Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

              An Editorial
Showdown on Coal Assessments Now at Hand
Individual property owners would do well to take to heart the action of the Glen Alden and Lehigh Val- Jey coal companies in serving notice on the county as»e-''--or.s tiial they will fight for a reduction of $17,(100,00(1 ill their coal valuations, the (Jlen .\l(len for a reduction of JIo,800,000 and the Lehigh for one between 11,700,000 and $2,000,000,
But there i.s still a •wor.>-B threat than that one development in coal valuations. The real shock to private property owners came with the added announcement that a little later th« Glen Alden will seek A further reduction of $'25,000,000.
Po homrowners of Luzerne oounty get the full significance of these requests? If they do not, a bit of history in coal assessments •hould enlighten them.
Since 19.10 the county assessors have allowed reductions in coal val¬ uations of approximately $4,500,000 a year, thereby re<lucing the coal valuations from $125,000,000 to the present figure of about $7.'),000,000 —not $».'},000,000, as was published • few days ago.
In the event that another $4t.0M,000 Is taken from the eoal valuation* for taxable purposea. only »S3,M)0,000 will remain of a
' roal aaseaament that net so long
^ Bgo stood at »200,000,OM,
Realizing the financial predica¬ ment in which the majority of our mining municipalities now find themselv c.a aa a result of this Startling decrease, it ia difficult to tee how a -score of them will escape bankruptcy.
Since teachers and other em¬ ployees in a number of theae municipalities are now compelled to Wait fi-om three to six montha to receive their salaries unless in posi¬ tion to make -hoi-t term loans at banks at the highest possible in¬ terest rate, one cannot but wonder what will happen this deserving class of public employees, generally at the mercy of pot-house politi¬ cians.
Th* stt.I iii.-tory of ihe requests for reduction:) in coal assessment.^ make private taxpayers fearful that the coal companies feel i«ason- ably aure they will win their case. They are usually well prepared to present a bullet-proof argument.
On the other hand, County Com¬ missioners Lloyd and Kersteen are in no position to put up a fight and have not been since the present political group have been in control of the a.-se.Hsors office. Tlyy have no data to combat the case, having been without engineers experienced in coal valuations since John MaeCartney quit the job in disgust.
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
The Weather
Moderat*.
37TH YEAR, NO. Z9—40 PAGES
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JULY 25, 1943
PRICE TEN CENTS
YANKS BOMB NORWAY
Allies Landing Troops Norfh of Catania Nazi Offensive Xomplefely Frustrated, I'HL
Deny Pope Protested Rome Raid
Vatican Radio Belies DNB Report, Regrets Capital Still Not an Open City
By I'MTED PRESS
The 'Vatican radio -Sit'arisy denied Axis propaganda claims that the Pope protested the bombing of Rome in a personal message to President Roosevelt, according to U. S. government monitors, and quoted the Pope as regretting thatj Rome bad not been made an open city.
I Regarding damage to San Lor-| enzo Basilica, the broadcast aaid, Ithe Pope was "very willing to be-1 jlleve that the bombs were not In-; tenlionally dropped On the basilica"; adding that he was aware thatj "churches  have   been   destroyed  in
Mows *Em. Down
70,000 VmAmericans Rush
But Germans 1°^*'^^''^ ^**%'' Lost Ground '^^'^ ""* ^"""^"
Soviet Premier Says 38 Divisions Smashed at Orel; Reds Moving on
At   least   100  aona   of   KiainK  Sun   have  gone   to   ancestors   afler
Chinese  sharpshooter  Sgt.  Tung  Chi-yuan  picked   them  off  wilh
his  rifle.   He's  one   of  valiant   fighters   In   Upper  Ifangtze   River
area, where 40.000 Japs fell.
