Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 November 1941 — Page 2
LARGEST EVER'
Arc; Reds Admit Tula Situation Critcial.
| LONDON, Nov. 22 (U. P.).—RusBI reports said today that “proby the largest battle ever fought” the approaches to Moscow is ging in all sectors. of the half-
waging a terrific offensive the whole Moscow defense
“heard.
’ “remains tense” Nazi penetration of Soviet lines. [he German “tank cemetery” bere the city was said to be growg and 1300 Nazi casualties were! rted in two clashes.
Weather Bad in South
: “southern front” the et reports said favorable
ve ded operations but about ne : ermans were killed in scattéred
stov were “fighting courageously it forced to retreat before a nuerically superior enemy force that uffered. heavy losses.” he Germans attacked from Kalin the north to ' in the ore than
t some points, Pravda admitted, ¢ Russians were hurled back by weight of the Nazi offensive,
but at other points counter-attacks |©
thrown against ‘Nazi
pearheads, inflicting he asual~ |e has suffered heavy losses in a § Deavy casuals rattle wits U. 5. made lanes ‘ho
ties on them.
vda reported that the German Command had thrown .tanks, ; e-throwers, infantry and “everything at the of modern warfare” into the great offensive.
| Nazis Use Pincers Tactics
oe Germans were said to have ‘ ted huge forces in the direction of Volokolamsk and on the ern flank of he Kalinin position attempting to crash through to fe “Area x” ans were said to be utilBing: their “usual pincers tactics” but the Russians are falling back slowly to new fortified lines, meeting ‘the enemy “with a hurricane of fire and trapping in with coun-ter-attacks d Leningrad the Russians aks their forces more and |® ‘more on the offensive.
: German Casualties Put at 5,000,000
fo bing now is in better shape
be Be Soman Army to a|that the offensive already has the Axis on the run. And there was Soviet press|confident belief that this. time: the
Sa al a.
claimed German killed | B:
> ‘and wounded in’ the Russian war|short of driving the to date number “almost 5,000,000” | Italians completely out of the consaid German hopes of gchiev-|tinent or into - Srensh “Tunisia.
_ ing a stabilized winter front in orJet to turn agains} Britain will
“We shall not give them peace all winter .long,” he said. “Our task is to exhaust Germany,” he said. “The Red Army already has done much in that direction, The German casualty rates
are 2 sing.
1000 trucks and 389 planes. The first phage of the battle was
estimated to have cost the Germansithat the battle was “resumed with +260 . tanks, 7500 1zen killed and|intensity” at dawn yesterday and continued throughout the day without abatement,
Woundey and 174 guns.
RABBI GOLDBLATT HEADS TEACHERS
i ‘Rabbi Maurice Goldblatt, 2048 N. Talbot Ave, was elected president of Jewish Religious Teachers here Festerday at the conclusion of a two-day convention. Miss Lilllan Weil, Indianapolis, was named secretary by the organization, which includes teachers ‘from Ohio, Michigan and Indiana. Other officers are Mrs. M.' M. Sing‘er, Cincinnati, O., vice president, and Miss Reva Sussman, Dayton, treasur.
er. to the execufive board Rabbl J. Mich.; Rabbi Leon Fram,
Rages on All Sectors of |
t strength means Britain has}.
region,
in which it lost 57 of 135 tanks.
33 German armored cars and §7 Italian tanks destroyed in armored combat thus far; 52 Axis war planes shot down with a loss of only 13 British machines.
or about to make contact with the besieged Tobruk garrison by -land for the first time since the embattled force was besieged by the Axis last April 12. British tanks sallied out of Tobruk and were said to be making progress toward Sidi Res-
American and British planes in a ratio of about 50-50, ruling the battle. sky with “a canopy of planes.”
a ratio of only one to three Axis KUIBYSGEYV, Russia, Nov. 22 (U.|armored machines, leaving a huge P).—A Russian spokesman said to-|margin of superiority to be emday that the Red Army which -a|ployed to mop up the shattered |, manth ago halted the Nazi lunge|Axis forces.
High Command reported today that ~ In fighting on the Tula front|British attacks in Libya are| consince Oct. 3 the Red air force was|tinuing with “most violent” ferce credited with destroying 118 tanks, despite heavy British losses of men and mechanized equipment. |
communique, were engaged in| hard fighting.
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garrison.
