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UNDATED. Aug. 13 (/P) — A rican “Dev ' Oof
Marinos apr,',’red to have won ■' • first round in the
seven-da.”--]d battle of the So1 n Islands, be ting
off fur-n .) naneso Conn er- v on three nvasion
■ beach heads of the SOO-mile-b u land chain.
The cot respondent of the An • a’inn Broaden 'ing
• Commission said it was believed : Marines, ti >ng
Iv reinforced, had broben the J > sold on 1-. Tulagi
area “ t3 Japan e driven r m many of their
del'1 n ve > al er fierce tnd to-hand fi ;h1 in
This correspondent said Tul gi ; rbor is one of tee
finest naval b sc sites in the e; ; <st Pacific An un
confirm 1 Australian report s. i unerican parachute
patches to the Yorkshire, E. • Dost reported '.sol
the J< p-inesc leet ‘1 Tulagi Hi bor to
Allied air superiorly . 1 ' ere i
sea base as well as a land base.'’
Marines Consolidate : ositions I:i
Face Cx Fierce Er.env Resista:::^
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (/P)—Delayed—Hard hit
ting United States Marines succe: 'i Uy effected 1 nd
- ings c n 3 of the S
Tub gi, th(
4 advcneed
positions in the face of fierce enemy resistance. The
strength of this resistance was indicated in the Navy’s
statement that sea forces supporting the landin '- " v •
been engaged in bitter fighting, this f ct sue - ling
that the Japanese rallied their powerful air ur
face units to the defense of their beleaguered ir ps.
The Navy’s communique made no claim to dec sue
success as yet and clearly left open the possiodjlv that
many hard days of fighting are ahead, bof .> the avow
ed American purpose of driving the Taps out ct’ : e
vital Tulagi area, can be attained.
^ J <; W;ro«
iildnKd wen
Council Makes
Recommendations
JUNEAU, Aug. 10 'UP) — De
layed by Censor — The newly
created Alaska War Council end
ed its first 3-day session, Gov.
Gruening announced, and results
included a resolution recommend
% ng the discontinuance of con
soring newspapers in Seattle be
fore shipment to Alaska. The
resolution stated that the prac
tice of clipping items, served no
practical purpose and indicated
it was a great waste of time
and government money.
The Governor announced that
the session discussed the delays
in granting Alaskan residents en
try to Alaska under the Civilian
^ Traffic Control. The Governor
named E. L. Bartlett, council
member, to go to Seattle to in
vestigate obtaining supplies for
Alaska.
The Council also considered
the allegations that liquor was
shipped to Alaska to the ex
clusion of other items.
Armed Forces Cel
Absentee Voting
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 UP) —
Members of the Senate Elections
Committee appeared ready to
junk the controversial poll tax
clause in the interest of the swift
passage of the bill permitting
members of the armed forces to
vote by absentee ballots as long
i as they remained on the contin
ental United States. Senator Pep
per urged that the committee
adopt his amendment removing
the poll tax requirements which
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Htpnriir fJiV'O"
uieuuf uil - -i.
plies to Marine;
WAlSHINGTON, Aug. 11 1‘
Tlio Navy announc 'd t’
steady stream of supph
moving to the Marine farces i
the Solomons where eon did •
lion of shore positions “is pro
gressing satisfactorily.” Tin
Navy Department communiq
said:
“1—The task of consolidate!;
shore positions now held by TV
S. Marines in the Solomon I ;■
lands is progressing . at Tacto
ilv; 2-Naval uni’; are engaged in
protecting our lines of communi
cations and escorting supply ves
sels to our occupying forces; 3—
U.S. Army & Allied sh-re-based
■aircraft are eont nuirg attacks on
Jap air bases and ship concentre
tions in enemy-held harbors."
The statement that American
lines of communication are fully
under American control, and so
supplies are moving in freely,
w.as generally accepted to mean
that reinforcements likewise will
be moving up as needed.
prevail in six southern states,
voting prerequisites of soldiers,
sailors, marines and coast guard
men.
The House already passed the
bill extending the absentee v
ing privilege to service men on
continental United States and A1
aska. It was understood, how
ever, that for reasons of military
security and because of the ad
ministrative burden, the War and
Navy Departments oppose the
granting of the vote to service
men serving outside the United
States proper. Members indicat
ed that the Senate committee
would remove the Alaska pro
vision.
