Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 May 1942 — Page 8
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NEW BUILDING SEEN FOR CITY
‘Pent Up Buying Power’ to Bring Construction, Says Realtors’ Head.
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offices as places to register property for rent control,” he said.
Discuss Post-War Boom
As for the future of real estate, Mr. Simpson is optimistic. “When people talk to me about | the future of real estate and what | I think the future is I have but | one answer, he said, and that is:| Do you believe in the future of} your town? If you do, then real] estate will be on the same par.! Win the war? Of course we will.”| He also believes that, as much as possible, we must keep the volume of business high. “This country operates on profits,” he] said. “The more money we make, the more easily we can finance this war.”
Urges Ordinary Methods
In his speech he emphasized this point by telling the realtors that they cannot take their ordinary ways of doing business and pub them away in cold storage for the duration. “Whatever locations we choose for our war industries, whatever machinery we as a nation set up to take care of our housing needs, our construction, our real estate financing and our management will pro-| foundly affect both our cities and | the business of real estate for dec-| ades after the war is won.”
ANN AUNCES FOR JU 'DGE
ROCHESTER. Ind., May 27 (U. P.) —Arthur Metzler, local attorney, today announced his candidacy for nomination on the Democratic ticket for northern district appellate court judge. A native of Urbana, Mr. Metzler has lived here since childhood, is a graduate of Rochester high school and the University of Michigan.
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David B. Simpson (left)
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estate board president, talk of Indianapolis’ future.
Russ Army Smashes Ahead
In Key Area Near Kharkov
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[sian high command reported stub|born fighting and a further con-
solidation of captured positions— indicating that Timoshenko has made a few fresh gains there—although at one point Cossack cavalry was said te have driven nearly 40 miles into the German lines, killing 2100 of the enemy. Stockholm dispatches said that, south of the Kharkov front, the Germans were attacking between Taganrog on the sea of AZov and Stalino and had joined forces with the Germans south of Kharkov to tighten the vise on the reportedly trapped Russian armies. Reporting developments in the im-
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Parachutists Shot Down
Nazi parachutists were reported dropping night and day in waves at points where isolated German strong point garrisons were showing signs of weakening. Others dropped behind the Russian lines in an attempt to \disorganize the Red army’s communications. Special dispatches asserted that
{the Russians had an unbroken record of success against the para-
chutists. It said one entire big group was wiped out before it hit the earth and that automatic riflemen downed three Junker-52 trans-
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front line position waiting to drop their men. Arms and ammunition dropped by parachute from German planes was
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seized by Red army forces, the dispatches said.
Nazi Air Activity Dwindles
German forces before Kharkov are clinging tenaciously to defensive positions despite huge losses in men and material, the Red Star said. The newspaper also reported a battle has been raging without interruption for three days at an unidentified point on the southern flank, with “huge enemy forces vainly hammering at our defenses without being able to dent our lines.” The German air activity has decreased recently, the dispatch continued, due to Soviet air power and the accuracy of Soviet anti-aircraft gunners,
Heavy Tank Toll Taken
The German Stuka dive-bombers have been “practically eliminated” by Russian air attacks, it added, although the German planes continue “relentlessly strafing and burning
| undefended towns and villages.”
It was asserted that the Germans had lost up to one-third of the tanks they had put into their attack in formations of up to 250 each and official dispatches said the crack 23d German tank division, which had been held in reserve for a German general offensive, had been routed in a counter-attack.
SUB PERIL EASED, SEN. WALSH SAYS
WASHINGTON. May 27 (U. P)). —Chairman David I. Walsh (D. Mass.) of the senate naval affairs committee said today that the submarine menace has been ‘“considerably checked and will be increasingly checked with new plans now being put in operation.”
BOSTON, May 27 (U. P.).—An American fishing trawler has been sunk with the loss of one life by an axis submarine that approached within 15 feet to rake her with shellfire, it was revealed by the 20 surviving crew members today.
