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Show PAGE TWO PROVO (UTAH) DAILY HERALD MONDAY, APRIL 6,' 1942 Allies Gain Upper Hand In -Mr Battle BY JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor Japan carried the war to India today with attacks y sea-borne airplanes on two east coast cities. A strong enemy naval force, including aircraft earners, was reported by the All-India radio'to have attacked all.ca shipping in the Bay of Bengal and& sent small air squadrons to bomb .the harbors at Vizagapatam and Goconada. . j ; . The Japanese squadron apparently appar-ently had moved northward about 500 miles along the Indian coast after 75. of its airplanes attacked Colombo harbor on the island of Celon, where the British shot probably 30 others. Enemy thrusts at India were timed with axis propaganda broadcasts designed to .disrupt British negotiations to bring An independent India into the war on the side of the United Nations, : At New Delhi, it was indicated that Ihe independence negotiations negotia-tions were marking time for the moment but JawaharlaU Nehru, one of the congress majority) party leaders, was understood to have emphasized to Louis A. John- son that India would fight to the Snd against Japanese aggression, ohnson is President Roosevelt s personal representative in' India. German radio broadoasts ; con tinued to report apparently erroneously er-roneously that the Japanese had landed on the west Burma coast near Akyab and close to the In- dias frontier. Axis broadcasts also quoted Japanese Premier Hideki To jo as warning the Indians that Japan would strike to brfcak British power In India and urging the In dians to revolt. The allied forces, however, also were striking: hard at the enemy, checkine new Japanese attacks on the Philippines and knocking out more than 200 enemy airplanes over the weex end. The enemy attempts to break through American lines on Ba- taan at any cost resulted in a new thrust on land along the shores of Manila Bay and another over-water attack across the bay. today's communique disclosed. Both were broken up with se vere losses, including: one dive bomber shot down, after heavy fighting that checked the enemy offensive. No Japanese gains nave been made since a slight advance Saturday The Japanese also were renewing renew-ing their twin drives in central Burma, and Chungking reported some enemy forces had reached a point about 50 miles north of Prome, where the British were trying to establish a new line in defense-of the-Burma oil fields But in the air, the axis was suffering suf-fering heavy losses on fronts scattered scat-tered almost around the world and the British press estimated that the enemy had suffeed a loss of 200 planes per week or about 2,600 aircraft since January 1, Including more than 200 over the week end. American flying fortresses operating oper-ating from India Under Maj. Gen. Lewis H. B re re ton and reinforced British fighter planes were fighting fight-ing to seize the initiative in the air and giving new strength to the combination of United States heavy bombers and crack British pursuit ships. .Dispatches from the fighting fronts included: BURMA Japanese land forces push north from Prome and Toungoo as American heavy bombers hammer the port of Rangoon, starting big fires. CEYLON Natives search for Japanese pilots after Sunday tir battle in which 57 of 75 enemy planes attacking from aircraft carriers are downed or damaged In worst defeat of the air war. AUSTRALIA Thirty-five a to 40 Japanese planes believed 'destroyed 'de-stroyed or damaged on front north of Australia since Saturday. New enemy raids on Darwin and Port Moresby Ineffective. INDIA Deadlock on Indian independence in-dependence unbroken but negotiations negotia-tions continue; President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's envoy confers with Indian leaders; axis broadcast from Berlin Ber-lin quotes Japanese premier as warning of attacks to break British Brit-ish power in India. RUSSIA Red air forces reports knocking out 107 German planes. Forty thousand Germans killed since March 23; Russians pound ahead on central front; knock out German reserve army south of Kharkov. LONDON Three hundred RAP planes bomb German plane- factory fac-tory near Paris; attack Le Havre and Cologne railroad center; British Brit-ish command raid reported by Stockholm dispatches on Norwegian Nor-wegian iron port of Narvik. ' MALTA British down or destroy de-stroy 13 enemy planes over week end as axis continues heavy aerial attacks. CAN'T HURT AfEl That's what YOU think I Imr tha tnrth I Nowaday. It faaMjrfcr ytn -r anybody, anjrwfcera to "catch" roundworm. round-worm. 