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1 1 v. .c.-r Partly cloudy with moderate tem peratures totW and tonight; fair and cooler tomorrow. I..i....Cmi I . , mmmi Cotton, short, lb. .. , SIMo to 23c Cotton, long, lb. .. .. .. 28c to 32c ton seed, bushel ..- .. .. 7840 """"n .. ... .. .. .. .. 40c Coix-,.. ' ''.' $1-80 Wheat, bu- 81-88 1 V 4 ., Sunset today, 7:32 p. m.; sunrise Friday, 7:08 a. m. PUBLISHED ON MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS CTVTNTY-CZCOND YEAR MONROE, N. C, UNION COUNTY, THURSDAY," SEPTEMBER 14." 1944 8-MONTHS, 75cj 6-MONTHS, $1.25 EEMI-WEEKLY, $2.00 A YEAR . -J?. i'- 1 V -:r V .. " :.p.) fViU End Saon Conference Cetween Leaders May Close Duriajf Tbs Weck-End MILITARY JEN ATTEND Hi nigh strategy of the second v ; i .Quebec war conference was ail out 1 complete last night- resuu oi -x.ni.tviM nroaress" by President ' - ) ' Booaevelt and Prime Minister Church-Ill-on a formula for final victory over - ...iin. hiiC Htm formidable Axis. t , Discussions win continue for three or four days In the guaroea oasuuus :: r:- f Quebec's citadel. ,.; But It became apparent that they will be devoted . :p largely to filling In gaps In war plans v already drafted In broad outline.; v ; . The mor decisions which confront- -ed Roosevelt and Churchill on their aecond wartime excursion to this pro 1 v ' -rlnclal capital now have been made. probably the deliberations of toe " J i ',- President and Prime Minuter ywlD adjourn this week-end with a Joint pronouncement discussing those de cisions In the most general terms. That has not been. finally decided, but i , has been the pattern of the past. .This year's Quebec conference has ' ; been billed officially as "beat Japan . i assemblage. But developments during ; the day underscored the lac ww u h iv underscorea me iac w k. n.Aifln mil In Europe ' are linked toseparamy oy pw" -.. of man power, shipping, supply, over - . aU strategy, -and timing.- Mr. Roosevelt himself asserted: . j ThU is a conference to . get tne ' tMstwe can tut of the comoinea jjto ' ' Isa and United States war efforts la Baoifln and in, Eurooe. . We are ; working to consonance with the situs- - , tioxi in China, uie racing, mu : tope, cwiroinaung our euw . those of our Ames. ' " Chinese and the Russians., ' ' t?resldentisi Secretary Stephen nariy obtained that : statement from the phief ExecuUve to. response to Ques tions about vnmas iuuu"ii the conference. - s . rh Runmean and the Pacific war, ' "inri tnid a news conference, "are so v.'- interrelated that naturall they "come - together." igeiner. t ' .- .' . Xhat was in answer w h""- i war in iwope, tne vmoe oi war iu how conference announcement iof formation said today In a 7,000-word . i HMMMMtttM ATrl1 fflhMt With I -M K Miula nil arvH iraanlfnit i!.. . Ml M .... ; mia IMKIwt.lM AITiVaJS KlDed WllU i previous statements that the meeting : Is chiefly military and chiefly con cerned with the Pacific fighting. . Ti! -The ' official announcementS'w were , that these men re' coming to Que- bee: - . Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, V American War Shipping - administra tor; his British counterpart, Lord . Leathers, has been present from the start, and the fact that Land was joining him stressed the Importance of shipping for the shifting of Ameri can and British war power to the Pa- ciflc upon the defeat of Germany; 1 . Secretary of the Treasury Morgen- ' thau. who, with Secretary, of State ' Hull and Secretary ef War Stlmson, : form a cabinet committee on economic problems rooted tn war;. - Sir William - Glasgow, Australian High Commissioner to Canada; ' R. M. Firth, ' acting Mew Zealand High Commissioner; -':. Richard Law, British Minister of - State, who Is stopping off to set Churchill before attending the TJNRRA conference In Montreal . . ,. ; , EXFECTED TO VOTE Estimates AH Of ' North Carellnal Vote To Be Over SOOO ; An absenteen vote of approximately 100,000, including service personnel, and a total vote of between 600,000 and 600,000 In the general election November 7, was forecast today by Raymond Maxwell, executive secretary of the State Board of Elections.: The state has a normal voting strength of approximately 800,000. In normal years, some 75,000 absentee ballots are distributed to civilians for use in general elections only. Maxwell said more than 50,000 ap plications for absentee ballots from service men had been received by sec retary of slate Thad Cure, federal war ballot administrator for Nfatn. Caro lina, lie estimated an additional 50, 000 bad been received by local county board of election. - tlaxweU has ordered 2:3.Ct3 absen tee fcr.'