BOSTON, May 27 (U. P.)—A. U. S: coast guard patrol vessel rescued more than half the crew of a me-dium-sized freighter—one of four torpedoed in a united nations convoy off the Irish coast—and later attacked two enemy submarines believed responsible for the sinkings, survivors landed at an east coast port related today.
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State C. of C. Head Lauds State’s War Effort at Planning Parley.
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ery, bound in helpless servitude to the chariot wheels of our brutal conquerors. The alternatives are exactly those—clear-cut and inescapable.” Turning to the role industry must play after the war, Mr. Ruthenburg said that a plan such as the “M Day” plan for the war must be created for the post-war era. He said that there are many tncouraging signs to guide industry in the days to come. “In the first place,” he explained, “Indiana's strategic location indicates that this state will be the focal point of activity in war or in peace. “And in making its contribution te the war effort,” he went on, “Indiana is acquiring a wealth of intangible values which are the raw materials for the great new world which lies beyond the present scene of armed conflict.
Labor Supply Ample
“No. 1 in this list is a vast supply of trained labor. Never again should this nation let its workers become skill rusty. No. 2 is the rare advantage of having conclusively demonstrated that our American system of free enterprise can outproduce any other system in the world. No. 3 is a new appreciation for quality products and quality standards.” “These factors, gentlemen, are a few beacon lights in the brave new world for which you plan—a new world which must be very different irom the one in which we have lived,” he concluded. “In a meeting of the American Society of Planning Officials, Philip H. Elwood, chairman of Region 6 of the National Resources Planning board, was elected president, to succeed Baldwin M. Woods of the University of California.
Other Officers Named
Cleveland Rogers, member of the New York city planning commission, was named vice president of the society, and J. J. Harrison, chairman of the Arkansas state planning board; Abel Wolman, chairman of the Maryland state planning commission, and Mr. Woods were named directors. A special committee of the society of planning officials outlined a program for city rebuilding after the war, the high points of which were the necessity of central official planning agencies in full charge of redevelopment planning in each city and an extensive program of both state and federal legislation.
MURRAY QUITS UMW MEETING IN ANGER
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mittee, it would mean the final break between the U. M. W. and the C. I. O., officials said. Mr. Murray characterized the resolution as “one that did not conform to ordinary rules and policies of common decency.” He said he did not know whether he would return to the mine workers meeting “as I have other important engagements.” He left the meeting, he said, to keep an engagement with Sir Walter Citrine, secretary of the British Trade Union Congress. Mr. Murray is a vice president of the U. M. W. as well as C. I. O. head. “I told the conference that I had mere important engagements,” Mr. Murray said. “I had no advance information about the charges and indictments against me. “I said that it was a matter that should come within the purview of the C. I. O. executive council and that it was not properly before the (U.M. W.) policy committee.”
Claim Attacks Ignored The District 50 directors charged that Mr. Murray had refused to give any effective attention to the prevention or to the redress of such a campaign of insult and injury as has been carried on against the district. The resolution stated further that C. I. O. officers and representatives had hindered in every way possible the organizing campaign of District
The circumstances in the open break between Mr. Lewis and Mr. Murray, and District 50's subsequent action, appeared to be bringing about an early showdown in the entire matter of U. M. W.-C. 1. O. relations.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1942
Every House and Room A Bloody Battleground
By ILYA EHRENBOURG ‘Soviet War Correspondent
WITH THE RED ARMY ON THE KALININ FRONT, May 27.—
This war is rich in contrast.
In the German rear, partisan warfare goes on unceasingly. Men armed with hunting rifles and knives fall upon German headquarters
staffs in the dead of night.
Meanwhile, around Kharkov gigantic tank battles are in progress, and they resemble naval engagements where one reports, not so much territorial advances, as the destruction of the enemy’s land
warships.
In Karelia one may travel the front for miles on end and not |
see a soul.
But there's one sector of the front where fighting rages for every | It’s a town on the western Dvina river.
house and for every room. ” ” »
THIS TOWN CONTAINED many old churches rounding peasants, it attracted lovers of architecture. In the courtyards cows clucked. When an automobile passed, dogs hurled
of the semi-rural type.
barking loudly.
