Sherbrooke daily record, 24 août 1942, lundi 24 août 1942

[" V ^iiprbroolu' iDailu ÎU'rurb \u2022 \u2022 \u2022 THE PAPER OF THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS WEATHER Cloudy and cool.£stablished 1897.SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1941.Forty-Sixth Year.GERMANS INCREASING THREATS STALINGRAD Soviets Offer Strong Battle Against Nazis Desperate Efforts Being Made to Cut Off German Spearheads Crossing Don River Before Reinforcements Can Be Brought Up\u2014Great Bend of River Offers Little Real Hindrance to Advance.^- DOLLAR-A-YEAR MEN FLAYED BY LABOR LEADER Canucks Made Longest Sustained Battle Of Great Commando Raid Sn Taking Main Beach At Dieppe ______\tj\tBv ROSS MUNRO, Winnipeg Mayor Declares that : «an 1^ war correspondent.rt 11 y\t\u201e n/i™\tSomewh-ore m England, Aug-.24.\u2014 Dollar-a-Year IVl6n MOrG (.([» Caile)\u2014They speak with awe Interested in Balance Sheets in Canadian army camps of the \u201cMain Beach at Dieppe where three NEW OFFICER NAMED TO SUPPLY DIVISION Ottawa, August 24,\u2014\u2014 Roy Geddes, of Montreal, supervisor of the Primary Industries and Manufacturing Sections of the Foreign Exchange Control Board, has been appointed supervisor of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board\u2019s Supply Division, it was announced today.He succeeds W.Park, cf Toronto, whose services were loaned to the Board last December and who now returns to his position as merchandising manager with the T.Eaton Co.Ltd.Before coming to Ottawa, Geddes was Treasurer and manager of a Montreal firm.Than Organized Effort.Kenora, Ont., Aug.24\u2014(CP)\u2014Mayor John Queen of Winnipeg said in an 1 address here that \u201cThe war could be made shorter, and fewer lives would be lost, if Canada were organized on the basis of its utmost productive effort.\u2019\u2019 Speaking at a banquet of the fifth annual convention of the Northern Ontario District Council of Pulp and Paper Mill Unions Saturday night, Mr.Queen urged conscription of industry and finances of Canada, \u201cThe Government has failed to organize our war effort,\u201d he said.\u201cHow can it when it gives key positions in the Department of Munitions and Supply to dollar-a-year men?\u201d He asserted that a dollar- By EDDY GILMORE.Associated Press Staff Writer M o s c o w, Aug.2i.\u2014(A5)\u2014The Russians battled resolutely today-in the narrow, flat corridor between the Don and the Volga to halt German forces which finally-had consolidated a river crossing and struck out for Stalingrad, probably only forty miles away.Another thrust at the greaf industrial city moved slowly ahead at terrific cost to the Kotelnikovski sector Southwest of Stalingrad along a railway leading from the Black Sea.The midday communique reported a violent struggle Southeast of Klet-: kaya where the Germans had reached the East bank of the Don.Tanks which ferried the placid river constituted the greatest threat to Stalingrad.A Soviet tank detachment was sent against the flank of the German force Northeast of Kotelnikovski and seven German machines were destroyed and two hundred Germans} killed, the mid-day communique said.J\t_ The struggle for Stalingrad ap- All Popular Fair Features Included in Three-Day Operation of pea.red to be nearing the supreme 1 test, Russian reports indicated, as a new crossing of the Don was forced Southeast of Kletskaya by the Germans.The Russians were fighting stubbornly to push these Germans into the river and destroy the bridgehead .In another sector of the Kletskaya area, Russian troops broke into Canadian infantry battalions, tank men, engineers and provost fought the longest sustained action of the raid on the old French town.The Battle of the Beach was the main Canadian attack \u2014 boldly directed at the town itself.From the stories told by the men who came back this general picture has been pieced together.The Essex Scottish landed at about 5.20 a.m.on the Eastern half their way through barbed wire and then w:ent on again to take cover behind the seawall, ten feet high at.the Eastern end and lowering gradually to two feet at the Western extremity.Heavy shelling and a torrent of small-arms fire prevented some of the troops from debarking from the tank-landing craft.German five from the buildings along the promenade was strongly supported by Nazi artillery and machine-gun posts looking down from the tall headlands which rise up on either side.The Hamilton battalion drove forward in force and finally captur- GERMAN DECOY EFFECTIVE IN EGYPTIAN WAR of the mile-long gravel and shale I ed the Dieppe Casino, a group of beach, seventy-five yards wide.The ; large buildings at the Western end Royal Hamilton Light Infantry went ! of the beach.Taking the Casino in at the same time on the Western | which was filled with Germans was half with the Calgary tank battalion, i one of the features of the Main provost and sappers.Les Fusiliers ! Beach operation.Letter from Anonymous Soldier Reveals Policy Adopted by Germans in Great Desert Tank Battle.Chinese Rapidly Resent Japanese Offset Gains Mont Royal landed later as reserve.Halfway up the beach, stretched across the Canadians\u2019 path, was a-year man was interested only in j barbed wire.The attackers faced a the balance sheet of business and \u201cknows less than the factory man of industry.\u201d Charging that organized labor has been ignored in the Dominion, Mr.Queen said he hoped that after the war there would be a new world order based on labor principles, and Continued on Page 2, Col 7.Cookshire, Aug.24.\u2014Grandstand attractions afternoon and evening, thrilling harness races every afternoon, and a large up-to-date midway in operation from early morn-an enemy position during the night ling until late at night\u2014ail these Cookshire Fair Opens Today With Attractive Programme Compton County Agricultural Society No.1 Exhibition-Much Interest Displayed in Junior Department.%- and, with bayonets and hand grenades, killed more than 100 Germans and destroyed a radio station and other equipment, the communique said.In the Caucasian foothills, too, the pictured darkened today, the Russians reporting the Red army had withdrawn to a new position Southeast of Pyatigorsk, only 140 miles from the Grozny oil wells.A tank group, which the Germans ferried across the Don at the time features will help to entertain the people who visit the annual exhibition of Compton County Agricultural Society No.1, which opens to day and willf-emain open until Wednesday night.Apart from these features, there will be the usual large exhibits of cattle and horses of all breeds, swine, sheep, poultry, fruit, vegetables, flowers, maple products, canning, grain, cooking and fancy work.Of great interest to farmers of their new- crossing, was regarded | and city residents alike wiU be the as a serious threat to Stalingrad.) judging of these classes, which will The tanks were taken across un-[be started today and continue until der cover provided by the German completed.Parades of cattle and air force.Four bridgeheads estab-j horses will also add interest to the lished previously by the Germans j afternoon grandstand performances, had been destroyed by Russian artil- ! Two hundred dollars will .be dis-lery and the Red air force.\t| tributed in prizes in the Junior De- The Don itself is less than 500 : partment, which is open to the boys yards wide in the bend and the slow- \u2019 and girls of the St.Isadore, Brookrunning shallow water would con-; bury, Ste Edw-idge and Ste.Mar-, .prime Minister Mackenzie King stitute only a minor barrier to the guerite Calf Clubs, the Fair officials , tQ a peals from the Unlted Steel Germans m bringing up reinforce-| feeling that .young, breeders ™ust\t^ America for a nationa! SEEK NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SIEE SCALES Steel Workers\u2019 Executive Addresses New Letter to Prime Minister Urging Conference on Basic Wage.By FRASER MacDOUGALL, Canadian Press Staff Writer.Sault Ste.Marie, Ont., August 24.\u2014(