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i A PapSr For The Home SUNDAY INDEPENDENT The Weather Windy cool, occaaional rain. 38TH YEAR, NO. 25—44 PAGES WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, APRIL 16, 1944 PRICE TEN CENTS MILES TO SEVASTOPOL ^ \ 2'Pronged Drive Ends Lull in Air Vfar Jap Airmen Beaten over Cent. Pacific Gen. Hale Shows U.S. Bases Advance; Feared to Strike As Navy Invaded B> DA.\ BOWER.^IAN' Headquarters, Seventh AAF, Cen tral Pacific. April 1\ <UP)-The ; By H. R. KMOKERBOCKER .lapanese appear to be defeated in I Special to Sunday Independent H. R. Knickerbocker: Quick Nazi Strategy Fooled Us in Italy But Creat Cains Were Made and We Refused to Make it 2nd Front; Cermans Haven't Civen up in Russia H. R. KnlrJceriMMiker. Ionc famed foreitn rnrr«>«pnndent, landed witti the troopa on D Day at Salerno and covered fnr the fifhtint at that heaeliheail, at t^aino and later at Antio, until a tew daya aen when he went t« Enicland. The foUowing diariMte* tha Allied efforta In Italy and their mean inc. ^Not Bad, Thia Captivity the air in the central Pacific Maj Gen. Willis H. Hale declared tc¬ day coincident with announcement tbat he will assume new dutiet as rommander of a land-based air force in a forward area May 1, j portant, Cassino has thrown what "April 13 It thc fiflh month an- was at first an entirely surpri-iing nivcrsary of the opening of the I light on Adolf Hitler's intentions. sustained offenf.ive against the Japs 111 haa revealed some unpleasant London, April IS.- Of all the rich, useful and sometimes painful lessons of thc Italian campaign, the one that looms largest in the minds of corrc!*|>ondcnts back from Cattino is how much it leachet about the quality of the fighting to bc expected on the .second front. Also, and this ia even more im- by the 7lh AAF." the General said. "Sime the opening of the offen¬ sive, our operational bases nearest Japan have been advanced 1.330 miles. Thc Japs appear defeated in the air. They've recently moved a tilings aboul Hitler's own pcsition prestige and auihority in the Ger¬ man Army, which many had thought permanently destroyed after Stalingrad. The chief cause of its failure to achieve full auc- large number of fighter aircraft iceat wat our misconception of to their bases but have been unable to slop or tlow up our bombing missioni. "When the enemy rannot stop bombers, he Is being defeated," Baan :,MW billet Cloaer Hale pointed out that when It helped smash the Japanete at Mid¬ way, the Tth AAF operated from Hawaiian bases but now has moved its bates more than 2,000 mi'et to- ward J«pan.^,^,...,^..,„ He said ttie mott striking evi¬ dence of waning Japanese air what the Germant intended lo do. At the landing at Salerno we only had one division of Germana against ut, and we expected it to make a ahort, tharp fighl. then an orderly withdrawal. Joined by the WAR'S LARGEST L / I \Bu€narest and Ploesfi Bontbed Germany Strafed Mangle Rail Yards of Capital, Oil Fields as Red Army Nears; Record Loss as Fighters Attack With Some Penetrating to Berlin By WALTKR CRONKITE London, April 1.1 (UP)—Two fleets of Italy-based U. S. heavy bombers and fighters, totaling 750 to 1,00U planes, smashed vital Nazi rail com- munii alions at Bucharest and Ploesti in Romania loday while more than BCK) other American fighters, continuing the 'air invasoin of Kurope " i __„4i, _« ^•-, _ «___i t Am,m from Britain, lashed 10 enemy airfields in Germany and occupied I """""' ".'*"''J°P"'y**'"''*3'! ViuesUoned at American headquarters, Jap prisoner was taken by firsl U. 8, Cavalry Diviaion on Los Negroa laland. Hit leg wound bandaged by American doctora, he silt back and enjoya a cigarette while being quizzed. Tarnopol Also Falls To Russians 38-Day Battle Ends; Slaughter In Crimea As Pocketed Germans Stage Mad Flight By ROBERT MUSEL l.