Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 1941 — Page 3
SATURDAY, AUG. 16,
* GERMANS
RUSSIANS ASSERT
Nazis Suffer Frightful Loss Successful Withdrawa Believed Key to
By NED RUSSELL United Press Staff Correspondent P.) —Three great Russian armies have
ILONDON, Aug. 18 (U. emashed or slowed ferocious Germa
Onega on the Finnish front to the Ukraine, authoritative Russian
sources asserted today. Marshale. Kiementi Voroshilov,
Budenny have thrown fresh masses of men into the front and the suffering frightful |
Germans are losses in a desperate attempt to con-| tinue their third grand scale offensive of the war, it was said. On the far northern front, Rusgian troops have smashed German) and Finnish attacks west of Lake] Onega, northeast of Lake Ladoga,| aimed at the Leningrad-Murmansk| Arctic railroad, authoritative Rus-|S sian spokesmen said. In the Kholm area of the Lenin-grad-Moscow front, 170 miles west of Moscow and 110 miles from the Leningrad - Moscow railroad at which the Germans are striking, the Russians are beating off savage German attacks and inflicting heavy losses, it was said. Repulse Kiev Attack
In the Smolensk area, where the Germans attacked without pause for a month in their attempt to break the Russian line defending the Moscow region, the Germans are now digging in, Russian informants said. On the Ukrainian front, it was asserted the Russians have repulsed with grave losses a heavy attack west of Kiev, Russian informants raid. The informants admitted that in| the Uman sector of the Ukrainian front the Germans had gained a “certain success” and that on the rest of that front the situation was extremely confused. But even here, they asserted, the situation was everywhere under control. Moscow denied all German claims that the Germans had disorganized Marshal Budenny’'s Ukrainian army. British authoritative sources, who had been increasingly pessimistic in the last few days over immediate] developments as the Germans} started their third great dri today that developments on the |
Russian front were more cheerful] {might push their main forces on |into the Caucasua oil region, leaving
and more reassuring. “The Germans have not crossed]
the Dnieper at any point,”
Reds: Moscow Raid Fails
MOSCOW, Aug. 16 (U. P) —Battles raged throughout last night all along the front and the fighting was especially fierce in the Ukraine,
the High Command said today.
Its second communique of the day said German planes “failed comin their 18th attempt to raid Moscow last night. ttered the raiders and none got through.
pletely” defenses outside the capital sca The Russian air force had inflicted] heavy losses on the enemy all along the front, the communique said. Dispatches from the front said hundreds of thousands of Russian and German troops were fighting ferociously in innumerable engagements, great and small, all the way from Lake Ladoga, north of Leningrad, to the Ukranian shores of the Black Sea. The Russian communique indicated that since the start of the intensified German drive into the Ukraine, hostilities had flared anew] on all sectors, including the vital northern sector around Leningrad and in the area around Smolensk, the gateway to Moscow. It was believed that the first impact of the new German thrust in the Ukraine might have been softened and that Russian resistance, was stronger than ever now that] the Germans had reached the]
Berlin: Russia
BERLIN. Aug. 16 (U.
attempting to evacuate from Black Se Although th cessful” Germans were striking continually and with great power in an effort to frustrate the Red Army efforts |: to create a new defense line east! force of the Dnieper to protect the Bonets) industrial area. “It was a night of horror for] trapped Russian forces, especially in the Odessa area,” the official agency said. “Not a single hour of rest was given the retreating Rus-| sians.” The agency said that “everywhere that trucks and marching columns of Russians attempted to move on the roads under cover of darkness” they were attacked by German bomber squadrons. The luftwatie hammered continually at rail lines, Dnieper bridges, ships leaving Odessa and Nikolaev and columns “densely packed” on the roads, the agency said. The agency said particularly degiructive raids were made against a strong Russian force encircled between the Bug and Dniester Rivers. The number of Russian casualties everywhere was said to be much greater than the number of enemy prisoners taken. They added that the Germans had now destroyed the rest of the Russian troops “and one can assume that formations probably assembled ‘here -east of the Dnieper can in no way compare in arms, equipment and training with the armies which our troops have destroyed or viectoriously overcome.” An indication that the Russians were offering strong resistance to a continued German advance was seen in the new emphasis placed
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{drive against Moscow and Lenin|grad, reported from Stockholm.
ive, said, east of the Crimean peninsula.
a!to be mopped up at leisure.
| Odessa-Dnieper River railroad east
Marshal Semyon Budenny's army of the Ukraine had been cut off were untrue. they said.
