Daily Iowan (Iowa City, Iowa), 1942-08-05
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::---=IT 4, 1942 ... _.. Dimout Rules Slig"tly Warme'; Ca_ Giani-Brook lOWA-&al&ered IIhowers Wett DeacUock THE DAILY IowAN alJd "alJl ~enl.ral portio... &ocIaT. 8e(: Story on Pa,e t Iowa Cit Y, s .M 0 r n i n g N. w spa p • r S ....b.lb- warmer. FIVE CENTS THE ASSOCIATED palS8 IOWA CITY, IOWA WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5,1942 Taa A.lOOIATU nail VOLUME XLD NUMBER 269 .. .. LOADING FIERY CALLING CARDS FOR NAZI INDUSTRY GERMANS HUNT SNIPERS IN BURNING RUSSIAN TOWN Berlin Radio Claims Enemy Forces Bridgeheads Pushed Across Kuban River Slash Deeper Hints Speedy Attack On Maikop Oil Fields Into Caucasus Is Major Nazi Goal gun. Dt', Cossack Cavalrymen glnaloWll_ BERLIN (From German Broad Now BaHI. Italians, In. As SOOn casts) (AP)-The Berlin radio be the 11_ quoted Berlin military quarters Spaniards and Finns ~hoto. last night as saying that German B, EDJ)Y (lILMORB troops driving deep Into the Cau MOSCOW, Wednesday, (AP) dcast casus had established bridgeheads -German troop have made an across the upper Kuban river, other 50-mile advance in the natural ba.rrier where Marshal Caucasus to threaten Tikhoretllk, Show Timoshenko had been expected by an important junction on the some quarters here to make a Soviet railway system, and also asting sys major stand. ha" gained in the DOD river hour shO\ll The nazi high command earlier elbow northwe t ' of talingrad, Pre-Fll"hl. claimed the capture of Voroshi the Russians announced eady 19. lovsk, 180 miles southeast of Ros today. lcgin at & tov, and some 35 miles east of Driving southwest of Salsk Idcast over Ground crew members at an air base somewhere I n England load thousands of incendiary bombs aboard the curvin, Kuban. along the severed Stalingrad Krasnodar railway, the nazis have tions. ODe of thl! rlant four·motored R. A. F. bombers tha t havll been used in the concentrated assauUs on Advancln, into a Russian vllllage In the Donets area tbat hall been tired by retreatlne Soviet IrooDS In VIchy RepOrt sa id the German Industrial centel"!!, Planes like this dropped thousands of thousands of the fiery mlssles on accordance with their scorched earth policy, German soldiers cautiously search around the UamJnr buUd· (Reuters heard the Vichy radio reached Belaya Glina, and their say that the Germans crossed the t of a se Dlie&seldorf In the great raid that was hailed as the most concentrated ever made, Inn for hidden snipers. A German tank can be seen In leU forerround apparellt goal is Tlkhoretsk, an Kuban near Nevl\1nomysskaya other 50 miles away, atizing the which is on the Rostov-Baku rail Would Outflank Redl Ie tt'emen way some 200 miles southeast of Seizure of Tii<ho.retsk would ~ program Rostov), outflank the Russian army still lin the em- "With aIm 0 5 t breath-taking fighting the nazis at Kushchvka. speed the German advance con 50 miles to the north, and enable 1 will take tinues," the announcer said, "and the Germans to control large seg ISC, swim joy is prevailing In oUicial quar ments of Russian railways In the :mory. The ters." The broadcast spoke of the western Cauc8$us, New York "southwestern banks" of the Ku German reserves succeeded In ~d to Iowa ban, apparently meaning the Ger punching a hole in Soviet positions mtinue for lindbergh Testifies man advance was in the area be in the Don river elbow some 80 nutes. -Do'wns 54' lop, AFL, ~I~ ~eader$. tween VoroshJlovsk and the Kuban miles northwest of Stallngrad. HaUl'allan, river city of Armavir, 40 miles to "In the Kletskaya area and 11 be inter b 0efense Wi1ness , tf- ' _ I Plan Hls~onc Meetmg the west. south of It," the midnight com e the show. Referring to the Maikop oil munique said, "our troops re In W. Pelley Trial PaCifiC Batt es To Consider"Merger fields 65 miles southwest of Arma pulsed many enemy attacks and vir, the announcer said: "The inflicted many blows on the en Permits speedy German advance is now emy. The Germans threw in many Queried 15 Minutes WASHINGTON,* * (AP)-* A Sin-llonI g regarded' * by* Americao* milit- ional medal* of *honor * for single- ere issued gle squadron on navy figb. ter pilots aryand naval au~horities as the han!l-edly getting five of the 16 Green Views Unity menacing these 011 fields. Without reserves and only at the cos~ of Yoder, 22, As S~dition Hearing was credited ,fficially yesterday enemy's best fighter. ptanes. As Great Contribution this 011 Soviet tanks and planes heavy losses pres,sed back some " 18, both with having shot down 54- Japanese Alter participating in the Coral The n vy gave this account of are just dead metal." what our