Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1941 — Page 3

MONDAY, JULY 14, 1941 _ — ‘New Baptist Aid

FINNS AID NAZIS’

LENINGRAD PUSH

Mannerheim in Command; 60 Miles Past Stalin Line, Says Berlin.

- BERLIN, July 14 (U. P.).—Officiai German reports today claimed that Nazi forces are sweeping through Russia’s main defenses and advancing strongly toward Leningrad with the aid of a new ofIensive . launched on the Karelian Isthmus by Finnish armies. The High Command, which reported 36 hours ago that the Stalin Line had been broken “at all de-

cisive points” today reported that breakthrough operations are proceeding “according to plan.” A powerful pincers operation has been opened up against Leningrad, it was revealed. Finnish forces, under command of Field Marshal Baron Carl Mannerheim, have thrown themselves against Soviet defenses around Lake Ladoga, about 75 miles north of Leningrad, in a thrust that appeared to be co-ordinated with an eastward sweep of Nazi troops from the vicinity of Lake Peipus. The official DNB news agency reported that German troops “are advancing on St. Petersburg (Leningrad)” after winning further territory by overcoming Soviet resistance in a series of bunkers, presumably part of the Stalin fort system.

“Irresistible” in South

To the south, on the central front where Nazi troops are aiming toward Smolensk and Moscow, the official agency said that the advance moved forward “irresistibly” across the Dnieper and upper Dvina rivers after “retreating Soviet troops sought futilely with heavy losses to offer resistance at several positions in the Vitebsk area.” ' Nazi informants asserted that the Germans had broken 60 miles past “the last Soviet fortifications in the European areca” at almost all points along the Stalin Line and one newspaper said that the Russian forces were in “complete dissolution.” The military dispatches went far beyond the jubilent High Command communique of Saturday night, which claimed the breaking of the Stalin Line, to imply that German troops were now entirely through the line and that nothing but disorganized masses of men stood between them and thes three key cities at which they were driving.

‘Complete Dissolution’

“Behind the Russian front new encirclements are developing behind the Stalin Line,” said a dispatch in Der Montag. “The German Air Force, in uninterrupted attacks, has caused chaos. The Soviet forces are in complete dissolution.” ‘Comparing the Russian appointment of three new commanders in chief to the appointment of Gen. Maxine Weygand as French Generalissimo just before the fall of France, Der Montag said: “Weygand found only the ruins of the French Army. Nothing more will the three heroes of Bolshevism find who have been orderéd to . reorganize resistance on the Eastern Front.”

ALUMINUM SURVEY FORECASTS SCARCITY

NEW YORK, July 14 (U. P).— Aluminum production is adequate to meet current rearmament requirements, but may fall short of future demands, according to a survey of 20 leading defense production centers by the National Association of Manufacturers whose ‘results were announced today. Walter D. Fuller, president of the N. A. M, said replies to a telegraphic poll showed that the few current shortages were due to lack of ‘familiarity with priorities procedure or delay in transportation. He indorsed, the collection of aluminum househgld utensils and other methods of ¥onserving civilian usz of the metal as a means of avertilng a serious shortage in the future. Indianapois was among cities

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Rev. J. M. Horton to Become Executive Secretary of Indiana Convention.

The Rev. James M. Horton will become executive secretary of the Indiana Baptist Convention Oct. 15 on the retirement of Dr. Thomas J. Parsons who has held the post 10 years. . He will be inducted into the office at the body’s annual convention at Peru by Will R. Barr, president of the convention. The Rev. Mr. Horton served as president of the state convention in 1937 and 1938 and at present is in charge of the group’s Department of Christian Education. He also is a member of the Franklin College Board of Directors and the Council on Finance and Promotion of the Northern Baptist Convention. He has served pastorates at Frankfort and South Bend. He has been pastor of the First Baptist Church at Hammond 14 years. Commenting on his successor’s qualifications, Dr. Parsons described him as “one who ‘believes in the church and knows how to make it function victoriously. He will give 90,000 Baptists in Indiana the kind of aggressive leadership every denominational group must have to succeed.”

