The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 265, Ed. 2 Friday, March 16, 1945 Page: 2 of 14
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Tune in on KRBC
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Friday Evening, March 18, 1945
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Friday Evenii
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WITH u. 6 SIXTH DIVISION MANILA March 16-vi-Amerl- 215 miles.from zoreda MaeMi
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FAST OF MANILA, March 14—(P) can infantrymen smashed a wedge
L Delayed V-A short burst two miles deep into the crumbling
Luzon island to-
from a cancealed Japanese ma- Shi pernaps trapping several thous-
chinegun killed Maj. Gen Edwin and Japanese, and seized 15 more
* villages in the southern Philip-
pines to spread their Mindanao
beachhead over 28 miles.
The Shimbu line, roughly 15
miles east of Manila, was crack-
ed by a heavy blow from Maj
Gen. Leonard F. Wing's 43d di-
vision. Win g’s infantrymen
drove through between two of
the enemy’s southern defense
lines and seized a network of
roads, cutting off the escape
route for thousands of Japan-
from
D
a cancealed Japanese rna-
Patrick this morning at a for-
ward command post of his Sixth
division.
Patrick was the second division
commander to be hit by the Jap-
anese while touring Shimbu Une
positions in the last three weeks.
Maj. Gen Verne D Mudge of the
First cavalry was hit by a grenade
on the southern flank of the same
enemy defense Une. He is recov-
ering.
Patrick was sitting in a foxhole
atop a spiny ridge overlooking a
ravine where patrols had killed
nine Japanese shortly before their
commander arrived.
Suddenly a Japanese 25 cali-
ber Nambu machine gun-
known to the GI's as a wood-
pecker—opened up from bush-
es less than 50 yards below the
foxhole. Patrick died later from
an abdominal wound.
General Patrick was a tall, silver-
haired man with a booming voice.
He was born in TeU City, Ind., 51
Brig. Gen. Hanford MacNider’s
158th regimental combat team of
team of the Eighth army, clear-
ing the shores of Batangas bay on
the south coast of Luzon, wiped
out an enemy barge concentration
and dispersed a small enemy force
attempting to land at Bolo.
Four Mitchell medium bomb-
er. sank a Japanese destroyer
in the South China sea. They
also sent a 5,000-ton tanker and
four small freighters to the
bottom.
Four-engined Liberators dropped |
174 tons of bombs on Formosa, scor-
ing hits on an inland hydroelectric
plant, and raked fuel storage areas
in the Pescadores Islands to the
years ago.
At the start of this war he was
on the general staff of the Eighth
corps area at Fort Sam Houston,
HIGHEST ocs GRAD—Thomas P. Glassmoyerp rightrpls
shown receiving his diploma from Col. Tay or hooi act rex. He then commanded the 357th
MAC-OCS commandant, as the last class of the schoor act infantry regiment, and later the
mated at Camp Barkeley in May 1942 was graduated Thurs- 90th division before joining Adm.
morning Lieutenant Glassmoyer was given special com- William F Halsey'ss staff in the
mendation forattaining the highest scholastic average ever South = in D
recorded at the school, 98.22. Previous high mark was 98.07 sixere division
set by Lt. Irving Schlesinger of Glenside, Pa. a graduate of
ese.
Annihilation of the Shimbu line lwo aususcu____— —_____
was speeded by a new skip-bomb- were dropped on bivouac areas and
ing technique of fighter-bombers supply dumps at Sarangani bay,
that sent bombs skidding into the | on the east coast of Mindanao,
mouths of tunnels and caves.
On Mindanao Japanese artil-
lery and electrically controlled
land mines, used for the first
time in the southwest Pacific,
slowed the American advance
northward from Zamboanga.
Maj Gen Jens A Does 41st di-
vision on Mindanao, definitely re-
tarded in the north by Increased
resistance, captured the town of
Pasonanca, five miles inland, while
along the coast the beachhead was
widened with the seizure of Mani-
canan on the east and Sam Ramon
west. T
Two hundred tons of explosives
Bucking Is Out
LOS ANGELES. March 16.—-
The U. S. circuit court of appeals
omes lean
December 1942
Class 27.
Abilene Radioman
On LST Made Top
Grades in Subject
H. L Foster, Jr., 19, seaman first
class, should know the job he has
recently taken over as radioman on
an LST in the Pacific, for the grades
he made in radio school at the Uni-
versity of Idaho. Moscow, Idaho,
were record breakers.
“One of the best students in the
history of this school" was the re-
port to his parents, AMt. and Mrs
H L. Foster Sr., former Abilenians
Naval Interviews
Are Slated Here
______assuming command of the
Sixth division Patrick was chief
of staff of the Sixth army, and
commander of the 158th regimental
combat team for the Wakde and
Noemfoor operations of the New
Guinea campaign. '
His wife. Nellie Bouquet Patrick,
live, at Ruidoso, N. M.
on the west.
Tha Yanks, who invaded Minda-
nao last Saturday, now have more |
; than a score of villages besides the1
Zamboanga government center and
two airdromes, one a bomber field
of third class petty officers
Applicants, preferably, should be
high school graduates with a know-
ledge of algebra and physics. Gaston
“This is about the only way young
men between 13-21 years of age can
be assured of entering the Navy
..----------- . .under the new program," he stated.
Persons interested in this train referring to the announcement yes-
ing were urged by Chief Gaston to terday th>t youths in this age group
contact the commander Saturday | going through selective service would
momni Eady test win be given here be placed in the infantry.________
and boys qualifying will receive nine
months training in radio school on‘Singing’ Dog
completion, they will hold ratings Singing 9
as7 I RAVANNA, Mo March 16.-
’ Foster, who is six feet, one inch — _ „ „
tall and weighs 210 pounds not only I BE PESPAKEL
excess in the class room — in physi- to relieve colds’achy muscles, sorethront.
ear t raining he was rated first in CmA ioc-hcaum: ^ m^
his company and second in his rest you Big 100 tablet mine cost only 38€.
Cmdr. Dan Henry, commander of
the Dallas Naval recruiting area,
will be in Abilene Saturday morning
and will interview men between 17
and 35 for radar training with the
Navy. Chief Tom Gaston, local re-
cruitei. announced today.-----------
The script for the junior class play
■ called for a collie dog. Billy Miller’s
dog Wolf, was cast in the part.
Then came the night of the per-
formance. All went well until in-
termission between the second and
third acts. Wolf, patiently waiting
his third-act cue in the wings,
turned Mrs. Evelyn Griffiths saxo-
phone solo into a duet—with Wolfs "Sudeten it with Domino”
mournful howls taking the lead. 1 ______________________
Domino Pure Cane Sugars
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Pinto
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B. L. FOSTER JR.
who now live in San Pedro, Calif.
The 100 percent mark he was given
In radio procedure is the only per-
fect score ever given in that course
at the university.
Official school report showed his
averages were 100 percent in touch
typing, 92.5 in radio code, 100 in
radio procedure and 95.8 in radio
theory His average for 850 hours |
class work was 97.1,
These courses could be counted I
for high school credit, but that is
not necessary since he earned his
Abilene high school diploma in 1943.
His four-year average at AHS was
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the garden fresh
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with the liquid food
bonus
HOMINY
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Pkg.
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Marianas bases
proximately 330
in the big bomi
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forces at Iwo
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against the in
this island as
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of Japan."
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