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| vasion of Sicily and Italy.
there from Cairo, reported enemy’s ‘effective tank|=
won - the tank battle upen which the result of the whole offensive hinges. "” ‘Nazis Rush Reinforcements American tanks and. planes were reported to have swept through - their baptism of fire with “flying colors,” playing a major part in the destruction of. the: 220 Axis armored fighting machines. The Germans were reported rushing in reinforcements by fleets of Junkers JU5S2 transport planes from their big bases in western Libya and by glider trains from Crete. Reports from the British general headquarters and correspondents in the western desert gave this picture of the offensive thus far: : 1. Rommel’s panzer divisions divided and cut off by British armored - spearheads which have repulsed all Nazi efforts to break out f encirclement. One German panzer division trapped in the Bardia
second is imperiled in the Tobruk
2. Italy’s Ariete armored division virtually xnocked out of the battle after an encounter with the British
British Losses Small 8. A total of 130 German tanks,
4. British forces either in contact
eh, 10 miles to the south. 5. The Royal Air Force, using
6. British tank losses running at
There was increasing belief here
British sweep will: not- be halted and
British Tank Sweep West Into Libyz _ Gives Hope of Drive fo Tunisi
CAIRO, Nov. 22 (U. P. ), ~=Great Britain’s Americanequipped Eighth Army was believed today to have destroyed half the Axis tank force in eastern Libya, splitting |Gen.” Erwin Rommel’s panzer forces into two penned-up groups; and clearing the way for the relief of the Tobruk
So. sweeping was the British. success achieved in the greatest armored battle ever fought in Africa—that ope|timism mounted for a British sweep -all ‘the way to ‘the | Tunisian border as the opening gambit of a possible in-
,__At Melbourne Maj. Gen. Thomas Blaney, commander of Australian forces in the Near East, who had just arrived
that destruction of half the
The initial reported, was won n four big tank battles, three 1 t largely with American 18-ton 't British © columns, Libya-Egypt frontier like Steel
+A fingers, drove wedges between - the
main panzer forces of the Germans -and: Italians. _ One of these colutiins, ‘made up entirely of American’ tanks swung up. to the coastal road about 45 miles east of Ft. Capuzzo, cutting off a large Nazi tank force, probably about one : division, in the Gambut-Bardia region, = :
Germans Held in Trap
The American tanks fought the Germ:
the second with 8 loss of only 20 machines. The Germans attempted yesterday to break out of this encirclement but were beaten back three times. Simultaneously another column, swinging farther east, headed for the: coast through Rezegh, 10 miles south of Tobruk. From Rezegh it swung slightly ‘west, apparently seeking to reach the coast west of Tobruk. Here a second force of Nazi tanks, presumably part of the Second Division at Rommel’s disposal, was encountered. It lost 70 tanks and 33 armored cars in the battle. Meantime, it was reported that the Italian Ariete division, having lost about half its machines in battle with another British force around Bir El Gobi, south of Rezegh, had been virtually knocked ou - One report said the British, sweep forward north of Rezegh had brought them within a mile or twa of Tobruk perimeter defenses. I was believed here that contact may
Tobruk garrison.
British infantry was moving up and exerting heavy pressure on Axis positions from Halfaya to Sidi Omar. The British were carrying out an encirclement maneuver designed. to ti Axis troops-from tank supr A military spokefman said that the Nazi panzers are being beaten “both for speed and toughness” by American tanks. This was regarded as the chief fagtor in the success] of the British - encirclement mae neuver, since the British tank spearheads cut into the Nazi rear before the Germans had time ‘to with-
ROME, Nov, - 22 ‘(U. P).-The
The Italian command Te rted
Axis land and air forces, said tke
The High Command claimed that repeated British attempts to effect a sortie from Tobruk were thwart ed by Italian divisions Hoiding the line around its perimeter def The British offensive, offic ports said, was being condu by the greatest striking force ever assembled in - Africa ith the objec-|tac tive of knocking Italy out of the
war The official Stefani agency said the British hoped first, to win control of all eastern Libya: second, to
Ie-
draw. f J
Axis Land and Air Forcel ‘Hitting Back, Italy Reports
