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A Paper For The Home SUNDAY INDEPENDENT 38TH YEAR, NO. l%—44 PAGES WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1944 The Weather Warmer, mdndy. poaaible ahowera. PRICE TEN CENTS ANZIO COST NAZIS 15,000 MEN; REDS SAY GERMANS IN ROUT Hershey Orders Review Of All Job Deferments; Aims at Men Under 26 Point to Million Non-Fathers Still Out of Uniform; Crucial Time Ahead Washington, Feb. 26. (UP)— Maj. Gen. L«wi* B. Her*hey. direc¬ tor of Selective Service, ordered a review of all occupational defer¬ ments today, particularly thoae granted men under 2<l. in accord¬ ance with a warning by Prealdent Roosevelt Ihat Induction* are iag- glng at a time when "crucial cam¬ paigns" ar* imminent. In a memorandum to Herahey and War Manpower Chief Paul V. McNutt. Mr. Rooeevelt aaid: "The altuation i* *o grav* that I feel that the time haa come to re¬ view all occupational deferments with a view to ipeedily mailing available peraonnel required by the armed force*." Younger Men Needed Her»hey Immediately forwarded the Prealdent'* memorandum to atate Selective Service director* with ordera to review caaes of all regiatranta from 18 through 37 who have occupational deferment*. He told th* atate director*, that par¬ ticular attention should be given to men under 26 In view of the Presi¬ dent's statement that agriculture and Induatry ahould releaae young¬ er men for military aervice. Th* Prealdent'* memorandum OLD OPPONENT Where Do Your Red Cross Dollars Go—? Peron Real Power; American Nations Consult on Plans Montevideo, Feb. St. (CP) — aen. Pedro lUnilrei, "retired* pre«ldent nf Argentina, haa been arreated by gavrminent police while Irving to take aaneluary of » foreign einlNU*>', unronflmi- ed report* from Buena* Alrer Mild tonight. Ramlrec. fearing for hi* life, wn* reported to have fled tha preaidentlnl ninnalen. He wa* •elied by aeeret polire agent* Mid returned t« nl« qoarter*. where he U being held a vlrtunl priaoner, the*« report* aald. By RK'ARDO ALVAREZ Montevideo. Feb. 26. (UP)—Col. .Tuan Domingo Perch, daahing pro¬ fessional soldier long known for his resistance to democratic collabora- warned that the armed forces were! tion. emerged today as the real preparing for "crucial campaia.ia of I master of the Argentine govern-! this .vear" which, he aaid. "will de- ment. leports from Buenos Aires' termine both Ihe length of thia war. said. i and its price In men and I""!;" col. Peron, aecretary of labor and Herahey told Selective Serv " ..n^er-iecretary of wir. domlnatea I chiefs that "replacement achedula* j ^^.^l„J president General Edel- ahould be considered for *uch /•" j miro Farrell. who waa delegated vision a* may be required with the \..ith preaidentlai authority by Presidenl* njemorandum. [ preal^ent Pedro P. Ramidez when; "The Time Haa Paaaed... i i|,p letter retired temporarily be¬ lli the February issue of the aw;/ictuif ot "111 health." reliable ad-i rial publication ".Selective Service, ] y|p,g {^^^ Bueno* Aire* reported. I Hershey warned that '!'«'•« """Vh^ The advice, aald that Farrell It "eternal vigilance' to the '"'J,'^•J. merely a puppet who haa heen sub-' Jap Air Defenses Down to 'A Pitiful Handful of Planes' Allied HeadquMtara. Beukliweat PmIAc, Sunday, Feb. t7—(I P) —L'. 8. n»Tnl oflleer*—mnny of whom fer t^o yenra have battled the Jap* and defc«tad them at sea and In the air —said today that enemy defenae* IWTe "dwindled to a pitiful handful of planea." 