Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1941 — Page 3

FRIDAY, AUG. 1, 1941

RUSSIANS MAKE GREATEST DRIVE

Moscow Bombed Again—by ‘Two or Three’ Nazi Planes. MOSCOW, Aug. 1 (U. P.).—Rus-

sian troops, seizing the initiative from the tiring Germans after 16 days of unremitting fighting, are driving the Nazi blitzkrieg forces back in the Smolensk sector of the

Moscow front with heavy losses. it was asserted officially today. A Russian war communique said the Russians were taking prisoners and quantities of war materials in counter-attacks, which apparently were the greatest they had made in nearly six weeks of the war. It was indicated that at some points of the Smolensk line the Germans had been driven back a considerable distance and the implication was that some of their advanced forces might be in grave danger if they could not at once reform their line. Fghting was reported to be ferocious and on a big scale. There was heavy fighting also in the Porkhov and Novorshev sectors to the north and in the Zhitomir sector of the Kiev front to the south. It was strongly indicated that where the Russians were not themselves counter-attacking, they were holding firm. German planes made their eighth raid on Moscow in 11 days during the night. The raid was on a smaller scale than previous raids and only scattered planes—the communique said one or two—broke through the outer defense ring and reached the capital area. It was said that a small number of incendiary bombs set fire to several dwellings but the fires were put out promptly, and no military targets were hit. Russian guerrillas operating in the rear of the German lines on the Bessarabian front destroyed an entire enemy airdrome and returned with 82 Rumanian prisoners,

the second communique of the day said.

El i i CUT AS BOTTLE EXPLODES David Stewart, 27, cterk in a grocery at 2174 N. Illinois St., received! a deep’ i gash when a bottle of root beer exploded as he was put-

ting it in the cooler.

‘Cobra’ Guns Loaded

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The .30 and .50 caliber machine guns of a P-39 Bell Airacobra are, loaded up for a workout at-Camp Skeel, Mich. Note the cannon {argets, pouring fire from machine guns and cannon that makes dirt

sticking from nose of the ship.

Joins Picket Line At His Own Plant

KANKAKEE, Ili, Aug. 1 (U.P) .—

Henry Pope marched today with the pickets around the Bear Brand Hosiery Co., of which he is founder and former president.

He was leaving his plant, where

1800 men and women went on strike today seeking A. F. of LL. union, and was confronted with marching in opposite directions.

recognition of an

two double lines,

Pickets -explained they couldn't

break their lines because police and deputy sheriffs were keeping them in motion. " Grinning greeted him, Mr. Pope joined one of the lines and marched a half block before he could break out of formation at a corner.

at the hoots that

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11% IN INDIANA CLASSIFIED I-A

Dependency Remains Major Reason for Deferment; 73% in Group.

Eleven per cent of the 227,778 Hoosiers classified for Selective Service up to June 1 have been placed in group I-A, available and physically fit for military training. : The State headquarters today reported that up to June 1 there were 417,691 registrants, 227778 of whom had been classified. Dependency continued to be the major reason for deferment, with 74 per cent of those classified placed in Class III-A by their local boards because they were responsible for the support of one or more dependents, the Selective Service headquarters reported. Of a typical group of 1000 Hoosiers classified, 107 would be placed in Class I-A, 48 would be listed as I-B, available for service but physically fit for limited duty only, and 25 would be deferred in Class II-A because they cannot be replaced in their occupations, the State office figures revealed. Out of the group, 737 would go into Class III-A, exempt because of dependency. Because of previous terms of service in the United States armed forces, four would be placed in Class IV-A. Two in the thousand would be I-C registrants, aliens who have not declared their intention of becoming citizens and not liable for service. Ministers and divinity students would number six in the typical group and would be classified in IV-D. Sixty - eight would be found “physically, mentally or morally unfit,” and would be placed at tlie bottom of the list in Class IV-F. Also in the group probably would | be several conscientious objectors,! Class IV-E, students who are con-| scientious objectors, Class IV-E-S,| or certain pwublic officials who are deferred, Class IV-B, the headquarters reported.

