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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA daily News MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1943 Japs ran out in showdown fleet battle, navy reveals (Continued from Page: 3) bases in the Solomon nese New Britain area. "The situation appeared, then, like the final showdown, and the United States forces prepared accordingly. "But, as events revealed themthe Japanese had had selves, enough of that sort of thing, and now were solely interested in the evacuation of what Japa- Todd'r STANDARD BRANDS ADAM HATS HEUSEN SHIRTS VAN FORTUNE SHOES BVD UNDERWEAR WEMBLY squirt TE SUITS TOPCOATS Advertised $25 $10 $30 Save COMPETITOR $19.50 SUITS DELUXECRAFT $35.00 SUN Pay Cash! Save Cash! odds 9TH Angeles 6TH AND Los Angeles PACIFIC GAGE. Huntington Park 5TH AND E. San Diego San Diego and Broadway Store Open Fri.

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traffic A hit-and-run driver killed one pedestrian and critically injured another and two other traffic deaths yesterday brought the county's toll for the year to 613, and the city's to 292. The victims: Ronald E. Straub, 27, 651 14th San Pedro. Dennis G. Franci, 17, 20146 Stratton Canoga: Park.

Richard M. Bullers, 18,, 1940 Tamarind st. Straun was struck by an auto with his companion, A. C. Schaffer, 57, of 2651 Governer Lomita, when the two stepped off a curb on Hawthorne blvd.

in the 3200 block. The driver sped without rendering aid, police said. The men were removed to the Southwest, Industrial hospital, where Straub later died. Schaffer's condition was given as critical. Franci died in General hospital of injuries suffered Oct.

16 when a heavy fog obscured his vision and I he drove his auto into a wire fence on Avenhurst and Salicoy in Canoga lot PaRROT attendant Bullers, parking at the Marcel Lamaze supper club, 8300 Sunset was one of five people struck down outside the club Friday by a driverless car which plunged down an incline. He was taken to Lloyd Tainter's hospital and later removed to the La Brea hospital, where he died. -Zone Your Mail- O'Hara to speak Russell F. O'Hara, president of the State Bar of California, will speak Wednesday at the weekly meeting of the Lawyers club at the Rosslyn hotel, His topic will be "The Bar Looks Ahead." can you support may daughter when you're sick? Yes can I have Pacific Mutual New and Unusual Savings Plan: 1 see, sir, with Pacific Mutual's New and Unusual Savings Plan I don't have to draw on my savings or borrow when I'm sick because 2 "It pays a very substantial monthly income for sickness or accident, and it starts paying from the first day I'm laid up. 3 the best part of it is, no matter how much Pacific Mutual pays me when I'm sick or hurt I never have to pay it back!" PACIFIC MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY COMPANY General Agents 328 Pacific Mutual Building LOS ANGELES, 14 LOUIs A.

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The Oro bay battle, the greatest of the weekend's air activity, ranged from water level up to 23,000 feet as American fighter pilots virtually annihilated the enemy force. Finschhafen, on the Huon peninsula of New. Guinea, captured the Allies Oct. 2, was attacked by 15 Japanese divebombers and 12 fighters Friday afternoon. Kittyhawks intercepted the force over Finschhafen and bagged five divebombers and one fighter, probably destroying three other fighters.

Billy Mitchell medium bombers, escorted by the new Thunderbolt fighters, struck at Wewak Saturday morning and shot down. 16 enemy fighters and probably two others when they intercepted a flight of 30 Japanese fighters. Mitchells and Thunderbolts also attacked Madang, 165 miles northwest of Finschhafen, Saturday morning and encountering between 30 and 40 enemy fighters added 16 more to the list of those destroyed, and probably shot down others. Over Cape Gloucester, on the northwestern end of New Britain, Saturday morning, A-20s probably destroyed three enemy bombers and four fighters caught on the ground at the airdrome. The dispersal areas, supply dumps and E.

A. ELLIS General Agent 406 Pacific Mutual Building LOS ANGELES, 14 HAROLD D. STEVENSON, General Agent 912 Heartwell BuMding LONG BEACH, 2 REXFORD M. TRUESDELL, General Agent 385 East Green Street PASADENA, C.L.U., General Agent Pantiges Building 28 nese troops were left on Guadalcanal." On a number of occasions since then, the navy has sought to provoke an all-out engagement. It was hoped the American attack on Attu would bring out the enemy fleet.

Then came the deep penetration of the United States carrier task force to bomb island only 1000 miles from Tokyo. Subsequently, carrier task forces struck with force at Wake island and the enemy's Gilbert bases. But the Jap fleet refused to be drawn outs In a foreword to its report, the navy said there were many facts and much information which for reasons of national security cannot be released. For the most part, the report was a summary of information contained in previous communications and other public announcements. -Buy War Bonds- Lady Patricia weds Richard Aherne Lady Patricia Moore and Richard V.

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GONE OFFICE: LOS ANGELES, OFFICES IN MOST PRINCIPAL CITIES THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES U.S. planes have 4 to 1 combat ratio like I positions were bombed and strafed. Liberator bombers escorted by Corsairs and Lightnings attacked Buin, on Bougainville island in the northern Solomons Friday noon and shot down six. of 15 enemy fighters attempting to intercept. Ground installations at Kahili airdrome were heavily blasted, causing fires and a pall of smoke covering the entire area and visible for 75 miles, In the Wewak attack, bombers swept in at low level to bomb and strafe the Wewak and Boram airdromes and the township.