8ea control of the Biamarrii Archipelago appeared to be definitely In Allied handa with the enemy air baaea on New Britain, .New Ireland and the Admlraltj' lalanda neutmllied. Home eatl- mated teme renuUnlnB Japa on New Britain—at the onoe-powerfnl Rabaul garriaon aad ahout 3t,0M ether* trapped In the Jtelomon* remain to he llquidatod—er i»1U die unpleaaantly ot *tarTation and dl*eaae. aceording ta a communique frem Geq. Dongia* Mae- Aribur"* headquarters taday. (f. Si-Destroyers Again Blast Japs at Kavieng Loss Forces Germans to ChangePlans Bring Troops from France to Italy; French Stop Drive On Cassino Front No Opposition There Or When Bombers Again Smash Rabaul JAPS' LIFELINE IN CENTRAL CHINA HIT "no deferred man remains deferred s^:ij».:>r March is 'Red Cross Month'—Don't Forget! ject to Peron'a peraonal influence one day after he become* "Pl'"-1 -(^p, ,^^ Installation of th* mill able, or one day after the demand ^^ re«lme on Jun* 4. for hla services has been reduced jf . . . .u .-./-.tt ». ..^ i to a point where they no longer „„t^.•''pn„^^^••^ htch o^n^d^i' are cr Ileal In the war effort." °"'1„i^i ?"'•''^^hth^^iSf. He told local draft boarda that ««"t'"%r"''t'^'';^'<h the Axl*. the time wa. p«.sl when the public *'«•¦•» n'"^'" would accept deferments, partic-1 «nat line of action the revlaed ularly of voung men. except for the, Argentine government will adopt most rrltical rea.sons. I «"* " "'V'lS'" "' <:'>"1«'^t"''*' ^oth •The Armv and Navy need men."i P""",""** F""'" P"' enipha»is on he said. "Tiie call* muat be fliled. I'heir Intention to give the Argen- Tk.v will h» " I tine preai "a free hand." Thl* waa '""..' "r , ,_. eonaldered here as the first move Too Many Oovernment Job* I of an a»tute campaign to convince Meanwhile. Chairman John M. j,,, ,„j „, ,,,j continent that the Costello. D.. C alif.. of the Hou«e „,^^. „glme ia 100 per cent demo- mllitary affairs subcommittee in- j^^fj^ g^j j,,, reporta from the Ar- veetigatlng draft deferments In ^pntine capital aaid there has been Reds Pound At Helsinki government and Induatry. express¬ ed the hope that the President's statement would mean elimination of "all unjustifiable deferments." "Far too many requests for the deferment of fathers In govern¬ ment are being made at thla time, rather than attempting to releaae aa many aa poasible in order that Selective Service quotas may he met" Costello aald in a statement. "Unless there ia a more atringeni policy applied to the employees of government, we eannot expect In- dttatrv cr agriculture to aet the ex¬ ample." Costello said that of 47«,000 pre- Pearl Harbor fathera In govern¬ ment service deferment ha* been requested for 190.000. 1,<MM,«M Non-Father* It w«* believed fhe Prealdent's atatement also would hnve Ihe ef¬ fect of speeding recla.saiflcatlnn nrocedurcs bv local draft boarda. Selective Service policy always haa heen lo review periodically all clasa- ifleatlons. but manv boarda have been delinquent In this work. Mr. Rooaevelt noted that Indua¬ trlal deferments include more than 1.000.000 i|on-fathers. of whom 380,- 000 are uiVier 2fi. Agricultural d" ferments, he .said. Include nea nn noticeable relaxation of cenaor ship restrictions. However. Alberto I.«nua. editorial writer of the Argentine newapaper Lan Prensa who was arrasted a week ago for criticizing the gov¬ ernment's decree regulating the pre.s.s. waa released yesterday aa one of the flr»t aet* of the ney admin¬ istration. Diplomatic quartera here said the Russians Using Captured Shells To Batter Enemy Stockholm. Sunday. Feb. 27. (UP) —A force of about 300 Ruaaian bombers raided Helsinki Saturday night and continued to pound at the Finnish capital In tiie early hour* of this morning, reliable privat* lources reported today. The Soviet bombera atruck In waves, centering their attack on the northern and central aection* of the city thi* lource said. About .V) separate fires were re ported raging in the battered capi- „ koBKKT MVHKL. tal. and it waa reported that be- •; „ ., .