B-29s can raze Jap industry, general says
More planes needed, LeMay asserts
By James C. Leary
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Americans hold half of Okinawa
Marines push north – attack beaten off
GUAM (UP) – U.S. infantrymen on Southern Okinawa beat off another small Jap counterattack Saturday Marines in the north pushed ahead against negligible resistance to bring almost half of the important island under American control.
Army and Marine field artillery, naval gunfire and carrier and land-based aircraft plastered Jap positions along the southern Naha defense line as the 96th Infantry Division easily repulsed the small enemy attack.
Carrier planes in attacks
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz reported the carrier aircraft of the U.S. and British Pacific Fleet units struck again at the Sakishima Islands, southernmost of the Ryukyus, and at Formosa Saturday without opposition.
Almost all of the large Motobu Peninsula jutting out from Okinawa’s western coast is now controlled by Marines of the III Amphibious Corps.
Other Marines driving northward on Okinawa pushed to the vicinity of Momobaru Town on the west coast and Arakawa town on the east coast.
Momobaru is within 10 miles of the northern end of the island.
The American-controlled area now extends some 50 miles from north to south. The northern line is being extended northward daily against the slightest resistance, but 60,000 Jap troops massed in the southern sector of Okinawa have held the U.S. Army forces to a standstill for 10 days.
Pillboxes bar way
The three U.S. infantry divisions in Southern Okinawa were using demolition charges and flamethrowers as they battered against steel-armored Jap pillboxes barring the wav to Naha, capital city of the island.
Nine enemy planes were shot down off Okinawa during the day by combat air patrols, Adm. Nimitz said.
The U.S. carrier aircraft raiding the Sakishima area hit airfields on Ishigaki and Miyako Islands, destroying seven planes on the ground and damaging 25 others.
British carrier planes attacked Matsuyama and Shinchiku on Formosa without opposition. Many planes were damaged on the ground and hangars, barracks, buildings, a railway bridge, a tram and other targets were hit.
Jap ships sunk off Burma coast
British destroyers shell shore points
CALCUTTA, India (UP) – British destroyers, harassing the south shores of Burma, have sunk a number of coastal vessels and bombarded shore installations on Great Coco Island, it was announced today.
The British ships suffered no damage or casualties, a Southeast Asia Command communiqué said.
At the northern end of the 14th Army front in Burma, Lt. Gen. W. J. Slim’s troops stormed into Hlaingdet, which is tactically important because it commands the main Jap escape route leading eastward from Central Burma to the Shan States. It is eight miles east of the Rangoon-Mandalay rail town of Thazi.
It was reported that one 14th Army force killed 2,900 enemy troops, destroyed six medium tanks and captured 44 guns, 70 motor transports and 28 prisoners during the week ending Wednesday.
To the south and southwest, armored and infantry forces expanded their positions south of Meiktila and consolidated newly-won positions in the oilfield town of Kyaukpadaung, captured Thursday.
In the northern combat area, where Chinese and British troops have been engaged the last six weeks in flushing out isolated enemy groups and clearing roads, there was patrol activity south of Kyaukme, Hsipaw and Mongyai.
Long-range fighter planes attacked road, rail, river and coastal supply lines in Thailand and South Burma yesterday.
Allied drive underway for Italian city of Bologna
Eighth Army tightens noose on gateway town – Germans say Fifth Army joins in offensive
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Poll: Public leans to retention of pay control
Many, however, favor changes
By George Gallup, Director, American Institute of Public Opinion
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New York faces telephone strike
Raise unsatisfactory – would affect nation
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Navy lists eleven dead in collision
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Truman will address Congress tomorrow
Saturday, April 14, 1945
WASHINGTON (UP) – Harry S. Truman’s first address as President will be delivered Monday to a joint session of Congress.
All major networks will broadcast the address at 1 p.m. EWT.
Millett: ‘It’s the woman who pays’ in added war burdens
Men don’t even know what it means to give up nylons and such
By Ruth Millett
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I DARE SAY —
‘Original cast’ fetish is meaningless when applied to Guild’s Oklahoma
By Florence Fisher Parry
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London shows go on, despite V-bombs
But pickings are slim in terms of things theatrical, critic reports
By Howard Barnes
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Hitler stand at hideout won’t be long
Airpower easily can blast retreat
By Col. Frederick Palmer, North American Newspaper Alliance
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American tries to escape and warn Patton of traps
Too weak to run, corporal is caught and put on water diet – wants to go to Pacific
By Helen Kirkpatrick
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