«ndon. Sunday. April It (UP)—Red Army forc« charRed tn within three milM Washington, April 15 (UP)—The war't largest sedition trial, featur- six other divisions known to be in ing Adolf Hitler among othert, will Italy last Sepl»mber, until they jbegi,, |„ federal court here Monday, Thirty defendants — 28 men and two women — will go on trial chargei u^riaww, •y to promote azi govern- raached the Po River, where they would trv to make a ttand. For that purpose we had and used jsutncient forces. jXaiia Faded l°t \ But the enemy refuj&ed lo fall In ment in the United Slates, sircngm is seen in u. a. navai oper-. wilh our plan. Within a few weeks' Hiller Joseph Goebbelt Rudolf alions by the Pacific Fleet, which thev had neariv 30 divitiona inl„ j on ,u i i v, v- • penetrated 1,0()0 lo 1.50(1 miles inlo'IUlv and chose to contett everyj"""- *"<" •** O'"" '"K" ^'^"* ¦" a fully-alerted enemy aiea in deli-'foot of the way. As I have re- listed at confederates of the ac- ance of Japanese air power. j ported before it was at though cased men and women in the gov- "Thc Japs never liavc had a''I"" <^*^'""]"" «*""''?'"*''''*''''**" crnmment't bill of particulars. The belter opportunity to sirike our: ^,''l*«*'*d }°. '""^V ^^' "'"P. »' defendants face Dossibl. maximum -Navv from thc air than thev hadlKuropc and find where it would be'l'f^ndanU face pos.s>ble maximum in the l.ast few weeks Thev didn't ""«" advantageous to meet Ihc |>enall.cs if convicted of 10 yeart have what it takes," hc said, | Anglo-Americans, , in prison and $10,000 fine each. fighter Hc Aaid that Japanese opponition will continue lo be tough. "But unless the J.ips great¬ ly reinforce their air arm, our future progress in th Pacific air war will be determined entirely in Washington—not to any extent in Tokyo." Hale taid the objective of the I They could not have belter deci.sion than to made a pick the havc been cau.sed by a blanket of bad flying weather over the conti¬ nent. Striking their third paralyzing blow in 11 days against enemy supply lines in Romania. U. 8. IStli Air Korce Flying Fortresses and Liberators hurled hundreds of tons of. high explosive and fire — bombs on mangled rail yards and other targets in the Romanian ¦ apital and at Ploesti, center of Romania's oil fielda. Pounding 57S miles eaat across the Balkant and shepherded by relays of Lightning and Thunder¬ bolts fighters, tha heavy bombera R>-nftv-fsaurrf V j . j v .. ... clamped a huge military pincer \P^rJ; J *'"' ^ ^ *•¦¦• <'«»t''oy«<l by bombing and on Adolf Hitler't panicky talellite Allied Headquartert, Southwest|shelling, he taid, !,, Marsal Ivan S Konev'a '•nd Paiific Sunday, April 16. (UP)—I Three aaawy «««|tal vaaaels were Ukrainian Army drove on Iaal. 185 Australia jungle fightera on tha sunk off Prittwita Point, north of miles north of Ploesti northern New Guinea coatt arajAitape, at bombers ranged alongl j^g Cerman countries, some penetrating to the Berlin area. I by capturing Lyubimovka in Thc twin blows in tupport of the advancing Red Army in Romania a I.i-illile advance and pushcd and against the Luftwaffe's anti-invasion defenses ended a one-day lull — . . - -"^ in tile mighty Allied air offensive} against Axia Europe, believed to Aussie Jungle Fighters Moving On to Madang IMPHAL FRONT at Rabaul, New Britain, where Sol onions-based Mitchell medium I rged DI»lo.?aliy bombers, torpedo planes and dive- _,.,., . I The defendanls are also accused bombers unloaded 89 tont of bombt southern end of Italy ¦'"'^ »«>;'of consnirlni since June 1840 to I"" devastated Installatlona Thurt- ..., ._. Lets meel Uiem there and let »' ton»P"'"8 » "" June, i»40, to^^^ ^^^ Dduglas MacArthur't Centralis')'''" ''V '" j'l^^'- ^''*''' "''>' ""'"¦"'"'"- -"¦¦""' >¦-" •"-' "•¦•" puthing