^ ,. __ ,..„, „ _ tween 10 and Vi Rus.sisn plane*; Lcndon. Sunday. Feb. 27.—(UP)—Four Russian armies pushing west- were shot down bv the defenders. |Ward toward the Baltic Statea on a 150-mile front captured more than The attack began about 7 p m '0*> towna and settlement* yeaterday as they advanced to within .10 Pushing Towards Baltic States On Hammering 150-Mile Front; Open Rail Line in White Russia American republics may adopt b"* g-vediah time and was reported ">"»' '"'t of Pakov on the northern end of the line while opening altitude that the executive author- ^^j,, j^ progreas more than five « "«^^ drive in the south toward the last German-held longitudinal Itv was atrlpped from Ramirex by force and that mutual consultation mav he neceaiary In order to define the situation and determine a Joint approach. By JOHN A. RRICmiANN Washington. Feb. 26 (UP)—The American republics have begun con. aultatlon on the queation of recog¬ nition of the new Argentine gov- (Continued on Page A-10) progreas hours later, thia source said. Telephone communicaliona be- je,.j,„pin ,„to a rout, by repirt ':'.m.^^'^rt*'Tit^lU6\ll^^^^^^ -"Slments on the fronj directly south railroad in Northern Rusaia. (tlee .^iap on Page A-10.) Moscow'* broadcaat communique* indicated the German retreat waa than .^.^0.000 are under Ifl. Both the Prealdcnl's memoran¬ dum and teatlmonv bv Hershey he- fore the Senate agriculture commlt- . , J- . uaing captured ammunition and of that cloaine on Pskov, the evening and had not been r*-^rlillerv to shell "the retreating "^""f "''"K sumed at a late hour tonight. i enemy." Air raid alarms were sounded In -^^ Ruaaian* hammered out the rtorlheaslern Swedish towns ofj^j^imum gains of 15 miles yester- Torneaa and Haparanda, near thejjgy „ ^^ey also cleared the Oer- FinnUh border, but no planea were „^,„ f,„n, j^elr last 50-mile grip observed, „„ (),* Dno-Novo-Sokelnikl aector of the L.enlngrad-'Vitebak railroad and thua opened a 340-mlIe atretch of the lin* *outhward from the _ . . , former Czarist capital to the vicin- oU'Pnae Attacka Ity of German-held Vitebsk tai northern White Russia. Red* Renume Attack Moacow revealed that the Rus- landon today aa a renewal of|Charged that Russian planes drop-; .Una had resi^^^^^^ almost nightly air raids atarted |Prd>mnbs on Swedish territory this west _and_n«rthx^^^^^^^ LONDON STARTING THIRD EVACUATION London. Feb. 28. (UP)—Thou- 'j!jy sands of women and children Planes Over Ht4Mhhalm L.ondou. Feb. 28. (UP)—Radio Stockholm said tonight that uniden¬ tified foreign planea flew over the Stockholm area thia evening and were fired upon by Swedish anti¬ aircraft gunners. (The Swedish radio previously In the Novoisokolniki area Mos¬ cow announced that another Rus¬ sian armv — Gen. Popov lasl com¬ manded there but Moscow ha.s not revealed who Is the new com¬ mander — atruck through strongly fortified German defenaea in a drive which carried to withfh 55 miles of the Latvian border. Chungking, Feb. 2« UP i--Strik¬ ing at the Japaneae lifeline in cen¬ trnl (Tiins. Uth V S Air Force By UO.\ ( AHWELL Allied Headquarter*, Southwest "'•" «>'-«"'ull.v ""I'd shining Pacific, Sunday, Feb. 27 (UP)- *nd other Urgets along the Yan- American dcstrovera swept Ihrough ftie River during the past two the northern Bismarck Sea at da.vs, a communique from Lt. On. dawn Friday and bombarded the Jof'P" W. Stillwell a headquarter* Japanese supply bas* at Kavieng, ""d today. . „ ,. „ .