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DELAWARE. SATURDAY, APRIL 22. 1944 TWENTY PACES $8,000,000,000 STABILIZATION 4 NAZI RAIL CENTERS HIT IN BIGGEST RAID; PATTON IN ENGLAND PLAN AGREED ON 9 UN Japs' New Drives In China MONGOLIA MANCHURIA V. PERILED BY JAP HONANJTTACK Morgenthau Reveals Chenghsien, Key To Chinese Wheat Crops, Is Objective; Americans Ordered to Leave Area Observers Also Think Foe May be Seeking Route Of Escape if Allied Troops Land on Coast of China In Excess of 5,000 Tons of Bombs Are Hurled on Cologne, Three Other Cities Colorful American General Expected To Take Big Part In Assault on Europe IfN a Naocnang II ChngshV-vr-' if 5' II Burma If China VKunrning Amoyp AjW HONG 'YRl'mooWMll 5outh China fo 200 statute miuS Empire's Preference Tariff Not Dead, Says Churchill Advantages for Dominions Not Hampered By Lend-Lease or Atlantic Charter, He Reveals; Takes Dig at U.S. By EDWARD D.

BALL Associated Press Correspondent LOUDON. April 21 Prime Minister Churchill assured the states of the British Empire today that they would emerge from the war with their imperial preference plan of mutually advantageous tariff rates unhampered by the Atlantic Charter or by the 1942 Anglo-American lend-lease agreement. He told an approving House of Commons that President Roosevelt JAP TANKS HALTED Arrows indicate Japanese drives at Chenghsien, junction on the Petping-Hankow rail route Unking northern and central China. Japanese drives also threaten the wheat crop in the area. Shading indicates areas HARD FIGHTING MPHAL FRONT Allies Continue Gains Despite Assaults By Fresh Enemy Troops British Indian Forces Occupy Hill Positions; Stil-well Slowed By Rains By THOBUEN WIANT Associated Press Correspondent SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUARTERS, Kandy.

Ceylon, April 21 The Japanese have thrown reinforcements. Including tanks, into their invasion of India, but they still are being knocked back In hard fighting around the big Allied bases of Imphal and Kohima, some 35 miles from the Burma border. Ad miral Lord Louis Mountbatten's headquarters announced today. First appearance of enemy tanks in the fighting at the edgs of the Imphal Plain was reported from the Palel area, southeast of Imphal, where British and Indian troops repulsed a Japanese infantry attack supported by armor. The tanks apparently had been brought through the mountains and Jungles from Burma at terrific expenditure of effort.

An influx of Japanese troops was noted in the area of Kohima, 60 miles north of Imphal, but Mount-batten's communique said Allied forces made further progress in their counter-offensive against an invasion column that established road blocks along the supply highway between Kohima and Dimapur station on the Bengal-Assam railway. Earlier in the week, an Allied force from Dimapur broke through to the relief of a tired British and Indian garrison that had held Kohima against day and night assaults by the Japanese. Recent fighting around Kohima was declared to have cost the Japanese at least 400 killed. An Allied force thrusting out See INDIA Page 4 Germans Announce 'Major Attack' By American Airmen Against Bucharest By W. W.

HERCHER Associated Press Correspondent LONDON, Saturday, April 22 The R. A. F. in its strongest blow of the war poured more than 5,000 tons of bombs Thursday night on Cologne and three other key railway centers behind the Nazis' invasion front, and yesterday American heavy bombers were reported by Berlin to have carried out a "major attack" on Bucharest and other targets in southeastern Europe. From Britain American light and medium bombers hammered again at the Atlantic Wall targets.

Marauders and Havocs making repeated flights during the day. Five of the bombers were lost as the Nazis sent up fighters for the first time in more than a month in this area. 1.100 Planes in Raid More than 1.100 aircraft, the largest number of planes ever sent out by the British bomber command, ripped apart the enemy's four rail centers, presumably busy with last-minute preparations for strengthening the vaunted Atlantic Wall against the forthcoming Allied invasion. Sixteen off the bombers were lost. Besides Cologne, described by the Air Ministry as being by far the most important railway center in western Germany, the R- A.

F. shattered and burned Lens, in the Pas-de-Calais "invasion coast" area. Ot-tignies, in Belgium about 15 miles southeast of Brussels, and La Chape He, on the outskirts of Paris. In addition R. A.

