Waterloo Daily Courier (Newspaper) - May 29, 1942, Waterloo, Iowa Remember Pearl Buy War Savings k Bonds and Stamps FIRST 1854 WITH r NEWS The Weather Showers and cooler Complete forecast for and surrounding on 2 WATERLOO IOWA FRIDAY MAY 29 1942 FOURTEEN PAGES PRICE CENTS MARSHALL PROMISES INVASION Russians Storm Key River Town Axis Libyan Desert Drive in Sidi Area tures Lines RAF RAIDS PORTS TO SUPPLY MOVES Cairo Strong British tank forces and air squadrons are attacking axis armored units near IS miles southwest oC the British Libyan stronghold of Tobruk in an effort to halt Col Gen Envin Rommel's desert- drive communiques reported Friday A force of about 250 German and Italian tanks were reported thrown against the British on the blistering desert sand outside bruk after tho axis assault drove to the Sidi area far inside the British defense zone An RAF communique said rons of bombers and fighters were in action Thursday against enemy columns of tanks and motor transport between Bir and Attack Airfields Other British planes attacked axis airfields at and ply columns moving up to the behind Rommel's Advance One and two fighters were shot down and it appeared that axis air over the desert battlefront has been on a reduced tho RAF said Far west of the battle line near the frontier of Cyrenaica and ern Libya British planes bombed enemy vehicles moving eastward between Benghazi and For the fourth straight night the RAF attacked airdromes in Sicily important base of supply for Rommel and bombed the German air force's ferry minus at Messina and the Sicilian harbors of Catania and Augusta fight off Raiders In the vicinity of Tobruk itself British fighters battled a squadron of German air raiders Wednesday night and shot down two Junkers The RAF also reported a dusk on the main landing field at Thimi advance base west of Tobruk Failing to take the key desert point of El Adem 15 miles west of the British coastal hold of Tobruk the Germans pressed advanced forces eastward to the Ed zone 25 miles southeast of Tobruk These were repulsed and the joined two columns at a ert trail crossroads about 20 miles Tobruk Under Sun Here tlie communique said the combined enemy force engaged British armored forces for a test of strength which Gen Erwin mel the German commander in chief was believed to have sought On the result of this fight it indicated might depend mel's strategy and in his new drive eastward for the fifth great Libyan campaign The British and German forces fighting in dust and haze under a burning desert sun at a remote camel trail junction which British troops have called bridge for the artery and shopping center in the west end of London It is about 12 miles south of ma which in turn is 18 miles west of Tobruk and about 10 miles in the coast Think Will Washington D C Con- gressional leaders in military fairs predicted Friday that the may soon make its request for legislation authorizing tion of 18 and 19 year old youths with fair prospects that congress will reverse its previous stand in opposition Sioux City A in- crease in rates for the mile will be put in effect Monday by 10 local cab companies It now will cost 35 cents instead cents Nothing to I have to comment until I see the official de- said Harry Bridges west coast CIO leader in San Francisco Cal after being informed that Attorney General Biddle had ordered his deportation to his native Australia Bridges was of being a member of an organization which advocated over- throw of the U S government Despite U-Boat Pests Naval Experts Say Gains Evident Washington D heavy losses inflicted on American coastal shipping by naxi submarines naval experts said Friday that the United States was slowly winning the main campaign in the battle of the Atlantic however that only steadily increasing tion of both war and merchant ships could clinch the ultimate victory The greatest present need it was said is for more defensive craft blimps and patrol by experienced personnel Cold Truths The cold statistical results of the Atlantic battle to date Three convoys of American troops and shiploads of equipment have arrived in the British Isles HUSSIES 11 Raiding Jap Bases Airmen Score New Triumph Melbourne Australia American and Australian pilots downed or damaged at least 11 enemy planes in raids on the Japanese northeastern bases of Rabaul and Lac and in beating off an enemy raid on Port Moresby Gen Douglas said In a heavy night attack on ihc Japanese airdrome and army camp at Rabaul in New Britain island allied planes started three large fires and damaged three Japanese fighter planes which attempted to intercept them Attacking airdrome installations at Lae on the northern New Guinea coast allied planes put their bombs in the target area arid destroyed two and damaged two of six Japanese Zero which challenged them Twenty Japanese Zeroes made a determined attempt to raid Port Moresby the important allied base on the south coast of New Allied fighter planes rose to drive off the raiders and in a dog fight two Japanese planes were shot down and at least two probably more were damaged One allied plane was missing from he Lae raid two were shot clown in the Port Moresby for a score of 11 or more Japanese planes