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LATEST NEWS
Jap Vessels
WASHINGTON, Feb. 29.—(AP)—Destruction of 14 Jap-
anese vessels by American submarines was announced today
by Secretary of Navy Knox.
g The sinkings, Knox said, included 11 medium cargo ves-
“els, a small cargo vessel, a cargo transport and a large tank-
er. They brought to 611 the number of Japanese ships of all
types sunk, probably sunk or damaged by American sub-
marines.
Knox also reported that for the month of February,
• not including today, Japanese shipping losses caused by
all types of American action totaled 189 vessels sunk,
probably sunk and damaged. In that total, he said, were
22 combatant and 167 non-combatant vessels. .
“American submarines are doing an increasingly skillful
sob," he said in releasing navy communique No. 507 telling
of the new sinkings.
Knox added that our submarine activities have been
Beef and Pork
Ration Values
Pared Sharply
WASHINGTON, Feb. «.—(UP)-
The Office of Price Administration,
promising eight percent more meat
for American tables in March, to-
day announced sharp reduction in
points values for all pork and re-
duction for many beef cuts begin-
ning Sunday.
Point values for butter, cheese
• and other dairy product* as well
as veal, lamb and mutton, how-
ever, will remain at the Febru-
ary levels, OPA Administrator
Chester Bowles said. He ex-
plained that anticipated record
2 production of pork and a five
• percent Increase in beef durinz
March made possible the lower-
ed point values for March.
Pork point reductions—covering
all items except spareribs—include
„two-point reductions for most roasts
sand steaks and two to three point
reductions for most popular bacon
cuts, bringing these items down to
one point per pound.
Beef cuts affected by the point
changes include both the ten-inch
growing more successful reg-
ularly and that Japanese ship
losses from other causes also
have been mounting.
"Well over 3,000,000 tons of
Japanese merchant shipping."
be said, "have been sunk by all
causes."
It has been estimated that the
Japanese started the war with 7,-
500,000 tons of merchant shipping.
"That they are growing short
of cargo and transport vessels,”
Knox continued, “is very ap-
parent in the way they are
handling operations. We have
had very good luck in getting a
considerable number of Jap-
anese tankers.”
He said that American subma-
rine losses for the whole period of
the war have been surprisingly
small. The Japanese technique of
anti-submarine warfare, he said,
has improved, but “likewise our
technique of evasion has improv-
ed"
Asked at a news conference
about Axis radio reports that
an American attack is continu-
ing on Guam, American out-
post in the Pacific which was
captured by the Japanese early
in the war, Knox described
them as “just a mistatement
for propaganda purposes,” add-
ing that he believed the broad-
casts were intended mainly
“for local consumption.”
To an inquiry concerning a state-
ment by an army intelligence of-
and seven-inch rib roast, which are
I educed one point per pound to a
hew value of six and seven points,—-------s - —
a pound respectively: one-point re-Japanese to evacuate Kisra'in the
ductions for chuck roasts; one point
reductions for ten-inch and seven-
inch rib steaks, bringing these cuts
Opown to seven and eight points a
pound respectively.
The sweeping changes were an-
nounced as the housewife was be-
ing initiated into the OPA’s new
ration token system Bowles said
“the tower meat point values dur-
ing March “make full allowance to
the housewife for the fact that with
ration stamps now to be worth 10
points each she will get one red
point a week less to spend ”
Two Nazis Break
From Texas Camp
ficer that loose talk enabled the
Aleutian islands before the Amer-
ican invasion. Knox intimated that
he was satisfied with the conquest
without a fight.
Britons Mop Up
On Beaten Nips
NEW DELHI, Feb 29—()— Brit-
ish troops have continued success-
ful mopping up operations during
the past 24 hours against shatter-
ed remnants of 8,000 Japanese
troops in the Arakan jungles north
of Akyab, Burma, where the Allies
DALLAS. Feb 29—P) - Two have announced their first major
German prisoners of war. Hermann victory of the campaign.
