Average Daily Circulation The Weather ' Vor Cm Month of July, 1842 Fotoout of V. 8. WeaOier Bninu 7,494 Uttl* ohnage in tenpemtor* to­ Member of th* Andit night; aentte^ abowers mmI thnn- dershowen this afternoon oed enrty B mean o f Ctrteletibhs togight. , MancheHer-^A City of Village Charm at (Claaollled Advertising on Foga 14) MANCHESTER, C0NN„ FRIDAY. AUGUST 14, 1942 VOL. LXI-, NO. 269 (SIXTEEN PAGES) PRICE THREE CENTS Crcrman Prisoners Start Trip to Prison Camps Aid Reaches Malta Sovieti^ Hold Stoutly ^ In Spite of Loss On Stalingrad Lines; •f Naval Vessels G r ^ Sea and Air Bat­ Farm Lad^s Battle in MountainsI tle in Mediterranean Costs Cmiser Man­ Acumen Aid Germans Report Rus­ chester and Aircraft Reds Claim Successea I sians Resisting Fierce-, Canada Units Northwest of Moscow: Carrier Eagle; Ital­ Winning Bull ly in Caucapus Moun­ But Admit Troops in ian, Cruisers Turn Seen Leading tain Passes Guarding Caucasus Have Fallen Tail and Run Again. Run* Sub-Contest Of- W ay to . Black Sea feting Three Ctdves a* Europe Drive Back Before Nazi Col­ London, Aug. 14.— (JP)— Coast; RedvArmy At­ • Prises in Order to umns Driving Toward.! One a t the gAatest sea and tacking Heavily at air battles of the Mediterra­ Black Sea Port and Get Most Signatures. Weekly Papers Group nean has cost Britain the Voronezh, M o • e o w Is Told Canadians Vir­ Oil Fields at Grozny. cruiser Manchester and the New York, Aug 14— (JT)— Big- aircraft carrier Eagle, but re­ city business acumen as practiced Berlin (From G e r m a n I tually Certain to Be Moscow, Aug, 14.— (/P)— I Broadcasts), Aug. 14.— — sulted in delivery of rein­ dovra- on the farm today won Spearhead of Invasion. The Red Army held stoutly forcements and new planes prize bull calf for a 10-year-old The German high command on the approaches to Stalin- | said today the Russians were for Malta and saw Italy’s Mississippi lad in a nationwide Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Aug. grad today and claimed iiA- cruisers again turn" toll and rtm, contest of the American' Jersey resisting fiercely in Caucasus 14— (JP)—It ia viAuslIy certain according to the British Admitkl- Cattle club. pressive successes northwest mountain passes guarding ty. Known Axis Inssea Include two When a broker wonts to fioat a that Canadians will be the spear­ of Moscow but the Soviet Ih-1 aubmorlnes Mmk and two ‘ crulo- bond Issue he usually advertises In the way to the Black Sea head of any second front opera­ formation Bureau acknowl­ er* hit by torpedoes, sold the Ad­ the newspapers and sends out let­ coast, and reported that the tion launched in Europe, Gillia edged that Russian troops in miralty’s communique which to­ ters to clients, but when Robert German prisoners, captured by the Allies In action on the North African froht, ride In a lighter Purcell, general superintendent Red Army was attacking day gave the first official Allied Houston, Jr., of Tupelo, Miss., to a vessel which will take them overseas to permanent prison camps for the duration of the war. of The. Canadian Press, sold to­ the Caucasus had fallen back hekvily at Voronezh and north­ before Nazi columns driving to-1 account of the battle which hSMl wanted to sell stock In himself he day at the annual meeting o f the west of Moscow. ward the Black Sea port of Novo- been in progress since Tuesday. went the financiers one betler. C!anodlu Weekly Newspapers Exploit Moontplnous Terrain roesisk and the Grozny oil fields. As part of a "victory cam Associltlon. No Mention of Americans "In the {Caucasus district," a 'The bureau’s noon communique psign" In which th* cattle club la He warned, however, against The Rome radio today declared, communique said, "the enemy, ex­ reported that Russian artillery, presenting 1,000 purebred bulls to any urging of a premature sec­ "the joint effort by British and Bombers Blast at Jap Warships; ploiting mountainous terrain pounding sway at steadily-attack­ American dairy farmers for im­ ond front, declaring that "right American pooled reoourtes was which 4s particularly favorable for ing German forces on the flanea the greatest ever attempted in the proved breeding and greater milk now tbe weeklies con do a valu­ defense, ia still putting up rA ist- able job for Canada In this game of the Stalingrad front, hod Mediterranean.” The Admiraitj’ knocked out more than 100 enemy (COntlnoed *a Page Ten) Nippt ance In order to cover his retreat mode no mention of American onese Claim 35 Vessels Sunk on the sea rout* from the north tanks, 35 armored cars < and 350 participation. (Ooatiaaed on Fog* Nine) (Caucasus ports. trucks. Authoritative sources her* said "Tbs attack o f German *tro8)>t Enemy Assaults RepnlteS several aircraft carriers as well os Assert 