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Forts on Long Distance Bombing Flights.

By WALTER CRONKITE United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, April 15.—~A new Amerfcan fighter plane—the crack Thunderbolt—may alter the whole picture of aerial warfare in this theater, experts believed today. The Thunderbolts, which are technically designated as P-47's, are able to accompany United States Flying Fortresses and Liberators all the way to targets in Germany and back again. They are the first such escort ships that have sufficient range to make such .long flights in this theeter and to give the big daylight bombers protection throughout their Journey. : Its a Hard Hitter

As the longest range and hardest. hitting as well as the heaviest fighter yet built, the Republic's Thunderbolt is believed by experts here to be the answer to the German Focke-Wulf 190 at any altitude

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The American Flying Fortresses 5 ~ have been given fighter escort on| . YX, -gpome daylight raids but st other| #8 times when they strike into Ger-}: ..

many the distance'is too great for ordinary fighters to accompany them on the entire trip. The Germans had attempted to take advantage of this by making their attacks on the fortresses at points beyond the range of ordinary! fighter escort. The Thunderbolt, however, will be able to go into the gone where the Folke-Wulfs wait for the fortresses.

Can Disintegrate Foe

(According to data published in the United States, the new Thunderbolt has a 2000-horsepower radial engine and mounts six big 50-cali-ber—half-inch—machine guns. It

has a speed of abdbut 400 miles an/| hour and has done more than 600}

miles an hour in power dives.) Their terrific firepower is capable of disintegrating an enemy fighter caught in the Thunderbolt sights. The new ship starfs performing at its best about 20,000 feet, thus overcoming certain high altitude handicaps which have been encoun-

On the War Fronts

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troops capture strategic hint positions.

AIR WAR~-Royal alr force makes :

“very heavy” raid on Stuttgart. Other planes, presumably Russian, raid East Prussia.

RUSSIA—Russians break up German attempt to capture strategic height west of Donets.

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC—Japanese lose 30 planes of 70 to 100 attacking , Milne bay.

NORTH PACIFIC—Kiska raided 10 times in one gay.

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RE 4 SENTENCED IN BOSTON FIRE

BOSTON, April 15 - (U. P)— Barnett Welansky, owner of the Cocoanut Grove night club, was sentenced to 12 to 15 years in state ‘prison today for manslaughter, in connection with the fire at his club last Nov. 28, which cost 491 lives. i a ,

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‘FORECAST: Warmer tonight and’ tomorrow: moring,

By HAMLIN WELLING

NOT A MAN said “ouch,” not a man: cried.’ They were knocked out by bullets dnd shrapnel i in Guadalcanal, New Guinea and Africa soe but they didn’t-ery: ; For the wounded don’t cry. Some saw their hands and arms blown off. Others were paralyzed by spine: wounds. Many refused to lie down, and despite their wounds, they kept charging the enemy.

: HAD k personal shooting. Hite ‘with a Jap in. a Jungle én Guadalcanal” ssid’ Pic. Jhimes. Joly gs son; 23, of Flint, Mich. v “I knew if I didn’t get him that he'd hit me. Boy, how I wanted to hit my ‘target.’ ... Finally, I got him. . . ; Not sure he wasn’t pulling a trick, I ~erawled up to him. “rd knocked him' out all Hight.

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PVT. WILLIAM ROWLEY, 22-year-old farmer from Kansas, a member of a mortar crew in New Guinea, saw two of his crew killed and two others wounded, in-addition to himself. “We were within ‘several hundred yards of the Japs. Jap mortar shells were landing all around us. . .. Finally one smacked down within ‘15 feet of me. It killed two and: wounded three of us. “I looked down at my right hand and saw nothing but a stub left. With my left hand I applied a tourniquet. . . . I then walked to a first aid station.” He said his mother hasbeen ‘putting the aliotment money she received from the government, into war‘ bonds.

