Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1941 — Page 3
er’s Last Call Expected Shortly
New Attempt fo Line World Against U. S. and| Britain May Come if Moscow Falls.
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and foes,
Hitler is reported to have ordered his General Staff to take the Soviet Capital at all costs and without undue
is done, it is thought, he will follow it' up with a determined political and diplomatic drive for a show-
down. Jap, Turkey, Bulgaria, Spain, Portugal and unoccupied France al told to “co-operate” with Germany or else. It will be too late to claim a partnership after Germany has won the war all by herself, the Fuehrer|is expected to say. That he will work on his former
x. partner, Stalin, is regarded as cer-|
grain, and it would cause little sur/prise if he ‘once more tried to make ‘peace with Britain. This he would do only if his other moves Suc-
. ceeded. Nazi Agents Busy
Already, it is reported here, Berlin is exerting pressure on Tokyo to do something about the time Hitler announces the capture of Moscow— assuming that he does. ‘Nazi agents are ‘busy, especially among the Japanese Army crowd, telling them that now is the time to strike—~that the United States is already virtually in the European conflict and is unprepared for war in the Far East at the same time. For months Washington and Tokyo have been trying to reach some sort of understanding. The better-informed Japanese leaders are convinced that war between the countries would be folly—especially for Japan—and their views have not been without weight on the Government and even on the Emperor _ himself,
Want Help ediately be
Unfortunately,” these Japanese have formulated conditions which the United States cannot possibly accept, even as a basis of discussion. Accordingly, the negotiations have tended to be long drawn out—a fact which Hitler is now seeking to use to his advantage. - The United States, the Nazis are now said to be advising the Japanese, has no intention of coming to any agreement with Nippon. Wash-
PHILIP ‘Times Foreign Editor ‘ . WASHNGTON, Oct. 7.—~Adolf Hitler's new drive is believed here, is only the prelude ultimatum, which the Nazi dictator intends
‘| with Britain or the United States.”
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against Moscow, it to a sort of «]ast-call-for-dinner” to serve alike on friends
America intends to dominate the Pacific Ocean, including China and the East Indies, and seeks only the destruction of Japan as a firstclass power, his soft, of talk falls on fertile soil in Japan. Her jingoes' have been preparing the ground for years. The Nazi idea is to stir emotion to such a pitch that the Japanese will intervene in the war the. side of Germany right now. “If you don’t come in now,” Bese lin "is said to have told Tokyo, in effect, “don’t call on us for help if sometime in the future you find yourself at war with Russia. Or
Similarly, if and when Hitler takes Moscow, he is expected to turn on Turkey, Spain and the other not-quite-ready nations of Europe and try to frighten them into the Axis,
| Offers ‘Partnership’
“Come in now as a partner,” he is expected to say—if he succeeds’ in building up for himself the necessary background of victory—‘‘or
ever conditions I may choose to offer.” With Stalin he is expected to bear down on the alleged failure of Britain and the United States to go to Russia's help to the extent demanded by Moscow. The fact that this was impossible, and that both countries have - deprived themselves of much-needed material, won't make any difference to German diplomacy. When the Nazis were pounding away at Moscow, Berlin will taunt, Britain did not try to invade the Continent. They will quote H. G. Wells, Britain's left-wing historian and others, to that effect—all in the hope, of course, of inducing Stalin to quit the Siruggle now and so make it possible to destroy Russia totally, later on. The belief here, therefore, is that the next 60 to 90 days may be among the most sensational of any period of the war.
ington is only playing for time.
Hints Sub Knew Route
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 7 (U.. P.).—Capt. William, Mell of Everett, Mass., of the torpedoed ‘Panamanian tanker I. C. White, who arrived here ith 16 other. survivors, said his ship was lighted, with a searchlight trained on the Panamanian flag painted on its side, when it was
today Ww attacked on Sept. 27 by a submarine.
The attack occurred about 450 miles southeast of Pernambuco, Brazil.
The ship was sunk by a submarine which seemed to«“know our precise route,” survivors said, and the vessel quickly became an inferno of blazing oil and heavy smoke. Capt. Mello said that the vessel was not shelled after the single torpedo struck. Failure to send a wireless message about the attack was attributed by survivors to orders issued early the voyage by the captain, and ‘to the haste in abandoning ship when the explosion was followed by fire. Crew members said it was impossible to identify the attack r because of pitch darkness and fog at the time of the attack. [They agreed, however, that it was marine rather than a surface vessel. They said none of the cre injured in an explosion and fire which followed the torpedoing There was a single explosion on the tanker’s starboard side [When
Sept. 27. The vessel sank at %: 51 that morning. They believed that only three members of the crew still were missing. All the crew left the I. C. White before she went down, they said. The ship’s mascots—two dogs— apparently perished in the flames and smoke that billowed out of the oil tanks after the explosion.
