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Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-19
Nozi SEQ Raider
Sinks u. s. Vessel

A NEW ENGLAND PORT, Aug.
19-CUP)-An enemy surface raid
er, using two torpedo boats in
pincers attack, has sunk an Ameri-
can merchantmen in the first at
tack cf World War II, it was re-
vealed today Fifteen or 16 men
were believed killed and the re-
mainder of the 46-man crew were
wounded or captured
Wounded survivors said the night
attack in the south Atlantic was
launched simultaneously from three
sides on calm sea. The 9,000-ton
raider hurled so rounds of heavy
shells in salvos of six from hidden
gun turrets as the torpedo boats
slipped in to fire four torpedoes
and spray the medium sized ship
with tracer machine gun bullets.
In addition to the Is CT 16 believ-
ed killed 10 or 20 we're taken
aboard the raider and IL were res
cued by United Nations merchant
man after sailing $50 miles in five
DAYS in a lifeboat.
The merchantmen went to the
, bottom less than half hour after
the attack.
All the survivors we're wounded
Jennings Bennett of Chehalis,
Wash. one of the navy's seven-man
gun crew aboard the vessel, had
half a knee blown away and also
lost part of finger.
Bennet's injured finger was ampu-
tated by a crewman Of the rescue
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-19
Germans Confess
biu Red Attacks

BERLIN, Aug. 10 - German
Broadcast Recorded BY UP in New
York)-The German high COM
mand today reported "extraordin-
arily heavy" Russian attacks along
the 1,800-mile eastern front from
the Lake linen region down to the
bend of the Don west of Stalingrad
but said that the enemy had been
thrown back.
The high command communique
also told of civilian deaths and
slight property damage when for
nations of Soviet planes carried out
nuisance flights" against east and
west Prussia.
(T'he German communique made
no mention of the landing Of Brit
ish, American and Canadian troops
on the French coast at Dieppe and
the bitter fighting that followed)
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-19

LONDON, Aug. 19-CUP) - The
British anti-aircraft cruiser H. M.
S. Cairo, 4,200 tons, and the flotilla
leader H. M S. Foresight, 1850 tons,
we're torpedoed and sunk in last
weeks Mediterranean convoy bat
tie, the admiralty announced today.
The Cairo, built in 1918 and con-
verted for anti-aircraft duties in
1899, carried a complement of 400,
according to James Fighting Ships.
The Foret.o:lJ, completed in 1885,
had, complement. of las officers
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-19

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Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-19

Heavy opposition was encouIl'
tered at some places and on the LETT
flank one landing party was init
ally repulsed but reformed and
later carried the beach by as
sault," the communique said.
United States headquarters said
in its communiauc:
Headquarters, European theatre
of operations, United States Army:
YANKS TAKE PART
I'm a combined operations raid
on the Dieppe area today a de-
tachment from United States
ranger battalion is taking part with
Canadian forces, British special
service troops and small detach-
ment of fighting French"
NAVY PARTICIPATES
The communique said that the
Royal Navy carried and escorted
the attack force and the Royal Air
Force provided large scale fighter
and bomber cooperation in face of
considerable enemy resistance.
The communique, No. of the
day, said:
THE troops participating in the
raid on the Dieppe area landed at
all points selected.
Heavy opposition was encounter
ed at some places and on the left
flank one landing party was initi-
ally repulsed but was reformed and
later carried the beach by assault.
Troops on the right flank, hav-
ing achieved their detectives which
included complete destruction of
six-inch gun battery and an am
munition dump, have now been re-
embarked.
"In the center tanks were land
ed and heavy fighting is proceed
ing.
MOSTLY CANADIANS
THE military force consists
mainly of Canadian troops
also participating are British
special service troops, detachment
of a United States ranger battalion
and small contingent of fighting
French.
This force was carried and es-
corted by units of the Royal Navy
Air support and protection on
a large scale is being provided by
bomber and fighter aircraft of the
Royal Air Force in face of con-
siderable enemy resistance.
1t was believed that parachutists
took part.
In it's communique announcing
the participation of the rangers
U. S. Army headquarters emphasiz-
ed that it's task had been to choose
among the men who crowded tC
volunteer for the most dangerous
work in the Army.
SPECIALLY TRAINED
They were put in training some
time ago with Admiral Lord Louis
Mountbatten's commands
"These special task troops, in
training at certain commando de-
pots somewhere in the United
Kingdom, make up what is known
as United States ranger bat
talions," the communique said.
It was announced further that
United States officers of all fight
ing force branches have for some
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-19
SHIP LOSSES CONFESSED

