Waterloo Daily Courier (Newspaper) - August 28, 1942, Waterloo, Iowa Spare Dollars to Clear the Buy War BONDS AND STAMPS FIRST WITH NEWS The WeatKer red showers tot ctk L ESTABLISH RP 1854 WATERLOO IOWA FRIDAY AUGUST 28 1942 SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS WORKERS DEFEND STALINGRAD Japs Back for Third Round in Solomons Iowa U S Battleship Goes to War Washington Says Activities South Pacific Not Big Victories m OTHERS THINK PACIFIC WAR MAY HINGE ON IT Auckland Nf Z The third phase of the Solomon islands battle was reported to be under way Friday night a desperate enemy at- tempt to wipe out the most allied naval concentration the Japanese have yet met Some quarters here believed that the turning point of the present phase the Pacific war may hinge on the outcome of the events now in progress It was said that the next few hours may tell the story There was some belief that the Japanese may be making a final the the allied naval tions assembled against this atre war not believed that the jor Japanese objective at the ment is to regain the ground they have lost in the Solomons There is no official information available regarding the current struggle However an unofficial source in close contact with tions took a most optimistic tude Stiff Price Paid It was believed here that the in- phase of the Solomons battle original landing ended in what could be described as a limited victory for the lies in that altho the original ob- were accomplished a very stiff price was paid for them The second Japanese challenge by air and overwhelmingly in faVor of the United Nations it was held That the Japanese in 48 hours of this their naval offensive was viewed as of the utmost significance here Just a Reconnaissance Washington D high government said Friday that the most recent Japanese foray against the Solomon islands was a reconnaissance in force and that routing of the enemy force by AJ erican airmen and warships 4 should not be regarded as a major victory This authority cautioned the nation against interpreting the action as a major attempt by the Japanese to recapture the k mons bases which were wrested from them by U S marines two weeks ago Actually he said only two im- portant things have happened in that vicinity since American forces established themselves on Tulagi Guadalcanal and other islands in the southeastern Solomons: 1 The attack by a small force on was wiped the accompanying air attacks by the enemy 2 The reconnaissance in force by Japanese surface craft 700 Jap This high authority said that the Japanese had landed about 700 troops on Guadalcanal and that they had been wiped out There also has been a series of small attacks H by Japanese planes this source said and the American forces have knocked down 30 or 32 of the nese planes at the cost of about lour American planes Sees Big Proportions Melbourne IP Tremendous resources on both sides will be drawn into the battle for the mon islands Gen Sir Thomas Blarney declared Friday asserting that it is not a but a battle which has reached the aggressive stage and must be fought out until one side or the other is defeated f Expressing optimism over the outcome of the operations at Milne on- the southeastern tip of New Guinea the commander in chief of allied land forces in the south Pacific area expressed the belief that the allies would be able v to prevent the Japanese who ed there from joining enemy es n the Kokoda area inland REICH FR Rzhev General Kassel Locomotive Works and Gdynia U-Boat Base Are Blasted RUSSIAN FLIERS LEAVE LIGHTING BERLIN FDR Talks of One Meatless Day a Week Washington D President Roosevelt said Friday that the government is ering instituting one meatless day a week I Mr Roosevelt told a press j ence that the plan is being studied largely as a means of saying oceanic I shipping space for the total war j fort The huge and majestic Iowa largest battleship ever built by America enters the East river in New York after sliding down the ways of the Brooklyn navy yard The sel was launched seven months ahead of schedule Mrs Ilo Browne Wallace wife of the vice dent christened the man-of-war which is the fourth battleship in American naval history to bear tho name of the Hawkeye state Island King Presents Sarong to U S Marines Who Wiped Out Jap Garrison on Pearl Harbor T force of 350 every wiped out and all seaplane installations methodically wrecked S the island raid now disclosed by eyewitnesses to have been a two-day job of slaughter and destruction Contrasting with earlier reports of hit-and-run raid the pants including Maj James Roosevelt son of the president made it clear tht scrappy marines even d for the few Jap stragglers still Farmer Deposits Gain Tho Increased Production Needed Ames and er rural dwellers in Iowa ly are paying their debts in spite of wartime demands for expansion of production W G State economist reported Friday Deposits in rural banks of the state on June 30 average 17 per cent higher than a year earlier ray said Unless this mounting volume of deposits is used to buy war bonds or to expand production of