Ore of the informants had been on watch when the attack occurred. He said that just after the explosion he saw two lights—apparently from the submarine—low on the water on the starboard side.
in | rary basis last month, shall be made
HEARING SCHEDULED ON MILK PRIGE RULING
A public hearing to determine whether the local flexible milk price structure, set up on a tempo-
rmanent will be held by the State Rilke. Control Board at 10 a. m, tomorrow in the House Chamber in the State House. The flexible price system provides that dairymen get 60 cents a hundredweight for Class 1 milk used for bottled purposes above condensory prices. This is designed to insure the supply of fluid ‘milk for the Marion County area. With this system in effect, Board officials say that there will be no reason for the dairymen to switch from the fluid milk to the m.| condensory market, Under the flexible eaten when condensory prices go up, the fluid milk prices automatically will go up. If condensory prices continue to, rise, there will eventually be another increase in the price of milk to consumers.
JUNK DRIVE EXTENDED WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (U. P.).— The OPM announced today that its campaign to secure additional scrap iron and steel by increasing the junking of worn-out automobiles will be extended this week to Indiana, » The Indiana campaign will be or-
delay. If and when this|
wait a while and come in on what-|
John Curtin/ Labor Party chieftain, is the new Australian Premier, having formed a Cabinet after the resignation of Prime Minister Arthur Fadden,
NAZIS GAPTURE ~ 2 AZOV CITIES
Germans Now Only 110 Miles From Gateway to . Oil ‘Zone.
BERLIN, Oct. 7 (U. P.).—A Gezman military spokesman claimed today that Nazi forces have captured Mariu and Berdyansk north of the Sea of AZov and only 110 miles from\ Rostov, heart of the Great Don River industrial region and gateway to the oil-rich Caucasus. Mariupol is about 150 miles _east of the railroad which links Crimea, to the Russian mainland. Both cities are part of the huge system of iron, steel and fabricating
industries which make up the big Russian Donets and Don industrial area. Rostov was bombed last night for the first time. The spokesman’s announcement followed a claim by the German High ‘Command that the Russians had been defeated in a ma jor battle north of the Sea of Azov in which the entire staff of the Russian Ninth Army was captured after the airplane flight of the Soviet commander-in-chief,
Nearing Stalino
At Mariupol the Germans are only 50 miles southwest of the great Russian steel making center of Stalino. Progress all along the Eastern Front was reported according to plan by the High Command, but the communique said that the greatest success was near the Sea of Azov. The reported defeat and pursuit of “the beaten enemy” in the Azov sector indicated that the main Russian counter-offensive threat in the Ukraine had heen broken up. The operation had been undertaken as a flanking movemet against the German attack on the Crimea. Front dispatches intimated that on the central front the Germans were driving deep into the Russian lines with infantry masses pouring through gaps made by tank spear-
heads. » Planes Blast Rear
Reports sent by propaganda company correspondents told of advances in which artillery first laid down terrific barrages on Russian lines while strong air formations blasted areas extending from the most advanced Russian positions back to communication lines far in|ro the rear. One dispatch described Germans overruning® Russian positions .along a river. The sector was not des!gnated. It was indicated that after long search for weak points in the Russian lines along a wide front, the Germans had drivéh massed tanks into the selected sectors and were advancing rapidly, leaving the in-
ganized Friday at ‘Indianapolis.
fantry to consolidate positions won.
IN. INDIANAPOLIS
Here Is the Traffic Record County City Total 1040 ........... 42 60 102 2041 .....oeh... 48 52 100 —0ct. Gomer Accidents ... or Injured waren Arrests 318 | Dead .....ces0 0
- MONDAY IRAFFIO COURT Cases Convic- Fines tried tions paid 5 5 $109 6 31
Violations Speeding Reckless driving. . Failure to stop at through street.. "0 Disobeying t ‘3 piuals driving. 1 All others ....... 18
BC Totals sashressve 33 20
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Section, Society, Hotel oF Severin, noon. Rotary 1 Hotel, 7 p.m. | Pain Fraternity, ¥. M. C. A Wa P gyre cu ink Arms Hotel, noo, ercator "erab,
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MARRIAGE LICENSES These are lists from official records in the County Court House, The Times, therefore, is not responsible for names and addresses.
