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msu Or9on ToMday MOTnlngu March 16. 1943
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City Acts,
Broken
'Glass
Fine Provided for
Depositing Broken
Glass on Streets
Depositing or leaving broken
lass on Salem streets or alleys
may henceforth cost the deposi
tors $60 andor a 30-day stay
In the city jail. The maximum
fine and jail sentence are pro
vided in an ordinance passed
Monday night by the city coun
cil. ;
- Sidewalks are technically part
of , city streets, the city attorney
declared at the close of the coun
cil meeting, ami the measure may
be enforced to prohibit leaving of
broken glass on walks.
Passed Monday night far its
first reading, a new zoning- or
' dlnance, eemblnlnr amend
ments to the old in one meas
ure and. accordinr to City At
torney Lawrence N. Brown,
making only slight changes. Is to
, be given a public hearing at
7:30 p. m, April 5, prior to the
next council session.
f By resolution, 'aldermen voted
Western Paper Converting com
pany authority to commence con
struction of a switch track at its
Front street plant here prior to
adoption of the formal ordinance.
For 14 months plant officials here
have awaited .word as to avail
ability of materials, the company's
attorney. W. E. - Keyes, told the
council. Notification came Satur
day, too late for 'drawing of an
nlihancei;;: ; ::
' A newt leaser-provniing not jonly.
for return of -the airport Ui city
operation: six months after the
close of the war but also for fed
eral ' reimbursement of moneys
spent there for materials and
lighting by the city since July 1
of last ; year was given council
approval.
Mayor L; M. Donghten, act
ing on authority given him by
council resolution, named to a
special committee for investiga
tion and report of the city's
juvenile delinquency problems
Alderman Tom Armstrong. Al
bert Gille and E. B. Perrine
; and T. M. Hicks and. W. X
Needham.
Pending further investigation no
more permits for sewer connec
tions outside the recently-flooded
northeast area of the city should
be granted, the sewerage and
drainage committee recommended
in a report accepted by the coun
cil without argument.
Approval of the proposed Ox
ford street culvert was given in
an adopted committee report. A
petition from residents of the
North Fourth-Hickory avenue area
for remedial action to keep Fourth
open when slough waters back up
was turned over to the committee.
To the police and traffic com
mittee went a . request from St
Joseph's school for permission to
blockade either North Winter or
North Cottage on the block be
tween Chemekete, "and Center
streets - to .provide playground
pace for approximately 1 hours
each day. The request was made,
' according to a letter from Rev.
T. J. Bernards, in response to a
recognized need for more play
apace, emphasized by the increas
ed wartime physical education
. program and by a recommenda-
... tion from the state department of
education.
; - Investigation was asked also of
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Snell Vetoes
Tax Measure -
Gov. "Earl Snell on Monday ve
toed house bill 163, of the recent
legislative session, increasing the
property tax offset for corpora
;tions from 50 to 75 per cent
Noting that house bill 342 pro
vides for reductions in personal
income taxes in 1944, based on
the amount of surplus actual and
estimated, and which reductions
are estimated to reach as much as
40 to 50 per cent, -the governor
pointed out : mat ' hoUs bill ; 343
provides for similar reductions for
, .... . .
excise taxpayers, wnue nouse oiu
344 provides for property tax re
ductions. 4 :y;
Gov. Snell said it was his un
derstanding that the legislature in
tended and the people expected
that these. income tax refunds or
reductions should be returned to
" the taxpayers on the same basis as
PlaneslSlash
Jap Air, Ship Strength;
Chinese Smash Offensive
allied Headquarters in Australia, Tuesday,
March 16-&P)-Allled planes slashed at three Japanese transports
in the Aroe islafnds Monday, damaging two and rakfng the troop-
crowded decks with searing gunfire, allied headquarters report
ed Tuesday, while new evidence of growing; Japanese airpower
came in a 49-plane raid on Darwin in Australia.
Allied bombers and long-range
fighters pounced upon the trio of
enemy transports iinear Dobo is
land, in the area northwest; of
Australia where Monday General
MacArthur rep o r ted growing
enemy strength ih shipping and
troop reinforcements. This area is
about 500 miles
north of Dar-
win.
