Blueprint war scoffed; small shop pitied
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Political aims flatly denied by MacArthur
‘I started as a soldier, I’ll finish as one,’ general declares
By Brydon Taves, United Press staff writer
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Jap air bases face big drive
Allies mass planes to aid U.S. in Solomons
By Harold Guard, United Press staff writer
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Fortress ‘all shot to hell’ lays perfect hits on U-boat nest, bags 3 Nazis also
By James Chambers, United Press staff writer
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U.S. bombers hit Japs’ Burma field
Chungking, China (UP) –
Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, commander of U.S. forces in Burma, India and China, announced today that U.S. bombers raided the Jap airfield at Lashio, Burma, yesterday.
The raiders hit an anti-aircraft battery and bombed a small hangar and the airplane dispersal area. The runway was heavily damaged.
The bombers, escorted by fighter planes, encountered strong anti-aircraft fire, but all returned to their bases.
U.S. bases in India draw heavy Jap plane attacks
New Delhi, India –
A revised American communiqué said today that 128 Jap bombers participated in the raids on American bases in northeastern Assam Province Sunday and Monday.
At least 10 American fighters were destroyed or damaged on the ground, it said.
In the first raid, 45 fighters escorted 50 bombers over the American bases. The next day, a single reconnaissance plane appeared, followed by 27 fighters escorting five reconnaissance planes.
New Marine units arrive in England
London, England (UP) –
Additional units of U.S. Marines, commanded by Col. William T. Clement, have arrived in the British Isles, Adm. Harold R. Stark, U.S. naval commander, announced last night.
The Marine reinforcements have already assumed their duties, “at various posts in the British Isles,” Adm. Stark announced.
Col. Clement, who holds the Navy Cross, is a veteran of the Bataan and Corregidor campaigns. He will join Adm. Stark’s staff, replacing Col. Franklin A. Hart, who participated in the Dieppe raid.
All major losses are now reported, OWI chief asserts
War Information Forum shows Davis and Price in accord on withholding information that may help the enemy’ cooperation of individuals is solicited
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Production boost sought –
WPB will boss all air output
Vice chairman to replace Army, Navy control
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Welles sees world order without fear
Statesman praises Greece on anniversary of Italian attack
By Milton Magruder, United Press staff writer
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Troops well remembered
Washington –
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson disclosed today that 3,396 tons of mail, including more than a million Christmas parcels, were sent to troops overseas during the first 25 days of October.
Simms: Post in Mexico for Boss Flynn to be bad move
Latin Americans dislike envoys selected for political reward
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
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Fortresses end 2-day lull, blast Rabaul base again
Jap warship damaged; Allies gain on land in New Guinea
By Don Caswell, United Press staff writer
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Wake Island soldier writes from Jap prison
Turlock, California (UP) –
Henry Hahne, formerly of this city but taken prisoner by the Japanese at Wake Island, has written his wife to announce that he is now in a Japanese prisoner camp in China, where he is engaged in growing watermelons for Japanese officers. He added:
China is sure different from what I expected.
Gable’s Air Force duty is a military secret
Miami Beach, Florida (UP) –
Clark Gable’s immediate plans following his commissioning as a second lieutenant in the Army Air Forces were a military secret, despite his professed desire to become an aerial gunner.
His voice was unsteady as he swore allegiance to his country and received his commission. He declined to be interviewed and the Army withheld information regarding his assignment.
Lt. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, Chief of the Army Air Forces, addressed Mr. Gable and several hundred fellow graduates, saying that many of them would soon be sent to the war zone.