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Chungking, Oct. 7 (U.R)
Thirty thousand American, Brit
ish and Australian war prison
ers who were forced Into labor
gangs by the Japanese to build
a railway between Thailand and
Burma suffered many hardships
during the rainy season which
Just ended, the United Press
learned from Thailand sources
today.
Travelers along the Bangkok
Singapore railway often saw the
prisoners clad only in tattered
shorts while working in steam
ing jungles. A few had straw
hats for protection against the
burning tropical sun.
Intervention by representa
of the International Red Cross
at Bangkok did little to Improve
the prisoners' lot, although the
Japanese were forced to allot a
small quantity of medicines to
them.
Death Toll High
Many prisoners suffered from
dysentery, malaria and cholera
and the death toll probably was
very large, the sources reported.
The Japanese prevented Thai
philanthropic organizations from
aiding the prisoners.
Due to the low efficiency of
the labor gang and the .difficult
topography, the railway will not
be completed for two or three
years.
The Japanese borrowed 40,
000,000 tlcals from the Thai gov
ernment for construction pur
poses because the Japanese were
not allowed to circulate military
tical notes in Thailand.
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INCENTIVE'PAY SYSTEM
. Buffalo, Oct. 7-j(U.R After
six hours of debate, delegates of
the CIO United Automobile
Workers convention voted ' to
day to ban extension of the in
centive pay system in the na
tion's aviation, motor and agri
cultural implement industry.
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Yank second baseman Joe Cordon, the World Series "goat" ol 1942, continued his role of
"hero" In the Series' second game of 1943 as he slid safely into second ahead of St. Louis can
ter fielder Harry Walker's throw to shortstop Slats Marlon, whose leg shows up in the duit
cloud Gordon kicked up. The ump is Bill Stewart.
Air Colonel Says Burma Is
Ripe for .Allied Invasion
By Walter L. Brlggs
United Press Staff Correspondent
New Delhi U.R) He's been on the march continually
since a few weeks before Pearl Harbor. His itinerary - reads
like a travel folder Honolulu, Clark Field, Australia, Java,
India, China, the Middle East, then China and India again. He'd
probably be leading a flight of B-24's over. Rangoon today if
the army hadn't finally called him home.
He's Col. Cecil E. Combs, lean,
deep-eyed 30-year-old command
ing officer of the 10th Air
Force's India Air Task Force,
former commander of the fam
ous 19th Bombardment Group
in Java, who has not been back
to his San Antonio, Tex., home
since - he took off from San
Francisco on Oct. 21, 1941.
Since he led the first mission
of the war against the Japanese,
a heavy bomber attack against
landing forces at Vigan in North
ern. Luzon on Dec. 10, 1941,
Combs has been uninterruptedly
fighting the war, largely against
the Japanese but with a few
weeks in the Middle East during
the summer of 1942 against the
Germans and Italians.
Now the war department
wants the benefit of his advice.
He whisked to Washington re
cently, but expects to return in
about two months. And he wants
to tell them there, among other
important facts, that -"Burma is
ripe now for invasion."
As a result of the steady
pounding India-based U. S. Army
Air Force bombers' have deliver
ed on Burma, Combs thinks, "the
capacity of the communications
system there now is not a lourtn
of what it was when the British
were forced to move out. We've
hit' everything we could find,
ships, docks, railway marshalling
yards, bridges, and a lot of other
things.
"I believe that Burma Is ripe
now for invasion.' The Japs have
and. I want to see them chased
out' of every damned one of
them.
Combs - said he hoped things
would -be "moving" when he re
turned. - . '. ' .
"The kind of operations we are
doing are the kind that will work
only if we ' start moving. We
knock out a lot of bridges and
other objectives but this really
doesn't do much good unless it
is followed up by an attack. It s
strategic bombing, pure and
simple.
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"The Japs were clearing be
tween 23,000 and 30,000 tons of
shipping a week at Rangoon
Harbor until March, when we
started bombing Rangoon in
force. Today shipping there . is
almost zero. This is largely at
tributable to our bombing." .
', -Combs highly praised his
crews. "The way the boys have
been flying during monsoon
weather has amazed all of us.
It's really rough over the Bay of
Bengal and the Chin Hills during
the summer, but. we've hardly
slackened our pace. And our
missions are long ones the
average at least 2,000 miles in
missions south of Rangoon."
The youthful colonel empha
sized that although 100 per cent
of the missions have been flown
without fighter cover, only
about 10 planes have been shot
down in combat since operations
started one and a half years ago
over Burma, Thailand and the
Andaman and Nicobar islands.
He praised the cooperation given
him by the RAF s Bengal com
mand and said that the RAF's
work in Burma had been large
ly tactical, his outfits largely
strategic.
Combs said that when the
Japanese smashed the Philip
pines "we were pretty impressed
by their air. power. But now
things are going the' other way
and we're making them loott
like bush leaguers." '
-' Combs was co-pilot of Brig
Gen. Lewis Breretoh on the first
American mission out of India,
an attack on Andaman April 2,
1942. Brereton,- now a major
general, Is chief of the 9th Air
Force In Cairo. The following
night Combs led the first attack
on Rangoon.