\ew Ireland, for the third time f>n Thursday, eacorted Mitchell within a week, whil* Allied bomb-1 mediums attacked warehou*** and ers dropped 100 ton* of bomb* on '¦¦''¦¦"«'' V^^ds «t Kiuklang, 130 Rabaul. New Britain, it wa* an- >""" *outheaat of Hankow, atart-| two powei^ul attacks Ofi the "»""«'' ^»''-• I ng'hierli^tempud Pn'tfrcep-'ttorb" I beachliead betv een Feb. 8 and one was shot down and the seven 18 that bl°0U{rllt on sonie of others damaged „ „ ,, ^, , I the heaviest fitriiting of the fl.h'Jer, "I^we'enlV; ^h. ^4in"jt?.l •""«•• Mediterranean campaign fX'^.^hinchSw'" o' P«VJb,"^"i?:-„ k^1;^e';'e'rs'rL'd Zi itSj stroyed 15 sampans and damaged'[^,°„'',"°'"""» ""**"<* °"*-''""'" By ROBERT VERMILLION AlUed Headquarters, Naples Feb. 26 (UP)—Gen. Eber- hai'd von Mackensen's Ger¬ man 14th Army has suffered 15,000 casualties in the battle of the Anzio beachhead and as a result the Nazi^ have had to revise their defense plans for western Europe as well as those in Ital.v, an Allied spokesman said tonight. Most of the German losses were suffered in the course of nounced loday The destroyers sank on* Jap¬ aneae ship and left two burning, while several harbor craft were hit and shore batteries allenced. Gen, Douglas MacArthur's communique reported. The American warships shelled Kavi«nf for nearly m f^-^t^Vr'boals:Tn"cludi"n7flv*ia;ic hour without a •lnt • JiP-neseitu,, t„^,„^ ,„,j,j h„»,„ plane appearing to retaliate. N'e destroyer* used spotting planes to direct *h*ll flr* in the daring day¬ light operation. Btill Ne Oppealtioa Thursday's ratd on Rabaul, ky mor* than ISO plane*, th* 22nd een- **cutive air attack on that once- formidabia 9«'«w Britain baae, tail¬ ed to draw enemy air oppoaltlon JAPANESE IN BURMA BEING OUTFLANKED The Germans are now "on tha defensive" below Rome, and are regrouping under cover of local, unsuccessful thruat* against tha Allied beachhead line and attack* on our landing operationa with bomba. ahall* and motor torpeda baats, It waa revealed. Needed ta France The 14th Army includes t':iree In* fantry regimenta and one artillery regiment (more than 13.000 men) ag N*w Delhi, Feb, 28. (UP)-Brit¬ ish West African troops have cap' tured the Kaladan Valley town ef Kyauktaw in Western Burma, poa- for the fifth straight day. Soiomons-1»»« • new threat to the hard- .,,...,. ^ _ based bombers unloaded at leisureipressed Japanese on the Arakan,we|I aa a tank liattallon drawa their bombs on an ammunition i front a Southeast Asia command from France it.»clf. it was dlsclo«*d. dump, a power plant and many communique said today. In addition, other part* of von buildings i The Weat Africans occupied Mackeasina 10 diviaiom! had heen Th. ale ¦n,4 ... hln..u..l. nf TV'.u, Kyauktaw after cro'^ing a stream scheduled for movement lo France Irriiid L,d N>w Britain .rowing i" the fac* of opposition and now by thla time in order to bolster th. ev.r llahfer h« fut^ff « «?l' «"« >" * poaltlon to outflank thai German west wall, threatened wit* ever lighter haa eut off an esti- . . r .. . _ .. Invasion from Britain. However, these forcea, as well ag nine divisions of the German 10th Army on the Cassino and AdriaUe ever lighter, haa eut off an esti- ,.„ .,-.__i,.iH „» i>Mfi.i.«.,._. »« mated 60,000 Japanese troops on i*,?..'?""!.'".^ "/ Buthldaung, 28 the two islands whe app"r*ntly | ""V;.' *° i*.'., m«v„ ,.n.. i„ .h. face alow starvatien aa Allied »hips! ,;;"'"[,'i^' **,">" rtngt. in tlie anil ni.n.. h..n» .!<._ .