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THE BAILY AKGUS -LEADER Sunday Morning Edition Sunday Morning Edition "South Dakota's Leading Newspaper" SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 1941 lamb Clash In Misb Sedtoir; 1 dissiifiiis Claii Ifliiin Iris -Halted 1 Nazi Casualties SHARPLY CRITICIZED Heavy In Fierce Rearguard Action Flames of War on a New Front Berlin Reports Say Eastbound Blitz Hack ing Way Through Stubborn Resistance By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A mighty battle between 4,000 German and Russian tanks raged early this morning in the southern Polish sector, Moscow reported in claiming that Hitler's main, drives had been halted along the nazi-soviet front. ine uermans themselves Specifically, this was the outlined it: The heaviest fighting: of of Lwow, Poland, to the southwest; many nazis taken prisoner in the northern Lithuanian sector; German columns still held up along the central Lithuanian front, the historic Napoleonic way to invasion of Moscow. ine Kussian command actions by the Red army which took heavy casualties, but did not specify where these occurred. In the Minsk battle area man tanks had been destroyed up to Friday night a far. Smoke and flames rose from burning buildings in a soviet Russian town In the path of German troops, German sources did not name the town.

This photo was sent from Berlin to New York via radio. Reds to Face PRICE FIVE CENTS said, little. picture as Red communiques all at Luck and in the district' spoke of "fierce rearguard alone, Moscow said 300 Ger Moscow Moscow, June 29, (Sunday) (At In probably the greatest tank battle the world ever has witnessed, German and Russian steel monsters arc clashing all up and down the front in former Poland, with 4,000 of them locked in mortal combat In the Luck sector alone, it was reported today by the. Russian information bureau. i In general, the Russian com munique stressed that the German advance Is being held up by this terrific defense, with nazl losses running Into high but untold figures.

particularly in the direction of Minsk, capital of White which appears as a prime German objective, German tanks were halted, the Russians asserted. The communique spoke of the Red army Inflicting Important losses on tne nazis in rear guard actions while withdrawing to new positions, but did not locate this retreat. Stubborn Fighting Elsewhere its communiaue was a tale of stubborn fighting, with Russian troops and airmen either holding their own or gaining the upper hand. "In the Siaullai sector (of former Lithuania), our troops took many prisoners, a great number of whom were in an intoxicated condition the communique said. It claimed also the destruction of 300 tanks of the nazl 39th tanks corps up to Friday night In the continuing battle in the Minsk area.

Telling thus of having smashed the deepest and most menacing of me nazl spear thrusts Into soviet territory, along the historic invasion route which Napoleon chose in 1813, the Russian announcement said succinctly: "Fighting la still In progrecs." It credited the Red air force with series of successes over all th fronts, noting especially that two monitors, river gunboats, were sunk by air bombs near Tulcea, on the Danube river in Rumania. Seven German Diane wera men. tioned as shot down at various points Saturday. The official war bulletin told of repelling German Rumanian attempts to cross the prut river Into Bessarabia. It already had claimed annihilation of an Infantry regiment along the Prut.

Germans Desert Listing them by name. It asserted some German airmen had surrendered voluntarily to the Russians and nad written an appeal to others of the luf twafle to do likewise, Some Finnish soldiers aUo have crossed Into Russia and surrendered witn tne word, "we do not want to fight against the soviet union." the Information bureau's summary stated. In general, the picture drawn by the soviet command last night remained e.wntially the-same the Russians still standing In the buffer state areas that once were part of Poland. Lithuania and Rumania, with great and bloody battle being waged from northern Lithuania to the Black sea. This In detail was the official ac.

count of the position given at that time (Saturday night): In the central sector protecting Minsk, the White Russian capital, and far to the southwest of Mos cow Itself; The Germans, after Initial sue. cesses which had forced a Red re. tirement to new defense positions, were thrown back In a savage and unexpected counter-attack by Russian tanks, bombers and artillery wim heavy losses In dead and captives and the capture of nasi war plans which fell into soviet hands. In the north, from Siaullai in old Lithuania down to Vllna in old Poland: Tank Beatea "A considerable defeat lnfllcte upon naM tank column, hut the 16 PAGES DEFENSE HOUSE GROUP CITES DELAYS AND FAILURES Report Also Outlines Need of Vision by Government Officials wshineton. June 28.

