Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 September 1942 — Page 2

gsian’ Armies Still Intact and Fighting Back After| = Four Months of Furious Conflict, : “Review of Campaign Shows. — ab Ty By UNITED PRESS . Si “The German do-or-die summer offensive in Russia, now| fh ‘its fourth month, has advanced the Nazi hordes some 400 ‘miles eastward across. the steppes of southern Russia and. some 200 miles into-the Caucasus. It has netted them one major city—Rostov—perhaps a score of large, strategically important, towns, the Crimean fortress of Sevastopol—and: smallest and least impor-|

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In manpower, they have paid for. S00 miles sn Hour. their gains well over 750,000 men killed and around 1,000,000 wounded —according to Soviet figures. i In tanks, planes, munitions, they have paid in astronomical figures. | A review of Adolf Hitler's do-or-| \ die offensive today gave substance ‘to the generally accepted belief that Hitler now is no closer than he was | when he started to his major objective—the destruction of the So-

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* The amazing resilience of the 8 §slan army was underlined in all} These ships carry a crew of seven :

‘dispatches and communiGues—German as well as Russian, . = It forced the Nazi hand in May by conducting a major offensive ‘around Kharkov. Last month it

front west of Moscow. This month it is on the offensive around Lenina Nazi Reports Vague

All this, and from June-4 to|—— en i] July 1, its doughty fighters mowed |{; the area of Rossosh, 150 miles}

Germans day and night from e strong fortifications of Sevastoand today, after a month, they still fighting the Germans ‘seeking in frenzied fury to take A review of the communiques of“both sides revealed two, pronounced ‘tendencies. Russian communiques’ ‘have been consistently conservative and factual. The .German “communiques have been vague... Most striking was<the rarity with which the German high command spoke of Russian dead and wounded in specific numbers—=4and, as an ad‘vancing army, presumably the Germans would have ore accurste

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Last summer, the Naszis:iwere slaughtering, in their communigues; : by the hundreds: of ‘thousands. This year, ‘the paucity of such claims was striking, = It was suggested that the Nazis had purposely refrained from enumerating Russian casualties for fear that enumerations would give 8 clue to their own. : It is a well established military esis that an army on the offensive suffers casualties in proportions of three to one. There-was nothing the communiques “to indicate at this formula had been upset.

. Russians Launch Drive

On many occasions, the German gh command claimed to have taken prisoners in the thousands d twice in the hundreds of thousands. The taking of great number prisoners indicates the losing army has been routed, and this y have been the impression the azis wished to give. Several times referred to Russian divisions and ‘brigades and even armies being annihilated” or “destroyed” but ‘rarely did it get down to specify. On May 13, the Russians beat he Germans to the offensive by unching a major drive cgainst arkov in south central Russia, a r Nazi base, and by May 17 y had flanked the city, killing

} in the Izyumvenkova sector of the Kharkov and for 19 days there was tantic struggle to decide which ny was fo remain on the of-

4, the Nazis opened their all . assault on Sevastopol aud June

~ [counter-attacks were to continue

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east of Kharkov. : .: cele It took four days of day and| night hattle to travel 40 miles: to} Lisichansk, south of Rossosh, and] 15 days more to drive 120 miles fur-! ther south to: Rostov, which had|’ been pulversized by German dive| | bombers in their vain efforts to dis-|. lodge the defenders who. how With</ drew to the south bank of the Don.| “ Rzhev Drive Stopped : Meanwhile, ‘an 11-day German |< offensive on the Rzhev sector, 130] miles northwest of Moscow, was| stopped in its tracks with 10,000 German dead. . The Soviet revealed that its own casualties had. been| _. The Germans then were gainin grounid, but the Russians were 2 far from" being weakettéd that on July 15 it was" ‘revéaléd’ that counter-attacks ‘on the Voronezh area had retaken territory. These

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‘Meanwhile, the Nazi hordes were| pushing - southward and eastward into the territory encompassed by the great bend of the Don river.

northern Caucasus. ; But it was a fight every step of the way, as, for example, the Salsk

south of Rostov, where 9500 Nazis were killed on Aug. 2.

Stalingrad Still: Holds

On July 29, the Germans were 80 miles from Stalingrad: and today, six weeks later they still are trying to overcome the Russian defense of | that city. : On Aug. 18 began the battle for the Don river crossing 40 miles west of Stalingrad and ‘here, for five days, were fought battles so bloody that they may rival some of the first world war. - ii The Germans at length triumphed —at_ horrible cost—an intact army falling back slowly before them, still fighting. : TT By Aug. 25, 1,000,000 Nazis were pounding closer and closer to Stalingrad and the Russians still were counter-attacking. That was approximately the situation there today, though the Germans were closer, perhaps in the very suburbs. ‘By Aug. 24, the German drive in the Caucasus had reached the vicinity of the Grozny oil fields. It| has been stalled there ever since.| The eastward prong of the Caucasus drive reached the Soviet naval base of Novorossisk Sept. 9.