goods needed for the war it is an menace to stable wrote in the current issue of the Iowa Farm Economist monthly of the college Breen Wants Grain Rubber Rill Over FDR's Veto Fort Dodge a ter to Sen Guy M Gillette former State Senator Edward Breen now a candidate for congress in thp Sixth district Friday urged age of the farm bloc rubber over a presidential veto The whole rubber the letter read should be taken away from the bureaus and the crats If this war is lost it will be lost in Washington News Feature Index Pag King Edward Martin 2 lor Ac cigar Harvester Emerson San Felice oc Believe It or Not Brady's Health Talk Cedar Falls News Church Services Sunday City in Brief v Classified Ads Comics 1 Editorial 4 Markets Merry-Go-Round in News 4 Northeast Iowa Events 8 Parsons Movie Talk 11 Private Lives 4 Radio Serial Story 7 Society 6 Sports Theatre Entertainment 11 Uncle Ray's 7 Uncle 7 War Activities Directory 4 on Broadway 15 live before withdrawing to ships And so stealthy was the landing uring a moonless night on the island of the Gilbert group miles ast of the Solomons that the ines had been ashore 20 minutes deployed for battle before the Japs them The morning of the second only eight Japanese were left on the related Lieut Col Evans F Carlson Plymouth Conn commander of the marines We wiped out all we could find and after a checkup with the tives found only two Japanese un- accounted for I cannot disclose our casualties but will say the anese losses on land alone were more than 10 to 1 our losses not counting the 150 Japs lost at sea or in planes Other dramatic episodes gleaned from the eyewitness Jap snipers strapped to coconut trees lired at Major Roosevelt but missed I fired two shots at was all the eldest son of the president would say concerning his personal activity Pants to Sarong The Island's natives gladly worked with the invaders and their king gave his sarong to Capt James Davis Evanston 111 who lost his pants in action Captain Davis donned it Sgt Jim Faulkner Red Oak Tex caught four Jap bullets tered dammit each time then ried on until led reluctantly away to an operating table And there he bellowed at the surgeon that he was being pampered Pvt John Hawkins Southgate Cal killed three Japs before he was wounded so seriously that he was rushed aboard ship tually given up for dead The next morning a stunned watch officer saw him hobbling about British Fliers Help U S to Combat The navy announced Friday that British planes and fliers have joined the campaign in the western tic The official statement Aircraft of the Royal air force coastal command are with the United States naval and army aircraft in op- in the western have already engaged the enemy The reference to was interpreted by navy spokesmen to mean both planes and personnel had been dispatched from the Brit- ish isles to the United States to aid intensification of the war on the war which naval say has been increasingly in the last two months British naval units have been making a similar contribution to the surface phase of the war since early this summer I'll he live said if He I have a hunch walk about a did By the second day there were dead Japs behind most every nut said Colonel Carlson On the battlefield up a sword and pistol of the Japanese lieutenant-colonel commandant and turned it over to Commander John M Haines of Cal who presented it to Admiral Nimitz of the Treasury Asks 80 Pet Tax Lid toi Corporations Washington D tor Connally said Friday the treasury had proposed an over- all limitation on corporation levies by which no more than 80 cents could be taken in taxes out of each SI of net income Linked with this proposal Con- nally said was a suggestion for post-war rebate and debt tion of 20 per cent of the amount of taxes due from corporations This proposal was submitted he said in lieu of a suggestion for the establishment of an over-all reserve fund of 15 per cent of net excess profits income In proposing this schedule Connally said that Randolph Paul treasury general counsel urged the committee to boost the combined tal of normal and surtax levies on corporations from the 45 per cent previously approved by the house London AP In twin raids on the key ing center of Kassel and the Baltic port of Gdynia in former Poland the KAP spread the massed might of its bombers Thursday night from end to end of Germany the British announced Friday To carry the great onslaught to smash the nazi war machine across the whole breadth of Germany to Gdynia the British had to fly more than miles round-trip from their home bases under a moonlit sky This was another long step for- ward in the avowed British policy to help soviet smash at the Baltic harbor where the German battleship was known have been recently and at an important base for U-boat operations against the Red navy's Baltic fleet Besides 30 bombers lost in what was called a concentrated bombardment of Kassel the air ministry announced that two fighter planes were downed in night sweeps over France in which Hurricane bombers left two ships burning in the channel The flights were part pf