Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 November 1941 — Page 2

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Valdai hills in the northwest, from ; plans the Germans may have had t | The Germans ali) threaten foot arpiance SOutIwest. we : on, ” The Russians have lost some of |stroy Sify Soviet naval control of the rend § oc As these thrusts progressed to- : f : Sy ? $ | their richest farmlands. liveries was | ward the capital the Luftwatfe was |B to sacrific “hey are perilously: close fo Rosto. pound the airdromes defending : # wn Gy CE 1500 which is a more important mili- land 1 Ic Moscow and the Russian lines of 2 : ey : i ary objective than Moscow, since |sians that | |supply. When Von Bock’s central : : k : Se! | power plants and manganese mines|it is the gateway to the Caucasus,|fields. fiou® to be maled on th army reached Moscow It, Was Supe ; § on River Baku, Astrakhan, the south Volga Stiiking a balance, | it 1s ctear that of the ie on the| ced to swing south i : é : industrial plants at Kiev and Khar-{and tlie Don industrial area. Russia is in a much b position Colling! dail 3 ; 8 i |kov, and the shipyards at Nikolaey Further losses probably aol be|than most foreign Rn a daily visi- : ; % : vi d Ode Li avoided because of the Phas from Ala- ; Eo fs be : | Russia ; A

: tl i i aE : : : ; ag Toe! the a, ke ned fv. scale + some.| The Russians frustrated the first |i : ] ; mans. So 4 8 Srmten leisy f ds a pied 0 te Sole Shh. the Re attempt to carry out the plan nlf : 2 ; pone Tom Government, come Iate August and early September

In 1d office in Sullivan, County BN ut Eivater “Mothers and daughters shouldered picks and shovels: and marched acrdss the snow covered plains | ea Jiso awaited Some! Nevertheless, the Red army held| West of Moscow to dig defenses for their soldier sons and lovers.” Some of them carried guns to Join official on ae mal firm at the start. The drive north| their men in guerilla warfare against the advancing Germans,

~_ Finally, the exact plot location fo wo 2" walinin held. The thrusts ; Teayed to him from a roe the dense pine forests around [that the diplomatic corps and some and busses ran. trrogulasly. and materiel the Russian Army reW ith maps under der both. aris 8rms |pryansk and Orel were held too.|gOvernment departments would|Many stores closed. Pupils—boys from mains a Sigg ¢ defensive force. It ’ : ; > called on Mr.’ Collins. On the Soviet side everythingjleave for Kuibyshev that night andthe technical - edly |still probably is the second best|{l] ? : lori our “Are Jou southeast by east of [seemed to: be going: well. _Suddeniy|other departments would follow. marched out of Mqssow on. the. road army in the world, the only army at ‘Carlisle?” Mr. Smith asked. [the Germans broke through the|The Russians would fight for Mos- leading east to Gorki. Cars loaded |present capable of ho a “I'm directly southeast, ’S| Russian defenses of Roslavl, cow to the last ditch, he emphasized. | wi th Muscovites and and their house-|front. agulnl th e Germani, : : : Thanksgivi Te Mr. wotling, Here 'Von-Bock had concentrated]. I lef Moscow at 1:9 am, Oct. hold goods poured onto the road} 7 : : in - [eral staff had reckoned with—great|from friends and acquaintances|the: west. $. The Red Air Force still re- mn : Table ing : ie masses of : a armored oars, a: who left the capital later, : Fach the soem spoke, . - Tins = wes esl pening gang. : e and motorized antry, man un- . vy \ So Mr! Collins and the surveyor oii by swarms of fighter La — yas ha = the rear ot known outside the Soviet Union, His|from the German’ iuftwdffe and has y Linens | went into the dining room, spread and bombers arass ube rear ofiname is Alexander Shcherbakov, a|given the. Army. strong support in : out the maps and found where the the Vyauma ares 40 member of the Politburo and heir checking German offensive. : center should be—260] Looked Like City’s Fall bo amma rea 40 miles to man of the Soviet Information Bu-|against Mosco : Straight up the road from Roslavl|rond main reqy (3, . 8. Loaowsky is iis better| The Russians ‘are outnumbered in | Imported Rayon and Cotton