Brinkmann, 27, and Franz Haxs- A southeast Asia communi-
que nid areas east of the Ma-
ya range were being cleared of
Japanese. ——
DALLAS, Feb. 29—(P) — Two
mann. 20, escaped from Camp AI-
vin. Tex., between 10 o’clock last
night and 8:30 a. n today, the Fed-
eral Bureau of Investigation office
here announced.
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The Weather
U.S. DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
Surprise Air Strike Stripped Myth of-Impregnability Off Truk
(The following eye-witness account of the mighty American smash
at Japan's mid-Pacific base at Truk last Feb. 16 and 17 is the first
detailed account by a war correspondent of the battle action.)
Now we are retiring with Truk’s lagoon well littered with sunken
ships and burned-out hulks.
By LEIF ERICKSON
Associated Press War Correspondent
ABOARD A BATTLESHIP OFF TRUK. Caroline Islands, Feb 17—
(Delayed)—(IP)—This task force of aircraft carriers and new battleships—
the greatest concentration of naval striking power in history-has exploded
the myth of Truk's impregnability.
A surprise lightning strike out of a cloudy dawn by Hellcat fighters
wiped out nearly all the planes defending this kingpin Jap-
— anese-fortress and supply base in the Caroline islands _____.
In all, 127 Japanese planes' were destroyed in the air and 74 on the
ground—a total of 201 planes destroyed. More than 50 more planes on
the ground were damaged.
After the first fighter strike, a steady parade of Avenger torpedo
planes and new Helldiver divebombers blasted targets at will for most
of the two days.
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Thirty-six ships were caught in the lagoon anchorage the first day.
On the second day, 10 remained. Five were left on the last strike before
we pulled out. Carrier-based bombers set fire to fuel and ammunition
dumps.
We lost 17 planes.
With his planes knocked out, the enemy couldn’t fight back except
with anti-aircraft fire.
No bombing or surface attack was made on our vast formation of
the fastest, hardest hitting warships afloat.
Truk’s defenders apparently had been fulled into rear-base security
since the start of the war and just had to take it on the chin.
The Truk attack by a force commanded by Vice Adm. Raymond A.
Spruance, had several purposes. One was to prevent Japanese air inter-
ference with the amphibious invasion of Eniwetok atoll in the Marshalls
this morning. Another was to feel out Truk’s strength and to slaughter
as many warships and transports as possible.
Before this strike, the Navy frankly acknowledged it knew very little
about Truk. Now we know just about all we need to know.
Officers and men of this battleship are almost as shocked by the
Japanese failure to send out attack planes as the enemy must have been
by our first strafing planes.
The first wave of attacking planes swept off the carriers in the pre-
dawn haze.
About an hour later, pilots could be heard singing out over their
radios: "Picking targets. Were going down for strafing.”
The first bombing strike followed immediately.
This ship's skipper, commenting on the assault's success, said “I’m
beginning to believe the Jap is harder pressed than we know. He
Truk's principal weakness, exposed by this carrier attack, is that the
Japanese heretofore mystery-cloaked base doesn't have the necessary
nearby supporting airbases. When Truk’s own fields were neutralized,
the enemy couldn't muster any planes to fight back within time to do
them any good.
lap
er many, Italy Dlitze
Rome Raided SKY SUPREMACY IS IN ALLIES' REACH, SINCLAIR SAYS Nazi Fighters
Refuse Battle
Again; Beach
Line Bettered
ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TERS, Naples, Feb. 29.—(UP)
—American dive bombers
pounded German airfields in
the suburbs of Rome for the
second straight day, a com-
munique disclosed today, as
Allied ground forces improv-
ed their positions on the rain-
swept Anzio beachhead after
beating off new German
counter-thrusts.
While the luftwaffe remain-
ed grounded by intermittent
rain squalls that hampered
ground fighting on all three
main battlefronts in southern
Italy, swarms of Allied medium
and fighter bombers struck re-
peatedly at enemy targets in
the Rome area and along the
Nasi-held railroad lines feeding
down from the north.
Other raiders swept across the
Adriatic to bomb and machine-gun
German shipping off the Dalmatian
coast.
