Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 August 1941 — Page 4

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LENINGRAD’S PERIL

ADMITTED RISING

65-Mile Advance Conceded by Russian Communique;

New German Thrust

At Cutting Off Budenny Army.

MOSCOW, Aug. 20 (U.

65-mile German advance from the south toward Leningrad : and acknowledged that Tallinn and Odessa were seriously] threatened, but indicated that they would be defended “to

the last man.” Red Army

forces

The 65-mile advance on th Leningrad front was said t have been made by the Gel mans in a drive from Staray Russa around Lake Ilmen

Novgorod. where

said particularly heavy fighlitg Was fom the north. On the west, how- | in pr S ever, it had been admitted that the : was reported Ryssians had been compelled to] Gomel. where shandon Kingisepp., 70 miles from | in a new peningrad, and today's commuthrust drive a pjques disclosed fighting in the

S ral an envelop Mar

ghal s Ukrainian Polish Army Formed | 8 forces { | Here the Germans were within 40; Scviet 1 rillas were miles of the Leningrad-Moscow | 83id to be in- railroad. | 3 fic on German Called the cradle of the Russian | force linn, capital empire. Novgorod was once the lead-| German machine-gunners and Seana gesn, Ses ne CovmigeE oy of fae nore enemy fire for an expected Russia Black Sea port Surope. A monument was erected " i su; 33 guerrilla band, in there in 1862 to commemorate the radioed with picture from Berlin. was reported to|1000th anmversary of the founding

ana

region

al of the n side of the great Pripet | It has been estimated that there Marches. Gomel is 30 miles east|are 200000 Polish soldiers in Rus- Cl S | of the upper Dnieper, on the Sozhisia, prisoners of war until the sign- apper ays river It as reported that ing of the Russo-Polish political Timoshenko's 1v of the center agreement of July 30. (Continued from Page One) was 1 ing hard. throwing freshi{ Gen. Anders has been named; . iis men and new material into the commander of the new force. tions, but if this opposition should

Battle at Dnieper Bridges

BERLIN, Aug. 20 (U. P) —Ge the battle catastrophe” {

the enemy forces will be unable to

wer against German drives from three sides against Leningrad] and a multi-pronged offensive in the Ukraine that has car-| ried to the west bank of the lower Dnieper. |

MMUNIQUe orecq in their attack on Leningrad!

"-1of Leningrad.

and an-,of the Russian Empire.

hed the eastern end the Tass News Agency announced.

of the Western Ukraine had developed r the Red Army in

in Gomel Sector Aimed

P.).—Russia today admitted a

e reported resisting strongly

| lines, in the attempt to head off | 0 the Germans and frustrate their| apparent hope of striking in a new direction at the Ukrainian army. On the Leningrad front. reports) irom the front said that the Ger-| mans and Finns had made no pro-|

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d Novgored direction 105 miles south

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wait under heavy

infantrymen n tank attack, according to caption

Idea Reds Need ‘No Help Foolish,

Formation of a Polish Army to in Russia has been started.

i i 1 fight

succeed it would mean choking off supplies at a time when they could be used to better advantage than ever before. Because now the products of the American arsenal can be put definitely to use in offensive action next year, whereas previously the supplies were chiefly useful in enabling Britain to hold out against the German pounding

rman authorities reported today that into a “smashing the south and that a great part of escape “destruction.”

Elaborating a High Command statement that a series of heavy Z2 +» & gttacks was in progress on the Dnieper River bridgeheads, these sources tas said that Russian attempts to re-, The British View

tire to the east

and incessant aerial attack

bank were continuing under fire of German artillery

{ There was no real indication of the number or strength of the Rus-

sian bridgeheads or how many of

THE UNITED STATES has long since passed the point where there can be any question as to

The official news agency said that his men Marshal Semyon Budenny| the side upon which its interest ussians made tank counter-| hag t . at hy : bee An Vg Pe oriar. tod Hikhared 2 De qa1OSs ihe lies. The original Lend-Lease attacks from th nieper brid i Dnieper to form a new defense line.| a.ijon decided that. Since then

