Current Events August 27, 1942; RUSSIANS DRIVE WEDGE IN LINES NORTHWEST OF MOSCOW/ SOLOMON TREND ENCOURAGING/ AMERICANS SMASH INVASION ATTEMPT AT GUADALCANAL:

(E. T.'s note: The front page of this newspaper did not reflect the fighting in the war zone and headlines to call attention were not presented.)


               The Cedar Rapids Tribune

            CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27 1942



C. R. HOUSEWIVES SABOTAGE


TIN SALVAGE EFFORT

Unconscious sabotage of what is undoubtedly one

of the most important salvage projects in connection

with the war is being committed by the housewives of

Cedar Rapids, according to Commissioner Louis Bur-

gus, who is in charge of the tin collection campaign '

Here. Commissioner Burgus' charge is borne out by '

several other persons who have made it a point to

inspect the contents of many of the receptacles supposed

to contain nothing but reclaimable tin cans.



OUR ARTILLERY IS


BETTER THAN NAZIS',


SAYS ARMS EXPERT

SALISIBURY. N. C.—The United

States has developed "weapons" superior

to the 88-mm. gun which the

Germans are using In the Egyptian

campaign, Maj. Gen. Levin M.

Campbell Jr., chief of army ord-

inance, said in an address here

He did not disclose what the

American weapons were, but de-

clared they were heavier in fire

power, possessed higher muzzle

velocity and carried greater explosive

charges than the German cannon.

He said American tanks, type

for type, were superior to anything

he enemy had and possessed

heavier armament and greater speed.



                  The Charleston Gazette

           Charleston, West Virginia, Thursday Morning, August 27, 1942.

Russians Drive 30-Mile Wedge
In Lines Northwest of Moscow;

Solomon Trend 'Encouraging'
45,000 of Enemy


Slain in 15 Days
Red Offensive Disclosed
As Siege of Stalingrad
Becomes Imminent,
Grozny Periled
Workers Take Arms
For Volga Defense
Nazis Reported at Main
Barrier of Towering
Caucasus Range

MOSCOW, Thursday, Aug. 27.

(AP)—A Red army counter-attack

northwest of Moscow to relieve

pressure on Imperiled Stalingrad

was reported officially

early today to have killed 45,000

Germans In a 15-day push that

recaptured 610 localities and regained

from 25 to 30 miles of territory.

Americans Smash
Invasion Attempt
One Nippon Fleet Striking
At Guadalcanal Repelled;

Big Sea Fight Still
Rages to North
Six More Jap Ships
Damaged by Airmen


Havoc Dealt Among Enemy
Warplanes, 33 Being
Downed in Battles

By Hamilton Faron

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—(AP)—

American air power has repulsed

one Japanese invasion fleet

seeking to recapture vital areas

in the Solomon islands and has

wreaked havoc among attacking

Japanese planes, the navy disclosed

today.



Japanese Make
New Landing

Allied Ground Forces Now
Battling Foe on South
Tip of New Guinea

Shanghai AP Bureau Chief Returns %

Morris J. Harris, chief of the Shanghai bureau of the Associated

Press, is greeted on the pier by his wife, after leaving the

liner Gripsholm at Jersey City yesterday.



Secret Weapon May Gird
Allied Second Front Push

LONDON, Aug. 28.—W—The chief of the' U. S. army's arms design

division declared cryptically today that the Anglo-American

allies were producing secret weapons with surprising potentialities

and that new British weapons in production were "really eye-

openers.