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Evening star., 1941-07-06
Vanguard Is Battling
Reds 300 Miles From
Moscow, Nazis Claim
Germans and Their Allies
Progress From Arctic to
GoIicio, Berlin Says
BY the Associated Press.

BERLIN, July 5-German ad-
vance units, fighting forward an
average of Is miles day in the
two-Week-old war with Soviet Rus
sia, were reported authoritatively
tonight to be in contact with the
main Stain Line on the Dnieper
River in the region of Orsha, about
300 miles west southwest of Moscow
Authorized sources announced the
location of this thrust and contact
(which normally means fighting be-
tween patrols few hours after
the high command reported: East
of Minsk, the River Dnieper was
reached"
But in the Minsk area itself, 12C
miles to the rear, fighting appar-
emily was continuing, for a COM
munique spoke of encircled troops
there, and the capture of Minsk
had not been announced officially
River Serious Obstacle.
The Dnieper River thrust high
lighted high command report which
told of military operations in the
east proceeding according to plan,
of further progress by Germany and
her allies from the Arctic to the
Galician plan of sovietized Poland
The fact that the Dnieper is so
deep and wide as to be navigable
for it's entire 1,400-mile length from
the swampy forest lands of Smolensk
Province to the Black Sea makes ii
serious obstacle to conventional
military operations.
In addition to 10000 Soviet pris-
oners already declared taken. the
high command said several thou
sand fell into Nazi hands south OF
the Pinsk marshes when scattered
enemy detachments were encoun-
tered by our reserves at several
points and destroyed"
tThe fact the German troops
involved in this sizable operation
are identified as reserves indi-
Gates large Red Army units may
be operating against German
bases and supply lines behind the
front which NaZi armored and
motorized columns have arched
in the shape of huge bow aimed
at Moscow
Our Hungarian allies have taken
Kolomyja and Stanislawow," the
high command said, referring to sis
ter towns on the Galician plain be-
low east slopes of the Carpathians
I'm the Baltic, pursuit of the beat
en- enemy has been continued"
Advance Along Coast.
German and Finnish units NOV
ing east from Finland were said to
have made further progress despite
great difficulties of terrain granite
cliffs, timbered hills and swamps)
and stubborn enemy resistance" In
formed sources said the forces had
advanced along the coast to the Liza
region.
Smolensk, important rail junction
lying on both sides of the Dnieper so
miles above Orsha, has been a target
of German dive-bombers for several
days. Dispatches from the front said
its flaming reflection in the sky
could be seen for miles.
A German bombing plane observer
said the city's anti aircraft batteries
were firing up from sea of flames
and smoke as a load of incendiary
bombs were dropped into the blazing
middle of the city.
One of the oldest Russian cities,
Smolensk was taken by Napoleon in
1912 as he marched toward Moscow
Further north. in the Baltic
region, destruction of one Soviet
army was claimed, along with large
quantities of war materials. Reports
(See BERLIN, Page A-40
Evening star., 1941-07-06
u. S. Rejects Request
To Represent Both
Russia and France
Ry TIE Associated Press.

BY tire Associated Press.
The United States has re-
fused to take over Russian
representation in Vichy. and
French representation in Mos
COW. a State Department
spokesman said last night, be-
cause it's embassies already
are taxed to capacity by similar
assignments from other coun-
tries.
The Russian and French re-
quests were made through Ad-
miral William D. Leahy, Am
bassador to France, following
the rupture of diplomatic re-
lations between France and
Russia. AS result of the
United States refusal to act,
1t is assumed the two countries
would designate another neu-
tral power to represent them.
Evening star., 1941-07-06
Nebraska Forms Lack
Men; Women Fill Jobs
q, the Associated Press,

KEARNEY, Nebr, July 5.-Wom-
en- are shocking grain in many
Buffalo County fields because of a
shortage of harvest hands, County
Agricultural Agent Howard Peter
son reported today.
The shortage has been attributed
to the draft and to the fact many
men have left Nebraska to take
defense jobs.
Evening star., 1941-07-06
Analysis of Traffic
Deaths in Star Today

Automobiles are killing more
District children in l94l than
last year. In the past six
months, eight have met death
in the street-hve more than
were killed in the same period
in 1910.
In this center of defense
efforts, 40 lives have been taken
in traffic from January through
June. This compares with Sc
in the same period of 1910.
For the safety of pedestrians
ard motorists alike, The Star
has sought the causes of these
traffic deaths. The resulting
analysis appears today on The
Stars quarterly safety page,
Pase B-6.
Evening star., 1941-07-06
Hitler Reprieves l3
Doomed Norweqiuns
BY the Associated Press.