downed or damaged three allied planes lost to News Feature Index Pago Believe It or Not 7 Brady's Health Talk 4 Cedar Falls News 1 Church Services Sunday 5 City in Brief fi Classified Ads Comics 15 Editorial 4 Markets 11 in News 4 Northeast Iowa Events 3 Private Lives j Radio Programs 10 Serial Story 7 Society t R Sports Theatre Entertainment S Uncle Kay's Corner 7 Undo 7 War Activities Directory 4 on Broadway 14 without loss of a man The supply lines to Russia ca Asia and Australia boards for offensive action are open primarily naval authorities say because warships have not been diverted to protecting coastal waters On the other side of the ledger 221 merchant ships of American and other nationalities have been sunk on the American side of the Atlantic since mid-January Also on the loss side is the torpedoing ot two and possibly three ers The Jacob Jones was sunk off New Jersey in March The Sturtevant was destroyed by an underwater which may have been either a mine or torpedo in April and early this week the Blakeley was damaged by a torpedo off in the Caribbean Planes Chase Pack St Lucia British West Stales planes engaged a pack nf axis submarines a mile off Port Castries late Wednesday while the U S destroyer Blakeley aged by a torpedo three days er limped the 20 miles from the island of Martinique to St Lucia Hundreds ashore watched tho attack Watchers said at least one sub- marine must have been sunk ing from the quantities of oil which floated to the surface after the bombing and attack by the U S planes No official announcement of ings was made Brazil Hits Three Rio de Janeiro Brazil's armed forces were credited Friday with destruction of two axis submarines and capture of another submarine and a German mother ship in a de- fense against maritime raids which the paper A Manha termed organized piracy High official sources considered it not impossible that Germany would declare war upon Brazil which was with the allies in the first world war She severed re- lations with the axis Jan 28 The air ministry announced in its first communique of the war day night at least one of three submarines attacked Brazil's coastline had been sunk Cortna Dutch Masters Harvester Emerson San Felice Cigars SAVE A LIFE IN Traffic Toll In City of Waterloo This Year and Some Jan 1 Number of Number injured fifi Number killed l 5 Adolf Takes Command of Kharkov Push Hitler has taken personal direction oi the strategic operations on the Kharkov front a German high command s p o k c a in a n an- Friday over the lin radio heard by the Daily Mail here We look to his genius as a strategist to about full the spokesman said was as yet no indication whether Hitler had assumed com- mand because of a dispute with the high command as the result of man reverses or because he hoped to grab the glory for some success Last Dec 21 Hitler assumed personal command of the armed forces and the high command at about the lowest ebb of the man cause 011 the Russian front At that lime the Germans an- Hitler with the ness an inner call had decided to influence to the utmost the op- and armaments of the army and following his intuitions to re- serve for himself personally all decisions in the field It was then that Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch lost out as commander in chief Legion Indorses Bridges Finding Indianapolis Ind The American Legion thru National Commander Lynn U Stambaugh Friday indorsed Attorney General Francis Biddle's deportation order against Harry Bridges as the only proper decision A statement by Stambaugh sued at his Fargo N D home and released here cited the four-year attempt of the Legion to secure Bridge's deportation We feel that the American's re- gard for citizenship will be en- hanced by this order to deport an alien who has open gard and contempt for our form of government and has advocated its the statement said Mexico Moving Closer to War on Axis Powers Mexico City avowing her belligerency altha her formal declaration of war against the axis still is in the parliamentary machine moved steadily ahead day with her military preparations President Manuel Avila cho has asked a joint meeting of the special session of congress to authorize him to declare a state of war to protect the unsullied name of Mexico He also requested power to ern by decree and a suspension of some constitutional guarantees Chamber of deputies committees met early Friday to pass upon the proposals and to report to the full chamber Friday afternoon Tho senate is to meet Saturday after which it is expected the formal dec- of war will be announced Actress Bette Davis Heroine Lake Arrowhead tress Bette Davis Friday rescued Janis Wilson from sible drowning when their canoe overturned in Lake Arrowhead The girl working in her first ture and Miss Davis had gone a short distance from a movie company location The noe overturned in deep water about 40 yards from shore Lists Iowa Plant in Labor Dispute Washington D C tary of Labor Perkins announced Friday she had certified a labor dispute involving Armour Co and the packing house workers organizing committee CIO to the war labor board The issue the department said involves a demand for a an hour increase with a 10 cent