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Tn OSEGOl. STATES!IAIL Salem, Oregon, Tatsday Morning. Mot 19' ISH age rotn eft Sii)refiOtlB THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CHARLES A. S PRAGUE, President Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited Lifting the Veil ; For almost a decade American, news corre spondents iii the dictator-controlled sections of Europe labored under a severe handicap. It was their ambition to tell the truth as they saw it. But if they attempted to tell a truth unpalatable to the ruling powers, two things were quite likely to occur. First, the story Or the portion of it that the dictators didn't like, seldom would reach America. Second, the correspondent attempting to send it was. in hot water. Sometimes his privileges were cur tailedother times he would be ordered to leave. Even when a correspondent came home for a vacation, he had to be careful what he said or wrote if he wanted to go back. ! When war broke out in 1939 the halter on American correspondents was further tightened. Still, all this time by one means or another, Americans were kept quite accurately informed as to what went on in Europe. Some corre spondents managed with laudable ingenuity to slip the news through somehow, some came home for good and "told all," and there was a constant flow" of information from refugees' and others. But since December 11, 1941, dictator-controlled Europe has been under a veil. Nothing reliable has slipped out. Sometimes we have received an item of truth when the propa ganda ministries perhaps inadvertently told the truth but even then we haven't been able to trust it. Meanwhile our correspondents have been interned. - But now through an exchange, a number Of them are on their way home. Last weekend they reached neutral Portugal, and there came flood of veil-lifting dispatches. I' They contained confirmation, in general, of our logic-based suspicion that in Italy morale is lower than a grub's ankles; that the typical Italian would welcome an American invasion force as a party of liberation and salvation; that only the menace of nazi military might and the gestapo keeps that people in line. f t rom uermany we receive a picture out standingly reliable because it is painted by Louis P. Lochner who perhaps of all corre spondents in Berlin got closest to the real German feeling and the spirit behind nazism. This is a picture primarily of disillusionment. Hitler and his inner circle of associates have lost the popular confidence which enabled them -to unify the nation; now only fear of reprisals drives the Germans on. ; From other correspondents come the more definite details of the military situation which may be summed up as follows: The war may not end this year, but the. outcome almost cer tainly will be decided thii year. If Hitler can not break out of his European prison before another winter, he is doomed. In this there is all the more justification for the concentration of our attention now upon the fighting in south western Russia. There the immediate fate of the world will be determined. But from those correspondents who have watched from I the inside German's relations with the captive nations, there is assurance that sooner or later regardless of early military re sults, Hitler's Europe will break down. In the long run there can be only one outcome. Dr. Kildare Again "Yes, I've been scared before, and I was scared then." So confessed an air hero of this - war, a bomber pilot who carried out his as signment and brought his crippled ship back to its base through a hornet swarm of enemy fighters. Examples of notable courage are common in wartime but the concept of courage is elusive. Some who have "been there" tell us that cour age does not ordinarily mean the lack of fear and where it does the explanation is a lack of imagination but rather the overcoming of fear, sometimes through the