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Gloucester and claimed that Japaness planes had sunk two large
large transports. Twenty to 25 allied planes were shot down, the communique said, while Japanese losses totaled 17 planes. Allied authorities have disclosed that American losses actually were one ship sunk and three slightly damaged, while 61 Japanese planes were shot down against a loss of seven allied
Patrols, schooled at Guadalcanal, fanned out through the thick, matted jungle from steadily expanding beachheads near Point Silimati, five miles southeast of the tip of Cape Gloucester, and on the southwest coast of the cape. The main force, which captured Target hill, 800 yards inland near Silimati point, passed through the enemy's bivouac area, smashed by allied bombs and deserted by the Japanese, and ran into two reinforced pillboxes and snipers barring the road to the airfields. A hurry call was sent in for artillery support and a barrage cleared the path. The perimeter of this beachhead totaled more than two miles.
Perils Bismarck Sea’ ; Capture of the airfields would
" TUESDAY, DEC. 28, 1043 ke TE ToT U.S. Controls Gloucester; Loses Destroyer in Invasion
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|said no Japanese artillery or anti-| pail: J : aircraft opposition had been: Te- Military Urgency Explained ported on Cape Gloucester through! 4 “1 Sunday night, and commented that As Schools Prepare the enemy guns probably had been i knocked out or blinded by bombard- To Start Dirve. ments and smoke screens. (Continued From Page One) Some 50 miles southeast of Cape Gloucester, 6th army forces on the huge quantities of paperboard and Arawe peninsula repulsed three paper shipped overseas is lost. Japanese counter-attacks, the first] The program, begun last May in in any strength encountered since states where a large portion of the the invasion there nearly two weeks consuming mills are located, has ago, east of Arawe. {been extended to cover the entire Japs Break Contact Country, : The public is asked to save all The Japanese broke contact,|types of waste paper. A ton will however, when the marines began produce 1500 shell- containers, or pouring onto Cape Gloucester [47.000 boxes for 30-caliber ammuniMeanwhile, attack planes bombed tion, or 71,000 dust covéts for airand strafed trails in the jungle plane engines, or 36,000 practice farther east in support of ground [targets forces.
= { Shortage of Pulpwood Twenty enemy dive bombers eS-| A reduction of 25 per cent in the ported by a dozen fighters attacked |, co of wrapping paper and bags allied shipping off the invasion coast, 21010 will mean an annual saving ut were repulsed by ti- 5 ’ fire at the pt Bg two ei jofjover tanion sans of paper. This > {would make 90000000 V-boxes for causing only a few casualties and \opergency rations, or to package light damage. {enough blood plasma to take care| To the northeast, medium Amer- [of all the wounded men we are likely | ican bombers pressed home a new tg have in this war. attack against Kavieng, Japanese | All these military demands added supply base on New Ireland, carry- {op civilian demands come at a time ing out a night raid which caused | when paper production is threatexplosions and large fires in enemy rr by a shortage of its most im-| supply dumps. |portant ingredient—pulpwood. The| From Adm. William PF. Halsev's | reason for this is shortage of South Pacific headquarters came lumberjacks. - |
give Gen. Douglas MacArthur's air fleets new striking bases from which to dominate the Bismarck | sea and its three major Japanese strongholds, Rabaul, 275 miles to the east northeast; Kavieng, New| Ireland, 250 miles to the hor east and the Admiralty islands, 250 miles
word that the American carrier task | The public's job is done when the] force which raided Kavieng harbor paper is sold, but this is just half Christmas day successfully fought ine job. off three Japanese air attacks while | 700,000 Types of Containers
en route to its home base. } The carriers, whose Avenger and | The Pe be sald ne Helldiver planes sank a destroyer | American SrockiRADenICa, Are the e |
and three large cargo vessels at elsewhere fof. reprocessing. | {local firm, the papers will be sepa-
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y Caen Vil far greater cost OF WHISKY IS USED oniv a vow “ (far greater cost And they must J i Al Vn tion ship explosion. (keep on advancing and keep on WASHING FON, Dec. 28 (Up) Memo fn ku ) vaffected every Oslo bringing Up reserves and supplies by Whisky stocks at the end of Noo [rope fit wat eatdent Quisling and patriots sea. To falter might le fatal To be vember totaled 302 063 0002 gallons | Christma tana vike 1 of thousands of window defeated might cost us the wat approximately 88 000.000 proof gal On the o HL panes were blasted, leaving not a, Turkey is as far from Germany as lons less than on Dee. 1 a year ago tae the op ep ( glnss intact” over it is possible to get in Furope | the alcohol tax unit, of the bureay Presst 1 ecretly drmking toa ame -third of the I'en thousand Pretty cute is this maneuver | There are only one or two ratlwayvs of internal revenue reported today t@ “The vet Cl nin of ow Ju ) lost the roofs over their \ (serving Istanbul from Nazi centers I'he announcemet showed, how | Ww! hit ro ead of Cannonball, a pup be » on & FHRE BESS ERIGAN Es 8 . pup ught for {On the other hand, France and the ever, in connection with congres : Fv ery hog ve to wall until . i vO i ite 1 ax Hl a pack of cigarets in Casablanca [low countries are the closest pos-| sional efforts to tax stocks incorder 0 ! the end of the war to: get new | \ { J 1" Yank troopers. sible to Hitler's reserves of men and to push whisky ont of storage, that |! X es of Na if 1 designed to. dodge (material, and the region boasts the tax paid withdrawals of distilled Th Chrstmastide in Be he lack of ind coke, with [world's best-developed network of spirits in November were le s than'a Cl rma 0 h ons 110 Car evern wood strict! vtioned so th irits Ov 1h l | 1 il 1 ' ( | 1 eed at shell fragments— , 1. . x Is—but, doggone i, (rallroads, highways, rivers and in November a vear ago. 8516035 man eve Wo obetares except gnome the Na can take what the wang’ it didn't work on four occasions. |canals, all capable of supplying the proof gallons as compared with bomber over other contri ( Germany, fnerea se the harde Nazi defenders. RO01.724 I'honsand pn thous of Dn tor Norweging
