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Brenham Banner-Press
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VOLUME 77
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F. R. Gets Report Fixing Responsibility For Hawaii Attack
Where Japanese Juggernaut Rolls Onward
Recalled
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Red Cro$s_Knitters
Urged To Complete
Sweaters At Once
Conservation Of
Burlap Sacks Is
Urged By USDA
SCRAP IRON AND
STEEL SALE FOR
WAR USE URGED
First Pan-American
Nation To Act
Under Pact
Argentina And Chile
Expected To Slow
PtvCedure
Weary U. S. Forces
Strongly Resist,
Losses Heavy ~
I nd ton
Oreo*
26 Enemy Bomber B-
Are Shot Down
‘ At Rangoon
PERU STARTS
hEXEAKS ViTH !
AXIS POWERS
Dallmeyer, Almot Scbicnker
Frank Bosse.
. Conserve burlap sacks aa a safe-
guard against a probable shortage,
T. C. Thornhill, chirman, county'
USDA war board, urged Washlng-
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EAST TEX AS—Cooler in north
portion tonight, little change in
temperature In south portion ex-
cept warmer in extreme southeast
tonight 1 .....
these typical American sailors, say
officials.
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Typical Sailor
Ts~Btue~ Eyed,
23 Years Old
and serve
Knttncr,
Pocd* Oceon
/Z MARIANAS IS., **
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First National Has
Taken New Step
For -Sj? <ety
RUSSIAN ARMIES ADVANCE 250 MILE
•(RELEASED FOR
WUCAWid
SUNDAY PAPERS
Melvin Koerth Of
Carmine Completes
Pre-Flight Training
KELLY FIELD. Texas, Jan. 24.
—Wkfh his pre-flight training be-
hind him Aviation Cadet Melvin
Koerth, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Adolph Koerth. Carmine, Texas,
left the Air Corps Replacement
Training Center (Aircrew) at Kel-
ly Field, Texas, this week to begin
flight training, r r
He is a member of the first war-
time clan to complete basic mili-
tary training and ground school in.
structlon at this Replacement Cen-
ter The class wr^ Ajuod to var-
ious primary flying schools located
In the Gulf Coast Air Corps Train-
ing Center Area.
.At the Replacement Center hia
training has all been on the drill
field and in the classroom, but now
he will have a chance to prove
what he can do in the cockpit.
“AFTER-HOUR”
BANK SERVICE
IS INSTALLED
Installation of an After Hour
Depository is announced by offi-
cials of the First National Bank,
who point out that by use of this
new equipment cash and other
valuables may be safeguarded after
banking hours. They state that
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Justice Roberts Says
Pearl Harbor Probe
Is Completed
NAMES CALLED
fcYAF ? 1
CAtOUNf ISLANDS
(JegMSM)
Ten Convicts
Volunteer For
Suicide Squad
JAPS PUSH ON
ALLIED FRONT
IN FAR EAST
They are the pride of the Navy. Jet
- •— . > .> "Without further effort on your
part, your deposit has been com-
pleted automatically and instan-
taneously. Now lock the receiver,
CAMP BARKELEY, Texas. and go home in pesce. Your busi-
ness receipts are absolutely safe
against Burglary and Fire.
"At youy convenience the next
day you call at you teller’s win-
dow for your bag. unlock it, and
make your deposit in the usual
way."
Soldiers at Camp Wolters cola
lected more than 100,000 discarded -
„ razor blades in the first week of a
murder, manslaughter, ag- campaign originated by Chaplain
is
Washington
plowing up
—Military routine became such a
habit with Supply Sergeant Kreth
White that he allpped into the mili-
tary style for official correspon-
dence when be wrote to his girl.
The letter started: "Subject--
Love.”
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L'~Vs annually An MLN ER AL WELLS, Tex. (UJP.)
who sought >27.300 to enlarge
station near Fort Leonard W<
Mo. The station’d revenue
creased from >26,549 during
The...