-J «..» «»»"'*'" Arakan battle area, remnants ll enemv shiDSlnalTlhe Biamarek "f • J«P«n*se raiding party were|fronU not only are tied down In- Areh^^Ln '^'^ * Bismarck driven from the chief creat of the definitely but have been so battered Mayu Ridge. Britiah and Indian troops once again were firmly ea definitely 1 In tiie fighting since the Anaio landings Jan. T2 that their fighting Archipelago, Friday's ahelllng of Kavieng fol lowed the Feb. 18 naval attack tablfshe'd In N^ak.vedauk Paiii'aiTd iTreiigth C^^^^^ agalnat that base when IS ahips traffic across the range was un- were blasted In the harbor. De- molested by the Japa throughout stroyer force* returned laat Tue*- yesterday, day to bombafd the base again. Other Allied bombera covering ,, „,. , ^n laiiipsi the Bismarck Sea struck at Lor-|l1 KILLED WHEN engau and Momote airdromea on The official summary of the cam¬ paign said that the Germans had lost approximately 7,500 men killed, wounded or taken prisoner in each of two costlv efforts to erase the Allied landing strip below Rom*. The prisoners totalled 2,«16. 10 Dlvtslon* .Mauled The German command cannot „, , ,„ J J . iview their situaiion In the beach- Eleven persona were killed and five ^^\d battle with any natisfaction. Admiralty and Loa NeirM"laTanda NAVY PLANE CRASHES in the Admiralty group, 370 milea uorthwest of Rabaul, in two sue-! Kansas City, Mo, Feb. 28 (UP)— cessive attacka. Set Freighter'Afire j injured, none critically, lale today i!',""""yj°,j'^|.e\he'Airies not only A medium bomber added to .la-1 when a transport plane attached to!u,.., ,,.a ' io of the enemy'* be*t pan's shipping losses by bombing the headquartera of the naval nir "*^bal ¦' - ¦¦ up divisions but have dealt and atrafing a 8.000-ton freighter primary training crashed at the,^j^ .„, ,ogj,„ vyhlch will take caught off New Hanover laland. | Olalhe Naval Air SUtion "hortly!^*'"/"'^"/ti^"\o rw^^^^^ northwest of Kavieng, leaving the, afler taking off. the public rela-| rp't, uiest enemv jab came l."/,!Jt.?i?i'' '"¦¦• '."^ »inking, the[tiona offi.e said tonight. One offl- ;„,( the American right flank ' x,:!i.""!.''^!.rr.?'"'!f''- ,. v,. .. \':"}^1" ^^!t^^-^^Jl^ •"•" •"• afong the MusaoUm Canal, but It was easily broken up by an Allied Two succeksive air raids hit the I listed men were victims. Wewak area of northern Newi • cauaing extensive damage, destrov-1 SENATE IN NO HURRY o"t{;er'X'eTJiurh?o'n'R"rLnd' ON McNARY SUCCESSOR The medium bombera and attack planea silenced at leaat four gun positions and destroyed or damag Washington, Feb. 28 (UP) — .. Choice of a Senate Republican ed ten barge* In the harbor. There leader to succeed the late Charlea was no interception in either at- L. McNarv appeared tonight to lie J.000.000 non-fnthera. of whom moVeiiT^^l^'' .."JLir'l. ^r»'"r'new^T'or changed ThaT R^ss^Jn'^pla'neV dr~op-] ^ had resumed great evacu- week.) I the capital's third ation of the war. . . . ........ .u ' Babv carriages blocked station Favor AnnUtice Terma ee vesterdav Indicated that the p,aj,„,.,„, „„j ngg^ly every com- London. Feb. 26. (UP)—Finland man „„,, ,„,.h ,,..,..„,.„ ». armed forces can expect little new ^jpnt „.,, transformed into a is giving serious and favorable con- ';""\P""r'ur, iso fl!? .u mannower from -e-examlnation of r„,„„^ nurserv In scenes remlnia-sideration to armistice terma offer- der from Pskov I.W milea south phvaical atand^rda. ,.e„t of the outbreak of war and ed by Ruaaia, neutral sourcea re- PololaU. Mr. Rooaevelt aald the nation's the opening of the German air ported today, and a Budapeat re- of Pskov (Continued on Page A-10) bllti of 1940. (Continued on Page A-lOi Moscow said that on some parts of the Novosokolniki front thejcupicd the viUagea of Billau, Waral Russiana struck with stunning aur- and Sindaman. big Liberator bomb- priae. At one point Red Army men ers increased the tempo of attacks broke into a town during the nightjon enemv Installations In the north- and attacked so suddenly that notiern New Guinea coast, niki which fell on Jan '•9 and had " "'ngle one of l.ono (jermansl More than .