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16147 A A A r( ON OUTSIDE ISLANDS ON OAHU minus wms U.S. Bombs TwoDsles Near Japan iri mum By ROY CUMMINGS Star-Bulletin War Correspondent PEARL HARBOR, June 16. American forces in the Pacific drew tighter the noose closing around the Japanese home islands with an air attack Wednesday against the Ur By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Allied striking power has delivered these blows against the Japanese enemy within the last two days: IThe Imperial Steel Works at Yawata, correspond- ing to Germany's Krupp Works, were left "glow- Bonin and Volcano (Kazan) AMERICAN BOMBS FELL ON YAW ATA, the Pittsburgh of Japan, in Wednesday night's said on Nippon's industrial heart. This picture of Yawata's skyline, showing tall factory ttacks, was taken in 1932 by Jack Martin, 946 16th of The Star-Bulletin circulation department, then in the merchant marine. His camera was confiscated by Japanese officials because he took the picture, but he managed to retain the roll of film.

islands, it was announced by -1 -I Admiral Chester W. Nimirx in a communiquj issued this morning. a reporter on one of the super nj masses or wrecivuyc, Fortresses said. Carrier aircraft attacking Chi chi Jima, 587 land miles from Yokohama, and Haha Jima in the an iVlayBe Jumping Bonins. and Iwo Jima in the Vol cano islands, destroyed 47 Japanese planes, probably destroyed two and damaged four.

In addition two snips 2 Admiral Nimitx' invaders dug deeper into Saipan island in the Marianas, the capture of which would sever Japanese plane routes to the south and possibly her sea supply lanes. 3 Carrier-based planes unleashed a heavy strike at Japanese bases in the Bonin and Volcano islands, midway between the Marianas and Tokyo. These islands are administered as part of the Tokyo metropolitan area, about 700 miles southeast of Japan proper. were sunk and 10 were damaged In attacks upon the airfield at Chichi Jima (Father island) American airmen shot down 33 enemy fighters which attempted to intercept them and damaged four multi-engined seaplanes. A medium cargo ship was sunk and four small cargo ships and six small craft were damaged.

prepared defenses and he can marshal enough night fighter planes to cause at least some interference with our bombing pattern. "The boys who flew the raid last night now know that there are defenses there, but they also know that they are not as formidable as they have been made out to be by the Japs. "The B-29 raid, the first on the Japanese mainland from Chinese bases, started off with a bang and finished with a flourish. From start to finish It was an American show, with American planes, American bombs. American apparatus and American crews." Another broadcast by Porter said: "We took off.

from a base in western China, carrying a large load of bombs and gasoline. We arlved at the target at Turn to Page 6, Column 7 most complete amazement to the Japs. "Tons upon tons of bombs were dropped on the coke ovens and open hearth furnaces. Japanese antiaircraft fire poured into the sky. and shell fragments dug deeply into the super-bombers, but the engines kept turning and nearly all the ships came home.

"Eleven war correspondents went on the trip to see, at the invitation of the 20th bomber command, the show of shows. And when the planes turned homeward, leaving behind the glowing masses of wreckage Japan had had her answer to Pearl Harbor. mam The attack on the Japanese mainland by B-29's demonstrated one fact which our air force has long been endeavoring to learn. The lesson being studied today, as the reports of pilots and crews are compiled, is that while the enemy was caught by surprise in the initial attacks, he has NEW YORK. June 18.

America's super Fortresses left flowing masses of wreckage In the coke ovens and open hearth furnaces of the great Yawata Steel mills In the eurtainraiser ttack of these on Japan I Thursday, radio correspondent Roy Porter reported today In a broadcast from China, The super-bombers, flying from bases In western China, ran Into heavy antiaircraft fire and encountered Japanese night fighters, said Porter, one of 11 war correspondents who witnessed the i attack. Torter, a former Associated Press correspondent, now on as-signment for the National Broad-, casting represented the combined American radio networks on the raid. As transcribed by CBS, Porter's report said: "The attacks were swift and surprising. They came with al The enemy also reported air attacks on Korea, Jap- Of Poontoif B-29s Attack On Japan EXCEPT FOR a few in the know of military operations, the world today is guessing where the American B-29s (super Fortresses) that attacked Japan's homeland Thursday came from. The Japanese, who got the bombloads, think the giant bombers were flown from Sian (see map), Shensi province, in northwestern China proper.

This- sounds logical since the air distance from Sian to Yawata, Moji and Kokura measures about 1,400 miles, which is "duck soup" for the new U. S. machines of the 20th air command. anese Asiatic mainland territory separated from Discovered mnderway near the Bonins, a medium transport, was heavily damaged by aircraft and later sunk by one of our destroyers. One hundred and twelve sur-vivers of the sinking were rescued the home islands by only 120 miles of water.

5Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell reported the 14th air force killed 1,200 Japanese troops in the Hunan area of China around besieged Changsha. British and American troops were at battle grips for the three major Japanese bases in north Burma Myitkyina, Mogaung and Kamaing.

The enemy also was being cleared painfully and slowly from northeast India. and made prisoners of war. A navy spokesman said that the enemy was apparently taken Turn to Page 6. Column 6 7. Gen.

MacArthur's southwest Pacific forces were moving in on Biak island off northwestern New Hp Pi uv Guinea and in two days dumped bomb loads on the enemy's south Pacific bases of Truk and Yap. LZ3 QJ ni Si Finnish Officials Are Asked To Leave U. S. WASHINGTON'. Jane 16.

(U.R) Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope and three counsellors of the Finnish legation have been handed their passports and directed to leave the United States owing to activities inimical to the interests of the United States, the state department announced todaj. The state department explained that the action does not constitute a rupture in diplomatic relations. Japa iiese Yanks Make Meiv Sains In Cherbourg -Drive- ST. SAUVEUR LE VTCOMTE, June 16. Hard driving American troops today broke through tough German resistance, crossed the river Douve and reached St.

Sauveur le Vlcomte, commanding the main road net on the central Cherbourg peninsula. SedeBsghts Oil RppOJ1 ay IKIave Wreck of 3 Nazi Robot Plane Bases Hit By U. S. Bombers LONDON, June 16. (U.R) United States heavy bombers attacked German installations presumably bases from which robot planes were launched against England in the Fas de Calais area of France this evening.

(See story on Page 2.) SHAEF, LONDON, June 16. (JP Lt Gen. Omar N. Bradley's American Mm WAR MM WRITTEN BY B-29s By BOB CONSIDINE International News Service NEW YORK, June 16. Now that the world's biggest, most potent and newest bomber, the B-29 super Fortress, has had its baptism of action in.

Japan, it is permissible to release a flood of data on the craft which is being relied upon to shake the farthest flung Axis resistance and appreciably shorten the war. JAPAN'S PRIVY COUNCIL MEETS troops, ramming home another blow to cut off Cherbourg, have advanced to within miles east of St. Sauveur, a junction controlling two of the three roads leading to the nearly beleaguered port, Allied headquarters announced today. SAN FRANCISCO. June 16.

(U.R Radio Tokyo said today that Japan's privy council met at the imperial talace from 10 to 10:30 a. m. today. The Americans marked up a gain Reds Claim 100 Karelian Villages Taken LONDON, June 16. (U.R) The Red army has captured over 100 In--habited localities on the Karelian isthmus, including the railroad station of Kannelyarvi.

31 miles southeast of Viipuri, according to Soviet communique broadcast by the Moscow radio tonight. of 2i to 3 miles west of Carentan after having previously reached Those attending included Premier Hideki Tojo and other cabinet Reigneville, three miles to the toward La Haye du Puits, a road junction controlling all the remaining roads leading into Cherbourg. The Americans were last reported about six miles from this objective. A late dispatch from Gen. Dwight E.

Eisenhowers advanced command post said it was estimated 300,000 German troops had been thrown against the Normandy beachhead. mam This dispatch said four German divisions had been badly mauled in battle, including the Turn to Page 6, Column 3 WASHINGTON, June 16. (-TV-Four of America's mighty sky battleships were lost in yesterday's surprise attack that left "glowing masses of wreckage" in Japan's "Pittsburgh," and the wreckage of one of the B-29 Super Fortresses now may be in enemy hands. The 201h bomber command, adding in mid afternoon today new details of the raid, said one of the giant planes "was lost due to antiaircraft action over the target" Yawata. One plane is missing and two failed' to return because of accidents, but the crew of one of those is safe.

The 20th bomber, command, adding new details to earlier sketchy announcements of the historic raid, said two of the mammoth craft went down due to accidents, one was lost over the target and a fourth is missing. mum The text of 20th air force com- War Department Has No 'Richardson Report' WASHINGTON, June 16. (JP) The war department notified the house military committee today that it had not received a "Richardson report" which Hans Wilhelm Kohl, German-born contractor, claimed completely exonerates me" of responsibility for delays in construction of defense projects at Pearl Harbor. The committee Thursday requested the department to provide it with a copy of a report purportedly prepared last month by IA Gen. Turn to Page 6, Column 1 The gigantic bombers are half again as large as a Flying Fortress and are much more heavily armed and capable of carrying twice as many bombs for great distances.

-They are now In full production. The super Fortresses are being made in the Boeing factories in Wichita, where recently I flew in one of the giant planes on its first secret press flight. But there are also plants in Seattle and Ren-ton, and others are located throughout the country. stricted information. It ran fly and bomb from heights too rarefied for most enemy fighters and can be made ready for combat as fast as many single engine pursuits.