300 MILLIONS FOR - NAVY DEPOTS ASKED

WASHINGTON, July 14 (U. P.).— The Navy today asked Congress to authorize appropriations of $300,~ 000,000 for additional shore facilities. Included in the request was $10;250,000 for additional ammunition and ordnance storage facilities at the naval ammunition depot in Burns City, Ind. The request was made shortly after the House Naval Affairs Committee had approved a bill authorizing appropriations of $585,000,000 for additional shipbuilding, ship repair and ordnance manufacturing facilities. Chairman Carl Vinson (D. Ga.) of the Naval Committee said the group would begin hearings on the new request tomorrow.

AMERICA FIRST ASKS REMOVAL OF KNOX

CHICAGO, July 14 (U. P.)\—Representatives of America First Committee chapters demanded today that Secretary of Navy Frank Knox be removed from office on grbunds that he favored “actual and open war without consent of Congress.” A resolution adopted by the delegates said Secretary Knox “has advocated that the American Navy intervene in the present war now” although the Constitution gave Congress the sole power to declare war. It concluded that Secretary Knox’ “outright advocacy of undeclared war in defiance of the Constitution” made him “no longer a fit person to hold his present high office.”

C. I. 0. HEAD COLLAPSES PITTSBURGH, July 14 (U. P.)— C. I. O. President Philipp Myrray is at Mercy Hospital today for a rest after collapsing last night, from what was described as a heart at-

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SOVIET PLANES

SMASH AT NAZIS

Change in Battle Positions, Claims Moscow.

- MOSCOW, July 14 (U.. P).— Smashing assaults by the Red Air Fleet were reported today by thes Soviet "High Command, apparently bringing the Nazi war machine again to a halt in the vital Pskov, Vitebsk and Novograd Volynsk.sectors. : The High Command reported that Soviet planes fore the third day launched heavy bombing attacks upon Nazi mechanized and motorized columns and concentrations close to the advance areas, and heavily attacked the airdromes from which the Luftwaffe is supporting the German offensive.

Positions Unchanged

There were no major engagements of land forces, the High Command said, and the positions of the major fighting fronts remained substantially unchanged. x Reports from the front indicated that a lull developed during the night hours after intensive combat all day yesterday. The Red Air Fleet again pounded objectives in Rumania which have been the subject of repeated attacks since the start of the war. The city of Jassy on the Prut River, the Ploesti oil fields and the important railroad junction of Roman, all in Rumania are bombarded heavily. But the afternoon communique, reporting no big battles during the night, added that there had been no changes of consequence anywhere along the front.

Announce Losses of 250,000

The first communique had reported the Russians holding fierce German mechanized and motorized drives toward Leningrad, Moscow and’ Kiev, and asserted that the Russians had recaptured two key towns on the Dnieper River, on the Moscow front, by successful counterattacks. It was asserted the Germans were losing heavily, as Russian counterattacking tanks ripped into their lines and artillery and airplanes bombarded them. _ Summarizing the first three weeks of the war, ended yesterday, the communique said the Germans had lost not less than 1,000,000 men in killed, wounded and - prisoners against total Russian losses of not more than 250,000. The Germans have lost more than 3000 tanks and more than 2300 planes, it was said, against Russian losses of 2200 tanks and 1900 planes.

‘PROPERTY SEIZURE’ BILL MEETS DELAY

WASHINGTON, July 14 (U. P.). —The Senate Military Affairs Committee today postponed action on the Administration’s controverted “draft property” bill at the request of Senator A. B. Chandler (D. Ky.). Senator Chandler, .a member of the Committee, telegraphed a request from his home at Versailles, Ky., that action on the measure be delayed until he returns to Washington. The bill would permit the President to take over property needed for defense purposes, with provisions for compensation. Opponents contend, however, that it still is extremely far-reaching, enabling the seizure virtually of any type of property, including stock interests in corporations. President Roosevelt, urging passage of the measure in its present form, said vhat it would be “impossible for+us now to catalog each and every one of the Government’s needs in advance.”

AUSSIES 0. Kd RUSS PACT MELBOURNE, Australia, July 14 (U. P.).—Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies said today that the British Government consulted Australia and all other Dominions during . its preparation of its mutual defense declaration with Russia and that Australia entirely agreed with

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IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record

County City Total 29 38 67 33 2

—July 12 & 13—

Accidents ... 66 | Injured : 66 | Dead ........ 2

SATURDAY TRAFFIC COURT

Cases Convic- Fines tried tions paid 1 1 $ 0 3 35

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Violations Speeding Reckless driving. . Failure to stop at through street. . Disobeying traffic signals Drunken driving. .