New Nazi Offensive Meanwhil, the Soviet announced |

each motor develops 1000 horsepow-|

ing fortresses” to compete with the| was on the offensive on the central Nazi air force. You can help by in-

income in, war bonds every payday. | {Buy them from your bank, post-!-office or other convenient ‘issuing

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area of the Caucasus, some 100 miles| I

shore s. The D ownstairs Store of L. S. Ayres & Co. is a complete store in itself . . . it is actually a store “1 “yithin a great store”! .. . a flourishing part of the entire L. S. Ayres & Co. :

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a Ayres Downstairs Store is one of the greatest "traffic. y ¥ conters” in retail Indiana! More people pass through © ‘oli aisles than in many large upstairs stores . « o teuly "The BUY-WAY of Indianapolis.” One of the

> ; _ reasons why t customers cal testify, is that we present the merchandise that is

his is true, as any of our customers can

* wanted—WHEN it is WANTED! Nothing is brought

down from the upstairs store and placed in our

stocks for clearance. Even under wartime conditions, we carry large, regular stocks in complete assortments and in wide variety—all bought by our own Downstairs Store buyers. :,

Our ready-to-wear departments. feature inexpensive clothes that are in good fashion, and good taste. New merchandise arrives almost every day, and enables us to have the style-right items at the. very moment they are most in demand . . . and at consistently low prices. We are equipped to specialize in apparel for

"four distinct types: For Misses, for Women, for

Larger Women and for the Junior Miss.

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Hats, shoes and accessories are treated with great

respect in our Downstairs Store! We realize their uHer Fashion importance, and select them for our stockpith as great care as we do our ready-to-wear. The iar with o complete selections of gloves, bags, hosiery, under wear and foundation garments. ~~ 2

ok They say it's hard to get MEN to shop in a depart

ment store, yet we outfit hundreds of men—not just once or twice a year, but all year round. Our ONE-

As we approach our 70th Year

ands of Indianapolis women are familiar with our

of course, when, it comes to the CHILDREN, every-

‘body knows we're popular with Infants and Toddlers,

Two-to-Sixers, Boys and: Girls—all who, have their

~ own specialized departments—gathered together in

a complete "YOUTH CENTER." The hard-to-fit Teens are easy to fit here! You'll find it fun to select all the clothes your children need-—all on this one big oor. You'll find your clothing budget goes SO much farther, tool =~ ha by

In Ayres Downstairs Store you'll find, not only apparel, but also a very complete section devoted to yard goods; curtains and draperies, bedding and domestics, rugs. Did we say "Rugs"? Yes, indeed! We have one of the most outstanding Downstairs Rug Depart‘ments in the Middle West. a Xk

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How many cultomers do we serve each day? Our records show that an average of several thousands of people shop here each day. . There were ‘nearly two million separate purchases last year alone . . + and this year promises to be a record breaker! There are THIRTY-TWO separate departments . . and over 50,000 square feet of floor space in our Downstairs Store. Our staff of employees often numbers more than 300—so that you can be served efficiently

and without loss of time.

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Every facility of L. S. AYRES & Co. is at your disposal when you shop in the Downstairs Store . . + de- : liveries, charge accounts, deferred payment ‘and all other Ayres Services. With wartime travel becoming more and more. restricted, we especially call your

attention to our very efficient MAIL ORDER depart ment. Trained shoppers will fill your order quickly and satisfactorily. Five stairways and four elevators make the Downstairs Store easily accessible. Our efficient AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM keeps the air clean, "healthful and comfortable . . . the air is com changed evory seven minutes. ode

Celebration under thes wartime conditions:

$a i} = we have decided to have no tore-wide Annivers BEY PH opened their major offensive on Aug. 26 hat for 15 days, a Red 7 : Gr : Dae Pat od ol Se LE Fo aR ie ge pha egg LN a m Kharkov. Sn jarmy. had been on, thie offensive on SE ys Bon : Sh ER wide = on the cen ; Stalled at Kharkov northwest .of Moscow, Sstilral front hundreds of populated places, had| inf a slowed, this offensive is believed i) CN Ne, Indeed! We will continue to have selective sales -| continuing. . On. Sept. 6 the Rus-| | Bc 4 a a Noy -inceed: as -|slans had another offensive going, in the Leningrad region which still|is retaking ground from the Nazis.| Sept. 9, in spectacular emphasis|

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