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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-30
NEXT NAH GOAL

For the German troops pushing
eastward beyond MinSk, authori-
ties declared. the most important
immediate objective is SmolenSk-
about 220 miles from Moscow
where the Reds are believed TO
have strong Notifications
Retired Artillery Gen. PAUL
HaSSe estimated in a published
analysis that the Soviet armies
trapped by the German blitz prob
ably number about half a million
men. The announcement from
Hitler'S headquarters said these
forces either must sure n d @ r
within a few days or face an
Inhalation.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-30
RETREAT CUT OFF

The luftwaffe was depicted as
paralyZing the Red lines Of retreat
by smashing railway lines. Six
Red trains loaded with troops
were said 10 have been blasted in
the Minsk area alone.
"a German radio broadcast in
the Spanish language, picked up
in New York by CHS, said Ger
man troops have occupied Minsk.
Another German b ro a d c a 5 I
heard by NBC said the city OF
Luck in Sovietized Poland also
had been takenD
For the first time since the
World War, bayonets in the hands
of the Germans were said TO be
playing an important role in hand
to-hand fighting along the entire
front.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-30

luftwaffe base somewhere in Rus
Sia on Saturday were shot down
by German fighters and anti
aircraft guns.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-30

which we oppose to the boastful
reports from the German radio.
I'm the Vilma-Dvinsk area,
attempts of enemy mobile units
Go attack the flank and rear of
our troops. who were retiring 10
new positions after the Battle OF
Shaulai. remained unsuccessful.
These attacks were I'm the Keid-
nay, PoneveJ and kaunas sec
tors.
'In the Minsk area land troops
and air force checked further
advance of enemy mechanical
units which had pierced the de-
lenses of this sector. Covering
infantry which carried out the
retreat from the state frontier il
engaged I'm violent fighting and
Is stopping the enemy's motor
lied troops along the ids-Volk-
Ovysk line.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-30

Jul
Characterized by Hoover as a
leading figure IN the ring was
Frederick Joubcrt Duquesne. 63,
OF New York City
This man has been spy for
80 years. Hoover said. "He was
active in the BOer War and was
charged with murder in the
World War sinking of the British
ship Tennyson i'm 1918"
Members OF the ring have been
employed by the German con-
Sulate in New York. the German
Library of Information, the Ger
man Book and Specially Co., the
Sperry GyroScope Co.-manufac-
turers of the secret American
bomb Sight-the United States
Steamship Lines, Westinghouse
Electric. BendiN Aviation and Pan
American Always, One man was
a representative for the Ford and
Chrysler companies abroad.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-30
4,IO7 PLANES CLAIMED

With the German attack little
more than a week old. a sensa-
tional announcement from Chan
cellor Hitlers field headquarters
announced destruction of 4.l07
Soviet planes. destruction or cap
ture Of 2.233 Rcd tanks, capture
of at least 10000 Russian soldiers
and trapping of two entire Soviet
armies at Bialystok
Military authorities said that
Ger-%stt--ea++s-.sA a+t------i1ataat!-p
divisions and Stuka bomberS
were closing a ring Of iron around
the doomed Soviet armies
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-30
TANK BATTLE

"In the Luck area fighting be-
tween important masses OF
mechanical troops Is continuing.
Despite reinforcements of fresh
tanks, all OF the enemy's at
temps to penetrate toward Novo-
grad. Volynsk and Sheptavka not
only were repealed but our tanks
and aircraft succeeded through a
series Of consecutive attacks, in
annihilating a great part of the
enemy's tank units and motor
lied troops.
According to German prison.
ers. n complete enemy tank divi-
sion was annihilated near Ida"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-30
POLISH FIGHTING

On the Polish front. where the
full strength of Nazi panzer divi-
-siohs were thrown into battle, even
the spearheads Of the NaZi COL
umnS were said TO have been re-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-30
% GERMAN NATIVES

% GERMAN NATIVES
The SuSpects-22 Of whom are
natives OF Gcrmany-lnclude three
women Hoover declined 10 name
the foreign nation with which the
ring dealt. although the known
NaZi SympathieS Of those under
arrest indicated that the ring was
IN the service of Germany.
Hoover termed the arrests the
greatest spy roundup since World
War days. recalling that only 19
have been obtained
since The espionage act was passed
p years ago The act makes il
a crime 90 transmit unlawfully TO
q foreign power information af-
teCting national defense.
Disclosing that the arrests were
made after two years Of work by
G-men, Hoover asserted
This Is one OF the most &C
tive. extensive and vicious groups
we have ever had 10 deal with.
Among the individuals taken
into custody some are or re-
Gently have been employed In
plants manufacturing equipment
vital 10 the national defense.
Others have served until very
recently aboard American-flag
vessels engaged I'm trans A Atlantic
and cOastwise travel and on
transatlantic clipper planes"
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~ Seized
rs Spies i'm