American A-36 Invaders spear-
headed the assault, dive-bombing
and strafing the Littoria airfield in
the southern outskirts of Rome and
the Guidonia and Marcigliano fields
in the northern part of the city. 1
The raiders met no aerial oppo- |
sition over Italy, although 20 Ger-
man fighters circled harmlessly over
the Invaders during their attack on 1
the Rome Heids, and the three A1- 1
lied planes lost in the daylong op- |
erations were believed to have been
downed by anti-aircraft fire or bad '
weather. •■—
LONDON, Feb. 29.—(UP)—Air
Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair said
today that the “glittering prize of
air supremacy" now was clearly
within reach of the Allies, togeth-
er with the prospect of paralyzing
German war industry and trans-
port and clearing the road for the
progress of Allied armies to Berlin.
Berlin received in January as
great a weight of bombs as fell
on London throughout the war,
Sinclair told commons in Intro-
mates.
More than 2,500 British planes
were lost in bombing operations
from Britain in the last year, with
“Our losses are becoming
ducing his periodic air esti-
nearly 18.000 crewmen killed or
captured, Sinclair said
Germany now Is using the great-
est concentration of anti-aircraft
guns and searchlights ever employ-
ed, and the Nazi fighter force “is
much greater than, that with which
we fought and broke the enemy in
the battle of Britain", the air min-
ister reported.
■ progressively less heavy com-
Mred with the effects we are
achieving,” he said.
"Thei ratio of casualties to the
weight ofbombs dropped is stead-
ily falling despite the fact that the
range of our attacks has been stead-
ily increasing."
Sinclair warned that Britain must
expect still heavier air attacks by
the enemy.
“His powers of striking back are
far from negligible," he added.
However, the British defenses
were being improved constantly, he
said
Sinclair said the Japanese
now have lost the air superior-
ity in the Pacific and far east-
ern theaters as a result of the
building up of Allied air forces
there.
"We look forward to the day when
victory in Europe will release all
our air forces to fight the Japa-
nese." he said.
ed Army Opens Battle for Pskov
WAR AT A GLANCE Soviets Six
By the Associated Press
ITALY — Allied beachhead
forces improve positions, break
up series of German attacks.
PACIFIC—American subma-
rines sink 14 Jap vessels.
RUSSIA—Red siege guns fire
on German-held Pskov, other
Soviet forces near Latvian bor-
der.
AERIAL—U. S. heavy bomb-
ers make daylight raid on
Brunsw ick.
Miles Away
Russians View
MOSCOW, Feb. 29.—(UP)
— The Battle of Pskov opened
today as Gen. Markian M.
Popov’s Red army raced over
the approaches to the key-
stronghold in the German de-
fenses on the Baltic front and
neared its outskirts.
Russian forces swept through
• whole series of hedgehog out-
posts In a converging drive on
Pskov front three directions,
and if the advance continues
102lioeeAI
YOUNG OUTLAWS CAPTURED—These three escaped con-
At Brunswick
LONDON, Feb. 29.—(UP)
—American bombers resumed
the aerial siege of Germany
today with an attack on
Brunswick, one-time lair of
the fiercest fighter squadrons
guarding the skyway to Ber-
lin.-
First returning crewmen
said not one Nazi plane rose
to challenge them.
Flying Fortresses of the Uni-
ted States Eighth air force
struck by daylight at the great
Brunswick aircraft center, 120
miles west of Berlin, breaking
the weather-enforerd, lull of
. three days Ahith followed the ,
record offensive last week.
Early reports of no fighter re-
sistance appeared to reflect the *
effect* of the sustained offensive
against aircraft production centers
and the toll of more than 600Nazi
planes it has taken in six days.
