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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1941

Sub “Wolf-Packs' Head For Iceland; U. S.-Owned

URRICANE STRIKES TEXAS COAS

BUSY DEFENSE. THINKS FRENCH GIVEN REICH IN

TOWN ON GULF UPRISING NEAR YELYNA FIGHT

Claim Big Victories on Where Crows Now Rule

Denver Hard Hit by stormy Eastern Front. Ruined Villages.

New Mexico Flood Takes Lives of 16. T oy JOE ALEX MORRIS Dy WALLACE JARBOLL Th = en Be : nited Press Foreign News Editor : n ress Staff Correspondent e ou mn , smashing new successes on the East- \§ ern Front today, the Nazis threat- YELYNA, Sept. 24. = The struck the little national dee ened worse Axis submarine warfare Red Army, driving into ; . [the German lines at point

i VOLUME 53—NUMBER 168

CEG. Eliot Says— Situation of Russ Armie

Is ‘Far From Hopeless’

Trucks, Supplies Are Kept Moving, Kiev's Fall

~ Not So Important as Kharkov, Crimea Drives.

By MAJ. GEORGE FIELDING ELIOT Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The New York Tribune, Inc.

The fall of Kiev to the Germans marks the first German capture of a really important Russian center, but it

is probably of greater propaganda value to Germany than military consequence. The loss of the city had long been discounted on the military ledger, and German flanking thrusts to north and south had suggested that Kiev might prove untenable. Of much greater strategic consequence are the ¢ two German advances across the Dnieper, one from

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in the Atlantic and Gen, Charles de fense town of Freeport, Tex Gaulle for the first time established with destructive force toda:

Kremenchug to Poltava directed toward Kharkov, and one across the lower Dnieper toward the §& Isthmus of Perekop, which connects the Crimean j§ Peninsula with the mainland. These German advances, coupled with the loss of Kiev itself, tend to add to the probability, that Marshal Budenny chose to make a linear defense of the line: of the river Dnieper, with the inevitable result that the Germans found weak spots and broke through. Much will now depend on the ability of the Russians to launch counter-attacks, Maj. Eliot sufficient ‘in force and equipment, in time to check the German advance on Kharkov and the Crimea.. ;

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now being put in are inferior in quality, especially in equipment, State Group Debates Ways Of Keeping Civilians Well;

to the first line troops already encountered, and this brings up Warns of Malaria. By JOE COLLIER

doubts as to Russian ability to keep up the type of resistance with which they began the struggle. . : The leading physicians and surgeons of Indiana gathered in Indianapolis today to discuss the medical problems- ‘that-<arise «in public and private health from the defense effort. . As they registered for the 92d annual convention of the Indiana State Medical Association, they sought the answer to how civilian health standards can be maintained when the armed forces are draining the profession, and studied new problems Srising because of a shifting populan. Meanwhjle, the public health officers of Indiana towns and counties closed their two-day bienniel session at the State Board of Health huilding with a warning that trachoma, a disease causing blindness, is increasing in Southern Indiana. They issued a statement that local officers must assume more responsibility for the administration of the new Grade A fluid milk law. ‘They also were informed that Indiana is ripe for an epidemic of malaria, and that the constant communication of planes, trains: and trailers between the deep South and Indiana as a result of Army activities sharpens the aanger.. . _ Neither the general nor the scientific programs of the medical association were to get under way today. The day was to be spent in looking over commercial and scientific exhibitions in the Claypool Hotel, in registering ‘and in a recreation pro-

Can Russ Keep Up?

PERHAPS THE MOST important of the factors in doubt is the

question of maintenance. In the mechanical armies of today, this is of enormous importance, requiring a deep and efficient organization. Machines, such as airplanes,

artillery and the plain ordinary motor truck on which the efficiency of the whole depends, cannot be operated continuously under the heavy strain of war conditions without a maintenance organization complete in every detail. There must be maintenance personnel as part of the fighting units themselves for immediate repairs; there must be mobile ordnance and quartermaster repair units with divisions and corps for heavier filed repairs; there must be repair parks with the line of communications, and finally the major repair depots, salvage dumps and other maintenance establishments of the zone of the interior, The flow of damaged machines to the rear and replacements to the front makes heavy demands on transportation. In this whole field of maintenance, it seems likely that the Germans will be superior to the Russians; yet the Russians have certainly done better than was at first anticipated.