WCTJTOFi
BELLVILLE COACH QUITS
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RUETZ JOINS ARMY '
MAYOR RIDES BICYCLE
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HOLLEMAN IS LEADER
of certain death and accomplish
the tasks which bring "victory for
our nation.”
And if they did return i “
from a suicide missl<-n the men
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Ing to form a suicide squad for
"any mission, however dangerous,”
the nation may assign them.
“Up to the present." they wrote,
"we nave done no gcxxl deeds for
our country. Thus we have an in-
debtedness to the United States."
To help clear their record, the
prisoners ask that they be given
service tasks which call for men
Edwin Fred who are willing to walk in tbetoee
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Coach Bob Obets of the Bell-
ville High Brahmas has resign-
ed to accept a similar post with
the Cotulla high school, the
• Ballville Times reports. Obets
% carrte back to Bellville as coach
last 'fall after a previous con-
nection with the school. He
plans to leave for his new post
in a few days.
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Indicating the seriousness of
the rubber shortage in the or-
dinary needs of life, we received
an urgent letter yesterday from
a big manufacturing plant in
Fort Worth inquiring as to whe-
ther we could supply them with
five pounds of rubber bands.
“We are in desperate need of
these rubber bands to continue
operation," the letter stated.
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Quintus Ruetz. Jr., Banner-
Press employe in the mechanical
department since his high school
days, when he began as a car-
rier boy, has joined the army.
Ruetz left Thursday night for
Randolph Field. He will take
specialist courses in mechanics
and will later get flying instruc-
. tion. He is succeeded at the
Banner-Press by Denmon Mere-
dith who came here from Lib-
erty.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. (U.P)—
Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts
filed with President Roosevelt to-
day a report fixing responsibility
for enemy successes in the Japa-
nese surprise attack on Pearl Har-
bor December 7.
President Roosevelt read the re-
port submitted by Roberts, chair-
man of the special board which
spent twenty days conducting
hearings in Hawaii, and ordered
its release ih full for publication
in Sundajt-morning newspapers.
Roberts said, after his confer-
ence with the president, that the
report "fixes responsibility and
mentions names.” He added that
the report received the unanimous
approval of the five members of
the board.
The board of inquiry was ap-
pointed December 16 by Mr.
Roosevelt to investigate any “dere-
liction” on- the part of American
armed forces in Hawaii.
3JNGARDENS
ONFARMSGOAL
tion charges.
"It’s just another way of say-
ing that we're at our posts on the
farm front,’’ the chairman said.
"We’re in this war to win, and
each of us will have to get the job
done.”
By EVERETT R. HOLLER,
United Press Staff Correspondent.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 24.—
Peru 'broke diplomatic relations
with the Axis today, the first
American nation to act under a
compromise resolution unanimous-
ly adopted by the emergency con-
ference of American foreign minis-
ters.
Undersecretary of State Sumner
Welles, chief of the American
delegation to the conference, an-
nounced that the United States
ambassador to Lima had advised
him of the break.
That left seven, nations in the
Western Hemisphere still main-
| taining diplomatic relations with
Germany, Italy and Japan, and
‘ Foreign Minister Alberto Guant of
Uruguay had announced that his
country would break today.
Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay
will hand Axis diplomats their
passports tn a few days. Argen-
tine, Chile and Ecuador will then
1 be the only nations in the Western
Teams Announced
For Membership
Drive of C. of C.
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“Dereliction” Of U. S.
Military f’orces
Investigated
“One nation indivisible, with
Liberty and Justice for All.”
Sergeant Charlie H. Kaase, Jr.
son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Kaase,
Sr., Route 1, Bellville, who has
been recalled to active duty with
the signal corps. Eighth Corps
Area. He served-8 months before
being relensed from the army
shortly before Pearl Harbor.
farm familes and those <n Bren-
ham who hqve a sizable garden
space, labor and equipment for
cultivating it, and a knowledge of
gardening can produce much of
their own food supply," says Miss
Myrna Holman, county home dem-
onstration agent. She adds that
in this way they can supply their
families with vegetables that are
finer in flavor and * texture and
richer in food value. These home
gardens will also release dollars
which may be spent for other hw
cessities, and release commercial
supplies of vegetables for military
forces, industrial workers, village
and city dwellers.