a break in the Rome-Berlin Axis and winning domination of the whole Mediterranean. The British, said the agency, desire to eliminate the Mediterranean front in order to concentrate their forces to face Axis armies now advancing toward the Caucasus which were said to “threaten the pillars of the British Empire.” . “A battle, the duration of which can not be foreseen, is in # swing,” reported Stefani in a dispatch dated from the zone of operations... “In this offensive Britain is employing forces superior to any used in a battle fought in North Africa before” Stefani said the battle was extending over a broader front and claimed that the Italian -Ariete Division had repulsed 3 British ate
te sald that a British-German *ltaflk battle was raging southwest of 8idi Omar and that the British also were launching strong armored
drive Italy out of the war, causing
BERLIN, Nov. 22 (U. P).-The High Command reported today that crack panzer and S8 formations
“lhave stormed Rostov-On-Don in
‘will be-named during the year by Rati Goldblatt. *
~ of Ohiropractic De held tomorrow at 10 a. m. - the Hotel Antlers. Fimeipal speakers include Dr. bert C. Hender, facul member the Palmer School of Dr. Bert PF. Swen of the O'Neil s College; Dr. C. FP. Aumann, DDIACtS member of the Indiana 0gt of Medical Registration and | on, and George G. Rinier, hiroprac=
ne of ean] president, Sloe FP, Carey of Alex-tary-treasurer
heavy fighting and how stand at the approaches to the Caucasus:
Nazi formations, said a communique, have ca iron the strategic Soviet tndustrinl center in dan action “of special . nce for the further conduct of the war.” German troops were said to be in control of the lower reaches of the Don where j# flows into the sea of Azov. 26 es below the big Don Cossack center of Rostov which has} 500,000 population. Nazi forces now have two columns the rich industrial and oil area of ine, Osicasus~sihe col» umns poised a Vv those standing at the Kerchenski Straits in the Crimea. Capture of Rostov on the stra.tegie line of the Don at the head
car attacks against the sector held by the Arete. Division. 8
Rostov, Gate to Caucasus,
Captur ed '
Berlin Claims
Other advances were claimed on the Moscow front. The High Command said that “heavy battles with strong British tank formations” are in progress on a broad front in Libya. The heavy fighting, said the High Command, started three days ago and “the battle continues.”
FRIENDS’ DAY FETE ARRANGED BY 0.E. S.
Friends’ Day will Be observed
|Priday by Daylight ‘Chapter 863,
0. BE. 8., beginning with a luncheon {pul at noon in the Ma: Temple, Illinois and North Sts. + Guests at the iuncheon, which will
Pp. 'm., will be Mrs. Maybelle Haase, worthy matron; Howard Smith, associate patron: Hilden Kiser,
worthy patron; Mrs. Clara Hughett, An Mrs.
success, ty was
the =
. forces ‘in two battles]: out 26 German machines|: in: the first encounter and: 84 in|:
already have been ‘made with” the|: Behind the forward tank battles
be followed by a meeting at 1:30
One of the new. U.S. medium. tanks, the type meeting early success
Armored Division. =
in’ the British desert offensive. This tank is aftached to the Fist
5%
Troops from India advance behind a Bren gun cairier in recent desert
fighting ‘with
the Italians.
A Blenheim bomber of the 2 Royal Air Force swoops down over hoop:
‘carriers in Egypt.
BOY HURT Tr GRASH; DRIVER ARRESTED
Luther Dorres, 34, was charged today with drunkenness, drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident in which a 2-year-old passenger of his car received a broken jeg and two others were injured less
seriously. The accident occurred last night at Road 29 and Cold Springs Road. e ' Dotres car and another col-
ull |lided. Howard Settles, ‘2, received
8 broken leg; Thomas Settles, 30, of ‘1910 Calvin St., his father, was cut on the head; Marvin Whitson, |. 51, also of the. Calvin St. address,
to police, Dorres continued toa home in New ’ Augusta. and from there some one ‘else drove the injured to City Hospital. No: one in the other car was injured Early today police traced Dorres and arrested him.
PROTEST LOCATION OF ‘ORDNANCE PLANT
NEWPORT, Ind, Nov. 22 (U. P.). ~One hundred and fifty Vermillion County landowners who don’t want
the proposed $53,500,000 Wabash River Ordhsince Works’ built on their land, today sent a protest to Washington asking that . the’ plant er run iis} c at .construction of the works in Vermillion County would remove from cultivation many valuable acres of farmland and would take away farms of persons not on relief. ' Announcement of the location of the ordnance works was made last week’ by tn project woul Schricker. He declared pro prosperi Vermillion the heaviest veliet loads in State. Ay td Most of the petitioners, "spokesmen said, were farmers living in the section. of the. Squnty. near Where the powder Fast 18
Hunt for ‘Safe’
Cell-Made Gun. Fails Prisoner
? TIPTON, Ind., Nov. 22 (U. P.). ~Julius Korpok, 18-year-old parolee from Huntsville, Tex. held on a reckless driving charge, waved a pistel at Sheriff Burl Lilly last nighi and demanded his release. But he waved it once too often. The cell-made pistol, fashioned from a pipe and some soap, fell apart.
