Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1941 — Page 5

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Siege of Tobruk Is Renewed After British Imperials Are Driven Out o Sidi Rezegh; British Rushing Tank Reinforcements. CAIRO, Dec. 2 (U. P.).—A powerful Axis tank attack

broke through the

British trap in the Libyan desert, an|Z official spokesman said today, renewed the siege of Tobruk|s=

and drove British a from Sidi Rezegh and Bir El

Hamid.

“The Germans nipped off the very end of the appendix

that barred their way westward and made a junction in the

18 ARE CONVICTED IN PLOT AGAINST U. S.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec. 2 (U. P.).—Seventeen men and one woman faced maximum prison terms of 10 years today for allegedly advocating "armed overthrow of the United States Government. Albert Goldman, defense attorney and one of the convicted defendants, asserted the case would be carried to the Supreme Court if necessary in an effort to invalidate the Smith Act of 1940, under which the defendants were found guilty. The defendants were charged with membership in the Socialist Workers Party and with following the doctrines of the late Leon Trotsky, “exiled Russian revolutionary: who was assassinated in Mexico. All defendants were acquitted of a count accusing them of violating the Seditious Conspiracy Act of 1861, which outlawed plotting to overthrow the government by force. Guilty verdicts were returned under the second count charging the defendants with violating the Smith Act’by advocating armed overthrow of the Government.

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Zaaran triangle,” the spokesman said in describing the setback.

spokesman said that “this is one round for them but the next round is coming up and it can be assumed

Tobruk to Sidi Rezegh.” British tank and infantry reinforcements were rushing into the battle zone.) . Axis Forces Joined

The Germans under Gen. Erwin Rommel and the Italian Ariete (Battering Ram) division, all of which repeatedly had been attacked by the British, joined to make the Axis attack on a narrow. front, according to a communique. Sidi Rezegh had been’ the main point in the British drive to relieve Tobruk and to trap the main German and Italian armored forces in the desert. . Previously, it had been acknowledged that the Axis armored units trapped east of Sidi Rezegh had joined in a strong attack that broke through and made a junction in the Sidi Rezegh-Bir El Hamid-Zaaran triangle.

Deny Heavy Tank Losses

An R. A. F. communique said that eight enemy planes were shot down and several others severely damaged in the last 24 hours. Eight R. A. F. planes were missing, indicating that the Germans had reinforced their

: lair squadrons in Libya.

The British,, however, still hold numerical superiority in tanks, it was said. An authoritative London source said that figures regarding tank losses as issued by Axis sources were “fantastic.” Berlin reported 814 British vehicles and 127 airplanes had been destroyed. +

New Zealand General Captured by Axis

ROME, Dec. 2 (U. P.).—Axis

Libya. have .taken an additional

1500 prisoners including Brig. Gen. Reginald Miles of the New Zealand expeditionary force, a high command communique said today. (Miles is commandant of the headquarters ‘of divisional artillery, first - echelon, of the New: Zealand Expeditionary Force).

BERLIN, Dec. 2. (U. P.).—German and Italian forces in Libya have taken more than 9000 prisoners since the British offensive started, the high command asserted in a communique today.

AUTHOR TO ADDRESS KIWANIS TOMORROW

Dr. Andrew W. Cordier, nationally ' known author, educator and lecturer and head of the Department of History and Political Science at Manchester College, will address the Kiwanis Club at 12:15 p. m. tomorrow in the Columbia Club. His subject will be “Oar South Americ.n Neighbors.” Dr. Cordier recently. made a 7000-mile Aight by plane to South Aemrica,. talking to political and civic leaders.,

Sidi Rezegh-Bir El Hamid-|§

(In London, a British military|}

that operations are now taking]: place to restore the “corridor from|j Heavy| : si SE ow Raising $225,000 for Earlham College. . . . Front (left to right) Elmer W. Stout, E. Clifford Barreit, the Rev. Errol T. Elliott; rear (left to right) Dr. William Cullen Dennis, Mrs. Robert L. Glass and Isaac Woodard.

forces in the Sidi Rezegh zone of];

THE INDIANAPOLIS executive committee of Earlham College met - with other alumni and Quakers here yesterday to make

plans for a national campaign to raise $225,000 for the school.

Dr. Dennis, president of Earlham, outlined the campaign which will begin in Indiana during January. Mr. Woodard of In-. dianapolis is alumni national campaign chairman and . Barrett is chairman of the Indianap-

olis executive committee. Mr. Stout, the Rev. Mr. Elliott and Mrs. Glass are the other committee members. The fund is being Sought to build a new women’s dormitory at Earlham.