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Totals ......... 13 $109

MEETINGS TODAY

. Indiana Independent Barbers’ g on, 8 p. m., Severin Hotel. By Finplogment Security Division Reserve { Board, noon, Severin

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Service Club, noon, Claypool Hotel. Scientech Club, noon, Board of Trade. Irvington Republican. Club, 8 p. m,, 54462 E. Washington 8t. North Side Realtors, noon, Canary Cot-

age. i Centra Labor Union, 8 p. m., Castle

all. Industrial Union Council, 8 p. m., Amalgamated Hall 5 Hotel

all. . Stereotypers’ Union, 5 . m., Washington. r

MEETINGS TOMORROW - Exclianze Club Board, noon, Severin Ho-

Maintenance

el. % Indianapolis Automotive Association, 8 p. m., Severin Hotel. Rotary Club, noon, Clay . Gyro Club, noon, Spink-Ar ercator Club, noon, Hotel Lincoln. niversal Club, noon, Columbia Club. c Phalanx Fraternity, 7:30 p. m., ¥. M

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.

John W. Sears, 29, of 3420 N. Meridian; Mildred E. Nierman, 25, of 33 W, 28th. Lloyd Age, 20, of 1410 Keystone; Barbara Ott, 17. of 1222 Churchman. James W. Hardin, 24, of 105 8. Catherwoo: Irene O. Boss, 21, of 23 S. Cather-

wood. Curtis Baker, 20, of 518 Marion; Mar Kanham, 18, of 6345 W. Washington T

» Raymond Sq f° 1230 Yandes;

» 3 . Hedge. 21, of 1124 a Sweearingin, 18, of ; 1235

Charles R. McDowell, 23, of 4512 E. 18th: Helen G. Sheehan, 21, of 901 N. Keystone. William M. B: 6, of 2612 E. Wash:

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Frank H. Miller, 23, City Hospital; Georgia Weaver, 21, of 2735 N. Meridian. Glenn Jones, 21, of 1523 Earl. Martha Davidson, 18, of {11 E. North. Elward J. Pettigrew, 24, of 1325 Carrollton: Mildred E. Williams, 19, of 5730 E. Washington. Marshall Taylor, 23, of 819 W. 27th; Henrietta L. Jones, 21, of 945 W. 28th. Maurice J. Houston, 24, of 204 N. Pennsylvania; Margaret F. Fox, 23, of 5735 Indianola. James D. Russell, 23, of 781 W. Drive ¥ogaruth Alice M. Byers, 21, of 1911 Nowand. Lee F. Givan, 49, R. R. 12, Box 276; Elsa 0. Kurtz, 37, R. R. 12, Box 276. Emory. Hatten, 27, of 1403 Deloss; Bernice Richardson, 23, of 251 S, State. Robert K. Chowning, 21, of 118 E. 27th.; Betty J. Fraundorfer, 19, of 2815 N, Sher-

Harold Kinman, 18, of 8 Ingomar; Rosalie Millet, 17, of 1509 S. High School oad. : Don LaRoy Barnhart, 27, of 522 8. Meridian; Esther Williams, 27, of 239 N. Illinois. Raymond L. Goddard Jr., 21, of 941 Stillwell; Elma M. Graves, 22, of 2515 N. Gale.

. BIRTHS ' Twins, Boy and Girl

Gerold, Mozelle Glover, at 2734 James. ! Girls

Lawrence, Alice Huser, at St. Francis. Ralph, Ruth Snell, a Francis. rold, m

n, man, at Methodist. Kenneth, Doris King, at Methodist. Alford, Frances Stuebe, at Methodist. Alan, Alice Houser. at Methodist. Woodrow. Ruth Wade, at St. Vincent's. : Fhilip, Rosemary Cleveland, at St.. Vin-

S. . Lewis, Maxine Tresler, at St. Vincent's. - Hope. Dorothy Burton, at St. Vincent's. James, Mary Mattingly, at St. Vincent's. Raymond; Eileen Fox. at St. Vincent's. ames, 3 y. .

gar, Bett) Arch, Herbert. Betty Laudig., a tation. , James, Mae Gastineau, at 210 Hiawatha. Everett, Emma Meade, at 2923 Moore. Howard, Minnie Sine. at 2727 Stuart. , Juanita McElroy, at 1821. N

William, Phyllis Mannering. at 2034

rouse. i Raymond, Delia Pruitt. at 636 S’¥West. Boys

Harlie, Regina Houk, at St. Francis, Arthur W., Frances Hendricks, at Bt. Francis

. ® Ivan, Gladys Ulmer, at St. Francis, Floyd, Christine Blackwell, at City. Paul, ristie, at Coleman, Morris, Helen es, at Methodist. 3. 8., Helen Caplin, at eGuire, at

[ethodist. Methodist.