(IP) In a sharply critical report on defense progress, the house military committee asserted today that a series of major "failures" and "delays' had Ifd to a present serious lack of strategic materials, The deficiencies, the committee idded In a voluminous report based on weeks of study, were attributable largely to "absence of a responsible hrad with authority and power," but to national preoccupation in recent veai-s with "social reform rather than'natlonal security." The report spoke, too, of a nerd for "vision" on the part of government officials and ob- itrved: "The administration has been too prone when difficult problems arose to easily dispose of them by creating mother board, only to add to the confusion of the assortment of agencies we now have." A for the lack of strategic the report said: A shortage of aluminum Is "critl-el" because of Inadequate pqjrer md fabrication facilities, p-- Rubber ia not available in sufficient quantities primarily because of -i lack of ships and refusal by some ihippers to carry the commodity. Defense officials disclosed yester-dav plans to build new aluminum plants to turn out 600,000,000 pounds a year, raising the national output to 1,400.000,000 pounds. riane Output Lags In Informed quarters today, it was reported that airplane production this summer would lag primarily because of shortages of essential materials. May output was 1534 planes compared with 1,389 in The house committee's report Med these as short-comings connection with the defense pro-pirn: s. 1, "Failure on the part of con- trees, the administration and the public to initiate a stock pile pro gram at an earlier date.

"Failure to entrust 'to a responsible head the full authority to carry out the will of control In the legislation enacted. J. Failure of a sense of urgency on the part of officials of purchasing organization. "The delay In establishing con Wsation methods and the use of substitutes for fear of creating un employment. J.

"Unwarranted delays In building plants and facilities for the con-wsion of raw materials Into fin- sned producta." Agencies Fail In connection with the fourth Wnt, the study said: "TVe do not wish to slnrie out the automotive Industry as an example because we realize fully IU vital Prt in our industrial and civil life, but this Industry was too long al-Jwed to consume sorely needed de- materials In this first year of our defense effort. "Since the needs of this Industry re those almost Identical with the furtherance of the defense program, me vision was needed by our gov-'fnnient officials to restrict the automotive program, "Our government agencies are not wuteura in the methods of pro-Wanda but they have failed in they did not long ago begin "beating the mihtle thm tiH. squandering the materials "to in our defense effort." Weathei Iim tofwntl Th Anon. tnr' mnrtiim. Ha" airport Mtht aMtioa.

OFFICIAL FORECAST omti Dakota and Mlnne-: Partly tloudy Sunday and Monday with occasional local Nndewhoweni not much JjBge In temperature. Partly cloudy, scat mm. Monday and iZ wnperauire. Monday Md In day, extreme east Sun Temperature. terday Todav midnight I Em 22 lT unsteady unrise lhto on a.

St. Iiii mm flOUH 00 ma winmpH i6 a A Pius was can to but its tne the (C. by ing in ing set by S. 8. a BRITONS URGE NEW ATTACK ON CONTINENT Say Time Is Ripe Now That Germans Are Busy in Russia London, June 28.

(JP) Agitation grew in Britain tonight for daring attacks by army and navy raiders on the German-held continental coasts, now that the nazis' backs are turned, and one general suggested that amphibian tanks join them In a gen eral offensive teamed up with the great, continuing RAF aerial as saults, General J. F. C. Fuller, one of the first British generals to exploit the use of tanks In the World war, called In the "Sunday Pictorial" for "til and run" raids by the army and navy on "the coasts of countries now occupied by Germany. Strong Ger man forces would have to be ai verted to protect these coasts, he declared.

