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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-
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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.
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possession of the entire Enlwetok
atoll group except for the remain
ing half of the embattled island,
and nearby Parry island, site of
a Japanese radio station.
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 -
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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. Final action will be taken at
the state convention slated for
August 10-12 here.
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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.
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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
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