Navv Seizes
SlrP >Borjid
plant
E or \ N. J., Aug. 14
(/P) - T ■ Navy seized the
strik -hound plant of the
Gene ’ C hole Corporation
and : need the reopen
ing plant at 1 p m.
PWT * hny interference
in o" ' os of this plant
is a*' offense against the
Unit tes,” : ; the
notit :■ -Azure posted bv
Rear h dmiral Harold
Brc >
A 'pokesman. how
eve a t present, there
are intentions of bring
lors or s h liers to
rder. because
com- u appeared to be
a fore • ion. A
r the Navy
took ov 800 s rikers
vot v jslv to end
t ••• h trike
an ' - o work, Daniel
ine op it >r,
■said: . return to work
for Sara and re
doubh r efforts.”
' . S. Damages 3
ixis Warships
Cairo, Aug. .13 (/l3) —-Arn
ica's huge b ombe r s,
wooping out of the Setting
un, sen:. i vreat damn
’! three Axis warships al
los, on the west coat t o(
-ecc, makin ; two direct
ts an one cruiser, setting
econd afire, and causing
■ explosion aboard a 3rd.
ft was announced that a
w rrific explosion was al. o
used aboard the er i . t
u which two direct hits
’re made. Black smoke
is seen pouring from the
ond cruiser, the re ult
either a direct hit w a
r miss.
INK ONE, DAMAGE 3 JAI’S
' icArlhur’.s Headquarters in
tralia, Aug. 12 <7P) —Delat'd
T ursday, Ail ed bombers, at
'gng the Japanese harbor at
i iaul, northwest of the Solo
n i islands, left a large Japan
ship in a sinking condition
; I set three' others afiirc, it was
. tounced officially.
^legate Dimond ( alls For Immediate
: viction Of Japanese From Alas! a
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (/P) —Delayed—Deleg; u
: Dimond in a speech before the House, called for ' i
i first front” in the Aleutians for the immediate ev -
tnn of Japanese from the Alaska territory. He said:
“I suggest it is a part of wisdom to bring to that
! front ample forces to win victory there, on our first
fighting front, before we undertake the prodigious ef
fort necessary to set up, establish, and carry forward
i a second battlefront some thousand miles away from
our shores in another continent. The first front in the
Territory of Alaska demands immediate attention.”
Dimond said the possession by the Japs of Alaska
I Territory gives them access to the North America;
continent, and “it is just as important to drive the
foe from our territory as to keep the same enemy from
occupying any part of a continent 7.000 miles away.’
A lied Bombs Hit
rrcemerrs
f « O !
a. p !i r.mr;y
P ’Pc Arthur’s 1 leid
n Austral hi;, A
I : ■ . — Friday, Japanese
vv and trans] ins,
-d v intended to rc
;lr. ' e their Solomon is
rrisons, were nt
lree time \
!d Allied bomber "in
tl - Guinea arc a." it
renounced in a eom
• nr • which in,I caPd
Solomon b ittl • is
s : rapidlj
now American Ma
in eve gained secure
on thr e ; land s,
j 6‘ ■ east of d • ,:
: „ ■ deaan merely as
a riant ta. d 1 roblcai
j r ,v widened into a bat
major p
li i influent 1
; Ir 1 m of the w r P 1 ‘ e
; w Pacific war
Japan- ? P
bd w ro shot d<
■ i cl in u: uceerr
c-T ' ; t ; fend off Flyin
Port •(' • and other bond
"'3 willed pounced on th
fapair.se ships. The result
of the Allied daylight at
i .ekr were not determined
'name ’lately because of
'ad u<- A\ or but all the Al
io 1 rd • s returned, altho
nine were damaged.
In an attack Wednesday,
m 1 ml, big Japan
New Britain base, north
west of the Solomon Is
lands, Allied planes knock
ed out 4 Japanese ships.
