Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1941 — Page 3
INVASION DILEMM
Labor Demands Attack on Continent, Which Military]
Men Say Would Fail; He’s Damned if He Does, and Damned if He Doesn’t, Says Simms.
By WILLIAM
PHILIP SIMMS
Times Foreign Editor
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—The necessity to sactifive a new and large expeditionary force somewhere in Western| !
Europe or else suffer a serious if net disastrous split on the home front now confronts Great Britain. Prime Minister Churchill has been told that “the factories are seething with suspicion that the Government is
letting Russia down,” and
Soviets. It would be difficult to ‘overestimate the potential importance ‘of this development, informed officials here admit. Churchill will be damned if he does and damned if he ' doesn't. Whatever happens, it will almost certainly play into the hands of Hitler at a decisive hour in his war against the democracies. Military experts . are virtually unanimous in saying Britain would not have the ghost of a chance of landing an evpeditionary force in Western Europe at this time, First she would have to have undisputed domination of the air over the English Channel and the entire
area of operations; ~the point of em- . barkation as well 33 debarkation,
Second she would have to have the necessary shipping to| transport 200,680 or 300,000 men, at the very least, along with thousands of tanks, guns and other material including gas and oil.
Would Help Stalin Little
Britain lacks both of these essentials—not to , mention the wherewithal to keep such an ex-| peditionary force supplied after it] had landed. Such being the case, it is pointed out, Churchill would be sending "the men to certain doom and throwing away whatever material they carried with them. Such a gesture, it is held, would do the Russians no good whatever. On the contrary it would gravely weaken the whole. Allied .front, Russia included. The disaster would tend to demoralize the home front and encourage the Germans accordingly. And Churchill would probably be overthrown anyway because the expedition had been a failure. Refusal {> open up a new front
has been warned of serious] fd trouble unless he opens up a new Western Front to aid the| &
well have similar repercussions, at home and abroad. Early in the struggle, the Russians began to ask for a new western front to pull some of the Nazis away from them. The British did not do as requested, for reasons outlined above. Like the Americans, they contributed such material aid as they could—immediately. But they did not attempt the impossible. If the Soviet Union collapses as a result of Axis pressure, this failure may have very serious consequences. Stalin may blame his fall on lack of British and American support. He may use it as a basis for a sudden change of stance. Of late, he has been a pronounced nationalist defending Mother Russia with every atom of his being. If defeated, he may fall back on the Communist Party line, which is not nationalist, but internationalist, Should Stalin drop his role of ally of Britain and, as head of the Communist Party, accuse the British Government of “letting down” the Soviet Union, it might have considerable effect in Britain.
Labor Makes Demands
“We warn the Government,” said a large group of British workers over the’ week-end, “that we will never allow them (the Government) to let Russia down. We insist on the immediate opening of a second front.” Prime Minister Churchill’s position, therefore, has begun to border on the precarious. He now finds himself between the devil of a hopeless ‘expeditionary force—for whose failure’ he would be crucified—and the deep blue sea of popular resentment against his refusal to invade the Continent. The reaction in this country may not be any less positive. True, there is no Prime Minister to overthrow, but sentiment might well be expressed in terms of strikes as was
in Western Europe, however, might'R ® 8 =
the case before the Nazis attacked Russia.
War. Analysis
By (Copyright, 1041. bt
H. STONEMAN
by The Indianapolis Times and the go Daily News, Inc.)
LONDON, Oct. “a1 ~The apparent lack of a
grand strategic
plan pliable enough to take ad-
vantage of sudden opportunities for swift and effective strokes, continues to worry the British press
and competent tion.