Syfret of II. M. S. Nelson. with
aircraft carriers under command
of Rear Admiral A. l.. Fystcr and
the light forces and CLOSE escort
commanded by Rear Admiral II.
NJ. Burrough.
The admiralty previously had ad-
mitted loss of the aircraft carrier
Eagle, 22,600 tons, and the cruiser
Manchester, 9,400 tons, In the same
battle. which ensued when British
warships escorted a reinforcement
convoy to Malta from Gibraltar.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-19

ship. The emergency surgeon also
amputated the finger of Chief
Steward Nicanor Alba, 40, of New
York City, a Filipino.
Survivors we're landed at a West
African port and five were hos
pitalized. The others were placed
aboard another ship and brought
here.
Details of the attack were re-
vealed by the merchantman's cap
tain and second officer-both Ger
man-born naturalized American
citizens with relatives in Germany
The men requested their names be
omitted from the account of the
sinking.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-19
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and ratings
At least 66 enemy planes were
certainly destroyed, the communi-
que added, compared to British
losses of eight planes, four of whose
pilots were saved.
Enemy losses, the communique
said. included at least two subma-
rines and two E-boats certainly
sunk, and unspecified other dam
age.
The convoy was under the COM
mand of Acting Vice Admiral E. N
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-19
Reds Destroy Nazi
Reserves TO Hold
Line on Don River
By HENRY SHAPIRO

MOSCOW, Aug. ID CUP - Ine
Russians are furiously counterat-
tacking in the Kletskaya area, de-
stroying masses of infantry reserv-'
es and new tanks and planes pour
ed into the most determined Ger
man effort so far to crash across
the river Don, capture industrial
Stalingrad and cut the Volga river
line, front-line advices said today.
The Russians, who announced
last night that the Germans lost
1,250,00O men between May Is and
Aug. Is, were raising the total on
both the Kletskaya front, rs miles
northwest of Stalingrad, and the
Kotelnikoski front, 80 miles south
west.
The Soviet noon communique an
nounced that Russian forces had
carried out successful raids in the
immediate rear of the Germans
northwest of Kotelnikovski. The
Communique acknowledged that
German forces had somewhat
pushed back" the Russians around
Pyatigorsk, to which drive ap-
parently had veered from Mineral
nye Vody, 10 miles tc the north.
NAZIS DESTROYED
Soviet counterattacks south of
Kletskaya yesterday killed 1,500
Germans, destroyed scores of guns
and tanks and we're continuing.
Counterattacks wue ordered after
heavy enemy tank forces and mo-
torized infantry pierced the first
line of Russian defenses on one
sector. The Soviet command had
ordered a retreat, but the Russians
managed to check the Germans at
their second line, and held them
The Army organ Red Star warned
that the Germans were making an
all out effort to sweep the Rus
slams from the bend of the Don
and start a final drive for Stalin-
grad.
HOLD ELSEWHERE
On all other fronts, the noon
communique indicated, the Hus-
slams we're holding fast, and re-
ported stubborn battles" southeast
of Kletskaya.
Red Star said Russian resistance
was becoming sitter in the areas
of Pyatigorsk and Krasnodar, 81
miles from the best Russian Black
Sea base of Novorossisk.
The strategy oI, those north
Caucasian fronts was to occupy
strategic points, hold up the Ger
mans as long as possible, kill as
many as possible, and then retire
to new points when pressure be-
came unbearable.
Northeast of Kotelnikovski, two
German divisions, overwhelming
outnumbered Soviet units, drove
more thsn four miles ir110 the
Russian positions, Red Star report
ed.
The Russians retreated slowly
hflicting severe losses, until rein
forcements arrived, then they coun-
terattacked and drove the Germans
back to their initial positions
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-19
Brazil
N ear
War
BY DAVID J. WILSON

