Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1941 — Page 3
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WASHINGTON, Oct. og Reporia of a sensational
but somewhat contradie The re
nature have reached Wash-
is ‘going on inside Germany. eparts, however, seem to be in agreement on cer- . tain particulars. For instance, the rift is said to be widen-
ing between the Fuehrer and his aids—both military and political—and a new blood-pirge worse than that of 1984
may be in the making.
The first reports, from highly authentic sources, say, that Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering is under camou-
flaged and somewhat ornamental arrest. With other top- -
notch army officers he is said to have schemed to replace
Hitler's party advisers with military men.
When Hein-
rich Himmler, head of the Gestapo; found out about it and told Hitler, the Nazi dictator is said to have flown in a tall rage and ordered Goering confined to his residence.
THIS “TEMPORARY SOLUTION” is said to have’ . been resorted to because Hitler realized that this was “hardly the time for a domestic scandal. "Accordingly, it is ' said, Goering shows himself whenever, Hitler gives the order, but never without a so-éalled “guard of honor”
which in reality holds him prisoner.
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Similarly Joachim von Ribbentrop, German fobeign minister, is reported to be in disgrace. He is said to have corresponded—behind ‘Hitler's back—with Count Ciano,
Italian Foreign Minister and son-in-law of Mussolini, concerning a possible peace with Great Britain. ; Himmler’s Gestapo, now policing Italy along with the
rest of invaded Europe, is
said to have exposed this,
with the added result that Ciano, no less than Ribbentrop, has enjoyed bad health ever since.
GOEBBELS, NAZI propagands minister, has long been a
under a cloud, it is further stated. Baron von Neurath, former Foreign Minister, has been ousted even from his post as governor of conquered Bohemia-Moravia, where he was replaced by a Gestapo chief. Rudolf Hess flew to Scotland, and others, one by. one, have taken back seats. ‘or disappeared from the scene. Nv: Because of all this, according to the above sources, Herr Himmler is now the most powerful man in Germany with the possible exception of Hitler himself, The
generals don’t know just where they stand, fearing the _Fuehrer will take a leaf out of Josef Stalin’s book and
appoint Gestapo or. party “oammissars” to watch over
“the doings of the army.
What might be called another version of the above came by way of London. It also tells of Goering being in
disgrace, but attributes it to
an entirely different cause.
; GOERING, ACCORDING ot this source, has never
been other than a dilettante in ‘military matters and now, :
having tired of his toy—the Nazi air force—is lazing
‘around. His “guards of honor” are merely part of the
show, he likes to put on.
But his activities—or lack of
“ny arousing much resentment in the army. . This version also gives enogmous power to Himmler. Likewise to ‘Hitler's elite Black Shirts. But instead of _picturing the generals as puzzled over where they stand.
of power in the group around
with Hitler, it intimates that they now hold the balance
Hitler.
-1f and when another showdown comes in Germany, it is suggested, ‘Hitler will range himself with his generals yf
rather than with Nazi Party : Which of these versions
leaders. A is correct—if either—is not
known here. They are presented for what they are—re- .
ports from excellent sources.
"HURRIED T0 FRONT
Moscow Says Nazis Push Ah ad North of Orel but Pay| Frightful Toll as Reds Attack Tanks With Bottles of Flaming Gasoline. MOSCOW, Oct. 11 (U. P.). fighting front admitted today tl | : been unable to halt a German drive north of Orel, 210 miles
south of Moscow on the Kharkov Railroad, and that the situation in the Vyazma sector 130 miles southwest of the
capital was grave.
At the same time eye-witness dispatches said that great| tanks, artillery and cavalry] -
masses of Russian infantry, were rolling to the front on every road to reinforce the Red Army men fighting the driving German tank wedges and infantry forces.
A correspondent for the Communist Party newspaper Pravda said the Russians were resisting fiercely north of Orel and the Germans were - suffering frightful losses.