British critics of the. present situa-
The immediate source of their worry is the Rus-
Mr. Stoneman
sian war and the apparent inability of Great Britain
to be much more than just another “arsenal” to its
new-found ally. In the background is the disturbing conviction, which gained ground way back in the pre-Munich days, that this country is still “muddling along,” relying for salvation upon its peculiar ability to im-
provise its way out of crises. The question now arises, whether this country and its Allies actually possess sufficient men and means to be able to contemplate a clear- * out-victory. The assumption which has been inculcated into the peo-
ple’s brains by the country’s leaders is that, with Russia’s armies and America’s productive power, they do possess the means. The conclusion which the ordinary man in the street has reached is that the country’s leaders simply have not had the foresight to marshal their resources according to a clear plan and that, if things do not change, they may go on endlessly or| until they are beaten without ‘a clear-cut plan for victory. “If lack of planning continues, the people furthermore fear, it may not even be possible for this country to fight a successful defensive indefinitely. They wonder, whether there is a really adequate plan for operations-in the Far East, if and when Japan strikes Russia in the
back. The difficulty, which may not ap-
plete picture of the resources on which they might count in drawing up a victory plan. Admittedly, no
without reckoning on vast assistance from the United States. While Russia's war with Germany has been little short of a gift from Heaven, the fact remains that the British were not able to count on it in time to perfect a plan for immediate action when the event occurred. Even now, there are a great many question marks in eonnection with Russia for the simple reason that the Russians do not tell anybody everything about their strength and plans. Thus, to an extent there are still too many unknowns in the problem to allow a quick and convincing solution. What might be done, at the same time, would be for the British leaders to pertess a series of alternative plans based upon possible developments. ‘Then, for instance, the American
of wheat defeat of the Axis would require of it, and, if it agreed with the British estimate of the situation, could decide whether or not to pay the price.
7 SHIPS SUNK, NAZIS SAY BERLIN, Oct, 21 (U. P.) —A High Command ‘communique asserted today that German submarines had sunk seven ships, totaling 38,200 tons, in an attack on an Atlantic convoy and had severely the 14 796-ton British whaler moth-
such plan would be conceivable
er ship, Svend Foyn.
Government could gain some idea|:
STALIN LEADS MOSCOW ARMY
Takes Personal Command, Uses Armored Train To Tour Front.
"LONDON, Oct.. 21 (U. P.)~ Premier Josef Stalin has assumed personal command of the defense
of Moscow and has established his| §
headquarters in‘ an armored train at the front, British press dispatches reported today.
now nally/ the commander-in-chief of the Seon forces on the entire central “front, rather than Premier. A Daily Mail Stockholm dispatch said Stalin had selected as his first aide, Marshal Boris Shaposhnikov, his chief technical adviser in all military matters.
The dispatch said Stalin had gone to the front in his familiar Sone blouse, field gray breeches and top boots,” the same uniform he wore when he fought the Czarists in the: Russian Civil War. It was added that the Russian Government, under Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, had now been installed at Kuibyshevo, 540 miles southwest of Moscow. The Daily Mail dispatch reported that the Germans were using on the Moscow front as many as 25,000 tanks, 2,000,000 highly mechanized troops and about three-fourths of the operational strength of the German air force.
Offensive Is Shifted
Hitler, it was asserted, had thrown in three new infantry armies within the last few days. British military advices reported that the Germans had shifted the main weight of their Moscow offensive to the Maloyaroslavets sector and had driven to a point only about 50 miles from the capital. Informants said it was indicated that the Germans were now pointing toward Naro Fominsk, only 40 miles from Moscow’s suburbs, and seemed to be driving eastward toward Podolsk, 19 miles south of the capital on the Kharkov railroad. Russian radio communiques admitted that the Germans continued to make slight gains but asserted that the Russians had repulsed frontal and flanking attacks in the Kalinin, Mozhaisk, Maloyaroslavets and Bryansk-Orel areas. A special war review said Russian forces were fighting heroically against tank and infantry attacks which the Germans were contheir offensive in most sectors.) It was added that there was ble change in the front.
INQUIRY IS HINTED OF. ‘JUKE BOX MOVIES’
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (U. P.).— Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D.
Mont.) has hinted that the special Senate committee investigating the movie industry might investigate “juke box movies,” some of. which he said are “lewd and lascivious.” Senator Wheeler made the charge last night and also announced that the hearings on the movie industry under Interstate Commerce Subcommittee Chairman D. Worth Clark (D. Ida.) would continue. The hearings have] been recessed several weeks,
IN INDIA NAPOLIS
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New champion Jack McCoy . . . His back to the camera and stopping for nofung as he loaded 930 dounls :
The queen and Bor court. Ltt o right are Quorn Peggy Ruffin, Betly Jayne Askin, Jean Gattaey, Bernadine Hague and Helen Sloan.
| for the moment
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German. Troops Are Moved |
From Leningrad Siege to Moscow Attack.
"Nazi commentators indicated that stubborn Soviet re
{the High Command said that “im-
portant portions of this (von Leeb’s) group and of Col.-Gen. Alfred
{Keller's air fleet have been freed
for a considerable time and are now participating in operations on other
{parts of the Eastern Front.”
In addition to capture of 300,000 prisoners, said the High Comman
“{the von Leeb group destroyed or
took 1581 Soviet tanks and 4063 guns.