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Philadelphia, to dsicontinue al leged unfair labor practices and to reinstate certain personnel that laid off after a strike at Houston, Texas. . , - Members of the National Maritime Mari-time union (CIO) struck while their vessel, the S. S. City of Fort Worth,, was moored at a Houston dock They contended the company had refused to bargain after the union. won an election. Justice James B. Byrnes, delivering de-livering the majority decision said that recent fire aboard the. army transport Lafayette the , former French luxury liner Normandie was "grim enough proof that a ship is not necessarily, safe even though it is in a harbor and that discipline must be maintained among crew members at all times. "Ever since men have gone to sea, the relationships of master to seaman has been entirely different differ-ent from that of employer to employe em-ploye on land," Byrnes said. "The lives of passengers and crew as well as the safety of ship and cargo are entrusted to the master's care. Every one and everything depend on him. He must command and the crew must obey." AXIS (Continued from Page One) since the beginning of the year. Last week's axis losses, it said, totalled about 245 planes ''well over the average." Allied aerial losses during the week end were substantially smaller, although German sources claimed the Russians alone lost 62 planes Saturday. British losses totalled about 16 planes shot down or damaged, including five in the Metlterran- ean area around Malta Island. The allies lost three planes in the Australian theater. The Japanese losses includ ed 57 planes shot down or damaged in a raid by 75 Japa nese planes, most or all carrier-based, carrier-based, on Colombo, Ceylon. The remainder were destroyed or damaged dam-aged in the Australian zone of Gen. Doug-las MacArthur. It was believed most unlikely that any of the 25 Japanese planes damaged in the Colombo raid survived because they could hard ly have made their carrier or land bases. At least 35 Japanese planes were damaged or destroyed in the Australian zone. In addition, United States fly ing fortresses of the army air corps, striking for the second time in two days at Japanese invasion in-vasion bases in the India zone. rieavily bombed Rangoon, Bur ma, a threat to both Burma and India. The flying fortresses, operat ing from new bases in India. bombed docks at which enemv invasion forces might be assembling assemb-ling for attacks on Burma or new areas and at least three larsre fires were started. Enemy fighter pianes wnicn challenged the giant plants were driven off with out American - loss. In the Australian zone. Amer ican and Australian planes, which aiso probably included flying fortresses, for-tresses, bombed Koepang and Lae, me iwo most dangerous invasion bases in the area. Koepang was bombed both Saturday and Sunday Sun-day and Lae, on the north coast of New Guinea, was heavily bombed Saturday. Nor did Germany fare so well during the Easter Week end, either. A Russian war communique asserted as-serted that 102 German planes were shot down on the eastern front Saturday alone, as the Nazis threw in new forces. Attacking Malta Sunday, the Germans lost six bombing planes for sure and five were damaged. One fighter was almost certainly shot down and another was seriously ser-iously damaged. The British Royal air force was able also to resume its bombing offensive against German and German-held territory and Berlin Ber-lin admitted, in early reports, that' "material damage" was done to "residential quarters" In western Germany It said that the Paris area also was attacked. The Puget Sound region of western Washington produces most of the cabbage seed In the United States. Omocfais Effect, corgiiibn Of '( An enthusiastic meeting of Payson Democrats ... was held Tr.day for the purpose of effecting ef-fecting a, reorganization of. the picc?nct and also the, four Pay-districts. Pay-districts. In addition to this