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LIBERATORS IN
RAIDS ON FAMED
PHILIPPINES
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.GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
, IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
Aug. 11.—(AP>—American Liber
ator bombers are now raiding the
• Philippines for the first time in
27 months, smashing Japanese air
dromes at Davao, in three suc
cessive night attacks, headquar
ters announced today.
The results of the three assaults
were not announced.
Davao is the principal city on
Mindanao, the main southern is
land in the Philippine Archipe
lago, and was occupied by the
Japanese in late December of
1941.
• The last American raid on the
island was made in an attack on
Clark Field, 70 miles north of
Manila, April 15, 1942, by a for
mation of bombers from Austral
ia, led by Brig. Gen. Ralph Royce.
Bataan had capitulated six days
earlier, but Corregidor was still
holding.
Mindanao is within easy bomb
ing range of the newly acquired
American airfields on the Schou
ten Islands on Dutch New Gui- i
nea ,900 miles to the southwest
of the newest American beach
head at Sansapor, and 600 miles
southeast of Mindanao.
Enemy resistance on the Drin
iumor river battlefront in Brit
ish New Guinea has ceased, Gen
eral MacArthur’s communique
reported.
He said: “A crushing defeat
destroyed the effectiveness of
General Adachi’s 18th Army.”
♦RUSSIANS APPLY
PINCERS IN EAST
PRUSSIA AREA j
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MOSCOW, Aug. 11.—(AP>—
Russian armies, applying great;
pincers in the East Prussia thrust,:
within 50 miles of Tilsit and Me
feiel, on the Baltic Sea, threaten
ed the southern boundary of thej
home of the Junkers, in a plunge
across the Narew river today.
Marshal Rokossovsky, besieging
Warsaw for the 12th day, thrust
a threatening Soviet army group
toward East Prussia from posi
tions northeast of the Polish cap
ffl, and increased the menace on
Warsaw, by outflanking the city
from the north.
^ Russian forces are already more
9 than seven miles inside the Su
walki triangle, which Germany
annexed from Poland In 1939.
TAKING OVER JAP AIRSTRIP —Seized fiom the Japs, this airstrip on Owi Island, off
| the coast of Dutch New Guinea, begins to swarm with Allied combat and transport pianos.
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FORTRESSES IN
WIDESPREAD
RAIDS ON JAPAN
SUPER - FORTRESS BASE
NEAR EQUATOR, Aug. 11.—(AP)
—B-29’s returning from the two
widespreads raids on Nagasaki, in
the Japanese homeland, and on
Palembang, on Sumatra, indicated
that the sky giants struck devas
tating blows to the two vital Jap
war industries, oil and shipping,
flying from this new and secret
base.
This was the longest bombing
mission of the war, 3,600 miles
round trip, to drop high explos
ives on the finest petroleum tar
get in the Jap empire, at Palem
bang, at the same time the China
based planes rained incendiaries
on Nagasaki.
This was the first fire bomb
raid on the Japanese homeland.
Two other Japanese planes were
shot down when four of them
pounced on and strafed a Super
Fortress which had been downed
in a forced landing.
CONSIDER LOWERING
UNEMPLOYMENT PAY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 11.
—(AP)—Proponents of the Mur
ray-Kilgore reconversion bill were
considering lowering the proposed
maximum post-war unemploy
ment payments from $35 to $25
per week, in an effort to over
come the republican and southern
democratic opposition in the Sen
ate, today.
CASUALTIES ARE
GREAT IN SIEGE
OF GUAM ISLAND
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U S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS AT PEARL HAR
BOR. Aug 11—(API—*The recon
quest of Guam was made at a
post of 7,247 American casualties,
of whom 1.214 were killed in ac
tion, Admiral Chester W. Nim
itz announced today.
The communique Irom Nimitz
said: “10.971 Japanese deao have
been counted on Guam, bringing
to 37.551 the total number of
Nipponese killed in the ground
fighting in the Marianas cam
paign” .
