Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1941 — Page 25

PEASON'S RIDGE ISKEY TOBATTLE

Blitzkrieg Bogging Down; Lear Moves Headquarters To Avoid Capture.

By UNITED PRESS The Battle of Peason’s Ridge shapéd up today as the big push and perhaps the major engagement of the nation’s greatest peace-time maneuvers. : Gen. Ben Lear sent both of the armored divisions of his invading Red forces against the stronger Blue army in the west-central sector around the tiny town of Peason. Leon Kay, United Press war correspondent now covering the Louisiana war games from the Blue army side, said that the attack was continuing despite the fact that the * Blue anti-tank corps and infantry divisions were mopping up the enemy tanks as fast as they broke through the front lines. Gen. Lear had been able to mass

his armored divisions for the attack’

despite the fact that his army faced reversals around Alexandria to the east, and he had been forced twice to move his headquarters. Richard C. Hottelet, who is covering the maneuvers from the Red army cide, confirmed the geport hat the Blitzkrieg was bogging d He said the Reds were being ov assed by infiltrating guerrilla bands of Blues.

Blues Deny All Break-Through Reports

By LEON KAY Uni.ed Press Staff Correspondent

WITH THIRD ARMY (BLUES) IN FIELD, Sept. 19.—Tanks, planes and infantry were locked today in the greatest battle of the war games along Prvason’s Ridge in the westcentral sector of the 170-mile front as fighting entered its fifth day. The Red First Armored Division, reinforced by arrival of the Second Armored © Division, struck in true blitzkreig fashion and bent the Blue line at spots, but in almost every case of a break-through the attacking tanks were captured or destroyed. I watched the engagement from an observation truck on the ridge. I saw Red tanks break through several times in small numbers but these always were eliminated by Blue anti-blitz and infantry forces. Reports that the Reds have broken through the Blue lines in the Peason’s Ridge . sector were called “fantastic enemy propaganda” by Blue officers. Blue air forces were active throughout the fighting. A steady stream of Blue bombers attacked the massed tanks. In a two-hour attack, Blue warplanes dropped more than 75 tons of bombs and expended more than a half ‘million rounds of ammunition, . One B-25 medium bomber during a single mission dropped eight 100pound bombs on a force of 100 Red tanks and four more 100-pounders on 20 tanks spotted at another sector. The Army Air Force’s newest bomber, the high-speed B-26 Martin medium bomber, engaged in its first real combat tésts and, according to Blue observers, gave an excellent performance. : The Red commanders are using their tanks as if they were motor- - ized cavalry, an entirely different concept of tank warfare than that I saw the Germans use in Europe. The Red forces fritter away their | armored strength by a series of isolated jabs on the enemy’s flank. The German tactics I observed in Jugoslagvia were to use their tanks as Re of a combat team that in-' cluded . aviation, artillery, infantry, an engineer units.

Blues Capitalize on Red Infantry Lack

By RICHARD C. HOTTELET United Press Staff Correspondent WITH THE SECOND (REDS) IN LOUISIANA, Sept. 19.— The Red Army's offense, harassed

by guerrila tactics of infiltrating Blue forces, bogged down today in the woods and swamps between the Red and the Sabine Rivers. The Blue Army, with its superior forces of infantry, has taken the initiative and put the Reds on the defensive on the eastern and central sectors. On the western flank, between the two rivers, scant progress was being made by the Jugnly Jechaniund but undermanned Red

Rorce, ation by the small ' Blue forces deep into the Red territory through the woods and swamps cannot be met by the Red armored columns because they lack infantry support.

The Blue forces have penetrated |]

within 12 miles of the Second Army headquarters at Natchitoches and have forced Gen, Ben Lear to move his headquarters to another point for the second time in 24 hours. Small groups of Blue soldiers have, made four raids in attempts to capture the General. Blue detachments far behind the front lines have put many tanks out of action by ambushing them with beer cans simulating hand gre-

nades This type of fighting has a potential war for movement into a chain of wilderness I but individual soldiers have gained invaluable knowledgé of how to handle difficult and sudden situa-

The war being fought here in . Louisiana bears no resemblance to the European blitzkrieg I saw in 1940 or the spring campaign of 1941. The apparently unrelated movements of small units and detachments has no similarity with the highly - co-ordinated mass movements of the German Army."