GERMANS CLAIM MOSCOW GAINS

Drive Deep Into Defenses Of Capital, Berlin Reports Say.

cow's defense system at more points.

heard in London,

sitions on the Leningrad front.) P Fighting continues on the Rostov front, the High Command said. It added that strong attempts by the Russians to break through German lines on the Leningrad front en repulsed. i Bog.ne the Eastern front fighting in the Rostov area continues,” the High Command’s communique said. “In the battle zone before Moscow, German troops thrust deep into the enemy’s defense system in er sectors: otore Leningrad, several breakout attempts of Soviet forces after a “strong artillery preparation was pulsed. Our air force scored bom hits on. an aircraft factory near Rybinsk on the Volga, attacked enemy transport movements on the ice of Lake Ladoga and continued destruction of rail communications east of Tichvin. our bombers last night bombed Leningrad as well as Soviet air fields in the northern

sector front.”

DOWNSTATE NAVAL DEPOT DEDICATED

BEDFORD, Ind, Dec. 2 (U.P) .— Capt. Edgar G. Oberlin today began

his tenure as officer in charge of ordnance at the Burns City Naval Ammunition Depot following informal dedication ceremonies yesterday. Officials said formal dedization probably will take place April 1 when the entire project is comnpleted.

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KUIBYSHEV, Dec. 2.—Observers here are reasonably sure that the Germans have been forced to transfer numbers of airplanes from the Russian front to Africa in order to meet the intense Royal Air Force pressure in the North African operations. This is indicated by circumstantial evidence. only, but that more definite news will shortly he forthcoming is anticipated. Few Nuisance Raids The - sorely pressed Luftwaffe, even before the reopening of the Libyan front was obviously drawing on all its resources to meet the enormous heeds of the Russian campaign. It is limiting. itself strictly to the business of co-operation with the German ground forces. Such lux-

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Nazi Plane Shifts to Libya Easing Pressure on Russia

uries as nuisance raids on cities deep in the Soviet rear, for the present are noticeably few. Nor have the attacks on Russian lines of communication been such as to indicate that the Nazis have any large surplus of planes. While the Red Air Force is still numerically inferior to the enemy,

of the air over its own cities. In fact, there is reason to believe that in recent weeks the Russian Air Force has at least held its own and may even have grown some-

its own factories and the arrival of fresh units from England and America. Watch Battle in Libya

The transfer of a number of aircraft manufacturing plants from the danger areas near the front to the - interior of the country has been swiftly effected.

the diversion of part of the Luftwaffe to Africa is the transfer of German armored units, or troops, from: the Russian front. It would

to transport a division of tanks over such a long line of communication, However, even if the Libyan war reduces the quantities of land reinforcements available on the Russian front from the German rear, it is doing the Russians a service. . : " The Soviet press is taking a much livelier interest in the African hostilitles than it did at the beginning. The desire for a new front in Europe, however, continues to dominate the Russian mind.

BERLIN, Dec. 2 (U. P.).—The High Command said today that the Germans had driven deep into Mos-

(Radio reports from Moscow, said Russian troops in bitter and bloody fighting, held their own on the Moscow front, and arove the enemy from six

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LONDON, Dec. 2 (U.P.).—The Red Army officially claimed smashing triumphs today in bitter fighting on the Moscow, Leningrad and Rostov fronts. ) Official Soviet dispatches broadcast by the Moscow radio said that the Germans were fleeing after abandoning equipment on the Tula sector, south of Moscow, and were threatened with disaster by Red Army gains in the Taganrog sector of the Ukraine as they fell back from Rostov. The Russians triumphs: MOSCOW FRONT—R ussian troops overwhelmed the Germans and recaptured the village of Barabanov, driving back the enemy after heavy Axis attempts failed to break through the Tula sector. German losses were described as “heavy” and the Russians still were attacking the retiring Axis forces, threatening their flank. UKRAINE —The Nazi panzer forces retreating from Rostov have been split up in the Taganrog sector, cut off from all roads except the “path to doom” in the sea of Azov and are threatened with complete aster. LEN| NGRAD—The Russians .recaptured six strategic positions in counter-attacks. : The

claimed

Germans have “left Rostov

sian troops supported by Cossack cavalry and the air force drove them westward, Moscow said. The | Soviet forces are attacking Gen. Edwald Von Kleist’s entire southern army from east, north and west and breaking it into fragments, special dispatches claimed. The' enemy concentrated large forces on the Moscow front in the direction of Klin and Volokolamsk and attempted a pincer there, effecting a sudden break-through in some places, Pravda said. Conse-= quently the situation on the Volokolamsk = sectors remains especially acute, the newspaper said. In the Stalinogorsk sector, east of Tula, a Russian advance continues, ‘Pravda reported. The Germans are now more than 30 miles from Rostov, the official Russian news agency Tass said, and the pursuit continues. In some places the Germans have

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Triumphs on Three Fronts Claimed by Russian Army

fled so precipitiously they have been forced to leave small arms—rifles and machine guns—behind,indcating they have not had time to marshal their forces for an orderly retreat, the Russians claimed. Military experts said the great Russian victory probably had saved the Caucasus from any serious

threat for some months, and almost

certainly for the winter.