13 Cruisers, Solomon Islands Bat­ is nevertheless progressing well. All the enemy ossnulta were re- I British battleships accompanied Italy Claims M olz^n Ends the Malts convoy. Nine Destroyers^ Three In on* place weak enemy forces Navy Seizes pulsed with heavy losses, two | tle Explodes O ver 'The Admiralty intimated that were isolated and dispersed. complete German companies be­ the convoy might have suffered Submarines and Ten Broadening Area; Try "Docks on th* Black Sea coast ing wiped Out in one attack and I 9 More Ships further losMs or, damage, saying, Giving Story 600 men being killed in another, Transports Are Sunk. were again the objective of effec­ Cable Plant; "it 1* not to be expected that ex­ To Aid Garrisons. the bulletin declared. tive German sir roide. Two large tensive and dangerous operations Sunk in Fight transports were damaged through Unofficial advices^ however, re- I o f this type, carried out in ciose Tokyo (From Japanese U pon Stand ported later that the Germans ac­ General MacArthur’s Head­ bomb hits." Strike Ends proximity to enemy bases, con be tually had broken through and ] Broadcasts), Aug. 14,-^i'P)— quarters, Australia, Aug. 14 A Gerpuui motor torpedoboat completed without loss." reached the Don below Kletskayo, sank a 4,000-ton trsn s^ rt off Destroyer, Cruiser, 3 Imperial headquarters said P ro te sts o f — The Battle of the Sol­ 75 miles northwest of Stalingrad. Axis Ctolma Exaggerated Account Tuapse, it was sold. I in 8 ccmimunique today that omon Islands exploded over 800 Employes Votc^ to only to be hurled back by a fiirlana I It declared, however, that pub­ Merchant Vessels and Talk Given in Phila­ Don Fighting Net Mentioned lished Axis claims were known to Japanese naval forces in the a broadening area of tbe Return to Work at 4 Russian counter-attack. be exaggerated. Four Other Ships In­ Battle of the Solomon Islands South Seas today with Allied Th* communique made no men­ Th* (utile break-through, theoa | delphia GeHnan Pa­ Combined German and ItsTIarl had sunk 13 British and tion o f land operations In the Don P. M. Today; Time Set advices said, waa sccompTiahad by cluded in New Report. bombers blas.ting away at claims Included: Sunk, three crula- per Is Not Accurate. bend ores. maoaing great numbers of tonka j American cruisers, nine de­ Japanese warships and trans­ By Navy to Reopen. ers, two destroyera, 21 merchant Of tbe fighting farther north it on a narrow sector. The . IM | stroyers, ' three submarines ships and the aircraft carrier Rome (From Italian Brood- ports apparently trying to re sold: Army’s counter-attack was said j and ten transports. (These figures Bolletin! Eagle; damaged, one battleship, coiU), Aug. ,14—(P)—The lUUon inforca garriaonx hurled out of "In the ares of Voronezh fresh Bayonne, N. J„ Aug. 14—(8>)— to have separated the tanks from tw o aircraft carriers. Including tbe were without confirmation from Hartford, Aqg. 14—UP)— three coastal ores by United attacks of relief made by the Rus­ The Navy today seized the strike­ high command reported today that any source). The war bulletin said Gerhard WUbelm Kuaze, for­ (Conttoned eo Page Fear), U. S. aircraft Ckrrier Wasp, and- States Marines. Allied flying for­ sians failed. Fifty-six tanks were bound Bayonne plant o f The <3en- "numerous other steamers and ‘In further opermtiona" against a that to addition one cruiser, three mer (iennan-Americaa Bund tresses and medium bombers destroyed in bard struggles. pritlsh convoy in the Mediterran­ eral Cable (Corporation and an­ men-of-war.” destroyers and ope transport were "Fuehrer" who ha* pleaded caught the enemy vessels in New "East of Vyazma and at Rzhev ean Italian Naval and sir forces nounced it would reopen the fac­ Originally, however, the Ger­ severely damaged. guilty to aa esploiiage' ooa- Guinea waters, west of hte Solo­ strong enemy attacks were stop­ have sunk a cruiser, a destroyer, ■piraey Indictment, told a tory St 4 p. m. (e.w.t.) mans hod claimed only 21 mer­ Two Jap CrniMrs Damaged mons, yesterday and drove Iwine ped, portly In a counter-thrust, in three merchant ohtpa and four oth­ Federal jurj- today that he three separate attacks, a head­ "Any Interference with th* oper­ chant ships were In tbe entire cont er ships. It said that two Japanese cruis­ fierce fighting, and on this occa­ Flashes ! bad never tofonned the Rev. quarters communique reported. ation of this plant la on offense voy. ' The communique added that ers were slightly damaged but re­ sion 70 tonka were put out of ac­ (Late BoUetias of the <JP) W tio ) Kurt E. B. Moliahn that he Bod weather prevented the pUots against the United SUtes," said With the exception of th* Eagle German sir and Naval ships have mained in commission.