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erson Soller, 28, of 133 Co Srrison; DeTor Barrett 27, of 0s B. Ray, Rovp, 20, of Sos N. Blackford; Ww. m O. of nit cilel I. wg 33, of 323 E. ger, ¥ 19, of id Afsany; Lelia arian, SE Denton, 20, David Bridgefo Ti Louise ae | Girls Howard, . Francis. George, How rice Turley, at Methodist,
Hook, 23, of 13 MoPharson; Dorothy T. Snyder, 2, Jamestown, Siciles, 13 of soi Rivers Jean E. Dorthe S Jari b Is, of 308 N. Blackford. . Raab, 33, Lawgance; Thelma 34 8. oCart ames £2546 x. amer, 16, of “1820 W. Vermont. A. Larver, 16, of 3438 Winthrop. Satna A as a) at Francis. Ray | Mayme Moistner, at Methodist. Russ ucifle Lord, SH
of 2913 land; Hobert D. Collins RO of Rive! 33, Emerson V Be 22, of 414 d Kruge Terte Haute, na; Payne, sig, 23 of 207 Belmon a 1 of 2942 Schofield; BIRTHS el Whobrey, at Sa od! at Methodist.
Rubena ici, a} Methodist. | .
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Ea Car rlisie, a (Ga poriey on “at Set eR,
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at bo Jackson. d; Gayiens En oknes, at 2750 N. Sher-
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DEATHS Watson, 85, at 957 Colton, cereee Randle, 43, at Veterans’, men5 i. Bender, 38, at City, bowel obstruc-
n Smith, 76, at 1626 Rembrandt,
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Wright, 49, at 3247 Central, coro-
? seit 63, at Methodist, careiWatts, 83, at 1636 Park, chronic at 1408 8. Sherman
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ri%ildred Andrews, at 136 W, 37th. | tonight;
Patrick, 36, at City, tuberculo-|Chj,
lckle, 40, at Methodist, mala-|] , 74, at 3083 Washington Blvd, | J
G. “Bai Lie, 66, at 1525 Steels, | Mo
Daniel Weaver, 86, at 1032 N. Oxford, sutonis Wyocas arditis. Nordman, 65, at Central, duodenal
EB. Wright, 63, at 214 W. 21st, hemorrhage. Baylar,- 47, at Veterans’, arteriosclerosis.
William Haynes, 75, at City, carcinoma. camel Adams, 84, at 143 Bright, myo-
OFFICIAL WEATHER
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INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Fair tonight. and tomorrow; much cooler tonight with lowest temperature 40 to 45.
Sunrise ......5:47 | Sunset .......5:19
Oct. 7, 1940— Meseseese B57 1 p. m..
BAROMETER 6:30 a. m..... 20.86
itation 24 hrs. . M... 49 Tol precipitation sce 7 = a Deficiency since Jan. 1.............. 10.13
'" MIDWEST WEATHER A ie torr ght and tomotrow; along Ohio River morrow fnew. oo Illinois—Fair night and cooler toni Be west-centra LA Michigan ai t ht OW; muc cooler tomorrow. Cuvier Sonighy; Ohio Losable “cl showers, cooler | in east on h tonight; OW partly cloudy scat-
Kentucky—Considerable cloudiness, Showers 8s in west and forth portions
tered ewhat cooler tomorrow in west portion tonight; tomorrow partly
6 a. cecees 63
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WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Station ™ Weather Bar. Temp. Am 0, X, soseees leas 45 Bi N. D. smarck, 2
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1,000 WORK AT GARY
Negotiate Steel Dispute; 6000 Idle at South Bend Studebaker Plant.
By UNITED PRESS An agreement by the OC. I. O. Steel Workers’ ‘Union to negotiate grievances of 65 striking crane operators enabled 17,000 men to resume production today at the Gary, Ind., ‘plant of the Carnegie-Illinois Steep Corp., the world’s largest steel
Meanwhile, at South Bend 6000 workers representing there-fourths
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idle as a result .of a strike at the Midland Steel Products plant in| Cleveland, O., which supplies Studebaker passenger car frames, No defense work was affected. At Cleveland Federal Conciliator James F. Dewey said he had been informed that the Hudson Motor Co, also might be forced to close its ‘Detroit plant for lack of ‘parts because of the Midland strike, At Toledo, a spokesman for the Willy-Overland Motor Co., said that the same strike would interfere with production of Army “jeep” reconnaissance cars.
