Week’s News High
Pacific Front
Washington (^P) — (Sunday)
Warships and planes of the U. S
fleet striking suddenly and fierce
ly wreaked terrifice damage up
on the Japanese mid-Pacific bas
es lying across the route of sup
ply to the western Pacific com
bat areas. Many enemy auxiliary
ships were sunk or damaged,
many enemy planes destroyed
and installations ashore heavily
battered The communique gave
no figures on enemy losses
Two American warships were
sJightly damaged by near misses
of Japanese bombs, and 11 Amer
ican aircraft were lost. The com
munique indicated it was the
first time American bombs had
fallen on Japanese territory, and
loss of American planes indicated
.fierce aerial fighting.
Admiral Nimitz, Pacific fleet
commander, reported no large
enemy combatant ships found,
which led to the surmise that
the attackers had hoped to sur
prise the Japanese fleet at Jap
anese , bases on Marshall and
Gilbert islands.
Honolulu (JP)—Every ship
and every man of the U. S.
Pacific fleet afloat and ashore
are now being utilized to the
fullest extent to bring war to the
enemy’s front door.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
said the fleet’s spestacular as
sault on Japanese concentrations
on Gilbert and Marshall islands
Sunday was in accordance with
the characteriatic U. S. Navy
tradition to seek out the enemy
and destroy him, The question
of “where's the fleet” was an
swered partly by the splendid
aehievn.ents of our ships and
planes in the attacks of those is
lands, the Admiral.said.
Oets Divorce
Dr. Rae Lilli in Carlson, Jun
eau optometrist, was granted a
divorce from Dr. C. Martin Carl
son, of Ketchikan, in the Federal
District court at Juneau recently.
Norway
Stockholm (^P)—A wave of
fires and bombings in German
occupied Norway iB attributed
to Norwegian resentment over
the installation of Mayor Vidkun
Quisling as premier.
Swedish newspaper advices
from Oslo said a rubber factory
in Askim, one of Norway’s larg
est, was burned down and a fac
tory in Drammen reported de
stroyed. Fire broke out in the
National theater but was ex
tinguished quickly. A bomb was
thrown at Parliament house but
no damage reported, and a bomb
was also exploded at the univer
sity. Fires were reported broken
out at two railway stations just
when trains were ready to leave.
Sunburn Reported
There were 33 cases of severe
sunburn reported at Army,
Navy and Contractors hospitals
at the naval air station the third
week in January, according to
the Williwaws, navy publication
Victims included 19 laborers, 10
soldiers, 3 sailors and a field
timekeeper.
Firemen To Meet
The volunteer Fireman will
hold a meeting at the fire hall
Tuesday evening to make plans
for a private party to be held
February 14.
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Sports
New York (JP)—Boxing mas
ter Bob Paster gave Gus Lesne
▼ech a 10-round lesson in the
science of beakbusting this week.
Pastor gave the home town
folks the best job he had ever
done for their benfit and went a
long way toward becoming the
I first fighter in history to gat
three shots at Joa Louis by out
speeding and outboxing the light
heavyweight champion from
start to finish.
Basketball scores: Oregon
State—30, Idaho—29.
Pawnee Okla. (.TO—Mayor
Gordon W. Pawnee, famous
frontiersman and wild west show
man died here today at the age
of 82.
Now Open Sunday
Because blackout regulations
necessitate early closing on week
days, the Signal Corps announces
that until further notice they
will remain open Sundays and
holidays from 8 a. m. until black
out time. The announcement was
made by Lt. Downing, in charge
of the Signal Corps.
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