an hour bonus for night workers The department said that workers were involved in two plants in Chicago and one each in Jersey City St Paul Omaha Los Angeles Kansas City Kan Denver Milwaukee Birmingham Sioux City and Mason City la East St Louis 111 Indianapolis St Joseph Mo and Fargo N D Nazis Locked in Big Battle for Control of Donets Basin Point CLAIM TIMOSHENKO'S MEN CUT RAILROAD and German forces on the Kharkov front Friday were reported locked in a furious battle for possession of a key city on the Donets river Soviet troops were said to have stormed the city after a crossing of tlie river engage the mm do Tenders in fierce street fighting The part of the city ang in German hands was reported ablaze A Vichy radio broadcast ing information from a soviet said that the Russians had improved their position on the eastern sector on the bulge be- low Kharkov and consolidated an important bridgehead on the right flank of the Donets river north of Izyum The Russians were said to be using a bridge crossing to 45 miles southeast of kov Set Up Batteries The bridge the Vichy radio said was left intact by the Germans and captured after a savage battle The Russians immediately in- stalled 100 anti-aircraft batteries near the bridgehead to fend off efforts of the German luftwaffe to destroy it by bombing Vichy reports said also that Russian artillery was ing Kharkov from newly gained positions The Moscow radio said 300 man planes had been destroyed in the bulge on the kovo front All German were said to have been beaten off with the nazis now on the defensive all along the line on the Kharkov front An announcement by a man for the German high com- mand that Adolf Hitler had taken over personal direction of tion on the Kharkov front was considered significant Point to Failure Military circles in London pointed out that the move places responsibility for future ments squarely on Hitler and re- called that the first time Hitler took over supreme command in the field disaster threatened the entire German The nazis still were putting Tip stubborn resistance on the front to the noon communique of tlie Red army North nf Kharkov the forces of Marshal Timoshenko were to have cut the railroad leading to de- the nazis of another vital communications line On the Kalinin front tho Soviet high command announced that two inhabited localities were taken from the Germans Claim Repulsed Berlin From German Broadcasts high command reported Friday that Soviet forces had at- tacked on the central sector of the Russian before had been repulsed in Continued on page 2 column 2 Have You Sold Your Brood If not place an ad at once Hundreds of farmers are reading the Stock Farm Sales ads every night Leonard Smart 57 S ctt road sold 10 sows from this MUST Sell 10 Brood Sows Farrow 2 weeks Smart 57 S rtt road ador S p m COURIER CLASSIFIED GIRLS Phone 7711 Former Waterloo Reporter Sails as War Correspondent Iraham Hovey former Waterloo Daily Courier reporter and his wife are shown above broadcasting from New York a few hours before they parted and left for a port to sail with an American expeditionary force as a war correspondent for International Panhellenic Donates Four Sun Outings THE FUND TODAY Previously reported Lotus Sarvay 10.00 Ham skinners department Rath Packing company 5.50 Waterloo Panhellenic sociation 60.00 Waterloo lodge 290 B P O Elks Total to date A contribution which will send four children on try vacations this summer day helped to boost the Waterloo Sunshine Fund close to the mark Waterloo Panhellenic tion donated the to the shine Fund which now is large enough to provide 65 children with four-week holidays on Black Hawk county farms With the new gifts and the sum of donated by Waterloo lodge B P O Elks which gives half as much as the total new tions day the Sunshine Fund Friday stood at The public-spirited Elks lodge has to date given 5205.62 to the Sunshine Fund It costs for each child's tion and the first leave June 6 on week outings in the sun tions should be brought or sent to the Courier business office In Thursday's list of contributors a gift of the Fidelity club was er- credited to the Fidelity circle foreign went away on News Service Hovey did not know where the force was going and neither did the INS Ho had had three months ing on the cable desk in New York When the opened he three days notice His only hint as to his tion was that the war department instructed him to be equipped with clothing for a warm climate Son of Mr and Mrs L D Hovey 318 West Twelfth street Cedar Falls he had been working in rious INS bureaus in the midwest about two years before going to New York for special foreign cor- respondence training Mrs Hovey a bride of less than a year will return to Waterloo to spend the rest of the war with her parents Mr and Mrs F J Landgraf 619 Pine street Mrs Hovey is expected to return here Sunday or Monday with her mother who went to New York to visit her Yankee Sailor Wins Heart of Australian Deb Perth States sailor has won the heart of a descendant of Lord North Brit- ish prime minister during the reign of George III whose ing attitude caused the American revolution The socially prominent parents oi debutante Joan North announced her