Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 July 1941 — Page 3

SATURDAY, JULY 12,1941

| RUSSIAN AIR FORCE | ON THE OFFENSIVE

Blasts Motorized and | Mechanized N Nazi Units. Over Wide Area; Report 179 Enemy Planes Bagged in Two Days; Guerillag Active.

MOSCOW, July 12 (U. P.).—Russia’s air force ‘has § .opened a big offensive against the stalled German blitzkrieg| armies and is blasting motorized and mechanized units over] a wide area of the Eastern Front, a war communique said today. : Russian planésin operations yesteriiay also bombed German air fields and the Rumanian oil fields in the Ploesti| region, it was asserted. The communique said 179 German planes were shot down in operations Wednesday and Thursday. “In the course of July 11 no substantial changes occurred at the front,” today’s first ; war communique said, in tes-|learned of irik a timony that the German blitz|mass protest meetings against the remained in its ‘tracks, pre-|war have been held in\northern

JAPAN GETS SE FOR EMERGE

Ships Near Home, A Reshuffled, Officials Visit Emperor. ~

OCopyr Dd a Ll TE analy He SHANGHAI, July 12.—Japan coh= tinues to hurry its preparations the Faye Ser uy Predicted fortnight ago by Foreign | Yosuke Pdf But ether Japanese have a definite obje in mind, or are merely girding thems. selves to seize opportunities w! may may is a closely

Requisitioning of numerous Jape anese ships and concentration of _|others on Pacific runs, where they will be subject to quick call, are per= haps the most significant of the

breaking up their weapons, ‘the com- 4 munique said. It was asserted that Russia had

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1—<The Rev. Fr. John A. Col-

sumably - girding for a net start.

France, it was said, and in the Bray mining districts of Belgium 1200

\Today was the 21st day of the war. miners held a 24-hour strike. Walls

It was indicated that Russian cavalry and infantry were counterattacking ferociously whenever possible at all points of the front. .In one counter-attack, Russian infantry stormed German and Rumanian field artillery and machine ' gun nests in the streets of a village on the Bessarabian Front, it was . asserted. Cavalry, which quickly surrounded the village, then charged in with slashing sabres to end the fight. The Germans and Rumaniang lost more than 700 killed and wounded, the communique said, and 247 soldiers and 14 officers surrendered. The Russians took 12 field guns, 28 machine guns and 20 trench mortars, it was said. In a sector designated only as “xX. Russian troops first weakened the Germans by artillery and machine gun fire, and then counter-attacked, killing 1215 soldiers of a mountain infantry division, the communique asserted. (It - seemed probable that ‘the Russians were counter-attacking in local positions at many points. Mos‘cow radio in a broadcast picked up in London said: “The German offensive has been completely halted and at many places the Russian armies have begun a counter-offen-sive.”

Guerillas Active

(The Russians are well aware of : the value of the counter-attack against a slowed mechanized army. Since the first day of the war the Russians have used approved antiblitz tactics, permitting the German tank spearheads to advance and then driving in to isolate the tanks from the following infantry.) The communique asserted that Rumanians opposed to the war against Russia were fighting the

- German-Rumanian forces by guer-|

illa tactics in a large scale. The communique quoted a dispatch that about 200 German soldiers and 12 German planes were destroyed when guerillas -derailed and wrecked two troop trains on the line between Bucharest and Iasi on the Bessarabian Front. Many Rumanian soldiers are deserting and

Nazi Shock Troops Attack

BERLIN, July 12 (U. P.).—The

that Nazi shock troops were ‘successfully attacking” the main Russian defenses on the Northeast “(Baltic) Front, but said that heavy rains and Red Army counter-attacks had made operations difficult on the Central and extreme Southern sectors. Battering German air attacks on the Russian rear lines and espe-

cially along the Smolensk-Moscow ailroad on the Central Front and a bridge over the Dnieper River at _ Kijev were reported by the News Agency, which said hundreds of tanks, trucks and a gasoline transport train had been destroyed. The

train of 58 cars reportedly “went up :

in flames.” On the fighting fronts, where the High Command merely said that operations were going according to plan, the Agency reported: NORTHEAST SECTOR (LENINGRAD)—An infantry attack advanced through a “wet zone” of lakes, swamp and river to the main Russian defenses, which were attacked by shock troops early today, apparently near Ostroy. CENTRAL FRONT (MOSCOW)— Red Army units in the neighborhood

of many houses in Brussels now shaw inscriptions and slogans denoencing Hitler and praising Rus~ sia, it was asserted.

