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YANKS NEAR |
COMPLETE WIN
AT PELELIU
By CHARLES McMURTY
PEARL HARBOR. Oct. 2.—
(AP)—American forces have ta
ken all of the Peleliu Islands, ex
* cept the isolated Bloody Nose
Ridge, it has been announced.
Admiral Nimitz reported that
the marine planes are smashing
the strong points still held by the
Japanese in the heart of Umor
on Brogol Hill.
He also disclosed that 10000
more Japanese have been killed
in the southern Palau Islands, of
which Palau is the largest. The
Yanks control now not only Palau
but all of Angaur, Ngesebus, and
j^r, Konhauru, and five smaller islets
in the same general region.
Fliers of the Second Marine Air"
craft wing hammered the Jap
anese hill positions Friday with
’ a numerous quantity of 1,000
pound bombs, in an effort to de
. molish the Nippon fortifications,
and isolated enemy remnants
continued to offer bitter resist
' ance from hillside caves. One
small pocket resistance remains
^ on Angaur Island.
* Striking about 1,300 miles
northeast of Tokyo, Liberator
bombers of the 11th AAF blasted
Shumushu on Friday. That island
is the northernmost in the Kur
ile chain. The Yank raiders en
countered only moderate anti
aircraft fire and all returned to
their base.
Wiping out resistance on Pele
liu and Anguar and taking the
nearby seven islands in the same
chain virtually concludes the first
allied invasion of the Caroline
4 Islands and probably the Japan
ese’ strongest pre-war insular
possession.
Other enemy Caroline strong
hollds such as Truk and Ponape,
neutralized aerial invasion but
ground forces never landed there.
Admiral Nimitz said that the
seizure of the Palau Islands
would make Truk next to useless
to the Japanese and place the
American forces in strong posi
tions, from which estranged com
munications from J apan proper
and Japan’s conquered territor
ies to the south, will make a for
midable obstacle in our eventual
return to the Philippines.
-RETURNS FROM
^FURLOUGH
Private George Beecom .who
has been in the States visiting his
' a is ter while on his furlough has
reumed home again, He is - the
son of Mrs, Duke Metrovitch.
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ROCKETS AID TAKEOF F—Flame and smoke spurt from rocket takeoff units under wings
of this B-23 medium bomber in experiments with heavy plane loads on short runways.
FIFTH ARMY
REPELS NAZI
| OFFENSIVES
ROME, October 2.—(AP)—The
American Fifth Army yesterday
beat back the German counter
attacks in Monte Detaglia , the
lofty deminating heights on the
road to Imola.
They also captured the neigh
boring Monte Cappell, after a bit
ter battle.
The allied command announc
ed that the skies ova most of the
Italian front cleaed after nearly
a week of frequent rains, enab
ling the Mediterranean allied air
force to take an active role in i
; supporting the doughboys.
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POSTPONE
HEARINGS ON
FISH RIGHTS
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SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 2.—Rep
resentative Henry M. Jackson of
Washington, today said that the j
hearings on the Indian fishing;
rights in southeastern Alaska, will j
not be resumed before November
10th.
He said he sought a later date
for resuming the hearings than
this coming Wednesday, because
many of the Seattle fishermen
would be unable to be present.
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PAST MONTH
SUCCESSFUL IN
SOUTH PACIFIC
By MURLIN SPTNCER
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NEW GUINEA, Oct. 2.—-<AP)—
Ending one of the most success
ful months in the campaign, in a
blaze of Japanese destruction,
General MacArthur’s forces rang
ed from Celebes to the Philip
pines and damaged or sank three
Jap ships and set fire to aid
dromes and destroyed a number
of parked planes.
The communique announced
that the month’s end bag of ships
brought the total of 210 ships and
smaller craft, including barges, in
the southwest Pacific in Septem
ber.
These are in addition to the
figure announced on Thursday
from Pearl Harbor, which accoun- j
ed for three airplane carries, 160
of all types of surface craft, des
troyed or. damaged 200 others of
all types in seven days raiding
of the Philippines.
The two largest ships account- j
ed for were on Saturday, when a I
10,000-ton tanker was damaged off
Zamtyoaga and a 500-ton freight
er transport was sunk in Tiworo
.{Straight, in the southern Celebes.
A coastal vessel was also dam
aged near Zamboanga, which is
the .second largest city in Min
danao., . . ,
2,700 PLANES
USED IN NEW
OFFENSIVE
LONDON, Oct. 2.—<AP)—More
than 2,700 allied warplanes stru<*k
to support the great new Ameri
can offensive against the Seig
fr'.ed Line in the Aachen sector
in northwest Germany, it was re
ported today.
More than a thousand medium
fighters and bombers blazed the
path to the Nazi wall. i
Immediately before General
Hodges’ men, with about 900 fort
resses and 300 Liberators poured
bomb loads on Germany’s great
est freight yards at Hamm, which
is 90 miles to the northeast of
Aachen.
General Eisenhower broadcast
a warning to the Dutch residents
on the islands of the Scheld Es- |
tuary, to evacuate before the
bombers start work there on Col
ogne, which is the fifth largest
city in greater Germany.
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American seamen now are re
qqired to carry passports because i
foreign spies have attempted toi
enter this country by posing as;
seamen.
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A sea-going mechanical cow,
guaranteed to produce 40 gallons
of emulsified cream or milk in an
hour, wa$ recently installed on
an Army transport.
FIRST ARMY
IN DRIVE TO
RIVER RHINE
LONDON, Oct. 2 —CAP)—The
U. S. First Army launched a big
push toward the Rhine today,
from its position penetrating the
Seigfried Line in the Aachen area,
ending a stalemate of almost two
weeks, during which time many
German counterattacks were
beaten off.
The mighty punch was pre
pared by General Hodges war
riors and began one of the great
est combined air and land as
saults in the European campaign
against the entrenched enemy.
The attack was preceded by
heavily concentrated artillery
barrage and a thunderous drum
beat of thudding bombs.
A hundred medium fighters
and bombers, racing out of gray,
cloudy skies, dropped hundreds
of tons of explosives op Nazi
pill-boxes and gunposts, while in
scores of nearby French. Belgium
and Netherlands villages, the peo
ple watched the silver winged
armada unloading its bombs on
Hitler’s west wall.
Hardly had the ground stopped
shaking from the bombardment,
before hordes of veteran dough
boys charged forward through
smoke and rubble.
The attack was launched on
the new sector of the Seigfried
line near Aachen, where the
Americans had already pierced
the enemy defense in three plac
es.
Front line dispatches said that
those in command doubted "if
they would stop now until they
reach the Rhine.”
One correspondent said that the
offensive abrutly ended a week of
seesaw fighting along a 4d0-mile
allied front from Holland to Bel
fort Gap.
The Americans and British
have turned back scores of sharp
enemy counterattacks and forged
ahead a few miles.
UNITED AIRLINES
FILES APPLICATION
SEATTLE, Oct. 2.—(AP)—Unit
ed Airlines filed an application
with the Civil Aeronautics Board
for an extension to Fairbanks,
Alaska, in addition to the route
already requested, in the original
petition on May 19th.
The board as of now, is consid
ering the route sought by the
United Airlines, as Seattle, Ket
chikan, Juneau, Yakutat, Anchor
age and Fairbanks.
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