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 19-(UP)
AT least one of the German sub
marines that sank five Brazilian
ships in coastal waters, killing
perhaps go passengers, and forcing
Brazil to the verge of war with the
Axis, was reported today to have
been sunk by patrol planes.
While angry crowds milled In the
streets, roaring for vengeance,
breaking up Axis shops and burn
ing Axis flags the official national
news agency announced that two
German submarines had been sunk.
1t said an American plane pilot
ed by Commander Jack Lacey had
sunk a submarine yesterday so
miles from the coast, apparently
in the area where the ships went
down. Subsequently, the sinking
Of a submarine by Brazilian pilot
in that area was officially announc-
ed
One sinking was reported by IN
|, terventor Maynard Comes of Ser
gipe state, and the second by Inter-
ventor Amaral Peixoto of Rio De
Janeiro state. The possibility that
the announcements we're for the
same submarine was apparent.
: 800 ON SHIP
There were 800 persons aboard
the five ships-Baependy, Itagiba,
Ararguara. Arara and Anibal-Bene-
vola-whch the government an
nounced Monday had been sunk in
the past three days"
Scattered reports from coastal
towns between Bahai and the
northern border of Sergipe state,
and the National news agency.
showed that total of $50 had ar
rived in lifeboats.
Soldiers were aboard the Bae-
pendy and Itagiba. Of @98 passen-
gers aboard the Baependy, q were
reported saved; of 173 aboard the
Itagiba, 103 were reported saved.
The national temper and speeches
of President Getulio Vargas and
Foreign Minister OSwaldo Aranha
yesterday indicated that there
would be quick declaration of war
against the Axis.
ACTION PROMISED
Vargas, with tears in his eyes,
- from the front of Guanabara pal
ace. promised with the maximum
vigor to punish the Axis criminals -
mot only the Nazis and Fascists,
but all others suspected of such
, feelings will be put outside the
Brazilian community" he said.
WAR materials, soldiers. women
and children are at the bottom of
the sea, c'amoring for justice and
reaction IN the interior of the
country, sbovels and picks await
the enemies of Brazil.
II understand your feelings of
revulsion"
Aranha spoke for II minutes from
the front cf Itamaraty palace, and
repeated Vargas assurances that
the "barbarism, belligerency and in
humanity" of Germany would not
go unavenged
"You can go home, safe in the
assurance that the government is
taking all measures to organize the
country for an unprecedented, vic
torious effort" he said.
The Rio De Janeiro chief of po-
lice imposed 9 p. m. curfew on
all bars and coffee shops and 10
p. m curfew on all theaters and
moving picture show houses to
safeguard the public welfare He
asked the public to stay at home
after 10 p. m.
There were numerous demonstra-
tions in Rio De Janeiro yesterday,
one by more than 5000 persons Half
a dozen German, Italian and Japa-
nese flags were burned. Axis shops
were wrecked.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-01-22
PRICES:
Control Controversy

The price control bill finally was
passed, but in such a form that it
was said to have been major de-
feat for the administration.
Although the senate passed it 83
to l, the farm-relief amendment
passed only SIS to 81.
AS the bill went into conference it
provided, according to opposition
senators, such possible farm price
raises that the cost of living could
reasonably advance Is per cent be-
fore the price control administrator
could do anything about it.
The bill provided for no direct
governmental control over wages, a
fact which caused Senator Nye, who
had voted for the O'Mahoney-R Russell
amendment for farm relief, to be
the sole senator voting against the
completed bill. He claimed that the
failure to handle wages would make
the whole bill Ineffective.
It was cited that under this bill
it would be reasonable to expect but
ter at a dollar a pound; eggs at
over dollar dozen, wheat at 81. SO
bushel, cotton at 81 cents, and
similar price increases.
Opponents of the measure claimed
it would be impossible to halt wage
increases, hence industrial price in
fation if food and farm commodity
prices went to such levels.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-01-22
DEFENSE:
REORGANIZATION