^3 tons of bomba wert pushed westward to wlthiA 38 miles ^'^P*^' "'"'' *"•' 'i''"^'' '''l'i°"B''l dropped on gun positions at Nubia of Idritsa. junction on the Ust Ger- "'•J '^"* '"P^"^''''' ,_, ,^ , " " ' north-south railroad which I ^he Berlin radio said that artillery barrage* Gen. Eberhard von Mackcnscn's troops also at¬ tempted another infiltration of tha British lines below Carroceto. but alert Allied patrols tfrove back the enemy groups. Heavy rains, hampered both sidea as they Jockeyed into position for the next round but. by day and night, the (Jcrmans were lobbinc shells around the Anzio harbor. Thr Luftwaffe waa making sneak raids almost every night on ahip- ping in the Anzio and Nettuno roadsteads. Wednesday night, Ger¬ man E-Boata — motor-torpeda ^°'Vh';'"i;^d^v'^'o!^s/;"'chi^ies l' t»';;ip-t^oth'^t;'IhTr^o^'eS.* McNar?'leave;r here'bv'^r«i',rto-- -"•'l"'^'* '""'"' ""' ""• '''" nighl for his home at Salem. Ore., «" °« «' communique aaaerted -. - .»'^"« f'-""«' ""¦'"» "•" "^''"'- that in serial attack* on Anzio laat on Hansa Bay. 100 miles north ofi"''" for Friday. In-ht three Allied vessela totaling In,Madang. while Installations and air-1, A/"""/ m"'JV,|;^^^"\ce^°[ ^°'].d^ 120(«^^ tons and a destroyer wera seriously damaged while another tack, tlie communique said, Aid Troopa' Advance Whil* Am*rlcan ground force* slowly advancing weatward from Saidor on the Huon Peninsula oc- among Sens. Wallace H. Whit* jr.. Me.: Arthur H. 'Vandenberg, Mich.: Robert A. Taft. O.. and Style* Bridges, N. H. There waa no dla- poaltion among Republican aena¬ tor*, to hurry the selection. (UP 'ian bor-iPre-war Poland the Germans had'drome aupply areas at Madang and '»"<•« received today by the wid()w south tnil'eKun to counler-nttacU south nf Ale.'cishafcn were attacked. One,"' the 69-year-old Senate Republl- transport could be atroyed".) "preauflied the Caasino front, th* <le*» Modern Atoll Warfare No Jap Snipers After Flamethrowers Finish Work tending east of the Pakov-Idritsa line. Those armies won more than 100 towns vesterday, among them I the stronghold of Porkhov which By RICHARIl W. JOHNSTON ing dull, brass tubes Instead of tached to Lt. Col. Harold Mizony's ^ is 42 milea east of Pakov. With the Combined Army and guns, connected a hose lo the back- battalion which is cleaning up the indicating that the Russians Marine Forces Atta«klng KnI- borne containers and paused as eastern end of this island — Ihe planned no halt before Pakov, Mo*- wetok Island, Feb. 20. (UP)—Two enemy bullets sunk in around them.,largeat coral Island of the Eniwe-, ,.o^^,., communique for the first figures-bent under some great Suddenly from thc tubes great tok atoll. time told of attacks being made weight on their shoulders —slipped white hoi plumes of flre billowed p„,„, Caroenter In the "Pskov direction." put of thc dense mangrove foliage nut. enveloping the thicket. The ' '"', ^¦'P«"»'' •'"J" ».