The Japanese ji
raid on the
town and harbor of Darwin
just before noon , by 25 medium
bombers and 24 fighters caused
"only slight j damage and cas
ualties, the j noon communique
declared, and two enemy bomb
ers and 12 fighters were shot
out of action, with three more
fighters and; two bombers so se
riously damaged, they probably
did not finish the trip back to
their base, j i
The smash at Darwin gave em
phasis to warnings from allied
spokesmen that the Japanese are
increasing teir ir power in the
Australian theatre.
Allied plahes swooped down to
mast-head height in the attack
on the thre4 Japanese transports,
the noon wr bulletin said, scor
ing direct hits oiii two of the ships
causing heavy damage and fire
and registering hear hits on the
other ship.
Yangtze Area,
Aided
CHUNGKING,
March 15-()-A
Chinese counterattack launched
Saturday night jwas -declared by
the high Command Monday to
have complter smashed an eight-
column Japanese offensive along
100 miles of the Yangtze river. ;
The 20,000 Japanese troops who
set out March 8 in a vain effort
to clear the south bank of the
great waterway
for shipping in
to make it safe
that area were
said in the communique to be in
flight, except for one body; of
troops which the Chinese said was
encircled, t I "
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IncomeTaxpayers Crowd
I II L J I A-
Offices on Final Filing
Day; Collections Climb
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!i By the Associated Preaa 1
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Striving to beat the midnight deadline, income taxpayers
trooped into internal revenue
unprecedented numbers Monday
u a A' a ' a
least ineir iirsi quarterly installments on iz taxes. j
Thousands of others -many of them paying a tax for the
first time under the lower exemptions flooded the mails with
RAF Trades
Blows With
Luftwaffe
LONDON, March 15-JP-Brit-
ish and German - planes traded
aerial blows jWcross the English
channel f Monday night the RAF
striking first at an axis air field
in : France and the luftwaff e re
taliating with: raids on the north
east coast of Britain; '
! Shortly blffore r dusk, RAF
bombers raided the air field at St
Brieuc jen the channel coast of
France.j An'! a t r ministry com
munique said j the. attack was car
ried out by Venturas with an es
cort of! Spitfires and that one of
the bombers (failed to return. "
! RAFl Typlions also ? attacked
enemy shipping V o tt the- Dutch
coast puringi I the day," the com
munique said, setting one armed
trawler on fire and returning
without a loss. '
; The British announced that
three German planes were , de
stroyed in raids on England Mon
day night j
Searchers were looking for two
men yho were seen parachuting
from i plane that was shot down
in flaihes a few miles from a town
on the northeast coast of England,
i- The Berlin radio said the Ger
man bombers made a 30-minute
night attackl on the British ship
building center of Sunderland on
the northeast -coast dropping high
explosives and scoring direct hits
on shipyards and docks.) v,,
at Grooving
Fighting Light;
Planes Batter
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Tunisia Front Quiet;
Both Sides Hurry
Reinforcements
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA March 15-P)
Allied planes from the western
desert battered the Mareth line
steadily Sunday in a continued
aerial prelude to new battles while
fighting along the entire fronj; de
teriorated to patrol action because
of foul weather. j j
Neither allied nor axis com
muniques reported fighting j over
the weekend, but! both sides were
wheeling up reinforcements for
the greatest clash1 of the Tunisian
campaign which appears in pros
pect as soon as storms clear from
the northern and central sectors.
It was only because of j the
dry, sandy wastes in the I south
that allied planes could carry
on their softenlg-up process of
the belt of French-built fortifi
cations. The allied communique
said the weather severely; re
stricted air operations else
where, Including the destructive
sweeps against jshlpplng a the
Mediterranean narrows. : v '"
A formation of enemy torpedo
bombers was intercepted off the
Algerian coast however. One was
shot down and "most of the others
were damaged'jjjGen. Eisenhow
er's account said.