President Roosevelt recognized
growing congressional dissatisfac-
ton over the Civilian Defense team,
comprised of Mayor LaGuardia and
Mrs. Roosevelt, and while he did
not take LaGuardia's title of di-
rector away from him, he brought
Dean James M. Lands of the Har-
ward law school down to Washing
ton to take actual charge.
The house had made discreet rep
reservations to the President that
Mayor LaGuardia, as head of the
nations largest city, had plenty to
do to see that New York's defense
situation was cared for, and had no
time to see to the country as whole.
They also limited around that Mrs.
Roosevelt could only be considered
part-time executive, and that the
OCD needed hard work and full
time.
They recommended it be put into
the hands of the war department.
President Roosevelt's answer was
Dean Lands, but in the meantime
the house voted an inquiry into the
manner in which the problem had
been handled.
Mayor LaGuardia, Mrs. Roosevelt
and Paul V. McNutt had been sum-
moned to testify.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-01-22
MALAYA:
At All Costs

While the British were seriously
be1ng forced backward and ever
backward in Malaga, losing the cap
1tal of the Federated Malay States,
Kuala Lampur, Sir Henry Pownall,
the commander in the Singapore de-
tense, made the statement that the
British plan was divided into two
general parts, first the slowing or
stopping of the japanese attack;
second, the turning of the British to
the offensive and driving the in
vaders out. He said:
1--WE are now engaged in the first
of these activities
Returning British wounded, how
ever, paid tribute to the fighting
qualities of the Japs, and members
of Commando groups said that when
confronted with the cold steel the
Japs would scramble up into tall
trees, from which they would hurl
grenades on the British like mon
keys with explosive coconuts.''
They were said to be adept at
hiding in small places, and that at
times furious fire would come from
directions in which it did not seem
possible that soldiers could find
cover.
Raj. activity over the peninsula
was constantly on the increase, how
ever, and American-made bombers,
some of them flown by Eagle fiers
with the volunteer Chinese air force,
were bombing japanese bases in
Thailand and Indo-China from Bur-
mese flying fields.
The picture was not generally opti-
mistic IN Malaga, but it was re-
garded as far from hopeless, at least
at present.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-01-22
TWo government officials 'on edge"?

ticials "on edge?
LEON NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ad-
ministrator, as he appeared before
the senate committee on small bust
ness. He and representatives of the
retail automobile trade are in search
for means to cushion the economic
shock which car dealers face.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-01-22
PRODUCTION:
On Home Front

All over the United States groups
of workers were getting together and
adopting resolutions to speed up
their effort, and some factories pro-
ducing war materials were report
ing as much as 70 per cent added
output since the declaration of war.
Ships of war were being launched
and put into commission as rapidly
as possible. The Liberty ships were
going into the water at scores of
shipyard ways.
Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, re-
ceived several large new elders for
test, elders said to have a wing
spread of 80 feet. probably capable
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-01-22
Speed Up of IT, S. War Production and Russ Gains Cheer lille
BY Edward C.. Wayne

Of transporting soldiers in large
numbers.
Swiftly they had been put under
test, their pilots from the new
schools which are training men to
manage these motorless ships, which
possibly may be towed in trains"
to be released over territory in
which it is desired to land troops.
In the invasion of Crete, Germany
used hundreds of them, repeatedly
landing $4,000 troops that way, also
large numbers of light field guns
and ammunition.
The newest glider training school
is at Twenty-Five Palms, Calf,
turning out classes every four
weeks, the students being already
graduate pilots.
The elders were so large that in
Transporting them from factory to
Wright field by trailer truck they
had to be broken into two assem-
blies.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-01-22
THE WAR:
Up and Do1Un

