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Repulse German
Attacks On
Anzio Beachhead
•_ _
ALLJED HEADQUARTERS IN
NAPLES, Mar. 6.—<AP>—Allied
beachhead forces repulsed another
small German attack, it was an
nounced today.
The communique said that bad
weather sharply reduced opera
tions on all fronts in Italy, and
that German attempts to drive t5u
allies off the Anzio beachhead,
cost casualties totalling about 24,
000.
Authoritative sources said that
despite continuous raids in low
hanging clouds, fighter bombers
attacked shipping off the Yugo
slav coast gun positions on the
Fifth Army without loss.
Except for one enemy attempt
to plunge through beachhead Lines,
ground operations were confined
chiefly to routine patrolling. All
fronts of the 8th Army’s troops
threw back minor German at
tempts to probe their lines ' ■■
PLAN TO
UNIFY FORCES
WASHINGTON. Mar 6 -r-<Af?)
—Integration of the ration’s armed
forces under a single, supreme
command staff in one Department
of War, is the air of , a growing
number of American unUrtary
leaders
Thinkers of today weigh the
opinion that it appears favorable
to post-war fiction or, complete
overhaul of the military rhgchina.
Some, highly-placed officials be
lieve unification .could be effect
now to add efficiency jn the speed
3 I
of conducting the war, "but the
majority were disposed to move
more cautiously. '
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POSTPONE "DOG-FACE
DRAMA SHOW
Because of weather,, conditions,
which caused a temporary block
ing of the roads on Sunday after
noon, it was necessary to postpone
the production i of Dog-Face
Drama’s play, “She Died Slowly,”
which had been scheduled for 6:30
p. m. on Sunday night. All con
ditions permitting, the play will
definitely be given at 8:00 p. m.
on Wednesday night.
AIR CHIEF —This picture
of Lt. Gen. George C. Kenney,
USAAF, Allied air commander
In the Southwest' Pacific, was
made when he made a recent
^ visit to the White House, j
RED ARMY
SWEEPS ON
TO ODESSA
LONDON. Mar. 6—The Red
army swept close to the vital town
of Odessa, the railway main artery
supplying the German forces on
the Dneiper Bend, in a powerful
new western Ukraine drive,
which Moscow said liberated more
than five communities and rout
ed twelve Nazi divisions in two
days
The Soviet communique said the
Russians were battling at the ap
proaches of the station at Volo
chisk, on the important line, 60
milesn north of the Rumania
frontier, severing the railroad,
which would force the Nazis to
’re’V on "he • 'WPS'- o&&■
track railways over the Rumanian
frontier or on the sea, for supplies
or else retreat.
Twenty salvos of 224 guns thun
dered in the Moscow celebration
of the new victories, it was an
nounced. in Stalin's special order
of the day.
Two Soviet communiques from
Stalin's headquarters disclosed
that Marshal Gregory Zhukov,
commanding the First Ukrainian
army in the drive, was replacing
Gen Nikolai Vatutin, reported ill.
The announcements said that at
least 6.000 Nazis were already
slain in the push which cracked
the German defenses on the 112
mile front, and surged forward up
to 31 miles, joining with previous
ly-won positions in old Poland.
The new line gvae the Russians
a salient from Demobrovitsi in
north, to Lutsk in the southwest,
then southeast to the Belozerka
line, about 165 miles long.
SEND AWARDS
TO FAMILIES
SOMEWHERE JN ITALY —
Ninety percent of all Purple Heart
decorations awarded to soldiers
who are wounded in action, are
sent by the recipient to his mother
or wife, according to American
Red Cross girls stationed in army
hospitals overseas.
The Red Cross girls have the
job of wrapping and mailing the
medallions back home, upon the
soldier's request. Before doing so
the worker always determines if
the mother or wife, has been no
tified of the soldier’s injury, so
that the medal will not be the first
indication of trouble.
ALASKA WAR
BOND TOTALS
• JUNEAU, Alaska, Mar. 6.—(AP>
—Sales for Alaska in the Fourth
War Loan Drive, totaled $1,874,
135.25 in Series “E” bonds and $4,
292.239.25 for all series.
A breakdown by series will be
announced in the news later.
S T I R L I N G StLHOUETT E—Outlined against the gathering dusk of a winter afternoon Is a
•'V Stirling, one of Britain's important and best known bomber types. i
A
CARRIERS IN HEAVY SEA—With fighting planes on their pitching decks, the escort
carriers "Avenger” and "Biter,” American-built ships in British service, battle a storm.
BOMBERS HIT
BERLIN IN 2ND
IJ. S. BLOW
LONDON, Mar 6.—<APi—U. S.
heavy bombers in “very strong
forces,” bombed Berlin today in a
second American blow on the
German capital.
The first official announcement
said that only “targets in the Ber
lin district” were hit, without
identifying them further, or giv
ing other details.
This surprise follow-up to Sat
urday’s “icebreaker” raid by one
formation of bombers, is a strik
ing demonstration of the 8th Air
Force’s might, and was the sev
enth operation of the heavy bomb
ers in eight days.
Heavy fighter escorts accom
panied the formations on the
round trip of more than 1100
miles from British bases.