.!nU frond state pr In tors for use ty both civilian and military ab sent, t-s. tallots -to be us?d ty both are ba: car ca i'-"'-al, tut -civil: "i atssnwu j v .1 lnot be r ;::. 1 to apiili s until nUi-October or on anll- V e a'"'1' - m I y c U t' e L ' " n f '.'e vt'.e i C 'o t .e fcb-ir-e of 1 r n- to t 1 :nn li: t ( ai.-'-e, i-i r se -m vote "v'-"l r 1 ' "i 1 tt t ' e I" e L n re- s ex- c 1 1 ( 1 B - i r c ' ill ' t 1 i , ' Visiting Minister KIT. J. I. HGIIX Revival services will beirfn at Oak View Baptist church Sunday evening at 8 o'clock with Rev. J L McGlll, pastor , of Stephen Memorlai church of Winnsboro. B. C. assisting the nas ks, itev. J. so. ncuer. eenricos wm be held each evenlns throushout the wees at a ociock. Tmv Ulr VfWim ! woll.Vnnwn ' In this section having; served as pastor of . .. . . x.risi hw re. Miinmn ruariLiKi. rnn ri'.ri misu cwiw cnrucnes in tae union asbocu tkm. The public Is cordially invited to attend the services. No Change In" Gas Rationing . . v w Increased Allotment WO De- ,rrV " . T pend On The Military s , f Reqcnrements FEAR CiGFlCRAPPING ma nhnnffM in Mwiline ' ratkmme i can oe expected owoi un o i .. . . L . J . . . - A. J . 41 a report on the crude oil and gasoline supply. v' How much additional gasoline will then be available for civilians win de pend on how much she-jaimy and Navy will need after Oermaiqr surren ders. Estimates now are- being pre- oared by military authorities, OWi said. - ; Th rorinrt MVS that When mOTC civilian gasoline does become available, the rations ior trucxs ana Dusaee wu4 be increased first , . i: WATt in linn will be "B" card hold ers who use their cars in the course of business not merely between home and work and who arent getting as much as they need. . . . It is planned to equalise me maxi mum, MBn. rations in all regions, an uMnn that -would naitlcularlr help Eastern "B" drivers who usee gaso- . . mm. . a ITtM line in their worx. me cast a a maximum now is 325 miles of driving a month: Midwest 475 miles: West Coast 400 jnlles. Not all "B" drivers receive the maximum ana not au would benefit by a boost in the cell ing figure. : . ' Th nniMi nf rvfanin Transoorta- rtion is quoted as maintaining that an increase in gasoune rations wwuu crease the rate at which automobiles n ivtrsnnnd. and that with '- each scrapping the burden of the public tranannrfBtVm lltww ti increased. As against this argument, the policy of the Omce oi -pnoe aaminuaauun shown as bavins; always been- to ra tion all the raaoline that can be made available. ,. ' "' The oil report was compuea rrom Information provided by the Petroleum IrfmlnMnHnn fnr WftT OPA ODT. and other agencies. OWI summarized the situation y saying we rcwu breaklng production of crude oil and gasoline has Jailed to keep pace with wartime demands, with the result that above-ground stocks are oimmimims. r:::::nALu:n)AY foii rrJVATE IZiniY MILTON Eev. R. It Etono Of Charlotte Win DeUver Memorial Addreal ' - nfAm.wai o, fnr Pvt. Henry Harrison MUton, will be held Sunday afternoon at 3:33 in eentral Metho 6, t church, r ev. R. It f tone of Char, lotte vUi driSver the memorial ad dress. I.cv. Jack T. Akin, will sing a ,lo fornwipg the address. . The Eenior r v .1 te La tw-e loft and present t f t lv.n. Iv. J. E. cwaweu ..1 c ver t.e Invocation. Rev. Tor. r v 1 have the Sr-'i'ture and the o '. 'U rT.ver will be given by the 'it ' r. - - ' ' J ." it. I n viS ki:ied in action in a 1 .h and was the v county man to die t n cf V l.-'e '. ' :::"i cf I -!-.ro t, i -.-a. 1 r t me i r 5. 3 j - , u c ;i, .'.