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Production May Be Bogged

NEXT COMES the question of supply and replacement in general, involving production, transportation and distribution. Is the Russian organization adequate in all these matters to keep on replacing the heavy losses of the enormous Russian military establishment? Reports that Russian troops now fighting are inadequately equipped suggest that there have been at least some failures and breakdowns. The insistent demands from all ‘quarters for more American - equipment for Russia, and British willingness to allot part of our none-too-great = production ° for Russian needs, reinforces this

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MARJORIE’S DIVORCE NEAR

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 23 (U. P.) — Actress Marjorie Weaver, former Indiana University student, was in Las Vegas today .to divorce Lieut. Kenneth Schacht of the U. S. Navy. She has filled the Nevada residence requirements ahd may appear today for a divorse.

a “de facto” French Government, Developments were: ¢ —Berlin said that the American-

including Icelandic waters. German newspapers announced that Gérman naval units in the last 10 days have sent 309,000 tons of enemy shippihg to the bottom, in addition to 19 Russian warships and a dozen merchantmen. But these are only the beginning and new “wolf packs” of U-boats will be roaming . the Atlantic soon, the newspapers said. —Gen. de Gaulle said tonight that France is “on the verge of revolt against the Vichy Germans” and that the members of his “de facto” government, to be announced tomorrow, would be wellknown refugees in London and elsewhere “who are free to express their opinions as Frenchmen.’ . He said the diplomatic relationship between the new government-in-exile and the United States would depend on Washington, which now

—Claims and counter- claims from the Russian front were of a preliminary nature and appeared ‘likely to reduced on both sides by final. reports, but it’ was indicated ¥hat the Red Army was striking back strongly after severe defeats. : : The situation today: UKRAINE FRONT—The German High Command claimed. the capture of 380,000 Russian prisoners in a big military trap east of Kiev and said that number was mounting rapidly, while Nazis suggested that total Soviet losses in tHis sector would be around 1,000,000 in the greatest encirclement battle in history. The Russians did not comment specfiically on the Ukraine front other than to report severe fighting. CENTRAL FRONT—The Red Army was reported by London to be smashing forward in a counterdrive from the Glukhov area, which is midway between Smolensk and Kharkov, in a desperate attempt to rescue the forces trapped east of Kiev. Berlin ignored the central front. NORTHERN FRONT—The Russian Army newspaper Red Star reported that three armies which the Germans had once said were destroyed crashed forward into the rear of the Nazi forces besieging Leningrad, inflicting some 50,000 casualties on the enemy in the Lake Ilmen area.

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owned freighter Pink Star— sunk near Iceland—may have been one of the 13 merchantmen yesterday listed as submarine victims and added that Axis submarines will intensify attacks on shipping for Britain within the blockade zone,

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British may fight in Russia Page 11 The Wounded Don’t Cry...Page 13

Marge Briscoe Royalty came to town today in the person of Miss Marge Briscoe, 19-year-old Lafayette typist, who has been crowned Indiana’s 1941 corn queen. Miss Briscoe was chosen from 13 contestants to reign over the fourth annual Indiana Corn Festival, Oct. 2 to 4. Miss Briscoe, her ladies in waiting and the festival hostess, Doris Anstee of Fowler, were in Indianapolis today being outfitted at the Wm. H. Block Co. for a four-day trip to Chicago, where they will await coronation on Oct. 1.

FEAR 34 IN CREW OF PINK STAR DIE

Navy Scours Iceland Sea For Axis Raider; FDR

after point in a counter-offen-sive which has now lasted for weeks, is pushing the armies

in the “battle of the bulge” now being fought to the west

of this skeleton town.

I reached Yelyna, now a town of ruined homes haunted by carrion crows on a conducted tour of the battlefields in the Yelyna and Yagtsevo sectors, from which the Russians seem converging northwestward and southwestward on the important communications center of Smolensk. ' Our tour took us over the first territory regained from Hifler on any front and the scene of the first defeats suffered by Germany in this war. ; I have seen a village in which there remained one habitation—a bird house. I have seen the Red Army at work, calmly and efficiently. The officers and men say they are receiving abundant new supplies of tanks, artillery and planes.