Timoshenko Ex-peasant

It was understood that the “all quiet” -communiques reflected the situation on the Finnish as well as the main front after Russian forces had thrown back German-Finnish drives in the directions of Kandalaksha, Ukhta and Kexholm on the Arctic, Middle and Lower Finland sectors. : When the Germans resume their attack they will find in active command of the fronts protecting Leningrad, Moscow and the Ukraine Russia’s three leading military figures, Marshal Semyon Timoshenko, chief of the general staff, on the Northern Front; Marshal Klementi Voroshilov, former war commissar, on the Central Front, and Marshal Semyon Budenny, a world renowned cavalry leader, on the Ukraine Front. Timoshenko, a Bessarabian-born peasant, was a private in the Czarist Army in the last war. He joined the Communist Party and rose from private to general in the civil wars after the 1917 revolution. Timonshenko was mainly responsible for the reorganization of the Russian Army after the start of the present war. Under his direction the entire army was trained in tactics evolved from the knowledge of German blitzkrieg technique. Voroshilov, sometimes called “the locksmith of Lugansk,” in testimony to his. former occupation, socialized in the organization of guerilla Bolshevik bands in the civil wars. He became war commissar in 1926 and recently served as president of the Defense Committee. Budenny has been ranked with such cavalry leaders as “Jeb” Stuart of the American Civil War. Peasaritborn, like Timoshenko, he organized the famous Don Cossack Cavalry in the Communist cause in the civil wars. his leadership was so brilliant and his personal daring so great that he became known

throughout the world.

Official News Agency reported today

counter-attacked behind a mechanized spearhead, the Agency said, but suffered loss of 101 tanks and were broken up by a new German thrust into the “heart” of the enemy forces.

SOUTHERN FRONT (UKRAINE) —Heavy rains were reported have turned the Russian roads into sticky bogs which made German mechanized operations extremely difficult, probably in Bessarabia. The Agency said that Soviet forces had counter-attacked with - tanks and infantry in this sector but that the blows had been repulsed and fighting continued. The Agency reported “ceaseless” bombing of Russian communication. lines and troops concentrations, asserting that 188 enemy planes

New Commander Active in Legion Work for 10 Years.

E. H. Clark. receiving clerk. at the Big Four ‘freight house, has

Pour Post 116 of the American Legion, Department of Indiana. He is a charter member of the post and has been active in ‘Legion work for 10 years. Other officers named are Edward Hopper, first vice commander; Earl

E.: Pischner, adjutant; Fred Meixner, finance officer; Frank Wetterick, chaplain; R. L. Seigler, service officer; C. A. Reed, historian; Ralph Meyers, sergeant-at-arms; E. G. Parish, athletic ‘officer; Andrew Wetterick, Americanism officer; ‘P. M. Pursian.and PF. L. Mumford, State delegates; Floyd Woolf and ‘L. H.- Farrington, "alternate State delegates; E. H. Clark and Mr. Pursian, 12th District delegates; Mr. Reed and- Mr.. Woolf, alternate 12th District .delegates, and ,Mr. Pursian, Mr. Reed and Mr. Mumford, executive committee. ' The post home is at 960 S. Keystone Ave.