toward tha large enemy I the northern coatt and baae of Madang from captured Bo-1 Wewak airdromea gadjin while Allied airmen twept Dagua with 20 tons over icaltered Japanese airfields'parked planet were and sank at least five tmall ahips, Wewak and amoke was visible for <io°ri'>h<«n''i^a« it wat announced today. ,30 milet after the attack. s-ianwra uiai The heaviest raid carried out de- Two Japanete cargo shipt of spite adversa waather over the i small tize were tunk in the Mapia Southweit Pacific battle area wat > Itlandt of the Dutch Rast Indict, DNB agency re Sees Chance to Crush Japanese; Tension in City By DARREU. BERRIOAN New Delhi. April 15. (UP)- -Adm gosiavia, during the day. heavy bombers within range of th< major war production centers of Japan. When this is done, liie or ita hill defenses. Again the il will have reached stage.'' :o« .lap Planes, 108 Hhi|m Hale revealed thai lotal U. *. rasualties in Ihe Marshalls bomb¬ ing raids from November lo date weie 33 killed. 13.^ wounded and il5 missing. Seventh AAF planes in five months, he aaid, havc destroy¬ ed 206 Japanese planes and prob¬ ably destroyed 128 more, wilh another 14 damaged. Since December. Kales' 7lh AAF bombers have sunk, probablv sunk or damaged 108 Japanese ---ps of all types. American losses from all causes „,.,„_ ,_j through the Gilbert and Marshall j ^'»'°" """, ^o"Tat'"'i:er;''2.'35%cr°c'e';rhat'dl-"nv's opponents before, on Ihe number of sorties flown,; Not Beaten in Kuxtia of which l.fl5 per cent were ducj You will find no one at Cassino to enemy action, lor Anzio low-rating the German Since Feb. 1, the 7th has lostigrmv. Indeed, wr doubt if the Red six henvy bombers while operating Army low-rates the Germans. Why on moir'lhan l.'iO bombing mis.«ions,|,p„ ^^e the Germans receding upradvise, counsel, urge and cause ^ communique reportad, the pe.iinsula." j insubordination, disloyalty, mutlnv|>|„y^ Along Ooaai Again at the Anzio beadiliead we ^^^ ^^f^^g, ^( j„jy ^y membert of j' A headquartert apoke.sman *n- n.il.. nn the Ihe militarv and naval forcet of the nounced that Auttralian patrola on miies up ine _ ^^^ ^^^ Guinea coatt continued . . „ , , . 1 to move northward along tha ahora 0»John r.OKRe, special assistant Uf Astrolabe Bay, driving to the to /Rlorney General Francis Biddle Gori River at they move toward will preseni the government's case jigjang jg ,„iie, above captured which has been building up for oog^djim. The spokesman aaid other poil- apparcntlv were convinced that if We landed there 50 n .< ¦ , ¦ . .. 1 'coast fr.im the main .Mh Army United Slates L"5."l'^.l':.rJ...'\:'r.,:"_'?-..!!l"'L'.?:f:Uronl, now the Cas-smo front, and we menaced the Germans wilh I culling in beliind them, the enemy i> itl \»--- -«. k. ..... K..f would hatten lo withdraw from Pacific Uar may not b. over, bu.^^^^j,,^ ^^^ ^^„.,.y ^^^^ ^„ r„^^ ^^^^^ Uvwovcars, Germans proved that they were 1 „Ti'_1A^:^''...'^''."l'^". .'l?.^*'!^!!"^..?!*.:"""' "<>^'^<i Bogadjim remained making the plnns. or rather they were changing the plana we had made. Instead of withdrawing from Cassino. they reinforced it so effec¬ tively that it still stands there, a model of defensive fighting, and liiev threw in a force againat the beachhead atrong enough al first lo have made our position pre¬ carious. .Tliese enemy troops were drawn from northern Italy. Yugo¬ slavia and even France. All this wa.s done wilh that speed of dc- movement which has brealh of many of Gcr- in the Marshalls and Carolines. BRITISH IIKHTROVKR LOST frnm Russia so fast that many military commentators are writing them (iff as finished? Wc do not ourselves among those of Ixi.Klon, April 1.-.. (UP'- The ad-] Ini'lu'lc - u. ,.„.