Continued from Page one)
% persons were involved in the
espionage work. Five of them are
already IN prison for other crimes.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-30
REARMAMENT DATA

FIIOT1S 10 O0taln and transmit
data on United States rearma-
ment, manufacture of aircraft and
other munitions OF war marked
the chief interest of the ring. he
said, with ship movements and in
duStrlal and commercial develop
mentS also getting attention.
A Manhattan restaurant was
the central meeting place and a
sort Of clearing house for the spies,
Hoover said The restaurant pre-.
prietor Richard Eichenlaub, 36,
was one of those under arrest.
The espionage agents operated
as a group. Hoover asserted.
They may not have been COM .
pletely known 10 each other.
hut the ring functiOned as n
unit" he said THE information
they gathered was relayed to
Europe by courier and radio"
The FBI chief said his bureau
had been on their trail for two
years, but had not sprung their
trap until all the higher-ups had
been identified. Asked if the
groups operations had harmed the
United States, Hoover said he
could not comment on material
that would come before the grand
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-05

in Fantasia" - have Disney
and Stokowski approached the
perfect welding of music and the
animated cartoon. In fact. Dis
ney has been on the road TO a
new art for a long time in his
silly symphonies" But 10 blob
up the screen with lot of burst
inc songs and commercial hodge
podge and tell us this is Bach
fuguc" is TO miss the grandeur
of the music and make of tho
screen nut house.
Nevertheless. in Fantasia
we are in the presence of the
beginning of something big "A
musical universe where the in
animate no longer exists. The
future evolution of this new
art a" however. lies in the brain
of one Walt Disney. and
no one else.
| hope in the next step for
ward he will get musical help
meet of the stature of Toscaninl.
who would not. | wager, have
permitted such absurdities as
appear on the screen in at least
four of Fantasia numbers.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-05
Can Detroit Afford It?

DETROITERS should not be stampeded by the sudden
l. clamor from City Hall that buy the Michigan
Consolidated Gas Company and run as municipality
owned utility
- They should epethe- question a lot ef extremely
careful thought They should consider seriously whether
they want this utility at all
AS a matter of fact, Detroit at this time afford
to buy the gas company
Would il be at this time essential asset to the
municipal structure or a troublesome and expensive
luxury?
Detroit owes a great deal of money right now and
needs great many costly improvements.
Detloit's bonds in process of long and tedious
ef.lding.
Detroit needs considerable street paving.
Detroit needs increased alley maintenance
Detroit needs additional hospital facilities for general
and psyco,Sthic cases.
Detroit needs completely modernized traffic lighting
system
Detroit owns its street system which is hard put
to make money and which the people constantly
grumble.
Detroit owns its water system and its operation is
so costly that to the consumer have been raised
three times in eight years.
In view of all these admitted necessities and in view
of existing conditions the DSR and the water board,
would be iustifabe for heavily burdened city at
this time to gamble from 60 to 20 million dollars for
gas company?
The Detroit Times always has advocated municipal
ownership but there times when you can't afford
to buy it.
Nav not this be of the times?
Certainly time for the people to be dragooned
BY their counclmen into acting hastily and rashy on
matter of such grave Importance and many complexities
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-05
New Musical Universe
Suggested by Fantasia
BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES

THE Disney-Stokowski Fan
4 tasia" is still running through
my head.
Why. l ask myself. does great
music harmonic with stage bal
lets. such as the Ballet Russo
while il is repugnant to every
lover of classic music when. as
in Fantasia" il is Illustrated
by Disney's geological cartoons?
They are entertaining enough in
themselves. but they are veri-
table silly" symphonies when
we are told that they are the
union of great music and the
movies
The answer is simple. il seems
TO me. When we see Pavlova.
Mordkin, lSadora Duncan, Nj
jinsky and their ballet-choruses
we are looking al movements by
human beings that translate
beautifully and ideally all the
moods of the music. Death. hope.
Joy. war love. peace are danced
and gestured rhythmically and
intelligently by those who are
affected by these musical mo-
tifs-I mean. human beings.
But when. as in Fantasia. we
see The Dance of the Hours"
interpreted by the allegedly
comic" antics of ostriches. ele-
plants and giraffes the effect is
neither comic nor "educa-
tiondi : It is mentally and emo
tionally sickenlng.
TTIE greatest muSic-drama of
L all time is Wagner's Tristan
end Isolde The music the ac-
ton and the story are one. Now,
only The Sorcerer'S Appren-
tee and the Nutcracker Suite
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-05
Connolly Answers