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heads but at they and, in one battle, Russian soldiers were captured.

were smashed several thousand

ing

{| New problems faced the Germans in attacking the Dnieper line. They

had the advantage of shorter com-

we have gone further, particularly in economic warfare, and now the Roosevelt-Churchill At-

of American policy. To hold back

Informants were silent regardinZ munication lines within the bend| jantic conference commits the the central d northern fronts ex-|of the Dnieper, a natural salient. Unitei States 0 assisting in cept to say planes had attacked and Their side of the: river, also, had & shaping a new world after the “partly destroved” Russian columns high bank from which artillery] Nazi military power has been retreating “on the northern Ironi. icould command the country to the| crushed , It was und ( that the Ger- least. im E , man forces d) re organizing! However, as an expert pointed Hout Leng he ri aid py for the next se e Ukrainian out in today’s Allgemeine Zeitung.| , ip a DJecomes ‘ogically a barb

offensive. a cross the Dnieper, | ther ere features whic e Ger- : hee he oreat can. | lDcre were features which the Ger-i , “it "pecause of disapproval of &s they ci up the great ¢ab- mans had not encountered in cross-| tir 3 ire 3 " tured area west of the river and ing the Danube the Pruth, the communistic ideologies is to take Stuka dive bombing p rained | ppiester and the Bug ; action against the ends to which of Cg : the United States is committed.

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s £ it for a

and z!so the Don|

Ah { The Dnieper . . ’ ital attac : | If we want to see the Hitler fronts) stesck i 1.o|2nd Volga to the east, have been| / oie <mashed, then all the The immediate objectives of thelihifting their channels westward | ;

| available means for smashing it

rmans in the Ukraine were to SEd i Age : ng city of Dr rperohRtect to! yea DY under-cuiting id must be employed. That is the reported to be within artillery range j western banks. The result is 181 | attitude of the British, to ‘ake the vie ower Dnieper | CIES on the western shores and i & #4 Dam which supplies power to in-[Etanps and marshes to the east. | ; dustry east of the river and to take] I YS admitted that the swamps Looking Ahead the port of Kherson last Russian 2nd marshes would be a handicap 3 > 3 On the lower] THE REAL QUESTION as seen

{to the Germans.

lack Sea outlet west of the Crimea. | : . ‘ ; : Bat en hy len that gH) on | Dnieper, for instance, it would be; here in Lendon is the need of was Cal 1 lla il ne P-1 - . i mans Ww no ra to take hecessary at many points to bridge] breaking a movement which 44d Ta il 41 i a Odessa. as it was ££ and use marsh and swamp lands far beyond! threatens to engulf the whole oA, AS L vad i Aaillq ASt-

attacking reduce

bridgeheads quickly.

1S, but they were the

world if it wins military success. The answer to those who fear a similar threat from bolshevism if the Russians should play a

: » : i the river itself to permit passage {of heavy motorized units.

INDIGESTION

may affect the Heart Gas trapped in

Bair-trieger gh pot Sir ress plane over the English Chanuel yesot gas free rats of the fastest- | terday when a German Messer-| i dL: mown fn ligestion. Tf the | cchmitt plane shot him down, the|

ns : ® to us and receive DOUBLE Money Breck, 25¢. | Air Ministry said today,

e stomach or gullet may =ct like a h t the first sign of distn

AMERICAN FLIER SAFE LONDON. Aug. 20 (U. P.) —Pilot} Officer B. W. Olsen, Boise, Ida., was| wo rescued and brought to Dover after Britain in supreme control of the fg : ; f his fehter) world network of communications he had baileq owt © 1s NENT! and the chief sources of essential raw materials, whereas an Axis

victory would leave us standing alone.

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James Mark, taxi driver who was icharged with assault and battery. operating while drunk and drunk, was fined a total of $81 and sen{tenced to 60 days on the State Farm in Municipal Court teday. Mark, according to testimony [struck a pedestrian on Aug. 19 with{out injuring him, but beginning an | argument which ended in a fight.