F. Mosquitos capable of carrying two-ton blockbusters delivered a sharp night attack on Berlin: Bucharest Raid Reported The American heavyweight blow reported by Germany presumably was from bases in Italy. Berlin said the Romanian capital of Bucharest was raided at noon and that bombs also were dropped in south Romania and Serbia. There was no report from Allied headquarters at Naples of an attack on Bucharest. Latest dispatches from that Italian city said the Allied Mediterranean air forces hurled their striking power against Nazi communications in Italy Thursday, hitting shipping ports on both ooasts and rail networks inland with more than 2,000 sorties.

Targets at the head of the Adriatic Sea caught the brunt of the assault, four-engined Liberators pouring explosives into Venice harbor and the Monfalcone shipyards near Trieste. American fighter-bombers in 59 strafing runs across Rieti air field northeast of Rome destroyed 10 grounded Focke-WuIf-190 fighters, the Naples dispatches said. Livorno harbor on the west coast also wat showered with bombs. Eight Allied planes were lost in all actions. Thursday night was the second See AIR RAIDS Page 2 7 huge oil tanks, docks, warehouses, barracks, a radio station and power plant all received personal attention of the fliers, to say nothing of the Japanese commander's personal quarters, which were riddled by four early-rising Hellcats.

From 40 miles away, the returning See SABANG Page 4 By SPENCER MOOS A Associated Press Correspondent CHUNGKING, April 21 The Japanese, using a force of between 50,000 and 60,000 men, including crack reinforcements drawn from the Manchurian garrison, are swiftly encircling the North Honan rail way Junction of Chenghsien, Chi nese advices stated tonight. The American and British embassies were disclosed to have ordered their nationals to flee the path of the enemy's gathering offensive. The town of Chenghsien itself seemed likely to fall before the Japa nese drive, declared by the Chinese to be aimed at closing the 160-mile Chinese-held section of the Peiping- Hankow Railway, and, it was sug gested by foreign observers today. perhaps at capturing the great Honan wheat crop now ripening in the fields. The Chinese command in its com munique tonight indicated that the Japanese had narrowed to less than 30 miles an escape corridor through which the Chinese forces defending Chenghsien could flee to the south west.

Japs Shell Junction A Japanese column striking toward Chenghsien from the east brought the Junction under shellfire, the Chinese bulletin stated, while two other columns from the east crossed the Peiping-Hankow railway at a point about 20 miles below Chenghsien, and advanced ten miles beyond toward the important highway town of Mihsien. Still another large Japanese force striking down from the northwest was engaged only a few miles outside Chenghsien by Chinese battling to keep the escape corridor open, and both sides were said to have suffered heavy casualties. The Japanese appeared to be suc ceeding in a plan to envelop Chengh- Seo HONAN Page 4 HIJACKERS ARE SOUGHT IN ARMY CLOTH THEFT 'Higher-nps Sought in Robberies Reaching 'Staggering Figure' PHILADELPHIA, April 21 (JP) Army cloth and other material valued at a "staggering figure" have been stolen by a gang of seaboard hijackers. Capt. Richard Doyle said today, as efforts were made to identify remnants of stolen cloth recovered Thursday in three places here.

Originally it was believed that the goods were part of $200,000 worth stoles from trucking companies In a series of robberies here beginning March 21. But detectives revealed today that the loot was not the property of the local quartermaster depot. It obviously was stolen from other depots in this area and cached here to 'cool Capt. Doyle said. POWERS OF 87 TERMED RULE IN PLURAL BIRTHS Health Officer Figures It Oat After Searching Old Records PALO ALTO, April 21 (JP) When triplets were born here re cently, Health Officer Louis Olsen did some research and concluded that plural births occur approxi mately as the powers of 87.

On this basis one confinement In 87 brings twins; triplets, once in 7,569, the square of 87; quadruplets, once in 658,503. the cube of 87. There were 7,586 births here between the two sets of triplets, onlv 17 off from Olsen's calculation on averages. ARMY TO BUY FOR COOCH'S Program Approved By Treasury Tech nicians of 34 Lands Russia Adheres to Scheme At Last Minute; U. S.

is To Provide $2,500,000,000 Or More; Congress. Split By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, April 21 Treasury technicians of 34 nations an nounced tonight their agreement on broad outlines for a proposed $8,000,000,000 gold-based stabilization fund designed to restore order I to International finance and promote world prosperity. Soviet Russia dramatically gave Sits approval at the last minute. Word of Russian concurrence with ithe money experts of other United I Nations was received only a short time before the agreement was made public here and in other Allied capitals. Secretary Morgenthau earlier had told newsmen that the Joint state-jment represented the views of all I the nations except Russia, although 1 he added that he was "very hopeful" of Russian adherence.

