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Ab Rail Line I Stehh Gems Tack Aircraft Plants Treineiidoiis Naval and in Germany As Ital- As Twicers Ian Base Armada Air Blu.Stiiig Gives Coy? ysfe-’;-' The Weather *: Forecaat ui'U. a. u rather Bot miu ''''^Raln, little change In tempera- ture tonight:-. Tuesday raht end- ing ia eariy'moriilng, clearing and .Meatwr of tke .wknpscf^ Bfuraao et ObtoaO^ ^^ IL 24,1944 (TEN PA G E S^" PRICE I'HHEECENTS lvOL.LXm.N6.174 _ ti. ti. Fif^ A|r Force Blasts Hollandia Village ree^ombers < —. --------- ■ ■ , ''-r . ' it 2-W ^"Blow; ^ Coordi^te Raids Planes from Britain At- ab Rail Line I Stehh Gems tack Aircraft Plants Treineiidoiis Naval and In Germany as Ital- As twicers ian Base Armada Air Blu.stiiig Gives Coy? lish Defense Box on er to Establish New Strikes at Bucharest Stana.Near Srouse Gets North - South Railway 1 Guinea Beachheads; And Ploesti, Romania. • i Police Point Proudly to Deep Behind Enemy lo Support ! 6 ^ ^ 1 0 0 M o r e J a p a n - ^ London, April 24.—(/P)— Quick Solution\ of Lines in Burma; ‘Sub- i esevFaee Aiiiiihilatioii; In k two-way blow, an Amer- \ Icfln sky force approaching $150,000 Theft; stantial Forces Flown Complaints ^ Americans MacAgtIiiir Terms Op- 2,000 heavy bombers and In to Give Qiimiits Aid Can Outspend' Allied eratioiiNReverse Bataan fighters from Britain smash- pect Held in Minui Brothers Drmes 'So ■\---- ^ German plane plants today Southeast Asia Headquar- MacArthut-'^ Advanced while an armada of about 1,- New York, April 24—(>P)—Police Headquarters ih New Guinea, today proudly pointed to a detec ters, Kandy, ^Geylon, April 2k What ? from Senators. 000 more struck from ^ Italy — (/P)— A complete unit of April 24.—(^)—Under cover Uve report—a $150,000 society a t Budapest and Ploesti, Ro- glider-borne guerrilla fight- Washington. Aprij/ 24—OPi — of a tremendous Naval and mania. to perhaps the heaviest Jewel theft, suspect arrested ers, employing fantastic new Complaints from abroad that air blasting, thousands of coordinated attack of the war, minute later. Jewels returned to Britain-based heavy bombers Allied tactics of infiltration American scn-lcemrn cap out- American troops established owner within a few hours. by air, has firmly established beachheads at Hollandia and struck plane plaiits and other fac- The report: spepd to-sir .\llied brothers for tories at Friedrichshafen and air- a defense box squarely across everything especially rom.ance Aitape on the strategic north dromes near Munich as a forma- Detectives' saw a man noncha- lantly Jimmy a window, disappear Ekrloding 1-ombs cra.sh In the residential area of Hollandia villago.;/D.itcn New Guinea and among a north-south, railroad deep aiui other competitive goodsv coa.st of New Guinea Satur- tion of perhaps 500‘Liberators and ships anchored in Chidlenger Cove narbor, during an air attack by the Fifth A^ ^ rc e on ‘ bchliul the enemy lijres in Burma, day, and to<lay 60,000 more isolat- Fortresses and-as many protect- into the fashionable home of 'hrew a collective response of "So Prince and Princess Serge Belos- pesWn. The HofiandiaH ^andia airstriD is 15 miles Inland from the vlilage. (AP Wiiepholo Horn Fifth it was disclosed today, / ed Japanc.se faced annihilation* ing fighters roared out of Itkly What?" from a varied group o'f Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who uid attacked Balkan objeettvea selskyrBerozersky. No one was Air Force.) 200 Miles Inside Burma / senators today. witnessed the gigantic operationX ^ \ m«^s^Main n.isHall ■Yardswr__ m. Bit home at the time. Allied headquarters, announcing termed it Bataan in reverse. ' H* emerged shortly. The de- the latest stroke to cut Japahese Or, as Senator Stewart (D., Crewmen said they had “consid- Tenn.) puts it: "This is something MacArthur’s triumphant com-' tectives found in his pockets a supply lines to Myitkylna,, chief munique. today .said 140,000 Jap- erable success” in tneir attack on' $50,000 pearl necklace and watch- 1 Message Sept enemy base in north Bunp:a, and that's' up to the other countries, the main rail yards at Bucharest Navy Itching to M^et to raise their soldiers' pay. We anese troops stretching from New es. rings and other items valued j to their Inva.slon thrust in India, Guinea to the Solomon islands are in good weather. The attack on at $100,000. said substantial Allied fdrees had shouldn’t neglect ours.” rail yards at the' oil center of thus "neutralized and strategical- Booked on charges of burglary | Tells Sorrow been flown In to reinfpree chin- The matter was brought up in ly impotent.", The.se Japanese ara Ploesti, highly important to Hit- and possession of burglar's tools. | dils already operating over a a Senate Banking committee hear- ler’s war machine, was made by Japs’ Fleet in Battle all that remain of a force of 250,- the man gave l>i» name as Fred fi'bnt more than 10^ miles wide ing by Senator Taft (R., Ohio) 000 establishedVjn these' islands big formations of Fortresses. Hanson, iO, a painter. 