\ Admits Defenses Pierced
In the Vyazma sector, he said, e Russians were meeting German flanking movements, made in an attempt to encircle Red Army units, by counter-attacking and that at the same time they had thrown back heavy frontal assaults. He described the Russian troops as withdrawing to new positions in orderly fashion but then admitted that the Germans had pierced the Russian defenses and that masses of German tanks, artillery and aircraft wer being pushed forward in face of Russian fire which left the battle greas strewn with German bodies and their wrecked tanks and
were blasting German tank and infantry columns in dive bombing attacks and striking at German air- , drames. Fresh Troops Moving Up A special dispatch sto the Army ‘newspaper Red Star, giving the Lame picture of the Vyazma-Bry-1 1sk front, said: “The situation in this sector is 4. ‘ave. The enemy is pushing ahead. Only firmness and stubbornness of the wi of our Soviet land can bar the path to the hated Fascists.” All dispatches emphasized, also, the strength of the Russian rein-
n forcemerts now on the way to the ont.
"Using tactics successful in France, Jugoslavia and Greece, the Germans were hurling masses of bombing planes against Red Army positions, hoping to destroy roads and overs awe the Russians with the roaring of Stuka dive bombing planes and the shriek of bombs, while artillery battered the Russian defenses and tanks and armored cars followed the barrage in wedge formations, to be followed in turn by infantry.
Witness Describes Battle
Red Army infantrymen were defending iiei fas individually in one-man outposts, waiting for the tanks and armored cars with bundles of hand grenades. or flaming gasoline bottles. - They were holding their posts until the German infantry arrived and then going in with bayonet and hand grenade for hand to hand fighting, under cover of fire from their machine gunners and snipers posted in rifle pits and the thick pine trees, along which an occasional trost-nipped maple stood out like a burst of flame. An eye-witness correspondent for the Army newspaper Red = Star wrote: “Huge masses of our troops are going toward the front, including
column after column of trucks laden
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with troops ana war materials, pass-
\pillars.
guns, Russian planes, dispatches said, | boots
soldiers speak calmly of their determination to smash the invaders of our fatherland. Some of them, who have not yet been in battle, listen eagerly to those who have.
pecial dispatches from the
at the Russians so far had |
I have
streame Ger-
ing the cross- toads Ey chosen as a vantage spot. “They are fresh reserv ing to the front to smash man tank tolumns. They have commanders who have through more than one battle at the head of these troops. “Montrous tanks such as have scared the Germans before are rumbling along the edge of the road. The front is still far ahead, but our men are all alert for enemy bombers and are taking no chances. It is a mighty force which is going to the front. Although the tanks have passed me and have disappeared, 1 can still hear the roar of their motors and the noise of their cater-
“Trucks carrying infantry are racing to the front. The infantrymen are sitting calmly, holding in front of them their Tommy guns, Sifles and machine guns of all calirs '“Unit after unit passes’ me. The soldiers wear new winter caps and heavy winter greatcoats. They are not afraid of the cold with their new warm underwear and their strong
“During the. short halts the
“Endless columns of cavalry and artillery follow the infantry.”
BRITISH ATTACK ON 800-MILE AIR FRONT
LONDON, Oct. 11 (U. P.) —Great Britain threw hundreds of planes into attacks on military objectives along an 800-mile front in Germany, Holland, Belgium and France dur-| ing the night after a nine-day spell of bad weather. | .Great British bombing planes, each laden with tons of bombs of
terdam, Holland, to Ostend and Dunkirk on the invasion coast and Bordeaux at the mouth of the Garonne River in southwestern France, attacking factories, railroads, docks and other objectives. The Ruhr and the Rineiand bore the heaviest at-
The Air Ministry said Americanmade Havoc attack-bombers heavily attacked German airdromes in Holland and France with explosive and incendiary bombs. Pilots reported seeing great blazes as they made for home. As the fires started, they circled,- flew back and dropped bombs into the flames. The main attacks were aimed at German war production factories.