The war had become an up and
down affair, with the Russians Win
ming all along their huge front, the
British gaining victories in North
Africa with the Germans on the run,
and the Japanese generally in the
ascendancy on the Philippine and
Singapore fronts, but taking a con-
tinued whipping at the hands of the
Chinese.
Such was the situation as there
was no longer any question but that
the large and well-equipped army
of the United States was on the
move to join battle actively in the
war, though the detailed where
abouts of that participation was
still a closely guarded secret.
Estimates of when the tide Of the
battle of the ABCD forces against
the japanese in the southwest Pa
cific would change varied consid-
erably
Some observers felt it would be
weeks, others months, some who
were more pessimistic felt it would
be a year before enough American
pressure could be brought to bear
to produce a definite change In the
battle.
But that victory would be won in
the end, nobody seemed to doubt.
They watched the United States NOV
ing troops and ships, producing fast
er and faster more powerful arma-
ments, moving to put new soldiers
and sailors into uniform, and could
see but one result, eventual victory,
perhaps in 1943.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-01-22

Santa Barbara, Calf: Mickey
Rooney, No. film star, married a
little-known 19-year-old movie &C.
tress, Ava Gardner from North
Carolina.
New York: Joe Louis defeated
Buddy Baer in a one-round knock
out and then had announced he
would enlist in the army, not waiting
for the draft.
Rangoon, Burma: A japanese air
raid threw three elephants into a
panic and they stampeded, causing
considerable confusion before they
were recaptured.
Rome: Italy had confiscated the
entire filling station network OF the
Texas company within its borders.
New York: Canada's Air Marshal
Bishop, in an address, called for a
little more healthy hate" for the
enemy, not that it should be confined
simply to the leaders of the Axis.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-01-22
RUSSIA:
Brightest Spot

The Russian front continued to
furnish the brightest picture from
the Allied standpoint.
Moscow had begun to report mass
surrenders of German troops with
out fighting. The Reds also report
ed large masses of Nazi soldiers in
rapid retreat to the southwest from
the upper central front, abandoning
much war material.
The sieges Of Sevastopol and
Leningrad have definitely been
broken, and their garrisons had
swept out beyond the city borders
to engage retreating Germans and
to attempt to form functions with
other Russian troops.
The radio broadcasts picked up
from Germany tacitly admitted the
situation was serious. One described
it as a "crisis, but one with which
Adolf Hitler will know how to deal. !"
Hitler was believed to be planning
some sort of major coup, but the
nature of it could not be guessed
at. He also was variously reported
as facing tremendous internal pres
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-01-22

Tokyo Thy RADIO: A 80 per cent
tax increase has been necessary ii
Japan to finance the new war ex-
penditures, it was announced.
Berlin: Dispatches from Tokyo
told of Seueo Dye, famous Jap pole
vaulter, being killed in action as he
led landing party on Luzon.
Cairo: A thrilling account of how
it felt to be blown up by a torpedo
while riding on British cruiser,
and to swim As minutes over an
oil-covered sea was written by Larry
Allen of the AP who lived to tell
the tale.
Washington: Daylight saving on
a year-round basis had appeared
assured following the passage of a
time changing bill.
London: Britain was still further
cutting it's food ration as the de-
mands began to flood in from the
South Pacific campaign.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-01-22
SHORTAGES:
u. S. Feels inch

One after another shortages of
various commodities and manufac-
tured products began to be felt, and
the average American began to
feel the pinch of war as he never
had felt it even at the height of the
last World war.
Some of these shortages could be
traced to lack of raw material from
the south Pacific; others to the de-
mands of the war upon industry,
still others on both.
First came the rubber shortage
and the consequent rationing of
tires, directly due to the Philippine
situation; second was the abrupt
ending of production of new pas
senger cars and commercial trucks.
and the rationing of them.
In line with this came difficult
ties in delivering milk and other
commodities in larger cities and
towns.
The cutoff in sugar caused a
price rise, and the government
moved to buy in the major portion
of the Cuban crop. In many cities
this precipitated panicky purchas-
ing of sugar, with the result that
grocers started rationing it them
selves.
1t also was reported that there
soon would be instituted the ration
ing of spark plugs and batteries,
probably of other manufactured
goods associated with the auto in
dustry.
The auto factories were going full
blast into straight war production.