delegates and alternates were named' for the Utah County and the States convention. . nomas E. Reece was reelected reelect-ed prtdnct chairman, Mrs. Cecil invon, chairlady; Thelma -Vest, rccreu.ry; Arthur Jones, treasurer. treas-urer. I ""District No. 1 was reorganized I as zouows: j. a. uw, cnairman; FAlene Person, chairlady; Emma r Wilson, secretary;, Lyndon Hau, treasurer;' tteea . ersson, isnos Simons, W. F. Persson. commit- I tee; J. A. Law, Reed Persson, Emma Wilson, Ida Hulso, county 1 central committee. . Delegates to ; the county convention, J. a. law, W. F. Keele, Reed Persson, John S. Sheffield, Enos Simons, Reed Moneyr alternates. Major Loveless, Love-less, Lyndon Hall,. Rolla Vest, Emma Wilson, Hyrum McClellan, Fearn Gray. Delegate to state convention, J, A. Law; alternate, Reed Perssonl ' 7 District No, 2 D. C.v Forsey, chairman; Margo Snelson, chair-lady; chair-lady; Merrill -Smith, secretary; Mrs. Dick Tolraan treasurer; Lee Vest, D'ick Tolman, Lloyd Powell, committee; D. C. Forsey, Cloyd Powell, Thelma Vest, - Margaret Snelson, county central committee. commit-tee. Delegates to county convention, Lloyd Powell, Thelma Vest, Steph Cannon; Lee Vest,- Merrill Smith, D. C. Forsey; alternates, E. P. Richmond, Dick Tolman, Mrs. Dick -Tolman, Vetus Bingham, Mrs. Merrill Smith; state convention, conven-tion, Dk C. Forsey; alternate, J. S. Reece.j Distirct No. 3, Robert L. Wilson, chairman; Nellie Bannister, chair-lady; chair-lady; Elisha Warner, secretary; Page Peery, , treasurer; Harold Jones,. Henry , Simmons, Ann Butterworthv committee; R. L. Wilson, Elisha. Warner, T. E. Reece. Cecil1 Cahoon,- county cen tral committee. Delegates to county convention, LeRoy Dalton, Henry Simmons, R. L. Wilson, Elisha Warner, Page Peery, Byron Mendenhall; alternates,' Cleon Moore, George F. Wilson. . District No. 4, C. E. Gale, chairman; Minnie DaWson, chair- lady; Lizzie Crook, secretary; Verner Larsen, treasurer; Mary Curtis, Orion Richardson, Arthur .innAR committee; Arthur Jones, Heber Curtis, Stanley Wflson, Lyndon Crook, counvy committee. commit-tee. County convention, C. E. Gale, Wells Wignall, LeRoy Gale, Ralph Loveless, Fred Graves, Andrew Nielsen; alternates, Lyndon Crook. Bee . Richardson, Mary Nielsen, Delene , Loveless, Lester Fran-com; Fran-com; state convention, C. E. Gale; alternate. Stanley Wilson. Taxi Driver Wins Fellowship Grant NEW YORK, April (UB) George Zabriskie of Caldwell, N. J., a poetic taxi- driver who was denied a college degree because he refused to attend physical education ed-ucation classes, became a Guggen heim fellow today. He received one of the 82 grants totaling $9,000 to assist research and creative work by the John Simon Guggenheim foundation. Zabriskie, who recame a cab driver after he left Duke university, univer-sity, recently published his first book of verse, "The Mind's Geography." Geog-raphy." ARf.1 Y DAY (Continued from Page One) where high government officials and officers of the class, of 1903 at the West Point Military academy acad-emy will gather to unveil a bust Of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. The war department ordered parades, exhibitions and demonstrations demon-strations of modern . weapons wherever possible, and Lieut. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, air force commander, com-mander, ordered air shows and exhibitions ex-hibitions at seveal leading cities. But the army emphasized that the day's program "will be designed de-signed not to Interfere with actual war operations nor in any way divulge military secrets." Chicago, April 6 (C& Workers Wor-kers in a Chicago war plant, today to-day celebrated army day by presenting pre-senting the TJ. S. army a howitzer gun carriage they made, . auto graphed and paid for themselves. They added a trench mortar which they bought with money they had left over. ' Both gifts were painted red, White and blue and dedicated "to General Douglas' MacArthur and his gallant Philippine army." In addition to the formal inscription, in-scription, the axle, control levers and other parts of the gun carriage car-riage were die-stamped with, the names of scores of workers as it passed along the production lines. . Some workers added phrases and slogans like "greetings to Mac," Tokyo special." and "victory "vic-tory for MacArthur." "Give 'eta