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THURSDAY, APRIL

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THESE MEN know war. They know the hell it is. They know what it is to lie in foxholes while enemy airplanes control the skies . « « know what it is to fight day and night, then snatch a bit of sleep in a muddy slit trench

‘at righ, 1s Saw 8 fist. hanging fo5i a pocket was “this Jap: flag T brought back with me. . . . All that Jap: writing in the White part-is where his friends

flag.”

Later, a Jap. snigr’s bullet hit Johnson in the

the hospital, be's helping win the months, 20 per cent of his pay

has been going into. war bonds. ;

CPL. EDWARD F. BROESKI, 23, of Chicago, was a message runner between headquarters and advance '

posts on Guadalcanal.

ment when I. felt something fall

KISKA POUNDED IN 10 SLASHING ATTACKS . WASHINGTON, April 15 (U. P.). —U. S. army bombers and fighters have carried out 10 slashing attacks on Kiska in the most intensive dawn-to-dusk aerial assault of the Aleutians campaign. : ‘The attacks; announced in a navy communique today, ‘were made ‘on Tuesday.

runway which the Japanese are {Swing out of the, fosky muiate of \e operations.

“I was lying in a slit trench during a bontbard-

thought it was debris—until I tried toget up ...I.’ found I couldn't ‘move anything but my head—a fragment from a Jap shell had hit me in the spine.” Paralyzed, Cpl. Broeski lay in tke tremch until medical corps men picked him up on a litter. ‘Barely Jeed in this war.”

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[Wounded Don’ t Cry—They Buy Bonds |

Sven now at Billings General hospital where the men see only stumps of hands remaining, or: frail, paralyzed legs, or huge plaster casts on compound fractures, the wounded don’t cry.

ae what it’s like to have nothing to eat each day for days at a time but a can of “bully beef” and crackers. The men are eager to have the war end. They're eager to get back in there fighting. But not being able to fight right now, most of the men are buying war bonds so that their battling buddies stil will have plenty with which to fight. 3

ox .y WAS AN “avtomatio Hifleind 0 Giiadalcanal, ” said Cpl, Arthur Hatfield, 27, of Benton, Wis. Jugle fighting was terrible, There were Jap maghine gunners in foxholes and snipers in trees. Suddenly I felt as though someone gave me a hard swat in the side with a base-

ball bat. ‘The bullet spun me around and I fell to the ground. I crawled

back toward help and soon medical corps men picked me up.” : He's shown with 2d Lt. Marie Kelly bandaging his wound, Even

while fighting on the “canal,” Cpl. Hatfield was buying war bonds on jhe payroll Sedustion: ‘plan.

able to move his right arm and with his frail’ legs held straight by Plaster casts, he’s fighting to recover - at’ Billings, "And he’s got seven months’ pay coming he's going to sink into war bonds. “For days at a time I had nothing but ‘bully beef’ and crackers on the ‘canal’ I know how tough fight=

ing is when you're short of supplies. “War bonds will help give our men what they

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Absenteeism Exaggerated, Lund Says on Eve of Rally

Absenteeism as a factor in production has been greatly exaggerated, or. at least misrepresented during the past few months, Wendell Lund, director -of the labor production of the WPB, said in an interview here

today. Mr. Lund, who will speak at the United Labor for Victory Rally at

8 p. m. at the Murat temple, said that sample testings prove that ab- | senteeism. is sitghily:higher now uRly : It must be met on a plant basis, he

is even contended. Over the country there has been

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U. S. AVIATOR OUTNUMBERED, * KENNEY SAYS

Australia’s Peril as Great as Late in 1941, Air Minister Asserts; Reported Massed 3 Days Away.

By UNITED PRESS The Southwest Pacific, where the Japanese ‘air force id

Jap Fleet

now has numerical superiority over the allies, will receive ample airplanes to replace all losses and build up air ‘forces in sufficient strength to counter the enemy, War Secretary =

Henry L. Stimson said today. “We will keep the needs

THUNDER-BLITZ' HITS STUTTGART

Another Raid, Probably Russian, Is Made on East Prussia.

