Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1941 — Page 3
® DEFENSE BUILDING
TO INCI
¥ ict Enforcement Indicated by OPM, Although Excep- | tions Will Be Made Where Work Has Started To Prevent Hardships.
® WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (U. P.).—OPM officials indicathg stringent enforcement of the new. restriction on non-
ASE 30%
’
efense and non-essential public and private construction,
3 stimated today that the value of new construction in this
country would drop from about $11,200,000,000 this year to
Ximately $8,500,000,000
, Smog
ublic works and commercial essure of priorities and alations, materials for such
projects will be diverted to de-|ials
uses. |. # Facing a serious shortage in such tical materials as steel, copper, 55, bronze and aluminum, OPM said they would be “hard- ” in passing on applications priorities on these metals for any project which is not directly for defense or for the
Realth and safety of the people. - Spur to Defense Work
Borne estimate of construction for 1 indicated that defense conction will account for approxiven 44 per cent of all building Whereas in 1942 the proportion of defense construction will rise to ore than 75 per cent. ense construction next year is ted to em an average of ,000 men ughout the year, th 1,500,000 or more, at peak pe- . The average would be about W per cent greater than the esti- # Th a. oo a t. e whic e priorities dlvision will have to enforce was ulgated. by President Roose16's "Sool Priorities and AllocaI after it was angy the OPM was flooded with s as to its implication from te and local officials and private factors: Even certain Federal Is made informal inquiries.
= | Hardships to Be Avoided
1 Priorities officials said that they ve not yet had time to determine the new policy would be adtered. While making it clear ey will be unrelenting in their efto conserve critical materials
in 1942.
That decrease, OPM research and statistical experts d, would be accounted for largely by cessation of new Under
construction projects.
building, no attempt would be made to requisition for other uses materalready *
‘acquired to complete the structure.
However, ‘he added, where a cone tract has been signed. but no construction undertaken on a project not connected with defense, there was g good chance that priorities of materials: would be refused.
Public Projects Barred
Under the authority imposed by SPAB in. the priorities division, it will be possible to ban any new public projects—FPederal, state and local—such as postoffices, courthouses, roads and highways, river and harbor improvement, and flood control and power projects. This, officials said, endowed the priorities division with a veto power over Congressionally-approved projects asqgreat, if not greater than now reposes in the President. For example, it could refuse to grant priorities for materials which might be needed for the construction of the Passarhaquoddy power project, for which funds are provided in the pending rivers and harbors bill.
RIGHT TO CRITICIZE UPHELD BY DAWSON
MONTICELLO, Ind. Oct. 10 (U.|P
P.).—Lijeut. Gov. Charles M. Dawson declared last night that the Republican ' Party reserves the right to “criticize where criticism is deserved.” The G. O, P. has given “wholehearted and practically unanimous support to the national defense program,” he said, but “ we shall condemn and continue to condemn reckless spending and extravagance and pork-barrel tactics whenever we find them.” “We shall not submit to any program which seeks to stifle constructive and justifiable criticism. That is a danger for which we must be always on the alert,”
Drop in when You can—
EAE MENACE
Citing Way Out of Nazi Traps. MOSCOW, Qct. 10 (U. P.).—Rus-
_ |sian reserve forces were reported|
hastening to the central front today fo aid the Red Army in a furious
German military trap from closing on the defenders of Moscow. “Our best strength is en route to aid the men cn the fighting front,” the army newspaper Red Star said in calling upon every Soviet citizen to aid in meeting the admittedly grave emergercy. The press emphasized front line dispatches reporting that the Russian armies had frustrated the German encirclement operations or had fought their way out of enemy traps, although German advances were acknowledged.
huge casualties inflicted on the Germans, Red Sfar said that Russian forces had been able to take up new ‘positions and’ “repel enemy thrusts” in the areas where the enemy had made gains. | “The situation is extraordinarily grave. A special menace ‘faces the vital industrial centers in the west and in the Sea of Azov region,” Red Star said. .
