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COAST TO BECOME MILITARY AREA
HITLER IS Gr Z'fED
LIFE, DEATH 1OWER
0 VER GERMAN PEOPLE
Fuehrer Apparently Dis
turbed Over Condition
Of Home Front
PURGE IS HINTED
Winter Disaster Explained;
Another Winter Of War
In Prospect, He Says
Bv NOLAND NORGAARD
LONDON, April 26.—(/P)—
Betraying anxiety over the
condition of his home front,
Adolf Hitler today pointed to
Russia as the decisive battle
field of the war and from a
quiescent Reichstag received
confirmation of his power of
life and death over every Ger
man — an act which informed
London sources said means
that not even Nazi judges or
army officers may now7 stand
between the German people
and the Gestapo.
In a speech of one hour and
one minute in which threats,
some hint of a peace offen
sive, admissions of a barely
escaped catastrophe in the
frozen drifts of Russia and
plans “for the coming winter”
were strangely mixed, Hitler
unfolded no new master plan
or smashing blow to stun the
world.
But he proclaimed that Germany
had won a defensive winter war,
and promised these actions:
1. “Fighting in the east will be
rontinued. The Bolshevist Colossus
will be beaten by us so long and
until such time as it has been
;mashed completely.”
2. Against the mighty British air
j»fensive now being waged against
Germany, he promised resumption
of mass air raiding of Britain—”
Retaliation, blow by blow, such as
happened in 1940.”
3. increased use of submarines,
already “growing in rigid sequence
and rhythm” in the Atlantic where
U-boats “already by far have sur
passed the highest number of sub
marines employed during the first
World War.”
Reichsmarshal Hermann Goer
ing read to the cheering, uniform
ed deputies a new law giving Hit
ler the right without regard to any
existing laws or decrees to compel
any officer, soldier, official, judge
or other man to do his duty by all
means.
“The only reason for such an
action must be that Hitler and his
gang, including Himmler (Hein
rich Himmler, head of the Ges
tapo), fear civilian disturbances
and are taking measures to deal
with them,” one informed London
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 2)
JOHN cTCALHOUN
LAUNCHED SUNDAY
Ninth Liberty Freighter
Slides Down Ways At
Shipyard Here
The John C. Calhoun, ninth lib
erty ship built in the yards of the
North Carolina Shipbuilding com
pany here, was launched at brief
exercises conducted yesterday morn
ing at 7:30 o’clock.
With the launching of the
freighter, a ship has now been sent
off each of the nine ways at the
shipyard, which has been in opera
tion a little more than a year.
bliss Jean Elizabeth Maclay,
daughter of J. A. Maclay, superin
tendent of hull construction at the
shipyard, was sponsor for the Cal
houn. Her maids of honor were
Uiss Carolyn Holland. Wilmington,
and Miss Elizabeth Lankes, Hitlon
Village, Va.
During (he day a telegram was
received by shipyard officials from
Patrick Calhoun, Pasadena, Calif.,
a direct descendant of John C. Cal
houn, distinguished statesman and
parliamentarian, for whom the ship
was named, expressing best wishes
for the vessel.
Captain Roger Williams, president
of the shipyard company, Mrs. Wil
liams, and Borden Sparkes, were
among those- witnessing the launch
ing.
U. S. Will Halt Sale
Of Sugar At Midnight
WASHINGTON, Apr. 26—UP—
Begnning tomorrow at mid
night, the nation will feel the
first effects of the sugar ra
tioning program.
From that time until ration
ing begins on May 5 retail
sugar sales will be prohibited.
Industrial and institutional
sugar consumers will register
Tuesday and Wednesday and
thus will be able to obtain
their allotments under the reg
ular rationing procedure, but
individual consumers do n ot
register until next week.
Cautioning that a heavy de
mand was anticipated immedi
ately after the end of the
“freeze” period a week from
Tuesday, the Office of Price
Administration has urged sell
ers to stock up to the limit
of their May quota. In North
eastern states, where a scarci
ty has been evident, nothing
but beet sugar will be retail
ed at the outset of the ration
ing program.
Beet sugar hasbee n moved
into the area by the defense
supplies corporation and sale
of cane sugar will not be per
mitted until beet supplies are
exhausted.