But it was a Soviet town. The boys dreamed of becoming aviators
or Arctic explorers.
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and, besides surThe streets were
themselves at it,
Germans’ Arrival Brings Slaughter
Everybody knew that the son of a truck gardener was a member
of the supreme Soviet. The daughter, of the drug store manager was |
fond of permanent waves and of Hemingway.
The town had its Society of Friends of the Spanish People and |
courses in poetry.
Then the war broke out and Germans occupied the town. At first
they only looted.
But when the Russians approached the town, the Germans began | Storm troops rounded up 400 women,
to slaughter the inhabitants. children and old men and shot every one of them. The German commandant announced that those who had been shot were Jews, but among them were many Russians. Street fighting has been in progress for three months. When you drive toward town in the daytime, you see low black clouds of smoke carpeting ruins.
Burns On and On
At night, the town is a mass of flames. How long can a town burn, half of whose houses are built of wood? One would think it should have been reduced to ashes long ago, but it still burns. The strength of a town is immense and only man is more stubborn. “What is it fighting for today?” you ask. “For a kindergarten.” This isn’t a joke. The Kkindergarten was housed in a twostoried brick building. Here among the cartridge cases and rubbish our men found a doll with a broken nose. The Germans turned this house into a fort; in embrasures they
«put small caliber guns and ma-
chine gunners and automatic riflemen in the upper floor’s windows. Behind a signboard that said “kindergarten” they put an automatic rifleman.
Fight From Room to Room Russian guns breached the walls and Russians rushed the ground
floor. The Germans retired to the upper floor and kept hurling grenades down the staircase. The fight between the upper floor and the lower floor lasted 36 hours. Then it occurred to a Red army man that the ceiling was made of wood. The Russians had a large caliber machine gun and they began firing into the ceiling from corner to corner. There was a commotion above and then came the cry: “Russians, we surrender!” In another house—a photographer’s—the floors still are littered with pictures of boys and girls and babies. from one room to another, and Red army men leaned out of one window and threw grenades into another.
Grinning Faces of Dead
Fierce battles rage for a small house, for a vegetable stand, for a newspaper kiosk, for a watchman’s hut, amid truck gardens. German garrisons of 25 or 30 men and officers defend houses which have been turned into forts. This month fighting flared up with rerewed vigor. In the battle for one street, the Germans lost more than 500 men. The air is filled with the stench of corpses and the smell of burning. The sun already is bright and sultry and all arcund are the sardonically grinning faces of the dead. The Germans try to set fire to wooden houses fortified by Russians. The flames have to be extinguished in the midst of a raging battle. Sappers drag up sand bags, and, if necessary, wield hand grenades. Then Russian tanks appeared. The town had never seen such battles before. In two days half the town was cleared of Germans. They retired beyond the river,
Fighting took place
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and fighting is now going on at the other end of town.
At night, deserters come crawl- | ing toward the Russian outposts, |
their numbers are increasing. One of them, a private of the' 257th regiment, mutters as he sits drinking tea: “It’s hell. It’s heil. It’s hell.”
The Way Artists Painted Hell
He is a Catholic from the Pyrenees and a religious man. He relates with horror: “We killed women in a church. The colonel ordered us to. . . We have 1500 wounded in cellars and their wounds aren’t even dressed. The colonel said that if we surrendered our families would be made to pay for it. I've a wife and a mother. It's hell. It’s hell.” The town is burning and in the cellar of a house a dead German seems to be grinning. Nearby is a child’s crushed cot, a volume of
verse and a bullet-pierced sign-
board: “Oats tarts—pastry.” The flames of the burning town seemed pallld as though painted against the golden background of sunset. That was the way artists depicted hell in the 15th century. That is the way battles are fought in the 20th century.
Madeline Stirs Uproar at Trial
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There was so much disorder in the courtroom where Miss Webb; Eli Shonbrun, her lover; and John D. Cullen are on trial for the murder of Mrs. Susie Flora Reich, that Judge Jonah Goldstein called a recess. Shonbrun has confessed the crime from the wit ness stand, but insisted that Miss Webb and Cullen had no part in it.
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