Medium j US jSi itcheU bombers
did the greatest share of offensive
work against the Mareth fortifi
cations, while Spitfires and War
hawks made numerous offensive
sweeps and flew! also as cover for
the Mitchells. No plane was lost
and no Interception was reported.
offices throughout the couhtry in
to file their returns and pay at
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returns, swamping the offices on
their biggest day in history. In-
creased collections ransed ud to
250 per cent in Kansas City.
Although Assistant Secretary of
the treasury Jjhn L. Sullivan was
confident that virtually everyone
I would pay up, officials ati several
revenue offices said hundreds of
tnousands of ii returns were still
missing, and some fear delinquen
cies will be heavy. However, re
turns postmarked before last mid
night will be counted as I filed on
time, even though received late.
Treasury statements ori income
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tax payments : showed collections
I amounting to $473,029,254 during
the first 12 days of March as com
pared to $441,394,702 In the same
period last year. r J j
; In Cleveland, where war
workers had; been reported
threatening tax payment
strike, Late anaJI breght; in 2IT,-
payment, pushing the total
received to about 12lL out
of aa expected UOMSt. Col
lector Frank F. Gentseh said
the heavy tnall indicated re
turns were coming in from war
workers, adding: , ' :: j "
"We can't pell where the man
is coming from yet but it looks
as if something has broken.
In Portland, Ore where ship
yard workers earlier were -report
ed recalcitrant a last -minute
flood of payments hit; the reven
ue office. Collector James W. Ma
loney, who had warned he would
check on ta evasion by inspect
ing payrolls, said he was pleased
by ,t the rushj even though 4,the
mail is so tremendous it wUl take
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Mull Adds
To Eden
g
Quick End Not Sure;
Wallace Approves
Peace Resolution
By WADE WERNER "
WASHINGTON, March IS
(iTVSecretary of SUte Hull
gravel jj' endorsed Monday , :a
warning by Anthony Eden that
the United Nations should nt
count tipon a quick end to the
war. ii i ; J
At" a press conference at which
the British foreign secretary was
an honored guestj the American
secretary of state said he was en
tirely in taccord with the view ex
pressed by Eden . Saturday that
people should not jump at con
clusions about the end of the war.
Hull said that according to ill
reasonable calculations, the con
flict would be more long-drawn-
out than one might expect on the
basis of 'a hasty judgment. f
Here to help pave the way for
United Nations conferences pn
problems of the war and post-War
world, Eden said he was much en
couraged" with the progress of pis
Washington talks. Among the men
with whom he talked Monday
were Vice President waiiace,
Hull, Secretary of the Navy Knox
and Sir Arthur Salter, head of the
British hipping mission here.
During the day Wallace spoke
approvingly about a resolution
proposed by a group of senators
calling, among other things, for .
a United Nations- organisation
to preserve peace after the war.
Wallace told reporters the re-;
lutlon f seems "like a very con-
structlve proposal' 'and express
ed hope It would be considered'
In congress. ' J
However, Senator Wheeler i(D-
Mont) declared that any attempt
to press the resolution now would
lead to "prolonged and bitter de
bate, and divide the' country .Mj He
said the United States should; not
be committed 1 to "policing the
world, until we see what kind of
world we are going to have, j
Hulls looked very fit after
fortnight's rest in Florida. He said
he was impressed during his ab
sence with the splendid interest
and real alertness which Ameri
cans were showing in the prosecu
tion of the war. If they Would
only continue to increase their
exertions, without relaxation, he
added,j the end of the war would
be hastened.
Meanwhile, Chairman Connally
(D-Tex) of the senate foreign re
lations' committee reaffirmed his
approval, in principle, of a police
force and cooperation in settling
disputes. He indicated some other
provisions of the resolution were
matters for allied military! au
thorities, j
The l white-haired Texan f ex
pressed his views after conferring
with .Senators Hatch (D-NM),
Hill JD-Ala), Burton (R-Ohio)
and Ball (R-Minn), authors of
the resolution. jd
Wheeler told an interviewer
he believed f "we should tirade
with; all countries, but have no
fixed alliances with any." !j
"Iff easy to say ; we are going
to police the world, but the boys
in the army ar going to have
something to say about that when
the war . is over," he added.
They might not want to police
Singapore, the Burma road, Guad
alcanal and every country hi Eu
rope io prevent internal as well
as external trouble."