Restaurants and other food
services next month will be al
lotted 50 per cent of the
amount of sugar they u sed
during May, 1941; bakers, con
fectioners, ice cream makers,
dairy products companies, bot
tlers and other specialty in
dustries will be given 70 per
cent of their May, 1941, sup
plies.
All industrial consumers at
the present time are receiving
approximately 80 per cent of
last year’s consumption.
The individual rationing book
of stamps will work this way:
the first stamp will authorize
its holders to buy one pound
of sugar in the period May
5-16; the second will be valid
for the May 17-30 period; the
third for May 31-June 13 and
the fourth, June 14-27. The
amount allowed for each stamp
after June 27 will be announc
ed later.
Congressman Clark
Dedicates USO Club
Citizens Called Upon Jo
Organize To Give Service,
Put Forth United Effort
Speaking at the dedication of the
Federal Community building, lo
cated at Second and Orange streets
and operated by United Service
Organizations, Congressman Bay
ard Clark urged citizens, to or
ganize, to give service and to put
forth united effort.
Declaring that “we all know be
fore America is able to fight her
way out of the present situation it
will be necessary for many Ameri
can boys to die on the field of
battle, Congressman Clark said
Jews, Catholics and Protestants,
both black and white, will have to
mingle together in defense of the
Stars and Stripes and added “I
don’t think there should be any
question of creed, or race or re
ligion.”
In opening his address Congress
man Clark explained that the USO
is a corporation formed at the re
quest of President Roosevelt and
composed of six agencies which
served during the World War. The
organizations are: National Catho
lic Community Service, Y. M. C. A.
Salvation Army, Y. W. C. A., Trav
eler’s Aid and Jewish Welfare
Board.
“Realizing these agencies would
be called on to render even great
er service than during the World
War and believing they would give
better service united, the President
called on them to form the United
Service Organization.
“The government furnished the
money for the physical property—
erecting the buildings and furnish
ing them—and to more greatly hu
manize this thing for its objective
citizens were called on to give
'unds for the operation.” He added
:hat citizens would be called on
again soon for funds for operation
af the clubs.
Greater Organization
After explaining that now is a
great day for organizing, Congress
(Continued on Page Three: Col. 6)
8.000 WILL ANSWER
CALL HERE TODAY
Men, 45 To 65, Through
Nation Are Called To Reg
ister For Possible Service
Approximately 8,000 men—those
between the ages of 45 and 65—
are expected to register in New
Hanover county Monday in the
fourth national registration of men
for Selective Service, according to
an estimate by state headquarters
officials.
Nineteen places have been desig
nated for registration and local
officials said they expected about
1.000 men to enroll at the North
Carolina Shipbuilding company.
City and county boards have re
ceived enough supplies to register
5.000 and 3,500 men, respectively.
Officials stated that men are not
compelled to register at their pre
cinct places, but are asked to reg
ister there if it is convenient,
though in many cases it will not
be.
The place of residence given by
the registrant will indicate the
board which has control over him,
draft officials explained. (For ex
ample, if a man lists his home as
Columbia, S. C., his registration
card is automatically sent to the
board there. All transactions must,
thereafter, be carried on with the
Columbia board.)
The upper age bracket men
should register at the appointed
places and not at local draft
boards, it is stated. If a man re
quired to register is out of the
city Monday, he may register
wherever he may be, and the card
will be sent to Wilmington.
Disabled men who cannot ap
pear at the registrations are be
ing notified it is meir responsibili
ty to notify the draft board or
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 5)
Chinese Take Taunggyi
To Score Second Success
By SPENCER MOOSA
CHUNGKING, Apr. 26—— The
Chinese veterans under U. S. Lieut.
Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell have
scored a second triumph in Burma
by the recapture of Taunggyi, 100
miles southeast of Mandalay, the
Chinese announced today. Their
first big success was recapture of
Yenangyaung.
At the same time, however, they
admitted that they had been forced
to fall back rapidly on the Sittang
front to the west where the Jap
anese made a forty-mile t h r ust
through Pyinmana and Ta t k o n,
capturing Yamethin and reaching
p
the vicinity of Pyawbwe, but 85
miles south of Mandalay.
The Chinese retirement on the
Sittang front along the Rangoon
Mandalay railway may have been
in the nature of strategic straight
ening of the lines, however.
After reaching Taunggyi the Jap
anese had started a northwestward
movement toward Meiktila, threat
enng the rear of the southward
slanting Chinese lines in the Py
inmana sector.