bg NHt HASOCIdItu PTeSS.
STOCKHOLM, July 6-(Sunday). .
Thirteen Norwegians sentenced to
death by a German court martial
for espionage were reprieved today
by order of Adolf Hitler.
Among them were three news
paper editors.
Evening star., 1941-07-06
progress in the drive up the Baltic
states toward RusSia'S second city.

prOgTeSS III lIle uIlFe up llic odlIle
states toward Russia's second city.
Southern Fighting Fierce.
The fighting cost the Germans so
tanks in the Bobruisk area, the re-
port declared.
The Germans yesterday made a
fresh attack on Novograd Volynski,
140 miles west of the Ukrainian
capital, Kiev, and fierce fighting is
in progress in that battlefield, the
Russians said.
The communique asserted that
Russian troops fighting fiercely in
the Tarnopol area of the southern
front have checked the advance
for large enemy motorized units in
a southerly direction"
Russian planes struck blows at
(See MOSCOW. Page A-5)
Evening star., 1941-07-06

By tie Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 5.-Britain
and the Vichy government are
in a pre-armistice stage of ex-
changing views to ending the
war in Syria, Martin AgronSky,
National Broadcasting Co. cor
respondent in Ankara, reported
tonight in a broadcast from
Ankara.
Agronsky quoted authoritative
British diplomatic circles as saying
the war in Syria is in its final and
decisive stage.
He quoted one reliable diplomatic
source as saying that while certain
armistice negotiations had not yet
started, there has definitely been
IAN exchange of views between
Vichy and Britain concerning an
armiStice."
This source added, Agronsky said,
that "a certain great neutral power
whose identity I am not at liberty
to disclose has so far been the 60
between" but will not necessarily
appear in the final negotiations.
Informed sources in London said
they had heard nothing about Brit
iSh-French pre-armistice exchanges
Evening star., 1941-07-06

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, July 6 Sunday
Russia today claimed victory
over German mechanical forces
in a big counteroffensive near
the Latvian border and officially
declared the Nazi drive in the
Baltic states and White Russian
areas had slowed down consid-
erably because of heavy losses.
While Red Army soldiers bat
tied the German invaders on the
outer fringes of the Stain Line deep
inside White Russia. the Soviet
communique disclosed the Rus
slams had taken the initiative in the
vicinity of Ostrov. station on the
Dvinsk-Leningrad railroad Is miles
east of the Latvian frontier.
The communique declared the
Germans were thrown back from
the town of Ostrov itself and ado
ed:
Our troops destroyed hundreds
of the enemy's tanks in this Sec
tor and a large proportion OF MS
motorized infantry"
Dvina Crossing Repulsed.
A German attempt to force the
Dvina River in the Polotsk sector
was thrown back by a 'resolute
counterattack, the war report
said, while the Red Army counter
attacked or held its ground stub
bornly in the Lelep, Borisov ana
Bobruisk sectors of the European
wide front.
The fighting revealed in these
sectors that the enemy has con-
siderably diminished his activity in
view of the heavy losses sustained,
the communique said.
Polotsk is 80 miles east of the
Latvian city of Dvinsk and is an
important railroad junction, one line
leading to Moscow Ostrov is about
200 miles southwest of Leningrad,
indicating the Germans had made
Evening star., 1941-07-06

WHERE RUSSIANS CLAIM vICTORES-The Russians claim to
have hurled back German forces at Ostrov and PootSk Cd,
the Lavan border and to be holding their at Lepe
Bobrusk The Germans said they had reached
Dnieper before the Stain line sawtoothed
markings in their thrust Moscow 300 miles away The
Germans also reported their drive go toward Kiev
capital of the Ukraine although the Russians claimed to be
standing firm at Tarnopo and to have stopped Nazi troops
which crossed the Prut River "a.
Evening star., 1941-07-06

Radio Programs, Page F-5
Complete Index. Poee Az
Evening star., 1941-07-06
White Russia and
Baltic Offensives
Declared Slowed

BACKGROUND
Germany inpaded Russia ttDo
peekS ago today and 1UaS joined
later BY Finland, Rumania, Hun
gary and SloDakia. AriS offensive
has fire principal SpearheadS
aimed at Murmansk in the er-
treme north. Leningrad, near the
Finnish border; MoScoU through
White Russia, the Ukraine
through Southern Poland and
Bessurabia from the Rumanian
border.
Evening star., 1941-07-06
Nazis Hurled Back at Two Points
Near Latvian Border Reds Claim;
Syrian Armistice Is Reported Near
London and Vichy
Declared to Have
Exchanged Views