TWO. KILLED IN CRASH
ELKHART, Ind. Oct, 11 (U. PJ). —George Miukluk, 21, Mishawaka, and Rose“ Marie Cooper, 16, Elkhart, died at the General Hospital here today of skull fractures received a few hours earliez in an
heaviest type, ranged from the Ger-|sion man Ruhr and Rhineland and Rot-
Commission.
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STOUT REFUSES LIQUOR POSITION
Says Private Affairs Keep Him From Serving as Dealers’ Executive. State Senator Orville T. Stout (R.
Vincennes), author of the Stout
Liquor Law, has turned down an offer to become executive secre - tary of the Indiana Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association, it was learned today. The position, one of the most
i. Shirley, formner nember of the Senator Stout
State Alcoholic Beverages Commis-
Mr. Stout said that he had notified Fred Cassidy of Gary, president of the Association, that he could not accept the offer because of press of personal business, He is a grain dealer at Vincennes. ‘The board of directors of the Association is searching, it is reported, for a man not necessarily connected with the industry but who has knowledge of it. Senator Stout qualified because of his’ authorship of the new liquor law, passed by the 1941 Legislature, which placed the Alcoholic Beverages Commission on a bi-partisan basis. It is regarded as one of the model state liquor laws of the nation, It is believed that the position may be offered to one of the present members of the Alcoholic ‘Beverages They are Doyle and William Storen, Demo-
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crats, and Lowell Patterson and Harry Fenton, Republicans, ,
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OFFICIAL ‘WEATHER
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Get First-Hand Fund Data
‘These two employees of the Allison Division of General Motors are getting first hand information about the Community Fund.. As part .of a group of employees, making a tour of fund agencies, Mrs, Mary K. Ham (center) and Miss Nellie Heitz made a new friend. one of a number of children being cared for in foster homes under supervision
Song Ended
Memory Lingers for Many Helped by Helen Morgan.
CHICAGO, Oct. 11 (U. P)—
Helen Morgan, teary-voiced singer who rode side saddle on -a .grand piano to the top of the entertainment world but died in poverty, was buried today at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in suburban LaGrange. Hundreds of show people—run of the mill troupers as well as topflight artists who knew Miss Morgan as one of the best and most generous of the blues singers for two decades—paid their last respects. Despite her lucrative career, during which she was often paid as $3500 weekly, the sultry-voiced torch singer was impoverished when she died at 37. Her $600 hospital bill was paid by the actors fund of the theater authority, Friends said the fortune which she made slipped through her fingers in “liberal and quiet” donas tions to hundreds of less fortunate theatrical people.
Rescued During Suicide Attempt
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 11 (U. P.).—~Desperate because of illness, John Lawrence Evans climbed 75 feet down a Golden Gate Bridge girder today for a spectacular attempt to end his life, police said, He lost his nerve, however, and, bleeding from a cut throat t, wedged himself into. the span’s framework and screamed for help. e a crowd looked on, police firemen rescued him after an hour’s ‘work with ropes and took him to Park Emergency Hospital. He was unconscious.
EX-PRESIDENT ARIAS SAILS FOR CRISTOBAL
HAVANA, Oct. 11 (U. P.) .—~Former President Arnulfo Arias ‘of Panama departed for Cristobal, Canal Zone, ‘today aboard the Standard Fruit steamer Cefalu, (The Cefalu 1s due at Cristobal early next Tuesday, it was stated at the Standard Fruit Steamship Co. New York Offices.) . More tan 60 of Aria’s supporters, rare cabinet officers, municipal and high police officials, judges, and members of the staff of the government newspaper La Tribuna, were arrested by the new Panamanian administration following Thursday’s coup in which the Arias regime was ousted
It's First Lady's 57th Birthday
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (U. PJ, . Franklin D. Roosevelt ob=
Jcould be determined ot the suspects checked with those
7 found on the blood-smeared wallsof| .. {the Mileys’ apartment.
