Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1944 — Page 2

‘New Landings Clinch Fate Of Japanese in |

I * New Guinea. |

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS Opal Miller Clyde Bailey Southwest Pacific, 19 (U.P). : —Capture of the aL air| WAC PVT. OPAL M. MILLER base by American invasion forces has reported to Patterson field, O, in & 125-mile amphibious jump] after visiting het family and friends from Hollandia presages the re- here, and in Warsaw. Pvt. Miller conquest of all Dutch New Guinea, | recently completed a course in phowhose western tip lies only 650! tography at Lowry field, Colo, miles from the Philippines, Gen.| PVT. CLYDE BAILEY has reDouglas MacArthur annouricéd ju-| turned to the marine corps base at San Diego, Cal, after visiting his -| parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sherman ing out east and west of the Wakde Bailey, 2161 Madison ave. area along the Dutch New Guinea

coast against what MacArthur oe . scribed as “only trifling opposition.” BELGIANS TOLD American seaborne troops, covered by a naval and air bombardment, seized Wakde island, 1250 INVASION NEAR miles southeast of the Philippines, nearby Insoemanal island and the adjacent Toem area of Xe Nore} ———— tch New Guinea Thurs-/, . . 3 Sha I landing that Little Time Remains, They

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U. 8. army engineers already were believed readying the: captured By ROBERT DOWSON Wakde air base for the new offen- United Press Staff Correspondent sive operations implied by MacAr-| 1.ONDON, May 19.—Radio Ber-

thur, Its coral-surfaced runway extends 4700 feet and could be lengthened easily to 7000 feet, recent reconnaissance photographs revealed. American troops landed first at

lin said today English ports now were “crammed to the bursting point” with equipment for an allied landing in western Eyrope and exile leaders warned the Belgian people

Toem village, 125 miles west of that “not much time remains” for newly-conquered Hollandia, Wednes- them to complete their pre-inva-day, then swarmed across two miles sion preparations. of water to Wakde and Insoemanal| pr Harald Jansen, Berlin radio islands under cover of a bombard- commentator, said Portsmouth, . ment by American and Australian pjymouth, Bristol, Hull and London cruisers, destroyers, rocket-firing were the principal ports where landing craft and planes. (Britain was concentrating “her enEnemy Confused tire Wacion Sarerial.-siich wi rg have to erried across to the a Operation Se es continent overnight in a few hours.” “further confusion,” the communi-| ‘Recent luftwaffe raids on Bristol que said, and advanced allied posi- and Portsmouth, two of the invations 625 miles westward in the Sion springboards, thus were more last four weeks. important than Anglo-American | American troops moving west- Mong: of railway network,” ward from Toem probably already Ur. Jansen said. were approaching the village of Nazis Over Scotland Sarmic, three miles southwest of which lies the Sawar airfield. The! German reconnaissance planes Maffin airfield is three miles farther Were reported active over north and hwest. northeast Scotland last night, preBoth airfields, along with that at Sumably in an attempt to spy out Wakde, had been neutralized by two aD¥ allied Preparations for > thrust vy air bombardment. [across the North sea to Denmark Wet 31 avy Japanese base to Or northwest Germany. the west is Geelvink bay, some 300, The Germans have betrayed inmiles away. | creasing concern over the possi- : {bility of an allied landing on the

Danish peninsula or in the HelgoCOAL DEALERS |] AME iz-c bight, which provide the {shortest routes to Berlin and might {open up the Baltic to the aliled INDIANA EXECUTIVES »=:-

Radio Belgique, voice of the Bel- | Indiana coal merchants renamed | gian- exile government in London, | Alva V. Stout president of their as-|told the people of occupied Belgium | sociation as they closed their war-|that they should hasten their preptime conference yesterday at the arations for action when allied