John, Bet , at St. Vincent's.

William, te, - Chester, isy Kilore, at

a 611 W. 11th

George, Maxine Williams, at 240 McKim. Herbert, Katherine Lawrenz, at 1108 Lexington. fl William, Charlotte Logsdon, at 953 W.

DEATHS

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dore Fife, 31, at Flower

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Bowen Heath, 64, at Methodist, coronary Ba

George Hockett, 80, at Methodist, arteriosclerosis. 3 Anna - Blunk, 59, at 643 Eddy, carcinoma. Carrie Skelly, 54, at Methodist, cerebral hemorrhage. George Donaldson, 23, at 3020 N. Capitol, chronic nephritis. Virgil Hurston, 64, at City, heart failure. Carrie Reis, 87, at 2222 Brookside, acute myocardial failure. / Lena Baudendistel, 66, at 1138 Bates, carcinoma. Morton LaMar, 78, at 1118 Olive, chronic myocarditis, Christian Olsen, 65, at 3245 N. Illinois, cerebral hemorrhage. Eugene Stephen Shine, 61, at 803 N. Oxford, cardio vascular renal. Lena McDermott, 76, at 3451 N. Capitol, chronic myocarditis. nna Sellmer, 72, at 1523 Broadway, cerebral thrombosis Katherine Love, 84, at 2410 N. Alabama,

OFFICIAL WEATHER

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INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature. (Central Standard Time) Sunrise 4:28 Sunset TEMPERATURE —July 14, 1940— nae 62/1 p.m. ..o0.. BAROMETER TODAY

Precipitation 24 hrs endi Total precipitation since Deficiency since Jan. 1

MIDWEST WEATHER gar Sana~—barlly sloudy ton t and touch change in rature. Illinois—Partly cloudy tonight Fand tomorrow: not much change in temperature. Lower Michigan—Partly cloudy tonight;

h. | tomorrow increasing cloudiness, scatte:

light showers in north and central portions; not much change in temperature. Ohio—Mostly cloudy with little change in temperature tonight and tomorrow. Kentucky —Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow with likelihood of occasional showers tomorrow and in south portion tonight: litile change in temperature.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Stations Bar. Temp. 30.14 55 . 30.22 30.24 30.17

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Casey's Closeup of War—No. |=

‘Some Things | Can't Forget’

The Comical Sitzkrieg, the Wild Advenivre, the

Gay Incompetence—and Slaughter (Continued from Page One) °

along the. Paris-Nancy Road; the horrible and fantastic retreat from Paris and the bombing of Bordeaux; the Battle of Britain and the endless ordeal of London; one wild night with an ack-ack (anti aircraft) battery, and a ride on a blockade runner from Glasgow to West Africa. Of all of these the Sitzkrieg right now seems to be the most incredible and the most worthy of conversation, . Si The science of war produced nothing quite like it between the siege ol Troy and the rise of Hitler. . And for another hundred years people can waste their tine ar how it came about in the first place and how—withy a little greater diligence on the part of Game}in or somebody—it might have been continued indefinitely, It was, basically, a fine battle between a’ couple of Chinese walls: The impregnable Maginot Line, and the makeshift Siegfried Line on which the British were going to hang out their washing. That it occupied the time of about 10,000,000 soldiers seemed just incidental. Everybody on the edge of the comical no man’s land ‘had ball ammunition but nobody used any.

dentistry and the doctors took care of such wounds as frozen fingers and chilblains. A lot of old soldiers said that a war like that couldn't last long—which shows how much they knew about it.