Rubber Workers Quit
The Midland steel plant has been closed since Sept. 29 by a strike called by the United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers Union (C, I. 0. ), involving 1400 men. In Akron five plants of the B. F. Goodrich Tire and Rubber Co. were shut down=by a 24-hour strike. Members of the United Rubber Workers (C. I. O.), 1400 of whom were idle, said the Goodrich strike was called to protest what was de-|p scribed as the beating of a unidn organizer and his wife last week at Oaks, Pa., where Goodrich has a plant, the plants hold defense contracts. Work stoppages on a $12,000,000 Texarkana ordnance project and at a Cleveland munitions plant continued. Strikers Sent Back
Operations at -the 14,000-acre Gary plant, producing an estimated 100,000 tons of steel weekly, were crippled at midnight Saturday by the cranemen’s walkout. Company officials estimated 85 per cent of the plant output goés into defense orders, mainly for tank steel, air« plane armament and marine turbines. The Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee (C. I. O.), which called the crane operators out to protest transfer of relief cranemen to other departments, sent the strikers back to their posts at midnight last night, pending negotiations of their demands. A company-union conference was scheduled today to discuss the cranemen’s grievances. The Red River ordnance plant construction project at Texarkana was tied up by a general strike of 3500 A. F. of L. building trades workers, demanding bargaining rights. The men walked off the project yesterday. The Cleveland defense strike involved C. I. O. die casters at the Monarch Aluminum Manufacturing Co., engaged on ammunition fuse and munitions parts orders. More than 2000C. I. O. unionists struck to protest a company contract with an independent union.
STATE TO DEMAND DEATH FOR KIRK
The death penalty will be asked by the State for.Albert Kirk, Negro, on trial in Criminal Court on a charge of first degree murder in the holdup slaying of Chester Ross Witt, an East Side grocer. Deputy Prosecutor. Leo Brown said he will demaind the death. penalty on conclusion of evidence tomor-
row. Mr. Witt was fatally shot during a holdup of his store, 1430 Brookside Ave, Dec. 9, 1939. Deputy prosecutors wio outlined the case before a jury indicated that an alleged accomplice in the holdup will identify Kirk as the bandit who fired the fatal shot. The alleged accomplice, Ingram Richardson, Negro, pleaded guilty of second degree murder in connection with the holdup and is awaiting sentence.
AMERICA FIRST’S MEETING CONFUSED
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 7 (U, P.).— The America First Committee meeting in Carnegie Music Hall ended in dis¢ord and confusion last night when an audience of some 2000 became unmanageable as a mother and son insisted on propounding questions to Senator Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri, the principal speaker. After a little more than an hour of Heckling by an 18-year-old Carrick High School senior and his mother, honorary chairman David A. Reed, former U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania, adjourned the meeting when the audience refused to hear the youth who had been called
of Studebaker Corp. employees were|
to the platform by Chairman Reed.
150 INJURED BY FLYING DEBRIS
200 Homes Searched for Possible Victims of $1,000,000 Blow.
KANSAS CITY] Mo., Oct. 7 (U. P.) —Through the debris that once had . been 200 homes, workers searahed today for possible further victims of a tornado that dipped into t| ea killing three persons, injur, 50, and causing at least $1,000,000 damage. The dead were: . i DOROTHY LUCAS, about DIANA LUCAS, 18 months. MRS. ELLA PERKINS, 51. ’ The tornado tore houses from their foundations, lifted huge timbers and power and telephone poles and hurled them like great javelins through other structures. It sucked out one wall of the Union Wire Rope plant. It picked up a 100,000gallon oil storage tank and planted it hundreds of feet away.
Residential Area Hit First
The funnel first dipped unheralded into a southeastern Kansas City residential area—a new real estate development of middle class homes. It smashed the story and one-half brick Arlington Methodist Church, crossed the street and swept from their foundations and smashed like paper bags the Lucas home and a house next door. Mrs. Lucas with her baby still clutched in her arms was found a half ‘hour later 800 feet behind the house in a rain-filled ravine. The tornado jumped a ravine, swirled northeastward through a sparsely - settled bottomland, then veered to chop into a hillside where frame cottages—little more than tarpaper and lathes—were an easy dish for the wind. It scattered thé debris for blocks.
