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Los3ngcIcgCimcg Friday, mar. u. i943Porti 5 ALLIES BLAST JAP -SHIPS AND HARBORS FISHING PACT SIGNED BY JAPAN AND RUSSIA Two Enemy Cargo Vessels Smashed at Amboina; LONDON, March 26 (Friday.) i Renewal of the Japanese- 1 One-Ton Bombs Cause Large Blazes at Rabaul CP) Japan and Russia, not at i rm TT f3 I S- i 1 i LaCrescenfa Flyer Locates Jap Warships BV FRANCIS M'CARTIIV ABOARD A UNITED STATES WARSHIP IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, March 10. (Delayed) (U.R) Two Japanese warships, shelled into inaction by the thunderous barrage of an American task force, went down under the ALLIED HEADQUARTERS to have been destroyed or dam aged in that raid. IN AUSTRALIA.

March 26 (Fri Amboina Island is in the day.) UP) Allied airmen attacking two of the strongest Japa war against each other, but fighting on opposite sides in the world struggle, have signed an agreement extending Japanese fishing privileges in Soviet Far Eastern waters, it was announced today. A Mo.scow broadcast recorded nese bases In the Southwest Pa Banda Sea some 600 miles north of Australia and its principal harbor once was a big Dutch cific scored hits cn two enemy cargo ships at Amboina and naval base. Direct Hits Scored Southlanders Rip Axis Vehicles AN ADVANCED AMERICAN AIR BASE IN TUNISIA, March 22 (Delayed.) (jy-Lieut. Col. Kenneth S.

Wade, San Diego, told today how low-flying P-39 fighters knocked out 26 German vehicles in two days of strafing attacks in which the Axis forces were compelled to discontinue daylight traffic on a main supply road as the result. Among members of the squadrons were Lieuts. Robert H. Wagner, 23, of Redlands. CaL, and Gordon B.

Slater. 22, Le'bec, credited by Wade with shooting up 10 trucks and a number of Axis troops. Wagner burned out his guns on the mission. The fighters' target, said Lieut. Col.

Wade, was all "thin skinned" stuff moving from Gabes toward the El Guetar fighting area. "That means trucks, halftracks and passenger cars everything except their big tanks, whose armor is too thick for us," said Col. Wade. "We hit them hard and often and got them so jittery they had to quit moving up supplies for the day." soviet agreement generally 11 regarded as a gauge of relations between the two countries, which have a "neutrality agreement despite the fact that Japan is allied with Germany and Russia is a member. of the United Nations group.

Last years agreement was signed after Germany had attacked Russia and Japan had attacked the United States. At the time British and American officials termed the renewal a purely routine matter and did not attach any international significance to it. A failure to renew, however, would have been regarded as indicating Soviet-Japanese tension. by the Soviet monitor said, ever, that Japanese fishing com "Our heavy bombers attacked the enemy-occupied town and shipping in the harbor," reported the communique. "Direct hits with 500-pound bombs were scored on two ene my cargo vessels of 8000 and buuu tons ana large hres were started in the wharf building panies must pay between 4 and 5 per cent more than during last year.

The payments are to be in gold as before. Under the 1942 agreement which ended last Dec. 31 the Russians had exacted a 20 per cent increase in rentals over the price paid by the Japanese the previous year. S. A.

Lozovsky, Vice-Commissar for Soviet Foreign Affairs, and Naotake Sato, Japanese Ambassador to Russia, signed the 1943 protocol in Kuibyshev yesterday, the Moscow broadcast said. blows of our guns last Saturday without putting up a fight. The enemy ships, believed to have been destroyers, apparently were lying in wait for the American warships stealing through the Solomons to blast Mu'nda and Vila. But the intended ambush failed. They were spotted by Lieut.

Ned Lee Broyles, a Navy flyer, and our big guns went into action at extreme range. Caught Unprepared FRIENDLINESS AND GOOD CHEER Can always be had by drinking a fine glass of Utica Club XXX Cream Ale or Tilsner Lager. At our nearest market, drug or dumped a great weight of including one-ton bombs, on Rabaul, where six hours later smoke plumes still were rising 3000 feet above the burning wreckage, the Allied command announced today. Liberators were used in both attacks and the smash at Rabaul found the four-motored bombers raining explosives on the base for two hours without encountering any fighter interception although anti-aircraft fire was intense. Targets Set Afire "Large fires and heavy explosions ere seen along the northern shore of the harbor," the communique said of this raid.