hell, Mac," appeared three times. Her Dead Daddy Won It ' .: f-i. wvfi .;-yJl.::.I - 7 'I i - J Little English' girl shows her cousin the medal posthumously warded her father, a captain, In the merchant navy, who threw overboard an unexploded bomb that landed on his ship. 3h e In the News -VaMMSlSVeskjA General Douglas MacArthur today sent a message to Sergeant Alvin York, hero of World War I, accepting appointment as international in-ternational commander in chief of the National Citizens Committee, a group that seeks to have the stars and stripes displayed in every American home. President Roosevelt suffered from a slight head cold today and remained in the residential quarters of the white house . . . War Minister F. M. Forde of Australia, inspecting a United States army camp in New South Wales, said that Australia's position po-sition is easier than it was two months ago and some of this added security is due to the speedy help given by America and Britain. . . Secretary of War Henry L. Stimspn, speaking on the first of the war department's "army hour" radio programs, said that the keen fighting spirit displayed dis-played by American men on every front "already has offset many of the inevitable disasters" which followed Pearl Harbor. . . National Commander Lynn U. Stambaugh called on members of the American Legion to act as "volunteer sentries of our national na-tional security" by stamping out "fantastic war rumors" and "hair-raising lies designed to impair im-pair confidence in our gover.V ment. Margie Hart, strip-tease star of the New York burlesque, is heading for Hollywood to start work in the leading role of Monogram's Mono-gram's "Lure of the Islands." Berlin radio quoted Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo as warning India that Japan has decided to attack military objectives in India In-dia and urging Indians to rebel against the British. Actress Brooke Evans took time off from motion picture work to testify on her step-father's side in the divorce suit of her mother and step-father, William J. Walsh of Palm Springs. . . Inquests into the deaths of Major William H. Wenstrom and his wife, killed in a blazing revolver re-volver duel at Santa Barbara, Gal., following an argument over Home Guard policies, is awaiting improvement in the serious condition con-dition of Major Buell Hammett, Wenstrom's opponent. . . Rear Admiral Lewis B. Porter-field, Porter-field, U. S. N., retired, 62, veteran vet-eran naval officer, died 'Sunday in Berkeley, Cal. CEYLON (Continued from Page One) ing of attack Saturday when-air raid sirens sounded for the third time since March . 30. No planes were reported. Then on Easter morning, the great enemy fleet of 75 planes came roaring in from the sea. Confident of easy victory, be cause of surprise, they swept over the harbor. Dive bombers screamed down and other formations swept in -with machine guns rattling. It was evident, that the Japanese Jap-anese did not know that, for months the British 'had been strengthening their defense in expectation ex-pectation of just such, an attack. ' Only Saturday, Layton had announced an-nounced the arrival of reinforcement reinforce-ment from all parts of the empire. As the enemy planes appeared, natives ran, as they had been instructed, in-structed, to shelters, without the least sign of panic. All air . raid precautions services serv-ices went into action instantly. The anti-aircraft batteries opened fire.. British fighter planes took. to the air and almost before the raid started it was shattered in one of Japan's, most '.humiliating eingle defeats of the war. reopi V N BOMBER CRASH BOISE, Ida., April 6 (C.E) An army Investigation board today concluded investigation into the crash of a flying fortress near Bridge, Idaho, which resulted in the death of eight fliers stationed at uowen nem. Body of the eighth victim was recovered late yesterday when an army crash crew hoisted the main section of the wrecked . four-motored four-motored plane. The body was identified as that of Priv. Kenneth Ken-neth S. Biddinger, Indianapolis, Ind. Bodies of the victims were brought here and will be sent to home cities with military escorts for funeral services. The Gowen field public relations office said the report on causes of the crash would probably not be made public. The ship struck