By ROBERT S. MVSEL
Will Put Final Squeeze on Enemy Pressed into Corner of Sicily; / Reported Sew Landings Will Cut ^^^ Line of Itetreat inio Messina
By REVNOLUS  PACKARD
Allied Headquarters. North Africa, July 24 (UP)—American forces , . ,,„,,.„„ , *'*^" complete.d a lightning occupation of the entire western end of London. July 24- (UP)-Premler -Sicily wilh the capture of Frapani and Marsala, Italian naval bases, Josef Stalin of Russia announced and of 'I'erniini-lmerese, a northern port, and lonighl were swarming triumphantly loniRlii that the Rediiastward to Join a final land, air and sea assault against Axis forces Army had completely frustrated crowded into a dead end only two miles from Europe German plans for a summer often- (The Rome radio, indicating the Allies were landing forces on the sive and punctured once again the eaat coaat above Catania, s.-^id Axis planea had aunk an Allied shin off legend   of   Nazi   invincibility   in   aJAcireale,   north  of   Catania,   which
19-day battle on the Orel-Belgorod ihad     been     assisting     "numerous!     The  Germans  were  up  to   their front which cost the Germans more||anding  barges in  these waters."    1 old trick of clearing out and leav
Trondheim, Oslo Hit in Longest Raid
Submarine Pens 'Blasted to Heii; Aluminum Plant Is Obliterated
By WALTER LOGAN
London, Sunday, July 25. (L'P) — American Flying Fortresses, in their longest operational flight of the war, virtually obliterated a subsid* iary of the Nazi L G. Farbcn-
Slayer of Five Fears He Is Losing His Mind
^
Hie eommiasloner* and will make a display ot refusing the requests af the eoal com¬ panies, bul no one familiar with the preaent palitical mnnageroent •r the aas«a«sfs aflkw helievea tiiry have niaiie any prepara¬ tion* to put up a fight. They have no one to make the fight and nothing to fight ulth.
Willies-Bane City will be one of the rhief aufferers when these re- durtion.t are put into effecl. Uur city ha.> been operating on a deficit program of financing for aesieral years anil no .serious attempt ha-s been made to remedy it by a re¬ duction of unnece.«-sary expendi- ture.s. The school dL-itriet is in the ¦ame unhappy !>tato.
Inasmuch as coal company representatives state the Willses- Barre reduction will amount to at least »7,(M»0,000, it i.s not diflicult to figure the amount of the tax burden that will be tihifted from th« shoulders of the coal companies to priinte property owners. The eoal companies will .save aliout $120,000 a year on their school taxe.<^ and $100,000 a year on their city taxes, all of which must be paid by other ta-\payeis.
In other woriia, the city tiea-uiy, Sf a result of the new reductions, will be shy alwul .'5.';00,000 a ><-ai under the juesent rate of .spending unle.ss the city tax levy is upped at least .'i'a milla. The present tax rate ia 14'a milh and will therefore have to be increased to 20 mill.s.
The present srhool levy Is 17'J mill* and an increase of al least 6'ii mllla will mean a school levy ot -iS mill*. W Ilkes-IUrre will not be alone in il* tinanrial dlatres*. Horse-off adjacent niunielpalities «ill find themselves in a still ¦lore pltiablo rondlUon.
The finaQcial pro.-pects of our rommunities would not be so dismal if we rould put a checlc on the •pending sprees of our counly and municipal ofTicials, few of whom )iay any apiireciable amount of taxes themselves.
The requcst.s of tlie coal com- panie-' may be perfectly jn order, but what cannot but malie the com¬ mon run of taxpayers suspicious is the determination with which a few politician-s closely associated with them fight for rontrol of the eounty commissioners office and the further suspicion aroused bv the $.">,000 to $10,000 rontributinn-s, it ja alleged, are a featui-e of elec¬ tiona when county commissioners are nominated and elected.
And there'-' something else that makes individual taxpayers aus¬ picious and that's the well known fact that for year-s the county commissioner-"! give a willing enr to names suggested for county asses.sors by men who are engaged in mining on half dozen tract.= lea-wH to them by old line com¬ panies.
countries of both belligerent sides." | Not Open Cily
Concerning the status of Rome, | the broadcast alluded to efforts by| the Pope earlier in the war to have Rome declared an open city (knd said: "It would have been possible to make Rome actually anj open city. It must t>e regretted thati _, . ,,. ' ~—TT ,.rr>, • at least up to the present moment 08<«="' ^^^^- •'"'>' 2*- <UP)-Aus- this has not been done." j"n Cox jr., 38.    who    borrowed   a
Following are excerpts from the shotgun and killed five persons, in
Shoots Judge Who Gave Wife Divorce, Four Neighbors
PREIENT STOPS
E
broadcast: "In   the   laat
few   daya   a   (Ger-
cluiling the judge who granted hia wife a  divorce,    aald    today:  "I'm
man I  DNB atatement  appeared  in Rf,-ai(j !„, joaing my mind."
the  preaa   according  to  which  thej    ,.        ..      . .. ,.
