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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1942
Page
2
Soviet dispatches report renewed counter-attacks drive Germans back on a sector northwest of Stalingrad and near the Volga. Red Star notes 12 guns and 24 machine guns captured as German assaults falter. Front reports also push toward Rzhev with Street by street fighting and heavy enemy losses.
British submarines in the Mediterranean sunk a large tanker and a large supply ship and scored torpedo hits on three more supply vessels. Four subs were cited for these successes. One, led by Commander J. W. Linton, attacked a convoy of large supply ships escorted by three destroyers. results not observed but both supply ships were believed hit.
Charlie Utley received two mailings on the same day in Wilson North Carolina one informing a salary raise effective September 4 and another from his draft board ordering him to report for induction on September 4.
British bombers attacked Nuernberg and Saarbruecken inflicting large fires in heavy raids Friday night. Thirty planes were lost, part of a force potentially around six hundred, with many delivering eight tons of explosives. Northern France targets were hit by faster fighters.
Illinois extradition hearing details Henry Bernstein Chicago liquor dealer and American Packaged Liquor Stores Inc president facing larceny charges from Monsignor Molloy over a 1940 whisky warehouse receipt deal. Co defendants include S. H. Elson and Maxwell P. Oxman. board awaits Cedar Rapids hotel records to verify May 23 1940 registration.
A Chinese communique said forces retook Lishui the key air base in Chekiang leaving Kin hwa as the sole remaining important Japanese air base in the province. Reported advances include occupation of Chuh sien and a counter offensive south along the Canton Hankow railroad with crossings of the River Pa and recapture of Pakong and Yuntam.
United Press reports a Tokio radio admission that Japanese forces are abandoning all field operations in Chekiang and Kiangsi. The move follows Chinese advances retaking air base cities of Chuhsien and Lishui, with Tokyo stating the withdrawal began three days ago after early June operations.
Helsinki was attacked in waves by 60 Russian planes in what the communique called the heaviest raid on the Finnish capital. The alert lasted four and a half hours. Two planes penetrated defenses, a few bombs fell, two fires started, several buildings damaged, five people killed and twenty injured.
Italian high command says Axis forces stopped a Friday motorized attack in the central Egyptian sector and reports numerous enemy vehicles set ablaze or immobilized.
Allied forces including Australian troops and U S army service troops attacked Japanese positions around Milne Bay in southeastern New Guinea. Heavy fighting continued as air forces bombed targets and a Japanese convoy was driven off, with a cruiser reportedly sunk.
In a dawn sendoff at Milwaukee station 400 to 500 people gathered to bid farewell to 53 Linn County youths en route to Fort Leavenworth Kansas. Capt Day urged honor and duty as the crowd applauded, drum corps played patriotic tunes, and selectees received gifts before boarding the train.
United States Army Air Force B 17s bombed an airfield at Wevelgem near Courtrai Belgium escorted by fighters. All aircraft involved in the operation returned safely after diversionary sweeps by American fighters.
The Solomon Islands fight at Tulagi Gavutu and Tanambogo features U S Marines storming dugout strongholds under heavy fire. Eyewitness reporter Richard Tresaskin details the house to house combat, peril on Tulagi sea routes, and Marines earning hero status in a three day brutal campaign.
Senate finance leaders plan to hear Beardsley Ruml on a pay as you go income tax proposal. Byrd Clark and Taft seek a current basis for tax collections, addressing treasury objections while postponing a decision on corporate tax structure in the new bill.
Allied bomber missions against Japanese forces in French Indo China targeted the Hanoi Lao Kai rail line and dumps along the route as part of a broader push toward Kunming. Stronger strikes focused on Lashio downstream of the Burma road, signaling potential double offensives when rains ease.
Berlin reports 2,195 Allied prisoners were captured at Dieppe on August 19 with claims the operation aimed to establish a continental bridgehead for an invasion of France. The German communique cites Allied losses of over 600 dead and 127 planes, plus ships, while asserting German losses included 35 planes and one submarine chaser.
Cedar Rapids and vicinity expect warmer conditions with thunderstorms Saturday night and Sunday forenoon. Humidity fell from 75 percent at noon to 53 percent by 2:20 p.m. with a 2:20 p.m. temperature of 88 degrees, four above Friday. Overnight low reached 71 between 6 and 7 a.m.
Hollywood Twentieth Century Fox announced that Maureen O Hara the Irish film actress has been advised to rest for at least two months before resuming her screen career.
Navy communique says American planes attacked a squadron of four Japanese destroyers off Santa Isabel and Florida Guadalcanal areas. One large destroyer was sunk, another probably sunk, and a third badly damaged and burning.
Wendell Willkie visited Natal Brazil by air on Saturday as part of a trip through South America before continuing to Africa. He traveled with a small party and was greeted by local officials and curious residents.
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