Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 May 1942 — Page 5

THURSDAY, MAY, 28 1042

RUSSIANS SMASH PSYCHIC ATTACK

bank, they opened fire. “There was a deafening roar of cannon and clouds of smoke on the (opposite bank.” said Pravda's front{line account. “Huge chunks of {earth and trees and men flew into

: j the air. battle in an effort to throw back! «Under this hurricane fire the

Sovi x whi rossed : i . . : ar eh ® : Russians then crossed the river and ry Bea y Jmpor "e i. oe Uicharged with, bayonets and hand he Rumanians suffered heavy grenades.

losses and retreated. “The musical show ended badly for the German stage-managers. Report Nazis Desert “More than 1000 corpses choked ithe river and littered the banks.”

Guns Mow Down Nazis Goosestepping Before Red Army Lines.

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Stage “Psychic Attack”

A dispatch to the Communist] party newspaper pravda said that] German soldiers wearing Red army uniforms, Nazi tanks carrying red : flags and planes marked with Soviet! Dozens of the German “psychic red stars were used in an effort to soldiers” of the 101st division, all confuse and disrupt the Russian veterans of the battles of the Don forces. basin, were said to have deserted

The disguised Germans appar- to the Russian side. entiy sought to infiltrate into the Russian commandos, Soviet rear Pravda also reported that the Ger- | flated rubber boats in face of direct mans, after failing in repeated as- German cannon and machine gun saults upon a village on a river bank | fire, established a bridgehead on in a strategic area of the Izyum-|he enemy side, it was asserted earlBarvenkova battlefront, attempted |ier by front dispatches. one of their “psychic attacks.” | Strongly consolidated, the RusThe entire 101st German division sians BT How hammering at Ger~about 15,000 men—walked in pa- | man positions west of the river. disrade formation up to the river bank Patches said. in the face of murderous Russian fire, goosestepping to the blaring of a military band as though on review on Unter Den Linden. The Russians across the held their fire the Nazis proached in close formation the music echoing across steppes. Then. as the Germans neared the]

crossing a

Bridgehead Established

was won in the hottest part of the river Izvum-Barvenkova sector, where ap the Red army had held with | 282inst one of the most determined the |Gérman attacks of the war. | Picked troops, dispatches said, made the river crossing. The boats back and forth for hours—

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reinforcements. In the end, it was asserted, the Russians succeeded in pushing back the Germans from their bank of the You adult fat people may often slim down (TIVEr and establishing so firm a without starvation diets 1d backbreaking bridgehead that it must disrupt re Belem a oe ave mothing ele [German plans in the entire area.

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Sets June as Dairy Month

Mrs. Robert H. Tyndall, left, and Miss Estelle Nesbit watch Governor Schricker proclaim June as dairy month. In signing the proclamation the governor geclared that dairy products, rich in health-giving substances, are the largest source of agricultural income to Indiana | farmers. The return from such products approximates 100 million | dollars annually. Miss Nesbit is state nutritionist of the state board of health, and Mrs. Tyndall is chairman of the nutrition committee,

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British Stop Nazis in Libya;

Fierce Tank Battles Raging

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| sive, designed to drive the enemy back into Burma. Germany was struggling to overcome the enemy on still another front—in the occupied countries. The threat of reprisals hung over Czechoslovakia following the at‘tempted assassination in Praha yesterday of Reinhard | Heydrich, No. 2 man of the gestapo who is known as “The Hangman” because of his purges of civilians. Although allied communiques told of halting the axis offensives in Russia, China and Libya, the issues were by no ‘means decided in any of the] = TT Siw | Mediterranean coastal road from ‘ee war zones. three 5 Sei : | Tmimi toward Tobruk, which lies The Germans were said t0/about 100 miles inside the Libyan be pouring in reinforcements ofl border from Egypt. men and weapons into Libya and| The British air force, well supRussia. {plied with American planes, was The British said there was no|aiding the British armored forces doubt that Rommel’s drive was alin repulsing the axis attack and! major one aimed at knocking ouijearried out another heavy bombing British resistance in North Africa. | of German-controlled airdromes on! Cairo eommuniques said the Brit- | sicily, a base of supply for Romish had seized the advantage in the mel's forces. opening clashes with the armored might of Rommel’s desert fighters. Axis Has 125,000 Troops R. A. F. planes joined in halting| An Italian communique reported the axis drive, shooting down nine|that five British planes were shot enemy planes, damaging others and down in raids on the Sicilian airdestroying motor transports. dromes and bases of Massina, Ca-| The R. A. F, planes, which for tania and Syracuse and told of months during the stalemate be- heavy air fighting over the Libyan tween the desert forces raided] front. enemy depots and supply lines far| While Italian convoys have heen unloading supplies for Rommel at| Tripoli, the British have been send-| ing large overland convoys across | the desert from Egypt. The R, A.| F. is believed at least equal to and probably superior to the luftwaffe