domination of some other emotion, such as determination to do a certain job or, often enough, flaming hate. ' At any rate there is quite general agreement that of all the duties at the battlefront, the v most exacting from this standpoint of courage, are those of the mercy services the first aid men, stretcher bearers, nurses, surgeons, who are often under fire but are denied the emo tional release of belligerent action. , , UntU Lew Ayres of "Dr. Kildare" and "All Quiet on the Western Front" fame was assigned to the camp for conscientious objectors near Wyeth, little notice had been accorded the group there. He brought the "conchies" notoriety, and with it a considerable volume of scathing de nunciation. Some of this came from editors ftfU HOW 6ivC A OSMoMSTItATioM CP th tmcitMcy er TI ORKAT NSW 1 tarkoswc sons 9fmcmun6 Of46Xtcw i n k'onj 51m rV OftMeftMlfi I iimo V OMH&ofw MMYMt 1 ' NUMtt 111 ! Tr. i mr 2.4 1 - - mwm I MM "Wo Favor Swayt Us; No Fear Shall Ato From first Statesman. March 28, 1851 who are above the service age limit. In general, we suspect most of it came from people who 4 have no high regard for conscience in , the abstract, nor faith in its sincerity. Well, Lew Ayres is still a conscientious objector but he has changed his mind to this extent: He won't fight, but he will serve," at the fighting front if that is where duty calls, inj a mercyrole for which he has had extended training. Maybe this will cause some who en tertain an intolerant scorn of conscientious ob jectors to re-examine their position. Of course the conscientious objectors are wrong. We would offer them this test: Would you, at this . moment if you had the power, caJlUiome the United States navy, order all American soldiers to drop their rifles, and let America and civilization take the consequences? How can they answer that in the -affirmative? But the law, while diligent to determine their sincerity, permits them to be wrong. The law. is fair; why must public opinion be less fair? We can only be thankful that they constitute an insignificant minority. All the paper and ink being devoted in these times to the assaying of blame for the rubber shortage, or for the fact that some items of war production are lacking, or for most any thing else that is unpleasant or unfortunate, is to our way of thinking wasted. A baseball team in a tight spot doesn't waste time be rating the shortstop for muffing a hot drive; it digs in. to work on the next batsman and to "get back those runs." Mott and Nott again are the candidates for first district congressman. Maybe the con test will turn out the way it did four years ago, and maybe Nott. Canadians Train For Commandos By J. WES GALLAGHER SOMEWHERE IN BRITAIN (Wide World) Canada's entire army in Britain more than 130, 000 strong is being given commando-type training with the aim that it will spearhead an allied attack. That's the word from Canada's brisk, efficient Lieut Gen. H. D. G. Crerar, 53-year-old army corps ' commander, who disclosed in an interview that every paymaster, cook, infantryman and officer is being given the same training as Britain's famous raiding forces. "We are shifting from the defensive to the of fensive and building an army that can establish a bridgehead and hold it," the general said. The key Canadian officers have gone to com mando training headquarters for study and now have established a school giving the same type of training with a few more arduous North American embellishments. The training includes one month of land and one month of sea operations. Because a large proportion of the Canadian troops are natural woodsmen accustomed to liv ing outdoors, many preliminary commando courses used in training British city troops were unneces sary for the men from the western hemisphere. "While the men are being given commando training," General Grerar explained, "they are still a part of the regular army units and