The public Is growing restive now that there seems to be a special opportunity to strike at Germany while she is preoccupied with Russia on the east, Claim Five Flanea They want more than the heavy air raids, already of record propor tions, that continued today with i smashing attack on a huge power plant at Comlnes, near Lille, one of the key plants In heavily-industrial lzed northern France. Raiders operating In skies almost cleared of German opposition knocked down five German planes, boosting the British figures of Ger man losses for the year to 2,088 In all theatres and bringing the toll of German aircraft claimed since last Saturday to 120 But the British now are clamor ing for more than this. "This chance may not recur, wrote one military correspondent, "Tens of thousands of raiders smashing up communications, air fields and factories would bring real relief to our Russian allies while doing a vital service to ourselves." Want Aggressiveness When questions are asked con cerning probable raids on the continent by the army, supported by the navy and the air force, official faces are blank, despite reports from Washington that such raids are tak ing place. These questions are being asked repeatedly by the man-m-the-street as well as in the press. The prevailing spirit Is one of aggressiveness.

From the start of the man war last Sunday until today the hitting hard has been confined to heavy air raids which have begun to be directed earnestly to the extensively Industrialized section of northern France centering at Lille and the mining and manufacturing towns of Lens and Doual. The Comlnes power plant was re garded so highly by the French in the fall of 1939 that they diverted three of their small stock of antiaircraft guns to protect It. It Is easily located, lying on a flat plain, and its gate borders on the Arras-Lille road. It has now been bombed twice, on Tuesday and today. In addition, Bcthune, site of a large oil refinery, was bombed Monday and the big steel works of the Fives-Lille company were attacked on Friday, I iz llomhrrt While attacking the Comlnes power station today the RAF downed three German planes at a cost of three of their own fighters Last ttlght the British lost 12 bombers In the 17th successive night of raiding of northern and western Germany an unusually high num ber.

German sources In Berlin re ported that the British lost 36 planes lo one German plane lost In the 24 hours ending Saturday morning. The bnmbera last night attacked the north German port of Bremen and Its shipyards, leaving fires "all beyond control," according to the air ministry news service, and also smirk at the Vulcan shipbuilding yards it Vegesack, which have been adapted for the building of tub marines, Mannerhcim Asks Finns' Support Helsinki, Finland. June 29, rSun dayi Field Marshal Baron Carl Ouslaf Mannerheim called upon Finns to follow him in a holy war aeaimt Russia today soviet planei attacked 11 towns. The aged who led Finnish force in the three months campaign of W9, charged the Russians with unscrupulous threats, blackmail and criminal subversive activities which he taid "have shown that from the very beginning th enemy did not Intend the peace to be permanent." Finns will march with "the mighty armed forces of Germany" on the cruMde and a new day dawns tor Finland," he said. Finns Mid the soviet planes caused only four civilian Injuries and only siignt damage ana two of the at- tarker were destroyed.

BIX Lutheran bishop of Finland appealed all churchgoer lo de fend the Christian faith against "the JOB IS Key of Bay Gets Dog Job in Films Hollywood, June 28. (fl) Yesterday he was Just a sad-eyed brown beagle In an SCPA shelter. Today, christened Caruso, he's figure of note In the dog world all because he can bay In the key of A. None of pictures' high priced poodles, it seems, could bay In the key of A. Some of them couldn't even bay.

Most of the others were definitely in the key of G. So Caruso was plucked from the pound to the set of Warner Bros. "Sergeant Musical Director Max Steiner said the key of the dog's bay had to be because the score was written in that key, and a baying dog was essential to proper setting of the scene in Tennessee's hills. Pope to Give Views on War Pontiff Prays on Eve of Ra dio Address to Waiting World Vatican City, June 28. OP) Pope XII prayed at the tomb of St.