iy , F'""   "^'•"¦">  ¦ .He suffered a severe blow on the
Holy   I- ather   had   already   sent   a'
personal      protest     to
IN LOS ANGELES
.       _ Los    Angeles,    July    24    (UP)
Prelident 1'i*"<* while working in a war plant President  Roosevelt intervened  to-
clearly what the Holy Father has idone In connection with the bomb- ling of Rome, since so many rumors ' have been apread. The Holy Ffilher ! did two thing-s: he viaitpd the i bombed di-itrict and he wrote the i vicar-general of Rome." ! This Irller. published (tenerally I by the world press, said the Pope ideplored   the   bombing   of   the   city
and   severe   damage  done    lo    the jSan   Lorenzo   baailica,   property  of
the Vatican.
recently, he said. Also the trouble day and halted a threatened strike he had had witli his wife had up- of :;,t")00 street car and bus oper- set his mental equilibrium. Thus ntors by promising to invealigate he explained hia paroxysm of homi- their dispute with the War Labor cide and indicated hia defense Board and office of economic stn- when he ia brought to trial would bilization.
be insanity. |    ii;n,p)oy,e, ^f ,j,e Pacific Electric
Aulhorilles   charged     Cox     with Raiiwav  had  scheduled  a  walkout
murder and indicated an early trial! for   2   a.   m.   Sunday,   threatening
, „ . ,    , ,,  , .,    of   trolleys,   busses   and
penally. Cox s«id that was all f„ight lines serving 400.000 daily right Wllh him and he would hke riders in 55 communities and hand- to die in front of the firing aquad |j„
, ,,        .. .  .  -..    —-   Angeles   harbor,
chooae   as  an   allernative  of  hang-     „rt of embarkation.
IT^' .1 ...    .. lR<'call Order
Borrowed Ibe Uun I     .. .      „   	
Alexander F.  Whitney,   president
Rooaevelt after the attack on Rome, and that the American charge d'affaires lo the Holy See. Mr. Tittman, had been called for a discussion by the secretariat of state on the evening of July lit. the day on which the attack took place.
"In this connection we stale that , -  i.    ,. ,, ,.     j      -   -     -'
both assertions have no foundation ¦^.^^;.\'.''" A. ^'_Y'i  ."._.    ..^__   '"'.'ll  Pai-aiysis   of   trolleys in fact whatever.
" ' •-" "'«;  '"  ironi Ol  me iiring aquau  ii__  5.:   _-_   „-_,   _» ,1,.   tr-\<i\\\   in
"If will be valuable to emphasise which the condemned of Utah m.-iy !„,^^.h"^f"j^7"' "' '^^  ''^^'*'"  '"
than 70,000 men  killed. T A di"8palch from  Richard  a Mc-lug VhritVli^nTbehind"to-facnhi '"^OStri*   producing  vital alU*
Massed Russian forces soundly jMillan, United Press correspondent ^ Allied attack, and in some cases Ittinum near Oslo, Norway» trounced 38 German divisions num- at an advanced air held in Sicily,ithe Naiis robbed the Iialians of yesterday and "blasted tO bering upward of 500.00 men. utter-{Sald that Allied reconnaissance re-' the    transport   vehicles    and   leftl||f||'>      militarV      tarcets     at
Trondheim,   a     communique
ly  smashed   their  ill-conceived   of- ports had confirmed the capture of them on tlie roadside, fensive launched July J. and surged!Trapani and Tormini-Imercse- Mar-i Hard  Fight Ahead back over the  lost ground  and  on sala's   occupation   on   Friday   had' beyond for net gains ranging up to.been  announced  previously. IS miles, Stalin reported. The  Italians  and  Germans  were
Impressive Broadcast reported trying to rush supplies to
proclamallpn,   •"   "--f-l'^cir armie.  In  a  desperate  effotl
Stalin's
an   order'
.,,-  .     .,,, .      ,  ..   !»nd returning pilot.s revealed
Allied military experts at Ui« |„j_.. front warned against the impres-j'"'*"'* sion  that  Sicily  had  been   all  butj     It  was the first attack foc
u'"mu'ch''haT5'^fi;rhtin'.''lh:id'''%:!»'**   >:ortresses  on ^Norway
0f7hTiay^«uTdTn"hTs^apicir:^l:rtt"Llri:ifo^\r"^^ "»"    \   ">'.   «""5
Red   Army   marshal   and  supremel'"^   """"»""   ""   l*'«   European The Allies still have to defeat th.;1.300   miles   rOUnd    trip   and
commander,   waa   broadcaat   from 1 " ' crack    German   15th   Panzer   DI- shoot down at least 17 enemy
Moscow  in  a  victory  paean  given: *'»P««* ltO,0«» Prisoners i vision   and   the  Hermann   Goering „Ib„.- *_ i>nmnlpt« it Biirroaa.