The fund, it was explained, would use such methods as buying and selling gold and currencies to pre- vent unhealthful gyrations in the I relationships between currencies and to promote trade. It could provide I one country with currency of in-I other in exchange for its own currency or gold. It could also offer I gold to a member country in ex- change for its currency, if the coun try needed gold to maintain confidence in its money. Congress Divided During the day Morgenthau out- lined the agreement before eongres- sional committees, telling them that I President Roosevelt would name aen-I a tors and representatives on a com-1 mittee to represent this country at a projected international conference to anait a lormai stabilization program. Morgenthau has emphasized that the program will be subject to approval or disapproval by Congress.

Congressional reaction to the sta bilization proposal tonight ranged from warm enthusiasm In some quarters to the blunt conclusion of Representative Smith (R-Ohio: "So perilous to the United States that no words can describe It. V. R. Victory The agreement represents a clear. cut American victory over British proposals to relegate gold to a minor role hi post-war currency stabiliza tion.

Outgrowth of more than a year of planning and discussion, the agreement replaces separate proposals advanced by this country. Great Britain and Canada. Despite British capitulation to American and Canadian views toward gold as a stabilization basis, both Morgenthau and Harry D. White, author of the American or so-called "White Plan," emphasized Bee MONETARY Page PVT. W.

N. JONES, MISSING IN ITALY Newark Soldier Went Overseas Less Than Three Months Ago Private William Nowland Jones, Jt, 24, of Newark, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. M.

Jones, Sr. of Smyrna, I has been reported missing In action In the European theatre of war. A telegram which the family re-I eeived stated he had been missing in Italy since Feb. 29 and that a letter would follow. No further de-I tails were given.

I Private Jones, who was with an I Infantry division, left for overseas I duty less than three months ago. Kis last letter was dated Feb. 27, two days before he was lost in action. He mentioned he was looking for-1 ward to a quick return home. I Jones entered the Army March 29.

1942. at Fort Dix, and received his basic training in Georgia and South Carolina. Before Joining, he operated a barber shop in Newark. His wife, the former Miss Priscilla Collins of Smyrna, lives at 209 East Main Street, Newark. Two sisters, Mrs.

Sarah Kemp and Mrs. Elizabeth Bush, and his two brothers, James and Robert live In (Smyrna. LYON NAMED TRUSTEE OF STATE HOSPITAL Succeeds F. H. Gawthrop Who Asked To be Relieved Special to The Morning Newt DOVER, April 21 After serving nine three-year terms as a member of the board of trustees of the Delaware State Hospital at Famhurst, during which he has played an active role in the great advancement made by the Institution.

Frederick H. Gawthrop. Wilmington, is retiring. Gov. Walter W.

Bacon appointed Leland Lyon, president of the Atlas Powder Company, as his successor for the three-year term commencing next Wednesday. The Governor renamed Dr. Rowland O. Paynter, Georgetown, and George M. Fisher, Dover, for similar terms on the board.

Governor Bacon expressed appreciation of the excellence of service given by Mr. Gawthrop who now is at Fort Leuderdals, Fla- on a leave of absence from the board and who had expressed a desire that he be relieved. Germans Say Allies Massing Gigantic Invasion Fleet And Assembling Army By 3. EDWARD MURRAY United Press Correspondent LONDON, April 21 George S. Patton, hard-boiled tank fighter who already has led two American invasion armies to victory In this war.

has arrived in the European theatre of operations for duty, supreme Allied headquarters announced today. There was no official indication Immediately as to when Patton had reached England, or what his duties would be, but the announcement of the arrival of the hell-for-leather, two-gun-toting general whose explosive temperament and hard-driving methods won him the name of "Old Blood and Guts" coincided with German broadcast claims that a tremendous Allied invasion flotilla was massing in English waters. The disclosure of Pattern's arrival here was the first word as to his whereabouts since his rebuke by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Allied commander-in-chief, for slapping a sick soldier in a field hospital near Palermo, and his subsequent apol ogv to officers, and men of the Sev enth American Army which he led to a lightning victory in Sicily. Heads 'Another Army' Following the announcement last March 22 that Patton had been re placed by Alexander Patch, Pacific veteran, as chief of the Seventh Army, it was revealed in Washington that the colorful of fleer had been put in command of "another Army." Known as "the general who never lost a battle." Patton, then a major-general and "commander of the Western task force, personally led his troops in the invasion of Northwest Africa at Casablanca. He dashed ashore with a tommy-gun in his arms, his two pistols swinging from his hips, and remained in the vanguard of the fighting until resistance ended several days later. Again in the invasion of Sicily, Patton, spurring his troops on to "keep punching rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, and without rest" waded ashore from a landing barge to take command against Nazi tank units opposing the landing. Praised by Chiefs His campaign in Sicily drew praise from both British and American military men.

