Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1941 — Page 5

FRIDAY, AUG. 22, 1941

DNIEPER CROSSING FAILS; BERLIN ASKN

‘Human Wall’ at Leningrad To Defend City Against Attackers.

MOSCOW, Aug. 22 (U, P)— Soviet planes, river boats and infantry were officially reported to have “crushed” German attempts to cross an important river (presumably the Dnieper) today as Leningrad erected a living wall of Russians to fight the Nazi forces to the death. The official war communique and military dispatches said that Russian positions before Leningrad and on the Dnieper River remained unchanged as fierce fighting stemmed the German offensives. An official report from Leningrad where the Germans are making a three-pronged attack, quoted Gen. Mikhail Protsvetking that the Luftwaffe so far had failed to drop a single bomb on Leningrad because of the “impenetrable” Russian defenses, despite 17 attacks yesterday alone, The main sectors of the 1800-mile Eastern Front were ablaze and a communique reported the greatest German pressure around Kingisepp, 70 miles west of Leningrad, and Novgorod, 120 miles south of the Soviet second city. A third force was sweeping south from Finland along the Karelian Isthmus,

All Crossings Foiled

The Russians, in a violent battle that raged on the water and both banks of the river, were reported in the communique to have crushed | several German attempts to force! @ crossing, The Red Army troops attacked first by boat, sinking 26 German craft carrying 500 officers and men, the communique said. Then planes roared down and destroyed a German bridge thrown across the river. Russian artillery sank a raft with nine tanks and dozens of motorcycles, The communique said two German boats succeeded in landing 100 men on the Russian-held side of the river, but added that all were wiped out. 1917 Veterans Included

Leningrad dispatches said that | almost every able-bodied man and| woman among the city’s 3,000,000 “people had volunteered to form a “living wall” against the Germans. Picked units of the men, who had turned out from factories and offices, many of them to be replaced by wives or sisters, already were leaving for the fronts after having been armed and incorporated in the People’s Volunteer Corps. Among the volunteers were many veterans ot the 1917 Civil War In which ill-armed, ragged groups of | Bolsheviks and their supporters] fought Russian Czarists and troops of many nations.

Pledge House-to-House Fight

Shops and factory workers who were left at home formed destruction battalions pledged to a house-to-house fight if the Germans broke

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Marshal Semyon Timoshenko « + » Gomel, his headquarters, captured.

LONDON SILENT ON IRAN ATTACK

English Deny Wavell Has Moved Troops North From India.

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Der Fuehrer terms. Turkey can have no legitimate excuse for reacting in an unfriendly way to anything that may happen in Iran, the British believe. Only recently, and with the Iranian situation in view, both the British and Soviet Governments gave Ankara unqualified guarantees of sovereignty and territorial integrity.

First Move Vital

The concern which the Soviet Union and Great Britain have ex-| pressed over the presence of a few| thousand Germans in Iran is very

real. It may not be clear just what

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More ‘SS’ Men Needed, but Not Because of Heavy Losses in Russia.

BERLIN, Aug. 22 (U. P.) —Germany’s offensive into Russia is advancing at “full flood” on the Leningrad, Gomel and lower Dnieper River fronts, Nazi dispatches reported today in elaborating high command claims that loss of huge industrial areas, war materials and 1,250,000 prisoners had gravely impaired the Red Army. Although German sources spoke more freely of the prospect of a winter war in the east, official reports from the fighting front said that “new successes” had been scored as the offensive was speeded up on the three main fronts and “unimaginable” losses were inflicted on the Soviets. At the same time, the Germans made only a generalized claim of gains along the 70-mile road from Kingisepp to Leningrad and admitted that heavy fighting still was

in progress to “remove” Red Army | forces based on the west bank of the lower Dnieper River in the Ukraine. Review 2 Months’ War A special communique from Adolf Hitler's headquarters told of the capture of vast numbers of prisoners and huge quantities of equipment while in the Reich, authorities called for volunteers between the ages of 17 and 45 for the “armed SS troops,” which are taking a prominent part in the war, as shock units, though millions are under arms. The special communique, review-

Russia, said the Germans had taken 1,250,000 prisoners and had captured or destroyed 14,000 armored vehnicies and 15,000 guns. It was claimed that 11,250 Red planes had been destroyed.

Three Categories Wanted

“In addition most severe damage was done to the enemy by robbing him of valuable raw material areas,” the communique said. Military informants asserted that German armies were driving irresistibly on Leningrad from the west and south behind artillery and airpiane bombardments so intense as to resemble one gigantic sheet of flame and reported the capture of the Ukrainian town of Nikopol near the west bank of the Dnieper below the great Dniepertroi power dam. Newspapers today published the

those Germans are planning to do but it is clear that they are there as the vanguard of a movement tol bring Iran into the Axis and it is clear that neither Britain nor the Soviet can allow that to happen. It is also clear by now that he! who moves first in these matters | is the only one who gets anywhere. Iran’s importance derives from its rich oil fields, which the Axis needs badly, from its geographical posi-| tion between India and Iraq and]

through the formidable rings of defense lines extending scores of miles| beyond the city area. Today's war communigques report- | ed ferocious fighting in both direc- | tions, and the first one also admit- | ted the loss of Gomel, 120 miles north of Kiev, after a big scale | two-day battle, which the second communique said was still raging. | Abandonment of Gomel appar-| ently left the right flank of Mar- | shal Semyon Budenny's army of the Ukraine open to an attack from the rear if the Germans kept on. Alternatively the Germans would | be able to strike northward and flank the strong Russian counteroffensive in the Smolensk salient.