the rolling sagebrush prairie with such force that bits of the bomber were scattered over a wide area. The plane had been on a routine training flight from Hill field at Ogden, Utah to Gowen field at Boise when it crashed during a storm. CONFERENCE (Continued lrpm Page One) mine the constitution and establish estab-lish a totalitarian form of government govern-ment here, and it warned against any L. D S. sympathies toward "isms." "Hate has no place in the hearts of the righteous," Clark said. "We must drive it from our hearts and listen to the gospel, which, was never more needed than now." The message denied assertions that Mormon boys were being sent on missions to avoid the draft, and pointed out that ward bishops had been advised not to recommend recom-mend for admission any person who had received notice of induction induc-tion or was likely to receive it in the near future. ; Members were urged to give their services to the armed forcesv In national defense, and were told that church policy advocated patriotism pat-riotism and obedience to the laws and constitution of this government, govern-ment, The message differentiated between be-tween the church and civil government, gov-ernment, and asserted that the government had no place in the church nor the church in the government. gov-ernment. The conference this year was limited to divisional leaders of the church and their advisers. They were charged with bearing the annual message to those members mem-bers who were not permitted to come because of the national emergency. Earlier, David O. McKay, second counselor to the first presidency, read the church budget message, disclosing receipts in tithes , and other funds of $4,420,035.41 for the 1941 year . McKay listed expenditures as follows: Erection, of- meeting houses and ward and stake maintenance, $1,-893,335.54. $1,-893,335.54. Maintenance and operation of missions and erection of buildings, $641,050.10. Maintenance of the church school system. $895,452.57. . - Maintenance and operation and construction of temples, $515,-269.82. $515,-269.82. Erection and maintenance of hospitals, $13,105.36. , Direct aid to the needy, $462,-822.02. $462,-822.02. President McKay placed" the church membership at , 892,080 persons, and said the church had supplied 13,578 men to defense in-lusuies in-lusuies and 12.30U to the. armed forces..' Of the - later number, a large majority were volunteers. ' - Missouri : had a tuberculosis death rate of 44,9 per 100,000 of the population In 1939, as coin v Cr- it. PROBE CAUSE OF pared with 47.9 In 1938. 0. S. Fliers Stdga Rai J cn fcrigoon Dacaj .All Return NEW DELHI, India, April 6 (tE Giant-flying fortresses of the United States army air corps, in-, their second- big attack' from India bases, have heavily attacked at-tacked the Japanese base at Rangoon Ran-goon and, fighting through a swarm of Japanese fighter planes, have all returned to base, it was announced today.' r "In a heavy bombardment; American air force . planes , attacked at-tacked docks in the Rangoon area on the night of April 3," a-com-munique of the United States air forces in India said. . "Three large fires were started. I -"Pursuit action, was encounter-. ed. "All personnel returned safe." Thus for the second time in two ..days; the, flying fortresses struck at Japanese bases menacing men-acing Burma- and India. . , In their first attack Thursday they attacked Port Blair, the big invasion base in the Andaman Islands 600 miles south of Akyab on the Burma coast and 800 miles across the bay of Bengal .from Calcutta. Then they set "a Japanese cruiser afire,, damaged a troop transport and damaged two other ships with near misses. In their attack on , Rangoon they struck at the second of the enemy bases, from which at any moment a new enemy invasion force might set out. Two Doys lilted Dy Sleepy Driver BREMERTON, Wash., April 6 (P.R Five small boys, headed fo$) tne store to buy tneir mower Easter presents, ducked for safety safe-ty behind a telephone pole when an automobile careened toward them. They ducked too late. Rich' ard Cole, 7, and Harry Nowack, 5, were killed; Jimmy Cole, It, and David Ruef, 8, were , cut and bruised, and small Jimmy Cole was knocked down. Behind the wheel of the automobile auto-mobile was John A. Murray, 30, a welder at the Puget Sound navy