„ i mirallv announced tmlny thai the Ihat opinion. I say «:« because I British destroyer HMS Laforey has hnve just bren discussing the point been lost. Conimander of the ves- with teveral old Cassino "-oH^JK''"^ sel was Capl H. T. Armstrong,! We think the Oermans derided to who plnved an n.tive role in the, pull out in Ru.ssia the same way Anzio beach landings. ' (Conlinucd on Page A-3> Stop Planes to Dublin; Coal Crisis Hits Rails London, April 15. (UP)-Eire's reduction In railroad trantporta- .conomic and geographic Itolation tion.^I.i ^l^'^^^'J^-^JT/' firsl tightened tonight as the Allies j European neutral to feel the pinch aharpened policy of cracking down Lf economic pressure which U.S. cn neutrals which might give direct Secretary of State Cordell Hull ina- or indirect aid to the Axis was P-Jcd^.ast^Sun^day^wou^d^appI.v^^to lmplem*nted by two new actions, ^pj^pt^j „ y g request that It close Plane service between Dublin and [hj German and Japanete legations, I/ondon was suspended and Eire, whose continued functioning were feeling the effects of a British deci- g^u jj, jeopardize Ihe military se¬ aion lo hall conl exports, was ,,urity of Allied forces in northern forced to order the most drastic irpja'nd and provide a vantage point for Axis spies. Under thc new transportation re¬ strictions, railroad main line passenger services will be ^ut lo two days weekly, while freight trains will operate four dsys weekly Elizabeth DillniK of Chicago, authr- ,„,rhanged tince the Autaiet broke of tlie "The Red Network," an* Japanese forcet into tmall groups LoU de .Lafayelte Washburn of „,i,jn ihjy i^ok the town without Chicago and Tacoma. Wash., or- resistance Thursday. He taid the ganizer of the National Liberty Gori River wat a "broad dimcult part.v, obstacle" on the route to Madang, Among the men are Joseph R. He revealed that the Americans McWillianis of New York nnd Chi- in the Admiralty Islanda have now cago, founder of the Ciiristian Mo' bilizcrs; William Dudley Pelley of NoblesvIUe, Ind., who led the sil¬ ver Shirts, and George E. Death- rage of Sl. Albans. W. Vn., who or¬ ganized nnd guided thc Knights of the While Camellia, Pelley was sentenced on Aug. 12, to. 15 years in prison for violating the sedition act. There also are George Sl.vve.sler Viercck, Nazi propadandist. and (icrhard Wilhelm Kiinze, German- American bund leader, both New York, Kunze Is serving se Icnces of 15 years for espionage and five years for counseling evs- ov sion of the Selective Service Act. counled 3.000 Japanese dead aince the first U.S. landing Feb. 29, An unestimaled number of Japanete bodiet ilill are unditcovered er GENERAL EISENHOWER AT FOOTBALL GAME Wembley, England, April IB. (UP) the communique reported. Planea, P-Ta Attaek Other Solomnns-bssed planea striking at Japan't Bismarck Arciiipelago bases bombed the Kavieng airdrome on N'ew Ireland with 25 tona of bombs, losing two planes to anti-aircraft fire. Light naval unitt, presumably P-T boats, destroyed six enemy barges and damaged two oUiers In Wide Bay. on the New Britain coast 60 air miles aoutheast of Rabaul, The Rabaul attack, coniinuing the ceaselest South Pacific air of¬ fensive through the 10th week, brought to more than 6,100 tons the total weight of explosives dumped on the battered enemy stronghold since the beginning of February- HEAVY FIGHTING ON IN YUGOSLAVIA London, April 1,V (UP)—Heavy flghting has broken out In the heart of Yugoslavia where German forcet are attempting lo drive the Partisans of Marshal Josip Broz (Toto) from the Fruska Gora hills 30 miles northwest of Belgrade, it waa announced loday. The German atlack, designed to turprlie the On. A. T. Cowan't crack 17lh Indian Diviaion for tmashlng its way Into the beleaguered Indian citv "in one of the best battles of U, S. nth and 9th Air Forces' long-range Mustang, Lightning and Thunderbolt flghters luffered their ,,,„ ^„_„ highest loss as they battled bad .p, o .i . » ¦ _ ^ weather in widespread attacks on', 1^''^ Southeast Asia commander airfields over ocrupied territorv and! ^°"''*'? Co«'"> » headquartera by central and northern Germany. Ijppp 't was learned today, to com- Tt.1,1., »:~i,. . 