engagement to mate Roy Wilson Parr of San Francisco Society was somewhat that the termination of her en- gagement to Flight Lieut Hugo Throssell Armstrong of the Roya Australian air force hadn't announced Armstrong is in land and shot down a German er plane last Wednesday Really it was a whirlwind Miss North's mother said o her engagement to Parr New Reverses Meet Tokyo's Attacking Troops Chungking Japanese forces that have failed to crack the stout Chinese defense of Kinhwa have met further reverses at chi a few miles away to the west leaving several thousand dead on the field after being twice re- pulsed the central news agency re- ported Friday Official quarters said Kinhwa most surrounded by the Japanese and pounded for days by artillery fire and aerial bombs still remained in Chinese hands Unable to take the town which is the capital of the eastern province of Chekiang the Japanese left a force of to continue the siege while the remainder of nn estimated force of it to attack and all in tho same area The fighting around was on the same furious scale as that at Kinhwa where the Chinese met Japanese columns inp from three directions and killed an estimated Bombs Disrupt French Railway as RAF Strikes on the vi tal was disrupted Friday in a smashing assault by pianos of the Royal Air force fighter command Several railway engines were blasted and put out of action when the British craft strafed trains anc airfields in c c u p i e c France an official said One engine blew up The British planes also set fire tn four ships in an enemy convoy discovered off the Dutch coast Other squadrons of fighter plane crossed the English channel during the day in the direction of Calais PLANE CRASH INJURY BRINGS YOUTH DEATH Cook soy 20 was dead here Friday of in juries suffered in a plane crash day His brother Cyrus nnd Sleets the pilot arc recovering The plane crashed into a field from n low altitude was the son of Mr nnd Mrs William Coal City la Nation Will Have Under Arms by Year's End He Reports PLEDGE MADE WHILE LONDON MEET GOES ON West Point N of the European con- was promised Friday by General George C Marshall chief of staff who told lie West Point graduating that American troops are anding in England and they will land hi France Marshall said the army would total nearly men by the end of this year instead of the previously announced estimate of During the past four weeks alone said the chief of staff the army has grown by men Your utmost endeavor backed by high and unselfish purpose will be required to bring this struggle to a triumphant he told the graduating cadets First Confirmation compromise is possible and the victory of democracies can only be complete with the utter de- feat of the war machines of many and Japan significance in view the current discussions of high ranking American army officers with British officials in London Marshall's assertion that can forces will land in was the first definite statement by any American official that a ground offensive against the con- was part of British strategy Marshall recalled that prior to Dec 7 members of congress ing his justification for expansion plans for the army wanted to know where American soldiers might be called upon to fight and just what was the urgent necessity for the army that we were to organize and train Future in Doubt In reply I usually commented on the fact that we had previously fought in France Italy and many in Africa and the Far East in Siberia and northern Marshall said No one could tell what the future might hold for us But one thing was clear to me must be prepared to fight where and on short notice The possibilities were not over- drawn for today we find American soldiers the Pacific Burma China and India They have flown over Japan They are landing in England and they will land in France We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible gle our flag will be recognized the world as a symbol of freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming power on the other Confusion at End The chief of staff said the con- fusion which existed in the minds of many Americans before Pearl Harbor was a thing of the past and the American people solidly be- hind the army are supporting wholeheartedly every measure for the prosecution of the war and they are meeting with calm courage the vicissitudes inevitable in a war ex- tending to the four corners of the earth This attitude Marshall said is exemplified in heroic measure by the parents and wives of those men who fought to the last ditch in the Philippines Their fortitude was magnificent during those agonizing days of tragic uncertainly regarding their sons and husbands The letters that have come to me from the mothers or wives of men lost in that Homeric struggle are my greatest reassurance that America has steeled itself for B rible struggle with the implacable determination to hammer out n com- plete and Follows Up Fim The which the cadets will join in two weeks as second lieutenants described by shall as in in natural ability and in intelligence the est personnel In world There has been much talk in London of forthcoming heavy American with thf RAf Europe i President n afio soon American fortresses will bo