Hosea Carlisle, J killed
TRAP HOLDING, BERLIN CLAIMS
Report Thousands Captured -
Daily; Effect on U. S.. Morale Stressed.
BERLIN, Oct. 11 (U. P.)—German dispatches reported today that hundreds of thousands of Russian troops were fighting desperately, in innumerable counter-attacks, to break out of three great encircling pockets on the Eastern Front.
It was asserted that the attempts were futile and that, in addition fo suffering heavy casualties, the Russions were losing many thousands of prisoners daily. On the south Ukraine front, the German sweep toward the key city of Rostov was described as a headHong pursuit of the enemy, The Axis armies in the Ukraine have crushed all Russian hope of replacing war material losses from their main industrial: region, it was asserted by a military spokesman.
Admit Heavy Casualties
A special High Command communique said that a total of 106,365 Russians had been taken prisoner, 212 tanks and 672 guns and great amounts of other booty had been taken by the Axis forces. The Germans admitted heavy casualties. Newspapers emphasized the PR leged effects of German claims to big successes on American and British morale. “England’s illusions destroyed by catastrophe of Soviet armies,” headlined Voelkischer Beobachter, official Nazi Party newspaper. However, Lokal Anzeiger, took occasion to warn against premature claims to complete victory.
Campaign Continues
In a first page editorial headlined “The Campaign Continues,” it said: “We know that despite the German victory, the decision scored against the greatest military power on earth, this campaign cannot yet be ended. It is permissible to ‘recall the Battle of Sedan with which 1870 a ' decision was likewise scored against France... But battles continued. “A second example is found in the break-through achieved on the Aisne in France June 9, 1940. Thereby likewise a military decisjon was scored and thereafter France's cause was hopeless, but battles against the remainder of the French divisions continued. “The main thing in the most recent German victories in the East is that after the enclosure of Voroshilov' (at Leningrad) and the smashing of Budenny (in the South) the e tion of the last armies capable of fighting in Timoshenko’s sector (the center) has been achieved.”
NEW YIELD RECORD FOR GORN IS SEEN
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (U. P.).— The Agriculture Department reported today that American farmers are harvesting bumper crops to fill the nation’s larder and to feed the democracies resisting aggression. In a crop board report based on Oct. 1 conditions, the department said a new all-time record high yield per acre and total farm production nearly equal to the: 1937 record virtually. were assured. The corn crop—needed to fatten cattle, hogs and sheep for market— was forecast at 2,625,502,000 bushels. That was an increase of 102,000,000 bushels over the estimate of ‘a month ago, more than 175,000,000 over 1940 and 300,000,000 bushels above the 1930-1939 average. The board forecast an all-time record yield of 16.9 bushels of wheat per acre and the second largest production ever harvested.
QUIZ ‘HOT’ SUSPECTS IN MILEY MURDERS
FT. WORTH, Tex., Oct. 11 (U.P.). —Kentucky officers arrive today to question the “hottest suspects so far” in the double murder of Marion Miley, 27, champion woman golfer, and her mother, Fayette County Sheriff Ernest Thompson: and Lexington Police Chief Austin B. Price were expected uestioning
Penny, 33; and Leo H. Gaddis, 40, to) Lexington, where at the country club on Sunday morning, Sept. 28, two robbery-bent intruders killed the Mileys. Identification experts here who yesterday said that, nearly as Jong dis.
ea by
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- DUGGER MINER KILLED
DUGGER, Ind, Oct. 11 (U. P)—
talked with Lexington authorities] ,. =o
Everett L. Gardner is surrendering for the Red Cross blood bank.
donate blood to the bank.