RAISES CRAB MEAT TARIFF HYDE PARK, N. Y., Aug. 22 (U. P.) —President Roosevelt, in an-| other economic blow Japan, today ordered a seven and | one-half per eent tariff increase ‘on | crab meat imports to the United States.

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Iraq and Russia and from the ract that its roads and railways provide contacts between the Persian Gulf and both Turkey and Russia. It would badly upset all British and in the Near East if the Germans were to take possession. If on the other hand, Iran were to! lace its facilities at the disposition of the Allies, it would make it infinitely easier for Britain and the United States to pump supplies into Russia and to maintain communications with that country, no matter what happened in western Russia.

GOATS PUT IN PARLOR BUTTE, Mont. (U. P.).—When

{ four goats invaded a Butte woman's

vard, she didn't like the idea and immediately went into action. She called city officials, informed them she was holding the goats, and asked them to come and get them. The poundmaster found the animals corraled in the woman's parior.

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45 to enlist for the duration of the war, those under 25 to be acceptable for infantry, tank and signall corps service. Youths and men of from 17 to 35 to enlist for 412 years. Youths and men of from 17 to| 23 for the normal 12-year enlistment of the “SS” men, which form the elite picked corps of the Nazi hierarchy who always hitherto have been selected with great care for height, build and political and racial background.

‘Purely Technical’

Appealing for youths and men to answer the call, the newspapers cited “the proud deeds of the armed ‘SS’ men . . . now standing in the most forward battlefront against Bolshevism.” Authorized Nazi informants said the call for volunteers was a “purely technical measure” which would give youths and men who were of conscription age anyway, an oppor- | tunity to join troops who will see plenty of battle action and who also will be used in special duties in occupied and conquered areas.”

Deny Heavy Losses

They denied that the call meant that the “SS” regiments had suffered ‘“‘unusual” losses on the Eastern front. | (These “SS” regiments, it has) been indicated, are the pick of the] German Army, originally made up of the men from Adolf Hitler's own bodyguard regiments.) (It seemed likely that there might be a need for “SS” men in occupied territories, which according to reports from all over Europe are becoming increasingly restive. Enlistment of many new boys and men in the corps would release veterans for combat service. A United Press dispatch from Berlin mentioned incidentally todav that among the death notices of soldiers and Naazi troops in the Voelkischer Beobachter, the Nazi party newspaper, was | one of a man “killed Aug. 9 during | an attack by Serbian gangs.” Such | attacks are never announced.) | Explaining the call for volunteers, | authorized informants said that only | men who had not been incorporated | in the armed forces would be accepted and that men now in military or Nazi units would not be permitted to transfer to the “SS” corps

‘Battering Ram’ Advance

Dispatches from the Leningrad front left no doubt that great German armies under Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb were striking with terrific impact at the Leningrad army of Marshal Kliementi Voroshilov, and there was every indication that the Germans were going ahead.

battering ram.” Today's newspapers termed the call of Voroshilov for a finish fight in defense of Leningrad a mad act which must lead to great destruction.

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Fight Second New York Ship Fire

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In the second mysterious ship fire this week at New York, the Finnish freighter Aurora burns as police

and fireboats alongside fight flames.

The 4956-ton ship, anchored in the Hudson River, was destroyed.

Glasgow's Socialist Mayor No Pacifist

--Munich Completely Changed His Mind

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nounced that his Rhodesia miners had raised funds for a workers’ canteen ior Glasgow. Another guest was a 16-year-old girl from the Highlands who had won a contest and was seeing Glasgow for the first time. Across the table was a young British naval officer, who refused to make a speech, and with him were two enlisted men. On my right was

the chiet welfare officer of Glas- |

gow, who had just returned irom London, where he studied the problem of caring for bombedout families. He discussed similar plans for Glasgow with Lady Dollan, to my left. on 2 o LADY DOLLAN let me in on a secret. When her husband went to London for his investiture, as she called it—when he was knighted by King George—she crashed the gate and got a ringside seat. “Naturally I wanted to see my husband hit over the head,” she said. They went to New York during the World's Fair, and Sir Patrick got on so well with Mayor La Guardia that the city pavilion at the fair was turned over to the Lord Provost, who put up a Glasgow sign and settled down to hold open house. They lived at the Waldorf in a style to which they both said they had not been accustomed. and whenever they

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they slipped away to a Child's | Restaurant. “We couldn't afford | to eat at fancy hotel prices,” Sir Patrick said. The Lord Provost keeps right on with his newspaper career, which he sandwiches in with his august role as chief magistrate of the city.