By the recapture of Taunggyi,
however, commentators pointed
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 7)
Rostock Laid
Waste In 3rd
Raid Jfy RAF
English Bombers Swarm
Over Three-Quarters Of
~ Germany In Big Raid
SKODA WORKS RAIDED
Bombers Make 1,500-Mile
Trip To Blast Munitions
Plant In Czechoslovakia
By J. WES GALLAGHER
LONDON, April 26.—(A5)—
Great swarms of huge British
bombers dropped tons of high
explosives onto the smoking
ruins of Rostock for the third
night running last night
blasted the great Skoda muni
tions works at Pilsen and
numerous other targets in
south Germany and occupied
France in the RAF’S greatest
offensive so far.
The mounting fury of the
non-stop attack was widened
to cover three-fourths of Ger
many and came as close as air
action could to opening a
second European front against
Hitler.
American-built Boston (Douglas j
bombers, accompanied by vast es
corts of swift fighters, took up the
offensive at dawn crossing the
channel in relays almost before
the great four-motored night raid
ers—some of which lugged 16,000
pounds of explosives to Hitler’s
reich—were tucked away in their
hangars.
Heavy explosions bombed up
from captive France in the di
rection of Calais and Dunkerque,
indicating the invasion coast was
being softened with TNT. The Dun
kerque docks and airdromes in
Northern France had been attack
ed during the night.
Violent air battles were fought
above the channel and French
coast throughout the day, some
four miles in the air. The sky
was dark for miles with British
planes streaking back and forth in
their missions of destruction.
Score Many Hits
Afternoon raiders scored many
hits on switching yards and the
railway station at Hazebrouck and
struck at the railway station at
St. Omer, authoritative sources
said.
The air warfare reached its peak
intensity for the year as the Ger
mans struck back with increasing
strength at fashionable old Bath
and other points from Scotland to
Southern England.
The British said there was “rath
er heavy damage” and casualties
at Bath where incendiaries and
demolition bombs started quickly
controlled fires. Numerous homes
and buildings were wrecked by
explosives. Rescue squads combed
the debris of Bath throughout Sun
day in search of trapped victims.
The great new Stirling bombers,
which Britons proudly call the
most deadly plane on earth, wing
ed across the heart of moonlit Ger
many on a 1,500 mile round trip
to bomb the Skoda works in oc
cupied Czechoslovakia for the first
time in a year and a half.
The Skoda plant is second only
to the battered Krupp works at
Essen as a Nazi arsenal. The last
attacks were made by small forces
of bombers late in 1940, and since
then Skoda has been supplying a
great share of munitions for Hit
ler’s war against Russia.
Despite extremely heavy defense
fire and the danger of a bomb
exploding a big munitions dump,
the air ministry said each of the
Stirlings dumped its eight tons of
concentrated destruction from
“very low levels.”
Hundreds of miles to the JNortn
on the Baltic coast, the still
smouldering city of Rostock was
raided once more by “a strong
forced off bombers.” Rostock,
plane manufacturing center and
chief Baltic port for dispatch of
troops and material to Northern
Russia and Norway now that near
by Luebeck lies in RAF ruins al
ready had been blasted in two of
the heaviest raids in British bomb
ing history Thursday and Friday
nights.
The extensive Heinkel aircraft
factory again was the chief target.
An indication of the violence of
last night’s attack was the air
ministry announcement that virtu
ally every type of night bomber
participated. The new Lancasters
Stirlings, Halifaxes, Manchesters,
Wellingtons, Whitleys and Hamp
dens deposited tons of bombs on
(Continued on Faye Three; Col. 1)
Small Meteor Streaks
Across Heavens Here
Mrs. W. J. Parks, Jr., Lake
Forest, last night reported see
ing a metor at about 8:45
o’clock moving low across the
heavens in a southeast to a
northwest direction.
She said it was small, but
bright, being reddish in color.
The meteor appeared rounded
and smooth in front with scat
tered sparks spreading out in
a narrow fan-shaped tail, the
sparks being a more dull red
than the light from the main
glowing particle.
The weather bureau report
ed that several persons wit
nessed the phenomena.