The Fortresses rounded out the
greatest month in the history of
aerial warfare by returning to
Brunswick, apparently to polish
off isolated aircraft factory build-
ings not destroyed in three pre-
Invasion
* * * I LONDON, Feb 29-..n—Russian
| On the embattled Anzio beach- army and navy officers witnessed
Enemy dead were reported
officially at 1,500 up to yester-
Today’s communique said It was
apparent that the Japanese were
preparing to make a stand on the
line of their original positions
from which they launched their
disastrous drive to infiltrate British
lines, destroy the Fifth »nd Sev-
enth Indian divisions and open the
E ABILENE and Vicinity—Cloudy and
continued cool tonight; slightly warmer
"EAST TEXAS Considerable cloudi way for an advance into India
ness this afternoon, tonight and Wed.
nesday continued cool tonight slightly
warmer Wednesday.
WEST TEXAS—Partly cloudy this
afternoon and tonight: slightly warmer,
onight Wednesday mostly cloudy
warmer except in the Paso area and
Big Bend country: fresh to strong winds
in the Panhandle and South Plains Wed
nesday.
Allied aircraft ranged over Jap-
anese-held territory night and day:
shooting up and bombing installa-
tions and communications
Not one Allied aircraft was lost
in these widespread operations, the
communique said
Congressional Dilemma--
' ‘JACK, HEINTZ VIE WITH WPB
FOR SOLON GUESTS AT FETES
WASHINGTON, Feb 29—P-
More than the usual quota of ab-
stracted frowns were noted In con-
gress today as members tried to
G’ecide how they should spend the
evening dining with Jack and
Heintz at the Mayflower or view-
ing a War Production board ex-
hibit at the Commerce building
Blithely ignoring the conflict
in dates. Bill Jack and Ralph
• Heintz, Cleveland war con-
tractors, went ahead with ar-
rangements far their dinner, to
which they have invited every
member of house and senate.
They said at least 200 accept-
9 ances have been received.
" The War Production board wasn't
falling off its affair either, and
its special preview for congress-
men
The dinner—without cocktails-
will be served at 6 p. m., and prob-
moly will last until 10 with Bill
back making a speech, answering
questions, and supervising movies
of his plant's operations
es *
The company, whose profits
and annual methods of opera-
liens, have been investigated
by congressional committees, is
opposing the government’s war
contract renegotiation program,
and Bill Jerk made no benes
shoal his reasons for throwing
the party. He said he saw
nothing wrong about trying to
sell the legislators on the idea
that the renegotiation program
will proven industry from
building reserve funds for post-
war employment.
• • •
| head. American and British troops and participated in American pre-
I continued their limited offensive in parations for the assault landings _____
the area south and southwest of on the European continent, the U. and lower Estonia
J Aprilla- beiand a steady artillery S. navy disclosed today...
barrage that crashed do* n through-
out the day on Nazi troops massing | army and navy personnel in the
English coastal area were observed
before the Allied lines.
One of the heaviest artillery
duels In the past 10 days devel-
- oped later In the day, as tank-
led German troops made local
at its present rate It will tapple
the rail hub of the northern
front with a minimum delay.
Sweeping in at the near record photo),
pace of almost one mile an hour,
the Russians were less than six
miles from Pskov and were believ-
ed to be shelling the stronghold
commanding the way to Latvia
----j— --------F (A German communique said the
“Exercises held jointly by U 8., Red army attacked with several
infantry divisions northwest of
Nevel, 140 miles southeast of Pskov
by two Russian admirals, a general
and nine other members of the
Soviet military mission in Great
, Britain,” the announcement said,
thrusts at the Allied lines in-"The exercises constituted a
several sectors.
(A United Press Madrid dispatch
reports from Rome that Marshal
Albert Kesseriring was reinforcing
his air squadrons in the beachhead
area and would launch his expected
offensive as soon as the mud hard-
See ITALY, PR. 8. Col. 7------
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[To Rome],; Albano]
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STATUTE MILES
no
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Anzio
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WHERE ALLIES ATTACK-
Jack and Heintz employes celled Fifth army troops (arrows)
“associates," work 12-hour shifts have taken two German
and apparently like it. They get strongpoints along the head-
free lunches, dental and medical waters of the river
attention, and work to music. 2 , motletta Ever
Stories of high profits caused the Allied headquarters MM. A
senate naval committee to question German claim two Allied bat-
Jack in 1942 when the company talions were wiped out near
had $58,000,000 in government con- Boun Riposo was not confirm-
tract* After the Inquiry Jack pm- ed An American trulcas
mised to cut profits to • percent ed. AnAamerican cruiser (ship
for the duration and to tower symbol) shelled German po-
prices. sitions. (AP Wirephoto).