It was suggested that the safety

of Moscow might be assured for a similar period unless the Germans made a stand soon. A continued Russian advance, and consolidation of gains, would also

permit the. British to fight out the

Libyan campaign without having to provide for the possibility of diverting men to check a German Caucasus drive, it was said.

CIVIL SERVICE JOBS GAIN WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (U, P.).— Employment of civil workers by the executive branch of the Federal Government reached 1,487,925 in September, an increase of 40.37 per cent over the corresponding 1940 month, a Civil Service Commission

report showed today. These workers

drew $224,140,668 in salaries, con-

trasted with the $158,798,624 paid 1,059,984 persons on the payrolls in

September 1940.

Waiting Is Thought at End After Petain Confers With Goering. VICHY, France, Dec. 2 (U. P).— (Censored)—Informed quarters, interpreting official announcements

concerning the meeting of Marshal Henri Philippe Petain and Reichs-

marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering,

believed today that the Vichy government had agreed to end its policy of waiting. x Petain, French chief of state, conferred for an hour yesterday at Saint Florentin, 100 miles southeast

‘lof Paris in the occupied zone, with

Goering, who represented Adolf Hitler. Accompanied by Vice Premier

and conferred with Goering in a car of Goering’s train. The French party returned late last night and went immediately to government offices. Jacques BenoistMechin, Secretary of State, told a press conference that the principle of German-Franco collaboration would be expanded. He said however, that no immediate - consequences of the meeting could be expected. “Let the people beware, however, of intemperate haste or sterile resignation,” he said “the work of French reconstruction and reintegration into Europe are, as the Marshal himself explained, a long affair requiring much patience and tenacity.” Authoritative sources said France made nc concrete conc¢ession or agreement at the conference. The official announcements made no mention of French possessions in Africa or of the French fleet. (Germany is said to have demanded the fleet and French Africa for use against Britain.)

BERLIN, Dec. 2 (U, P.).—Authorized quarters said today that Reichsmarshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering and Marshal Henri Philippe Petain of France discussed “firstly, the Bolshevist danger; secondly, the British blockade, and thirdly, American attempts at intervention” during their meeting in occupied France yesterday.

haps even more from these three factors than any other country on the continent,” these quarters said.

NINE FREIGHT CARS ON PENNSY DERAILED

Nine freight cars of an -85-car long Pennsylvania train were derailed early this morning at Fayette, Ind., 15 miles northwest of Indianapolis. * : Railroad officials hLere said that no one was injured and that none of the freight cars overturned. The wreck was caused, they said, when a “defective car” jumped the track, pulling eight other cars with it.: The train was inbound to Indianapolis from Logansport, Ind.

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BY DAVID M. NICHOL Com ot TB NS a "BERN, Dec. 2.—The German pi ple are suflering from a “sharp crease” in tuberculosis and a noticeable gain in dental difficulties as a result of war conditions says t Neue Zuercher Zeitung’ today, porting an interview with Rei Minister of Health, Dr. Leo! Conti. :

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he cited the wartime nervous stra the longer hours of labor, the ho ing shortage as a result of the absence of new building, and the decreased number of doctors available for civil practice, making early diagnosis difficult. He said that the causes of teeth problems are not precisely known but that he was inclined to attribute them also to diet and nerves. The health minister, who is at tI

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same time party health leader head of the Reich Medical Ass tion, expressed special concern the huge increase in smoking feared that lasting damage was k ing done to young men and wo! Army consumption of -cigaret: has increased enormously and 17s year-old boys and girls are als smoking in labor camps, arm factories and offices, he said. For the rest, Dr. Conti contin the Reich so far has produced epidemics and the civil death ra excluding war casualties, has

{turned to prewar levels after

slight increase during the difficult first winter of war. : He hoped that the planned pros duction of fruit and vegetables the new eastern territories wi improve the situation. Referring to war wounds IL Conti said that mechanized armi produced a, greater number of fractures, burns and facial injuries than had been the case in previous’

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