MILLER LEAVES FOR GAPITAL TOMORROW

Martin H. Miller. Indiana Legislative director of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen for 15 years, will leave for Washington tomorrow to lead the Brgotherhood’s fight against the proposed St. Lawrence Seaway pending in Congress. Mr, Miller recently was named national legislative director of the Brotherhood with headquarters in

railroad inspector of the State Public Service Commission, has been named Mr. Miller's successor here. The St. Lawrence Seaway proposal is before the House Rivers and Harbors Committee and the Brotherhood’s .‘epresentatives are scheduled to appear before it sometime next week, Mr. Miller said. Mr. Gilbert was a Democratic member of the State House of Representatives in 1933. He is a native of Seymour and is a member of the

HE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

For Target Practice . .

Three of the six Airacobras in the maneuvers sweep over the ground

fly all directions.

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Copyright, 1941,

wounded as soon as the disabled Nazi parachutists, including many like Max Schmeling suffering from dysenteric and internal troubles, began arriving from Crete. Miss Messoloura was present with the chief Greek nurse of Hospital No. IV in Athens when a German general asked that the nursing staff be summoned for inspection. At the close of some words of greeting to the assembled nurses, he invited any who wished to nurse the German wounded to step forward. Of the 60 nurses, none moved. The general asked why none had volunteered. “It is very difficult,” said Miss Messoloura, ‘for us to forget that 52 of our Greek nurses have been killed in bombed hospitals or drowned in the sinking of our five hospital ships by German planes.”

Two Nurses Arrested

“BUT WE ARE asking you to volunteer for humane reasons,” said the general. “Any nurses who wish to go may do so,” said Miss Messoloura. Still none moved. Miss Messoloura turned to the

Jackson County Bar Association.

Here Is the Traffic Record

1940 ....coceniennne 34 1941 Setanta 43

—July 31—

3% LN

Accidents. Arrests ....... 30] Dead THURSDAY TRAFFIC COURT

Cases Convic- Fines Violations tried tions paid Speeding ........ 12 12 $140 Reckless driving... 8 7 52 Failure to stop at through street.. 8 9 Disobeying traffic signals ........ 11 # Drunken driving. 2 2 All others ....... 27 23 59

Totals ......... 68

MEETINGS TODAY

Basha Club, Hotel Severin, noon. Club, Columbia Club, noon. Shma Cn Ch , Board of Trade, noon. heta, Columbia Club, noon. Delta Tay Tou Delia i Club, noon. a, Canary ge, noon. RE Division Toran War Memorial, 8 p.

MEETINGS TOMORROW

Farm Reenrity Administration, Hotel Severin, 10 a. 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.

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51 70 95

Chester 8 25, otal 3402 N. Carrollton; Joan A er 22, of 13% Buck-

E. Tobias, 29, of 1212 N. Webster Bokome: ne ‘McCallain, 25, of 5305 easant Run Blv Virginia L. Mecord. 18, of 3913 E. 30th; Carl E. Smith, 19, of 4712 E. 30th. rey W. Fieener, 21, of a N. Pine; Helen F. Wilkison, oo Lawre » ck Price. 40 950 W. Te North: Edan ass

urm., 39, UR 21, of Morganer . Ta Sy 5 “Hall, 19, Morgan-

Kon oh vs of i E. New 428 South

¥ Se Neiai hr “19, ‘of 1007 S. La-

REE a 8h cof 1201 E. Fo Custer. Mich,

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coos 42 | Injured ..... 12|in

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general: “All will go if we are ordered to do so,” she said, “but none if we are not.” The general flushed, turned on his heel and walked out. Upon his complaint to Dr, Constantine Logothetopoulos, minister of hygiene and chief civilian figure of the government; who is a noted doctor, the two nurses were arrested. When public indignation reached a dangerous pitch tlee following day, they were released. Eventually German nurses were flown to Greece to handle the wounded. When the Greek Red Cross was ordered to evacuate within 24 hours all Greek wounded, regardless of condition, from: a large hospital in an Athenian suburb, mettlesome nurses hot only evacuated the patients but encouraged them to take away the hospital's mattresses and bed clothing with them, As a result of this defiance the Germans thereafter, when ordering hospitals evacuated, gave shorter notice and placed guards over hospital doors immediately.

Fair Play at Times

Many nurses who came from wealthy homes took their legless or painfully wounded patients home with them and continued to nurse them there. There were instances during

Wilma Lee Lawson, % of 1141 Broadway. Ni : 16th; Hil-

‘Ave . Mills of 3242 College; Mary E. Seigler. 19. of 1912 Fletcher. eaterson, 21, of 1024 N. Walvice C. Johns, 2. of 1230 N.

