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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1942
Page
2
Federal agents foil sabotage plot with the capture of Nazi spies in the East. Rommel forces drive toward Suez as Germany opens a new Russian front.
FBI rounded up eight master saboteurs trained by Nazi experts landed by submarine from two bases at Amagansett Long Island and Ponte Vedra Florida. Caches of explosives were found and about $170000 in currency seized. Accomplices arrested in Chicago.
German troops launched a new offensive near Kursk, advancing from entrenched positions as Soviet forces counterattacked in Kharkov and Sevastopol. Kursk lies on the Moscow Crimean line with key industrial plants and anti tank works. Marshal Timoshenko halted a German push east of Kupyansk and counterattacked a key sector.
In Egypt Rommel directs three armored divisions against the British Eighth Army near Matruh. Axis forces bypass Matruh and press toward Alexandria and the Suez. German Italian communiques claim progress with hundreds of prisoners as Axis nears the Nile corridor 150 miles from the valley.
The Navy department announced a decisive Midway score with at least 10 Japanese ships sunk including four aircraft carriers. Additional Japanese losses include cruisers destroyers and transport vessels while American losses were reported earlier. The communique notes all 275 planes from the four Japanese cruisers were destroyed.
Officials from the Office of Price Administration hint a possible sugar ration increase, perhaps a half pound per coupon. U S consumer stocks are 50 percent below a year ago, primary distributor stocks down 20 percent from 1941, and total sugar on hand is a third lower than last year. Final decisions depend on Caribbean shipments from Puerto Rico and Cuba in the next six months and on actual ration distributions.
A recount of Gen. James B. Weaver Iowa born 1833 and his rise through Greenback and Populist ranks. It notes his nominations in 1876 1880 and 1892 and highlights Populist platform goals and Mary Ellen Lease famous exhortation to farmers. Weaver later served as Colfax mayor 1904 1906 and died 1912.
The 1000 plane RAF raid on Bremen marked the first official admission that U S made aircraft participated in the main operations. Reported planes were Lockheed Hudson bombers, typically used for anti submarine patrols rather than base bombing.
Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov announced full agreement between Washington and London on a United Nations offensive in the west. A joint Roosevelt Churchill statement was hailed as proof of an approaching Allied offensive and reassurance against fears of a blocked second front.
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