function as such except on special occasions." With a steady flow of American tanks and Brit ish and Canadian equipment, the Canadian army has become one of the hardest hitting offensive units in the British Isles sharp contrast to the poorly equipped and partly mobile forces of a year and a half ago. The Canadian army here now is fully motorized with a high proportion of tank and armored units. Crerar, who formerly was chief of the Canadian general staff, is a close student of the German, British and American army methods and his corps' organization closely resemWes the self-sufficient German shock troop fighting units which smashed their way into France through the Lowlands. "Every battalion is capable of being made self sufficient and able to -carry out a complete opera tion by itself," the general said. "When necessary, . each battalion could have its own anti-tank unit, motorcyclists, scout cars, armored cars and any thing els it might need to completely carry through an operation. This type of fighting unit cf -the Canadian army is being equipped with as much firepower as can effectively be supplied with ammunition the limit being only what the individual soldier and means of transport can carry into battle. One Canadian staff officer summed up the sit uation this way: Germans' time to to do to mem." Your Dime V In The Army C-pwrau. SoMDSee -nts tucxy SMUT Mb I sF 1 I itatesmau CO. publication of all In this newspaper. "We are past the stage of worrying about what the Germans are going to do to us. Now is the worry about what we are going . Howl A SOf STAmp wtu. Buy A tMS tVRJONriM A SotfaEJt 5F"7lir"""SsB S I o rrs &ma ws. :n . j nit t - fmurm n wadv XT Vtt I - J The Glory That Was Grease adio Programs KSLM TUESDAY 139 Ke. 6:30 Rise 'N Shine. 7:00 News in Brief. 7:05 Rise 'N Shine. 730 Newt. 7:45 Your Gospel Program. 8. -00 Jerry Sears Orchestra. 8:30 News Brevities. 8:35 Music A La Carter. 9:00 Pastor's Call. 0:15 Harry Owens Orchestra. 9:30 Stan Kenton's Orchestra. 10U)O World in Review. 10:05 Musical College. 10:30 Women in the News. 10:35 Melody in Miniature. 10:40 Lud Gluskin's Orchestra. 11 KM) Russ Morgan's Orchestra. 11:30 WU Chapel. 12:00 Ivan Ditmars. 12:15 News. 12:30 Hillbilly Serenade. 12 :35 Willamette Valley Opinions. 1:00 Lum and Abner. 1:15 Milady's Melodies. 1 mo Tune Tabloid, 1:45 Sing Song Time. 2. -00 Four Notes. 2:15 Salem Art Center. 2:45 Isle of Paradise. 3:00 Herb Jeffery's Songs. 4:00 Broadway Band Wagon. 4:15 News. 4:30 Teatime Tunes.. 8:00 Here Comes the Band. 5:30 To the Ladies. 535 Dinner Hour Music. 6:00 Tonight's Headlines. 6:15 News Analysis. 620 Evening Serenade. 70 News in Brief. 7 :05 Interesting Facts. 7:15 Lud Gluskin's Orchestra. 7:30 Willamette Valley Opinions. 7:50 Russ Morgan's Orchestra. 8:00 News. 8:10 Silver Strings. 9. -00 News. 9:15 Popular Music. 9:30 Vagabond of Air Waves. 10:00 Let's Dance. 10 30 News. 10.45 Don Kirby's Orchestra. 11 KM) Bert Hersch Presents. 11:30 Last Minute News. KOLN CBS TUESDAY 979 Ke. :00 Nor h west Farm Reporter. 6:13 Breakfast Bulletin. 20 Koin Klock 7:15 Wake Up News. 730 Bob Gar rod Reporting. 7:45 Nelson Pringle News 6 0 Bordertown Barbecue. 8:15 Consumer News. 8:30 Valiant Lady. 8:45 Stories America Loves. .00 Kate Smith Speaks. 9:15 Big Sister. 9 JO Romance ot Helen Trent. 9:45 Our Gal Sunday. 10 AO Lift Can Be Beautiful. 10 as Woman In White. 1030 Vic & Sade. 10:45 Mary Lee Taylor. 114)0 Bright Horizon. 11 US Aunt Jenny 1130 We Love 6c Learn.. 11:45 The Goldbergs. 12.-00 Tunes From the Tropics 12:15 Knox Manning. Mews. 12:30 Joyce Jordan 1245 Woman of Courage. 10 Stepmother. -- j 1 :15 Living History. 1:30 Joey Kerns. 1:45 Very Truly Yours. 3:00 News. 1:15 Siesta. 2 30 William Winter. 1:45 Scattergood Barnes, 30 Heathman Melodies. J: 15 Voice of Broadway. 330 Newspaper of the Air. 3:45 News 40 Second Mrs. Burton. 