Daily Iowan (Iowa City, Iowa), 1942-08-16

Dodgers Win Cooler See Sklry on Pap I IOWA: CoIIUnuecl dear with AI CaDllb1 Rome,. sll&"hUy cooler WmperallU'H In In 11th InnJna east portion. Iowa City's Morning Newspaper fiVE CENTS Tal .ISOC14TID ...SI IOWA CITY. IOWA SUNDAY. AUGUST 16. 1942 'I'IIK AlIIOCIAT&D ..... VOLUME XLll NUMBER 279 ar ores Bolster New Guinea Offen.sive: on "Stalingrad But Lose Ground ' in $olomons~ ~--------------------------------------------------- NAZIS HUNT GUERRILLAS IN SEVASTOPOL RUINS Larry Allen Views Enemy Destroyer and Two Cargo Vessels 'Severely' Nazis HU'rl Masses ·of Troops, Damaged,' One Cargo Ship Sunk Rhodes In Raid on Kiska Tanks at (ity's Outer Defenses By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Japanese have recently tr ngth ned til ir forces in the interior or New Guinea, an allied spokesman acknowledged to By EDDY GILMORE day after a communiqne di closed the invad I weI' still exert· MOSCOW, unday (Ap)-Apparently launching Ii full of· Attack-- ing pressnre i.n their att mpt to break throuRh t11 jungle·covered fensive again t Stalingrad after securing strongholds in the north monntains for an attack on the alii d base at POI"\; Moresby, only Caucasus, the Germans hurled masses of infantrymen, tankfl and 350 mile aero swat r from the Australian mainland. planes today against Ru. sian positions on the :Kletskaya and Kotel· (EDITOR'S* NOTE: * *TArry All~II., The communique mer ly said " n my pr ure against our' nikovski fronts before the important Volga city. 33 ·ytor-01(1 Asaociaterl Prtu COrTe"· forward outposts continues" ond made no reference to the battle of 7,lolldtllt ,V/IO',. eye: witlttu account. IhlSsian reports early today said the Germans had opened the olomons, now entering it tenth day, ev 1'01 hllndred miles to up a series of attacks with no regard for losses, with German of action ",il/I the British Medit· err(l1ltan fltel WOtl iIl,n the Pulit the east. III that strnggl the Unit d tales marin were b Ii ved bodiell littering the gronnd along a railroad east of KotelniktJVskil fur pn::e thil yM', trll' til Ihl' to have captured important coastal bas . where the Germans struck after regrouping their forces. followino if~'7'atcil at a heavy The sp arhead of tl1e Japan ' overland drive toward Port 'l'he Germans have been stalled on the J(letskaya and Kotelnik. BritiA'. nallal bOlllbard1llenl of 1/16 More by was at Kokoda, lind it. was 11 l' that th Ilcmy lllid man ovski fl'onl s fo)' two w eks while they won positions in the Don Italian talf/enl Mediltrranealt i,,· aged to incl'ease his forces. and beat theil' way deep into the Caucasus. Now they appear to la"tlll of Rhode,. Allf" waIf all board 'rhe spokesman gave no idea of' the new strength, saying simply be putting on the pressure again, with most of the north Oaucasus tile oircraft rarrl"r 11l1J,ttiow-l wilen that the Japanese forces th 1'e, admitl dJy continuing to hammer at in their hands. it waif 'lit dlltl ilalliagerl by 110::' allied positions, had been increa d "somewhat." Coincident with the threat to Stlllingrad wllS a drive aimed at Sluka., tllttl /16 ,va, wiOI Ihe Bntilh It was believed three weeks ago, when word of Japanese landings Iket wiltll it b01l.bartletl TripoH ill Astrakhan from the Kotelnikovski area. at Buna and Gon8 on the New Guin a coast were first. announced A I)ra, 1941. T Ii r f ollowitlf/ di.t. The Russian midnight communique said that the Germans lost 7'lllrh, althttugll IIIriUen 01 the time officially, that between 1,500 and 2,000 troops had dllg in on the Ileavity in attempts to recapture lost positions northeast of Kotel· of lilt actiOft ht! dnrrthe., ilia" heW big island nOlthea t of Australia. Th y th n h ad cl inland toward nikovski, while t.he Moscow radio broadcast that the regrouped 'Up by /lle BritWi /1 ermar 'Ufttil Kokoda and Port More by. nazis fighting eaRt of the city were trying to drjve to the north. ye,tl'f'riay.) Today's communique said al. east toward Stalingrad. lied bombers, operating off th Kotelnikovski is 96 miles By LAl\RY ALLEN J1C(rthwest const of Austrnlial, Interpreting Sen. Byrd Demands southwest of Stalingrad. ABOARD A CRUISER WITH had attacked Japanes installa· On the northern IIrm of this THE BRITISH MEDITERRAN liI;ms on the southeast coast of Ti mor, on Saturday, making direct The War News huge pince~ movement against I Nationwide Rationing EAN FLEET, BOMBARDING hits on buildings and starting Three-Year-Old War the city named for Joseph Stalin, I RHODES (Delayed) (AP) - The tires. the ~rmans apparently were try long sleek guns of Britain's Medit Convoy Dispersed 'To Approach Crisis Of Rubber, Gasoline ing to develop and enlarge their erranean warships, spouting sheets The spokesman added that a By 1st of November' break through to the Don river small Japanese convoy attacked southeast of Kletskaya, which is of white flame, poured ton after heavily by allied bombers off New Says Preseht System 75 miles northWest of StaUngrad. ton of high explosiVe shells into Guinea and New Britllin on Fri By KJRKE L. SIMP ON 'S 'Grossly Unfair' lIeavY to•• u , Mussolini's Dodecanesan strong day a.nd Saturday apparently had Wlde World War Anabst To American Public "Southeast of KII!