TORPEDOEDSHIP’S
CREW IS LANDED
Not A Life Lost On Ship
Torpedoed After Fire
Breaks Out Aboard
PORTLAND, Me., Apr. 26—W—
Thirty-five shells and a single
torpedo fired by a German sub
marine blalted a medium-sized
American freighter to the bottom
of the North Atlantic the night of
April 20, the Navy disclosed to
day after the vessel’s entire crew
of 35 arrived here uninjured. All
but 4 were Americans.
Crew members revealed that a
fire in the freighter’s smokestack,
which spread to tarpaulins, five
minutes before the attack, made
the ship an easy target for the
submarine.
Able seaman William R. Gib
bons, 21, of New York, said the
blaze “illuminated the ship like
42d street.”
“The fire ignited tarpaulins over
the hatches and the stern looked
like a sheet of.flames,” Gibbons
said. “I was afraid the ship was
going' to be torpedoed then.”
During the fire, believed caused
by ignited carbon. Seaman Frank
Black, 25, of Tiger, Ariz., said to
Gibbons, “if we don’t get it now.
we never will,” the sailors related.
Captain Antone Anderson, 61 of
Baltimore, Md., said all hands
went calmly to their stations after
the torpedo struck forward on the
starboard side, and were in two
lifeboats 17 minutes later.
Radioman Frank Kilgore, 42, of
San Francisco, flashed two distress
messages and “got an acknowl
edgement” before leaving the ship,
according to Chief Officer Frank
M. Jasper, 46, of Minneapolis.
Minn. It was Kilgore’s s e cond
torpedoing in as many successive
trips.
Captain Anderson said he d i d
not see the submarine before the
attack, but from the bridge saw
the wake of the torpedo which lost
him his first ship in 44 years of
seafaring.
The lifeboat carrying Capt. An
derson and 17 of his crew was
picked up by a “United Nations
warship” 17 hours after the ship
was abandoned and two hours la
ter the other lifeboat was found.
Chief Officer Jasper related that
shells fired by the submarine, aft
er surfacing, finally left’ the
freighter in flames. The submarine
commander, Jasper said, maneu
vered his craft close to his life
boat and an officer, speaking good
English with a German accent,
inquired if anyone had been killed,
and asked the name and destina
tion of the freighter.
“Some of the men in my boat
were scantily clad,” Jasper con
tinued. “Some were without shoes
and some even without pants.
“After the lifeboat’s sail was
hoisted, its canvas cover was cut
up and shoes and other clothing
improvised to help keep the men
warm.”
WEATHER
FORECAST:
NORTH CAROLINA — Continued
warm Monday with scattered show
ers in mountains.
SOUTH CAROLINA — Continued
warm Monday.
(EASTERN STANDARD TIME)
Meteorological data for the 24 hours
ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday):
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Temperature:
1:30 a. m. 62; 7.30 a. m. 61; 1:30 p. m.
81; 7:30 p. m. 70: maximum 81; minimum
57; mean 69; normal 65.
Humidity:
3:30 a. m. 77; 7:30 a. m. 72; 1:30 p. m.
23; 7:30 p. m. 62.
Precipitation:
Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30
p. m., 0.00 inches; total since the first
of the month, 0.87 inches.
Tides For Today:
(From Tide Tables published by U. S.
Coast and Geodetic Survey):
High Low
Wilmington _ 6:44a. 1:34a.
7:20p. 2:00p.
Masonboro Inlet- 4:21a. 10:49a.
4:59p. ll:22p.
Sunrise 5:27a; sunset 6:52p; moonrise
3:31p; moonset 3:26a.
Cape Fear river stage at Fayette
ville on Sunday at 8 a. m., 9.50 feet.
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 8)
Soviets Beat
Off Terrific
Nazi Attacks
Germans Throw Planes,
[Tanks, Flame Throw
ers Into Action
_
2,800 INVADERS SLAIN
Enemy Repulsed At Tre
mendous Losses On
Kalinin Front
KUIBYSHEV, Russia, Apr. 26.—
(#'—Russian soldiers engaged in
what the Army newspaper Red
Star called the “most serious re
cent battle’’ on the central front
have beaten off many German at
tacks on a river position in which
the Germans threw tanks, planes,
flame throwers and smoke screens
into action, it was reported tonight.
The scene of the action was not
located other than that it was a
wooded sector arong a river but
front-line dispatches indicated it
was important tactically to both
sides.
