Current Events August 6, 1942; SECOND FRONT MAY OPEN UP IN NORTH AMERICA:

            The Cumberland Times

                          CUMBERLAND, MD., THURSDAY, AUG. 6, 1942

Russia Hurling Her Carefully

save a Reserves Into struggle

To Stem Nazi Stalingrad Move

BATTLE LINE IN

SECTOR HELD TO

BE STABILIZED

But Line Still Sagging Under

Weight of Nazi Numerical

Superiority In

Rostov's Southeast

CAUCASUS THREAT

THERE IS GREATEST

M e n a c e to Stalingrad Is

Sharpened by Danger If

By-Passing Drive Toward

Astrakhan

By EDDY GILMORE

Moscow, Aug. 6 (AP) —Russia's

carefully saved reserves were moving

into the battle today as Marshal

Semeon Tiomoshenko's troops

fought back bitterly against a new

threat to Stalingrad on the battle-

ground where the fledgling Red

army made history in the 1817 re-

revolution. ,

Dispatches which indicated for

the first time that the reserves

were going into action against the

terrific German offensive said the

battle line apparently had been

stabilized at both flanks —.'near

Klelskaya. 80 miles northwest-- of

|Stalingrad, and Kushchevka, on the

Yeya river 50 miles south of Rostov.

GHANDI MOVES

CLOSELY EYED

BY ROOSEVELT

May Appeal to Indian Lead-

er to Abandon His De-

mand For Independ-

pence During War

BRITAIN IS FIRM

Urges Nationalists to Fore-go

F r e e d om In Face

of Threats to Open

Gates to Japan

By WADE WERNER j

Washington. Aug. 6. (AP)—

India On Allies' Side

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            NEW CASTLE NEWS

                    NEW CASTLE, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1942-

NAZIS HEAD FOR STALINGRAD

India To Appeal To Roosevelt For Aid

Reds Retreating

South To Defend

Huge Oil Fields

German Advance Into Caucasus

Said To Continue

At "Alarming Rate"

SOME RED SUCCESS

IN OTHER SECTORS

General Von Bock Apparently

Trying To Encircle

Kuban Vallev Area

Aleutians Seen

As Second Front

In Near Future

Senate Committees Leave To

Investigate Situation In

Alaska

KICK JAPS OUT

SOON AS POSSIBLE

(International N'ews Service)

SAN FRANCISCO. AUG. 6—Possibility

that. American troops may

soon open a "second front" right

in North America—to drive Japanese

invading forces from the Aleu- I

tian Islands—was seen today as

members of two senatc committees i

prepared to leave San Francisco for

an investigation of the military situation

in Alaska,

Senator Mon C. Walgren D.

Washington, member of both the

Military Affairs Subcommittee, and

the Truman Investigating Committee,

and Senator Harold H. Bur-

ton (R) Ohio, member of the Tru-

man Committee, made it clear they

believed the situation in Alaska

to be critical.

Clear Aleutians

Jointly, they declared that the

vigorous prosecution of an offensive

to clear the Aleutian Islands

and neighboring waters from enemy

control is essential to our war'

program.

Current Events August 5, 1942; SURVIVORS OF SHIP SINKING ARRIVE IN SEATTLE:

          The Daily Chronicle

Centralia, Washington,. Wednesday, August 5, 1942

Sub Sinks U. S. Vessel In Pacific

Death Met by

Eight Seamen

On Freighter

Details .of Shelling and Machine-

Gunning on July 14

Related by Survivors on

Their Arrival in Seattle

SEATTLE, Aug. 5.—(/P)_

Still s u f f e r i n g from the effect

of drifting three days and

nights on a raft in the rain and

fog of the north Pacific, seven

more survivors of an American

freighter shelled and sunk

by a Japanese submarine' last

month arrived here today.

The men, among them Captain

Christian Evensen of San

Francisco, the vessel's master,

gave more details of the shelling

and machine-gunning of

the survivors as they put out

in life rafts and a lifeboat. Two ,

sailors died from shell wounds

and six others from exposure

before rescue came.

The ship was attacked the night

of July 14, survivors said in interviews

approved by tile navy and

released last night.

