,
of 4419 Ralston Ave., missing from his home since Tuesday, today was found washed ashore on the bank of Lagoon Lake off Fall Creek near
“hit, but| police ive,
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wearing swimming trunks, although | the youth’s father insisted the boy| “oouldn’t swim a lick.” The water|ed in ‘the lagoon is 40 feet deep in| places, meanwhile. $Wo otter Jouths, + who or Si pied
missing. are Richara Priel, ‘5152 gt Beales Mon
{ngiae Indianapolis) this year was
If reductions ‘can be made in City and County budgets, now being prepared, officials said there is a possibility that Center Township's rate might be. brought down below $3 for the first time“in several years. Some idea of what County governmental ‘departments. expect to spend next year will be made known within the next few days when all| department heads must submit| heir requests to the County Audior
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The 1941 County rate, including the Ooulty Welfare + Department 43 cents.
FIGHTING FOR LIFE;
Art Rose, president of the Rose Tire Co., Who was ‘critically injured in an automobile accident near Barberton, O., Monday, was reported “fighting for his life” today in the Citizen’s Hospital there. - Dr. J, RK. Bersan, Mr. Rose’s per-
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SCATTERED SHOWERS TODAY, - TOMORROW
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Scattéred ', thundershowers were predicted for the entire state for today, tonight and tomorrow by the Weather Bureau. There will not be much change in temperature.
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