Sullivan, 25, of 5485 Julian; Margare® M. Schoen, 27. of 27 N. Persh-

PE erman Hoffman. 33, of 1823 S. East: Gertrude E. Sellers. 30. 2035 N. Meridian. C . Liestner. ‘28 of 310 N. Illinois; tt. 24, of 428 N. gray. Erwin G .Krahn, 25. R. R. 16, Box 616; Florence E." Give. "26. ‘of 8501 Spring fi ad.

BIRTHS Twin Girls Alice Hyatt. at Coleman. Girls

John. Ellen Hamner, at Sitman, Lennev, June Baire, at Colem id, Frieda Jarrell, at St. Vincent: 8. Weaver, at St. Vin-

Paul,

. Virginia

Ivan, Dorothv Woolsey, at Methodist. Fregerioe: Hortense Worley, at Method-

Ben. Js, Ratcliffe, at Methodist. Russell, Dorothy Laymon, at Methodist. CE Jetiek, Henrietta Vehling, at Meth-

"Brégerick Marie Ford. at Methodist. Pauline Jackson, at Meth oa: st, Matvin. Bernice t t

8 a Richard. Lucille He hrany. at St. Fran-

“kibert, Helen Schoenerr, at St Francis. Jacob. Gladys Greene, at St. Francis. PR a Marguerite Cleveinnd. gh 2150 Oliver, Mildred Messer, at 228 W. Rav. . Lloyd, Georgia Goad, at 2202 Beileton: aine. v Fleva, Marie -Sample, at 2160 CarrollSamuel, at 712 Russell,

Pauline Emmons, Boys cer Beatrice Schneider. at St, Vinaries, pars lagoe: a St.

nent 5. 3 honed “Bos

Me ns wt Methodist. ae Ruth at St. an-

at Methodist. us oe. Walter, Harriett Stewart. at St. FranEdgar. Lilly Jeffries. at City.

DEATHS Noland Hatfield. 2 months, at City.

nha 80, 634 Udell, Thompson, at e cardiac Sinan pon, Marv Kent. 78 at 1124 River, uremia, Raymond F. Gammans, 44, at Veterans, arteriosclerosis. Gladys eR obunton, 38, at Mower Mission, tuberculosis. Mvron R. Williams, 83, at 5630 Michigan, hronI Myocarditis

Sth months, at 223 N

Greece in Irons

Nurses in Athens Balk a) Serving German Wounded

(Editors Note—Mr. Weller, who wrote the recent revealing series of six articles on Greece, has filed several supplementary dispatches concerning Hitler's rule of a conquered country. This is the first ar-

ATHENS.—Two Greek nurses, loura, director of the Greek Red Cross Nursing Corps, were arrested by the government of Gen. George Tsolakoglou at German request and jailed for having been ‘“unco-operative” man wounded from the Battle of Crete. The Germans ordered the hospitals immediately emptied of Greek

By GEORGE WELLER by The Indianapolis Times and the Chicago Daily News,

Inc.

one of them Athena Messo-

in the matter of nursing Ger-

hostilities when German reconnoitering planes, observing Red Cross insignias in areas that were about to be bombed by Stukas, dropped notes of warning.

At Marathon and Nea Makri nurses were able. having received such warning, to move their patients in time. In another case German fliers warned an ambulance convoy to leave ga strategic crossroads before it was bombed. But these instances of fair play have become overshadowed in the minds of the Greeks by the bombing of the hospital at Jannina. In the Epirote capital — now part of Albania—a Stuka, without bombing any other object in the city, placed its single homb in daylight from a low altitude directly in the middle of the Red Cross on the roof of a hospital.

The bomb plunged down across the main operating chamber and landed in a room where five nurses were rolling bandages. All were killed. In addition, Dr. Macris, son-in-law of Dr. Logothetopolous, who was operating, died of wounds. One of the other doctors engaged in the operation was married to a nurse in the bandage room. He rushed through the broken door and after searching in the unspeakable welter of blood, found his wife's arm, identified by their marriage ring. He could not find anything more, and in utter silence he immediately buried the arm.