1. ta) Madame Butterfly; OBJ
Aida; Co Carmen"
2. (a) Taurus; (b) Virgo: (cD
Aquarius.
3. TAI dancing; (b) women; (cl
without monei
4 (a) learned person; OBJ impcr-
fectly acquainted with his
work; (cl hermit.
). ca Gizeh, Egypt; tb) Rome
tcD Athens.
6 ta) Vulcan; (b) Aeolus; (c)
Cupid.
I. (al About Is inches; OBJ 30
inches; (c) SO inches.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-05

CHOULD England be defeated approximately
y nine-tenths of the worlds population VIII
be ruled by the bloody hands of the dictators.
Our current emergency will become permanent
with the burden of taxation increasing to
unbelievable figures.
Should we enter the war? Emphatically
no. the overwhelming majority of Americans
agree But we should aid Britain by becoming
1.-THE arsenal of democracy" as our President
so realistically puts it.
The end-ease bill now being vigorously
debated in Congress. if passed, will be great
step in increasing the British chances of vie
tory. allowing valuable time for our national
defense program.
Also by sending large amounts of war
materials to Britain, we are helping, not
hindering, our home defense by the vast ex-
pansion of defense industries.
ALEX VARTABEDIAN,
2949 TAYLOR avenue
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-05
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
I SEE in ono of our local papers
today that r. J. Thomas
pledged the cooperation of or
ganizcd labor to firms with
union contracts working on our
national defense program. Yet
he can't promise therell be no
strikes.
He also says he is going to do
everything he can TO stop pro-
duction AT the Ford Motor Com
pany. Mr. Ford. a real American.
IS doing everything possible for
our country.
My husband and many other
men we know. who work at the
Ford Motor Company plant. say
they would rather work and
have a pay envelope regularly
than walk the street carrying a
strike sign while their families
60 hungry.
Only by work can we meet
our obligations.
MRS. JOSEPHINE PEMBERTON
Ills Manor street.
Dearborn, Mich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-05
JOSEPH KACZOROWSkI,
44J3 Chene street.

IVES. think we should help the British with
i all aid that we could give them without
sending an army. The British fighting
for our liberty as much as their own.
Men like Lndbergh and Johnson say this
country eeHid not be invaded. | don't think
they know what they are talking about If
the British fall, where will that leave us? If
they lose their navy don't want to think
what could happen.
Greece and the British Far Eastern army
will take care of Italy, so | think we should
send England and Greece all the planes of
all kinds. guns. food and everything they need
so they can win. Here's hoping they do
WILLIAM LANGLEY
it8 North Lnvlle street.
Wayne, Mich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-05
The Crime Remains

THE United States government has decided, or rather
the New Deal administration has so decided that
Soviet Russia should be relieved of the stigma attached
to the moral embargo which this country has maintained
against her in the matter of airplane exports
This extends the friendly nation" status which
President Roosevelt granted Russia last year in connec
ton with the export of machine tools and other war
materials.
the United States indicated its dsapprova of the Russian
invasion and conquest of Finland
1t also suggests that the original cause for American
dsapproval has been removed either by Justfcaon Tor
the assault Finland atonement for 1t.
Since the extent of the wanton slaughter in Finland
has been confirmed by subsequent appraisal and since
of the seized Finnish territories have been restored
and since the Russian occupation and domination OF those
territories has become permanent and absolute in what
manner has Russia justified or atoned for her acts
MEXICAN public opinion outraged by those acts.
"A President Roosevelt called Russia "wanton aggres
sor" as result of them.
What warrants changed attitude?
What has happened since to alleviate our sense or
outrage?
What has happened to lessen the wantonness of the
aggressive for which Russia soundy
rebuked?
American public opinion will not be easily assuaged
in this matter American official judgment has been
The brutal ravishment of Finland is STILL the most
barbarous act of modern history in the opinion OF the
American people.
1t is STILL an indefensble dissertation of humanity
according to American morality and conscience
1t is STILL a shameful and altogether uncomfortable
crime against helpless and honorable people.
DUT the New Deal administration in its inscrutable
ID way, did go all the way with the American
people in condemnation of the Russian assault Finland
1t persisted in maintaining diplomatic relations with
Russia although that relationship humiatng to the
American people.
1t preserved all the forms of official recognition, al
though that created definite partnership with Russia
and her crimes and implied SHARING of responsibility
Apparently its expression of dsapproval was
matter of opportunsm suitable to the mood and temper
Of the people at the moment.
For at the very earliest opportunity the administra
ton has restored all advantages and privileges of normal
relationship Russia and has eXerted itself
bandly the moral stigma of unexpiated
and unconscionabe crime.
The New Deal administration has made loud protes
tatons of its antpathy for foreign relationships.
How it recine willingly and rest comfort
ably the intimate company of the most dangerous and
most despcabe of all tatorships-Communis Russia?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-05
For Aid

