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GEN. HAL TURNAGE NAMED ASSISTANT TO VAIOERGRIFT ^ . . 1 n Farmville Man Named to Second Higfeest Poa4 In U. S. Marine Corps Washington, July 6.—Appointment of Maj. Gen. Allen Hal Turnage of Firmville, N. C, as assistant commandant in the Marine Corps was announced today by Gen. A. A. Vandagrtft, commandant. The peak to which General Ti linage Was named is the second highest in the Coif*. Presently Marina Corps director of personnel, General Turnage will take over his new duties on or about August 1. The famed North Carolinian commanded the Third Marine Division in the victorious Bouganville and Guam campaigns, winning the Navy Cross for his services at Bougaiaville, where his .men reported that during the action the general worked consistently, mostly along the front lines, dressed like his men, slept in a foxhole, and ate with the soldiers. At Guam, General Turaage landed on July 21, 1944, with his men and gained back the strategic is-^ landed, now one of this country's major bases in the Pacific. For that action, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. Following the Guam battle, he returned to the States to become director of personnel. General Turnage is six feet tall, has a ruddy complexion, and smiles readily. When he was a boy, the son of William Jason and Ora Turnage of aa old North Carolina tobacco planting family, Turnage attended the old Horner Military School at Oxford, and later the University of North Carolina, where he became known as a baseball player. After he wae commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps, he received wide, all-around experience, serving first in Haiti, then in France during the last war, in Nicuaragua, at sea, and later in China. Six months before Pearl Harbor he was recalled from China to Washington and given the important job of executive officer of"the division of plana and policies in Marine Corps headquarters. The following summer he became commanding general of the Marine base at New River, N. C., and was promoted to brigadier general at that time. In October, 1942, he became assistant commander of, the Third Marine Division and the following year, full commander. The general's wife; Mrs. Hannah Pike Turnage, maintains their country home at Wide Water, Va. They have been married 23 years. In addition to the Navy Cross and Distinguished Service Medal, the North Carolinian wears the following decorations*. Haitian Campaign Medal, 1915; Expeditionary Medal, Haiti, 19l5-4«; Haitian Distinguished Service Medal, Victory Medal with Prance Clasp, 1917-W; Second Nicuaraguan Medal of Distinction • Diploma; Domjniiwa Order of Military Medal; and the American Defease Service Medal, 1940-41. , Cant Peed* World New York, July 11.—Secret*^ of" Agriculture Anderson said today that food' shortages in the United Stakes "could easily last from one to two years after the end of the Japanesewar n "We would be short of some foods —sack as sugar, fata and oils—even if the war ended tomorrow," he said, at a press conference. Anderson said earlier in a speech before the Advertising Federatisb of America that "America can't feed the world," and added: ■' "We've got to make that clear and positive from the outset, or we are iaviting an awful lot of misunderstanding, trouble and .ill-wilt. Eveft if we were to ship across the oooaas every pound of food we produce, we couldn't feed the world." Bumper Tobacco Crop Forecast Washington, July 11.—The 1946 tobacco crop was estimated yesterday by the Agriculture Department M 1,890,328,000 pounds, a drop oi average. production of 1,091,000,000 pounds of flue-cured tobacco was forecast This la abook the same aa last year's crop of flue-cured. Total production of aB types com££'XdK9fcS»' md 7K*M,OOOj 9M* MjOOOMO pounds and 132^60,000. SERVICE HEN'S • CENTEK • Registering1 at the Center during the put week were: Farmvilla— S/Sgt. Joseph H. Bynum, home after seeing- service in Italy; Lt Douglas R. Jones, recently returned from the. European theatre of operations when he was a German prisoner; Sgfc Robart Bruce Lewis, who served twentyshipman W. A. (Bill) Can, AS, tJSN R, Fort Schuyler, N. Y. Cherry Point—Pfc. Dale Bi' Martin.' Knightsville, Indiana, and Pfc. Frank Bailey, Jr„ Buffalo, N. Y. Camp Lejeune—Pfc. John C. JDalaney, Harvell, Mo., and Sgt. Herbert Paxfeam. Marine Air Base, Greenville—Cpl. Charles C. Sholdes and Pfc. Frank Berry, Philadelphia, Pa., overnight guests, Monday, of Miss Tabitha M. DeViBconti. Pfc. Milton Barfield, Snow Hill and Army Air Field, McCook, Nebraska. The menu served during the week end consisted of cabbage-carrot