In growing a Food-For-Freedom
garden there are six jobs to be
done, says the agent, who lists
them as follows:
JOB NO. 1. Determine where
the vegetables are to be planted
and Hbw much land is to be used.
On most farms they should include
a garden spot near the house if
possible. Plots in the field, where
the soil is favorable for such prod-
ucts as potatoes, cucumbers, wat-
ermelons, tomatoes, field peas and
beans, and perhaps a frame gar-
den to lengthen the season for
quick-run vegetables. JOB. NO. 2
Select seeds from varieties recom-
mended for this county. JOB NQ.
3 Take care- of the garden by
keeping it well cultivated, weeds
destroyed, and insects controlled.
JOB NO. 4 In the Food-ForFree-
dom garden is to harvest the vege-
tables when they are at their beet.
JOB NO. 5 is to save all the
natural flavor in the product by
using correct methods of preser-
vation, preparation and service.
The last job In growing a Food-
For-Freedom garden is to clear
the land and prepare for another
toners planting when, plants have ceased
(production. .
Articles on gardening will ap-
pear from time to time giving in-
formation on the job needing to
be done at that particular time.
The first of these series will be on
the selection of varieties suited
for growth in Washington county,
and win appear in the Banner-
Press in the next few days.
Member of the United Press, the Greatest World-Wide News Service.
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T BRENHAM, TEXAS, SATURDAY-SUNDAY, JAN. 24-25,1942
Receiver.
In the words of Almot Schlen-
ker, setive vice president, here is
how a customer uses the After
1 “ DUTCH EAST DIES,
GUIN£AW.
Y0«kB Coro/Sw
* JAP BASES flk
k»MJAP TH HU STS_____________
(1), Australians. Dutch gird for possible invasion while British fall back in both Malaya and Burma; (2>
Japs bomb Sumatra; (3), U. 8. and Chinese planes blast at Indo-China; (4), Philippines sre quiet; (5),
Dutch damage Japanese warships; (6), Japs invade Australian islands. (NKA Telephoto)
EDWIN FRED H4 HROEDERN
AKE PARENTS OF MON
<Mr. and Mrs.
List Of Dealers Is On
File In Local
AAA Office
Collection and sale of scrap iron
and steel Is only one of the manyvIL ,the anti-
ways Washington County Farmers r
can help lick the Japs, the Nazis /
and the Fascists, according to T.
C. Thornhill, chairman of the
Washington County USDA defense
board. '
Growing needs of a nation at
war serve to intensify demand for
steel and scrap iron to feed the
hungry mouths of arms factories,
the defense board chairman said.
Urgent appeal is also made to
the public to gather up steel and
garden space is not recommended^" scrKjEniHt'carry ifr»tm*«rest-de»H-
erg for use in charging the na-
tion’s steel furnaces. A list of deal-
ers for the county are on file in
the local AAA office and may be
consulted any time, he said.
"We’re ndt asking that you give
your scrap to your country. We’re
asking that you sell it at prevail-
ing prices for immediate defense
use," Thornhill said in explaining
financial returns cannot be
expected to be large but results
will be of untold value to farmers
In tiieir whole victory effort.
Thornhill explained that prices
for scrap vary In different sec-
tions since dealers deduct costs of
transporting scrap from shipping
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Mayor Reese Lockett, Mrs.
Lockett and their son, Reese,
Jr., are out to beat the'rubber
shortage. They all three appear-
ed downtown Saturday riding
bicycles, letting the rubber tires
on their automobile rest.
