Week’s News Highlights!
Surprise Attack
Kinning (^P) — Flying Tigers,
pilots of an American volunteer
group, smashed 40 planes at a
I hailand airport at Chienmai in
a dawn attack and caused the
Japs some surprise.
Dropping down from the sky
the U. S. airman caught the
Japanese pilots as they were
running to the cockpits of their
planes and pumped 3-500 rounds
of ammunition into both the
grounded planes and the person
nel. t-even Jap planes were seen
bursting into flames, and the re
mainder of planes were riddled
by the machine gun bursts. Most
of the Japanese pilots were re
ported killed.
Enthusiasm of the returning
pilots over the successes was
dampened by the death of squad
ron leader Jack Newkirk.
Submarine Sunk
New York (.P)— Lieut, Gen.
eral Hugh A Drum, command
ing Eastern army . forces, an
nonnced that an American
bomber' destroyed an enemy sub
marine in an undisclosed area off
the Eastern U S Coast.
Destruction of the submarine
was complete, Drum said, and
the sea was covered with oil
and debris and it was not pro
bable there were any survivors.
Four depth charges were dropped
by the bomber when it spotted
the sub from about two miles
while the plane was bound home
from a photographic mission
Lieut E Ii Epperson Scott
Kansrs City bomber pilot, de
clared he could see the conning
tower in the clear waier and
made four runs over the sub
dropping depth charges each
run. Coruoral Clifton A. Cyr.
Spokane, was gunner on the
plane
Destroyer Lost
Washington DP)— The Xavy
reported that the U S. destroy
ers Pilisbury and Edsall have
been missing since early March
in waters'around Java and must
be | resumed lost. The i onna
complement is 145 officers and
men The next of kin have been
notified.
It is believed the Pillsbu-y
met its end in the vicinity of
Bali strait between the islands
of Java*and Bali after the great
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The last report from the Ed-all
placed her in the waters south of
Java.
Russian Front
Moscow (.P) — The Germans
have hurled 600,000 reserves in
to a massive but,futile effort to
wrest the inktiative from the
Red Army, the Russ'ans report
ed tonight, and in a special an
nouncement said that 16,000 of
the enemy were killed on the
Leningrad front alone.
44 Lives Lost
New York (.P)— The torpedo
sinking of the Honduran, passen
ger liner, March 16 off the New
Jersey coast with the probable
l> ss of 44 lives was disclosed this
week by the Third Naval Dis
trict. Six battered survivors
reached New York.
Gunboat Messing
Wash ngton (A?)— The Navy
announced that the 1270-ton
gunboat Asheville was presumed
lost in enemy action south of
Java and her commander Capt
Kenneth Mortimer Hoeffel,
Oconto, Wis. and all personnel
are presumed lost. The ship had
185 men aboard.
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Finds Marked Coin
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Eureka Springs, Arkansas —
Spl. CFI photo to Kodiak Mir
ror from Bob Poulson - On July
4, 1916 F. N. Saegesser marked
a five-cent piece J-4-16. Twenty
five years later to the day Sae
gesser received the same coin
back again more than SOO miles
f"om where he originally put the
coin into circulation. The mere
fact that Saegesser reacquired
the nickle on the same day ex
actly 25 years later would not
happen again in a thousand
years!
Among recent passengers leav
ing Kodiak and their destin
ations were Tony Kvas, Seattle,
Harry W. Frost, Tacoma, and
Mildred Ftisk, Hollywood
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and Kodiak’s dining pub!ic=*=will find in the
new
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