„„,h in the rear flank of our advancing foliage shriveled and disappeared. Hildreth, a l.ig »qu«r*-jaw'ed Mo^e Do«n >(•¦¦">•« tanka and crept up to palm-The thicket waa completely con- blue-eyed six-footer, has not aeen One wing of the Ru.ssian armiea, thatched thicket. sumed. Trenches and foxholes thcn'nny of the enemy, but hes done striking down the railroad wliich Infantrymen moving up the tall stood out where a momenl before '» lot of burning. In less than 38,runs southwest from Luga into of this dug-ln Island watched thev had been utterly concealed— hours of action he burned out two p3kov. cantured the station of Novo br*athle*«ly. Two soldier*, carry-even after atlack.s bv tanka. Jap pillboxes mnde o» rocks and Rpiye norneasiof the Baltic gate- - .No living thing could survive that iloR.s nnd four dug-outs. i wav cily of 60,000 iblnst of flre nnd the infantry "How did you guys happen to' Moscow """"""I'^f^.,;'''"',, "j"™ 1 moved up In the wake of the two get i„|o su. h a specialized occupa-. than l.S(K) (T.erm^na were killed in hunched figures who di.-appeiired Hon aa flamethrowing?' I "ik"'- the battle f"; Novo Se ye «a the ,ln .scHrch of more Jap-Infested Hildreth said he wns a carp nlrr jenemv fought desperate y to keep 'thickets before he \vent into the Army and the R''*''""' '¦¦"'" J*''',"' ?''l°^' The flamethrowers were Pvt. found the Army "didn't have much , from the .""rth >> or' ^"Jl 'oree, .Harlev .fohnson. 59, of Wichita, use for carpenters." an he d.dn t jto the east each It Force, under Kan., and T ,^ Jame. Hildreth, 2\,object when th.y mad. a flam*-|C^n. ^^'^^ail S. JChozln capturjd 'of Belmont N. Y. Both are at-'throw.r af him. »<»• t^"» *»• ^""^ •"• ••***^ Tdrltsa i« 110 miles south « ""* extending from I.ulsk. 8,\ parked bomber waa deatroyed in theL."" 'e»d'r was one from President Idrltsa no miles south ^^„^^ ,^^jj^ ^^ Po\nu6. which thelMsdang area. Roosevelt which said "the great n,rmana .-, . .»«4„,i., .. . Russians took on B-eb. .V The Rua-; over the Dutch East Indies, long-,"«'•"' "regon and the nation as i French ww^ue™^^ Meanwhile two Soviet armies un-,ians ^ave not reported on fight- ..Rnge fightera atrafed villages "n' a whole have loat the counaels of a On 'he Caasino front der (enerala Leonid A. Govorov i„g ,„ that area since early thia Timor Island's aouthern coast. lf«*thful and efficient public '"V- mans again attacked French , and Markian M. Popov pressed to- month. while a heavv bomber damaged a »"t." I (Contmued on Pag* A-10) "¦"m ,f, .Vf r^.Tl'mmn^i.^Mi^Jl """> P"ris radio Indicated the 3.000-lon frelihlor transport south- ^iTh'the'huge ¦3^'rmanTarie?t"«-i- 'C°"^""'"' - ^''^ A-10) ea.st of Misool laland. near Ceram. War l^uiiiiiiary Regardless of further conquests i Four Russian armies ar* drlvln, of territory In Italy, where alread.v jon the Baltic Stalea on a 150-mile; airniof"'*'"''*''',''' "h*^ l?''p-L'»lr^'>s f""t, wilh Moscow reporting the By L'NITtlD PRES8 making "it possible for Mediter! German relre.l is becoming a rout. The Britiah radio reported Salur. ranean bombers to join in on raids j Once again American destroyers of Germany, the Italian c.impalgn (,„^,j .teamed up lo bombard the ia paying dividends. With l.Mi") , . , ,. ¦ j i. ^ casSaltlef suffered at Anzio, the ¦I«P. »««« »' Kavieng and bonjbers Germans hnve been forced to hrinslaK"" have raided Rabaul Once in troopa from other parts of their f8»i" there was no opposition by European defense areas, changing^fhe enemy and observers in tliat Japs Say Furious Battle JHas Been Raging at Guam In Taday'a laaue daasined Kdllnrlal >lnvle* . Social Sport. Radio Outdoor .,. . n—10 B—ft A—IA B-l There waa no confirmation that all their plans for protection in face theatre report the Japanese air de-|such a bailie was underway of the invasion