yeard. He told Coroner Fred Cohen he had dozed at the wheel. He was held under $1,500 bond charged' with negligent hom icide. Party For Provo Golfers Tonight Provo golf ers" will tiblo! ' a " get-acquainted get-acquainted stag party tonight at 8 o'clock at the clubhouse. Under sponsorship of the membership mem-bership committee, the party will include a program, refreshments and games. MARKETS a Glaneo Stocks higher and quiet. Bonds irregularly higher; U. S. governments higher. Curb stocks irregularly higher. Cotton up as much as 60 cents a bale. Wheat unchanged to up cent after early losses of around 1 cents; corn up 1-8 to . Silver unchanged. Metal Prices NEW YORK, April 6 HE Today's custom smelters prices for delivered metals (cents per Lb. J: Copper: electrolytic 12; export FAS NY 11.75 N; casting FOB refinery re-finery 11.75; lake, delivered 12. Lead: New York 6:50; East St. Louis 6:35. Zinc: New York 8.66; East St Louis 6.35. Zinc: New York 8.66; East St. Louis 8.25. TOO LATE FOR CLASSIFICATION a WANTED USED outboard motor, 2 to 5 horsepower. Write Box 105. a7 'FOR RENT UNFURW ISHKJJ 1 SMALL home. 145 No. 3rd West. a8 FOR RENT FURNISHED MODERN, 3-room apartment. 645 West 4th No. aS FOR SALE NEW 1 -horse cultivators at cost. Anderson Garage. a8 FOR SALE SEWING machine, $4.75. White rotary, $13.75i Reconditioned. Souter Shop, 458 West Center. Phone 434R. al2 . HELP . WANTED HAVE opening for service sta-. sta-. tion manager and attendant in salaried position. See Jack Vick at Utah Oil Refining Co. ..- . ., .. .-, a7 T-STEP car reconditioning. Let us 7-STEP car recodltioning. Let us give you a free estimate on reconditioning re-conditioning your car. We have a few. tires. ; Cannon-Ashtony 191 South University.. al2 i WILL BUY ; . ANY , kind of tires or rags. Cannon-- Ash ton, 491 : So. - Univ. . a!2 Japs Suffer Heavily In Sunday Raid On Datuiih -s WAVY OFFICER jLAM PREPARED . WASHINGTON, April 6 (U.R) The Navy, Inaugurating a whirlwind whirl-wind campaign to acquaint the nation's educations with its vatt officer procurement program, today to-day announced a series of. 12 meetings covering 35 states at which the program will be outlined out-lined in detail. Other meetings will bracket the remainder of the .country, by May 1 as the navy explains its plans to recruit 80,000 college freshmen fresh-men and sophomores annually in class V-l. The. plan is expected to result in greatly increased college col-lege enrollments. The navy said Invitations were forwarded to colleges throughout the country to send representatives representa-tives to the meetings, and asked that secondary schools (high schools' send representatives to these .meetings so they may explain ex-plain the program to students entering en-tering college. Under class Vl,.. college i jfresh-men jfresh-men and sophomores will be enlisted, en-listed, as apprentice seamen in the U. . S. Naval Reserve. They will be plaOd In an inactive duty status and permitted to continue their college education at their own expense, at least until end of their second year and perhaps until they receive degress. Hew Postoffice Honors MacArthur WASHINGTON, April 5 (U.PJ President Roosevelt, the nation's No. 1 stamp collector, will send the Initial first-day cover of the new MacArthur, W. Va post-office post-office to the man it honors, General Gen-eral Douglas MacArthur. The postoffice announced that the new West Virginia station will open officially April 15 and that the first letter postmarked will be the president s. Postmaster-General Frank C, Walker recently said he had re- ceivea many suggestions tnat a special stamp honoring the hero of the Philippines be issued.': Pos tal laws prohibit issuing a stamp honoring a hviner person but he said that naming a postoffice for the general would be timely and fitting. First-day covers will number "several hundred thousands, according ac-cording to an estimate by postal authorities who said there would be no limit set on the number accepted from philatelists. The department instructed stamp collectors who wish to obtain first-day cancellations to send their covers, with postage properly prop-erly affixed, to the postmaster, MacArthur, W. Va. INDIA (Continued from Page One) British power in India and urging the Indian people to overthrow the British The same radios continued