a steady procession by airmen of the United Nations to squeeze the enemy land in an ever tightening grip of fire and explosives Roar Over Channel Keeping up the attack on a basis fighter planes roared across the channel the morning and in the afternoon a powerful force of bombers ed by fighters swept eastward ward France By striking at Kassel with a force probably 600 planes strong Britain's big night raiders hit a source of Messerschmitt fighters and the site of the biggest locomotive foundry To reach it they speared BO miles deeper into Germany from their home bases than the Ruhr and Rhineland regions which have been He said it would majke 30 to 40 allied ships available for hauling war necessities to world-wide atres of United Nations war where they are vitally needed He explained that this would be accomplished by having most of the LINE IS ED Gen Gregory Zhukov is directing a Russian tack northwest of Moscow around Rzhev that has resulted in the death of Germans and the of territory Russians reported General Zhukov won fame last fall by turning back the nazi drive for Moscow meat for United Nations soldiers j recapture of from 25 to 30 miles shipped from this country instead of from such far-away places as tralia and South America That he added that there would be less meat for civilian tion here but would mean that shipping space would not be tied up for as long a time in taking the meat to the war theatres President Favors Flexible Control of Wages Prices Washington D Roosevelt said Friday that his to inflation plates a flexible rather rigid stabilization of farm prices and The chief executive also declared in a general press conference dis- cussion of the inflation problem that he thought farm prices and wages should be kept within a fixed ratio Government Sues Associated Press as a Monopoly Civil Action Filed in New York Court to living costs He said he is in accord with Price Administrator Leon son on the stabilization issue hardest hit in recent months Kassel may have been chosen by the RAF as a particularly spot in the German war machine Hitler blamed part of the Germans Russian winter disaster on frozen locomotives and promised that this winter there would be no such failure The vast job of keeping man armies supplied from the At- to the Volga and from the Arctic to the Mediterranean under the pounding of the British and Russians and the destruction by saboteurs has put a telling strain on nazi rail transport The German high command knowledged material damage in residential quarters and some vilian casualties in the Kassel at- tack Costly Attack The raid was the heaviest of nine on Kassel since the start of the war and its costliness to the attackers Bombings in Paris Year After Life Threatened persons were killed and 40 wounded when a bomb exploded in the Olympia movie theatre at Clichy a Paris suburb Thursday night during a meeting of Marcel party with Deal present It was the first anniversary of an attempt to assassinate Deal and Pi- erre Laval now Vichy by an who had worked his way into the Beat anti- bolshevist legion formed to for Germany against Russia outbreaks by French patriots were reported Friday in a soviet official com- which said hand grenades were thrown into a column of nazi stormtroopers marching in a street killing five and wounding nine Another attack was reported in Bordeaux where a coastal defense station was attacked by loyal Frenchmen who seized a quantity of arms and ammunition New government depicting the Press news services the United States and contending that a newspaper without it competitive disadvantages federal district court Friday for an order to force the AP to serve any newspaper willing to pay the cost The Chicago Sun was mentioned specifically as having been unable to obtain membership in the Press the ton A civil complaint filed by the government in the southern New York district court dealt with cor- porate matters solely The government's complaint in brief made these 1 Those provisions of the AP which exclude competitors of existing members from ship and the AP news illegally re- strain and monopolize interstate commerce in news and illegally re- strain the interstate commerce of newspapers which are prevented from obtaining AP news 2 The provision of the AP laws requiring each of nearly 300 members to furnish local news gathered by its own staff ly to the AP illegally restrains and monopolizes interstate commerce in news It was asserted that the tion by the AP in 1941 of the stock of Wide World Photos a ture service formerly owned by the New York Times was an gal acquisition of stock of a ing corporation Office Buildings and Houses Crumble as Luftwaffe Rains Bombs ONE THRUST ENCIRCLED GAINS WADE NEAR RZHEV dis- patches asserted Friday that the nazi advance on Stalingrad has been blocked for 24 hours and that the German air force has launched a terrific of the key Volga city apparently designed to level the entire town Stiff Russian opposition was said to have ground the nazi armored columns to a halt on all the to arid one janzer spearhead was reported