11 J ^ mend the jungle fighters who, cut .„ thel^^RrmirK '""*w to. '«'';"¦" Off for three weeks by Japanese An.iri «n nil ^A^l- ^"V^! f^i^lroad blocks along the imphal-TId- tl i^ZrZtV"t'^"',^^°y'V^ "•¦-Idim road and depending on para- S^^.^.l?.v.H fn^ !i'" "''¦•:J°'"'"''' ""'^Icluites for food and ammunition. n?H,e?«, M,.v ."'''^'r'' °''''^^''/'^n'f'¦'^ through to reinforce the &"in"s"lallXnTrra?rn*; J^' -P"«''" Hard-pressed garrison hangars and administration build¬ ings. Some formations penetrated as far east as an airfield In the vicini¬ ty of Berlin. The fighters were only a few minutet from the Or¬ man capital and touched Its outly¬ ing suburbs. They reported meet¬ ing no enemy fighters, but flak was heavy. The aweep wns the longest undertaken for purely atraf¬ ing purposes, Othera attacked barges, flaUars. a factor>' and locomotives in the p,i Reich. At least 17 locomotives were destroyed bv strafing, Bombera Well Protected Probably more than 600 Fh'iiig Fortresses and Liberators, spIilliBK into separate forces as the.v mi- proached their targets, took part in the unprecedented dual assault on Bucharest and Ploesti, It was the first time that the heavy bombers were escorted/ill the way by Inrr - Partisan forces aiidl"nKe fightera and that' the two from ther vantagcl important Romanian targets had „- ne^^d ^.^first footb,3^°giS^e in1^'"'« ovc'^looliing the Danubia"n been hammered simultaneously of lEngland todav'a., S 't^Vj^lpMnn. was thrown back with heavy Encountering German intercep- n-lin Wembley Stadium where a crowd ?""¦»" »""<'.""'^^'''^7;t ^'°"' ^""ll""' 'hth iTvi.Lw ^^ 7?//*,'l,'' BC nf H^OOO iave him a tremenHnii. t'»an headquarters said. era, which previously had left the a^Cvation tremendousj other Parti.san units are engaged]heavy bombers to hit Bucharest ct ' The Allied milltarv chief shook '" beavy fighling with a Chetnik|and Ploe,«ti unescorted, shot down Viercck Is serving one lo five years hands wilh every player on both!'"•'««'•'' ^""V'.S' ^^'''^''>• ^*' "',','7l v»nU Li.^"'^'' Headquarters al for violation of the Foreign Agents teams and addressed Ihem briefly, i''°"tb west of he lugoslnv capital Nap e sad. Registration Act, The players, who wero mostly aer-""^ ¦wlft-strlklng Giicrr la forces The Liberato then kicked off, "" •'—'— ••—- oh„,.u. nn,.r..t ww.i. SWEDEN REJECTING DEMAND TO STOP SUPPLIES TO GERMANY ALLIED BOMBS HARASS NAZI LINES IN ITALY In Today't laaue (lavsiHed Kdllnrlal >lovlet Korlal Kportt -..»..».«..«.™ Radio B—ll C—2 A—18 A—U MM..*.. 1^—1 A—19 B—I London, April 15. (UP) Stock¬ holm dispatches aald today Sweden probabl.v would reject American and British notes demanding that shr cease exporting hall bearings and tools and special steels to Ger¬ man.v, but Turkey, in the face of .similar demands, pledges all aid possible to the Allies. ,_„„,,,! Allied planes kept the peninsular Though Sweden was not expected I )< hopelessly tangled, to reply formally to the two notes ^_-.^^ tf-ii... i»„,i »..