From Vyazma to Azov
All dispatches asserted that German attempts to strike up the Kharkov-Moscow railroad toward the capital had been smashed with heavy Germain losses, and it was emphasized that in the VyazmaBryansk and all other sectors, the Germans, despite their numerical superiority and the ferocity of their attack, were meeting stout resistance, . Thousands of Red Army men had fought their way out of previous “hopeless traps” in previous German “great annihilation battles,” and dispatches said they were doing the same thing again. The German losses were said to be severe in all parts of the Vyaz-ma-Bryansk direction, and Tass asserted that in five days the Russian force under Gen. Ivan Boldin —which had fought its way out of revious “death traps”—destroyed 220 tanks and 140 trucks and killed between 7000 and 8000 Germans.
Gain Near Leningrad
It was asserted further that troops of the Leningrad garrison had occupied the southern bank of a rivef which the Germans had held and now, continuing a powerful counter-attack, were advancing steadily in face of heavy German ergtiesy: mine-thrower and airplane
or was admitted also that German, Rumanian, Hungarian and Italian
tro d made some gains,
» along the Sea of Azov
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[RUSSIANS ADMIT
battle tp prevent the jaws'of a giant
Dispatches continued to tell of |"
was drawn, another claw has been
Four million Axis troops are sending claw-like fingers of tanks and infantry toward Moscow, as shown on this map. Since the map
thrown out to Rzhev.
The India
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Every British newspaper today complacency. Dozens of articles bring forcibly home to those who have not seen it, the desperate gravity of the situation on the Russian front. Such optimistic comment as exists dwells on the. stibborn fighting qualities of Russian men and women, on the fervent nationalistic patriotism which will make the Russians carry on.
“There Is Still Time”
For the first time the phrase “If Moscow Falls” appears in the headlines. In the leading article of the Evening Standard, printed under the caption “There Is Still Time,” the newspaper’ s editor, Frank Owen, asserted “Russia will not fall if imagination and the will to exist among us keep her fighting with us. “But if Russia does fall the sound and destruction will be like the crash of a great dam in the hills and the flood will sweep the eath!”
Need “Good Explanations”
The Evening Star said: “In this hour of Russia's agony and trial the British people ache to come to her rescue. The Cabinet must as. well. be aware to these thoughts as it is alive to the strategic opportunity now presented for the first and perhaps the last time of this war. “If the decision goes against bolder, direct action, Parliament will doubtless ask for explanations. These will need to be good ones. The Evening News declared: “One thing the public would not forgive would. be any policy of ‘wait and see’.” The Evening Stardard said that the British people are “near a mood of anger. The people wish to be convinced the rulers understand what they believe—that we have reached the peak crisis of the war and ithat the nation is to comport itself in all affairs in accordance with this supreme fact.” Criticism Expected ; Were the British Government headed by anyone other than Winston Churchill, whom the British people believe to be a dogged fighter with sufficient daring to undertake the most dangerous expeditions if he thought they would have a chance of success, it would not be rash to say that the Government would fall if Moscow fell. As it is, the Government probably will not fall but it will be the butt of bitter criticism. An authoritative Russian source, underlining the urgency of Soviet needs, said that, given a choice between Anglo-American supplies and a British attack on the Con-
Chain Workers to Guard Them
By Science Service
Britain Wakes Up to Fact Russia Cannot Win Alone
By HELEN KIRKPATRICK napolis Times d The Chic 10—Britons suddenly awoke oda
pleasant months during which they had thought the Russians would| night probably finish Hitler off—with of course such supplies as Britain and| the United States could send—and found themselves facing an impending crisis such as has not existed here since the days of Dunkirk,
Daily News, Inc. y after several
hammers at British and American
tinent anywhere from Narvik to the Bay of Biscay, Russia would choose the latter. Realizing that possibly not a half-dozen persons in Britain would be informed of any British move against ‘the Continent, Russian sources watched anxiously for any hint of action by the Government.
The Beaverbrook and Harriman missions reached London this morng. The Government has asked them to make a full statement at the next session of Parliament. Emmanuel Shinwell, the most alert member of the Labor Party, tabled a motion yesterday asking for such a statement and the situation is such that the Government will certainly have to make some statement. Whether the information that Parliament wants can be given in a public session of the House is doubtful. Lord Beaverbrook revealed that Britain is supplying the Soviet Union with “unlimited quanities” of war materials on a lend-lease basis —without asking payment.