Twelve other enemy bombers caught on the ground were destroyed or badly damaged. Five anti-aircraft positions were demolished by direct hits and a sixth gun was silenced by strafing. Numerous explosions and fires were observed in dispersal bays and supply dump areas. The airdrome and ground installations at Alexishafen, above Madang, were bombed and strafed in Saturday's attack, and the area from Amron mission to Admosin island was thoroughly raked. Many villages along the New Guinea coast south from Madang to Sio, only 50 miles above Finschhafen, were attacked and damaged and two barges were destroyed.

The enemy airdrome at Buka, Bougainville island, was attacked by Mitchell and Liberator bombers Friday night. Large explosions and numerous fires caused smoke visible for 40 miles. An enemy barge was destroyed in the raid. On New Britain, Beauforts attacked Cape Hoskins Friday morning, bombing the airdrome and causing fires, and attacked the supply dump areas at Gasmata. Rottock bay, near Cape Gloucester, was attacked by a Liberator and Catalina Friday, with five enemy barges sunk or wrecked off the coast.

The planes also destroyed a power launch in John Albert harbor in the Vitu group north of New Britain. Long Island, in the Vitiaz strait north of Finschhafen, was attacked by a Liberator and a Catalina Saturday. One of the units fought off nine enemy fighters and shot down two. -Zone Your Mail- Guerrillas smash Nazi arms plant (Continued from Page 1) river for possession of the Ljubljana-Zagreb railroad, with the Germans throwing in heavy reinforcements, and the news agency of Gen. Draja Mikhailovitch, Jugoslavia fighting war minister, said that an Allied invasion "could be expected soon." In Slovenia, -the Germans brought up reinforcements to the southern bank of the Sava and attempted to cross the river between Ljubljana and Zidanimost, 33 miles east.

"The Partisans are successfully preventing their crossing," a munique, broadcast by the Free Jugoslav radio, said. Further west, in northeastern Italy, "fierce fighting continued along the Ljubljana-Trieste and the Gorizia-Trieste-Rjeka rail lines," the communique said. The confused nature of the fighting in Jugoslavia, which was regarded by competent London observers as fullscale warfare, was in no way simplified by weekend political developments. King Jugoslavia, in Cairo, told an American correspondent that he had ordered Mikhailovitch to avoid conflict and disputes with Brozovich's Partisans, but regardless, Mikhailovitch's democratic Jugoslavia news agency, in a broadcast by its radio station YTG, charged the Partisans with fomenting "an unbelievable bloody revolution" in Jugoslavia. On the other hand, Brozovich's communique today said that during the fighting in Montenegro many of Mikhailovich's men realized "they were fighting on the wrong side," and said that at Matishevo 80 Mikhailovich guerrillas and three officers went over to Brozovich's army.

-Buy War BondsSTATUE SITE NAMED Hollenbeck park has been designated as the site for a statue of Haym Solomon, revolutionary patriot, now being made by Robert Paine, Los Angeles sculptor, the park commission announced yesterday. (Continued from Page 1) and outfought them by scores never worse than two to one." The navy's Corsair and Hellcat fighters are superior to any fighters the Japanese can offer and army fighters "after a somewhat unpromising start" now are among the world's best, the report said. Enemy bombers are less numerous than this country's, it added, and "no enemy bombing remotely rivals ours either in intensity or accuracy." It presented these combat records: 1-Army heavy bombers from Jan. 1 to. June 30 of this year destroyed 1333 enemy craft and lost 316; medium bombers downed 113 and lost 69; fighters knocked out 763 and lost 375.

2- The 14th air force in China from July 4, 1942 to Aug. 4, 1943, destroyed 442 and lost 51; navy planes in the first 10 days of the Solomons offensive last June knocked out 199 and lost 34; airmen in the Mediterranean' last July downed 342 and lost 190; the British based eighth air force last July destroyed 500 German fighters and lost 108 Flying Fortresses. The OWI pointed out that effectiveness of the nation's air strength is not fully irdicated by figures. It cited strategic damage wrought by daylight precision bombers, the invaluable aid of photographic reconnaissance in the Sicilian invasion, and the part played by navy planes in anti-submarine warfare. It emphasized that despite conclusive triumphs scored thus far, the production program must not be relaxed if we are to.

stay ahead of enemy innovations. "Even planes which have run up high boxscores must constantly be improved and replaced," it said. "The makeup of our air fleet has never been static and is not to become so." It cited as recent trends a decrease in output of training planes and a boost in heavy bomber production. Other changes pending: 1-A bomber larger and more potent than present models is scheduled for action by spring. It will replace the.

Flying Fortress for, longrange. heavy duty. 2- The P-49 Warhawk has reached its developmental limit and production will be curtailed. 3 -Production of the B-26 Marauder is being tapered off. 4- The P-39 Airacobra is being supplanted by a new model carrying cannon and capable of operation up to 40,000 feet.

It disclosed that half the Airacobras produced have gone to Russia. 5-Increasing emphasis will be placed on planes designed for "skip method in which delayed action bombs are released from treetop levels and explode when the bomber is beyond range. 6-A light bomber with powerful cannon is in production. -Buy War Bonds- Protect your loved ones Be sure to carry the $10,000 accident policy issued through the Daily News. Besides real WAR COVERAGE PROTECTION you are protected no matter where you go at home, at work or at play.

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