ASK PLAYTIME FOR DEFENSE WORKERS

WASHINGTON, July 12 (U. P.) — Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt said yesterday that steps must be taken to make the nation’s social . life p pace with the accelerated in ustrial program, Morale among . civilian defense workers: is just ‘as important as it is among the armed forces, he told a conference summoned to discuss the -problem of leisure time in defense communities. The meeting

sentatives of organized labor, industry, civic organizations and Federal agencies. Mr. McNutt explained that in his

welfare and related defense activities, he was seeking to evolve programs whereby defense workers could occupy their leisure time. As an example, he said, motion

keep their theaters open longer hours so that workers on all shifts would be afforded an opHe Send. cary pre figures indicated large increases in the number of wage carners. A 93 per cent increase is indicated for Dallas, Tex., he said; 92 per cent for Seattle, Wash. 57 per cent for Baltimore, Md.; 57 per cent for Los Angeles; 52 per cent for St. Paul, Minn.; 44 per cent for Buffalo, N. Y.; 42 per cent for St. Louis, and

were shot down yesterday.

30 per cent for Detroit.

of the Dvina River town of Vitebsk

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record|g

County City Total 29 37 66

32 1

—July 11—

Accidents . 3 lia Injured ...... 8 0 FRIDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines tions paid 30 $424 10 Failure to stop at 3

through street . 10

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8 2 23 7 $137 . MEETINGS TODAY Outdoor Novena, 8 p. m., Carmelite Mon-

Post Sitios Motor Vehicle Employees, 7:30 "Ladies Auzltiary, Pp. m., Severin Hotel.

MARRIAGE LICENSES These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and addresses. 4

Charles R. Hovious 19 3 1 Chase; Mary L. Stith

1s, of gx 967 Lesington; Me Wa ol of 1318 Scasant. Ma Waddles, 19, 2 filinois, ” Bug, 8, 26, 4 1029 29 Central; Cleora " Kerr 38, M Linwood, Ind.; Ruth E Ri aa ¥20, of 108 Wiscons . Stropes, o sville, Ind.;

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Charles E. Price. lizabeth J. Yount,

26, of. 332 BE. S5ist; 23, of 27: W. 8t. Joseph. § of 11 2, 4 231 S. Holmes: Belmont.

ones, 27, ‘of 802 Roache Ha Br Wiliams. 23, of 2402 Indiana) is. James H. Burres, 22, ana; Thelma J, Thomas, 20, of F158 N. "Gapitot

BIRTHS Twin Boys Alton, Emma Guyton, at City. Twin Girls

Deve, Mattie Martin, at 1252 W. 26th.

Girls Joseph, SoAnn 1 Langley, Robert, iy Bt Loay a. as ot St. Francis rene t St. Francis, e, at Sieman Fronk, “Anita Walia at Methodist.

George, Charlotte Roberts, Par ker. Cather: o Aunew. at 3

Cannie, = gp dare, ny Thirman, tt I The oraTion, Josephine Wood, at 138 &. Robert, Elizabeth Moseley, at 2347 N.| go;

Ca Cia; Giadys Davis. at 1817 Montana. Boys

at St. Prancis, - at St. Francis.

“Robe Roy, 1

Methodist.

Sbinson, * at

Norman Mildred Caster, at st. rein James, ‘at St. Fr. rin, ‘at Sk. i kat Coleman. Lucille {Roberts at Methodist. a shouts. Bo “tiv sie at 726 N. gene, Roberta: Ahlefeld, at

oodrow, ‘Alta Seka at 1019 Carroll Joe, Lillie Wi William hig Ros. 8 itn at’ a0 1004 Carrol-

Christopher, r wecker, arles, ool Beaumont, at 00. N. William, Ethel MoPhe , 1 N rson at 043 W.

DEATHS ated 0 Bauer, 48, at 8. Vincent's, Ulcer-

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ton. James, Juste Smith. 2 11W. Morris. | ‘Sarah ‘Sho at 943 | Denver

Charles Bedenbeugh, at, 857 WwW. 29th, acute ‘myoca. oa dred Bal 40, at 2046 E. Michigan,

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OFFICIAL WEATHER Tae 8S. Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Fair toma tomorrow; somewhat cooler tot.