salad, roast beef, lettuce, rolls, tea, peaches, apples, and milk (donated by Mrs. Cari Beaman), tomatoes, (by Mrs. Haywood Smith and Mrs. Saulter), salted pecans, (prepared by Mrs. Bob Jo7ner). Mrs. Jack Smith, Mrs. Ernest Gaynor and Mrs. Bob Norman furnished flowers used in the decorations. Pfc. John Radosh writes from Okinawa that when he sees a dead Jap he has no feelings for him bat when it is one of our own men it hurts, and also if it is women and children even though they- are Japs, Continuing he says, "Ifajiy nights I have wished and prayed that I was back in Farmville at the Center talking with the good people of Farmville. I sure can say that I have met some very nice people there and some day after this wkr is sv*r I'd like very much to pay my respects to them. The dinners at the center were really tops with me. I could go for one of them right now." Pfc. Radosh was stationed at Camp Lejeune and a regular visitor hero for five months before leaving for the Pacific last August. Pfc. Joe Zugeber, New Guinea, asks how Farmville is, and says the f^lks here are swell and always will, be and maybe some day he will bej able to repay the favors done for him when here. ' Use one pound of blackleaf 40 to twenty pounds of calcium arsenate in fighting the boll weevil. The blackleaf 40 will kill the aphids that multiply when calcium arsenate is used.WPB Controls Nay End Soon \ May Terminate Priorities System October I | Washington, July 11.—The possibility developed today that WPB might throw overboard its complex ■ system of materials control by October 1. If adopted, the proposal would place American industry under ja simple priority system three months ahead of the year-end date recently set for that action. The remaining priority rules would be designed to protect war production almost exclusively. Officials familiar with an internal WPB contest on the issue say that the steel division is advocating early scrapping of the controlled materials plan, or "CMP," under which steel, copper and aluminum are allotted to war and essential * civilian users. | Chairman J. A. Krug, while leaning toward the proposal, reportedly has notified steel division officials that the division, and the steel industry itself, must provide greater assurances that essential metal aeeds will be net before he will approve the plan. ■ The proof rsqueeted is two-fold: Pint, that the present acute shortage of sheet and strip steel—needed fa automobile bodies slid hundreds of household items now released for production—be straightened out. Second, that adequate guarantees be given of meeting the needs of ptrelsum producers, the transportation industry, farm machinery makers and other essential behind-theThe Agriculture Department, OWT and other agencies have resisted early relaxation of controls. Thmy contend that metal producers would tend to sell to the biggs* customer* or the best-paying markets, leaving « . i . - - .. »« T 1 i ■« i —J *» important w&r-gupportmg moustries to scramble for materials. — ■ - - —— ■■ NEWS OP OUR Mrs. J. M. Hohgood ha* received a letter from her scat, Billy Morton, who has recently landed in the Philippines. > " Bmiitm Award With the lOSffl (Cactus) Diviwon m. Austria.—Pfc. David L. Jones, of fUMiville, North Camlina, hu been awarded the Cotnbak infantry Badge for outstanding parfomance of duty with the 108nd Infantry Division in pound combat againat the enemy.. He is aerying with the 410th Regiment of Ike CactusDivision. RgMiTtt* Award With the 108rd (Cactus) Division in? Austria.—Pfe. Walter L. Tugwell, of Farmville, North Carolina, has been awarded the Combat Infantry Badge for outstanding porfermance of. duty with the lOSai Infantry DivMon in ground combat against the enemy. He hf serving with the 410th Regiment of the Cactus Division. Graduates Hondo Army Air Field, Hondo, Texas, July 12.—Hondo Army Air Field on Saturday, July 7, turned out another class of double and triplethreat navigators, most of them soon to be skyteam members shooting and bombing the heart out of JapanAlready rated bombardiers or bombardier-gunners, they received 13 weeks of aerial navigation training at Hondo Field AAF Training Command installation, to earn the double or triple rating of bombardier-navigator or bomhaniier-navigator-gunner. All of this class, of navigation trainees previously received commissions of second lieutenant or appointments as flight officer upon completion of bombafdiering school. Silver navigator wings were awarded two men from . North Carolina at graduation exercises held Saturday morning at the Texas airbase. They now await assignment. One of these men is from Farmville: 2nd Lt. Alton W. Thomas, 20, son of Mr, and Mrs. Lather P. Thomas, of Farmville, (l Basic Training Keesler Field, Biloxi, Mis*, July 7.