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Oakland Tribune, Wednesday, June 28, 1944 3 CHINESE CAPTURE ANOTHER TOWN IN DRIVE ON GERMAN OIL SUPPLIES MAY SHORTEN THE WAR Berkeley Airman Took Part In Attack on Jap Fleet Yank Bags 27th Plane Death Leap From Bridge DEAD FLIER'S DOG IS SENT NORTHERN BURMA TO PARENTS FROM ENGLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND By GLADWIN HILL LONDON, June 28. Capital Dan MoGuire, a University of Calif orna eraduAte m-ith the class of 1937, formerly AN AMERICAN FIGHTER BASE A woman believed to be Mrs. HEADQUARTERS, KANDY, Cey MrkM on ncwsnaDMs in BrklY and San Francisco before- aoinx overseas CHICAGO. June 28. iJP) A black BeU often had written hit parent a con espoudeot for United Press.

Here, he tells of a sea-air battle in which an- 4W- IamI Wnw tiwb hie nt Jane i izing on lessons learned in Tunisia, Eveleen Bernice Ward, 39. of 2035 IN ENGLAND. June 28. WV-Thunderbolt Pilot Col. Francis E.

lon, June 28. Chinese forces, following up their success in cap cocker spaniel, whose master at an air base in England was an Indiana Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Bell, of new Denver, Ind- telling them ot Flak into me and I released bombs 1000 Hayes Street, San Francisco, leaped to her death today from Sap Francisco, end of the Golden Gate Gabreski. of -Oil City.

Pa, shot down a German ME-109 yesterday feet above him. over France, bringing his total of ABOARD CARRIER FLAGSHIP, Marianas, June 23. (East Longitude Time) U.R The first American pilot to attack the Japanese Bridge. turing the Japanese North Burma base of Mogaung in conjunction Sharp was jumped by Zeros, but enemy planes destroyed in the au farm boy, is romping about bis new home on an Indiana farm after a plane trip from England authorized by Gen. H.

H. chief of the Passing motorists saw her climb to 27, tying the American combat the rail, hesitate and then plunge fought them off and probably damaged one. His engine caught fire, record. They were unable to stop in time fleet after it had beer, located in ceu sister, manene, nurse in Chicago, had asked General Arnold if arrangements could be made to have Flak sent to her parents, telling the general that the dog would console them "as part of Bob that still was living." General Arnold responded favorably but because of when the Nazi war machine collapsed in a welter of stalled trucks and grounded planes due to an oil shortage, the Allies are making an all-out effort to speed Germany's final surrender by again draining away her military lifeblood. Allied air chiefs directing this campaign say there already is an "acute shortage" of oil in Germany, but beyond this they will not go in assessing the situation.

Maj. Robert Johnston of Lawton, has 27 victories in the Euro to save her. the Philippines Sea by search! united states Army Air Forces. In England the dog "Flak" was the inseparable comraninn nf Set with British troops, have occupied Namti, six miles northeast of that town, an Allied eommunique announced today. Other Chinese forces are advancing south from Mogaung burned for 10 minutes and quit four times on the way back.

He had no radio or compass. He landed 30 miles from this carrier and was noes under the bridge were flowing out swiftly at "Ihe time and Coast Guard boats that searched the pean theater of operations, and Maj. Richard I. Bong of Poplar, Wis, knocked down 27 in the Pacific. Robert K.

BelL 23, who was killed area were unable to locate the planes was Lieut. Comdr. James Arbes, 28, New Ulm, skipper of this carrier's dive-bomber squadron who scored hits or near misses on the stem of a big Neither Johnston nor Bong is cur last December 23 when his Liberator bomber crashed after a rajd on Germany. picked up five hours later. SECOND DIVISION mica Meiisjiuiuug oiuuuuf from overseas, arrival of Flak, now nine months old, was delayed.

to Loilaw, the bulletin said. rently flying in combat. body. HUSBAND, TWO SONS A second division led by Lieut. Britain's ministry oteconomic warfare, however, has estimated German oil production has been cut to one-third of maximum and the Ration books found in the seat of a sedan parked at the point where Arthur Jones, 31, Flemington, attacked the carrier on the opposite Arbes, who was too small to play the woman jumped indicated that side.

'ootball for the University of Min- Nazi Army is getting less than half 3C she. had a husband and two sons, esota, led his squadron in what An excited motorist reported the fiehter nilots who witnessed it "I saw the carrier's stern aflame." Jones recounted. "Fires were shooting out from the hangar deck the oil it requires for normal opera-tions let alone the present tremen suicide first to authorities when he called a "perfect attack'1 against dous defensive effort it is facing on drove into the toll plaza and told amidships." the carrier and a battleship. COULDNT FOOL AROUND all fronts. them he had seen her jump.

Patrolmen who went to the scene Since that information became available the Allied Air Forces have "Because it was so late when we found the fleet we didn't fool around trying to find the most ad found the automobile, ration books and a driver's license in the name of Mrs. Ward. There was no note. The ration books were made out vantageous attacking positions. Jones fought in the RAF.

for more than two years and shot down three Nazis, "but that was never like this." He bailed out after running' out of gas and was picked up 12 hours later by a destroyer. Dive-bomber- Pilots Lieut (jg) Warren Pilcher, 26, San Angelo, and Lieut, (jg) P. W. Huntsman, 22, Santa Cruz, attacked Arbes said. "It was such a long ot Mrs.

Ward and to Thomas T. Ward, Robert L. Ward and Thomas dealt some of their heaviest blows against enemy oil production. On June 20 American daylight bombers hit 12 German oil plants in a raid which the U.S. Army Air Forces describe as one of the two heaviest blows they have leveled against the German war effort to date.