. Others of Combs bosses In this
theater have been variously
Maj.-Gen. Clayton Bissell, for
mer head of the 10th Air Force:
Maj.-Gen. George E. Strate
meyer. China Burma - India air
chief; Brig.-Gen. Caleb V,
Haynes, former chief of the In
dia Air . Task Force, recently-appointed
commanding general of
the 10th Air Force.
As operations officer, Combs
planned the first American raid
in China, a B-25 attack on Han
kow in July, 1942, and the first
heavy bomber mission In China,
a 2,300-mile round trip to hit
the Linsi coal mines near Tient
sin in October, 1942. For his var
ious firsts, during a combat life
of from 230 to 300 hours, he has
been awarded the Distinguished
Flying Cross with oak-leaf clus
ter, silver star and air medal.
Combs' wife and 2V4-year-old
daughter live In San Antonio.
He has a brother who Is an air
cadet and his mother, Mrs. N. A.
Combs, and sister. Miss Leila
Combs, both of Dallas, Tex.,
work in a North American fac
tory which produces the same
B-24's he has been flying In the
Far East.
. - STORK SCHEDULED
Hollywood, Oct. 7 (U.R)
Actress Jean Rogers announced
today that she expects a baby
in April. Miss Rogers Is the wife
of Film Agent -Danny Winkler.
Married in 1939 and later di
vorced, they remarried last July.
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OFFICER KILLED IN
MANEUVER AIR CRASH
Fourth Corps Headquarters,
Oregon Maneuver Area, Oct. 7
(U.PJ First Lt. Jack R. Black,
East Hickory, Pa., was killed in
a bomber crash during maneu
vers on Sept. 29, air headquar
ters announced today.
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MARKADE GAINING
WIDE REPUTATION
AMONG SOLDIERS
Medford's MarKade Is fast be
coming one of the most popular
service clubs for enlisted men
on the Pacific coast, according
to the '. director and hostesses.
Soldiers who have visited many
such centers report to staff mem
bers that nowhere else have
they found a ' place like the
MarKade.
The men stated that they es
pecially enjoy the homelike at
mosphere created by the fire
place and comfortable furniture.
Also enjoyed are the game room
and the completely equipped
kitchen, the latter being a the
disposal of servicemen and their
wives at all times.
Thursday and Saturday nights
dances are given and on other
week nights the servicemen and
their wives play games, sing and
enjoy coffee and cake or other
refreshments. Sunday finds
many gathered around the fire
place listening to selected re
cordings or group singings.
The MarKade is open every
day from 12:30 until 10:30 p. m
and the closing .hour Is extend
ed until 11 p. m. on Thursday
and Saturday nights. Sundays
the opening hour is 12 noon. The
center is located at Fifth and
Oakdale streets.
OCTOBER 7, 1943.
What's Doing at
U.S.O.V
Riverside USO
Fourteen army wives left
Riverside USO yesterday after
a pot-luck luncheon, to. spend
an unusual afternoon In Jack
sonville, visiting historic spots.
The first Protestant church built
west of . the Rockies, located
there, provided an Interesting
study, as well as the Southern
Oregon Museum.
Just outside Jacksonville, the
ladies took gold pans and tried
the old creek bed for nuggets.
however, no gold was found.
Each returned with a large piece
of quartz as a. souvenir.
GAS RATION COUPONS
- MUST BE ENDORSED
Instructions showing motorists
how to endorse their gasoline ra
tion coupons were released to
day by the Office of Price Ad
ministration, -
Motorists are advised that
they must endorse every coupon
in their ration books immediate
ly. They are not to wait until
they buy gas.
Holders of A, B, C, D or T
books are to write their license
number and state of. registra
tion on face of all coupons.
- Holders of E or R books write
their name and address on the
face of all coupons.
Censorship of domestic mall
was introduced into Denmark by
Nazi authorities more than two
months before they seized con
trol of the Danish government.
New York. Oct." 1 (U.F9 A
federal court ruled late yester
day that the by-laws of the As
sociated Press relating to ad
mission of new members are in
vilation of the nation's anti
trust la-vs so long as they re
main In their "present form."
The court also held that the
by-laws of the Associated Press
forbidding members to commun
icate "spontaneous" news to
non-members are illegal in their
present form as is a contract be
tween the Associated Press and
the Canadian Press under terms
of which each organization has
exclusive rights to the news dis
patches of the other.
Purchase by the Associated
Press of wide world photos from
the New York Times was held
to be . legal as was the right of
the Associated Press member
ship to pass upon the admission
of applicants for membership in
the organization.
MOUNTBATTEN ARRIVES
New Delhi, Oct. 7 U.R)
Admiral Lord Louis Mountbat-
ten, newly-appointed command
er of allied forces in southwest
Asia, arrived at New Delhi in a
converted Liberator bomber to
day. Mountbatten will make
New Delhi his headquarters for
an expected offensive to recon
quer Burma.
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JAPANESE CLAIM
By United Pren - i
The Tokyo radio claimed
Thursday that a Jananesa nibV
marine sunk two of three Britj
ish destroyers which it attaeked!
in South Pacific waters Octoat
ber 3.
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