San Bernardino Sun, Volume 50, 8 January 1944 — Page 2
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Allied Airmen Sink or Damage 30 Jap Barges in Widespread Attacks
Fighting Falls Info Lull Along Gloucester Line
American Patrols Contact Japs Near Saidor, New Guinea ADVANCED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NEW GUINEA, Jan. 8 (Saturday) UP) Allied airmen hunting down Japanese troop and supply barges in the south and southwest Pacific have sunk or damaged 30 of the vessels, killing or wounding 100 of the enemy. The widespread attacks on the barges did not Indicate that this traffic upon which the enemy depends almost exclusively for reinforcing and supplying his defense areas, had Increased of late, but rather that conditions nor have
becoma favorable for allied planes to hunt them down instead of concentrating the attacks on barge
staging points. RABAUL RAIDED AGAIN Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique today said the attacks were made near Sio and Sarang harbor on the north coast of New Guinea, at Rein bay and Rabaul, New Britain. It was at Rabaul, important enemy supply base on the northeastern tip of New Brit
ain, that the enemy suriered the 100 casualties when two barges were blasted. Fighting in the Borgen bay sector of the Cape Gloucester, New Britain, invasion area fell into a lull, with American marines and the Japanese hitting each other only intermittently, the communi
que said. The struggle here had been intense, with the Japanese losing 600 men in one day of recent action. After a week of savage attacks and counterattacks by both sides, the marine line remained unchanged. It was this line the marines held against superior numbers while another force of leathernecks recently captured the vital Cape Gloucester airdrome at the northwest end of the island. KAVIENG SHIPS BOMBED Allied air power continued hitting Japanese shipping at Kavieng, on the northwestern tip of New Ireland. Royal Australian air force Catalinas and planes from
the south Pacific command bombed an enemy cargo ship and a destroyer in that area. Other allied fighter planes strafed gun positions and dock installations at RabauL No enemy planes were reported downed in this raid.
American troops on the north
coast of New Guinea have made patrol contact with the Japanese near SeL 10 miles southeast of Saidor. Australians advancing up the Huon peninsula coast toward the Americans at Saidor have occupied Kelanoa village.
Jap Fleet Not Afraid to Fight, Declares Knox WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 OP Secretary of the Navy Knox said today it is "foolish" for anyone to assume that the Japanese fleet Is afraid to fight It probably remains in hiding "because the time doesn't suit their purpose." He added at a news conference that the enemy presumably Is "waiting for a time they will have a better chance, they hope." "But while they remain cooped up, our ships, men, planes, are growing and when they do come out there can be only one ultimate result"
New Dnieper
Drive Opened
Germans Routed In Central Ukraine (Continued from Page One) below Kiev, linking with a long'
established Russian bridgehead
south of Pereyaslav.
Berlin went even further than Moscow and in a broadcast by
Capt Ludwig Sertorious said "it now appears as if Vatutin's left
wing has contacted units of General Konev's army eastward and
southward of Belaya Tserkov." If the two armies had not already joined hands it appeared they would do so shortly for the Germans seemed unable to stand against the might of the two ram
pant armies. Vatutin's forces alone reported 5,000 Germans killed in the last
24 hours, and in the past five days
official Soviet
Iron, Steel Ban Will Be Lifted On Many Items Use to Be Allowed In Various Common Civilian Products
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 tan-
Prohibitions against the use of iron and steel in 1,200 of the commonest civilian products many of which have gone completely out of
production will be lifted soon ex
cept for about 300 of the least
essential items, it was learned to
day. War production board sources disclosed plans for a drastic revision, perhaps this month, of W.P.B.'s famed "order M-126." It
not only has barred iron and steel in a long list of goods, but also any substitute metals except gold and silver. SEVERE CURB
The ban has been one of the
severest of wartime curbs on industry since May, 1942. When he issued it, W.P.B. Chairman Donald M. Nelson said the action, to
gether with an accompanying
check on nonwar construction, would "change the face of American industry." By the allocation of materials
to manufacturers, W.P.B. will con
tinue to govern production and prevent a runaway boom in civilian goods. Further, officials said they expected additional controls
would be laid down to check civilian output in tight labor areas.
The list of goods in which iron
and steel were banned covers 400 types of products, some 1,200 in
dividual items, and many thousand different styles, models and sizes. Included were coat-hang
ers, bathtubs, compacts, flashlight
Allied Landing In Yugoslavia 'in Force' Denied LONDON, Jan. 7 (P Reports tracing back to axis-controlled Zagreb said today the allies had landed "in force" In Yugoslavia, but allied headquarters in Algiers denied it, and a highly placed British source suggested that all the smoke came from a spark of fact: That for some time small parties of allied officers and specialists have been going Into Yugoslavia to help the partisans.