4:15 Young Dr M alone lNewspVS the aj5? ! :is America's Home fronts. s!45-obGrired!S :55 Elmer Davis. News. 6:00 Leon F. 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KOAC TUESDAY 659 Ke. 100 Review of the Day. 105 News. 16 as The Homemakers Hour. 110 School of the Air. 11:20 Music of the Masters. 110 Mews. 12:15 Farm Hour. 10 Favorite Classics, 1 OS Variety Time. 1.-45 Pan American Melody; 2 0 Homemakers' Half Hour. 130 Band Stand. 15 News. 30 Echoes of Waikikt 3:15 Seeina- the 430 Great Songs Z!49-i-NeWS. i 40 Chamber Musio. 430 Stories for Boys and Girls. 90 On the Campuses. 530 In Defense of America. 6:45 Evening Vesper Service. 60 Dinner Concert . :15 News, - 630 Farm Hour. 730 School of Music , 10 News of Oregon, 8:15 World ta Review. 8:30 Music of the Masters. 0 Music of Czechoslovakia. 930 Concert HalL .-45-100 News . . - , ':$.. V v-.,. KEX NBC TUESDAY list Kc Sao News. . . - 6:15 National farm and Hosoe. :4& Western Agriculture- These schedule are supplied by the respective stations. Any varia tiens noted by listeners are da to changes made by the stations with out notice to this newspaper. AU radio stations may be cut from the air at any time la the Interests of national defense. 70 Clark Dennis. Singer. 7:15 Breakfast club. 8:00 Old Refrains. 8:15 Helen Hiett, News. 8:30 Don Vining. Organist. 8:45 Keep Fit Club With Patty Jean 90 Breakfast club. 9:15 Jimmy Blair, Singer. 9:30 Breakfast at Sardis. 100 Baukhage Talking. 10:15 Second Husband. 10:30 Amanda of Honeymoon Hill. 10:45 John's Other Wife. 11:00 Just Plain Bill 11 :15 Geographical Travelogue. 1130 Stars of Today. 11:45 Keep Fit With Patty Jean. 120 News Headlines and Highlights. 12:15 Your Livestock Reporter. 12:30 Market Reports. 12 35 Musical Interlude. 12:40 Stella Unger. 12:45 News Headlines and Highlights 10 Club Matinee. 1 5 News 20 The Quiet Hour. 2.30 A House In the Country. 2:45 Chaplain Jim. USA. 3:00 Stars of Today. 3:15 Kneass With the News. 3:30 CasUe Trio. 3:45 Beating the Budget. : 3:45 Wartime Periscope. 40 Easy Aces. 4:15 Mr. Keene, Tracer 3:45 Wartime Periscope. 4.-45 Ink Spots. 4:45 Diminutive Classics. 4:30 Belen Ortega. Singer. 50 Flying PatroL 5:15 Secret City. 5:30 Jack Owners, Singer. 5:45 News of the World. 60 Serenade for You. 6:30 James Abbe Covers the News. 6:45 Fantasy In Melody. 6:55 Ramona dc Tune Twisters. 7:00 BN. 730 Red Ryder. 6:00 Air Base Hi Jinks. 830 Information Please. 90 Down Memory Lane. 9:30 News Headlines and Highlights 9:45 Essex House Orchestra. 9:55 News. 10:60 Cugat Tlhumba Revue. 1030 Broadway Bandwagon. 1045 Palladium Ballroom Orchestra. 110 This Moving World. 11:15 Organ Concert. 1130 War News Roundup. KGW Taesdax 626 Ke. 40 Musu 530 War News. 60 Sunrise Serenade. ! 630 Early Bards. 7 DO News Headlines and Highlights 7:15 Music of Vienna. 730 Stars of Today. 7:45 Sam Hayes. 8:00 Studio. 8:15 James Abbe. 8:30 Symphonic Swing. - S :0 Lotta Noyea. 6:45 David Harum. 90 Bess Johnson. 8:15 Bachelor's Children. 30 Deep River Boys. 9:45 Musical Bouquet. 100 Women's World. 16:15 News.' 1030 Homekeeper's Calendar. 10:45 Dr. Kate. 110 Light of the World, lias Arnold Grimm's Daughter. 1130 Guiding Light Editorial Comment From Other Papers A JOB TO DO Thoughtful citizens of Oregon together with our civil authori ties are pondering : reports from eastern states of widespread de struction to the forests. As this is written comes word that 40 square miles of wooded lands in the New England states is a blazing inferno and state troop ers and militia have thrown a tight net around J. the doomed area in a effort to catch the .saboteurs. Last week over 200,- 000 acres in four . southern states, set fire by j enemies of our country, are now smoking ruins, with millions, of dollars in virgin timber gone. 1 Here in Oregon 24455,000 acres of our state are covered , with a rich stand of merchant . able timber wealth. We must . protect this timber stand not alone because nearly every foot of lumber now :, produced by Oregon's 600 sawmills is going to build ships to take supplies to MacArthur, planes to bomb Berlin and Tokyo, cantonments ' to shelter jour boys in Iceland, Alaska, Australia and houses to cover vital defense workers, but bectse lumbering today creates 60 per cert of - our state's in dustrial payroll. Because Um ber is a crop which will, sup- 11:45 Hymns of afl Churches. 