CHOULD we Americans enter the European
- war and aid Great Britain? No. absolutely
not but we should go to the very limit in our
assistance to England.
England needs materials, tanks, arplanes
and the United States in supplying England
will help England increase her dominance in
the air.
England full of fight and courage will
eventually defeat Germany, which is full of
Naz parasites.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-05
Quiz Answers

7. Horse.
,. 600; six feet TO a fathom.
3 ta) Abigail, tbl Beatrice. (c)
Catherine.
4. United States National Guard
). ta) Greece. tb) France.
6. An ant-cating animal.
{. a wind gauge.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-05
Against

THIS nation is still new nation. II hasn't
i been doing so bad. We started to build
a nation free of all the rotten dealings OF
Europe. growing up with all the Ideals of the
great men in our democracy.
Since we began to mess with Europe in
the last war, we have found ourselves with
out courage to do own thinking and
acting.
The only thing Europe has ever loved
about us was our money. | have Travelled
throughout most of the continent and have
studied the sociological angle. l know their
contempt for us as prosperous nation.
Our industries are without ambition and
fortitude because stymied by the influx
of European isms.
Labor today lines up like the peasants of
Europe with a yellow a red card and
number.
We Americans are a human sympathetic
lot of people, free to speak, vote and have
homes, and to believe in our own way.
Protect all this. America. and we need
have no fear of any nation on earth. Let US
get together, young and old and begin think
ing that together stand. divided we fall.
Have a two-ocean navy. keep industry
hummnG create jobs for all. Fill the air
with planes but keep them in our own front
yard.
n m
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-05
BARNEY PLOTNIK,
334J RichtOn avenue.

THERE are many doubts in my mind about
i this war. Surely the conduct of the coun-
tries conquered by the Nazis has been, in
many respects, not exemplary.
Nevertheless, we can feel justified in aid
ing Britain. for England with all her faults
and out-worn class system, offers us more as
a victor
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-05
ALIEN VARTABEDIA.
2949 Taylor avenue.
| G tt ers
TO the Editor

Please triple-space letters for
this column. Send to Letter
Editor, The Detroit Times. You
MUST sign your name and adj
dress; otherwise your letter will
not be printed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-05
JOSEPH SPARKS.
S724 Smart street.

DLEASE let me thank The Detroit Times for
/ what it is doing to help keep US out of this
war.
We should by all means stay out Of this
war
The present course taken by F. d. r. and
his Russian and British friends will not only
get us in this war and this bill 1776 now
being Matched in Washington is the most
dastardly man, or group of men, could put
over on the American people, If 1t becomes
law
The first thing we lose is our democracy,
which is the next thing to losing our own
souls.
Let's try financing America for change.
Let's think and talk American. We cannot
depend on any other country for protection
but own. So we must build up our de-
Tense to meet any emergency.
J.. \. PAUL,
209I0 Inkster road.
I THINK we are silly to sit back and allow
i those few members of Congress to 90 as
far as they have in this meddling situation
Some of those members of Congress are doing
their best to have American boys shoulder
arms again.
A. MARANTO.
3O7 West Vernon highway
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-05
AERlNG DOWN ON The NEWS:
BpHifO.S BOOxslpElyElN
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

We just picture Of Halle Seassie back in Ethiopia
nd victory the old boy looks like he just lost pillow
ight in a wash laundry.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-05

Halle left the vicinity in 1898 about jumps ahead of
his mailing address At that time thought smackng
him around just sporting ambushng milkmans
boss in the city limits
Halle threatened to back with accrued interest and
bookkeeping fees You can't keep away from his home
rhev he feels hat he himself
don't know what Mussoliqi thinks about this Every
thing has been going the wrong WAY for Beno like coggcd
pambng kitchen sink Things he thought gone
forever bobbing again
NJ
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-05
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r is not for nothing that VIC
life pursue;
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thing still that's new.
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nON'T let apoplexy overtake
~ you while reading the in
creasing reports about Phil Muir
rays plan TO the President
recommending creation of over
all industrial councils to guide
industry.
Mr.. Murray is rafting the
fasces little in this. Musso-
linis industrial councils singu-
larly have somewhat the same
setup, although Mr.. Murray's
would presumably represent The
public as well as capital and Ia
Dor. Anyway il is an old john
Lewis idea which Mr.. Murray
has busted of and presented for
argument rather than action.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-05

MR. ROOSEVELT is empow-
1Vl cred only TO take over in
dustries which have refused a
compulsory order. Ford has not
done that. Here is what hap