The wing span is 141.3 feet, the muselage is 99 feet long, and the huge single rudder in the rear is 27 feet high. -Wright cyclone engines were especially developed for the bomber and are rated a horsepower of 2.200. Each super Fortress is armed with northeast of St. Sauveur. Plugging away on a 10 mile front and rapping out repeated gains de-Spite stubborn resistance, the Americans are now within 11 miles of the Cherbourg peninsula's west coast beaches.

Their spearhead is some 17 miles below the big port mom While Bradley's Tanks still fought a dingdong battle with Germans in the streets of Monte-bourg, 14 miles southeast of Cherbourg on the Allied right flank, the British are engaged in stiff tank battles with German troops in force two miles south of Cau-mont. This is tbout 20 miles inland, the deepest Allied penetration. Tank battles still raged also around Caen and Tilly-Sur-Seulles on the Allied left flank. Meanwhile headquarters reported the worst weather over the battlefields since Day with a 20 mile an Mother of 5 Dies Suddenly oo officials. GERMANS REPORT RAIDS SET FIRES LONDON.

June 18. (U.R) The German transocean news agency said today that a Tokyo government spokesman reported the Allied raid on Japan caused numerous fires. However, the spokesman discredited the effects of the bombings, claiming that a large, number of bombs fell Into the sea. "The attacks can be regarded as a valve for letting off steam for disappointment over development of the second front which Is not very favorable for the Allies," the spokesman said. FORDE SAYS RAID I WAS 'SIGNIFICANT SYDNEY, June 16.

(U.R) Acting Premier F. M. Forde said today that the bombing of Japan was one of I the most significant developments of the war. "Not only are the United Nations striking at the heart of Germany. but their offensive bases have been close enough to strike 50 caliber machineguns and 20 mm.

cannon. The bulk of the gun.s are mounted in power operated streamlined turrets. Pais To Find Homes For Orphans Imunique No. 2: The B-29 production program is the biggest single order the army ever placed. The super Fortresses are the world's first global bomber, and so revolutionary is the performance and so ultramagical Is the equipment with which they are filled that the army built an entire new air force the 20th around Qualifications of members of the "The Imperial Iron Steel Works.

Japan's largest steel mills, located at Yawata on Kyushu island in the Japanese homeland, was the target of yesterday's B-29 mission of the 20th bomber command. "The bombing was accurate and effective. Enemy fighter craft By MARION NARYTS If there is a dog heaven, Lady is there today. Lady was a good pet; the favorite hour northwest wind blowing onto of all who knew her at the Bere-tania St. pumping station' of the board of water supply.

crsws are so exacting that almost all super Fortress men are fliers who have completed gruelling combat missions in Fortresses and at the heart of the Japanese em Lady died suddenly; she died offered some resistance to a few units. Antiaircraft fire was moderate to intense over the target area. No enemy planes were reported The gunners sit in big plexiglass windows and sight attacking planes with a magic device. When the gauges tell him to do so, he tightly presses an electric trigger that's all. Thus a lone enemy fighter attacking one of the huge bombers would be obliterated.

This writer made the first civilian test flight pn May 4 in Wichita when representatives of the nation's press were strapped into parachutes and led under guard to the waiting planes. Aloft, we were given an inkling of the speed and firepower and then returned to earth. One airforce officer said "The B-29 will be the next chapter In the development of the air w-ar." To this writer it looks like the last chapter. young. She was in good spirits at 4 p.

m. Thursday but at 10 p. m. the beaches the only place the Allies now hold for the reinforcement and supply of their invasion armies. Despite the weather, however, the U.

S. battleships Texas and Nevada and cruiser Augusta were reported arching their shells deep inland to support the troops driving across the peninsula. A few miles south of the American spearhead pointed at St. Sauveur was another column pushing she was found dead beneath an olender bush at the station. mom Lady was not only a good pet, but a good mother.

She leaves five tiny brown and white pup-pics, 19 days old. shot down. "There were no casualties aboard returning aircraft. Four planes failed to return from the mission. Of these, one was lost due to antiaircraft action over the target.

Two failed to return due to accidents, and of these the crew of one is known to be safe. A fourth airplane is missing." mm Liberators. The 20th alrforce's war theater Is the world and It will superimpose itself on all other air-forces. "Operations room" of the 20th AAF is the global war conference room of the joint chiefs of staff in Washington. The super Fortress is an all metal four engined monoplane with a tricycle landing gear built to withstand boxcar weights.