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KENNEDY LEFT HIS KEY BEHIND

‘Made Home Accessible to Phillips While He Was At Convention.

(Continued from Page One)

house to do the work remained officially undisclosed. But the investigation of the tragedy thus far has revealed these pointss 1. Fireman Stumm was on duty Monday. but Lieut. Phillips was not, according to Fire Department work schedules. 2. Officials were informed that the men entered the Chief's house with a key in Fireman Stumm’s possession. 3. Lieut. Phillips and the Chief had discussed the redecoration of the basement about a year ago. According to officials’ information, Lieut. Phillips, an amateur artist, decided to do the work on his day off.

In a statement to The Times yesterday, Chief Kennedy said: “Until I got the wire (sent by Mr. Keach) in Boston, I didn't Know a thing about this. It was a surprise and a shock. “Phillips said something to me about a year ago. He said he wanted to paint a Canadian woods hunting scene on the basement (walls to go with some trophies I {have down there.

Didn't Give Order

“Since then, I never talked to him about it. I forgot about it. I never ordered that man out there. I never said a word about having either of them do the basement. “I guess they wanted to surprise me. I don’t know. I don’t even know how they got into the house.” Assistant Chief Roscoe McKinney who accompanied Chief Kennedy tc Mavor Sullivan's home last night for the interview said it was a tradition in the Fire Department for the men to help one another “to { fix up their homes” on days off. { Chief Kennedy arrived at Municii pal Airport shortly after 5 p. m. { yesterday and was met by Assistant { Chief McKinney. The plane was {late and officials at City Hall de|cided not to wait for the Chief there. Chief Kennedy went to his home immediately and after inspecting the damage, expressed bewilderment that the firemen had been burned so seriously. The damage to the house {was slight, he said. The basement and some furniture in it scarcely showed any signs of the fire-explosion. The ceilings and |windows were blackened, but two |electric light bulbs inside remained { intact.

Glasses Unaffected

| Apparently the path of the fire, { which raced through the gas-ridden basement like a flash of lightning, was up the basement steps through a pantry-way and into the kitchen where a cabinet, refrigerator and stove were covered with soot. | However, glasses and chinaware in the cabinets were not touched.

One ircnical point in the tragedy was pointed out by Chief Kennedy. Had the men run into a compartment the Chief had fitted up a shower room in the basement, the likelihood of injury would have been slight. the Chief said. The compartment was a remodeled coal bin and appeared to be fireproof. County Prosecutor Sherwood Blue said today he would make an { independent inquiry to determine whether a Grand Jury investigation into the case would be warranted.

I. T. U. DIVIDED ON MAILERS’ SECESSION

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 20 (U. P.).—A proposal to permit newspaper mailing room employees tc vote on the issue of es|tablishing a separate union today |divided the 85th convention of the | International Typographical Union. Proponents of the separate union {contend that officials of the parent [union have been “antagonistic.” The I. T. U. has withdrawn from the | American Federation of Labor, but recently the mailers voted to return to the A. F. of LL. They sought a vote within six months on the proposed split.

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U. S. EMBASSY WAITS ON CAPT. ROOSEVELT

LONDON, Aug. 20 (U. P).— Capt. Elliot Roosevelt was expected to report to the U. S. Embassy today. He arrived yesterday, registered at the Dorchester Hotel but left almost immediately after engaging

AFL MAY WIDEN DETROIT STRIKE

35,000 City Employees May Be Called Out in Transit Tieup.