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Moreover, they make a good cagal For three years Hitler has been ¢ y Fo, : of it ’ % - jarming the “invasion const ' again t Is It True That Santa Claus © ‘Never.Saw Lighted Street * Yet when the British and Amer-|what he knows is soon coming : nL As 3 8 nt; § \ $ As one Swedish correspondent; leans invade France they will have French peasants have been forced; ¢ Died in Russia? wrote from Berlin
“Children playing here now have
to start from scratch. The Turks| to hélp install fortifications, pill-| Child A k already have an excellent bridge- | boxes, concealed gun emplacements, naren SK. never known what a real Christmas” . yr ’ Po er vir ve . MN 1 . . Jhead in Europe They already tank traps, mined areas and what By NAT A BARROWS [1s, have never seen a toy shop or have more than half a million not, | convrighis 1943 ei + lighted street. For them Christe those < ” ie ah a . ven PYTIR - fianapniia T IR: troops and thousands of guns, tanks| If the axis could defeat the Turks, and the yg tly Neww mas 1s an abstract conception. Ib jand ol 1er equipment on the spot. and drive them out of Europe, as| STOCKHOLM. 1) i As the twists vou inside when a child asks: {Turkey is comparatively” well pro-|the experfs contend, it is tragic ally) RAT tration, It is really true what they say, ’that tected by mountainous frontiers clear that our own forces have a i a PO AROE chta Claus died in Russia?” and man-built defenses. But we, to tough job ahead of them in the the horizon and drops behind the Gloom lies heavy over Berlin, begin, will have absolutely nothing. | weeks and months ahead Small spruce trees tl mpi a ( 1 bitterness 18 the keynote: The Yanks and British will. first| Wonder that President “Roosevelt! (he Lights of Stockholm blaze alone A g as you are alive, be glad have to cross the English channel.|Warned us of heavy casualty lists, niin srthiand sii todd 1 , Mo vid one Berliner as he | , 0 in a northlan wounded by. the or ' [They must carry tanks and guns|in his Christmas eve address, and a Cd ¢leared up bnmb-damage rubble, a {and all the rest of their equipment that some of his generals say the V'"CRIN Ob weler reports - {with them. They must get ashore total may reach a million | On one side On the other border of this neds | ) neutral Sweden } ; in the face of deadly resistance] ! ven, the peopl ) | Ws 18 nN Tomorrow—What lies ahead in Berlin the von Sizeop aia! iOgio) have {along the world's most powerfully R trees Christmastime but no [fortified coast. Th t chimp the Pacific ’ oppressor, is di ried fish t L ey 11S ! { dl ried 1 ’ | mu climb , aware tha! i v dried fish but no meat; {up on the beach \ k mes but no bombs,
: and hold the . mally thi [as they did at Saino wit vanes 88 MILLION GALLONS he trait tonal
{but on a vastly larger scale and at Blast Wrecks City
to the north. {Kavieng, were attacked Christmas Absence of strong opposition, it/njght by 18 twin-engined Japanese | may now be revealed, was due tO pombers, but suffered neither dam- | the perfectly timed diversionary in- age nor loss. The attackers weie vasion of the Arawe peninsula driven off, a spokesman said, but nearly two weeks earlier. The feint he did not disclose whether any of | at Arawe drew Japanese attention them had been shot down | from the Cape Gloucester area, and | BE
| rated and crated for shipping. | PITTSBURGH, Dec. 28 (U. P.).—| A local manufacturing firm may | Henry A. Roemer today announced | be using some of your paper. The his resignation as board chairman | Paper Package Co. here serves local and director of the Pittsburgh Steel | industries by making containers for | Co.. ’ | their products—for Allison engines,| In his letter of resignation to the | Chevrolet spare parts, Lilly blood hoard of directors, Roemer revealed | plasma, E. C. Atkins saws, RCA that plans for the consolidation of |
the enemy was believed rushing re-| N inforcements south to Arawe at the SAFETY COSTS MILLION
exact moment the marines hit Cape| Gloucester. A spokesman for Gen. MacArthur!
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Xe This Christmas Eve and Christmas Day were the busiest we ever had on the Long Distance telephone lines. | The people of Indianapolis asked us to complete 27,500 Long Distance calls for them last Friday and Saturday. That was 10,000 more than on December 24th and 25th two years ago, just after war-began. It was just too big qn order! The girls-at the Indianapolis Long Distance switchboard kept working at top speed, but telephone lines in
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‘CHRISTMAS RUSH WE HAD!"
20,600 CALLS WERE‘COMPLETED— There simply were not enough circuits and equipment to put through more. For two years,
copper has been going to the battle fronts in-
When the materials become available once more, then will we be able to get the equipment we need to do the job in the way you
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| ° stead of into new telephone lines. And all that NUINE FUL BhuInE time, Long Distance traffic has been growing. gt S| VER BLENDED Youll find hundreds of
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