. . : vious raids since Feb. V
victs who spread terror through Mississippi after breaking The fact that fewer planes were
jail and kidnaping a girl are shown at Greenwood, Miss., af- 'Involved than in the all-out at-
ter their capture. Left to right: Ralph Ward, Roy Drake and | tacks last week suggested that he
Lawrence Motari. Arlene McKnight (below) was taken by Forts went after precision targets
the bandits from her home near Cleveland, Miss., after the |
probably revealed to be standing.
The raid was the Eighth air
force’s 19th major operation in
youths shot her father, Joe McKnight, in the leg. (AP Wire- .
February—a new all-time high
Victory Is Near,
Stalin Predicts
equaling the December and
January raids combined. Elev-
en were against Germany,
While the Fortresses were out on
the Brunswick raid. Allied medium
and light bombers maintained an
ali-day attack on northern France.
Big forces’ of bombers and fight-
ers shuttled, across the channel
against France at intervals. One-
portion of the continuing pro-
gram whereby American per-
sounel is being trained in the
tailed Kingdom for amphibi-
ous operations against the con-
tinent.”
The program lasted two days
and Russian officers “participated
freely" in it.
“They studied the assault wea-
pons, various types of landing
1 craft and methods of training."
I the announcement said.
| The Russians’ many questions
i were relayed by interpreters to ex-
| perts in the American services who
exlpained technical points, and the
| plan of exercises with maps and
| charts.
“The Soviet naval officers
were given their first ride in
‘ducks’ from training beaches.
They displayed keen interest in
the techniques of amphibious
warfare." The Russian party
was conducted by officers on
the staff of the commander of
U. S. naval forces In Europe,
Admiral Harold R. Stark, the
announcement added.
The Russians now are back in
London
on the lower route to the Baltics,
and claimed that repeated Russian
onslaughts tailed east of Lake
Pskov and near Narva).
Soviet assault forces swarmed 1
across the Cherekha river on the]
approaches to Pskov and advanced
five miles to the west They fought |
their wav across the vital Sudomsk |
heights, a 1,200-foot elevation about
10 miles southeast of Pskov This
forested height is the most impor-
tant terrain feature east of Pskov
The Germans were expected
to undertake a bitter street-
by-street defense of Pskov,
•Inee it represents the chief
communications base to the
Baltics.
Front dispatches said the Ger-
mans were evincing increasing
stubbornness, particularly in the
defense of the highways radiating ]
from Pskov and the hedgehog
I WASHINGTON Feb »_.up. I very large force flew inbound over
Soviet Marshal Josef Stalin, in a the southeast coast at great height
messa to Pr dent Roosevelt, to-this afternoon
day, predicted that the time was A ... .
I near when the Allies would defeat. Fortress pilots said the fleet of
Hitlerite Germany--------American fighters emed larger___
Stalin's message was in response than any previous escort they had
to one which the president sent to seen. One pilot said the sky was so .
him on Feb. 22. on the 26th anni-full of Fortresses and United States
versary of the Red army, praising fighters, there was no room for the
I Ite victories against the Nazis lutewatfe.
“I ask you to accept my sincere The Forts from dark
■ thanks for your friendly congrat- airdromes and the sun five
‘ ulations on the occasion of the 26th miles over the channel They flew
over a rarpet of clouds Into Ger- *
many and used the overcast bomb-
anniversary of the Red army and
. on the successes of the armed for-
Merkel Sergeant
Killed in Action
- CCS of the Soviet union In the strug -
gle against the Hitlerite Invaders."
' Stalins reply said.
"I am strongly convinced that the
time is near when the successful
ing technique at Brunswick
"AB of our ships dropped
their load together, and the
bombs disappeared in a perfect
ps Uern~ said Maj Louis Dolan,
of Denver.