His army originally was scheduled to capture only the southwestern half of Sicily, but when Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's famed Eighth Army became stalled at Catania on the east coast, the general hurled his army north and then east on Eisenhower's orders and was the first to reach Messina on the northeastern end of the Island. British newspapers took it for See PATTON Page 4 EXPERT WORKER FREED FROM ALIMONY ROW Absence of Chicago Man Endangered War Work, His Boss Says CHICAGO. April 21 VPr They re leased David Pink, 40-year-old laborer, from "alimony row" in the county jail today ending a threat to the continued production of tin plate at the huge Indiana Harbor Works of the Inland Steel Company.

Pink was sent to jail April 13, ac cused of being $248 in arrears In his temporary alimony payments of $50 a month to his wife. Eleanor. Today, M. M. McClure, superinten dent of industrial relations at the Indiana Harbor Works, begged Superior Court Judge John A.

Sbarbaro to release him, saying: "Our produc tion of tin plate is threatened by David Pink's absence." 1,030 ACRES BRIDGE DEPOT age depot is bounded roughly on the west by the Pennsylvania Railroad spur; on the south by the Christi-ana-Oooih's Bridge Road; on the north by the Ogieton-Wilson Road, and on the east it will extend to Felician Sisters property, which will not be Included except for the lease of a small portion. The Buffalo Sand and Gravel Company was recently awarded a contract to construct the storage depot, which Involves the making of earth embankments and the building of railroad tracks and roads. It was said here yesterday that many local sub-contractors have arranged to do part of the work, which will Include the movement of huge quantities of earth. A project manager for the general contractor Is already on the Job and a construction office is being erected. had assured him that "we were no- more committed to abolition of im- perial preference than the American government was committed to abolition of their protective tariff." Churchill in the course of his speech said that the Americans helped wreck the League of Nations "by not backing its principles with effective armed force." "We had a pretty dreary time between the two wars," he said.

"We've great responsibilities for the part we played all of us and so have the Americans in not making the League of Nations a reality and not backing its principles with effective armed force, and letting the deadly and vengeful foe arm at his leisure." The House cheered this portion of the speech. The Prime Minister said there need be no clash between the unity of the Commonwealth and Empire and their associations with the United States and Russia, and added: "There must be a wholehearted endeavor begun In good time to promote the greatest interchange of goods and services between various communities of the world, and to strive for that process of betterment of the standards of living in every country without which expanding markets axe impossible and without which world prosperity is a dream which might easily turn into a nightmare." i With a nee ting of empire premiers approaching, Churchill said: "At my first meeting with the See CHURCHILL Page 4 REDS HALT FIERCE GERMAN ATTACKS CARPATHIANS Ukraine Corps Routs Seven Nazi Assaults In Fighting in Poland Sevastopol Battle Quiets Down as Soviets Continue Siege of Ancient Port By TOM TAKBSOCGH Associated Press Correspondent LONDON, Saturday, April 22 The Soviet High Command announced early today that Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's first Ukraine Army killed 1,500 enemy troops, and destroyed 68 tanks yesterday in a violent battle spreading through the Carpathian foothills southeast of Stanis- lawow In Old Poland, where the Germans apparently sought to dis rupt a fresh Russian offensive timetable. Moscow's midnight bulletin, which again did not mention besieged Sevastopol, where the enemy has been squeezed into a 50-square-mile tip of the Crimea, said the fighting near Stanislawow was precipitated by renewed German attacks. One Soviet unit alone repulsed seven consecutive Nazi assaults in fighting that often was hand-to-hand, the bulletin said.