—Pvt. John A. Carraway, son of Mr. and Mrs. Abe Carraway, Farmville N. C., has entered the Basic Training Center at Kepsler Field, a ' unit of the Army Air Forces Training Command, for several weeks of recruit drill. After a period of orientation and . physical training at Keesler Field, he will be given instruction in the use o{ the gas mask and bayonet, a course in camouflage, and target practice on rifle range. Then he will be assign1 ed to duty or sent to one of the Training Command's schools for special technical training. Receives Award Staff Sergeant Benjamin J. Skinner was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for "meritorious service in direct support of combat operations between January 11 and February 2, 1946, during the Italian campaign." " Presentation of the award was made by Brigadier General Robert S.. Israel, Jr., Commanding General, XXII Tactical Air Command on June 9, 1945. BOYS IN SERVICE Laarie I* Ftedfte Sergeant Skinner came overseas in December, 1942, with the 662nd Signal Air Wanting Be., later joining the 311th lighter Control Squadron, and haa served throughout I the African, Sicilian and Italian campaigns. He resides with hia parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Skinner at 308 S. Contentnea Street, Farmville, North Carolina. In. the Thick of the Fight Aboard a U. S. Carrier off Kyushu, Jane 8 (delayed)—Lt. (jg) 'Julian L. Smith, USNR, of 206 Wilson Street, Farmville, N. C., leaned how completely the Pacific haa been transformed into an American duck pond today when his ship, one of the Navy's mightiest carriers, steamed toward the Jap homeland, knocked on the door—and got no answer. Belated antiaircraft fire greeted this carrier's planes when they struck the key Jap naval air station at Kanoya in southern Kyufehu, but not a Jap dand take to the air or to the tea to meet the American challenge. This carrier's initiation into the combat ana had long bem awaited by her crew and her Captain. Yesterday the rumors began to- circulate' that this M* to he "thV <My. This mMniag things began to happen. The call for "geiSeral quarters" brought men racing to battle stations. Plane nsptehw okayed the planes whieh had been earmarked to protect the Fleet overhead while others dtefpat Wstttag irtaris -en Kyusu. Lookouta aoanaed the horizon, gunners hugged their cannon, flight deck crews put-pattednr&antf in tfny gasoline jalopies attending to last minute ' details and plane director) coaxed 1 Hellcats into the air. i. Hours want by, finally the plane* I returned and the sun set Bat not a i siugS* Jap had rnatond in to loot r over Uade Sam's crushing Navy l power. Anti-Sub Groups Cited * At a call meeting of the Board of Education bf the Farmville School I*eWct held Tuesday night, July 10, Irvin Morgan, Jr., Treasurer of the Board, announced that he had received aa of June 30, from A. C. Monk & Company, I»o„ of Fannvilla, a check hi the turn of &600.00 aa a contribution to the rVuumlle Colored School. A. C. Monk, aa praaigent of A. C. Monk ft Company, Inc., in making this contribution stated that it was "given with the understanding that it ia to be used aa a supplement to the funds for the Farmville Colored School Library and/or the Vocational Training Department in the Fain▼Hie Colored School. The exact datermination aa to how beat to apply these funds ia to be decided apan by the loeal school board and the Principal of the colored school, H. B. Sugg." Members of the Board of Education wore highly pleased and unanimously adopted the following resolution, "The Farmville Boaad of Education acknowledges with grateful appreciation the splendid and much needed gift of JB£00.00 to the. Farmville Colored School Library and/or Vocational Training Program by A. C. Monk & Company, Inc. Thia gift should be a source of inspiration to all the citizens of Farmville and will fill a very definite need in the educational program of the Farmville Colored School." In expressing appreciation from the colored citizens as a whole, H. B. Sugg, Principal of Colored School says: "Hie A. C. Monk & Co., has long been a greet benefactor to this community. During the darkest days of the depression, this company never forgot the plight of the less fortuned element Its president was constantly thinking in terms of how his company might provide employment for the laboring classes without regard for color or creed. There is every reason to beHeve that he often went oat of his way to do this, without which suffering