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‘Typical Artisan’s Flat’

I had to leave the lunchealg to go out to the shipyards, and the Lord Provost told me to return at 6:30. When I came back I found him alone with the naval officer, and both were well into their third drink. After one or two more we got into the Lord Provost's handsome limousine, the grandest car in town. We drove to a dingy part of town and stopped in front of the newspaper office. The chauffeur swung open the door and the Lord Provost got out. “I have to write a dispatch for the paper,” he said. *“You boys go out to the flat and pick up my wife, and I'll join you after I get my work done.” So we went to his flat, which Lady Dollan told us was a typical artisan’s flat. “It's the best we can afford,” she said. It was neat and cozy, with an old upright piano in the parlor. You walked up two flights. In a small square outside several old men

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Finally the Lord Provost ished his press dispatch and we all joined up and talked at dinner and until midnight, about everything. o ”n n SIR PATRICK IS a Socialist. He used to be a pacifist. But he had his eyes opened at Munich, and he told his Labor associates they were making a big mistake not to reoognize the menace of Hitler. He denounced the Conservatives for trying to do husiness with Hitler. In the summer of 1939 he went tq France, certain there was going to be war and appalled at the French indifference to the impending blow, He tried to arouse Gen. Gamelin. “You are not making preparations for what the Germans are going to do,” Sir Patrick told the chief of the French High Command. “Don’t worry,” Gen. Gamelin replied; “we have Line.” Rudolph Hess landed 30 miles from here. Sir Patrick knows a lot about that, too. But the most significant thing I found was this Socialist leader and the managing director of a large shipyard talking the same language about the necessity of not allowing reforms to interfere with production. They will fight it out after the war, but right now the winning of the war is more important to both of them.

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DETROIT LABOR PERIL WIDENS

Violence Feared as Peace Formula in Transit Strike Fails.

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back-to-work movement “or a popular uprising over the serious inconvenience.” An estimated half-million workers in this great industrial city today walked and hitch-hiked to work for the third successive dfy. Business and industry have suffered heavily. The C. I. O., which claims a majority of the workers and charges a “lockout,” has offered to operate the system. Mayor Edward J. Jeffries revealed that the C. I. O. proposed to “place one of. its 350,000 Detroit members on every street corner to keep the system running. “If the A. F. of L. calls a general shutdown, we'll call a general open-up,” asserted Tracy M. Doll, president of the Industrial Union Council (C. I. 0). So far, Mayor Jeffries, fearing violence traditionally associated with transport strikes, has refused the C. 1. O. offer and given no indica-

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{tion of an intention to call on the | Governor for aid. Define Strike Goal This undercurrent of animosity between the rival groups is direct{ly responsible for the strike of 4000 operating men in the A. F. of L.’s Electric Railway and Motor Coach Amalgamated Association of Street, Employees, which is costing the municipally owned transportation system $65,000 a day in revenue. Workers are losing $37,000 daily in wages. The objective of the strike is to block further organization by the State, County and Municipal Workers Union (C. I. O.). The strikers demand recognition as sole bargaining agent, sole right to post bulle-tin-board notices and sole use of the dues checkoff. The A. F. of L. leaders concede that the C. I. O. might have a majority among the 1400 maintenance and office workers of the depart-

Peanuts in Car Lead to Prison

A strong appetite for peanuts led to the arrest and three-year prison sentence for James A. Dul= len, 28, in Criminal Court today. Detectives testified that in their investigation of a stolen car, they found peanut shells scattered over the front seat of the car. Later they found Dullen sitting on a porch eating peanuts. When confronted with the evie dence of peanut shells in the car, Dullen confessed to the theft of the vehicle, detectives said. He was sentenced by Judge Dewey E, Myers. :

ment of street railways, but insist that until a recent organizing drive started, the 4000 operators and con< ductors were all A. F. of L. City checkoff records show a change of affiliation by 875. -

Denies Favoritism

Mayor Jeffries has recognized the issue of Government vs. union=ism by saying: ‘You fellows are not bigger than the Government, We are not going to abandon the street-car system.” He denies the charge of C. I. O. favoritism, declaring: “As long as both call me sweetheart of the other I must be all right.” Prospect of legal action was res mote today, although Rodney Bax ter, counsel for the department of street railways, said it was possible on two grounds. The rulés of civil service, which cover the D. S. R. employees, say they are subject -to dislissal if absent without leave, Also, the strike was called in viola= tion of a state labor law which makes it a misdemeanor to call a strike in a public utility without 30 days’ notice. Enforcement of either provision would be difficult, officials admitted, Thomas J. Donahue, chairman of the State Labor Mediation Board, and John O. Jennings, Federal Lae bor Conciliator, said the most hopeful line for settlement was somew how to divide the jurisdiction of the two groups A. F. of L. leaders have flatly re fused to return to work pending a settlement, and declare also that they will not yield their demand for

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