Reds Rush Reserves A Berlin broadcast, giving perhaps the clue to the current German counter-attacks, reported that huge Red Army reserves were flowing through the Ukraine Into a 250-mile sector of the Polish front between the Upper Dnestr and the Pripyat Marshes as a preiude to fresh Russian assaults alorig the most direct Invasion route to Berlin. It was possible that these Russian reserves had been shifted from the See RUSSIA Page 4 OFFICERS, WACS WANT THEIR LOVE IN SECRECY Threat at Informing Home-Town Papers Pisconrages Betrothals FIFTEENTH AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS, Italy, April 21 U.R Army regulations forbid air force officers and enlisted WACS to have dates unless they are engaged. About two dozen officers and WACS here asked for certificates of betrothal. The Army said that home-town newspapers would, of course, be notified of the happy partnerships. All but one application was of Japanese domination.

350 DEMOCRATS TO BACK 4TH TERM AT DINNER HERE J. P. McGranerv, Aide To U. S. Attorney Gen eral, to be Speaker Senator James M.

Tunnell Also to Give Address At Hotel DuPont Tuesday More than 350 persons are sched uled to attend the Roosevelt for President Dinner to be given by the Democratic State Committee Tuesday night in the Hotel DuPont, wtth James P. McGranery, assist ant U. S. attorney general, as the principal speaker. Mr.

McGranery, who Is the rank ing officer of the Department of Justice under Francis Biddle served three terms as a member of Congress from the Second Pennsylvania district, during the period 1937 to 1943. He was also chairman of the Philadelphia registration committee. During World War Mr. McGranery served as an observation pilot, and as adjutant of the 111th Infantry. William S.

Potter, chairman of the state committee, will be the toast-master. Other speakers will include U. S. Senator James M. Tunnell, and Mrs.

Marguerite D. Bodziak, Democratic national committee woman. The invocation is to be asked by the Rev. Dr. James M.

Grant, pastor of St. Elizabeth's R. C. Church and the benediction will be by the Rev. James C.

Settle, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Georgetown. Democratic leaders Interpret the large number of reservations for the dinner as an Indication of general enthusiasm within the party for a fourth term for President Roosevelt. Democrats from all sections of the state have made reservations for the affair, and many labor organizations are also sending their officers. Among those at the speakers' table will be Miss Jessie Phillips, vice- chairman of the state committee: John C.

Hazzard, chairman of the city committee; Mrs. Kate Jones, city vice-chairman: Lieut. -Gov. Isaac J. MacCollum; Senator Har ris B.

McDowell, Jr, New Castle county chairman; Mrs. Nellie Walsh, county vice-chairman; Willard Boyce, Kent County chairman; Mrs. Madeline G. Dickerson, Kent vice-chairman: Leroy Smith, Sussex County chairman; Miss Kittie Rogers, Sussex vice-chairman; former U. S.

Senator James H. Hughes; Mrs. Mary Hart, of the Women's City Democratic Club, and Isaac G. Thornton. Among the labor leaders to attend are Gilbert Lewis, president of the New Castle County Industrial Union Council, John J.

Hartnett, president of the Delaware State Federation of Labor, and Lacey Wilson, representative of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine-men. $5 PAID AT AUCTION FOR $8,000 IN GOLD Purchaser Faces Much Ked Tape Before. He Can Collect Cash LOS ANGELES, April 21 OP) Charles E. Prince, Ontario, Calif, war worker, bought at a grab-bag storage auction sale for $5 a box in which he found gold worth $8,000. But it is going to be a while before he gets his money.

First, Treasury officials ruled, he must get from the mint director authorization for a licensed gold buyer to purchase it. Then the secret service will turn the gold over to the buyer, who will give Prince a check. Of this. Internal Revenue officials estimated, approximately $2,000 must go for Income taxes. PARLEY PROPOSED TO RETAIN DOLCE IN HEALTH POST Meeting Seen Attempt By Mayor to Overcome Objections of Council Otherwise Commissioner Is Not Expected to be Given Permanent Appointment Unless a proposed conference Involving Mayor Albert W.

James and the Public Health Committee of City Council brings a change in the pres ent attitude of the majority of Coun-cilmen. Dr. James A. Dolce, health commissioner, will not be retained after his six-month probation period has elapsed in May, it was disclosed yesterday. A conference was revealed to be a last-minute attempt by the mayor to emphasize the need of an expert enced health commissioner and to overcome Council objections which originated in November when the announcement of Dr.

Dolce's appointment was made. After the weekly meeting of the Board of Health yesterday, a member revealed that the board has not been able, with less than a month to go, to notify Dr. Dolce that his permanent appointment will or will not be approved. Origin of Dispute The temporary appointment of the doctor, a major in the U. S.