BACKGROUND
British and Free French in
Uaded Syria and Lebanon to pre-
Uent German use of French
inundated territory as route for
attack on Suez Canal. British
haze captured Damascus, capital
OF Syria, and are attempting to
driue up coast to seize Lebanon
capital OF Beirut, but so far haze
not reached the city.
Evening star., 1941-07-06
Weather Forecast

Mostly cloudy, with likelihood of occa-
sional light showers today and tomorrow;
slightly warmer today. Temperatures
yesterday-Highest,7 n; lowest, 63.
From the United States Weather Bureau report.
Full Details on PAGE Az.
Evening star., 1941-07-06

(See RAIDS, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1941-07-06

(See MOSCOW, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1941-07-06

(See POLICE, Page A-9D
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-06

YOU do you YOU your your
anybody you could better any these achievements:
Emil Celia drank half gallon of beer 6 seconds in Baltimore
Bill Robinson Is yards backwards 20 seconds Alvin
ShpwTeck' Kelly fagpoe for 40 days and one hour
Gus Simmons of Chicago cake of ice for 26 hours
Grace Phean of Ena Pa typed 129 words minute for
half hour Robert Saus of Knoxville Tenn ate 60 soft boiled
eggs in SIS minutes
Leo Deorn of Purchase Pa played 2s holes of golf without
stop in 1850 strokes Sian Donon walked 1900 miles with
out touching the ground. He used stills.
Rev. John William Pitcher of Baltimore read the Bible from
73746 wods) in 40 hours and Sc minutes
MARY FROST MABON. Food expert Very unusual
4A activity for Mrs Mabon locker and has
daughter she has four the child choose the
she likes later
Candida sabina Felicity youngsters
Say your Puddlevaite for
could call your female child Iris Mercedes
Kathleen Puddewate could later of
these for permanent
Marjorie Woodwork cinema cutie. Asked take
initiative in the matter of kissing the leading she refused
saying:
The only man ever kissed first was my father must
sst receiving the kiss"
Woodwork 10 years old Passing discussion
to whether Marjorie right this matter let
interesting angle namely better give
than receive when il comes to kissing?
Harold Ickes Secretary of the interior dahla and
repartee expert Icke years old recently
very proud papa for the second time three years The first
the second daughter Mrs Ices formerly Jane Dahl
man a Milwaukee girl
Eff DOrsay The mademoisele from Montreal Fiji
stenogaph made her Manhattan debut previously
ported here Greenwich Village singing I'm Little Wild
Flower Growing Wilder Every Hour
QUERIES from clients QWha your idea of apple la
W mode with strawberry A-Sr. unaterably
opposed II Injustice both the pie and ice
II you don't vanilla ice it isn't pie a la mode
QWhats the best 10 sell a short AYOu pick
the magazine you think might the yarn and send il 10
in entS6e &od confent f6r the stofy nseff
always try TO put punch in the first paragraph
QNoe Mr.. Ickes suggests "Gase Sundays How did that
poem 1918 that started Our Mondays meatess All
recall is Our Mondays meatesso Tuesdays heaes
Wednesdays Thursdays treaess' And
that il ended Gosh how I hate the kaiser"
y syna Inc
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-06
By JAN VALTM

street battle, a blow across the,
face with a rubber truncheon
did not cow a mans fighting
spirit, but dashed it to a bright
flame. The intimidating psyche
logical effect which police uni
forms usually have on a monde
script mass of rioters vanishes
when the rioters discover that
even a well-armed policeman is
no match for score of bare fists
at close quarters.
AT times l saw young workers
with the red five-pointed star on
their caps jab their pocket
knives into the legs Of police
horses. Invariably the horses
reared and bolted.
In the end, we were scattered.
The battlefield was Uttered with
caps, torn clothing, broken glass,
police helmets. With a horde of
several hundred men and women
/ wandered toward the Aussen-
alster, a residential section of
the well-to-do. The flags had
disappeared. The bandsmen, to
save their instruments, had long
since gone home. A ragged,
wild-eyed assembly of scare
crows, we roved up and down
the broad, clean, residential
streets, yelling in unison:
Hunger! Hunger!"
Lights were switched off,
shades ratified down, doors were
locked as we approached. A
single howl out of hundred
Threats plunged whole blocks
into darkness. Once in a while
a police truck sped around a
corner, siren yelling, and cursing
men leaped to the pavement
amid the screaming of brakes.
Instead of bread we got beat
ings.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-06
Realization of Pliqht