«„» n. until late next week, the tenor of By RKYXOI.DH PACKARD Allied Headquartert, Naples, April 15 (UP)-RAF Wellington and Liberator night bombert rained block-busters on three Ilalian west coast ports before dawn today, further complicating the Germans' problem of supplying their front line troops, as other editorials in Stockholm new.s|iapers indicated the anawers would be negative. Fear Retaliation acceded to the Allied requests, (jer many undoubtedly would relnli."'c with a reduction of vital exports. SMch as conl. lo Sweden. With the Allies unable to break Germany's blo.knde of the Baltic, Sweden would run sho»t of supplies nnd evenlunlly face unemployment, the newspaper said. NYA Dagligt Allehanda, another beginning April 24. Praitic as the;Stockholm newapaper. contended present cuts are. observers taid lliat Sweden always had stood for they might he followed by even | free trade with all countriet and greater restriction*. could not break her contracts. On the Italian land front. Britith troops were disclosed to have un¬ dertaken a drive eastward from Minlurno near the Adriatic coatt, .advancing a mile and occupying A»t^-'i,'.V.j«r ..1.1 ihof If qweden'the village of Tremensuoll, 11 miles Aflonbaldet said that If Sweden ^^^^ pornia, where the Germans bring in supplies for the Cassino front. Intensive enemy movement waa ob.served southeast of Carroceto on the Anzio Beachhead, wilh the Germans attempting to screen their deployments behind a new barrage from" their long-distance gunt in the Alban Hills. Thete wrapont were reported to be of 11-Inrh cal¬ iber with a range of more than .^0 milet and mounted on multiple- trucked railway carriage*. are continuing their nllnrka German rail communications. rs attacked Buch- onjarest. while Flying Fortresses (Continued on Page B-5) Can "Cruah" Japaneae Mounlbnlten told tht troopt they "now have the opportunity of crushing the Japanese in northern Burma". Afterwards, he returned by plane to India. Tension was reported mounting In Imphal, about which the Jap¬ anese have thrown a rough semi¬ circle. Front dispatch Indicated the enemy drive from norlh of Imphal was gaining in strength with heaviest immediate fighting report- around the Japanese-occupied Pungshigiin peak 10 miles norlh¬ ea.st of the cily, Tlie Southeast Asia communique, however, described the fighting there merely as "local action'". Thc communique added there was no change in the Kohima area, lon miles north of Imphal. where of¬ fensive operations against .'nemy road blocks near the slrongnold wero reported "progressing." A Japanese news agenry corre- .spondent asserted that a "batter¬ ing rnm of Indo-Japanese forces" wns advancing on Bishenpur, L'."i miles southwest of Imphal, and Moirnng. 10 miles farther south (Conlinued on Page B-5) a •flanking spearhead down tiie ea-st nide of tlie historic siege city to a point eight miles from the Black Sea, while .'lOO miles to the north* west othrr Ru.ssian troops captured the (ierman strong* hold of 1'arnopol in south* eastern Poland after a 38-dax battle. Moscow announced that th* two Soviet armies of the Crimea, pressing the enemy's battered rem¬ nants into a 500-square mile pocket at the southern tip of the battle* scarred Peninsula, had taken 37.000 prisoner! in the flrst week of ft whirlwind eampaign which haa cost the Ctermans and Romaniana apDrpximatcly 66,0(M men killed er In yesterday's advances Gen. Feodor I, Tolbukhln't 4th Ukrain* ian Army and Gen. Andrei I. Yer» emenko's Maritime Army hurled the enemy from more than 60 towns and settlements. One So\-let wing came within . light fleld gun range of Sevastopol b.v taking Lyubimovka, nn th* north shore of Sevastopol Bay guarding the northern approachea to the city, while 11 milea to th* southeast, another Russian column advanced 13 miles to Shull, nin* miles cast of Sevastopol and eight miles northeast of the Blark Sea at Balaklava. where the Light BrI* gade made its renowned charg* la the Crimean War of 1854. Big Port Raided The war's second Battle of Sev* nstopol was opened Friday night. .Moscow revealed, when powerful formations of Soviet bombert raid* ed the port and rail atation area, hitting concentrations of German Iroops, stores and ships massing in the bay In a desperate attempt t» evacuate the remnants of an enemy army that once was estimated t* have numbered 100,000 