( i Core Of Uazi ; Line Battered Americans Roll into : v skirts Of Fortified 1 Town Out- PAnON'SrEN MOVING ; American troops rolling through sur prisingly light resistance Wednesday drove into the outskirts of the im portant German border city of Aachen, one of the northern keystones of the Siegfried llmvand struck close to the core of the Nazis' vaunted Westwarr on at least three other sectors along a QO-mlle front. The Americana captured the border village of Rotgen, 10 miles soutnean of Aachen, the first German commu nity to be reported taken In the all out assault on Hitler's Reich, and stood 32S airline miles from Berlin in their march on" the Nad capital. As the American armored columns encountered only minor opposition in the Siegfried line outposts, indica tions were that the Germans were falling . back toward the Rhine, 40 miles to the east in this sector. Tbe Tanks won positions in the town forest of Aachen and In out skirts overlooking the city, a rail and hiohwav hub of more than 160,000 population, historically a strong for tress position and In modem times a strategic citadel in the Siegfried hne. To the south of thees onrushing forces, which were part of the First Army of lit. Gen. Courtney h. Hooges, two other columns were storming or preparing to storm major fortifica tions In the Siegfried system. . - The first stood within arunskot oi Germany east of the village of Cler vaux. in the northern tin of Luxem bourg, and the other farther to the south was m-Germany northwest of the town of Trier, its exact position unreported since an Initial penetration of at least five miles two days ago. . As the Allies closed In on Germany all along the western front, Supreme Headquarters announced early yester day that the American armies alone the First' Thira. ana seventn naa captured 820,000 prisoners since D Oay. The Seventh, driving up from tne south of France, closed in on tne sentinel city of Belfort guarding the approach to southwestern Germany through the Burgundy state, while at the extreme northern end of the Allied line the . British Second Army was veering northeastward ? through- Bel gium and, Holland in a smash wnicn the Germans said was aimed at flank ing the Siegfried line from the north. Mldwav alone the front Third army troops under Lt. Gen. George S. Pat ton were on the move again, captur ing Neufchateau, IS miles southwest of Nancy oh the west bank of the Moselle, and fighting their way inside Charmes, on the east bank 33 miles south of Nancy. - Above Meti Patten's men captured a ' heights dominating the strategic town of Thlonvllle and cleared the Germans out of that part of ' the town on the west bank of the river. In addition a new crossing north of Meti was announced. General Hodges' forces after taking Rotgen, six miles east of the captured Belgian border town of Eupen, were just 40 miles west of the big German Rhlneland city of Cologne, which is deep In the final defenses of the Sieg fried system. - The German radio, In Its first ac knowledgement that American-troops had Invaded Nazis soil, reported that an "outpost" of the Siegfried line had been captured apparently In refer ence to Rotgen. Writing from Rotgen, William. Smith White of the Associated Press said American troops "are now assaulting the hulking antitank obstacles and pillboxes just beyond this town. He said big American self-propelled guns were "howling amid the debris that surrounds them on German soil in support of this attack.", CENTRAL r.IETIIODlST TO FC?J1 FELL0T:iI? CLU3 Board Of Stewards Meet Te Consider Expansion Fregranv ' The Board of Stewards of Central Methodist church in their regular meeting held Monday ' night at the church gave consideration to expan sion programs. Capt. S. H. Green, chairman, presided. It was unanimously voted to keep Phifer Hall open dally for the use of all the people as a recreation center. This had has been In dally use for 84 months . and was productive of so much good that the continued use for -civilians was decided upon. Plans are being made to secure thirty or more voluntary hostesses to serve In the hall. The Woman's Society of Christian Service has agreed to set up the hostess group. The new phase of recreation for civilian use . will be gin l:mT!