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S1K RQ5EBUR NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURS, ORESOfl, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1944. U. S. Smash at Truk Results in Shakeup of Top Command in Japan (Continued from page 1) dobt Indicated ho had other plans to be put Into effect before he considers the debt paid. The Japanese during the one hour and 55-minute aerial ham merlng given Pearl Harbor Dee. 7, 1941, put 18 American warships out of action, including eight bat tleships, destroyed 177 army and navy planes and the killed, wounded and missing totaled more than 3,000. But of these eight American battleships, only one, the Arizona, was a total loss, and several of the others hit that day may have been among the big ships which protected the carriers on the Truk raid. Naval units in the attack were commanded by Rear Adm. Marc a Mitscher, who commanded the aircraft carrier Hornet from which Mai. Gen. Jimmy Doolit- tie's planes were launched or the attack on Tokyo April 18, 1942. The whole operation was under the direction of Vice Adm. R. A. Spruance, veteran of carrier fleet actions In the South Pacific and participant in the battle of Midway, June 4, 1942. Absence of reference to heavier Japanese warships caught under American bombs Indicated that the enemy had removed his car- COME AND HAVE . YOUR HEARING TESTED FREE Wednesday, February 23rd Mr. J. R. Nedry, Certified Sonotone Consultant Umpqua Hotel Roseburg, Oregon In His Regular SONOTONE HEARING CENTER No charge or obligation for consultation or test SONOTONE OF PORTLAND 321 Falling Bldg. Portland, Oregon, 285 Miner Building, Eugene, Oregon. rlers and battleships from the la goon, perhaps suspecting the at tack was coming. American reconnaissance plan cs flew over Truk on a picture taking expedition Feb. 4. The photographs showed that there were at least two carriers In the lagoon then. Tokyo Claims U. S. Toll (The Tokyo communique an nouncing the Japanese naval loss es at Truk acknowledged that In addition "some damages were in curred among the land Installa tions." (The imperial headquarters communique asserted that Japa nese army and navy forces In the Truk group had sunk two Ameri- can cruisers and damaged an air craft carrier and one unidentl fled warship. The Domel news agency said the latter "might pos sibly" have been a battleship. (Nagano, a former secretary of the navy and ex-commander of the combined Japanese Xlect, oft en asserted that Japan must build more warships or the United States would outdistance her. He was a delegate to the internation al naval conference at London 1935-36, from which Japan an nounced her withdrawal on Jan. 15, 1936. Nagano declared at the outset that Japan could not ac cept qualitative naval limitations without a quantitative agreement. (Nagano was sent to Washing ton as naval attache in 1913 and while in the United States went to Boston to study English. Pie visited New York with naval ca dets In 1927. A former command er of the Yokosuka naval base and an ex-member of the su preme war council, he declared in 1937 that Japan hoped the Pa nay "accident" might serve to Improve U. S.-Japanese relations.) ENIWETOK ISLE BEING CLEARED OF JAPANESE U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Feb. 21 (API Moving swiftly to close their death trap on Japa nese defenders of the western most atoll in the Marshall islands, United States Infantry and ma rine troops now are driving the enemy from Enlwetok island. In a new landing yesterday, Adm. Nimltz said, they seized half of the 6,000-yard long island. mis gave unuen suites lorces ft SPRAY TIME'ISHERE We have just received a car of Liquid Lime Sulphur Spray. Call us abouryour spray supplies. 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Casualties continued light, said Nlmitz, who previously had dis closed the capture of Engebl Is land and Its strategic airport, the enemy's main Enlwe-ok atoll base. William L. Worden, Associated Press war correspondent, in a pre-invasion dispatch from Eni wetok, said that probably not more than 100 natives live on the entire atoll. It was important to the Japanese, he said, chiefly be cause of its value as an aircraft refueling base on flights between the Marshalls, the Gilberts and Wake Island. ( By the Associated Press) General MacArthur reported from the Southwest Pacific the first shelling of Rabaul,. Japan's once mighty fortress, and adia cent Kavieng, New Ireland Fri day a few hours before allied planes slashed at Rabaul in three heavy strikes that neutralized one of Its airdromes, at least tern pararily. In London, Maj. Gen. James H. Doolittle, leader of the American raid on Tokyo nearly two years ago, forecast greater allied as saults on the Japanese capital. "We are going back to Tokyo and we shall go In full array with mighty 'allies," he said. Lt. Gen Stilwell, from whose bases in China the aerial offen sive against Japan probably will be launched, reported the sinking of two Japanese ships and dam ago to a third In 14th U. S. army alrforce raids Friday and Satur day off the coasts of China and French IndoChin Allies Regain Offensive In Beachhead Battle (Pnntlnuprt fmm nnilo It - - I 13 ' , 7 were active on the Eighth army front. . During the hottest part of the battle allied planes so harried German pilots that they bombed and strafed their own troops sev eral times. ' Both British and American warships threw bombardments Into the Germans behind the melee, scoring hits on a factory and blasting targets both behind Anzio and Formia to the southeast. bers, hundreds being wounded and at least 700 falling prisoner. Some of those captured said one German regiment alone had lost 60 