Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 September 1941 — Page 3

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FINN y ACCUSE REDS

‘OF ‘PEACE ORDEAL

Aitned at Destroying Freedom, Blue and White Book Declares, Citing Examples of Violations; U. S. Now Trying to Induce Helsinki to Stop Fighting.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—Despite denlals: the United States is trying to induce Finland to agree to an armistice with Soviet Russia and end her somewhat involuntary col-

laboration with Nazi Germany.

Simultaneously, through

its legation here, the Finnish

Government today levelled a broadside against the machina-

tions of Moscow.

In a “blue-and-white book,” whose 107

pages are filled with hitherto secret documents, it is charged that Russia did its utmost—even after peace was signed— to transform Finland into a Soviet dependency.

In a blistering preface,

NAZIS ADVANCE ON LENINRGAD

Outer Defenses Pierced, Main Forts Attacked, i Berlin Says. " BERLIN, Sept. 15 (U. P.).—Ger-

man armies of the north, Berlin sources said today, have broken

‘through the outer Leningrad defense |

ring and are assaulting the main forts of the city’s suburbs. The High Command reported ap the ring about the No. 2 Sovie city has been tightened despite fierce Russian resistance, including coun-ter-attacks led by heavy tanks. Nazi sources said that bad weather had hampered operations against Leningrad to some extent, particularly intensive air bombing, but added that shelling of military objectives continued. Fires within Leningrad were said to be visible from the Nazi lines. A large-scale German air attack on Odessa and the approaches to the Crimean peninsula was reported and land operations toward Crimea were said to be of “great significance.” Nazi dispatches said that Stukas fed an attack on Soviet defense works and artillery positions on the narrow isthmus which connects Crimea with the Russian mainland. A German spokesman said such attacks are generally in support of land troop movements, which may indicate that a strong attack just

"north of Crimea is getting under

wa oma! Nazis hinted that the High Command might issue a communique detailing big successes on the eastern front within the next few days. They said they could not now reveal the details of operations but that yesterday’s communique, reporting “the way is being paved for new. battle successes through favorable progress of operations” made it certain that specific victories of moment would be announced soon.

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Finnish Minister Hislmar J.

Procope declared that the book was “a record of a new

kind of ordeal, an ordeal by peace, imposed by Russia in Finland in the 15 months following the signing of the treaty of Moscow, March 12, 1940.

“The facts, now presented for the first time to the American public,” he said, “reveal that the Russian : policy aimed even in the months of peace, at the destruction of Finland's independence.” Publication of the book at this particular time does not necessarily mean Finland will continue to turn a a deaf ear 22 ffnms American .adMr. § vice, but. does indicate that the attack of Russia on tiny Finland still rankles so bitterly in the hearts of the Finns that a truce may be far from an easy matter. In fact, Minister Procope said he had been’ instructed to deny reports “about a Finnish-Russian armistice and peace talks.” The book aims to establish four cardinal points by means of official documentary evidence. These are that: 1. Finland was determined to observe the treaty of peace, hard though it was.

No Thought of Revenge

2. Finland had no thought of revenge; ‘She was bent only on getting started afresh on the ruins left by Russia. 3. Russian policy was to wear Finland down by starvation and unending demands into a state of vassalage, and, 4. Finland did not go to war with Russian as she might have when Germany attacked. For four days she refused to recognize Russian bombing as more than incidents. She only defended herself after Russia’s all-out attack began.

Recalls F. D. R. Talk

Dozens of incidents of the “ordeal by peace” are cited in the book. Recalling President Roosevelt's speech in February, 1940, when he said that American sympathy was 98 ‘per cent with the Finns, Mr. Procope said that the world knows little of what has happened to them since the peace. “It Las been,” he said, “a long road to Golgothka.” “To America,” the Finnish minister declared, “Finland has deep gratitude.” She hopes American sympathy will continue.

Hints Finland to Quit When Aims Achieved

HELSINKI, Sept. 15 (Passed by Finnish censor) (U. P.).—A significant address by V. A. Tanner, popular Finnish Cabinet member, was believed today to indicate that Finland will quit fighting Russia as soon as she has achieved her own war aims. Tanner’s address created a sensation in Finnish political circles. He said that Finland would fight no longer than was demanded by Finnish interests, but added that she could not make separate peace with Russia because she does not trust the soviet. His speech was interpreted generally as meaning that Finland does not regard herself now as involved in the war among the big powers of the world and that she does not wish to become involved in that

war.