| tanks and artillery as well as Ger-
P.) —German armed forces, led by the Luftwaffe, today reported fierce pursuit of the Red Army in the Ukraine after inflicting a “night of horror” on Russiafs falling back to the Dnieper and
e High Command said anly that operations were “sucand according to plan, competent
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es on All Fronts, Say Reds; | of Budenny’s Army Fate of Ukraine.
n offensives all the way from Lake
Semyon Timoshenko and Semyon
spokesman said. “It is not clear whether the Russians intend to defend Odessa and Nikolaev.’ Both Russian and British advices indicated that Budenny planned an orderly withdrawal behind the | Dnieper, to form a new and strong |defense line along that broad, swift stream. The encouraging Russian reports caused military experts to wonder whether the Russians had frustrated, or might frustrate, German preparations for a gigantic new
Russian intelligence reports from Stockholm said that the Germans were rushing fuel, supplies and trucks to reinforce their armored divisoins for a new drive on Moscow. Roads behind the German lines were reported to be jammed at night, when Russian planes could not see them, with long columns of supply trucks and other transports. Military experts said that the success of an expected stand along the Dnieper River by the Russian Army of the Ukraine depended on the success of Marshal Budenny in getting his material across the wide, swift river. Ukraine at Stake “If Budenny loses his equipment and merely saves his men the whole Ukraine may be lost in a short time,” one observer said. But commentators said also that if Budenny succeeded in getting both his men and material across he would have his first good chance of stemming the German drive. These experts believed the Germans hoped to push on past the Dnieper and strike the sea of Azov
If they did so, it was added, they
the big cities in their path besieged,
Anti-aircraft
of Odessa and the threat to a vast iron, coal and industrial area became more acute. Military quarters said emphatically that German reports that
It is fighting fiercely,
Russian planes are taking an increasingly active part in the Ukrainian fighting, bombing and machine gunning German troops,
man airdromes. It was disclosed that the Germans are seeking to land big parachute forces behind the Russian lines in hope of disorganizing Budenny’s men. The communique also gave details of the operations of Russian {armored trains which the Germans have mentioned frequently.
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quarters reported that the
lon Whe activity of the air force, faving the way for supporting land
rcpatehes also report that the Russian air force, long since supto have been destroved, is offering combat to the German planes.
Von Papen to Leave
Ankara for Berlin
ISTANBUL, Turkey, Aug. i5.— (Delayed) —(U. P.).—The German Ambassador, Franz von Papen, is preparing to leave for Berlin by airplane, it was understood today. Turkish quarters believed he was going back to report on Turkey's attitude toward the Russian war and on the effect of the BritishRussian guarantee of Turkish sovereignty. A neutral diplomatic source, however, said he was being recalled for having failed to negotiate a Ger-man-Turkish alliance which would have enabled German troops to use Turkey as a takeoff place for an attack on the Russian Caucasus. The same source said von Papen’s reported recall also was due partly to strife between the German foreign office and the Nazi party, which wants to replace old line diplomats with S. S. (Elite) men, on the ground that they are outmoded.
SAYS JERSEY DOCKS ORDERED FOR A. E. F.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (U. P). —Rep. Paul Shafer (R. Mich, told the House today it looked to him “as though the boys will soon be on their way” to an overseas war. He pointed out a War Department announcement that land had been bought for docks at Jersey City, N. J, which would be used as a terminal for lend-lease shipments to Britain, He said the specifications for the ship berths were far too elaborate for cargo vessels but would serve well as embarking berths for big troop transports.
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bombs at widely scattered points in easter nand southwestern England and eastern Scotland during the night. Slight damage and a few casualties were reported.
the English southeast coast indicated there had been fierce dog fight-
planes heavily raided Catania, Sicily, during the night, killing or wound-
Command communique said today.
blasted the city
air raids.)
and three of the planes were shot down by anti-aircraft guns.
was said.
RESUME RAIDS ON LARGE SCALE
RAF Races Across Strait For Hours When Weather Conditions Improve.
LONDON, Aug. 16 (U. P)— Masses of British bombing and
The first picture of repeated British daylight raids on Cologne, vast German industrial city, shows a Blenheim bomber after unloading
bombs on the Cologne power station at Knapsack. Note the bomb bursts, smoke and fire.