per cent of its strength. Sky battles and attacks on both sides of the beachhead ground battle lines were rapidly rising to a record peak when the weath I er limited further forays. Three allied aircraft were lost and at least four German planes were shot down. No Decision at Cassino. No major developments oc curred yesterday in the Fifth army's Cassino front although French forces repulsed an enemy raid northeast of Terelle. Ameri enn troops held fast to their po sitions In Cassino itself. Patrols Eight German Aircraft Cities Blasted by Allies (Continued from page 1) ping stone objective to continen tal Invasion. At Stuttgart are the great Daimler-Benz auto works now en gaged In turning out engines for Messerschmltt fighters and Hein kels, the Bosch works which is one of Germany's leading special ists In ignition equipment for all kinds of engines, and factories for production of tanks, trucks and submarine parts. Stuttgart also is one of the main railroad junctions on Germany's lines to Italy. London Again Blasted. Nazi air raiders scattered incen diaries and explosives over Lon don In a short but fierce attack last night which set fires In many areas and caused some casual ties. The assault apparently was staged In an attempt to repeat the big fire raid which was car ried out against London early Sat urday morning the heaviest blow which the British capital has suf fered since the big attacks of 1940-41. The Germans followed the same pattern last night as In the previous raid, fanning out In all directions in an effort to confuse the defenses and scattering fire bombs apparently indiscrimi nately. The attacking force, however, evidently was smaller than that' of Saturday, when it was estimat ed that 150 planes came over the city. ; The raiders were greeted with a thunderous anti-aircraft bar rage and first reports indicated that at least three had been shot' down. ... : Three schools, a Roman Catho lic convent, a hotel, several apart ment houses, a number of busi ness properties and many private homes were burned out. Incendiaries were the Ger mans' chief cargo, literally hun dreds falling' in one district, but some high explosives were min gled with the- firebombs. . The Berlin radio made great propaganda capital of the raid, I describing it as a massive assault. Prime Minister Churchill to day inspected the areas damaged last night and In response to cheers from hundreds of office workers waved with the V-sign and shouted "it's quite like old times again." The British reported the de struction of three submarines of a pack trying to break into the Mediterranean through the strait of Gibraltar. The British destroy er Janus was lost. The Germans asserted without confirmation that submarines had sunk 11 es corting destroyers in the Atlan tic! in the past few days.) Marine engines, a milion times bigger than watch mechanisms, must be constructed . with the same accuracy. Vets' Rehabilitation Measure Endorsed PORTLAND, Feb. 21 (API Trie American legion's omnibus bill for rehabilitation of World War II veterans was endorsed by legion's state executive commit tee yesterday. The bill Is expected to come be fore congress soon. Dan M. McDade, state com mander, reported membership I has reached a record 13,400, ap proximately 1,000 more than the quota set for 1944. " A plan for redistricting the state because of its Increased pop ulation was presented. Districts would be Increased from seven to 10. 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GREAT BRITAIN FRANCE GERMANY BELGIUM ITALY RUSSIA mmm, rst t&OO ft mm 9i (320 IOOUCIB II woatui IN HUMS or o.s. ooiuns UCH YUI MORI COMPARISONS! Jw.d.n loS3t Japan 135J, Poland $352, Rumonio U3i India SM0; CMno SI 10. 4. Comparison of real income produced annually .per gain-i fully employed person expressed in U. S. dollars. Average for the decade 1925 to 1934-a typical period including both' prosperity and depression.' f 1. The U.S. figures above look good, but by the time our fighting men are in their fortie the average American can be producing Iwict as much real in come. He can be buying twict as mucji bread and twice as many cigarettes with an hour's wages; work ing only half as long to earn a radio, a house, a hat, a vacation or anything else he needs. ' 2o These are fotts, hot promises. Since 1900 our production per man-hour has been increasing at the rate of 2t a year-far faster than any other nation's in the world. In the last 44 years we have tripled the amount of goods each gainfully employed person can produce-tripled our standard of living. -3 1 3. Ss If we ust keep our present rate of progress, we can double it again in 25 to 30 years. But we've got to maintain our Free Competitive Enterprise Sys tem to do it. For that system is based on two funda: mental principles: PROFIT and COMPETITION. And whenever a nation has tampered too with either principle its standard of living has suffered. 4 Seme hove practically eliminated competition by allowing private monopolies of land and industry. Others have eliminated both profit and competition by government ownership. But In either case, the aver age man has taken the rap. Our,system isn't perfect yet, but let's be sure that any "improvements" we consider don't hamstring the two principles that have made us great Thit ttria. tpoHtcnd in Hit pnpti if Union Oil CoMteny. it Mittltd h a diiclmkm of kotu tnd u-hyAmawtH btninns Unctions. HV hopt you'll nl fm at f ltd At any luignlions or criticism yoHhavtotfftr. Writs: ThtPrtsUtnl, Union Oil Company. Union OilBUt.Us A xfelis 14. Calif Union Oil Company OF CALIFORNIA AMERICA'S FIFTH FREEDOM IS FREE ENTERPRISE Source: "TTu Conditions a Economic Proems' by Colin Clark. Macmillan Co, London.