Speaks on Cotls

George M. Ebert, controller of the St. Louis Airplane Division of Curtiss-Wright Corp., will speak to the Indianapolis chapter, National Association of Cost Accountants, at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, 6:30 p. m. Wednes-. day. His subject will be “Cost—The Vanguard of Industrial Mobilization for Defense.”

RUSS PARRY 2 NAZI THRUSTS

Admit Loss of Key Town, German Advances in Gomel Sector.

MOSCOW, Sept. 15 (U. P.)—Red Army artillery and tanks smashed relentlessly at:'the German flanks, war dispatches said today, in furious fighting to block the enemy thrusts east of the Dnieper River seeking to collapse the main defense of the great Ukraine war production centers. Severe “punishment” of German panzer columns and high enemy casualties were reported in fighting at unspecified points. Official dispatches said the Germans lost more than 80 per cent of one regiment and suffered 600 killed in another battle in which the Russians cut off infantry following Nazi tanks. But it was acknowledged that after severe fighting the Germans had: 1. Broken across the Dnieper and taken Kremenchug, important railroad point midway between Dniepropetrovsk and Kiev, thus getting on the road toward the big industrial and ' communications center of Kharkov, which is another 150 miles away. (The break across the river was regarded in London as a grave threat to the flank of the main Soviet Army defending the Eastern Ukraine and the great war production centers on the Donetz and

ward.) - Aim at Closing Pincers

2. Pushed southeastward from the Gomel sector to the Desna River at Chernigov. (This apparently was designed to close a pincers entirely around the beleaguered city of Kiev and aim a big salient toward Kharkov, with spearheads from both northwest and southwest.) One of the main Russian counterattacks on the central front has been from the Bryansk sector, aimed at pinching off the German advance through Gomel to Chernigov. This drive had been progressing rapidly after the enemy was defeated near Trubchevsk, with huge casualties, but the outcome was not yet certain. Without giving definite positions, today’s communique said that since late last week two German regiments had suffered extremely heavy losses. The Russians seized two positions on “an important sector” after a two day battle, the communique added. Newspapers reported that guerrilla activities behind the German lines, particularly in White Russia, continued to increase. ! Destroyers Sunk

Two German destroyers were sunk in the first German attempt

Leningrad, Russian © commentators emphasized, that Hitler was far behind Napoleon’s 1812 schedule, and had failed to capture any of his three great ' objectives—Leningrad, Moscow and Kiev. Leningrad’s position was admittedly grave and the importance of the new German thrust in the Ukraine was not discounted, but for

the present it was evident that Moscow was not even in danger

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| ———— MEETINGS TODAY on Batuene International ca, all day, Tomlinson Usion of oe Ale: iors: Retreat, “morning 18 t Boy ul servation. oi fetmoon, 0 y ta Kappa Alumni, noon, Canar, a ntec

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cas Side Realtors, noon, Canary optage ington a Republican, Club, 8 p. m,,

Ni ae Dame Lg Board of Trade. Saleamew esmen’s pi 12:15 p. m., Hotel

“camera Club, 8 p. m., Hotel

Fi lab, 8 p. m,, Severin Hotel. United - Rubber Workers of America, #ay, Severin Hotel.

MEETINGS TOMORROW Phi Gamma Delta Alumni, noon, Canary

Rotary Club, noon, Claypool Hotel. . Pia Club, noon, Spink-Arms Hotel. alanx Fraternity, 7:30 p. m,, Y. M.

" stohs Tau Omega, noon, Board of Trade. Mercator Club, noon, Hotel Lincoln, Universal Club, noon, Columbia Club, ot Toray of Michigan Club, noon, Board

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National p. m., Hotel American Chemical Society, noon, Severin Hotel. United Rubber Workers of America, all day, Severin Hotel. Exchange Club Board, Hotel. Indianapolis Automotive Association, 8 p. m,, Severin Hotel. United Christian Missionaries, Zoard of Trustees, 7:30 p. m., Severin Hot ee ———

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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‘PRESSURE’ FOR FILM REPORTED

U.S. Asked Names of Those Who Refused Picture, ~Probers Told.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (U. PJ. —Chairman D. Worth Clark (D. Ida.) of the Senate sub-committee investigating alleged propaganda in the movies, today made public a letter asserting that the Federal Government had asked for reports on the names of theaters refusing

|to show the picture “The Land of

Liberty.”

scribed by its distributor, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, as an educational

film comprising bits of famous historical movies.