l heard the patter of feet on
the forecastle head. 1t was
followed by the clashing sound
Of metal striking metal. Some
one was working on the wind
lass directly above my head.
Suddenly I realized: the fog
was too dense for the ship to
proceed and the pilot had de-
cided to anchor until the weather
cleared. They'd drop the anchor
and the chain beneath me would
rush upward, tons Of iron bang
ing upward through the chain
locker and / would be smashed
to shreds in the darkness below.
A clear voice rang above me
"All clear anchOr!"
Family, a rumbling voice came
from the bridge:
"Forty-five fathoms. Stand
by to let go!"
"Help!" | yelled. "HOld
anchor! Man below! Help,
helpw
The next instant I had un-
fastened the m nh ole and
scrambled out of the chain
locker. A young officer came
rushing down from the forecastle
head.
Seeing me, he shouted:
ANY more of you buns
down there"
NO"
He ran back on the deck.
"All clear!"
A command from the bridge;
Let go anchor"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-06
Wanders AimlessIy
Even if they had registered

Even if they had registered
you" he said. you'd have
waited all of two years for
your turn to ship out. y
"They killed man up
there" | said.
fhat = att right, you'll get
used TO that Let's have a
beer"
wandered about aimlcssly
what to do. Shall !
run away from this diseased
Or shall l join the
forces which are actively at
lacking the wrongs that made
my blood rebel?
One road tempted me with
the free and happy countries !
had seen during my seafaring
years. The other filled me
with the feryor and the high
expectations of revolutionary
youth. l felt a strangulating
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-06

the steamer ran into a fog, ]
knew it by the roar of the siren
which came at steady two-minute
intervals. Three, four times the
siren roared. The vibration in
the bulkheads ceased. The
engines were stopped.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-06
Joins Communists

Two days after taking part in
the hunger demonstration in
the second week of May, 1923
I joined the Communist Party
Early in the morning ! went to
the Red House in Hamburg.
A short, wiry man with strong
eyebrows and a salient jaw re.
ceived me, and asked a few
pointed questions. It developed
that he had known my father
during the wartime underground
work of the Spartacists in the
fleet. Considering me very fl
and reliable recruit, he signed
me up at once.
eve have very little time to
train and choose our cadres,"
he said. I'VE believe in push
ing young blood to the fore.
We believe in youth, bold,
disciplined youth"
81 shan't disappOint YOU" l
replied.
Remember, a campaign Is
not a matter of leaflets and
meetings, but of action, action
and more action. Action means
strikes. Mass strikes are the
prelude to armed insurrectiOn.
We must bring conditions to q
revolutionary boiling point,
with any and all means at our
command. Is that clear to
youe"
Every clear" / answered.
Assigned to Maritime
"AII right" he went on,
you'll work In the maritime
section. COmrade Walter
handles that. You know that
Germany Is an industrial coun-
try dependent on industrial
exports and raw material i'm
ports. So shipping Is q jugular
vein OF German capitalism.
Should we succeed in making
harbOrs and ships into for
tresses of the Communist
Party-we've got that jugular
vein in our grip. We can
break IL and the bourgeoisie
will bleed to death. You'll re-
port to COmrade Walter"
Albert Walter was a thick-set
Ijovial, highly energetic Bolshevik
lof international caliber, and
the undisputed chieftain OF
Communist activities along the
German seaboard. Bronzed
barrel-chested, he had a massive
forehead, mobile features. and
his small, brown eyes seemed
always on the alert.
He was in his late thirties,
and had lived for Is years the
life of a professional seaman
After his release he made his
way to Moscow where Lenin
made him a political commlssar
In the Baltic fleet. In 1922, the
Comintern chiefs, considering
Walter their most able man in
marine affairs, assigned him to
head the international Propa.
ganda and Action Committee
of Transport Workers (IPAC.
Transport.
Ito Be Continued)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-06
Elsie
Robinson
A Letter to Mothers
Who Are Suffering