Many Wells Go Dry Here as City Faces Water Shortage
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can't pave a street before the water mains are in . . . unless you want to tear it up later, they said. White River has gone down to the point where it looks “pathetic,” Mr. Morse said. The Water Company canal is nearly empty south of 17th St. because most of the water in it is being used by pumping sta-
fighting planes raced across the] Dover Strait to France in waves for|; hours today in a sudden, big scale resumption of Royal Air Force of-| fensive operations. Bad weather had kept Britain's long range bombers aground during the night, but the offensive against Germany and German- occupied | territory was resumed soon after dawn. Russia took its turn at raiding Berlin during the night. Berlin reported that Russian planes had “attempted” to raid the city but said that only one plane reached the “outskirts” and that gunfire forced it back. The Berlin communique said “a number” of bombers had “tried” to attack northeastern and eastern Germany. Radio Berlin went off the air at 10:25 last night (4:25 p. m. Indianapolis Time), German long range guns on the French coast shelled, but apparently did not damage, two small British ships in the Strait of Dover last night. A few German planes dropped
Dispatches from Folkestone on
ing over the French coast of the Channel.
Rome Reports Heavy RAF Raid on Sicily
ROME, Aug. 16 (U. P.).—British
ing many persons an ddamaging a number of civil dwellings, a High
(The wording of the Italian communique was most unusual and was taken to mean that the British had in force. Usually Italian and German communiques minimize the effects of all British
It was the second straight night raid on Catania. British planes also attacked Italian ships along the Libyan coast near Tripoli, the communique said,
Italian planes raided Malta, it
RFC LOANS BOOST SYNTHETIC RUBBER
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (U. P.).— Price Control Administrator Leon Henderson revealed today that the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation is considering loans of ‘‘considerable sums” to encourage the manufacture of synthetic rubber. Replying to question by Rep. Wright Patman (D. Tex.), Mr. Henderson told the House Banking and Currency Committee that a serious shortage of rubber had been averted by Governmental control of supplies, and that a campaign is underway to increase synthetic Pron
tions to the north. South of 17th St. there is barely a fcot of water in the Canal. Yesterday, nearly a hundred people roamed the dry bed looking for things that might have been lost. No curtailment on the use of water for sprinkling lawns is threatened yet, Mr. Morse said. The rain has: cut down the necessity for
[sprinkling, but it hasn't been hard
enough to affect the water supply. Being without water in a big city sounds fantastic. Yet, in the 1600 block of Massachusetts Ave, families have no water. The mains which run in Brookside Ave. only a block away have never been extended to their homes and they have always depended on well water. At the home of Arthur Johnson, 1621 Massachusetts Ave. the well has gone dry. The Johnsons are getting water from a neighbor on Brookside Ave. and hoping the City will install mains. But there is no
pipe. . .
In the 2900 block of Hillside Ave. where the residents depend on pumps, the Lawrence family well went dry. Frank Lawrence was having the well drilled deeper yesterday. At 39 feet, the pipe hit rock. No sign of water. Mr. Lawrence couldn’t understand it. He thought it would be necessary to drill in another place. As if the water problem weren't complicated enough, Isaac Ammerman of the L. N. Ammerman Co., well drillers, said they were running out of pipe. You can't get well pipe either, he said, because of priorities. Luckily, however, there seemed to be a little water left in a small pump at the rear of the lot. But the men stood around and looked at the well drilling operations gloomily. In the 2000 block of Bosart Ave. where new homes are going up, the water company was laying pipe. These places would have water. But these mains were ordered months ago. The folks who are running short of water say they begin to see the wisdom of that old adage: “You never miss the water until the well runs dry.” Why you even have to borrow water before you can have a cup of coffee in the morning.
U. S. EXTENDS RUSSIA LEASE-LEND HELP
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (U. P). —The Administration is revising its new lend-lease program of aid for nations resisting the Axis to include comprehensive aid to Russia, it was believed today. Officials made what they said were “pure guesses” that Congress would be asked to appropriate $10,000,000,000 or more to aid Britain, Russia and China. The sum originally contemplated was $6,000.000.000. Estimates for the revised .program will be submitted to President Roosevelt when he returns to Washington tomorrow. Greatly accelerated American and British aid to Russia was foreshadowed in a letter sent Premier Josef Stalin by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill suggesting that they send high officials to Moscow for conferences with him and other high Russian officials. The unprecedented letter to the head of a great power signed by the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Great Britain was made public here and in London last night. It represented another of the decisions made at the conferences between the President and Churchill at sea. It was expected that other decisions would be made known later.