-:!I.fite'.y. - , Ag...i.t I "t cr tne expansion pro- trn vns U-t rsranairauon oi i.ens i c'..j --hip dnl in tae cnurcn. a cornmiU.ee wlU .be named to set this group In mo:, -i. 31 li.. -.3 i: et.it- TIIE LATEST WAR NEWS ITJCRIEF ""e - 4 . ' . '-: London Oen.f Dwlght D. Eisen hower's Berlla bound v armies truck today into the fifteen-mile- : wide appendix of the Netherlands in a thrust apparently intended to flank from the north the German ' border city of Aachen, already be sieged fro mthe south, Supreme Headquarters said this new eross lag of the Dutch frontier occurred near Mastiicht. fifteen miles north . of Liege. It did not disclose the ' nationality of tbe attacking troop. . The American iFlrst Army, how ever, has been! operating In that -. sector. v-?1, v.- 'nf- , ..i -.y" V. S. Pacific fleet Beadquarters, ' Pearl BarborJapan's air force, , eauffat up witnj in strength along the aprpoache to . Manila, lost . . more than 300 planes in one day to American fliers raiding the Cen tral Philippines front aircraft ear- riero with the battle anflnlahed and first reports frsgmentary. London -Massive Baadan forces . ssanltlng Warsaw frontauy fought . today into the streets of Praga, the industrial suburb of the torn Polish apital an the east bank of "the Vittala River, the Berlin radio Rome The Fifth Army was bat tering the forward edges of the Nasi Gothic line In Italy on a 35-mile front, when enemy resist ance was 'increasing tremendous ly" and future gains will be a test -of "Allied might against the Ger man will to resist," Allied Head quarters said today. - Men lit Service Receive Letter Front W. A. Henderson, Monday night .the family of T-Sgt. Walter A. Henderson, Jr., received a leter from him. It was written on the 5th -of September- from his base to Italy, and mailed there on the 6th. Well, safe and in good health, he said. He must have been in the first group of flyers who were rescued in Ru mania and brought back to their bases in Italy.. He said he hoped to be home 'soon, and is probably now at an embarkation port. Major Horace Williams who. has been spending a month with his f am- Uy ..here. and Mrs. WUUams will, leave this- wek-end ,-tfs WhiU Sulphur Springs, Vs.--where -Major Williams will take - further . treatment. Mrs. Williams will return home the first of the week. T-4 Willie L. Kezlah, of Monroe, Is serving with an aviation engineer bat talion of the IX Engineer Command which la constructing airfields behind the front lines In France. He landed with one vt the first detachments of men from this battalion which started its operations on the beachhead on the morning of D-Day., His battalion was the first unit of the command to land on French soil and completed its first mission, an emergency landing strip, on D-Day to the face of con tinuous enemy fire. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Kezlah, live to Monroe. He had already served for two- years to the United Kingdom, where aviation engineer battalions have constructed air fields for British based American bombers and fighters. - - T-Sgt- Long Comings Home Technical Sergeant Charlie B. Long is returning home after : serving 13 months of active combat to theChlna-Burma-Indla theatre. He has com pleted ,38 missions and more than 300 combat hours of aerial flight - with China's famed "Bombing Eagle Squad roe." .;,.i..;,.tr: V The Monroe radio operator-gunner wears The Distinguished Flying Cross and The AlrJ Medal, being cited by Major General C. L. Chennault, com manding general of the 14 Air Force. Sgt. Long is the son of R. C. Long, R3, Monroe. He has a brother to the Navy.- Pvt. George T. Helms, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Helms, who before enter ing service to . July, 1943, was with the Henderson Roller Mills,' has re turned from service overseas, and Is now at Miami . Beach,. Fla waiting new alignment He served as a rifle man for six months to the Italian theater and received the Purple Heart and the Bronze Battle Star. PFO Wm. C Horton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay Horton, is now serv ing with the. Fourth Division Marines "somewhere to the , Pacific.. Enslwi Everett - Jones of Jackson ville, Ha, is spending a 28-day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Zeb Jones. He will report to Mutchinson, Kansas, about October 8. Ensign Jones Is with the naval air corps. , Pvt Joseph W. 6 tames has written his parents that he has arrived safely someviVifTe to England. His brother. ! jsrowe Stames. seaman first class, is back in California, doing boat repair wort C 1. rjwln M. Helms of Monroe, s been with a tractor battalion oi i I s i cf Tiraln, is now to Hawaii. HS ' ' j t j 1j t:.e iormer Miss Virginia Mc- MIU L Mm US Wu un.