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NEWARK. NJ, , March lS-Jft
US Sen. Harry S Truman (D-Mo)
said Monday at a press conference
that his special senate committee
inestigating war , indusries . had
known "for two weeks" that Hen
ry Jf Kaiser, west coast shipbuild
ing executive, was negotiating to
take over the Brewster Aeronaut
ical corporation. t i. vv ' - , k; f
- The production record of Brew
sterj which holds many millions of
dollars worth of war contracts, has
been "one of the poorest j;in the
country,'.1 Senator Truman said.
He commented on i the proposed
smrt oz control to raiser: . y ;
It couldn't be anything j but an
improvement!
A meeting of the Brewster board
of directors has been called for
Tuesday in New York, where Kai
ser participated Monday in' a ser
Warnin
May
BuyAi
ies of business conferences.
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After wresting this village from
Russian caption material accompany big this scene from March of
victims sprawl in toe street
Hoover Warns
Farms Failing
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Calls Halt on Parallel
To Europe if Allies .
To Win War, Peace
DES MOINES, la., March -P)
-Former president Herbert Hoov
er said Monday night i'there are
symptoms of a dangerously de
generating agriculture that must
be stopped" if we are to win the
war and peace. -
"Unlike our case in the war 2a
years ago, we have today at work
in America uncanny parallels with
the same degenerative forces that
have been so disastrous in Eu
rope," the nation's World War I
food administrator declared in an
address prepared for a! conference
of midwestern state officials.
Hoover spoke over a statewide
radio hookup at the conclusion of
the all-day conference called by
Iowa's Gov. B. B. Hickenlooper to
discuss the problem of boosting
the nation's food production in the
face of farm labor and machinery
shortages. Attending the confer'
ence were governors of eight corn
belt states and representatives of
four others. I
Hoover compared this nation's
present food situation to the
conditions that existed in Eu
ropean countries at the time of
the last war and declared that
it was the food shortage abroad
that decided the outcome of the
conflict I
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WPB Assures
Metal, Rubber
For Canning
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WASHINGTON, March 15-(P)
The war. production 'board Mon
day promised housewives plenty
of metal closures and rubber rings
for glass containers for this year's
expanded canning program.
It removed all quota restrictions
on the manufacture of some types
of metal lids but continued a pro
hibition against the use of zinc
Roswell C. Mower, director of
the WPB containers division, re
ported the development of a "vir
tually fool -proof" closure manu
factured for the first tune in large
Quantities. He described it as a
three-piece -unit composed of
glass lid, a - rubber ring and a
metal screw band Jto hold the lid
in place. j
Hospital Escapee
Object of Searches
Statewide search was continued
Monday night by state police for
George Lowry, 48, termed a 'des
perate character," who at approx
imately 7:45 a. m. had forced
guard to free him from his ward
to escape from the state hospital
for the insane here,
Lowry, whose home is in Cot
tage Grove, was committed from
Portland last November 9 follow
ing state- police investigation of a
number 'of arson charges for fires
in his home community and fed
eral of ficers are said to have re
Quested that upon release from
the hospital the man should be
turned over to them. .
Russian Guerrillas Attack
German control, Russian guerrillas
Associated rress xeiemau i
fTivo-Bits9
Still Alive
- MEDFORD, Ore., March 15
-(-Doggone, If Two-Bits, the
fox terrier, didn't come through
In his second fall off the 804
foot cliff. 4
As fhe nose-dived over the
cliffs edge while chasing fan
aginary squirrels in January,
his master, a mountain air
post observer, gave him up tor
dead. Ten days later Two-Bits;
who had landed In a snow-bank;
came heme, tail wagging and
knees - sagging. " s ' -il j
By last week he had recov
ered sufficiently to ' go out to
play, and oops over the bank
he went again. , i i
This time the snow had melted
off the rocks below but Two
Bits' master, William Ziegler,
took a look Just In case, j
After several days' search he
found the dog, badly bruised but
alive. .:j
Two-Bits. Ziegler said. Will
be sent to a farm before j the
cliff becomes habit-forming.