Military Op- In
Maska War Zone
'Eminently Succcsful”
Seattle, Aug. 14 (/P) —
Artemus Gates, Assistant
Secretary of the Navy an i
Air, flew east after an in
spection of naval establish
ments in Alaska. He tol 1
interviewers here o n 1
that U. S. military oper.
tions in the Alaska w; :
zone were “eminently su
cessful.” He said he wi !
issue a report on his re
turn to Washington.
L \ Freak i i Solomon islands
ay Mark T rnin« Point Pacific
UNDATED. Aug. 11 A ~Deh ; -l - “We are hold
ing • t wn." and i:~ ■ a • w rds the U. S. re
ee'vcd d indicating : a t .American Marines are
... us Jaj inter attacks in the five-day
old battle of the Sole ion Island .. 900 miles re :beast
of Australia. As Allied naval and air forces covered
the Long-range invasl m, Australia’s Prime 1 1. nister
Curtin : nnounced that at he; t an even breal in the
struggle may mark the turn in i point in the far Pac
ific ' e He said ; • f r he \ r par
( itweic .1' The A t lian
Governnv. it -pokesrv .n k. ed that shipments of
" . - due. VvInch mr revo
:i t i north,” rived
in Austro ' ,
In typlc 1 Acs pri w 1 a. a br idcast so ■ - dng
even Japan’s extrav.i.... . dthe Berlin ' lo as
serted ; hat the great; . . d S t d
“attempt. d" to land at d ..dr,' in the south., tern
Solom is ore “an transj link
W It attacking forces : . v 11 rtmmunic . ms lo
cooruina.... .and, sea. i ' i r e cions, the . y in
1 earl . in*
formation on the prog 5 . the ba tie.
Wkl nlng assaults by . .. tomb i srt
triklng at the Ja| frin £ the i • out
as Unite cl A .. . ;uul,
New Britain, nort'mv. tl . . -ns.
Aitda;’s he. di t. -13 and pc ' v 19
Jap pi . es were des A in die last three a at
v.’ . • • ,. * I i Cc*. s . „ . ‘.as,
destroy,. :• Dutca Tunc" Other
... di vc. d v Guii
: era >da
. 11 mill's • ■ -1 of the 1; w 1 did i \A w , base
. Port Moresby.
t, leports American orces
i
' :',J ' urpri e SiAmion Battle
Aug. 10 r'P) — Poluye i—Admiral
..a I unc ‘hat American forces l.-wdcd in the
; m Islands whh th ptirw -3 of driv
e and permanent’v occupying that
the southern P wfn- T’ • announce
v.v-, n - a . statement which said Ilaavv fight
a” American uni!' engaged so
h . me cruise ink; and »ers, 2 de
roy< i transport dam nation on
..imay ’ he|y on the enemy is incomplete. King re
ported, b it ides “a large num ; r of planes,” as
Hi a a a As shot out of action
Adm K ‘ tement follows: “()' n c cpera
al and oth r f ces, an to oc
•' m df th : ! -nds in the Tula ; w a • the south
tei ’ v So! m n. islands, has jae\ he -r. under way
i 1 .in h : The operations re un er the im
ir :.:ate comm "d of Admiral Chormle; under the
Admiral Nimitz. G i tai t '’orces un
s loner :il hi.. Arthur are cooperating 'r. ‘hie object
ef the current operations — to expel the Japanese
hum the TuLe-.i area and to make use of that area for
our own purposes The enemy has been in process of
iiis li kit n , th ir position, which their purpose has
been not only to deny them to us and our position
ine of communication 1 tween Aus
t.ir!i i and New Zealand.
“An initial surprise, effected by planned landings,
was accomplished. The enemy counter attacked with
rapidity and vigor and heavy fighting is still in pro
gress. Our operating forces arc employing all avail
able communications to conduct the operations, so
our information is incomplete but it appears that we
, have had at least one cruiser sunk; and 2 cruisers, 2
■ destroyers and a transport damaged.
"Th oration, in the Tulagi area is significant in
that it marks our first assumption of the initiative
and of offensive. All previous operations in the Pac
ific, however successful they have been, essentially
were defensive. It should be understood that the op
eration now under way is one of the most complicated
and difficult in warfare. Considerable losses from such
: are inherent and any offensive operation must bring an
( expected price, paid for in hard-won experience, which
| is essential for the attainment of far-reaching results.”