of plot locations 11 and 18, road to Moscow, and if f he Ger- | now. J. the air. The Red bomber force apGarrisons cloverfield foRagd Mossw fhe Gernishs thd Te ugh ere a Go fuk GiNorml. pears to be weak, but, in tho Mic-3]] . Damask Dinner Cloths th paced off the 260,55 Then they: turned north and{forcements and the forces at: — Ca feht of | 3 h the Rus ans have produce] one of : [burst into Mozhaisk Oct. 14-15. Ihaisk could: have advanced quickly|paor, hoeniins, Of Oct. 18 Shonen Fi ir, Fp. of he war. 56x76 Inches , 1. 2.98 Returning from the central front{on Moscow bakov broadoast to. the feaple of Tt a Jule ane ls i >A S50 a few weeks before, I had driven| Wild rumors spread in the capital] 2oscO¥: I 5 t weapon ff. 56x86 Inches « : :» x» + + 3.50 from the Mozhaisk area to Moscow. |and behind the front His talk was not heard abroad or{W: 8 foreign general: clescribed : . on | Farther west the Russians had built] I heard of one pL. battalion of] anywhere ‘else in the Soviet Union Jo ine ss tne valy Teally new in-\§ = 66x1021Inches « + « « » 5 3.98 strong defenses, but on the rolling |men and womién which scarcely had] sos, ar, Spe Teason it was not capon may soias|] ~~ Napkins, 16x16 Inches » + , 20 broadcast over ordinary radio sta-{said this secret Weapon may provide apkins, 10x nches "oe ec prairies between Mozhaisk and Mos- {arrived at the sector which they tions the long-sought answer to German|§ ene. ih Seman pe emma Lol 35 miles] AL th besining of th war te par facts, hss ar the lovely dimer cloths that wil gas = u er e, for your v. Day. Moscow seemed almost in Hitler's [rumor spread the Germans were ap-|dio sets so the. people could not Backs Stalin's Stand Fine Rayon and Cotton with lovely" aking Day.

S. “Don’t forget the sign” grasp. proaching and the entire group{hear foreign broadcasts. 4. Josef ‘Stalin, the “man cf steel,” : The two shook hands and parted.| In Moscow at noon, Oct. 18, For- |scurried back to Moscow. ‘The Filsians are. able to hear|is determined 10 detest Adolf Hitler a yaTely Jactel solos ss Peach, Bis, «Said ‘Mr. Smith: eign Commissar V. M. Molotov] On the. morning of Oct. 16 the and his country:is solidly behind ’ “We may be a few feet off, but|{summoned Laurence Steinhardt, official commumique said that the dspeakers on the prin-{ him.’ He retains firm’ control of the i 3 Pe. Di all” =PC, nner Sets » ss «25:2 $5.98

that’s United States ambassador, and Sir [situation on the central front had | cipal “street corners or piped overjthree forces count : The people of Carlisle aren't say-| Stafford Cripps, British ambassa-| “deteriorated” telephone lines into their homes. lthe Soviet Unione the ay: in One large 72x90-inch dinner cloth plus 12 but theyre stringing|dor, to the Kremlin. The Moscow proletariat seemed] Shcherbakov told the people of |party, the ‘Army and the NKVD|] 18x18-inch napkins. Cloth in cross stitched ‘their county surveyor. But Molotov told the ambassadors | dazed. The subway stopped. Sireet- | Moscow that the Red Army would|(internal Security - Organization design, lovely colors. Napkins have all over save their city, He told them to|secref police), As long as this holds designs. return to work. true, a Russian internal collapse

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Fresh East of the city NKVD (Russian{from 1,500,000 to Stalin’s figure of |f 55x75-inch dinner cloths in rayon and cot- ) 3.500.000. ge Sas. ou fon dsmask, Pastel colors in Gold, Peach, County Fair printed table cloths. 54x70-inch At one point a guard stood with|high. ! Blue § reen and Hggshell. 16x16-inch maps, 7, y y lovely gay colors for your a drawn revolver. He told drivers 6. The fact that the Red Sees stress set snnentaneness Sesser sncee - going east: “I will shoot anyone ; who gets out of line.” Tanks, armored cars, guns and} trucks “loaded with . munitions rolled through the city onto the broad Moscow-Vyazma highway. Housewives and their daughters shawls over their heads,| picked up their spades and marched off to dig trenches west of the city. Old men and younger men unfit for duty with the army marched with them across the snow. | The Russians hurled back the Germans, They drove them almost 10 miles from Mozhaisk and stabilized the front in that sector. ki ‘Red Army Is Intact Foiled at Mozhaisk the Germans ‘ {tried to break through at Kalinin northwest of the’ capital. ' When that failed they tried desperately to find a hole in the defenses ground Kaluga and Tula to the south. ; A month has passed since Moscow’s crisis and the capital remains in Russian hands. That was the severest test the Soviets have had fo face but it showed what they could do. Moscow still may fall but if it does the men who surmounted: the|. {mid-October crisis undoubtedly will carry on the war with unweakened determination : The drive on Moscow was the climax of five months of the heaviest fighting in the history of war. |, Today the Soviet giant is battered. But it is not bowed. And it is still strong enough to hold. oft the Germany army through the winter and fight a new campaign in the spring of next year. The Red Army is intact—in the sense that it remains an efficient, well-organized fighting force,

People Are United

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