Challenged? WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 (U. PD. —The U. 8. Navy scoured the Iceland sea lanes today for an Axis raider which presumably sank the Government owned S. S. Pink Star— |apparently the first challenge to | President Roosevelt's “shoot on sight” orders: .° . The Pink Star incident was the third to occur:in an area of less than 100 miles diameter in a lane running along the southern tip of Greenland, which, like Iceland, is protected by the United States. The Pink Star was the former Danish vessel Lundby taken over by the United States and sailing for the United States Lines under the Panamanian flag. She carried a crew of 34, none of which were Americans.

Details Are Lacking

Only meager details were available at the State Department when the incident was announced: last night. Its information, relayed from the Navy Department, failed to state whether the crew had been rescued. Nor did it indicate whether the ship had been bombed, torpedoed or sunk by shellfire. The identity of the vessel that sank the Pink Star was not revealed, but officials indicated that they believed it to be a German submarine. The announcement revealed -only that the Pink Star carried a “general cargo” and was sunk Saturday 45 miles northwest of the point at which the S. S. Sessa was torpedoed and shelled on Aug. 17 with the loss of all but three of her crew.. It was also in ‘that same general. area where the S. S. Montana was sunk Sept. 11 just a few hours : before

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“shoot on sight” policy ‘and where the United State ‘destroyer Greer was attacked by a submarine. The Sessa, Montana and Pink

view. The very fact that the Russians are losing ground, that German mechanized movements appear to have greater freedom of action, hints at Russian deficiencies in armored troops and airplanes for counter-attack purposes. : : Finally is to be considered the quality and equipment of the Russian reserve divisions. It is all very well to talk of a Russian army of 10,000,000 men; the question is, how many of these men can the Russian general staff put into the field in actual “fighting teams”—divisions and armored brigades—complete with everything necessary for active service? - Otherwise these are just replacements for the existing divisions and other organizations, important in the sense of keeping these units up to strength, but incapable of forming effective new

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stone in the situation. Rumania is

is under’ the German thumb, so that the ports of Varna and Burwould be available, even if Bulgaria declines to go to war against Russia. The Bulgarians have a slavic affinity with Russia which makes the bulk of the populace averse to fighting her. It might take considerable German pressure to add the Bulgarian army to the forces against the Soviet Union. However, Bulgaria is helpless. The Germans could occupy the country as easily as they i . o Balkan states. id] Bulgaria Crossword ... 20{Pegler ....... 14/long has been dependent on - / Editorials .... 14|Questions ...., 14|many for nearly 99 per cent of her Financial .... 18|Radio ........ 19|trade, meaning her national exForum evsssss 1 Mrs. Roosevelt 13 istence. ’ % * Homemaking.. 17|Serial Story.. 21| Since ‘the enforced occupation of In Indpls..... 3|Side Glances. 14|Bulgaria would require a lot of Inside Indpls. 13|Society ...... 16|troops otherwise needed against Jane Jordan.. 17(Sports .......8,9|/Russia, and since unwilling soldiers ohnson: ..... State Deaths. 7|do not make good fighters, it is 6 sesecce 4044 5 ;

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War Moves Today

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst

The signs point increasingly to a forthcoming German ‘attempt to attack Russia from the rear,

across the Black Sea towards the

Crimea, and possibly also across northern Turkey towards the Caucasus.

of German planes in the western aerial bombardment of ‘the Crimea, naval base of Sebastapol, and the

reported massing of men and ships at Rumanian ports all smack of preparedness for an assault. Bulgaria is the Key-

already fighting Russia and its port

of Constanza is a German port. Bulgaria still is technically neutral, but

utilize the Bulgarian army against Turkey. Vis

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An expedition eastward. across| Mr. ‘proper then would be 'in order. Both objects, however, might be attained without actual war, since it is not certain that Turkey would fight. Turkey, it must be relike Bulgaria, dependent on Germany for the bulk of her trade—about 60 per cent. The Jay, Which is partly Ger-

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PHILLIPS: TO OPPOSE BOEHNE IN PRIMARY