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Casual Ride Into Battle—

IN A SITUATION of the sort, of course, anything could happen— and frequently did. Ome recalls, for instance, a casual ride into the middle of a battle—the one real battle the Sitzkrieg’ produced until it quit being a Sitzkrieg and the discovery that with reasonable luck you could get killed in this play war just the same as in a real one. In a moment of aberration the military authorities had issued a pass through the advanced zone to the Luxembourg border. Everything was all right about that. The trouble lay with a clerk in the Paris alien passport bureau who didn’t know geography. She issued an exit visa by way of Sierck, an old Roman village in front of the Maginot Line. : Imagine my embarrassment when I got into Sierck (dodging a couple of bullets from the gun of a sentry I didn’t know was there) and discovered that the French owned only one end of it. The Germans’ light tanks, infantry and artillery owned the other end. And you realized as the 105s howled overhead and tore up the hillside behind you that both sides wefe playing for keeps. It looked very much as if the Paris exit visa wasn’t going to work. Even if the Nazis weren't blowing things to bits—even if there weren’t mountainous barriers of wire and rubble across the main street and land mines every five or 10 feet—there’d have been trouble getting out that way. For there wasn’t any bridge across the Moselle at Sierck and to get to the next entryway into Luxembourg I should have had to travel about 35 miles through Germany. » ” n ;

Chased From Front—

AN ARTILLERY CAPTAIN with whom I lay in a ditch dodging shells while the eager Heinies tried to blow the car off the road chased me out of there. His argument at least was something out of the sort of war everybody used to know about—nothing at all novel about it. He said he didn’t mind whether I committed suicide, but I was a civilian and civilians attracted fire and would I please go somewhere else. A farewell salute was fired by the Germans, who didn’t hit anything—that also seemed to be a characteristic of the Sitzkrieg. _ Then there was the incident of the taxicab through the Siegfried Line. (“Have you any dirty washing, mother, dear?”) That, of course, couldn't have happened .in any other war. It couldn’t have happened in this one after May 10 and sometimes you wake up at night wondering if it ever did happen. _ It was a simple thing, thanks to the philosophy of the people in charge of the Sitzkrieg. Walter Kerr (New York Herald-Tribine) and * I were in Luxembourg City on Oct. 20, 1939. y We paid a couple of dollars to the local German consul and got two visas. We went in my car to the Wasserbillig bridge, walked across, received the blessing of the Nazi guardsmen, and rode in a taxicab through the outer defenses of Hitler's army of the Moselle, the tank traps, the concealed machine-gun outposts and through rank and rank of well-camouflaged field artillery and anti-aircraft guns. We spent an. afternoon in the headquarters town of Treves attended by a personal Gestapo agent. We came back again. And the next day the frontier closed up with a clunk and stayed that way for a couple of months. :

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Receives Ingenuous Faith—

SOMEBODY IN BERLIN told somebody in Luxembourg that we might just as well have been spies. Which was a point well taken. It called attention to the outstanding virtue of the Sitzkrieg—the ingenuous faith that everybody seemed to have in everybody else including Hitler. We watched such action as there was in that phase of the war from Lucen Klopp’s terrace on the Moselle. We watched the shelling of German battery positions from points above Sierck. We watched little infantry wrangles on' the Luxembourg corner. We saw, and heard, officers of the German high command teaching lovely blond girls how to swim in the river. . We wrapped ourselves in a beautiful unreality while summer went out of the valley and the snow came to make a landscape like those we used to.see in magic-lantern slides. We were quite suré there had never been any war like this before. We still are. Our favorite character in those days was Albert the aviator, a talented screwball who used to fly up and down the Moselle every day about 4:30 p. m. and plague the Germans, y He had no regard for the limitations of his plane, the law of averages or the underwriters’ statistics. He flew so low that the throngs of Luxembourgers on the river bank could see him wave to them—or so they said. He frequently tried to roll his wheels on the head of%the sentry at the Remich bridge. He became a character likee Du Guesclin or Rene of Provence or La Hire and—to the Germans—a pain in the neck. It was the Luxembourgers who gave him his name. And they built up a dossier for him. They said that he had a French father ‘who was in business in Thionville; that his mother was a native of Diekirch, Luxembourg; that he had attended a school in Luxembourg City.