Housewives
To Tell OP A
What's What
WASHINGTON, March
American housewives soott : will
tell OPA what to do, members of
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt s ? press
conference learned Monday! from
OPA's "typical housewife!.: Mrs.
Philip Crowlie, of Huron,, SD,
who is organizing' an ; advisory
council of volunteer housewives
for her consultation with OPA-
Although she?s been her only
a few days, Mrs. Crowlie already
has letters pouring into herj OPA
office from women who r glad
to have a housewife work frig with
OPA,. she .said.! - . ;
Mrs. Roosevelt said she con
siders Mrs. Crowlie job ! "very
important" since she eah. , ."help
enormously to Interpret rationing
to the American women" and also
because she can present "Jthe Am
erican woman's point of "View, to
the people making the; rules and
regulations."; - fj!
Mrs. CrowJl indicated sJasH
thinks rationing regulations have
been okeh with the housewife so
far, and Mrs. Roosevelt saW the
White House ie ready for meat
and cheese .-. rationing. Already,
she said. It Is serving bdtter only
at breakfast j ' t - .i i
The president and Mrav; Roose
velt will observe their th wen
ding anniversary W ednesday
without any special plans for cel
ebration. - . ' I
South Coast Area
Has Radio Alert
SAN FRANCISCO. March 15.
(JFy-A complete radio silence was
ordered in the Los Angeles-San
Diego area at 6:30 p. m;. Pacific
war time, Monday night, "when
an unidentified target was re
ported approaching," 1 the army
announced. The silence was lift
ed at 6:34 p. m, when the, target
was identified as friendly. . .
. The silence was ordered by the
, Los Angeles air defense wing.
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lOO0O(MOJ(IJOF?OI(
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dash through a street 'according to I
Time's "One Day of War.. Battle j
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lemos to Fight
Tax Year
Skip
Committee Income
Tax Plan to Be
Reported Tojlay
-House democratic lejaders decided
at a I conference Monday to make
an all-out floor fight for an in;
tax collection system which
provides no tax abatement - (See
story on page iy.-.
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t A inumber of republicans have
said ,they vrould fight for the Ruml
sxipa-vax-year pian, so u birug-
gle is in prospect- . . ' i
Monday's conference was at-
tended by iSpeaker Rayburn, ma-
jority leader McConback of Mas -
sachjusetts .and the ranking demo-
era tjc members or tne nouse ways
and means; committee Chairman
Doughton bf North Carolina; Coo-
per of Tennessee akd Disney of
Oklahoma?!
The committee plan, which is
expected to be reported formally
Tuesdays cancels no part of a
tax yeari but "provides for a 20
per cent withholding levy
against the taxable portion of
wages and salaries, effective
July 1. ji;- . '
The tax-framing I body voted
don the plan j proposed by
Beardsley-Ruml,. New York bank
er, to by -f pass a full tax year j as
a means! pf facilitating transition
to a pay-as-you-goj system under
which taxpayers would remit in
one. yeas on the basis of Income in
. i i i
one of She previous year as at I
present;
Under .the committee bill, any
taxpayer would continue the pres
ent method or could "double-up"
by j paying off the jlast year's tax
obligation in full and proceed on a 0n northern front the co
current basis. jj -t ! viet war; bulletin declared, Rus
Meanwhile, hou$e republicans gIan advancing northwest of
poitpohed untU Thursday a con- Vvazma smashed German .,n-
ferienci originally jailed for Mon- ter-attacks and defenses and cap
da ta muster party strength j be- tured the town of Zholm-2hir-
hind the! Ruml pla:
P6intsat48
WASHINGTON,
March 15 fiiP)
-Housewives will
have 4S ration
points on blue lettered D, Js and r
in, war? ration' book t No. XI I for
canned goods from- March 25
AnrUs Food
through April SO, the office of er columns swept into 40 inhab
pricef administration announced ited localities including Batulino,
Monday,' : L' ' "In one sector the Germans at-
The blue stamps, now in I use.