200 miles inside Biwma. who remarked to Navy Secret-ary ^ Otheb' Fortresses bombed the Of Roosev^li for the invasion of Australia, ha 'The Jewels were claimed by the Meanwhile, the pommunique in- Knox dial “we have heard a gde^ declared, adding: _ \ , Belgrade-Ikaras aircraft factory princess, the former Mrs. Flor- Imiral Ramsey in Vugoslhyia. Early raporto dicated that old-style Japanese In- many storie,* of hojv in foreign “Time and combat wlU be re- , ence Crane Robinson, daughter of Reds Massing -filtration tadticy through the Jun- lands where our men are serving said a number of enemy intercep- President Sends ‘Heart- litetl States Can quli'cd to accomplish the annihila- tors were destroyed by the Italy- Mrs. Richard Teller Crane of Chi- gle were mcetlhg with a decided there la so m4ich money around tion, but their ultimate fate is . cago. Tha prince, is mwociated | felt Sympathy’ to Arch- Trade Shi|» check in the /invasion of India. based bombei-8 'and their escorts. with the Brlti.sh Ministry of War 1 To Begin New now certain. The resounding two-way offen- The\announc,^ment said the Kohi- (Continnrd on Page Fwo) ’ "^h*-lr situation reverses Ba- Transport^-tion. • diocese of Boston ill /With Foes nia-Dlmapiir road had been clear- sive was carried out on the tenth taan." straight day of American heavy ed and rellfef of the Kohima garri- The^O.OOO Japanese are caught Death of Its Cardinal. Attaeks Soon son completed, thereby dissipating bomber operations. New April 24.—</P) betvveeit. Hollandia and Madang. Better Chance to Challenge Blows I - : . ---- - the enemy threat to the Bengal- Boml>ers Blast The oificr 80,000 are on NeW Project-May I Boston, April 24.-(/P) — Presi- —Rear iral Dewitt C. A.ssam railway which feeds Amer- Britain, NOw Ireland and Bougain- ^ The assault on German objec- of the Bureau tives was carried oht in gopd dent Roosevelt tod(»y sent his | Ranisey, chie , lative Galni Prevails ican Air Forces in China. ville. \ Lean, Jungle-lralned Scots, Irish weather which, while aiding bom- "heartfelt sympathy to the arch- 1 of Aeronautics x)f the u. o Railway Yards, Little Opposition Offered Help Redr6>v Navy long Long Front for and Bi'itish were.flown with their bardiers to lay their explosives on N avy, said today The Japaneiie, caught far , diocese of Boston "wlijich haa lost I pack rtiujes and siipplies by Amcr- the targets, gave the Germans a its ahephei'd" in the dipath Satur- was itching for knock SWond Straight Day; toan alt* e»nmmnnriri. base by feints to Ihe direction ol better chance to challenge these with ~ I t a l i a n P q * r t s Wewak and MadApg to.the abutb- Europe Map day of William Cardinal O’Con- down drag out fighf’ Short Pause Only Seen on the latest Invasion -, deep Inside east, - offered little^. oppoifitton to ^ latest blows in the history-making ncil. • . the Japanese Navy, d the Burma, said a dispatch from the ■ I campaign to drive the German Air 'Hie President of the Philippines. American glider base, the powertul A m ^can forces sooner it came the etter. which poured ashore 'bn'both sides Force from the sky. Manuel L. Quezon, m behalf of his Moscow, April 24.—i/P) — The Japs Still Confused.. Allied Aircraft ^Follow The German radio said ^late Department Virtu- people, likewise expressed his sym-' ‘•We can afford to play theX^ame Russians, who in 10 months have of Hollandia and at Aitape, 150 of .ship for ship with them and Latest reports on .lapanese U|» Destructive Day- miles southeas^. American bombers and ^fighters pathy in the Church’s loss of "one lifted the siege of Leningrad, struck movements In north central Bhrma were engaged by N ari^fen d ers ally Completes Re- they cannot," he Said in an ad- Immediately the Aipericans of her most illustiious cardinals." dress prepared for the annual into Romania ancj smashed halfway indicated the Japanese still were light AflNiiiilts Oil An8- drove ‘oward the alrdroti even before they wpsSed the bor- Both messages were directed to to Berlin in their 500-mlle overland search of More Than limcheon of The Associated Press, confused by the new landings and both bases with tractors der and fierce battles were fought Most Rev. Richard J. Cushing, non-profit news gathering cooper- march from Kursk, are ' massing had not yet detected where the trian I^aiie Plants. dozers to make serviceable thk, ex- over/ BouthcH) Germany. Elarly 30 Boundary Disputes auxiliarv bishop of Boston and in- for a hew ’fcampalgn. front dis- main force had been concentrated, pffioial Ajfterlcan reports did not terim administrator of the arch- ative, at the Waldorf-Astoria ho- cellent siir^trips which are tel.
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