ZEIGLER HEADS HOTEL GROUP

- R. B. Zeigler, manager of the Hotel Antlers, was elected president of the Indianapolis Hotels Association, Inc. last night in the Spink Arms Hofel, Other officers named A. E. Martin, manager of the dianapolis Athletic Club, vice resident: J. C. Claffey, 904 Test wilding, secretary, and P. E. RupBrecht manager of the Hotel Lin-

Named +o NLRB

Gerald D. Reilly, 34, of Boston,

solicitor of the Labor Department, ‘has been nominated by President Roosevelt for. a seat on the National Labor Relations Board to succeed Edwin S. Smgh,

SLUM FAMILIES HUNTING HOMES

Citizens Committee Seeks Low-Rental Dwellings For Ousted Group.

Dwellings with rentals from $6 to

$12 a month are being sought by the Citizens Housing Committee for six of the nine families who must move out of condemned houses at the northeast corner of S. New Jersey and Merrill Sts. by Oct. 11.

. The Committee said a study of

dwellings listed by real estate organizations failed to reveal places for the six families who have been unable to find places at rentals they can afford to pay.

The Committee’s efforts to find

other quarters followed the arrest of

12 persons early last week on charges

of failing to heed a Health Depart-

ment eviction notice. Eviction was

ordered after the properties were condemned as unfit for human habi- | try tation by the City in August.

Municipal Judge Pro Tem George

Rinier continued .the cases against the 12 tenants until Oct. 11, asking

them to find new residences by that time if possible. It was reported. by the Committee that six of the 12 tenants found other quarters at higher rentals.

Three are reported to have moved

already, three more are preparing

to move, but six families still have

FIGHT BREWING | ON AID TO REDS

Administration Prepares for Major Battle on LendLease Bill. . WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (U. P).

The Administration prepared today

for a major fight in the House over whether Russia should be permitted to receive war-aid under the new $5,985,000,000 lend-lease appropria-

tion. The Administration never has said it planned fo use lend-lease funds for aid to Russia, but House leaders will fight attempts to exclude her specifically from such help. Speaker Sam Rayburn said it would be “most unfortunate” if the new appropriation were so amended.

Credits Arranged “It would weaken Russian morale

longer than any other nation which has met him on land,” he said.

beat down attempts to amend the original $7,000,000,000-lend-lease bill s0 as to exclude Russia. And that

Russia. Organizers of the fight over Russian aid under the new bill, which was requested by President Roosevelt yesterday, predicted that this time it would cut through regular interventionist-isolationist lines just as did the military service extension bill. The latter was approved in the House by only a one-vote margin and gave President Roosevelt a close squeeze on a major foreign policy issue. On the question of Russian aid,

mit the Soviets to buy American Syuipment and materials through oans.

Free Hand Requested

construction Finance Corp. has arranged-to buy $100,000,000 of Russian imports over a long term and

credit immediately.

lend-lease supplies, if necessary, in whatever manner it believes to be

Meanwhile, defense officials said

signed more as an adjunct rather than as a supplement to the original one.

NAMED TO MEMORIAL GROUP

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LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS

Picnic to Honor “Three Franks— Three men with the the same first name will be honored for their services to the Sons of Union Veterans at the 11th annual “Franks’ Picnic” Sunday at the Brookside Park Community House. The honor guests at the picnic sponsored by the vetterans group and its auxiliary are the Rev. Frank Huston, Frank Shellhouse and Frank Richart. H. B. Pike, attorney will speak.

Stamp Club to Install—New officers will be installed at the- first fall meeting of the Indianapolis Stamp Club at 7:45 o'clock tonight in the Antlers Hotel.

Plan Chicken Supper—A chidken supper will be served at 5 p. m. tomorrow in McClain’s Hall, State St. and Hoyt Ave. by Townsend Club

Pythian Group to Meet—The Past

at a time when the Soviets have |S been keeping Hitler entertained |=

The Administration successfully |= .

was before the German invasion of |=

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Megrew Camp to Initiate — New members will be initiated at a meet-| ing of the Maj. Harold C. Megrew Camp, Auxiliary 3, United Spanish

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Wayne Club Plans Part y—The Wayne Club will hold a card party at 8:30 p. m. tomorrow in the clubrooms at 2829 Jackson St.

Pythian Sessfon Tonight — The Past Chiefs Association of the Banner Temple, Pythian Sjsteys, will meet tonight at the home of Mrs. Goldie Grimes, 709. E. Market St.

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