10-Day Fight at Dago Stalino, one of Russia’s most im-
& |portant war industry cities, was
in 40 minutes, & 8 8
930 Pounds in 40 Minutes Wins for Mooreland Youth:
Transferring 930 pounds of corn from stalk-to-bangboard-to-wagon in 40 minutes, 19-year-old Jack McCoy, Mooreland High School senior, walked from the James Clark cornfield yesterday with the State junior
cornhusking championship.
Young McCoy defeated 23 other Hoosier farm boys. in the contest held across from Southport High School. His net poundage, after de-
ductions for husks and gleanings, amounted to 912 pounds, six ounces.
The conteft was preceded by a
parade of farm equipment led by.
the Southport High School band and its corps of majorettes.
Queen Is Crowned
During ‘the ceremonies, Miss Peggy Ruffin, Southport senior, was crowned queen by Lieut.-Gov. Charles M. Dawson. Members of her court were Misses Jean Gaffney, Betty Jayne Askin and Helen Sloan, seniors, and Bernadine Hague, junior, * Roger Doerstler of Hagerstown
NEW SOVIET CAPITAL
KUIBYSHEV (Samara), Russia, Oct. 20 (U. P.).—The American embassy staff, headed by Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt, arrived today at this temporary Soviet Union capital with the staffs of other foreign embassies, ‘foreigners resident in Moscow: a and foreign corresponden During the five-day trip. Ambassador Steinhardt provided all members of the American colony with
was second in the husking with 846 ood.
pounds net and Lewis Robbins of Lynn was third with 831. Others among the first 10 were Kenneth Vermillion of Anderson, fourth; Ray Christman of North Manchester, fifth; Eugene Ringenberg of Pierceton, sixth; Joe Sentnor of Wheatfield, seventh; David Cooley of - Freeland Park, eighth; Richard Starnes of Waveland, ninth, and Robert Martin of Carroll County, 10th.
Awards Presented
Awards were presented last night|
at a dinner for the queen, her court, aad the contestants. Dr. Clement T. Malan, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, spoke.
Other boys who ' participated were James Walters of Paragon; Clarence Roth of Allen County; Fred Blair of Lafayette; Miss Raisor of Dillsboro; Russell Wilson of Mt. Auburn; Leroy Trinkle of Freeland-|. ville; Harold Armstrong of Princeton; Paul Edwards of Mitchell, John Heindselman of : South Whitley; Frank Gibbs of - Danville; : Dale Smith of Howard County; Robert Doerstler of Hagerstown; Charles Davidhizar of Middlebury; Donald
Ault of Coal City and Karl Cundiff |
of Pe
2 WOMEN ACCOSTED
Kuibyshev is on the Volga River 540 miles southeast of Moscow. It' is a comparatively modern industrial and farming cénter with a population of about 171,000 Rus-
vashes and Bashirs. Winters are long and cold on the gale-swept countryside.
OFFICIAL WEATHER
U. 8. Weather BUreaAR eed
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST —Partly cloudy today and tomorrow; cooler a; lowest temperature about 50.
‘Sunrise .....6:03 | Sunset .......4:50
~=Qct. 22, 1940 - raessens 4851 Pe Micocsoos kJ
BAROMETER 6:30 a. m.,....30.10
Precipitation 24 hrs.’ singe. San." Total a. an cons Ml Precipitation since
MIDWEST WEATHER Partly cloudy
In t and tomorrow; north Septrgl
3 Parti Shiga
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Two more women ‘were accosted | tempera by purse snatchers last Tight, Mrs. Lucille Taylor,
Franklin County as a coal-produc-
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Kent ‘Boattered showers with mild ( entuaky:
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taken in the Ukraine offensive, according to: the communique, while a 10-day battle on the Baltic island base of Dago ended in capture of
"13000 prisoners and “annihilation” by Nazi air and naval units of en-
emy. forces attempting to flee by water. The victory completed seigure of all Russian bases on the south side of the Gulf of Finland entrance, although Hango still holds out on the north. It was asserted that German mountain chasseurs stormed and captured Stalino yesterday and that the ‘German war flag was hoisted on a big factory. Italian troops took part in the occupation, it was said. The communique, Hitler's uarters, called Stalino “capital of the Donets Basin.”