: {Centra Stnstasd mer Sunrise . . 4:26 Sunset . =aely 12, 1940— creases. 6111 pi mm. : BAROMETER. TODAY 6:30 a. m.. :

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‘ MIDWEST i Indian a—Fair ; a ‘and - tomorrow; © Mlineis Pais” oo nt and tomorrow;

and Er ol.” * ek tion tonight: Tomorrow tomorrow fair with moderate

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been elected commander of the Big]

Beasley, second vice commander; A.|

was attended by about 25 repre-|

capacity of co-ordinator of health, |

pleturey exhibitors are being encour-| We to aged to

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(6 p. m. yesterday, Indianapolis

mander-in-chief, after crossing the British line with officers of his staff.

(Ankara reported that Britain’s armistice terms to Vichy carried a 96-hour time limit and it was believed the limit for acceptance was midnight tomorrow.) ; Dentz was reported to have passed through - the British ‘and Free French lines at 5 'a. m. (11.p, m, yesterday, Indianapolis Time). Authoritative informants said that an interruption of communications between Beirut and Washington had caused delay in Dent's acceptance of the British terms as a basis for negotiation. Frederick Van H. Engert, American" consul general at Beirut, had

of the war over the Mediterranean, destroyed

a formation of Italian pursuit planes made a low-level machinegun attack on’ Micabba Airport, “destroying planes on the ground

including oo bi-motored Vickers-

ellingtons.” In addition, four Hurricane fight-|99 ers were reported shot down in dogfights. A number of Bristol-Blen-heim bombers were said to be among grounded planes damaged by machine-gun fire. * All the Italian planes refurned safely to their bass; the communique said.

arrangements for a British

According but had ceased their opposition because of “the. Jabot international developments”: presumably the German attack on Russia. The principal provisions ‘of the alliance are, according to Domei: 1. The pact would bécome effective when Japan began: to move southward to increase- its domination of French Jndo-Chi and other areas. . 2..China would! send troops ‘to Burma and put them under the command of the British.

TOKYO, July 12 (U. P)—A Domei Hows Agency

Confer Over Peace Terms

LONDON, July 12 (U.+P.).—Fighting stopped in Syria at midnight,

Time) when Gen. Henri Dentz,

Vichy - commander-in-chief, accepted British armistice proposals as a basis for negotiation, it was said authoritatively today. " Dentz was believed now to be at Acre, on the Palestine coast below Syria, conferring with Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, the British com-

agreed to transmit.Dent’s reply, it was said. The Vichy Government‘ stepped into the picture yesterday by announcing its own: rejection of the British terms but left it up to Dentz to make the final decision. It wag sal said. authoritatively that Dentz asked the British to send

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italy Claims Air Very

ROME, July 12 (U. P.).—An Italian communique said fiday that 100 Italian and British planes clashed in one of the biggest air battles

during a raid against the British

island of ‘Malta yesterday, and that at least nine British planes were A special bulletin said the big air battle ‘began at 1:40 p. m. when

The toll of two British raids on the Italian seaport of Naples Wednesday and Thursday night was reported officially to have risen to {2 Sead. There were said to be

German and Italian plies; the communique reported, bombed the Puka railway. station and a number of British airports east of Marsa Matruh. They also struck at the Libyan port of Tobruk, where considerable asrilley activity was re[para

London Speeds China Pact

Nanking reported today that a high British Army-officer would arrive at Chungking, emergency capital of China, next Tuesday to make final

military alliance aimed against

Japan's southward expansionist program. to Domet, some Chinese leaders had opposed the alliance

4. China would expand’ the British airplane base at Lashio, at the Burmese end of the Burma Road, on which China depends for supplies from abroad. 5. Britain would send military instructors to China. 6. Britain would expedite shipment of arms and munitions to China.

(The; ‘Dome dispatch - said - that

3. China would Provide} labor for Britain. :

CAMP UPTON, N. Y., June 13 (U: P.). ~The ideal girl-of the soldier wears blue.’ A jury Jf a2 dratiess chose a two-piece’ daytime . dress and a

NAZIS CHARGE F. D. R.