would have been intense. We should never forget this." WAR IN BRIEF Tokyo says U. S. Third fleet has withdrawn southward but still is prowling1 in Jap home waters, challenging' enemy navy and air force to fight; Olcnawa-hased planes batter enemy homeland. Australians break through Japanese, defenses in three sectors of Balikpapan beachhead, drive three miles inland to within one-half mile of Mount Batochampar. Chinese recapture Sinchang, former U. S. air base. British troops occupy a number of villages south of Pyu, smash two Jap attacks on Toungoo-Mawchl road. Chennault says Jap air power defeated in China; Jap air force retreats to Manchuria. "Carrying out powerful and sustained offensive action during: a period of heavy German underaeas concentrations which threatened our flow of supplies to the European Theater of operations, these anti-sub groups tracked the packs relentlessly and sank a notable number of Uboats. The gallantry and superb teamwork of officers and men were largely instrumental in forcing the complete withdrawal of enemy submarines from supply routes essential to the maintenance of our military supremacy." Since the award was made to the task groups and not to the individual ships, only the men who served as members of the respective task groups during specified periods are entitled to wear the Presidential Unit Citation (with Star). Sk. 2/c Hubert Webb, son of Mr. and Mrs. Taney W. Webb, 904 N. Con* tentnea St, Fsrmville, is authorised to wear this award. He wrote his homefo|ks that he hoped they are as proud of the citation aa those on boevdShip, and says that they feel sure iwhen the Jape learn the good old UJSJL BOGUE is on the way to the Pacific they will give up as she is the pride of the fleet. He sends his regards to all friends and says tell' them he is looking forward to a finish with the help of "our loved ones back home." Any day now he knows we will be hearing of more good tiding* from the Bogue in the Padflc. He has been in the Ntf»V three yean. During this time he has traveled the Attantie bat has now t, m | >■ af i>— «| 4a iL a Da«l/(a DWMi transzeaTea w inc rsciiic. Webb is the only North Carolinian a member of ihe taak groups receiving the r* Promoted : s* Joseph F. Gregory, son of Mr. and J. A. Gregory at Faimville has recently bean promoted to the rank of Corporal. Oft. Gregory is nowwtth the 66th Division in Marseille, France m Japanese flm*# J From China Skies Chennault Says Jap Air Force Retreating To Manchuria; Ch i n e »e Win New Base U. S. 14th Air Fore* Headquarters, Kunming, July 11.—The Japanese air force has been cleared from China's skies and it retreating from Japan to Manchuria, Ifcaj. Gen. Gain Chennault dirflosed today, giving American fliers air supremacy in virtually battle sectors at the- Pacific war. Almost unopposed carrier strikes by Adm. William F. Halsey's Third Fleet diaciosed that the enemy had lost contral of the. air over its homeland and Tokyo itself. Planes of Gen. Douglas MacArthuris command also have wpn air supremacy over the Dutch East Indies and other sectors in the Southwest Pacific. Japs Lose 2,000 Planes. In achienring the "first objective" of the 14th—that of clearing the Japanese from China's shores—said his airmen destroyed more than 2,000 enemy planes in the air and on the ground and hit over 2,000,000 tons of Japanese shipping. The main function of American fliers in China, he said, now will, be to support Chinese ground forces, strafing Japanese troops, bombing supply dumps and disrupting communication lines. The air force command said that some units of the depleted Japanese air force were being shifted from the home islands of Manchuria where the enemy has "numerous excellent air bases operational on a moment's notice." • Chennault discounted this redeployment of enemy planes, however, and said the Japanese were only able to send an occasional plane in a "linking hop" between Indo-China uid China. During the battle for Okinawa he said, the 14th raided Japanese air bases at Shanghai so effectively that no planes from the area participated in the strikes against American invading forces. Commenting on the possible growth of American air power in China, Chennault said supply problems were as difficult as ever "although air base facilities ate ample for a greatly augmented effort." Chennault said there was always a possibility that the Japanese might surrender, but said he thought the chances were against it " He said Hengyang was the key* to South China and that the Japanese probably would make every'effort to hold it. Renkyang is east of Paoching on the Japanese trans-continental corridor. The