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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1942
Page
1
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Moscow dispatches claim two torpedoes from a Russian submarine seriously crippled the 35 000 ton battleship Von Tirpitz and allowed an Allied convoy to reach Russia safely. The ship and supporting vessels sheltered in a Norwegian fjord while British air and sea forces attacked.
FBI agents expanded roundups in the metropolitan area bringing total Bundist arrests to 113 nationwide over two days. Original indictments include 29 defendants charged with espionage and violations of the selective service and alien registration acts. Pleas of innocent entered. John August Grill pleaded guilty and sentencing was postponed to after the July 28 trial for seven co-defendants.
Eight defendants accused of entering the United States to burn and blast war plants faced a second secret session. Indications suggested a possible end within days as prosecutors and observers watched the Sanitary coastal trial near Amagansett Long Island.
Thirty nine Corry youths are to report at the Erie Induction Center for fal examinations preparatory to entering the service. Three candidates are named for Officers Trubiittz School and thirty six total await final tests and possible East move Friday evening.
President Roosevelt resists family and congressional pressure to take sides in political feuds. Experts say he has upheld a pledge that war and politics are out, with few challenges to foreign policy after Pearl Harbor. Treasury report notes July 7 balances and total debt with small gains over the previous day.
British bombers pummeled Axis vehicles and airfields in the western desert as ground troops wrecked German guns and captured supplies. Rommel’s lines were stretched 70 miles west of Alexandria while Auchinleck pressed flanks and disrupted supply convoys. Allied pilots suffered some losses but damaged hundreds of Axis planes and prevented reinforcement efforts.
Six new openings exist for men to join defense class machine shop training at Hutch Vocational School. John Freebourne leads the program, free to applicants, with evening sessions. Supt. Dewey urges interested men to contact him or Mr. Presbourne within days. About fifteen women are already training, led by Carl Wengert. Herron re elected Pittsburgh Republican county chair.
Allied air action over Hankow damaged storage and wharves with several barges burned. Casualty detail and counts are unclear, but two bombers reportedly damaged wharves and warehouses. Stilwell headquarters issued the communique. The Chinese also confirmed Japanese rail losses along the Kiangsi Chekiang line.
The Corry parish board plans to discuss potential teaching vacancies at a Monday meeting. Superintendent Dewey notes several August meetings may be needed to ensure a full instruction corps for September. Details on resignations and leaves remain unclear amid ongoing summer renovation and cleaning programs across schools.
Chairman May of the Ho military affairs committee forecasts the war ending probably in 1982 and unquestionably in 1943. He says there will be no need to induct married men or youths aged 18 and 19, citing military secrets linked to recent Russian reverses.
Washington July 9 Early resumption of tanker oil deliveries to Atlantic coast ports was predicted by Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Bailey of North Carolina. Bailey said it would not be long before increased aid a face patrol facilities would meet the supply needs and allow an average of five tankers daily to be conveyed safely into east coast ports, noting each tanker capacity at about 84 000 barrels.
The War Department announced a cost plus fixed fee contract to Mellon Stewart Co of Pittsburgh for the construction of a depot in Pennsylvania at a cost exceeding $3,000,000. Location not announced, but the depot is planned for Mercer County in the near future.
London reports Wilhelms havens defense centers and shipyards attacked by RAF bombers. Four bombers missing after operations over the Weser region. RAF notes heavy bombing near Wilhelmshaven and Bremen with ships and industrial targets hit. Royal Canadian Air Force refueled and supported mission amid aerial interceptions and losses.
Office of War Information bulletin notes Balkan guerrillas using hit and run tactics have reached Jalian territory west of Trieste and clashed with Thulia forces. Other dispatches report Turkey appointing Sukru Saracogla premier, Dutch teachers facing repression, British capture Mayotte with no casualties, Cripps set to debate shipping losses in secret, and Henderson proposing cuts to the revenue bill.
Assdottad Pregs reports 36 British seamen saved and 4 killed after torpedoing of a medium cargo ship in the Atlantic. The eighth naval district notes destruction of a British craft along with recent sinkings of a Latvian, Dutch, and Canadian carriers, raising unofficial AP losses to 1948 since December 7.
Through May 1942 railroads carried about 4.5 million troops within the continental United States. Erie No 1 westbound added two extra cars with soldiers last night. Local rails through Corry show troops moving daily to the ice front center at Erie and other hubs.
Admiral Chester W Nimitz commander in chief of the United States Pacific Fleet receives the Distinguished Service Medal in a brief ceremony aboard a United States warship. Admiral Nimitz praises the devotion of his men and crew for the award.
Ten persons were killed and twenty two injured in a head on crash between a crowded interurban passenger car and a freight trolley north of here on a single track. The Philadelphia Red Cross unit aided transfusions saving six lives. The Lehigh Valley Transportation Company investigates cause. Grover S Meckley 84 Allentown operator said he saw the passenger car round a curve and tried to stop. He was held for questioning by the coroner though no charges were filed.
Moscow dispatches say German forces massed 800 tanks on the west bank of the Upper Don as they press toward Voronezh and a corridor to the Don aimed at severing the north south railway and opening an approach to the Caucasus. Soviet reports note heavy fighting near Orel and efforts to blunt the offensive with air strikes and counterattacks.
Army officials in Smithfield North Carolina say seven crew members were killed when a two motor Army bomber crashed near the area late yesterday. Initial reports had listed nine casualties but authorities later confirmed seven deaths and withheld the identities pending identification.
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