troops." nd Kreick, Recesses Till Today To Winning of War 'Eas)' Prey' NEW DELHI, (AP)-The British pJanes and probably shot down 18 Sea battle tile fighter pl10ts weEe the exploits of the lighter piloi • • • and Jose- others to belp win the f{reat air- transferred to the aircraft carrier group: Marshal Tlmoshenko'B famous The Pll8h to Bela.ya GUna rep of Marsh INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The government charged yesterday that sea ba lUes of CbraJ S~a and Mid-I Yorktown where they formed Down 28 CHICAGO (AP)-The Ameri Cossack regiments wel'e declared resents a. 125·mlle thMllt Into [iller, clerk sedition trial of William Dudley the great majority of the all-India way. The squadron lost.' only four fighting squadron number three In the Coral sea battlc they shot can federa lion of labor and the "easy prey" tor the nazi tank the Caucasus by the nail salient .nccd. Pelley and two associates, accused congress working committee are planes, two to enemy fighters and under the leadership o{ Lieutenant down 28 Japanese planes. They congress of industrial organiza forces, but the announcer said the which crOllled the Don near Nik Germans expected "tougher and olaevsk, brld,ed the Man)'ch 01 seeking to interfcre with tbe appeasers of Japan and that tbe two which ran out of gas. Commander John S. Thach, 37, or probably bagged seven other tions agreed yesterdllY ' to con- Lhe Kuban nationalist Leader .Mohandas K. 4 ActJons Fordyce, Ark., one of thc navy's planes but conrirmation of these more lasting resistance" from Rus river to reach Salsk, then larned nation's war eHort, neared an end Gandhi favors prompt negotiations In reporting the squlldron's score most noted squadron chiefs. was not complete. They lost no sidcr mergil;lg their forces in one sian reserves quartered in the Cau southweslward toward Tlkbor· on of the yesterday with the brief and somc with Japan for the independent the navy said it was made In four Won Navy Cross planes to the enemy but two ran huge unit as a historic peace par casian mountains to the south. elsk, lly import what anti-climatic appearance of India he seeks to establish now. actions-one in the Coral Sea and It was his squad.ron which last out of gas and were lost at sea. ley. The Germans acknowledged • • • heavy Russian counter-attacks in Already threatened with encir ~y attempt Charles A. Lindbergh, called as The governmoot cited documents thrce at Midway- and called these February brought down 16 of 18 AH three of the squadron's Mid A conference to study steps to seized in a raid on the all-India "thc most decisive series of In- Jap bombers attacking an Amer- way actions, a month latcr, oc the Don river elbow northwest of clement, the Russians in the Kush either tl) a defense witness. close the seven year gap be or to split "ongross party's headquarters at dividual aircraft actions In the war lcan carrier in the westcrn Pacific. cured on the same day, June 4. Stalingrad, and said Russian re chevka area were faUlng back tween them and to bring approxi slightly under a German drive apart. A Aiter the noted aviator and Allahabad, in particular the or to date." He won the navy cross for that vic- In the first of these, six fighters inforcements "are arriving contin great river former America First leader testi- iginal draft of a .resolution put Among the enemy planes re- tory and one of his pilots, Lieuten- lrom squadron three were as mately 11,000,000 workers under a uously from the north." southward along the Rostov-Tik fied that he bad made no ettort forward by Gandhi advocating that ported as certainly shot down were Iant (now Lieutenant Commander) signed to escort a torpedo plane single standard became assured horetsk-Baku railway. Cossack cavalrymen equipped since the United States entered Indians wage a campaign of civil at lellst 22 Japanese "Zero" planes, Edward O'Hare won the congress- (See PLANES, page 6) when AFL President William .. disobedience to win immediate with modern weapons were in the tbe war to learn the people's at- frecdom from British rule. Green announced the federation's Chine$e Troops Unite thick of the Caucasian fight, but litude, the defense announced it Admits Charges CITIZENS' DEFENSE slanding peace committee was the tone of the Russian communi had no other witnesses immedi- Gandhi admitted the sUbstance Steel 'Black Marker. WPB Considers New ready to meet a similar group ap que made it only too evident that ately available and Judge Robert of the charges, but said he had CORPS pointed by CIO president Philip With U. S. Bombers the German mechanized might taken his position for bargaining was telling in most sectors except C.