- . 1 - i. IK. InM. .nfk t A 1 . r a ". i cf t ;r s. r, r y ; if 1 (( Union Couhtjs Battle Wagons Assault Palau Battleships Join Cruisers, De stroyers And Aircraft In Attack REELING BLOWS DEALT Mighty battleships -of the Pacific fleet, such as pulverized the defenses of Guam to the last few days before Invasion, yesterday Joined to the dally blasting of Palau, Japanese base 600 miles east of the Philippines. Admiral Chester W. Nlmlts an nounced today - that the big battle wagons had added their heavy guns to the weight of the attack. Previ ously, on September 6. cruisers and destroyers had shelled- the islands. The announcement came less than 24 hours after Nlmlts, reported that the Third Fleet under Admiral Wil liam F. Halsey, had struck its first blow against tbe enemy a devastating attack on Mindanao, to the southern Philippines. : - . . Reference to battleships to yester day's report recalled that three days before the Invasion of Guam Nimits first anonunced that the huge combat vessels were shelling that Island to the southern Marianas. Carrier planes bombed Guam for 16 straight days prior to Invasion and .warships shelled it for 10 days. Five days before the assault forces hit the beaches, the battle wagons began shelling the is land. The big ships went .into action against Palau yesterday (west longi tude time) as part of a new series of aerial and surface attacks. A two-day lull for Palau on. September 7-and 8 was followed by .a new three-day strike, the first of which occurred Saturday (west longitude time),, and was announced Tuesday..' Yesterday's release, by Adm. Chester W. Nlmits's. headquarters said that carrier aircraft . continued sorties on Saturday and Sunday, dropping . 120 tons of bombs at Babelthuap on north Anguar island and at south Peleliu island. - : - More than 150 rockets were fired by the planes to the same stacks. The shelling began the second day with battleships and. previously men tioned cruisers to the operation. Tar gets of the bombers and the ships in cluded buildings, gun . emplacements and coastal defenses. ; - ', Aircraft found a small cargo ship near the Islands on Sunday and sank lt and damaged another. --' -Thes(vy liasot. specify. buWlt is entirely possible that the same carrier planes involved in the new series of raids were used to : the hard blow against Mindanao to which the Japa nese lost or had damaged 89 surface ships and 68 aircraft The Palau is lands are only 593 miles from Min danao and both targets would be to range of the bombers if the carriers did not move. The- Navy release also detailed a stogie plane raid on Iwo Jlma, a rocket attack on Papan, a 73-ton bomb raid by Army planes on Truk, Marine neutralisation strikes against Jaluit, Maleqlap, and Mill islands on Sunday. ' .- ' In the Truk raid Seventh Air iorce manes met five or six enemy , inter ceptors, destroying one and damaged one. Three- American planes were damaged. ''.,''' ::vV?-' . The daring assault on Mindanao, made by carrier aircraft, was the first seaborne blow of the war on the Phll- loDlnes. It carried the action front for such task forces nearly 1,300 miles westward of a line drawn straight south from Guam, farthest west American base. . :.:'-.- -v i Japanese surface craft losses in bays at either end of Mindanao and along the eastern coast probably exceeded loo. lanelv of small tonnage. In ad dition, 68 enemy planes were destroyed to the air and aground, five airfields were bombed and strafed and outer installations damaged. c ' ' - GROUPS URGE SANE . 