It carries aviation's greatest bomb load faster, farther and higher than any bomber. The exact bomb weight, range and ceiling are re-1 Today at Laay funeral, the pup pies crawled over each other and whined a little. They were fed milk from a bottle by Private First Class James O'Brien, who used to take An earlier communique reported that two were lost as the Five Plants Building B-29s WASHINGTON. June 16. (P) care of their mother Mr.

Forde said. Anthony In S. F. To Argue Duncan Case Garner Anthony, attorney for Lloyd C. Duncan, is in San Francisco to argue the Duncan habeas corpus case before the 9th circuit court of appeals.

It is expected the case will be set i for argument before the end of the i The case is an appeal from a deci- sion of Federal Judge Delbert E. Metzger of Honolulu who recently granted a writ on Mr. Duncan's be-j half. Mr. Duncan is also on the i mainland.

nn. Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE Yankees Big 6th Defeats Athletics Gross Income Tax Rate Will Drop On July 1 Hawaii's gross income tax rate will drop to 14 per cent on Lady, who was about 4Vi years The development of the B-Z9 super result of accidents. The later announcement indi-Turn to Page 6, Column 6 old at the time of her death, was Flying Fortress and its employment picked up in Thomas square in the Turn to Page 6. Column 5 latter part of 1941 by Manuel Souza, for 34 years with the board of wa ter supply July 1. AeriaB MoBitary Police Mere To filiili This is a reduction of one fourth He took her to the pumping about the time of Pearl Har bor.

She has been a favorite there, of 1 per cent Irom the present rate of 1 Va per cent, according to Walter D. Ackerman Jr, territorial treasurer, who announced the new especially of the army guards, ever ChecEc On Air TraffiSc VioBations 7TH AAF HEADQUARTERS. CENTRAL. PACIFIC. June 16 An rate today following conferences with Governor Stainback and other territorial officials.

Mr. Ackerman said the basic rate for the gross income tax under the territorial law is Hi per cent and AAF and the punishment is usually considered. by civilian standards, to be severe. Officers have been discharged from the army for such offenses. Civilians who have endeavored since.

According to the men who loved her, she was a good watchdog and a good ratter. She was part Bojton terrier. AH but one of her puppies, who are less Boston terrier and more "poi." will be given away, according to Private O'Brien. They are all nameless at present, but the one kept at the station will be reared to take its mother's place. mm only in the event there fs a deficit, or it appears a deficit will develop, can the governor take action to to cooperate in the enforcement of increase the rate.

mum Because the territory has a size and those found guilty have been punished. Fighter planes of the very latest types, among which are the fastest aircraft in the Pacific are being used on the patrol. Air traffic violations are seldom wilfull, being usually the result of carelesness or of the natural exuberance which "affects men who have recently returned to the islands after several months of combat duty on the cramped and boring central Pacific atolls. Regardless of 'what causes air traffle violations, they are considered among the most serious of breaches of discipline In the NEW YORK. June 16.

0J.R) The New York Yankees ran wild in the sixth Inning today to score five I times and beat the Philadelphia Athletics. 6-1. Philadelphia 15 2 New York 6 9 1 Newsom. Wheaton and Hayes; Borowy and Hemsley. Boston at Washington, night game.

Chicago at Cleveland, night game. St. Louis at Detroit. twilight fame. NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Brooklyn at Philadelphia, night fame. St. Louis, New York, Boston and Fitbburgh unscheduled. "aerial military police" patrol made up of fighter planes of the 7th1 AAF has been established and has been operating in the Honolulu area for several weeks, it was announced today at 7th AAF headquarters. The purpose of the patrol is to insure that all pilots flying in the Honolulu and island area follow strict rules for safety which have been designed to cut to a minimum the usual wartime flying accident hazards both to civilian and military personnel.

Several arrests for air traffle i violations, including low flying, hare been made by the patrol able surplus, and there is no evi dence of a deficit developing, the Lady was always on the pumping station grounds, so that is where she was buried today. Frederick M. Ohrt, manager and gross income tax rate is automati- Lady. Leaves Five Children safety rules by reporting obvious violations to the 7th AAF have usually neglected to include an all important identification, the serial number of the aircraft This serves the same purpose as a license tag on an automobile. Air traffic is so great in the vicinity of Honolulu that, without the number of the aircraft, it is usually impossible to apprehend the violator.

cally reduced to 1U per cent, Mr. Ackerman added. 'cnief engineer of the board of wa Reduction of the gross incomeiter supply, officiated at the burial "Honor Guard" at her last rites. Left to right. Private First Class W.

A. Dnpny, Sergeant Walter Rickus, Private First Class Robert N. May. and her chief caretaker, kneeling, Private First Class James tax wilt it is estimated, save grosr hsrvices. ncome taxpayers in the territory I Lady was a favorite with him, O'Brien.

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