Peter tonight on the eve of a radio address to the world In which he expected to make known his views on the war the axis is waging agalnts soviet Russia. The Observatore Romano, a Vati newspaper, said the pontiff would "expound his views on the subject of divine providence In human events." Nothing came from official circles suggest what the pope would say, the Vatican's concern over atheistic communism and the danger of spreading over Europe, if not worm, nas been expressed many times. The Observatore indicated that message would come within the pope's practice of "spreading the light of salutary teaching and pointing out the way of salvation." The pope Is expected to speak in Italian for 20 minutes at 4:30 a. m. S.

in his world broadcast Vatican radio. Translations in English, Spanish. German, French, Polish, Dutch, Hungarian and Por tugese are to follow. The pope prayed for "all sorrow and bewildered humanity," ec-cleslatlcs said, when he knelt tonight before St, Peter's tomb in the great Vatican church named for the Prince of Apostles. Thus he acted accordance with a long stand custom on the eve of the day aside for Saints Peter and Paul.

FARMER VICTIM OF HORSE KICK Body of Vermillion Man Is Found Lying Outside Barn After Tragedy Vermillion, s. June 28. John Stalhelm, 58, well known and long time resident of northern Clay county, died late this afternoon, fol lowing injuries suffered when kicked a horse, according to Sheriff Her man Nelson and Coroner Paul Wag ner, who were called to the Stalhelm farm near Lodl. Stalhelm had evidently sought to enter a barn. The officers said he apparently had been kicked out of the door and had lain on the ground nearby for a time until found by his wife.

Neighbor were summoned and Dr. E. R. Schwartz was called from Wakonda but Stalhelm died shortly after the latter arrived. No Inquest will be held.

Surviving are the widow and two grown sons ana two grown daughters. TWO SOUTH DAKOTA OFFICERS PROMOTED Washington, June 28. The War department has selected 288 lieutenant colonels to become tern- porary colonels. The list included 12 air corps of fleers who had already been given the temporary rank of colonel ana were included to protect their rank. Among those promoted, and their home addresses, were: Clarence H.

Danlelson, A. O. Lead, Carl Halla, T. Yankton, D. STORM UPSETS BOAT; THREE PERSONS DROWN Warsaw.

June 28 0F Three persons drowned today in Webster lake near here after a aud- den storm unset their boat. The victims were Charles Grib-ble, 60, of Muncie, his son-in-law. Walter J. Hickman, 39, of Parker, Ind and Hickman's 11-year old daughter. Helen Louise.

Thirteen-year-old Dorothy May Hickman. Helen Louises alster, three other occupants of the boat her mother, Mrs. Grlbble and two-vear-old Hickman bnby, The accident occurred near shore, a Germans Claim Seven Tankers U-Boats Driven Away Before Final Results of Raid Were Known Berlin, June 28. (P) The Ger man high command announced tonight that nazl submarines had sunk tanker and seven freighters In the Atlantic. 1 The ships destroyed aggregated 46,700 tons, and a second tanker and two freighters aggregating 25,000 tons were torpedoed, set afire and likely sunk it was added.

Because of the strong defense of British warships protecting the two convoys, it was stated, the U-boats had to leave the scene before final results could be observed. "In the Lwow district, firce fighting continues, with our troops in flicting heavy losses on the enemy," the communique went on. Our air force carried out suc cessful air combats and struck heavy blows to the enemy, effectively CO' operating with our land troops. Our airforce destroyed two enemy monitors on the Danube. "On other sectors our troops are urmiy holding frontier positions." FDR Will Address Nation on Fourth Hyde Park.

N. June 28. (IP) President Roosevelt Is expected to speak to his fellow Americans at 3 p. m. (CST) on July 4.

leading inem in wnat ne has termed a "grand rededication to liberty." The place for the address has not yet been announced but it may be the south portico of the White House In Washington. Mr. Roosevelt will speak briefly. and he is expected to ask every American participating in a nationwide independence day celebration to Join him In the pledge of allegiance to the flag. Probably, too, the army, navy and marine bands will combine in play ing the national anthem.