BERLIN, July '12° (U, P.).— Authorized : Nazis today charged that President. Roosevelbs: attitude toward Atlantic bases was “aggresagainst Europe.” The charge was made in ‘connection with questions by foreign correspondents regarding reports from abroad that the United ‘States might occupy other Atlantic bases in line with the dispatch of American forces to Iceland.

“WITH ‘AGGRESSION’| |

Yoo-hoo, Girls, Blue Is the - Color All the Soldiers Like

‘ites among 36 New York creations

layed by eight magazine models ag 8 style "show here last

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[LOCAL CLUB TO HEAR

ber or this Town. send Club, will

|in the 1. 0. O. F. Hall, 3 N, Ham-

. who opened the Novena, which

. until Wednesday at the Carmelite

leary, Paulist Priest from Chicago, will be held nightly at 8 o'clock Monastery.

2—Music is being furnished by St. John’s Choir under direction of the Rev. Fr. August Fusseneg-

ger.

3—A blue and gold altar has been erected on the bluff in front of the monastery, from which benediction is given each evening.

4—Miss Ann Matthews, Indianapolis harpist, whe has just returned from Néw York, is accompanying the choir.

in ‘Indiana has now been removed. running team’ of Governor Henry VanNuys.

both admitted they didn’t spend any part of the two hours talking about the weather. You can safely bet that part of the talk was devoted to the list of ‘appointments each of them has available. They both said that no mention was made of-the 1944 U. S. Senate race, when Senator VanNuys has said he will:not be a candidate again. The Governor's friends ‘are already talking nim up for that spot. And the bouquets which Mr. VanNuys tossed out about Mr. Schricker’s leadership and the “new atmosphere” he has brougnt to the party sounds like he has no. objections—to say the least—to the boom. This new coalition leaves the old McHale-McNutt faction on "the outside. Both the Senator and the Governor have a healthy dislike for the erstwhile Hoosier party leaders who tried to purge Mr. VanNuys in 1938 and. attempted to keep the nomination away from Mr. Schricker last year. With the replacing of Moie Cook on the Public Service Commission ° yesterday, Governor Schricker* severed one of his major ties to Mr. McHale. Mr. Cook, a close personal friend of the national committeeman, was one of the last of the “McHale boys” in an important State House post. . The rest have been replaced along the line. And just to seal the new alliance, Governor Schricker named Geosge M. Barnard, former law partner of Senator VanNuys, as Mr. Cook's successor. ‘ ” 8 »

‘Bays in Close. Contact

‘AS FOR STATE CHAIRMAN , Fred Bays, he too is a bitter foe of the McHale faction. He's friendly with Wayne Coy, who has broken with the McHale crowd in Washington. And he’s strong with labor, the backbone of Demo-: cratic strength in Indiana. It has been reported several ‘times in recent weeks that Mr, Bays would give up -the chairmanship to take a Federal job in Washington. But he is stil? work ing closely with the Governor and ‘apparently has no desire to leave. There was no discussion of the State chairman situation at their conference, the Governor and. Senator said.

Put Governor on Spot

STRANGELY ENOUGH, C.”R. Benjamin's = departure’ from the State Tax Board is at least partially due to an attack on Mr, McHale. In a ‘statement. to the

VanNuys, were granted too heavy reductions in their assessments. 3

rather'a spot, but he resented the ‘reflections cast on his board and ‘wasted little time in letting Mr. Benjamin know how he shout the Maier, ‘

gi Tong : Bia e, er farm v Howard Atcheson, former State Highway Commissioner:

- TOWNSEND SPEAKER |

will address members of Club § at 3 1. In, Monday

[Hiton Ave

ANY QUESTION ABOUT ‘the leadership of the Democratic Party

This situation has been clearly demonstrated during the past week. They held a political love-feast in the Governor's office, after which

felt |

It’s being piloted by a smoothSchricker and Senator ' Frederick

JACKSON PLAGE T0 BE WIDENED

Central Depot Improvement “Will Be Financed by Union Railway.