tha   most   Impressive   radio   treat-     The    Americans    alone    already Diviaion,  It was pointed out pianes IO COmpieW ll SUCCMS-
ment of anv news of the entire war. had  captured  40,000  prisoners  andi    (The   Swiss   radio,   quoting   re-1*""''    Wne roriresH waS 1091.
As the  order resounded  through Allied aerial reconnalsance showed ports    from    Algiers,    said    Alliedl    One   formation   thoroughly
the Soviet Union,  the  Russian  of-[that   American.   British   and   Can-; foreea had arrived at San Stefano'^tnrated    lhi>    rpnair    ahnna
fensive   boomeranging  against   the'adian   rear   guards   were   mopping di    Camaslra,    half-way    between IT . "f    "^P""   ,"rl~*
German'Invaders  beat  menacingly "P thouaanda of others. The island j Palermo and Messina. illOrage    Sheds    and      L-MNIt
at  the  gates  of  Orel    and    edged was  dotted  with   temporary,  over-      (Canadian Prime Minister W   Lr"**  **   Ti'Ondheim,   on   Nor-
westward   against   desperate   resis-; flowing  prison  camps,  and   it  was 1 Mackenzie King told the House of Way's Atlantic COast.     CloudS
Sd'tt '„t'^"L'Do>^t^p--'-'i*^•' "'^^"^ '" 0"''^^»>^« »""»" "'Obscured  the  results of  the
A special Red Army commu
e rests- iio^wng prison camps, anj it was 1 Mackenzie King told the House of Way's Atlantic CO now ex-|sald the Allies were assured a total commons in Ottawa that the fall of obsCUred the re> s Basin, ibag of at lea-st 110,000 pnsone.s to the east coast stronghold of Catania att-cU «" the !-.h nunique date "csn be expected at any time.") "WCk On tne L-D
GIRAUD IN ALGIERS: MEETS WITH DE GAULLE
Deciding he wanted to Itill his wife who divorced him five months ago because he culminated a series of beatings by trying to yank out her lonxv>e. he borrowed a shotgun and invaded the home of James Burton Stauffer, where he thought slie was staying.
Cox drove to the address in his old car, got out and strode to the door- Mra. Burton answered his knock and Cox, without aaying n word, shot her. killing her instant¬ ly with a blast from a .12 gauge [shotgun.
Mrs. Jane Stauffer, Mra. Burton's
of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen in Cleveland, telegraph¬ ed the union'a local grievance com- Itiillcc Ihiil ricsidi'iil Ruu.ieveil had telephoned him and asked the men lo recall the strike order-
broadcast soon afler Stalin's order I    The   Allies   were   said    to   have aald   the  Ruasians  advanced  three gained   "complete"   control   of   the to five milea Saturday In the Orel,Sicilian   air,  and  returning   fighter region In what appeared to be mop-^pilots   said    they    did    not up operations behind    the    Soviet'single     enemy     plana     on spearheads jutting against the city- sweeps.
A number of towns and "'"';:'¦* | were   captured,    the    communique | said.  Including the railway station [ and district center of Zmiyevka. 22 miles southeast of Orel on the rail¬ road to Kurak. Rains Slew Reds
Continued fighting In the Donets Basin aouth of Uyum and south¬ west of Voroshilovgrad, and in the Caucasus southwest of Krasnodar wera reported by the Soviet com¬ mand, though no Indication of the trend of the operations wa* given.
