Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 February 1943 — Page 5
JADALCANAL
FIGHTING ENDED)
First Japanese Land Defeat In Thousand Years
Ends at Sundown. ' By ROBERT C. MILLER United Press Staff Correspondent ' GUADALCANAL, Feb. 9 (Delayed). —The battie for Guadalcanal island ended at sundown today in the first complete American victory of the war in the south Pacific when two
American columns working toward|
the northwestern tip of Guadalcanal joined forces nedr Visalie, capturing or annihilating effective Japanese remnants. The last remaining enemy troops
“were crushed six months and two|
days after American naval units prefaced the invasion with a deafening barrage and American marines splashed ashore in the first American offensive of the Pacific war. Old Glory flies unchallenged over all the island. Her navy smashed repeatedly at sea, her zeros and Mitsubishis erased from the skies and her produest regiments now masses of rotting corpses, Japan had tasted defeat for the first time in a thousand years. - Jap Army ‘Smashed’ To the only newsman present at the beginning and the conclusion - of the campaign, it was a magnificent example of American bravery, tenacity and resourcefulness which the enemy was unable at any time to match. The conclusion of the fighting ‘was announced by Maj. Gen. Alexander ‘Patch, commander of the American forces in the Solomons, who said the “17th Japanese army was smashed tonight and ground fighting has ended on Guadalcanal.”
Estimate 50,000 Japs Died
General Patch’s announcement closed a campaign in which American sea, air and land forces met and crushed every counter attack of a desperate enemy who attempted through sheer weight of numbers to recapture this vitally _ strategic island and annihilate its valiant defenders. Observers estimated that least 120,000 Japanese soldiers and marines died in the green hell of Guad‘alcanal’s jungles, many from disease, while another 30,000 died hideous deaths aboard flaming trans‘ports and warships which were blasted by American units as they attempted to reinforce the beleagued Japanese forces.
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t Eousshilders are urged by Alex . Taggart, Marion county rationLe administrator, to take inventories now of their canned goods in preparation for application for rationing book two. Each person who receives book two will ‘be permitted to have five cans of canned goods weighing eight ounces or more without having any rationing stamps taken from their books. Home-canned goods should not be included. Any number of them are permitted, as are any number of commercially canned goods weighing less than eight ounces, “Having your inventory taken, you will have that much - done toward filling out the consumer application form which each consumer must present, along with his sugar coupon book, when he gets book two,” Mr. Taggart Said. He suggested householders take out all their canned goods and separate the home canned from com-
CHICAGO, ‘Feb. 11 (U. P.) —-Municipal Judge “Cecil Soh wants advice on how to end a feud. . "He appealed to the hu rela-
mercially canned goods. : Cites: Example “Let ‘us consider a family of
“She was an old woman on a park bench in Paris. I came upon her just after she read Petain had asked Hitler for armistice terms. This one
Alex ‘Taggart Says Action
four,” he said. “This family would be entitled to have in its posses|sion « 20 cans of - commercially canned goods, each can weighing eight ounces or more of all vari-
tions forum last night for help, explaining that two unnamed men] had quarreled over a minor theft. Each man has shot the other once: “Now they won't, make up,” Smith
said. “They won’t shake hands and they won't go out to dinner with me so 1 can make peace between them. They are even on shots now and I'm afraid one of them will take steps to end the tie.”
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NAVY COMMUNIQUE 277 (Issued Thursday, Febgj!) NORTH PACIFIC: 1. On Feb, 10: (a) During ths morning, U. S. heavy and medium bombers, with fighter escort, bombed Japanese positions at Kiska. Many hits on enemy installations were observed. (b) A single enemy float-type plane attacked U. S. surface units in the western
Aleutians. No damage was suffered.
SOUTH tude): 2. Japanese forces on Guadalcanal island have ceased all organized resistance Patrol operations against isolated enemy groups continue. 3. During the night of “Feb. 9-10, a Catalina patrol bomber (Consolidated PBY) | attacked enemy positions at Munda. 4. On Feb. 10: (a) U. S. planes attacked enemy positions at Munda. Results were not re-
PACIFIC: (All dates east longi-
ported. (b) A reconnaissance plane from Guadalcanal shot down a twin-engined bomber over Choiseul island.” MacARTHUR CO} COMMUNIQUE (Issued Thursday, Feb. 11) NORTHEASTERN SECTOR:
of her life.”
Few pictures out of oecupied Europe have dramatized as these do the Nazi- -inspired terror, desperation, want and futility of life that is the lot of the luckless peoples under Hitler's rule. were taken by Roman Vishniac, a Russian now in New York. The captions are his own.