A total of 150 members of the staff of the Indiana Employment Security Division are volunteering blood for the Red Cross blood “bank,” the largest single group yet 0.5 take part in the blood donation
"Oo. Everett L. Gardner, Employment Security Division director, was the first to offer a pint of blood. All blood donated is converted into plasma by the Eli Lilly & Co. and held in reserve for. the Army and Navy for usé in treatment of shock-and hemorrhages. Other volunteers oft the. Division will be taken in groups of four,
VICHY, France, Oct. 11 (U, P.)i— Paris police said today that as result of a “vast purge” in which 76,=| 500 persons were questioned in their homes and on the streets, 8849 persons had been arrested during the last few days—T7749 for possessing arms and on other charges, and 1100 others for Communist and De Gaullist activities.
Police in. occupied France outside Paris, were continuing energetic repression of Communism and terrorism. Reports here said that 15 persons described as “militant, dangerous Communists,” had been interned in Doullens fortress in the Somme Department, where they wee joined by 30 other alleged Communists arrested a few days ago. The Somme Department, bordering the English Channel in north-
A pint’ of military blood for the U. §. Army.
Gives Blood for Army
That's what Col. to Mrs. Bennett Harvey, the nurse,
Col. Gardner, director of the Employment Security Division, is the first of 150 members of the division to
The blood that is converted into plasma is the clear liquid part of blood withdut red corpuscles. Plasma frozen or dried may be kept for long periods of time, and used in any climate “without typing. If blood plasma is used, the afflicted person may have a transfusion immediately. He does not need to risk his life while a search is being made for a particular type of blood. Persons who wish to donate blood may learn. the details of the plan at the Red Cross Committee headquarters, 508 Chamber of Commerce Building.
Paris Police Arrest 8849, Question 76,500 in Purge
a center of sabotage and terrorism,
roads. An official announcement in Paris said German officials yesterday executed another Frenchman, b to 75 the number executed by the Germans there since they began a reprisal campaign against militant opposition. Possession of firearms was charged. (In Berlin the official news agency said that the Paris police in four months had ‘arrested 1364 Communists and De Gaullists for activity against the state and that 863 houses had been searched and 305 persons ordered expelled. (It said that in controlling suspicious foreigners and Jews the Paris police in all had arrested 16,750 persons on charges other than De Gaullist and Communist activi-
west France, was said to have been
ties).
LONDON, Oct. 11 (U. P.).—Newspapers which recently have been intensifying their demands for a British invasion of the Continent suddenly changed their tone today as the War Ministry disclosed the existence of a special “Commando” force of picked men trained in landing operations on an enemy coast.
There had been strange stories of the secret maneuvers of the “Commando” force. Ordinary British and other -allied soldiers in training in various areas would pass a tree which would burst into life. The soldier who passed the “tree” would wake up after a while with a swollen chin. Boats had been overturned along the seacoast; sentries had been overpowered at their posts, army motor cars had disappeared. The War Office cleared up the ‘mystery. All such incidents were due to the “Commando” force. Men in it, picked carefully from every
GOVERNOR SCHRICKER toe day proclaimed Monday a legal holiday in observance of the anniversary of the discovery of America which this year falls on Sunday.
City, Duty and State offices Dalles will be closed. Howthe post office will maintain . regular delivery schedule and
Britain Training Select Men For Landing on Enemy Coast
branch of the fighting service, have been trained for months to act independently, in-small units or alone, in enemy country. They have gone without food and water for days; they have been trained in rough and tumble fighting and in Japanese jiu jitsu. They have learned may and compass reading, sub-machine gun, machine gun and anti-tank gun tactics, dynamiting, tank hunting. They have operated with the Royal Navy in landing operations. The newspaper clamor for direct military operations by Britain in aid of Russia reached its peak yesterday, when British and American aid missions arrived from Moscow. The tone this morning was completely changed. Confident statements’ by members of the aid mis sions that Russia would fight on but that Britain and America must strain their hardest to get supplies
to her presumably had something to do with it.