Heavv rainstorm.s and stiffening opposition had slowed, but failed to stem, the Red Army drive. German broadcasts   regarding   the   ea.stern
Axia Preparing Laat Stend
All remaining Axis elements able
boat pens but returning  crewmen   reported the other Trondheim   targets blasted to hell."
see    a '"' winning to fight now were piling     *'"* theiri'ito *  rough  quadrilateral   of Iesa|     Another formation  vil'tual
I
(Continued  on   Page  A-8)
Smash New Jap Attempt To Supply Solomons
^["L'*7-il?u'!"'i''.t'l'"^A''"i! front  took  on  a note  of  panic  as
^^^^^   reported   Soviet   blows   from
he could do nothing in the case ifi
the men were  on atrike."  Whitney i^^„,,,.„d   to   the   Caucaaus   and wired.     'He  hoped   they   would   re- _,^ij st^y,„ ^^j  ordered  his  troops main on the job hs he did not wish to use  Army  trucks to move vital wnr  supplies." Whitney  said  the President had
promised to have Economic Stabi- ization   Director  Fred   M.     Vinson
Algiers,     July     24     (UP)—Gen Henri Honore Giraud held his firstl daughter,   ran   out   and   was   the nnpoint  a   coiiimitlce  of  three    lo meeting tonight with Gen.    Charles "^''t    killed-    Her    husband,    Bert "help in working the mailer out." de Gaulle     since     returning     from 1 Stauffer, followed and was wound-I Kxpeel Action
cd. A four-year-old daughter. Bev¬ erly, escaped by hiding under a washer.
Mr-   and   Mrs.   P.   Dale   Brooks. living nearby, heard the shots and cnled on positive action came  outside.  Cox turned  the  gun (Continued  on  Page A-12)
Washington and I.,ondoii and, it was understood, told him that de¬ livery of American arma for the French army would be in direct I ratio to the extent of unity dem¬ onstrated by de Gaullisla and Giraudiata.
to occupy Orel by July 19.
Stalin addressed his order to Col. Gen. Konstantln Rokojisovslty. who engineered    the   Nazi   disaster   al Stalingrad: Gen. Nikolai F. Vatutin. whose drive swept westward  from the Don deep into the Ukraine lasl winter;  and Col. Gen.  Ivan Popov, thus   identifying them  aa  the corn- Grievance    rommittee     members  manders   of  the  stand  again.st   the said   they   "felt   compelled   to    ob-  German.s and the ensuing counter- serve   the   President's     requeat     in   offensive, view of such  request being predi-  17 Xanit Divisions AlUcked
U.S. Bombers Hit 28 Planes, Ships Off Bougainville
By DO.\ t AtaWELL.   '
Allied    Headquarters.
Australia.
Uy obliterated the Nordisk lettmetal plant, an I. G. Far- benindu^tfie subsidiary pro- cessinsT aluminum and mag¬ nesium at Heroya, 60 miles southwest of Oslo at the end of the Langresund Fjord.
The Forties.ses hit the plant in three waves about an hour apart. Photographs showed that tlie first wave smashed one side of the tar-
escorled by fightera- The clash ac¬ counted for five Japanese fighters, the official account revealed. 1
Small    surface    ves.sela     -   likely' molor torpedo boats    joined   in the campaign    against    the    Japaneae j' .-.iroiig po.iiu ill llie Soionions. in-^ff^t   and   the   second   blasted
lercepling four barges trying l0|t]ie otiier. There Was al¬ most notiiinjr left for tht third wave, fliers reported.
in strong force, covered by Iwin-i A third foniiatioH of Foft- loday by the diaclosure that anoth-; Isilcil Lightning fighters, attacked I'esses aLsO Was assigned tO a er enemy attempt lo run supplies lhe Bogadjim area of .N'ew Guinea. Xorwcgjan target but f^tum- into the Northern Solomons had 20 miles below the Japanese base _j , Hi-ifain \t-ifli its l.nn-il->. been thwarted. 'at Madang.    Thev  left  the   targets i"   ^"  ^"Ij*'"   ^^'11   "S   UOmOS
wreathed     in     smoke    and     flame \\"P"   lt_   lound    its    objectlV*
July 24-    (UP)-Allled air initiative i;'"'^   '"   to Kolombangara  Island and aggreaalveness within  the rim  ^"^ "^"^ '"' °" '''*' of the Japanese arc    through    the      ^'l-Viiig  fortresses  and Liberator/! South Pacific waa emphaaized anew-
Aerial thrusts along a broad I front above Australia knocked out of action 26 Japanese planea and sent down a 1),000-ton seaplane len- jder and damaged one of four de¬ ist royers in nn attack on a Buin- • bound convoy I Wrecked by Hombers i The attempt lo aupply the Buin {bRse on Bougainville laland. ino milea  iiortl%i'est  of  New    lieorgia
the Lae.