NOO virtue NE thdt yum
= little girl has gone. l
would give much to put my
hands on yours and ease. even
for a minute, that dreadful
ache of bankruptcy; that feel
ing that your life has lost all
it's meaning. / know that feel
ing so we'll. 1t came to me.
too.
But words, however SYM
pathetic. cannot help you now
or give you back the sweet
and constant pride you felt
while she lived. Ii changed
everything, that pride, didn't
it? And now, what's left?
Why even try to go on?
You're asking yourself these
questions, arent you!
Perhaps il I tell you OF
something l discovered far
back in the woods on this
Sierra Nevada ranch. you may
find the beginning OF the
answer.
Id heard of il. Of course.
Some of the old-timers had
even known him. the strange
Frenchman who had come
from no one knows where and
built himself a little stone
cabin. far back, up the creek.
A solitary sort of chap. he
spent his days prospecting.
rarely came to town, made no
friends.
NO ONE knew his story.
~ Nor. since his cabin was
so far from the accustomed
trails, did any one try TO visit
him. So il was only by acct
dent that a cattleman, round
ing up some steers in the
manzanita. found him lying
dead, sprawled across his
floor.
Nothing mysterious about
that. Many a man dies like
that in these ranges. Yet
something in that still body
made the cattleman bend
curiously, then slowly remove
his big. battered hat.
Half way up the rough.
stone wall shallow niche had
been built. Within that niche,
a guttered candle at her feet.
there stood a little image Of
Mary. the mother of Christ.
The old Frenchman had died
with his eyes upon her gentle
face. his hand outstretched.
There was the story. The
wreckage Of the hut still
stood. they said. Climbing one
day through the tangled chap
parral, l came upon ii sud-
denly, amazingly.
Until then Id hardly be-
lieved the legend. But now.
before me. in the standing
wall. / saw the niche, the
rocks still blackened by the
candles he had lit. There, on
the floor, he had lain, taking
her comfort with his dying
breath, healing his secret hurt
with her courage and beauty.
\ ND it came TO me. sharply,
"A how widespread the serv-
ice of that comfort was.
Wherever human life went, il
followed. No man was so lost
or so desperate but that, in
his blacklist hour, he could
reach toward those arms and
bare his misery to those pity
ing eyes.
That was what Mary had
meant to one outcast - to
niiliers, Of outcasts in the
dark corners of the earth.
That was what all mothers
might mean. even il their own
babes were dead. Her Son was
dead. too. Yet the ministry OF
love went on and on; no grave
could bind its beauty.
Somehow one need not feel
so robbed, so useless. II one
could remember that!
CRY IF YOU MUST. MY
DEAR. THEN LIFT UP
YOUR FACE AND GO ON.
YOUR WORK HAS JUST
BEGUN. WITHIN YOU r
TEAR STAINED II NDS
YOU HOLD A HEALING
MIRACLE.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-06
Continued from Page one)

often trampling one another
underfoot. Women, appearing
from nowhere, shouted abuse.
Others threw garbage cans from
windows at pursuing policemen.
iiaif-stuuued, / made my way
10 the Cathedral of 81. Michael.
Beside me walked an old mari
ner. He was serene, as if nothing
had happened.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-06
Visits Friends Sister

The message, in code, was
written on piece of toilet paper.
He also gave me a ragged little
book, urging me to pass it on
before my release. It was the
Communist Manifesto.
did not see Zcympanski
again until 1882. BY then he
had become one of the most
efficient operatives of the foreign
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-06
On the Side
BY E. V. Durling

Married IA Jautary's boar and riHc
Widotcd you'll DO before pour time.
Married IN Fcbr7iary's sIecty ce0thcr
I4fe yos'U tread IN me together.
Married rkeH MarcL's ,riads siriH ard
lnnr honne iciHb on a foreign shore
Married meath pyrJs chorgctpI SKIES
A eleckered poth before jon hes
Brides Prophecy
III you expect be married May, June July or
August patient What the prophet had abolt Your future
will appear above tomorrow.-EVD)
HAVE YOU girl graduate your home' S SFe
II cap gown yet? Tell her wear the cap
on the side of her head That's way the world
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-06

hope she wants 10 be a career girl ana GETS
her wish a girl who can support herself
has better chance 10 marry, AMI stay
married for love As for The young man
graduate all we can do Is wish him luck rs
he probably VIII soon have ringing in his
cars You're in the army now" that haunt
ing ditty with me sad and discouragng
third line
BY the way sir, who in your college
class was voted most likely 10 succeed? o.
Hows he doing? The greatest financial
success in my class was a fellow who was
fired in his freshman year.
w IT, LOVE. Of Seattle Wash. changed a
', ttflfFee-eeFHered- diaper on his 7-month-
old son in l6 seconds So states editor of
Who Magazine and asks: Can YOU beat
it," Well. l don't think I could beat it
right now but if could borrow 7-month-
old baby for little practice might How