Windows Broken
Across open country it roared and swept down into the 15th St. industrial area, home of a score of de-| fense industries. It collapsed a wall] of the wire company and threw its full force against a creosote plant and feed mill, severely damaging them. In Mount Washington and Fairmount it went through the business districts breaking plate glass windows, unroofing business structures, scattering merchandise ‘in the streets. It wrecked an’ automobile showroom in Fairmount and scores of filling stations and refreshment stands along the roads.
Tropical Gale Moves
Inland in Florida
PENSACOLA, Fla., Oct. 7 (U. P.). —The tropical storm wkich turned north in the Gulf of Mexico after whipping southern Florida with winds reaching hurricane velicity. struck the Florida coast at Carrabelle early today, and moved inland. The storm attended by strong winds and between Cedar Keys and Panama City.
BRIDGES ATTACKS BILL DEPORTING HIM
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 7 (U.P). —The Allen bill, which calls for the immediate deportation of - Harry Bridges, California C. I. O. director, passed yesterday by the House, is “in ‘every respect”.the same measure passed previously and declared unconstitutional by former. Attorney General Robert H, Jackson, Bridges declared today. The measure, sponsored by Rep.
A. Leonard Allen (D. Ala.) was ap-|Sumpter
proved without ‘debate dnd with less than 50 members on the floor. It
‘ornado
The New. Arlington Methodist Church near the eastern limits of Kansas City, Mo., is ripped apart by a tornado # swept through part of the city last night. The back half is
comp letely gone.
Mr. Keemle .
If Moscow is not taken by then,’ it i ely to stand for the winter, or In the first impact of their onslaught, the Germans undoubtedly have made advances, as was to be expected. How deep the penetration is, however, cannot be determin from the guarded communiques o either side, in which place names and specific details are omitted. Hence there is no clue yet to the course of the battle. In their previous main attacks, such as the triumphal march through the outer buffer defenses, the smash beyond Smolensk and the drive on Kharkov,
War Moves Today:
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE _ United Press War Analyst
Hitler's Moscow drive, which now appears to be the most concentrated he has yet made’ against Russia and on.a far larger scale, is likely to prove the supreme test’ of his blitzkrieg power Russia apparently anticipated the attack and disposed her forces to meet it. Hitler is reported to have thrown 1,500,000 men into action, with as many in relerve and a vast force of airplanes, tanks and mechanized units. That tremendous striking power is concentrated on a stretch of less than 400 miles of the 1800-mile front. Russian resistance before the end of this month, when winter begins
Its object is to crush the
the Germans made rapid initial progress. Then they were slowed up by the retreating tactics of the Russians, who rolled with the punches and were always there when the enemy pushed" deeper into their territory, Such tactics, part of the Russian military credo, may be expected again in the defense of Moscow. Early German successes would not necessarily point to a swift march into Moscow, barring a totally unexpected Russian collapse. The prospects are that the decision will come early, probably within three weeks.
today.
in the attack on Russia.
slav territory annexed by Italy who plot against their new masters. Thousands of Greeks were reported to have been =shot for guerilla war and sabotage against the Axis. Twenty British officers were said to have escaped concentration camps in Greece and fled to the guerrilla war and sabotage against the Nazis. There were indications that the question of Rumania’s continuance in the war may be becoming acute, despite the apparent intention of Finland to fight on. The Berlin press today published an official tabulation of Rumanian
fixed the losses of the Rumanian Army at 20,000 killed, 76,000 wounded and 15000 missing—a total of 111,000 or more, than one-quarter the admitted c ties of the German Army which the High Command has fixed at 402,000.
Large Fraction Lost i The Rumanians generally are believed to have contributed from 10 to 20 divisions to the Nazis. That would be a trcop iotal of 150,000 to
300,000. The casualty figure would indicate that the Rumanians have suffered losses of anywhere up to two-thirds of their effectives, a catastrophic percentage. This background gave credibiMty to the report from Istanbul that the Rumanian generals protested to Gen. Ion Antonescu, Rumanian dictator, that their troops are becoming increasingly hard to handle and urged that they be withdrawn from the front. The protest, Istanbul said, was met with a firing squad. which promptly executed the 12 generals. News from Czechoslovakia was that Gen. Alois Elias, Czech Premier under. sentence of death, may be offered clemency by the Germans if he will agree to “expose”
CHURCH SETS HOMECOMING
The Memorial Presbyterian Church will hold its annual homecoming dinner at 6:30 p. m. Thursday. A reception will follow. Guests of honor will be Mr. and Mrs. C. Logan and new members of . the congregation. Mrs. Harry ‘Stombaugh, president of the women’s socie chairman
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now goes to the Senate.