12 :00- Against the Storm. 12:15 Ma Perkins. 1230 Pepper Young's Family. 12:45 Right to Happiness. 1 Backstage Wife. 1:15 Stella Dallas. 130 Lorenzo Jones, 1:45 Young Widder Brown. 20 When a Girl Marries. 1:15 Portia Faces Life. 2:30 The Andersons. 2:45 Vic & Sade. 3:00 The Bartons. 3:15 Music by Schrednlk. 325 News. 3:30 Personality Hour. 4:30 Funny Money Man. 4:45 Stars of Today. 5:00 Orchestra Solo. 530 Horace Heidt. 60 Burns and Allen. 6:30 Fibber McGee and Molly. 70 Bob Hope. 730 Red Skelton St Co. 8:00 Fred Waring in Pleasure Time. 8:15 Lum and Abner. 8 30 J ohnny Presents. 90 Adventures of Thin Man. 930 BatUe of the Sexes. 10:00 News Flashes. 10:15 Your Home Town News, 10:25 Musical Interlude. 10:30 Moonlight Sonata 11:00 Swing Your Partner. 11:15 Biltmore Hotel Orchestra. 1130 News 12:00-20 a m. Music. KALE MBS TUESDAY 1316 Ke. 630 Memory Timekeeper. 70 News. 7 :15 Memory Timekeeper. 80 Breakfast Club. 8:30-News. 8:45 Hits and Encores. 9:00 John B. Hughes. 9:15 Woman's Side of the News. 930 This and That 100 News. 10:15 I'll Find My Way. 1030 News. 10:35 Women Today 10:45 Buyer's Parade. 110 Cedric Foster. 1 1 : 15 Dance time. 1130 Concert Gems. 11 :43 Luncheon Concert 1230 News. 12:45 Ed Camden Orchestra. 10 Bill's Wax Shop. 1:15 New York Racing Season. 130 Mutual Goes Calling. 2:00 President's Press Conference 8:05 David Cbeskin Cans 3:15 Take it Easy. 230 News. 1 45 Bookworm. 30 B. S. Bercovici. Commentator. 3:15 Baseball Roundup. 3:20 John Agnew, organist 40 News. 4:15 Johnson Family. 4:30 Confidentially Yours. 4:45 Music Depreciation, 50 Voices in Song. 5.15 Jimmy Allen. 30 Captain Midnight S. -45 Jack Armstrong. 60 Treasury Star Parade. 6:15 News. 6:30 Kay Kyser Orchestra. , 6:45 Movie Parade 70 News At Views. 7 as Ned Jordan. 7:45 Gems of Melody. 8:00 What's My Name. 8:30 Freddy Martin Orchestra. News. 9:15 Harmony Home. 930 Fulton Lewis. Ir. 9:45 Tom Thumb Theatre. 10:00 Jan Savitt Orchestra 1030 News. 10.45 King tc Panel! Orchestra. 11:00 Ella Fitzgerald Orchestra. 1130Jan Savitt Orchestra. ply our largest industry and its 70,000 workers in the years to come with work. Because timber today in many districts is the sole support of schools, and a large contributor in taxes in many school and municipal dis tricts. Burning timber makes smoke, and smoke creates an artificial hazard r e d u c i n g visibility. Smoke-filled skies mean ground ed x interceptor planes. Hazy, murgy atmosphere means the grounding of navy patrol planes which now range far out to sea, ready to report approach of en emy ships or planes. Lastly, smoke forms the perfect screen for enemy attack. You ask: What can we Do? The answer; is plenty. The biggest assistance the general public can give to our soldier protectors, who today patrol our highways and coastline, Is to r make sure that not a fire starts ' in our woods -.this year from carelessness. We must reduce man-made fires to the absolute zero, for we cant have soldiers , taken from their line of duty to fight fires, nor can we spare ; men from the mills and logging camps to stop blazes, for every -piece of lumber is needed. . Two other jobs should be on Coiinine src By EDITH BRISTOL Chapter! Contlimed j-Y "She just said Walter was Leo that's the lion, she said. And that she was a water carrier. It didn't make much sense to me but she said it was important that I was born under the jsign of Virgcs the Virgin; and that I should get along very well with Walter. It all sounded cockeyed to me.' But that's what she drove up all the way from Hollywood to