A Sad Day for.Nation— _

THEY SAID THEIR night -prayers for him in Luxembourg and made novenas for him and burned candles in the churches in petition for his safety. It was ‘the saddest day in the Grand Duchy’s recent history when thé news was spread in February that he had been killed in the swamp near Koenigsmacher, where he still is: The oddest part of the news lay in.the fact that it confirmed the dossier built up on the barbed: wire wireless of the frontier. - He did have a French father and a Luxembourg mother. His name was John Albert Schmitt and his father was a cutler in Thionville. ‘You could see the Sitzkrieg’s progress best in' Luxembourg. From Mr. Klopp’s terrace you could see it cx to its end. You noted the increased tempo of the artillery, You saw the 210s blasting in villages across the river. You saw the pontoon bridges stretching halfway across the Moselle. And as you sat in the dreamy peace of the loveliest springtime this .enchanted country has seen in a decade; you knew the attack was coming and you knew it would go ‘through the Low Countries, Belgium and Luxembourg. : So, one night when the Gestapo called on the gested that I leave the Grand Duchy, I took. the hint and said thank ‘you. The warning turned out to be good, although whether this offi- ' cious agent knew it or not I can’t say. If he didn’t know it he was unique. Few people in that neighborhood were military experts, including quite a lot of brass hats on both sides of the line, But it was

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PACT CAN MEAN

MUCH OR LITTLE

Aid Unless U. S. S. R. Holds Germans.

_ By JOHN T. WHITAKER Corl teen bal Nek ner” LONDON, July 14 —Simultaneously. with the German claim that “the Stalin line has been pierced at all points,” Great Britain and Russia have announced a formal agreement of co-belligerency which specifies that neither power shall negotiate a separate afmistice or peace. This succinct accord, which bears the full approval of the British Dominions, was signed Saturday night in Moscow, where DictatorPremier Josef V. Stalin ‘and Sir Stafford Cripps, British Ambassador to the Soviet, drank a toast. Its text provides: “1, The two governments mutually undertake to render each other assistance and support of all kinds in the’ present war against Hitlerite Germany. * “9 They further undertake that, during the war, they will neither negotiate nor conclude an armistice or treaty of peace.except by mutual agreement.” : Up to Russia

This brief text may prove the seal upon Germany’s fate now that Hitler's generals have violated Bismarck’s fixed rule, that Germany must always avoid, at all costs, war upon two fronts. Or it may prove as ephemeral as the similar accord Britain signed with France. ; The answer, for the moment, lies with the Russians alone. | If the Russians can again stop the three-pronged German advance, Hitler's “one march” blitz may bog down in the immensity of Russia and the war may (pecome as distressing to the Germans as the China “incident” has become to the Japanese. In that event, Britain's promise to render assistance and support of all kinds should become extremely effective. Just now, it amounts to little more than an air offensive. Ceaseless day-and-night R.A.F. sweeps over Nazi-occupied countries and Western Germany may have been less than the Russian military mission asked for, just as some doctrinaire individuals may have wanted a forthright alliance instead of the brief agreement announced. Actually Britain is generous when she sends over, as escorts, hundreds of her crack fighting pilots. These pilots alone stand between her and invasion . should Russia collapse. Britain, consequently, risks decimating and exhausting her first line of fense with this “aid to Russia.”

Ask for Bombings

Full force of the air offensive will be felt in Germany if Russia holds firm. The Nazi generals must be pondering, already, whether airmen can be spared from the Russian front to protect Germany and retaliate over Britain. If Russia stands, the ever-increasing crescendo of British raids is likely to compel the Germans to withdraw crack pilots and planes from the Russian front. ; In short, Germany must complete her “one month” blitz within one month, or she really finds herself at war on two fronts. ‘The British are curiously uncon-

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picking up a newspaper—a popular newspaper which argues that the British Government will not really be helping Russia as it should until London is being bombed to blazes again! This newspaper argues that the British bombings must be so severe that the Germans are forced to withdraw from the Russian front and retailate. Can an American imagine Amer-

Washington a policy which would bring German raids against New York and Chicago, in order to relieve the strain on London? That is the sort of thing which underlies Britain’s agreement with Russia, that, if Stalin can drag the Russo-German war into the SinoJapanese kind of war, Britain will never lay down her arms until Germany is beaten. That spirit is worth more than the words of a formal undertaking.