NEW ALBANY, Ind, Sept. 23.— The long awaited Eighth District fight for the Democratic Congressional nomination broke into the open today with the announcement by State Senator Roger M. Phillips that he would oppose Rep. John W. Boehne Jr., Evansville, in the primary next May. ‘Mr. Phillips, one-time law partner of former U. S. Senator Sherman Minton, was minority leader of the State Senate this year and has been a Floyd County party leader for several years. ; Rep. Boehne will be seeking reelection for his seventh term. District leaders have reported strong opposition to the Evansville man because of his anti-Administration voting on several defense policy measures and his alleged failure to

It has ‘been reported that Rep. ‘Winfield &. Denton, Evansville at-

Association meeting at French Lick. TODAY'S TEMPERATURES

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at the recent Democratic Editorial

. British correspondents have been battlefields on the Russian central front. They were the first non-official foreigners ever given the opportunity to make ‘an extended inspection of the Red Army in action. Herewith is the dispatch of Wallace Carroll,

From my observation, Russia's supply organization by some miracle of transport seems able to keep its arnlies in these areas well supplied over roads which resemble prairie tracks of the covered wagon days in the United States. The fall rains are turning some parts of the roads into quagmures now, but the heavy Army trucks and tractor vehicles seem to get through without much difficulty.

but everywhere behind the front

here except in the actual devastated

region around Yelyna, we have found peasants working in the fields

in the doorways of their thatched log cabins as if they had no fear of the Germans. Sturdy peasant women, their heads covered with red and white kerchiefs, are cutting hay with scythes and drivifig harrows across the plowed fields in preparation for winter crops—not for the. Germans. J In the battle around Yelyna the (Continued on Page Three) —

REPEAL NEUTRALITY LAW, KNOX URGES

Use “Army Where - Needed, He Says at Launching.

~ QUINCY, Mass., Sept. 23 (U. P.). —Secretary of Navy Frank Knox today advocated repeal of the neutrality ‘law and use of the Army ‘wherever needed. He spoke at the launching of the $75,000,000 battleship Massachusetts.

ing with the neutrality law,” Secretary Knox told 75,000 persons gathered to watch the launching at the Bethlehem Steel Co. shipyard. “It is no longer an asset, but rather a liability.” ; Mr. Knox asserted that the Army “must be. used when and where it’s needed.” He assailed the theory that the. Army begins functioning “only when a man puts soil.”

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voices ceased, papers shuffled, . were ; turned. with a. sharp of dead leaves

polished table-tops. * They Know the Answers This is ‘a meeting of Marion County. Tax Adjustment Board, reviewing budgets. ~~ Yesterday, it was the School City budget. That is what observers-call a “dull” budget. School officials seem to be able to justify every expenditure so logically, even down to .the last nickel for ‘mopstrings or green

chalk. hin 5 : (Wonder if they still use :green chalk? A green star beside your name, always so precisely written and traced over -once a. week on the blackboard by - your teacher, meant you hadn’t been tardy more than twice in the same month. Made you practically an-outcast with the gang, those green stars.)

Horn Asks a Query

Somebody was saying something. It was Tax Board Chairman Albert F. Walsman. He was saying: “Turn to page 101.’ Everybody turned to page 101. It bore column after column of figures which your mind's eye could franslate into erasers, pencils, brooms, buckets, window glass. Somebody beside you cleared his throat. It was

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jobs, the girls are” taking over. “Mrs. Springer took Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane brokerage office yesterday.” The idea started in Portland, Ore. a week ago. The London : Stock Exchange broke a 140-year tradition yesterday, too, by using two: girls to'do the work just ‘as Mrs. Springer

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’ By RICHARD LEWIS ; "It was sultry .in the’ City. Council Chamber at City Hall yesterday : the chairs were hard. Members of the Tax Adjustment Board adjusted themselves in their on to another. f somebody arguing with somebody. else about .a $25 item in the School Board budget of $7,000,000. . Then

Tax experts yawned.

WAY CLEARED FOR ‘ELECTION LAW TEST

Board Votes Against City - Balloting Next Year.