YOUTHS BELOW 21 GETTING MORE JOBS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (U. P)). —Youth has taken its place on the assembly line as well as in the armed services, Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt report-
ed today. * During the first three months of this year, he said, state employment agencies found jobs for 181,800 persons under 21 years of age—78 per
Bid to Fly Leg To Disabled Ace
LONDON, Aug. 16 (U, P).— Buddies of Wing Commander Douglas R. Bader, the legless ace now held prisoner by the Germans, were bidding today for the job of dropping him a metal leg to replace the one he broke in parachuting from his flaming plane over France a few days ago. Germany has notified the Royal Air Force of Bader's plight through the international Red Cross and has offered immunity to any British pilot who will bring him another leg. Bader kept several spares at his flying station in South England. It was believed that one of Bader’s friends would be authorized to drop a leg in a parachute during a flight over German-held territory. Bader was credited with shooting down 15 German planes before his capture.
LOST DOG CAUSING POUND PROBE FOUND
Poochie, the yellow-tan police dog that disappeared more than a week ago after he was picked up by the dog catcher, was home today. A boy appeared at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Murphy, 453 N. Rural St, owners of the dog, carrying a note from his mother. Mrs. Murphy sent her niece, Miss Mary Elizabeth Kemper, to an address on N. Davidson St., 300 block, where the note said the dog could be found. Mrs. Kemper was told that Poochie wandered into the yard four days ago, very ill. The dog, too weak to walk, was carried home in a taxicab, then to a veterinary. Poochie has been the object of a police and neighborhood search since his disappearance. An investigation was ordered by Chief
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BUMPER WHEAT CROP FORESEEN
Purdue’s Aug. 1 Estimate Of Other Crops Well Over 1940 Yields.
Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind, Aug. 16— Purdue University experts estimated that Indiana's corn crop would be of bumper proportions this year, but the surveys on which the estimate was made were taken Aug. 1, when the current drought was only beginning to make itself felt. At that time, a report issued today states the outlook was for 181,102,000 bushels, an over average figure, At that time, also, the prospects were for above average yields of wheat, barley, oats and rye. The wheat crop threshed out greater than expectations to the second highest per acre yield on record — 23.5 bushels. Production was estimated at 37,224,000 bushels, 24 per cent above the 1940 yield.
Others Exceed 1940
Oats production was estimated at 53,720,000 bushels and rye at 1,906,000 bushels, both estimates representing substantial increases over 1940 figures. Barley was expected to hit a high per acre yield of 20 bushels. A production of 4,465,000 bushels of potatoes and 2,780,000 tons of tame hay was predicted in the Aug. 1 estimate. A greater than seasonal decline in pastures, however, was reported due to the drought. Truck crop prospects alse were dimmed by lack of rain. The outlook for tree fruit as of Aug. 1 was reported “especially promising” with these projected yields: 2.376,00 bushels of apples, nearly 1,000,000 more than in 1940; 637,000 bushels of peaches, twice normal and 11 times larger than last year’s short crop; 662,000 bushels of pears and 4700 tons of grapes. Farms reporting to Purdue indicated egg production was high, with 45.1 eggs per 100 layers as compared with 42.6 last year.
SEEKS STEEL DATA
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (U. P.).— Price Control Administrator Leon Henderson today asked 225 members of the steel industry to provide the Government by Sept. 2 with data ranging from their tonnage production to their financial position, This data, he said, will be used in possible readjustments in ceiling prices established for iron and steel products.
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HITLER READY FOR PUPPETY' PARADE
Answer io Anglo-American War Aims Probably Will Be
A Conference of Stooge
Nations, to Soften Up
Allies for a Peace Offensive.
By LUDWELL DENNY Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.
— Hitler's reply to the series
of Anglo-American-Russian strategy conferences is expected to be a European stooge conference proclaiming the Nazi
new order.
Petain’s embrace of the new order is probably the cur-tain-raiser for a parade of puppets to be staged as soon as a
STIMSON, HULL VOICE WARNING
Say Latin America Faces Threat If Axis Ever Controls Seas.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (U. P). —Secretary of State Cordell Hull today agreed with Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson that Latin Ames) ica would be threatened by Axis © domination if the Axis powers ever gained control of the high seas. Mr. Hull recalled at a press conference that he constantly has]
| stressed the threat to Latin Amer- |
ica, which Mr. Stimson character-| ized as the “most dangerous avenue of attack” against the United States. Mr. Stimson said in a radio speech last night that Germany already is pushing into North Africa and added that “we have reason to believe that a major advance will be made by her into that continent.” “At Dakar, which is held by Vichy forces, now friendly with Germany, the great western bulge of the African coast narrows the South Atlantic coast until the distance from Dakar to the easternmost point of Brazil can be easily traversed by air or sea,” he said. “From our observation of what has happened in Europe, we have learned to recognize the symptoms which invariably forecast the coming of a new Axis attack.
