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legs” contest at Miami Beach/
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MacARTHUR’S HEADQUAR
TERS, P.I. Nov. 27, —(AP)—A
mericam fightier planes today
were reported to have sunk three
more Japanese transport and
supply vessels which were car
rying reinforcements to Leyte
and the Ormoc corridor where
the Nipponese resistance is
steadily decreasing under Yank
pressure, the communique said.
Headquarters announced that
War Hawk, and Thunderbolt
fighter planes at mast-head
height were strafing and bomb
ing three small Japanese trans
port and cargo vessels, destroy
ing them.
The vessels appeared to be pre
i paring to make a night run to
j Ormoc with supplies. An un
j determined number of troops
are known to have been aboard
this separate convoy.
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Another convoy was smashed
ealier in the same area.
The heavily hammered Yama
shita line of the Japanese has
ost at least 17,000 troops, 19 con
voy vessels, 14, escorting war
ships. About 3,500 were lost
Friday off Mesbate island.
General MacArthur announces
that there is a noted decrease
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in Japanese resistance in the Or
moc corridor, while U. S. troops
continue to batter their way <
westward from shell shattered <
Limon. <
Meanwhile, units of the 2nd
army repulsed another enemy
night attack near Palanas, 11
miles south of Ormoc.
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; QUARTERS, Pear Harbor, Nov. '
: 27, —(AP)—Carrier planes of the 1
! Third fleet sank 16 Jap ships in- '
eluding a heavy cruiser, a des- <
troyer and two luggers, and also .
damaged five other surface craft,
and destroyed 72 planes in a raid
on the main Philippines island,
Luzon.
This was the fifth raid report- '
ed this month said Admiral Nim-)1
itz, in a communique, and they <
have increased the total of ves- ,
seels sunk by more than 250, ,
ships immobilized around Luzon
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This total begins with Sept. 20
and does not include the 59 war
ships sunk in the second battle
of the Philippines Sea.
Admiral Nimitz added that 29
Japanese planes were downed by
his raiders Friday, 8 of them by
I surface ship gunners. 35 were
j also destroyed on the ground.
Naval airmen strafed and left
flaming, 7 tank cars neas Nich
ols field, on the outskirts of
Manila, and strafed a Japanese
convoy of 150 trucks.
OPA ON BEEF
ABUOT BEEF
e In response to some of
the objections to retail
prices recently established
for beef, the Price Divis
ion of the erritorial Office
of Price Administration in
Juneau wishes to make the
followin statement:
Wire was received today
from the Alaska OPA rep
resentative in Seattle
which confirms the fact
that prices on beef sold
wholesale to Alaska mer
chants are up only % to
1% cents per pound since
November 1, 1941. Pre
Pearl Harbor price to Al
aska butchers grade A beef
at Armours sold for 22^-lb
now the price is 23%^-lb.
The price at other whole
salers was the same.
When the butchers sold
under Maximum Price Reg
ulation 194 the markups
on beef prices to consum
ers should have been only
1 or 2 cents per pound
higher than Pre-Pearl-.
Harbor prices. Many were
advanced far more than
this amount. The ceiling
prices now set are designed
to make liberal allowan
ces for this and other ac
quisition and selling ex
penses. The volume of
sales has never been high-1
er throughout Alaska.
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