Survivors Listed

'Hie men arriving today with

Captain Evensen were Isak Arnescn,

Ssn Francisco, able seaman,

who was sent to the Marine hospital

for treatment, for shock and

exposure, Frank Purviance. Richmond,

Calif, steward; George

Croff, Great Palls, Mont, able

seaman; Peter Kalani, Hawaii, fireman;

B. J, O'Brien, Portland, oiler,

and Hans Wange, San Pedro, second

officer.

It was the fourth attack by a

Japanese submarine since June 7,

when a freighter was sunk in north

Pacific waters. A submarine also

shelled Astoria, Ore., and Point.

Estevan on Vancouver island

Survivors, who drifted eight days

in a lifeboat in the choppy waters

of the north Pacific, Were landed

here. They said the submarine machine-

gunned their lifeboat after

they had abandoned ship under

terrific shell fire.

The dead were Anthony Amundsen,

chief engineer; Bernard Rodman,

seaman, San Diego: Rudolph

Peterson, seaman; Emil Nilsson, seaman.

Seattle; Lloyd Carlson, seaman,

Seattle; Martin Knudsen. seaman.

San Francisco; Thomas p.

Ware, seaman; Alexander Heitnor

missing and believed dead.

Survivors Machine-Gunned

Current Events August 4, 1942; RUSSIAN MAIKOP OIL FIELDS PROTECTED;

The Galveston Daily News

GALVESTON, TEXAS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1942.

Hard-Pressed Russians Slay Over

9500 Attacking Nazis in One Day

Defenders Are Now

Scant 138 Miles

From Maikop Field

Soviet Communique Tells 'of

No Single Enemy Gain/During

Intense Battles of Monday

Associated Press War Editor

The hard-pressed Russians defending the Western-Caucasus

a scant 138 miles from-the Maikop oil fields and the: approaches

of Stalingrad. On the Volga stood firmly today. (Tuesday) -in.

their. lines "around Kletskaya, Tsimlyansk, Salsk and -Kushche;

sky fighting with such vigor that more than 9.500-attacking Germans

died in a day.

British Merchant

SHIP, U. S, TUG

Reported Sunk

Brings Total of Ship

Sinkings to 410 ,

Since Pearl-Harbor

By Associated press

The sinkings of a British mer-

chant ship and a small United

States tug, announced yesterday ..

(Monday) by the navy brought the

Associated Press total of' ship

sinking announcements in the

Western Atlantic since Pearl Har-

bor. to 410.

Enemy Pacific

Threat Nears

Australia

Japanese Creep Closer

in Mountain Jungles

of New Guinea, Extend

Chain of Isle Bases

W i t h Gen. MacArthur's

Headquarters in Australia

Aug..3. AP The past fortnight's

intensified effort in the Southwest

Pacific has brought the

menace of a Japanese invasion

of the' Australian Continent

only a few miles nearer. The

enemy has crept n little closer

in the mountain jungles of New

Guinea.

But increased pressure by the

Japanese, and a l l i e d counter pressure,

have revealed that the

Japanese,. after a period of comparative

inactivity, are again at

work strengthening and lengthening

their Island chain of bases extending

along and just under the

equator from Sumatra, 4000 miles

eastward into the Pacific.

Few observers believed that {he

Japanese resumption of initiative

necessarily was a prelude to an attempt

to invade Australia. But a

glance at the map was sufficient

to demonstrate 'that each new link

forged in the island chain gave the

Japanese another potential starting

point, should Tokyo decide to

order its war machine to resume

rolling southward,

Current Events Augus3, 1942; GERMANS AGAIN REPULSED AT THE DON RIVER:

               The Portsmouth Herald

                                Portsmouth, N. H. Monday Evening August 3, 1942

Russians Claim Nazis Repulsed In

All Key Sectors Except one

Cossacks Stem

Germans With

Savage Blows

Moscow, Aug. 3 (AP)—Aided by dive bombers which

hammered crawling columns of fresh thousands of German

men and vehicles, the Red army declared today that it had

repulsed the Germans in all the vital sectors except south

of Rostov where "severe defensive" battles were being

waged.

Even there, said the Soviet Information bureau, Don

and Kuban Cossacks from the Red Army of the Caucasus

were savagely counter-attacking to stem the German advance.