Public Health Service, brought to a head an undercurrent of dissatisfaction in City Council. In the meeting of Nov. 4, 1943, Albert T. Straw-bridge. Twelfth Ward, complained of "undercover work in connection with the appointment of a health commissioner and manipulation In the Board of Health." A motion, voted against only by President of Council Shermer H.

Stradley, directed the Clerk of Council to write to the Board of Health to the effect that a U. S. Public See DOLCE Page 3 ERNIE PYLE REVEALS LOCAL BOY IS AT ANZI0 Parents Learn Whereabout Of Sergt. S. A.

Lynch for First Time The mention of Staff Sergt. Sam uel Alan Lynch, 2411 West Street. in Ernie Pyle's column, "War Diary," today on Page 6 of the Wilmington Morning News revealed to Sergeant Lynch's parents for the first time where their son is stationed. George A. Lynch, father of the 27-year-old soldier, said last night that although he knew his son was serving e-where In Italy.

Sa-nel A. he did not know the exact place. Pyle met Sergeant Lynch at Anzio. Sergeant Lynch was wounded In the head by shrapnel during the landing at Salerno and sent his Purple Heart award to his parents. Sergeant Lynch is married to Doris Varell Lynch, They have one child, 4-year-old Joanne Lynch.

The sergeant is a graduate of the Pierre S. duPont High School. STRIKE HITS ARMY WORK CHICAGO, April 21 IIP) A walk out of more than 2,000 C. I. O.

United Steelworkers halted produc tion of U. S. Army Ordnance items today at the Hammond, Ind, plant of Pullman-Standard Car Manufac turing Company. I I Foe 'Didn't Have a Chance9 As Allied Fliers Hit Sabang (Eugene Burns, Associated Press war correspondent, whose eye-witness account of the Allied naval and air attack on the Japanese stronghold of Sabang, near Sumatra, appears below, has covered the war in the Pacific from the outset.) By EUGENE BURNS Associated Press Correspondent ABOARD AN ALLIED AIRCRAFT CARRIER OFF SABANG, Sumatra, April 19 (Delayed) Allied carrier-based planes Hellcats, Dauntless Avengers, Corsairs and Barracudas pinned down the Japanese air force and destroyed military installations at Sabang to their hearts content in a furious 15-minute attack this morning. The raid was launched from Allied carriers screened by battleships Another 180 Acres Will be Leased; 30 Dif ferent Properties Included in Two Tracts Now Being Appraised and lighter units under command of Admiral Sir James Somerville.

commander of Britain's Eastern Fleet, who personally attended the "show. Almost 80 per cent of the planes were American-made. The Japanese attempted reprisal raids on our force perhaps from air fields at Padang, or In the Andaman or Nicobar islands, or even from Singapore but It availed them nothing. By day the Japanese could not penetrate the Hellcat screen and the Allied barrage stopped them at night. (The raid was announced by the Southeast Asia command headquarters of Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten Thursday in a communique.) As we left home base for this at tack, American-made patrol planes kept an "umbrella" over us.

As we struck this morning, American-made Liberators made a strong diversionary attack on the Andaman Islands, and then St was "bang-bang Sabang!" Every military installation was hit on two air fields, one on little Sabang Island, off the northwest tip of Sumatra, and another at Ihonga, on Sumatra itself. Two cargo ships of 4,000 to 5.000 tons each, three corvettes, three Index of the News Pagea Amusements 13 Births 4 Church Notes 8 Classified 17-lg-19 Comics 15 Deaths 4 Editorials 6 Ernie Pyle Financial 16-17 Garden News 29 Marquis Child Obituaries 4 Radio 14 Real Estate Notes ia Society New Sports 12-11 State New Westbroofc Pegler 4 With the Service Men 14 Woman Page 14 The Army Engineers have been directed to purchase approximately 1,030 acres of land near coochs Bridge for the construction of the storage depot, for which a contract was recently awarded, it was an nounced by officers of the Middle Atlantic Division of the Corps of Engineers, at Baltimore, who arrived in Newark yesterday morning. The land to be purchased includes about 26 different properties. In addition, the Army will endeavor to lease about seven properties comprising 180 acres, so that the entire tract to be obtained for the depot will total more than 1,200 acres. The land is now being appraised.

officers sa d. This work, It is hoped, will be finished by. today, after which the negotiations for direct purchase of the land will be held. The area to be used for the stor.