In possible explanation of
Zagreb reports of "heavy fight
Ing," there was a partisan com
munique recounting partisan raids and sabotage at several points and acknowledging a fighting withdrawal after six days of street battles In Banja
Luka, base of the German
second tank army. Headquarters of Marshal
Josip Broz (Tito) announced Its
bands killed 680 Germans, wounded 700 and captured 720 In Banja Luka.
count has placed
German dead at 20,000 along the tuDes. ice cream freezers, laundry
Draft Physical
System Revised
Local 'Screening Tests Abolished (Continued from Page One)
entire Russian front
Once joined, the two armies would not only seek to clear the rich Dnieper bend the Germans' easternmost salient in Russia of
perhaps 500,000 to 750,000 men
but batter the Nazis southern Russia into Rumania.
Conference on Wests Gasoline Shortage Set
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7
Top ranking gasoline rationing of-
iiciais from Washington will at
tend a conference here Jan. 21 over a gasoline shortage in the
west, Frank Balthis Jr., Southern California O.P.A. director, said to
day. He said conferees would include Dr. Charles Phillips, gasoline rationing chief; Col. Bryan Houston, his aide; Leo Gentner, regional O. P.A. director, and O.P.A. executives from Southern California.
Arizona and Nevada.
trays, lipstick holders, house num
bers, parking meters, automatic pencils, match boxes, mop wringers, pie plates and shower stalls. The removal of many items from the banned list and there
out of all j was n indication just which prodPoland andiucts would be removed would
not necessarily mean a prompt resumption of production. Subse
quent action would have to be
taken to allot materials for them. Death Toll in R.A.F.
Stettin Raid Said 1,000
STOCKHOLM, Jan. 7 UP) An eyewitness to the R.A.F.'s Wednesday night raid on the German Baltic port of Stettin said today
that he heard reports within that battered city that 1,000 persons
had been killed.
The traveler said extensive
damage was done to the harbor
area, an important feeder line to German forces in Finland and
along the Baltic front
regarding the branch of service
he enters will be followed.
The present system of sending men to induction stations for ex
amination and immediate induction will continue in use for meet
ing this month's draft quotas
Boards will also begin immediately to send men to the stations under
the new system in order to eet
it fully into operation by Feb. 1.
me present screening ' examination is given in the draft
registrant's home community to screen out those obviously phy
sically unfit for the armed serv
ices. Although it is officially
abolished, any registrant who believes he has an obvious defect may request and be given an examination by a local board physician.
Also any man who wishes no delay will, on request, be inducted immediately after passing his physical examination rather than being returned home as a civilian. Shirley Ross Granted Divorce From Dolan LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7 UP) Shirley Ross, screen and radio
singer, won a divorce today from Kenneth R. (Ken) Dolan, theatrical agent, on testimony that her husband consistently staved out
Senators Urge Furloughs for Men Overseas Army Said Moving To Relieve Troops In Isolated Points
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 UP)
Amid reports that the Army is
moving to relieve troops in isolated outposts, senate Democrats and Republicans joined today in urg
ing the establishment of a furlough system for battle-weary
men long overseas.
Senator Taft, Ohio Republican, told a reporter he believed the war department should make some provision for short furloughs for men who had seen at least two
years of foreign service. He sug
gested the possibility of a rotation system which would let one man out of four in a designated unit
come home for a month or more.
On his return, another would be
given leave.
Congress heard informally that
the Army already has acted to replace many of its garrisons in Alaska, the Caribbean, Iceland and other outposts in this hemis
phere.
APPEALS FROM PARENTS
Some servicemen in Sicily, Italy
and the southwest Pacific also
have been returned to the United States, but the percentage is said to be extremely small.
Members of congress said their
mail is full of appeals from parents for furlough for their sons, but most legislators thought no attempt would be made to enact
legislation on the subject The general disposition was to leave
the decision to the high command.
Taft said his proposal for a fur
lough after two years of overseas
fighting probably would affect
few troops in the European thea
ter, but might give relief to a
large number in the Pacific.
Taft said the chief problem
was use of shipping that otherwise might be carrying troops or supplies. Taft added that there also was the question of whether
experienced fighting units should be broken up.
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German-Born Citizens Given Spy Sentences
LIQUOR PROBE WIDENED TO NATIONWIDE SCALE
WASHINGTON. Jan. 7 UP) A
grand jury investigation of the liquor shortage was broadened to
nationwide scale today.