LIGHT FIRM OFFERS $19,240 FOR LIGHTS

A bid of $19,240 was submitted to the Works Board today by the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. on 136 street lights on N. Meridian St. between 38th St. and Kessler Blvd. The lights were turned over to the Works Board by the Park Board several months ago and the City decided to sell them to relieve maintenance costs Works Board President Louis C Brandt said it was Board's policy *o sell all municipally owned street lights to the utility in order to get lower street lighting rates. The company offered ‘the City a check for $15,225.23 representing a net payment to the Gity for the lights after the deduction of $4015.11 in bills the City owes the company.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Frank Ransdell. 73, at 2018 State. cerebral hemo rrhage. Hannah D. Meyer, ox at 2154 N. Delaware, . CIAL occlusi: Edward Kikendall, "no "at Long, Avay McMath, 47. at Coleman. Sollv Knight. ‘70, at

jabetes. jabetes. City. anemia.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. S. Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Fair to partly cloudy this afternoon, tonight and tomorrow; moderate temperature; highest this afternoon about 88.

Sunrise. ...... 4:43 | Sunset...... TEMPERATURE

.8:59

BAROMETER TODAY 8:30 a. m., 20.92 Precipitation 24 hours ending 7 a. m.. Total precipitation since Jan. 1 Deficiency since Jan. 1 MIDWEST WEATHER

Indiana—Fair to partly cloudy with moderate temperature tonight and te-

with to-

«| morrow.

cloudy tonight and

IMinois—Fair to partly moderate temperature morrow. Lower Michigan— Generally fair tonight and tomorrow; little change in temperaure. Ohie—Fair and somewhat cooler weather tonight and tomorrow. Kentueky—Generally fair with little change in temperature tonight and tomorrow.

WEATHER IN OTHER CUTIES, 6:30 A. M. Station Weather Bar. Temp Amarillo, Tex. tCld; rek, N.

WII nI Sv On amo Dw

383383383888 3838S 82533382285: 333333

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THE

eS iene Salhi.

A Hit Their Mark .

Fliers look over the targets after practice and find they did even better shooting than they hoped for.

deadliest air fighters.

the Russo-German war.

right on to key Russian cities; if not, the war may develop into a standstill, which may ultimately turn into a complete stalemate. A real stalemate, however, is not expected to materialize as long as either side has enough armored divisions to attack the other. Of the two principal German drives, one toward Leningrad and the other in the Smolensk area, the former is regarded as the more dangerous. Capture of Leningrad, it is pointed out, would deprive the Russian fleet of bases and supplies.

Laud Soviet Anti-Aircraft

By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. LONDON, Aug. 1.—It is now the studied opinion of British military experts that the next “week or two” will decide the ultimate course of

This period, ‘it is figured, will be sufficient to determine whether or not the Germans have enough power, Russian supplies of first-class equipment.

The planes are Uncle Sam’s

equipment and men to exhaust If they can, they may press

The capture of Smolensk, on the other hand, would simply mark another step on the road to Moscow. Failure of the luftwaffe to reach Moscow and bomb 1t effectively is attributed largely to the efficiency of the Russian anti-aircraft defenses. They are apparently far more effective than the British anti-air-craft, and appear superior even to the mighty anti-aircraft defenses which the Royal Air Force has met

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. BERLIN REPORTS GREAT VICTORY

Tens of Thousands of Red Troops Smashed, DNB Claims.

BERLIN, Aug. 1 (U. P.).—The official DNB News Agency said .today that Soviet Forces ‘south of Smolensk” have been smashed in a battle in which tens of thousands of Russian troops were killed and 35,000 prisoners were taken. The dispatch claimed that the Soviet detachments had been en-< circled. Nazi forces yesterday, it was said, closed in on the trapped Russians and smashed their resistance, At least 245 guns were said to have been taken. The DNB report followed a statement by the High Command that operations in the East continue their “favorable” course despite ace counts by other Nazi sources of exe tensive and repeated Soviet counter attacks.

Finns, Magyars Attack

German planes bombed “military, objectives” at Moscow during the night, the communique added. The German official radio said Finnish troops were repulsing strong Russian counter-attacks on the Karelian front and that fighting was ferocious. A Hungarian war communique said Hungarian troops were advaneing rapidly after repulsing a series of “particularly heavy” counter-at-tacks. It had been admitted northeast of Smolensk the Russians were now counter-attacking. There was but one report of an actual position. This came from a propaganda company reporter who told of a German advance through the Valdai Hills, about midway between Moscow and Leningrad.

NAMED TO STEEL GROUP

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (U.P.), —The OPM today announced ape: pointment of H. Edgar Lewis, chairs - man of the board and president of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp, Pittsburgh, to the steel defense in=

in Germany,

dustry advisory committee.

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