03SERVANCE OF V-DAY Plans Completed For City-Wide Ser vice At Methodist Chareh. Plans have been completed for the observance of V-Day here by the Mon roe Council of Churches and Min isterial Association in cooperation with, the Monroe Merchants- Associa tion.. ;"" .. ' ;- - , An appropriate program has been planned for V-Day, when Germany ' . ... II.. A AI4.1UMB surrenaers, wim muunen maa 'of the city taking part The city-wide service will be- held at Central Meth odist church to accordance with the following schedule: - If the surrender comes between the hours of 8 p. m. and 4 am. the ser vice will be held at 10 o'clock the fol lowing moring; should the news be re ceived between the hours of 4 a, m. and 12 noon, the services will be at 3 n. m. on that day. In event V-Day comes between 13 noon and 6 p. m. the service will be held that evening j at eight o'clock. A city-wide holiday has also been planned with "wild revelry and loud celebration ruled as inappropriate, in view of the fighting that still must be done to end the war in the Pacific. The public is being urged to set aside V-Day as a real day of thank- giving, that part of the world confict 1 s ended and attendnce at the city-, de service Is hf'-j stressed. r ', a . T vi a r Is 1 1 '. .-.Dies In France ... s . " '' ' 1 'I " - . I mwj s ; , , A $ 1 - s t i aw- 1 t--"tt- PFC. THOMAS R. SMITH PFC- THOMAS R. SMITH IS KILLED IN FRANCE Wife Notified Of HU Death; Entered '', Service Febraary 19, U43 : Pfc. Thomas R. Smith was killed in action to France, August 8th, ac cording to a message received from tbe War Department by bis wife, Mrs. Grovene Smith, of Monroe, R-3. . Pfc. Smith was inducted into the service February 19, 1943, at Fort Bragg and was later transferred to Camp Cooke, California, where he re ceived his training to -the Infantry. He was stationed there for a year, after which- he was sent to England. Six months after landing In England he was transferred to the French theater of war on July 37th, and lt was while serving there that he gave hiS life. ' J''-'-1" He was a son of Mrs. Trade Smith and the late Mr. Smith. He mar ried the former Miss Grovene Wil liams on February 11, 1943. In his last letter to Mrs. Smith, Pfc. Smith stated that he ''was work ing a little hard" and that he dldnt .longer until the war - would be over longen unui too war wouiu do mr and all of the boys would return to their homes again. , Before entering the , service, Pic. Smith held a position : with Smith's Transfer Company. Pfc Smith is survived by ms wue, his mother, live sisters and two brottaera. is ', 38-Year-plds' Status Heard Army Says Men In Bracket a Must Wait Unless Job Essential 'A"": MANY ARE IN SERVICE Friends of the over-38-year-old Army GI, bearing talk about demobili sation plans, are Inquiring about his chance of getting back into civilian life now, if he desires. - . The War department , replies that tore' is no change to regulations and policy he cant get out merely be cause he has passed his 38th birthday. : Back to 1943 the Army decided that men over 38, to general, were not phy sically fitted for combat duty, and the drafting of that age group was halted. This was followed - by an Army decision to allow the over-age soldiers to apply for discharge, pro viding they could show employment to -essential industry was awaiting them. -v "' " In the spring of 1943, with about 200,000 men ' given discharges, , the Army set a deadline on the time for applications by May 1 for troops to this country . and August i ior tnose overseas. ; -!. v r- -;" - --"" - -1 Those enlisted men who had not ap- piled by the deadline remained to, with discharge for physical reasons the only remaining general reason for dropping them from active duty. The Army, however, does accept ap plications ; from officers who become "surplus,' meaning those Who have no jobs to do to the service. The Marine corps says it w con tinuing the policy of releasing men over 38, upon their application. The Navy never has set a deadline age ior discharge, but it was learned recently that an "over-age" man may be given opportunity to return to civilian life if, among other things, he can obtain formal certification that the billet he holds can be abandoned without necessity of replacing him. ; . CITY SCCCCL5 STATIT 1G44-45 TEri rC"DAY Students Will Report Tomorrow For Registration And Asslfiimenta ' The Monroe City Schools will " "n their 1S44-4S term' 1 r J.-.y nirr i. Tomorrow momlng (ItUj-v) at r .:e o'clock, all str" r-.-s are 1 to re port to the auU.ioriums of t.e vr. ".. . j.. ;,! ats in grades ere thror i f . " i P t' "e, Eoir i r rt to J 1, s r Nona I ' -s, ' '.