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M. B. Holleman Saturday re-
ceived word that he has qualifi-
ed for the Houston - Leaders
Round Table for 1942, under
rules of the Houston Life Un-
derwri t e r s Association. The
group will give a luncheon at
, the Rice Hotel next Tuesday at
which Mr. Holleman will be la
guest,. To qualify for the round
table, an Insurance representa-
tive must sell a certain quota
during the preceding year, as
well as meet other requirements. •
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The Recreation Department
and the Junior Fortnightly are
sending a group of girls to a
Soldier Service Chib dance at
Camp Wallace tonight. The girls
will leave from the library
at 5:00. Four automobiles and
a station wagon have been do-
nated for the trip by patriotic
citizens. Due to the fact that
only thirty of the one hundred
applicants could attend this
dance, a drawing was held to
determine who should go. The
club voted to give 25c each to
help sponsor this trip. Victory
pins of red, white, and blue with
£RENHAM printed on them,
have been furnished by the Re-
creation Department for each
girl as Identification of the
members of the Brenham ‘Vic-
torettes.* The dance which is
formal, will begin at 8:30 and
end promptly at 12:00. All girls
will return to Brenham after,
the dance. They are ill look-
ing forward to a gala evening *
with Uncle Sam’s boys in uni-
form.
NO. 20
3
a
States antTIndla, from wDIch bur-
lap is imported almost exclusively,
has been reduced because of war
in the Far Vast, the chairman
pointed out. \
"At the sai/e time buying of
burlap has. beeN reduced, our uses
have Increased," Thornhill said.
New uses include the packaging of
foods for the army and navy, cer-
tain chmelcals, and other articles,
as well as Items shipped abroad
under the lend-leaae act.
Approximately 80 per cent of
total burlap imports go into manu-
facture of bags and about three-
fourths of all burlap bags are used
to package commodities which
farmers buy and sell. About 459
million yards of burlap were used
Food - For - Freedom
Activity includes
6 Major Jobs
"Some 3,000 farm gardens
the 1942 g^oal for
County and while
back yards.and flower beds for
Teams to tajee part in the Brenham Chamber of Com-
whirlwind membership drive scheduled for
next Wednesday were announced today by the team captains
chosen by the directors last Wednesday night.
To emphtisive the progress made
in the last year in cattle raising
In Jhis county, the teams are all
given names of prominent breeds
of cattie.
Each captain chose his own
workers from the general mem--
bcrahip of the chamber.
Prizes will be awarded the win-
ning teams and individuals in the
onc-day drive. •
* FfflTSWh'g Iffe the tetrtW
ganized:
M. B. Holleman, general chair-
man.
Herefords — Tom Whitehead,
captain; Leslie D. Williams, Char-
lie Woods, Fred Amsler, Reese
Lockett antWT. A. lx»w, Jr.
Jerseys -Dick Splnn, captain;
Robert Koenig, Joe
Qus Fink, Vann Wittner and W.
- ;
, Black Angus Jack "Eilwood,
captain; Charles hlum, Dr. Fred
Graber, Cecil Koon, Ollie Miller
and Travis Phillips.
Red Polis — Harry
captain; Leslie
Democratic powers etc— lagitl-
mate contact.
Although Argentina, Chile and
Ecuador committed themselves
yesterday to the extent of "recom-
mending” a diplomatic break when
they signed the resolution, . they
were believed almost certain to de-
lay taking action.
Argentina and Chile to the end
bitterly opposed a break ahd «f- -
forts to bring them into the »*** ha» bcen takn aa u movc
front had delayed the conference, to prevent materialization of crime
I in our midst and they invite -the
inspection of those who arc inter*
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Briefly described, thia new sery-_{'
Ice equipment consists of a heavy
bronze-trimmed receiver built Into
the wall of the banking house on
Alamo Avenue. From this Receiv-
er or Depository Head, there ex-
tends through the building wall to
the Inside of the bank, a steel
chute which enters the electrically
protected safe located there in the
workspace of the bank.
