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PAGE THREE
’Americans Gain in Los Negros Fighting
lid Gels Behind
Japs on Guinea
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Southwest Pacific, March 7—(AP)—
United States troops pushed ahead
Sunday toward Japanese positions
and inevitable new Jungle battles to
(drive the enemy from strategic Los
Negros island of the Admiralty
group in the Bismarck sea—a mili-
tary campaign startingly remindful
of the 1942 Guadalcanal invasion.
Allied forces had a tight grip on
Momote airdrome, which they seiz-
after their daring landing on
February 29, and have defended
against fierce attacks that cost the
Japanese 3,000 killed and wounded
in less than a week.
Their new move puts the
a Americans across a lagoon north
* of Momote airfield and gave
them a foothold on a seven-mile
long peninsula forming the
northern neck of Los Negro is-
land.
This advance, made in the face
@of Japanese artillery fire, was one of
several offensive actions reported
in General Douglas MacArthur's
communique.
By-passing a lot of rough
jungle along the northeast New
Guinea coast, units of the 32d
d division made an amphibious
landing behind Japanese posi-
tions and established themselves
30 miles west of Saidor. This
puts them in the rear of Jap-
anese blocking the road to Ma.
4 dang. The Madang area was
• heavily bombed.
Hundreds of miles eastward, on
Bougainville island in the Solomons,
Allied planes bombed and strafed
Japanese concentrations against the
American perimeter at Empress
@Augusta bay, and artillery pounded
the Japanese positions. There was
mounting evidence that the thous-
ands of Japanese stranded on Bou-
gainville were massing for some
desperate and probably suicidal
thrust at the Empress Augusta bay
(positions._
Southeast of Bougainville, the
hopelessly abandoned Japanese on
Choiseul island were blasted with
105 tons of bombs and were strafed
in a leisurely daylight raid in which
even slow-moving Catalina patrol
“planes took part. These Japanese,
gathered on northern Choiseul
beaches waiting for evacuation
barges that never arrived, were be-
lieved largely wiped out.
Rabaul, on New Britain, was
.struck with 181 tons of bombs in a
midday stuck. As is now usual,
there was no enemy aerial inter-
ference.
General MacArthur indicated
clearly in the communique the 1m-
pportance of resumption of the of-
•tensive by dismounted American
cavalrymen on Los Negros Island.
These troops, reinforced since their
landing, have been subjected to
heavy Japanese artillery fire but
have had strong support from
(American destroyers that stood off-
shore end shelled Japanese gun pos-
12th Names New Medical Officer
2
Major Alt T. Haerem has been -----------------
assigned commanding officer of the ‘
82d medical battalion, armored itP
was announced today by Maj. Gen.
Carlos Brewer, commanding gen- S M
eral of the 12 Armored division. 9
Prior to entering active service: a
in March 1941, Major Haerem was A
a first lieutenant in the medical
reserve His first assignment was 7 8
at the Station Hospital. Ft Sill. 1 1
Okla. In May 1943 he reported to theJ
12th Armored division after attend- " (
ing a medical field service school IF ooulii
since being assigned to the Hell- MI
cats hi has been unit surkeon fora
one-c : se combat command and :**S0
acting onion surgeon in the ab-ei
sence ( Li Col F H Van Wagoner
Before-entering the Army Maoting
Haernnwas a pbvsmdmang and -.
structor of medicine at the Univer- Moonis inninn
Two-Headed Baby
Born in California
VAN NUYS, Calif., March 7.—P)
—A two-headed baby, one of the
rarest of physiological phenomena.
1 was born dead Monday to the wife
, * of a service man. Dr. Gerald T
1 * Sprague announced.
A Dr Sprague said the baby, a girl,
V * weighed 7 1*2 pounds and that both
A) ♦ heads were perfectly formed X-rays
showed four shoulder blades instead
of the normal two, and two spinal
columns. joined in the pelvic region.
Tough Bird
PASADENA, Calif., March 7—)
—A Cormorant or Hell-diver—a vo-
racious aquatic bird with a strongly
hooked bill—dived into town, bit
Max Dorian's hand and slashed one
cheek of J L. McMerritt, humane
society truck driver.
SINCE 1900 A
Winter’s
■ DLEADERS IN STYLE/
sity of Chicago, where he received
his M D. in 1937 He earned his
B. A. at Luther college. Decorah.
Iowa in 1933.
At present he is living in Abilene
JAP BOMBER SHOT DOWN OFF MARIANNAS—Under a terrific barrage a Jap twin-en-
gined bomber goes down in a cloud of smoke as it attempted to make a run against the with his wife and two children at
Navy task force approaching the Mariannas Islands for raids on that Jap Pacific base. (AP
Wirephoto).
WIND AND ELECTRICAL STORMS
SWEEP ALABAMA; 5 ARE KILLED
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 7— northeast of Birmingham.
(PP)—A series of wind and electrical
storms swept Alabama yesterday,
leaving in their wake today at least
James F. Wood, about 55, of Lu-
It Ions
Possession of Momote airdrome—
which was seized intact, like Hen-
derson field on Guadalcanal in the
1942 landing there by U. S. Marines
@-gives Allied forces a plane base
from which they can sweep large
areas of the Bismarck sea and fur-
ther isolate Rabaul and other
southerly enemy bases
U S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD-
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, March 7
D.P—Adm. Chester W Nimitz an-
"V pounced that army and navy bomb-
era laid 35 tons of bombs on three
Japanese positions in the Marshall
Islands March 4. The planes met
antiaircraft fire but returned home
safely.