(Continued from Page One)

the night with Prime Minister

Winston Churchill. on the hotel's

coat registration

desk.

production at two of the firm's plants was suspended “because of the large number of employees who use the Detroit Street Railway System.” The abruptness of the strike, they said, did not give workers enough time to arrange for other transportation. However, all employees were asked to report for work tomorrow. General Motors Corp... Chrysler, Nash, Kelvinator, Packard, Ford and Graham Paige, who hold a major portion of the automobile industry's $2.,000,000.000 of defense orders, all Be Beaten. reported there operations were not . disrupted greatly by the strike. (Continued from Page One)

Meanwhile, a rival C. I. O. union ; : ; | —the State, County and Municipal |by the bill signed this week by the

HAS WAR TO WIN

Calls on Americans to Make Up Minds Nazis Must

Workers’ of America—accused Mayor | President. Jeffries of “deliberately” halting op-| Approximately 200,000 would be leration of the City's transportation [discharged prior to Dec, 10 this [system to aid the A. F. of L. strik- year under the order. ers. More immediate [oleae is proSi ole vided for certain “hardship’ cases, City Hall Picksien men who were 28 years of age or Three ranking C. I. O. leaders. over last July 1, and married men |

including Secretary-Treasurer Frederick H. Osborn, a civilian

George F. Addes of the United Au- | actively engaged in recreational bil Eo Alt Presid ¢ and welfare work among soldiers | tomohile Workers, and resiaent’ vas nominated by Mr. Roosevelt

| August Scholle of the Michigan | as a brigadier general to head the, | Council. said an election to de-|{Army’s morale division, replacing [termine which union the Detroit|Brig. Gen. James A. Ulio, who is , « > v 3 3 - > » ol 11 . [Steet Railway maintenance work-| President Roosevelt told reporters [ers want to represent them would 'at his press conference yesterday clear up the situation that led to that Americans must awake quickly { the A. F. of L. strike. |to the fact that their country is inThe C. I. O. union threw a picket | volved in a situation from which it line of about 500 men around the [Can escape only if the war is won. City Hall. Pickets carried banners| He made his point by quoting contending “Mayor Jeffries is re-|from a letter which Lincoln wrote | sponsible for this lockout.” {ie Mis. Mary A. Livermore of Chi- | Thorald Wuori, president of the|cago in 1862—a year after the outIstriking A. F. of L. union. which is!break of the Civil War—in which {involved in a jurisaictional dispute |Lincoln said that “the people have | with the State, County and Munici- not yet made up their minds that pal workers (C. I. O.), said his group |We are at war with the South.” planned to “tie up every form of| The President's disclosure that he |transportation” until the City grant- {had asked the Army and Navy to| ed “sole collective bargaining rights.” | take an inventory of expected pro-| Ee duction needs and deliveries for C. I. 0. Offers to Work 1942 and 1943 and that the British The C. I. O. union's Michigan! Will do the same, brought a sugges- | regional director. |tion from a reporter that this im-

Laurence Bivihe,

[countered with an offer to resume Plied the war might go through | §

operation of the City's 1650 busses

and 600 street cars “as soon as we To this, Mr. Rooseveli replied that are guaranteed police protection.” | might extend through that year if | Mr. Bivthe's proposal was made to|Such continued efforts should be Samuel T. Gilbert, DSR commission |1ECESSary to bring about the collapse

chairman, who denounced the strike of Nazis, as “unauthorized” because, he said, the union failed to comply with the law requiring a 30-day waiting period in strikes against public utilities There was a brief flurry of violence at one of the eight stations in which the City houses its cars and busses. Police quelled the fighting between AFL and CIO union members within a few minutes. No arrests were made.

today with Alfred Duff Cooper, British minister without portfolio. who is en route to the Far Fast] on a mission for the British Gov-| ernment. The conference is another | in Mr. Roosevelt's series of talks] with highest ranking British officials! which began last week when he met | at sea with Prime Minister Winston | Churchill, He met yesterday with Lord Beaverbrook, supply minister | in the British Government,

MARION GIRL KILLED

MARION, Ind., Aug. 20 (U. P.) — Audrey Lorita Decker, 4-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Decker, was crushed to death yesterday while playing under a truck

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 20, 1941

WILLS FUND TO EMPLOYER

SCHENECTADY, N. Y. Aug. 20 (U. P.).—For the first time in its history the General Electric Co. is beneficiary under the will of one of its former employees. John E. Pop-

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parked in front of her home. The truck driver, Ebert Crawford, did not see the child when he drove away.

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