The program wlllibe In charge of the office of civilJn defense, directed by Mayor Florello La Ouardla of New York. irom complete ngure. Berlin Berlin, June 28. With his armies and air force furiously hacking and slashing a pathway toward Moscow through stubbornly resisting soviet forces, Adolf Hitler wound up the first week of his war against Russia In attempts to mobilize all Europe against the communist toe and with a new promise to tell of successes In r- On the fighting front a field head quarters, referred to the "big successes" of the week but gave no details of the vast eastward drive the, biggest Hitler's land armies yet have attempted. It promised facta tor tomorrow, however, In a series of special Sunday announcements.

i The timing of this newly scheduled burst of victory claims was significant in view of the drive to enlist all Europe In an antl-com- munlst crusade. Army 'Destroyed' Meanwhile DNB. the official news agency, gave the German public a foretaste of victory news by reporting that the 97th division of the Red army had been "broken up and destroyed." (In Ankara, axis sources said that Minsk, the capital of White Russia, 20 miles Inside the old Soviet fron tier and some 150 miles from the nearest German territory, has been taken by the nazis.) DNB also said that one German anti-aircraft regiment had destroyed In the forenoon of one day 30 Russian tanks and 18 planes, while a DNB correspondent in the Ukraine sector reported that five German bombers protected by six Messerschmttt fighters had shot down in 20 minutes 13 of an at tacking force of 30 Russian planes. In the midst of the sky fight, the correspondent added, the five bomb ers swooped on a nearby Russian airport and dropped bombs. Claim Six Ships In other theaters of war the head quarters communique claimed the sinking of six ships out of a con voy near England, and said the royal air force had suffered "heavy losses" In raids over northern Ger many.

Some civilian casualties re suited from these raids, the communique said, and residential build ings, particularly in Hamburg and Bremen, were damaged. Informed German sources claimed today that British air losses In the past 24 hours totaled 36 planes, as against one oerman plane lost in clashes with the RAF. While knowing nothing of the tactical features of the campaign against Russia, or of the position of front line troops, German citizens continued to get many Impressions of color and atmosphere and occa sional insight Into small details of Hitler's eastbound blitz. Propaganda company reporters at the front, while rarely naming or hinting at locations, told elaborately what confronts the Individual Ger man soldiers. Tanks Burned "Enemy tank burn like torches" "vengeance for treachery" "fatalistic self-acariflce by primi time Siberians These were some of the headlines on propaganda stories.

"Vengeance for treachery" headed an article reporting the destruction of a Russian town in which soviet troops had laid a trap for Oerman infantry. The town seemed deserted and abandoned by lt defenders. But one the German were well Inside It a murderous Are opened up from roofs and upper windows. "The appropriate anawer was glvn by jour artillery. the reporter wrote.

"The town which the soviet had cited a an example of Ideal defense organization 1 a heap of ruins and a smoke column Is visible 20 kilometers away. There were numerous tribute to fanatical bravery of Mongolian troops thrown Into Russia's western Zamzam Survivors Visiting in Omaha Omaha, June 28. (IP) A Nebraska family of survivors from the Egyptian ship Zamzam, sunk in the south Atlantic April 17 by a German raider, arrived here today to spend the summer with relatives at Wahoo and Carl Norberg, 10, summed up their views tersely: "Boats aren't any fun. His mother, Mrs. C.

Einar Norberg. and his two sisters, Marie, 12, and Ruth, 7, agreed as they told of their harrowing experience. Dr. Norberg, a medical missionary, will rejoin his family later after a visit In Minneapolis. Describing how German sailors fished floundering Zamzam passengers out of the water.

Mrs. Norberg said, "I don't want to praise the nazis, but they were efficient, and anyone opposing them had better be efficient, too." Successor Picked for Pat Harrison Jackson, June 28. (TV-Governor Paul Johnson late today announced the Interim appointment of James O. Eastland of Rulevllle to fill the senate seat made vacant by the death of Pat Harrison. The governor has yet to set the date for a special election which must be held within 80 days to select a successor to serve out Harrison's term, which expires in January, It was Indicated here that Eastland, an attorney, plantation oner.

a tor and former state senator, would not offer for the unexpired term. The governor said he would Issue a commission to his appointee Monday and indicated 'he would leave for Washington that day. DOG IS RESCI ED Des Moines, June 28. fl After digging Peggy, brown and white fox terrier from under eight tons or coal, members of the Ralph Pugh family don't care to hear more about putting In coal early on ac count of defense program. But pet doctor found the dog unharmed excepting dirty, tired, bruised.