The business and professional
men .public officials and many
other types of activity, sign up
with the bank for the use of this
new safety an<( convenience equip-
ment and then they are each given
a heavy deposit bag snd a key to
the outside entrance or Deposit
his —
i back to his
home town, applies the trade he
„ „ during 1939-40, the chairman said.
Mavericks (special team) C. D. _-l
anJ of burlap, efforts are being made
j n—Irin A#
' cotton
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t* IT AIN
SOLOMON
f » 4300 MILES
g ALLIED BASES
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He*also loves a fight. Since the; "Place in your bag your cash
war has broken out, the typical^ checka wlth a depoMjt gllp
American sailor has shown more. made oUt |n the rPgU|ar way,
impatience to "get at them guys ’ the zIpper; the ba<
than his brothers from >ther sec- Brtng lt to the After Hour rx-po,.
tions, which doesn’t mean that h* fjory at Kny unne day or night.
Is any more loyal but has a harder Untock th(. deposit receiver, pull it
time controlling his hot blood. forward, drop your bag Into lt~
Suil'ide Sauad frir />ther ua*9 cannot be expected
c <rulckIy tJ)<i chalrman tahl
.. .. "Handling bags more carefully!
RALEIGH, N. C. <t I I If t ** fbey can be used again, return-
Unlted States armed forces f nd (ng baga |o dealers for re-use, and
need for a volunteer suicide squad,, repgjrtng slightly damaged bags
10 North Carolina convicts ar* are prBCtical ways farmers can
ready to serve. i off-set the shortage?4 Thornhill I
- These convicts have written i sal(j
Gov. J. M. Broughton, volunteer- I r. ----\, .
Ing to form a suicide squad for NTATINT1CN SHOW, 000.000
MAJOR (RI.MEH ANNUALLY
WASHINGTON. ff’.R* The-cen-
sus bureau estimates 2.000,000 ma-
jor crimes are committed annually
In the United States. There arc ar-
rests in less than one-fourth of the
major crimes. , *
The bureau's criminal-judicial
statistics show that about 400.000
persona are arrested i»eu
with major__-Z.____.. ’__
estimated 140.000 stand trial; 110.-
000 are convicted, and about 75,000
alive j serve prison terms. The statistics
saa ■ s^| 1 CQVtF yaaowjates m ■ n tt111 liirht AF BAT.
agreed to return directly to prison I gra vs ted assault, rape, rofcbsry, John Boren, who believes the stee
the remainder of their burglary, larceny and automobile can be used in manufacture of sur
I theft gieal instruments.
Mrs. E. P. Anderson, chairmart
of war relief activities for the
Washington County Red Cross
Chapter, reports that a shipment
of garments will be made next
Wednesday, January 28, and she Is
anxious to include as many sweat-
ers as possible J" **». -----
pecks to be shipped. SHk >
ladles who have sweaters near
completion will make an effort to
, finish and turn them in before
*-• Wednesday.
Yarn for additional sweaters and
other knitted articles has recently
been issued and an appeal is made
U. to knitters to work steadily until
the quota is completed.
Ferguson,
‘ * " s Guggolz, Edgar
Matchett, Fre<ldls Kess«l, George jn aajea or purchases by farmers
Bosse and Willie Handers. during 1939-40. the chairman said.