The justice department obtained
subpoenas for records of 85 large distillers, vintners, processors and
wholesalers which deal on a national scale. The probe originally was confined to the "big four" Schenley, Hiram Walker, National Distillers and Seagrams. Wendell Berge, assistant attorney-general, said the department wanted to know whether any illegal monopolistic practices were being employed in the liquor industry. The grand jury will be
asked to determine whether large
distillers have bought up stocks.
or output of the smaller Dro-
ducers; all circumstances surrounding the introduction of new brand names, and whether there has been hoarding or efforts to control prices and distribution. He emphasized the mere issuance of the subpoenas was not an accusation against any of the distillers, however. Meantime, the treasury aimed a new blow at what it called "black market" operations in
whisky. It announced that hence
forth, reports will be required
daily, instead of monthly, from
wholesalers on consignments of liquor. This way, Secretary Morg-
enthau said, the treasury can put
immediate tracers on every con
signment of liquor where circunv
stances appear unusual or sus
picious.
AMERICANS WIPE OUT
NAZIS IN SAN VITTORE
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their babies. They were hysterical
in their relief after living in base'
ments for weeks on popcorn, dried beans and water while the war
raged above their heads.
So close was the fighting here
that Americans manning tele' phones had to whisper their mes
sages back to their artillery for fear the Germans in the same
house would hear them.
Americans and Germans were
so closely mixed in the same
houses that mortar and artillery fire could not be used for fear of hitting our own troops, but the
use of small, rapid-fire 37 mm
antitank guns proved effective in
driving the Germans out
NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 7 UP)
Three naturalized Americans of
German birth convicted on charges of violating the espionage act of 1917 were sentenced today by Judge Thomas F. Meanley in
federal court to serve prison terms of eight years each.
They were Friedrich (Fritz)
Schroeder, former national leader of the German-American vocation-
all night and kept her in a ner- al league in New York; Pvt. Hans
vous state for four years of their W. Koenig of Fort Dix, and Carl
five-year marriage.
Kranz of Rochester, N. Y.
MT. MAIO STORMED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Jan. 7 UP) American and British troops fought their way methodically through the bloody morass of Nazi defenses guarding the communications cen
ter of Cassino today. American forces to the east of Cassino hacked their way forward four miles to storm 3,500-foot Mt.
Maio, cutting the German supply road from Cervaro to San Vittore. Meanwhile, British troops pressing up the Garigliano river from the south reached the edge of the Cassino plain, where their tanks
might go into action for the first
time.
Although the fifth army's 10-
mile-wide offensive had gained from one to four miles since the
jumpoff early Wednesday morn
ing, there yet was no indication of
a substantial breakthrough. The
Germans were retreating from one defense line to the next after making the allies pay the highest possible price.
American forces attacking on the right flank of the fifth army offensive endured heavy artillery
and mortar fire as they scaled Mt. Maio in a rain and sleet storm. This is the highest peak
yet captured by the allies in Italy.
State Surplus for
Postwar Jobs Seen SACRAMENTO, Jan. 7 UP)
The state government will have a $65,000,000 surplus accum-
mulated for postwar construction projects by June 30, 1945, it was predicted today by State Legislative Auditor Rolland A. Vande-
grift
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Man Sentenced for
Money Order Thefts
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 7 UP)
William W. Wheatly, 30, who federal authorities said made $10,000 yearly stealing money orders and
government checks from mail
boxes, was sentenced to two years in a federal prison today by Judge Michael J. Roche.
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Three Fugitives From California Prison Seized 12-Day Crime Trail Ends in Memphis; Death Penalty Faced MEMPHIS, Jan. 1 UP) Threel young fugitives from San Quentln prison, captured here last night, were enroute tonight to Jackson,
Miss., to face armed robbery charges after a 12-day trail of crime, Police Inspector M. A,. Hinds reported. They jvere turned over to Mississippi authorities late today aft er hours of questioning. Armtd robbery conviction In Mississippi carries the death penalty. Hinds said he identified the men
as Roy Drake, 20; Ralph Ward.
23, and Lawrence Motarl, 21.
When seized In downtown Mem
phis they were armed with pistols,
blackjacks and a sawed-off shot
gun. AUTO HORN TRIPS THEM
They attracted attention of pa
trolmen when they violated
Memphis' antinoise ordinance by blowing their automobile hprn. Hinds said they confessed tha, $1,200 robbery of Jackson's Rob-. ert E. Lee hotel, and the robberies of an auto storage plant In Jackson, a Western Union office In. Baton Rouge, La., and a Houston, Texas, hotel. He said $2,020 had . been recovered. Hinds said after the men es-
caped from San Quentin Dec. 28, they kidnaped a man In Los Angeles and held up several business houses there; entered a home at
Lubbock, Texas; stole another car and held up the William Penn ho- -tel and a service station In Houston; went on to Baton Rouge and thence to Jackson. Yielded Ground Doesn't Count, Declares Berlin STOCKHOLM, Jan. 7 (TP) Tha
latest German explanation of the retreat in Russia, as reported bv
the Nazi-controlled Scandinavian . Telegraph bureau: "An intact division always Is '. more Important in the long run than ever so valuable a bit of' " ground."
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