British Bombers Bomb Sicily

Germans planes attacked forward British positions last night and two Junkers-88's and one Heinkel-111 were shot down. The R. A. F. communique said four British planes were missing. There appeared to be some evidence that the axis drive in the Bir | Hacheim and Alemhamza directions might be a flanking or diversion at|tack and that the heaviest blow of | Rommel’s drive may be along the

HONOR 2 ‘HOOSIERS FOR BRAVERY IN WAR

{ War department honors for two Hoosiers were announced today. Chief machinist’s mate Morris W. | Hancock of Southport and Charles | C. Beckner, pharmacist’s mate, third class, of Princeton have been awarded the army silver star, Seaman Hancock was among those who received the oak leaf clusters for damaging a Japanese cruiser in the battle of Mindanao sea, April 8, Hancock received the silver star as a crew member of a motor torpedo hoat that aided in Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Corregidor escape. Beckner received his decoration] for “marked skill and coolness” on a mission of major importance. GENERAL'S wiDOW RECEIVES AWARD WASHINGTON, May 28 (U. P). ~— Assistant Secretary of War Robert A. Lovett yesterday presented Mrs. Vera C. George with the distinguished service medal posthumously awarded to her husband,| Brig. Gen. Harold H. George, for-! mer aviation commander in the! Philippines. «3 Gen. George was killed in Aus-| tralia after he had gone there with| Gen. Douglas MacArthur, | The presentation ceremony was| held in Mr, Lovett's office in the! presence of air staff officers and| Mrs. George's son, Robert George, a | cavalry private, and her daughter, | Miss Peggy George.

OPPOSES FULL RATIONING | WASHINGTON, May 28 (U. P).| —Speaker Sam Rayburn said today he had heard many reasons for rationing gasoline in areas where the supply is plentiful and “none of them appeals to me.”

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PLAN FREEZING Miles’ of Tanks Rushed by British Army

the Germans moved forward big tank and other armored forces around the Tmimi area on the coast and in the Bir Hacheim well center 40 miles south of Tobruk.

Big Tank Battle Fought

The German command split its forces into two strong armored colums. One thrust toward the northeast, toward the Temrad region near the coast. The attack developed at about 3 p. m. Tuesday. Swift moving tanks, armored cars and mobile anti-aircraft guns swept through the clouds of dust southward, then eastward, toward the British positions around Bir { Hacheim. A big tank battle started in the Bir Hacheim area at 9:40 a. m. Wednesday as the axis forces, finally unmasking their main attack, poured over the track between Bir Hacheim and El Adem. It appeared as if German strategy was to hold the British forces to the

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U. S. Aims at ‘Pirating,’ create a diversion from the Rus-

2 'sian front. Deferments Provided for The enemy has been using special Vital Workers.

[barges and ferries to rush tanks and (Continued from Page One)

WAR LABOR

other reinforcements from Italy into small coves and ports along the coast between Derna and Benghazi,

drafting of 18 and 10-vear-olds.|to the west of the imperial lines.