More than 6000 Germans were

killed and at least 25 tanks were de-

stroyed in a single day along the

curving 300-mile Don front, the

Russians declared.

Gambling high for Caucasian oil,

the Germans threw reserves by the

thousands across their Rostov

bridgeheads They were employing

every kind of motorized conveyance

—fast motorcycles, speedy troopcarrying

trucks, tanks bearing au-

tomatic riflemen, and small tanks

which rushed the Russians from

the Russian flanks.

But the reinforced Russian

air force strafed and bombed

these columns continuously as

they coiled southward.

About 2,000 Germans were

left dead on the field in a fierce

struggle near Kletskaya, northwest

of Stalingrad in the Don

bend, where the invaders were

repulsed, the communique said.

(E.T.'s Note: Honoring heroes of this war takes different forms. Seven months of the U. S. participation into the war, we begin to recognize the contributions of the leaders of the campaigns.

Mrs. Gen. MacArthur'

Arrives At Tilton Farm

The boys at the Golden Rule

Farm in Tilton are celebrating

the arrival today of "Mrs. General

MacArthur"—a black and

white heifer calf.

General MacArthur, a brown

calf born during the seige of

Corrigedor, was named in honor

of the hero of Bataan.

The boys 'are now looking

forward to the arrival of "Jimmy

Doolittle," who is expected

within a few days.

Gandhi Backs Independence Bid

With Threat Of Welcome For Japs

Bombay, Aug. 3 (AP)—The

political situation in India took

an ominous turn today as Mohandas

K. Ganhdi warned that

British failure to heed Indian

demands for independence

would cause discontent elements

to welcome a Japanese

invasion.

The little nationalist leader, writ-

ing in his newspaper Harljan, expressed

the personal opinion that

such a development would be a

calamity of the first magnitude"

which he said the British government

should avoid by giving in at

once.

(The British Broadcasting corporation

reported that Sir Rarmiswami

Mudaliar, Indian representative

in the Imperial war cabinet,

would leave shortly for London to

take his place in the councils of

the United Nations.)

Firm In Passive Opposition'

Gandhi added that the "chorus of

indignation" from Britain and the

United States would not deter his

own projected campaign of nonviolent

opposition to British rule,

in which the All-India Congress

party is expected to reach a final

decision Friday.

He emphasized that while

India was demanding political

freedom she was not insisting

on the withdrawal of British

troops from the country nor

seeking to impede the war effort

of the United Nations.

However, he warned, India's

"suspicion and resistance" will

be stiffened if the Allies ignore

"the sincerity of the fierce opposition

which is being organized

with ominous unanimity."

Political observers have little

doubt that the Congress will endorse

Gandhi's program, which already

has been approved by the

party's working committee, although

Balkrishma Sharma, a provincial

leader, said he planned to

offer a resolution asking that the

opposition movement be called off.

(The Japanese continued their

efforts to stir up trouble in India

by broadcasting from Bangkok, a

speech by Rash Behari Bose, exiled

Indian Nationalist, in which he declared

that the time was ripe for

the people to rise and win their

independence. Bose said that Japanese

troops already were on the

eastern border of India but were

postponing action to see whether

the Indian people would throw off

British rule "of their own accord."

Current Events August 2, 1942; NAZI THRUST MAY CUT OFF STALINGRAD::

     BIG SPRING DAILY HERALD

              BIG SPRING, TEXAS, SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 1942

Nazi Thrust May Cut Off Stalingrad

Spearheads Push

50 Miles Below

The Don River

MOSCOW, Sunday, Aug. 2 (AP)—German troop* fanning

out into the western Caucasus have reached the Salsk

and Kushcheyka areas, 75 and 50 miles below the Don river,

in a move which threatens to cut Soviet communications with

Stalingrad in the east, the Soviet acknowledged early today

Salsk, 100 miles southeast of Rostov, apparently was

reached by a German drive which crossed the Don in the

Nikolaevsk sector. It is a junction on the Stalingrad-Krasnodar

railroad.

"The enemy pressed our troops back slightly" in the

Salsk area, the midnight communique said. "In stubborn

fighting near a river crossing 1,500 German officers and men

were killed and several dozen tanks destroyed."

Kushchevka, northwest of Salsk, is on the Rostov-Baku

railway which connects with

the Stalingrad - Krasnodar

line at Tikhoretsk.