men. Hug* fires were left raging in the for¬ tress cily, Moscow tald. Other So\'iet planes and warship* of Ihe Black Sea were reportad maintaining an airtight blockade of the ,'>,')-mile stretch of coast ttill in German hands, cutting down scores of enemy ships trying t9 carry out a "Dunkerque evacuai* tion." The Moscow midnight bulletia announced that Black Sea Fleet planes were inflicting heavy blows on enemy vessels attempting t* evacuate "the remnants of th* routed German and Rnmanlta formations." Yesterday a Soviet squadron, pouncing on a large eon» entration of self-propelled landinc barges and other craft, sank tW* (Continued on Page B-5) War Siimiiiai'T Softening Up of Kuriles Goes into Its Sth Day Japs from Wake In Costly Effort To Raid Marshalls Latest report from Russia showed and Kavieng were battered. Several the sweeping Red Army only threeiships were sunk, with both planes mllet ' from Sevastopol. German and P-T boals in actions Gen- forces pocketed and moving down jeral Hale of the 7th AAF said the disorganized forces fleeing to the .Japanese appeared beaten in the sea. There the Black Sea Fleet and air as his forces ran up one-sided n^ ^^i| | |y^'^| p 'D'mrf; Red Air Force combined to make scores In the Ceniral Pacific. i ¦n„„„i'u...l,„. ".„„,, ,', ..-n. mincemeat out of a Dunkerque . ., . .^ u Arnw Ln^ v,vv'^nmhir. hi^«L"; effort. . . Further north the 38-i Sweeping westward in the north,'Army and Navy bombers, blasting day battie'for Tarnopol ended by,the Kurile Islands-beyond the capture of the cit.v. It wns indi-|Aleutians were pounded once cated also that the Germant were uting troops rushed from France, again and ll began lo look like a .soflenin-up process,,,, There were no new reports from the Pacific Fleet, but il appears one was al¬ most due. With Americani taking over, the air war over Germany and occupied countries was resumed. From Italy went Liberntors nnd Fortress¬ es to smash the rail yards at j^ ^,^^ ,^^ opporiunity wns at Bucharest and the oil fields at ,,^„j ^^ ^.^y,,, ,,,p Japanese in Ploesti, giving direct tactical .suP",Burma. Further north General Stil- pprt to the advancing Rua"'*""-[well's Chinese continued their From Italy went fighter planes for i^rcsslve action. . . . There Japan's northern defenae line In the Kurile Islnnds. cnrried their smashing attack Into the fiflh day Thuraday night and Friday morn¬ ing wilh four more assaults on Paramushiro and nearby islands. It was announced today. Raising the total number of roi^ i tack Marshalls, striking before <*— Fridav at Eniwetok atoll. Two of the attacking bombaw were shot dnwn and a third prok> ably destroyed by night flgnt«ia of the Fourth Marine Aireralt Wing which intercepted the enemjT planes and forced them te Jettiaen their bombs. All explosives land¬ ed in the water, the announe«iiiaat aaid. Only >lragre Ack Ark The American raidert ever Hm Kuriles met only meagre antl-air* craft fire from Japanese batterlai| which were beliesed to have been heavily damaged in the terrific at* that has atruck the main Lord Mountbattcn flew Into Im- to 17 In five dnys, Ventura search jenemv bastion of Paramushiro aUg r.^:'„r"' Z^'ZiJt:"]t"tJ''l; ^^'%"L *:•:"..*!'• \^:'"« r««",f,times smce the raid* ataned Man- ag- the greatest strafing 'xploits of ^^niplainls In India that newt waa """"" out from Aleutian bases to hit I day. Paramushiro and Shumushu on file Thursday night-Friday mom- Thursdny night in the van of lllh ing attacks increajicd the pace ef I Army Air Force Liberators which ] the roaring assault on Paramushiro blasted PaiHmushiro again and'to a trip-hammer succession oT the war. Some even reached the belng"wilhheid""""° """"¦ *¦"¦"¦ """" ^'T,*" " Onnekolan the tame|blows that struck three timet in area of Berlin and 10 airdromes] night. one night. Earlier