Japanese apparently have sufficient rolling stock to maintain their railways, but continued air attacks for a few more months will leave them especially short of locomotives, Chennault said. CHINESE TROOPS FREE ANOTHER U. S. AIRBASE Chungking, July 11. — Chinese troops, driving 32 miles in three days have recaptured a fifth abandoned U. S. airbase and pushed to within less than 15 miles of Kahnsien, Bite of still another major American airfield lost to the enemy, the Chinese high command announced today. This offensive, striking toward Kahnsien from the southwest, overran Sincheng—where the U. S. 14th Air Force abandoned a base last January 29—and then drove on IT miles from Kahnsien, on Tuesday afternoon, the high command said. Japs Fleeing It declared the Japanese were fleeing toward Kahnsien, 240 miles north of Hong Kong, with the Chinese in pursuit. Sincheng, fifth base to be liberated, is 32 miles from Kahnsien. It was retaken Monday, lite Chinese on Saturday captured Tayu, 47 miles southwest of KahnBien, and in three *days have driven 32 miles up the Kwantung-Kiangai highway toward Kahnsien, by Chinese account The fall of Tayu had isolated the city. Stores Here Close 7:00 On Saturdays The Chamber of Commerce and Merchants Association reported today that the 7:00 Saturday Closing Hour which the merchants have'adopted and decided to continue from now on is working oat- real well. Several mercants reported that thetr sales fat exceeded that of the same day a year ugo—at Which time they stayed open untO 9:00. Molt of the Farmville stores closed promptly at 7:00 this ftfist Saturday night. The Chamber of Commerce has asked all stores to cooperate with the 95 percent majority and it is hoped that these few stores will make it a point to get in line with the vasl majority which are already closing at 750#. If all the stores will cooperate there Vrill_be no doubt but that each individual merchant will do as mucli m New d KB . U Arreted Provision For Bonus Stricken From Measure Washington, July 11.—The House Veterans committee today approved a revised GI bill of rights after discarding a bor.ua provision for all service men. It make* no major changes in lite loan, education, aad job provisions of the original over-ail veterans benefits measure but is intended to overcome difficulties that have developed during the bill's first year of operation. ' • Stricken out by a one-sided committee vote was Chairman Rankin's proposal to pay every veteran with 90 or more day* of honorable service an outright bonus of <1,040. This is the same amount provided in the GI bill for ex-servicemen unable to obtain jobs. The Mississippi Democrat offered the proposal to offset what he said was an encouragement to idleness in the original bail's provision for >20a-week jobless payments for one year. His plan called for the $20 weekly payments to every veteran employed or unemployed. "The bonus proposal definitely is not dead," Rankin asserted. Major changes approved tentatively by the committee are designed to simplify procedure by which veteeans may obtain governmentguaranteed loans aad to liberalise the vocational education section of the original legislation. The changes resulted from, complaints to the committee that "rod tape" was making it difficult for veterans to avail themselves of the law's benefits. The committee adopted an amendment by Representative Scrivner (RKas.) giving either the senate or the house committee handling veterans affairs authority to review, and veto any regulations issued bjf the Veterans Administration under the G. I. bill. Tests in a number of counties, with ten 4-H club members growing' out 100 certified chides each, show i no pullorum losses and mortality about 4 to 5 percent. When pasture grosses become tough in summer, "winter butter" is produced unless the cows axe put on a good gruhig crop like soybean* or kudzu. The Farm Loan Act Amended By Congress Lending Powers of Land Banks and Farm Loan Association Increased W. 6. Stancill, secretary-treasurer of the Washington Farm Loan Association, said today that under the new legislation recently enacted by Congress, it will be ppseible for the at sociation to handle loans more expeditiously and that with more of the lending process turned over to the association, the prospective borrowers will be told mom quickly of what action will be taken on their applications for long-term loans from The Federal Land Bank of Columbia. Under the new law, the land bank may lead up to 66 percent of the normal agricultural value of the farm, whereas since 1917 it has been limited to 50 percent of the appraised value of the land