Fears for Canal
“If, by combining an air attack with a fifth column revolution, an Axis power should succeed in making a lodgement upon the coast of
South America, we should have a real task indeed—for it would not be difficult for any enemy lodged there to get within easy bombing distance of the Panama Canal,” he said. Drawing this critical picture of the international situation, Mr. Stimson appealed to American troops to accept with patriotism the 18 months extension of their service by Congress. “We must be ready to meet such a force as this on the many and varied terrains which surround our country from which an attack may come,” he warned. “These hard inescapable facts constitute the reason why your Government has extended the time of your service and is asking from you every possible effort in the training which we can give you.”
Knox Say ‘U. S. Will Fight for Sea Peace’
DURHAM, N. C., Aug. 16 (U. P.). —Secretary ot the Navy Frank Knox sald last night that the United States had fought two wars for freedom of the seas and would fight again if necessary to keep “peace on the seas.’ He addressed the North Carolina League of Municipalities. En route here, he said at a press conterence in Raleigh, N. C., yesterday evening that not a single plane or submarine of the Axis nations had been sighted in the Atlantic area patroled by U. S. naval forces, which now extends to Iceland.
DRIVER UNHURT AS TRAIN CLIPS AUTO
Charles A. Wetsell, 44, of 4042 Byram Ave., missed possible death by inches today. He was driving across railroad tracks on Kentucky Ave. and the Belt Railroad and a speeding train barely clipped the rear fender of his car, spinning it around. Had Mr. Wetsell been traveling a fraction slower, the locomotive would
Hitler victory in the Ukraine can provide the necessary fanfare. The theme song, presumably, will be that Nazi Europe already is one big happy family of “autonomous” members working together for the glory of Gott and destruction of Bolshevism.
On the ancient theory of dictators that only bread and circuses are needed to keep the people quiet, this show would be in lieu of bread —of which there is a regrettable temporary shortage, due to appe=tite priorities for Nazi troops “protecting” the occupied countries and
crusading against Red Russia.
Such a conference of the conuered, apparently, was planned a onth ago.- But, what with one thing and another, Hitler could not get around to it. For one thing the Petain-Darlan surrender of France to the new order was delayed several weeks by Gen. Wey= gand and his army—still unknown quantities For another, the barbaric Russians refused to play the game, being too stupid to stop when they were defeated—to use the classic Berlin alibi.
Crusade Unappreciated
Moreover, the Hitler campaign to save Christendom from communism was not appreciated in London or Washington, or in the Vatican. Churchill made an alliance with Moscow, and Roosevelt sent help, The Pope frowned on Nazi activi= ties in Latin America, where Hite ler’s “Christian crusade” was sup= posed to make Nazi converts.
The only new recruit to rally to Hitler was Finland, which has its own unpaid score to settle with Russia for earlier aggression.
Though postponed due to conditions beyond his control, Hitler's need for such a conference is now greater than ever. It is particularly needed— 1. To make the restive German pecple believe that the long overdue creation of the “New Order in Euprope” is an established fact, that the conquered countries are accepting Nazi “leadership” instead of waiting to revolt against it; 2. To strengthen the hold of the puppet governments—France, Croatia, Italy, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Slovakia and others—on the vassal states, by allowing them to meet as “equals” in a European congress conducted by the Gestapo;
Hold Freedom Bait
3. To hold out a bait of “freedom for the unreconstructed rebels who still refuse to Heil Hitler—Norewegians, Dutch, Belgians, Poles, Czechs, Serbs, Albanians, Greeks and others;
4, To lay a propaganda basis for the next Nazi peace offensive. The latter doubtless is the most important purpose of all. For there is a limit to the ability of any staged conference of Ersatz Hitlers to impress Germans, or to assuage the humiliation of once-free peoples ruled by Nazi proconsuls. What is such hocuspocus to the hungry, the despoiled, and the dishonored ? But it might be more impressive to Britons and Americans—so the Nazis hope. What if Hitler takes European Russia, and a wave of discouragement rises in England and America, and he then offers a European peace? To the war-weary of Germany and to Britain he may say: The war is over, there will be no more fighting unless the British attack united Europe. If that is his plan, now or later, he needs a chorus of Petains from a dozen countries proclaiming in goosestep the perfection of his New Order for Europe.
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