Thursday night, were attacked, | Wilh the Anzio Beachhead re-| The Pacific Fleet announcement | the mnin enemy base had been ported now tecure. Allied air power^of the late.'t Kurile raids disclased smashed by Army Liberators whic^ General MacArthur reported tht turned hard on German bases andjalso that Japanese bombers be-;alsn hit Matsuwa and Shashikotan Australians moving on to Madang, Jtupply lines, with heavy raida on'lleved based on Wake Island had'only a few hours after a pre-dawa with widespread raids conlinued on'vltal areaa on the northweat Italian'attempted their firat raid on Amer-lNavy attark on Paramuthir* tlM ramaining Jap baaea. Again Rabaul icoatL Ucaa baae* In tb* newly-captured iaame morning. L...
Object Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Issue | 25 |
Subject |
Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) - Newspapers Luzerne County (Pa.) - Newspapers |
Description | An archive of the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent newspaper. |
Creator | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Publisher | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Place of Publication | Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) |
Date | 1944-04-16 |
Location Covered | Pennsylvania - Luzerne County |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
Digital Format | image/tiff |
Source | Microfilm |
Language | English |
Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
Contact | For more information, please contact the Osterhout Free Library, Attn: Information Services, 71 S. Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701. Phone: (570) 823-0156. |
Contributing Institution | Osterhout Free Library |
Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER LIBRARY: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
Month | 04 |
Day | 16 |
Year | 1944 |
Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Issue | 25 |
Subject |
Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) - Newspapers Luzerne County (Pa.) - Newspapers |
Description | An archive of the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent newspaper. |
Creator | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Publisher | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Place of Publication | Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) |
Date | 1944-04-16 |
Date Digital | 2009-09-02 |
Location Covered | Pennsylvania - Luzerne County |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
Digital Format | image/tiff |
Digital Specifications | 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 30510 kilobytes. |
Source | Microfilm |
Language | English |
Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
Contact | For more information, please contact the Osterhout Free Library, Attn: Information Services, 71 S. Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701. Phone: (570) 823-0156. |
Contributing Institution | Osterhout Free Library |
Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER LIBRARY: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
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A PapSr For The Home
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
The Weather
Windy cool, occaaional rain.
38TH YEAR, NO. 25—44 PAGES
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, APRIL 16, 1944
PRICE TEN CENTS
MILES TO SEVASTOPOL
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2'Pronged Drive Ends Lull in Air Vfar
Jap Airmen Beaten over Cent. Pacific
Gen. Hale Shows U.S. Bases Advance; Feared to Strike As Navy Invaded
B> DA.\ BOWER.^IAN'
Headquarters, Seventh AAF, Cen tral Pacific. April 1\ |
Sequence | 1 |
Page | 1 |
FileName | 19440416_001.tif |
Month | 04 |
Day | 16 |
Year | 1944 |
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