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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1942
Page
1
London reports night raids by powerful British air squadrons struck Mainz again while Nazi raiders bombed outer London ending a long period of lull. Five RAF planes were lost, and Mainz fire services were overwhelmed. the second consecutive Mainz raid followed a daytime blast on German industry with heavy Allied bombing.
Berlin reports heavy damage from a British bombing raid on Mainz Rhineland city. Civilian casualties and extensive fires followed the August 12 attack, with authorities confirming seven deaths and at least three injured. About 250 to 409 British airmen took part, leaving a 15,000 foot plume of smoke over Mainz.
Aug 13 Associated Press reports an Army spokesman received intelligence saying Japanese transports carrying over 20,000 troops were sighted heading to the Gulf of Tonkin on August 7. No origin or destination given. Southern China to French Indo China areas were bombed by US planes from China.
Local Board No 3 will finish fifty one enrollments for September draft including Class 1-A and 1-AO. Inductions are scheduled for Thursday September 10. Sixty registrants recently sent to Erie for physicals. forty-one passed and were inducted, with further departures planned for August 25 after a 14 day furlough.
An Erle Chevrolet truck owned by Johnson Distributors driven by Dean Vanderhof swerved to avoid a Studebaker and crashed into a tree near United Brethren Church on Center Street just before 11 am. No injuries were reported though the load of Sterling chocolate milk and a lemon drink was damaged. Vanderhof escaped serious harm. The McDonald Studebaker avoided contact and did not strike the truck.
United States army fighting planes entered the European theater for the first time in a large scale operation. In the last 48 hours US fighter squadrons, cooperating with RAF units, conducted several sorties over the coast of France and over the vicinity of England. The communique lists three operations over the French coast and eight interception sorties along England's coast.
Berlin reports German high command claims the U S aircraft carrier Wasp was hit and set afire while attacking a large Allied Mediterranean convoy. The report notes Wasp delivered planes to Malta in June and lists other ships damaged or sunk, though no confirmation from German sources.
Negotiations between Aero Supply Mfg Co and Aero Lodge No. 1508 concluded with a wage raise, approved by U S Conciliation Service Commissioner John K. Fenton. The plan likely adds six to ten cents an hour, plus a ten-cent increase for beginners, and awaits Aero Lodge member approval.
Rioting and clashes spread across several Indian cities with Bombay seeing reduced violence. Nagpur faced the worst, with police stations burned and casualties as troops fired into crowds. The United States clarified a four point policy, keeping forces in India solely to aid the war against the Axis, not to intervene in internal strife, while aiding China via India. A separate note reports ships in a search for a surface Axis raider in the South Atlantic.
Columbus township leavers and taxpayers convene to decide if the High school course should be suspended for the 14 42 term. Principal Bonney seeks leave to work at General Big Company Erie's plant, affecting Corry High enrollment. Columbus pupils could join Corry High, boosting attendance to about 450, with classroom remodeling and another teacher likely.
A Pittsburgh janitor Joseph Vidina died after a six story fall at the Cadestoga building on Wood Street. Other dispatches report President Roosevelt vetoing a coast and geodetic survey bill, German radio claims of Russian warships in the Turkish Black Sea, a vandal grenade attack at Jean Bouin stadium in Paris, a German rail explosion in Occupied France, and a York County jail inmate Stewart Schaefer dying after an altercation with a deputy warden who faces assault charges.
Agimented Press reports a major German push forming in the Don Bend as Soviet forces in the Caucasus resist a fast German drive toward Grozny Novorossiysk and Tuapse. Luftwaffe raids pound Caucasus towns while a spearhead nears Grasny after breaking Cherkessi. Soviet communiques claim heavy German losses amid persistent German pressure.
A chaotic report from Moscow describes a major clash north of the city as German and Soviet forces engage along a widening front. The piece notes heavy fighting, armored divisions, and the strategic concern of German advances threatening key cities like Leningrad and Astrakhan, with limits of 500 miles and 175 miles mentioned in relation to Moscow and nearby targets.
Italian broadcasts report heavy losses inflicted on a British convoy in the western Mediterranean as Asiatic planes and submarines attack since Tuesday. The communique says action favors Rome, citing many hits on escort vessels and aircraft carriers. The British report the carrier Eagle was lost. German high command notes separate submarine actions in the eastern Mediterranean.
At Bremerton Washington authorities sought the origin of a persistent blaze that destroyed five newly built Federal dormitory units and a private residence near the Heemertonavy yard. One secured dormitory housing 207 navy yard workers was affected. Six other occupied units were saved despite wind and weak water supply.
A confidential German letter to Nazi sympathizers in the United States names Walter Kappe as head of a fifth column. The FBI is pursuing Kappe in connection with saboteurs executed after a military trial. The letter, signed "Hell Hitler," urges central cooperation and hints at a Comradeship USA network.
A seven day Solomon Islands battle saw US Marines repulse Japanese counterattacks at three invasion beachheads. Tulagi harbor area appears firmly entrenched, with probes and hand to hand fighting. Allied naval forces press rear areas and bombardments, while reconnaissance notes shipping activity around Rabaul and New Britain.
A Dutch merchant ship was attacked in the western Atlantic bringing a death toll of 23 crewmen. The vessel was sunk amid wartime actions near the coast of South America with only a few sailors reaching lifeboats. The incident follows recent wartime measures and navy patrols in the region.
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