Last Friday and Saturday Mediterranean-based bombers attacked trip that we were low on gas, and we knew we had or.ly a slim change to return without making a water Fi Ward. HUSBAND LOCATED Positive identification of the wo landing. "I peeled off at about 12.000 feet man who committed suicide cannot 1 1 with Jones. Both believed they and dropped my bombs. When be made until the body is found, but scored hits.

They also made water Dude Horn, Ploesti oil fields in Romania Thomas F. Ward, clerk for a San Francisco lumber company, said that landings, as did Sharp and and were picked up. he ha a wife, Eveleen, and twin sons, Robert and Thomas, who are nine years old. Contacted by highway patrolmen he ws unable to understand or explain why his wife should have and on Sunday joined with Britain-based heavyweights in raids on German oil installations in southern France. On Monday a refinery at Vienna was bombed and last night the Air Ministry announced a night attack upon the synthetic oil plant at Gel-senkirchen had cut at least another 1000 tons of oil per day from German supplies.

Four Years Ago Today By the Associated Press June 28. 1940 Britain declares new 230-mile defense area along coast opposite, German-occupied continent; Russian troops march into Bessarabia and Bucovina, ceded to Russia by Roniania. taken her life. He said that she seemed all right when he left home for work, this morning and hadn't been ill or despondent. This was the 43rd suicide from the Golden Gate Bridge.

pulled out I saw a fire on the carrier's stern. "Ack-ack hit my wing going 5own. I tried to get into position to strafe an oiler on the way home, but I didn't have time because my gas was too low. The ack-ack was the worst I've seen or ever expect to see." Arbes made a water landing, like many other American airmen in the Strike group, about 35 miles est of the United States forces. He and his rear seat man were picked up by a destroyer about 12 hours later.

BERKELEY FLIER Fliers following Arbes in on' the Jap flattop included Lieut, (jg) Robert Horn, 25, Pottsville, and Lieut (jg) Harwood Sharp, 22, 6469 Benvenue Avenue, Berkeley. Corduroys JAPS SURROUND KEY HUNAN CITY BUT CHINESE BATTLE HARD FOR POSSESSION Air Raid Leader Made a Brigadier SUPREME HEADQUARTERS LLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 28. (if) Col. Herbert B. Thatcher, 34.

commander of a wing in the Ninth Air Force Bomber Commarjd, has been promoted to brigadier general, it was announced today. He led the first medium level attack by Marauders July 16, 1943, against the Abbeville from which most foreign agencies have already withdrawn or are now withdrawing. American and other missionaries in the threatened areas have left for Weiyang or Kunmiang. The 14th Airforce continued Its slashing blows against the Japanese in Hunan, with widespread attacks op troop columns and cavalry units CHUNGKING. June 28.

The high command indicated last night that Japanese forces have surrounded Hengyang, vital railway junction in Hunan Province. Loss of this city would be the greatest blow to China since the fall of Canton and Hankow in October, 1938. "Severe fighting for the possession of Hengyang is now in progress on all sides of the city." said a communique, adding "the city is still in our hands." With the fall of Hengyang the way would be open for a Japanese advance on Kuwong, provisional capital of Kwantung, or on Kewi-lin, provisional capital of Kwangsi, Shades of the Grand Canyon! Extremely washable because they're of Julliard's sanforized- shrunk pinwale corduroy! Colors of the desert: rose, sand, sky, grass, and sagebrush grey. Sizes 10 to 18. Lieutenant Sharp is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Selwyn Sharp of the Benvenue Avenue address. He attended Santa Rosa Junior College, where he was a member of -Alpha Gamma Sigma Fraternity and the Santo Rosa Symphony. (During his schooldays at University High School here he played tympenf in the Young People's Symphony Orchestra. (He was commissioned an ensign in the naval flying service at Corpus Christi, in 1942.) "I couldn't have missed that carrier," Sharp said.

He turned right and Japanese-held points. These slowed down but did not halt the enemy advance. Lieut. Gen. Joseph W.

Stillwell's headquarters announced seven aircraft are missing from the latest operations in Hunan and Yunnan, the largest number in some time. if if'ij) hop 2000 Broadway Oakland t's coll him John Jones. a. Cardigan jacket 17.95 separate slacks, JZ.95 b. Loafer jacket, 17.95 classic tailored skirt, 12.95 c.

Smart corduroy halter, 5.95 short shorts, 8.95 All exclusive with Roos Bros 1 1 Vim i Our John Jones has a fighting heart to match another of that name John Paul Jones. But -John hasn't chance at a uniform. The doctors would laugh. The draft board would tell him to run along home. For John is 67.

Tot John Jones is fighting in this war. At 67, willing and skillful, he is doing a bang-up job in one of our company's war plants. He is one of many senior Standard Oilers who have earned retirement but are back on duty because there's a war on. Sine thoy were young, these oldsters have worked toward independence. What's more, they already bad achieved k.

They had an assured income. Each was his own boss. Yet, voluntarily, they've gone back into harness to help along the war. Now, youth "gives the most to war. BuXyoath gives from morning of We These others are giving the precTous sunset hours.

Such was the-very spirit of the John Jones who signaled the enemy, "I have not yet begun to fight!" He didn't mean he hadn't started. He meant that, under fire, he would never cruht To oor own John Joneses special mention is due for their sacrifices to help on our vast 0 "tar war job. A' Roos Bros Years ago, when this Company set up its retirement system, it was natural to think of it as something special for its people which, of course, was true. 0 tut so many of our retired employees have elected to serve instead of enjoying the relaxation and pleasures they had earned that we thought you would like to-hear about it. This is the real American spirit that will win the war.

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