Thus, Berlin, already seared
from the massive RAF night as
sault, was brought under destruc
tive hammer blows falling day
and night, presumably with the
American daylight attacks aimed
with precision at the destruction
of selected targets escaping, the
RAF’s saturation raids,
Heavy bombers raged Berlin as
allied medium fighter bombers at
tacked northern France, where
Churchill said th eGermans were
preparing rocket robot installa
tions.
PARAMUSHIRU !
HIT IN RAID ;
: WASHINGTON, Mar. 6 — Amer
ican bombers, raiding Paramushi
ro without encountering any ma
jor opposition, dropped five tons
of bombs and returned safely to
their bases.
The text of a communique said,
| “A small force of Ventura bomb- i
brs of Fleet Air Wing 4 attacked
Paramushiru and Shimushu in the |
Kurile Islands the morning of
March 2, West Longitude date,; j
“Five tons of bombs wore drop
ped with no interception or no
damage suffered. Sporadic anti
aircraft fire was encountered, fyt.t
all planes returned to their bases.”
For the fifth successive day,
j last night RAF Mosquitoes at
i tacked western Germany without
1 loss.
In London Parliamentary Sec
I retary Dinglefoot, minister of
economic warfare, told a luncheon
gathering that when resistance in
j the air overwhelmed, “destruction
of the German war industry would*
follow on a far greater scale than
achieved in the last few weeks.”
He said intensified bombing
would be more than a “policy of
attrition designed to wear down
the German war potential over
a long period and represents an
essential preliminary invasion of
Europe.”
MITCHELLS
BOMB JAP
AIRCRAFT
CHUNGKING, Mar 6 —<AP>—
American Mitchell bombers of the
14th Air Force, escQrted by fight
ers, destroyed between 30 and 50
enemy aircraft in an air and
ground raid on the Kingshan air
drome, in the northern part of
Hainan Island Saturday
A communique Thom Gen Still
well’s headquarters said the Mit
chells also struck an airdrome at
Chengmai, in northern Thailand
today and destroyed eight twin
engined planes and one single en
gine plane on the ground
ANNOUNCE
ENGAGEMENT
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SEATTLE. Mar 6.—en
gagement of Miss Ellim Culver
Barr to William Robcri Cashen,
both members of the faculty of
the University of Alaska, was an
nounced by her parents', Capt. and
Mrs. Eric L. Barr. Sr Capt. Barr
is in charge ot navy training at
the University or Washington.
Mr. Cashen, mathematics in
structor, is the son of Mrs. Thomas
Cashen, of Douglas, Alaska.
The wedding ts scheduled to
‘ake place next summer.
PLANES ARE
SAID BASED
NEAR TARGETS
By REMBEH JAMES
UNDATED—A new attack on
the eastern Caroline Islands, by
American planes evidently using
land bases, was hinted by Admiral
Chester W. Nimitz, to put in use
newly conquered airfields in the
Marshall Islands,
The navy reported 23 tons of
bom bs were dropped on Poqg^pe,
Jap base, 440 miles east of the
big enemy naval station of Truk.
Other planes attacked Kusaie,
southeast of Ponape, and also Jap
held islands in the Marshalls
Ponape and Kusaie were raided
by four-engined Army and Navy
Liberators, and seemed highly
probable they took off from either
Kwajalein, 576 nautical miles
from Ponape and 348 miles from
Kusaie, or Eniwetok, less than
400 miles from each target
This was th eninth raid in three
weeks on Ponape, and the tenth
on Kusaie slince January 17th,
Increasing frequency of the air
attacks suggested that the big
big bomber-; were operating from
nearby bases.
The Japanese also tell the sting
of fresh reverses in the south and '
southwest Pacific, General Mac
Arthur said.
Dismounted American cavalry
men on Los Negroa Islands in the
Admiralty group, were -'leaning
up enemy positions on the strategic
Momote airport, from which allied
planes can cover large sweeps over
the Bismark Sea
Heavy bombers destroyed or
damaged 16 Jap planes >o the
ground at Wewak
Rabaul was also attacked for
the first tune m three weeks. The
Japanese sent a few fighters in
a weak effort to beat off the at
tack.
ITALIANS
ARE GASSED
NAPLES. Mar. 6 —509 Italian
civilians were axpyhiaxiated early
Saturday morning tn a freight
train on which they had hitched
rides The train was stalled at
the time
The ra way service described
the tragedy as 'one. ot the jnost
unusual acc:dents in the history of
railroading.” •
A’red railway officials conduct
ing the investigation, said several
hundred civilians apparently*
climbed aboard a 45-car train in
the darkness .w^ile it’ was halted
at one of the last stations through
which the train had passed befora
entering a tunnel.
Only about 50, caught aboard
when the train stalled on a four
per cent grade in the tunnel, es
caped with their lives.
AL ASKA LEADS
IN BOND DRIVE
L^V --
WASHINGTON, Mar. 6 —Alas
kan residents purchased 202 per
1 cent of their quota of War Bonds
! in the Fourth War. Loan Drive,
with purchases amounting to $4,»
: 000,000 over a $2,000,000 quta.
Mississippi led the states with
154 percent of their quota.
Washington score 122 percent*
Oregon, 130 percent.