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bombers loosed a thunderbolt saturation raid last night on _the southwest Germany industrial center of Stuttgart while other planes —presumably Russian — simultaneously attacked East Prussia. Twenty-three planes were lost in what the air ministry described as a “very heavy” attack on Stuttgart. “The target was clearly identified

trated,” the ministry said.

were shot down. Important Rail Center

Tons of bombs ranging from twoton block busters to two-pound incendiaries were cascaded on Stuttgart’s sprawling war factories, which include the Bosch ignition works, the Daimler-Benz aircraft engine works and submarine engine plants. Stuttgart also is an important railroad junction and, lying on the main railroads from Germany's industrial Ruhr and Rhineland to the south, is a key cog in the axis supply system for Italy and Tunisia. A German broadcast claimed that 15 British bombers were shot down. No details were available of the raid on East Prussia, first disclosed in a German broadcast which said enemy planes dropped demolition and fire bombs that caused “no particular damage.” (Continued on Page Four)

ALLIED UNITS SEIZE TWO TUNISIAN HILLS

8th Army Massing for

New Blow at Rommel.

By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NORTH AFRICA, April 15.—British and French troops smashed through strong axis opposition to seize two strategic hills guarding the outer

.|fringe of the northeast Tunisian

coffin corner today, while Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery massed for a frontal assault on the ‘enemy coastal defense lines. b Striking quickly in an effort to prevent Nazi Marshal Erwin Rommel from consolidating his new lines around Tunis and Bizerte, British infantry made a fierce attack through mountain country and captured the hill Mass Djebel Ang, eight miles northwest of Medjez El Bab. French forces advancing in the Ousseltia sector pressed northward (Continued on Page Four)

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YORK, April 15 (U.P).—

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stantly in mind and there will be a steady and increasing flow of military supplies, particularly aircraft, to that theater,” Mr. Stimson told a press conference. Other developments in “1 Situation were:

mewhere in New i Lt. Gen. George IC. Kenney, Southwest Pa cific air commander, declared that the Japanese “have too many airplanes around these parts for comfort.” “We are outnumbered, and I don't like being outnumbered, Gen. Kens ney told a press conference after return from Washington, where &

‘ {took his plea for more planes.

He said the allied airmen in his bat operations, but added: i “The thing to remember is th if we shoot down one of the aircraft, he replaces it within a days. Their planes can reach islands three days from the factories Ours must be shipped, and it's long haul from the states.” Gen, Kenney said the allies practically forced to shoot down fo or five Japanese planes for one they lose in order to keep score straight.

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bond rally at Melbourne, w that “a great onslaught with all y savagery of which the Japanese &% mind is capable” is 0 against Australia. southernmost continent faces a peril as great as in late 1941 from the Jap-held islands to the north. :

A spokesman for Gen, Douglas MacArthur asserted that & great enemy naval combat fleet maintainéd constantly at Truk, ¢ three days’ sailing from New Guin His comment apparently was d signed to answer Navy Secrets Frank Knox's statement earlier week that he knew of no Japaneses naval concentrations in the Souths west Pacific. The . spokesman said that Jap has concentrated. 250,000 tons | merchant,shipping around Rab New Britain, and that there other concentrations of ships at Paulau, Manila and Soerabaya, all within easy concentration range the 2500-mile battle line which velops the upper half of Aus He described Gen. Sir Thoma Blamey’s recent statement of anese strength in the islands.

{ Australia of 200,000 as “con

tive” and said that constant eco |voys beyond allied bombing ran are reinforcing this strength,

Japan's latest prelude to expected offensive cost Kh another 30 planes over New Guine yesterday, making a total of shot down in four days. The Nipponese hurled a force 70 to 100 planes against Milne b only to lose 22 bombers and fighters in 30 minutes of co

The Nazi-controlled Selogranh agency repofied 1 Tokyo that Japanese military ¢ regarded the stepped-up y activity over New Guinea and th Solomons as possibly a prelude “extensive military operations” | that area within a few weeks. Well-informed allied sources that even the 100-plane raids not taxing Japanese aerial )

RAINBOW. DIVISION WILL FIGHT AGAN

WASHINGTON, Avil 15 (U. § —The 42d infantry division

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