To off-set probable shortage of
i He'^y demands for tents, uniforms
and ssndbsgs already have been P*,d 1
placed on cotton fabric manufac- wtth. ^iab)., Antelot, and
j turers and appreciable. Increases ( Saunnu at thc
Lyndon Johnson
Refuses To Accept
Congressman’s Pay
WASHINGTON. Jan. 21 —Rep. j
Lyndon Johnson of Texas has noti-
fied the Houses sergeant -at-arms I
that he will not accept his >10.000- |
a-yeai salary while he is serving In
the Navy as a lieutenant-comman- 1
<ler. His salary as a naval officer I
is about >3.000 a year, and John-
son. on duty In San Francisco, said
he would refuse the congressional |
salary. --I
Army Roosiim Railroad Line
«T. LOUIS (US’.( Another na-
tional defense boom was revealed
by trustees of the Frisco RsHrosd gchroeder of the Dime Box com-
i the munity have announced the birth
..rood. of a son, who arrived Friday at the
in-; Sgrah B. Milroy Memorial Hospi-
the I tai. The infant, who weighed nine
first nine months of 1940 to >2.- J pounds and ten ounces has been
370,12* during the same period of named Edwin Fred, Jr. He and his
1941. . I mother are reported doing well.
NORFOLK, Va. (U.P) — Officials
of the Fifth Naval District reveal
that the typical American sailor
has a high school education, is un-
married and is 23 years old.
He prefers playing "baseball to
any other sport and is one of the
first to be found enrolling in the
various specialist schools.
He has blue eyes, brown hair
and Is of medium build. He weighs
168 pounds, stands five feet ten in
his. stocking feet, is particular to
wear his uniform according to
regulations, and drinks coffee by
the pot.
And, when he has done
point*to mUI, as well as prepara- hitch, usually goes
has learned, settles down, mgrries
and forgets about the sea except jfour Depository service in this
on. occasions. j by nit-
By UNITED PRESB.
A Red army break-through gain- 1
cd momentum as * threat to Ger-
man posttto^ ahd ■
Leningrad today, but in ths Far M
East the Japaness offenslvs push-, fl
ed wedges deeper Into the allied
defense front.
Russia claimed its biggest Vic- —' fl
tnry in a drive which carried 350
miles northwest of Moscow within 1
100 miles of the old Latvian bor-
der, recapturing or threatening
Kholm, Velikie, Rzhev, and otlwr 1
cities. “ 9
In thc Far East Radio Rangoon J
said American and British pilots fl
shot down all of a squadron of
seven Japanese bombers vainly '1
striking at Rangoon today, and |
also destroyed nine Japanese fight-
ers for a total of 16 enemy craft.
Ons allied plane was lost. .; . fl
These flyers had shot down W- ifl
tween 19 and 26 Japanese plartes M
yesterday and loot only two planes. fl
Dutch Mink Jap Hhipn
Dutch warplanes off Borneo fl
blasted three more Japanese ships I
- and sank another, but the thWMrf ’fl
Increased on the long Pecifle front
towards the Burma Road, Sings- fl
pore. Java, and Australia. JsH
In the Philippines also the ene- ■
my threw fresh troops against 1
weary American defenders of, Ba- J
taan Province and pushed forward ?i
under naval shelling at some
points despite tremendous losses.
Allied defenders of the Pacific
were reinforced and standing more
firmly on shortened lines, but the |
need for more airplanes and naval
units was emphasised by renewed <■
Australian appeals to Washington , J
and London. F
* The war department said loeoe* „.j
on both sides in the Philippines
were heavy, but the defender*' I
"continued their stubborn resist**
ance.”
Australian* Mobilize*
1
... ------- . alaven. transports, three, cruis- J
rs and an aircraft carrier, was fl
reported in waters adjacent^to
Japanese-held New Britain Island. 1
Australians were digging shel- 1
ter* in expectation of air bombing
of Queen's Land and in fear of iso-
lation from allied lines.
In Malaya the Japanese advance
continued at a slower pace and at fl
greater cost about 60 miles north
of Singapore under hammering by
Britlah planes London announced
sinking of a Japaneae submarine. J
Burma Hattie Rages
In Burma a big battle was de- 1
veloplng for Moulmein, only 100 .fl
miles from the Burma Road base
at Rang*x>n, which supplies China.
Chinese airplane^ reported sinking 1
two Japanese ships off Indo- -i
China.
The Japanese bombed Ternate
I Island, east of Celebes, and Sa* j
of coarse(
substitutes i
field about forty miles across the
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