Withdrawal     of   the   strike    call (Continued   on  Page  A-12)
It began with the hhinl a-iscrlion  w.is   wrecked   by   liberator.   Aveii- (Contlnued   on   P.ige   A-81 'per and Daiintleaa bombers heavily
Shadows Hang over Kiska
Attacks Follow Invasion Pattern^Starvation Aids
War   Kumniary
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I     Washinglon.    July    24.    (UP)- A !Navy announcement that U. S. air¬ men have blaated Kiska's defen.ses. jslarllng   fires   and    selling    off    a i tremendous    explosion,    heightened 'speculation   tonight  that  American amphibious  forces  may   be    about ready to open a drive to expel the Japanese  from   their last Aleutian Island  baae-
The air attacks were launched before and after last Thursday's violent bombardment nf the island by U. S. warships. The assaults followed the pattern of pre-inva- slon softening up attacks which so succe-ssfully paved the way for the AUi'nl landings on SlMly. 30th Raid of >Ionth
The Navy's communique em¬ phasized that the attacking planes --hen\->' and medium bombera and strafing fighter planea—blaated al enemy coastal batteriea. presum¬ ably with  a view  lo knocking out
anti-aircraft ings.
posili6ns   and
The air nUack was the 20th this month. The naval bombardment was tile seventh. The shelling was the first lime heavy warships and battleships or heavy cruisers joined with liglil surface unit.s, destroyera or light cruisera, in' the campaign to make Ki.>ska untenable for the enomy. Klnka  Doomed
Ever since the Japanese were ex¬ pelled last May from Attu. we-stern- most   of  the   Aleutians,  the   larger
Making  their  longest  raid   1.3001    As the Russians still moved ahead miles-American crewa look Flying j in a fierce counter-attack that may Fortreasea   over   Norway    for    the  bring tho Battle 9f Orel lo a close, first     yesterday-       They     blasted; Soviet   Premier   Stalin,    amid    un¬ build-! submarines, might slip through the '^'"'"'¦tP''"'' ""^ Trondheim and pul-   u s u a 1    impressive    circumstances, blockade  under cover  of fog from
verized a vital aluminum plant near , broadca.st an order which proclaim-
|and    the    accurate heavy damage.
bombing    did
the  enemy  naval  baae  at   Paramu
shiru-
Paraiiiiiahlni Surprisingly Weak
Paramushiru. 725 miles west of ^he RAF waa believed over the AtlU at the top of the Kurile Island continent again last night. Flights chain, apparently is not the power*; „, ,anp, „.ere seen and the Berlin ful and well-equipped base Japn-i „di„ went off the air. Air forces nese propaganda had described itj^n Britain had been grounded for to be- U .S. airmen who -showered : ^ week by bad weather. Paramushiru      with    bombs      last
Monday reported that it was no-' Indications that the British are where near as extensively develop- landing Irocpa behind Catania to ed aa they had expected to find it.
Oslo.    Only one  Forlrefs   was  lost jed that the  1943 German  offensive
had been "completely frualraled.' In spite of terrible losses, he snid. the Germans had lost ground as the Ru.ssiaii.s proved their offensive power was not confined lo winter weather.
Forcing the Japanese to sacrifice still more ships in  hopeless efforts to   supply   their   garrisons   in   the Solomons,     Allied      forces      raised! "'Knt' havoc again  wilh   oomhers.     Other
touched off by 61 Ions of bombs.    ,obscured    by    iieavy   clouds, Down IS Planes j rather  tlian   risk   indiscrimi-
Aliicd and Japanese p 1 a n e a nate bombing of civilians, tangled in furious dogfighLa over I u „-aa the first major attack by area between Bogadjim and either USAAF or RAP bombera J'^^.,^"'"?^^ ^'"? "'"^ P'*""; aince last Saturday, when Fort- But the Allies lost only two fightera ressca a.saaulted Amaterdam and tn 13 downed and 10 probably de-1 Targets in Northwestern Germany, -stroyed cr badly damaged for the During a week of bad weather, tha Jap.inc.se. iRAFa  activltiea  were  confined  to
A military apokeaman aaid the small scale raids on rail and air Japanese had been obliged to lake, targela and ahipping in France and counter-measures because of the the low countriea while L'SAAF recent heavy b^mbinga of the Lae.  planes have been grounded.