a letter from Laurice Saffle, Seattle branch manager of Loew’s, Inc, to Fulton Cook, owner of a theater in St. Maries, Ida. Mr. Cook had protested an attempt to “force” him to run the picture. Saffle wrote Cook that M.-G.-M. was distributing the film “at the request of the United States Government, who feel that every man, woman and child in America should see this subject during these times of nationl defense. . . . We have been asked to wire immediately the names of those exhibitors who eliminate it. “In view of the above I am going to ask that you reconsider and try to find a date for this subject.” It was not indicated what branch of the Government had made the alleged request for names of exhibitors who declined to show the picture. Before the hearing began, Mr. Clark charged that a “mass attack” by newspaper columnists “smacks of conspiracy,” but said the “smear campaign” will not deter his group from pressing the inquiry. Jimmy Fidler, radio commentator and newspaper columnist, told the group he had done his best to warn the industry against propaganda films. He said he received many letters from theater-goers protesting such pictures. Most of his mail on the subject still indicates that the public dislikes propaganda movies, he added.

STRAUSS SAYS:

“The Land of Liberty” was de-

Mr. Clark read into the record

‘Over the Top’

in Milwaukee

Imbibing some of Milwaukee’s famous beer, these early arrivals to American Legion convention drink a toast to Mary Jane Webb. Left to right: W. H. Hauck, Art Hodsen, W. F. McLay, Leo Grimm, C. F.

Block and Gilbert Waage.

SUICIDE SQUADRON SINKS 12 NAZI SHIPS

STOCKHOLM, Sept. 15 (U. P.). —A Russian suicide squadron of 12 men, flying old airplanes loaded with dynamite, was reported by the

newspaper Aftonbladet today to|30

have destroyed 12 German ships loaded with war materials. The newspaper, quoting the Soviet radio, said the ships were blown up when the planes dived into them off the Russian naval base of Kronstadt in the Baltic. “The Red Army sacrificed 12 old

‘planes, several thousand pounds of

dynamite and 12 pilots, but the Germans lost thousands of men, 12 ships and a large amount of war material,” the radio was quoted.

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Come Home, Bud! Your Mother Is III

Because kis mother is ill, relatives are trying to locate Robert (Bud) Young, 17, who has been

missing from his home since Aug.

When the youth left home he was wearing a brown sport jacket and brown tweed trousers. Anyone seeing him is requested to contact his parents. City and State § Police are aiding in the search.

Robert Young

HOUSE TAKES UP TAX BILL AFTER RECESS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (U. P.).— The House, returning from a monthlong semi-recess, begins work today toward final passage of the largest tax bill in history.

House leaders expect to bring the conference report to the House floor tomorrow. A vigorous floor fight was expected over the House conferees’ capitulation to the Senate on all major Senate-House differences. Major contention ‘is expected to be the House conferees’ capitulation on lower personal income tax exemptions, from $800 to $750 in the case of single persons and from $2000 to $1500 for married persons.

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TEHRAN HINTE Dissatisfaction With Shah Is Reported; 2 Nazis in Paris Attacked.

By UNITED PRESS Dissatisfaction in the old world, which until now has been mainly an harassment of the Germans, today was reported in Iran, which is under

‘| Russian and British occupation.

It was indicated authoritatively in London that growing popular dissatisfaction with the autocratic regime of Shah Reza Khan Pahlevi might bring British and Russian oc

cupation of Tehran, the capital. Said an official commentator: “The Iranian government requires a good deal of stiffening from Anglo-Soviet quarters to clear up the situation. The Germans in Iran have refused to go quietly and are impeding the Persians in every way. The Allies are insisting the Germans be joncenyrated in barracks forth-

awhile special political and terrorists courts swung into full ac= tion in both occupied and unoccu= pied France, with more than 150 “communists” scheduled for trial this week. Two were condemned to death last week, but Marshall Petain set aside the decrees.

Two Nazis Attacked

Terrorists tactics still are harassing the Germans, and three more anti-Nazi incidents were reported from Paris over the week-end. One German officer was shot in the thigh, another was beaten with & blackjack and a train was derailed when bolts were removed from He rails at an important freight tere minal south of Paris. In Croatia, persons responsible for bombings at Zagreb are being rounded up for military trial, Italian sources said. Bread rationing is to be started in Italy Oct. 1, for the first time since the war began, and at Milan it was announced that foot-pro-pelled “taxicabs” are to be used to save gasoline. The armed forces and hospitals of the country are to get all remaining stocks of biscuits made of cereal or vegetable flours and fats.

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