tell me. Cau you beat it?" I didn't even smile nor com ment I let her chatter; she seemed to feel comfortable with me, the swing band played on and the evening wore away. It must have been close to 10 . when I started to bed. I entered that hour in my notebook. "I just hate to go to bed," she said at the door to her pink satin room. My little bedroom was at the end of the hall intended tor the maid, I think, if the maid slept in, instead of coming from the apartment service. "I just hate to go to bed," Es telle repeated. "I lie awake so much lately. I have that medi cine Dr. Henry ordered. That helps me. But sometimes I have to take it twice before I get off to sleep ... I just lie awake and think about things like get ting Sydney into, the pictures." I didn't lie awake that night I wrote, quickly as I could, in my diary, all that Allen would ex pect me to report and innoc uous enough it was and slept soundly. Soundly and unbroken until I was awakened by some one battering at my door. It took me a minute or two to remember where I was, after being roused from such a sound sleep and all this time the pounding continued on my door. "Miss Lane! Oh, Miss Lane! Get up, please!" I groped my way into a dress ing gown and opened the door. The young maid I had seen the night before stood in the pass ageway, wild-eyed, wringing her hands. "Mr. Loftus says come quick, """sw"1 By KIRKE L. SIMPSON Wide World War Analyst for The Statesman A grim possibility that his promised ,'anruhilaton', offen sive in Russia will turn into a nazi route on a wide front south of Kharkov confronts Herr Hit ler. For seven days he has been outguessed and outfought by Russian armies he once told his: people he had destroyed. The exact contour of the 100 mile wide Russian front around the Kharkov bastion of German communications is not clear. Russian seizure of Krasnograd junction, 60 miles west-southwest of Kharkov, is imminent, according to reports from Mos cow and London. Its fall would put red forces within three score miles of Dnepropetrovsk, site of the rail bridge upon which main supply lines of German forces in a rapidly developing Stalino Taganrog pocket depend. With Krasnograd under Rus sian gunfire, (London observ ers go farther and intimate It Is already in Russian hands), the vital German communica tion link east of the Dnieper rtver at the north elbow ef the stream's great eastern bend wo aid be broken. Even Kre menehag, the next major river every citizen's MUST list, of "Home Front" activities. One Is to know what to do in case of fire. Learn the name of your nearest fire warden or police officer. Then report the fire at once. Also, if you live in the forest areas, keep a constant vigil for suspicious characters, and report them at once, at all costs, to the nearest officer. We cannot afford to take chances. Here in Oregon, state, federal government, fire patrol associa tions and private timber own ers this year have formed a unified forest fire fighting com mandL Nels Rogers, state for-: ester, is head of mis Oregon Forest Defense Council. Every man and every piece, of ma chinery In wooded areas which can be used for fare fighting has been listed and today stands poised' ready for any emerg ency. Our official fire fighters are ready, fully equipped, well trained. , '- Citizens of the state are band ing together under the banner of the Keep Oregon Green associa tion;: and - through this public - sponsored movement are, learn-. ing how to prevent fires . and ' what to do in case, of fires. To those , citizens ' desiring to aid their; commonwealth we recom mend membership in Keep Ore gon Green. ' ' - Finally; twe want to warn against carelessness. Every fire is an axis fire. It's up to you in 1942. Keep Oregon Green. Oregrjn City Enterprise. (Da Miss. It's Mrs. Gregg. We tent make her wake up." In split second I pulled on my clothes, ran a comb through my untidy curls and hurried