They have to register June 30 put| The British air force has been

the present law prohibits their in- Kept busy defending Malta, so the duction. {passage of the Sicily strait was

The “freezing” plan for work. | Possible. ers would be the most ambitious at-| Inferno of Bombing tempt by the government to con-| The show began during the weektrol labor supply and to prevent{end when German and Italian war workers from changing jobs|planes bombed British positions. because of the lure of higher wages They returned with increased power or other incentives. Monday night. Suggest Three Methods Tuesday night and yesterday they N |gave us everything they had. In Piracy of workmen has been|the tront lines and far back in the especially prevalent in the aircraft,|,eay there was an inferno of shipbuilding and automobile indus-|pomping. tries and officials said it has reached | gtuka dive-bombers, Junker-88's. proportions in some areas where its prosserschmitts-110's went for the effect is being reflected in lower yn3d4s, bombing and machine gun- (north, along the coastal area, while production. ning. 3 | their main body swept on Bir Industries working on government; As I drove to the front lines, the | Hacheim. contracts would be required to hire|German and Italian planes roared| British tank and other armored

only workers certified by the em-|over our lines in impressively heavy [units moved out fanwise, advancing ployment service, | waves. (to meet the German tanks.

Steps now are being taken, offi-| Their fares burst in long chains] Stung by British Attacks cials said, to include in all war con-|and hung in the velvet sky, com- : tracts a clause binding management |peting with the moon which lighted] The main action is developing to hire new employees only through |the desert with spectral brilliance. | around the approaches to Bir the employment service. They went for our tanks and sup-, Hacheim. It is a dry place. The In addition to the war contract|ply columns. (Germans must carry at least a clause, these methods suggested as I hastily scooped out sand to make | three-day water supply unless they possible ways of making the system a slit trench with two Yorkshire! capture our wells. work: (lads, both drivers in a water con-| To the north, in the Gazala re- . | voy which the Germans tried to hit. gion, the enemy developed his atDiscuss Equalized Pay | Bombs and tracer bullets sprayed|tack with heavy cannon fire and 1. Moral persuasion. Wide pub- around us. That was bad enough|late Tuesday afternoon Stuka dive licity is expected to result in cn- but the Libyan panzers, the colonies|bombers, of which the Germans operation by most industries - of large ants, took a hand in the seemed to have heavy reinforceworkers. offensive, covering our faces and|ments, bombed the British positions. 2. Industry wide agreements. bodies as we squeezed down into! German tank forces drove forThey would reduce to a minimum the sand. | ward over rock, sand and dust, infil-

“pirating” of workers among, for As TI réached the front area, the trating into the British advance example, aircraft industries. sun was burning down with an in| Posts as suddenly as if they had ap3. Legislation. This would be tensity that seems to increase hour- | peared from the sky. used as a last resort if violations ly. The troops of both sides feel] But the Germans all along the were serious enough. the heat and are always thirsty, front soon were startled by the There was talk in some quarters British troops get a half-pint tin|Sting of British counter-measures, of an attempt to equalize pay so of beer a week. | which are backed up by a powerful that a worker, under the “freeve”| After their Stukas, Junkers, Hein-| force, stronger even than that used plan, would be recompensed for his kels and Italian bombers had spent|in the British offensive last fall. inability to change to a higher pay- a whole night in unremiiting raids,/, The Germans are using a new ing job. trying to rattle the British forces,| type of tank, with turret armor

To Blazing Desert Battleground in Libya

strengthened, as the result of their experience last November when British 25-pounder guns smashed the tanks they were using then. It looks now as if the British tank and infantfy may hold against the new drive. If their front lines are pierced, they will find defenses to the rear that are even more solid. I passed on my way to the front reinforcing convoys hundreds of miles long. The Germans are likely to find it different now. I have never in two years of desert warfare seen so many tanks moving up to the battle line.

FEAR NAZIS TO MAN FRENCH WARSHIPS

WASHINGTON, May 28 (U. P.).— Germany conceivably could man French warships with Nazi crews and get them into action against the united nations this summer, U. S. naval experts believed today. Reports from abroad, one authority said, indicate that Germany may be planning to do just that—with the acquiescence of French Chief of Government Pierre Laval. “It would take one to two months to make seasoned German sailors efficient in the operation of French warships,” a navy veteran estimated. “If they try to train green men for the job, it would take three to four months to make them worth sa damn.” In any. event the project would not be without difficulties such as language. A few French officers presumably would have to remain aboard to instruct Germans in the handling of machinery and the mening of “tags” posted beside the various mechane ism. !

MORE ALCOHOL SOUGHT

WASHINGTON, May 28 (U. P.).— Approximately 90 per cent of the nation’s whisky distilling industry is expected to be converted te industrial alcohol production for war uses by the end of this year, the war production board said today.

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