~skaya the hold 0 Rhodes early today. been dispersed. The communique The s cond World war. more Germans launched several fierce Great Eires terrlble and far-reaching than its attacks and sustained heavy 1914-1918 prototype. will be t.hree WASHINGTON (AP)-Senator lOsses," the mldhieht communique They leU behind on this eastern BULLETIN years old in anothe!' two weeks. Byrd (D-Va), demanding nBtioo' reporUld. Medlterran41an Island hu.~ Ji " Yet there is 1I0od wBI'l'ant for the battered seaplane bases and" PEIHI,.M.... (AP)-An army wide rationing of gaSOline, BSIlert (The Russian \lccounts did not pltme carrylnl', ,tate pollee said, assertion of high placed British broken barracks and harbor in spokesmen that it is only now ed yesterday that It was "grossly make clear hoW the ba tUes in the probably 24 Dlen, crashed last two critical areas faCing Sta1ingrad stallations. verilni toward its crisis. unlair and destructive of public were gorng.) .. ' I The squudron of warships, com nJcht In this mountainous Berk Iblre hill town. 'li'rom two British sources a pre I morale" to permit Citizens in 31 The Germani also attacked In Ru~lan l'u~rrl1las harassbi.1' German forces in Sevastopol, ihe Rassla'l seaport cl\)I- captured after moj'l1hs manded. by Rear Admiral Philip diction has come within the weel( of 'savale flrhtlnl'. are the prey soulht by these German orficers In top photo peerln&, throuch Ilasses L. Vlan, swept into the mine-laden Corporal Louis Perachl re states to obtain all tbe Ilasoline and &he Voronesh area at the top 0' poried that the plane struck that ~y Nov. 1 of this year the lbe loll&' IQuthem froQt and at suspected hideout. Below, a croup of cuerrlllas is pictured Immediately after capture. waters oft Rhodes just before 1 flood crest of axis attacking power fuel oil they needed and to ration n. m. Thursday and blasted the Peru mountain, one of the hleh sU.hUy preaaed back the So peaksln this wooded country. will have be n reached. Speakint those in 17 states. viet.. the eommanlque declared. harbor for 12 minutes in one of the n' in London, Oliver LyttJeton, Brit "Each day it becomes more evi- However, the Russians beat the most thrilling suuprise bombard. ish minister of production, admit dent that we must have natJon'- axts fOl'ces back and killed 400 General.Eisenhower Declares:'Time "Is·Short' ments I hljve ever witnessed. itself made no reference to these ted a "somber" outlook, and said wide rationing of gasoline." Byrd GermaDll. Hure Geysers . enemy warshIps and transports, England would face the gravest The Rhodes neavy shore bat declared in a statement. "We are Apparently in this area also, on which apparently had been headed hours of her history within the the western bank of the Don, 600 terie' and anli-aircratt guns and "next 80 days." shori of rubber and ~hort of trans- toward the Solomons to reinforce ~ungarians were killed and a I~ . :, r~iningAri1erican Soldiers for .2 :nd Fro~1 Italian tOl'pedo boats flung every Japanese forces there. November 1 porlation for oil and gasoline. The group of Hungarian troops went thing at the fleet they could muster. The first phase of the battle o[ Captain Bernard Newman of the only obvious and just thing to do over to the red army, the Rus- -------:-,--------------'------- My heart crashed against my ribs the Solomons apparently had con British ministry of information is to ration these 'necessities on a 'sians said. LONDON (AP)-Significantly timate in trained personnel; and, have to be borne by Brit.ish Dnd as big enemy shells sprayed over cluded triumphantly for the ma was even more specific. Speakina . " The communique told of no speaking at a time when United third, ·because our men must be Canadian troops with Americllns this crUiser and near misses made rines. In Canada he said: "It by Novem huge geysers while lire gushed nationwide basis. major change in the Caucasus, States, Russian and British mili- toughened and hardened physically United S~ates marines were be ber 1 we are still fighting hard, National BaUonlnc with stubborn fighting continuing tary leaders Dre continuously dis- to stand the most rigorous opera- playing a minor role until they from the mouths of the ships iuns lieved last night to have driven if by November we still hold Byrd said he knew that high in the areas of Cherkessk, Miner-' cussing diversionary actions on a tions." reach a training and organization and projectiles scorched through the Japanese from their coastal Egypt, 1 think we will have won Officials of the ,overnment had alnye Vody, Krasnodar and Mai- new European front, U.

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