"Six hours later one of our reconnaissance planes over the area observed smoke and flames from water-front fires rising' to 3000 feet." The New Britain base of Ra-; baul, northeast of Australia, was the target for a mass raid three days ago when 51 tons of bombs were dropped on 230 Japanese planes fcund parked on three airdromes there. A substantial number of the planes were believed area. Of other aerial attacks the communique said: "UBILI: One of our heavy bombers executed a three-hour night, harassing raid over the area. "GASMATA: One of our heavy units bombed enemy installations, registering direct hits on the wharf and adjacent buildings. "NEW GUINEA.

LAE: Our heavy units twice raided the air liquor store. Globe Bottling Company, FOR FATHER -Kenneth N. Walker 16, of Glendale, receives from President Roosevelt a Congressional Medal of Honor awarded his father. Brig. Gen.

Kenneth N. Walker, missing since bombing attack on Japs at Rabaul. HP) Wirephoto NtttK tlte tollt flIV drome. "SALAMAUA: Striking at NVine dawn, our attack planes bombed Vm9 ore buildings and enemy supply in Glendale Youth Given Medal to- other water hie stallations from low altitude. that in "DVKE'ACKLAND BAY: Our fighters intercepted and shot and dis the big for Father Missing in Raid Buy mate down an enemy medium bomber on reconnaissance." Try WASHINGTON, March 25.

more conomv fchtl (U.R) Fresident Roosevelt today presented a Congressional Med al of Honor to Kenneth N. In 20 minutes the enemy ships were sunk. They had been caught so unprepared they got off only one or two wild shots before sinking in flames. Broyles, 25, of La Crescenta, saw the whble. show and the subsequent bombardment of Munda and Vila from his grandstand seat in the spotter plane.

The enemy ships were In Kula Gulf, Broyles said, and appeared to be ready for action. "I flashed word to our task force and then the surprise was on the other foot." he added. Broyles said the later bombardment of Japanese installations at Munda and Vila appeared "highly devastating." Batteries Silenced The task force, duringthe attack, was under what Broyles described as a "slow, ineffective" fire from a Japanese coastal battery and several other guns which were believed to be antiaircraft weapons. "The shore batteries, however, were hit and silenced," Broyles said, "and then our tremendous blasting of the Jap 'positions went on' without opposition pr interruption. The results were Japs on Kahili Pounded Anew Walker 16, of Glendale, in recognition of the "conspicu toiilr ous leadership" displayed by the credited with the sinking of enemy warships, were awarded the Air Medal today for meritorious achievement.

They Include Lieut. Birge A. Neumann, Los Angeles; Sergt. El-wood T. Nicolaisen, Kentfield, and Sergt.

Irvin A. Schier, Windsor, Cal. Lieut. Neumann participated in more than 25 operational flight missions in the New Guinea area from November, 1942. to January, "during which hostile contact was probable and expected.

These flights included patrol and interception missions against enemy bombers and fighter aircraft and attacks on enemy naval vessels and WASHINGTON, March 25. W) The Navy today reported that heavy Army bombers and Navy Bombs Rained on Abbeville LONDON, March 25. (JP) Whirlwind fighter-bombers escorted by Spitfires strewed explosives in the freight yards of Abbeville, France, this afternoon in a raid from which every plane returned, the Air Ministry an-nounced tonight. The first two bombs dropped burst on a line of trucks and others dropped in the target area of a large concentration of rolling stock, pilots said. The Whirlwinds returned with torpedcplanes have attacked Japanese positions at Kahili, an ft i acidity lTS Zl mineral enemy air base in the Northwestern Solomons.

A fire was started by the raid, which occurred Wednesday. Kahili, which has e(e attacked many times before, is two or.dslictou.0 I A I 0 i A f-V ll hsotfhful for Mm I miles north of the enemy harbor boy's father, Brig. Gen. Kenneth N. Walker, in leading bombing raids over Japanese-held territory in the Southwest Pacific.

