42 Enemy Aircraft Destroyed In Solomons
WASHINGTON (iP)—The Navy announced that Army, Navy and Marine Corps fliers in the
Solomons destroyed 42 enemy aircraft and damaged 3 others without losing any of our own planes,
and damaged 4 enemy ships, one of which probably sank in operations from September 25 to da e.
The communique said that heavy Army bombers in force in attacking enemy ships near bhort
land island set fire to a Jap cruiser and a large transport, the lat
ter listed as probably sunk, shot down six enemy seaplanes and
damaged a seventh.
Week’s News Highlights
President’s Trip
Washington JP — The White
house lifted two weeks’ censor
ship on movements of the Presi
dent to disclose his return after
an inspection tour of war facto
ries throughout the country.
On the 8754-mile trip he trav
elled through Michigan, Illinois,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, North
Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Wash
ington, and down the length of
the Pac fic C >ast and returned
through Arizona, New Mexico,
Texas. Louis ana. and thence to
Washington, stopping at Aimy
cantonments in Mississippi and
South Carolina.
The President said he found
tremendous pi eduction goa's be
ing attained, and the finest kind
of morale existing among the
people
He is giving consideration to an
other tour to visit, places he
missed on this one.
On Alaska
Chicago JP—Senator Burton,
recently returned from Alaska
told the Mortgage Bankers of
America th.it the Alaskan front
"must be held at all costs and
there must be unity of command
there.”
“It is the direct route to the
heart of Japan,” he said, ‘and
we are only 2500 miles from Ja
pan there. Jap defenses to the
north are far weaker than those
to the south. We must not, lose
one foot of it nor neglect the op
portunity we now have to open
and prepare this route so that
s >me day it will be suited to the
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