I The Pacific commander report
ed 5,704 American soldiers were
wounded and 329 missing in the
Guam campaign, less than half
the losses sustained on Saipan,
although the newly conquered is
land is three times the size of the
first captured Marianas island.
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GEN. KELLER
WOUNDED
I
| WITH THE CANADIAN FIRST
ARMY IN FRANCE. Aug. 11 —
(API—Maj. Gen. R F. Keller,
commander of the Canadian Third
Division, was wounded when
American heavy bombers dropped,
a group of fragmentation bombs
short,of its mark into a group of
Canadian troops on the front.
General McNair was recently
killed on Normandy under similar
circumstances.
ROOSEVELT ON
VISIT TO SCENE
OF FIRST ACTION
HONOLULU, T. H.—<Delayed>
—President Roosevelt concluded
his first war-time conference with
1 General Douglas MacArthur, re
[ cently. discussing every phase of
j the quickening Pacific conflict, it
has been reported.
The President greeted the sou4h
west Pacific commander with, “It’s
good to see you, Doug!”
Roosevelt arrived aboard a
cruiser from San Diego July 26th
at the fortress island, where two
apd one-half years ago, Jap bombs
blasted the United States into
war.
1 Admiral Nimitz and other top
flight war chiefs, representing
the full scope of the Pacific cam
paign from pole to pole, were at
the conference table at Pearl
Harbor,
Later, Roosevelt told reporters
the meeting had planned new of
fensives against the Japanese, and
the goals—to re-take and free the
Philippines, and drive the Japs to
unconditional surrender.
The President, visiting military
installations on the island said:
“f'rom the Jap-wrought havoc,
of December 7, 1941, into an is
land bristling with land, sea and
air fighting power, is the most
amazing change I have ever
ever seen.”
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When asked whether the new
offensives would develop soon,
the President said “Yes,” but re-!
minded his listeners that “soon”
i-> a relative term m strategy and
INVADERS ARE
WITHIN 30 MILES
OF FRENCH CITY
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
OF THE ALLIED EXPEDITION
ARY FORCES IN FRANCE, Aug.
11.—(AP)—American forces today
were reported less than 37 miles
from Paris, knifing into Chartres,
south of Versailles, a Paris su
burb, and threatening all German
forces south of the Seine river.
A German communique said the
American thrust turned north
ward from LeMans, with strong
air support.
The Paris radio reported the
Americans had passed Alencon, 30
miles north of LeMans.
The Canadians have driven
1heir wedge to within five miles
of Falaise, and the swing north
ward threatens the position of the
Germans holding stubbornly be
low Caen, and the approximately
20 German divisions in the allied
combat team’s rapid progress on
the Brittany Peninsula, completing
the cap4ure of Loire, and the river
cities of Nantes and Angers.
JAP^AMERICAN
SISTERS GUILTY
OF AIDING NAZIS
DENVER, Colo., Aug. 11.—
'API—Three Japanese-American
'dsflers accused of helping two
German prisoners of war to es
cape from an internment camp,
were convicted by a U. S. district
court of “Conspiracy to commit
treason” charges today.
Judge Symes withheld the im
position of the sentences, which
may not exceed two years in
prison, and $10,000 fine.
The penalty for “treason" con
viction is dea4h.
The defendant were M-s. Bil
lie Tanigoshi, 32. Mrs. Florence
Otani, 33, and Mrs. Tsuruko Wal
lace, 35.
The sisters exhibited no emo
tion when accused of furnishing
maps, clothing and aid to Hein
ric Haider, and Herman Loesch
er, tJo escape from the Trinidad
camp October 16th, last.
Amorous snapsho’s of the wom
en were found on the Germans
when re-captured.
constantly shifting.
During his stay, the President
visited virtually every military
installation on the island, from
the deadly advanced training
course in jungle fighting, to the
hospital cots of the wounded from
Saipan and the Marshalls, and
reviewed the 7th Division veter
ans of the Attu, Kiska and Kwa
jalein operations.