Monday Is Declared Holiday
To Honor America Discoverer
customary to observe Discovery Day as a legal holiday. The Governor also proclaimed the week of Oct. 19 to 25 as Na- . tional Hearing Week and asked citizens tc consider the problems of rehabilitation for : those
VIERECK DENIES GUILT WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (U. P.)— George Sylvester Viereck, German propagandist, was free on $15,000
bond today after pleading not guilty Arbor,
to indictments charging him with
Yiolaticug the Alien Registration Mr, Tiethok was arraigned in| ry
Court Viven WO weeks ae
‘two plants of the Carnegie‘|Steel Corp. was crippled
including the dynamiting of rail-
3500 STRIKE IN STEEL PLANTS
South Chicago and dary.
Mills Affected; Dispute Ties Up Tank Parts.
By UNITED PRESS | Output of defense materials at linois lay by a labor dispute affecting at least 3500 ‘men. Company spokesmen said six of 11 blast furnaces at the South Chicago
‘men failed to report, and | about 1000 persons employed at the Gary tin mill had walked off their jobs. The shutdown at South Chicago affected about 2500 men. The com= pany said it was not informed why the men-failed to report for work, . The dispute at the tin mill, where the Steel Workers Organizing Come mittee (C. I. O.) has been staging a dues drive since Oct. 5, was ate tributed to a disturbance between dues pickets and non-union works ers,
Green Enters Dispute
At Detroit, the Labor Department Conciliation Service held an urgent conference to attempt to teach of an A. F, of L.-
War Department expressed Ygrave concern” in the dispute which concerned rival unions at the Spicer Manufacturing Co., Toledo,: O,, and its Subsidiary, the Hillsdale Steel Products Co., Hillse dale, Mich. President William Green of the American Federation of Labor intervened in an A, F, of L. walkout at ‘the Calco chemical division of the American Cyanamid Co.. Bound Brook, N. J, urging striking chemical workers to respond “wholes heartedly” to a Defense Mediation Board appeal that they return to work. The NDMB said the strike might force a serious stoppage in the en= tire rubber industry by the end of next week.
Akron Teamsters Strike ,
A..F. of L. teamsters seeking wage increases called a strike at Akron n, O. tying up a major part of the city’s industrial trafic. The union, seeking wage increases of 15 pr an hour over prevailing wage rates of 60 to 75 cents an hour, said there would be no interference with shipments to and from defense plants, Government officials expressed greatest concern over the Spicer Hillsdale tie-up. Production of tank and Army “Jeep” car transmissicn parts was suspended at the, Toledo factory yesterday when members of the Automobile Workers of America (C. I. 0.) refused to handle parts made
Automobile Workers of F. of L) has a closed shop cone tract.
Other Firms Affected
The Spicer company manufactures transmissions for 70 per cent of the Army “half track” scout cars and tanks now in production. Governe ment officials declared that the tie« up was an immediate. threat to the defense program. Te The stoppage in the Toledo face: tory already had affected the White
American Car Foundry Co. at Bers: wick, Pa. A spokesman for the White company said that production of : $60,000,000 in defense orders, mostly - for “half tracks,” would be halted soon, (——————
BOBBITT SUPPORTER QUITS G. 0. P. POST,
e resignation of Dr. David R. 0 f East Chicago as First Dis trict chairman. Dr. Johns, who has served since 1936, said in his letter of resignation to State Chairman Ralph Gates that politics. took too Hush time from his medical pracce. Dr. Johns was one of the five members of the 24-member State Committee: who voted several months ago against ousting former State Chairman Arch N. Bobbitt, He aiso has opposed close associates of the present State Chairman in Lake County politics. The, Lake County committee will select his Successor. ° )
HEART ATTACK FATAL
TO MRS. ADA WELSH
Mrs, Ada Welsh, widow of Edward Welsh, died of a heart attack in & downtown apartment store yesters
day. ; Mrs. Welsh lived at 138 N.. Keal ing Ave. She was born in Piqua, and had lived here several years. Survivors are a oro Rigg Mra, %sther Florey; a son, James Welsh, both of ( Indianapolis, an three broth ers, James Doren, Ann Doren, Colum
Be and Harry Doren Ind will be held at
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