of the home front. The so-called Battle of Bowmanville ended when the barricaded prisoners were subdued. Born: Daliah Lavi, actress, singer and model, in Shavei Tzion, Mandatory Palestine (d. 2017) Died: Aritomo Gotō, 54, Japanese admiral (died from wounds sustained in the Battle of Cape Esperance) October 13, 1942 (Tuesday) The Japanese battleships Kongō and Haruna bombarded U.S. Marine positions on Guadalcanal for 90 minutes, causing heavy damage. Japanese submarine I-30 struck a mine near Singapore and sank. Born: Rutanya Alda, actress, in Riga, Latvia; Jerry Jones, businessman and owner of the Dallas Cowboys football team, in Inglewood, California October 14, 1942 (Wednesday) The Germans began another assault on the Stalingrad Tractor Factory. The Chetniks massacred over 500 Croats and Muslims and burned numerous villages around Prozor in the process, in the belief that they were harboring and aiding the communist Partisans. The Ukrainian Insurgent Army was activated. In one of the most significant sinkings in Canadian waters during the war, passenger ferry SS Caribou was torpedoed and sunk in the Cabot Strait by German submarine U-69. 137 of the 252 on board perished. German auxiliary cruiser Komet was torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel by a British motor torpedo boat. Soviet submarine Shch-213 struck a mine and sank in the Black Sea. German submarine U-530 was commissioned. Born: Evelio Javier, politician, lawyer and civil servant, in Hamtic, Antique, Philippines (d. 1986) October 15, 1942 (Thursday) The Japanese heavy cruisers Chokai and Kinugasa bombarded Guadalcanal to cover the movement of Japanese ships. The American destroyer USS Meridith was sunk by Japanese aircraft off Guadalcanal. German submarine U-661 was sunk in the North Atlantic by depth charges from the British destroyer Viscount. German submarines U-644 and U-760 were commissioned. The Thornton Wilder play The Skin of Our Teeth premiered at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut. Died: Marie Tempest, 78, English singer and actress October 16, 1942 (Friday) Allied leaders agreed on Operation Flagpole: a plan to secure co-operation of Vichy France officers in French North Africa. The Allies took preliminary steps towards setting up a commission to investigate war crimes. A cyclone from the Bay of Bengal reportedly killed 40,000 people, with particularly heavy damage around Contai. German submarine U-353 was depth charged, rammed and sunk by the British destroyer HMS Fame. German submarine U-340 was commissioned. The animated short film The Mouse of Tomorrow, featuring the debut