Plans were going ahead: today for the reconstruction of the Jackson Place enftranceway to Union Station to facilitate parking and relieve traffic congestion. The action was approved yesterday by the Works Board. At the same time, the board approved of the City Engineer’s recommendation to widen E. 10th St. between Hawthorne Lane and Arlington Ave. Reconstruction of the street in front of the Union Station was suggested ‘by J. J. Liddy, superintendent of the Indianapolis Union Railway. This firm, which operates the Union Station, will finance the improvement. As the plan stands now, Jackson Place between Illinois and McCrea Sts. will be widened into a divided lane street with a sidewalk in the center, Board members said that parking would be diagonal to the center sidewalk. “ The E. 10th St. project includes widening the street by 10 feet on the south side to make a 30-foot thoroughfare. One of the reasons for the widening, it was pointed out by the board, is that the extension of trackless trolley east to Arlington has crowded the street. Cost of the improvement would be split 50-50 between the City .and abutting property owners.

+ MOODY EVANGELIST DIES OLEAN, N. Y,, July 11 (U. P).— The Rev. A. Frank Houser, 73, first Baptist missionary to Alaska and former evangelist with Dwight L.

Japanese cone cern over the future status of Vinde ivostok. TR Await Nazi Victory On the other hand, all reports from Tokyo indicate that the Jap 1 anese are contemplating no \ diate move against Russia. they are waiting and hoping oa as many privately admit, is a German victory which will ; or break down Soviet Strength im the Far East. Until and unless such a breakdown occurs—and there is not the slightest sign of it ye ] Japanese armies in Manchuokuq 4 Korea are expected to sit tight. hi If the break occurs, howeve 3 there will be action, either diplos matic or military, for no Japanese military man denies that such

long-awaited opportunity would seized upon. y : So far, there has been no sub stantial weakening of the Sovie$ military machine in the Far East according to travelers. Keishin Irikye, a Japanese newspaperm for example, when he arrived in Manchukuo after a long journey : the Trans-Siberian railway, told n having passed trainload after traine load of military supplies ra few troops. In fact, the train on which he was traveling was full of Soviet officers and their families, recalled suddenly from the Far East after cancellation of their leaves. ; 400,000 Troops Ready Westbound supply trains, he carried trucks, tanks, armored cars, artillery and machine guns, The Japanese opine that the So« viet may also be dispatching some of their Far Eastern aerial squads

else. Soviet military strength east east of Lake Baikal at present is estis’ mated at about 400,000 men. this the Japanese have forces probably 300,000 in Manchukuo, rea and Mongolia. Accurate of Soviet naval strength in the Far East are not available. ‘But best local estimates put, them about one destroyer division, torpedo boat division, one gunk division, 50 submarines, and 40 m quito boats. The Japanese obviously are c¢ cerned deeply about the futu status of Vladivostok and other 80: viet bases on the Siberian ‘plain They apparently have made it plain

ate Vladivostok falling ‘into : hands of any allen power, not te Germany. Worried by Iceland Move

American occupation of Toeland has heightened Japanese worries over possible American “machina tions” in the Pacific and has led to fantastic rumors, including a yarm about impending American ’ of Kamchatka, Siberian maritime province. With the Japanese watchfully waiting in the north, neutral dips lomats and military men here are still inclined to regard a southern’ thrust in Thailand and sou Indo-China as a closer danger, v

encircling ring of democracies.

CHASE ENDS AS TRAIN HITS OFFICER'S TAX)!

Patrolman Frank Delatore coms mandeered a taxicab early Soday to chase two youths suspected of throwing a rock through a window on the West Side. The cab, driven by Earl Mitchell, 111 Kansas St., was the suspects when the chase en abruptly at the New York Gent Railroad tracks on N. West St. A locomotive pushing" freight cars chugged . along $ tracks and struck the cab, Neithes

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