Hit Locomotives in Franca
Taking advantage of improved conditiona. RAF Muatanga. Hurri¬ canes and Typhoons destroyed ona locomotive and damaged at least 10 in France and Belgium yesterday, and early lasl evening south coast watchers reported fighter bomber St- Louia. July 24- (UP>—Lt- formations crosaing the Dover Cmdr. McClelland Barclay, nation- .Strait toward Boulogne, ally known illustrator and artist.! Earlv todav. the powerful DNB IS mussing in action, according to radio station'in Berlin left the air information received today by his -for technical reasons." Indicating stepmother, Mrs- Robert Barclay of that RAF night bombers might ba "•   Louis, in a telegram from Ham-;niaking   use   of   clear   weather    to
Salamaua and Bogadjim areas.
McClelland Barclay, artist. missing in southwest pacific
.St.
-       --      -  block retreat to the escape port of rHi^g   pounded  much  of  the   J.ipa It    appeared    doubtful,     therefore. JMe.ssina—plus   the   ruah   from   the
^o"^^'e^i^C'"bVe''n"^V«ct^ca^y Jhat'Vh^^^ tnereiore-iMcsaina-piua   the   ruau   from   tne  ^^se arc north of Australia-Ground
doomed    Jhe   American,  now   oc^^^ °'    ^^"^    "P^^ing    American   forces    still    were    closing    in    on
doomed    Jhe   Americans  now   OC- much help to beleaguered Kiska initroops which had swept over West- Munda cupy Attu to the we-,t and Amchitka | the event of a showdown- j ern  Sicily, made  it seem  an effort: '
The only reason for further post- was   being  made   to  surround   the'    German., called  upon Bulgarians
tenant    commander    was    missing. °PP°*"'°"  ^*'*''«  not.«»»ly
I Norwt
No date or place was given. However,  it  was  known  Barclav
on  the  east  and  thus   are able  lo
maintain   an   efecUve  aea and  air ponement of an amphibious as-sault  Axis forces making their atand be- to    help    fortify    more    pointa    in iir,''"'^''.,"'"'";'"' '^'•¦''*"' Ion Kiska. obaervera believed, would  fore the British Sth Army. I Greece   aa   raids   on   Crete   caused
That   the   Japanese   garri.son   of he to save  American  lives   by per-! ! new alarms and renewed feara that
Kiska, once estimated nt about 10.-.milting   atarvation   and   the   allri-!    However,    it   was    alreased    that   the Alllea were about to strike into 000   men,   ha.s   been   receiving   but  lion of constant bombing and ahel-  there    was    muoh     hard     fighting  >¦•¦'   Balkiins     Supplied   bv   Briti<.h the    Japanese    garrlaon'a    defense scantv supplies nt the most appear-1 ing to get in their full licks against ahead  and  that  the   terrain   lend."-  planes,   guerrilla   forces   of   Croats
again-st as.sault hv .eahorne lronps^|ed evident.   Ob.servers had helievedthe    -lapanese    defenders    In    the great assistance to forces making a.and Serbs were ready to lend their Naw ln'l!>4n to help in  peraonnel naviaation They    aUo    bombed   and   strafed that light enemy warships, possibly meantime, ' determined defensive stand. aid. j^ u ^^^^^.^^m^^^«^. lo neip m  personnel navigation
illon Bnrclay. an older brother.   It I blast other continental targets.
'^V«''^'"t„^'"''y.i '"¦''«'¦"",'"'   ^l I-Meet Little Opposition
notified    the    elder    Barclav    lasl I    „,.... .    .        _
aa next of kin, that the lieu-1    ^oth   fighter   and     anti-aircraft
          light over
...u, ..a...    One  F'orlress group waa attacked  b.v  six  German    tighten and Lieut- Robert Metcalfe of Sac- New Guinea  painting  and  sketch-''¦^'"•"^°'  P^"'-   »»"«   ^'   "«   ^^ ing an historical record of the war," '"*¦" '''°' 0°*"' in the SoutlTwest Pacific. CjI-  Edward  Corniglion-MoUniar,
He had already painted portraits commander of the Fighting French of Gen- Douglaa MacArthur. Vice sir forre in Britain, accompanlad Admiral Arthur Carpenter and "i* Fortress formation that raids4 many other Army, Navy and Mar- Heroya.
ine heroes. "All the way the weather Is bad,"
Barclay.   N,  volunteered   for  the he said sfter praising the bombinf,
and   fighting   qualltlM tContiaued on Pa«« A-tt
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