cut off and undergoing systematic ing out by Hed army forces However front the German luftwaffe has blocked Stalingrad off into sections and nas launched a in which tons of high explosives are being dropped in one area after another The nazi objective the Russians reported apparently is to turn the entire city of nearly persons a mass first attack reports said was the heart office along boulevards and squares crumpled under the rain of bombs t Soviet air lighters intercepted large nazi dive bombers on the approaches to and almost scale to 55 per cent and to retain 90 per cent excess profits tax the SAVE A LIFE IN 19421 Traffic J ill in City ot Waterloo This Year and Last Since 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work JIPS LOSE BEST 1 partly to the bright light of an almost full moon Kassel is 90 miles northeast of Frankfurt one of the targets which the RAF hit Monday in its last night raid on Germany and its principal factories include the Henschel locomotive works said to be the largest in Europe the Henschel aircraft engine works which make Daimler and Benz en- gines and the Fieseler aircraft works which turn out schimitt fighters While the big bombers were striking at this root of nazi power fighters were ing almost ceaseless offensive patrol over France and there were indications of possible naval encounters In the English channel and the gat German bombers followed up light night attacks on Chinese Fight for Second Airport in Chekiang Continued on page 2 column 2 Bandits Get in Minneapolis Bar Minneapolis Minn Three men carrying pistols and wearing dark glasses held up Danny's bar here Friday afternoon and escaped with between and Sam bar manager reported to police Shink said he had just returned from a bank with about in currency to cash payroll checks IN WAVES Council Bluffs first woman to enter the WAVES the navy's department of is Bette Evans 33 daughter of Mrs Claudia Evans of Council Bluffs la Chinese have western kiang province and have pied the great airfield just outside the city most important of the east China bases from which Japan could be bombed Chinese dispatches from the front declared Friday Chinese columns made their way into the city at 4 a m Friday the dispatches said and the airfield was in their possession shortly thereafter A little earlier the Chinese high command had reported the nese attempting to put the field out of commission by systematic de- struction preparatory to their re- treat from this strategic base which held since last May The high command communique also reported that Lishui site of the second most important bomb Japan base in east China had been entered by Chinese forces which were engaged in fierce lighting within city counter- attacks in the Stalingrad sector were said to be strength lin correspondent of the Stockholm Dagbladet reported day according to Renters British news agency dogfights were in progress with many nazi planes shot down ever the mass oi Luftwaffe chines was so great that they broke thru from several directions and reached the central part of grad where they inflicted heavy damage Factory Workers Called Every able bodied man who could be spared from Stalingrad's es was mobilized into volunteer de- which marched out of the city thru the heavy smoke pall en route to the fortifications west of Stalingrad Fighting of the most desperate character was underway on the Stalingrad defense lines but tary reports said that no nazi gains had been registered for 24 houn A soviet west of Stalingrad cut off a strong nazi force that had broken thru to the east bank of the Don and it was reported to be under destruction The Russians seized the initiative when it seemed their backs were to the wall Now the most dangerous German spearhead threatening ingrad and the Volga river line one that was 30 or 35 miles away faced quick destruction The cut German communications and drove the en- emy from three villages line dispatches said the Russians were now tightening a ring of steel about the remaining German or more tanks and eral large infantry units Dive bombers continuously mered the trapped Germans Soviet tanks and infantry were breaking them up into smaller units which KILLED BY LIGHTNING Mt Ayr eon 19 Mt youth was killed Thursday evening when struck by lightning while driving n tractor near Hatfield Mo cording to word received here were being exterminated one by one Ammunition from Planes The Germans were desperately trying to relieve their troops by rushing reinforcements from the southland dropping fuel and munition from transport planes The trap was closed on the mans by a numerically inferior force under the command of Officer Gorelik Previously he had stopped the enemy at the approaches ot most important military In a battle lasting several hours the Russians destroyed 60 German tanks At the same time units at- tacking from the south wedged into the lines of the and cut them off from their main This first good news from Stalingrad front in Indicating that the had the initiative nt at least one point by the Soviet noon com- indication thai Un