threat. ,[*"''!, ]"*". dwindled to a pitiful i ggf. moniUus quoted the handful of planes. ; broadcast as aaying: In England it has been reported' Pacific battering Japanese baatlana and virtually daring tha Japaaaaa day that il had picked up a Ger-1 fleet to come out and fight, report- man Transocean agency broadcast ed Friday that Guam had bee* quoting renorta from Tokyo that a'bombed by the same force whleh struck at Saipan and Tinian, north¬ east of the former American htM last Tuesday. There wer* no da- tails of the attack on Guam, how* ever. Observers here l>clieved it possible the German report was violent hattie hss been going on for some days at Guam, in the Marianas. Nazi exaggerated vresion of Minlta'g officiallv that the last hone of the' It wa.s reported that Winston "For some days a violent battle announcement or that it may have Germans for slaging a.ustalned Churchill's aon had parachuted inlo ha.s been going on for pos.seaaion . ..-,:.„_.. a... ^. aerial defenae haa been cruahed Jugoslavia. Anolher report was under the bombers which wrecked that King Peter had requested their fighter plane Industrv . . • ! rescue from the "'Whit* Hand", Reiumptlon of raid* on London hss.which waa holding him a virtual atarud another avaouatiea there, ipriaenar. o' Guam hetween the garriaon and enemy naval force*." Adm. Cheater W. Nlmiti, com¬ mander of U. 8. Pacific force* whidi have been reaming the mid- been a deliberate Axis propaganda attempt to "huild up" the attaek on Guam, auch as occurred recent¬ ly in the assault on Truk. for tha purpose of later claiming that M AUied atuck had beea I
Object Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Date | 1944-02-27 |
Month | 02 |
Day | 27 |
Year | 1944 |
Issue | 18 |
Publisher | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Coverage | United States, Pennsylvania, Luzerne County, Wilkes-Barre |
Type | Sunday Newspaper |
Source | Microfilm |
Format | tiff |
Subject | Wilkes Barre PA Sunday Newspaper |
Description | An archive of the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent newspaper. |
Rights | Public Domain |
Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Date | 1944-02-27 |
Month | 02 |
Day | 27 |
Year | 1944 |
Issue | 18 |
Publisher | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Coverage | United States, Pennsylvania, Luzerne County, Wilkes-Barre |
Type | Sunday Newspaper |
Source | Microfilm |
Format | tiff |
Subject | Wilkes Barre PA Sunday Newspaper |
Description | An archive of the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent newspaper. |
Rights | Public Domain |
Sequence | 1 |
Page | 1 |
Technical Metadata | Image was scanned by OCLC at the Preservation Service Center in Bethlehem, PA. Archival Image is an 8-bit greyscale tiff that was scanned from film at 300 dpi. The original file size was 29980 kilobytes. |
FileName | 19440227_001.tif |
Date Digital | 2009-09-01 |
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A Paper For The Home
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
38TH YEAR, NO. l%—44 PAGES
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1944
The Weather
Warmer, mdndy. poaaible ahowera.
PRICE TEN CENTS
ANZIO COST NAZIS 15,000 MEN; REDS SAY GERMANS IN ROUT
Hershey Orders Review Of All Job Deferments; Aims at Men Under 26
Point to Million Non-Fathers Still Out of Uniform; Crucial Time Ahead
Washington, Feb. 26. (UP)— Maj. Gen. L«wi* B. Her*hey. direc¬ tor of Selective Service, ordered a review of all occupational defer¬ ments today, particularly thoae granted men under 2 |
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