Report Red General Killed Informants added that in mop-
mans had found the bodies of “the commander of the 50th ' Russian Army, Gen. Petrov,” and his staff on the battlefield. High , in its com-
Authorized informants, shifting their emphasis from the central front, intimated that the German armies had reached the “immediate vicinity” of Rostov, in a drive to
and the best route for AngloAmerican supplies for Russia. Kharkov Is Goal They indicated further that the Germans would soon start a big offensive against Kharkov, 250 miles northwest of Rostov. The logical aim of such an offensive would be seize all of the great Donets River industrial area and take the Germans to the edge of the Don
“IRiver basin north of Rostov.
Informants said that .in their drive on Rostov the Germans were
| aiming primarily at an’ important
industrial center. - But furthermore, they said, capture of the city would be even more important because Russia is using it as a trafic jimetion through which supplies from Great Britain and the United States are flowing by way of Iran and the Persian Gulf. If "Rostov fell, it wa$ said, the
up the Caspian ead aft Astrakhan, or by way of the long route east of the Caspian through Turkestan.
HONOR VONNEGUTS
AT. ‘FAMILY PARTY’
The employees of the Vonnegut t- | Hardware Co. held a “family party)
“| Oft-Shelled Schools of Dover Reopen:
DOVER, England, Oct. 21 (U.
23 -eThere weie piles of visser read.
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pechie
. asked, ‘Give me ‘some: milk ™ he |
“Please. continue, . Satter- |
Gas Mask Hangs Beside Each Pupil’s Desk
BERLIN, Oct. 31 (U. P)-—Thel
BRITISH RENEW
issued from|
Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia “is pictured after faking over as the president’ of Panama succeeding Arnulfo Arias, ousted because of pro-Axis sympathies.
BREMEN RAIDS
"114 Nazi Planes Downed ina: Daylight Sweep, London : |
Reports.
LONDON, Oct. 21 (U. P.).—The Royal Air Force, following up large scale raids during the irre Fp on Bremen, Wilhelmshaven and Emden, was authoritatively reported today to have shot down 14 enemy fighters during a sweep on North France in which - members of the American Eagle Squadron were said to have participated. , Be British planes were said to be missing, but the pilots of four of them were reported safe. Two enemy fighters were said to have been shot down off the southwest English coast and 12 over North France. Authoritative sources said seven times more British planes raided Dr ds raide e t. They said the weather was “better,” implying that flying conditions still were too poor to risk a maximum force, which is considered more than 300 planes. Bad weather had kept | the R. A: F. inactive since last wee Germany sent an estimated 30 planes on nuisance raids over widely separated parts of England, includ-
Asks Tojo to “Eliminate. Hostile Powers.’
TOKYO, Oct. 21 (U. P!~The members of the House 9 Represen=
his Cabinet of Sheis Sie support BE that a
mason of Imperial Jepe” may be realized.
ori Togo percussions of the new Slovein ment’s formation in Britain, the
‘Large Haruhiko Nishi, who, having spent more than 10 years in Russias,
Meanwhile, Minister of Commerce and Industry Shinsuke Kishi - shuffled his Ministry's At Joast 13
an unprecedented scale, department chiefs were involyed. Newspapers began to temper thelr attacks on the United States and Great Britain, and Hochi predicted that the German-Russian war would be 3 long one. e newspaper Asahi, commenting on a dispatch from. its Washington correspondent, said the United States apparently wants to continue negotiations for “peace” with Japan. With the new Cabinet's installation, Japan’s preparations for war, it it must come, are completed, the news
-| paper said, “but it is not yet too
late . . ,/Konoye’s (the former Pre mier’s) message. to Roosevelt. was motivated by a desire to tries to world peace. “Even if the last five minutes, Japan will be unsioting 5 1 eflrt to establish peace.”
GRANGE TO GLEAN UF
OLEAN, N. Y,, Oct. 21 (U, P)— Resigned to the fact that store win~
today contest for the best soap i
ing the Merseyside, where only “eight or nine” planes attacked.
STRAUSS SAYS:
cut the Caucasus oil field pipe line|.
on windows
nay a moderate price
—but wish to make sure of FINE CLOTHES—fresh—in the best of fave
—and best in
down-right value—
the logical course to follow (it would seem) is to go to a fine store—to a Man's Store—that sticks to quality till Prestone freezes ‘over! These are merely “Sanya of what we're talking about
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chan
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EXTRA
pair of COVERT
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COVERT SUITS— a hit in University circles, $25—ALSO COVERT TOPCOATS at $25
2-TROUSER SUITS—
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plain shades and
stripes, 29.75 2-TROUSER SUITS—
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the lining zips in or out
change with the weather,
$25 WEARI
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