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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1942
Page
2
Westinghouse announces a new blackout bulb for emergency use in government buildings and plants. The bulb emits a faint orange glow visible only inside the room, not from outdoors, allowing safe movement and shutdown of equipment during a blackout.
The Italian and German forces report progress near Matruh as Axis troops push along the coast road about 19 miles beyond Matruh. Prisoners and tanks claimed, while Rommel’s forces clash with Allied battle troops. U S Liberator bombers join the desert fight, striking Bengasi and Tobruk to cut Axis resupply. Air combat with Axis planes continues as British, Indian, and Dominion units brace for continued action.
FBI chief Hoover announced the arrest of eight Germans who landed in two groups from submarines near Amagansett and Ponte Vedra Beach Florida. They planned to bomb rail lines, ALCOA plants, Niagara Falls, New York water supply, and inland waterways to disrupt U S war production. All eight had lived in the United States and were members of Nazis linked groups.
A theft reported yesterday at the Church of God on Florida Street saw about five dollars taken from the collection since the prior Sunday. Entry was gained via a window, fingerprints pointed to boys, and police were alerted to the incident alongside broader wartime updates on Axis activity and strategic stakes in the Middle East, including Egypt, Tobruk, and Rafale lines.
Senate House tie up bills continue as Congress debates funding for wartime agencies and programs. The War Production Board, War Manpower Commission and OPA face funding gaps while a 1.9 billion dollar bill awaits passage. Parity disputes over government wheat stocks spark Senate House disagreement ahead of potential interim funding.
Junk dealers faced a probe over scrap rubber bought at twenty dollars a ton and sold for up to four hundred a ton after refining. Officials questioned stockpiles and the push for a $25 per ton purchase price, while transportation and central stockpile logistics remained critical. The drive official ends Tuesday, with WPB planning to handle post drive scrap if any remains.
Reports from Kharkov describe a northward German push from Kursk 125 miles north of Kharkov. Soviet forces claim major counterattacks with tanks guns planes and an armored train penetrating the German rear while Sevastopol sees changed German tank tactics and heavy fighting with substantial losses on both sides.
Italians acknowledge losses in Egypt as planes were shot down while German fighters claimed destruction of five enemy aircraft. Torpedo planes reportedly sank a 5,000 ton escorted merchant ship in the eastern Mediterranean. In the Sicilian channel an air clash left two of six British Spitfires shot down over a rescue seaplane.
Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Thornhill announce four daughters born at 3 30 p m yesterday at Charleston General hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Hanser of 1630 Franklin avenue announce a son, John Harrison Hanser, born at Charleston General hospital last Friday night.
The column lists H Milam 41 Becky Park dead in hospital with widow Blanche and many sons and daughters, plus Rev Arthur Renney 53 glass cutter buried in Point Marion with WWI honors, and multiple services for Rev Harvey Campbell 82 at Nicot and others including C A Thomas and Dorothy Grey. Also mentions Miss Ada Grant, Mrs Temple Fleming, Hamilton infant Opal Frances, Nancy Rumbaugh, Dellie Egnor, Alice M Smith and family cemetery burials.
M C H Mead 83 a leading southern West Virginia oil and coal operator died in Miami after a fall health trip. He led Raven Cliff Development and Raven Cliff Fuel and Supply and owned several coal firms. Survived by widow, two children Antoinette and Sabine, and brother Gaylord. Funeral Thursday in Melbourne.
The article outlines the policy of the FBI and President Roosevelt toward ten saboteurs captured in the United States. It notes that leniency will not be shown and discusses potential treason charges and citizenship questions. It names Ernst Peter Burger and Herbert Haupt as two saboteurs who had become American citizens. The piece also reports deaths and obituaries of Webster Haynes and Martha E. Boley with service details and survivors.
A British air raid struck Bremen and nearby ports inflicting heavy damage to shipyards Focke Wulf plant and harbor facilities. Reports from Stockholm note extensive destruction at Cologne Essen and other German war plants with Speer reporting commissions to assess repair viability.
Civil Air Patrol wrapped two day roundup with about eighty planes, awarding James Gibson of Huntington a gold loving cup for bombing efficiency and Dr J Martell for the Princeton squadron. Two minor mishaps were reported, including a Charleston pilot snagging a sandbar and a Charleston aviator’s companion falling into the Ohio River.
King George of Greece arrives in Montreal from the United States for a three day stay then will proceed to Ottawa. The visit marks a brief royal tour through Canada with engagements lined up in Ottawa following Montreal duties.
Japanese were slain or wounded in this operation and that more casualties were inflicted when Chinese forces thwarted an enemy counterattack. Several Japanese units were reported surrounded and cut to pieces in the surrounding mountains. Yukon in northeast Kiangsi was captured after a three day battle as Japan pressed a westward drive.
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