LONDON, Oct. 7 (U. P.).—The plan for a temporary English Channel war truce and exchange of prisoners between Great Britain
hour today and an official statement in the House of Commons indicated that negotiations would not be reopened at least for a long time. (The British cancelled the ex-
nd| change just nine minutes before it
was scheduled, according to Helen Kirkpatrick, London correspondent
Chicago Daily News, Inc. The reason given was a broadcast about an hour before by Lord Haw Haw, Ger-
been put ships at New Haven for transportation across the Channel to the
and Germany collapsed at the zero|g
for the Indianapolis Times and the prison
grant breach of faith by the German Government.” (A few of the sick and wounded German prisoners managed to give “Heil, Hitler” salute: as. they were disembarked. - The prisoners were visibly affected when informed that the exchange had been cancelled.)
The a arrangement which
WARY Sem a | agreement in
Exchange of Prisoners Fails at Zero Hour: Disparity of Numbers Is Stumbling Block
release of Rudolf Hess, No. 3 Nazi, who flew to Scotland last May. There had been reports that such a demand was delaying the transfer. The German Government proposed Sept. 1 that sick and wounded prisoners be repatriated by a British hospital ship, under Article 68 of the Geneva convention. He admitted that Germany pointed out Sept. 20 that they were sending 1200 British prisoners and Britain only approximately 150 and expressed the hope that the British
{Government would reconsider its action.
He a discs that on-Sept. 29 Gera message saying an principle. by Britain for the mutual repatriation of sick wounded combatants now in
condition to carrying out the proposed repatriation. When: 3 became eviden that
12 Generals Reported Shot
The war behind the lines in Nazi-occupied Europe spread rapidly
Twelve Rumanian generals, according to Istanbul advices from Bucharest, were shot for protesting continued Rumanian participating
Mussolini decreed the death penalty for all persons in former Jugo-
losses on the Eastern Front. This|-
countries such as Eire, Urti-} y and unoccupied France was an] =
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all his confederates in the alleged anti-Nazi plot in Czechoslovakia. Five more Czechs were shot at Brno yesterday and another 27 were said to. have been sentenced to death.
| | sources into “a grand battle” in
RUSSIA CLAIMS
rman Attacks Beaten: Off: ar, Say Moscow ' , Dispatches. i MOSCOW, Oct. 7. (U. P.).—Soviet? . reports said today that Hitler has thrown all his available military reattempt to win a decision en Eastern Front before winter.
Dispatches reported that ani
scope of the struggle, th upon Marshal Semyon Timoshenko's: central front, is growing
points with heavy German losses. A summary of reports from the central front showed Russian elaims of destruction of 198 German tanks, 31 planes, and more thas 200 arme ored cars in the initiat stages of the htige offensive,
Murmansk Saved
Reports from the north said that the Red Army has checked a Nazi offensive against Murmansk after an 18-day battle in which German advance units finally were cut off from their bases and Russian couns ter-attacks drove the Germans back to their original lines. The Germans were described by the Red Army organ, Red Star, as advancing against Timoshenko's Lo fire,” followed by tank assaults upon Soviet defensive positions, :
Minsk Veteran Mentioned
In one sector, commanded by Gen. Ivan Boldin, veteran of the battle of Minsk, a vanguard of Naz} Panzer forces was said to hava wedged its way into Russian posis tions with German motorized troops, in large numbers, closely following the advance of the Panzer divisions, The outcome of their fight was not yet certain, Red Star reported. Red “Star asserted that Hitler, dreading the prospect of a long war and desiring to achieve a decision before - winter, has thrown all his available resources into an attempk to smash the Red Army. “Hitler is meeting trains carrying thousands upon thousands of Ger« man wounded,” Red Star said, “but he is dispatching into the jaws of the Eastern Front new echelons o* cannon fodder.”
CONVICTION OF 2 IN SOUTH’BEND UPHELD
The Supreme Court today upheld the conviction in the St. Joseph Circuit Court of J. C. Weer, former South Bend street commissioner, and Jay S. Rose, South Bend mae terials dealer, on a charge of cone spiracy to commit a felony. The men received sentences off two to ldeyears for alleged fraudue lent practices in the purchase of! materials for the South Bend city street department. = According ta, testimony introduced at the trial by" the State, Mr. Weer would approve payment to Mr. Rose for materials never actually received by the citys
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