One division of fortresses flew
struggle of the armed forces of the
I Soviet union, together with the
armies of the United States and. within 100 miles of Berlin.
Great Britain on the basis of the They ran into intense anti-air-
agreements reached at Moscow and craft fire from the Ruhr to Bruns-
Tehran, will lead to the final de- wick But the Lightning, Mustang
feat of our common enemy, Hitler and Thunderbolt escort evidently
Ite Germany" discouraged the German pilots anx-
I I Jous to preserve themselves and
Rood Body Files
Brief on Wages
AUSTIN, Feb. 29—(P— tn sup-
port of oral arguments made rec-
ently in Washington the State
Highway department today filed
with the wage adjustment board in
written brief to opposition to an
application of a local union for
higher wages for power equipment
operators.
The brief said that if the increase
la granted for private construction
work it must also be put In effect
on state highway work performed
under contract based on a letter
received from the board last Dec. 16.
strong-points among them
With colder weather now pre-
railing on the northern battle-1 MERKEL, Feb 29- Spl)-T
field*, night fighting is increasing, get , D Bunch 25
Farther south, Gen M M Po-J. D Bunch, 25 was killed ,n
pov’s army was reputed smashing action in Italy Jan. 29. according to .
a War department telegram receiv- Finn Parliament
ed by his wife here Monday . . In Closed Session
Rational Ouara -even pears ago and ''^^^ mamha Work Order Here
was mobilised Nov 25, 1940. He session for an hour this morning
trained at Camp Bowie Camp and heard Premier Edwin Linko- On Health Cantor
Blanding, Fla., and Camp Edwards, mies explain the governments po- nedili LCDTCT
Maas, before shipping overseas last sition regarding an armistice or
April comtiud.war.zith Russia, it was work order on the health center
reported from Mel-inbi for Taylor county has arrived and
work is to begin tomorrow on, the
remodeling of a building at South
First and Chestnut, according to
Dr R E DeWitt, director of the
health unit, and Pete Olds, archi-
tect.
Bond has been made by Con-
tractor Fred Gartside, whose bid
of $9 163 was approved by the Fed-
eral Works Agency, earlier in the
month. / 1
On Feb. 3, bids worn opened and
that of Gartside’s was recommend-
See RUSSIANS, Pz. 8. Col. 2
READY TO PAY...
Subscribers ta The Re-
porter News have been
very cooperative in hav-
ing the money ready
when the carrier boy or
agent calls to collect.
Subscribers who pay
promptly enable the car-
riers and agents to make
their profit and pay their
paper bill on time.
their country’s tobogganing fighter
strength.
_ ___. . reported from Helsinki
Sergeant Bunch was married The legislators then recessed un-
Eept.1, 1940, to Leona Harris, til afternoon when another secret
daughter, of Mr. and Mrs. M E. session was scheduled.
Harris of route four, Merkel She_____—____________--
is now employed at Service club No Qil Operator Dies
I. Camp Barkeley, 0 speraror wies
On Feb 11 Mrs Bunch received HOUSTON Feb 29. y—dol
her last letter from her husband B F Bonner 74, pioneer oil and
dated Jan 25. | lumber operator In South and East
Survivors are the sergeants Texas, died early today of a heart
mother, Mrs. C. B. Bunch of route attack
three, Merkel; three sisters, Mrs. He established the first oil re-
Cecil Ross and Lois and Margaret finery in Houston and the first
Bunch, all of Merkel; three broth-lubricating plant in the South. He
ers, Clifford now in a North Afrl- was one of the incorporators and— - —----------------
can hospital recovering from original directors of the Houston signed by Dr. Geo. W. Cox, state
wounded received in action, Clyde I Oil Company of Texas and the Kir- health director, Feb 11 and the
and Louis, both of Merkel, by Lumber company, bond was made last week..
ed by the architects. Contract was
bond was made last week.
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 257, Ed. 2 Tuesday, February 29, 1944, newspaper, February 29, 1944; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1636019/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Public Library.