down the hall, into the pink satin bedroom. The blue cur tains were pulled back and the sun was streaming across the tufted pink bed. Beside it, Syd ney, his face 'distorted with fear and shock, was leaning, rubbing bis mother's ringed hands. EsteHe's ivory silk night dress with its crushed lace insets was dropped over one of her plump shoulders. Under a net of silk mesh her blonde hair was pre cisely set A' film of cream covered her face but one glance told me the frightened maid was right Nobody would ever waken Es telle Gregg! The maid sobbed. I spoke to Sydney. "Have you called a doctor?" "There's one lives in the apart ment He's on his way up." The doctor came in almost im mediately after and the distract ed maid answered his ring at the bell. He wasn't at all like Dr. Henry, the family-physician type. He was young and quick, impersonal and efficient He took one look at the blue lips .of the still form en the bed, felt for the pulse that was no longer throbbing in white wrists, pulled) up the .sheet over the satin coverlet, and turned to Sydney. "What did she take to make her sleep?" Sydney turned to me. I pulled out the dresser drawer from the slim ivory bedside table and handed him a small square box. I knew it contained Estelle's sleeping medicine. The doctor read the label, glanced quickly from Sydney, who had dropped to a chair, his face covered in his hands, to me as I stood by the bed, thai opened the box and scrutinized tablets. (To be continued.) TO -asW vssawMaas,vSSBWnvBB Bssip crossing northward and 81 miles farther west; would be threatened. . South of Krasnograd, the Rus sians are already reported astride one rail line to Stalino at Lozo vaya junction and threatening the direct Stalino-Dniperope-trovsk route and its Taganrog and Mariupol connections on both sides of Stalino. If that is true the whole southern main land flank of the German line to the sea of Azov coast, from which the main attack on the Caucasus was to be launched, Is in deadly peril. So far as the breach in the nazi line south of Kharkov can be traced on the maps, it seems to represent a huge bulge with a front of 50-mile width or more from Krasnograd to Lozovaya bearing down on Dneprope trovsk from the east and north east It is far from clear yet, however, whether Marshal Tim- oshenko's objective is confined to reaching the Dnieper at the Dnepropetrovsk crossing or aimed at sweeping its eastern banks clear to Kremenchug. At Krasnograd he would be in a position to strike on westward toward Poltava, then southwest 4 r i , . . w xtremencQUg, or xurn niS whole strength southward on Dnepropetrovsk and the closure of the Stalino-Taganrog pocket to prevent a nazi escape. Whatever his purpose or the forces he has available to ex ploit fully the startling red success, the Russian command er has already gone far to nullify German victories on Kerch peninsula. Its complete , capture would be all but aaeanlngless to Hitler unless he promptly halts the forward urge of Tlmoshenko In the KrasnogTad-Losovaya break through. The . Russian leader, not Hit ler,, seems to have been the one to achieve the incalculable ad vantage of surprise. There is every evidence that he managed to mass tremendous power in men, guns, tanks and planes for the Kharkov operations without nazi intelligence officers dis covering the fact Tlmoshenko also appears to' have fooled his rivals complete ly as to his real purpose in the first phase of his attack. The Chungnewolchansk line east of Kharkov from which he jumped off on a 40-mile front seemed aimed at regaining the city by .frontal attack. The seal thrust fell to the south of that line, , however, once nazi reserves had been tucked in to bolster Khar kov defenses. Even mor irnportant than ' around wos or lost la the evf dence of brilliant Russian gen- eraismp ma aaroit surx worav- iimosnenjco nas so rar oeaien Hitler nd his generals at theh m TWi own ga )