The Germans were said to have
moved upon the position with three
regiments last Friday. Fierce
fighting followed but the Russians
said all attacks failed.
The Moscow radio reported that
2,800 Germans were killed in the
last two days of fighting on the
Kalinin front.
(This apparently referred to an
other engagement as the Kalinin
sector is northwest of Moscow and
is not a part of what the Russians
call the western, or central, front.)
A supplement to the midnight
Moscow communique listed 300
more Germans killed and prison
ers taken by Red forces in repuls
ing a Nazi tank battalion on the
Kalinin front.
un the central front 160 Germans
were reported slain and several
block houses destroyed by Soviet
artillery and In another sector of
this front Soviet batteries dispers
ed an enemy tank column.
The official account said 17
blockhouses were destroyed by So
viet units and heavy casualties in
flicted on the Germans in a tank
clash on an unstated sector.
The communique reported the
sinking of a German submarine in
the Barents sea and destruction of
21 Nazi aircraft yesterday against
10 Soviet plane losses.
The Germans also pounded Len
ingrad from the air today for the
third successive day, sending 63
heavy bombers to raid Russia’s
second city.
With all the surge of activity on
the long, thawing front, the feeling
prevailed here, 650 miles from the
fighting line, that two of the
world’s greatest armies, who have
participated in no major scale ac
tivity for 43 days, might strike with
all their pent up fury at any mo
ment.
It was said mat both sides were
bringing up huge reserves and
were feeling out one another in
sometimes fierce minor engage
ments_ scouting every mile of the
front by air.
Throughout the last 43 days and
under some of the worst fighting
conditions of the war—snow, and
cold and thaw and mud—the Red
army has moved forward. Its prog
ress has been slow but it has not
lost the ground it had reconquered.
Confidence Increases
One factor is apparent—the in
creasing confidence of the Russian
press, the Red army and the Rus
sian people about events to come.
All evidence here points to the
fact that the main German force
still is a powerful army but it is
believed that the reserves are in
ferior in quantity and quality to
those of the Red army.
The Russians consistently report
capturing coldiers who are in their
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 1)
Vichy Protests
U. S. Occupation
Of New Caledonia
VICHY, Unoccupied France,
April 26.—i/P)—Gaston Henry
Haye, French ambassador to the
United States, has been ordered
to protest to the State depart
ment against the landing of
American troops hi New Cale
donia, it was officially announc
ed today.
“Even if French rebels against
the Fatherland took over New
Caledonia in September, laiu,
this does not authorize Ameri
can troops to land there, ' a
government communique said.
“De Gaulle (Free French
Leader Gen. Charles De Gaulle)
or his representatives have no
right to speak in the name of
France.”
TWO JAILED HERE
FOR TIRE THEFTS
Men Accused Of Stealing
Cars And Stripping
Them Of Rubber
Two men, charged with stealing
two automobiles and abandoning
them after stripping them of tires,
tubes and wheels were arrested
early Sunday morning by Harry
E. Fales, superintendent of New
Hanover Bureau of Identification,
and Detective Sergeant W, D.
Thompson of the City police de
partment.
Arrested on the charges were
Russell Moore, Cape Fear Taxi
driver of 121 South Second street,
and D. C. Howard, manager of
the Cape Fear Service station, of
117 Monroe street. Sunset Park.
Moore is charged with taking an
automobile owned by Walter L.
Carter, of 73 Pine Crest Parkway,
from the residence Thursday
night. The car was abandoned at
Summer Hill after the tires, tubes
and wheels were taken off of it.
The tires later were found on a
taxicab belonging to the Cape
Fear Taxi company which was
being operated by Moore.
An automobile owned by Dr. H.
K. Thompson, of 102 Live Oak
Parkway, Oleander, was taken
and abandoned between Oleander
and Blythe’s Bay after it had been
stripped of the tires, tubes and
wheels. The tires and tubes were
found in the garage of D. C. How
ard at 117 Monroe street.
Moore and Howard were placed
in jail under $1,500 bond each.
The officers said they had re
covered 25 tires, 15 tubes and eight
wheels in the raid all of which—
except those found in H o w a r d’s
garage—were found either on cabs
of the Cape Fear Taxi company
or in the company's storage room.
Some of the tires, which original
ly had white side walls, had been
painted black and the serial num
bers effaced. Also the serial num
bers had been chiselled from the
other tires. The maroon wheels on
Carter’s automobile had'yb e e n
painted black.