BELL GIVES EMBLEM "TO RALPH E. WALDO A gold emblem has been presented to Ralph E. Waldo, 8 supervisor in the accounting department of the Indians Bell Telephone Co. for 25 years of service in telephone work, Mr. Waldo, who lives at 3834 job in November, 1916, as a clerk in the long lines department of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. in Indianapolis. Joining the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. as ap accountant in October, 1926, he ‘has served since a8 a clerk in the audit of disbursements section and supervising clerk in’ the payroll unit.” He was promoted to his present position in May, 1930. : : :
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h lo astions were sesol 1 deh tl hy pall | 5 p tain, § ax ey IDLO of C.1.0.
Ruckle 8t., took his first telephone|
{Foreign Policy. Indorsement
Is Highlight of Fourth Convention, DETROIT, Nov. 23. (UP; ~Dele-
convention, of the. Congress of ° dustrial ‘Organizations atter a five-and-a-half-day - ‘seéssion which brought full ‘indorsement of Pres-
hl pedeing or el 2 J the leaders 2% Juiray. the del
oo dutics nelded De session devel:
ed to approval of resolutions, to E
miners’ closed shop demands at captive coal fields; reaffirmation of faith in-yoluntary- mediation to settle labor disputes; support of the defense program with suggestions for
a-year” men in administration of the emergency program. ; Squeiched Lewis Group _ Within the organization, Mr Murrey’s re-election was significant becguse he had been forced during the week to suppress an incipient | revolt by the John L. Lewis f: faction. ‘This Erou: supporting its isolationist leader, refused to stand in
ty. In the. brief final 3} Session, the ‘a8sembly’ charged that the Federal| Bureau of Investigation “offers .se-
cal police “similar | Gesta]
An eller resolution calléd ‘upon Smployels. to recognize the principle & union shop as a move towar industrial harmony, g “The union shop proposal did not mention the present captive coal mine Sispuie..
REQUISITIONING FOR DEFENSE IS ORDERED
it was learned. today. Defense officials ¥ id that the President’s order consolidates administration of the new property seizure law enacted last month and & similar bill approved last year. The new Presidential order, ac-
> cording to defense officials, is not
a “plant sefzure” edict and could not be used to take over struck
HTLIER A CRIMINAL WELLES CHARGES
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (U. P). —Describing. Adolf Hitler as a “criminal parafoiac,” Undersecretary of State 8 er: Welles warned today that the United States is “in far greater peril” than in 1917. : Writing in the publication “To Promls Foreign Trade,” Mr. Welles
“The waves of world conquest are breaking high both in the East and in the West. They are threatening, Tore nearly each day that passes;
to engulf our shores.”
SHORTRIDGE BAND PLAYS IN CAPITAL
. Times Special
WASHINGTON; Nov. 22.—The Shortridge High School band played a noon concert today in a park opposite the White House and then began a sight-seeing tour of the capital. The band played for the launching ceremonies of the U.S.S. Indiana yesterday at Newport News, Va., and then came here oyernight by boat. The boys will Befuns to Indianapolis by train tonight
FOUND DEAD BESIDE BOAT
NOBLESVILLE, Nov. 22 (U. P.). —The body of Russell Williams, 36, was found early today beside a boat on the bank of the White River near here. He had been shot through the chest and apparently had been dead many hours. Police expressed belief he had been killed
aceidentally,
an industry council to supplant the | OPM; and condemnation of “dollar-
rious danger” of Seconting a politi-| the Nazi
“required” for the country’s defense, |
ident Roosevelt's foreign policy and | #
tional chairman of the Come mittee to Defend America, will speak at a public meeting at 2:30 p. m. tomorrow in the World War ‘Memorial auditorium, The women’s division of the Indiana Committee for National Defense is sponsoring the meéting.
GERMANS PLAN TUNIS DEFENSE|
Morocco ‘Tourists’ Believed Preparing Reception for Troops Via Spain.