Harriman Expetes Fight
W. Averell Harriman, the American mission’s chief, said he was convinced that Russia will fight to the last with faith in- ultimate victory because Britain and the United States stand behind the Soviet battle. “How far behind the Russians are we going to stand?” an American newspaperman asked. Mr. Harriman laughed. It is rumored that Churchill may
{front
that thé “strangulation” of “trapped” Russian forces around Bryansk, near
] continued.
Russian defenses in the Perekop
. [been broken after severe fighting.
‘strangulation’ of Trapped Russian Troops Goes On, Berlin. Claims.
"BERLIN, Oct. 10 (U.'P.). — The German High Command said today that a gigantic German “break through” on the central Russian been extended farther eastward over a 300-mile line and
Vyazma and on the Sea of Azov
Authorized sources supplemented this .by asserting that the whole German Eastern Front was moving forward in a vast offensive and that the attacking front was being extended in width and depth.
Radio Berlin reported that the
sector had “collapsed and the gates of the Crimea are now open.” The broadcast said a strong Russian defense line leading down the 4-mile-wide isthmus to the Crimea had
The High Command said that Orel, 210 miles south of Moscow,|; had been captured Oct. 3, the second day of the ‘general offensive.
12,000 Captured on Islands
It. reported that fresh Russian attempts to break through the German lines at Leningrad with {he aid of tanks had been beaten oft and that more than 12,000 prisoners, 161 field ‘guns and several tanks had been captured on the Estonian Baltic islands of Oesel and Muhu. The High Command said German airlines had bombed Crimean air fields, railroads on the central and southern fronts and “military” objectives at Leningrad during the
An official news agency dispatch said Germans advanced forces had
road in the Vyazma sector and cut the line of retreat of large Russian motorized forces. German - reinforcements arriving in' this area, the agency asserted, made it impossible for the Russians to escape. In an annihilation battle in the Bryansk sector, the agency reported, the Germans wiped out the ‘“remnants” of three “trapped” Russian divisions, totaling up to 45,000 men “Thousands of Russian corpses were left on the battlefield,” the agency said. “Only a few wounded Russians survived and were captured.” It was asserted that the Luftwaffe was ceaselessly attacking Russian railroads in order to prevent the arirval of reinforcements or the retreat of large Russian units and
been destroyed yesterday. “Death Traps” Sprung
Informants reported that Nazi armored units were ripping relentlessly into “death traps,” in which ‘hundreds of thousands of Russian troops were isolated. Infantry masses were pouring through the Russian lines behind the tanks, making good official German statements that militarily Russia was through, it was said. Informants, though they reported Russian resistance broken, admitted that big and severe'battles were to come. These battles, they insisted, would only indicate the desperation of vain Russian attempts to escape. They said they were confident that within a few days the High Command would be able to announce the capture of hundreds of thousands of Russia’s be:t troops
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“TOKYO, Oct. 10 (U. P.).—A Nazi mentum in the Far East today— diplomatic . offensive gathered mos | 3
timed to co! 8 with the big push on 8. Tokyo press
resumed and Mie measures Japan “might be force to adopt in the North” to Weg) the expected Russian crisis. . . Both official | unofficial Japanese quarters yed marked the .outcome
of the Tokyo-Was ton mnegotiations for an. can-Japanese rapprochment, ers persistently circulated reports that the talks: have already ‘broken wn, we German "Ambassador Eugen. ott confirmed at length with Nobufumi Ito, chief of the Government Propaganda Bureau, and Heinrich Stahmer, Nazi diplomat who played the leading role .in negotiating “Japan's entry into the tri-partite military alliance re ed to take up his post as Ambassador to the Nanking Government of China. The Germans were taking the line that the moment had come for Japan to decide on “her next move.” The same demand was reflected in newspaper comment which pressed the Government to disclose whether any hope exists that the Washington conversations will result in a guarantee of Japan's objectives’ in East Asia. Japanese military authorities and high Government officials were busy speeding up emergency - prepara-
‘dnd. German quart-|
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