Only on the approaches to

Stalingrad Itself did the Russians

announce a major success

In the desperate attempt to stop

the Germans.

Subs Attack

Three Ships,

Sink But One

By The Associated PRESS

Submarine attacks upon three

allied merchant vessels, all on the

same day, about 50 miles off the

east coast were disclosed by the

navy yesterday, but only one ship

was sunk and only two seamen

were lost in the encounter.

The vessel sent to the bottom

was a small Nicaraguan ship. A

medium-sized United State merchantman

and a medium-sized

Panamanian cargo carrier safely

reached port along the coast The

one sinking boosted to 407 the

Associated Press tabulation of

announced United and neutral

nation sinking in the western

Atlantic since America's entry Into

the war.

By The Associated Press

Japanese invasion spearheads

steaming south and east from

Japan since Dec, 7, have suffered

the loss of 314 vessels in all

categories, an Associated Press

tabulation of official announcements

disclosed yesterday.

Included in the total are 14 enemy

ships—seven naval craft and

seven merchantmen — whose destruction

by United States air and

sea forces In the Far East is

based on reports received between

July 18 and Aug. 1.

Current Events August 1, 1942; DUESSELDORF IS BOMBED: 10,000 ENEMY TROOP IN THE ALUETIONS:

            THE CAPITAL TIMES

                                  MADISON, WIS., SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1942

Nazis Open New Drive Below Rostov

RAF Drops 'Ceaseless Rain of Bombs on Duesseldorf

          RACINE JOURNAL-TIMES

              RACINE, WIS., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 1, 1942.

Reds Admit Nazi Advance

In Area South of Rostov

MOSCOW, Aug. 1.—(U.P)—Red

Star, official organ of the soviet

army, intimated today that any

Russian soldier who retreated

would be shot, as the noon communique

acknowledged that the

Germans had broken through red

army defense lines south and

southeast of Bataisk.

I t was the first admission that

Russian positions had been penetrated

in the critical Bataisk area,

some 15 miles south of Rostov,

although German gains had been

admitted three times in 24 hours.

Admit Soviet Retreat

RAF Bombs Smash

Dusseldorf Factories

More Than 600

Big Planes Drop

Block Busters

Attack Concentrated

For 50 Minutes;

Many Fires Started

LONDON, Aug. 1.—(U.P.)—British

bombers during the night dropped

more than 150 two-ton "block

buster" bombs and 100,000 incendiaries

on the great German

industrial center of Dusseldorf in

what the air ministry said today

was "probably the most concentrated

RAF attack since the war

began."

The ministry said that the RAF

pounded the Rhenish-Westphalen

war industry area with a "ceaseless

rain" of bombs for 50 minutes.

A large number of huge Lancaster

as well as a "great force"

of all other types of heavy and

medium bombers participated in

t h e attack.

Many fires were still burning at

Dusseldorf at 11 a. m. (4 a. m.

CWT) when reconnaissance planes

approached the city, the air ministry

added.

Other Fronts Raided.

An admitted loss of 30^bombers

indicated that well above 600

planes engaged in the attack

10,000 Japs Attempting

To Consolidate Aleutians

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—(U.P)

—Official navy disclosure that

some 10,000 Japanese troops are

believed to be in the western

Aleutians was accepted today as

evidence that the enemy apparently

is attempting to consolidate

its position in the island chain.

According to a navy spokesman,

probably one-hp'? of the

force was believed encamped on

the three islands now known to

be in Japanese hands—Attu, Kiska

and Agattu. The other half

was believed to be aboard ships in

the area.

Is Formidable Force.

Considering the small size of

the islands, military experts believed

the invasion troops represent

a fairly formidable' holding

force. And size of the concentration

was regarded as evidencing

Japanese desires to retain their

established foothold in the

world.

There is no evidence yet that

the Japanese have extended their

o p e r a t i o n s beyond the three

islands already occupied. Delegate

Anthony J. Dimond of Alaska

reported he had been informed

unofficially that the enemy

may have landed on the Pribolof

islands about 250 miles north of

Dutch Harbor but the navy

spokesman, in reply to inquiries,

said that "we are not in a position

to say that they aren't there

but we have no evidence that

they are."