plus 20 percent of the permanent improvements. Land Bank Commissioner loans will be continued for one year from July 1, 1945. They may be made up to 75 percent of the normal vshie of the farm. However, the contract interest rate on these loans will be 5 percent, except to veterans who may borrow at 4 percent in the event the loan is guaranteed under the G. I. Bill of Bights. The contract rate for land bank loans through the association will remain at its present all-time low of 4 percent. Secretary Stancill said that many of the, Commissioner loan* have been reduced to a point when they can easily be refinanced with 4 percent Iritad bank loans which will give these borrowers interest savings of 1 percent. The office of the Washington Association is located JH Washington, N. C., and haqtttee land hank and Commissioner loans in Beaufort, Hyde, Martin, Pitt, Washington and Tyrrell dHNtfestoj only about one-wuro as mucn acreage to cotton as tk^ee years ago. AlnvPiH^iifn Itfiiih^iF Radio Sfleiwe; Sertott. Riofa Reported In Jap Capital; Faaioaa AdtAckWaator Guam, July 12.—While redio siisnse shrouded the asset am of tfc» Mi U. a Carrier Task Force tt, a Japanese Military tiimmHilii said ovsr Tokyo radio today that "Tilth a at Wing able to resist this (mounting airy rhallsaga, va cannot mftirti the enemy on the ban# land.'' The unidasrtiflsd commentator aaid "Future attacks from, the air wdeiW edly will be the prelude to tha decisive battle on the home land." 12-Hour Amik. Tokyo radio said about 1,200 earner planes participated in Tnssday's assault that it lmted It home and that, in all, 1,M0 American ptanm of all typea were over Honshu island that day. Adm. Cheat* W. Nimits, disclosing: night air attacks Tueeday night off Honshu, aaid no aiittioaal J'ord has "been-received frsm tha task orce since yestsrday whan ha reported its planes had dastroyed or damaged 164 enemy aircraft, ail bat two oil the ground, up to noon Tuesday. Tuesday night, Nimits aaid, "a" number" of enemy ships were hit with rockets by Marine aircraft south of Honshu. He also confirmed that 200 nddsre plastered airfields on tha southern Japanese island .at Kyuahu Tuesday. Additionally, he announced that search Privateers of Float Air Wing One sat throe cargo ships sArs off the China coast that dag and that enemy airfields in the northern Ryukyus were entered Monday and Tuesday. Mystery Anasda. The whereabouts of tha armada of battleships and carriers has been a mystery since it nalasshed 1,000 planes at Tokyo's airfields Tuesday, but the Japaneea said it Still was "In the vicinity of our hwslsnd ** Adm. Chsstor W. Nimits himself promised the Japoness that Navy and Marina aimift would hasp raining blows on their hoaaohmd in pikparatiun for "further amphibious assaults." The Tokyo radio Tireinrtnd listeners that the last tame carrier planes Jima was invaded nnd ssad tha same tactics might be riTpniteri new with landings some^Asre dsn. Another enemy brosdeast said the aerial assault on tha home islands was maintained Wataesday by 160 fighters from Okinawa which struck air bases on tha eost and sooth coasts of Kyushu. The whereabouts of tha hoasded Japanese sir fores likewise was a mystery, for it refused to nee apt the challenge flung down by Adm William F. Hal8ey*s carriers cruising doss to Jspan. From that standpoint, Tuesdays heavy strike at Tdqro'a ring of 70 air hiflf was a disappointment, for of 164 may pluws ikied ujud or the air. These vm not interceptors, soeh as the Japanese are known to ba saving against the day of invasion, but reconaassaance planes ttat got too close to the American fleet This was in contrast to the eve* larger carrier raid on Tokyo teat [February 16 and 17, when 382 siiMiy planes were shot from the skies, 177 destroyed aground and 1M probably destroyed. i Gee. Douglas MacArtkur's muni qua told of fraah er and fighting raids on and sweeps along the Asiatic coast as far soatk as Indo-Chiaa in wkieh a freighter was sunk oj rtamegart Tokyo said that Halsey's force had withdrawn southward Tussday night sod added that these wens no carrier raids Wednesday. The jittery enemy said, however, that the tack farce still was in Japanese heme waters and "Japiu»ae forces ars on the alert agaast a foUowup raid." • Tokyo attempted to convince its listeners that Halaey had been forced to withdraw by the threat of attack by "suicide planes." American fleet riigpatrKas. howarac. said the Japanese refused to go of 29. "It is appanank that the task force has wtthdtgw* raid la fear of oar sped Tokyo radio said. SERIOUB UOT8 REPORTED IN JAPAWKW GOT* Stoelchoim, July H.—T»* amp Aftonbladst asserted teday la i