tal laboratory at this cradle-city of aviation. Conceding a "great difference" In strains Imposed upon a ship lit level flight and In a dive, airmen emphasized that Fausel'a knlfllng power-thrust demonstrated Yankee engineering and production excellence to auperlative degree. Others agreed that any squadron able to dive upon an enemy formation, either aerial or ground, at 11 miles a minute would have tremendous advantage even though such lightning descent would subject personnel to considerable physical stress. All agreed that such a clip was a far cry from that attained by Or-vllle Wright who, as the nation's first "test-pilot," hopped his rickety plane at 40 miles an hour or so in 1903. For that matter, so was the 420-mile-an-hour average recorded more than a year ago by Llutenant, now Cap'ain Ben Kelsey when he Grand Jury Government Will Use Regis tration Statute as Legal Weapon St.

Paul, June 28. (T1) Indict ments will be sought against "two dozen or more" persons in connec tion with the federal government's Investigation of the socialist work ers, party when a grand Jury con venes here Tuesday, it was learned today. Between 75 and 100 witnesses will testify and the jury ses- sion is expected to last Into the second week, according to Victor E. Anderson, U. S.

district attorney. At the same time Henry Schweln- haut, assistant U. S. attorney gen eral who came here to aid Anderson in the case confirmed information that the government will employe a new and hitherto unused legal weapon in the grand jury inquiry and any subsequent prosecution. That weapon Is a statut enacted last October requiring all foreign- controlled organizations and all organizations advocating overthrow of the government by force, to register with the attorney general of the United States.

The socialist workers' party, or at least the Minnesota branch, has not so registered, an officer said today. BENES THANKS SLOVAKS IN AMERICA FOR HELP Chicago, June 28. Edward Benes, president of the Czechoslovak government in exile, sent a message of appreciation to trie Czechoslovak national council of America today for Its help In the struggle for nationalism. "We firmly believe In our victory even though we expect German sue cess for some time. Benes cabled from London.

"We know your great American country la helping us with all its strength. We know England will continue the struggle whatever happens, In the name of us all I thank ymi lor your collabora tion Miles an Hour rocketed his twin-motored Lockheed XP-38 from March field, to Mitchell field, L. In seven hours, Planes of alt types since then have been much Improved In line, fire and-motive power. If the perennial "dream-speed'' of 900 miles an hour Isn already a reality, it Isn far off, one high scource hinted, recall lng that a year ago a manufacturer of military ships met a challenging speed-specification by building plane loo mile an hour master than required. It and many others like it, are now in service.

Wright field engineers deny that the Job of an army test pilot Capt. Kelsey was one befora a recent brief assignment In London Is as easy as falling of a log and as dangerous. Said one: "There are only two kinds of planes thase that fly and those that don't. Engineer in laboratories and factories can develop a lane onlv no far. Then it's up to the test pilot to prove vera right or wrong." Test Pilot Makes Dive at 661 Airmen See Superiority of Yankee Production By PAUL B.

MASOV Dayton, 0 June 28, A civilian test pilot's screaming, vertical dive at a record 681 miles an hour in an army ship over Wright field was viewed today as accentuating the work of military and civil test-fliers and Increasing the excellence and performance of America's expanding air force. The pilot, Bob Fausel of Curtiss-Wrlght corporation, Buffalo, N. made the dive April 7 In a ship since vastly improved In type. Complete details were not disclosed but confirmation came from CurtUs-Wright officials in New York. Fausel'i speed a mile every 8.44 seconds was 41 miles faster than accepted though unofficial record dive last year by Andy McDonough, air line pilot and air corps reservist.

McDonough flew a Bell P-39 Airaeobra; Fausel, a Curtlss P-40 which he ferried from Buffalo for delivery to Wright lFeJrt. the air corps' huge testing experimen i barbaric enemy," (Continued on page 3, column It, (Continued on page eoi'siji T)..