lettered A, B and; C, will be good
until March 31. This provides one
week of overlap at the end of
March in which Stamps for either
period will, be -valid but OPA
urged consumers to budget ! their
48 ration points fir ApriL j j -
1 "Pre-validatingj ration stamps
Is done primarily to allow, con-
sumers ito make (the best possible
use of. any ration stamps of small
denominations they may have left
in their books at the end of the
month,f OPA said. "Where! these
stamps are of I "insufficient point
Value Ito buy an Hem. the family
ifeeds allowing flie use of thie fol
lowing month's stamps before the
previous month's expire makes it
possible for consumers to .spend
left over stamps for Items of
higher point values. "
Smolensk
ense
Fierce Fighting Not
Oyer on Donets ;
North Towns Taken .
LONDON,' March' !5--Tha .
Russians, officially acknowledge :
ed Monday night that the red
army after days of fierce fight
ing had evacuated Kharkov,
rail hub of all southern Russia,'
and both German and Russian
dispatches indicated that the -
powerful n a i i counter-offensive
still was pressing victoriously on a
broad . front from Kursk to the
middle Donets, below and beyond
Kharkov! "
But the Russians reported' new
advances in the ' Smolensk region
farther to the north on another
vital front with red army troops.
advancing further west of Vyazma
m a drive toward the powerful
nazi base of Smolensk Itself.
The Russuns admittea wnn-
-1 V. l.iu.
ui Altai una
trial city of Kharkov only 24
hours after the Germans had
claimed ; its recapture' in a
smashing counter-offensive that
has rolled the Russians back on
a huge: are in southern Russia,, .
an offensive carried' by 325.000
German troops, nearly half of
them fresh divisions rushed up
from France.
"Our troops' after many days of
fierce fighting by order of the
command evacuatec the town of
sian midnight communique, as re
corded by the soviet monitor. The
Germans had claimed Kharkov.
fell on Sunday.
The Russian communique mads
no more mention of, Kharkov.
4,hlrh thf hid wrMtd from tho
German, February 16 in a majof
. trpH ef their winter campaign,
Th BtiKsian. had battled fierce
hv in the streets of Kharkov in a
vain attenrnt to save the strateaie
jcenter against a crushing attack
by huge numbers of German in
fan try and tanks.
Tn ttU nn4hat in th mirfrin
nonets I area, the Russians told of
stubborn ifighting against tank-
supported j German' attacks, while
the Berlin radio declared that the
counter-offensive had advanced te
Chuguev, 35 miles south of Khar
kov, and also extended to areas
west and northwest of Kursk, 12$
miles north of Kharkov.
Indicating furious fighting
southeast of Kharkov, the Rus
sian midnight communique de
clared that tat Germans were
killed in an attack launched by
large forces of nasi Infantry and
IS tanks. Despite these reports
of Russian successes. It was clear
that the Germans were eontinu- i
Ing to throw powerful weight
Into their smash baek eastward
Into southern Russia.
Red army troops were fighting
"stubborn engagements" against
the Germans in this area of the
middl ivarhM ' rtt th nnrthrn
Donets, the communique declared.
kovsky, 80 miles east of Smolensk.
I The Russians are aiming a four-
pronged i; attack at Smolensk, and
Zholm-Zhirkovsky fell to a spear
head swinging down from the
northeast indicating an attempt
to outflank .Smolensk from the
north, i " -. .. ' 1 -
West and southwest: of Vyazma
soviet troops caDtured several
pep tula ted places, wiping out
large- number of Oerman offU
j cers,T and in the area ef ely oth-
I tempted . to counter - attack but
I were repelled and lost about 200
I men) in killed, the Russians de-
) dared. ;
.South of Lake II men, "Our
troope routed a strongly fortified,
I German resistance point and f or1-
I ced j a water barrier," the com-
I munique said. "The enemy suf-
j fered heavy losses and retreated.
1 abandoning their wounded and
I arms.
I . . The German high command
I - communique reported Its coun-
, ter-offenslve continuing, with
the Russians being driven back
southeast and north, of Khar
kov, as far as the rerlon of Eel
' gorod. A Russian attempt to
check the Germans west of Ccl
gerod collapsed "with h I g b,
bloody losses for the entmy,"
the German communlaue si! J.
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