The Marion County -Election Board passed a resolution today declaring that it will: not hold a City election in -Indianapolis next year unless directed to do so by special ‘court action.” tig The Board ruled 'that'a 1941 la left “this board without legal authority or jurisdiction to hold an election .for City offices next year.” The law sponsored: by Republicans in the last session of the Legislature; intended that Indianapolis hold - & city -election, ‘but a repeal clause on the end of the act, abolished all previous statutes under which a City election could be held. The law expressly provided a postponement of ' elections in all other cities in Indiana, but -excepted Indianapolis.’ Under the law all other cities in the State will hold city elections in 1943. :

Attorneys representing: both the Democratic and Republican County Committees immediately began preparation. of a’ suit to test ‘the Election Board's decision. : It will be filed in Circuit Court, probably this week, Pa Re The court decision: will be on the validity of the clause of the new law repealing the 1933 “skipelection” statute. Regardless of the Circuit Court ruling the case will be ‘appealed to the Indiana State Sua a. ati This decision whether - will elect a Mayor next year or in 1943. :

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PERILED BY FALLING GLASS “Miss Helen Daniels, a Juvenile ous i po 5 Ww. a glass fell out of a window near her Court Hous ;

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ripping up trees and sinkin fishing boats. : : High tides, heavy rain and strong winds lashed the lowland areas. Freeport, site of a $25,000,000 mags nesium plant and sulphur mines, both vital in national defense, wal evacuated as was the entire lowland area in the immediate danger zone, Tides four and five feet above normal swept into city streets at Galveston and Port Arthur and both cities, protected by sea walls from the pounding surf, felt reaching 50 miles an hour. Hune dreds of refugees poured into. Houston, principai city of the coastal area and 50 miles back from the gulf. : Gas Supply Cut Off a In three Western states officials counted the loss suffered in weeks

_|end storms. Denver residents faced

a failure of their natural gas supply for cooking and heating because of = storm damage to a pipeline. id

- Sixteen persons drowned in New Mexico floods which left 1000 others

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and Roswell CW One of the mountain states’

Fuel & Iron Co. steel mill at Pue

Colo, was shut down when the

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Denver was severed by a wi at Clayton, N. M. Th A storm which swept out of the Wasatch Mountains into nt Jy SO Utah caused $250,000. ne a

Storm warnings flew all along the Gulf Coast from Biloxi, Miss. to

the Mexican border at Brownsville,

Special Advisory Issued

In a speciai advisory the Weathes Bureau at Washington reported that | tides would be very high from the Matagorda Bay section to the exe treme west coast of Louisiana.’ “If the present movement cone tinues, the center will reach the coast line near Port O'Connor to= night, attended by hurricane winds up to 90 miles an hour from Por O'Connor to Freeport, Tex. dams gerous northerly gales south of Por O'Connor to Corpus Christi Bay and dangerous easterly gales north of Freeport to Port Arthur, Tex,” the advisory warned. i “All interests should be safes guarded against this severe destrucs tive storm with attendant tides ine undating low-lying sections.” Soon afterwards the A Weather Bureau reported that an Atlantis disturbance was centered about 180 miles southeast of the Virginia Capes moving north northeast about 10 to 15 miles per hour. The stormy is attended by strong winds over & wide area and moderate to fresh gales near the center. It is ex= pected to move northeastward and pass some distance southeast of Nantucket, Mass., tomorrow morns ing. by

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Highways Blocked

Port Arthur, protected by a 10-foot levee, reported wind of 50 miles an hour, a tide 55 feet above normal and flood water in lower sections © the city. Coastal highways’ ou town ‘were blocked by tide waters. Highways also were inundated between New Orleans and Biloxi. Corpus Christi, site of the Navy's new Annapolis of the air, also res ported high winds and heavy ti sweeping the lowlands. : But the focal point of the & seemed to be at Freeport, about miles below Galveston. The was evacuated and the Dow Chern cal Co.s new $25,000,000 plant produce magnesium, vital defer element, was left to the hurric: mercy. :

BEECH GROVE TAX RATE CUT 3 CEN

A 3-cent cut in the Beech Gr Civil City tax rate for 1942 made by the County Tax Ad ment Board today, reducing the posed rate to $1.20—still 3 ¢ above the current rate. The Board made the

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