to attempt to confuse the difficult negotiations at New Delhi on Indian In-dian independence by .repeating claims officially denied by Britain Brit-ain that Japanese forces1 had landed near Akyab, on the western west-ern Burma coast within 75 miles of the Indian frontier. Cocanada, where the Japanese bombers caused a few casualties, is the capital of the district of Godavery with a population of around 50,000. It was an important export trade. Vizagapatam, 80 miles further north, is a seaport, and capital of the district of the same name. It also has about 50,000 popula tion. It suffered some harbor damage ftO Starting londau" j April O ' L XW, Telephone Hour' 3 : ,7 1 , iWi System popular radio - ll t , program wiU be heard at ' II i' s ,ST (instead of 10 p.m.) . .. f ' fcis? to my til$ By BRYDON C. TAVES United Press Correspondent GENERAL MAC ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, AUSTRALIA, April 6 (U.R) Allied warpianes were reported today to have destroyed or damaged oetween so ana u Japanese planes in - intensified weekend attacks at the northern approaches to Australia. It was difficult to obtain an accurate ac-curate . count- of the Japanese's weekend aerial losses, although an Australian communique listed 35 enemy planes . destroyed or dam-aped. dam-aped. Other dispatches from Port Moresby, New Guinea and other sectors of the northern "invasion flank" Indicated that the total was On " Java, - springboard for a threatened Japanese Invasion of Australia, "Dutch troops of "considerable "con-siderable size" were revealed officially of-ficially to be ' fighting the Japanese Japa-nese in the Interior jungles and mountains. The Dutcli were reported re-ported well supplied with food and munitions. American and Australian planes raided the Japanese invasion base of Koepang on the Dutch Island of Timor nortlwest of Port Darwin for the second time in 24 hours yesterday to climax the weekend of allied aerial successes, Prime Minister John Curtin announced. British planes were credited with destroying or damaging 15 or 18 enemy planes in a "dramatic and brilliant hit-and-run" attack late Saturday on the Japanese-held Lae airdrome on the New Guinea coast. Other Japanese fighters were damaged or destroyed when RAF fighter patrol planes swept down and machine-gunned the airdrome at oft-bombed Salamaua, near Lae. An enemy attack on Port Darwin Dar-win Saturday cost the Japanese seven pianes, five of them bombers, bomb-ers, Curtin announced. At Koepang six Japanese planes were reported destroyed or damaged. dam-aged. The new raid on Koepang, 330 miles west-northwest of Australia,' was a relatively light one. But the allied aviators rained bombs on wharves and on grounded ground-ed planes at the big Japanese alr- AtfwA In afA r1 Vi a mAot Intan. sive anti-aircraft fire they had yet met, and at the end as they flew home a great smoke column was rising from their target area. The week end bag brought the toal Japanese planes for one week to at least 64 downed or damaged. The greatest allied victory was in the enemy raid on Darwin Saturday. Sat-urday. Revised reports showed that at least five enemy bombers and two fighters were shQt.down out of a formation of seven giant ixxi uruuisiu luur cuineu uuuiuers, escored lightly by fighters. In Sunday's raid on Darwin, the 13th, it was evident the Japanese had learned a lesson Seven bombers bomb-ers escorted by seven fighters flew over, but they flew cautiously cautious-ly high and their 20 big bombs did little damage. Previously the Japanese had gone in on Darwin from the northwest north-west and their fighters had flown above and slighly behind the bombers. Yesterday the pianes came tn from due north and four of the seven fighters remained well above the bombers, while the others circled cir-cled and waved about the bombing formations. Sabotage Blamed For Trestle Fire EL CENTRO, Calif., April 6 (U.PJ Federal Investigators eald today that saboteur or arsonists had doused two Southern Pacific railroad rail-road trestles with oil and set them afire. The same method was used in the burning, of two . main line bridges a week earlier at a point five miles distant, they said. The two trestles destroyed Saturday Sat-urday were ot a branch line which will be . used . for heavy shipment of sugar beets within a few weeks. |