-.h and 1 . - J r ,t t ) 1 ; i s v Fierce Attack On In Pacific Yanks Continue Pace At Fc3 Fmj Batter Three Jap -Held Islands 200 PLANES DOWNED American carrier based aircraft rode ' full tilt Monday against tbe west cen tral Philippines to destroy at least 200 ' Japanese planes in a continuing ac tion against stiffening opposition. - Three ' Islands Cabu, . Panay and Negros all northwest of Mindanao, which carrier planes mauled only ' three days previously, wero the targets, . Adm. Chester w. Nlmlts' announce- ment yesterday of the slashing at tack Indicated it was still under way. Fragmentary reports failed to give , American losses to the action. . (The Pacific communique followed Japanese radio reports of continuing raids, : which apparently, referred to the same series of aerial encounters.) ; In contrast to recent detailed state " ments yesterday's communique ' said only that several cargo ships and small craft were sunk in the attacks. Fifty Japanese planes were shot - down In combat and 150 more were destroyed on the ground, Nimits re- ported. ; -No mention was made of-specific targets. . . -... - Single planes a tacked four northern Kurile islands Sunday and Monday. The American planes, presumably based to the Aleutians,. hit Paramu- shlro. .' Shumushu, Onnekotan and Aralto. A medium cargo vessel and four -smaller ships were sunk in Shumushu harbor. Two others were damaged. Army Mitchells, which staged this raid, were intercepted by Japanese ' fighters and one bomber was damaged. At -Paramushlro two" cargo ships were hit - Fires were started, on the : southeast coast and small . craft ' off shore were strafed. ::.; A Japanese fighter was snot down ' east of Onnekotan. Warehouse fires and flaming docks were left by Navy Venturas to, raids - on all four of the islands. ' . , Seventh Army Air force planes at-' tacked Iwo Jlma In the Volcano is- ' lands,' jouth of Japan, with 26 tons of bombs on Sunday. One enemy lighter was shot down and two Amer ican Liberators were damaged. A lone Catalina flying boat hit an ammunition- dump on Nauru island. A . Corsair 'attack, on a magazine storage area on Jaluit atoll In the Marsh alls and an Army Thunderbolt attack on Papan island in the Mari anas with bombs and rockets were carried out Monday. Enemy positions from the northern Kuriles to the Islands north of Aus- . tralia have been kept under steady attack, but the principal targets have been the Palau, Halmahera and Cele bes islands. " r . ' The Palau group, 600 miles east of : the Philippines, was reeling under :, week of air or naval assault Carrier . planes have pounded the Palau air- " fields and naval facallities for days. Warships shelled the islands Monday for the second time in less than -week. . V: ",.- ' -.-,'':'-:: , Appearance of the big battle wagons off Palau resembled the pattern of tne pre-mvasion softening of Guam. ' Heavy aerial strikes on Halmahera, 300 miles below the southern tip of v Mindanao, and on Dutch Celebes were ' reported to Gen. Douglas MacArthura Wednesday communique. U. Sw AIRT.IEN D0VN . 130 GERMAN FLA!,1S Greatest Air Battle Ever Waged Over Nasi Homeland. L American fighters escorting 1,000 heavy bombers attacking Nazi oil plants Is Germany Monday shot down 130 enemy planes to the greatest air bat tle ever fought over the Reich be tween American fighters and the LuIU wafle. . .. :. . : -(Fifteen - - American fighters were missing to the big air battle and pre liminary reports Indicated 43 bombers were lost the United Press reported.) The American fighters destroyed 12S German planes but 119 were car-;ht on the ground in Western Germany. Two day's bag made the total 1 j. It was the fourth con&cc;. . e !?y to which 1,000 or more A '--a bombers had a tacked Gei a: v. 1 : a continental skies -were saUrai ly Allied planes rising from fcas i England, Italy, North and tju.i France. : American losses were rt 1 - ". ately tobulated. A s; ' i f t U. a Eighth Air F f I ' I planes destioyed fi'.J t ( i -plete count, l"t e", ' j for f,;hters. Cr -i ; by the bombers t i v - An'roxltnttU-'v derbo;: si:.l 'l' escort, r A; ";i ; j i , . prevfmisly 1 i t- n i I i , atat i.s. I,i l',"--..l v--" ' . r.;-;-- "i i 'sr. i i at t - : t ? t " : :.
The Monroe Journal (Monroe, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Sept. 14, 1944, edition 1
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