KARL B. KELLY DEAD:

Kar] B. Kelly, employee in the property records department of the Indianapolis Power & Light Co, died today at his home, 535 E. 36th St. Mr. Kelly had lived in Indianapolis about 45 years. He had been employed by the utility since January, 1934. Previous to that he had spent more than 20 years in the plant department of the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. He was born in Cincinnati, and when a small boy moved to Liberty, where he was graduated from high school. : Eo. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Kathryn B. Kelly; a son, Allen B. Kelly; a grandson, James Kelly, all of Indianapolis, and five sisters, Mrs. May Rowley and Mrs. Martha Preston, both of Indianapolis; Mrs. A. P. Lewis, South Bend, and Misses Ruth and Sadie Kelly, both of Dayton, O.

Arnold Says U.S. Will Use Gliders

ELMIRA, N.Y. July 14—Anyone who doubted the glider’s military usefulness “has had that doubt long since dispelled by the onslaught against Crete,” aj. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of the Army Air Forces, said at the close of the National Sodring Contest here last night. “We in the Army air forces have never denied, never have failed to appreciate, the military possibili‘ties of the glider,” Gen. Arnold said. “Because of our geographical

driven airplanes our first consideration, with particular reference to the long-range, heavy bomber that is made mandatory by our policy of hemisphere defense. That does not mean that our Jans:

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Britain Can Give Slight]

mara Charle, exotic 27-year-old Broadway night club singer, put a 22-caliber pistol at her 5-.year-old daughter Dorthy’s heart and killed her in their room at an Albany, N. Y,, hotel. “I wanted to go with the baby,” she wrote immediately afterward, “but after " the first bullet the gun jammed.” After 12 hours which she spent walking the streets and drinking cocktails, she returned to her room and succeeded in making the jammed gun work, ending her life on the twin-bed beside her child.

VICHY ASKS FOR FOOD FROM LATIN AMERICA

VICHY, July 14 (U, P.).—Fernand De Brinon, Vichy representative in German-occupied Paris, said last night that Britain is beaten and appealed to Latin America to feed Europe. “The Anglo-Saxon domination of the world is cracking up,” he said. “A new order is going to replace that of the 19th and 20th centuries, No disguising of facts can prevent Latin America from expressing sympathy for the European crusade against the international undertaking of destruction which is the

_ RUSSIANS HAIL '

BRITISH TREATY

U. S., ‘Coveted by Nazis, Called New Partner Of Soviet Union.

MOSCOW, July 14 (U. P.).~The Soviet-British agreement on mutual defense and a finish-fight against Germany, backed by the “tremende ous” resources of the United States, seals the fate of Adolf Hitler, Pravda, official Communist Party organ, asserted today. All newspapers gave prominent display to photographs of the cere~ mony at which Premier Josef Stalin, Foreign ‘Commissar V. M, Molotov. and British Ambassador

cord. It showed them in friendly

poses. . ' Press and Radio reported a wave

of mass meetings hailing the “frae ternal union of democratic nations fighting a common enemy.” * Pravda called the pact “a docue ment of greatest historical and po=~ litical significance” which “signifies a new stage in the war against the Fascist gangsters who trampled down peace treaties with other eople. P op e Fascist invaders stretch their covetous, blood-stained paws to the land of the Soviet people, to the British Isles, to the Latin Amerjean countries and to the United States,” it continued. . S. A. Lozovsky, official Soviet spokesman, had said in announcing the pact that it, in effect, makes the United States a partner of Russia in her fight with Germany, Pravda said the “sympathies of the whole world and all pebples are with the Soviet Union and Great Britain, who now are united in the struggle against the common foe, against the perfidious Hitler, the deadliest enemy of democracy and all mankind.”

BERLIN, July 14 (U. PP) Authorized German spokesmen dee scribed the Anglo-Russian agrees

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Fresh, cool PULL-UP SOCKS that men load up on!

They're the kind of socks that a man-likes underfoot. Whites, plenty of tans, ribs and stripes of all kinds—(quiet—or a bit boisterous in a gentlemanly way!) Sizes 10 to 13— gather ‘round and help yourself to 5 pairs for a dollar! (25¢ each). ,

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® . These are the standard 50c socks (Westminster) short socks— lisles and rayons—stripes and plaids—light and dark colorings. 35¢, 3 pairs for $1 : yv

: L STRAUSS 80.

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