BAZOOKAS ARE
USED IN LEYTE
ROAD - BLOCK
GEN. MacARTHUR’S HEAD
QUARTERS ON LEYTE IS
LAND, Dec. 6.—(AP)—Today’s
communique reported that pow
erful bazookas were used by the
American ground forces in turn
ing back a tank-supported at
tack by the Japanese forces,
against the road-block which the
Yanks had established on the Or
moc highway about a half-mile'
south of the Leyte river below
Limon.
Further attempts of the enemy
to break out to the northward
of the restricted area in the Or
moc sector, was announced today
by Gen. MacArthur, along with
the destruction of a Japanese
destroyer and five small fregiht
ers by Leyte-based war planes.;
The 32nd Infantry Division es
tablished the Ormoc road-block
soon after capturing Limon, but
withdrew from their advanced
positions to permit shelling of the
enemy’s supply rout.e
The position has not been men
tioned in communiques for the
past several days, but it has ap
parently, in the meantime, been
re-established with considerably
greater strength.
A Japanese destroyer was sunk
by patrol boats in the Luzon
area, and a small freighter sunk
in the Ormoc Bay area by fighl
er planes. Three others were
! sunk by fighter bombers in the
Sibuyan Sea, while the fifth
freighter was destroyed in Bru
nei Bay, Borneo, where patrol
planes sank a 3,000-ton tanker.
KILLED IN ACTION
I WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 6.
—(AP)—The Navy Department)
! today- reported the death of Pfc.
Harry G. Maxrell, Jr., U. S. Ma
rine Corps Reserve, son of Mrs.
Harry G. Maxwell, of Juneau.
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AIR-SEA RESCUE
UNIT TO BE
INAUGURATED
KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Nov. 15.
—Special).—Vice-Admiral Rus
sell R. Waesche, Coast Guard
commandant, revealed last week
that coordinating wartime Air
Sea Rescue and organizing a
peace-time agency for rescue
work with expanding commercial
and private flying, has been
made a Coast Guard responsibil
ity.
Organization of the Air-Sea
Rescue was requested by the
Joint Chief of Staff at Washing
ton and1 activated on orders from
the Secretary of the Navy. Ad
miral Ernest J. King, U. S. Navy
Commander-in-Chief, has ordered
commanders of the U. S. sea fron"
tiers to establish Air-Sea Rescue
Service, the rescue task units of
which will be manned by the
Coast Guard.
Important in the plans will be
the 450 Coast Guard pilots flying
anti-submarine and convoy pa
trol ad utilization of the Coast
Guard communication system,
proved in long distress call ex
perience. The aviators in all
probability will be flying sea
planes and amphibious craft car
rying on in a larger scale their
present assistance to downed
planes and passengers . When
helicopters are developed as ex
pected, they also will be used, the
Coast Guard said.
The small boat men and small
boats in which the Coast Guard
has made its rescue reputation—
called upon for landing craft and
rescue duty in World War II—
will be used in surface operations
coordinated with aviation. Bases
of these craft already are estab
lished at strategic locations and
the craf themselves will be fast
er and more seaworthy as a re
sult of war experience.
'
More than one-fifth of the
human race js Chinese.
EASTERN STAR HOLDS
MEETING MONDAY
Monday evening the first meet
I ing of Eastern Star was held
; s nee the quarantine cancelled
lal social activities. The degrees
of the order were conferred on
Mrs. Fred Hyde after which a
social evening was enjoyed. Mrs.
A. Steinwandel and Mrs. H. Har
per served on the social commit
tee.
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