Officers said Mrs. Mary Geld
baugh, owner of the company, and
her husband, Jack Geldbaugh, told
them .they knew nothing of the
tires found on the cabs and in
the storage room.
Mr. Fales and Sergeant Thomp
son, who began investigation into
tire thefts in the city several days
ago, said the investigation was be
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 4)
Roosevelt Will Confer
With His Leaders Today
WASHINGTON, Apr. 26— UP) —
President Roosevelt has called his
congressional leaders to the White
House for a conference tomorrow
before he sends to the capitol his
omnibus program for combatting
rising costs of living.
Although Mr, Roosevelt follows
a practice of having weekly talks
with legislative leaders, the meet
ing took on special significance be
cause of belief that it would deal
chiefly with the question of what
new legislation would be needed
to effect his program.
Most legislators anticipated that
the greater part could be carried
»•---—
out under existing laws. However,
senate majority leader Barkley of
Kentucky, who told reporters the
White House conference had been
called, said he did not know. He
had not, he added, “seen even a
rough draft of the president’s mes
sage.”
On the basis of reports in con
gressional circles the broad out
lines of the program appeared to
shape up in this manner:
First of all; a general freezing
of most retail prices and perhaps
rents at about the March 1 level.
(Continued on Face Three; Coi. 8)
ARMY WILL PUT
IT INTO EFFECT
AT EARLY DATE
Action Will Be Taken As
A Wartime Security Meas
ure, Says General Drum
NO MASS EVACUATIONS
Blackouts, Dimmed Lights
To Be Ordered For Some
Sections Of The Coast
.NEW YORK, April 26. —
( ) T.he early establishment
of an eastern military area
covering the entire Atlantic
seaboard from Maine to Flor
ida as a wartime security
measure was announced today
by Lieutenant General Hugh
A. Drum, commanding gen
eral of the Eastern Defense
Command and First army.
As a first step, control over
all sea coast lighting already
has been assumed by the com*
manders of the four corps
areas within the military area,
the announcement said. This
means that there will be di
rect military control over all
coastal lights in an effort to
prevent further silhouetting
of ships and their consequent
destruction by enemy sub
marines.
No effective date was set for
establishment of the area other
than an assertion that it would ba
accomplished at “an early date.’'
The announcement emphasized
that mass evacuation of enemy
aliens from the area was not con
templated but that selective pro
cesses of evacuation might be re
quired in some instances.
“The object of prescribing a
military area is to facilitate con
trol so as to prevent subversive
activities and aid being given the
enemy such as by lighting along
our coasts,” General Drum’s state
ment said. “The military area sys
tem is an important and necessary
adjunct to the defense of our east
ern seaboard.”
General restrictions and orders
designed to control the conduct of
enemy aliens or others deemed
dangerous to the national security
will be issued from time to time
by headquarters of the eastern de
fense command.
To Watch Aliens
While it was emphasized that
the plan did not seek to interfere
with the lives of “the great mass
of loyal Americans,” the statement
said nevertheless that it was the
determination of military author,
ities to prevent any enemy sum
pathizer. alien or not, from com
mitting any act detrimental to na.
tional security.
The corps areas through which
control will be exercised are the
first, with headquarters at Boston;
second, with headquarters at Gov
(Continued on Pafe Three; Col. 1)
11 JAP PLANES
ARE SHOT DOWN
Allies Blast Raiders At Dar*
win, Fend Off Attacks On
Moresby, Solomen Isles
By C. YATES McDANIEL
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
AUSTRALIA. Apr. 26.— UP) —Unit
ed States and Australian pilots shot
down 11 Japanese planes which
raided Darwin Saturday and fend
ed off other attacks on Port Mores,
by and the Solomon islands, Gen.
MacArthur’s headquarters said to
day.
Air raids on the Manila Bay for
tress of Corregidor increased and
artillery dueling continued, the
communique added. The small and
out-numbered American and Fili
pino forces on Panay and Cebu in
the Philippines continued to harass
the invader, and on Mindanao the
situation was said to be unchang
ed.
Darwin, strategic naval fueling
port on the northwest coast, was
raided by 24 bombers escorted by
fighters in the first bombing there
in three weeks.
One dispatch credited American
pilots with all of the 11 planes shot
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