T Not naming the targets, Nimitz
said that fires and explosions fol-
lowed the bombing and strafing of
ground installations by 7th Army air
force and fleet air wing two planes.
The raids were the latest an-
enounced of the series which have
"hampered Japanese activity in the
central Pacific in recent weeks.
Big Spring Permits
BIG SPRING. March 7 HW) —
D Building permits in Big Spring dur-
ing February reached $8,500, most-
ly for repairs and additions. Of the
33 permits granted one went for
a $4,500 frozen locker plant to
Marvin Sewell
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SERVICE EMBLEMS
Attractive one, two, and three
star Service Emblems are
fl .available to relatives and
friends of men and women in
the Armed Forces, free of
charge at The Reporter-News
Business Office.
These emblems are printed •*
. book paper in colors. If the
" one you now have is faded,
discolored, or torn, one will ba
given as a replacement.
They will ba mailed for only
Se.
five dead, more than two score in-
jured and damage estimated in ex-
cess of 4250,000
The dead:
James T. Groover, 65, farmer of
Boaz, Route 4.
Jimmy Mitchell, 12. of the Pine
Grove community, about 60 miles
Armed Service Vote
Bill Changed Again
WASHINGTON, March 7—(-
The compromise armed service vote
bill underwent another revision at
the hands of Senate and House con-
ferees Monday.
—A new provision designed to per-
mit absentee voters of New Mexico
and Kentucky which now lack ade-
quate absentee voting laws, to use
federal ballots even if they are sta-
tioned with the armed forces in
this country was written into the
much-amended measure.
Although Senator Green (D-RI)
said the bill probably will be called
up in the Senate Thursday, he call-
ed another meeting of the confer-
ees for this afternoon.
In its present form the bill pro-
vides a federal ballot for use over-
seas by military citizens of states
whose governors certify by July 15
that such a ballot is acceptable, and
confines Its use to service men who
can't get a state ballot by October 1.
Traffic Snarl
DENVER, March 7——A police
squad car chased its quarry through
streams of traffic for seven blocks
Finally the officers blew their siren
to bring all other travelers to a
curbside halt so they could overtake
the fugitive.
The exasperated policemen lee-,
tured him for recklessness and Im-
pounded his vehicle for 10 days.
He was a 14-year-old boy on a
bike.
Woods Elected
AUSTIN. March 7.—(P)—Dr. L. A
Woods, superintendent of public
schools, was unanimously elected
ex-officio secretary of the state
board of Vocational Education at a
meeting of the board Monday, -----
verne, in south central Alabama.
R. S. Kennedy, 59, struck by
lightning at Mobile.
Earl J. Dodge, 51, of Mobile, kill-
ed as his automobile plunged off a
highway and struck a telegraph pole
near St. Elmo during storms height.
Young Mitchell was fatally in-
jured and about 15 of his fellow
students hurt when tornadie
winds struck the Pine Grove
elementary school. The frame
building was knocked from Its
foundations and unroofed. Mit-
chell was among those pinned
beneath the wreckage.
Mrs. B. H. Miller,a teacher, was
taken to Sand mountain infirmary
with back and shoulder injuries.
"There were about 50 children in
the school," Mrs. Miller said, "and
when they heard the storm ap-
proaching, they started running
from the building. That's about all
I can remember until 1 came to
about a hundred yards away."
She said as soon as she regained
consciousness, she returned to the
wreckage and assisted, in rescuing
children who were trapped. Then,
despite injuries, she drove her car
several miles for help.
Ship Plant Workers
Give Strike Notice -
HOUSTON, March 7—(PP)—Local
Five of the United Brotherhood of
Welders, Cutters and Helpers (in-
dependent), the accredited bargain-
ing agent for 5,000 welders at Hous-
ton Shipbuilding corporation, today
filed notice of intention to strike in
30 days.
With three dissenting votes the
union voted yesterday to strike at
the yard which produces Liberty-
type cargo vessels for the United
States Maritime commission, an-
nounced Educational Director Ed
Dawley. . ____________
Worry of
FALSE TEETH
Slipping or Irritating?
Drills 655 Good
Wildcats in 1943
DALLAS, March 7.—(P)—The
American petroleum industry drill-
ed 655 successful wildcat wells in
1943. compared with 492 in 1942,
Dr. Frederick H. Lahee, geologist.
Sun Oil company, said in a talk
before the Dallas petroleum geolo-
gists Monday"
Wildcat drilling efforts in 1943
that failed totaled 3,188, contrasted
with 2.720, Dr. Lahee said. Dry
wildcats in 1943 averaged 3.884 feet,
against an average of 3.663 feet in
1942. The successful wildcats in 1943
found oil at an average depth of 4,-
185 feet, compared With 4,338 feet
as the average depth of those which
found pay in 1942.
Military Policewoman
FRESNO, Calif, March 7—)—
WACs at Camp Pinedale now are
serving as MP's (military police) on
the army post.
They check the passes of soldiers
at the main gate and furnish infor-
mation to visitors. They are not
armed.
Exterminator Hired
BRIERLEY HILL. England, Mar.
7—(P)—The Brierley Hill city coun-
cil advertised for a rat catcher at
a salary of $20 a week, but got no
response.
The council decided to try again,
but advertised this time for "a Ro-
dent operative"—and got one at $18
per week
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town is Story City, Iowa
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This action, said John Eddy, head
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cent opinion of the attorney gener-
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