Walker was commander of the 5th Bomber Command from Sept. 5, 1912, until Jan. v5, 1913, when he was shot, down after what Mr. Roosevelt described as an effective daylight bombing raid on Rabaul, New Britain. Direct hits were scored on nine enemy vessels.

Walker's bomber was forced down "by the attack of an overwhelming number of enemy fighters." He is listed as missing in action. 1 Air Medal Awarded 30 for Pacific Feats ENERAL HEADQUARTERS (Southwest Pacific Area) March 25. (P) Thirty officers and men of the United States Army Air Corps, some of them of Buin on the southeast coast of Bougainville Island, about 293 effective and widespread." out a scraicn aitnough tire on nautical miles northwest of f--' A the approaches was heavy. The Guadalcanal, where the American bpithres did their job so well that the Whirlwind crews did Guided by Broyles' directions from the plane, hits were scored on gun emplacements, tents, barracks and grounded planes, and the resulting fires showed through the trees surrounding the targets. When the warships had finished their job, Broyles dumped Guadalcanal Marine Hero Decorated WASHINGTON, March 25.

(JV) Lieut. Col. Charles II. Hayes of the marines, who organized the first American operations' from the air field on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomons last August, has been awarded tho Distinguished Service Medal by President Roosevelt, the Navy announced today. i 4 o-rsYA not even see a German fighter.

Nazi U-boat Base Crippled by Bombing airfield is located. The use of torpedo bombers for an attack against land objectives did not mean that torpedoes were dropped by those planes. The planes are so constructed they may carry either torpedoes or regular aerial bombs. ftfuleRock spakin6'miniai watu UNITED STATES 8TH a couple of 500-pound bombs on BOMBER COMMAND HEAD. targets at Vila in order "not to miss the fun." QUARTERS (England) March uxAum sot 25.

(JP) The United States Fly ing roriress iterator raid on the Vegesack submarine and shipbuilding yards last Thursday "has crippled that base for a considerable period," Brig. Gen. Newton Longfellow, chief of the 8th Bomber Command, saia toaay. Croix de Feu Chief Accused BERN, March 25. (IP) A Paris dispatch of the Italian news agency Stefani declared tcday that charges of relations with a foreign espionage service had been lodged against Col.

Francois de la Rocque, former chief of the French Social party the Croix de Feu. De la Rocque was arrested two weeks ago. VICHY REPORTS Fine loo! ROMMEL TO DIRECT DEFENSE OF ITALY MADRID, March 25. (U.R) Reports from Vichy said today that Marshal Erwin Rommel will be ordered to fly to Italy with his entire staff to take charge of the defense of the peninsula as soon as resistance ends in Tunisia. A joint German-Italian force under Rommel will garrison Southern Italy against the possibility of an Anglo-American invasion, the reports said.

There was said to have been a concentration of German artillery and planes in Southern Italy, Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica in recent days. Hitler Explains Labor 'Draft to King Leopold New York Tlm LONDON, March 25. Adolf Hitler h3s informed King Leopold that "war necessities" prevent Germany from halting deportations of Belgian Avoikers to the Reich. From his chateau in Laeken, Belgium, where, according to reports, he is.being held prisoner, the King of the Belgians sent a protest to Hitler against the portations. Veteran Pilots Back, in Britain After Hard Months in Africa f1 1 i i 1 I rT Z4 1 "yt Wear DISMONO'S, Jons Arthur, Shep-by Moil Monogsr jW 1 I 616 So.

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(JP) "Up here you fight Germans In North Africa ycu fight the elements." That is the opinion of crews cf a group of Liberator bombers which went from here to North Africa in December and for three months executed scores of 'raids on Italy and Tunisia, part of the time from a bare desert base. The Air Force permitted the disclosure today that they have returnedwith- most of their 24 original ships. The" words are those of Capt Bill Keefer of Torrance, pilot of a "miracle ship," the Liberator "Liberty Lad," which completed 25 raids in both theaters with only five minor holes. The group left on short notice with; clothes enough for only a few days, ate a Christmas dinner of steak and chicken off packing boxes in the desert, for three months operated without ground crews, with the combat excellent investment. Six California Colors.

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