Severin hotel. |armies strike into Europe. Other officers elected were E. L.| “In a very few days, we shall Danielson, Elkhart, northern vice give you furthér clear advice on president; Orrin E. Klink, Bloom- | certain important details,” the ington, southern vice president; | broadcast said. “Have you comFrank 8. Pittman, Indianapolis, {pleted your arrangements? Still a Jreatiter; Cos’ Groulef, Griens- little time remains for you to do 8, recording secretary; J. 8. so_but not much.” Weber, Indianapolis, executive sec-| The station reiterated its previous 0: dat se eR 0 he ee to ep on pS Sista wearin dm = vin. | he roads when land operations o al ~ | begin, cent W, Lensing, Evansville; John P. Vendel, Terre Haute: E M. Frank, Jeffersonville; Walter E. le 16 “ohev al Klehforth, Richmond; J. A. Head- oor. 0 "0% all orders ha ley, Seymour; Howard H. Mutz,| om. _ 155 now entered | Edinburg; Charles Wright, Indian-/ _ | ° Er a ered its deapolis; John J. Childes, Anderson: = "2% ‘he broadeast sald. Albert J. Schnaible, Lafayette: Car! - G. T. Monninger, Logansport: Tom SEEK POSTPONEMENT Tobin, Marion; Frank G. Bollman Pt. Wayne; Herschel Woodward. OF POLLUTION SUIT, South Bend, and Harold D. John- 81a | son, Hammond. Art General James A. Em- | Resolutions were adopted urging y..._ = : SL producers to “uphold the highest |, ~~ Co. meet vn Tinos standards of coal production® ang | v Doce VES Seeking a Cd retail dealers to give the utmost of! ou Ts ponement of a hearing in| service under wartime conditions”; | = hited States supreme court | asking that “the war production on the Lake Michigan pollution | board authorize resumption of the “'p: : manufacture and release of house- | mimert sald they would endeavor | hold stokers at the earliest possible | x, bro the approval of Special date”; and commending “the office aster Luther Ely Smith, apof > .,_ pointed by the court to hear > ’ “> evidence, for the stpone S co-operation by its high-calibe ’ Postponement as men + y gh-calib I (a result of a meeting with Illinois (officials in Chicago Tuesday at oo | {Which an amicable settlement was LODGE TO ENTERTAIN discussed, poral council 47, Degree of linois petitioned to enjoin InRes, will.entertain the Mar- diana and four Calumet area cities y association tonight at from dumping industrial waste int their hall, Morris and Lee sts. | the lake, © me ———————— TE? :

Jap Escape Route Blocked As Allies Storm Myitkyina

SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUAR- | area of eastern India, an Indian TERS, Kandy, Ceylon, May 19 (u.| Gurkha brigade threw a road block P.).—Allied troops fought their way | Roroes ne Tading highway south ) wy | 0 mphal after a daring swe into the Outskirts of Myitkyina W-{ around the eastern flank Se oo day and official sourees revealed | main Japanaese force. 7 that all avenues of escape or rein-| The Gurkhas fought off heavy forcement have heen closed to the | Japanese counter-attacks and were Japanese garrison, | reported firmly astride the highway, Cornered remnants of the Japa-| cutting off the main source of supe nese 18th division, the conquerors | plies to the enemy forces besieging of Singapore, were reported fling] Imphal. back slowly into the streets of the! Reports from the Salween river city under increasingly heavy attack! front 75 miles east of Myitkyina by American and Chinese infantry- | said strong Japanese reinforcements men. were counter-attacking four ChiA communique said airborne re-. Nese columns advancing through inforcements were landing continy- | China’s western Yunnan province ously on the. airdrome two miles toward the Burma border, south of Myitkyina to Join in the{ The Japanese, apparently tricked fina] assault on the base, the main | Into shifting troops from the Myenemy position in northern Burma | itkyina area, threw the main and the terminus of the Burma rajl- | Weight of ‘their counter-attack ny line from Rangoon and Manda- | 38ainst the Tatangtzu and Pingka 4 | Sectors at the central and southern ~~ Simultaneously, other allied troops Wings of the Chinese front, -Mttacked the disintegrating Japa-| Particularly bitter fighting raged south and west of My- {around Tatangtzu, i War Correspondent Albert force cut across the Ravenholt reported that the ruined d linking) My. village changed hands “twice 70 airline! miles| Wednesday. Si

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