By HELEN KIRKPATRICK lis Time Cor na hills Dal Hove, Te LONDON, Nov, 22. — Now that Great. Bri ain’s plans. have become obvidus—s drive across the desert through Libya 2d. Teipolitania to Tunis, the rmans ar to pus ie, effect their lans to counter Pp Increasing numbers. of uniformed Germans, said to be “members of the: ‘Armistice. Commission” are ap-| in Morocco Posting; task is believed to be that {of preparing for the reception of German forces from Spain, who will seek to close up the Mediterranean and render Gibraltar useless as a naval base.
Fliers Near Gibraltar .
According to reports reaching London, there are now 28,000 German “tourists” in Spain. Six thousand of these “technicians” in Spain are in the air force, 4000 in the police force and 3000 as inspectors and customs’ officials. | While most “tourists” are scattered throughout the north, German air
,|bases and airmen are concentrated
within a radius of 20 miles of ‘Gibraltar.
Need For Stand Realized - According to - the most reliable
linformation here, when the ground
is preparéd in North Africa the Germans will: move through Spain around Gibraltar and across: the straits to Morocco ready to stop the British on the Tunisian border and close the straits to British ships. ‘The necessity for countering such a German move, which might well nullify gains in Libya is beginning to be recognized here although re-
bm the importance of German infiltration into North Africa,
MILK TO INCREASE CENT IN LA PORTE
‘LA PORTE, Nov, 22 (U. P). — Dairy officials indicated today that retail milk prices would be boosted one cent a quart withih a few days, as a result of an increase in cost to producers. The Indiana Milk Control Board yesterday returned a flexible order which will boost the price an average of 50 cents per 00 pounds. :
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U. S* TO LISTEN ON AIR
The United States’ information services will be augmented within a week with establishment in London of a listening post to report on European radio propaganda, Lloyd A. Free, director of the foreign broadcast monitoring service of the Federal Communications Caminisston, said today.
- GERMAN GENERAL KILLED
High Command announced today that Infantry General Kurt von
would bring ‘County |
ty. ; where, he oll ‘there egists one : of
to be
Driver Succeeds
Children Greet Santa at Airport
[Hitler is
word from Europe Chief of State Henri
North \ {bases and air fields.
sponsible quarters still seem to dis-| 3
NEW YORK, Nov. 22 (U. P).—|}
BERLIN, Nov. 23 (U. P.)~Thel||
WASHINGTON, ‘Nov. 22. | U . P)— Developments suggesting that Adolf operation in’ the battle posed a licate problem.
Fresh concern was gene ated by that French Philippe
that high French military are streaming into French Africa to “inspect” naval he These developments came on tha heels of Gen Maxime ejgands ouster as Pro-gonsul French . Africa and the British Italian Libya which adjoia Africa to the east.
American Views A Goering-Petain meet; ably would be for the pu permitting. the Fuehrer to serve | an ultimatum demanding complete military as well as economic cole Iaboration with the “new order.” Hitler will not attend the confere ence. “One diplomat sald i believed Weygand’s removal was ired by Axis knowledge that Britain was preparing for it Libyan offensive, There was general belief that Hitler, king to counter it, wpuld demand t Petain permit German troops to enter. French North Africa. Weygand “had opposed
such demands. . The United States made it plain— as recently as ‘Thursday—that it would view with disp any further German encr: nt on the “sovereignty and control of the |French Empire.” It sta “bluntly that the Weygand ouster has forced it to re-examine its policy towards France. Further appeals to French or oe assistance to ne De Gaulle Free French were Suggested. - Informed quarters said any Amer= jean move will be with extreme caution. They pointed out that while the United Stdtes is anxious to hold Vichy in line, everything will be bdone to avoid throwing the Vichy French irrevocably into ' Berlin's camp.
VANNUYS ASKS FACTS ON SINKING OF SHIPS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (U. P.).— Three leading non - interventionist Senators today assailed the Navy's policy of withholding information on the sinking of Axis raiders by American war vessels, They contended the public has a right to all the facts. Chairman Frederick VanNuys D, Ind.) of the Senate Judiciary Coms mittee said: . “I think the American peop Te, having sent their boys to the Say
Sfensive. in ‘French
and spent their treasure fi Allies, are entitled to know all the facts as they come up without, of course, revealing military Senator Gerald P. Nye (R. N. D) said the nation should know when. and the American Navy foreign ships.