Today's War Moves
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst Prime Minister Churchill's fighting speech pronounced the doom of the axis but at the same time he gave a glimpse of some of the difficulties ahead before the day of unconditional surrender. Previcusly Churchill had said that the present stage of the war is only the “end of the beginning.” 3 Today, he clearly implied the next nine months offer hope of the beginning of the end. He and President Roosevelt, he said, ‘have a complete plan of action and plan to carry it through in the
remaining months of 1943. The chief difficulty to be overcome, the prime minister said, is the submarine campaign. This has been and will continue to be a severe drag on the war operations of the united nations, whose communication and supply lines girdle the earth. Mr. Churchill did net minimize the seriousness of the U-boat menace but neither did he over-empha-size it. The submarine, he conceded, may delay the enemy’s doom, but cannot avert it. His most encouraging statement was the revelation that the rate of destruction of submarines increased 50 per cent in the last three months over the preceding nine months, That is an indication of progress in allied methods to improve methods of fighting the submarine, rather than relying too much on the passive method of seeking to build ships faster than they can be sunk. Predicts Long Tunisian Fight The first and principal land operation of the allies, it may be inferred from Mr. Churchill’s speech, will continue to be in North Af-| rica under American command. The appointment of Lieut. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower over two high ranking British generals in the Mediterranean theater is significant of the complete unity of purpose reached by the prime minister and President |] velt at their Casablanca conférence. Mr. Churchill confirmed: what military observers have suspected for several weeks, that the Tunisian campaign is going to be on a larger scale and last longer than had been expected. However, he left little doubt about the outcome. Mr. Churchill revealed for the first time the axis strength in Tunisia, placing the figure at probably 250,000, which is much higher than previous estimates. However, the prime minister revealed that the allies had landed 500,000 men in Northwest. Africa, giving them two-to-one superiority. In the air he placed allied superiority also at almost two to one. :
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HOW U. S. WON GUADALCANAL
Sa Movement of Army Forces Ended Enemy
Resistance.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (U. P). —A flanking movement carried out at sea by U. S. army forces at the northwest tip of Guadalcanal a week ago led to capitulation of Japanese. forces on that island, War Secretary Henry L. Stimson declared today. After this landing, accomplished with naval support, the Japanese
were pinned’ on a 15-miile strip of |
beach ‘near Cape Esperance. The American forces which landed west of the Japaneses, and other American troops which ap-
proached overland from the east, joined Feb. 9 at Cape Esperance
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t off to a bad start today. We now got to our rooms.” - assured her I would be glad to
“I have a lot of ideas, but I don’t want to expound them,” she continued. “We all have ideas these
days, but I don’t want to be quoted.
I have no advice to give to one.” Asked about her trip here y she replied that “you couldn't call it. much of a trip when you leave arrive some place else in the morning. “Some of our friends met us at the station, and I thought that was nice of them,” she said. “Our train was late and they had to get up early and come down there and wait for us. I really appreciated that.”
any-
Plans Vague
Her plans for the were vague. She claimed no knowledge of Mr. willkie’s plans, nor did she know anything about the Russian war relief tea where they are scheduled to be guests this afternoon.
friends were to call on her this
of talking to any newspaper people. “I have nothing to say, and I don’t care to have anything put in the papers about me,” and with that she turhed me over to Lem Jones, Mr. Willkie’s public relations manager. I talked ‘with him for a while. He agreed that Mrs. Willkie did not
plan to talk to newspaper inter-
viewers, adding, “I expect you know
what the situation is.” 1 did. Mrs. Willkie has a nice telephone voice.
Actress fo Visi At Ft. Harrison
Miss ‘ Ethel Barrymore Colt, actress and singer, will be the week-end guest at Ft. Harrison where she will sing for patients in the hospital and review FRTC troops. The daughter of Ethel Barrymore and Samuel W. Colt of the Colt Fire Arms corp., Miss Colt will be guest of honor at the officers’ club Valentine ball Saturday night. She will sing at Billings general hospital at 4 p. m, tomorrow and at the Service club Sunday evening. She will review FRTC
She said her sister and some|}
morning, but she had no intentions
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after overcoming Japanese forces| 2
and capturing large amounts of armaments and equipment. Mr. Stimson said Maj. Gen. Alexander M. Patch Jr., commanding American forces on Guadalcanal, had reported the Japanese succeeded in withdrawing some troops in’ destroyers, thus confirming the Japanese admission of defeat on Guadalcanal.
Two Divisions Used
“Japanese forces remaining there are scattered and organized resistance has ceased,” Stimson said. U. S. army ground forces which carried the “conquest of Guadalcanal to its conclusion were identified by Stimson as the “Americal division,” which was formed in New Caledonia of units from various other divisions, and the 25th division commanded by Maj. Gen. Joseph Lawton Collins. © A navy communique today officially confirmed the end of organized enemy resistance on Guadalcanal, revealed today that American airmen carried out two more attacks on the Japanese air base at Munda farther northwest in the Solomons.
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